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The John Batchelor Show

The John Batchelor Show is a hard news-analysis radio program on current events, world history, global politics and natural sciences. Based in New York City for two decades, the show has travelled widely to report, from the Middle East to the South Caucasus to the Arabian Peninsula and East Asia.

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PREVIEW: The spy who did not come in from the cold: from a conversation wirh Professor Evan Ellis of the Army War College on the alleged spy for Cuba, Manuel Rocha, who was long regarded as a gifted diplomat, especially for his work as Ambassador in the t from 2023-12-12T16:54:04

PREVIEW: The spy who did not come in from the cold: from a conversation wirh Professor Evan Ellis of the Army War College on the alleged spy for Cuba, Manuel Rocha, who was long regarded as a ...

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TONIGHT: The show begins in Buesnes Aires and Washington, folowing Zelensky travels to lobby for weapons and cash to maintain the Kyiv war effort. Then to the Pentagon for a meeting between DeSec Austin and General Munir commanding Pakistan. From Kandah from 2023-12-12T01:58:58

TONIGHT: The show begins in Buenos Aires and Washington, folowing Zelensky travels to lobby for weapons and cash to maintain the Kyiv war effort.  Then to the Pentagon for a meeting between De...

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PREVIEW: From a longer Afghanistan analysis, Bill Roggio explains how the generals ignored and/or manipulated good intellience collection re the Taliban; and what that managed distortion mesnt to four administrations. from 2023-12-12T01:58:51

PREVIEW: From a longer Afghanistan analysis, Bill Roggio explains how the generals ignored and/or manipulated good intellience collection re the Taliban; and what that managed distortion mesnt...

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#Bestof2022: #Ukraine: Seizing grotesque yachts;&What is to be done? Richard A Epstein, @RichardAEpstein, @HooverInst, Tisch Professor of Law NYU Bedford Senior Fellow; Hoover Institution; senior lecturer, University of Chicago Law School. from 2023-12-12T01:58:43

#Bestof2022: #Ukraine: Seizing grotesque yachts; & What is to be done? Richard A Epstein, @RichardAEpstein, @HooverInst, Tisch Professor of Law NYU Bedford Senior Fellow; Hoover Institutio...

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#Bestof2022: #SEC: Not part of the 1789 design. Richard A Epstein, @RichardAEpstein, @HooverInst, Tisch Professor of Law NYU Bedford Senior Fellow; Hoover Institution; senior lecturer, University of Chicago Law School. from 2023-12-12T01:58:40

#Bestof2022: #SEC: Not part of the 1789 design.   Richard A Epstein, @RichardAEpstein, @HooverInst, Tisch Professor of Law NYU Bedford Senior Fellow; Hoover Institution;  senior lecturer, Univ...

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#PRC: The PLA escalates the harassment of the Philippines&What is to be done? James Holmes, first holder of the Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy at the Naval War College and blogger at The Naval Diplomat (https://navaldiplomat.com/) @GordonGChang, Gate from 2023-12-12T01:58:39


#PRC: The PLA escalates the harassment of the Philippines & What is to be done?  James Holmes, first holder of the Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy at the Naval War College and blogg...

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#Russia: How did Yeltsin pick Putin to be president in 2000? Rebekah Koffler, former DIA intelligence officer and author of Putin's Playbook: Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2023-12-12T01:57:40


#Russia:  How did Yeltsin pick Putin to be president in 2000? Rebekah Koffler, former DIA intelligence officer and author of Putin's Playbook: Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America, @Go...

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2/2: #Russia: Moscow slowly grows a trade corridor with Tehran: large cans of tomato paste, warm weather autos -- as well as drones. Ekaterina Zolotova, Geopolitical Futures @GPFutures from 2023-12-12T01:55:41


2/2:  #Russia: Moscow slowly grows a trade corridor with Tehran:  large cans of tomato paste, warm weather autos -- as well as drones. Ekaterina Zolotova, Geopolitical Futures @GPFutures...

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1/2: #Russia: Moscow slowly grows a trade corridor with Tehran: large cans of tomato paste, warm weather autos -- as well as drones. Ekaterina Zolotova, Geopolitical Futures @GPFutures from 2023-12-12T01:54:22


1/2:  #Russia: Moscow slowly grows a trade corridor with Tehran:  large cans of tomato paste, warm weather autos -- as well as drones. Ekaterina Zolotova, Geopolitical Futures @GPFutures...

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#NewWorldReport: The alleged Cuban spy in the State Department Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc. Ernesto Araujo, Former Foreign Minister Republic of Brazil. #NewWorldReportHumire from 2023-12-12T01:49:49


#NewWorldReport:  The alleged Cuban spy in the State Department Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc. Ernesto Araujo, Former Foreign Minister Republic of Brazil. #NewWorldReportHumire<...

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#NewWorldReport: Guatemala Democracy failing. Panama democracy failing. Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc. Ernesto Araujo, Former Foreign Minister Republic of Brazil. #NewWorldReportHumire from 2023-12-12T01:48:46


#NewWorldReport: Guatemala Democracy failing. Panama democracy failing.  Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc. Ernesto Araujo, Former Foreign Minister Republic of Brazil. #NewWorldRepo...

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#NewWorldReport: Venezuela vs Guyana: crisis imminent.. Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc. Ernesto Araujo, Former Foreign Minister Republic of Brazil. #NewWorldReportHumire from 2023-12-12T01:45:07


#NewWorldReport:  Venezuela vs Guyana: crisis imminent.. Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc. Ernesto Araujo, Former Foreign Minister Republic of Brazil. #NewWorldReportHumire
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#NewWorldReport: Milei takes command. Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc. Ernesto Araujo, Former Foreign Minister Republic of Brazil. #NewWorldReportHumire from 2023-12-12T01:40:49


#NewWorldReport:  Milei takes command.  Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc. Ernesto Araujo, Former Foreign Minister Republic of Brazil. #NewWorldReportHumire
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#Antisemitism: UPenn Magill departs: Harvard and MIT debate. Peter Berkowitz, @HooverInst from 2023-12-12T01:35:46


#Antisemitism: UPenn Magill departs: Harvard and MIT debate. Peter Berkowitz, @HooverInst
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#Antisemitism: #Oxford and the explanations and allegations. Peter Berkowitz, @HooverInst from 2023-12-12T01:35


 #Antisemitism: #Oxford and the explanations and allegations.   Peter Berkowitz, @HooverInst
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#Israel: Badly abused hostages believed to be captive in the tunnels of Khan Younis: several are believed deceased.Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1@ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2023-12-12T01:26:53


#Israel: Badly abused hostages believed to be captive in the tunnels of Khan Younis: several are believed deceased.Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1@ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness...

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#Israel: Israel warns Hezbollah to retreat to north of the Litani River. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1@ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2023-12-12T01:25:20


#Israel: Israel warns Hezbollah to retreat  to north of the Litani River.  Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1@ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness
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#Syria: #Iran: #Iraq: Son of the Hezbollah Brigades commander Duqduq -- attacking US military in Syria and Iraq -- KIA in Syria. from 2023-12-12T01:23:44


#Syria: #Iran: #Iraq: Son of the Hezbollah Brigades commander Duqduq -- attacking US military in Syria and Iraq --  KIA in Syria.
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#Afghanistan: The intelligence was accurate about the Taliban and Al Qaeda: the generals did not choose to heed. Bill Roggio, @FDD, LongwarJournal.com from 2023-12-12T01:21:13


#Afghanistan: The intelligence was accurate about the Taliban and Al Qaeda: the generals did not choose to heed.  Bill Roggio, @FDD, LongwarJournal.co...

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#Pakistan: General-in-chief Asim Munir goes to Washington looking for cooperation&What is to be done? Arif Rafiq, GlobelyNews.com from 2023-12-12T01:20:01


#Pakistan: General-in-chief Asim Munir goes to Washington  looking for cooperation & What is to be done? Arif Rafiq, GlobelyNews.com
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#Ukraine: Zekensky in doubt. Katrina vanden Heuvel, Nation Magazine from 2023-12-12T01:16:31


#Ukraine: Zekensky in doubt. Katrina vanden Heuvel, Nation Magazine
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PREVIEW: #Gaza: From a longer conversation with Malcolm Hoenlein: a grim report on the hostages -- the released, the deceased in Hamas control, the survivors in Hamas control. Stephen Spielberg is said to be filming a record of the hostage-taking horror from 2023-12-11T22:09:55

PREVIEW: #Gaza: From a longer conversation with Malcolm Hoenlein: a grim report on the hostages -- the released, the deceased in Hamas control, the survivors in Hamas control.   Stephen Spielb...

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PREVIEW: #Philippines: From a longer dialogue, Gordon Chang and Professor Jim Holmes of the Naval War College comment on the #PLANavy escalation of its tactics to chase off the Philippine fisherman from the Spratly Islands -- and is it armed harassment? from 2023-12-11T14:33:26

PREVIEW: #Philippines: From a longer dialogue, Gordon Chang and Professor Jim Holmes of the Naval War College comment on the #PLANavy escalation of its tactics to chase off the Philippine fish...

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#Bestof2021: 2/2: Reawakening antitrust;&what is to be done? @RichardAEpstein from 2023-12-11T02:54:30

#Bestof2021: 2/2: Reawakening antitrust; & what is to be done?  @RichardAEpstein

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#Bestof2021: 1/2: Reawakening antitrust;&what is to be done? @RichardAEpstein from 2023-12-11T02:52:18

#Bestof2021: 1/2: Reawakening antitrust; & what is to be done?  @RichardAEpstein

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#Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus measure that Lavrov sees Russia defeating NATO as it defeated Napoleon and the Hitlerites. Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating Society. @Michalis_Vlahos from 2023-12-11T02:41:52

#Londinium90AD:  Gaius and Germanicus measure that Lavrov sees Russia defeating NATO as it defeated Napoleon and the Hitlerites. Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating Society. @Michalis_...

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#Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus debate,"Who lost Ukraine?"Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating Society. @Michalis_Vlahos from 2023-12-11T02:39:59

#Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus debate, "Who lost Ukraine?"  Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating Society. @Michalis_Vlahos

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Londinium90AD: Gaus and Germanicus observe that Zelensk/s mistakes and enemies in Ukraine likely mean a new president in the elections of 2024. Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating Society. @Michalis_Vlahos from 2023-12-11T02:36:51

#Londinium90AD: Gaus and Germanicus observe that Zelensk/s  mistakes and enemies in Ukraine likely mean a new president in the elections of 2024. Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating So...

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#OzWatch: Hot, dry, wet, dry, humid, dry, and a cold snap in Adelaide: unpredicted Summer. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2023-12-11T02:04:14

#OzWatch: Hot, dry, wet, dry, humid, dry, and a cold snap in Adelaide: unpredicted Summer.  Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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#OzWatch: Heat wave followed by Noah-scale bucketingdownpour erase T20 cricket. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2023-12-11T02:02:46

#OzWatch: Heat wave followed by Noah-scale bucketingdownpour erase T20 cricket. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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#OzWatch: Heat wave pushes the most aggressive and dangerous Eastern Brown snake to the beach. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2023-12-11T01:58:36

#OzWatch: Heat wave pushes the most aggressive and dangerous Eastern Brown snake to the beach. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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#PacificWatch: Dodgers sign the superstar Ohtani: Opening Day tickets start at $338.00:"Standing Room Only."@JCBliss from 2023-12-11T01:45:01

#PacificWatch: Dodgers sign the superstar Ohtani: Opening Day tickets start at $338.00:  "Standing Room Only." @JCBliss

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PRESIDENTIAL LEADERSHIP: 8/8: A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency o1 Grover Cleveland Hardcover – by Troy Senik (Author) from 2023-12-11T01:23:14

PRESIDENTIAL LEADERSHIP: 8/8: A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency o1 Grover Cleveland Hardcover – by  Troy Senik  (Author)

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PRESIDENTIAL LEADERSHIP: 7/8: A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency o1 Grover Cleveland Hardcover – by Troy Senik (Author) from 2023-12-11T01:22:26

PRESIDENTIAL LEADERSHIP: 7/8: A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency o1 Grover Cleveland Hardcover – by  Troy Senik  (Author)

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PRESIDENTIAL LEADERSHIP: 6/8: A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency o1 Grover Cleveland Hardcover – by Troy Senik (Author) from 2023-12-11T01:21:14

PRESIDENTIAL LEADERSHIP: 6/8: A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency o1 Grover Cleveland Hardcover – by  Troy Senik  (Author)

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PRESIDENTIAL LEADERSHIP: 5/8: A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency o1 Grover Cleveland Hardcover – by Troy Senik (Author) from 2023-12-11T01:18:47

PRESIDENTIAL LEADERSHIP: 5/8: A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency o1 Grover Cleveland Hardcover – by  Troy Senik  (Author)

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PRESIDENTIAL LEADERSHIP: 4/8: A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency o1 Grover Cleveland Hardcover – by Troy Senik (Author) from 2023-12-11T01:17:50

PRESIDENTIAL LEADERSHIP: 4/8: A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency o1 Grover Cleveland Hardcover – by  Troy Senik  (Author)

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PRESIDENTIAL LEADERSHIP: /38: A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency o1 Grover Cleveland Hardcover – by Troy Senik (Author) from 2023-12-11T01:16:41

PRESIDENTIAL LEADERSHIP: /38: A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency o1 Grover Cleveland Hardcover – by  Troy Senik  (Author)

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PRESIDENTIAL LEADERSHIP: 2/8: A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency o1 Grover Cleveland Hardcover – by Troy Senik (Author) from 2023-12-11T01:15:39

PRESIDENTIAL LEADERSHIP: 2/8: A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency o1 Grover Cleveland Hardcover – by  Troy Senik  (Author)

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PRESIDENTIAL LEADERSHIP: 1/8: A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency o1 Grover Cleveland Hardcover – by Troy Senik (Author) from 2023-12-11T01:14:46

PRESIDENTIAL LEADERSHIP: 1/8: A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency o1 Grover Cleveland Hardcover – by  Troy Senik  (Author)

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#GOP: The Democrats turn away from the Democratis president, but not to the Republicans&What is to be done. @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2023-12-11T00:03:45

#GOP: The Democrats turn away from the Democratis president, but not to the Republicans & What is to be done. @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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#Ukraine: #Gaza: DC POV: Domestic Election Year. Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2023-12-10T03:36:04

#Ukraine: #Gaza: DC POV: Domestic Election Year.   Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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#Ukraine: #Gaza: BEIIJING POV: Deflation. Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2023-12-10T03:29:59

#Ukraine: #Gaza: BEIIJING POV: Deflation. Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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#Ukraine: #Gaza: BRUSSELS POV: Rate cuts and AI regulations: indifference to Kyiv. Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2023-12-10T03:21:37

#Ukraine: #Gaza: BRUSSELS POV: Rate cuts and AI regulations: indifference to Kyiv. Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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#Ukraine: #Gaza: KYIV POV: Dissent turns to disorder and defeatism. Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2023-12-10T03:19:24

#Ukraine: #Gaza: KYIV POV: Dissent turns to disorder and defeatism. Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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#Ukraine: #Gaza: MOSCOW POV: Putin in Arabia to argue for production cuts. Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2023-12-10T03:12:23

#Ukraine: #Gaza: MOSCOW POV: Putin in Arabia to argue for production cuts.   Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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#Ukraine: #Gaza: JERUSALEM POV: US vetos the UNSC. Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2023-12-10T03:09:02

#Ukraine: #Gaza: JERUSALEM POV: US vetos the UNSC, resupplies Israel. Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety


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2/2: #DarienGap: #PRC: Military age Chinese nationals stopping overnight at the Pasto, Colombia-Ecuador border -- aiming for the USA in great numbers. Anthony Rubin, Muckraker.com. @Michael_Yon. from 2023-12-10T02:59:49

2/2: #DarienGap: #PRC: Military age Chinese nationals stopping overnight at the Pasto, Colombia-Ecuador border -- aiming for the USA at in great numbers. Anthony Rubin, Listen
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1/2: #DarienGap: #PRC: Military age Chinese nationals stopping overnight at the Pasto, Colombia-Ecuador border -- aiming for the USA in great numbers. Anthony Rubin, Muckraker.com. @Michael_Yon. from 2023-12-10T02:59:35

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MOSCOW HAS RETURNED TO THE AMERICAS: CUBA, VENEZUELA, NICARAGUA: 8/8: Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy from 2023-12-10T02:50:45

MOSCOW HAS RETURNED TO THE AMERICAS: CUBA, VENEZUELA, NICARAGUA:  8/8:  Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy 

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MOSCOW HAS RETURNED TO THE AMERICAS: CUBA, VENEZUELA, NICARAGUA: 7/8: Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy from 2023-12-10T02:50:38

MOSCOW HAS RETURNED TO THE AMERICAS: CUBA, VENEZUELA, NICARAGUA:  7/8:  Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy 

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MOSCOW HAS RETURNED TO THE AMERICAS: CUBA, VENEZUELA, NICARAGUA: 6/8: Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy from 2023-12-10T02:50:17

MOSCOW HAS RETURNED TO THE AMERICAS: CUBA, VENEZUELA, NICARAGUA:  6/8:  Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy 

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MOSCOW HAS RETURNED TO THE AMERICAS: CUBA, VENEZUELA, NICARAGUA: 5/8: Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy from 2023-12-10T02:50:08

MOSCOW HAS RETURNED TO THE AMERICAS: CUBA, VENEZUELA, NICARAGUA:  5/8:  Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy 

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MOSCOW HAS RETURNED TO THE AMERICAS: CUBA, VENEZUELA, NICARAGUA: 4/8: Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy from 2023-12-10T02:49:46

MOSCOW HAS RETURNED TO THE AMERICAS: CUBA, VENEZUELA, NICARAGUA:  4/8:  Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy 

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MOSCOW HAS RETURNED TO THE AMERICAS: CUBA, VENEZUELA, NICARAGUA: 3/8: Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy from 2023-12-10T02:49:30

MOSCOW HAS RETURNED TO THE AMERICAS: CUBA, VENEZUELA, NICARAGUA:  3/8:  Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy 

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MOSCOW HAS RETURNED TO THE AMERICAS: CUBA, VENEZUELA, NICARAGUA: 2/8: Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy from 2023-12-10T02:49:26

MOSCOW HAS RETURNED TO THE AMERICAS: CUBA, VENEZUELA, NICARAGUA:  2/8:  Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy 

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MOSCOW HAS RETURNED TO THE AMERICAS: CUBA, VENEZUELA, NICARAGUA: 1/8: Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy from 2023-12-10T02:49:23

MOSCOW HAS RETURNED TO THE AMERICAS: CUBA, VENEZUELA, NICARAGUA:  1/8:  Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy 

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#GOP: Kevin McCarthy steps away from disorder.. Gavin Newsom steps into a gigantic deficit of at least $68 Billion; Adam Schiff steps up his game. #DevinNunes #TruthSocial from 2023-12-10T02:42:09

#GOP: Kevin McCarthy steps away from disorder.. Gavin Newsom steps into a gigantic deficit of at least $68 Billion; Adam Schiff steps up his game. #DevinNunes #TruthSocial

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#Bestof2021: 2/2 SCOTUS secures the Takings Clause, 6-3. @RichardAEpstein. from 2023-12-10T02:37:55

#Bestof2021: 2/2  SCOTUS secures the Takings Clause, 6-3.  @RichardAEpstein.
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#Bestof2021: 1/2 SCOTUS secures the Takings Clause, 6-3. @RichardAEpstein. from 2023-12-10T02:37:45

#Bestof2021: 1/2  SCOTUS secures the Takings Clause, 6-3.  @RichardAEpstein.
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#AUSTRALIA: Cyclone Jasper gathering; Cost of Living gathering. Scott Mayman, CBS News Brisbane. from 2023-12-10T02:34:24

#AUSTRALIA: Cyclone Jasper gathering; Cost of Living gathering. Scott Mayman, CBS News Brisbane.

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PREVIEW; From a happy conversation about California politics, I am surprised to learn from Bill Whalen of Hoover that the popular and handsome Governor Newsom has a budget hole worse than Argentina's to the IMF. from 2023-12-09T05:29

PREVIEW; From a happy conversation about California politics, I am surprised to learn from Bill Whalen of Hoover that the popular and handsome Governor Newsom has a budget hole worse than Arge...

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TONIGHT: The show begins in Las Vegas with the mass murder of teachers atUNLV by a former teacher. Then moves to Milan for the opening of LaScala with a performance of Verdi's Don Carlo. From Scottsdale to Singapore, from Sacramento to Lancaster County P from 2023-12-09T02:18:49

TONIGHT: The show begins in Las Vegas with the mass murder of teachers atUNLV by a former teacher. Then moves to Milan for the opening of LaScala with a performance of Verdi's Don Carlo.  From...

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PREVIEW: From a longer conversation, Henry Sokolski comments on the unusual fact that Canada has aproved the sale of large amounts of uranium ore to the PRC, without controls on hos it is used. from 2023-12-09T02:18:45

PREVIEW: From a longer conversation, Henry Sokolski comments on the unusual fact that Canada has aproved the sale of large amounts of uranium ore to the PRC, without controls on hos it is used...

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2/2: #BESTOF2021: 2/2: SEC regulatory power and Climate Change. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2023-12-09T02:18:38

2/2:  #BESTOF2021:  2/2: SEC regulatory power and Climate Change. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst
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1/2: #BESTOF2021: 2/2: SEC regulatory power and Climate Change. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2023-12-09T02:18:35

1/2:  #BESTOF2021:  2/2: SEC regulatory power and Climate Change. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst
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2/2: #Tritium: The adversarial and non-transparent #PRC buys vast amounts of uranium ore from Canada&What is to be done? Henry Sokolski, NPEC from 2023-12-09T02:18:31


2/2: #Tritium: The adversarial and non-transparent #PRC buys vast amounts of uranium ore from Canada & What is to be done? Henry Sokolski, NPEC
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1/2: #Tritium: The adversarial and non-transparent #PRC buys vast amounts of uranium ore from Canada&What is to be done? Henry Sokolski, NPEC from 2023-12-09T02:17:34


1/2: #Tritium: The adversarial and non-transparent #PRC buys vast amounts of  uranium ore from Canada & What is to be done? Henry Sokolski, NPEC
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2/2: #NATURE: Why do skunks change their stripes? Ted Stankowich, Department of Biological Sciences at California State University, Long Beach. from 2023-12-09T02:15:44


2/2: #NATURE: Why do skunks change their stripes?  Ted Stankowich,  Department of Biological Sciences at California State University, Long Beach. 
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1/2: #NATURE: Why do skunks change their stripes, Ted Stankowich, Department of Biological Sciences at California State University, Long Beach. from 2023-12-09T02:13:18


1/2: #NATURE: Why do skunks change their stripes, Ted Stankowich,  Department of Biological Sciences at California State University, Long Beach. 
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7/8: The Iliad Hardcover – September 26, 2023 by Homer (Author), Emily Wilson (Translator) from 2023-12-09T02:08:44

7/8: The Iliad Hardcover – September 26, 2023 by  Homer  (Author), Emily Wilson  (Translator)
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6/8: The Iliad Hardcover – September 26, 2023 by Homer (Author), Emily Wilson (Translator) from 2023-12-09T02:07:40

6/8: The Iliad Hardcover – September 26, 2023 by  Homer  (Author), Emily Wilson  (Translator)
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5/8: The Iliad Hardcover – September 26, 2023 by Homer (Author), Emily Wilson (Translator) from 2023-12-09T02:06:31

5/8: The Iliad Hardcover – September 26, 2023 by  Homer  (Author), Emily Wilson  (Translator)
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#ISS: NASA plans for de-orbiting: What about selling the parts? Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2023-12-09T01:48:36


#ISS: NASA plans for de-orbiting: What about selling the parts? Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
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#SpaceX: Another $750m private capital raised as Musks boast genuine success. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2023-12-09T01:47:28


#SpaceX: Another $750m private capital raised as Musks boast genuine success. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
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#MrMarket: The Apple Store and its Lancaster County Mall nearly empty after a booming Black Friday. Jim McTague, former Washington Editor, Barrons. @MCTagueJ. Author of the"Martin and Twyla Boundary Series." from 2023-12-09T01:45:15


#MrMarket: The Apple Store and its Lancaster County Mall nearly empty after a booming Black Friday.   Jim McTague, former Washington Editor, Barrons. @MCTagueJ.  Author of the "Martin an...

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#CA: Newsom struggles with $68B deficit; Schiff does not struggle at all. Bill Whalen, @HooverInst from 2023-12-09T01:41:35


#CA: Newsom struggles with $68B deficit;  Schiff does not struggle at all. Bill Whalen, @HooverInst
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#SmallBusinessAmerica: AI apps for small business, including improving your headshot. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2023-12-09T01:40:27


#SmallBusinessAmerica: AI apps for small business, including improving your headshot. @GeneMarks  @Guardian @PhillyInquirer
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#SmallBusinessAmerica: Robots dominate the factory floor of the immediate future. . @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2023-12-09T01:38:30

#SmallBusinessAmerica: Robots dominate the factory floor of the immediate future. . @GeneMarks  @Guardian @PhillyInquirer

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#Italy: La Scala premier opens with four-hour Don Carlo by Giuseppe Verdi. Giorgia Meloni Government rejects Belt and Road. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation from 2023-12-09T01:37:15


#Italy: La Scala premier opens with four-hour Don Carlo by Giuseppe Verdi.  Giorgia Meloni Government rejects Belt and Road. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation 
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#PacificWatch: #VegasReport: Mrs. Adelson buys majority in Dallas Mavericks for gambling to blossom in Texas. @JCBliss from 2023-12-09T01:30:48


#PacificWatch: #VegasReport:  Mrs. Adelson buys majority in Dallas Mavericks for gambling to blossom in Texas. @JCBliss

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PREVIEW Conversation in part with Bob Zimmerman of the last three gyros of the Hubble telescope, and what happens as the gyros wear down and will not, cannot, be replaced: the Last of Hubble. from 2023-12-08T22:51:17

PREVIEW Conversation in part with Bob Zimmerman of the last three gyros of the Hubble telescope, and what happens as the gyros wear down and will not, cannot, be replaced: the Last of Hubble.<...

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PREVIEW; From more than an hour of conversation, translator Professor Emily Wilson describes the roles of women as weavers of fate and mourners of their husbands, sons, fathers -- before they are sold off into slavery by the conquerors. from 2023-12-08T22:40:36

PREVIEW; From more than an hour of conversation, translator Professor Emily Wilson describes the roles of women as weavers of fate and mourners of their husbands, sons, fathers -- before they ...

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TONIGHT: The show begins in Ukraine, where Zelensky must battle with political dissenters who fault his decisions and future. Fromm UAE with Putin to the Reagan Library and Gina Raimondo speaking of the scale of threat from China. From Argentina to Doga from 2023-12-08T02:08:44

TONIGHT: The show begins in Ukraine, where Zelensky must battle with political dissenters who fault his decisions and future.  Fromm UAE with Putin to the Reagan Library and Gina Raimondo spea...

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PREVIEW: Speaking with Cliff May, Founder and President of FDD, as to how to reawaken the industrial base that built the Arsenal of Democracy?And how to pay for it? Can the rush to Green Tech wait on the guns and butter required to maintain national secu from 2023-12-08T02:01:46

PREVIEW: Speaking with Cliff May, Founder and President of FDD, as to how to reawaken the industrial base that built the Arsenal of Democracy?And how to pay for it?  Can the rush to Green Tech...

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#BESTOF2021: The Constitution and the Removal Debate. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2023-12-08T01:54:47

#BESTOF2021: The Constitution and the Removal Debate.  @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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#BESTOF2021: Deregulating New Zealand actually succeeded in the 20th Century; can it work in the USA?. @RichardAEpstein @HoverInst from 2023-12-08T01:53:14

#BESTOF2021: Deregulating New Zealand actually succeeded in the 20th Century; can it work in the USA?. @RichardAEpstein @HoverInst
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#Obamacare: Another Republican try to repeal. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution. from 2023-12-08T01:45:38


#Obamacare: Another Republican try to repeal.  Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution. 
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#SCOTUS: The Federalist Society of debaters stands accused of villainy and worse. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution. from 2023-12-08T01:45:04


#SCOTUS:  The Federalist Society of debaters stands accused of villainy and worse. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution. 
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#MrMarket: How to pay for the highways with maximum EVs and minimum to none gasoline taxes?? Veronique deRugy from 2023-12-08T01:44:11


#MrMarket: How to pay for the highways with maximum EVs and minimum to none gasoline taxes?? Veronique deRugy
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#Iran: Cliff May writes the speech POTUS can make to the nation in order to rein in Tehran predation. Cliff May, FDD from 2023-12-08T01:43:31


#Iran: Cliff May writes the speech POTUS can make to the nation in order to rein in Tehran predation. Cliff May, FDD
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#NewWorldReport: Panama bad luck in multiple crises in a drought. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis from 2023-12-08T01:38:32


#NewWorldReport: Panama bad luck in multiple crises in a drought.  Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldR...

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#NewWorldReport: President-Elect Milei reassures the markets. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis from 2023-12-08T01:37:59


#NewWorldReport: President-Elect Milei reassures the markets. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReport...

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1/2: #NewWorldReport: Venezuela threatens to annex most of tiny Guyana: bluff or Little Green Men? Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis from 2023-12-08T01:36:37


1/2: #NewWorldReport: Venezuela threatens to annex most of tiny Guyana: bluff or Little Green Men? Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies I...

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#WOR710AM: On Friday 3 December I reported on the Gaza War to host Jesse Webber on my flagship radio station, WOR 710 AM in New York city. from 2023-12-04T02:59:21

#WOR710AM:  On Friday 3 December I reported on the Gaza War to Jesse Webber on my flagship radio station, WOR 710 AM in New York City. 

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#Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus observe that the CIA has long been a clubby domain of obtuse James Bonds vs astute Miss Moneypennys. from 2023-12-04T02:44:11

#Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus observe that the CIA has long been a clubby domain of obtuse James Bonds vs astute Miss Moneypennys.

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#Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus observe that the US opinion is that the IDF must hurry to another ceasefire.. Michael Vlahos. from 2023-12-04T02:42:54

#Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus observe that the US Administration opinion is that the IDF must hurry to another ceasefire..  Michael Vlahos.

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#Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus observe that the London opinion is that Putin is winning. Michael Vlahos. from 2023-12-04T02:41:04

#Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus observe that the London opinion is that Putin is winning.  Michael Vlahos.

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ORIGINS OF OCEANIA THAT #PRC AIMS TO CONQUER: 4/4: Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific by Nicholas Thomas (Author) from 2023-12-04T02:39:22

ORIGINS OF OCEANIA THAT #PRC AIMS TO CONQUER: 4/4: Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific by  Nicholas Thomas  (Author)

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ORIGINS OF OCEANIA THAT #PRC AIMS TO CONQUER: 3/4: Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific by Nicholas Thomas (Author) from 2023-12-04T02:39:20

ORIGINS OF OCEANIA THAT #PRC AIMS TO CONQUER: 3/4: Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific by  Nicholas Thomas  (Author)

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ORIGINS OF OCEANIA THAT #PRC AIMS TO CONQUER: 2/4: Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific by Nicholas Thomas (Author) from 2023-12-04T02:39:10

ORIGINS OF OCEANIA THAT #PRC AIMS TO CONQUER: 2/4: Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific by  Nicholas Thomas  (Author)

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ORIGINS OF OCEANIA THAT #PRC AIMS TO CONQUER: 1/4: Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific by Nicholas Thomas (Author) from 2023-12-04T02:39:03

ORIGINS OF OCEANIA THAT #PRC AIMS TO CONQUER: 1/4: Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific by  Nicholas Thomas  (Author)

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#CA: DevinNunesWines.com nearing the full club for Christmas giving. #DevinNunes from 2023-12-04T02:14:37

#CA: DevinNunesWines.com nearing the full club for Christmas giving. #DevinNunes #TruthSocisl

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#GUATEMALA: #HONDURAS: #PANAMA: Regardless of Congress, The migrants keep coming. @Michael_Yon from 2023-12-04T02:11:38

#GUATEMALA:  #HONDURAS:  #PANAMA: Regardless of Congress, The migrants keep coming. @Michael_Yon

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WHEN LEGEND BECOMES FACT, PRINT THE LEGEND: 4/4: Red Sky Morning: The Epic True Story of Texas Ranger Company F by Joe Pappalardo (Author) from 2023-12-04T02:06:14

WHEN LEGEND BECOMES FACT, PRINT THE LEGEND: 4/4: Red Sky Morning: The Epic True Story of Texas Ranger Company F by Joe Pappalardo  (Author)

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WHEN LEGEND BECOMES FACT, PRINT THE LEGEND: 3/4: Red Sky Morning: The Epic True Story of Texas Ranger Company F by Joe Pappalardo (Author) from 2023-12-04T02:05:42

WHEN LEGEND BECOMES FACT, PRINT THE LEGEND: 3/4: Red Sky Morning: The Epic True Story of Texas Ranger Company F by Joe Pappalardo  (Author)

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WHEN LEGEND BECOMES FACT, PRINT THE LEGEND: 2/4: Red Sky Morning: The Epic True Story of Texas Ranger Company F by Joe Pappalardo (Author) from 2023-12-04T02:04:43

WHEN LEGEND BECOMES FACT, PRINT THE LEGEND: 2/4: Red Sky Morning: The Epic True Story of Texas Ranger Company F by Joe Pappalardo  (Author)

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WHEN LEGEND BECOMES FACT, PRINT THE LEGEND: 1/4: Red Sky Morning: The Epic True Story of Texas Ranger Company F by Joe Pappalardo (Author) from 2023-12-04T02:03:52

WHEN LEGEND BECOMES FACT, PRINT THE LEGEND: 1/4: Red Sky Morning: The Epic True Story of Texas Ranger Company F by Joe Pappalardo  (Author)

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#MI: Asking"why are politics so awful?"Part 1. @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2023-12-04T01:58:56

#MI: Asking "why are politics so awful?" Part 1. @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE INDICATES THAT QUESTIONS REMAIN: 4/4: Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate, by Paul Halpern from 2023-12-04T01:55:30

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JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE INDICATES THAT QUESTIONS REMAIN: 3/4: Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate, by Paul Halpern from 2023-12-04T01:52:07

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JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE INDICATES THAT QUESTIONS REMAIN: 1/4: Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate, by Paul Halpern from 2023-12-04T01:51:31

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JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE INDICATES THAT QUESTIONS REMAIN: 2/4: Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate, by Paul Halpern from 2023-12-04T01:51

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#Australia: Vaping banned. Scott Mayman, CBS News. from 2023-12-04T01:43:43

#Australia: Vaping banned. Scott Mayman, CBS News.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-67550685

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2/2: #Vietnam. #PRC: :Henry Kissinger 1923-2023. Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2023-12-03T03:12:04

2/2:  #Vietnam. #PRC: :Henry Kissinger 1923-2023.  Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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1/2: #Vietnam. #PRC: :Henry Kissinger 1923-2023. Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2023-12-03T03:11

1/2:  #Vietnam. #PRC: :Henry Kissinger 1923-2023.  Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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#Ukraine: #Gaza: D.C. POV: Out of ideas. Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2023-12-03T03:06:38

#Ukraine: #Gaza: D.C. POV: Out of ideas. Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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#Ukraine: #Gaza:. Beijing POV: Broken. Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2023-12-03T03:04:11

#Ukraine: #Gaza:.  Beijing POV: Broken.   Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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#Ukraine: #Gaza: Berlin POV. Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2023-12-03T02:55:54

#Ukraine: #Gaza: Berlin POV. Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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#Ukraine: Brussels POV. Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2023-12-03T02:52:58

#Ukraine: Brussels POV. Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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#Ukraine: #Gaza: Kyiv POV. Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2023-12-03T02:50:52

#Ukraine:  Kyiv POV.  Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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#Ukraine: #Gaza: Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2023-12-03T02:48:40

#Ukraine: #Gaza: Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety


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#Ukraine: #Gaza: Jerusalem POV: Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2023-12-03T02:46:08

#Ukraine: #Gaza: Jerusalem POV: Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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#OzWatch: Unpredictaed downpours and lightning with El Nino's heat.Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2023-12-03T02:43

#OzWatch: Unpredictaed downpours and lightning with El Nino's heat.Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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#OzWatch: The smashing success of Blind Cricket. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2023-12-03T02:41:26

#OzWatch: The smashing success of Blind Cricket. and a suprising T20 loser. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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#OzWatch: and a Python in a Christmas Tree. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2023-12-03T02:40:30

#OzWatch: and a Python in a Christmas Tree.  Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety
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#Bestof2021: 2/2: The constitutional trouble with suspending evictions. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2023-12-03T02:33:58

#Bestof2021: 2/2: The constitutional trouble with suspending evictions.  @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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#Bestof2021: 1/2: The constitutional trouble with suspending evictions. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2023-12-03T02:33:49

#Bestof2021: 1/2: The constitutional trouble with suspending evictions.  @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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#PRC: Arms race Scorecard Beijing vs DoD. Grant Newsham, JapanForward from 2023-12-03T01:33:13

#PRC: 21st Century arms race Scorecard Beijing vs DoD. Grant Newsham, JapanForward

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WHAT CAN HAPPEN WITH AN ACTOR IN CHARGE: 8/8:: Nero: Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome by Anthony Everitt (Author), Roddy Ashworth (Author) from 2023-12-03T01:08:50

WHAT CAN HAPPEN WITH AN ACTOR IN CHARGE: 8/8:: Nero: Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome by  Anthony Everitt  (Author), Roddy Ashworth  (Author)

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WHAT CAN HAPPEN WITH AN ACTOR IN CHARGE: 7/8:: Nero: Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome by Anthony Everitt (Author), Roddy Ashworth (Author) from 2023-12-03T01:03:57

WHAT CAN HAPPEN WITH AN ACTOR IN CHARGE: 7/8:: Nero: Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome by  Anthony Everitt  (Author), Roddy Ashworth  (Author)

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WHAT CAN HAPPEN WITH AN ACTOR IN CHARGE: 6/8:: Nero: Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome by Anthony Everitt (Author), Roddy Ashworth (Author) from 2023-12-03T01:02:54

WHAT CAN HAPPEN WITH AN ACTOR IN CHARGE: 6/8:: Nero: Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome by  Anthony Everitt  (Author), Roddy Ashworth  (Author)

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WHAT CAN HAPPEN WITH AN ACTOR IN CHARGE: 5/8:: Nero: Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome by Anthony Everitt (Author), Roddy Ashworth (Author) from 2023-12-03T01:02:50

WHAT CAN HAPPEN WITH AN ACTOR IN CHARGE: 5/8:: Nero: Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome by  Anthony Everitt  (Author), Roddy Ashworth  (Author)

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WHAT CAN HAPPEN WITH AN ACTOR IN CHARGE: 4/8:: Nero: Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome by Anthony Everitt (Author), Roddy Ashworth (Author) from 2023-12-03T01:02:18

WHAT CAN HAPPEN WITH AN ACTOR IN CHARGE: 4/8:: Nero: Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome by  Anthony Everitt  (Author), Roddy Ashworth  (Author)

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WHAT CAN HAPPEN WITH AN ACTOR IN CHARGE: 3/8:: Nero: Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome by Anthony Everitt (Author), Roddy Ashworth (Author) from 2023-12-03T01:00:33

WHAT CAN HAPPEN WITH AN ACTOR IN CHARGE: 3/8:: Nero: Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome by  Anthony Everitt  (Author), Roddy Ashworth  (Author)

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WHAT CAN HAPPEN WITH AN ACTOR IN CHARGE: 2/8:: Nero: Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome by Anthony Everitt (Author), Roddy Ashworth (Author) from 2023-12-03T01:00:25

WHAT CAN HAPPEN WITH AN ACTOR IN CHARGE: 2/8:: Nero: Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome by  Anthony Everitt  (Author), Roddy Ashworth  (Author)

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WHAT CAN HAPPEN WITH AN ACTOR IN CHARGE: 1/8:: Nero: Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome by Anthony Everitt (Author), Roddy Ashworth (Author) from 2023-12-03T01:00:17

WHAT CAN HAPPEN WITH AN ACTOR IN CHARGE: 1/8:: Nero: Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome by  Anthony Everitt  (Author), Roddy Ashworth  (Author)

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TONIGHT: The show begins in Disneyland, where the troubles promise a bleak year ahead of board fights and movie flopS. To Italy and the success of Giorgia Meloni. From Las Vegas to Philadelphia. From Congress to North Pittsburgh. From The Moon 2027 to from 2023-12-02T02:22:46

TONIGHT: The show begins in Disneyland, where the troubles promise a bleak year ahead of board fights and movie flopS.    To Italy and the success of Giorgia Meloni.  From Las Vegas to Philade...

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#Ukraine: Stronger rumors of arm-twisting Kyiv to negotiate now or lose the more. Josh Rogin, Washington Pos from 2023-12-02T02:16:13


#Ukraine: Stronger rumors of arm-twisting Kyiv to negotiate now or lose the more. Josh Rogin, Washington Post.
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PREVIEW: From a longer conversation with"The Fabulist"author, Mark Chiusano, about the repetitive patterns in George Santos deceptions. from 2023-12-02T02:15:50

PREVIEW: From a longer conversation with "The Fabulist" author, Mark Chiusano, about the repetitive patterns in George Santos deceptions.

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#BESTOF2021: 2/2 Climate change living at the margins. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2023-12-02T02:15:42

#BESTOF2021:   2/2 Climate change living at the margins. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst
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BESTOF2021: 1/2 Climate change living at the margins. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2023-12-02T02:15:35

BESTOF2021:   1/2 Climate change living at the margins. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst
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CA: Newsom vs DeSantis insult hour. Bill Whalen, Hoover Institution. from 2023-12-02T02:14:18


CA: Newsom vs DeSantis insult hour. Bill Whalen, Hoover Institution.
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#COP28: Grossi recommends nuclear energy plants that are the guaranteed pathway to bomb-making from 2023-12-02T02:13:43


#COP28: Grossi recommends nuclear energy plants that are the guaranteed pathway to bomb-making
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#MrMarket: Shopping scrupulously in Amish country. Jim McTague, former Washington Editor, Barrons. @MCTagueJ. Author of the"Martin and Twyla Boundary Series."#FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2023-12-02T02:11:37


#MrMarket: Shopping scrupulously in Amish country.   Jim McTague, former Washington Editor, Barrons. @MCTagueJ.  Author of the "Martin and Twyla Boundary Series."  #FriendsofHistoryDebat...

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8/8: /Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden’s Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End Hardcover – by Jerry Dunleavy (Author), James Hasson (Author) from 2023-12-02T02:03:27

8/8:  /Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden’s Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End Hardcover – by  Jerry Dunleavy  (Author), James Hasson  (Author)

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7/8: /Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden’s Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End Hardcover – by Jerry Dunleavy (Author), James Hasson (Author) from 2023-12-02T02:02:36

7/8:  /Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden’s Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End Hardcover – by  Jerry Dunleavy  (Author), James Hasson  (Author)

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6/8: /Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden’s Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End Hardcover – by Jerry Dunleavy (Author), James Hasson (Author) from 2023-12-02T02:02:06

6/8:  /Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden’s Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End Hardcover – by  Jerry Dunleavy  (Author), James Hasson  (Author)

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5/8: /Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden’s Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End Hardcover – by Jerry Dunleavy (Author), James Hasson (Author) from 2023-12-02T02:02:03

5/8:  /Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden’s Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End Hardcover – by  Jerry Dunleavy  (Author), James Hasson  (Author)

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#Exoplanets: Six Earth-scale Neptune-like planets in 3/2 resonance. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2023-12-02T01:43:14


#Exoplanets: Six Earth-scale Neptune-like planets in 3/2  resonance. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com 
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#SPACEX: Artemis delayed till at best 2027 and blaming Musk.. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2023-12-02T01:41:41


#SPACEX: Artemis delayed till at best 2027 and blaming Musk.. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
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#COP28: Electricity: Christmas 2022, Christmas 2023 and the looming threat of a blackout for week, which the WSJ calls"Zombie Apocalypse."SalenaZito,com from 2023-12-02T01:40:29


#COP28: Electricity: Christmas 2022, Christmas 2023 and the looming threat of a blackout for week, which the WSJ calls "Zombie Apocalypse." SalenaZito,com
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GOP: Santos expelled. Mark Chiusano, author, The Fabulist. from 2023-12-02T01:38:16


GOP: Santos expelled. Mark Chiusano, author, The Fabulist.
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#SMALLBUSINESSAMERICA: Big Minimum Wage Hike imminent. @GENEMARKS @GUARDIAN @PHILLYINQUIRER from 2023-12-02T01:36:03


#SMALLBUSINESSAMERICA: Big Minimum Wage Hike imminent. @GENEMARKS  @GUARDIAN @PHILLYINQUIRER
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#SMALLBUSINESSAMERICA: Consumer confidence falling is the slowdown. @GENEMARKS @GUARDIAN @PHILLYINQUIRER from 2023-12-02T01:34:25


#SMALLBUSINESSAMERICA: Consumer confidence falling is the slowdown.  @GENEMARKS  @GUARDIAN @PHILLYINQUIRER
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#Italy: Still growing in the EU downturn. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation from 2023-12-02T01:31:53


#Italy: Still growing in the EU downturn. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation
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#PacificWatch: Disney recognizes the problems&What is to be done?. @JCBliss from 2023-12-02T01:30:12


#PacificWatch:  Disney recognizes the problems & What is to be done?. @JCBliss
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PREVIEW: From a longer conversation on space engineering, Bob Zimmerman analyzes the profound troubles with Hubble. from 2023-12-01T22:18:23

PREVIEW: From a longer conversation on space engineering, Bob Zimmerman analyzes the profound troubles with Hubble.

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PREVIEW: From a longer conversation, Henry Sokolski of NPEC observes what can go wrong with IAEA chief Rafael Grossi recommending nuclear power plants in countries seeking to solve climate change with renewable energy. Too often, the solution is prolifer from 2023-12-01T16:58:03

PREVIEW: From a longer conversation, Henry Sokolski of NPEC observes what can go wrong with IAEA chief Rafael Grossi recommending nuclear power plants in countries seeking to solve climate cha...

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TONIGHT: The show begins in Ukraine with advice to negotiate sooner not later, as Moscow grows stronger as Kyiv bends and strains. Then to Ireland, to Holland, to UK, struggling with protests bu migrants over several generations. From Gaza to Jerusale from 2023-12-01T02:14:58

 TONIGHT:  The show begins in Ukraine with advice to negotiate sooner not later, as Moscow grows stronger as Kyiv bends and strains.  Then to Ireland, to Holland, to UK, struggling with protes...

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PREVIEW: From a longer conversation, comment on how to approach and aid a hostage child who has experienced weeks of trauma. from 2023-12-01T02:04:31

PREVIEW: From a longer conversation, comment on how to approach and aid a hostage child who has experienci weeks of trauma.


#GAZA: Trauma recovery.  Dr. Asher Ben Arieh- Asher Be...

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#Bestof2021: 2/2: The Equality Act (HR 5) elbows aside religious belief&What is to be done? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2023-12-01T02:00:26


#Bestof2021: 2/2: The Equality Act (HR 5) elbows aside religious belief & What is to be done? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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#Bestof2021: 1/2: The Equality Act (HR 5) elbows aside religious belief&What is to be done? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2023-12-01T01:59:43


#Bestof2021: 1/2: The Equality Act (HR 5) elbows aside religious belief & What is to be done? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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2/2: #Astronomy: The origins of the Milky Way. Ken Croswell, Sky&Telescope Magazine. from 2023-12-01T01:55:14

2/2: #Astronomy: The origins of the Milky Way. Ken Croswell, Sky & Telescope Magazine.
https://www.nxtbook.com/...

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1/2: #Astronomy: The origins of the Milky Way. Ken Croswell, Sky&Telescope Magazine. from 2023-12-01T01:54:27


1/2: #Astronomy: The origins of the Milky Way. Ken Croswell, Sky & Telescope Magazine.
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MrMarket: Milton Friedman, the free market, and France. Veronique deRugy, Mercatus Center George Mason University from 2023-12-01T01:51:21


#MrMarket: Milton Friedman, the free market, and France. Veronique deRugy, Mercatus Center George Mason University
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#Canada: Why does Thomas Friedman seek to depose Netanyahu, the elected PM&What is to be done? from 2023-12-01T01:46:33


#Canada: Why does Thomas Friedman seek to depose Netanyahu, the elected PM & What is to be done?
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#Japan: Xi's threats to Taiwan and its neighbors remain active, waiting on the Taiwan election. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2023-12-01T01:45:11


#Japan: Xi's threats to Taiwan and its neighbors remain active, waiting on the Taiwan election. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
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#PRC: #Japan: ROK: Wang Yi charm offensive. Lance Gatling, principal of Nexial Research based in Tokyo,@GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill: from 2023-12-01T01:43:32


#PRC: #Japan: ROK: Wang Yi charm offensive. Lance Gatling, principal of Nexial Research based in Tokyo,@GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill:
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2/2 #Astronomy: #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope: The oldest Super Black Hole so far. Akos Bogdan, Akos Bogdan of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard&Smithsonian Observatory from 2023-12-01T01:41:08


2/2 #Astronomy: #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope: The oldest Super Black Hole so far. Akos Bogdan,  Akos Bogdan of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian Observatory
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1/2 #Astronomy: #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope: The oldest Super Black Hole so far. Akos Bogdan, Akos Bogdan of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard&Smithsonian Observatory from 2023-12-01T01:38:35


1/2 #Astronomy: #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope: The oldest Super Black Hole so far. Akos Bogdan,  Akos Bogdan of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian Observatory
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#GAZA: Houthis are risk-takers., ideologically driven. Michael Knights is the Jill and Jay Bernstein Fellow at The Washington Institute, specializing in the military and security affairs of Iraq, Iran, and the Gulf states. He is a co-founder of the Mili from 2023-12-01T01:34:52


#GAZA:   Houthis are risk-takers., ideologically driven.
Michael Knights is the Jill and Jay Bernstein Fellow at The Washington Institute, specializing in the military and security a...

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#GAZA: Hezbollah remains quiet during the ceasefire in Gaza.Yaakov Lappin is an Israel-based military affairs correspondent and analyst for JNS, and the in-house analyst at the Miryam Institute. His Patreon site is Strategic Assessments from 2023-12-01T01:30:56


#GAZA: Hezbollah remains quiet during the ceasefire in Gaza.Yaakov Lappin is an Israel-based military affairs correspondent and analyst for JNS, and the in-house analyst at the Miryam In...

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#GAZA: Trauma recovery. Dr. Asher Ben Arieh- Asher Ben-Arieh, PhD, is the Haruv Chair for the Study of Child Maltreatment at the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and Director of the Haruv Insti from 2023-12-01T01:29:21


#GAZA: Trauma recovery.  Dr. Asher Ben Arieh- Asher Ben-Arieh, PhD, is the Haruv Chair for the Study of Child Maltreatment at the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare a...

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#GAZA: HAMAS SHOOTERS IN JERUSALEM. Yossi Kuperwasser Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser is Director of the Project on Regional Middle East Developments at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. He was formerly Director General of the Israel Ministry from 2023-12-01T01:25:37


#GAZA: HAMAS SHOOTERS IN JERUSALEM. Yossi Kuperwasser Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser is Director of the Project on Regional Middle East Developments at the Jerusale...

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#AI: #ScalaReport: Slowdown economy and speeded up AI. Chris Riegel, CEO, Scala.com, #STRATACACHE. from 2023-12-01T01:23:52


#AI: #ScalaReport: Slowdown economy and speeded up AI. Chris Riegel, CEO, Scala.com, #STRATACACHE.
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#Argentina: Dollarization promised&What is to be done? Mary Anastasia O'Grady from 2023-12-01T01:23:02


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#EU: The anti immigrant vote and disorder. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute from 2023-12-01T01:20:46


#EU: The anti immigrant vote and disorder. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute
https://www.irishcentral.com/news/dublin-ri...

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#Ukraine:Kyiv and negotiating sooner. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute from 2023-12-01T01:17:11


#Ukraine:  Kyiv and negotiating sooner. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute
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PREVIEW: From a longer conversation about the Gaza War, Brigadier General Yossi Kuperwasser of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs notes that Hezbollah will remain a sizable threat to the North of Israel, especially in the event that Hamas disintegrat from 2023-11-30T20:28:10

PREVIEW: From a longer conversation about the Gaza War, Brigadier General Yossi Kuperwasser of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs notes that Hezbollah will remain a sizable threat to the ...

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PREVIEW: From a longer conversation on the consumer economies on three continents, Asia, Europe, North America, asking Chris Riegel of Scala.com (with business on all major continents) if AI deserves the sales pitch it receives on Wall Street? Chros Riege from 2023-11-30T16:03:18

PREVIEW: From a longer conversation on the consumer economies on three continents, Asia, Europe, North America, asking Chris Riegel of Scala.com (with business o...

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TONIGHT: The show begins in the Gulf where the Hiuthis threaten shipping with their sopisticated tactics and weapons. Then to Ukraine as General Winter settles in for an El Nino bombardment. From Ottowa to Edwards AFB, from Kyiv to Starlink in Israel, f from 2023-11-30T02:32:01

TONIGHT: The show begins in the Gulf where the Hiuthis threaten shipping with their sopisticated tactics and weapons.  Then to Ukraine as General Winter settles in for an El Nino bombardment. ...

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PREVIEW: From a two hour interview about the withdrawal from Afghanistan, August 2021, Author Jerry Duleavy analyzes the consequences of abandoning Bagram airbase fr the airport in central Kabul. from 2023-11-30T02:25:31

PREVIEW: From a two hour interview about the withdrawal from Afghanistan, August 2021, Author Jerry Duleavy analyzes the consequences of abandoning Bagram airbase fr the airport in central Kab...

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2/2: Redistributing tax dollars: State funding for the public good? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2023-11-30T02:19:13


#Bestof2021: 2/2:  Redistributing tax dollars: State funding for the public good?  @RichardAEpstein  @HooverInst   
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#Bestof2021: 1/2: Redistributing tax dollars: State funding for the public good? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2023-11-30T02:17:13


#Bestof2021: 1/2:  Redistributing tax dollars: State funding for the public good?  @RichardAEpstein  @HooverInst   
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#SCOTUS: Does the disenfranchising of insurrectionists in the 14th Amendment apply to presidents? Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution from 2023-11-30T02:05:16


#SCOTUS: Does the disenfranchising of insurrectionists in the 14th Amendment apply to presidents? Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution

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#SCOTUS: New rules for old judges. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution from 2023-11-30T02:02:55


#SCOTUS: New rules for old judges. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution

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#Russia: North Korean labor to the rescue of Moscow's severe labor shortage. Michael Bernstam, Hoover Institution from 2023-11-30T02:01:19


#Russia: North Korean labor to the rescue of Moscow's severe labor shortage. Michael Bernstam, Hoover Institution
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#France: Commodities plateau and Winter arrives in Paradise. Simon Constable, WSJ from 2023-11-30T01:59:56


#France: Commodities plateau and Winter arrives in Paradise. Simon Constable, WSJ

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4/8: /Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden’s Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End Hardcover – by Jerry Dunleavy (Author), James Hasson (Author) from 2023-11-30T01:58:33


4/8: /Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden’s Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End Hardcover – by  Jerry Dunleavy  (Author), James Hasson  (Author)

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3/8: Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden’s Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End Hardcover – by Jerry Dunleavy (Author), James Hasson (Author) from 2023-11-30T01:57:17


3/8:  Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden’s Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End Hardcover – by  Jerry Dunleavy  (Author), James Hasson  (Author)

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2/8: Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden’s Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End Hardcover – by Jerry Dunleavy (Author), James Hasson (Author) from 2023-11-30T01:55:01


2/8:  Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden’s Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End Hardcover – by  Jerry Dunleavy  (Author), James Hasson  (Author)

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1/8: Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden’s Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End Hardcover – by Jerry Dunleavy (Author), James Hasson (Author) from 2023-11-30T01:54:09


1/8:  Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden’s Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End Hardcover – by  Jerry Dunleavy  (Author), James Hasson  (Author)

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#Bennu: Distributing samples of a pristine carbonaceous chondrite asteroid. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2023-11-30T01:51:34


#Bennu: Distributing samples of a pristine carbonaceous chondrite asteroid. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
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#SpaceX: Starlink Israel including Gaza Strip. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2023-11-30T01:49:46


#SpaceX: Starlink Israel including Gaza Strip. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
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2/2: #Arming Ukraine, with its faults, advances American interests, as arming the Soviets, 1941-45 advanced American interests. John Herbst, Atlantic Council from 2023-11-30T01:47:34


2/2: #Arming Ukraine, with its faults, advances American interests, as arming the Soviets, 1941-45 advanced American interests. John Herbst, Atlantic Council

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1/2: #Arming Ukraine, with its faults, advances American interests, as arming the Soviets, 1941-45 advanced American interests. John Herbst, Atlantic Council from 2023-11-30T01:42:47


1/2: #Arming Ukraine, with its faults, advances American interests, as arming the Soviets, 1941-45 advanced American interests. John Herbst, Atlantic Council

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#PRC: #USAF: The B-21 the rattles PLA. Rebecca Grant, president of IRIS Independent Research and a visiting fellow of the Lexington Institute, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2023-11-30T01:40:33


#PRC: #USAF: The B-21  the rattles  PLA. Rebecca Grant, president of IRIS Independent Research and a visiting fellow of the Lexington Institute, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The H...

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#Canada: Hostage diplomacy and afterCharles Burton, senior fellow at the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill: from 2023-11-30T01:37:15


#Canada: Hostage diplomacy and afterCharles Burton, senior fellow at the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, News...

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#Ukraine: General Winter arrives on the field. Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2023-11-30T01:36:06


#Ukraine: General Winter arrives on the field.  Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol
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#GAZA: Houthis attack with skill and video game drama: Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2023-11-30T01:34:33


#GAZA: Houthis attack with skill and video game drama:  Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol

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PREVIEW: From a longer conversation with Colonel Jeff McCausland of CBS News, confirming that the Houthis of Yemen, surrogates for Tehran, also hold hostages from the 25 man crew of the hijacked Galaxy Leader.. #GAZA: Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (reti from 2023-11-29T23:27:30

PREVIEW: From a longer conversation with Colonel Jeff McCausland of CBS News, confirming that the Houthis of Yemen, surrogates for Tehran, also hold hostages from the 25 man crew of the hijack...

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PREVIEW: From a longer conversation about Ukraine, John Herbst of the Atlantic Council -- former ambassador to Ukraine -- comments on the charge that Ukraine is corrupt and not deserving of US support. from 2023-11-29T22:21:03

PREVIEW: From a longer conversation about Ukraine, John Herbst of the Atlantic Council  -- former ambassador to Ukraine -- comments on the charge that Ukraine is corrupt and not deserving of U...

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TONIGHT: The show begins by measuring and puzzling Cyber Monday -- the American consumer battlefield success. The to the 1968 New Hampshire Primary, to Greece in 2015 with a currency crisis and to the British Museum. From Berlin to Moscow, from Freetown from 2023-11-29T02:05:51

TONIGHT: The show begins by measuring and puzzling Cyber Monday -- the American consumer battlefield success. The to the 1968 New Hampshire Primary, to Greece in 2015 with a currency crisis an...

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PREVIEW: From a much longer conversation, Gregory Copley analyzes how KingCharles is handling both his duties and the enterprising yougng gossips. gossips. Gregory Copley, Defense&Foreign Affairs from 2023-11-29T01:59:36

PREVIEW: From a much longer conversation, Gregory Copley observes how KingCharles is handling both his duties and the enterprising yougng gossips. gossips. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreig...

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#BESTOF2021: 2/2: Modern SCOTUS cases for bigness. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2023-11-29T01:55:38

#BESTOF2021: 2/2: Modern SCOTUS cases for bigness. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst
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#NewWorldReport: Disinviting the Axis Powers of #Cuba, #Venezuela and #Nicaragua. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave). Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc Ernesto Araujo, former Foreign Minister Brazil. from 2022-05-03T00:44:40

Photo:  Caracas, Venezuela. Cityscape

#NewWorldReport:  Disinviting the Axis Powers of #Cuba, #Venezuela and #Nicaragua.  Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @Mari...

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#NewWorldReport: Narcoterror Trouble in #Ecuador. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave). Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc. Ernesto Araujo, former Foreign Minister Brazil. from 2022-05-03T00:42:54

Photo:  Ecuadorean police seized a truck they said was used to steal 2.8 tons of illegal drugs from a warehouse

#NewWorldReport:  Narcoterror Trouble in #Ecuador. Listen
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#Musk: First Amendment absolutism:"crude and inexact."@RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2022-05-03T00:42:07

Photo:  An April 22, 1885, cartoon from the Puck magazine depicting an army of clergymen assaulting a fortress defended by newspaper...

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#Ukraine: The Takings Clause and the Russian Oligarchs. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2022-05-03T00:41:34

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#Australia: #PRC: #Solomons: The threat of the Hong Kong police. @CleoPaskal @FDD from 2022-05-03T00:41

Photo:  Hong Kong Central 舊中區警署 — Central Police Station facade, 10 Hollywood Road, Jan-2016 ,Old Bailey Street Central

#Australia: #PRC: #Solomons: The threat of the ...

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#Australia: #PRC: #Solomons: Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare vs Canberra. @CleoPaskal @FDD from 2022-05-03T00:40:31

Photo: Solomon Islands; screen grab
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#India: #Germany: #Ukraine: Modi, Scholz, Putin, and the meaning of the Indian abstention. Sadanand Dhume, resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute. @dhume @AEI @WSJOpinion from 2022-05-03T00:39:49

Photo:  A relief sculpture representing Krishna Venugopala from the Allardyce Collection: Album of views and portraits in Berar and Hyderabad, taken by an unknown photographer in the 1860s. As...

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#Afghanistan: Pakistan vs Taliban; ISIS vs Pakistan. @BillRoggio @LongWarJournal https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/30/world/asia/pakistan-airstrikes-afghanistan-taliban.html from 2022-05-03T00:39:09

Photo:  The original base and stronghold of ISIS, Achin in eastern Afghanistan

 #Afghanistan:  Pakistan vs Ta...

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#Ukraine: Search for an exit. Katrina vanden Heuvel, @KatrinaNation @TheNation from 2022-05-03T00:38:10

Photo:  Post-1982 Japanese exit sign ("running man") designed by Yukio Ota in 1979.  ISO Standard (1987) sign in parts of Asia-Pacific, Eu...

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#PRC: Bankers departing #Hong Kong. Andrew Collier @acollier, managing director at Orient Capital Research. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. from 2022-05-03T00:36:57

Photo:  A HK$20 note issued by the HSBC

#PRC: Bankers departing #Hong Kong.   Andrew Collier @acollier, managing director at Orient Capital R...

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#Ukraine: Reports that Finland looks to apply to NATO. Bradley Bowman @Brad_L_Bowman @FDD from 2022-05-03T00:36:27

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#Ukraine: Reports that Finland looks to apply to NATO.  Bradley Bowman  @Brad_L_Bowman @FDD  

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#Ukraine: Four fronts in the fog of war. Bradley Bowman @Brad_L_Bowman @FDD from 2022-05-03T00:34:58

Photo:  Spectrum of deception types, including: disinformation, concealment, camou...

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#PacificWatch: Rationing water. @JCBliss from 2022-05-02T01:23:15

Photo: Oklahomans, drought refugees in a southern California squatter's camp


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#PacificWatch: Rationing water. @JCBliss

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Truth Social #1 App is just the start. @DevinNunes CEO Truth Social. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-05-02T01:08:16

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. 19th century
Wheat Field.
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4/4 Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate, by Paul Halpern from 2022-05-01T23:06:47

Photo:   An example of simulated data modeled for the CMS particle d...

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3/4 Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate, by Paul Halpern from 2022-05-01T23:05:54

Photo:   "God created an article . . . "

3/4   Paul Halpern #UNBOUND: Flashes of Creation The complete, forty-minute intervie...

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2/4 Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate, by Paul Halpern from 2022-05-01T23:02:56

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#OzWatch: La Nina joined by the India Ocean Dipole. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-05-01T01:38:55

Photo:   Water temperatures around the Mentawai Islands dropped about 4° Celsius during the height of a positive phase of the India...

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#Ukraine: Moscow POV: Mobilization and tactical nukes. Professor H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-05-01T01:38:42

Photo:   Tactical nuclear weapon


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#Ukraine:  Moscow POV:  Mobilization and tactical nukes. Professor H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHi...

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#Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus weigh the exaggerated reports that Russia is losing. Michael Vlahos. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-05-01T01:38:27

Photo: Triumphal Gate at Victory Square in Moscow (Russia).


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#Markets: The Biden Administration appears to alter fossil-fuel policies. @Liz Peek @TheHill LA from 2022-04-20T00:34:09

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#NewWorldReport: Caracas and the Colombia risk. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2022-04-20T00:32:41

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#LondonCalling: Boris Johnson apologizes @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2022-04-20T00:30

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#LondonCalling: Fed upgrades hikes;&What is to be done? @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2022-04-20T00:29:29

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#LondonCalling: Scholz hesitates @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2022-04-20T00:28:53

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#LondonCalling: Viktor Orbán and EU unity. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2022-04-20T00:28:25

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Classifying KH-11;&What is to be done? Henry D. Sokolski @HenrySokolski, Executive Director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC). Henry #Sokolski @NuclearPolicy from 2022-04-20T00:27:56

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The city-busting beginnings of US classification regime. Henry D. Sokolski @HenrySokolski, Executive Director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC). Henry #Sokolski @NuclearPolicy from 2022-04-20T00:27:25

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#StateThinking: Shanghai food security and protests. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc. from 2022-04-20T00:26:49

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#StateThinking:". . . goes too far."@MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP, Stephens Inc. from 2022-04-20T00:26:15

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#WDEV: Happy conversation with Host Ric Cingeri of the Vermont Viewpoint Show, WDEV in Vermont. from 2022-04-19T02:00

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Musk vs Twitter, the Prequel. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst RV from 2022-04-18T23:56:40

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Unionism comes to Amazon. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst RV from 2022-04-18T23:56:05

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#SmallBusinessAmerica: What is a Philadelphia hoagie? @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer LA from 2022-04-18T23:55:34

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#SmallBusinessAmerica: Rates climbing;&What is to be done? @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer LA from 2022-04-18T23:54:52

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#Pakistan: Islamabad tries diplomacy to Beijing and Delhi. @BillRoggio @FDD . Husain Haqqani @husainhaqqani, Hudson Institute @LongWarJournal from 2022-04-18T23:54:14

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#Afghanistan: Pakistan attacks the Northwestern borderland. #AfterAfghanistan @BillRoggio @FDD Husain Haqqani @husainhaqqani, Hudson Institute @LongWarJournal from 2022-04-18T23:53:41

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#Ukraine: What the Moskva means to the USN and the PRC . @JerryHendrixII @SagamoreInstitute @NRO from 2022-04-18T23:52:10

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#Ukraine: Two missile strikes amidships. @JerryHendrixII @SagamoreInstitute @NRO from 2022-04-18T23:51:37

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#NewWorldReport: Jair Bolsonaro in a black leather jacket leading the motorcycle parade. Ernesto Araujo, Former Foreign Minister Brazil from 2022-04-18T23:51:08

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#Ukraine: Azerbaijan, Israel, Cyprus and Greece have the natural gas the EU needs. @ProfBShafer @FDD from 2022-04-18T23:49:27

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What is Long Covid;&What is to be done? @HenryIMiller HenryMillerMD.org @PacificResearch from 2022-04-18T23:48:50

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#Ukraine:"A negotiated resolution is possible, but time is running out."Professor Stephen F. Cohen, April 2014. Katrina vanden Heuvel, @KatrinaNation @TheNation from 2022-04-18T23:48:15

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#Taiwan: #PRC threatens as the US Senate visits. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. Gerrit van der Wees @GerritWees; adjunct professor, Elliott School of Foreign Affairs, George Washington University,&Schar School of Govt, George Mason U. from 2022-04-18T23:46:58

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#PRC: The unknowns of the Shanghai lockdown. Andrew Collier @acollier, managing director at Orient Capital Research. Orient Capital Research. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2022-04-18T23:42:36

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2/2 #Titanic: RMS Carpathia arrives at Pier 54, April 18, 1912. Charles Pellegrino @CharlesPellegri , author, Farewell Titanic from 2022-04-18T23:41:44

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1/2 #Titanic: RMS Carpathia arrives at Pier 54, April 18, 1912. Charles Pellegrino @CharlesPellegri, author, Farewell Titani from 2022-04-18T23:40:14

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#Ukraine:"Guilty Men"and the long slow US escalation to World War, 1939 and 2022? H.J. Mackinder, International Relations #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-04-18T01:01:13

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#Panama: Escape from Panama? Michael Yon. MichaelYon/Locals.com #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-04-18T01:01:09

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7/8 A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine, by Gregory Zuckerman Kindle Edition from 2022-04-18T00:54:46

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6/8 A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine, by Gregory Zuckerman Kindle Edition from 2022-04-18T00:54:35

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4/8 A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine, by Gregory Zuckerman Kindle Edition from 2022-04-18T00:54:16

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3/8 A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine, by Gregory Zuckerman Kindle Edition from 2022-04-18T00:54:13

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1/8 A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine, by Gregory Zuckerman Kindle Edition from 2022-04-18T00:53:58

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#PacificWatch: Unhappy San Diego. @JCBliss from 2022-04-17T02:27:35

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#OzWatch: Flood of Snakes. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-04-17T02:27:32

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#OzWatch: Extreme air travel failure. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-04-17T02:26:17

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#Ukraine: Long slog. Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-04-17T02:23:10

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#Ukraine: Kyiv POV: No surrender. Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-04-17T02:22:41

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#Ukraine: Moscow POV: Revenge. Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-04-17T02:21:11

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#Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus debate the sinking of the Moskva. Michael Vlahos. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-04-17T02:20:08

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#Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus recall the unforgotten threat of the the Teutoberg Forest defeat. Michael Vlahos. from 2022-04-17T02:20:03

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10b/17: #DurhamReporting: Sussman calls on the CIA. Svetlana Lokhova, author, The Spy Who Changed History.@RealSLokhova #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-04-17T02:13:17

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10a/17: #DurhamReporting: The Clinton Campaign plan. Svetlana Lokhova, author, The Spy Who Changed History.@RealSLokhova #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-04-17T02:13:12

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4/4: Samuelson Friedman: The Battle Over the Free Market, by Nicholas Wapshott from 2022-04-17T02:03:01

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#Lithuania: Rumours of war on the Lithuania-Belarus Border, Summer 2021. Michael Yon. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-04-16T02:00

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#Panama: Return to the Darien Gap. Michael Yon. MichaelYon/Locals.com #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-04-16T02:00

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4/4: Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific, by Nicholas Thomas. @MAACambridge. from 2022-04-15T23:41:19

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3/4: Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific, by Nicholas Thomas. @MAACambridge. from 2022-04-15T23:40:48

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2/4: Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific, by Nicholas Thomas. @MAACambridge. from 2022-04-15T23:40:17

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1/4 Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific, by Nicholas Thomas. @MAACambridge. from 2022-04-15T23:39:23

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4/4: Révolution Française, by Sophie Pedder. @PedderSophie from 2022-04-15T23:38:43

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3/4: Révolution Française, by Sophie Pedder. @PedderSophie from 2022-04-15T23:38:07

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2/4: Révolution Française, by Sophie Pedder. @PedderSophie from 2022-04-15T23:37:28

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#PacificWatch: Sacramento troubles @JCBliss from 2022-04-11T01:19:40

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#Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus consider the fate of fresh Roman or Muscovite commanders thrown against the Dacian or Ukrainian defense in a long war. Michael Vlahos.#FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-04-11T01:13:09

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#Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus observe the defense of Dacia from Rome and the defense of Ukraine from Moscow. Michael Vlahos.#FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-04-11T01:12:03

Photo: Dacia map cf. Ptolemy (2nd century AD)

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4/4: The Kremlin sends in the Syrian conqueror. Anna Borshchevskaya. from 2022-04-11T01:11:50

Photo:   Wall of sorrow at the first exhibition of the victims of Stalinism in Moscow

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3/4: The Kremlin sends in the Syrian conqueror. Anna Borshchevskaya. from 2022-04-11T01:11:48

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2/4: The Kremlin sends in the Syrian conqueror. Anna Borshchevskaya. from 2022-04-11T01:11:44

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1/4: The Kremlin sends in the Syrian conqueror. Anna Borshchevskaya. from 2022-04-11T01:11:42

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#Ukraine: The overnight train from Kyiv to Lviv. Mohammad al-Kassim. Media Line News Agency, from 2022-04-10T01:54:37

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#Ukraine: NATO reinforces all along the Baltics frontier. Professor H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-04-10T01:36:08

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#Ukraine: Boris Johnson in town. Professor H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-04-10T01:36:04

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#Ukraine: Moscow POV: Victory by May 9? Professor H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-04-10T01:30:56

Photo:   Victory.    Albert Beck Wenzell, 1864-1917, artist

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9c/17: #DurhamReporting: The unknowns about Sussman on February 9, 2017. Svetlana Lokhova, author, The Spy Who Changed History.@RealSLokhova #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-04-10T01:23:26

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9b/17: #DurhamReporting: Looking toward the witness list on April 15. Svetlana Lokhova, author, The Spy Who Changed History.@RealSLokhova #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-04-10T01:23:15

Photo:  Witnesses.  "Folio 185, Revelation 11:5-8: 'And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to b...

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9a/17: #DurhamReporting: John Durham files fresh revelations concerning Michael Sussman. Svetlana Lokhova, author, The Spy Who Changed History.@RealSLokhova #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-04-10T01:23:10

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+ 8/17: #DurhamReporting: Indications that Priestap and Strzok have testified before the Grand Jury. Svetlana Lokhova, author, The Spy Who Changed History.@RealSLokhova #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-04-10T00:00:39

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+ 7b/17: #DurhamReporting: Marc Elias 2022 talks to the Grand Jury. Svetlana Lokhova, author, The Spy Who Changed History. @RealSLokhova #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-04-09T23:59:56

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+2a/17: #DurhamReporting: The Washington Post starts correcting the record. Svetlana Lokhova. @RealSLokhova #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-04-09T23:51:45

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+1b/17: #DurhamReporting: Is the state security apparatus (FSB, SVR, GRU, FBI, CIA, NSA) to be trusted? Svetlana Lokhova. @RealSLokhova #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-04-09T23:51

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#PRC: The gathering of allies in orbit and under the sea. Henry D. Sokolski @HenrySokolski, Executive Director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC). Henry #Sokolski @NuclearPolicy RV from 2022-04-09T00:21:06

Photo:  Camouflage nets cover vehicles and equipment of Mobile Inshore Undersea Warfare Unit 210 during the joint military training exercise Ocean Venture '92

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#OzWatch: Raining and raining. Adventures in Twin Towns. Scott Mayman @CBSNews.LA from 2022-04-09T00:18:30

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#Mexico: AMLO reaches for more power. Mary Anastasia O’Grady, @MaryAnastasiaOG Wall Street Journal editorial board and “The Americas” columnist. LA from 2022-04-09T00:17:10

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3/4: The Man Who Planted Trees: A Story of Lost Groves, the Science of Trees, and a Plan to Save the Planet, by Jim Robbins from 2022-04-09T00:12:39

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2/4: The Man Who Planted Trees: A Story of Lost Groves, the Science of Trees, and a Plan to Save the Planet, by Jim Robbin from 2022-04-09T00:11:39

Photo:  Tree rhizome—Euphorbia rhizophora

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#Ukraine: 2/2: Kharkiv is under siege. Borodyanka is destroyed. Mohammed al-Kassim @foreignfocus @TheMediaLine, The Media Line News Agency from 2022-04-09T00:08:06

Photo:  Some of the destruction of Borodyanka.

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#Inflation: Blame the supply chain. Jim McTague, @McTagueJ, former Washington Editor, @Barrons Washington. from 2022-04-09T00:05:35

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#Inflation: Blame the supply chain. Jim McTague, @McTagueJ, former Washington Editor, @Barrons Washington. 

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#Mars: Rough and perilous climb ahead for Curiosity. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2022-04-09T00:04:13

Photo:  Mars Landing Sites (16 December 2020)

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#Ukraine: Commercial space aids Kyiv. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2022-04-09T00:03:39


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#Ukraine: Putin must lose. Dan Henninger, @DanHenninger, @WSJOpinion. WSJ editorial board and Wonder Land columnist. from 2022-04-09T00:01:37

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2/2 #SEC: Wall Street’s Going-Green Regulations. Richard Epstein, @RichardAEpstein, @HooverInst from 2022-04-08T00:00:43

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1/2 #SEC: Wall Street’s Going-Green Regulations. Richard Epstein, @RichardAEpstein, @HooverInst from 2022-04-08T00:00:05

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#Inflation: Soft landing is the twice-told story. Veronique de Rugy, @veroderugy, @GeorgeMasonU, @Mercatus Center, Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center, George Mason University&NRO Online. from 2022-04-07T23:59:31

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#Canada: Trudeau secured in the minority government. Conrad Black, @ConradMBlack @nationalpost Baron Black of Crossharbour, KSG; British former newspaper publisher; prolific author from 2022-04-07T23:59:02

Photo:  Canadian Head Tax Receipt. 

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#Israel: The Knesset is tied 60-60;&What is to be done? Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2022-04-07T23:58:34

Photo:  Benno Elkan in his studio working on the large Knesset Menorah

#Israel: The Knesset is tied 60-60; & What is to be done? Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of...

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#Israel: Ramadan and Terror in Israel Ghaith Al-Omari. @GhAlOmari. Senior Fellow at @washinstitute from 2022-04-07T23:57:34

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#Israel: Ramadan and Terror in Israel   Ghaith Al-Omari. @GhAlOmari. Senior Fellow at @washinstitu...

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#Ukraine: The beginning of a Thirty-Years War. @AmbJohnBolton from 2022-04-07T23:54:03

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#Ukraine: Marauders as policy. Jeff McCausland, @mccauslJ @D6leadership, @USArmy; US Army Colonel (ret); Dean of Academics, US Army War College; @CBSradio natl security consultant; @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2022-04-07T23:52:49

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#Ukraine: Marauders as policy. Jeff McCausland, @mccauslJ  @D6leadership, @USArmy; US Army Colonel (ret); De...

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#NewWorldReport: Ukraine war trouble in Peru. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis from 2022-04-07T23:51:19

Photo:  "The Japanese broom continues to sweep the Peruvians out of industry and commerce", anti-Japanese propaganda in Peru during World War II

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#Ukraine: Neutrality such as Switzerland, Finland, Austria. Anatol Lieven, @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst Georgetown University from 2022-04-07T23:50:45

Photo:  "The Neutrality Fence."  Berryman Political Cartoon Collection

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#Ukraine: Sanctions damage everyone;&What is to be done? Anatol Lieven, @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst Georgetown University from 2022-04-07T23:50:10

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#Ethiopia: Tumbling into anarchy. Gregory R Copley, @Gregory_Copley, editor and publisher of Defense&Foreign Affairs. RV from 2022-04-07T00:02:20

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#Ethiopia: Tumbling into anarchy.  Gregory R Copley, @Gregory_Copley, editor and publisher of Defense &a...

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#Ukraine: The global risks of Information Warfare. Gregory R Copley, @Gregory_Copley, editor and publisher of Defense&Foreign Affairs.RV from 2022-04-07T00:01:52

Photo:  Russian army sinks to genocide; Ukrainians have sophisticated sigint interception methods.

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#HotelMars: #Ukraine: Is Roskosmos exiting the ISS on April 12? Anatoly Zak @RussianSpaceWeb , RussianSpaceWeb.com David Livingston SpaceShow.com LA from 2022-04-07T00:01:15

Photo:   The State Space Corporation "Roscosmos" (Государственная корпорация по космической деятельности «Роскосмос»), commonly known simply as Roscosmos (Роскосмос), is a Listen
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#Ukraine: Russian sovereign debt falls below junk bonds. Michael Bernstam @HooverInst LA from 2022-04-07T00:00:43

Photo:  A high-yield bond (non-investment-grade bond, speculative-grade bond, or junk bond) is a bond that is rated below Listen
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#PRC: Xi bets on the Kremlin to succeed. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2022-04-07T00:00:04

Photo:   潜行    qiánxíng ;  furtive, stealthy, sneaky

#PRC: Xi bets on the Kremlin to succeed. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

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#PRC: The"copycat"J-20. Rick Fisher @CSIS, senior Fellow of the International Assessment and Strategy Center. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2022-04-06T23:58:41

Photo:  Schematic layout of Chengdu J-20

#PRC: The "copycat" J-20.  Rick Fisher @CSIS, senior Fellow of the International Assessment and Strategy Center. @Gor...

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#PRC: Democracy and its adversaries. Cleo Paskal @CleoPaskal, associate Fellow at Chatham House on the Solomon Islands. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2022-04-06T23:58:02

Photo: Statue of Athena, the patron goddess of Athens, in front of the Austrian Parliament Building. Athena has been used as an international symbol of freedom and democracy since at least the...

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#Planets: The US lander aims for the south pole of the Moon. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2022-04-06T23:56:52

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#Spaceflight: Amazon chooses boosters. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2022-04-06T23:56:25

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#Ukraine: Russian war conduct from Aleppo and Damascus to Bucha and Irpin. Mohammed al-Kassim @foreignfocus @TheMediaLine, The Media Line News Agency. from 2022-04-06T23:55:48

Photo:  Demonstrations by Arabs in Aleppo, 1919

#Ukraine: Russian war conduct from Aleppo and Damascus to Bucha and Irpin.    Mohammed al-Kassim @foreignfocus...

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#Ukraine: Remains of the battle for Hostomel Airfield. Mohammed al-Kassim @foreignfocus @TheMediaLine, The Media Line News Agency. from 2022-04-06T23:55:01

Photo:   AN-225 Mirya ablaze in its hangar on February 27, 2002, after being attacked by Russian forces at the Hostomel Airport.


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#Ukraine: #Russia: Food security and the Russian Black Market. Felix Light, Moscow Times, @felix_light, @CBS News, @MoscowTimes from 2022-04-06T23:53:17

Photo:  Local markets in Russia (рынок); here: Erevan covered market during the daytime, Armenia

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#NYC: Andrew Cuomo greets Eric Adams;&What is to be done? Harry Siegel, @harrysiegel @NYDailyNews and The Daily Beast from 2022-04-06T23:52:34

Photo:  Opening entries in a menu of a premier New York restaurant

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#Ukraine: No ceasefire exit for Putin and the Kremlin. George Friedman. @George_Friedman @GPFutures, Founder and Chairman of Geopolitical Futures from 2022-04-06T23:47:15

Photo:  Austrian troops before the ceasefire, 20 July 1864.

#Ukraine: No ceasefire exit for Putin and the Kremlin. George Friedman.  @George_Friedman @GPFutur...

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#NewWorldReport: The Car Wash Corruption. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc. Ernesto Araujo, former Foreign Minister of Brazil. from 2022-04-05T23:25:20

Photo: Car wash almost century ago.  Here: a standard petrol station, with the Esso brand, in 1937. The gas station remains at the Nobel Cross, now under the name Statoil.

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#LondonCalling: Musk club-crawls in Berlin. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2022-04-05T23:24:15

Photo:  Deutscher Club. Buttolph menus collection.

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#LondonCalling: Trillions and Inflation. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2022-04-05T23:23:41

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#LondonCalling: Is Boris Johnson"wobbly"? @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2022-04-05T23:23:08

Photo: Boris Johnson at the 72nd United Nations General Assembly, September 18, 2017 (Official White House.   Photo by Shealah Craighead)

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#LondonCalling: Ukraine and Ostpolitik. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2022-04-05T23:22:29

Photo:  Sept. 24, 1961. East Germany mandates the destruction of houses along the border at Klauke-Strasse to eliminate cover for refugees crossing to the West. From the booklet "A City Torn A...

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#Ukraine: Bucha and Irpin: Heavily documented. Mohammed al-Kassim @foreignfocus @TheMediaLine, The Media Line News Agency. from 2022-04-05T23:20:34

Photo: Holomodor:  New York Evening post March 3, 1935 on Stalin'/s intentional starvation of millions in Ukraine

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#Ukraine: Bucha and Irpin: Searching for his grandmother. Mohammed al-Kassim @foreignfocus @TheMediaLine, The Media Line News Agency. from 2022-04-05T23:20

Photo:  Infant and grandmother, Norway

#Ukraine: Bucha and Irpin: Searching for his grandmother.  Mohammed al-Kassim @foreignfocus  @TheMediaLine, The Media L...

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#StateThinking: PRC endorses the Kremlin's alleged war crimes. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc from 2022-04-05T23:19:19

Photo:  Yugoslavia, bodies of hostages shot by the Italian army (detail)


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#StateThinking: Is the UNSC effective;&What is to be done? @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc from 2022-04-05T23:18:39

Photo: United Nations Security Council Briefing on Counterproliferation at U.N. Headquarters in New York | September 26, 2018

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#Ukraine: Standing up to Russian threats;&What is to be done? Judy Dempsey, @Judy_Dempsey. @Carnegie_Europe. Editor in chief #StrategicEurope, blog of @Carnegie_Europe. from 2022-04-05T23:18:02

Photo: Odessa, now an object of the Russian military

#Ukraine:  Standing up to Russian threats; & What is to be done? Judy Dempsey, @Judy_Dempsey. @Carneg...

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#Markets: Does the GOP have a growth policy for its voters? Elizabeth Peek @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews, Fiscal Times. from 2022-04-05T23:16:30

Photo:  This untitled illustration by cartoonist Clifford Berryman, which appeared in the Washington Evening Star on March 29, 1915, shows former President Theodore Roosevelt, rumored to be in...

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#Pakistan: Drama Islamabad. Husain Haqqani @husainhaqqani, former Pakistani Ambassador to the United States; Hudson Institute. Bill Roggio @FDD RV from 2022-04-05T00:30:42

Photo:  The Pashupati seal:  unknown Indus Valley Civilization sealmaker from Mohenjodaro archaeological site.  Moh...

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#Ukraine: Tactical Nukes in the US Army, 1955. Sebastien Roblin, @sebastienroblin, writes on technical, historical and political aspects of international security and conflict. Nineteen45.com LA from 2022-04-05T00:29:57

Photo:  US scientists with a full-scale, cut-away model of the W48, a very small tactical nuclear weapon with an explosive yield equivalent to 7...

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2/2: #Ukraine: How Russia threatens the Balkans. Ivana Stradner @ivanastradner , advisor to @FDD from 2022-04-05T00:28:40


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1/2: #Ukraine: How Russia threatens the Balkans. Ivana Stradner @ivanastradner , advisor to @FDD from 2022-04-05T00:28:09


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#Ukraine: Kyiv is the natural resources authority of Eastern Europe. James Brooke @JimBrookeUKR, @FDD Visiting Fellow from 2022-04-05T00:24:09


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#Ukraine: The 100-year Russian attack on Kyiv. James Brooke, @ FDD. from 2022-04-05T00:22:21


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#NorthKorea: Expect more provocations before the Inauguration May 10. David Maxwell @DavidMaxwell161 @FDD, Army Special Forces colonel (ret); Fellow, Institute of Corean American Studies. Gordon G. Chang @GordonGChang. Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2022-04-05T00:20:21

Photo:  Two North Korean officials

#NorthKorea: Expect more provocations before the Inauguration May 10. David Maxwell  @DavidMaxwell161  @FDD, retired U.S. Army Special Forces...

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2/2: #Ukraine: The Horrors of Irpin and Bucha. Mohammed al-Kassim @foreignfocus @TheMediaLine, The Media Line News Agency. from 2022-04-05T00:15:03

Photo:  Irpin is a Hero City of Ukraine located on the Irpin River in Kyiv Oblast right next to the city of Kyiv. Here:  Pushkin Park in Irpin.

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1/2: #Ukraine: The Horrors of Irpin and Bucha. Mohammed al-Kassim @foreignfocus @TheMediaLine, The Media Line News Agency from 2022-04-05T00:14:33

 Photo:   Bucha municipal park

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#OzWatch: Cricket Supremacy. Footy and Meat Pies. Jeremy Zakis, N.S.W. from 2022-04-03T23:01

Photo:  George Coulthard, one of the first players to attain Australia-wide celebrity

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#OZWatch: Bushmasters for Zelensky. National defense spending for the PRC threats. Jeremy Zakis. N.S.W. from 2022-04-03T23:01

Photo:  Logo for Bushmaster Firearms International.

#OZWatch: Bushmasters for Zelensky. National defense spending for the PRC threats.  Jeremy Zakis. N.S.W.

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8/8: And now the same Xi Jinping PRC allied with Vladimir Putin's war-making: Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century, by Josh Rogin. from 2022-04-03T23:00

Photo: The conflict on the Manchurian Chinese Eastern Railway, 1929. The Soviet soldiers with captured banners from Zhang Xueliang's troops {from the Kuo Min Tang].

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6/8: And now the same Xi Jinping PRC allied with Vladimir Putin's war-making: Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century, by Josh Rogin. from 2022-04-03T23:00

Photo:  Aaihom ruin'd (i.e., Old Aigun), in the Province of Tcitcica on this 18th-century map corresponds to ...

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5/8: And now the same Xi Jinping PRC allied with Vladimir Putin's war-making: Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century, by Josh Rogin. from 2022-04-03T23:00

Photo:  A special passenger train operates between the two border stations on the eastern section of the former Chinese Eastern Railway, Suifenhe and Grodekovo


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4/8: And now the same Xi Jinping PRC allied with Vladimir Putin's war-making: 4/8: Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century, by Josh Rogin. from 2022-04-03T23:00

Photo:  Map showing the locations of major clashes during the 1969 border war


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3/8: And now the same Xi Jinping PRC allied with Vladimir Putin's war-making: Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century, by Josh Rogin. from 2022-04-03T23:00

Photo:  A 1720 letter from Russian officials to Kangxi's court


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2/8: And now the same Xi Jinping PRC allied with Vladimir Putin's war-making: Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century, by Josh Rogin. from 2022-04-03T23:00

Photo:  Sixteenth-century maps of Russia often showed "Chumbalik Kingdom" as Russia's southeastern neighbor, which could be reached by tra...

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1/8: And now the same Xi Jinping PRC allied with Vladimir Putin's war-making: Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century, by Josh Rogin. from 2022-04-03T23:00

Photo:  Russian Ambassadors in China in the 17th Century. Illustration of Niva (Niva, 19th Century)


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#PacificWatch: Watching the Start of the Third Year of Drought. Jeff Bliss from 2022-04-03T00:53:25

Photo:  A South Dakota farm during the Dust Bowl, 1936

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#PacificWatch: #OzWatch: Attending Australian Football Called Footy. Jeff Blissin Brisbane, Queensland. from 2022-04-03T00:50:07

Photo: Statue next to the Melbourne Cricket Ground on the approximate site of the 1858 football match between Listen
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#Ukraine: Brussels POV: Rearming. H J Mackinder International Relations #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-04-03T00:48:27

Photo:    HMS Prince of Wales, ordered in 1936, as part of the re-armament programme.

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#Ukraine: Kyiv POV: The burdens of a ceasefire. H J Mackinder International Relations #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-04-03T00:47:42

Photo: The Illustrated London News's illustration of the very famous Christmas Truce: "British and German Soldiers Arm-in-Arm Exchan...

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#Ukraine: Moscow POV: Withdrawal. H J Mackinder International Relations #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-04-03T00:46:04

Photo: Napoleon's army at the retreat from Russia at the Berezina river


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#Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus reflect upon Ukraine crisis in reference to 1938 and the remark,"The choice is between war now or war later."Michael Vlahos. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-04-03T00:36:26

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8/8: The Last 100 Years of Unending War in Europe: Nick Lloyd, The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918. from 2022-04-03T00:08:16

Photo:  THE IMPERIAL WAR CABINET - LONDON, 1ST MAY, 1917
Front Row: The Rt. Hon. Arthur Henderson (Minister without portfolio), The Rt. Hon Lord Milner (Minister without portfolio), Lord C...

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7/8: The Last 100 Years of Unending War in Europe: Nick Lloyd, The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918. from 2022-04-03T00:08:10

Photo:  German assault troops (Stosstruppen) in 1917


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5/8: The Last 100 Years of Unending War in Europe Nick Lloyd, The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918. from 2022-04-03T00:07:54

Photo:  Taczanka, WWI

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4/8: The Last 100 Years of Unending War in Europe: Nick Lloyd, The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918. from 2022-04-03T00:07:23

Photo:  Drawing from the Greek newspaper PATRIS, about Serbia's bouble attack  (from Bulgaria and German Empire) at World War I

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3/8: The Last 100 Years of Unending War in Europe: Nick Lloyd, The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918. from 2022-04-03T00:07:20

Photo:   Village Dihovo in Macedonia in WWI

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2/8: The Last 100 Years of Unending War in Europe: Nick Lloyd, The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918. from 2022-04-03T00:07:11

Photo:  Bereznica, Galizia, WWI

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1/8: The Last 100 Years of Unending War in Europe: Nick Lloyd, The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918. from 2022-04-03T00:07:02

Photo:  POW of World War I in Austria. 1915 or 1916.

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#Ukraine: Air Defense. Josh Rogin, @joshrogin @WashingtonPost from 2022-04-02T00:38:34

Photo:  Soviet 85mm anti-aircraft guns deployed in the neighborhood of Listen
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#FederalCity: Remaking USA.Gov Francis Rose, @FrancisRoseDC , host, Government Matters (Washington, D.C.); NationalDefenseWeek.com and francisrose.com; The Daily Scoop, The Fed Scoop from 2022-04-02T00:37:50

Photo:  A national website

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#Inflation: Jobs, Jobs and Recession-Watch. Jim McTague, @McTagueJ, former Washington Editor, @Barrons Washington. from 2022-04-02T00:35:58

Photo:  Employment office: Immigrants at Castle Garden, New York City.

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1/2: #Ukraine: Lenin, Stalin, Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Putin fear of failed sovereign debt. Dr. Judy Shelton @judyshel , Independent Institute #nedemocracy from 2022-04-02T00:33:31

Photo:   The National Debt.  From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885

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#Mars: Radiation shielding for the colonies beneath the surface. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2022-04-02T00:30:55

Photo:   US Atomic Energy photographs in Life Magazine Exhibit. Radiation shielding. Photograph of image taken July 15, 1948

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#Ukraine: The Last Soyuz for America? Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2022-04-02T00:29:57

Photo:   Soyuz vehicle and FGB as the orbiter Discovery moves in for docking during STS-121

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#Ukraine: #Oz: Zelensky rallies Australia. Scott Mayman @CBSNews Brisbane from 2022-04-02T00:28:17


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#Ukraine: Kremlin and Gold in Wartime. Brett Arends, Barron’s. @BrettArends @MKTWArends @Marketwatch from 2022-04-02T00:27

Photo:  "Who else has gold, pearls, jewels?"
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#Ukraine: Unknowns of the Chernobyl catastrophe in war. Henry D. Sokolski @HenrySokolski, Executive Director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center. Henry #Sokolski @NuclearPolicy from 2022-04-02T00:23:24

Photo:  Belarusian stamp on Chernobyl

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2/2: #Ukraine: Nuclear energy plants at risk from natural and man-made catastrophes. Henry D. Sokolski @HenrySokolski, Executive Director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center. Henry #Sokolski @NuclearPolicy from 2022-04-01T00:27:35

Photo:  Photo of the nuclear power plant in Yuzhnoukrainsk  ПУАЕС

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1/2: #Ukraine: Nuclear energy plants at risk from natural and man-made catastrophes. Henry D. Sokolski @HenrySokolski, Executive Director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center. Henry #Sokolski @NuclearPolicy from 2022-04-01T00:26:48

Photo:  Centenary of the Ukrainian Revolution 1917-1921

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#ElSalvador: Under the volcano. Mary Anastasia O’Grady, @MaryAnastasiaOG Wall Street Journal editorial board and “The Americas” columnist. from 2022-04-01T00:25:50

Photo:   The revolutionary government of the armed forces of El Salvador; last century


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#Inflation: Global risk of recession. Veronique de Rugy, @veroderugy, @GeorgeMasonU, @Mercatus Center, Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center, George Mason University&NRO Online from 2022-04-01T00:25:11

Photo:  American soup kitchen in Galatz. Roumanian laborers patronize the American Red Cross soup kitchen set up at Galatz on the Danube. These kitchens were turned over to the Americans by th...

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#Syria:#UAW: #Russia: #Ukraine: Assad sending homicides to Ukraine. Jonathan Spyer @jonathan_spyer ; Fellow, Middle East Forum; travels extensively in Syria, Iraq, Kurdistan. LSE Ph.D. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2022-04-01T00:18:35

Photo:  2/27th Battalion advance on the town of El Ardun, Syria, 3 June 1941


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#NewWorldReport: Bolsonaro launches re-election campaign. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis from 2022-04-01T00:16:19

Photo:  2022 elections, Brazil

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#NewWorldReport: Venezuela healthcare collapses into Medieval afflictions;&What is to be done? Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis from 2022-04-01T00:13:14

Photo:  Medieval medicine—detail of a miniature of a mandrake plant with a naked male body as the root. Image taken from f. 56v of Herbal. Written in Latin.
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#Canada: Juno Beach disordered. Conrad Black, @ConradMBlack @nationalpost Baron Black of Crossharbour, KSG; British former newspaper publisher; prolific author from 2022-04-01T00:12:26

Photo:  Juno Beach — Soldiers of the 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade deploying in Nan White Sector

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#ScalaReport: Slow, spotty recovery from Shanghai to Manhattan. Chris Riegel, @Scala CEO, @STRATACACHE, #TheScalaReport from 2022-04-01T00:11:29

Photo:  The first QANTAS passenger

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#Ukraine: EU energy and the price of war. Anatol Lieven, @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst Georgetown University from 2022-04-01T00:10:03


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#Ukraine: Peace talks back to the rejected Minsk 2 deal of 2015. Anatol Lieven, @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst Georgetown University from 2022-04-01T00:08:50

Photo:   A map of the buffer zone established by the Minsk Protocol during the War in Donbass.
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#Ukraine: After Russia's fall in Central Asia and the Caucasus. George Friedman. @George_Friedman @GPFutures, Founder and Chairman of Geopolitical Futures LA from 2022-03-31T00:12:15

Photo:  Zindan (prison), with inmates looking out through the bars and a guard with Russian rifle, uniform, and boots, Central Asia

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#Ukraine: Russians fall down. George Friedman. @George_Friedman @GPFutures, Founder and Chairman of Geopolitical Futures LA from 2022-03-31T00:11

.Photo: "La défaillance russe" --- Russian failure.

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#PRC: Completely defenseless. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill Sean Lin @XiaoxuSeanLin , former lab director of the viral disease branch of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research from 2022-03-31T00:09:10

Photo:  Chinese peasant with basket and game bag.
 
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#Mars: Ingenuity on its 23rd Flight. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2022-03-31T00:06:11

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SpaceX regulated. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2022-03-31T00:05:41

Photo:  With a view of the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building at left, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket soars upward from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 23, 2021, ...

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#Ukraine: NATO and anti-air. Jeff McCausland, @mccauslJ @D6leadership, @USArmy; retired US Army Colonel&Dean of Academics at the US Army War College; @CBSradio natl security consultant; @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2022-03-31T00:04:49

Photo:  NATO stinger missiles

#Ukraine: NATO and anti-air. Jeff McCausland, @mccauslJ  @D6leadership, @USArmy; retired US Army Colonel & ...

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#Ukraine: Armor Warfare 2022, Lessons Learned. Jeff McCausland, @mccauslJ @D6leadership, @USArmy; retired US Army Colonel&Dean of Academics at the US Army War College; @CBSradio natl security consultant; @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2022-03-31T00:04:16

Photo:  British armored car about to start on a reconnaissance. 
             Near Biefvillers. 8-25-1918

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#NYC: MTA ridership remains low;&What is to be done? Harry Siegel NY Daily News from 2022-03-30T23:59:38

Photo:  City Hall Subway Station, New York. 1910

#NYC: MTA ridership remains low; & What is to be done?  Harry Siegel NY Daily News 

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#Ukraine: Mario Draghi rearms Italy while talking peace with Zelenskiy and Putin. Lorenzo Fiori Ansaldo Foundation. from 2022-03-30T23:58:29

Photo:  Leopoldo Pullè: Patria Esercito Re [Homeland Army King], Ulrico Hoepli, Milan, 1908.

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#MilkyWay: The Thick Disk, the Thin Disk, and the Halo. Ken Croswell, ScienceNews.com from 2022-03-30T00:11:12

Photo:  Milky Way

#MilkyWay: The Thick Disk, the Thin Disk, and the Halo. Ken Croswell, ScienceNews.com

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#PRC: Pushing back on the existential risk of the PRC in the Solomon Islands. Gregory R Copley, @Gregory_Copley, editor and publisher of Defense&Foreign Affairs. from 2022-03-30T00:10:36

Photo:  Solomon Island warriors, armed with spears, on board an ornamented war canoe (1895)

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#Ukraine: The same Kremlin-Kyiv deal that was ready in January. Gregory R Copley, @Gregory_Copley, editor and publisher of Defense&Foreign Affairs from 2022-03-30T00:09:54

Photo:  Kiev, as seen during World War II.

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#LondonCalling: Partygate lives. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2022-03-30T00:09:25


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#LondonCalling: The unmet energy demands for the century. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2022-03-30T00:08:57

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#LondonCalling;&What is to be done? @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2022-03-30T00:07:51

Photo:  Valuta/hard currency —Picture of a  large sum of money for exchange conversions in international currency markets and digital forex trading. This paper money picture was created for yo...

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#LondonCalling: Global inflation returns from the 1970s. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2022-03-30T00:07:17

Photo:  Theatres along 900 block of Granville Street, Vancouver, BC.  Photo by:Curt Lang, 1972.

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#Ukraine: Erdogan hosts the peace talks. @AykanErdemir @FDD from 2022-03-30T00:06:29

Photo:  The Batavians Become Afraid and Begin Peace Talks; from The War of the Romans Against the Batavians

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#Ukraine: The maturing of globalization: 2050. Trading Blocs by the Democracies and by the Autocracies. Callum Williams @CalWilliamsComm. @TheEconomist from 2022-03-30T00:05:30

Photo:  Early trade — Timbuktu: arrival of a salt caravan

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#Markets: Much more American natural gas needed for the century to grow.@LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews from 2022-03-30T00:04:52


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#Markets: The mysterious bond market signals that anything could happen. @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews from 2022-03-30T00:04:12

Photo:  PIMCO, world's largest bond trader.

#Markets: The mysterious bond market signals that anything could happen. @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews 

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#Ukraine: LNG makes America the Arsenal of Energy. Bud Weinstein @TheHill from 2022-03-30T00:03:33

 Photo:  The "Arsenal of Democracy" quotation from FDR's fireside chat of December 29, 1940, is carved into the stone of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial.

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#Ukraine: Azerbaijan sends help; Armenia sends provocations. Brenda Shaffer @ProfBShaffer @FDD from 2022-03-30T00:02:31

Photo:  Folk dancers celebrating Armenian Independence Day in Erevan; May 28, 1918

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#StateThinking: The PRC is not trustworthy in contract;&What is to be done? @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State; Executive VP, Stephens Inc. from 2022-03-30T00:01:37

Photo:  In Sun Tzu [pronounced sort of like soon-dzuh ), deception refers to:
  • The supremacy of unconventional warfare as opposed to the conventional (Sun Tzu Chapter 5 ...

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2/2: #Pandemic: What does it portend that the CDC recommends Covid-19 vaccines for all of the"people”? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst. from 2022-03-29T00:45:28

Photo:  Bal masqué: celebration presented to the king and the queen by the city of Paris, on 23 January 1782,  on the occasion of the birth of the dauphin.  These are not "th...

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1/2: #Pandemic: What does it portend that the CDC recommends Covid-19 vaccines for all of the"people”? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst RV. from 2022-03-29T00:44:49

Photo:  National Vaccine and Antitoxin Institute

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#AfterAfghanistan: Negotiating with terrorists. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal. LA. from 2022-03-29T00:44:12

Photo:  Rue de Presbourg  after the attack of September 11, 1937

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#Pakistan: Imran Khan on the edge of failure. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal. LA from 2022-03-29T00:43:31

Photo:  Earthquake survivors wait for food, tents and other supplies to be delivered to them at Devalian, Pakistan, Nov. 3, 2005

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#SolomonIslands: The PRC takes command;&What is to be done? @CleoPaskal. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2022-03-29T00:43

Photo:  Solomon Islands canoe, from a 1956 postage stamp.

#SolomonIslands: The PRC takes command; & What is to be done? @CleoPaskal. @GordonGChang, Gatest...

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#PRC: Evergrande promises for the end of July. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. Fraser Howie, co-author of Red Capitalism: The Fragile Financial Foundation of China's Extraordinary Rise from 2022-03-29T00:42:27

Photo:   The Urn City at Chaoyangmen, 1934

#PRC: Evergrande promises for the end of July. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill.    Fraser Howie, co-au...

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#Israel: The Abraham Accords Negev Summit in response to the Iran threat. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2022-03-29T00:41:15

Photo:  The Negev, 1800s

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#PacificWatch: @JCBliss #OzWatch: Jeff Bliss in friendly, rainy, pricey, magical Australia. from 2022-03-29T00:36:22

Photo:  Rowing Shed in West End, Brisbane

#PacificWatch: @JCBliss  #OzWatch: Jeff Bliss in friendly, rainy, pricey, magical Australia.

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#Ukraine: The internally-displaced refugees gather at Lviv. Bill Devlin @pastordev from 2022-03-29T00:35:30

Photo:  Hercegovac, Croatia, refugees

#Ukraine: The internally-displaced refugees gather at Lviv. Bill Devlin @pastordev

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#Ukraine: What was MAD&what is to be done?? Cliff May @FDD from 2022-03-29T00:34:25

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#Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus examine the downside of American and Russian exceptionalism. Michael Vlahos.#FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-03-28T01:26:39

Photo:    More details Newspaper reporting the annexation of the Republic of Hawaii in 1898. American exceptionalism has fueled American expansion through the ideology of manifest destiny.[22]...

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4/4: #PRC: Anti-Satellite War in Orbit, 2027-2029. Henry D. Sokolski @HenrySokolski, Executive Director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center. Henry #Sokolski @NuclearPolicy RV from 2022-03-26T00:49:18

Photo:  A vision for the future: a space-based high-energy laser destroys a terrestrial target     

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3/4: #PRC: Anti-Satellite War in Orbit, 2027-2029. Henry D. Sokolski @HenrySokolski, Executive Director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center. Henry #Sokolski @NuclearPolicy RV from 2022-03-26T00:48:28

Photo:  Dong Fang Hong I - Chinese first satellite (1970), Space technology exhibition in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China
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2/4: #PRC: Anti-Satellite War in Orbit, 2027-2029. Henry D. Sokolski @HenrySokolski, Executive Director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center. Henry #Sokolski @NuclearPolicy. LA from 2022-03-26T00:47:47

Photo:  Maiden flight of Long March 6 rocket.

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1/4: #PRC: Anti-Satellite War in Orbit, 2027-2029. Henry D. Sokolski @HenrySokolski, Executive Director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center. Henry #Sokolski @NuclearPolicy. LA. from 2022-03-26T00:47:03

Photo:  Chinese fire rockets, probably the first in the world.
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#Mars: Perseverance pedal to the metal. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2022-03-26T00:46:16

Photo:  Global mosaic of 102 Viking 1 Orbiter images of Mars taken on orbit 1,334, 22 February 1980. The images are projected into point perspective, representing what a viewer would see from ...

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#CommercialSpace: Blue Origin delays and exits. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2022-03-26T00:45:42

Photo:  Blue Origin coat of arms/

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2/2: #Ukraine: Battle for Mykolaiv and the Bug River crossing, February 25–March 20. Sebastien Roblin from 2022-03-26T00:45:14

Photo:  Admiralty Cathedral in Mykolaiv on a postcard of the beginning of the XX century

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1/2: #Ukraine: Battle for Mykolaiv and the Bug River crossing, February 25–March 20. Sebastien Roblin, from 2022-03-26T00:44:34

Photo:  View of Mykolaiv and the Southern Bug from a height of about 10 km.

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#NYC: Andrew Cuomo taunts and pleads. Harry Siegel, @harrysiegel @NYDailyNews and The Daily Beast from 2022-03-26T00:43:56

Photo:  The Mockery of the Owl: a 17th-century painting by Jan van Kessel the Elder, loosely depicting a scene fro...

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#Oz: Facing PRC provocation in the Solomon Islands. Scott Mayman @CBSNews from 2022-03-26T00:42:59

Photo:  Manevai village, Vanikoro, 1833.
             Village de Manevai, Vanikoro, 1833. Expédition de Jules Dumont d'Urville.

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#Ukraine: The Kremlin war crimes started in Syria. Josh Rogin, @joshrogin @WashingtonPost from 2022-03-26T00:41:52

Photo:    Syria: ancient bridge with the Grand Mosque in background
               العربية:  دير الزور الجسر العتيق


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#SmallBusinessAmerica: Discovering"Lunchflation?"@GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2022-03-26T00:41:16

Photo:  Lunch at San Francisco Commercial Club, California 

#SmallBusinessAmerica: Discovering "Lunchflation?"@GeneMarks  @Guardian @PhillyInquirer

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#SmallBusinessAmerica: Back to work. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2022-03-26T00:40:45

Photo:  Illustration of power loom weaving, 1835

#SmallBusinessAmerica: Back to work. @GeneMarks  @Guardian @PhillyInquirer

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#Ukraine: Europe awakes to existential threat; and will it last? Dan Henninger @WSJOpinion from 2022-03-26T00:34:57

Photo:   European danger symbol; here: Explosive substances, warning sign D-W002 according to German standard DIN 4844-2

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#NewWorldReport: Peru in Duck Soup. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis RV from 2022-03-25T00:14:04

Photo: José Pardo y Barreda, Chilean president from 1904 to 1908 and from 1915 to 1919; in the presidential sash.
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#NewWorldReport: The Left Wave and Chile. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis RV. from 2022-03-25T00:13:37

Photo:  Physical and political history of Chile according to documents acquired in the republic during twelve years of residence in it and published under the auspices of the supreme governmen...

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#NewWorldReport: Why does Mexico struggle to grow? Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis LA from 2022-03-25T00:12:18

Photo:   The Salto del Agua (fountain), in Mexico City.

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#PRC: China in the Middle East. Brigadier General (Res.) Assaf Orion is a senior research Fellow at the INSS and director of its research program on Israel-China. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2022-03-25T00:10:52

Photo: A different age — 1955  General Ma Bufang with KuoMinTang ambassador to Saudi Arabia.  

#PRC: China in the Middle East. Brigadier General (Res.) Assaf ...

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#Iran: The IAEA fails. Andrea Stricker @StrickerNonpro @FDD, research Fellow at @FDD in nonproliferation and other security policy topics. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2022-03-25T00:08:57

Photo:  The International Patrol, music

#Iran: The IAEA fails. Andrea Stricker @StrickerNonpro   @FDD, research Fellow at @FDD in nonproliferation and other s...

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#PRC: Evergrande after the end. Andrew Collier @acollier, managing director of Orient Capital Research in Hong Kong. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2022-03-25T00:08:18

Photo:  Riverside view on the city of "Sanyuum" (Qingyuan, Guangdong, China). City wall, mountains, tower outside of the wall.

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#Ukraine: NATO deploys;&What is to be done? Anatol Lieven, @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst Georgetown University from 2022-03-25T00:07:13

Photo:  The ships that make up Standing NATO Maritime Group (SNMG) 1 transit in formation while participating in an exercise.

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#Ukraine: Ukraine wins and afterward. Anatol Lieven, @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst Georgetown University from 2022-03-25T00:06:41

Photo: Ukrainian correspondence card.

#Ukraine: Ukraine wins and afterward.  Anatol Lieven, @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst  Georgetown University 

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#HotelMars: The mystery of the dead star, with a live planet. Jay Farihi, University College of London. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com from 2022-03-25T00:05:38

Photo:  The Crab Nebula, the shattered remnants of a star that exploded as a supernova visible in 1054 AD

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#Colombia: Who is the ex-guerrilla Gustavo Petro—likely the next president? Mary Anastasia O’Grady, @MaryAnastasiaOG Wall Street Journal editorial board and “The Americas” columnist from 2022-03-25T00:03:11

Photo:  FARC guerrillas marching in formation during the Caguan peace talks (1998–2002)

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#Canada: An appalling accusation against Canada's history now investigated. Conrad Black @ConradMBlack , @NationalPost from 2022-03-24T23:58:25

Photo:  Chief George from the village of Senakw with his daughter in traditional regalia,...

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#Inflation: Congress still says it’s the supply chain. @veroderugy, @GeorgeMasonU, @Mercatus Center from 2022-03-24T23:56:33

Photo:  Channels of distribution, textiles, 1915

#Inflation: Congress still says it’s the supply chain. @veroderugy,  @GeorgeMasonU, @Mercatus Center

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#Ukraine: Seizing Putin's yacht. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation. RV. from 2022-03-24T00:01:17

Photo:  The yacht Christina O built in 1954 for Aristotle Onassis

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#India: Entreating Moscow. Nitin Gokhale @nitingokhale, strategic affairs analyst based in Delhi. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2022-03-24T00:00:32

Photo:  The Moscow kreml in the late Sixteenth Century: 
             
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#PRC: The US finally shows up in the critical Pacific Basin. @CleoPaskal @ FDD @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. LA. from 2022-03-23T23:59:06

Photo:  Pacific Ocean map, tagged in English

#PRC: The US finally shows up in the critical Pacific Basin. @CleoPaskal @ FDD @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek...

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#Enceladus: Oceans to explore. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2022-03-23T23:57:54

Photo:  Eruptions on Enceladus look like discrete jets, but may be "curtain eruptions" instead (video animation)
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#Ukraine: Roscosmos withers. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2022-03-23T23:57:28

Photo: Roscosmos logo

#Ukraine: Roscosmos withers. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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#Keystone: In search of Senate moderates. SalenaZito.com from 2022-03-23T23:56:52

Photo:  The Senate of the United States in session

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#Keystone: The celebrated Lenten fish fry returns to post-pandemic America. SalenaZito.com from 2022-03-23T23:56:09

Photo:  American-style fish and chips with lemon, ketchup, cocktail sauce and tartar sauce.

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#Ukraine: The Kremlin hunts for dollars. Michael Bernstam, @HooverInst from 2022-03-23T23:50:47

Photo:   Transsiberian ruble of the Russo-Asiatic Bank; the note was printed in the US. Source: Le Monde illustré, January 1, 1921 

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#Ukraine: Mud in the battle zone. Colonel Jeff McCausland, USA (retired) @mccauslJ @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2022-03-23T23:49:53

Photo:  Wounded Canadians in mud during the Battle of Passchendaele

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#Ukraine: Moscow's malls empty. @Felix_Light @CBSNews from 2022-03-23T23:48:35

Photo:  Interior view of the central atrium of AfiMall Moscow-City. Moscow, Russia.

#Ukraine: Moscow's malls empty. @Felix_Light  @CBSNews

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#Ukraine: #StateThinking: Do aanctions work? Mary Kissel @MaryKissel; Former Senior Advisor to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc. from 2022-03-23T23:47:49

Photo:  Punishment of an offender in Hungary, 1793

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#Ukraine: Seeking an EU welcome. John Fund @johnfund @NRO, in Brussels, Belgium from 2022-03-23T23:44:34

Photo:  A wooden decoration adorns the wall at the Music and Drama Theater; a concert in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine

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#Ukraine: Commodities rising. Simon Constable @RealConstable @Forbes @BarronsOnline; in Edinburgh, Scotland. from 2022-03-23T23:43:39

Photo: Sprouted soybeans, a major world commodity.

#Ukraine: Commodities rising. Simon Constable  @RealConstable  @Forbes @BarronsOnline;  in Edinburgh, Scotl...

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#Ukraine: The Kremlin falls down. George Friedman. @George_Friedman @GPFutures, Founder and Chairman of Geopolitical Futures from 2022-03-23T23:40:24

Photo:  Tanks in Red Square during the 1991 August coup attempt

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#Ukraine: Australia rounds on the PRC. Gregory R Copley, @Gregory_Copley, editor and publisher of Defense&Foreign Affairs. RV from 2022-03-23T00:00:44

Photo:  Liang Lan-hsun, first Chinese Consul-General to Australia

#Ukraine: Australia rounds on the PRC. Gregory R Copley, @Gregory_Copley, editor and publish...

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#Ukraine: NATO after the ceasefire. Gregory R Copley, @Gregory_Copley, editor and publisher of Defense&Foreign Affairs.RV from 2022-03-22T23:59:53

Photo:  A truce – not a compromise, since [it's] a chance for high-toned gentlemen to retire gracefully from their very civil declarations of war.
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2/2: #Astronomy: Measuring stars. Ken Croswell. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences LA from 2022-03-22T23:59:18

Photo:  Dwarf Starburst Galaxy, from Hubble

2/2:  #Astronomy: Measuring stars. Ken Croswell. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences LA

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1/2: #Astronomy: Measuring stars. Ken Croswell. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: LA. from 2022-03-22T23:58:40

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#Ukraine: Will sanctions stop the war? #Ukraine: Poland on the front lines;&What is to be done? Judy Dempsey,@Judy_Dempsey. @Carnegie_Europe. Editor in chief #StrategicEurope, blog of @Carnegie_Europe. from 2022-03-22T23:57:42

Photo:   On 10 January 2022, Ukrainian deputy prime minister Olha Stefanishyna and NATO secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg spoke to media about the prospect of a Russian invasion.

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#Ukraine: Poland on the front lines;&What is to be done? Judy Dempsey, @Judy_Dempsey. @Carnegie_Europe. Editor in chief #StrategicEurope, blog of @Carnegie_Europe. from 2022-03-22T23:57

Photo:  Wetlina as seen from Połonina Wetlińsk; Poland

#Ukraine: Poland on the front lines; & What is to be done? Judy Dempsey, @Judy_Dempsey. @Carnegie_E...

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#Ukraine: Kazahkstan is in the Kremlin's target zone. Charles Becker @DukeU @DukeEcon, Duke University from 2022-03-22T23:56:17

Photo: Taras Shevchenko: Expedition tabir near the steppe. Papir, olive

#Ukraine: : Kazahkstan is in the Kremlin's target zone. Charles Becker  @DukeU  @DukeE...

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#Ukraine: Under missile siege in South Kyiv. Bill Devlin REDEEM/Widows&Orphans. from 2022-03-22T23:54:07

Photo: Pastor William Devlin a few hours ago in Kyiv.

#Ukraine: Under missile siege in South Kyiv. Bill Devlin REDEEM/Widows&Orphans.

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2/2: #Ukraine: Kyiv School of Economics is also a think tank for the defense of Kyiv and Ukraine. Timofyii Mylovanov, President Kyiv School of Economics. Charles Becker @DukeU @DukeEcon, Duke University from 2022-03-22T23:52:49

Photo: Kyiv in the late 19th century

2/2: #Ukraine: Kyiv School of Economics is also a think tank for the defense of Kyiv and Ukraine. Timofyii Mylovanov, Pres...

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#Markets: Manhattan starts to recover. Elizabeth Peek @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews, Fiscal Times from 2022-03-22T23:51:05

Photo: Manhattan

#Markets: Manhattan starts to recover. Elizabeth Peek @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews, Fiscal Times 

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#Markets: May and June half-points each. @ LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews RV from 2022-03-22T23:51

Photo: A bp (usually pronounced beep) is one-thousandth of a percentage point.  

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#LondonCalling: London in maskless springtime. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2022-03-22T23:49:22

Photo: Village near London, centuries ago
 
#LondonCalling: London in maskless springtime.  @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

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#LondonCalling: Jerome Powell discovers tightening. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2022-03-22T23:42:05

Photo:  Federal Reserve Notemfor $10,000

#LondonCalling:  Jerome Powell discovers tightening. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

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#LondonCalling: Boris Johnson remains in Partygate. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2022-03-22T23:41:27


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#LondonCalling: Berlin embraces Tblisi in the target zone. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2022-03-22T23:40:42

Photo:  Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Tbilisi (ტფილისის სამხედრო ტაძარი)

#LondonCalling:  Berlin embraces Tblisi in the target zone. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinio...

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#Ukraine. Biden calls Xi;&What is to be done? Gordon G. Chang @GordonGChang. Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill; author, The Coming Collapse of China and The Great U.S.-China Tech War RV from 2022-03-22T00:47:22

Photo:  1896 telephone from Sweden

#Ukraine. Biden calls Xi; & What is to be done? Gordon G. Chang @GordonGChang.  Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill;  author, The Coming Co...

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#NewWorldReport: The return of Salvador Allende. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave). Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org Ernesto Araujo, Former Foreign Minister of Brazil from 2022-03-22T00:25:27

Photo:  1958 presidential campaign with a train with Allende's face called the "Victory Train."

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#IEgypt:"Indiana"Hoenlein and the Lost Tombs of the Middle Kingdom Elite. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2022-03-22T00:24:27

Photo:  Seated Statue of Amenemhat III, around 19th century BC. The State Hermitage Museum

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#Ukraine: Rumors of peace in Ankara. Aykan Erdemir @aykanerdemir @aykan_erdemir @FDD @ADL from 2022-03-22T00:23:03

Photo:  Peacde Song

#Ukraine: Rumors of peace in Ankara. Aykan Erdemir @aykanerdemir  @aykan_erdemir  @FDD  @ADL

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#Ukraine: Rethink the DOD budget-sharing. Jerry Hendrix @SagemoreInst from 2022-03-22T00:21:28


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#Ukraine: The Caspian Sea flotilla opens fire;&What is to be done? Captain Jerry Hendrix, USN (ret) @JerryHendrixII @SagamoreInst @NRO&USN [ret] from 2022-03-22T00:20:42

Photo:  The  KM (Korabl Maket) (literally "Ship-prototype"), known colloquially as the Caspian Sea Monster, was an experimental gr...

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#AfterAfghanistan: Pakistan losing Washington's attention. @BillRoggio @LongWarJournal Husain Haqqani @husainhaqqani, former Pakistani Ambassador to the United States; Hudson Institute from 2022-03-22T00:19:56

Photo:   East Pakistan was hit by a typhoon and tidal wave.

#AfterAfghanistan:   Pakistan losing Washington's attention.    @BillRoggio  @LongWarJournal   Hus...

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#Ukraine: The New Hot War;&What Is to Be Done? Katrina Vanden Heuvel @KatrinaNation @TheNation from 2022-03-22T00:18:35

Photo: Russia war—Long shots of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra leaving what may be a church located in Russia and passing between two lines of men who appear to be Cossack Escort of th...

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@Ukraine: Past 30 checkpoints to reach South Kyiv. Bill Devlin @pastordev, REDEEM/Widows&Orphans from 2022-03-22T00:18:09

Photo: Minsk—border-control police check traveller's documents.

@Ukraine: Past 30 checkpoints to reach South Kyiv. Bill Devlin @pastordev, REDEEM/Widows...

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Sophie Pedder @PedderSophie #UNBOUND. Révolution Française, the complete forty-minute interview, July 17, 2021. from 2022-03-21T01:07:28

Photo: Government building, Paris

Révolution Française, by Sophie Pedder.  @PedderSophie 

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#CIA: Classified Christmas card;&What is to be done? Henry D. Sokolski @HenrySokolski, Executive Director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center. from 2022-03-19T01:05:42

Photo:  The CIA Museum was established in 1988 to give employees a sense of the unique history of their profession. This collection focuses on the CIA’s World War II predecessor, the Office of...

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#Ukraine: Those non-secure Chernobyl spent fuel rods. Henry D. Sokolski @HenrySokolski, Executive Director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center. from 2022-03-19T00:57:33

Photo:  A view inside the 55-foot high containment vessel of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Plum Brook Reactor Facility in Sandusky, Ohio. The 60-megawatt test reacto...

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#Britannia: When Caligula proposed and Claudius conquered. Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass. @TheEconomist from 2022-03-19T00:57:06

Photo:  Monuments of the life of twelve Caesars.


#Britannia: When Caligula proposed and Claudius conquered. Matt Steinglass  @mattsteinglass. @TheE...

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#Mars: Ingenuity set free. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2022-03-19T00:53:22

Photo:  Ingenuity

#Mars: Ingenuity set free. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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Webb's first light and a sigh of relief. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2022-03-19T00:52:55

Photo:  SIX OF THE EIGHTEEN JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE MIRROR SEGMENTS ARE BEING PREPPED TO MOVE INTO THE X-RAY AND CRYOGENIC FACILITY FOR TESTING. 

Webb's first light...

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#PacificWatch: Arnold Schwarzenegger Cheers the Bullet Train @JCBliss from 2022-03-19T00:52:31

Photo:   A high-speed train driven with three phase current from 1903. Train manufactured by Siemens, Germany.

#PacificWatch: Arnold Schwarzenegger Cheers the Bullet T...

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#Covid-19: The sudden surge of OmicronB.2;&What is to be done? Dr Henry Miller, Hoover Institution. @henryimiller, @PacificResearch Institute, HenryMillerMD.org from 2022-03-19T00:51:49

Photo:  University of Montana, Missoula, Montana. - During the influenza epidemic classes were held in the open. Physics class.

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2/2: #Archeology: Culture and Ostrich Eggs 50,000 years ago. Dr Jennifer M Miller, @PalaeoJenn Dept Anthropology, University of Alberta;&Dept Archaeology, Max Planck Institute. Dr Yiming Wang @Yiming_V_Wang, @MPI_SHH. Dept Archaeology, Max Planck Inst from 2022-03-19T00:50:24

Photo:  Ostrich eggs in a nest on a farm

2/2: #Archeology: Culture and Ostrich Eggs 50,000 years ago. Dr. Jennifer M. Miller, @PalaeoJenn.  Department of Anth...

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1/2: #Archeology: Culture and Ostrich Eggs 50,000 years ago. Dr. Jennifer M. Miller, @PalaeoJenn. Dept Anthropology, University of Alberta;&Dept Archaeology, Max Planck Institute. Dr. Yiming Wang @Yiming_V_Wang, @MPI_SHH. Dept Archaeology, Max Planck from 2022-03-19T00:49:37

Photo:  African biface artifact (spear point) dated in Late Stone Age period

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#Ukraine: World War 2.5 explained. Dan Henninger, @DanHenninger, @WSJOpinion. WSJ editorial board and Wonder Land columnist. from 2022-03-19T00:45:25

Photo:  "After the war is over"

#Ukraine: World War 2.5 explained. Dan Henninger,  @DanHenninger, @WSJOpinion.   WSJ editorial board and Wonder Land columnist...

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#NewWorldReport: Shots fired in the Chile of President Boric. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis RV. from 2022-03-18T01:11:31

Photo:  Government artillery unit during the civil war of 1891 in Chile.

#NewWorldReport: Shots fired in the Chile of President Boric.   Latin American Resear...

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#NewWorldReport: The US beseeches Maduro. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis RV. from 2022-03-18T01:11

Photo:  Venezuelan Press of the 19th century: El Zulia Ilustrado 1890

#NewWorldReport: The US beseeches Maduro.   Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis...

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#NewWorldReport: Ex-Marxist guerrilla leads Colombia's election cycle. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis LA from 2022-03-18T01:09:57

Photo:  Government Palace, Cali, Colombia = Government Palace

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#NewWorldReport: SOUTHCOM vs Russia and PRC. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis LA. from 2022-03-18T01:09:29

Photo:  "Guatemalan Soldiers of the Guatemalan Mountain Brigade prepare to rapel down a tree at the Beyond the Horizon Opening Ceremony in San Marcos, Guatemala, on April 7, 2016 as a part of ...

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#Iran: Russia leverages the Biden Administration JCPOA. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2022-03-18T01:09:02


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#Lebanon: Hezbollah Drone Arsenal. Sarit Zehavi, Lieutenant Colonel (Res.), @ZehaviAlma @Israel_Alma_org. CEO and founder of Alma Institute, Alma Research and Education Center. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2022-03-18T01:08:28

Photo:   Maronite man and woman, Lebanon

#Lebanon:  Hezbollah Drone Arsenal.  Sarit Zehavi, Lieutenant Colonel (Res.), @ZehaviAlma  @Israel_Alma_org. CEO and ...

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#Ukraine: The Russian attack on Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Kyiv. Ruslan Kavatsiuk @DefenceU., #StandWithUkraine , deputy director of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2022-03-18T01:07:15

Photo:  Soviet POWs covering a mass grave after the Babi Yar massacre, October 1, 1941.
             Babi Yar or Babyn Yar is a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and a site of massacres...

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#Ukraine: Biden Administration bolsters the Kremlin's Man in Caracas. Mary Anastasia O’Grady, @MaryAnastasiaOG Wall Street Journal editorial board and “The Americas” columnist. from 2022-03-18T01:05:39

Photo:  Return to the homeland, Venezuela, 1878

#Ukraine: Biden Administration bolsters the Kremlin's Man in Caracas.   Mary Anastasia O’Grady, @MaryAnastasiaO...

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2/2: #Ukraine: The Siloviki are deaf to the shrinking economy. Anatol Lieven, @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst Georgetown University from 2022-03-18T01:05:11

Photo:  HQ of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia in Yasenevo, Moscow. Taken from AN-24 on its way from Tambov to Moscow.

2/2: #Ukraine: The Siloviki are deaf t...

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1/2: #Ukraine: The Siloviki are deaf to the shrinking economy. Anatol Lieven, @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst Georgetown University from 2022-03-18T01:04:41

Photo:  In the Russian political lexicon, a silovik (lit. force men) is a politician who came into politics fro...

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#Ukraine: #ScalaReport — Supply Chain Disrupted by the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Chris Riegel, @Scala CEO, @STRATACACHE, #TheScalaReport from 2022-03-18T01:03:41

Photo:   Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, by Arnaldo Dell'Ira (1903-1943), project of mosaic for a School of War, 1939-1940. Livorno, Italy, Archivio Dell'Ira.

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#Inflation: The Fed and the Bank of England play catch-up. Veronique de Rugy, @veroderugy, @GeorgeMasonU, @Mercatus Center from 2022-03-18T01:03:09

Photo:  Seal of the Bank of England

#Inflation: The Fed and the Bank of England play catch-up.   Veronique de Rugy, @veroderugy,  @GeorgeMasonU, @Mercatus Cen...

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#Ukraine: Atlantic Charter 1941 and 2002. Conrad Black, @ConradMBlack @nationalpost Baron Black of Crossharbour, KSG. from 2022-03-18T01:00:25

Photo:  Winston Churchill's edited copy of the final draft of the Atlantic Charter.

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#Ukraine: Brussels awakens alongside NATO. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. Theresa Fallon @TheresaAFallon, @ChicagoCouncil, director of the Center for Russia Europe Asia Studies. VR. from 2022-03-17T00:30:02

Photo:  Stamp of Georgia - 2016 - "Connecting with the European Union"

#Ukraine: Brussels awakens alongside NATO. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill...

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#PRC: Nearby Pearl Harbor. @CleoPaskal @FDD ; @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill Cleo Paskal, non-resident Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. VR. from 2022-03-17T00:29:05

Photo: Pearl Harbor Attack National Memorial - Attack on Pearl Harbor
           A fireboat pours water onto the burning battleship USS West Virginia BB-48 following the attack ...

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Russia and PRC trash-talk nukes. Rick Fisher @CSIS, senior Fellow of the International Assessment and Strategy Center. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. LA from 2022-03-17T00:28:23

Photo:  B61 Thermonuclear Bomb. The B61 nuclear bomb is designed for carriage by aircraft at supersonic flight speeds and is the primary thermonuclear weapon in the U.S. stockpile since the en...

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Russia and PRC grab at the Arctic. Charles Burton, MacDonald Laurier Institute. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. LA. from 2022-03-17T00:27:37

Photo:   Blue Arctic fox, from Nimrod in the North, or hunting and fishing adventures in the Arctic regions.

Russia and PRC grab at the Arctic. Char...

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#Moon: Dune buggy 2022. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2022-03-17T00:27:01

Photo:   Not the Moon buggy.

#Moon: Dune buggy 2022. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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#Ukraine: Roscosmos losing. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2022-03-17T00:25:46

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#Ukraine: Roscosmos losing. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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#Ukraine: Why the S-300 for Ukraine? Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslJ @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2022-03-17T00:25:17

Photo:  Close up view of SA-N-6 launchers on Marshal Ustinov.

#Ukraine:  Why the S-300 for...

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#Ukraine: Russian column reported destroyed;&What is to be done? Colonel Jeff McCausland, USA (retired) @mccauslJ @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2022-03-17T00:24:40

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#Ukraine: Russia's small business unemployed. @Felix_Light @CBSNews @MoscowTimes from 2022-03-17T00:22:48

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#Ukraine: The Russian economy plunges into the unknown. Michael Bernstam @HooverInst from 2022-03-17T00:20:31

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#Ukraine: Internally Displaced Persons overwhelm. @JoshRogin @WashingtonPost from 2022-03-17T00:19:19

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#Ukraine: Whistleblowing Chekhists at the Kremlin. @PaulR_Gregory @TheHill from 2022-03-17T00:18:24

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#Ukraine: Refugees arrive in the transformed EU. Stanley Pignal @spignal. Charlemagne columnist and Brussels bureau chief for @TheEconomist. from 2022-03-17T00:17:33


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#LondonCalling: Inflation stalks the globe;&What is to be done? @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2022-03-16T00:07:22

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#Ukraine: #LondonCalling: UK vs Russia. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion LA. from 2022-03-16T00:06:47

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#Ukraine: #LondonCalling: Germany turns a pacifist page @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion. LA. from 2022-03-16T00:06:12

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#Ukraine: What else can NATO provide? Chemical weapon defenses, secure communications. Bradley Bowman @Brad_L_Bowman @FDD from 2022-03-16T00:05:32

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#Ukraine: What else can NATO provide? Targeting and supply lines. Bradley Bowman @Brad_L_Bowman @FDD from 2022-03-16T00:05

Photo:  Geospatial intell —Map "Přehledná národopisná mapa Ukrajiny" based on the map "Národopisná mapa Slovanstva" by Lubor Niederle of 1912. Published in 1915.

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#Ukraine: Power and internet inside Kyiv. Horrors from outside. Tymofii Brik @brik_t @KyivSchool, @VoxUkraine; Kyiv School of Economics from 2022-03-16T00:04:21

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#Ukraine: Food, water, medicines, hospitals inside Kyiv. Tymofii Brik @brik_t @KyivSchool, @VoxUkraine; Kyiv School of Economics from 2022-03-16T00:03:43

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#Ukraine: Nights in the bomb shelters, Tymofii Brik @brik_t @KyivSchool, @VoxUkraine; Kyiv School of Economics from 2022-03-16T00:03:01

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#Ukraine: Business School in Wartime. Tymofii Brik @brik_t @KyivSchool, @VoxUkraine; Kyiv School of Economics from 2022-03-16T00:02:15

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#Ukraine: PRC finds a difficult Kremlin partner. Gregory R Copley, @Gregory_Copley, editor and publisher of Defense&Foreign Affairs. from 2022-03-16T00:00:40

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#Ukraine: The War and the Markets @LizPeek @TheHill Fox News from 2022-03-15T23:59:11

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#Ukraine: The War and the Fed's .25%. @LizPeek @TheHill Fox News. from 2022-03-15T23:58:27

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#Ukraine: En route from the Warsaw bus station to Lviv and Kyiv. Bill Devlin REDEEM/Widows&Orphans. VR from 2022-03-15T00:11:28

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Nevada Lithium is the treasure of a 16-million year-old supervolcano. Steve Hanson, CEO Acme Lithium AcmeLithium.com In US: A-C-L-H-F In Canada: A-C-M-E from 2022-03-15T00:10:46

Photo:  Hexameric structure of the n-butyllithium fragment in a crystal

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#Ukraine: hat is to be done? @AmbJohnBolton LA. from 2022-03-15T00:09:42

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#NewWorldReport: SOUTHCOM warns. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org Ernesto Araujo, former Foreign Minister of Brazil. from 2022-03-15T00:09:05

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#NewWorldReport: Overture to Maduro. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org Ernesto Araujo, former Foreign Minister of Brazil. from 2022-03-15T00:06:56

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#NewWorldReport: Colombia votes. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org Ernesto Araujo, former Foreign Minister of Brazil. from 2022-03-15T00:06:14

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#Ukraine: The supply chain weakens for energy, security, China. @AlanTonelson @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2022-03-15T00:05:33

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#Korea: South Korea chooses an opponent of North Korea and the PRC. David Maxwell @DavidMaxwell161 @FDD, retired U.S. Army Special Forces colonel and Fellow at the Institute of Corean American Studies. @FDD @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The from 2022-03-15T00:05:06

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2/2: #Ukraine: The Kyiv School of Economics is open for business under fire. Paul Gregory, @HooverInst Anna Nagurney, University of Massachusetts. Paul Becker @BeckerT3Group Rear Admiral, USN (Ret). Duke University from 2022-03-15T00:04:16

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#Ukraine: From the Bucharest train station to the Romanian border refugee camps. Maya Margit @MayaMargit Middle East reporter @TheMediaLine from 2022-03-15T00:02:55

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#Ukraine: Italy welcomes 39,000 Ukrainian refugees so far. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation from 2022-03-15T00:02:18

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#Iraq: Missile attack on Erbil;&What is to be done? @BillRoggio ; Husain Haqqani @husainhaqqani, former Pakistani Ambassador to the United States; Hudson Institute @LongWarJournal from 2022-03-15T00:01:51

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#Ukraine: The view of the Russian invasion from the subcontinent. @BillRoggio; Husain Haqqani @husainhaqqani, former Pakistani Ambassador to the United States, Hudson Institute @LongWarJournal from 2022-03-15T00:01:22

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#OzWatch: $9.36US per gallon. Inflation. And snakes. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-03-14T01:35:33

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#OzWatch: The rains. The commodities. The labor shortage. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-03-14T01:35:31

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#PacificWatch: $6.99 a gallon if you can find it; and the Green Bullet Train at $105 Billion. @JCBliss #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-03-14T01:35:25

Photo:  A bullet train built according to spec and schedule; here, a poster for The Bullet Train.


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#Ukraine: Kissinger again mistakes Khrushchev for a Ukrainian. Professor H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-03-14T01:24:16

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#Ukraine: Kissinger on"fraught"Crimea. Professor H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-03-14T01:24:11

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#Ukraine: Commeting on Kissinger's Finlandization for Ukraine. Professor H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-03-14T01:24:07

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8/8: Stalin's War: A New History of World War II, Sean McMeekin, with Kevin Stillwell as narrator. Published by Basic Books. Audible Audiobook – Unabridged from 2022-03-14T01:18:37

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7/8: Stalin's War: A New History of World War II, Sean McMeekin, with Kevin Stillwell as narrator. Published by Basic Books. Audible Audiobook – Unabridged from 2022-03-14T01:18:34

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5/8: Stalin's War: A New History of World War II, Sean McMeekin, with Kevin Stillwell as narrator. Published by Basic Books. Audible Audiobook – Unabridged from 2022-03-14T01:18:06

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4/8: Stalin's War: A New History of World War II, Sean McMeekin, with Kevin Stillwell as narrator. Published by Basic Books. Audible Audiobook – Unabridged from 2022-03-14T01:17:39

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3/8: Stalin's War: A New History of World War II, Sean McMeekin, with Kevin Stillwell as narrator. Published by Basic Books. Audible Audiobook – Unabridged from 2022-03-14T01:17:34

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2/8: Stalin's War: A New History of World War II, Sean McMeekin, with Kevin Stillwell as narrator. Published by Basic Books. Audible Audiobook – Unabridged from 2022-03-14T01:17:29

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1/8: Stalin's War: A New History of World War II, Sean McMeekin, with Kevin Stillwell as narrator. Published by Basic Books. Audible Audiobook – Unabridged from 2022-03-14T01:17:27

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#Ukraine: What of Zelensky? Professor H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-03-13T02:20:34

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#Ukraine: Brussels POV: NATO surges. Professor H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-03-13T02:18:54

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#Ukraine: Moscow POV: After Putin: Professor H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-03-13T02:16:11

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#Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus speculate about Sweden and Finland weighing NATO. Michael Vlahos. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-03-13T02:15:06

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#Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus recall Claudius's invasion of Britain nearly fifty yers before — and reflect upon the invasion of Ukraine, 2000 years later. Michael Vlahos. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-03-13T02:15

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#BeforeInvasion: #ClassicCopley: Information. Gregory Copley, Defense&Foreign Affairs (Originally aired 2-8-22). from 2022-03-13T02:03:56

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#BeforeInvasion: #ClassicCopley: Drums. Gregory Copley, Defense&Foreign Affairs. (Originally aired 2-1-22). from 2022-03-13T02:03:42

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#BeforeInvasion: #ClassicCopley: State. Gregory Copley, Defense&Foreign Affairs. (Originally aired 1-25-22). from 2022-03-13T02:03:34

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#BeforeInvasion: #ClassicCopley: Gregory Copley, Defense&Foreign Affairs. (Originally aired 1-18-22). from 2022-03-13T02:03:30

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#BeforeInvasion: #ClassicCopley: Heartland. Gregory Copley, Defense&Foreign Affairs (Originally aired 8-12-21). from 2022-03-13T02:02:22

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#BeforeInvasion: #ClassicCopley: NATO in the Black Sea. Gregory Copley, Defense&Foreign Affairs (Originally aired 6-29-21). from 2022-03-13T02:02:13

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Blue Origin grows. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2022-03-12T01:23:51

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#Ukraine: British cpace casts out Russia, Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com. RV. from 2022-03-12T01:23:46

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#OzWatch: The rains. The supply chain. The war. Scott Mayman @CBSNews. LA. from 2022-03-12T01:23:44

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#Ukraine: Recession Talk and the Bear Market. Jim McTague @McTagueJ; former Washington Editor, @Barrons Washington. from 2022-03-12T01:23:41

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8/8: Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment’s Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day, by James Holland from 2022-03-12T01:20:41

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7/8: Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment’s Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day, by James Holland from 2022-03-12T01:20:36

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6/8: Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment’s Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day, by James Holland from 2022-03-12T01:20:25

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5/8: Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment’s Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day, by James Holland from 2022-03-12T01:20:18

Photo:   Mark IV tank C14. Commanded by 2nd Lt Francis James Arnold. Photographed with German forces after the Battle of Cambrai.

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4/8: Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment’s Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day, by James Holland Hardcover – November 16, 2021 from 2022-03-12T01:19:55

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3/8: Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment’s Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day, by James Holland Hardcover – November 16, 2021 from 2022-03-12T01:19:51

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2/8: Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment’s Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day, by James Holland from 2022-03-12T01:19:47

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1/8: Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment’s Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day, by James Holland from 2022-03-12T01:19:41

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#SmallBusinessAmerica: Doomsday Bull Market. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2022-03-12T01:14:09

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#SmallBusinessAmerica: Prospering with inflation @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2022-03-12T01:14:05

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#PacificWatch: Long gas lines at Costco. Jeff Bliss @JCBliss from 2022-03-12T01:14:03

Photo:   Jersey City, N.J., Nov. 2, 2012 -- Gas lines form to get gas after power has been disrupted in many areas due to Hurricane Sandy.


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#Ukraine: Lviv needs NATO defense. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion from 2022-03-12T01:14

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#Korea: South Korea election answers North Korea threats. RV. from 2022-03-11T01:32:42

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#Ukraine: Why is the internet still up? Annie Fixler @FDD. RV. from 2022-03-11T01:32:39

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#Ukraine: Zelenskiy in California. Markos Kounilakis, @HooverInst. LA from 2022-03-11T01:32:35

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#Ukraine: The energy spikes and the Fed. Veronique deRugy @Mercatus LA. from 2022-03-11T01:32:33

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#Iran: Already shipping sanctioned oil: Benham Ben Taleblu Behnam Ben Taleblu is a senior Fellow at FDD from 2022-03-11T01:28:45

Photo:  The Pahlavi Shah opens the facilities of International Naval Oil Company of Iran in 1970

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#Turkey: Israel visits Erdogan. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1@AykanErdemir @FDD Dr. Aykan Erdemir, senior director of Foundation for Defense of Democracy’s Turkey program from 2022-03-11T01:28:40

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#Israel: Sturdy Abraham Accords . Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 Michael Singh is Managing Director and Lane-Swig Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy from 2022-03-11T01:28:38

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#Iran: Russia hesitates in Vienna;&What is to be done?. Anthony Ruggiero @ FDD from 2022-03-11T01:24:55

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3/3: #Ukraine: Peace at what price Kyiv? @AnatolLieven @QuincyInst from 2022-03-11T01:24:52

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2/3: #Ukraine: Peace at what price Kyiv? @AnatolLieven @QuincyInst from 2022-03-11T01:24:49

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1/3: #Ukraine: Peace at what price Kyiv? @AnatolLieven @QuincyInst from 2022-03-11T01:24:47

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#HotelMars: SpaceX vs the Kremlin. David Livingston SpaceShow.com. Douglas Messier @ParabolicArc from 2022-03-11T01:21:14

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#ScalaReport: Unprecedented shutting down Russia MacDonald's;&What is to be done? Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com #Stratacache. from 2022-03-11T01:21:08

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#Ukraine: Much Stronger NATO @ConradMBlack @NationalPost from 2022-03-11T01:19:43

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#Ukraine: The Diaspora in Canada: @ConradMBlack from 2022-03-11T01:19:36

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#Ukraine: The Russian Central Bank in freefall and the Russian economy in failure. Michael Bernstam, @HooverInst; research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, RV from 2022-03-10T01:44:29

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#Ukraine: Putin deters NATO. @AmbJohnBolton @Time RV. from 2022-03-10T01:43:41

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#Ukraine: PRC watches the US moves from the Pacific to the Atlantic. Gregory R Copley, @Gregory_Copley, editor and publisher of Defense&Foreign Affairs. LA. from 2022-03-10T01:43:13

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#Ukraine: Russian military stumbles. George Friedman, Founder and Chairman of Geopolitical Futures. @George_Friedman @GPFutures. LA. from 2022-03-10T01:42:44

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#Ukraine: China looks at buying Russian energy companies. Dr. Jonathan D. T. Ward, @jonathandtward; Atlas Organization; author, China's Vision of Victory. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2022-03-10T01:40:40

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#Ukraine: Modi balances maneuvers between the PRC threat and the Russian presence. @CleoPaskal @FDD @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill Cleo Paskal, non-resident Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. from 2022-03-10T01:38:56

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#Ukraine: The war comes to UK startup Skyrora. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2022-03-10T01:35:57

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#Ukraine: Russia disconnecting. Felix Light @CBSNews @MoscowTimes. from 2022-03-10T01:32:35


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#Ukraine: Russian battlefield morale. Jeff McCausland @mccauslJ @D6leadership, @USArmy @CBSradio @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2022-03-10T01:30:48

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#Ukraine: PLA doubts Xi's ambitions for Taiwan. Gregory R Copley, @Gregory_Copley, editor and publisher of Defense&Foreign Affairs. RV. from 2022-03-09T01:16:57

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#Ukraine: PRC falls under the Kremlin's wing. Gregory R Copley, @Gregory_Copley, editor and publisher of Defense&Foreign Affairs. RV. from 2022-03-09T01:16:29

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2/2: Lithium is white gold;&What is to be done? Aryn Braun @TheEconomist. LA. from 2022-03-09T01:15:26

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1/2: Lithium is white gold;&What is to be done? Aryn Braun @TheEconomist. LA. from 2022-03-09T01:14:51

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1130-1145 #Ukraine: Germany reorganizes. Judy Dempsey, @Judy_Dempsey. @Carnegie_Europe. Editor in chief #StrategicEurope, blog of @Carnegie_Europe. from 2022-03-09T01:14:27

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#Ukraine: The EU awakens. Judy Dempsey, @Judy_Dempsey. @Carnegie_Europe. Editor in chief #StrategicEurope, blog of @Carnegie_Europe. from 2022-03-09T01:14

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#PRC: #StateThinking: NATO for the Pacific Rim. @MaryKissel, Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc. from 2022-03-09T01:13:29

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#Ukraine: #StateThinking: Now secondary sanctions. @MaryKissel, Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc. from 2022-03-09T01:13:03

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#Ukraine: #LondonCalling: UK falls down on war refugees. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2022-03-09T01:12:22

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#Ukraine: #LondonCalling: Wartime recession more likely. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2022-03-09T01:11:54

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#Ukraine: #LondonCalling: Parliament welcomes virtual Zelinskiy speaking Churchillian.@JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2022-03-09T01:11:01

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#Ukraine: The risk of a no-fly zone. Bradley Bowman @Brad_L_Bowman @FDD from 2022-03-09T01:09:43

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#Ukraine: Likely EU energy rationing next winter. Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran, @VVVijayEconBiz, @TheEconomist from 2022-03-09T01:09:13

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#Ukraine. Musk calls for more American oil and gas. Elizabeth Peek @lizpeek @TheHill, Fiscal Times and Fox News from 2022-03-09T01:08:46

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#Ukraine: The-less than-visible EU bank risks to the Russian market crash. Elizabeth Peek @lizpeek @TheHill, Fiscal Times and Fox News from 2022-03-09T01:08:06

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#Ukraine: Why the Russians attacked the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power site. Mike Hewitt, IP3 Security. LA. from 2022-03-08T01:38:46

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#Ukraine: EU national security in SMRs (Small Modular Reactors). Mike Hewitt, IP3 Security. LA. from 2022-03-08T01:38:43

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#Iran: Russia wants its sanctions eased because of the JCPOA negotiation. Claudia Rosett, Independent Women's Forum. LA. from 2022-03-08T01:38:41

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#Ukraine: Twenty-eight LNG ships headed from the Gulf to Europe. Bud Weinstein, Maguire Energy Institute Advisory Board. LA. from 2022-03-08T01:38:39

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#Taiwan: PRC lessons learned from #Ukraine: Gerrit van der Wees, adjunct professor at George Washington University’s Elliott School of Foreign Affairs and George Mason University Schar School of Government. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2022-03-08T01:15:43

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#Ukraine: Dictators mean what they say. Charles Burton, senior Fellow at the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2022-03-08T01:15:02

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"Indiana"Hoenlein and the 4000-Year-Old Lost Mining Center of South Sinai. from 2022-03-08T01:14:41

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#Ukraine. PM Bennett mission to Moscow. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2022-03-08T01:14:32

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#Ukraine: Pakistan abstains. @BillRoggio @ FDD from 2022-03-08T01:10:09

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#Ukraine: Erdogan on the fence. Aykan Erdemir @ FDD. from 2022-03-08T01:09:58

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#Ukraine: India abstains;&What is to be done? Sadanand Dhume AEI @WSJOpinion from 2022-03-08T01:09:39


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#Ukraine: Dissent in Russia. Katrina vanden Heuvel @TheNation from 2022-03-08T01:09:33

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#NewWorldReport: Why is the US visiting Maduro;&What is to be done? Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc Ernesto Araujo, former Foreign Minister of Brazil. from 2022-03-08T01:06:19

Photo: Nicolás Maduro's propaganda for the 2013 presidential campaign, a few months after the death of Chávez. "For the love of Chavez, Maduro President."


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#Ukraine: What are the challenges of a Russian amphibious landing on the Odessa coast? @JerryHendrixII@SagamoreInstitute from 2022-03-08T01:06:10

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#Ukraine: Panic. Brett Arends, Barron’s. @BrettArends @MKTWArends @Marketwatch, Marketwatch from 2022-03-08T01:06:07

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2/2: #ClassicPutinism: What are the Siloviki? @adam_e_casey Adam E. Casey. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-03-07T02:30

Photo: “Through their strong union, workers and peasants destroy oppressors” – Azeri, Baku, 1920s (Mardjani). Tragically, the opposite occurred.


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1/2: #ClassicPutinism: What are the Siloviki? @adam_e_casey Adam E. Casey. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-03-07T02:30

Photo:   HINDOO THUGS AND POISONERS - FROM A DRAWING BY MR. W. CARPENTER.

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3/4 Elbridge Colby, Jerry Hendrix, Edward"Sonny"Masso. #UNBOUND: China, Taiwan. The complete, forty-minute interview. October 13, 2021. @Batchelorshow @ElbridgeColby @JerryHendrixII from 2022-03-07T01:55:25

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2/4 Elbridge Colby, Jerry Hendrix, Edward"Sonny"Masso. #UNBOUND: China, Taiwan. The complete, forty-minute interview. October 13, 2021. @Batchelorshow @ElbridgeColby @JerryHendrixII from 2022-03-07T01:54:11

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1/4 Elbridge Colby, Jerry Hendrix, Edward"Sonny"Masso. #UNBOUND: China, Taiwan. The complete, forty-minute interview. October 13, 2021. @Batchelorshow @ElbridgeColby @JerryHendrixII from 2022-03-07T01:52:45

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#ClassicHJMackinder: Putinism unafraid. Professor H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety )Originally aired 10-24-22). from 2022-03-07T01:47:53

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#ClassicHJMackinder: Peak Putin. Professor H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety (Originally aired 9-19-21). from 2022-03-07T01:47:46

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#ClassicHJMackinder: Putin plays the Afghanistan cards. Professor H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety (Originally aired 8-29-21). from 2022-03-07T01:47:40

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Jerry Hendrix #Unbound: To Provide and Maintain a Navy: Why Naval Primacy Is America's First, Best Strategy, by Henry J Hendrix. Hardcover from 2022-03-07T01:40:13

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Nicholas Wapshott #UNBOUND. Samuelson Friedman: The Battle Over the Free Market. The complete, forty-minute interview, July 24, 2016. from 2022-03-07T01:29:16

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#PacificWatch:"The Snake Pit"(1948.) in California. @JCBliss from 2022-03-06T01:58:04

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#Ukraine: Moscow POV:"From Fortress Russia to Rubble Russia."Professor H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-03-06T01:34:55

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#Ukraine: How many weapons and what kind? Professor H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-03-06T01:34

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#Ukraine: Kiev POV: Attacks on nuclear power buildings and humanitarian corridors. Professor H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-03-06T01:33:14

Photo:  A Red Army soldier near the Dnieper hydroelectric dam, 1943

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#Londinium90AD: Gaius and and Germanicus philosophize over Fritz Lang's 1945"Man Hunt"presentation of political assassination. Michael Vlahos. from 2022-03-06T01:25:54

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#Ukraine: #ClassicGeorgeFriedman: Slow Motion. @George_Friedman @GPFutures @GeoPoliticalFutures (Originally aired 2-23-22). from 2022-03-06T00:15

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#Ukraine: #ClassicGeorgeFriedman: Four phases. @George_Friedman @GPFutures @GeopoliticalFutures (Originally aired 2-18-22). from 2022-03-06T00:10

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#Ukraine: #ClassicGeorgeFiredman: Borderlands. @George_Friedman @GPFutures (Originally aired 1-5-22). from 2022-03-06T00:10

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#Ukraine: ClassicGeorgeFriedman: Lost. George Friedman @George_Friedman @GPFutures, (Originally aired 2-9-22). from 2022-03-06T00:10

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#Ukraine: #Classic GeorgeFriedman: 2022. @George_Friedman @GPFutures (originally aired 12-19-21). from 2022-03-06T00:10

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#Ukraine: #Classic GeorgeFriedman: No attack. @George_Friedman @GPFutures (originally aired 12-13-21). from 2022-03-06T00:10

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#Ukraine: #Classic GeorgeFriedman: General Winter. @George_Friedman @GPFutures (originally aired 12-12-21). from 2022-03-06T00:10

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#Ukraine: #ClassicGeorgeFriedman: Decline and Fall of Post-Soviet Russia. @George_Friedman @GPFutures (originally aired 12-12-21). from 2022-03-06T00:10

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#Ukraine: @ClassicPaulGregory: The dead. Paul Gregory @HooverInst @PaulR_Gregory (Originally aired 2-28-22). from 2022-03-06T00:05

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#Ukraine: #ClassicPaulGregory: The weak point in the sanctions. Paul Gregory @HooverInst @PaulR_Gregory. (Originally aired 3-1-22). from 2022-03-06T00:00

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#Ukraine: #ClassicPaulGregory: Energy markets are the best weapon. Paul Gregory @HooverInst @PaulR_Gregory. @MaryKissel; Former Senior Advisor to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc. (Originally aired 3-1-22). from 2022-03-06T00:00

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#Ukraine: #ClassicPaulGregory: Frozen. Paul Gregory @HooverInst @PaulR_Gregory (Originally aired 1-11-22). from 2022-03-06T00:00

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3/4: Give Me Tomorrow: The Korean War's Greatest Untold Story—The Epic Stand of the Marines of George Company, by Patrick K. O'Donnell. from 2022-03-05T01:19:39

Photo:  Marines watch F4U Corsairs drop napalm on Chinese positions in Korea (1950)

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2/4: Give Me Tomorrow: The Korean War's Greatest Untold Story—The Epic Stand of the Marines of George Company, by Patrick K. O'Donnell. from 2022-03-05T01:18:50

Photo:  Soldiers from the Chinese 79th Division moving to engage the Marines at Yudam-ni

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1/4: Give Me Tomorrow: The Korean War's Greatest Untold Story—The Epic Stand of the Marines of George Company, by Patrick K. O'Donnell. Hardcover from 2022-03-05T01:18:38

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Solar maximum may arrive early. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2022-03-05T01:16:57

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#Ukraine: Roscosmos loses more cash business. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2022-03-05T01:16:14

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#SmallBusinessAmerica: SOTU and Your Small Business @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2022-03-05T01:15:23

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#SmallBusinessAmerica: Jobs high jump. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2022-03-05T01:14:50

Photo: Photograph of Corpsmen Mixing, Pouring and Finishing Cement at Branchville Job Corps Conservation Center (JCCC).

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#Ukraine: Can the US arrest the wealth of oligarchs and allies? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2022-03-05T01:14:03

Photo:  The imperial Russian yacht Shtandart in Yalta.

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#Virus: What is the risk of the Pfizer pill;&What is to be done? Henry Miller HenryMillerMD.org @PacificResearch from 2022-03-05T01:13:33

Photo:   The pharmaceutical era, 1887

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2/2: #Ukraine: Attacking Zaporozhye is a war crime. Henry Sokolski @NPEC from 2022-03-05T01:13:05

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#OzWatch: Thousand-year La Niña flooding from Queensland to New South Wales. Scott Mayman @CBSNews from 2022-03-05T01:11:56

Photo:  Sea surface temperature anomalies in November 2007, showing La Niña conditions

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#Ukraine: Pandemic recovery faces risk of an oil-shock–caused recession. Jim McTague, former Barron's Washington Editor. from 2022-03-05T01:11:30

Photo: An American at a service station reads about the gasoline rationing system in an afternoon newspaper; a sign in the background states that no gasoline is available. 1974

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#PacificWatch: The price of filling the tank; and Hank the Tank @JCBliss from 2022-03-05T01:10:57

Photo:  Hank the Tank, a California bear who's become unusually competent at raiding foodstuffs.

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#Ukraine: Fully Funding NATO. Dan Henninger @WSJOpinion from 2022-03-05T01:10:24

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#Ukraine: What atomic weapons did to the people Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Charles Pellegrino @CharlesPellegri, author from 2022-03-04T01:34:44

Photo:   Mushroom cloud from the atomic explosion over Nagasaki at 11:02 AM, August 9, 1945

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#Ukraine: The exodus from Moscow in wartime. @Felix_Light @CBSNews from 2022-03-04T01:33:58

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#Ukraine: US fossil fuel production is a weapon to use against Russia. Liz Peek @TheHill from 2022-03-04T01:33:33

Photo:  Natural Gas Pumping Station, Braxton County, WV

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#Ukraine: Asking for support from the American people;&What is to be done? Amb. Oksana Markarova @OMarkarova, is Ukraine’s Ambassador to the United States. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2022-03-04T01:33:06

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#Iran: The JCPOA and the Biden Administration. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2022-03-04T01:32:28

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#Ukraine: Israel continues to deconflict with Russia over Syria. Anna Ahronheim @AAhronheim. Military&Defense Correspondent for The Jerusalem Post. @Jerusalem_Post Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2022-03-04T01:31:20

Photo:  Syria and the Holy Land

#Ukraine: Israel continues to deconflict with Russia over Syria.  Anna Ahronheim  @AAhronheim. Military & Defense Correspo...

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#Ukraine: #HotelMars: The uncertainty of the ISS. Jeff Foust @jeff_foust, thespacereview.com. Senior writer, @SpaceNews_Inc. David Livingston @SpaceShow, SpaceShow.com from 2022-03-04T01:30:38

Photo: Backdropped by Earth’s horizon and the blackness of space, the International Space Station is seen from Space Shuttle Discovery as the two spacecraft begin their relative separation.  Listen
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#Ukraine: #ScalaReport: The cyber skills of Ukraine and the cyber menace of Russia. Chris Riegel, @Scala CEO, @STRATACACHE, #TheScalaReport from 2022-03-04T01:29:31

Photo:   PUTIN’S ASYMMETRIC ASSAULT ON DEMOCRACY IN RUSSIA AND EUROPE: IMPLICATIONS FOR U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY

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#Ukraine: Ending Russian energy sales;&What is to be done? @AmbJohnBolton @TheHill. from 2022-03-04T01:27:52

Photo:  Baku. original source of Russian oil and gas. Presumably late 19th century, early 20th.

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#Ukraine: Eritrea votes with Russia at the UN following the Ethiopian civil war. Gregory R Copley, @Gregory_Copley, editor and publisher of Defense&Foreign Affairs. from 2022-03-04T01:26:58

Photo:  Eritrean village in a Milan fair, 1906

#Ukraine: Eritrea votes with Russia at the UN following the Ethiopian civil war.   Gregory R Copley, @Gregory_C...

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#Ukraine: Fleeing from Putin to the perils of Guatemala. Mary Anastasia O’Grady @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion from 2022-03-04T01:26:09

Photo:  Russian soldier

#Ukraine: Fleeing from Putin to the perils of Guatemala.  Mary Anastasia O’Grady    @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion 

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#Ukraine: There are wider dangers. Anatol Lieven, @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst Georgetown University from 2022-03-04T01:25:29

Photo:  Ukrainian. 1908

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#Ukraine: The choice between two dictators. Jonathan Ward, author, China's Vision of Victory. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. from 2022-03-03T01:18:37

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#Ukraine: #SOTU: Xi embraces Putin;&What is to be done? @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2022-03-03T01:17:06

Photo:  Journal Bulletin of the East Asian Exarchate No. 1-3, 1947

#Ukraine: #SOTU: Xi embraces Putin; & What is to be done?  @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Ne...

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#Korea: Elections between appeasement and resistance. Grant Newsham @NewshamGrant Asian affairs commentator; One Korea Network; Japan Forum for Strategic Studies. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. from 2022-03-03T01:16:23

Photo:  Front page weekly magazine "The Times" May 15 1940, with headline "The old prime minister and the new"

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#Mars: Rivers and lakes, not an ocean. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2022-03-03T01:15:55

Photo:  View underneath the Phoenix lander, showing patchy exposures of a bright surface that may be ice.

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Roscosmos breaks down. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2022-03-03T01:15:03

Photo:  At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 41/42 Flight Engineer Elena Serova of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) waves goodbye to well-wishe...

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#LondonCalling: Last days of Londongrad. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2022-03-03T01:14:13

Photo:  Russian domes church

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#LondonCalling: Germany joins the fight. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2022-03-03T01:13:43

Photo:   German poster about the battle of Jutland, WWII

#LondonCalling:  Germany joins the fight. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

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#Ukraine: The equity markets stabilize. Simon Constable @RealConstable Edinburgh from 2022-03-03T01:12:48

Photo:  Market Street Railway Co. San Francisco stock certificate c1920

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#Ukraine: The Russian Central Bank is failing quickly. Michael Bernstam @HooverInst from 2022-03-03T01:11:55

Photo:  Bank of Russia

#Ukraine: The Russian Central Bank is failing quickly. Michael Bernstam @HooverInst

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#Ukraine: The Kremlin not prepared for Germany. Dr Boris Volodarsky, Research Fellow and Adviser on International Intelligence and Security Issues, London School of Economics and Political Science. from 2022-03-03T01:10:56

Photo:   Two soldiers: Russian and German at the post.

#Ukraine: The Kremlin not prepared for Germany. Dr Boris Borisovich Volodarsky, Research Fellow and Adv...

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#NewWorldReport: The success of Uruguay. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis from 2022-03-03T01:08:54

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#NewWorldReport: Russia's clients and prospects. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis from 2022-03-03T01:08:27

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#Keystone: Joe Manchin Democrats. SalenaZito.com from 2022-03-03T01:06:51

Photo:   The Hoosier Democratic Nightmare

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#Ukraine: The wrong conclusion from Putin's history. George Friedman, Founder and Chairman of Geopolitical Futures. @George_Friedman @GPFuture from 2022-03-03T01:06:02

Photo: Putin, who despises Westerners for cleaving to comforts, inhabits blindingly palatial rooms in the Moscow kreml and in his own palace in Crimea. Here:  a comparatively simple little dra...

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#Ukraine: #SOTU: War in Europe in the global markets. Brett Arends, ROI, Marketwatch from 2022-03-02T22:21:10

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#Ukraine: #SOTU: Not confronting the Xi alliance with Putin. Andrew Collier, Hong Kong. Gordon Chang, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. from 2022-03-02T22:14:12

Photo:   Russian Ambassadors in China in the 17th Century. Illustration of Niva (Niva, 19th Century)


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#SOTU: What of the gas prices on the West Coast? Jeff Bliss. Hank the Tank rising. #PacificWatch. from 2022-03-02T22:14:03

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#SOTU: War prices in the Asia markets. Fraser Howie, Singapore. Jeremy Zakis, Sydney. from 2022-03-02T22:14:02

Photo:  Logo used prior to JPX merger

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#SOTU:"Tough enough?"Katrina vanden Heuvel @TheNation from 2022-03-02T22:13:56

Photo:   Tough guys 

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#SOTU:"He didn't say anything about growing American ship-building capacity . . .."Captain @JerryHendrixII (USN retired) @sagamoreinstitute from 2022-03-02T22:13:52

Photo:   1899 Newport News Shipbuilding Co. advertisement


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#Ukraine: #SOTU: Preparing for a long war. Gregory Copley. Veronique deRugy from 2022-03-02T06:02:08

Photo:   Ukrainian soldiers

Veronique de Rugy and Gregory Copley discuss President Biden’s State of the Union speech.

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Ukraine: Energy is the challenge. Paul Gregory. Mary Kissel from 2022-03-02T05:23:23

Photo:  Luhansk, formerly (1935–58, 1970–89) Voroshilovgrad, Ukrainian Voroshylovhrad, city, eastern Ukraine. It lies along the Luhan (Lugan) River at the latter’s confluence with the Vilkhivk...

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#Ukraine: SOTU in Europe: What is to be done? David Shedd. Jeff McCausland from 2022-03-02T05:02:32

Photo: Bodleian Libraries, Boney's trial, sentence, and dying speech or- Europe's injuries avenged


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#Ukraine: Moscow POV: Escalation. H J Mackinder International Relations #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-03-02T01:18:25

Photo: Resurrection (Iberian) Gates Moscow

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#Ukraine: Kiev POV: Escalation. H J Mackinder, International Relations from 2022-03-02T01:13:51

Photo:   Princess Evdochia of Kiev the first wife of the ?tefan cel Mare , ruller of Moldova, 1465. The original is a fresco painting from the Probota Monastery, where supposedly was the tomb ...

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#Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus observe premature victory in Ukraine. Michael Vlahos. from 2022-03-02T01:11:27

Photo: "The lost city of Londinium"

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#Ukraine: Energy markets are the weakness in the sanctions;&What is to be done? Paul Gregory @HooverInst from 2022-03-02T00:00

Photo:  Tulsa, Oklahoma. Operating valve in manifold which controls the pipeline system at the Mid-continent refinery

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#Ukraine: 17-mile Russian armor column stalled. Jeff McCausland @CBSNews @mccauslJ @D6leadership, @USArmy; @CBSradio @dickinsoncol from 2022-03-01T03:17:09

Photo: Tank column, c. 1940

#Ukraine: 17-mile Russian armor column stalled.  Jeff McCausland @CBSNews @mccauslJ @D6leadership, @USArmy; @CBSradio @dickinsoncol
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#Ukraine: Xi at risk in Ukraine: @GordonGChang from 2022-03-01T01:59

Photo:  Russian map of Peking and environs, 1848

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#NewWorldReport: Easter Island and the Indigenous Peoples politics of the New World. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc. Ernesto Araújo, former Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2022-03-01T01:29:49

Photo:  Atacameños and Aymaras people.  1875

#NewWorldReport:  Easter Island and the Indigenous Peoples politics of the New World.  Senadora Maria Fernanda Ca...

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#NewWorldReport: Brazil is neutral on Russian war on Ukraine. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave). Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2022-03-01T01:29:23

Photo:  B Brazil, 1910 painting.

#NewWorldReport:  Brazil is neutral on Russian war on Ukraine.  Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave). Jos...

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#NewWorldReport: Russia in Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Brazil, Honduras, Peru, Chile. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave). Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2022-03-01T01:28:38

Photo:   Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Brazil, Honduras, Peru, Chile, inter al.

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#NewWorldReport: Russia in Cuba for 60 years. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2022-03-01T01:28:06

Photo:  Photo: Cuban Patrol.  Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885

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#Ukraine: Does China enter European wars? @GordonGChang. Jonathan Ward J@jonathandtward, author of China's Vision of Victory from 2022-03-01T01:26:18

Photo:  Marco Polo's caravan on the Silk Road, 1380; Chinese-European contact half a millennium ago.

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#Ukraine: Militarizing the Black Sea Basin. Aykan Erdemir @aykanerdemir @aykan_erdemir @FDD @ADL from 2022-03-01T01:25:42

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#Ukraine: Tolling Russian casualties, KIA and POW. Paul Gregory @HooverInst @PaulR_Gregory from 2022-03-01T01:24:41

Photo:  Tsar Nicholas II with a priest and other officials. Fallen soldiers are brought for burial, in World War I.

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#Ukraine: What is Russia's weapon called Reflexive Control? David Shedd, @TheHill, @Heritage from 2022-03-01T01:11:41

Photo:   The Russian journal Reflexive Processes and Control.

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#Ukraine: Win the gunfight. Claudia Rosett @CRosett, Independent Women's Forum from 2022-03-01T01:07:18

Photo: "Why Is Russia's UN Ambassador Talking about 'Dirty Bombs'?"
              Here:  The Sokolov Box is a Russian Army suitcase used by Investigator Sokolov to carry the proof o...

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#Ukraine: Sanctions alone do not succeed. @AmbJohnBolton. @Telegraph from 2022-03-01T01:06:43

Photo: Military failure of mid-Twentieth Century

#Ukraine: Sanctions alone do not succeed. @AmbJohnBolton. @Telegraph

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#Ukraine: Jihadists judge the infidels. @BillRoggio @LongwarJournal from 2022-03-01T01:06:09

Photo:  Mosque at Mariupol built by Mr. Salih Ciha

#Ukraine:  Jihadists judge the infidels. @BillRoggio @LongwarJournal

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#Ukraine: Russians resist. Katrina vanden Heuvel @KatrinaNation @TheNation from 2022-03-01T01:05:27

Photo:  Russian poster

#Ukraine: Russians resist. Katrina vanden Heuvel  @KatrinaNation @TheNation

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A Beginner's Guide to America: For the Immigrant and the Curious, by Roya Hakakian.. #UNBOUND from 2022-02-28T01:59:20

Photo:  Certificate of residence for Lee Hong Sang, farmer, age 45 years, of San Jose, California

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#PacificWatch: Gasoline spiking from San Francisco Bay to the dinosaurs of Cabazon CA, but not Tempe, AZ. @JCBliss from 2022-02-28T01:43:28

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WallStreetBets: Putin expelled from Taylor (SWIFT) Swift Concerts. Sam Batchelor #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-02-28T00:58:36

Photo:  Basel: Bank for International Settlements

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#Ukraine: Berlin POV: Deutschland re-arms. H J Mackinder International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-02-28T00:52:41

Photo:  Berlin became the capital of the German Empire in 1871 and expanded rapidly in the following years.

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#Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus imagine the day after Domitian and Putin. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-02-28T00:51:50

Photo:  The Triumph of Titus, by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1885), depicting the Flavian family during the triumphal pr...

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#OzWatch: Rescuing Future Koalas with Drones. Jeremy Zakis. New South Wales. ns. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-02-28T00:46:44

Photo:  Koalas (screen grab from a video)

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#NewWorldReport: Cuba and Russia: Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis from 2022-02-28T00:04:46

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#Ukraine: Kremlin's POV: Putin at extreme personal risk. H J Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-02-27T02:13:43

Photo: The murder of the king — Pausanius assassinates King Philip [father of Alexander] during his procession into the theatre, 336 B...

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#Ukraine: NATO's POV: Escalation SWIFT. H J Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-02-27T02:13:39

Photo: .SWIFT Logo

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2/2: Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis Kindle Edition by Serhii Plokhy from 2022-02-27T02:04:27

Photo: Squadron VP-44 flies over the Soviet ship Metallurg Anosov and destroyer USS Barry (DD-933) during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Barry had been ordered to investi...

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1/2: Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis Kindle Edition by Serhii Plokhy from 2022-02-27T02:04:04

Photo: U.S. aerial reconnaissance photograph of a medium-range ballistic missile launch site at San Cristobal in Cuba, on 1 November 1962 during the Cuban missile crisis.


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4/4 Putin's War in Syria: Russian Foreign Policy and the Price of America's Absence, by Anna Borshchevskaya. from 2022-02-27T01:59:45

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3/4 Putin's War in Syria: Russian Foreign Policy and the Price of America's Absence, by Anna Borshchevskaya. from 2022-02-27T01:56:39

Photo:  John Singer Sargent's iconic painting from World War I: Gassed; where blinded soldiers try to find their way to safety.


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2/4 Putin's War in Syria: Russian Foreign Policy and the Price of America's Absence, by Anna Borshchevskaya. from 2022-02-27T01:55:45

Photo:  Early Ahmadi Muslims of Syria. Seated at the center is Jalal-ud-Din Shams

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1/4 Putin's War in Syria: Russian Foreign Policy and the Price of America's Absence, by Anna Borshchevskaya. from 2022-02-27T01:54:25

Photo:  Moscow-1815

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2/2: Stalin's War: A New History of World War II, by Sean McMeekin. Kindle Edition from 2022-02-27T01:08:29

Photo: A view of the interior of the Prospect Mira station of the Moscow subway system. This is the station that was used by Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin as his office to avoid the Nazi air ra...

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2/2: The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918, by Nick Lloyd. from 2022-02-27T01:08:10

Photo:  Drawing of Greek newspaper PATRIS, about Serbia' s bouble attack  (from Bulgaria and German Empire) at World War I.  1915

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Extremophile-like object on Mars. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2022-02-26T01:04:15

Photo:  This was taken today by Curiosity’s Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI), a camera designed to get close, ...

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#Ukraine: Lessons Learned, Georgia 2008. Josh Rogin @joshrogin @WashingtonPost from 2022-02-26T01:02:38

Photo:  Mamison Pass is a high mountainous pass in the central Greater Caucasus crest, on the Georgian-Russian border

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Inflation, war, pandemic, inflation. Veronique de Rugy @veroderugy, @GeorgeMasonU, @Mercatus from 2022-02-26T01:02:10

Photo:  1812 Industrial age warfare: Battle of the Somme


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8/8: Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokh from 2022-02-26T00:57:38

Photo:  Removal of Missiles in Cuba November 11, 1962 – NARA – 193868

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7/8: Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy from 2022-02-26T00:56:53

Photo:  Soviet First Secretary Khrushchev's October 24, 1962 letter to Kennedy stating that the blockade of Cuba "constitute[s] an...

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6/8: Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy from 2022-02-26T00:56:07

Photo:  Adlai Stevenson shows aerial photos of Cuban missiles to the United Nations, October 25, 1962.

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5/8: Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy from 2022-02-26T00:55:29

Photo:  A US Navy P-2H Neptune of VP-18 flying over a Soviet cargo ship with crated Listen
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4/8: Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy from 2022-02-26T00:54:43

Photo:  President Kennedy and Secretary of Defense McNamara in an EXCOMM meeting

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3/8: Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy from 2022-02-26T00:53:58

Photo:  A U-2 reconnaissance photograph of Cuba, showing Soviet nuclear missiles, their transports and tents for fueling and maintenance.

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2/8: Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy from 2022-02-26T00:53:10

Photo:  Map created by American intelligence showing Surface-to-Air Missile activity in Cuba, September 5, 1962

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1/8: Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy from 2022-02-26T00:52:14

Photo:  CIA reference photograph of Soviet medium-range ballistic missile (SS-4 in U.S. documents, R-12 in Soviet documents) in Red Square, Moscow.

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The Classical Liberal, and Sanctions. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2022-02-26T00:44:12

Photo:     John Locke

The Classical Liberal, and Sanctions. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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Vietnam-era inflation road ahead. Jim McTague, @McTagueJ, former Washington Editor, @Barrons Washington. from 2022-02-26T00:41:25

Photo:  The Inflation Waltz

Vietnam-era inflation road ahead. Jim McTague, @McTagueJ, former Washington Editor, @Barrons Washington.  

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After the pandemic, disorder. Daniel Henninger. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion from 2022-02-26T00:40:29

Photo:  The Struwwelpeter: The story of Zappel-Philipps

After the pandemic, disorder. Daniel Henninger.  @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion

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#Ukraine: The Cold War air, land and sea. @JerryHendrixII @SagamoreInst @NRO from 2022-02-25T01:49:32

Photo:  An example of an attack helo firing rockets, such as is being done now in Ukraine.

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#Ukraine: Watching the vulnerable Russian Central Bank. Michael Bernstam @HooverInst from 2022-02-25T01:48:56

Photo:   Bank of Russia

#Ukraine: Watching the vulnerable Russian Central Bank. Michael Bernstam @HooverInst 

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#Ukraine: Australia condemns"thugs."Scott Mayman @CBSNews. from 2022-02-25T01:47:29

Photo:  "Poland showed Ivan his place"— “Ivan” is kicked out of Europe’s door—a caricature devoted to the Munich Agreement of 1938 expresses the idea that Russia was alien to European civiliza...

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#Ukraine: PRC does not fret Putin. Gregory Copley @Gregory_Copley, Defense&Foreign Affairs from 2022-02-25T01:45:14

Photo:  Procurator Shengyun and Russian embassy staff, 1917
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#Ukraine: Not the same old Cold War. Gregory Copley @Gregory_Copley, Defense&Foreign Affairs from 2022-02-25T01:44:38

Photo: The old Cold War:  An air force Boeing EC-135 aircraft

#Ukraine:  Not the same old Cold War.  Gregory Copley @Gregory_Copley, Defense & Foreign Aff...

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#Ukraine: Casualties. @PaulR_Gregory @HooverInst from 2022-02-25T01:44:06

Photo:  Casualties — here: one of 300 images declassified by the Finnish government in 2006 showing the Winter War and Continuation War against the Soviet Union from 1939-45.

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#Ukraine: NATO reacts. George Friedman @George_Friedman @GPFutures @GeopolitcalFuturesi from 2022-02-25T01:43:32

Photo:  Unidentified NATO troops exercise on the deck of a ship participating in the NATO exercise Display Determination '81

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#Ukraine: Commodities spike.@RealConstable Simon Constable @Time from 2022-02-25T01:42:53

Photo:  Depiction of trading on the London Metal Exchange in 1897

#Ukraine: Commodities spike.@RealConstable Simon Constable @Time 

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3/3 #Ukraine: Failure of Minsk II. Anatol Lieven @LievenAnatol @QuincyInstitute from 2022-02-25T01:41:05

 
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2/3 #Ukraine: Failure of Minsk II. Anatol Lieven @LievenAnatol @QuincyInstitute from 2022-02-25T01:40:03

Photo:  Belarusian (Tarashkevitsa): Mensk (Miensk), the horn of Vysoki Rynak [market] Square and Kojdana?skaja Streets. Ezuitzky kalegium.

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1/3 #Ukraine: Failure of Minsk II. Anatol Lieven @LievenAnatol @QuincyInstitute from 2022-02-25T01:39:25

Photo:  Drawing of Miensk (1772)

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#Ukraine: Buy defense stock. Jim McTague, @McTagueJ Former @Barrons from 2022-02-25T01:38:10

Photo:  The civilian Dwayne Davidson, Raytheon technician, makes an adjustment to the targeting mechanism, with a modified bracket to correct foresight alignment irregularities, mounted on the...

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#Ukraine: Markets react by rallying. @BrettArends @MKTWArends @Marketwatch Marketwatch from 2022-02-25T01:37:02

Photo:  A stock exchange

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#Ukraine: NATO Article 4. Jeff McCausland @mccauslJ @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2022-02-25T01:35:58

Photo:  Authentication page for an official copy of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization treaty, signed and sealed by Secretary of State Listen
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#Ukraine: War start. Jeff McCausland @mccauslJ @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2022-02-25T01:35

Photo:  Relatives of a north European farmer. "These relatives have not been heard from since the war started."

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Raining metal and gems. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2022-02-24T02:44:19

Photo:  Raining gems;  here: emeralds

Raining metal and gems.  Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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China denies. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2022-02-24T02:43:55

Photo:  China pioneered sophisticated rocketry  Here: Chinese fire arrows.

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Sanctions escalation. John Hardie @FDD from 2022-02-24T02:43:25

Photo:  World trade in the days of sailing ships -  Storck Harbour scene

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India watches Ukraine closely. Sadanand Dhume. @dhume @AEI @WSJOpinion from 2022-02-24T02:42:51

Photo:  Albumen photograph of a decorated building in India, 1870s

India watches Ukraine closely. Sadanand Dhume.  @dhume @AEI @WSJOpinion

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#Ukraine: Sanctions vs Russia in 2014, sanctions vs Soviet Union in 1980. Christine McDaniel @christinemcdan; @mercatus : International trade economist. Sr research Fellow, for American Economy&Globalization Program from 2022-02-24T02:41:44

Photo: Soviet stamp honoring Lenin, 1980

#Ukraine: Sanctions vs Russia in 2014, sanctions vs Soviet Union in 1980.  Christine McDaniel  @christinemcdan; @merc...

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#Ukraine: NATO prepares. Colonel Jeff McCausland USA (ret.) @CBSNews Diamondsix.com @DickinsonCollege.@mccauslJ @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2022-02-24T02:41:18

Photo:  An artist's depiction of a Soviet surface-to-air missile system engaging two F-16 Fighting Falcons

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#Ukraine: The Long Tail of Invasion. Colonel Jeff McCausland USA (ret.) @CBSNews Diamondsix.com @mccauslJ @CBSNews @dickinsoncol@DickinsonCollege. from 2022-02-24T02:40:17

Photo:  Invasion craft. Sicilian invasion. In an Allied invasion craft bound for the beach at Sicily, steel-helmeted men huddle together. Ahead lies the enemy and, for some, death

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Pacific Islands and the PRC vs USA. Cleo Paskal @CleoPaskal, non-resident Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies: @GordonGChang from 2022-02-24T02:37:48

Photo:    Model of a native double-outrigged canoe, or londi.
               Bahasa Indonesia:  Model dari sebuah perahu cadik ganda orang pribumi atau londi.

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Hong Kong annexed. Mark Clifford @MarkLClifford, author of, Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World: What China's Crackdown Reveals about Its Plans to End Freedom Everywhere. @GordonGChang from 2022-02-24T02:37:23

Photo:  1956 Hong Kong riot

Hong Kong annexed. Mark Clifford @MarkLClifford, author of, Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World: What China's Crackdown Reveal...

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ANT Group fail. Anne Stevenson-Yang @doumenzi, co-founder of J Capital Research Ltd. and author of China Alone: The Emergence From, and Pending Return To, Isolation. @GordonGChang from 2022-02-24T02:36:46

Photo:  Prince Yi Chuan, First Prime Chun; 1888

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Brussels EU hangs together. Theresa Fallon @TheresaAFallon, @ChicagoCouncil, director of the Center for Russia Europe Asia Studies, on the latest on Ukraine. @GordonGChang from 2022-02-24T02:36:15

Photo:  Tournament on the Grand Place in Brussels, 1569

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#Ukraine: No flood of refugees in Rostov-on-Don. @Felix_Light @CBSNews #MoscowTimes from 2022-02-24T01:44:39

Photo:  Rostov-on-Don at the beginning of the 20th century. 1905 Central Market (Old Bazaar)

#Ukraine: No flood of refugees in Rostov-on-Don. @Felix_Light @CBSNews #MoscowTimes
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#Ukraine: NATO hard-tested. George Friedman @GeopoliticalFutures George Friedman, chairman, Geopolitical Futures. @George_Friedman @GPFutures @GeoPoliticalFutures from 2022-02-24T01:44:29

Photo: Aerial photo shows Chateau Gendebien, Mons, Belgium, official residence of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Power Europe. (Photo by Staff Sgt. James Hennessey)



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#Ukraine: The Kremlin's slow-motion threats&What is to be done? George Friedman, chairman, Geopolitical Futures. @George_Friedman @GPFutures @GeoPoliticalFutures from 2022-02-24T01:44:22

Photo:   Edweard Muybridge, The  Horse in Motion (first slow-mo photographs of a moving subject).


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Does Europe trust President Macron? Judy Dempsey, @Judy_Dempsey. @Carnegie_Europe. Editor in chief #StrategicEurope, blog of @Carnegie_Europe. from 2022-02-23T01:41:58

Photo:   "Le Tricolore" balloon in the colors of the French flag with three passengers,  during an ascension in Paris, June 6, 1874.
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#StateThinking: PRC mocks Washington. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc. from 2022-02-23T01:40:51

Photo: "Wicked Wags", from: Edward Harold Begbie (1929)

#StateThinking: PRC mocks Washington. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pom...

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#StateThinking: Resurgent Russia . @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc. from 2022-02-23T01:40:20

Photo:  Up the Volga from Nizhnya-gorod. Moscow. Lit. T-va I.D. Sytin. 1896

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Mali hires Russian mercenaries. Ethiopia prospers Gregory R Copley, @Gregory_Copley, editor and publisher of Defense&Foreign Affairs from 2022-02-23T01:39:54

Photo:  Jenne, a great trading enter that developed in the floodplains region, 250 miles southeast of Timbuktu, Mali.


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The PRC-RU-IR Axis Powers. Gregory R Copley, @Gregory_Copley, editor and publisher of Defense&Foreign Affairs from 2022-02-23T01:38:52

Photo:  The signing of the Tripartite Pact by Germany, Japan, and Italy on 27 September 1940 in Berlin. Seated from left to right are the Jap...

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NATO weakens. Gregory R Copley, @Gregory_Copley, editor and publisher of Defense&Foreign Affairs from 2022-02-23T01:37:58

Photo:  NATO-Summit 2002

NATO weakens. Gregory R Copley, @Gregory_Copley, editor and publisher of Defense & Foreign Affairs

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“Why was it necessary to make an enemy out of us?” Gregory R Copley, @Gregory_Copley, editor and publisher of Defense&Foreign Affairs from 2022-02-23T01:37:30

Photo:  Descent into Hell Deesis and Selected Saints, XV century Pskov State Russian Museum

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#LondonCalling: Life for Berliners in wartime. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2022-02-23T01:36:48


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#LondonCalling: Inflation&energy EU; inflation and Fed US; war markets. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2022-02-23T01:36:28

Photo:  The gas production facility in Chemnitz owned by Constantin Pfaff and Robert Hösel.  From: Album of Saxon Industry

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#LondonCalling: Berlin reacts to Putin and energy @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2022-02-23T01:34:16


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Subway disorder;&What is to be done? Harry Siegel, @harrysiegel @NYDailyNews and The Daily Beast from 2022-02-23T01:33:41

Photo:  Building the subway.  

Subway disorder; & What is to be done?  Harry Siegel, @harrysiegel  @NYDailyNews and The Daily Beast.

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The Zelensky government is the target. Paul Gregory @HooverInst @PaulR_Gregory from 2022-02-23T01:33:13

Photo:  Russian artillery soldiers during World War I. 

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Markets wobble. Liz Peek @TheHill from 2022-02-23T01:31:44

Photo:   The New Oriental Bank and Share Market, Bombay (now Mumbai) in 1875 acting as Listen
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#Ukraine: #ClassicPaulGregory: Choose one or more: Putin 1. ...can invade 2. ...can subvert 3. ... can impose French and German peace.@PaulR_Gregory (Originally aired December 8, 2021). from 2022-02-22T00:46

Photo: Peace

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#Ukraine: #ClassicPaulGregory: Putin moves first. @PaulR_Gregory. (Originally aired December 8, 2021) from 2022-02-22T00:45

Photo:   Memorial of the Defenders of the North with Acting Northern Fleet Commander Vice Adm. Andrey Olgertovich Volozhinsky in Severomorsk, Russia. (U.S. Navy photo)

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4/4: The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds by Christopher E. Mason | Apr 20, 2021 from 2022-02-22T00:30

Photo:  Five hundred years hence will be the year 2500.  
             In 2500 BC:  Carved figure with feathers. The king-priest, wearing a net skirt and a hat with leaves or feathe...

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3/4: The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds by Christopher E. Mason | Apr 20, 2021 from 2022-02-22T00:30

Photo:  Cover of Space Travel, July 1958


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2/4: The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds by Christopher E. Mason | Apr 20, 2021 from 2022-02-22T00:30

Photo:   Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky was a Russian and Soviet rocket scientist who pioneered astronautic theory; he's one of the founding fathers of modern rocketry and astronautics. He...

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1/4: The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds by Christopher E. Mason | Apr 20, 2021 from 2022-02-22T00:30

Photo:  This artist's conception shows a hypothetical young planet around a cool star. A soupy mix of potentially life-forming chemicals can be seen pooling around the base of the jagged rocks...

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4/4 Mark Piesing, #UNBOUND, the complete, forty-minute interview, Arctic exploration; August 28, 2021 from 2022-02-22T00:18

Photo:  Norge airship on April 10, 1926, ready for Rome-Alaska transpolar flight in Ciampino Airport

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3/4 Mark Piesing, #UNBOUND, the complete, forty-minute interview, Arctic exploration; August 28, 2021 from 2022-02-22T00:17

Photo:  Italian colonel and explorer Umberto Nobile smiling holding a puppy. Arctic, 1926.

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2/4 Mark Piesing, #UNBOUND, the complete, forty-minute interview, Arctic exploration; August 28, 2021 from 2022-02-22T00:16

Photo:  "N25" starter  Title taken from the National Library's old Amundsen base Listen
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The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds, by Christopher E. Mason from 2022-02-22T00:05

Photo:  The atmosphere of Venus is in a "super-greenhouse" state. Earth in a few billion years could likely resemble present Ven...

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8/8 The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783, by Joseph J. Ellis, Ph.D. from 2022-02-22T00:00



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7/8 The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783, by Joseph J. Ellis, Ph.D. from 2022-02-22T00:00

Photo:  The Bostonian's Paying the Excise-Man, or Tarring & Feathering. 


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5/8 The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783, by Joseph J. Ellis, Ph.D. from 2022-02-22T00:00

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3/8 The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783, by Joseph J. Ellis, Ph.D. from 2022-02-22T00:00

Photo:  Concerning Harry Washington, the enslaved namesake of George Washington, who escaped Mount Vernon to join the British Army and fight against his former master; here Listen
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2/8 The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783, by Joseph J. Ellis, Ph.D. from 2022-02-22T00:00

Photo:  Catharine Littlefield Greene Miller (1755-1814), wife of Nathanael Greene and Phineas Miller, and supporter of Eli Whitney.


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1/8 The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783, by Joseph J. Ellis, Ph.D. from 2022-02-22T00:00

Photo:  Thayendanegea, a Mohawk chief known to the colonists as Captain Joseph Brant,  from Historical Sketch of the County of Wentworth and the head of the lake

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#Ukraine: #Classic Paul Gregory: Springtime 2021 Moscow probing provocation of the new President Zelensky. April 14, 2021. from 2022-02-21T14:36:36

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. 1863
Trutovsky. Ukraine
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#PacificWatch:"Because Seattle"and the Honeybee Rustlers. @JCBliss #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-02-21T02:40

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. 1808
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#Ukraine:"Scratching the head of a crocodile in the hope of making it purr."Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-02-21T02:39:57

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Beskrivelse:Pyntede gater i Berlin, Arbeidets dag (1. mai)/ Berlins 700 års jubileum. Store folkemengder, flagg med hakekors...

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"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. from 2022-02-21T01:35:10

Photo:  Stolberg and its castle, 1905

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#OzWatch: Lightning barrages and blood-red summer skies. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-02-20T02:10:11

Photo:  Forest under red sky

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10b/13: #DurhamReporting: HRC rejects Durham filing narrative. Svetlana Lokhova. @RealSLokhova #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-02-20T02:06:27

Photo:  Collodi - Le avventure di Pinocchio, Bemporad, 1892

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10b/13: #DurhamReporting:  HRC rejects Durham filing narrative. Svetlana Lokhova. ...

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10a/13: #DurhamReporting: Michael Sussman challenges Durham filing;&What is to be done? Svetlana Lokhova. @RealSLokhova #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-02-20T02:06:24

Photo:  Statue of Contemplation of Law at U.S. Supreme Court, front view III

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#Londinium90AD: War-war pantomime with nukes observed by Gaius and Germanicus. Michael Vlahos. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-02-20T01:51:34

Photo: The War Memorials of the First World War
War Memorial of the 24th Division, Battersea Park, London.


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11/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: At CPAC 2020. Publishing Spygate Exposed January, 2021. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-02-20T00:46:16

Photo: Advertisement for the American drama film, The Slanderers, (1924) with Johnnie Walker, Gladys Hulette, and Billy Sullivan, on pages 28 and 29 of the August 16, 1924 Universal W...

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10/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Mueller investigation neither questioned nor contacted Svetlana Lokhova. Washington Post, July 24, 2019. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety. @Batchelorshow from 2022-02-20T00:45:40

Photo:   "An Essay on Calumny. Humbly inscribed to . . .  the Prince of Wales. [In verse.]"

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6/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary:"Glamorous."Daily Telegraph, April 2, 2017. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. @Batchelorshow from 2022-02-20T00:40:47

Photo: BOTTICELLI, Sandro, Calumny of Apelles, Tempera on panel, 62 x 91 cm


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2/2: Immigration and its discontents. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2022-02-19T01:33:19


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Photo: 1/2: Immigration and its discontents. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2022-02-19T01:32:49

Photo:  Poor immigrants to America, 1914.  Here: a Lithuanian who sat behind the asphalt and coal-oil scatterer.

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#Australia: Giant battery enterprises replace coal-fired electric generating. Scott Mayman @CBSNews from 2022-02-19T01:32:24

Photo:  Tehachapi Energy Storage Project, Tehachapi, California

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#Canada: Convoying from Vancouver to Ottawa. Jonathan Roth @research_roth. RothResearch.com from 2022-02-19T01:31:59

Photo: Demonstration against the "sanitary measures" in Ottawa, capital of Canada, in the Freedom Convoy.

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4/4 His Greatest Speeches: How Lincoln Moved the Nation, by Diana Schaub from 2022-02-19T01:29:48

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3/4 His Greatest Speeches: How Lincoln Moved the Nation, by Diana Schaub from 2022-02-19T01:29:18

Photo:   "The Apotheosis of Lincoln," Abraham Lincoln and George Washington; eBay store Web page states: "Original vintage photograph from the rendering Albumen silver print, [...] 1860s"
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2/4 His Greatest Speeches: How Lincoln Moved the Nation, by Diana Schaub from 2022-02-19T01:28:43

Photo:  The Second Inaugural:  President Lincoln delivering his inaugural address on the east portico of the U.S. Capitol, March 4, 1865.

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1/4. His Greatest Speeches: How Lincoln Moved the Nation, by Diana Schaub from 2022-02-19T01:28:13

Photo:  Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg. President Lincoln pictured.
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OneWeb in New York court. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2022-02-19T01:24:16

Photo:  Artist's representation of part of the OneWeb network; vide oneweb.net "Become a OneWeb Distribution Partner and join a growing global connecte...

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Chandra watch. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2022-02-19T01:23:46

Photo: The recent launches of the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) and the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) by NASA and its international partners are excellent reminders that the un...

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Once upon a time, $12 AMZN: The Education of Cathie Wood. Brett Arends, Barron’s. @BrettArends @MKTWArends @Marketwatc from 2022-02-19T01:23:15

Photo:   Bearish stock market.  Here: Coastal Brown Bear

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No bond market signal of higher inflation ahead. Brett Arends, Barron’s. @BrettArends @MKTWArends @Marketwatch from 2022-02-19T01:22:31

Photo:  The optimistic bond market; bullish good cheer despite some clear indications.

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#SmallBusinessAmerica: Home Builders lose confidence;&What is to be done? @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2022-02-19T01:21:29

Photo: NAHB logo

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#Ukraine:"Super Mario"Draghi to Moscow. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation from 2022-02-19T01:20:58

Photo:   Draghi with Guido Carli in 1991

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Remembering"Sin Taxes"of the 20th Century. @ Dan Henninger @WSJOpinion from 2022-02-19T01:19:38

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California voters turn away from successful politicians. Bill Whalen @HooverWhalen @HooverInst from 2022-02-18T01:43:47

Photo:   A besieged politician

"A la ligue Millerand - Ils m'acclament comme chef. Et pas un ne m'offrirait son siège de député !"

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Keystone Senate chase. SalenaZito.com from 2022-02-18T01:43:15

Photo:  Pennsylvania Senators. Washington, D.C., Mar. 14. Apparently unworried by the incoming elections, Senators James J. Davis, R. of Penna, seated, jokes with Joseph Guefey, D. of Penna. w...

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Mental illness and the Keystone State. SalenaZito.com from 2022-02-18T01:41:58

Photo:  Insanity supervening on habits of intemperance (patient, Springfield Asylum, Surrey, U.K.). 


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#HotelMars: Starship waits on the FAA. Douglas Messier @ParabolicArc. David Livingston SpaceShow.com from 2022-02-18T01:41:25

Photo:  WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY AND FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION WITH NASA FOR ICE CASTINGS TEST

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#Israel: The shock of May 2021 Yossi Kuperwasser @yossikup from 2022-02-18T01:40:23

Photo:  The 1929 riots. August 23 to 31. Artuf burning. Jewish colony set on fire by Arabs, also threshing floors going up in smoke

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#Turkey: The significance of Erdogan to UAE. Aykan Erdemir – Turkey from 2022-02-18T01:39:34

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#Israel: Jerusalem opens for visitors March 1, 2022. Rony Timsit @inbalhotel, Israeli tourism. Rony Timsit, General Manager of the Inbal Hotel in Jerusalem. from 2022-02-18T01:37:52

Photo:   Ancient and modern Jerusalem.

#Israel: Jerusalem opens for visitors March 1, 2022.  Rony Timsit @inbalhotel, Israeli tourism.
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No pandemic cautionary change for the vulnerable. @HenryIMiller @PacificResearch Institute from 2022-02-18T01:36:33

Photo:  Glass Palace 1888

No pandemic cautionary change for the vulnerable. @HenryIMiller @PacificResearch Institute

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#ScalaReport: Work from home is just work ten years after. Chris Riegel, @scala scala.com CEO, @STRATACACHE, #TheScalaReport from 2022-02-18T01:34:38

Photo:  Scene of family working at home surrounded by scenes of forest animals

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Italian cuisine condemned by EU foodies to Grade E. Stanley Pignal @TheEconomist from 2022-02-18T01:33:40

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#EU The PIGS (Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain) awaken. Stanley Pignal @TheEconomist from 2022-02-18T01:32:51

Photo:  The geographical and ethno-cultural borders of Southern Europe are the Pyrenees, the A...

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#Canada: Trudeau's rhetoric fails. @MaryAnstasiaOG @WSJOpinion from 2022-02-18T01:31:41

Photo: The previous Trudeau.

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#Ukraine. The entente of PRC and RU;&What is to be done? @AmbJohnBolton @WSJOpinion from 2022-02-18T01:30:01

Photo:  Inspector Shengyun and Russian embassy staff 
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#Ukraine: The EU sleepwalks. Anatol Lieven @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst from 2022-02-18T01:24:19

Photo:  "The Sleep-walker"
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#Ukraine: NATO is no threat to Russia. Anatol Lieven @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst from 2022-02-18T01:23:15

Photo:  Snow and ice collect creating a scenic view of the border of Estonia and Russia. This was the final destination of a three-day march in which U.S. Soldiers assigned to Battle Company, ...

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"No war today.""Len Berman and Michael Riedel in the Morning."WOR 710 AM, NYC. from 2022-02-17T12:57:03

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. 1884
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#PRC: Phase One trade deal fail. Alan Tonelson, independent economic policy analyst who blogs at RealityChek and tweets @AlanTonelson. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2022-02-17T01:09:38

Photo:  A Chinese bookseller sits on a chest next to his books on display, holding a pipe in one hand and a book in the other. With explanation of the print in German.

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James Webb mirrors nominal at first light. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2022-02-17T01:08:28

Photo: Photons Received: Webb Sees Its First Star.  NASA.

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Mobile Scotland to Orbit. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2022-02-17T01:07:53

Photo: ‘Orbex LP1’ launch platform travels across Scotland. Screen grab.
             Full ‘dress rehearsals’ of launch procedures for the Orbex ‘Prime’ rocket can now take place at the te...

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#Ukraine: NATO lessons learned so far. Jeff McCausland @mccauslJ @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2022-02-17T01:07:22

Photo:  A Slovenian air force Pilatus PC-9 flies in support of NATO allies during a live-fire exercise as part of Exercise Rock Sokol at Pocek Range in Postonja, Slovenia, May 10, 2018. 
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#Ukraine: “Wars in Europe rarely start on a Wednesday,” Chizhov added. Jeff McCausland @mccauslJ @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2022-02-17T01:03:18

Photo:  "Wednesday's child is full of woe" or "Wednesday's child is merry and glad," depending on your source.

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#NewWorldReport: AMLO vs journalists. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis from 2022-02-17T01:02:55

Photo: Assassination

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#NewWorldReport: Russia welcome in Venezuela and Nicaragua. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis from 2022-02-17T01:02:27

Photo:  Modern News Thursday May 1, 1869

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#NewWorldReport: Deforestation accelerates. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis from 2022-02-17T01:01:29

Photo:  Deforestation

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#NewWorldReport: Brazil in Russia. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis from 2022-02-17T01:01:03

Photo:  Colonialism in Brazil: Map of gold yield in the Real Casting Houses in Minas Gerais, between July and September 1767, Listen
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#Ukraine: Russia still unready for the four phases of war. George Friedman @George_Friedman @GPFutures @GeopoliticalFutures from 2022-02-17T01:00:33

Photo:  (Four usual  phases of the operations process consists of the major mission command activities: planning, preparing, executing, and assessing.)

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#Russia: Navalny to be sentenced to much longer. @Felix_Light @MoscowTimes. from 2022-02-17T00:59:54

Photo:  Political prisoners in a gulag  forced labor camp. 1955

#Russia: Navalny to be sentenced to much longer.  @Felix_Light @MoscowTimes.

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#Scotland: Green mining is now. Simon Constable @RealConstable from 2022-02-17T00:57:55

Photo:  Non-green mining (despite the tinting).

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#Scotland: Nicola Sturgeon vs Boris Johnson in the pandemic and after. Simon Constable @RealConstable from 2022-02-17T00:57:14


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#StateThinking: Beijing and Moscow starkly abuse Olympic athletes. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc. from 2022-02-16T01:19:04

Photo:  IXe Olympiad: Poster for the Olymipc Games in Amsterdam.


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#StateThinking: Olaf Scholz jaw-jawing in Moscow. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc. from 2022-02-16T01:18:40

Photo:  The German-born empress of Russia (1762–96)—Catherine II; Russian Yekaterina Alekseyevna, born Sophie Friederike Auguste, princess von Anhalt-Zerbst (born May 2, 1729, Stettin, Prussia...

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#Ethiopia: End of the emergency. Gregory R Copley, @Gregory_Copley, editor and publisher of Defense&Foreign Affairs from 2022-02-16T01:15:55

Photo:    Yared in a piece of 15th century Ethiopian sacred art.

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#Ukraine: London Talking Down to Russia. Gregory R Copley, @Gregory_Copley, editor and publisher of Defense&Foreign Affairs from 2022-02-16T01:14:33

Photo:  British and Russia infantry engage in close-quarters combat during the Crimean War

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#Canada: Sympathy with Ottawa truckers. Gregory R Copley, @Gregory_Copley, editor and publisher of Defense&Foreign Affairs from 2022-02-16T01:13:59

Photo: Peterbilt on the road. 

#Canada: Sympathy with Ottawa truckers.  Gregory R Copley, @Gregory_Copley, editor and publisher of Defense & Foreign A...

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#Canada: Ottawa police chief resigns;&What is to be done? Gregory Copley, Defense&Foreign Affairs from 2022-02-16T01:13:09

Photo:  WWI recruitment ad 207th Ottawa Carleton Battalion 

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#LondonCalling: Berliners scrupulously obey the mandates. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2022-02-16T01:10:06

Photo:  Friedrichstrasse, Berelin

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#LondonCalling: Berlin seeks peace now. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2022-02-16T01:07:26

Photo:  "I don't have a new ally, but the old one up there won't leave us"

#LondonCalling:  Berlin seeks peace now.  @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

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#LondonCalling: Net-zero and the price of energy in Europe. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2022-02-16T01:06:35

Photo:  Saipem construction of the Scarabeo II platform in the Adriatic Sea 1967

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#Bahrain: Unprecedented. Hussain Abdul-Hussain @hahussain. Research Fellow @FDD from 2022-02-16T01:05:40

Photo:  Bahrain — An island that has been inhabited for about 50,000 years surrounded by the waters of the Arabian Gulf and features a huge amount of palm tress and tons and tons of sand 20 mi...

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#NYC: Adams fires the unvaccinated. @HarrySiegel @NYDaily News from 2022-02-16T01:04:14

Photo:  What promised to be a red-hot meeting between U.S. Housing Administrator Nathan Straus (left) and New York Mayor Fiorella La Guardia took the form of a love feast before the confab end...

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Microsoft and the banks back to the office;&What is to be done? @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews from 2022-02-16T01:03:42

Photo:  Josephinism interior — marquetry desk. Austria; c. 1780.

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PPI blast-off. @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews from 2022-02-16T01:02:26

Photo:  The Producer Price Index (PPI) program measures the average change over time in the selling prices received by domestic producers for their output.

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#PacificWatch: Banning bike sales and the homeless. @JCBliss from 2022-02-15T01:39:45

Photo:  Lallement-bicycle-patent-1866
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#Turkey: Erdogan charm offensive. @AykanErdemir @FDD from 2022-02-15T01:39:12


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#Iran: The scale of the terror support for four decades. @BillRoggio @LongWarJournal from 2022-02-15T01:38:39

Photo:  Members of explosive ordnance disposal unit look through the debris and damage for additional explosive devices after an improvised explosive device detonated at the bazaar, Afghanista...

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#AfterAfghanistan: The known facts of the Kabul defeat. @BillRoggio @LongWarJournal from 2022-02-15T01:38:13

Photo:  A U.S. Air Force Boeing C-17 Globemaster III safely transported approximately 640 Afghan citizens from Hami...

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2/2: #Ukraine: The insular presidency;&What is to be done? Kori Schake @AEI from 2022-02-15T01:37:29

Photo:   Movie still, cast and overview description of film produced by Richard Garrick for the Selling-Polyscope Co. in 1912.

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1/2: #Ukraine: The insular presidency;&What is to be done? Kori Schake @AEI from 2022-02-15T01:36:45

Photo:  Millard Fillmore (“His Accidency”) became America’s unlucky 13th president under trying circumstances; "A largely ignored vice president . . ."  Fillmore’s presidency has become synony...

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#Iran: The Russians enter the JCPOA picture. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2022-02-15T01:35:41

Photo:  M. Chemodanov. "Our weapon for resolving pressing issues"  Light and shadows. 1881. May 16.

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#NewWorldReport: No country for journalism. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave). Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2022-02-15T01:35:12

Photo: Logo of Primer Sistema de Noticias, for which Lourdes Maldonado López worked until she was murdered on ...

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#NewWorldReport: Brazil looks to China and Russia. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave). Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2022-02-15T01:34:44

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#NewWorldReport: Colombia's human rights report. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave). Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2022-02-15T01:33:33

Photo: Child soldiers.    Here:  Photograph of the 15-year-old Jose Sanchez Del Rio, now a Catholic saint who was martyred for his faith. 

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#Ukraine: Jaw-jaw fresh possibilities. Katrina vanden Heuvel @TheNation from 2022-02-15T01:33:04

Photo:   Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko ? ?????,, also known as Kobzar Taras, or simply Kobzar (kobzars are bards in Ukrainian culture), was a ...

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#PRC: Deriding Gu and Disappearing Peng at the Olympics. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2022-02-15T01:32:39

Photo: Peng Shuai's statement that has caused her to be disappeared by the Chinese Communist Party.


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#PRC: The Russia–China alliance. Jonathan Ward, author of China's Vision of Victory. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2022-02-15T01:31:10

Photo:  Qingdao Qianhai Vision 1912

#PRC: The Russia–China alliance. Jonathan Ward, author of China's Vision of Victory.  @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek,...

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#OzWatch: Last of the Koalas. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-02-14T01:32:05

Photo  Australian postage stamp issued 1937


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#WallStreetBets: Blaming Jerome (J. Pow) Powell, the (Bane-like) villain behind $100 oil and Russian-inspired bearishness. Sam Batchelor. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-02-14T01:31:56

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1907
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2/2: From Last July to this February: Crimea is not negotiable;&What is to be done? Anatole Lieven @QuincyInst from 2022-02-14T00:52:02

Photo:  Crimea, 1912


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1/2: From Last July to this February: Crimea is not negotiable;&What is to be done? Anatole Lieven @QuincyInst from 2022-02-14T00:51:55

Photo:   Carlo Bossoli. Monastery of St. George, Crimea


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#Venus: Last June: #ClassicHotelMars: Three robots for Venus. @Funkyspoon David Grinspoon. Planetary Society. David Livingston SpaceShow.com from 2022-02-14T00:51:28

Photo: Image taken from page 545 of Celestial space and tropical nature, physical description of the universe ... preface by M. Babinet, drawings by Yan' Dargent

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4/4 From Last August to this February: The long, long Anglo-Afghan war. Anatol Lieven @QuincyInst, Georgetown University @LievenAnatol from 2022-02-14T00:48:39

Photo:
This shot, showing members of the Afridi tribe with guns, is from an album of rare historical photographs of people and sites associated with the Second Anglo-Afghan War. The Afrid...

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1/4 From Last August to this February: The long, long Anglo-Afghan war. Anatol Lieven @QuincyInst, Georgetown University @LievenAnatol from 2022-02-14T00:48:13

Photo: Brit attack— a British-Indian force attacks the Ghazni fort during the First Afghan War, 1839


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A Beginner's Guide to America: For the Immigrant and the Curious, by Roya Hakakian from 2022-02-14T00:04

Photo: One version of the American Dream

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John Tamny #Unbound. When Politicians Panicked: the complete, forty-minute interview. March 28, 2021. from 2022-02-14T00:00

Photo:  Panic in the Streets is a black and white, 96-minute film directed by Elia Kazan and released in 1950 by 20th Century Fox. It is film noir semidocumentary shot exclusively on ...

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#Ukraine:"Well, they (new NATO members) don't want to be second class."Professor H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-02-13T03:20:18

Photo: Russian fighter

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#Ukraine:"What false flag?"Professor H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-02-13T03:19:09

Photo: An example of a false flag op:  A bomb threat forged by Scientology operatives


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#Ukraine: What of the Siloviki? Professor H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-02-13T03:19:06

Photo:  Emblem of the Russian Federation`s Armed Forces; here: universal / all-embracing to all armed forces branch «Armed Forces of the Russian Federation» design from January 27, 19...

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#Londinium90AD: Modern lessons from Caesar's Battle of Alesia, 52 BCE. Michael Vlahos. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-02-13T03:05:22

Photo:   Statère in the name of Vercingétorix.

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#Londinium90AD: The might of Rome contrasted with the pleadings of the US. Michael Vlahos. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-02-13T03:05:18

Photo: Soviet tankmen of the 6th Armoured Division drive through the streets of Tebriz, 1941

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9b/13: #DurhamReporting: The Sussman-Joffee revelation from February 9, 2017. Svetlana Lokhova. @RealSLokhova #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-02-13T02:52:42

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9a/13: #DurhamReporting: John Ratcliffe points to 1000 pages of documents in the Special Counsel's hands. Svetlana Lokhova. @RealSLokhova #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-02-13T02:52:40

Photo:   The Hill of Evil Counsel from the south wall, Jerusalem. The nearer hill-side is the eastern slope of Ophel; a good example of terrace cultivation


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8/13: #DurhamReporting: Indications that Priestap and Strzok have testified before the Grand Jury. Svetlana Lokhova, author, The Spy Who Changed History.@RealSLokhova #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-02-13T02:41:40

Photo:  Shortly before Washington Territory became a state in 1889, members of the King County Grand Jury gathered for a formal portrait. Like other grand juries, past and present, they were a...

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7b/13: #DurhamReporting: Marc Elias 2022 talks to the Grand Jury. Svetlana Lokhova, author, The Spy Who Changed History. @RealSLokhova #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-02-13T02:40:46

Photo:  The Immunity Bath (J.J. Hanberg leaving the Grand Jury Room, surrounded by stamped vouchers), March 5, 1910


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7a/13: #DurhamReporting: Marc Elias 2017 and the motive. Svetlana Lokhova, author,"The Spy Who Changed History."@RealSLokhova #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-02-13T02:39:03

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5/13: #DurhamReporting Cambridge University spy nest, Walsingham and Marlowe to Dearlove, Andrew, Steele. Svetlana Lokhova. @RealSLokhova #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-02-13T02:35:44

Photo:  Sir Francis Walsingham was principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I of England from 20 December 1573 until his death and is popularly remembered as her "spymaster".

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8/8 Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy, by Nathaniel Philbrick from 2022-02-12T01:23:30

Photo:  Interior of Lumber and Planing Mill at Aberdeen, NC, on the Seaboard Air Line

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7/8 Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy, by Nathaniel Philbrick from 2022-02-12T01:23:03


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6/8 Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy, by Nathaniel Philbrick Hardcover – September 14, 2021 from 2022-02-12T01:22:32

Photo:  An October 2017 aerial view of a portion of the New Hampshire coastline, the shortest (18 miles) of any state, at Rye Beach, below Portsmouth

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3/8 Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy, by Nathaniel Philbrick from 2022-02-12T01:20:27


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1/8 Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy, by Nathaniel Philbrick Hardcover – September 14, 2021 from 2022-02-12T01:17:47

Photo:  The nationally famous Pirates' House, built in 1754, 20 East Broad -- Trustees' Garden, Savannah, Georgia

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Hypersonic Commercial Switzerland. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2022-02-12T01:16:50

Photo:  Destinus plans to fly a hydrogen-powered, hypersonic cargo craft

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Habitable Zone at Four Light-Years Out. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2022-02-12T01:16:09

Photo:  An image of distant galaxies captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, RELICS; Acknowledgment: D. Coe et al.

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@Italy: A lonely death in the Lombardy pandemic;&What is to be done? Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation. from 2022-02-12T01:15:41

Photo:   Martinengo, Lombardy

@Italy: A lonely death in the Lombardy pandemic; & What is to be done? Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation. 

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#Ukraine: Deployment in the Bloodlands. Jeff McCausland @mccauslJ @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2022-02-12T01:15:05

Photo:Pzkpfw V Panther near the town of Voznesensk, Ukraine, in 1944.



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#SmallBusinessAmerica: Consumer Sentiment Dives. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2022-02-12T01:14:01

Photo:  Consumer: The Enthusiast.  "I want a special Kodak fitted with No. 4 Tessar, Series IIb, Anastigmat f. 6.3, and a half-pound of monomethyl paramidophenol sulphate."

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#Ukraine: Mr. Market notices the Kremlin's army. Jim McTague. former Washington editor, Barron's. from 2022-02-12T01:13:20

Photo: Early stock market ticker

#Ukraine: Mr. Market notices the Kremlin's army. Jim McTague. former Washington editor, Barron's. 

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#PacificWatch: Superbowl heat wave in perilous LA fire season. @JCBliss from 2022-02-12T01:12:54

Photo:   Sweltering heat.  Berryman Political Cartoon Collection.

 
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#NewWorldReport: Haitians vote with their feet. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis from 2022-02-11T01:41:59

Photo:   A Haitian refugee relaxes in her tent at Camp McCalla [at Guantanamo, in Cuba], site of a humanitarian relief center for Haitians fleeing political and economic upheaval in their home...

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#NewWorldReport: The Kremlin waits on Colombian and Brazilian elections. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis from 2022-02-11T01:41:27

Photo:  The Moscow Kremlin gate, with its Tartar architecture and adjacent religious chapel.

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#NewWorldReport: Investor confidence in Costa Rica. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis from 2022-02-11T01:40:29

Photo:   Postcard written in 1898. It is one of the oldest postcards of San José, in Central America. Lithographically printed

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#NewWorldReport: Castillo struggling. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis from 2022-02-11T01:39:52

Photo:  The Street of Triumph, in Cuzco.

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2/2: #Russia: The Siloviki and Putin. Adam E. Casey @adam_e_casey @umichWCED, Postdoctoral Fellow, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. from 2022-02-11T01:22:48

Photo: President Vladimir Putin with Federal Security Service Director Nikolai Patrushev, in the Moscow Kreml.

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1/2: #Russia: The Siloviki and Putin. Adam E. Casey @adam_e_casey @umichWCED, Postdoctoral Fellow, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies from 2022-02-11T01:22:13

Photo:  Patriarch Job of Moscow (from Tsarskiy titulyarnik): Saint Job, Russian Svyatoy Iov, first Russian Orthodox patriarch of Moscow (1589–1605).

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#Iran: Breakout time countdown. David Albright, @TheGoodISIS, Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), president. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1. from 2022-02-11T01:21

Photo:  Iranian newspaper clip from 1968 reads: "A quarter of Iran's Nuclear Energy scientists are women." The photograph shows some female Iranian PhDs posing in front of Listen
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#Iran: Tehran rich with oil money. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2022-02-11T01:19:51

Photo:  Abadan Refinery

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To get ahead of inflation;&What is to be done? @Veroderugy @Mercatus from 2022-02-11T01:19:21

Photo: The shrinking dollar.
            Federal Reserve Notes are the only type of notes that are currently being produced to this day. The first series of banknotes was established in 19...

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#Britain: In praise of Elizabeth II. @ConradMBlack @NationalPost from 2022-02-11T01:18:06

Photo:  Queen Elizabeth II arriving at Leura, Australia, onboard the royal train; 12 February 1954.

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#Mexico: AMLO challenges the USMCA and the Biden Administration. Mary Anastasia O’Grady, @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion Wall Street Journal editorial board and “The Americas” columnist. from 2022-02-11T01:17:35

Photo:  General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, eighth president of Mexico,  elected president on 1 April 1833.

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#France: Macron vs Versailles for the Elysee Palace in Springtime. Sophie Pedder @PedderSophie @TheEconomist. Paris Bureau Chief, The Economist. from 2022-02-11T01:16:54

Photo: Versailles, Cochin Bal masqué

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#Ukraine: Mission to Moscow. Sophie Pedder @PedderSophie @TheEconomist. Paris Bureau Chief, The Economist. from 2022-02-11T01:16:15

Photo: Ad for a velocipede shop in Kiev.
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#Ukraine: How far does the RU/CN alliance go? Anatol Lieven. @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst from 2022-02-11T01:15:27

Photo:  Journal, Bulletin of the East Asian Exarchate No. 1-3, 1947

#Ukraine: How far does the RU/CN alliance go?  Anatol Lieven. @LievenAnatol @Quin...

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#Ukraine: Legitimate National Security Concerns. Anatol Lieven. @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst from 2022-02-11T01:14:46

Photo: Ukrainian stamp

#Ukraine: Legitimate National Security Concerns. Anatol Lieven. @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst

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Colonel-General Ivashov speaks for dissent in the officer corps. @PaulR_Gregory @HooverInst @TheHill from 2022-02-10T01:14:43

Photo:  General Leonid Ivashov, vice president of the Academy on Geopolitical Affairs and former Joint Chief of Staff of the Russian ...

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The plan is for chips to come home to America. Annie Fixler. @afixler, @FDD_CCTI , @FDD; CCTI Deputy Director and Research Fellow from 2022-02-10T01:14:08

Photo: Silicon chips, 5/14/1974

The plan is for chips to come home to America.  Annie Fixler. @afixler, @FDD_CCTI ,  @FDD; CCTI Deputy Director and Research F...

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The Keystone State and Manchin Democrats. SalenaZito.com from 2022-02-10T01:13:32


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Lessons of the Fern Hollow Bridge collapse. SalenaZito.com from 2022-02-10T01:13:02

Photo: Fern Hollow Bridge, 1901

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InSight lives. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2022-02-10T01:12:32

Photo:  InSIght

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2/2: Ohio Beckons the Submarine Fleet. Captain Jerry Hendrix, USN (ret) @JerryHendrixII @SagamoreInst Capt Edward L. Bartlett, Jr., @BartlettMaritim , USMM; founder, chairman and CEO, Bartlett Maritime from 2022-02-10T01:11:22

Photo:  Rufus Putnam led a riverine expedition to what is now Ohio: "Putnam established the first Ohio Company settlement on the banks of the Ohio River. Known originally as Adelphia, the comm...

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1/2: Ohio Beckons the Submarine Fleet. Captain Jerry Hendrix, USN (ret) @JerryHendrixII @SagamoreInst Capt Edward L. Bartlett, Jr., @BartlettMaritim , USMM; founder, chairman and CEO, Bartlett Maritime from 2022-02-10T01:10:37

Photo:  Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. View from above of a number of submarines under construction in a type of lock, cables and planks extending out to them, workmen all around, scaffolding and...

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#Ukraine: The Kremlin remarks"positive signals"after Macron's departure. @Felix_Light @CBSNews @MoscowTimes from 2022-02-10T01:09:45

Photo:  Russian nobility spoke French. Here:  The Pont Alexandre III in Paris and the Listen
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Fifty years after Crazy Eddie's 1970s troubled New York City. Simon Constable @RealConstable Edinburgh, Scotland. from 2022-02-10T01:09:16

Photo:  The former New York radio DJ Jerry Carroll appeared in more than 7,500 commercials as a Crazy Eddie pitchman.  Fair use.

Fifty years after Crazy Eddie's 1970s ...

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#Ukraine: Germans choose sides. George Friedman @George_Friedman @GPFutures, Founder and Chairman of Geopolitical Futures. from 2022-02-10T01:08:46

Photo:  National minorities of Ukraine — Germans  (postage stamp).

#Ukraine: Germans choose sides. George Friedman @George_Friedman @GPFutures, Founder and Ch...

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#Ukraine: Putin lost. George Friedman @George_Friedman @GPFutures, Founder and Chairman of Geopolitical Futures. from 2022-02-10T01:08:12

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#Ukraine: Putin lost.   George Friedman @George_Friedman @GPFutures, Founder and Chairman of Geopolitical Futures.


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#PRC: Xi on the campaign trail. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2022-02-10T01:07:23

Photo:   A Northern Song Dynasty-(960–1127) era Chinese painting of a water-powered mill for grain, with surrounding river transport.

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#PRC: The Godfather in Beijing. Charles Burton @cburton001, senior Fellow at the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2022-02-10T01:06:35

Photo:  Falkland Islanders shoveling peat (ca 1950).

#PRC: The Godfather in Beijing.  Charles Burton @cburton001, senior Fellow at the Centre for Advancing Ca...

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#PRC The Xi economy weakens at Lunar New Year. Charles Ortel, @CharlesOrtel, of the On the Money podcast with Charles Ortel. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2022-02-10T01:05:40

Photo: Year of the Tiger.

#PRC The Xi economy weakens at Lunar New Year.   Charles Ortel, @CharlesOrtel, of the On the Money podcast with Charles Ortel. @Gord...

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#Taiwan: Reinforcements. Stephen Yates @YatesDCIA,, chair of the America First Policy Institute's new China Policy Initiative. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2022-02-10T01:04:26

Photo:  Nineteenth-century water-color of Aboriginal people in Formosa/Taiwan. It "depict[s] vividly the conditions of Formosa of about a century ago" being the mid-1800s.

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#PRC: Xi wins the domestic TV audience. Gregory Copley, @Gregory_Copley, Defense&Foreign Affairs from 2022-02-09T01:07:06

Photo:  Completed CCTV Tower, Beijing, China.

#PRC: Xi wins the domestic TV audience. Gregory Copley, @Gregory_Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
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#Ethiopia: African Union comes to triumphant Addis Ababa. Gregory Copley, @Gregory_Copley, Defense&Foreign Affairs from 2022-02-09T01:06:34

Photo:  His Imperial Highness Haile Salassie enters Addis Ababa, 1946.

#Ethiopia: African Union comes to triumphant Addis Ababa. Gregory Copley, @Gregory_Copl...

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#Ukraine: Violence is not the plan. Gregory Copley, @Gregory_Copley, Defense&Foreign Affairs from 2022-02-09T01:06:06

Photo:  St Michael's Church in Odessa

#Ukraine: Violence is not the plan. Gregory Copley, @Gregory_Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

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#Ukraine: Germany and the Information Dominance operation. Gregory Copley, @Gregory_Copley, Defense&Foreign Affairs from 2022-02-09T01:03:08

Photo:  Internal coat of arms of the Bundeswehr (Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Germany); here: Kommando Cyber- und Informat...

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#LondonCalling: Back to Plan A and back to office work. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2022-02-09T01:02:41

Photo:  Office work of yesteryear

#LondonCalling: Back to Plan A and back to office work.  @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

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#LondonCalling: The diplomacy of Germany and France in Moscow. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2022-02-09T01:02:07

Photo:  The French invasion of Russia, also known as the Russian Campaign, the Second Polish War, the Second Polish Campaign, the Patriotic War of 1812, and the War of 1812, was begun by Napol...

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#LondonCalling: Boris Johnson sings"I will survive."@JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2022-02-09T01:01:40

Photo:  Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive"

#LondonCalling:  Boris Johnson sings "I will survive." @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

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#LondonCalling: #Ukraine in London politics. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2022-02-09T01:01:12

Photo: Plaque on the Ukrainian Embassy in London.

#LondonCalling:  #Ukraine in London politics.  @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

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#StateThinking: Beijing Olympics is built on lies. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc. from 2022-02-09T00:57:48

Photo:  A poster on the "genocide Olympics"

#StateThinking: Beijing Olympics is built on lies.  @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike P...

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#StateThinking: Reinforcing #Ukraine @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc. from 2022-02-09T00:57:23

Photo: Postage stamp

#StateThinking:  Reinforcing #Ukraine  @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc.

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New York City awakens. @ Liz Peek @TheHill @FoxNews from 2022-02-09T00:56:57

Photo:  Tenements. Brooklyn, Gold Street. 1890

New York City awakens. @ Liz Peek @TheHill @FoxNews

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The US recovery advances. @ Liz Peek @TheHill @FoxNews from 2022-02-09T00:56:37

Photo:  Tax receipt, 1758 - 1766

The US recovery advances. @ Liz Peek @TheHill @FoxNews

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#Ukraine: Does Germany misstep in the Ukraine Crisis? Judy Dempsey, @Judy_Dempsey. @Carnegie_Europe, Carnegie Europe from 2022-02-09T00:55:15

Photo:  Banknotes denominated in karbovanets (Karbowanez in German). The karbovanets replaced the Soviet ruble at par and was in circulation between 1942 and 1945. I...

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#Ukraine: The paradoxes for Erdogan and Turkey. @AykanErdemir @FDD from 2022-02-08T01:16:21


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#India: Falling under 2.1 birth rate replacement;&What is to be done? Sadanand @Dhume @WSJOpinion from 2022-02-08T01:15:06

Photo: Ganesha, the god most likely to improve the birthrate, seems not much present these days.

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#Ukraine: What risks for India in between Russia and the PRC? Sadanand @Dhume @WSJOpinion from 2022-02-08T01:14:27

Photo:   Sixteenth-century maps of Russia often showed "Chumbalik Kingdom" as Russia's southeastern neighbor, which could be reached by tr...

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#NewWorldReport: The failing. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave). Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2022-02-08T01:08:11

Photo:  Haiti:  Born in Haiti in 1797, Louis Leger Mirault was a businessman who traveled to France when he was 25. He was a freemason and an officer.  This image is from his collection.
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#NewWorldReport: Russia well-established. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave). Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2022-02-08T01:07:15

Photo:  Embassy of Russia in Havana
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#NewWorldReport: Costa Rica election surprise. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave). Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2022-02-08T01:06:48

Photo: Costa Rica, 2022.  Photo courtesy of Suzanne Elsanady.

#NewWorldReport:   Costa Rica election surprise. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (...

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Surprising natural gas prices in the United States. Bud Weinstein from 2022-02-08T01:06:04


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#AfterAfghanistan: Accountability for failure. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal @FDD from 2022-02-08T01:03:47

Photo:  PARWAN PROVINCE, Afghanistan (Jan. 17, 2017) - Afghanistan National Detention Facility Prison - Parwan. 

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#AfterAfghanistan:"The Wheel of Jihad."@BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal @FDD from 2022-02-08T01:03:13

Photo:  A jihadist flag; here: flag of Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad, predecessor of the Islamic State

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#Ukraine: Drumbeat. Katrina vanden Heuvel @TheNation from 2022-02-08T01:01:59

Photo:  "Monster drum"

#Ukraine: Drumbeat.  Katrina vanden Heuvel @TheNation

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#PRC: Jimmy Lai in PRC isolation. Mark Simon @MarkSimonHK, Jimmy Lai's long-time deputy and director at Apple Daily. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2022-02-08T01:01:17

Photo:  Jimy Lai [Lai Chee-ying {???}] met with US Vice President Pence to discuss Hong Kong pro-democracy protests. July 2019.

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#PRC: India shoves back. Nitin Gokhale, strategic affairs analyst based in Delhi. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2022-02-08T01:00:40

Photo:  Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches Make in India, 2014

#PRC:  India shoves back. Nitin Gokhale @nitingokhale. National Security Analyst, @St...

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#PRC: Failure Xi. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2022-02-08T00:55:45

Photo:  Yang Guang depicted as Emperor of Sui—The Sui dynasty was a short-lived imperial dynasty of China of pivotal significance (581-618). The Sui unified the Northern and Southern dynasties...

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#PacificWatch: Rhodesian Ridgebacks vs Feral Swine. @JCBliss #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-02-07T01:00

Photo:  Rhodesian Ridgeback showing distinctive ridge

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8/12: #DurhamReporting: Indications that Priestap and Strzok have testified before the Grand Jury. Svetlana Lokhova, author, The Spy Who Changed History.@RealSLokhova #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-02-07T00:59

Photo:   Durham ploughs ahead.

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#OzWatch: La Nina means Bull Sharks in the rivers. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-02-07T00:50

Photo:   Bull shark (Bahamas)


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#OzWatch: Last of the Koalas 2050 AD. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsoftheHistoryDebatingSocietyJeremy from 2022-02-07T00:50

Photo: Blinky Bill, by Dorothy Wall (1894 - 1942)

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2/2 Stalin's War: A New History of World War II, Sean McMeekin, with Kevin Stillwell as narrator. Published by Basic Books. from 2022-02-07T00:15

Photo:  Kliment Voroshilov, Maxim Gorky and Josef Stalin, October 11, 1931.

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1/2 Stalin's War: A New History of World War II, Sean McMeekin, with Kevin Stillwell as narrator. Published by Basic Books. from 2022-02-07T00:15

Photo:  Japanese soldiers creeping in front of wrecked Soviet armored cars

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Putin's War in Syria: Russian Foreign Policy and the Price of America's Absence, by Anna Borshchevskaya. from 2022-02-07T00:06

Photo:  Doctors and medical staff treating injured rebel fighters and civilians in Aleppo


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#Londinium90AD: Lessons of empire from Domitian's war on Dacia, 85-86 AD Michael Vlahos. from 2022-02-06T02:01:14

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#Ukraine: NATO's POV: Wooden weapons. H J Mackinder, International Relations. from 2022-02-06T01:41:58

Photo:   Wooden swords


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#Ukraine: NATO's POV: What of a European Army? H J Mackinder, International Relations. from 2022-02-06T01:41:55

Photo:  Coat of arms of European Union military staff

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#Ukraine: Moscow's POV: Escalating to nuke exercises. H J Mackinder, International Relations. from 2022-02-06T01:41:48

Photo:   "Tsar Bomba" — AN602 post detonation - upward, downward-upward, and lateral forces interacting with terrestrial matter, forming ...

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Twenty-three Weeks after the Tragedy [Afghanistan]: #ClassicLongWarJournal @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, January 24, 2023. @LongWarJournal. from 2022-02-06T00:00

Photo:  A Belambai villager talks about his concerns about safety in the area with the Panjwai District Governor Haji Fazil Mohammed at the weekly shura, Panjwai district, Kandahar province, A...

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Twenty-one Weeks after the Tragedy [Afghanistan]: #ClassicLongWarJournal @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, January 10, 2023. @LongWarJournal. from 2022-02-06T00:00

Photo: Afghan Local Police, Afghan National Police and coalition special operations forces members approached a local farmer during a foot patrol in Nawbahar district, Zabul province, Afghanis...

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Twenty Weeks after the Tragedy [Afghanistan]: #ClassicLongWarJournal @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, January 3, 2023. @LongWarJournal. from 2022-02-06T00:00

Photo:  The Shahzada on the march from Kandahar to Kabul. The Shahzada is the Prince, a son of Habibullah Khan, King of Afghanistan from 1901 to 1919.

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Eighteen Weeks after the Tragedy [Afghanistan]: #ClassicLongWarJournal @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, December 20, 2021. @LongWarJournal from 2022-02-06T00:00

Photo:  Afghanistan during the First-Anglo Afghan War, 1838-42




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Seventeen Weeks after the Tragedy [Afghanistan]: #ClassicLongWarJournal @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, twenty-minute interview, December 13, 2021. @LongWarJournal from 2022-02-06T00:00

Photo:  An Afghan woman looks at tapestries for sale at a women-vendors-only bazaar in Kabul, Afghanistan, Jan. 28, 2011. The NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan–supported bazaar empowered women...

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Sixteen Weeks after the Tragedy [Afghanistan]: #ClassicLongWarJournal. @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, twenty-minute interview, December 6, 2021. @LongWarJournal. @Batchelorshow from 2022-02-06T00:00

Photo:  Sketches in Afghaunistan, by Jas. Atkinson, Esq




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Fifteen Weeks after the Tragedy [Afghanistan]: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND twenty-minute interview, November 29, 2021. @LongWarJournal @Batchelorshow from 2022-02-06T00:00

Photo: Quetta before 1800— "The approach to the Fortress of Kwettah"

First Anglo-Afghan War, Quetta, in Balochistan, Pakistan.



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Twelve Weeks after the Tragedy [Afghanistan]: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, November 8, 2021. @LongWarJournal from 2022-02-06T00:00

Photo:  Afghan women in the 1920's



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1/2 Asking SCOTUS to answer Affirmative Action's history and unknowns. @RichardAEpstein, @HooverInst from 2022-02-05T01:16:11

Photo: Emancipation Proclamation




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Reopening Italy's growth. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation from 2022-02-05T01:15:35

Photo: Navigation Company, Lake Maggiore 1885






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Kim returns with threats; & What is to be done? David Maxwell @DavidMaxwell161 @FDD, retired U.S. Army Special Forces colonel and Fellow at the Institute of Corean American Studies. from 2022-02-05T01:15

Photo:  The scene of the deportation of the detainee of the Anti-People's Special Committee




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Sunspot uncertainty. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2022-02-05T01:14:27

Photo:   Trouvelot - Group of sun spots - 1875

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"Don't look under the bed" markets. Jim McTague @McTagueJ, former Washington Editor, Barron’s. from 2022-02-05T01:13:31

Photo:  A man sitting on a bed being poked with a broom by someone under the bed, illustration for Por Finjir Espantos, edited by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo




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#Tunisia: The original Arab Spring fails. @JoshRogin @WashingtonPost from 2022-02-05T01:12:51

Photo:  Mohamed Bouazizi was a street vendor who self-immolated on 17 December 2010 in response to the confiscation of his wares and t...

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The awakening of North American lithium mines. Steve Hanson, CEO, Acme Lithium Inc. from 2022-02-05T01:12:21

Photo:   Lithium under paraffin oil   Source:  Photographer: Tomihahndorf




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#Ukraine: In the event, the collapse of the Russian economy: currency, banks, order. Michael Bernstam @HooverInst from 2022-02-05T01:11:33

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#PacificWatch: Snowpack fading. @JCBliss from 2022-02-05T01:10:59

Photo:  Measuring Snowpack from the Sky.  NASA Airborne Snow Observatory is two instruments combined that provides...

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Russia camped in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua. @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion from 2022-02-05T01:10:33

Photo:  Embassy of Venezuela in Moscow




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Hunting the gray wolves of Yellowstone; & What is to be done? Terry Anderson @HooverInst from 2022-02-05T01:09:07

Photo:  Canis lupus, a drawing




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Searching for HMS Endeavour. Scott Mayman @CBSNews. from 2022-02-05T01:08:39

Photo: Painting of the Earl of Pembroke, later HMS Endeavour, by Thomas Luny 1768, leaving Whitby Har...

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Reopening the whole country. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion. from 2022-02-05T01:05:41





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#NewWorldReport: Amazon gold-mining poisons. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis from 2022-02-04T01:15:05

Photo:  Miner washing gold\




Mercury-based artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) causes more mercury pollution than any other human activity. 1 In this p...

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#NewWorldReport: Argentina, the familiar debtors. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis from 2022-02-04T01:14:38

Photo:   The Rosariazo in 1969. The worsening economy and the onset of dictatorship led to waves of protests, strikes and riots.

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#NewWorldReport: The Monroe Doctrine fades. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis from 2022-02-04T01:13:39

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#Ukraine: The Minsk II way forward without catastrophe. Anatol Lieven @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst from 2022-02-04T01:12:41

Photo:     Stalin and the Red October mine signed a socialist treaty. (Photo essay by E. Langman "Socialist Donbass" - Soyuzfoto Exhibition)





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#Ukraine: The Kremlin foreign policy blob. Anatol Lieven @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst from 2022-02-04T01:12:13

Photo:  A perfect picture of a foreign-policy Blob.  Here:  J K Paasikivi and chairman of the Supreme Soviet Kliment Voroshilov i...

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Amnesty International anti-semitism. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2022-02-04T01:11:41

Photo:  Caricature of the anti-semitic policies of the Grand Union Hotel in Saratoga, N.Y.




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Holocaust survivor Sami Steigman on Holocaust Remembrance for the Young. Sami Steigman. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @thebluecard bluecard.org from 2022-02-04T01:11:11

Photo:  Dr. Roger M. Loria, Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical College, discusses his story during the Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., Apri...

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#Canada: O'Toole steps down. @ConradMBlack @NationalPost from 2022-02-04T01:10:31

Photo:  Canada




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Bank of England hikes; & What is to be done? @VerodeRugy @Mercatus from 2022-02-04T01:09:38

Photo:  The official logo of the Bank of England.




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#Syria: Confirmed ISIS KIA @BillRoggio @LongWarJournal @FDD from 2022-02-04T01:09:06

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#SmallBusinessAmerica: Tale of two cities, Philadelphia and Ft. Myers. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2022-02-04T01:08:35

Photo:   Blockhouse at Fort Myers in Florida



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#SmallBusinessAmerica: The Omicron slowdown. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2022-02-04T01:08:11

Photo: The Slow Lemure




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Montana and the meat-eating lifestyle. SalenaZito.com from 2022-02-04T01:07:48

Photo:  Bison herd grazing at the National Bison Range.  One of the best bison burgers in the US is at Ted's Montana Grill, in Bozeman and Manhattan




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Bad water in the Keystone State; & What is to be done? SalenaZito.com from 2022-02-04T01:07:23

Photo:  Muddy river polluted by sediment.




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Starship Enterprise in Deep Space. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2022-02-03T01:00:37

Photo:  Art submitted by Andrew Probert to the US Patent and Trade Office in his patent filing for a "toy starship" in the likeness of the USS Enterprise.




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PRC supremacy in space. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2022-02-03T01:00:15

Photo:  The launch of Long March 3B Rocket in 1997




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The Displaced Ukrainian Families on Russian Media. @Felix_Light @CBSNews @MoscowTimes from 2022-02-03T00:58:37

Photo:  Russian media 




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Gold Star Family of Captain Shawn L. English, KIA December 3, 2006; the letter to POTUS in re: Iran. Bradley Bowman @FDD, & Former @WestPointSosh, @USArmy officer. from 2022-02-03T00:58:05

Photo:  Army Capt. Shawn L. English 

            Died December 3, 2006 Serving During Operation Iraqi Freedom



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1/2: Target NATO. George Friedman, chairman, Geopolitical Futures. @George_Friedman @GPFutures @GeoPoliticalFutures from 2022-02-03T00:56:18

Photo:  USS Farragut destroying a Somali pirate skiff in March 2010






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PRC abuses Lithuania; & What is to be done? Stanley Pignal. @spignal. Charlemagne columnist and Brussels bureau chief for @TheEconomist. from 2022-02-03T00:55:30

Photo:   Soldiers of the Lithuanian Army in forest, 1920.




PRC abuses Lithuania; & What is to be done?  Stanley Pignal. @spignal. Charlemagne c...

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The 27 foreign policies of the EU. Stanley Pignal. @spignal. Charlemagne columnist and Brussels bureau chief for @TheEconomist. from 2022-02-03T00:54:19

Photo:   Member states of the European Union (dark blue) (1993–present). Pre-1993, the EU was known as the European Communities (sky blue). Animated in order of accession and secession:  Listen
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#Ukraine: Minsk II and the road ahead. Colonel Jeff McCausland U.S. Army (ret.) @CBSNews Dickinson College from 2022-02-03T00:51:23

Photo:  Minsk:  Prazdziecki's Palace (Pra?dziecki). 






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#Ukraine: Second Armored Cavalry Regiment to Romania. Colonel Jeff McCausland U.S. Army (ret.) @CBSNews Dickinson College from 2022-02-03T00:50:52

Photo: The Vârciorova is a right tributary of the river Bistra in Romania.






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#PRC: If Xi fails. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2022-02-03T00:49

Photo:  The "backyard furnaces" used to produce steel in Xinyang, Henan ...

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#PRC: Taiwan obeys the IOC. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. Stephen Yates @YatesDCIA,, former deputy national security advisor to Vice President Cheney and currently CEO of DC International Advisory. from 2022-02-03T00:47:34

Photo:   'Sulphur mines, Formosa' [Taiwan]  The location shown is not specific but both the mountainous north-west corner of Taiwan, and the north side of the Tamsui River south-west of Keelun...

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#PRC: Following Moscow's footsteps. Gregory R Copley, @Gregory_Copley, editor and publisher of Defense & Foreign Affairs Affairs from 2022-02-02T00:52:49

Photo:  Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich and Ferdinand






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#Ukraine: Washington's war drums. Gregory R Copley, @Gregory_Copley, editor and publisher of Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2022-02-02T00:52:21

Photo:   Tárogató player (ancient double-reeded tárogató) with drummer

  


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#Ethiopia: Drought and truce talks. Gregory R Copley, @Gregory_Copley, editor and publisher of Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2022-02-02T00:51:42

Photo:    Three Ethiopian Patriots ("arbegnoch") in 1940. From left to right: unknown, Jagema Kello, Yohannes Tegru.






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#Mali: Russia enters as the French depart. Gregory R Copley, @Gregory_Copley, editor and publisher of Defense & Foreign Affairs. from 2022-02-02T00:51:07

Photo:  Arrival at Timbuktu.






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#LondonCalling: Unpredictable cost of living. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2022-02-02T00:50:44

Photo:  Cost of Living Bandit; Berryman Political Cartoon Collection






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#LondonCalling: Johnson, Ukraine and Poland @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2022-02-02T00:50:17

Photo:  Ukrainian children dragging the equipment of German soldiers on sledges

  


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#LondonCalling: In the wings, Sunak and Triuss. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2022-02-02T00:49:49

Photo:  Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from, Histoire d'Angleterre ... Nouvelle édition, augmentée de plus d'un tiers, et enrichie ... de gravures, etc

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#LondonCalling: PM vs the Tories. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2022-02-02T00:49:22

Photo:  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 T...

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#StateThinking: "NBC understands the risk" of the Olympics in Beijing. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc. from 2022-02-02T00:48:24

Photo:  NBC dancing class






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#Ukraine: Minsk 2 exit plan. Katrina vanden Heuvel @KatrinaNation, @WashingtonPost from 2022-02-02T00:47:39

Photo:  Minsk Church, Zakharovskaya (1850)






#Ukraine: Minsk 2 exit plan. Katrina vanden Heuvel @KatrinaNation, @WashingtonPost

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#Ukraine: Putin aims at NATO. @AmbJohnBolton @TheHill from 2022-02-02T00:47:08

Photo:  A Slovenian Valuk, a light wheeled armored vehicle, conducts training during Exercise Allied Spirit at 7th Army Joint Multinational Training Command’s Hohenfels Training Area, Germany,...

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1/2: #NYC: Big-city troubles for Mayor Adams and Albany. @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNews from 2022-02-02T00:46:13

Photo:  Residence at 350 East 57 St., New York City. Night view from outside library window






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Inflation is the pessimism. @Liz Peek @TheHill from 2022-02-02T00:45:10

Photo:   Optimist and pessimist (???????? ? ?????????). 






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2/2: Enter the creative Fed and SEC Regulators. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2022-02-01T01:10:03





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#PRC: The US Fed slows all Asia. Fraser Howie, co-author of Red Capitalism: The Fragile Financial Foundation of China's Extraordinary Rise. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2022-02-01T01:08:31

Photo:  Eccles consults with statistics director during questioning at Silver committee. Washington, D.C., March 23.    Marriner Eccles, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, and E.A. Goldene...

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2/2: Apex predator wolves make deer crossings safer. Dominic Parker @PERCTweets; Terry Anderson @HooverInst from 2022-02-01T01:07:14

Photo:  "The Struggle for Existence", wolves fighting








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"Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Scrolls of Bar Kokhba. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2022-02-01T01:06:06

Photo:  A cluster of papyrus containing Bar Kokhba's orders during the last year of the revolt, found at the Listen
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Syrian and Russian warplanes over the Golan. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2022-02-01T01:05:35

Photo:  A Sukhoi Su-27 flies over the flightline during the opening ceremony of exercise Clear Sky 2018 at Starokostiantyniv Air Base, Ukraine, Oct. 8.  




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2/2: #Azerbaijan Balancing the powers Russia, Turkey and Iran in the South Caucasus. Michael Doran@Doranimated; senior Fellow at Hudson Institute. @HudsonInstitute, Baku Dialogues. from 2022-02-01T01:03:47

Photo: Caucasus:  Common view of the Devdaraki glacier




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1/2: #Azerbaijan Balancing the powers Russia, Turkey and Iran in the South Caucasus. Michael Doran@Doranimated; senior Fellow at Hudson Institute. @HudsonInstitute, Baku Dialogues. from 2022-02-01T01:03:16

Photo:   A Shadda Blanket, South Caucasus, first half 19th century. Weft face structure with extra weft wrapped patterning, two joined panels, stitched onto a material backing, overall very go...

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#AfricaIslamist: Islamic State in DR Congo. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2022-02-01T01:02:49

Photo:  Congo's "small navy operates along its short coast and on its numerous lakes and rivers, such as this one through dense jungle in Equateur Region."



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#AfricaIslamist: The jihad surges out of Burkina Faso. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2022-02-01T01:02:25

Photo:  Portrait of Captain Thomas Sankara, who led a peaceful transformation of the then-Upper Volta ("Where does that name come from? It has no meaning to us.") to Burkina Faso, words from t...

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#NewWorldReport: The many faces of populism. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2022-02-01T01:01

Photo:  Populism—an1892 People's Party campaign poster promoting James Weaver for President of the United States.




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#NewWorldReport: Back to the future in Lula da Silva Brazil. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2022-02-01T01:00:33

Photo:  Picturesque voyage n Brazil, by Rugendas.




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#Azerbaijan: Natural gas for beleaguered Europe. Khazar Ibrahim @hazar_khazar. Ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan to the United States of America. from 2022-02-01T00:59:21

Photo:   Soldiers of the army of ADR (Azerbaijan Democratic Republic) in 1919




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Wizened old hands of Wall Street. @BrettArends @Marketwatch @MKTWArends from 2022-02-01T00:58:47

Photo:  A drawing of a bustling Wall Street with horse-drawn carriages and people walking.




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7b/12: #DurhamReporting: Marc Elias 2022 talks to the Grand Jury. Svetlana Lokhova, author, "The Spy Who Changed History." @RealSLokhova #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-01-31T02:11:02

Photo:   Grand Jury subpoena, U.S. District Court : you are hereby commanded to appear before the Grand Jury to testify against your friends. Rules of the Grand Jury: Secret hearings, no lawye...

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WallStreetBets meets Mickey D and Buy the Dip. Sam Batchelor #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-01-31T00:03

Photo: Puck magazine, February 20, 1878



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6b/13: #DurhamReporting. (2/2) Five years after January 5, 2017, and the beginnings of Russiagate @Lokhova #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-01-30T23:52:11

Photo: FBI evidence response team collects evidence at the Washington Navy Yard.





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6a/13: #DurhamReporting.(1/2) Five years after January 5, 2017, and the beginnings of Russiagate @Lokhova #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-01-30T23:51:45

Photo:   Red Gate in Moscow






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5/13: #DurhamReporting. Cambridge University Spy Nest, Walsingham and Marlowe to Dearlove, Andrew, Steele. @Lokhova #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-01-30T23:51:19

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4b/13: #DurhamReporting: British Intelligence deceiving the 1924 and 1944. Svetlana Lokhova. @RealSLokhova #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-01-30T23:50:44

Photo:  George Blake, a notorious double agent, with his mother upon his return to the UK in 1953.

 

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4a/13: #DurhamReporting: British Intelligence deceiving FDR. Svetlana Lokhova. @RealSLokhova #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-01-30T23:50:13

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3b/13: #DurhamReporting: The next revelations. Svetlana Lokhova. @RealSLokhova #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-01-30T23:49:39

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2b/13: #DurhamReporting: The Clinton campaign hired the false witnesses. Svetlana Lokhova. @RealSLokhova #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-01-30T23:48:21

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2a/13: #DurhamReporting: The Washington Post starts correcting the record. Svetlana Lokhova. @RealSLokhova #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-01-30T23:47:55

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1b/13: #DurhamReporting: Is the state security apparatus (FSB, SVR, GRU, FBI, CIA, NSA) to be trusted? Svetlana Lokhova. @RealSLokhova #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-01-30T23:47:17

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1a/13: #DurhamReporting: The Sussman and Danchenko indictments. Svetlana Lokhova. @RealSLokhova #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-01-30T23:46:24

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#OzWatch: Puppy snatched back from the jaws of a python. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. from 2022-01-30T03:08

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#Ukraine: Kiev POV denies the US report of an imminent attack. HJ Mackinder. International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-01-30T03:07

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#Ukraine: NATO POV dispatching war planes, warships and combat units. HJ Mackinder. International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-01-30T03:07

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#Ukraine: NATO POV dispatching war planes, warships and combat units. H J Mackinder. International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-01-30T03:07

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#Ukraine: Kremlin POV transports blood to the frontlines.. HJ Mackinder. International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-01-30T03:06

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#Ukraine: Kremlin POV transports blood to the frontlines. H J Mackinder. International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-01-30T03:06

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#Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus debate villainy and heroism in the Ukraine crisis. Michael Vlahos. Institute for Peace and Diplomacy. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-01-30T03:04

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13/13 #ClassicUkraine Gaius & Germanicus SATURNINE KIEV DEFEATED 1/22/22 from 2022-01-30T02:14:35

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12/13 #ClassicUkraine Gaius & Germanicus DOMITIAN PUTIN REBELLION 1/22/22 from 2022-01-30T02:13:44

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11/13 #ClassicUkraine Gaius & Germanicus GUERILLAS INSURGENCY 1/16/22 from 2022-01-30T02:13:05

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10/13 #ClassicUkraine Gaius & Germanicus RUMOURS WAR 1/16/22 from 2022-01-30T02:12:20

Photo:  War horse Staff Sgt. Reckless monument at Pacific Views event center on Camp Pendleton, Calif., Nov. 3, 2016. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Tyler S. Dietrich)



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9/13 #ClassicUkraine Gaius & Germanicus SIEGE MACHINES 1/8/ 22 from 2022-01-30T02:11:43

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8/13 #ClassicUkraine Gaius & Germanicus DIPLOMACY 1/8/22 from 2022-01-30T02:11:10

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7/13 #ClassicUkraine Gaius & Germanicus KOREA 1/1/22 from 2022-01-30T02:10:36

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5/13 #ClassicUkraine Gaius & Germanicus MOSCOW PUTIN DEMANDS 12/18/21 from 2022-01-30T02:08:54

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4/13 #ClassicUkraine Gaius & Germanicus WASHINGTON ADVANTAGES 12/18/21 from 2022-01-30T02:08:14

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3/13 #ClassicUkraine Gaius & Germanicus Escalation ESCALATION 12/12/21 from 2022-01-30T02:07:27

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2/13 #ClassicUkraine Gaius & Germanicus POLAND 12/11/21 from 2022-01-30T02:06:56

Photo:  Poland —  lithograph from the book Reminiscence of the Half-Century Existence of J. B. Lange's Bookshop and Printing House in Gniezno, 1900





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1/13 #ClassicUkraine Gaius & Germanicus DANUBE 12/4/21 from 2022-01-30T02:06:11

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Praising Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2022-01-29T01:28:41




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2/2: #PRC: George Kennan needed. Richard Fontaine @RHFontaine; president, Center for a New American Security (CNAS) @CNASdc. from 2022-01-29T01:27:48

Photo:  George Frost Kennan  (February 16, 1904 – March 17, 2005)

 

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1/2: #PRC: George Kennan needed. Richard Fontaine, @RHFontaine; president, Center for a New American Security (CNAS) @CNASdc. from 2022-01-29T01:27:12

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Testing, testing, testing our blood work to solve cancers. Scott Powell @VolitionRx, Volition RX Ltd. Volition.com from 2022-01-29T01:25:24

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#Ukraine: Shiny Object–Chasing. @JoshRogin @WashingtonPost from 2022-01-29T01:24:50

Photo:  World War I cemetery in Ukraine.






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#Italy: Voting for two Mario Draghis. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation from 2022-01-29T01:23:55

Photo:  Draghi with Guido Carli in 1991



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#PacificWatch: Disneyland protests at Sundance. @JCBliss from 2022-01-29T01:22:10

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Regulators in Space! Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2022-01-29T01:21:16

Photo:  The Administrative State, 1st edition



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Lucy anomaly continues. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2022-01-29T01:20:57

Photo:  Lucy spacecraft in Launch Configuration



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Lawless. Mindless. Aimless. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion from 2022-01-29T01:19:47




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#NewWorldReport: IMF rebukes Bukele, the Bitcoin maverick. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis from 2022-01-28T01:37:04

Photo:   Dollars and metal bitcoins.




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#NewWorldReport: VC Funds in Latin America. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis from 2022-01-28T01:36:05

Photo:  From, Lima; or sketches of the capital of Peru, historical, statistical, administrative, commercial and moral




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Vienna talks unravelling again. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2022-01-28T01:34:53

Photo:  The Steuben gate and the Steuben bastion in Vienna




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What is the IR-6? Andrea Stricker @StrickerNonpro @FDD, research Fellow at @FDD in nonproliferation and other security policy topics. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2022-01-28T01:30:56

Photo:  Diagram of the principles of a Zippe-type gas centrifuge with U-238 represented in dark blue and U-235 represented in light blue.




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#UN: UNHRC hate speech. Ambassador Alan Baker @AmbAlanBaker, Director of the Institute for Contemporary Affairs at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, and head of the Global Law Forum @GlobaLawForum Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 . from 2022-01-28T01:30:14

Photo:  Plate with wavy edge. Full polychrome decoration.  Inscription: "Rights / of / Man".

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#HotelMars: Gasoline Alley in Space. Tom Roeder @xroederx @SpaceFoundation ; David Livingston SpaceShow.com from 2022-01-28T01:29:22

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#Cuba: "Luis Alberto doesn’t like to share" @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion from 2022-01-28T01:28:17





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#PRC: The Facebook billionaire and the Uyghurs. @CliffordDMay @FDD from 2022-01-28T01:27:38

Photo:  The Silicon Valley billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya has said he doesn't care about China's human rights abuses of Uyghur Muslims.  Here:  Two Uyghur men selling vegetables in the open-...

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Self-described "humble and nimble" Fed. @VerodeRugy @Mercatus from 2022-01-28T01:24:43





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#Canada: 70-kilometer-long convoy to Ottawa. @ConradMBlack @NationalPost from 2022-01-28T01:24:07

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#Ukraine: Three compromises. Anatol Lieven @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst from 2022-01-28T01:22:34

Photo: Compromise/balancing the scales




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#Ukraine: Long warned. Anatol Lieven @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst from 2022-01-28T01:22:04

Photo:  "Andrei Kozyrev was the most liberal and pro-Western foreign minister Russia has ever had."  Screen grab.




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"George W. Bush advocated bringing Ukraine and Georgia into NATO in 2008." @AmbJohnBolton from 2022-01-27T01:09:04

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Putin's party in the Duma calls for arming Luhansk and Donetsk. @Felix_Light @CBSNews from 2022-01-27T01:08:39

Photo:   Azov-Don Bank.






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Scotland prepares for a 1745 replay. Simon Constable @RealConstable @Forbes Edinburgh; @BarronsOnline.@Forbes. Edinburg from 2022-01-27T01:07:58

Photo:  Waverley; Jacobite Rebellion






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Occitanie France and the pandemic living is easy. Simon Constable @RealConstable @Forbes Edinburgh; @BarronsOnline.@Forbes. Edinburgh from 2022-01-27T01:07:24

Photo:  Part of an ancient map of Perpignan






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Keystone dairy and the price of fossil fuels. Salenazito.com from 2022-01-27T01:05:04

Photo:  Milch cow, 1879-1923.  Art Institute of Chicago






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Himalayan standoff. Cleo Paskal @CleoPaskal, non-resident Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2022-01-27T01:04:30

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Himalayan standoff.  Cleo Paskal  @CleoPaskal, non-resident Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsw...

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#Ukraine: Turkey in between. George Friedman, @George_Friedman @GeopoliticalFutures. from 2022-01-27T01:03:13

Photo:   Postcard of Trebizond (Trabzon) Turkey.   Trabzon long was a major interstice of spies from the entire region.






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#Ukraine: War-war unknowns. George Friedman @George_Friedman @GeopoliticalFutures. from 2022-01-27T01:02:41

Photo:  "War! Or no war"





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#Ukraine: Diplomacy inside NATO. Jeff McCausland @mccauslJ @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2022-01-27T00:59:16

Photo:  The Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training Program 



#Ukraine: Diplomacy inside NATO.  Jeff McCausland  @mccauslJ  @CBSNews @dickinsoncol

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#Ukraine: NATO "standby." Jeff McCausland @mccauslJ @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2022-01-27T00:58:27

Photo:   The 501st Combat Support Wing celebrates The 2019 Air Force Ball at Whittlebury Hall in Towcester, England, Sept. 20, 2019. 





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ClassicJohnBolton: Broken Pottery Rule. @AmbJohnBolton. @Telegraph (Originally aired July 7, 2021): from 2022-01-26T02:40:55

Photo:  Broken jar, 10th century;  Iran, Qasr-i Abu Nasr, early Islamic.



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#Tonga: Australia, PRC, Zero-Covid. Gregory Copley @Gregory_Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2022-01-26T00:55:52

Photo:  King George of Tonga, 1884(?)





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#Ethiopia: War Pause. Gregory Copley @Gregory_Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2022-01-26T00:55:22

Photo:  Abyssinian soldiers, 1936.The Second Italo-Ethiopian War, also referred to as the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, was a colonial war that started in October 1935 and ended in May 1936. Th...

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#Ukraine: Only the State Department. Gregory Copley @Gregory_Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs. from 2022-01-26T00:53:35

Photo: Russian peasant girl.  Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon.





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#LondonCalling: Colder without masking. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2022-01-26T00:53:02

Photo:  Weary of masks.  





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#LondonCalling: BirthdayCakeGate @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2022-01-26T00:51:29

Photo: Birthday cake for President Roosevelt



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#StateThinking: Just another PRC city, @MaryKissel, Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc. from 2022-01-26T00:50:28

Photo:  Peking scene (Beijing of long ago)





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#Ukraine: Russian troops have occupied since 2014. @PaulR_Gregory @HooverInst from 2022-01-26T00:48:15

Photo:  Nicholas Samokish. Drawing from the album "Maneuvers in the South-Western Territory in 1890". Edition of the cartographic institution A. Ilyin





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Europe divided by crisis. Judy Dempsey @Judy_Dempsey. @Carnegie_Europe. , Carnegie Europe. from 2022-01-26T00:46:15

Photo:   Joan of Arc during the siege of Orleans





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#ClassicCharliePellegrino: Raptors remembered. Charles Pellegrino . from 2022-01-25T01:50:52

Photo: Tyrannosaurus on Romanian stamp



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#Ukraine: Stumbling. Katrina Vanden Heuvel, @TheNation @WashingtonPost from 2022-01-25T01:39

Photo:  "Off to War" - Canadian Expeditionary Force recruits in Alberta, Canada.



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Texts from Tonga. @CleoPaskal @FDD from 2022-01-25T01:38:36

Photo:  Drawing of the coast of Niuatoputapu, in Tonga.



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ISIS Prison Break. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2022-01-25T01:38:01

Photo:     The military situation in the Syrian city of Al-Hasakah following the takeover of a prison by ISIS terrorists.



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Lady Al Qaeda; & What is to be done? @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2022-01-25T01:37:24

Photo:  Cover of a document stamped with the name of Harkat ul-Ansar. Part of a document collection found in training camps in Afghanistan after the US invasion, this document is not in Arabic...

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#Ukraine: How does the Navy secure the Baltic and Black Sea basins? Jerry Hendrix @JerryHendrixII, Sagamore Institute. National Review Online from 2022-01-25T01:36:54

Photo:  European war map, Black Sea



#Ukraine: How does the Navy secure the Baltic and Black Sea basins? Jerry Hendrix @JerryHendrixII, Sagamore Institute. National Revi...

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#Ukraine: Reinforcing NATO Ground Forces. Jerry Hendrix @JerryHendrixII , Sagamore Institute. National Review Online from 2022-01-25T01:36:29

Photo:  Soldiers wave from the back of a truck towing a Howitzer from a drop zone during NATO Exercise ARDENT GROUND '87. Members of the Allied Command Europe Mobile Force from Belgium, the Ne...

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"Indiana" Hoenlein and the 4500-year-old Lost Kunga Warhorse of Mesopotamia. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1@ ; ThadMcCotter @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2022-01-25T01:35:49

Photo:   Part-donkey, part-wild ass, the kunga is the oldest known hybrid bred by humans The mysterious equines were bred in Syria 4,500 years ago, likely for use in warfare:  equid-drawn four...

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#Iran: The Russian JCPOA. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1; @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2022-01-25T01:34:24

Photo:  Small animal, "Trotsky," advising bear, "Russia," about peace offer from Germany.



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Genocide Olympics. Charles Burton @cburton001, senior Fellow at the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2022-01-25T01:33:48

Photo: Dutch team at the 1928 Winter Olympics



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Target UAE. Dr. Andrew Peek @AndrewLPeek, former US State Department, former NSC. from 2022-01-25T01:32:44

Photo:  A sign explains how Iranian Qiam ballistic missile remnants are identifiable by their markings



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#Ukraine: Germany dissents. Dr. Andrew Peek @AndrewLPeek, former US State Department, former NSC. from 2022-01-25T01:32:20

Photo:  Corvette Captain Paul Ebert on board the light cruiser SMS CORMORAN on August 3, 1912.  



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#NewWorldReport: AMLO's healthcare fail. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2022-01-25T01:30:20

Photo:  Bird's-eye view of Mexico City



#NewWorldReport:   AMLO's healthcare fail. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumi...

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#NewWorldReport: Does Colombia talk about Russia on the Arauca border? Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2022-01-25T01:29:52

Photo:  Araucanians.   Here:  Mapuches in Chile. ca 1890-1900.



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#NewWorldReport: Russia and China in the Arauca River Warfield. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2022-01-25T01:29:19

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#PacificWatch: The governor polices the Great Train Robbery. @JCBliss #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-01-24T01:26:20

Photo: Theatrical poster—Sensational and startling hold up of the "Gold Express", by famous western outlaws.

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Microsoft goes Big Meta. Sam Batchelor. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-01-24T01:23:01

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#Kazahkstan: Color Revolutions threaten both Beijing and Moscow. Professor H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-01-24T01:17:58

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#ClassicSalenaZito: The 201st Pennsylvanian Infantry Volunteers. SalenaZito.com (Originally aired June 2, 2021) from 2022-01-24T00:15

Photo: Colonel F. Asbury Awl, regimental commander, 201st Pennsylvanian Infantry Volunteers.





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#ClassicUkraine: #ClassicGregoryCopley: Not a thing the US can do. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs (Originally aired May 4, 2021 from 2022-01-24T00:14

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Randolph W. Hobler #UNBOUND. 101 Arabian Tales. The complete, forty-minute interview. December 10, 2021. from 2022-01-24T00:02

Photo:   Illustration from The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Nights








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Raj Rajaratnam. #UNBOUND. Uneven Justice. The complete forty-minute interview. December 17, 2021. from 2022-01-24T00:00

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#OzWatch: Aiding Zero-Covid Tonga. And here come the waves of mice. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales from 2022-01-23T03:54:53

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#Londinium90AD: Saturninus of Germania Superior and Zelensky of Ukraine defeated. Michael Vlahos. from 2022-01-23T03:45:29

Photo:  Remains of a Roman aqueduct similar to those found in Mogontiacum (present-day Mainz), capital of Germany Superior.


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#Ukraine: Kiev's POV: The latest plot against Zelensky. H J Mackinder, International Relations. from 2022-01-23T03:24:31

Photo:  Portrait of Thomas Percy of the Gunpowder Plot by the Dutch engraver Crispijn van de Passe the Elder, engraving. 152 mm x 105 mm. Courtesy of the British Museum, London.


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#Ukraine: NATO's POV: After hearing "minor incursion." H J Mackinder, International Relations. from 2022-01-23T03:23:54

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#Ukraine: Moscow's POV: What does Putin want? H J Mackinder, International Relations. from 2022-01-23T03:23:39

Photo:  "Soon all the World will be ours, 1920"





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#ClassicUkraine: Turbulence. Anatol Lieven @QuincyInst (Originally aired August 5, 2021) from 2022-01-23T02:50:42

Photo:   Ferry near Kyiv at night.



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#ClassicUkraine: Turning away. Anatol Lieven @QuincyInst (Originally aired July 29, 2021) from 2022-01-23T02:45:57

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#ClassicUkraine: 2/2: Doubting Nordstream2. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute, @LievenAnatol (Originally aired July 23, 2021) from 2022-01-23T02:44:24

Photo:  Castoro Sei semi-submersible on station in the Baltic Sea south-east of Gotland (also historically spelled Gottland or Gothland).





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#ClassicUkraine: 1/2: Doubting Nord Stream 2. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute, @LievenAnatol (Originally aired July 23, 2021) from 2022-01-23T02:42:23

Photo: Nord Stream 2 route. From:  https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF11138





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#ClassicUkraine: Not negotiable. Anatole Lieven @QuincyInst (Originally aired July 2, 2021) from 2022-01-23T02:33:08

Photo: Russian Black Sea Fleet after the battle of Sinope, 1853





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#ClassicUkraine: Summitry. Anatol Lieven @QuincyInst @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst (Originally aired June 17, 2021) from 2022-01-23T02:29:39

Photo:   Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Vernadskogo New Building.

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#ClassicUkraine: Crimea. Anatoly Lieven @QuincyInst (Originally aired June 10, 2021) from 2022-01-23T02:25

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#ClassicUkraine: Geneva last summer. Anatol Lieven, @QuincyInst (Originally aired June 10, 2021) from 2022-01-23T02:24:56

Photo:   View of Geneva with Mont Blanc in the background





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#ClassicUkraine: Belarus redline. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statesmanship. (Originally aired June 3, 2021) from 2022-01-23T02:18:24

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#ClassicUkraine: NATO supremacy remembered. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute. (Originally aired June 3, 2021) from 2022-01-23T02:15:34

Photo: Defense of the West: Transatlantic security from Truman to Trump, Second edition (Manchester University Press).  Fair use.








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Devin Nunes #Unbound: Countdown to Socialism. The complete, twenty-six-minute interview. @Batchelorshow from 2022-01-23T01:51:50

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#ClassicMichaelYon: Information war Russia vs Lithuania. Michael Yon, Locals.com/YON (originally aired July 17, 2021) from 2022-01-22T02:14:14

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             INFORMACINIS KARAS ("Information war" in Lithuanian)



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ExxonMobil Goes Green-tinted. Vijay Vaitheeswaran @TheEconomist from 2022-01-22T01:12:40

Photo:  In the time of block-long Cadillacs and enormous tail fins, long before Exxon was imagined, the premier gasoline station was Esso.






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Gold Star families write a letter to President Biden about Iran. Patrick Farr. Richard Goldberg @rich_goldberg @FDD from 2022-01-22T01:12:14

Photo:   One of the serious organizations working for Gold Star families.





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Mario Draghi for president. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation from 2022-01-22T01:11:42

Photo:  Fontana dei Draghi in the gardens of the Villa d'Este in Tivoli.



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The vital uranium mines of Kazakhstan. Matthieu Favas @MatthieuFavas @TheEconomist from 2022-01-22T01:11:07

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4/4 A Dog's World: Imagining the Lives of Dogs in a World without Humans, by Jessica Pierce and Marc Bekoff from 2022-01-22T01:10:04

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3/4 A Dog's World: Imagining the Lives of Dogs in a World without Humans, by Jessica Pierce and Marc Bekoff from 2022-01-22T01:09:35

Photo:  "Artificial Woolly Figures by Tobias Stimmer and Christoph Maurer, 1605"





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2/4 A Dog's World: Imagining the Lives of Dogs in a World without Humans, by Jessica Pierce and Marc Bekoff from 2022-01-22T01:09:02

Photo:   Advertisement for dogs showing „Tyras“, a dog given by Wilhelm II. to Bismarck as a birthday present in 1889





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Perseverance Anomaly Solved. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2022-01-22T01:07:34

Photo:  Artist's Concept of Mars 2020 Rover, Annotated 

             Planning for NASA's 2020 Mars rover envisions a basic structure that capitalizes on re-using the design and enginee...

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NATO in Earth Orbit. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2022-01-22T01:07:06

Photo:  Image for Space Capability Day at Headquarters Allied Rapid Reaction Corps, Gloucester, July 8, 2020. The HQ are looking at space as an emerging frontier in security. Headquarters Alli...

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Australia seeks forklift drivers and grocery associates. Scott Mayman @CBSNews Brisbane from 2022-01-22T01:03:56

Photo:  A Case M4K forklift truck is used to load a pallet onto a flatbed truck during LIFELINE Operations. The operations are being conducted by the 155th, 567th and 870th Transportation comp...

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The genocide Olympics. @JoshRogin @WashingtonPost from 2022-01-22T01:03:26

Photo:  Runners carrying the Olympic Flame, 1939





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Joe Biden carried the Golden State by 5.1 million votes; & What is to be done? @HooverWhalen @HooverInst from 2022-01-22T00:59:22

Photo:  First hundred years of US presidents: print showing bust portraits of U.S. presidents from George Washington to Ulysses S. Grant, with view of the U.S. Capitol building.


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The Armageddon Market. @McTagueJ; former Washington Editor, @Barrons from 2022-01-22T00:58:56

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Isolationism returns for the Olympics. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion from 2022-01-22T00:58:29

Photo:  Protest march to prevent American involvement in World War II before the attack on Pearl Harbor.



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#ClassicMichaelYon: KGB Headquarters, Vilnius. Michael Yon, Locals.com/YON (Originally aired July 21, 2021) from 2022-01-21T01:55:54

Photo: Cell with padded walls and a straitjacket, for isolation of prisoners declared mentally unstable in the former Vilnius KGB headq...

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#NewWorldReport: Chile and the price of copper. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis from 2022-01-21T01:41:40

Photo:  Chilean copper miners





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#NewWorldReport: Venezuela degrades the Canaima Amazon. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis from 2022-01-21T01:41:08

Photo:  Harpy eagle (Harpia harpyja), resident in the Canaima National park in Venezuela.  From a postage stamp.


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#NewWorldReport: The competitive Colombia marketplace. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis from 2022-01-21T01:36:55

Photo:  Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta - Santa Marta, Colombia. = Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta - view of the snow that covers one of the highest peaks.





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Yemen Civil War escalates. Elana DeLozier, Rubin Family Fellow in the Bernstein Program on Gulf and Energy Policy at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2022-01-21T01:33:26

Photo:   An airstrike in Sana?a on a textile factory in July 2015 left more than 1,300 people unemployed (photo: A. Mojalli/VOA, No...

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The Undying Iran Deal. Elliott Abrams @Elliott_Abrams, senior Fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in Washington, DC. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2022-01-21T01:31:41

Photo:    Ardashir the Unifier(180 – 242 AD), founder of the Sasanian Empire.   After vanquishing enemies, Ardashir called himself <...

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Preparing Jewish institutions for threats. Michael G. Masters @MichaelGMasters, National Director & CEO of the Secure Community Network (SCN). Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2022-01-21T01:29:08

Photo:  Mosaic pavement of a 6th century synagogue at Beth Alpha, Jezreel Valley, northern Israel. It was discovered in 1928. Signs of the zodiac surround the central chariot of the Sun (a Gre...

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Inflation and the price of gold and silver. Charles Thorngren CEO Legacy Precious Metals. from 2022-01-21T01:25:46

Photo:  Roundel, disk with magical symbols [to ward off inflation . . . ].



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#ScalaReport: Rethink supply chain. Chris Riegel CEO @STRATACACHE, #TheScalaReport, Scala.com from 2022-01-21T01:22:50

Photo:  Channels of distribution, Heavy Hardware and Silverware, 1915





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Global inflation and the talking from Powell to Lagarde. @VeroDeRugy @Mercatus from 2022-01-21T01:22:22

Photo:  Conversations  1803



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#Ukraine: Until Russia leaves Ukraine. @AmJohnBolton from 2022-01-21T01:21:32

Photo:   Odotheus was a Greuthungi king who in 386 led an incursion into the Roman E...

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#HotelMars: Working through the Mars astrobiology scenarios. David Grinspoon @funkyspoon. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com from 2022-01-21T01:20:56

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#Canada and Trudeau to Ukraine defence. @ConradMBlack from 2022-01-21T01:20:27

Photo:  The mother beaver on the Canadian parliament's Peace Tower.  Each of the five flowers on the shield represents an ethni...

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#NATO: Won't fight for Ukraine. Anatol Lieven @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst from 2022-01-21T01:19:58

Photo:   An unclassified U.S. intelligence document on Russian military movement (near the Ukrainian border). Obtained by The Washington Post, which states: "The unclassified U.S. intelligence...

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#Ukraine: Biden's "minor incursion" was candid. Anatol Lieven @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst from 2022-01-21T01:18:55

Photo:  The view from a battery at Ouvrage Schoenenbourg in Alsace; notice the retractable turret in the left foreground.



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#ClassicHotelMars: Mars Colonies and after. Rod Pyle, Ad Astra Magazine. David Livingston SpaceShow.com from 2022-01-20T02:14:52

Photo:   Artist's impression of a Mars settlement with cutaway view.



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Other explanations on Mars. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2022-01-20T01:39:43

Photo:  West of Valles Marineris lies a checkerboard named Noctis Labyrinthus, which formed when the Martian crust stretched and fractured. This image is from NASA Mars Odyssey, one of an All ...

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SLS slows down the more. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2022-01-20T01:39:09

Photo:  Artist's concept, SLS.    NASA/MSFC






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Joe Manchin disregarded. SalenaZito.com from 2022-01-20T01:38:40

Photo:  West Virginia—among the prettiest states in the Lower Forty-eight:  A shaft of sunlight penetrates the dense forest canopy above Rich Creek Hollow in Fayette County, WV, USA.

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When Liz Cheney speaks to Wyoming. SalenaZito.com from 2022-01-20T01:38:07

Photo:  Douglas, Wyoming, during the Wyoming State Fair's annual kickoff parade





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Tonga unknowns. Cleo Paskal @CleoPaskal, non-resident Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. from 2022-01-20T01:37:32

Photo:   Training-School at Tonga (June 1852) [Pronounced: tong- ah, with no hard G]





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The NBA has a China problem. Nury Turkel, commissioner of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. from 2022-01-20T01:36:28

Photo:   Detainees in a Xinjiang "Re-education" Camp located in Lop County listening to "de-radicalization" talks.  (fair use)







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China property crash. Anne Stevenson-Yang, J Capital Research. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. Anne Stenvenson-Yang @doumenzi, co-founder of J Capital Research Ltd. from 2022-01-20T01:35:52

Photo:  Chinese city, 1955



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2/2: Capitalism prepares to bow down. Jan Piotrowski @janppiotrowski@TheEconomist from 2022-01-20T01:35:17

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1/2: Capitalism prepares to bow down. Jan Piotrowski @janppiotrowski, @TheEconomist from 2022-01-20T01:34:45

Photo:  Capitalist and worker





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#Ukraine: NATO doubting Deutschland. Jeff McCausland @mccauslJ @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2022-01-20T01:34:13

Photo:  S.S. Deutschland, dining saloon






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#Ukraine: Those snap exercise in Belarus. Jeff McCausland @mccauslJ @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2022-01-20T01:33:34

Photo:   Druzhina of Prince Boris.  In the Medieval history of Kievan Rus' and Listen
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#Ukraine: Moscow waiting. @Felix_Light @CBSNews @MoscowTimes from 2022-01-20T01:33:03

Photo:  "The full text of Yanukovych's address to Putin on the introduction of troops in Ukraine has appeared."





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Forecasting 2022 for PRC. George Friedman, Chairman, Geopolitical Futures. @George_Friedman @GPFutures from 2022-01-20T01:31:45

Photo:  Future Buddha, Temple at Canton





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#ClassicHotelMars: Cold War in space, 1965. Rob Godwin, David Livingston (Originally aired August 27, 2021) @Batchelorshow from 2022-01-19T02:11:56

Photo: A replica of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite in the world to be put into outer space: the replica is stored in the Nation...

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#Ukraine: Better late than never. @AmbJohnBolton US entreats Abiy. from 2022-01-19T01:00:58

Photo:  Trutovsky Bazaar



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What of Uzbekistan? Fred Starr @CACI_SilkRoad, Central Asia and Caucasus Institute, AFPC from 2022-01-19T01:00

Photo:  LARGE MEDALLION SUZANI EMBROIDERY, BOKHARA, UZBEKISTAN.




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#Australia and #Japan Defence Pact contains the PRC. Gregory Copley @Gregory_Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2022-01-19T00:58:41

Photo:   Mount Tokachi 1962 eruption. Taken by Asahi Shimbun. 



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#Ukraine: More Fog of War. Gregory Copley @Gregory_Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2022-01-19T00:58:17

Photo:  "A word about how Olga was baptized" according to the list of the XIV-XV centuries  (In Old Slavonic?).



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#Kazakhstan and the PRC moves. Gregory Copley @Gregory_Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2022-01-19T00:57:49




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#Ethiopia: The US goes to Abiy. Gregory Copley @Gregory_Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2022-01-19T00:56:55




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#LondonCalling: London weighs the endemic facts. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2022-01-19T00:56:10

Photo:   London from Greenwich



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#LondonCalling: Europe shivers. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2022-01-19T00:55:05

Photo:   Ice in Notranjska in 1899



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#LondonCalling: PM bad boy. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2022-01-19T00:54:34




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#StateThinking: Hong Kong journalism farewell. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc. from 2022-01-19T00:51:59

Photo:  The proposed bridge crossing Victoria Harbour that contains road, railway and tram tracks in 1921.   This map also shows other projects like Yau Ma Tei development, Kai Tak reclamtion ...

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#StateThinking: Still talking not acting. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc. from 2022-01-19T00:51:27

Photo:  Dilatory — Cartoon of Speaker of the House Thomas Brackett Reed, with huge sledge hammer, breaking up the broadblocks of the disappearing Quorum and dilatory motion.



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Waited too long. @LizPeek @TheHill from 2022-01-19T00:50:22




Waited too long. @LizPeek @TheHill
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#ClassicHotelMars: The Zvezda Leak. Anatoly Zak @RussianSpaceWeb David Livingston, Spaceshow.com (Originally aired March 25, 2021) @Batchelorshow from 2022-01-18T02:06:59

Photo:  ISS flyaround view



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Fix America’s Forests: Reforms to Restore National Forests and Tackle the Wildfire Crisis. by Holly Fretwell , Jonathan Wood. April 12, 2021 @HollyFretwell @Jon_C_Wood from 2022-01-18T00:09

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8/8 Patrick O’Donnell, #UNBOUND: The Indispensables. The complete, 80-minute interview, June 26 & October, 2021 @combathistorian @Batchelorshow from 2022-01-18T00:08

Photo:  George Washington Papers, Series 4, General Correspondence: George Washington to Washington, D. C., Commissioners, December 26, 1796





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6/8 Patrick O’Donnell, #UNBOUND: The Indispensables. The complete, 80-minute interview, June 26 & October, 2021 @combathistorian @Batchelorshow from 2022-01-18T00:07

Photo:  This is a photograph of the statue often incorrectly believed to represent Captain John Parker sculpted by Henry Hudson Kitson and erected in 1900.  This statue in Lexington, Massachus...

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4/8 Patrick O’Donnell, #UNBOUND: The Indispensables. The complete, 80-minute interview, June 26 & October, 2021 @combathistorian @Batchelorshow from 2022-01-18T00:06

Photo:  Print showing two soldiers of the Continental Army color guard, playing fife and drum, marching in winter.





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1/8 Patrick O’Donnell, #UNBOUND: The Indispensables. The complete, 80-minute interview, June 26 & October, 2021 @combathistorian @Batchelorshow from 2022-01-18T00:05

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4/4: The Fall of Taiwan; & What is to be done? @ElbridgeColby, The Marathon Initiative. Captain Jerry Hendrix, @JerryHendrixII Telemus Group. RADM Edward "Sonny" Masso USN (ret), Naval Historical Foundation. The entire, forty-minute interview. from 2022-01-17T23:55

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#Londinium90AD: Rumours of war. Michael Vlahos. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-01-17T01:46:01

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#OzWatch: Djokovic sent out; shelves emptied out; ashes closed out. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-01-17T01:45:49

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#Kazahkstan: The suspects. Professor H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-01-17T01:45:41

Photo:   Tyuratam missile test range in Kazakhstan; a facility that Moscow specifically does not wish to lose.. Taken by KH-9 satellite. August 1984.

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6b-12: #DurhamReporting. (2/2) Five years after January 5, 2017, and the beginnings of Russiagate @Lokhova #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-01-17T01:19:36

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4b/12: #DurhamReporting: British Intelligence deceiving the 1924 and 1944. Svetlana Lokhova. @RealSLokhova #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-01-17T01:17:47

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4a/12: #DurhamReporting: British Intelligence deceiving FDR. Svetlana Lokhova. @RealSLokhova #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-01-17T01:17:02

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3b/12: #DurhamReporting: The next revelations. Svetlana Lokhova. @RealSLokhova #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-01-17T01:16:20

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2a/12: #DurhamReporting: The Washington Post starts correcting the record. Svetlana Lokhova. @RealSLokhova #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-01-17T01:13:55

Photo:  Print shows General William R. Shafter holding up a diminutive newspaper reporter labeled "Yellow Journalism" and appears ready to drop him in the ocean.






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6a/12: #DurhamReporting.(1/2) Five years after January 5, 2017, and the beginnings of Russiagate @Lokhova #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-01-17T00:43:17

Photo:   Scan of the book, L’Homme sans visage, 1908 (on espionage)





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8/11 #ClassicEthiopia: Gregory R Copley, @Gregory_Copley, editor and publisher of Defense & Foreign Affairs. @Gregory_Copley from 2022-01-16T03:24:15

Photo:  Ethiopia:  The Queen's Sword of Honour



8/11   #ClassicEthiopia: Gregory R Copley, @Gregory_Copley, editor and publisher of Defense & Foreign Affairs.  @Gr...

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7/11 #ClassicEthiopia: Tigray vs Ethiopia. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs @Gregory_Copley from 2022-01-16T03:23:38

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6/11 #ClassicEthiopia: Ethiopia votes in the tumultuous Horn of Africa. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs. @Gregory_Copley from 2022-01-16T03:19:51

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#Ukraine: Kiev's POV suffers cyber attacks. Professor H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-01-16T03:01:48

Photo:   Ukrainian alphabet.  Ukrainska abetka





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#Ukraine: NATO's POV waits on the US. Professor H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-01-16T03:01:46

Photo:   Ukraine. Pokutia. Beuaplan 1648






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Damascus Station: A Novel, by David McCloskey. #UNBOUND. The complete, forty-minute interview. December 2021. from 2022-01-16T02:07:24

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Roscosmos puzzles over capitalism. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com yis from 2022-01-15T01:35:04

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Remedy for Lucy. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com gya from 2022-01-15T01:34:31

Photo:  The asteroid probe Lucy: This artist’s concept depicts the Lucy spacecraft flying past the Trojan asteroid (617) Patroclus and its binary companion Menoetius. Lucy will be the first mi...

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Fed talk of five hikes or more. Jim McTague, @Mctague, former Barron's. from 2022-01-15T01:34:10

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Fed talk of five hikes or more. Jim McTague, @Mctague, former Barron's.



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#PacificWatch: The undying bullet train. @JCBliss from 2022-01-15T01:33:40

Photo:  The bullet train that actually works:  Bullet train at station; Odawara, Japan 19...

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The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pipeline. @JoshRogin @WashingtonPost America from 2022-01-15T01:33:10

Photo:  Molotov and Ribbentrop after the signing of the Soviet-German treaty of friendship and border agreement between the USSR and Germany. Moscow September 28, 1939.




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The empty shelves of Queensland. Scott Mayman @CBSNews from 2022-01-15T01:32:38

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Classical Liberal Confronts Inflation. @RichardAEpstein from 2022-01-15T01:32:04

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The filibuster survives. @RichardAEpstein from 2022-01-15T01:31:28

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Xenotransplantation begins for Homo Sapiens. @ HenryIMiller @PacificResearch from 2022-01-15T01:30:48

Photo:  Heart and its blood vessels, by Leonardo da Vinci, 15th century





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Big Oil responds in three ways. Vijay Vaitheeswaran, @VVVijayEconBiz, @TheEconomist from 2022-01-15T01:30:18

Photo:  Standard Oil Refinery No. 1 in Cleveland, Ohio, 1897





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Eleven million cancer patients squeezed out. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation from 2022-01-15T01:29:50

Photo: Vista eastward from the brilliant new David Koch building of the premier American cancer hospital, Memorial Sloan Kettering.





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Central America's Gulf of Fonseca and the PRC. @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion from 2022-01-15T01:29:08

Photo:  The Gulf of Fonseca is composed by a group of many volcanic islands, such as Zacate Grande and el Tigre in Honduras.





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#SmallBusinessAmerica: The Middle-Aged Entrepreneur Nation. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2022-01-15T01:28:35

Photo:   An advertisement in the Morning Post, 6 April 1835.  Leftwich was the first to import ice from Norway to England.





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#SmallBusinessAmerica: Omicron bites into winter @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2022-01-15T01:28:09

Photo:  The Beige Book, more formally called the Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions, is a report published by the United St...

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Rounding up the usual lawfare at the UN. @CliffordDMay @ FDD from 2022-01-15T01:27:26

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2/2: ClassicKenCroswell: Finding our Sun. Ken Croswell from 2022-01-14T02:59:03

Photo:  This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the nearby spiral galaxy M74 is an iconic reminder of the impending season. Bright knots of glowing gas light up the spiral arms, indicati...

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#NewWorldReport: Brazil leans heavily for Lula da Silva's return. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis, @ArmyWarCollege gma from 2022-01-14T01:02:16

Photo:  Brazil—Frond, Tirpenne - Figueira brava



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#NewWorldReport: AMLO back to the future. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis, @ArmyWarCollege from 2022-01-14T01:00:58

Photo:  The Salto del Agua (fountain), in Mexico City.







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From the Inquisition on the Iberian Peninsula to Sante Fe, New Mexico. Rep. Teresa Leger-Fernandez, @RepTeresaLF. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2022-01-14T00:58:57

Photo:  Torture legalized by the Inquisition. Engraving from 1508






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Iran is slow-walking Vienna. Victoria Coates, @VictoriaCoates, Iran Distinguished Fellow in Strategic Studies. AFPC. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2022-01-14T00:57:52

Photo:  Vienna — The sale of flowers and wreaths at the court.



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#ScalaReport: Stepping back gradually from Covid mandates to go back to work. Chris Riegel @Stratacache, #TheScalaReport, Scala.com from 2022-01-14T00:56:27

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United States. Percentage with at least one vaccination dose. See Listen
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Life with Riley and My Three Sons can no longer afford the taxes in California. @HooverWhalen from 2022-01-14T00:55:56

Photo:  Taxes — 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

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#Kazahkstan : The Great Game of the Russian Near Abroad. Anatol Lieven @QuincyInst from 2022-01-14T00:54:47

Photo:  The magnificent Pamirs in the time of the Great Game





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2/2: #Iran: Ukraine meets Iran in Moscow. Anna Borshchevskaya. @WashInstitute from 2022-01-14T00:53:51

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1/2: #Ukraine: Iran meets Ukraine in Moscow. Anna Borshchevskaya. @WashInstitute from 2022-01-14T00:52:59

Photo:  Map of Ukraine



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1/2: #ClassicHotelMars: Destination Venus. David Grinspoon, Planetary Institute. @DrFunkySpoon (Originally aired September 22, 2021) from 2022-01-13T02:01:58

Photo:    Figure of Venus as seen from Earth; and question "Does Venus ever present the appearance of a full orb?" from page 40 of Hannah Bouvier's Familiar Astronomy 1857 edition
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Perseverance anomaly. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com yis from 2022-01-13T01:13:37

Photo:  Perseverance—not a space ship but an oceangoing, four-masted barque from 1896



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Ariane 6 back in the game. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com gam from 2022-01-13T01:13:14

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Thirty-one years later. George Friedman, Founder and Chairman of Geopolitical Futures. @George_Friedman @GPFutures from 2022-01-13T01:12:16

Photo: Logo of the distinguished Soviet, and now Russian, Academy of Sciences






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What is the "Broken Nest" theory? Stephen Yates, @YatesDCIA, CEO of D.C. International Advisory and former advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2022-01-13T01:11:48

Photo:  A destroyed village






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Kazakhstan alarms the PRC. Kamran Bokhari, director of Analytical Development at the Newlines Institute for Strategy & Policy. @NewlinesInst | NatSec/FP Spclist @yowpdicafe .@GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2022-01-13T01:11:13

Photo:  Stamps of Kazakhstan, 2011-26






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Watching Russian News watch the Ukraine Crisis. Felix Light @CBSNEWS from 2022-01-13T01:09:01

Photo:  RT Russian TV network logo






Watching Russian News watch the Ukraine Crisis. Felix Light @CBSNEWS



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Learning about the lack of candor by the 2020 virus-hunters and government officials. Salenazito.com from 2022-01-13T01:08:01

Photo: Government officials of a bygone age:  Franklin D. Roosevelt and Pa Watson in Mount Vernon, Virginia






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Keystone redistricting indifferent to small-town America. Salenazito.com from 2022-01-13T01:07:30

Photo: Aerial view of an American small town.





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Five shortfalls of Biden Administration State Department Andrew Peek, @WSJOpinion. from 2022-01-13T01:06:54

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Ten years ago the Grexit end of the world. Simon Constable Edinburgh @RealConstable from 2022-01-13T01:06:26

Photo:  Maria Callas, Greek opera star






Ten years ago the Grexit end of the world. Simon Constable Edinburgh @RealConstable


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#Kazakhstan: Do the Russians leave? Jeff McCausland @mccauslJ @CBSNews @dickinsonco from 2022-01-13T01:05:49

Photo:  M. Chemodanov. Instead of calling the people's representatives. The last attempts of the autocracy.  His might is Trepov, the autocratic dictator of all Russia, crowned by royal grace ...

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Ukraine: Senior Russian uniforms at NATO. Jeff McCausland @mccauslJ @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2022-01-13T01:05:05

Photo:  Portrait for the article "Mikhail Feodorovich". Military Encyclopedia of Sytin (St. Petersburg, 1911-1915)





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#ClassicKenCroswell: Consider the Dwarfs in the Heavens. Ken Croswell @ScienceNews (Originally aired August 30, 2021) from 2022-01-12T01:55:21

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1596

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#LondonCalling: Inflation unleashed, stimulus contained. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2022-01-12T00:40:33

Photo:  Under the 2008 stimulus package, it provided further support and funding for the Comprehensive Employm...

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#LondonCalling: EU must count on mild, windy weather. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2022-01-12T00:40:01

Photo: Windy weather



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2/2: Divinations 2022. James Fransham @TheEconomist @JamesFransham yis from 2022-01-12T00:39:15

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1/2: Divinations 2022. James Fransham @TheEconomist @JamesFransham gma from 2022-01-12T00:38:42

Photo:  "Joseph Enthroned". Folio from the Book of Omens (Fa'lnama), Safavid Dynasty. 1550. Listen
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#Ethiopia: Abiy Ahmed "candid" with the Biden Administration. Gregory Copley, @Gregory_Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2022-01-12T00:37:45

Photo:  Abyssinian music and dances, 1934





#Ethiopia: Abiy Ahmed  "candid" with the Biden Administration. Gregory Copley, @Gregory_Copley, Defense &...

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#Ukraine: Moscow won't invade again.. Gregory Copley, @Gregory_Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2022-01-12T00:37

Photo:  Russians attacking each other



#Ukraine: Moscow won't invade again. Gregory Copley, @Gregory_Copley,  Defense & Foreign Affairs

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#Kazakhstan: Halt the "Color Revolution" say Beijing and Moscow. Gregory Copley, @Gregory_Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2022-01-12T00:36:14

Photo:  Syr Darya Oblast, migration.   This photograph is from the ethnographical part of Turkestan Album, a comprehensive visual survey of Central Asia undertaken after imperial Russ...

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#StateThinking: Nursultan in the fog of war. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc. from 2022-01-12T00:35:33

Photo:  War.





#StateThinking: Nursultan in the fog of war. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens In...

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#StateThinking: Talking Ukraine without more than talking. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc. from 2022-01-12T00:35:01

Photo:  Red Banner  1940



#StateThinking: Talking Ukraine without more than talking.   @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Execu...

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No more stimulus. @LizPeek. @TheHill from 2022-01-12T00:34:28




No more stimulus. @Li...

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Fed to the fight. @LizPeek. @TheHill from 2022-01-12T00:33:57






Fed to the fig...

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Can the EU become a State? Stanley Pignal @spignal, @TheEconomist. Charlemagne, The Economist; from 2022-01-12T00:32:50

Photo:  The Peace of Westphalia — Arnsberg Castle c 1588





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Moscow Memorial R.I.P. Judy Dempsey. @Judy_Dempsey. CEIP. @Carnegie_Europe. from 2022-01-12T00:30:42

Photo:  Russian pavilion project at the Paris exhibition





Moscow Memorial R.I.P. Judy Dempsey. @Judy_Dempsey. CEIP. @Carnegie_Europe. 
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EU not invited. Judy Dempsey, @Judy_Dempsey, CEIP Strategic Europe @Carnegie_Europe. from 2022-01-12T00:28:23

Photo:  "The New Europe with Enduring Peace. The unionization of Central Europe."





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2/2: ClassicKenCroswell: The Voyager Twins chatting for eternity. Ken Croswell. The Lives of Stars. from 2022-01-11T02:30:30

Photo:  (1986) This computer enhancement of a Voyager 2 image, emphasizes the high-level haze in Uranus' upper atmosphere. Clouds are obscured by the overlying atmosphere. JPL manages and cont...

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George Kennan warned NATO not to expand. Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation. @KatrinaNation from 2022-01-11T01:05:07

Photo:  G.K. (i.e., George Kennan) in Siberian exile dress, each piece given by an exile from the dress he had worn





George Kennan warned NATO not to ex...

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The Republicans, as told by David Brooks. @PeterBerkowtiz. @HooverInst yis from 2022-01-11T01:04:38

Photo:  Republican platform and presidential nominees



The Republicans, as told by David Brooks.   @PeterBerkowtiz. @HooverInst yis



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Erdogan's wealth amnesty No. 8; & What is to be done? @AykanErdemir @FDD cya from 2022-01-11T01:03:51

Photo: Turkey — Two trophies with shields. Links with books, a goat's head and weapons. Right with an anchor, a crescent moon, snakes and masks.





Erdoga...

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#Kazakhstan: Putin vs the "colour revolutions." Ambassador John Bolton @AmbJohnBolton from 2022-01-11T01:03:02

Photo:  Kazakh man with a golden eagle on a horse in the region where the Arakan in the tsjornaya Berel (tributary of the Katoen) flows. In the background are yurts. 1911-1914


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#PRC: Ningbo supply chain slowdown. Charles Ortel of On the Money with Charles Ortel. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2022-01-11T00:58:07

Photo:  Ningbo celebrating the foundation of the Republic of China





#PRC: Ningbo supply chain slowdown. Charles Ortel of On the Money with Charles Ortel...

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#PRC: Falsehoods of Omicron. Charles Burton, MacDonald-Laurier Institute. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill Charles Burton, senior Fellow at the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. from 2022-01-11T00:57:29

Photo:  Baled cargo being moved out of a company yard, Tientsin [Tianjin], China, c 1908 





#PRC: Falsehoods of Omicron. Charles Burton, MacDonald-Laurie...

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"Indiana" Hoenlein and the lost Treasury bullae of 8th Century BCE. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2022-01-11T00:56:48

Photo: Bulla from a much later age





"Indiana" Hoenlein and the lost Treasury bullae of 8th Century BCE. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @Thad...

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The Hotcakes of Yemen. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2022-01-11T00:56:02

Photo: Yemeni village, 1994





The Hotcakes of Yemen.  Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness


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#NewWorldReport: Brazil veering left following the command economy trends. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2022-01-11T00:55:18

Photo:  Student demonstration against the military dictatorship in Brazil





Manifestação estudantil contra a Ditadura Militar 




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#NewWorldReport: Argentina and Mexico are deadbeats. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2022-01-11T00:54:48

Photo:   Comic History of Rome p 028, Debtor and Creditor






#NewWorldReport:   Argentina and Mexico are deadbeats. Senadora Mari...

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#NewWorldReport: Garlic shortage in Cuba's Black Market; & What is to be done. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2022-01-11T00:54:19

Photo: Garlic





#NewWorldReport: Garlic shortage in Cuba's Black Market; & What is to be done.  Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on lea...

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#NewWorldReport: Maduro vs Duque. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2022-01-11T00:53:49

Photo:  Petroleum strike of 1936

             Huelga petrolera de 1936  Shell petrol tanker - 1928





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2/2: #Kazakhstan: What about Uzbekistan? S. Frederick Starr, Central Asia Caucasus Institute, American Foreign Policy Council from 2022-01-11T00:53:17

Photo: Khiva Khanat men (the man seated is a Yomut Türkmen). Khiva, Northwest Uzbekistan.






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1/2: #Kazakhstan: Balancing Russia, China and the future of Central Asia. Frederick Starr, Central Asia Caucasus Institute, American Foreign Policy Council from 2022-01-11T00:52:23

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1/2: #AfterAfghanistan: Taliban is ruthless, @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2022-01-11T00:47:25

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#Kazakhstan: Great Game 2022, Professor H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-01-10T01:54:04

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2/2: #ClassicHotelMars: Life on Venus. David Grinspoon @@DrFunkySpoon , Planetary Science Institute; David Livingston, SpaceShow.com (Originally aired September 22, 2021) from 2022-01-10T01:52:27

Photo: Giorgis Venus, 1/3/21.  A more Earthbound Venus.




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1/2: #ClassicHotelMars: Life on Venus. David Grinspoon @DrFunkySpoon Planetary Science Institute; David Livingston, SpaceShow.com (Originally aired September 22, 2021) from 2022-01-10T01:52:23

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Terry Anderson #Unbound (climate change). The complete, forty-minute interview. April 6, 2021 from 2022-01-10T00:30

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Raj Rajaratnam. #UNBOUND. The complete forty-minute interview. December 17, 2021. from 2022-01-10T00:04:46

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#ClassicSalenaZito: The Unforgotten Johnstown Flood. @SalenaZito.com (Originally aired April 14, 2021) from 2022-01-09T03:16:02

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#ClassicHarrySiegel: Fail NYC. @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNews. (Originally aired August 31, 2021) from 2022-01-09T03:08:19

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Randolph W. Hobler #UNBOUND. The complete, forty-minute interview. Libya and Peace Corps events. December 10, 2021. from 2022-01-09T03:00:41

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Jonathan Schanzer #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, DECEMBER 6, 2021. from 2022-01-09T02:56:24

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2/2: #ClassicHotelMars: Civilization on Earth glimpsed from 100 Parsecs and less. J. K Faherty, @jfaherty jackiefaherty.com. AMNH. David Livingston SpaceShow.com (Originally aired July 5, 2021) from 2022-01-09T02:12:04

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1/2: #ClassicHotelMars: Civilization on Earth glimpsed from 100 Parsecs and less. J. K Faherty, @jfaherty jackiefaherty.com. AMNH. David Livingston SpaceShow.com (Originally aired July 5, 2021) from 2022-01-09T02:12:01

Photo:   Star Cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud Position (J2000): R.A. 00h 47m 11s.1 Dec. -73° 28' 40".1 Constellation: Tucana Distance: About 200,000 light-years (61 kiloparsecs) Dimensio...

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#Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus philosophize about diplomacy in the 21st Century. Michael Vlahos. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-01-09T02:05:55

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#Londinium90AD: Caesar and his siege machines, not diplomacy, to best the Gaulish Barbarians. Michael Vlahos. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-01-09T02:05:52

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#Ukraine: Kiev POV sees going it alone. Professor H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-01-09T01:36:09

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#Ukraine: NATO POV sees the Russian energy supply line shortfall in winter. Professor H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-01-09T01:36:06

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#Ukraine: Putin's POV sees NATO concessions; & What is to be done? Professor H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2022-01-09T01:36:01

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2/4: #ClassicNature: The greatest migration. David J. Meltzer, SMU. @NatureMagazine (Originally aired July 28, 2021) from 2022-01-09T01:18:46

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#PacificWatch: Beverley Hills slams back. @JCBliss from 2022-01-08T02:14:07

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The unpredicted Omicron Jobs Fair. @MCTagueJ former @Barron's,novelist The Martin and Twyla Boundary Series. from 2022-01-08T02:12:14

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Ingenuity wins a promotion. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2022-01-08T01:45:43

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Space Force buys the commercial solution! Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2022-01-08T01:45:22

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Omicron and Djokovic sweep over Oz. Scott Mayman @CBSNews yis from 2022-01-08T01:45:09

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Super Green Pass for Italy. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation gam from 2022-01-08T01:45:05

Photo:  A requisite internal passport for Soviet citizens.  Arriving here with biometrics, possibly a social credit score.





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8/8: Stalin's War: A New History of World War II Hardcover – April 20, 2021 by Sean McMeekin from 2022-01-08T01:41:06

Photo: Soviet tanks of the Third Guards Tank Army in action during the offensive to Germany (1945)



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7/8: Stalin's War: A New History of World War II Hardcover – April 20, 2021 by Sean McMeekin ] from 2022-01-08T01:40:53

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6/8: Stalin's War: A New History of World War II Hardcover – April 20, 2021 by Sean McMeekin \ from 2022-01-08T01:40:33

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5/8: Stalin's War: A New History of World War II Hardcover – April 20, 2021 by Sean McMeekin \ from 2022-01-08T01:39:01

Photo: "Ukraine, 2 November 1941, men of the C.S.I.R. to the Gorlowka attack"



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4/8: Stalin's War: A New History of World War II Hardcover – April 20, 2021 by Sean McMeekin (Author) from 2022-01-08T01:36:17







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3/8: Stalin's War: A New History of World War II Hardcover – April 20, 2021 by Sean McMeekin (Author) from 2022-01-08T01:36:07

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2/8: Stalin's War: A New History of World War II Hardcover – April 20, 2021 by Sean McMeekin from 2022-01-08T01:36

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1/8 Stalin's War: A New History of World War II Hardcover – April 20, 2021 by Sean McMeekin from 2022-01-08T01:35:51

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#SmallBusinessAmerica: Blockchain for All. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2022-01-08T01:28:32

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#SmallBusinessAmerica: Managing Inflation. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2022-01-08T01:28

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2/2: The Vaccine Mandate and Its Discontents. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2022-01-08T01:27:26

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1/2: The Vaccine Mandate and Its Discontents. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2022-01-08T01:26:22

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#NewWorldReport: The big presidential elections 2022. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis from 2022-01-07T02:10:18

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#NewWorldReport: Narconomics. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis from 2022-01-07T02:09:31

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#NewWorldReport: Sex-trafficking Venezuela. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis from 2022-01-07T02:08:59

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#NewWorldReport: China persuades Nicaragua. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis from 2022-01-07T02:08:17

Photo:  Chinese-donated Covid-19 vaccines arrived in Nicaragua in December. China has now opened an embassy in the central American country for the first time since 1990. 

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France derides Iran's space launch. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2022-01-07T02:06:19

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What is the Syria policy? Andrew J. Tabler is the Martin J. Gross Fellow in the Geduld Program on Arab Politics at The Washington Institute. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2022-01-07T02:05:45

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Hezbollah in Chile. Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi is a senior Fellow at @FDD. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2022-01-07T02:05:15

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#HotelMars: FAA comes to Boca Chica,Texas;& What is to be done? Eric Berger @SciGuySpace Arstechnica.com David Livingston SpaceShow.com from 2022-01-07T02:03:41

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#Ukraine: The frozen conflict. Anatol Lieven @QuincyInst from 2022-01-07T01:59:37

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Kazakhstan fog of war. Anatol Lieven @QuincyInst @LievenAnatol @LievenAnatol from 2022-01-07T01:59:05

Photo: Current poster, overseas Kazakhs. Accompanied by invitation to a rally on 15 January, 1 PM, at the White House, Washington, "in support of the people of Kazakhstan."



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Cuba abuses. @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion from 2022-01-07T01:58:39

Photo: "The last stroke," a story of Cuba's fight for freedom, by I. N. Morris






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MQ-25 trials for extending the range of the carrier strike groups. Captain Jerry Hendrix, USN (retired). @JerryHendrixii Senior Fellow Sagamore Institute. @SagamoreInst from 2022-01-07T01:58:06

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Inflation is the timeless worry. @VerodeRugy @Mercatus from 2022-01-07T01:56:02

Photo:  Cartoon, The New Orleans Bee, 4 November 1896. Caption, "The Triumph of Gold over Silver".



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Canada and Trudeau at the New Year: @ConradMBlack, @NationalPost from 2022-01-07T01:55:29

Photo: Nine O'Clock gun Vancouver. Photograph taken for the 4th Victory Loan campaign.





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2/2: ClassicGregoryCopley: Pushing back the Wolf Warrior. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs. (Originally aired July 21, 2021) from 2022-01-06T01:57:31

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1/2: ClassicGregoryCopley: Pushing back the Wolf Warrior. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs. (Originally aired July 21, 2021) from 2022-01-06T01:57:25

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Webb deployment nominal. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2022-01-06T01:20:14

Photo:  SIX OF THE EIGHTEEN JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE MIRROR SEGMENTS ARE BEING PREPPED TO MOVE INTO THE X-RAY AND CRYOGENIC FACILITY FOR TESTING. 



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Rocketry 2021: commercial space surges into the lead. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com. from 2022-01-06T01:19:47

Photo:  Diagram of multi-staged rocket by Johann Schmidlap.  Conrad Haas.

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US becomes the No 1 LNG exporter. Bud Weinstein @SMUCox_MEI, SMU Cox School of Business. yis from 2022-01-06T01:19:18

Photo:  A curious pronghorn pauses before a small natural-gas structure, one of hundreds in Wyoming's arid Red Desert, a vast petrochemical-rich area between Rawlins and Green River. The envir...

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Brandon Weichert @WeTheBrandon, of The Weichert Report and author of Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower gma from 2022-01-06T01:18:53

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PRC promotes no-nuke without transparency. Peter Huessy, @hobeyoco, @HudsonInstitute. from 2022-01-06T01:18:26

Photo:  "Nuke Free Bay" graffiti. Fort Cronkhite, Wolf Ridge fire control stations, 1991.



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Ningbo closing down again. Alan Tonelson, independent economic policy analyst who blogs at RealityChek and tweets at @AlanTonelson. from 2022-01-06T01:17:50

Photo:  Avenue Tiendon in NIngbo



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PRC attack plan. Rick Fisher @CSIS, Senior Fellow on Asian Military Affairs at the International Assessment and Strategy Center from 2022-01-06T01:17:03

Photo:   The War in China, Attack on the "Banterer's" Boat in Sai-Lau Creek, Canton River.

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Tokyo calling. Scott Harold @RANDCorporation, senior political scientist at The RAND Corporation. from 2022-01-06T01:16:30

Photo:  Tokyo Koishikawa, distant view




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San Francisco fentanyl haven. Lee E Ohanian @HooverInst @HooverInst @lee_ohanian from 2022-01-06T01:16:13



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Kazakhstan goes dark. @Felix_Light @CBSNews from 2022-01-06T01:14:50

Photo:  Painting:  "Monthly midnight in Kazakhstan"



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Big-town Philadelphia ruination. SalenaZito.com. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette @SalenaZito @DCExaminer. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette from 2022-01-06T01:14:11

Photo:  Ed Andrews, Philadelphia Quakers, baseball card portrait



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Small-town Pittsburgh at Café Raymond. SalenaZito.com. SalenaZito @DCExaminer Pittsburgh Post-Gazette from 2022-01-06T01:13:40

Photo:  Pittsburgh, Pa., from Mt. Washington 



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The climbing price of milk in Omicron watching Scotland. Simon Constable @RealConstable. from 2022-01-06T01:12:46

Photo:   “The Early Dawn,” by Joshua Cristall, shows a milkmaid walking toward cattle in the distance




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Russian Borderlands: Ukraine and Kazakhstan. George Friedman, GeopoliticalFutures. @George_Friedman @GPFuture from 2022-01-06T01:12:18

Photo:  Kazakhstani Peacekeeping Battalion soldiers provide security while the commander peacefully negotiates with local leaders during a situational training exercise as part of Steppe Eagle...

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America's wars: Lessons learned 1962-2022, George Friedman, GeopoliticalFutures.com @George_Friedman @GPFutures from 2022-01-06T01:11:18




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2/2: #Ukraine: ClassicAnatolLieven: Aggrieved and angry at NordStream2. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute, @LievenAnatol (Originally aired July 23, 2021.) from 2022-01-05T01:56:05

Photo  A segment of the Souther Gas Corridor.



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1/2: #Ukraine: ClassicAnatolLieven: Aggrieved and angry at NordStream2. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute, @LievenAnatol (Originally aired July 23, 2021.) from 2022-01-05T01:56:03

Photo: Ball's patent indestructible water and gas pipe, made of wrought iron, lined with & laid in hydraulic cement, manufactured by the "Water & gas pipe co.," at Jersey City, N. J .....

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Iran on the New Year march. Behnam Ben Taleblu, @FDD, Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, focussed on Iranian security and political issues. yis from 2022-01-05T01:09:48

Photo:   Glorious old Persian paintings now in the British Museum. Here: Album of Persian Costumes and Animals with Some Drawings by Kaempfer; "Goats fighting."



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Farewell Memorial. Katrina vanden Heuvel @TheNation from 2022-01-05T01:09:24

Photo:  Memorial, the Putin-liquidated institutional memory of the Soviet Union, the tyranny, the tens of millions of deaths.






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Goldman Sachs hearts Build Back Better. @JohnTamny @RealClearMarkets gma from 2022-01-05T01:08:51

Photo:  Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper delivers remarks at a discussion at Goldman Sachs, with Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon, New York, New York, Nov. 11, 2019. (DoD photo by Lisa Ferdinand...

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NATO provokes Russia. Gregory R Copley, @Gregory_Copley, editor and publisher of Defense & Foreign Affairs. from 2022-01-05T01:06:33

Photo:  Twenty-four ships from NATO allies and partner nations assemble in formation for a photo exercise at the conclusion of Trident Juncture 2018, Nov. 7, 2018.



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PRC out of water, out of time. Gregory R Copley, @Gregory_Copley, editor and publisher of Defense & Foreign Affairs. from 2022-01-05T01:04:53

Photo:  Views of the Marble Rocks, Jubbulpore, India.  Not surprisingly, India, Vietnam, and other neighbors are deeply concerned about China's running out of water for its population.,
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#StateThinking: More than talk about Ukraine. @MaryKissel, Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc. from 2022-01-05T01:03:36

Photo:  Transportation of equipment for a metallurgical plant from Taganrog to Yuzovka.



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#StateThinking: Carrie Lam's "Rule of Law" and Animal Farm's "Rule of Law." @MaryKissel, Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc. from 2022-01-05T01:03:15

Photo:  Animal Farm:   Squealer sprawls at the foot of the end wall of the big barn where the Seven Commandments were written (ch. viii) – preliminary artwork for a 1950 strip cartoon...

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Target Filibuster @Liz Peek @TheHill from 2022-01-05T01:02:47

Photo:  A long filibuster, Washington, D.C. A five-and-a-half-hour filibuster by Sen. Long of Louisiana caused the seventy-fourth congress, first session, to give up the ghost, without approva...

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The Big Uncertain. @Liz Peek @TheHill from 2022-01-05T01:02:14

Photo:  Illustration entitled, "Result of War Economies", by cartoonist Clifford Berryman, which appeared in the Washington Evening Star on May 26, 1917, depicts the trash collector as one ele...

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#LondonCalling: Trash-talking Sir Tony Blair. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2022-01-05T01:01:52

Photo:   Cartoon from Punch. It was printed with the following short article:



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#LondonCalling: Inflation Always Rings Twice @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2022-01-05T01:01:21

Photo:   George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers: Revolutionary War Cashbook of Household Expenses, July - October, 1775








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#LondonCalling: Boris in trouble with the Tories. Again. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2022-01-05T01:00:58

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The Biden Administration confronts Russia with "if." Eli Lake @EliLake, Bloomberg Views. from 2021-12-18T01:43:49

Photo:  Predator — image from page 684 of Die Gartenlaube [The Gazebo], 1887.




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The Democracy Summit invited Pakistan, which refused. Sadanand Dhume @dhume @WSJOpinion from 2021-12-18T01:41:24

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4/4: Uneven Justice: The Plot to Sink Galleon, by Raj Rajaratnam from 2021-12-18T01:40:13

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3/4: Uneven Justice: The Plot to Sink Galleon, by Raj Rajaratnam from 2021-12-18T01:39:46

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2/4: Uneven Justice: The Plot to Sink Galleon, by Raj Rajaratnam Hardcover – December 14, 2021 from 2021-12-18T01:39:12

Photo:  Oppressed justice





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1/4: Uneven Justice: The Plot to Sink Galleon, by Raj Rajaratnam from 2021-12-18T01:37:51

Photo:  Prosecutorial gnawing ("La Rongerie des Procureurs").



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Searching for drinkable water on Mars. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-12-18T01:31:46





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#PacificWatch: Portland overrun by 100 homeless camps. Jeff Bliss @JCBliss from 2021-12-18T01:29:37

Photo:   Image from page 365 of the  journal, Die Gartenlaube, 1892.




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Hong Kongers exiled and abandoned. Josh Rogin @joshrogin , Washington Post from 2021-12-18T01:28:28

Photo: Chinese miners  in the 1800s. "The cradle and how to use it."

 

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#SmallBusinessAmerica: Home builders most busy. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2021-12-18T01:26:34

Photo: Housebuilding in Sweden




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Covid-tragic Italia is country of the year. Lorenzo Fiori from 2021-12-18T01:25:52

Photo:  Italian health insurance card (Tessera sanitaria italiana)




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Law and Order, Again. Dan Henninger, @DanHenninger, @WSJOpinion WSJ from 2021-12-18T01:25:05

Photo:  Lord High Chancellor, Great Britain.



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#NewWorldReport: Lithium bonanzas in Latin America. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis @revanellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. from 2021-12-17T02:05:37

Photo:  Uyuni Salt Flat in Bolivia



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#NewWorldReport: Colombia turns hard left. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis @revanellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. from 2021-12-17T02:05:14

Photo:  Text of the  [Colombian] Constitution of Cucuta, 1863.



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#NewWorldReport: Chile votes. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis @revanellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. from 2021-12-17T02:04:46

Photo:  Chile.   Inset:  Easter Island (Isla de Pascua).



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Iran erases its JCPOA obligations. David Albright @TheGoodISIS. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-12-17T02:03:46

Photo:  Paskevich and Abbas Mirza in Turkmanchay (10 February 1828)



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Hamas in Lebanon. Sarit Zehavi @ZehaviAlma, @Israel_Alma_org. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-12-17T02:03:15

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". . . because Putin has, at his back, domestic support." Ilan Berman @ilanberman ; Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-12-17T02:02:20

Photo:  Part of the Superputin webcomic by Sergei Kalenik, depicting Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin as a martial arts superhero







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#HotelMars: Roscosmos Pichal joins ISS. Anatoly Zak @Russianspaceweb; David Livingston SpaceShow.com from 2021-12-17T02:01:51

Photo:  The Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft is seen after it landed with Expedition 42 commander Barry Wilmore of NASA, Alexander Samokutyaev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Elena...

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#ScalaReport: Europe panics at return to the office; & What is to be done? Chris Riegel @scala CEO, @STRATACACHE, #TheScalaReport from 2021-12-17T02:01:27

Photo:  The Fra Mauro map. Europe. 1459.




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Chile's stark decision. Mary Anastasia O'Grady @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion from 2021-12-17T02:00:58

Photo:  Economic stagnation




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Central Bankers hear the global inflation alarms. Veronique de Rugy, @veroderugy, @GeorgeMasonU, @Mercatus Center from 2021-12-17T02:00:31

Photo:  Zimbabwean banknotes, 2006.








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#Ukraine: What do NATO and Ukraine want? Anatol Lieven @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst from 2021-12-17T01:57:52

Photo:  A Ukrainian combat training center engineer prepares to enter a mock house during training to build breaching skills; at the International Peacekeeping and Security Center, near Yavori...

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#Ukraine: What do Putin and Xi want? @AnatolLieven, @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst from 2021-12-17T01:56:57

Photo: "Ukraine-China" stamp



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2/2 Dinner at the newly confrontational FTC. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2021-12-16T01:36:09

Photo:  Table setting; only nine utensils.  Dunna worry till it's sixteen.



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1/2 Dinner at the newly confrontational FTC. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2021-12-16T01:35:19

Photo:  Apex Building, built in 1938 (FTC headquarters) in Washington, D.C



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1/2: Abandoning Central Asia along with Afghanistan; & What is to be done? S. Frederick Starr. Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies. from 2021-12-16T01:34:04

Photo:  Kazakh man on a horse with a golden eagle





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The Quiet Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-12-16T01:33:33

Photo: Double black hole system



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Prepping Superheavy #4. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-12-16T01:32:59

Photo:  NASA: Low-Earth economy




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Analena Baerbock and the Greens vs the might of Russia. @PaulR_Gregory @HooverInst from 2021-12-16T01:32:31

Photo:  100 rubles, with "Putin is the leader of the party of crooks and thieves" written on it.






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#Ukraine: Putin advancing; NATO planning. Jeff McCausland @mccauslJ @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2021-12-16T01:31:49

Photo:  Coat of Arms of the Permanent Mission of Russia to NATO.



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Europe watches Russia and PRC aggression from the chilly sidelines. Theresa Fallon @TheresaAFallon. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-12-16T01:31:20

Photo:  Russian Ambassadors in China in the 17th Century. Illustration of Niva (Niva, 19th Century)





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#NewWorldReport: PRC buys Ortega. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-12-16T01:30:55

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A millennium of Sino-Russian border discord dispelled in face of NATO. Charles Burton @cburton001 , MacDonald Laurier Institute; and @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-12-16T01:27:24

Photo:  Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping.



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Siberia is balmy. @Felix_Light @CBSNews Moscow Times from 2021-12-16T01:25:49

Photo:  A group of Khakass, ancient indigenous people, at Minusinsk.  



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Omicron and inflation closing on Scotland. @RealConstable; Simon Constable, Johns Hopkins School of Applied Economics from 2021-12-16T01:25:27

Photo:  A woodcut showing John Mair, one of the most successful products of the Scottish educational system in the late 15t...

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Awakening the left-behind counties of Middle America. SalenaZito.com @SalenaZito @DCExaminer from 2021-12-16T01:24:40

Photo: Old farm in central Ohio. Photographed by Ben Shahn,1898-1969.







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The birth and re-birth of Tucker County, West Virginia. SalenaZito.com @SalenaZito @DCExaminer from 2021-12-16T01:23:29

Photo: Music for beautiful West Virginia:  front cover of the sheet music for "The West Virginia Hills"





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#Japan: Reiwa (orderly harmony) needing a marketplace of ideas. Noah Sneider @TheEconomist from 2021-12-15T02:20:38

Photo: "Reiwa" in kanji.



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#Japan: Laboratory of old. Noah Sneider @TheEconomist from 2021-12-15T02:20:11

Photo:  Portrait of Morihei Ueshiba [pron: oo-EH-shiba] (1883 –1969), the founder of ...

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#Japan: New chapters for Adam Smith on personal growth with overwhelming debt. Noah Sneider @TheEconomist from 2021-12-15T02:19:16

Photo:  Adam Smith.



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PRC in the Atlantic; & What is to be done? Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-12-15T02:18:10

Photo: Lajes, a munificently-built and -appointed US air base West of Portugal in the Atlantic, is in danger of being abandoned by the Pentagon for unclear reasons: and the PRC is negotiating ...

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Ethiopia is a battlefield of the powers. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-12-15T02:17:46

Photo:  Abyssinian soldiers, 1936.The Second Italo-Ethiopian War, also referred to as the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, was a colonial war that started in October 1935 and ended in May 1936. Th...

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#StateThinking: The White House fumbles Taiwan at the Democracy Summit. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc. from 2021-12-15T02:17:13

Photo: in Taiwan: Kangxi map. ??????



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#StateThinking: Putin plays well in turmoil. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc. from 2021-12-15T02:16:14

Photo:  "Untangling chaos and creating the four elements"




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#LondonCalling: Inflation denialism. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-12-15T02:15:07

Photo:   "Peter's Denial". A miniature from the Jruchi Gospels, Georgia (the formerly Soviet state of Georgia, in the Caucasus).




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#LondonCalling: Boris Johnson rebuked. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-12-15T02:14:24





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#LondonCalling: Omicron confusion @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-12-15T02:13:45

Photo:  Stamp of USSR: 9th Microbiology congress (24-30.07, Moscow). Congress emblem: microscope and Moscow University. At the left and to the right of the emblem: increased image of bacteria ...

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China dominates the UN. @AmbJohnBolton @NYPost from 2021-12-15T02:10:59

Photo:  "Center-of-the-world country.,"  China. (Communist characters, much simplified by Mao.)





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Mayor Adams inherits NYC 10% unemployment. @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNews from 2021-12-15T02:01:08

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Global minimum tax fading with the Omicron and inflation facts. @LizPeek @TheHill from 2021-12-15T02:00:18

Photo:  Corporate taxes:  This untitled illustration by the cartoonist Clifford Berryman, which appeared in the Washington Evening Star on August 1, 1917, depicts big businesses under heat as ...

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The Fed is late to the inflation alarm. @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews from 2021-12-15T01:59:14

Photo: Inflation Waltz, from Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885



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#NewWorldReport: Castillo over his head. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave). Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-12-14T01:20:15

Photo:  Drawing of a copper mine, 1899



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#NewWorldReport: Chile on the brink. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave). Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-12-14T01:19:18

Photo: Chilean civil war of 1891



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#NewWorldReport: Guatemala spurned by the Democracy Summit . Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave). Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-12-14T01:18:51

Photo:  Engraving from the book Guatemala, the land of quetzal, by William T. Brigham, published in 1887. Iglesia de Esquipulas in 1884.



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New Caledonia dissents in the midst of the PRC offensive. @CleoPaskal @FDD. @GordonGChang. from 2021-12-14T01:18:19

Photo: New Caledonia, Eighteenth Century?—Village of Saint-Louis



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Evergrande kaput; & What is to be done? Andrew Collier, Orient Capital Research. Gordon G. Chang @GordonGChang. from 2021-12-14T01:17:16

Photo:  Business failure: "By many, the boulder is in 't Hooft because people believe in the Wind."



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"Indiana" Hoenlein and the 2800-year-old hashish on the altar. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1@ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-12-14T01:16:27

Photo:  Archaeologists found two altars featuring burnt cannabis and frankincense.  Here:  High Priest in Jerusalem offers daily incense on altar in ancient Jerusalem Temple



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Iran follows the money. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-12-14T01:16:01

Photo: Persian coin



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The Space Council points at the bad actors in Earth orbit. Jeff Foust, @SpaceNews_Inc. @jeff_foust from 2021-12-14T01:13:01

Photo:  The National Space Council is a body within the Executive Office of the President of the United States. Here:  Crescent Earth rises above the lunar horizon taken during the Apollo 17 m...

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Omicron attacks the young and doubly vaccinated; & What is to be done? Henry Miller @henryimiller, @PacificResearch from 2021-12-14T01:12:34

Photo:  The Omicron variant contains 50 genetic mutations, leading scientists to believe it may be highly contagious. Image courtesy of the CDC, public domain.



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NATO endings. George Friedman is Founder and Chairman of Geopolitical Futures. @GPFutures, @George_Friedman from 2021-12-14T01:11:58

Photo:  A NATO council meeting



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Putin does not intend to attack. George Friedman is Founder and Chairman of Geopolitical Futures. @GPFutures, @George_Friedman from 2021-12-14T01:11:21

Photo:  Russian cavalry, long ago.



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"Why was this undefinable law a law in the first place?" @JohnTamny @RealClearMarkets from 2021-12-14T01:10:56

Photo: Stone relief depicting Shiva and Parvati.   'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds'—Oppenheimer's infamous quote.  In the Shaivite tradition, Shiva is the Supreme Lord who crea...

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#AfterAfghanistan: What little we know of the drone targets from Africa to the Arabian Peninsula. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal @FDD from 2021-12-14T01:09:48

Photo:  A young Ekang scholar.



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2/2: #ClassicRichardEpstein: Do we prepare for coal to replace natural gas and renewables? @RichardAEpstein #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-12-13T02:47:53

Photo: For cooking gas.



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1/2: #ClassicRichardEpstein: Do we prepare for coal to replace natural gas and renewables? @RichardAEpstein #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-12-13T02:47:50

Photo: Idle coal mine.



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#Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus discover the Escalation Ladder in Ukraine; & What is to be done? Michael Vlahos. from 2021-12-13T02:32:31

Photo: Chervonohrod, Liange

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2/2 #Ukraine: What is the minimum that the Kremlin will accept? H. J. Mackinder International Relations #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-12-13T02:32:29

Photo: Hetman Sagaidachny: Peter Sagaidachny. Engraving on wood from the book by Kasiyan Sakovich "Poems on the pitiful cellar of the noble knight Peter Konashevich-Sagaidachny"


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Adapt and Be Adept: Market Responses to Climate Change. Paperback – April 1, 2021. by Terry Anderson (Editor) from 2021-12-13T01:04:07

Photo: Darwin's finches, or Galapagos finches. Darwin, 1845. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the wo...

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Nicholas Thomas #Unbound Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific. Hardcover. The complete, forty-minute interview, June 15, 2021 from 2021-12-13T00:51:17

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William Damon #UNBOUND (one's own life-review; golf): The complete, forty-minute interview. July 3, 2021. .. from 2021-12-13T00:45:47

Photo: Socrates' examined life

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The Hispanic vote is going the GOP way. @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-12-12T03:02:28

Photo: La Marqueta in Manhattan, New York City, on 116 Street east of Lexington Avenue



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Devin Nunes aims for liberty in social media. @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-12-12T03:01:20

Photo:   Rep. Devin Nunes (R-California) gets lunch with paratroopers

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1b/12: #DurhamReporting: Is the state security apparatus (FSB, SVR, GRU, FBI, CIA, NSA) to be trusted? Svetlana Lokhova. @RealSLokhova #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-12-12T02:56:38

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1a/12: #DurhamReporting: The Sussman and Danchenko indictments. Svetlana Lokhova. @RealSLokhova #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-12-12T02:56:35

Photo: In May 2009, the FBI opened a preliminary investigation into Danchenko after he had reportedly told two associates from the Brookings Institution that he knew of a way they could "make ...

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Elbridge Colby, Jerry Hendrix, Edward "Sonny" Masso. #UNBOUND. The complete, forty-minute interview. October 13, 2021. from 2021-12-12T00:01

Photo:  Taiwan: Photos of the second issue of Shandong Provincial Automobile Road Administration 

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4/4: 4/4 101 Arabian Tales: How We All Persevered in Peace Corps Libya, by Randolph W. Hobler Paperback – August 28, 2020 from 2021-12-11T01:48:54

Photo:   Nalut Ksar




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3/4 101 Arabian Tales: How We All Persevered in Peace Corps Libya, by Randolph W. Hobler Paperback – August 28, 2020 from 2021-12-11T01:48:50

Photo: Queen Fatima of Libya (left) with Mrs. John Tappin, the wife of the American Ambassador to Libya 1954-1958.





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1/4 101 Arabian Tales: How We All Persevered in Peace Corps Libya, by Randolph W. Hobler Paperback – August 28, 2020 from 2021-12-11T01:43:58


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Australia spurns the Olympics. Scott Mayman @CBSNews from 2021-12-11T01:38:07





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Darién Gap Goes to Washington. Michael Yon Locals.com from 2021-12-11T01:38

Photo: Sambú River, Darién. Panama





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Space Hotel Rodina. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-12-11T01:37:47

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Lucy in distress. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-12-11T01:37:39

Photo: This artist’s concept depicts the Lucy spacecraft flying past the Trojan asteroid (617) Patroclus and its binary companion Menoetius. Lucy will be the first mission to explore Jupiter’s...

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Fintech Brazil goes to market. @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion from 2021-12-11T01:34:47

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#PacificWatch: The Caldor Fire Suspect Arson. @JCBliss from 2021-12-11T01:34:17

Photo:  The largest blazes burned in Northern California, most notably the Caldor and Dixie fires, which together have scorched nearly 1 million acres (1,500 square miles) so far. Smoke from t...

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The Boston Celtic star named "Freedom" vs Winnie the Pooh. @JoshRogin @WashingtonPost from 2021-12-11T01:33:55

Photo:   Lady Liberty smiles on Enes Kanter Freedom.



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#SmallBusinessAmerica: Gen Z to the rescue. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2021-12-11T01:29:35

Photo:  Generation Z, one angle.





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#SmallBusinessAmerica: Inflation 2022. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2021-12-11T01:29:31

Photo:   Ballooning prices.

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La Scala Premier Masked. Lorenzo Fiori Ansaldo Foundation from 2021-12-11T01:29:18

Photo:   Un ballo in maschera—with the new kinds of masks.

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#NewWorldReport: Lula's old answers to new questions. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis from 2021-12-10T02:27:51

Photo:  Wallace Donnet directing Carmen Miranda in Alô, Alô Brasil



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#NewWorldReport: Guatemala offers remedies. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis from 2021-12-10T02:27:27

Photo:    Grabado del libro Guatemala, the land of quetzal, by William T. Brigham, published in 1887. Palacio de los Capitanes Generales in 1884. It should be noted that the reconstru...

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#NewWorldReport: Chile at a crossroads. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis from 2021-12-10T02:27:01

Photo:  Chilean civil war of 1891.



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Plan B Iran. Michael Makovsky @MichaelMakovsky JINSA; Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-12-10T02:25:37

Photo:  The Besotted Iranian Camp Attacked by Night, Folio 241r from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp



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NGO terror deceptions. Matthew Levitt @Levitt_Matt @WashInstitute; @Georgetown; Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-12-10T02:25:07

Photo:  PFLP: In the mountains east of the Jordan River, a patrol from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine punctuates a battle hymn with Soviet, Czechoslovak (vz. 58), and (top l...

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What is the Red and Green Alliance? Eran Shayshon, @eranshayshon, CEO of the Reut Group; Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-12-10T02:24:36

Photo:  Muslim monarchs on the hunt






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"Accommodation" and Eastern Europe. Bradley Bowman @Brad_L_Bowman, @FDD, former @WestPointSosh, former @USArmy officer and Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-12-10T02:19:27

Photo:  A dance in Little Russia (Ukraine), c. 1913. Painted by Frédéric de Haenen



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In praise of Brian Mulroney and Winston Churchill. Conrad Black @ConradMBlack @NationalPost from 2021-12-10T02:18:15

Photo:  Sir Winston, his son Randolph, and grandson, Winston in coronation robes

 Churchill addressed a joint session of Canadian parliament 30 December 1941.



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#ScalaReport: Omicron early mandates and the recovery. Chris Riegel @scala CEO, @STRATACACHE, #TheScalaReport. Chris Riegel Scala.com from 2021-12-10T02:17:46

Photo:   A separate room outdoors, isolation unit for tuberculosis patient in the backyard of her family's home on La Delta project. Thomastown, Louisiana



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Europe worries about both inflation and debt. @Veronique deRugy @GeorgeMasonU, @Mercatus Center, from 2021-12-10T02:17:18

Photo: Public debt in 2009, Source: European Commission.  Legend: 

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Evergrande fails @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-12-10T02:16:48

Photo:  Formerly called the Hengda Group, Evergrande was founded in Guangzhou in 1996.



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2/2: SCOTUS and stare decisis, 2021. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2021-12-10T02:13:28

Photo:   The law library of the Naval Legal Service Office detachment



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1/2: SCOTUS and stare decisis, 2021. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2021-12-10T02:10:52

Photo:  Starre decision as precedent.  Here,  Suffragettes at court house injunction precedings, July 13/20



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What does Russia want for Ukraine? Anatol Lieven @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst from 2021-12-10T02:09:25

Photo:  Construction of Dneproges



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What does Europe want for Ukraine? Anatol Lieven @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst from 2021-12-10T02:07:45

Photo:  Headless Russian Club in Vienna.  Caricature from the magazine "Mirror".



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Putin wins the moment. Paul Gregory @HooverInst from 2021-12-09T01:38:40

Photo:  Spiridon Ivanovich Putin, grandfather of President Vladimir Putin



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Twenty years after Enron; & What is to be done? Simon Constable @RealConstable from 2021-12-09T01:37:31

Photo:   Enron logo.



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Starship for Florida. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-12-09T01:36:31

Photo:  Jules Verne published his first science fiction novel in 1865 called, From the Earth to the Moon. As shown here in an illustration, passengers in Verne's space ship enjoy thei...

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Russia does not want war. Gregory Copley @Gregory_Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-12-09T01:35:49




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In memory of and gratitude for Yossef Bodansky, 1954-2021. Gregory Copley @Gregory_Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-12-09T01:35:11

Photo: Book cover, Secret History of the Iraq War, by Yossef Bodansky.



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American and European thinking around Ukraine crisis. Jeff McCausland @mccauslJ @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2021-12-09T01:33:40

Photo:  Many summers for the new year / ?? ????? ??? ?????? ????



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Small-town good works in Hannibal, Missouri. SalenaZito.com from 2021-12-09T01:31:30

Photo:  Hannibal, Missouri




Small-town good works in Hannibal, Missouri. SalenaZito.com




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Apple pays and pay the PRC. Jonathan Ward @jonathandtward; @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-12-09T01:30:56

Photo:  Audience of the Chinese Emperor, 1761 - 1771



Apple pays and pay the PRC. Jonathan Ward @jonathandtward; @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

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PRC plans Atlantic naval bases. James Holmes @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-12-09T01:30:17

Photo:  The Chinese Navy destroyer Qingdao sails away at the completion of training with the guided missile destroyer USS Chung-Hoon 



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Are American consumers moving away from the PRC? @AlanTonelson @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-12-09T01:29:04

Photo:  Made in America




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#NewWorldReport: Venezuela and the Cuba model. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-12-08T01:29:13

Photo: Dempster advertisement from Venezuela



#NewWorldReport:   Venezuela and the Cuba model. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JM...

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#NewWorldReport: Guatemala's President Giamettei speaks. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-12-08T01:28:36

Photo: Guatemala: Plaza de Toros

Plaza de Toros colonial de Guatemala



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#NewWorldReport: The trend is authoritarian and anti-democracy. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-12-08T01:28:06

Photo:   Justice      [Rechtvaardigheid, Justitia]



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1/2: Contradictory ambitions of the new German chancellor; & What is to be done? Judy Dempsey @Judy_Dempsey. Carnegie Endowment @Carnegie_Europe. . from 2021-12-08T01:26:59

Photo:   West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, East German President Hans Modrow, and West and East Berlin Mayors Moper and Giczy walk through the columns of the Brandenburg Gate during the offi...

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The hero from Kansas. David Davenport, @HooverInst from 2021-12-08T01:26:26

Photo:  Samuel Seymour's 1819 illustration of a Kansa lodge and dance is the oldest drawing known to have been done in Kansas.

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NYC needs safety in the streets. @Liz Peek @FozNews from 2021-12-08T01:25:08

Photo:  The dangers and the vivacious ones accompanying wealth.







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Musk mentions the boondoggle of Build Back Better subsidizing union-made EVs. @Liz Peek from 2021-12-08T01:24:49

Photo: Most lithium for the upcoming generation of electric vehicles is destined to come from China, not always a reliable supplier of exotic, or dual-use, or unusually valuable goods.  Here: ...

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#StateThinking: What creates diplomatic success? @MaryKissel, Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc from 2021-12-08T01:24:16

Photo:  Diplomacy



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#LondonCalling: Scrooge and Marley Party at No. 10, 2020. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-12-08T01:23:16

Photo:  10 Downing Street



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#LondonCalling: PRC nationalizes the real estate bubble. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-12-08T01:22:52

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#LondonCalling: Inflation stalks the land. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-12-08T01:21:40

Photo:  The $1 store becomes the $1.25 store.

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4/4 Gaza Conflict 2021, by Jonathan Schanzer (Kindle Edition) @JSchanzer @FDD from 2021-12-07T01:49:51

Photo:  Anglo-Egyptian Sudan — camel soldier of the native forces of the British army.  






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1/4 Gaza Conflict 2021, by Jonathan Schanzer (Kindle Edition) @JSchanzer @FDD from 2021-12-07T01:47:16

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Evergrande nationalizing. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-12-07T01:40:13

Photo:   The American Ambassador to China, Terry Branstad, visiting a Bo'ao hospi...

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Putin's Options. Paul Gregory @PaulR_Gregory @HooverInst from 2021-12-07T01:39:47

Photo: The Valuev Circular, issued by the minister of internal affairs of the Russian Empire, stating that the Ukrainian language "never existed, doesn't exist, and cannot exist."


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"Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Tree of Theresienstadt. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-12-07T01:39:12

Photo:  Drawing from the Theresienstadt ghetto: Bed?ich Fritta's drawing of the barracks

 


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Natanz sabotage 2021. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-12-07T01:38:40

Photo:  Tile from a frieze in Natanz.




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Carbon-pricing and the banks. Vijay Vaitheeswaran @VVVijayEconBiz, @TheEconomist from 2021-12-07T01:37:35

Photo: How a coal-fired power plant functions; here, heats water into steam.  Screen grab from video.



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Americans are generous long after passing away. Lawson Bader #donorstrust, DonorsTrust.org from 2021-12-07T01:37:05

Photo: Bequests and devises.   Bookplate used for books by French and English authors donated to Harvard in 1899 by Edward Ray Thompson of Troy, New York.



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Ransomware as a geopolitical weapon. Annie Fixler @afixler, @FDD_CCTI; Georgianna Shea @_GeorgiannaShea, @FDD from 2021-12-07T01:36:01

Photo:  ARL's Dr. Nandi O. Leslie was part of the team that studied empirical data on actual successful cyber intrusions committed against a number of different organizations.



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North Korea still aims to win the war. Greg Scarlatoiu @Grigfletcher; @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-12-07T01:35:27

Photo:  "Greater victory in store for DPRK led by brilliant commander."



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Olympic boycott. Steve Yates @YatesDCIA, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-12-07T01:34:20

Photo:  In 1933, the United States and other western democracies began to question the morality of supporting the Olympic Games hosted by the regime. Here,Listen
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#AfterAfghanistan: Hunting Al Qaeda in Syria. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal @FDD from 2021-12-07T01:33:25

Photo:  Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham.  Photo of destruction in Hama following the Hama Massacre in 1982. Photograph shows the destroyed Al-Nuri Mosque, on the western bank of the Orontes River, next ...

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#AfterAfghanistan: Taliban murders. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal @FDD from 2021-12-07T01:31:06

Photo:   Massacre of the Innocents






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#Ukraine: Ukraine POV of 175,000 troops at the borders. H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-12-06T00:41:30

Photo:    Armed men without insignia (so-called "little green men") at Simferopol Airport, 28 February 2014

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#ClassicZimmerman: Europa Clipper, 2030 A.D. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-12-06T00:41:04

Photo: NASA's Europa Clipper will conduct detailed reconnaissance of Jupiter's moon Europa and investigate whether the icy moon could have conditions suitable for life.  




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2/2: #ClassicRichardEpstein: The New Deal and the Takings Clause. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-12-06T00:40:49

Photo: The U.S. Supreme Court first examined federal eminent domain power in 1876 in Kohl v. United States.  Justice William Strong called the authority of the federal government to a...

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1/2: #ClassicRichardEpstein: The New Deal and the Takings Clause. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-12-06T00:40:43

Photo: The Bill of Rights in the National Archives

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#ClassicHotelMars: MOXIE on Mars. Michael Hecht @MIT @NASA David Livingston, SpaceShow.com #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-12-06T00:40:32

Photo:   MOXIE highlighted on the Mars 2020 Rover



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David Grantham #Unbound. (Intell.) The complete, forty-minute interview, April 5, 2021. from 2021-12-06T00:16:54

Photo:   Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. Lieutenant Day, intelligence officer.








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Marilyn Brookwood. #UNBOUND: Eugenics and orphans. The complete, forty-minute interview. October 13, 2021. @MarilynBrookwo1 @wwnorton from 2021-12-06T00:09:32

Photo:  Eugenics supporters hold signs criticizing various "genetically inferior" groups. Wall Street, New York, c. 1915.


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#Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus observe that the 21st Century Covid-19 tragedy begins to resemble the plague years in the Roman Empire. Michael Vlahos. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-12-05T02:35:06

Photo:  The angel of death striking a door during the plague of Rome



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#Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus compare Marcus Aurelius confronting the German tribes to the Ukraine crisis. Michael Vlahos. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-12-05T02:34:51

Photo:  Column of Marcus Aurelius German council of war depicted on the column – considered early evidence of what would b...

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#Omicron: Limited to 12 bottles of champagne per person for Christmas during the pandemic. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-12-05T02:33:07

Photo: Corking a Champagne bottle: 1855 engraving of the manual method



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2/2: #ClassicRichardEpstein: Filibuster Watch. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-12-05T02:17:23

Photo: For comparative purposes: filibuster in the Hungarian Parliament on 13 December 1904.



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Christopher Mason, #UNBOUND, The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds | Apr 20, 2021 from 2021-12-05T02:13:06

Photo:  The 70-meter-wide radio antenna at the Deep Space Network's Canberra facility in Australia.



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Mark Piesing, #UNBOUND, the complete, forty-minute interview, Arctic exploration; August 28, 2021 from 2021-12-05T02:10:25

Photo:  Arctic tern.  "No moss grows on this Arctic bird’s wings. One of the farthest-ranging fliers in the world, Arctic...

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2/2 #HotelMars: Planetary Defense, September 2022. Andy Rivkin @asrivkin, planetary astronomer on #TeamAsteroid, @JHUAPL. David Livingston @SpaceShow SpaceShow.com from 2021-12-04T04:53:32

Photo: The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), which will help determine if intentionally crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid is an effective way to change its course, is scheduled to ...

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1/4 The Unknowns: The Untold Story of America’s Unknown Soldier and WWI’s Most Decorated Heroes Who Brought Him Home, by Patrick K. O'Donnell from 2021-12-04T02:25:17

Photo:   Tomb of Unknown Soldier, Oct. 20, 1938






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1/2 #HotelMars: Planetary Defense, September 2022. Andy Rivkin @asrivkin, planetary astronomer on #TeamAsteroid, @JHUAPL. David Livingston @SpaceShow SpaceShow.com from 2021-12-04T02:21:01

Photo:  NASA SpaceX DART: First mission to defend Planet Earth








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Plastic Planet. Claire Casey, @EconomistImpact, the Sustainability Project, @TheEconomist from 2021-12-04T02:18:03

Photo:   Microplastic pollution; nist.gov






Plastic Planet.  Claire Casey, @EconomistImpact, the Sustainability Project, ...

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How much per year for Net Zero? Claire Casey, @TheEconomist, @EconomistImpact, the Sustainability Project from 2021-12-04T02:17:30

Photo:  Solar panels.

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Christmas in Rome watches out for Omicron. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation from 2021-12-04T02:13:08

Photo:  Christmas lights in Verona.  Buon Natale



Christmas in Rome watches out for Omicron.  Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation



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Inflation and the disconcerted @VerodeRugy @Mercatus from 2021-12-04T02:11:45

 Photo: 1904 cartoon warning attendees of the St. Louis World's Fair of hotel room price gouging





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#PacificWatch: Organized Crime vs California Law Enforcement. Jeff Bliss, @JCBliss from 2021-12-04T02:10:38

Photo:  Los Angeles Times newspaper in 1917. Pictured in the top right corner are Sam Matranga and Tony Buccola. The draw...

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#SmallBusinessAmerica: Typewriters are the new new. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2021-12-04T02:00:26

Photo: Advertisement for a Caligraph typewriter from 1896.





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#SmallBusinessAmerica: Kiosks are the new employees. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2021-12-04T01:59:53

Photo:  "Having trouble hiring the optimal amount of staff? We help businesses generate thousands of dollars more in monthly revenue using iPad self-order kiosks." —Listen
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Omicron leads Oz to rethink. Scott Mayman @CBSNews from 2021-12-04T01:57:27

Photo:  The doctors’ defense against infection, several plagues ago.




Omicron leads Oz to rethink.  Scott Mayman @CBSNews


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The virus and recovery facts changed. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion from 2021-12-04T01:51:11

Photo:   The United States Delivers COVID-19 Vaccine Doses to Taiwan







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1/2 The Biden Administration accuses Big Oil. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2021-12-03T01:59:04

Photo:  Illustration shows a Standard Oil storage tank as an octopus with many tentacles wrapped around the steel, copper, and shipping industries, as well as a state house, the U.S. Capitol, ...

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The trouble in the Western Sahara. Nicholas Pelham @NicholasPelham @TheEconomist from 2021-12-03T01:55:06

Photo:  The official United Nations map of the MINURSO peacekeeping mission shows that the border crossing at Listen
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Newsom rising. Bill Whalen @WashingtonPost @HooverWhalen from 2021-12-03T01:54:42

Photo:  2019-Native-American-Day-Proclamation by Governor Gavin Newsom, 23 Sept 2019.



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Is Iran walking away? Richard Goldberg @FDD. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-12-03T01:50:33

Photo:   A shamshir (Persian: ??????) is a type of curved Persian/ Listen
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90% Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres, @mhoenlein1 from 2021-12-03T01:50

Photo:  A billet of highly enriched uranium metal



90% Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres, @mhoenlein1


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The Kurds are broken-hearted about the migrants. David Pollock @David_Pollock; @WashingtonInstitute. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-12-03T01:48:46

Photo:  Al-Nasir Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub, better known simply as Salah ad-Din or Saladin, was a Sunni Muslim Kurd.



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Hamas strikes the West Bank. Yossi Kuperwasser @yossikup, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-12-03T01:47:17

Photo:  Che Guevara visiting Gaza in 1959





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Unsolved Ukraine remains a major threat to peace on Earth. Anatol Lieven @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst from 2021-12-03T01:46:47

Photo:  Crimean War, October 1853 - March 1856.   The Russian Empire lost to an alliance of France, Britain, the Ottoman Empire, and Sardinia.*



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Iran at the threshold. Behnam Ben Taleblu @FDD from 2021-12-03T01:46:10

Photo:  Star-Shaped Persian Tile, Thirteenth Century.




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Honduras returns the Zelayas to power. @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion from 2021-12-03T01:45:06

Photo:  A gully at Chigareni Bay, Fonseca, Central America, Honduras



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AMLO above the Constitution. @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion from 2021-12-03T01:44:41

Photo:  Gran calavera eléctrica1.  "Gran calavera eléctrica" (Grand electric skull) .Print shows large skeleton hypnotizi...

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Supply Chain Friendshoring; & What is to be done? John Ferguson @john_c_ferguson, @TheEconomist, @economistimpact. from 2021-12-03T01:43:41

Photo:  1886 factory





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The recovery hesitates at Omicron. Chris Riegel @Scala CEO, @STRATACACHE, #TheScalaReport from 2021-12-03T01:42:53

Photo:  Members of the American Red Cross removing a victim of the Spanish influenza from a house in 1918




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Canada at the NATO table. Conrad Black @ConradMBlack @NationalPost from 2021-12-03T01:41:44

Photo:  Logo of NATO and Canadian flag.





Canada at the NATO table. Conrad Black @ConradMBlack @NationalPost



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#Ukraine: Just like a Cold War stand-off. Jeff McCausland @mccauslJ @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2021-12-03T01:41:07

Photo:  East German construction workers building the Berlin Wall.





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Moscow seeks "Precrime to the rescue!" @Felix_Light @CBSnews from 2021-12-02T01:56:24

Photo: Sanctions and world trade:  Punishment. 

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Modi bows to the 211 million farmers. Sadanand @Dhume @WSJOpinion from 2021-12-02T01:55:54

Photo:  Farmers' Protest at Tikri Border, 18 January 2021.

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Modi bows to the 211 million farmers. Sadanand @Dhume @WSJOpinion



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Ingenuity soars 16th time. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-12-02T01:55:13

Photo:  Ingenuity hanging from the belly of the Perseverance rover during deployment to the Martian surface.

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#NewWorldReport: The return to Machu Picchu and a mummy. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis @revanellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. from 2021-12-02T01:23:20

Photo:  Ruins of Machu Picchu (Unsplash)

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#NewWorldReport: The Biden Administration and FARC. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis @revanellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. from 2021-12-02T01:21:29

Photo:  Execution of the authors of the attack against President Reyes, 1907





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#NewWorldReport: Where will Hernandez go? Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis @revanellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. from 2021-12-02T01:21:06

Photo: Honduras

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#NewWorldReport: Honduras votes same as the old boss. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis @revanellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. from 2021-12-02T01:20:38

Photo:  A Maya stela, an emblematic symbol of the Honduran Mayan civilization at Copan

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PRC Space Supremacy. Brandon Weichert, @WeTheBrandon, of The Weichert Report and author of Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower from 2021-12-02T01:19:41

Photo:  Long March 5;  Wiki Commons photo

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Tibet holds on. Bhuchung Tsering @BuchungTsering, vice president of the International Campaign for Tibet from 2021-12-02T01:19:01

Photo:  Tsam ceremony at the Gusinoozersky datsan. 1880s.

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Japan will fight. Stephen Yates @YatesDCIA, former deputy national security advisor to Vice President Cheney and currently CEO of DC International Advisory from 2021-12-02T01:18:31

Photo:  Japanese woman making a plane, 1943




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Red Line Ukraine. Bradley Bowman @Brad_L_Bowman, @FDD, Former @WestPointSosh, Former @USArmy officer from 2021-12-02T01:17:58

Photo:  Construction of Dneproges in Zaporozhye, Ukraine (long ago)

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Reawakening Martins Ferry, Ohio, with a hospital. SalenaZito.com @SalenaZito @DCExaminer from 2021-12-02T01:17:26


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Markets look to be higher by year's end. Simon Constable @RealConstable @Forbes from 2021-12-02T01:15:37

Photo:  Illustration from a century ago shows a sled labelled "Wall Street" being pulled by a bull and a bear, racing through the snow on a winter night, being chased by a wolf with the face o...

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#Omicron: Omicron in Scotland. Simon Constable @Scotsman @RealConstable from 2021-12-02T01:14:30

Photo:  Enlargement of the endemic mumps virus. 

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VERITAS and DAVINCI to Venus. David Grinspoon @DrFunkySpoon, Planetary Science Institute from 2021-12-01T01:23:58

Photo: Venus statue,  Giorgis Venus, 1/3/21




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Venera-D to Venus from Roscosmos and NASA. David Grinspoon @DrFunkySpoon, Planetary Science Institute from 2021-12-01T01:23:31

Photo:  Venera-D (??????-?)

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Maximum Carrots at Vienna. @RichGoldberg @FDD from 2021-12-01T01:22:45

Photo: Edwardian fantasy.  (Daucus carota)




Maximum Carrots at Vienna. @RichGoldberg @FDD



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Putin's choices. @AmbJohnBolton from 2021-12-01T01:22:07

Photo:  Created during the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) by a student at Keio University, this propaganda map presents a negative image of the Russian Empire. It is depicted as an over reachi...

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Ethiopian army on the march. Gregory Copley @Gregory_Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-12-01T01:21:38

Photo: The Emperor Haile Selassie




Ethiopian army on the march. Gregory Copley @Gregory_Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs



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Peak Coal PRC. Gregory Copley @Gregory_Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-12-01T01:21:02

Photo:  Artwork: A Load of Coal, China 1945. Artist: John G. Hanlen. US Army Art Collection.




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Taiwan pushes back with submarines. @MaryKissel from 2021-12-01T01:20:24





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The PRC brutes exposed to the world. @MaryKissel from 2021-12-01T01:19:45

Photo:  Lü Bu  (died 7 February 199), [a] courtesy name ...

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Eight Hundred Lords. Adrian Wooldridge, Bagehot @TheEconomist from 2021-12-01T01:19:13

Photo:  An early 19th-century illustration showing the east wall of the House of Lords in the centre.




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Court and Country, 21st Century. Adrian Wooldridge, Bagehot @TheEconomist from 2021-12-01T01:18:45

Photo:  Royal carriage




Court and Country, 21st Century. Adrian Wooldridge, Bagehot @TheEconomist



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United States of Jones Act. Christine McDaniel @christinemcdan; @mercatus from 2021-12-01T01:17:59

Photo:  Peterbilt—arguably the best truck in the US—is a critical element in the supply chain;  here, in Nevada.




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Long Island Centrist for Governor. Harry Siegel @harrysiegel from 2021-12-01T01:17:17

Photo:  The original Certificate of Election of John Jay as Governor of New York (June 6, 1795)




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Erdogan the Hostage-Taker. @aykanerdemir @aykan_erdemir @FDD @ADL from 2021-12-01T01:15:53

Photo:   A British armoured railway wagon behind a railcar on which two Arab hostages are seated, Palestine Mandate, 1936
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The New Berlin Traffic Light. Tom Nuttall, @TheEconomist, @EconUS from 2021-12-01T01:15:10

Photo:  Political system of Germany

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  legislative  green

  judiciary     yellow

  electoral     gray

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The facts have changed. @LizPeek @TheHill from 2021-12-01T01:14:31

Photo:  "Annual income twenty pounds; annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, — result misery." — Wilkins Micawber
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Inflation rules two continents. @LizPeek from 2021-12-01T01:13:34

Photo:  Editorial cartoon drawing showing President Jimmy Carter as the biblical David confronting Goliath labeled "Inflation"; by Valtman '78.






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#ClassicZimmerman. Ingenuity survives! Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com June 2, 2021 from 2021-12-01T00:00

Photo:  This engineering drawing shows the location of the arm on NASA Curiosity rover, in addition to the arm turret, which holds two instruments and three tools. The arm places and holds tur...

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2/2: #ClassicRichardEpstein: Court-Packing stays in the picture. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2021-12-01T00:00

Photo:  Photograph showing President Theodore Roosevelt surrounded by members of Supreme Court congratulating him; large crowd behind them. 





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1/2: #ClassicRichardEpstein: Court-packing stays in the picture. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2021-12-01T00:00

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#NewWorldReport: Brazil's Prosperity vs EU's Protectionism. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave). Joseph Humire @JMHumire. @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-11-30T02:02:11

Photo:  Clóvis Arrault, Opening of the First National Exhibition of 1874 (in Brazil)





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#NewWorldReport: The FARC Remains Suspect. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave). Joseph Humire @JMHumire. @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-11-30T02:01:41

Photo:  FARC guerrillas marching in formation during the Caguan peace talks (1998–2002)  (public domain)





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#NewWorldReport: Peru's Castillo Is in Retreat. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave). Joseph Humire @JMHumire. @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-11-30T02:00:25

#NewWorldReport:  Peru's Castillo Is in Retreat. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave). Joseph Humire @JMHumire.   @SecureFreeSoc



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PLA Y-21 tanker vs Democracy. Jonathan Ward @jonathandtward, author of China's Vision of Victory. @GordonGChang from 2021-11-30T01:59

Photo:  An earlier version:   A starboard-side view of a Soviet Tu-16 [Tupolev; superior aircraft] Badger-A tanker aircraft refueling a Badger-C strike aircraft in flight. From Soviet Military...

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Solomon Islands Erupt. @CleoPaskal @GordonGChang from 2021-11-30T01:56:01

Photo:  Solomon Islands map, 1960





Solomon Islands Erupt.  @CleoPaskal @GordonGChang 



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"Indiana" Hoenlein and the 2100-year-old Lost Lead Sling of Tryphon. @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter from 2021-11-30T01:55:19

Photo:   Sling bullets and stones are a common find at Roman army battle sites in Europe. The largest are typically shaped like lemons and weigh up to 2 ounces (60 grams).*



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Iran demands. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter from 2021-11-30T01:54:55

Photo:  Ourmiah, Persia - Awaiting the Shah  Photo probably taken during visit of Ahmad Shah Qajar (1898-1930) to Urmia,...

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2/2 The Future of Everything. Tom Standage @Economist from 2021-11-30T01:54:17

Photo:   The Chinese emperor Zunchinius (probably Chóngzh?n) kills his daughter. Design drawing for a plate in Orientalische Reise-Beschreibung: Jürgen Andersen aus Schleßwig/ Der Anno Chr...

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1/2 The Future of Everything. Tom Standage @Economist from 2021-11-30T01:53:47

Photo:  Tyranny vs liberty.  



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Global rising up against the PRC Olympics. @JoshRogin @WashingtonPost from 2021-11-30T01:53:13

Photo:  Olympic Athletes





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Vaccine answers under way for late winter 2022. Gregory Zuckerman @WSJ from 2021-11-30T01:52:38

Photo:  Vaccination from the calf.   Charles Joseph Staniland, 1838-1916.




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Biblical Flooding by an "Atmospheric River" in British Columbia. Jonathan Roth @research_roth, RothResearch.com from 2021-11-30T01:50:51

Photo:  Satellite view of the storm on November 15, 2021 at 00 UTC.



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How does the Federal Reserve mitigate climate change? John Cochrane @HooverInst from 2021-11-30T01:50:21

Photo:  The Onion would have been a fair source of the concept of the Fed's regulating climate. Miz Omorova's proposal to bankrupt US energy corporations is in the air.  Here: Wilson ...

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#AfterAfghanistan: ISIS in Africa. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-11-30T01:49:35

Photo:   Calligraphic seal of ISIS's Central African Province.





#AfterAfghanistan: ISIS in Africa.   @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal



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Omicron in OZ. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. from 2021-11-30T00:10:03

Photo: Reclining Australian.  Lindt, J. W. (John William), 1845-1926, Photographer



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Border breakdown tragedy in fragile Nagorno-Karabakh; & What is to be done? Brenda Shaffer @ProfBShaffer @FDD from 2021-11-30T00:00:24

Photo:  Palace of the former ruler (khan) of Shusha. Taken from a postcard from the late 19th–early 20th century.



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The Biden Administration, the Clinton Administration talks and strong dollar talk. @JohnTamny @RealClearMarkets @Forbes from 2021-11-30T00:00:22

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Gregory Zuckerman #UNBOUND. The Complete Seventy-Seven Minute Interview. November 14, 2021. from 2021-11-29T03:30

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"Mother Treason" #Unbound. A story from the collection, _Gordon Liddy Is My Muse,_ by John Calvin Batchelor. The complete 67 minutes. Read by John Batchelor. from 2021-11-29T03:30

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#UkraineCrisis: NATO's POV; & What is to be done? H. J. Mackinder #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-29T03:00

Photo:  Mas?owski Jarema's opinion.



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#UkraineCrisis: Kiev's POV; & What is to be done? H. J. Mackinder #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-29T03:00

Photo: Mishchanska Church, Odessa.



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Devin Nunes #Unbound: Countdown to Socialism. The complete, twenty-six-minute interview, September 15, 2020 from 2021-11-29T02:20:34

Photo:  Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: photo from a gulag




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Charlie Pellegrino #Unbound: Vesuvius; the complete, twenty-minute interview, June 18, 2021. LXX GLXXG from 2021-11-29T02:17:29

Photo: Vesuvius eruption, 1767





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



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#ClassicHotelMars: What Use Colonies in Near Space? Rod Pyle, Ad Astra Magazine. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-29T01:24:14

Photo:   Artist's concept of a space colony.  Interior view. Art work: Don Davis. Credit: NASA Ames Research Center.





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2/2: #ClassicRichardEpstein: The SEC, Existential Climate Change, & What is to be done? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-29T01:13:02

Photo:  Winter landscape with frozen river; Holland, long ago.





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1/2: #ClassicRichardEpstein: The SEC, Existential Climate Change, & What is to be done? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-29T01:12:46

Photo:   Takes oath as S.E.C. Commissioner. Washington, D.C., Dec. 2. Rep. Edward C. Eicher of Iowa, recently appointed by President Roosevelt to be a member of the Securities and Exchanges Co...

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#Omicron: Alarms from Sydney to London to Milano. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales, Australia #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-28T03:25:28

Photo:   Melchiorre Gherardini, Piazza S. Babila, Milan, during the plague of 1630: plague carts carry the dead for burial.





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Fourteen Weeks after the Tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, November 22, 2021. @LongWarJournal. @Batchelorshow from 2021-11-28T00:11:28

Photo: Afghanistan flag, 1997-2001



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Thirteen Weeks after the Tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, November 15, 2021. @LongWarJournal. @Batchelorshow from 2021-11-28T00:10:36

Photo:  Map of Afghanistan, 1999



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Twelve Weeks after the Tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, November 8, 2021. @LongWarJournal. @Batchelorshow from 2021-11-28T00:09:59

Photo:  An Afghan man waved an Afghanistan national flag during a school opening ceremony in Marjah, Afghanistan, Sept. 16, 2011. The school opening provided Afghan children the opportunity to...

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Ten Weeks after the Tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, October 25, 2021. @LongWarJournal. @Batchelorshow from 2021-11-28T00:08:47

Photo:  Nawaz letter with seal, 300s or 400s.



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Nine Weeks after the Tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, October 18, 2021. @LongWarJournal. @Batchelorshow from 2021-11-28T00:08:16

 Photo:  Amir Abdur Rahman Khan, King of Afghanistan from 1880 to 1901, having dinner with his officials.



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Eight Weeks after the Tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, October 11, 2021. @LongWarJournal. @Batchelorshow from 2021-11-28T00:07:22

Photo:  The Shahzada on the march from Kandahar to Kabul. The Shahzada is the Prince, a son of Habibullah Khan, King of Afghanistan from 1901 to 1919.




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Seven Weeks after the Tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, October 4, 2021. @LongWarJournal. @Batchelorshow from 2021-11-28T00:06:32

Photo:  This photograph of British troops signaling is from an album of rare historical photographs depicting people and places associated with the Second Anglo-Afghan War.



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Six Weeks after the Tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, September 27, 2021. @LongWarJournal @Batchelorshow from 2021-11-28T00:06:01

Photo:  A British encampment in Dakka, Afghanistan.




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Five Weeks after the Tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, September 20, 2021. @LongWarJournal @Batchelorshow from 2021-11-28T00:04:50

Photo:  This photograph of a battery of mules is from an album of rare historical photographs depicting people and places associated with the Second Anglo-Afghan War. 



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Two Weeks after the Tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, August 30, 2021. @LongWarJournal. @BatchelorShow . from 2021-11-28T00:03:23

Photo:  Stamp of Afghanistan - 1961 - Pomegranate Punica granatum

 

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S4 Ep1832: #Ukraine: Putin aims for a summit with Biden; & What is to be done? H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. from 2021-11-27T02:07:07

Photo:  Russia



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#Ukraine: Putin aims for a summit with Biden & What is to be done? H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-27T02:07:07

Photo:  Russia



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S4 Ep1831: #Omicron: What we don't know is critical. @HenryIMiller HenryMillerMD.org @PacificResearch from 2021-11-27T00:31

Photo: Life-cycle of a typical virus (left to right);  following infection of a cell by a single virus, hundreds of offspring are released..





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#Omicron: What we don't know is critical. @HenryIMiller HenryMillerMD.org @PacificResearch #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-27T00:31

Photo: Life-cycle of a typical virus (left to right);  following infection of a cell by a single virus, hundreds of offspring are released..





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S4 Ep1831: #Omicron: Italy watching both the Fourth Wave and the unknown of Omnicron. Lorenzo Fiori, Anslado Foundation, Milan and Genoa. from 2021-11-27T00:30

Photo:  Medical masks.  A plebeian common denominator for us all.



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#Omicron: Italy watching both the Fourth Wave and the unknown of Omicron. Lorenzo Fiori, Anslado Foundation, Milan and Genoa. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-27T00:30

Photo:  Medical masks.  A plebeian common denominator for us all.



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S4 Ep1829: 4/4 James Tooley #Unbound: Really good schools. The complete, forty-minute interview. May 14, 2021. LXX. GLXXG from 2021-11-27T00:02

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S4 Ep1828: 4/4 Nicholas Thomas #Unbound Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific. Hardcover. The complete, forty-minute interview, June 15, 2021 from 2021-11-27T00:01

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S4 Ep1828: 3/4 Nicholas Thomas #Unbound Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific. Hardcover. The complete, forty-minute interview, June 15, 2021 from 2021-11-27T00:01

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S4 Ep1827: 4/4 Sophie Pedder #UNBOUND. Révolution Française, the complete forty-minute interview, July 17, 2021. from 2021-11-27T00:00

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S4 Ep1826: 6/8 Nick Lloyd, The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918 – March 30, 2021. Hardcover. from 2021-11-26T00:02

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S4 Ep1826: 3/4 Nicholas Wapshott @NWapshott #UNBOUND: Samuelson Friedman The complete, forty-minute interview, July 24, 2016. from 2021-11-26T00:01

Photo:   University of Chicago.  







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Photo:   Milton Friedman





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S4 Ep1826: 4/4 William Damon #UNBOUND (family; golf): The complete, forty-minute interview. July 3, 2021. from 2021-11-26T00:00

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S4 Ep1825: Hubble at the end of its tether. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-11-25T01:12:51

Photo:  Hubble Telescope.   Since its 1990 launch, Hubble has changed our fundamental understanding of the universe.










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Photo:  Hubble Telescope.   Since its 1990 launch, Hubble has changed our fundamental understanding of the universe.










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S4 Ep1825: Not since the 1990s inflation. Veronique deRugy @veroderugy, @GeorgeMasonU, @Mercatus from 2021-11-25T01:12:26

Photo:    US unemployment rate, 1978–2004.  1990 is at the center, on the gray vertical.

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Photo:    US unemployment rate, 1978–2004.  1990 is at the center, on the gray vertical.

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S4 Ep1825: #Ukraine: The next move. Jeff McCausland @mccauslJ @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2021-11-25T01:12:01

Photo: Two Ukrainian fellows

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S4 Ep1825: Snow falls on the unknowns of Russian deployment. Felix Light @CBSNews Moscow from 2021-11-25T01:10:58

Photo:   Russian positions on the Shipka Pass, in the Balkan Mountains in Bulgaria.



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Photo:   Russian positions on the Shipka Pass, in the Balkan Mountains in Bulgaria.



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S4 Ep1825: Scala Report Chris Riegel @Scala CEO, @STRATACACHE, #TheScalaReport Back to Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday office when? from 2021-11-25T01:10:20

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Scala Report Chris Riegel @Scala CEO, @STRATACACHE, #TheScalaReport Back to Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday office when? from 2021-11-25T01:10:20

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S4 Ep1825: Sinema, the Maverick heir. SalenaZito.com @SalenaZito @DCExaminer SalenaZito.com from 2021-11-25T01:08:28

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Sinema, the Maverick heir. SalenaZito.com @SalenaZito @DCExaminer SalenaZito.com from 2021-11-25T01:08:28

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S4 Ep1825: #NewWorldReport: Chile at the crossroad. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis @revanellis , U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute from 2021-11-25T01:02:47

Photo:  An image in, Chile: physical, political, social, industrial and commercial description of the Republic of Chile, by Carlos Tornero. 1903

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#NewWorldReport: Chile at the crossroad. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis @revanellis , U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute from 2021-11-25T01:02:47

Photo:  An image in, Chile: physical, political, social, industrial and commercial description of the Republic of Chile, by Carlos Tornero. 1903

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S4 Ep1825: #NewWorldReport: Biden Admin declares FARC reformed. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis @revanellis , U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute.@r from 2021-11-25T01:02:11

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S4 Ep1825: The virus returns with the snow in Northern Europe. Simon Constable @RealConstable @barronsonline @Forbes, Edinburgh from 2021-11-25T01:01:46

Photo:  Snow in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, on 1 December 2010/.  Public domain.



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Photo:  Snow in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, on 1 December 2010/.  Public domain.



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S4 Ep1825: Energy prices continue higher. Simon Constable @RealConstable @barronsonline @Forbes, Edinburgh from 2021-11-25T01:01:15

Photo:  Burning of natural gases at an oil drilling site, presumably at Pangkalan Brandan, East Coast of Sumatra - circa 1905






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Photo:  Burning of natural gases at an oil drilling site, presumably at Pangkalan Brandan, East Coast of Sumatra - circa 1905






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S4 Ep1825: Climb down PRC banking. Charles Ortel @CharlesOrtel; @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-11-25T01:00:24

Photo: The hundred-year-old bank; here:  Bank of England parlor in the 19th century. First published in Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude,...

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Photo: The hundred-year-old bank; here:  Bank of England parlor in the 19th century. First published in Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude,...

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S4 Ep1825: The Submarine Fleet Gap; & What is to be done?. James Holmes, @NavalWarCollege. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-11-25T00:59:56

Photo:  U.S. sailors with the Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) Detachment of Commander, Task Group (CTG) 56.1 guide a UUV after lowering it into the water June 5, 2013, in the Persian Gulf of...

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The Submarine Fleet Gap; & What is to be done?. James Holmes, @NavalWarCollege. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-11-25T00:59:56

Photo:  U.S. sailors with the Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) Detachment of Commander, Task Group (CTG) 56.1 guide a UUV after lowering it into the water June 5, 2013, in the Persian Gulf of...

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S4 Ep1825: Purloined PRC stealth. Rick Fisher, International Assessment and Strategy Center. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-11-25T00:59:25

Photo:  The Statute of Anne, also known as the Copyright Act 1710, is an act of the Parliament of Great Britain passed in 1710, which was the first statute to provide for copyright regulated b...

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Photo:  The Statute of Anne, also known as the Copyright Act 1710, is an act of the Parliament of Great Britain passed in 1710, which was the first statute to provide for copyright regulated b...

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S4 Ep1825: PRC Hostage Tape. Charles Burton @cburton001, MacDonald-Laurier Institute. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-11-25T00:58:55

Photo:   Two American hostages in Iran hostage crisis, 4 November 1979





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PRC Hostage Tape. Charles Burton @cburton001, MacDonald-Laurier Institute. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-11-25T00:58:55

Photo:   Two American hostages in Iran hostage crisis, 4 November 1979





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S4 Ep1824: #LondonCalling: Sharks vs Seals in the reborn Thames River. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion auu from 2021-11-24T01:23:51

Photo:  "A Drop of Thames Water", a cartoon by Punch magazine, 1850





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#LondonCalling: Sharks vs Seals in the reborn Thames River. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion auu from 2021-11-24T01:23:51

Photo:  "A Drop of Thames Water", a cartoon by Punch magazine, 1850





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S4 Ep1824: #LondonCalling: Government regulation and the American inflation of the last two years. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion lth from 2021-11-24T01:23:23

Photo:  The administrative state: The 18th century Department of Excise developed a sophisticated bureaucracy. Pictured, the <...

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#LondonCalling: Government regulation and the American inflation of the last two years. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion lth from 2021-11-24T01:23:23

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S4 Ep1824: #LondonCalling: Government regulation and the Japan deflation of the last 30 years. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-11-24T01:22:50

Photo:  Misplaced economy.  http://www.loc.gov/





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#LondonCalling: Government regulation and the Japan deflation of the last 30 years. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-11-24T01:22:50

Photo:  Misplaced economy.  http://www.loc.gov/





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S4 Ep1824: #LondonCalling: Virus and Vax Wars. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-11-24T01:22:16

Photo: Types of viruses





#LondonCalling: Virus and Vax Wars. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion





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#LondonCalling: Virus and Vax Wars. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-11-24T01:22:16

Photo: Types of viruses





#LondonCalling: Virus and Vax Wars. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion





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S4 Ep1824: Into Ethiopian battle history. Gregory Copley , @Gregory_Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-11-24T01:21:30

Photo: The great, grand Battle of Adwa, the climactic battle of the First Italo-Ethiopian War, in which the Ethiopian forc...

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Into Ethiopian battle history. Gregory Copley , @Gregory_Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-11-24T01:21:30

Photo: The great, grand Battle of Adwa, the climactic battle of the First Italo-Ethiopian War, in which the Ethiopian forc...

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#StateThinking: Peng is a hostage. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc. from 2021-11-24T01:19:27

Photo:  Hostage Rescue Team agents





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S4 Ep1824: Andrew Cuomo will becloud New York in 2022. Harry Siegel @harrysiegel from 2021-11-24T01:18:02

Photo:   Muddy roadway



Andrew Cuomo will becloud New York in 2022. Harry Siegel  @harrysiegel  



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Andrew Cuomo will becloud New York in 2022. Harry Siegel @harrysiegel from 2021-11-24T01:18:02

Photo:   Muddy roadway



Andrew Cuomo will becloud New York in 2022. Harry Siegel  @harrysiegel  



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The lingering falsehood of the Steele dossier is an intelligence failure. Paul Gregory @HooverInst @TheHill from 2021-11-24T01:17:17




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S4 Ep1824: Russia believes it is a besieged fortress. Judy Dempsey , @Judy_Dempsey, Strategic Europe. Carnegie Endowment for Peace from 2021-11-24T01:16:40

Photo:  Kapurga





Russia believes it is a besieged fortress.  Judy Dempsey, @Judy_Dempsey., Strategic Europe. Carnegie Endowment for Peace



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Russia believes it is a besieged fortress. Judy Dempsey , @Judy_Dempsey, Strategic Europe. Carnegie Endowment for Peace from 2021-11-24T01:16:40

Photo:  Kapurga





Russia believes it is a besieged fortress.  Judy Dempsey, @Judy_Dempsey., Strategic Europe. Carnegie Endowment for Peace



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S4 Ep1824: Poland and the Baltic States are a clear-eyed frontline. Judy Dempsey , @Judy_Dempsey, Strategic Europe. Carnegie Endowment for Peace from 2021-11-24T01:13:27

Photo:   Finds of the Sudauen group of the West Baltic culture; from late Roman times.







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Poland and the Baltic States are a clear-eyed frontline. Judy Dempsey , @Judy_Dempsey, Strategic Europe. Carnegie Endowment for Peace from 2021-11-24T01:13:27

Photo:   Finds of the Sudauen group of the West Baltic culture; from late Roman times.







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S4 Ep1823: Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 75. Peter Berkowitz @BerkowitzPeter from 2021-11-24T01:06:32

Photo:  Universal Declaration of Human Rights held by Eleanor Roosevelt (here: in Spanish).







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Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 75. Peter Berkowitz @BerkowitzPeter from 2021-11-24T01:06:32

Photo:  Universal Declaration of Human Rights held by Eleanor Roosevelt (here: in Spanish).







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S4 Ep1823: Inflation and gas prices collapse Biden's independent approval. Liz Peek @FoxNews from 2021-11-24T01:05:18

Photo:  Ups and downs of opinion polling: 1784





Inflation and gas prices collapse Biden's independent approval. Liz Peek @FoxNews 




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Inflation and gas prices collapse Biden's independent approval. Liz Peek @FoxNews from 2021-11-24T01:05:18

Photo:  Ups and downs of opinion polling: 1784





Inflation and gas prices collapse Biden's independent approval. Liz Peek @FoxNews 




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S4 Ep1823: Powell and Brainard are doves. Liz Peek @FoxNews from 2021-11-24T01:04:44

Photo:  Zenaida macroura (common names: Mourning Dove, Turtle Dove) pair in winter.



Powell and Brainard are doves. Liz Peek @FoxNews



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Powell and Brainard are doves. Liz Peek @FoxNews from 2021-11-24T01:04:44

Photo:  Zenaida macroura (common names: Mourning Dove, Turtle Dove) pair in winter.



Powell and Brainard are doves. Liz Peek @FoxNews



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S4 Ep1822: China's nuclear weapons; & What is to be done by the Biden Administration? @AmbJohnBolton from 2021-11-23T01:35:37

Photo:  Shenzhou-13 spacecraft and the PRC's impressive, across-the-board military development (from a video)



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China's nuclear weapons; & What is to be done by the Biden Administration? @AmbJohnBolton from 2021-11-23T01:35:37

Photo:  Shenzhou-13 spacecraft and the PRC's impressive, across-the-board military development (from a video)



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S4 Ep1822: Pay cut for the troops '22 and '23. Francis Rose @FRoseDC @DailyScoop from 2021-11-23T01:35:07

Photo: William Faulkner's first published novel.  Fair use.



Pay cut for the troops '22 and '23.  Francis Rose @FRoseDC   @DailyScoop



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Pay cut for the troops '22 and '23. Francis Rose @FRoseDC @DailyScoop from 2021-11-23T01:35:07

Photo: William Faulkner's first published novel.  Fair use.



Pay cut for the troops '22 and '23.  Francis Rose @FRoseDC   @DailyScoop



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S4 Ep1822: Drones to the First Responder Rescue. Dana Wheeler, CEO Plymouth Rock Technologies. from 2021-11-23T01:31:43

Photo:   "Plymouth Rock Technologies' stand-off, sensor systems and associated platforms detect and identify threats at extended ranges to support a wide range of missions on land, in the air,...

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Drones to the First Responder Rescue. Dana Wheeler, CEO Plymouth Rock Technologies. from 2021-11-23T01:31:43

Photo:   "Plymouth Rock Technologies' stand-off, sensor systems and associated platforms detect and identify threats at extended ranges to support a wide range of missions on land, in the air,...

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S4 Ep1822: "Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Maccabee Fortress. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-11-23T01:29:30

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"Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Maccabee Fortress. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-11-23T01:29:30

Photo:  Mattathias [Hasmonean] of Modi'in killing a Jewish apostate, engraving by Listen
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S4 Ep1822: Britain condemns Hamas. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-11-23T01:28:22

Photo:  Aftermath of 1996 Jaffa Road bus bombings in which 26 people were killed



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Britain condemns Hamas. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-11-23T01:28:22

Photo:  Aftermath of 1996 Jaffa Road bus bombings in which 26 people were killed



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S4 Ep1822: #NewWorldReport: Puerto Rico solves Covid-19. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave). Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-11-23T01:25:45

Photo:  Where to find the vaccine in Puerto Rico.



"Puerto Rico has managed to administer more than 4.8 million vaccine doses. "



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#NewWorldReport: Puerto Rico solves Covid-19. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave). Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-11-23T01:25:45

Photo:  Where to find the vaccine in Puerto Rico.



"Puerto Rico has managed to administer more than 4.8 million vaccine doses. "



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S4 Ep1822: #NewWorldReport: Chile on the edge of redistribution. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave). Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-11-23T01:25:14

Photo:  Chilean shoemaker, 1903.



#NewWorldReport:  Chile on the edge of redistribution.  Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave). Joseph Humire @JMHumire @Sec...

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#NewWorldReport: Chile on the edge of redistribution. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave). Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-11-23T01:25:14

Photo:  Chilean shoemaker, 1903.



#NewWorldReport:  Chile on the edge of redistribution.  Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave). Joseph Humire @JMHumire @Sec...

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S4 Ep1822: #NewWorldReport: Venezuela sham. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave). Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-11-23T01:24:26

Photo:  Members of the Revolutionary Government Junta of Venezuela, from left to right: Mario Ricardo Vargas, Raúl Leoni, Valmore Rodríguez, Rómulo Betancourt, Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, Edmundo...

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#NewWorldReport: Venezuela sham. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave). Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-11-23T01:24:26

Photo:  Members of the Revolutionary Government Junta of Venezuela, from left to right: Mario Ricardo Vargas, Raúl Leoni, Valmore Rodríguez, Rómulo Betancourt, Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, Edmundo...

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S4 Ep1822: Marriott surrenders to genocide. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. Nury Turkel, @nuryturkel, commissioner at the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom from 2021-11-23T01:19:32

Photo:  19th-century Khotan Uyghurs in Yettishar



Marriott surrenders to genocide. 

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Marriott surrenders to genocide. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. Nury Turkel, @nuryturkel, commissioner at the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom from 2021-11-23T01:19:32

Photo:  19th-century Khotan Uyghurs in Yettishar



Marriott surrenders to genocide. 

@GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill.   Nury Turkel, @nury...

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S4 Ep1822: Disappearing Peng Shuai. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. Cleo Paskal, non-resident Fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies from 2021-11-23T01:17:16

Photo:  Long-ago tennis tournament.



Disappearing Peng Shuai.  @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill.   Cleo Paskal, non-resident Fellow at the Foundati...

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Disappearing Peng Shuai. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. Cleo Paskal, non-resident Fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies from 2021-11-23T01:17:16

Photo:  Long-ago tennis tournament.



Disappearing Peng Shuai.  @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill.   Cleo Paskal, non-resident Fellow at the Foundati...

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S4 Ep1822: #AfterAfghanistan: ISIS grows in Africa. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal @FDD from 2021-11-23T01:12:19

Photo:  The calligraphic seal of ISIS's Central African Province.



#AfterAfghanistan: ISIS grows in Africa.   @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal  @FDD...

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#AfterAfghanistan: ISIS grows in Africa. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal @FDD from 2021-11-23T01:12:19

Photo:  The calligraphic seal of ISIS's Central African Province.



#AfterAfghanistan: ISIS grows in Africa.   @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal  @FDD...

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S4 Ep1822: #AfterAfghanistan: Afghanistan Taliban fails. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal @FDD from 2021-11-23T01:11:07

Photo: Talibat; a border guard in 2001





#AfterAfghanistan: Afghanistan Taliban fails.  @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal  @FDD

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#AfterAfghanistan: Afghanistan Taliban fails. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal @FDD from 2021-11-23T01:11:07

Photo: Talibat; a border guard in 2001





#AfterAfghanistan: Afghanistan Taliban fails.  @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal  @FDD

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S4 Ep1821: Jerry Hendrix #Unbound: Naval primacy. The complete, forty-minute interview, March 23, 2021 from 2021-11-22T03:20:46

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#PacificWatch: The Streets of Walnut Creek. @JCBliss #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-22T03:02:34

Photo: A man stabbing another man in the chest while his associates loot a store, from a broadside entitled 'The theft at La Profesa'




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S4 Ep1820: #PacificWatch: The Streets of Walnut Creek. @JCBliss #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-22T03:02:34

Photo: A man stabbing another man in the chest while his associates loot a store, from a broadside entitled 'The theft at La Profesa'




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Jeff McCausland #Unbound. Gettysburg Leadership—the complete, forty-minute interview. May 21, 2021. from 2021-11-22T01:41:03

Photo:   Gettysburg July 2nd. The Union and Rebel forces in the cemetery. [sic; see below]



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S4 Ep1819: Jeff McCausland #Unbound. Gettysburg Leadership—the complete, forty-minute interview. May 21, 2021. from 2021-11-22T01:41:03

Photo:   Gettysburg July 2nd. The Union and Rebel forces in the cemetery. [sic; see below]



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Tax cuts for the super-rich from the Biden Administration Build Back Better Build Back Better. @DevinNunes CA-22 #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-22T01:33:59

Photo:  Der Rych Man, by Hans Holbein the Younger





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Tax cuts for the super rich from the Biden Administration Build Back Better...

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S4 Ep1818: Tax cuts for the super-rich from the Biden Administration Build Back Better Build Back Better. @DevinNunes CA-22 #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-22T01:33:59

Photo:  Der Rych Man, by Hans Holbein the Younger





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Breakthroughs of the vaccines; & What is to be done? @DevinNunes CA-22 #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-22T01:31:15

Photo: "Gare la vaccine" - "Beware the vaccine"

             Triumph of the little pox

             Anonymous XIXe engraver.





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S4 Ep1818: Breakthroughs of the vaccines; & What is to be done? @DevinNunes CA-22 #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-22T01:31:15

Photo: "Gare la vaccine" - "Beware the vaccine"

             Triumph of the little pox

             Anonymous XIXe engraver.





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The climbing price of energy in California. @DevinNunes CA-22 #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-22T01:29:14

Photo: Electric power station, Netherlands, last century



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S4 Ep1818: The climbing price of energy in California. @DevinNunes CA-22 #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-22T01:29:14

Photo: Electric power station, Netherlands, last century



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La Niña confirmed in South Australia, Perth to Sydney. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-22T01:27:09

Photo:  The cold pool of water in the Pacific known as La Nina is beginning to fade, but ocean conditions have not returned to normal, according to scientists studying images from the U.S.-Fre...

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S4 Ep1818: La Niña confirmed in South Australia, Perth to Sydney. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-22T01:27:09

Photo:  The cold pool of water in the Pacific known as La Nina is beginning to fade, but ocean conditions have not returned to normal, according to scientists studying images from the U.S.-Fre...

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100,000 Russian troops in 100 battalion tactical groups on the edge of Ukraine. H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-22T01:24:01

Photo: "At the fortress wall" (? ?????????? ?????):  By the Fortress Wall. "Let Them Enter" (1871) by Vasili Vereshchagin. Pain...

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S4 Ep1818: 100,000 Russian troops in 100 battalion tactical groups on the edge of Ukraine. H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-22T01:24:01

Photo: "At the fortress wall" (? ?????????? ?????):  By the Fortress Wall. "Let Them Enter" (1871) by Vasili Vereshchagin. Pain...

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#Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus watch NATO poke the Russian bear in the Black Sea; & What is to be done? Michael Vlahos. from 2021-11-21T03:25:37

Photo: Russian warship in the Black Sea, shadowing the USS Porter, which was sailing from Batumi to Constanta.



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#Londinium90AD...

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S4 Ep1817: #Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus watch NATO poke the Russian bear in the Black Sea; & What is to be done? Michael Vlahos. from 2021-11-21T03:25:37

Photo: Russian warship in the Black Sea, shadowing the USS Porter, which was sailing from Batumi to Constanta.



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#Londinium90AD...

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#Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus speak of Kabul and of the Caesar's siege of the innocents at Alesia; & What is to be done? Michael Vlahos. from 2021-11-21T03:25:35

Photo:   Vercingetorix Throws Down his Arms at the Feet of Julius Caesar, painted by Lionel Royer in 1899, now in the Listen
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S4 Ep1817: #Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus speak of Kabul and of the Caesar's siege of the innocents at Alesia; & What is to be done? Michael Vlahos. from 2021-11-21T03:25:35

Photo:   Vercingetorix Throws Down his Arms at the Feet of Julius Caesar, painted by Lionel Royer in 1899, now in the Listen
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S4 Ep1817: 3a/12: #DurhamReporting: Excusing and defending the Steele Dossier. Svetlana Lokhova. @RealSLokhova #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-21T03:25:28

Photo:   The Russian Ambassador to Washington from 2008 to 2017, Sergey Kislyak (far right), poses for a picture after the astronaut William Shepherd was awarded the Russian Medal for Merit in...

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S4 Ep1817: 3b/12: #DurhamReporting: The next revelations. Svetlana Lokhova. @RealSLokhova #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-21T03:25:28

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Anciently: The Report on the Affairs of British North America, commonly known as the Durham Report or Lord Durham's Report, is an important document in the history of Quebec, O...

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#GreatMigration: Recalling the Lithuanian Border with Belarus, July 2021. Michael Yon. Locals.com from 2021-11-21T03:25:10

Photo: Kryvichy, Minsk Oblast, Byelarus; XV Century.   A miniature from the Medieval Radzivill Chronicle showing an ancient tribe, the Radimichs




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S4 Ep1817: #GreatMigration: Recalling the Lithuanian Border with Belarus, July 2021. Michael Yon. Locals.com from 2021-11-21T03:25:10

Photo: Kryvichy, Minsk Oblast, Byelarus; XV Century.   A miniature from the Medieval Radzivill Chronicle showing an ancient tribe, the Radimichs




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The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds, by Christopher E. Mason | Apr 20, 2021 from 2021-11-21T00:27:33

Photo:   The Antennae Galaxies are an example of a starburst galaxy occurring from the collision of NGC 4038/NGC 4039. Credit: Listen
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S4 Ep1816: The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds, by Christopher E. Mason | Apr 20, 2021 from 2021-11-21T00:27:33

Photo:   The Antennae Galaxies are an example of a starburst galaxy occurring from the collision of NGC 4038/NGC 4039. Credit: Listen
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Russell Shorto, Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob. #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, April 22, 2021. from 2021-11-21T00:06:05

Photo:  The chic  F. Illi Ponte restaurant, once on Desbrosses Street in Manhattan. 

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S4 Ep1815: Russell Shorto, Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob. #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, April 22, 2021. from 2021-11-21T00:06:05

Photo:  The chic  F. Illi Ponte restaurant, once on Desbrosses Street in Manhattan. 

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2/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Remembering the Stefan Halper origins, August 10-16, 2016. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety. @Batchelorshow from 2021-11-21T00:01

Photo:  Did Mr Halper's various medical problems generate his social hostility?





2/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Remembering the Stefan Halper origins, August 10-16, 2...

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S4 Ep1814: 12b/12 #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Lessons Learned after seven years of false witnessing. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-21T00:01

Photo:  Moses receiving the tablets, c. 1900, by Gebhard Fugel:

            Eighth Commandment: Thou shalt not bear false witness.

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S4 Ep1814: 12a/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Lessons Learned after seven years of false witnessing. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-21T00:01

Photo:  The Eighth Commandment:  Thou shalt not bear false witness.



Here:  Moses with the tables of the law in the midst of Israelites as 'portraits historiés' depicted by the...

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S4 Ep1814: 11/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: At CPAC 2020. Publishing Spygate Exposed January, 2021. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-21T00:01

 Photo:  The (truly glamorous) Svetlana Lokhova (center) receiving acclaim for her just-completed presentation at CPAC 2020.









11/12: #Cro...

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S4 Ep1814: 10/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Mueller investigation neither questioned nor contacted Svetlana Lokhova. Washington Post, July 24, 2019. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety. @Batchelorshow from 2021-11-21T00:01

Photo:  Mr Mueller's dilatory, incurious work methods. Here: a lazy evening at the club.





10/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Mueller investigation neither questioned nor...

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S4 Ep1814: 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. @Batchelorshow from 2021-11-21T00:01

Photo: Mr Halper's devotion to victuals and tipple





9/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Profile of "well-regarded academic who is also a patriot" Stefan Halper in the Wash...

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S4 Ep1814: 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. @Batchelorshow from 2021-11-21T00:01

Photo:  Book plate



8/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Book launch party with a pride of competing intelligence agents, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, May 18, 2018....

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S4 Ep1814: 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. @Batchelorshow from 2021-11-21T00:01

Photo:  WaPo, fair use



 

4/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Over three days, 2/28/17-3/4/17, Svetlana Lokhova is contacted by WSJ, WAPO, NYT, all of whom suspect h...

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S4 Ep1814: 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. @Batchelorshow from 2021-11-21T00:01

Photo:  Vladimir Putin with The Financial Times (2019-06-27) 




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S4 Ep1814: 2/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Remembering the Stefan Halper origins, August 10-16, 2016. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety. @Batchelorshow from 2021-11-21T00:01

Photo:  Did Mr Halper's various medical problems generate his social hostility?





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S4 Ep1814: 1/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Remembering the Peter Strzok origins, July 31, 2016. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety. @Batchelorshow from 2021-11-21T00:01

Photo:  1907 book.



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8/8 A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine, by Gregory Zuckerman @GZuckerman from 2021-11-20T01:26:14

Photo:  Coronaviruses are a group of viruses that have a halo, or crown-like (corona) appearance when viewed under an electron microscope.

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S4 Ep1813: 8/8 A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine, by Gregory Zuckerman @GZuckerman from 2021-11-20T01:26:14

Photo:  Coronaviruses are a group of viruses that have a halo, or crown-like (corona) appearance when viewed under an electron microscope.

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7/8 A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine, by Gregory Zuckerman @GZuckerman from 2021-11-20T01:25:17

Photo:  A novel solution





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S4 Ep1813: 7/8 A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine, by Gregory Zuckerman @GZuckerman from 2021-11-20T01:25:17

Photo:  A novel solution





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6/8 A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine, by Gregory Zuckerman @GZuckerman from 2021-11-20T01:23:39

Photo:  The Wuhan Institute of Virology, a logo





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S4 Ep1813: 6/8 A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine, by Gregory Zuckerman @GZuckerman from 2021-11-20T01:23:39

Photo:  The Wuhan Institute of Virology, a logo





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Photo:  Vaccination



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S4 Ep1813: 5/8 A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine, by Gregory Zuckerman - from 2021-11-20T01:13:21

Photo:  Vaccination



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4/8 A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine, by Gregory Zuckerman @GZuckerman from 2021-11-20T01:08:59

Photo: A somewhat lesser-known pharmaceutical firm:  ". . . how crucial it is to bring together people with different experiences and perspectives in the fight against COVID-19. At Mallinckrod...

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S4 Ep1813: 4/8 A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine, by Gregory Zuckerman @GZuckerman from 2021-11-20T01:08:59

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3/8 A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine, by Gregory Zuckerman @GZuckerman from 2021-11-20T01:08:02

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S4 Ep1813: 3/8 A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine, by Gregory Zuckerman @GZuckerman from 2021-11-20T01:08:02

Photo:  Lieutenant (junior grade) Natasha McClinton, a surgical nurse, prepares a patient for a procedure in the intensive care unit aboard the U.S. the hospital ship USNS Comfort. The ship ca...

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2/8 A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine, by Gregory Zuckerman @GZuckerman from 2021-11-20T01:06:51

Photo:   Respiratory system



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S4 Ep1813: 2/8 A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine, by Gregory Zuckerman @GZuckerman from 2021-11-20T01:06:51

Photo:   Respiratory system



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1/8 A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine, by Gregory Zuckerman @GZuckerman from 2021-11-20T01:05:34

Photo:   The threads of the Luer lock tip of this 12mL disposable syringe keep it securely connected to a tube or other apparatus.
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S4 Ep1813: 1/8 A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine, by Gregory Zuckerman @GZuckerman from 2021-11-20T01:05:34

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New Zealand's Rocket Lab to Virginia. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-11-20T00:50:05

Photo:  Electron.  

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S4 Ep1812: New Zealand's Rocket Lab to Virginia. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-11-20T00:50:05

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Hubble Methuselah. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-11-20T00:49:21

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S4 Ep1812: Hubble Methuselah. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-11-20T00:49:21

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S4 Ep1812: Scott Morrison Embraces Australia's High-Quality Coal. Scott Mayman @CBSNews Brisbane, Australia from 2021-11-20T00:48:32

Photo:   The mountains near Queenstown, Tasmania, completely denuded of vegetation through effects of mining



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Scott Morrison Embraces Australia's High-Quality Coal. Scott Mayman @CBSNews Brisbane, Australia from 2021-11-20T00:48:32

Photo:   The mountains near Queenstown, Tasmania, completely denuded of vegetation through effects of mining



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S4 Ep1812: Weaponizing Turkish Airlines for Lukashenko. @AykanErdemir @FDD from 2021-11-20T00:48:06

Photo:  Dutch Safety Board, the airport authority, reconstruction of the Turkish Airlines crash.   Video screen grab https:...

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Weaponizing Turkish Airlines for Lukashenko. @AykanErdemir @FDD from 2021-11-20T00:48:06

Photo:  Dutch Safety Board, the airport authority, reconstruction of the Turkish Airlines crash.   Video screen grab https:...

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S4 Ep1812: #SmallBusinessAmerica: Saturday 27— the Big Test! @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2021-11-20T00:47:21

Photo:  Post-Thanksgiving sales



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#SmallBusinessAmerica: Saturday 27— the Big Test! @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2021-11-20T00:47:21

Photo:  Post-Thanksgiving sales



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S4 Ep1812: Italy Warns of the Virus along the Austrian and Slovenian Frontiers. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation, Milano, Italia from 2021-11-20T00:45:48

Photo:  Beautiful Slovenia.



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Italy Warns of the Virus along the Austrian and Slovenian Frontiers. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation, Milano, Italia from 2021-11-20T00:45:48

Photo:  Beautiful Slovenia.



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S4 Ep1812: Voter Disapproval of Two Presidents. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion from 2021-11-20T00:45:07

Photo:  A cynical view of party competition for the working man's vote in the presidential campaign of 1852. In a polling place, four candidates struggle to force their own election ticket on ...

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Voter Disapproval of Two Presidents. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion from 2021-11-20T00:45:07

Photo:  A cynical view of party competition for the working man's vote in the presidential campaign of 1852. In a polling place, four candidates struggle to force their own election ticket on ...

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S4 Ep1811: The Poisoners and the Russian State. Dr Boris Borisovich Volodarsky, @BorisVolodarsky @BVolodarsky, Royal Historical Society auu. from 2021-11-19T02:05:32

Photo:  Print from Collier's, The National Weekly,



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Photo:  Print from Collier's, The National Weekly,



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S4 Ep1811: #HotelMars: All nominal reports from James Webb, Lucy and ISS. William Harwood @CBSNews. David Livingston, SpaceShow. from 2021-11-19T01:58:24

Photo:  ISS:  Roll-out of the Progress 24 vehicle occurred on schedule at 7:00 AM, Jan. 16, 2007 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.    The vehicle was in the vertical and hard-down at the...

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#HotelMars: All nominal reports from James Webb, Lucy and ISS. William Harwood @CBSNews. David Livingston, SpaceShow. from 2021-11-19T01:58:24

Photo:  ISS:  Roll-out of the Progress 24 vehicle occurred on schedule at 7:00 AM, Jan. 16, 2007 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.    The vehicle was in the vertical and hard-down at the...

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S4 Ep1811: Recognizing Sovereign State Candor about Coal. @ConradMBlack National Post HFN from 2021-11-19T01:57:40

Photo:  Image from page 849 of the journal Die Gartenlaube, 1892.



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Recognizing Sovereign State Candor about Coal. @ConradMBlack National Post HFN from 2021-11-19T01:57:40

Photo:  Image from page 849 of the journal Die Gartenlaube, 1892.



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S4 Ep1811: The unknown Fed plan for the rocky inflation road ahead. @VerodeRugy @Mercatus HFN from 2021-11-19T01:56:52

 Photo:  Price control. Auto repairs. Automobile repairing is one of the services controlled by Office of Price Administration (OPA) price ceilings because an actual commodity is involved. (19...

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The unknown Fed plan for the rocky inflation road ahead. @VerodeRugy @Mercatus HFN from 2021-11-19T01:56:52

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S4 Ep1811: What is the Biden Administration Plan B for Tehran? Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-11-19T01:56:24

Photo:  Streets of Tehran, 1800s   ?????:  ?????? ??? ?????





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What is the Biden Administration Plan B for Tehran? Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-11-19T01:56:24

Photo:  Streets of Tehran, 1800s   ?????:  ?????? ??? ?????





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S4 Ep1810: Tehran regime vulnerable. Mohsen Sazegara, @sazegara, is an Iranian journalist and pro-democracy political activist. from 2021-11-19T01:42:02

Photo: Vulnerable:  At Mozaffar al-Din's accession as Shah of Persia, he faced a financial crisis, with annual governmental expenditures far in excess of revenues as a result of the policies o...

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Tehran regime vulnerable. Mohsen Sazegara, @sazegara, is an Iranian journalist and pro-democracy political activist. from 2021-11-19T01:42:02

Photo: Vulnerable:  At Mozaffar al-Din's accession as Shah of Persia, he faced a financial crisis, with annual governmental expenditures far in excess of revenues as a result of the policies o...

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S4 Ep1810: Antisemitism plagues social media. U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D) Nevada from 2021-11-19T01:40:22

 Photo: The digital resurgence of a millennia-long madness:  1889 Paris, France elections poster for self-described "candidat antisémite" Listen
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Antisemitism plagues social media. U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D) Nevada from 2021-11-19T01:40:22

 Photo: The digital resurgence of a millennia-long madness:  1889 Paris, France elections poster for self-described "candidat antisémite" Listen
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S4 Ep1810: #NewWorldReport: The Cuban regime crushes the dissenters. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis @revanellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. from 2021-11-19T01:39:48

Photo:    In Cuba: n enslaved man lying face down and tied to a ladder, while other slaves watch as a black slavedriver whips the victim. 



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#NewWorldReport: The Cuban regime crushes the dissenters. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis @revanellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. from 2021-11-19T01:39:48

Photo:    In Cuba: n enslaved man lying face down and tied to a ladder, while other slaves watch as a black slavedriver whips the victim. 



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S4 Ep1810: #NewWorldReport: Argentina again votes for change. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis @revanellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. from 2021-11-19T01:38:44

Photo:  Calchaquí Vase from Andalgalá, Catamarca, in the Argentine Northwest.





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#NewWorldReport: Argentina again votes for change. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis @revanellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. from 2021-11-19T01:38:44

Photo:  Calchaquí Vase from Andalgalá, Catamarca, in the Argentine Northwest.





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S4 Ep1810: Elbridge Colby's defense of Taiwan. Peter Berkowitz @HooverInst @ElbridgeColby from 2021-11-19T01:37:09

Photo:   Selandia Fortress on Taiwan



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Elbridge Colby's defense of Taiwan. Peter Berkowitz @HooverInst @ElbridgeColby from 2021-11-19T01:37:09

Photo:   Selandia Fortress on Taiwan



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S4 Ep1810: #TheScalaReport: Are we too gloomy about the virus and the recovery? Chris Riegel, CEO @scala CEO, @STRATACACHE, #TheScalaReport from 2021-11-19T01:36:08

Photo:  Campaign button, President Gerald Ford as the Fonz





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#TheScalaReport: Are we too gloomy about the virus and the recovery? Chris Riegel, CEO @scala CEO, @STRATACACHE, #TheScalaReport from 2021-11-19T01:36:08

Photo:  Campaign button, President Gerald Ford as the Fonz





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S4 Ep1810: Ukraine is Armageddon-scale perilous. Anatol Lieven, @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst from 2021-11-19T01:35:32

Photo: The Cloisters, Apocalypse



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Ukraine is Armageddon-scale perilous. Anatol Lieven, @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst from 2021-11-19T01:35:32

Photo: The Cloisters, Apocalypse



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S4 Ep1810: The Belarus migrant tragedy empowers Lukashenko. Anatol Lieven, @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst from 2021-11-19T01:34:57

Photo:  Belarus stamp





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The Belarus migrant tragedy empowers Lukashenko. Anatol Lieven, @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst from 2021-11-19T01:34:57

Photo:  Belarus stamp





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China on Mars. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-11-18T01:56:22

Photo:  Rover and lander captured by HiRISE from NASA's Listen
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S4 Ep1809: China on Mars. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-11-18T01:56:22

Photo:  Rover and lander captured by HiRISE from NASA's Listen
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Artemis 2026. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-11-18T01:55:57

Photo:  The goddess Artemis (Diana).



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S4 Ep1809: Artemis 2026. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-11-18T01:55:57

Photo:  The goddess Artemis (Diana).



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Perhaps the fourth wave in Europe: & What is to be done? Simon Constable HFN from 2021-11-18T01:55:12

Photo: Plague victim in bed pointing out to three physicians the swelling, or boil, under his armpit 





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S4 Ep1809: Perhaps the fourth wave in Europe: & What is to be done? Simon Constable HFN from 2021-11-18T01:55:12

Photo: Plague victim in bed pointing out to three physicians the swelling, or boil, under his armpit 





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After COP26, ESG investing and its unknowns. @TheRealConstable Simon Constable Edinburgh HFN from 2021-11-18T01:54:21

Photo:   Investors: an annuitant of royal bonds.



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S4 Ep1809: After COP26, ESG investing and its unknowns. @TheRealConstable Simon Constable Edinburgh HFN from 2021-11-18T01:54:21

Photo:   Investors: an annuitant of royal bonds.



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Banks too big to quarantine. Charles Ortel of the On the Money with Charles Ortel podcast. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-11-18T01:29:31

Photo: A normal.,slightly daunting bank. Here: interior of the Helsinki Branch of the Listen
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The Kremlin shrugs off the anti-satellite test debris. @Felix_Light @CBSNews from 2021-11-18T01:25:15

Photo:  Space debris.  NASA





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S4 Ep1808: The Kremlin shrugs off the anti-satellite test debris. @Felix_Light @CBSNews from 2021-11-18T01:25:15

Photo:  Space debris.  NASA





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Canceling Columbus in Columbus. @SalenaZito.com from 2021-11-18T01:19:28

Photo: Ohio State House, 1906





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S4 Ep1808: Canceling Columbus in Columbus. @SalenaZito.com from 2021-11-18T01:19:28

Photo: Ohio State House, 1906





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Fly-fishing ten decades in the Keystone State. SalenaZito.com from 2021-11-18T01:19:27

Photo: Fly-fishing: dashing downstream





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S4 Ep1808: Fly-fishing ten decades in the Keystone State. SalenaZito.com from 2021-11-18T01:19:27

Photo: Fly-fishing: dashing downstream





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2/2 Blinken to Addis Ababa to constrain the civil war. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-11-18T01:12:31

Photo:  Tigray war: A destroyed armored vehicle in one of the main streets of Hawzen on 6 June 2021 .





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S4 Ep1808: 2/2 Blinken to Addis Ababa to constrain the civil war. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-11-18T01:12:31

Photo:  Tigray war: A destroyed armored vehicle in one of the main streets of Hawzen on 6 June 2021 .





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1/2 Blinken to Addis Ababa to constrain the civil war. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-11-18T01:12:29

Photo: Haile Salassie enters Addis Ababa 1946





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S4 Ep1808: 1/2 Blinken to Addis Ababa to constrain the civil war. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-11-18T01:12:29

Photo: Haile Salassie enters Addis Ababa 1946





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Ukraine war exercises along the Crimea frontier. Jeff McCausland @mccauslJ @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2021-11-18T01:08:09

Photo: Crimea:  1869. St. George Monastery

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S4 Ep1808: Ukraine war exercises along the Crimea frontier. Jeff McCausland @mccauslJ @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2021-11-18T01:08:09

Photo: Crimea:  1869. St. George Monastery

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Lukashenko brutalizes the NATO frontier; & What is to be done? Jeff McCausland @mccauslJ @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2021-11-18T01:07:21

Photo:  Byelorussian folk festival.  (Currently spelled Belarus, like the star.)





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S4 Ep1808: Lukashenko brutalizes the NATO frontier; & What is to be done? Jeff McCausland @mccauslJ @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2021-11-18T01:07:21

Photo:  Byelorussian folk festival.  (Currently spelled Belarus, like the star.)





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The GSA fairly divvies up the digital graham crackers to the new Federal Government. @FrancisRoseDC The Daily Scoop. from 2021-11-17T01:14:26

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S4 Ep1807: The GSA fairly divvies up the digital graham crackers to the new Federal Government. @FrancisRoseDC The Daily Scoop. from 2021-11-17T01:14:26

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Working-class Tories and Edmund Burke. Adrian Wooldridge, @TheEconomist. HFN from 2021-11-17T01:13:08

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S4 Ep1807: Working-class Tories and Edmund Burke. Adrian Wooldridge, @TheEconomist. HFN from 2021-11-17T01:13:08

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Pheasant and claret at the Garrick Club with the PM and Tory "Sleaze". Adrian Wooldridge, @TheEconomist HFN from 2021-11-17T01:12:37

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S4 Ep1807: Pheasant and claret at the Garrick Club with the PM and Tory "Sleaze". Adrian Wooldridge, @TheEconomist HFN from 2021-11-17T01:12:37

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#HotelMars: 2/2:The glass-strewn Atacama Desert twelve millennia after a comet bolide. Peter Schultz, @BrownUniversity, @BrownAlumniMag. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com from 2021-11-17T01:11:36

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S4 Ep1807: #HotelMars: 2/2:The glass-strewn Atacama Desert twelve millennia after a comet bolide. Peter Schultz, @BrownUniversity, @BrownAlumniMag. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com from 2021-11-17T01:11:36

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#StateThinking:Jake Sullivan speaks of alliances in Australia. @MaryKissel, Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc. from 2021-11-17T01:10:10

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S4 Ep1807: #StateThinking:Jake Sullivan speaks of alliances in Australia. @MaryKissel, Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc. from 2021-11-17T01:10:10

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#StateThinking: "My old friend," says the General Secretary of POTUS. @MaryKissel, Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc. from 2021-11-17T01:09:43

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S4 Ep1807: #StateThinking: "My old friend," says the General Secretary of POTUS. @MaryKissel, Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc. from 2021-11-17T01:09:43

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#LondonCalling: When the border is the Channel. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-11-17T01:08:56

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S4 Ep1807: #LondonCalling: When the border is the Channel. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-11-17T01:08:56

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#LondonCalling: Inflation unsolved. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-11-17T01:08:34

Photo:  The sealing of the Bank of England Charter (1694)



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S4 Ep1807: #LondonCalling: Inflation unsolved. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-11-17T01:08:34

Photo:  The sealing of the Bank of England Charter (1694)



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#LondonCalling: Pandemic Travels in Berlin and Leipzig. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-11-17T01:08:06

Photo:  The Red Cross recommended two-layer gauze masks to contain the spread of Spanish flu (Sept 1918).



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S4 Ep1807: #LondonCalling: Pandemic Travels in Berlin and Leipzig. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-11-17T01:08:06

Photo:  The Red Cross recommended two-layer gauze masks to contain the spread of Spanish flu (Sept 1918).



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The union asks for a vaccine mandate for small business, also. @RichardAEpstein from 2021-11-17T01:07:38

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S4 Ep1807: The union asks for a vaccine mandate for small business, also. @RichardAEpstein from 2021-11-17T01:07:38

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The Biden administration favors both private and public unions. @RichardAEpstein from 2021-11-17T01:05:45

Photo:  IWW gathering at Union Square. April 11, 1914.



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S4 Ep1807: The Biden administration favors both private and public unions. @RichardAEpstein from 2021-11-17T01:05:45

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. . . and why do the polls accelerate downward? @LizPeek @TheHill from 2021-11-17T01:05:05

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S4 Ep1807: . . . and why do the polls accelerate downward? @LizPeek @TheHill from 2021-11-17T01:05:05

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...going gets tough, we go shopping! @LizPeek @FoxNews from 2021-11-17T01:01:39

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S4 Ep1807: ...going gets tough, we go shopping! @LizPeek @FoxNews from 2021-11-17T01:01:39

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2/2: The Securocrat State of Russia today. Arkady Ostrovsky @TheEconomist from 2021-11-16T01:37:05

Photo: Meeting of the special presence of the Governmental Senate in the case of the atrocity of March 1, Fig. Beer K., 1881 State Historical Museum.



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S4 Ep1806: 2/2: The Securocrat State of Russia today. Arkady Ostrovsky @TheEconomist from 2021-11-16T01:37:05

Photo: Meeting of the special presence of the Governmental Senate in the case of the atrocity of March 1, Fig. Beer K., 1881 State Historical Museum.



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Prospecting for Gold in Argentina, Chile and Paraguay. Dr. David Terry. Golden Arrow Resources from 2021-11-16T01:36:59

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S4 Ep1806: Prospecting for Gold in Argentina, Chile and Paraguay. Dr. David Terry. Golden Arrow Resources from 2021-11-16T01:36:59

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Trillions of Green for Wall Street's "Finance Industrial Complex." Joshua Rauh, @HooverInst HFN from 2021-11-16T01:36:55

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S4 Ep1806: Trillions of Green for Wall Street's "Finance Industrial Complex." Joshua Rauh, @HooverInst HFN from 2021-11-16T01:36:55

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Another Covid surge; & What is to be done? @HenryIMiller @PacificResearch HenryMillerMD.org from 2021-11-16T01:23

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S4 Ep1803: Another Covid surge; & What is to be done? @HenryIMiller @PacificResearch HenryMillerMD.org from 2021-11-16T01:23

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High-performance gathering of warplanes and warships across the Middle East. Bradley Bowman @FDD from 2021-11-16T01:22:56

Photo:  Warships of yesteryear.

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S4 Ep1803: High-performance gathering of warplanes and warships across the Middle East. Bradley Bowman @FDD from 2021-11-16T01:22:56

Photo:  Warships of yesteryear.

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#NewWorldReport: Blinken warns Cuba. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-11-16T01:19:29

Photo:  Central factory, Santiago de Cuba .





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S4 Ep1806: #NewWorldReport: Blinken warns Cuba. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-11-16T01:19:29

Photo:  Central factory, Santiago de Cuba .





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#NewWorldReport: Honduras slipping into the Hard Left. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-11-16T01:19:21

Photo: Gallant English sailor in offers a sword to an unarmed Spaniard to defend himself, at the taking of Fort Omoa, in the Bay of Honduras, October 20, 1779 

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S4 Ep1806: #NewWorldReport: Honduras slipping into the Hard Left. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-11-16T01:19:21

Photo: Gallant English sailor in offers a sword to an unarmed Spaniard to defend himself, at the taking of Fort Omoa, in the Bay of Honduras, October 20, 1779 

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#NewWorldReport: Peronistas routed. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-11-16T01:19:14

Photo:  Demonstration during Perón's first administration.

Manifestación oficialista durante el primer gobierno de Perón








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S4 Ep1806: #NewWorldReport: Peronistas routed. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-11-16T01:19:14

Photo:  Demonstration during Perón's first administration.

Manifestación oficialista durante el primer gobierno de Perón








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Xi transformed into greater than Mao and Deng. Charles Burton, MacDonald Laurier Institute. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-11-16T01:14:53

Photo: Deng Xiaoping (left) met with  H.H. the Fourteenth Dalai Lama (right) in 1954.  Xi Jinping is unlikely to match that.

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S4 Ep1806: Xi transformed into greater than Mao and Deng. Charles Burton, MacDonald Laurier Institute. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-11-16T01:14:53

Photo: Deng Xiaoping (left) met with  H.H. the Fourteenth Dalai Lama (right) in 1954.  Xi Jinping is unlikely to match that.

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India pushes back in the high Himalayas. @CleoPaskal @FDD @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-11-16T01:14:45

Photo: Himalayan chain.

Chaine Himalayenne (Anapurna) après le décollage de Kathmandu





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S4 Ep1806: India pushes back in the high Himalayas. @CleoPaskal @FDD @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-11-16T01:14:45

Photo: Himalayan chain.

Chaine Himalayenne (Anapurna) après le décollage de Kathmandu





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#AfterAfghanistan: ISIS bedevils the Taliban @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-11-16T01:14:36

Photo: Taliban patrolling the streets of Kabul following its fall, 2021.



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S4 Ep1806: #AfterAfghanistan: ISIS bedevils the Taliban @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-11-16T01:14:36

Photo: Taliban patrolling the streets of Kabul following its fall, 2021.



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#AfterAfghanistan: Taliban rewards Haqqanis and gunmen. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-11-16T01:14:32

Photo: Afghan warriors, 1922.





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S4 Ep1806: #AfterAfghanistan: Taliban rewards Haqqanis and gunmen. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-11-16T01:14:32

Photo: Afghan warriors, 1922.





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#Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus watch the sharks in the Thames as they debate the plague and Optimates successes at rule. Michael Vlahos. from 2021-11-15T01:58:28

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S4 Ep1805: #Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus watch the sharks in the Thames as they debate the plague and Optimates successes at rule. Michael Vlahos. from 2021-11-15T01:58:28

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Nancy Pelosi and "Build Back Broke" for a vote in the House. @DevinNunes CA-22 #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-15T01:58:14

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S4 Ep1805: Nancy Pelosi and "Build Back Broke" for a vote in the House. @DevinNunes CA-22 #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-15T01:58:14

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Diablo Canyon and its supporters in London and LA. @DevinNunes CA-22, author, "Countdown to Socialism." #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-15T01:56:27

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S4 Ep1805: Diablo Canyon and its supporters in London and LA. @DevinNunes CA-22, author, "Countdown to Socialism." #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-15T01:56:27

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The Russian security state and European energy. H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. from 2021-11-15T01:52:21

Photo: V. I. Lenin's security (Gorki, September 20, 1923)

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S4 Ep1805: The Russian security state and European energy. H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. from 2021-11-15T01:52:21

Photo: V. I. Lenin's security (Gorki, September 20, 1923)

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NATO provokes Russia in the Black Sea; & What is to be done? H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-15T01:49:12

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S4 Ep1805: NATO provokes Russia in the Black Sea; & What is to be done? H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-15T01:49:12

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C. J. Carey #UNBOUND: Widowland. The complete, 20-minute interview, June 26, 2021 from 2021-11-15T00:00

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S4 Ep1804: Ned Ryun #UNBOUND. Adversaries: the complete, twenty-minute interview. from 2021-11-15T00:00

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S4 Ep1803: C. J. Carey #UNBOUND: Widowland. The complete, 20-minute interview, June 26, 2021 from 2021-11-15T00:00

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S4 Ep1802: 2b/12: #DurhamReporting: The Clinton campaign hired the false witnesses. Svetlana Lokhova. @RealSLokhova #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-14T02:41:47

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#Londinium90AD: Romans on the Danube, 90AD, just like Americans on the Black Sea, 2021 AD. Michael Vlahos. from 2021-11-14T02:41:34

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Twenty inches of rain in less that 24 hours La Nina in Ox. Jeremy Zakis. New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-14T02:41:29

Photo: Parts of the suburbs of Newstead and Bowen Hills, Brisbane, during the 1893 flood.



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S4 Ep1802: Twenty inches of rain in less that 24 hours La Nina in Ox. Jeremy Zakis. New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-14T02:41:29

Photo: Parts of the suburbs of Newstead and Bowen Hills, Brisbane, during the 1893 flood.



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Holly Fretwell #Unbound. National Forests. The complete, forty-minute interview. April 12, 2021. from 2021-11-14T02:28:11

Photo: American Elm (Ulmus american) with wing-like roots.  Photograph by C D Mell, Jan 1907. 



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S4 Ep1802: Holly Fretwell #Unbound. National Forests. The complete, forty-minute interview. April 12, 2021. from 2021-11-14T02:28:11

Photo: American Elm (Ulmus american) with wing-like roots.  Photograph by C D Mell, Jan 1907. 



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S4 Ep1802: Michael Auslin #Unbound. Asia-Pacific. The complete, twenty-minute interview. May 12, 2021. LXX GLXXG from 2021-11-14T02:24:58

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S4 Ep1801: Twelve Weeks after the Tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, November 8, 2021. @LongWarJournal. @Batchelorshow from 2021-11-14T01:28:32

Photo:  Afghanistan, Bala Murgab/

 

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S4 Ep1801: Eleven Weeks after the Tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, November 1, 2021. @LongWarJournal. @Batchelorshow from 2021-11-14T01:27:58

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Ten Weeks after the Tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, November 1, 2021. @LongWarJournal. @Batchelorshow from 2021-11-14T01:27:06

Photo: Unidentified location, Afghanistan.



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S4 Ep1801: Ten Weeks after the Tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, November 1, 2021. @LongWarJournal. @Batchelorshow from 2021-11-14T01:27:06

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Nine Weeks after the Tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, October 11, 2021. @LongWarJournal. @Batchelorshow from 2021-11-14T01:18:32

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S4 Ep1801: Nine Weeks after the Tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, October 11, 2021. @LongWarJournal. @Batchelorshow from 2021-11-14T01:18:32

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S4 Ep1801: Eight Weeks after the Tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, October 11, 2021. @LongWarJournal. @Batchelorshow from 2021-11-14T01:17:56

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S4 Ep1801: Six Weeks after the Tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, September 27, 2021. @LongWarJournal @Batchelorshow from 2021-11-14T01:16:33

Photo:  Sultan Alauddin Khalji



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Photo:   Afghanistan; early 1900s.




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S4 Ep1801: Four Weeks after the Tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, September 13, 2021. @LongWarJournal @Batchelorshow from 2021-11-14T01:13:09

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S4 Ep1801: Two Weeks after the Tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, August 30, 2021. @LongWarJournal. @BatchelorShow . from 2021-11-14T01:09:53

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8/8 The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783, by Joseph J. Ellis, Ph.D. Hardcover – September 21, 2021 auu from 2021-11-13T01:22:17

Photo:   Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette






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Photo:   Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette






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Photo:  Spirit of '76, by Archibald Willard 1875



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Photo:  Spirit of '76, by Archibald Willard 1875



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S4 Ep1800: 6/8 The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783, by Joseph J. Ellis, Ph.D. from 2021-11-13T01:20:38

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5/8 The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783, by Joseph J. Ellis, Ph.D. Hardcover – September 21, 2021 HFN from 2021-11-13T01:19:47

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Photo:  Mezzotint of Joseph Fayadaneega [or Tayendanegea], called the Brant, the Great Captain of the Six Nations / J. R. Smith.  Iroquois, Haudenoshaunee, elder and chief.

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S4 Ep1800: 4/8 The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783, by Joseph J. Ellis, Ph.D. from 2021-11-13T01:18:43

Photo:  Catharine Littlefield Greene Miller (1755-1814), wife of Nathanael Greene and Phineas Miller, and supporter of Eli Whitney.





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S4 Ep1800: 3/8 The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783, by Joseph J. Ellis, Ph.D. from 2021-11-13T01:17:14

Photo:  A splendid English parlour.





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S4 Ep1800: 2/8 The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783, by Joseph J. Ellis, Ph.D. from 2021-11-13T01:15:49

Photo:  Kopie (von Otto Rose, 1911) des Bilds von Carl Röchling († 1920): Friedrich II. in der Schlacht bei Zorndorf 1758. Öl/Lwd. 82 x 115 cm



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S4 Ep1800: 1/8 The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783, by Joseph J. Ellis, Ph.D. from 2021-11-13T01:13:50

Photo:  The Victory of Montcalm's Troops at Carillon. Early 20th century painting by Henry Alexander Ogden (1854 1936). Fort Ticonderoga Museum, NY.





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An asteroid remnant of the moon birth? Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-11-13T01:07:10

Photo:  Our Moon. Video screen grab.



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S4 Ep1800: An asteroid remnant of the moon birth? Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-11-13T01:07:10

Photo:  Our Moon. Video screen grab.



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Farewell to the Canadian philanthropist W. Galen Weston. @ConradMBlack from 2021-11-13T01:06:19

Photo:  Loblaw Groceterias Limited, store No. 1, 2923 Dundas St. W., Toronto, Ontario, postcard, c. 1919.





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S4 Ep1800: Farewell to the Canadian philanthropist W. Galen Weston. @ConradMBlack from 2021-11-13T01:06:19

Photo:  Loblaw Groceterias Limited, store No. 1, 2923 Dundas St. W., Toronto, Ontario, postcard, c. 1919.





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Travels to the abandoned of Syria, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Kurdistan, Ukraine, Greece by a French celebrity. @JoshRogin from 2021-11-13T01:05:49

Photo:  A neglected and abandoned child.



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S4 Ep1800: Travels to the abandoned of Syria, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Kurdistan, Ukraine, Greece by a French celebrity. @JoshRogin from 2021-11-13T01:05:49

Photo:  A neglected and abandoned child.



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#SmallBusinessAmerica: Leaving the job for better days. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2021-11-13T01:04:06

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S4 Ep1800: #SmallBusinessAmerica: Leaving the job for better days. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2021-11-13T01:04:06

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#SmallBusinessAmerica: Inflation for Christmas @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2021-11-13T01:03:38

Photo:  Father Christmas in a less-inffaltionary time.

 

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S4 Ep1800: #SmallBusinessAmerica: Inflation for Christmas @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2021-11-13T01:03:38

Photo:  Father Christmas in a less-inffaltionary time.

 

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New Zealand vs Australia cricket T20 World Cup showdown. Scott Mayman @CBSNews from 2021-11-13T01:02:54

Photo: Victorian cricket team, 1859



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Photo: Victorian cricket team, 1859



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The beginning of the end of denying inflation. @ VerodeRugy @Mercatus auu from 2021-11-12T01:40:08

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S4 Ep1799: The beginning of the end of denying inflation. @ VerodeRugy @Mercatus auu from 2021-11-12T01:40:08

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Ransomware; & What is to be done? Georgianna Shea @FDD from 2021-11-12T01:39:38

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S4 Ep1799: Ransomware; & What is to be done? Georgianna Shea @FDD from 2021-11-12T01:39:38

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2/2: The Constitution and the fair-share rhetoric. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst HFN from 2021-11-12T01:38:40

Photo:  J P Morgan, who paid no income tax



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S4 Ep1799: 2/2: The Constitution and the fair-share rhetoric. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst HFN from 2021-11-12T01:38:40

Photo:  J P Morgan, who paid no income tax



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1/2: The Constitution and the fair-share rhetoric. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst HFN from 2021-11-12T01:38:07

Photo: Andrew Carnegie, who paid no income tax: his residence.







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S4 Ep1799: 1/2: The Constitution and the fair-share rhetoric. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst HFN from 2021-11-12T01:38:07

Photo: Andrew Carnegie, who paid no income tax: his residence.







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Putin's War in Syria: Russian Foreign Policy and the Price of America's Absence* (I. B. Tauris, November 2021, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing). Anna Borshchevskaya, senior Fellow at The Washington Institute. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenle from 2021-11-12T01:37:26

Photo:  2/27th Battalion advance on the town of El Ardun, Syria, 3 June 1941




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S4 Ep1799: Putin's War in Syria: Russian Foreign Policy and the Price of America's Absence* (I. B. Tauris, November 2021, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing). Anna Borshchevskaya, senior Fellow at The Washington Institute. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenle from 2021-11-12T01:37:26

Photo:  2/27th Battalion advance on the town of El Ardun, Syria, 3 June 1941




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S4 Ep1799: Remember Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-11-12T01:35:25

Photo:  Synagogue Eisenach burning- Nov 1938



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Remember Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-11-12T01:35:25

Photo:  Synagogue Eisenach burning- Nov 1938



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S4 Ep1799: Iran looking for more US concessions to go back to the Vienna talks. Danielle Pletka, @dpletka, distinguished senior Fellow in foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-11-12T01:33:51

Photo: Vienna, 1898



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Iran looking for more US concessions to go back to the Vienna talks. Danielle Pletka, @dpletka, distinguished senior Fellow in foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-11-12T01:33:51

Photo: Vienna, 1898



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S4 Ep1799: Iraq shows evidence of sovereignty. Michael Knights, @WashInstitute @FikraForum; Jill and Jay Bernstein Fellow at The Washington Institute. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-11-12T01:30:38

Photo:  March 10, 2007, Iraqi civilians conduct a nonviolent demonstration in front of the 7th street Security Station in Ramadi, Iraq. Iraqi Police along with Marines from st Battalion, 6th M...

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Iraq shows evidence of sovereignty. Michael Knights, @WashInstitute @FikraForum; Jill and Jay Bernstein Fellow at The Washington Institute. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-11-12T01:30:38

Photo:  March 10, 2007, Iraqi civilians conduct a nonviolent demonstration in front of the 7th street Security Station in Ramadi, Iraq. Iraqi Police along with Marines from st Battalion, 6th M...

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S4 Ep1799: #COP26Glasgow: India asks for $1 Trillion; & What is to be done? Vijay Vaitheeswaran, @TheEconomist from 2021-11-12T01:24:35

Photo:  Examples of trillions we can grasp.

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#COP26Glasgow: India asks for $1 Trillion; & What is to be done? Vijay Vaitheeswaran, @TheEconomist from 2021-11-12T01:24:35

Photo:  Examples of trillions we can grasp.

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S4 Ep1799: Argentina votes for responsibility. @Mary Anastasia O'Grady @WSJOpinion from 2021-11-12T01:23:23

Photo:  The first settlers on the Ranch at the End of the World, Estancia Harberton, in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina: the Thomas Bridges family. Today, this generation of Thomas Bridge...

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Argentina votes for responsibility. @Mary Anastasia O'Grady @WSJOpinion from 2021-11-12T01:23:23

Photo:  The first settlers on the Ranch at the End of the World, Estancia Harberton, in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina: the Thomas Bridges family. Today, this generation of Thomas Bridge...

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S4 Ep1799: Afghanistan is a threat forever. #AfterAfghanistan: @AmbJohnBolton from 2021-11-12T01:22:01

Photo:  Soldiers of the Afghan National Army [now disbanded] prepare to search the Tut Village in the Andar District due to reports of recent enemy activity, Aug. 8, 2010, Ghazni province, Afg...

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Afghanistan is a threat forever. #AfterAfghanistan: @AmbJohnBolton from 2021-11-12T01:22:01

Photo:  Soldiers of the Afghan National Army [now disbanded] prepare to search the Tut Village in the Andar District due to reports of recent enemy activity, Aug. 8, 2010, Ghazni province, Afg...

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S4 Ep1799: #COP26Glasgow: The island states are gone. Anatol Lieven @QuincyInst from 2021-11-12T01:20

Photo:  In Tuvalu, a woman on Funafuti (1900); photography by Harry Clifford Fassett



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#COP26Glasgow: The island states are gone. Anatol Lieven @QuincyInst from 2021-11-12T01:20

Photo:  In Tuvalu, a woman on Funafuti (1900); photography by Harry Clifford Fassett



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S4 Ep1799: #COP26Glasgow: China is 30% of emissions. Anatol Lieven @QuincyInst from 2021-11-12T01:19:29

Photo: Air pollution, screen grab




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#COP26Glasgow: China is 30% of emissions. Anatol Lieven @QuincyInst from 2021-11-12T01:19:29

Photo: Air pollution, screen grab




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S4 Ep1799: #COP26Glasgow: Reforestation works. Anatol Lieven @QuincyInst from 2021-11-12T01:18:19

Photo: Forest 



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#COP26Glasgow: Reforestation works. Anatol Lieven @QuincyInst from 2021-11-12T01:18:19

Photo: Forest 



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S4 Ep1799: #COP26Glasgow: Not disappointed. Anatol Lieven @Quincy Inst from 2021-11-12T01:07:58

Photo: Scene of an earlier conference (Versailles)



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#COP26Glasgow: Not disappointed. Anatol Lieven @Quincy Inst from 2021-11-12T01:07:58

Photo: Scene of an earlier conference (Versailles)



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Gold rush low-Earth orbit. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com auu from 2021-11-11T02:01:04

Photo: From ISS in low-Earth orbit.



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S4 Ep1798: Gold rush low-Earth orbit. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com auu from 2021-11-11T02:01:04

Photo: From ISS in low-Earth orbit.



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Greek city like a 2500-year time capsule city on the Sea of Azov. @ Felix_Light @CBSNews HFN @MoscowNews from 2021-11-11T01:59:50

Photo:  A terracotta vessel in the shape of a sphinx, 5th century BC. One of 26 similar pieces discovered in a feminine necropolis (" Listen
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S4 Ep1798: Greek city like a 2500-year time capsule city on the Sea of Azov. @ Felix_Light @CBSNews HFN @MoscowNews from 2021-11-11T01:59:50

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The reluctant Kremlin's burdensome Lukashenko. @ Felix_Light @CBSNews HFN from 2021-11-11T01:59:04

Photo:  Byelarus church



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S4 Ep1798: The reluctant Kremlin's burdensome Lukashenko. @ Felix_Light @CBSNews HFN from 2021-11-11T01:59:04

Photo:  Byelarus church



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PRC prepares the public for conflict. Weifeng Zhong @Mercatus from 2021-11-11T01:58:32

Photo:  Painting of the 1758 Battle of Oroi-Jalatu, in which the Ch`ing defeated the Listen
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S4 Ep1798: PRC prepares the public for conflict. Weifeng Zhong @Mercatus from 2021-11-11T01:58:32

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Eric Adams: smart choices; Andrew Cuomo: not smart. @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNews from 2021-11-11T01:57:49

Photo:  New York City Mayor John P. Mitchel throwing the first ball, 23 April 1914 



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S4 Ep1798: Eric Adams: smart choices; Andrew Cuomo: not smart. @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNews from 2021-11-11T01:57:49

Photo:  New York City Mayor John P. Mitchel throwing the first ball, 23 April 1914 



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Tens of thousands left behind. #AfterAfghanistan: Jeff McCausland @mccauslJ @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2021-11-11T01:57:23

Photo: Afghans, in the Nineteenth Century



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S4 Ep1798: Tens of thousands left behind. #AfterAfghanistan: Jeff McCausland @mccauslJ @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2021-11-11T01:57:23

Photo: Afghans, in the Nineteenth Century



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Will NATO and the US watch the famine without intervening? #AfterAfghanistan: Jeff McCausland @mccauslJ @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2021-11-11T01:56:55

Photo:   Child victim of famines in India (1943–44),



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S4 Ep1798: Will NATO and the US watch the famine without intervening? #AfterAfghanistan: Jeff McCausland @mccauslJ @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2021-11-11T01:56:55

Photo:   Child victim of famines in India (1943–44),



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#NewWorldReport: Honduras narco-terrorist leadership. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, @revanellis U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. from 2021-11-11T01:51:37

Photo:   Tegucigalpa, Honduras, from Notes on Central America, particularly the States of Honduras and San Salvador ... and the proposed Honduras inter-oceanic railway. With original maps ...

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S4 Ep1798: #NewWorldReport: Honduras narco-terrorist leadership. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, @revanellis U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. from 2021-11-11T01:51:37

Photo:   Tegucigalpa, Honduras, from Notes on Central America, particularly the States of Honduras and San Salvador ... and the proposed Honduras inter-oceanic railway. With original maps ...

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#NewWorldReport: Nicaragua joins Cuba and Venezuela as a pariah state. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, @revanellis U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institu from 2021-11-11T01:50:40

Photo:  The smoking terror, "Momotombo," volcano, Nicaragua, Central America



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S4 Ep1798: #NewWorldReport: Nicaragua joins Cuba and Venezuela as a pariah state. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, @revanellis U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institu from 2021-11-11T01:50:40

Photo:  The smoking terror, "Momotombo," volcano, Nicaragua, Central America



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#NewWorldReport: Chile on the Marxist brink. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, @revanellis U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. from 2021-11-11T01:49:45

Photo:   The scoundrels in the Santiago penitentiary (1800s?)



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S4 Ep1798: #NewWorldReport: Chile on the Marxist brink. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, @revanellis U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. from 2021-11-11T01:49:45

Photo:   The scoundrels in the Santiago penitentiary (1800s?)



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Both parties deaf to the populist vote. SalenaZito.com from 2021-11-11T01:47:04

Photo:  The politician



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Keystone State votes the other way. SalenaZito.com from 2021-11-11T01:46:41

Photo:  The October elections—challenging a voter. Pennsylvania miners at the polls; from a sketch by Paul Frenzeny 




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S4 Ep1798: Keystone State votes the other way. SalenaZito.com from 2021-11-11T01:46:41

Photo:  The October elections—challenging a voter. Pennsylvania miners at the polls; from a sketch by Paul Frenzeny 




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Trade War Bans English Oaks in Ireland. @TheRealConstable Simon Constable, Edinburgh from 2021-11-11T01:46:14

Photo:  The Major Oak in Edwinstowe.

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S4 Ep1798: Trade War Bans English Oaks in Ireland. @TheRealConstable Simon Constable, Edinburgh from 2021-11-11T01:46:14

Photo:  The Major Oak in Edwinstowe.

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COP26 and the ESG Investor Class. @TheRealConstable Simon Constable, Edinburgh from 2021-11-11T01:45:37

Photo: An investor in Spanish government bonds, 1834



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S4 Ep1798: COP26 and the ESG Investor Class. @TheRealConstable Simon Constable, Edinburgh from 2021-11-11T01:45:37

Photo: An investor in Spanish government bonds, 1834



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Suppose they held Christmas and no turkey? #LondonCalling: @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-11-10T01:26:43

Photo:  A Christmas catastrophe : please, sir, the rat entree has escaped and eaten the turkey






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S4 Ep1797: Suppose they held Christmas and no turkey? #LondonCalling: @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-11-10T01:26:43

Photo:  A Christmas catastrophe : please, sir, the rat entree has escaped and eaten the turkey






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Much too late for the Central Banks. #LondonCalling: @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion 4th from 2021-11-10T01:26:10

Photo:  Central bank independence versus inflation. This often-cited research published by Alesina and Summers (1993) is used to show why it's important for a nation's central bank (i.e., mone...

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S4 Ep1797: Much too late for the Central Banks. #LondonCalling: @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion 4th from 2021-11-10T01:26:10

Photo:  Central bank independence versus inflation. This often-cited research published by Alesina and Summers (1993) is used to show why it's important for a nation's central bank (i.e., mone...

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Boris Johnson and Brexit will always be with us. #LondonCalling: @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion HFN from 2021-11-10T01:25:02

Photo: The exciting hair.





Boris Johnson and Brexit will always be with us. #LondonCalling:  @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion HFN



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S4 Ep1797: Boris Johnson and Brexit will always be with us. #LondonCalling: @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion HFN from 2021-11-10T01:25:02

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The Red Med descends into darkness visible. Gregory Copley @Gregory_Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-11-10T01:09:16

Photo:  The Horn of Africa as seen from the NASA Space Shuttle in May 1993. The orang...

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S4 Ep1796: The Red Med descends into darkness visible. Gregory Copley @Gregory_Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-11-10T01:09:16

Photo:  The Horn of Africa as seen from the NASA Space Shuttle in May 1993. The orang...

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Ethiopia torn apart by the powers. Gregory Copley @Gregory_Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-11-10T01:08:29

Photo:  In Tigray, an ancient Axum obelisk



Ethiopia torn apart by the powers. Gregory Copley @Gregory_Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs



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S4 Ep1796: Ethiopia torn apart by the powers. Gregory Copley @Gregory_Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-11-10T01:08:29

Photo:  In Tigray, an ancient Axum obelisk



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Erdogan provokes Biden; Biden appeases Erdogan. @AykanErdemir @FDD from 2021-11-10T01:07:23

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S4 Ep1796: Erdogan provokes Biden; Biden appeases Erdogan. @AykanErdemir @FDD from 2021-11-10T01:07:23

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Wily Iranian hackers use savvy Turkey Twitch frauds to launder stolen credit card cash. @AykanErdemir @FDD from 2021-11-10T01:05:36

Photo:  Money vest



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S4 Ep1796: Wily Iranian hackers use savvy Turkey Twitch frauds to launder stolen credit card cash. @AykanErdemir @FDD from 2021-11-10T01:05:36

Photo:  Money vest



Wily Iranian hackers use savvy Turkey Twitch frauds to launder stolen credit card cash. @AykanErdemir @FDD





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Practicing carrier killers and Guam killers. Rick Fisher, International Assessment and Strategy Center. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-11-10T01:05:02

Photo:  China builds a mock-up of a US warship in its desert.  (US satellite photo in a video)





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S4 Ep1796: Practicing carrier killers and Guam killers. Rick Fisher, International Assessment and Strategy Center. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-11-10T01:05:02

Photo:  China builds a mock-up of a US warship in its desert.  (US satellite photo in a video)





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Liz Truss speaks bluntly to China. @MaryKissel from 2021-11-10T01:03:45

Photo:1937





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S4 Ep1796: Liz Truss speaks bluntly to China. @MaryKissel from 2021-11-10T01:03:45

Photo:1937





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The City is back at the office and dining on steak. @MaryKissel from 2021-11-10T00:45:31

Photo:   Perhaps the best steak restaurant in London, Hawksmoor





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S4 Ep1796: The City is back at the office and dining on steak. @MaryKissel from 2021-11-10T00:45:31

Photo:   Perhaps the best steak restaurant in London, Hawksmoor





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Arms control uncontrolled. @Judy_Dempsey. #StrategicEurope, blog of @Carnegie_Europe. from 2021-11-10T00:44:31

Photo:  ACDA document



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S4 Ep1796: Arms control uncontrolled. @Judy_Dempsey. #StrategicEurope, blog of @Carnegie_Europe. from 2021-11-10T00:44:31

Photo:  ACDA document



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Lukashenko weaponizes the desperate. @Judy_Dempsey. from 2021-11-10T00:42:03

Photo: Mass murder of Soviet civilians near Minsk, 1943.  A formative experience for Lukashenko and his coterie.





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S4 Ep1796: Lukashenko weaponizes the desperate. @Judy_Dempsey. from 2021-11-10T00:42:03

Photo: Mass murder of Soviet civilians near Minsk, 1943.  A formative experience for Lukashenko and his coterie.





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Build Back Better unwanted at the polls. @LizPeek. from 2021-11-10T00:41:20

Photo:  The scene is still the polling-booth, Covent Garden; the canvassers, committees, and mobs are giving their entire attention to the performance carried on for their entertainment betwee...

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S4 Ep1796: Build Back Better unwanted at the polls. @LizPeek. from 2021-11-10T00:41:20

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Inflation arrives unwelcome at the Fed. @LizPeek from 2021-11-10T00:38:59

Photo:  US CPI inflation (year-on-year) from 1914 to 2018. US CPI monthly data series obtained from the Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) database provided by Economic Research at the St. L...

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S4 Ep1796: Inflation arrives unwelcome at the Fed. @LizPeek from 2021-11-10T00:38:59

Photo:  US CPI inflation (year-on-year) from 1914 to 2018. US CPI monthly data series obtained from the Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) database provided by Economic Research at the St. L...

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#NewWorldReport: The North Korea of Central America. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-11-09T01:29:05

Photo:  Map of the Republic of Nicragua



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S4 Ep1795: #NewWorldReport: The North Korea of Central America. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-11-09T01:29:05

Photo:  Map of the Republic of Nicragua



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#NewWorldReport: Mexico followed the Chavez model. David Grantham @SecureFreeSoc. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc HFN from 2021-11-09T01:28:29

Photo:  LAS CALLES DE SAN SIMÓN, JULIO 22, 1949 




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S4 Ep1795: #NewWorldReport: Mexico followed the Chavez model. David Grantham @SecureFreeSoc. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc HFN from 2021-11-09T01:28:29

Photo:  LAS CALLES DE SAN SIMÓN, JULIO 22, 1949 




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#NewWorldReport: AMLO leans hard authoritarian. David Grantham @SecureFreeSoc. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-11-09T01:27:29

Photo:  "Violence is the whole essence of authoritarianism, just as the repudiation of violence is the whole essence of anarchism." ~ Listen
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S4 Ep1795: #NewWorldReport: AMLO leans hard authoritarian. David Grantham @SecureFreeSoc. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-11-09T01:27:29

Photo:  "Violence is the whole essence of authoritarianism, just as the repudiation of violence is the whole essence of anarchism." ~ Listen
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Singapore Watches the Global Minimum Tax, Not Much Climatewatch. Howie Fraser, author, Red Capitalism. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-11-09T01:26:36

Photo:  Canton Zug, in Switzerland, once Mark Rich's favorite tax haven.

             Here: Figure 1 wears a traditional costume of the canton of Zug.





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S4 Ep1795: Singapore Watches the Global Minimum Tax, Not Much Climatewatch. Howie Fraser, author, Red Capitalism. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-11-09T01:26:36

Photo:  Canton Zug, in Switzerland, once Mark Rich's favorite tax haven.

             Here: Figure 1 wears a traditional costume of the canton of Zug.





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PRC Mainland Real Estate Wobbles as Hong Kong Real Estate Firms. Andrew Collier, Orient Capital Research. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-11-09T01:26:04

Photo:  An empty corridor in the mostly-vacant New South China Mall, 2010



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"Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Amethyst of Cleopatra's Persimmon (Balm of Gilead) Perfume. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-11-09T01:23:02

Photo:  Amethyst



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S4 Ep1795: "Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Amethyst of Cleopatra's Persimmon (Balm of Gilead) Perfume. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-11-09T01:23:02

Photo:  Amethyst



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Iran attempts to assassinate Iraqi PM with drones. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-11-09T01:22:35

Photo:  A non-Iranian drone:  MQ-9 Reaper in flight (2007)





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S4 Ep1795: Iran attempts to assassinate Iraqi PM with drones. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-11-09T01:22:35

Photo:  A non-Iranian drone:  MQ-9 Reaper in flight (2007)





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1/2: Data Science Is the Third Wave of Economics since 1776. Callum Williams @TheEconomist from 2021-11-09T01:20:47

Photo:  A commemorative plaque for Adam Smith, called "the father of economics,"  is located in Smith's home town of Kirkcaldy

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S4 Ep1795: 1/2: Data Science Is the Third Wave of Economics since 1776. Callum Williams @TheEconomist from 2021-11-09T01:20:47

Photo:  A commemorative plaque for Adam Smith, called "the father of economics,"  is located in Smith's home town of Kirkcaldy

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#AfterAfghanistan: ISIS pesters the Taliban. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-11-09T01:20:24

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S4 Ep1795: #AfterAfghanistan: ISIS pesters the Taliban. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-11-09T01:20:24

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#AfterAfghanistan: The many failures of Khalilzad. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-11-09T01:18:19

Photo:  Khalilzad (left) and the Taliban representative Abdul Ghani Baradar (right) sign the massively-failed Listen
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S4 Ep1795: #AfterAfghanistan: The many failures of Khalilzad. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-11-09T01:18:19

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Hotel Mars: Building Boom for Low-Earth Orbit. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com. Eric Berger @ArsTechnica. from 2021-11-09T01:17:48

Photo:  A full-scale mockup of Bigelow Aerospace's Space Station Alpha inside their facility in Nevada.



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S4 Ep1795: Hotel Mars: Building Boom for Low-Earth Orbit. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com. Eric Berger @ArsTechnica. from 2021-11-09T01:17:48

Photo:  A full-scale mockup of Bigelow Aerospace's Space Station Alpha inside their facility in Nevada.



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How to NFT Alice in Wonderland; & What is to be done? Alice Fulwood @TheEconomist from 2021-11-09T01:16:38

Photo:  The Queen of Hearts glaring at Alice, screaming "Off with her head! Off—". "Nonsense!" ...

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S4 Ep1795: How to NFT Alice in Wonderland; & What is to be done? Alice Fulwood @TheEconomist from 2021-11-09T01:16:38

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Crypto conquering Cuba. Roseann Lake, @TheEconomist from 2021-11-09T01:11:25

Photo:   Boarding of troops to Cuba (in Catalan: Embarcament de tropes cap a Cuba)


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S4 Ep1795: Crypto conquering Cuba. Roseann Lake, @TheEconomist from 2021-11-09T01:11:25

Photo:   Boarding of troops to Cuba (in Catalan: Embarcament de tropes cap a Cuba)


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The Durham Investigation indictment of two false witnesses; & What is to be done? @DevinNunes CA-22 #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-08T02:33:23

Photo:  Illustrated cover of Émile Gaboriau's novel, Dossier N° 113.






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S4 Ep1794: The Durham Investigation indictment of two false witnesses; & What is to be done? @DevinNunes CA-22 #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-08T02:33:23

Photo:  Illustrated cover of Émile Gaboriau's novel, Dossier N° 113.






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What do the New Jersey and Virginia results mean for the Deep Blue State of California? @DevinNunes CA-22. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-08T02:33:16

Photo:  John Berryman cartoon



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S4 Ep1794: What do the New Jersey and Virginia results mean for the Deep Blue State of California? @DevinNunes CA-22. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-08T02:33:16

Photo:  John Berryman cartoon



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#Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus discuss the divide of the Fourth-Century Roman Empire into two as a model for the American Empire. Michael Vlahos. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-08T02:33:10

Photo: The division of the Roman Empire after the death of Theodosius I, c. 395 AD, superimposed on modern borders 



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S4 Ep1794: #Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus discuss the divide of the Fourth-Century Roman Empire into two as a model for the American Empire. Michael Vlahos. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-08T02:33:10

Photo: The division of the Roman Empire after the death of Theodosius I, c. 395 AD, superimposed on modern borders 



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How Washington views the turbulent Eurasian empires of Russia and China. H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-08T02:33:06

Photo:   Russian Ambassadors in China in the 17th Century. Illustration of Niva (Niva, 19th Century)



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S4 Ep1794: How Washington views the turbulent Eurasian empires of Russia and China. H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-08T02:33:06

Photo:   Russian Ambassadors in China in the 17th Century. Illustration of Niva (Niva, 19th Century)



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The Eurasian Empires of China and Russia and the "blood-soaked" modernization drives of the 20th Century. H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-08T02:33:03

Photo: One photo from a montage of scenes from the life of the Soviet GULAG prison camps system, circa 1920s–1950s.





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S4 Ep1794: The Eurasian Empires of China and Russia and the "blood-soaked" modernization drives of the 20th Century. H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-08T02:33:03

Photo: One photo from a montage of scenes from the life of the Soviet GULAG prison camps system, circa 1920s–1950s.





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S4 Ep1794: 1a/12: #DurhamReporting: The Sussman and Danchenko indictments. Svetlana Lokhova. @RealSLokhova #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-08T02:32:50

Photo: "Prussian perfidy"; here, of Igor Danchenko

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James Tooley #Unbound: Really good schools. The complete, forty-minute interview. May 14, 2021. LXX. GLXXG from 2021-11-08T02:24:56

Photo:  “I’m editing the page for the star Proxima Centauri. It’s missing something about the planet Proxima b, so I should fix it.” These are the words of 12-year-old Michael—surprisingly con...

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S4 Ep1795: James Tooley #Unbound: Really good schools. The complete, forty-minute interview. May 14, 2021. LXX. GLXXG from 2021-11-08T02:24:56

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Sophie Pedder #UNBOUND. Révolution Française, the complete forty-minute interview, July 17, 2021. from 2021-11-08T01:32:54

Photo:   Patriotic scene of the French Guards. Fraternization of the French Guards and People. Event of the Revolution of 1789. 








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S4 Ep1794: Sophie Pedder #UNBOUND. Révolution Française, the complete forty-minute interview, July 17, 2021. from 2021-11-08T01:32:54

Photo:   Patriotic scene of the French Guards. Fraternization of the French Guards and People. Event of the Revolution of 1789. 








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S4 Ep1794: Ned Ryun #UNBOUND. Adversaries: the complete, twenty-minute interview. from 2021-11-08T01:28:38

Photo:  Power!   Four of the power elite: caricatures, scenes, allegories, during the Commune. (Caricatures, scènes, allégories pendant la Commune)






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S4 Ep1794: John Tamny #Unbound. When Politicians Panicked: the complete, forty-minute interview. March 28, 2021. from 2021-11-08T01:21:36

Photo:  The Politician (by John Keyse Sherwin [British, East Dean, Sussex 1751–1790 London])




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@710WOR Mark Simone and John Batchelor speak of better days ahead to be lead by the Millennials of New York City. @MarkSimoneNY @BatchelorShow @710WOR marksimone.com from 2021-11-07T02:13:11

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. 1922

Oscar Wuertz instructing a youngster in the art of making his own wireless set in a Brooklyn radio shop

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S4 Ep1793: @710WOR Mark Simone and John Batchelor speak of better days ahead to be lead by the Millennials of New York City. @MarkSimoneNY @BatchelorShow @710WOR marksimone.com from 2021-11-07T02:13:11

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. 1922

Oscar Wuertz instructing a youngster in the art of making his own wireless set in a Brooklyn radio shop

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#PacificWatch: Rolling Stones play to a roaring Las Vegas. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety @JCBliss from 2021-11-07T02:03:34

Photo: Rolling Stones, 1965



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Photo: Rolling Stones, 1965



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La Nina approaches Australia. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-07T02:01:16

Photo:   La Nina's fingerprint is all over plants in eastern Australia

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S4 Ep1793: La Nina approaches Australia. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-07T02:01:16

Photo:   La Nina's fingerprint is all over plants in eastern Australia

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#Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus puzzle about the unpredicted results of the 2021 election. Michael Vlahos. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-07T01:59:30

Photo: 1794 Anville Map of England in ancient Roman times. - Geographicus - England-horsley






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S4 Ep1793: #Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus puzzle about the unpredicted results of the 2021 election. Michael Vlahos. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-07T01:59:30

Photo: 1794 Anville Map of England in ancient Roman times. - Geographicus - England-horsley






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10/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Mueller investigation neither questioned nor contacted Svetlana Lokhova. Washington Post, July 24, 2019. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-07T00:01

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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 from 2021-11-07T00:01

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7/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: American media names Cambridge Professor Stefan Halper as the source of the allegations, May 18, 2018. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-07T00:01

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6/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: "Glamorous." Daily Telegraph, April 2, 2017. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. from 2021-11-07T00:01

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5/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Allegedly linked to the GRU and Vladimir Putin on the Guardian front gate, April 1, 2017. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-07T00:01

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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 from 2021-11-07T00:01

Photo:  The Financial Times building at One Southwark Bridge, London, decorated pink to mark the paper's 125th anniversary.



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2/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Remembering the Stefan Halper origins, August 10-16, 2016. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-07T00:01

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Federal intelligence and defense employees refusing vaccination in face of mandatory Federal rules. Francis Rose @Francis Rose @DailyScoop auu from 2021-11-06T01:01:59

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Private Climate Change Financing. Vijay Vaitheeswaran @TheEconomist lth from 2021-11-06T01:01:28

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Blue Origin loses again. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com HFN from 2021-11-06T01:00:52

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Hubble in unknown trouble. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com HFN from 2021-11-06T01:00:15

Photo:  View of the capture and first EVA to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.



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4/4 Damascus Station: A Novel, by David McCloskey. from 2021-11-06T00:59:10

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3/4 Damascus Station: A Novel, by David McCloskey. from 2021-11-06T00:58:42

Photo:   Constitution of the Syrian Republic, 14 May 1930



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2/4 Damascus Station: A Novel, by David McCloskey. from 2021-11-06T00:57:25

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1/4 Damascus Station: A Novel, by David McCloskey. from 2021-11-06T00:56:24

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#ScalaReport: The unknowns of the winter and the virus and the hybrid office work. Chris Riegel, CEO @scala CEO, @STRATACACHE from 2021-11-06T00:54:45

Photo:  The engraving depicts a Roman plague doctor wearing protective clothing – including glass goggles and beak-shaped mask – typical of its time and place.



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Italy depends upon the Green Pass; Midnight Marsican. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation. from 2021-11-06T00:53:08

Photo:   Health pass (fede di sanità) enabling the bearer to pass freely despite there being quarantines and heavy restrictions on travel due to plague.




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#SmallBusinessAmerica: Happy Entrepreneurs. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2021-11-06T00:50:21

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#SmallBusinessAmerica: Inflation is way worse for small business. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2021-11-06T00:49:50

Photo:    When you buy from a small, family business you're not helping a CEO buy a third holiday home. You're helping a little girl get dance lessons.  A little boy gets his team shirt.  A mu...

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Nigeria fails; Afghanistan failed. Cliff May @FDD from 2021-11-06T00:42:23

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Global Minimum Tax Cartel and France. Veronique de Rugy, @veroderugy, @GeorgeMasonU, @Mercatus Center lth from 2021-11-05T01:19:12

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Saying no to PRC bullying. @CleoPaskal, @FDD; @GordonGChang. HFN from 2021-11-05T01:18:03

Photo:  Postage stamp with portrait of King George VI, 1939



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PRC provokes Bangladesh and Kashmir. @CleoPaskal, @FDD; @GordonGChang. HFN from 2021-11-05T01:17:10

Photo:  Forced Labor of Muslim Women by Dogra ruler in 1930 before Kashmir agitation






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Turkey's Erdogan seeks Washington's attention. Blaise Misztal @BlaiseMiszta, @FDD. . Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-11-05T01:16:05

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Lessons of the Gaza rockets, 2021. Blaise Misztal @BlaiseMisztal. Geoffrey S. Corn @cornjag1. Malcolm Hoenlein@Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-11-05T01:15:33

Photo:  Scenes with the expeditionary force in the Egyptian area British trenches in the sand dunes on the Gaza front.




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Iran plays the long game to outmaneuver the US short game. Hanin Ghaddar @haningdr. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-11-05T01:12:07

Photo:    Persian wedding ceremony.



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#COP26: Can Green go nuclear? Anatol Lieven @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst from 2021-11-05T01:03:50

Photo:  Antinuclear occupation of nuclear plant under construction at Seabrook, New Hampshire



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#COP26: China and India coal unsolved. Anatol Lieven @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst from 2021-11-05T01:03:01

Photo: China's coal is almost exclusively lignite, the dirtiest-burning coal.



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#COP26: Reforestation surprises. Anatol Lieven @LievenAnatol @ @QuincyInst from 2021-11-05T01:02:29

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#COP26: Boris Johnson leads Green Tory Britain. Anatol Lieven @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst from 2021-11-05T01:01:54

Photo:  The logo of The Green Party of England and Wales.   Fair use.



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2/2: The end of A. Q Khan as his 50 year-old proliferation lives on in Iran and North Korea. Anthony Ruggiero @NatSecAnthony @FDD @StrickerNonpro in @thedispatc from 2021-11-05T00:59:36

Photo:  At the state funeral for A Q Khan.



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1/2: The end of A. Q Khan as his 50 year-old proliferation lives on in Iran and North Korea. Anthony Ruggiero @NatSecAnthony @FDD @StrickerNonpro in @thedispatch from 2021-11-05T00:58:30

Photo:  A Q Khan made a king's fortune selling nuclear materials around Central Asia and the Middle East.  Here:  The centrifuges removed from Libya by the United States as seen in the image w...

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Guatemala tragedy at the door of the US State Department. Mary Anastasia O'Grady MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion from 2021-11-05T00:57:40

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How Green is Boris Johnson Green? Conrad Black, @ConradMBlack @nationalpost National Post from 2021-11-05T00:54:35

Photo:  Blackheath from The Municipal Parks Gardens, and Open Spaces of London: their history and associations ... Illustrated, etc.



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#NewWorldReport: Cuba without cash with crypto. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis auu from 2021-11-04T01:19:38

Photo:   "CryptoCuban Social Club." 

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#NewWorldReport: Argentina in debtor's prison again. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis lth from 2021-11-04T01:19:07

Photo:  A mid-Victorian depiction of the debtors' prison at St Briavels Castle.



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#NewWorldReport: Chile turns bookish Marxist. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, @revanellis U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute.HFN from 2021-11-04T01:18:42

Photo:  Logo of the Communist Youth of Chile, the youth wing of the Communist Party of Chile



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#NewWorldReport: Deforestation of Latin America. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, @revanellis U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. HFN from 2021-11-04T01:18:15

Photo:  Suriname was already destroying the Amazon in 1900





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White Dwarfs and Strange Rocky Exoplanets. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-11-04T01:17:36

Photo:  Pushing the limits of its powerful vision, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope uncovered the oldest burned-out stars in our Milky Way Galaxy. These extremely old, dim "clockwork stars" provi...

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Falcon Heavy back in business. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-11-04T01:17:02

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Virginia's Jason Miyares's Lesson for Election 2021. SalenaZito.com @DCExaminer from 2021-11-04T01:16:16

Photo:  Patrick Henry before the Virginia House of Burgesses (forerunner of House of Delegates) May 30, 1765.  Here: delivering a speech against the Stamp Act of 1765, "If this be treason, mak...

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Anti-satellite satellite launched. Brandon Weichert, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-11-04T01:15:07

Photo:  Artist's concept of the Soviet directed-energy research and development site at the Sary Shagan proving ground. It includes ground-based lasers that could be used in an anti-satellite ...

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China threatens the US, NATO, AUKUS, and climate change. Stephen Yates, @YatesDCIA, DCI Advisory. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-11-04T01:13:29

Photo:  T-26 tanks of Chinese Nationalist Army during WW2.



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The disappearing Scottish snowcap. Simon Constable @TheRealConstable Edinburgh Scotland from 2021-11-04T01:12:22

Photo:  One of Scotland's snow-patches: Aonach Mòr's  snow-patch on 1 October 2007. This patch sits on solid bedrock and melts more quickly than other patches because of water running undernea...

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Putin offers eight time zones of forest as bona fides. @Felix_Light @CBSNews from 2021-11-04T01:05:01

Photo:  Taiga forest of Russian Far East, near Imeni Poliny Osipenko village, Khabarovsk Krai.



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The DoD and Climate Change Decision-Making. Jeff McCausland @mccauslJ @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2021-11-04T01:04:17

Photo:   Department of Defense DOD Using Climate Assessment Tool to Understand Impacts of Climate Change



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The contest begins for the governor's mansion. @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNews. from 2021-11-04T01:03:37

Photo:  Governor's Mansion, Albany, N. Y.

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Eric Adams at Zero Bond. @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNews from 2021-11-04T01:02:52

Photo:  A historic private club in London.

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India weakened by the thousand-year history of Moslem and Hindu enmity. Sadanand @Dhume @AEI @WSJOpinion auu from 2021-11-03T01:02:29

Photo:  "1857 – 2017: The mutiny that helped the British create Hindu-Muslim divide.  Eight generations have grown into adulthood in the subcontinent since the eventful days of 1857, but there...

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Rapid testing is the pathway. @HenryIMiller @PacificResearch HFN from 2021-11-03T01:00:32

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Uzbekistan and Central Asia at risk from Afghanistan. @Gregory_Copley from 2021-11-03T01:00

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PRC hypersonic (FOBS) deception. @Gregory_Copley from 2021-11-03T00:59:33

Photo:  Hsiung Feng III Anti-Ship Missile Display in Chengkungling 2011




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In praise of "Essex Man," David Amess. Adrian Wooldridge @TheEconomist from 2021-11-03T00:57:54

Photo: Sir David Amess spoke about the importance of promoting international peace and safety.





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Brexit Boris is Green. Adrian Wooldridge @TheEconomist from 2021-11-03T00:57:22







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Europe without much heat. #StateThinking: @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc. from 2021-11-03T00:56:50

Photo:  Winter (from the Metropolitan Museum of Art)





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#LondonCalling: Stagflation for Thanksgiving. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-11-03T00:55:06




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#LondonCalling: Brexit fishing wars. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-11-03T00:54:16

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#LondonCalling: Paying for Green. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-11-03T00:53:16

Photo:  Poster shows a balloonist on horseback suspended from an ascending balloon to advertise balloon ascensions in Vauxhall Gardens, London.



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#AfterAfghanistan: Tajikistan under siege by the Taliban. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-11-02T00:39:44

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#AfterAfghanistan: ISIS vs Al Qaeda in Afghanistan @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-11-02T00:39:21

Photo: Al Qaeda and ISIS, enemies





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#AfterAfghanistan: Pakistan seeks help on Afghanistan. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-11-02T00:38:53

Photo:  Afghanistan's continuing bedevilment.  Here: "Save me from my friends!" — at that time, Russia and Great Britain.



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#AfterAfghanistan: Famine, al Qaeda and the unknowns of Afghanistan. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-11-02T00:38:25

Photo:  Last week in Afghanistan.



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Confident American neighborhoods despite the pandemic. Dan Cox @dcoxpolls, @AEI auu from 2021-11-02T00:36:46

Photo: An urban neighborhood; here: apartment buildings next to Morningside Park in New York City.



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Monopoly electricity fails; competitive succeeds. Bud Weinstein @SMUCox_MEI HFN from 2021-11-02T00:36:05

Photo:  Electrical power pylons.



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Noam Chomsky envisions a livable future. Katrina Vanden Heuvel @TheNation HFN from 2021-11-02T00:34:24

Photo:  Utopia Woodcut (Holbein, 1518)





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IAF and Gulf-state warplanes escort a US B-1 bomber over the region. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-11-02T00:28:41

Photo:  Israeli Air Force 69 Squadron F-15I Ra'ams at Red Flag 04-3





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#NewWorldReport: Science researchers in Latin America and the barriers worldwide. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-11-02T00:27:46

Photo:  Ancient science in Latin America.

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#NewWorldReport: Deeply-indebted Argentina risks Venezuela-scale failure. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-11-02T00:25:57

Photo:  Argentina 2005:  Depositors protest the freezing of their accounts, mostly in dollars. They were converted to pesos at less than half their new value.



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#NewWorldReport: Cuba claims to control crypto. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-11-02T00:25:05

Photo:   Cuban peso, 1936





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#NewWorldReport: Chilean democracy at existential risk. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSo from 2021-11-02T00:24:38

Photo:  Salvador Allende was the first Marxist to be elected in a democractic election is South America.  Oxymoric, but it happened.  Picture here: 1958 presidential campaign with a train with...

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The Bullet Train to California Ruination. @DevinNunes CA-22 from 2021-11-01T01:14:29

Photo: Artist's rendering of a TGV*-Type California High-Speed Rail trainset with livery; this type of train is used in all CHSRA materials, but...

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Does Putin's Moscow rule Scholz's Berlin? H. J. Mackinder. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-11-01T01:13:45

Photo:  East German construction workers building the Berlin Wall, 20 November 1961.



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When Stalin didn't show up for FDR; when Putin doesn't show up for Biden. H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. from 2021-11-01T01:13:39

Photo:   Police photograph of Ioseb Besarionis dz? Jughashvili (who became Stalin), taken in 1902, when he was 23 years old.



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The narrative loses control of the narrative. @ThadMcCotter @TheAmGreatness from 2021-11-01T01:13:27

Photo:  Miehle “Two Revolution Pony” printing press, from an 1894 advertiesement.



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One Week after the Tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, August 30, 2021. @LongWarJournal from 2021-10-31T01:26:20

Photo: Women of Afghanistan in 1920s




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Ten Weeks after the Tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, October 25, 2021. @LongWarJournal. from 2021-10-31T01:25:21

Photo: Afghan stamp, 1965.  "The Red City"



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#OzWatch: The aggressive, venemous, abundant Eastern Brown Snakes emerge in Springtime New South Wales. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. lth from 2021-10-31T00:00

Photo: Large Eastern Brown Snake - Tamban Forest near Kempsey, estimated length 1.7 metres








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#Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus look ahead to the division of the Roman Empire into the blessed Greek East and the cursed Latin West. Michael Vlahos. auu from 2021-10-31T00:00

Photo: Landing of the Romans on the Coast of Kent (Cassell's History of England, Vol. I – anonymous author and artists, 1909).







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Joining 710 WOR for the second century of broadcasting. Host. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-10-31T00:00

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Australia, Methane, P.M. Scott Morrison COP26 & What is to be done? Scott Mayman @CBSNews from 2021-10-30T21:44:16

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#PacificWatch: Disney Imagineering decamps California for Florida Jeff Bliss @JCBliss from 2021-10-30T01:23:24

Photo:  Walt Disney (right) checks out one of the Audio-Animatronics figures created for Pirates of the Caribbean at Disneyland based on a character design by Disney Imagineer Marc Davis (left...

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8/8: The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict, by Elbridge A. Colby @ElbridgeColby . September 14, 2021 from 2021-10-30T01:21:34

Photo:  Crowds watching arrival of the ship carrying the Statue of Liberty.




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7/8: The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict, by Elbridge A. Colby @ElbridgeColby . September 14, 2021 from 2021-10-30T01:20:54

Photo:   The Marine Corps War Memorial stands as a symbol of this grateful Nation's esteem for the honored dead of the U.S. Marine Corps.




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5/8: The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict, by Elbridge A. Colby @ElbridgeColby from 2021-10-30T01:17:06

Photo:  New York City - Armistice Day, New York City. Wild scene in front of Public Library, day of signing of armistice.

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4/8: The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict, by Elbridge A. Colby @ElbridgeColby . September 14, 2021 from 2021-10-30T01:16:02

Photo:  USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) sails past the Statue of Liberty as it enters New York Harbor prior to Veterans Week NYC 2016 which honors the service of all our nation's veterans.
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3/8: The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict, by Elbridge A. Colby @ElbridgeColby . September 14, 2021 from 2021-10-30T01:15:17

Photo:   "A card. New-York, September 9th, 1774. The thanks of the public are presented to those worthy citizens, who have, to their immortal honour, nobly refused to let their vessels for the...

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The most amazing cliffside ever witnessed. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-10-30T01:06:01

Photo:  Mere Earthbound palisades (here: in Utah).  



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Exoplanet atmosphere with CO2 and water at 320 light years. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-10-30T01:05:03

Photo:  "Evidence for Strange Stellar Family" — exoplanet artist's concept based on data from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope; it depicts a quadruple-star system called HD 98800. The system is ap...

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#COP26: "The problem everywhere is getting people to make sacrifices." Anatol Lieven @QuincyInst from 2021-10-30T00:56:53

Photo:  The Sacrifice.   Print shows the Roman knight Mutius Scaevola putting his hand into a flame while a group of Etruscans stands by.   Anonymous artist after Francesco Mazzuoli w...

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#COP26: Energy superpower Russia is both critical to and condemned by the EU. Anatol Lieven @QuincyInst from 2021-10-30T00:55:47

Photo:  Russian oil & gas:  Rosneft.

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Never going back to February 2020 DC. Francis Rose @FrancisRoseDC, The Daily Scoop from 2021-10-30T00:54:17

Photo:   Dr Martin Luther King, Jr., memorial in Washington D.C.



Never going back to February 2020 DC.  Francis Rose @FrancisRoseDC, The Daily Scoop



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All the bad actors in one extradition. @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion lth from 2021-10-29T01:39:44

Photo:  The nephews of President Nicolás Maduro, Efraín Antonio Campo Flores and Francisco Flores de Freitas, after their arrest...

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Taxing capital did not work for Europe. @VerodeRugy @Mercatus auu from 2021-10-29T01:38:52

Photo:  View of Zug before 1547. (Later, Marc Rich's first major tax haven:)





Taxing capital did not work for Europe.  @VerodeRugy @Mercatus auu



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2/2: Nigeria in existential peril; & what is to be done? Jonathan Rosenthal @TheEconomist HFN from 2021-10-29T01:37:46

Photo: Fula, or Fulani, residents of Kano, in the splendid Sokoto Caliphate, in 1900



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1/2: Nigeria in existential peril; & what is to be done? Jonathan Rosenthal @TheEconomist HFN from 2021-10-29T01:37:17

 Photo:  Kano in the 1930s.





1/2: Nigeria in existential peril; & what is to be done?  Jonathan Rosenthal @TheEconomist HFN




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Hezbollah in Africa. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-10-29T01:36:43

Photo:  Hezbollah does fundraising among Shi'a in Africa, including from innocents who don't know where the funds will go; and it also makes significant income from blood diamonds, incl from S...

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F-35s over Israel. Lt. Colonel Amnon Shefler, @LTCShefler, @IDF. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-10-29T01:36:03

Photo: F35-A lands (here: at Mountain Home AFB).





F-35s over Israel.  Lt. Colonel Amnon Shefler, @LTCShefler, @IDF. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1
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Anti-semitism on campus. Malcolm Hoenlein, @Mhoenlein1, @Conf_of_Pres from 2021-10-29T01:32:36

Photo: Among hundreds of incidents nationally, in October 2014 fliers were handed out in the University of California in Santa Barbara that claimed "9/11 Was an Outside Job" with a large blue ...

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Lowering expectations COP26. Vijay Vaitheeswaran @TheEconomist from 2021-10-29T01:32:15

Photo:  John Muir, possibly the United States's greatest environmentalist.



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#ScalaReport: The chip shortages deepen and drag out. Chris Riegel, CEO @scala CEO, @STRATACACHE, #TheScalaReport from 2021-10-29T01:31:43

Photo:  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Limited (TSMC; also called Taiwan Semiconductor) is a Taiwanese Listen
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Tehran attacks. Richard Goldberg @rich_goldberg, and Behnam Ben Taleblu @FDD from 2021-10-29T01:31:11

Photo: Achaemenid king killing a Greek hoplite






Tehran attacks. Richard Goldberg @rich_goldberg, and Behnam Ben Taleblu @FDD   




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Tehran promises little. Richard Goldberg@rich_goldberg, and Behnam Ben Taleblu @FDD from 2021-10-29T01:30:14

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2/2: Court-packing in the 21st Century; and what is to be done? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2021-10-29T01:29:49

Photo:  Joseph T. Robinson.



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1/2 Court-packing in the 21st Century; and what is to be done? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2021-10-29T01:29:24

Photo:  The Hughes Court, 1932–1937. Front row: Justices Brandeis and Van...

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Erdogan and the Greens at Lake Tuz. Aykan Erdemir, @aykanerdemir @FDD Intl Panel of Parliamentarians for Freedom of Religion or Belief. from 2021-10-29T01:28:10

Photo:  Early map of Lake Tuz, anciently known as Lake Tatta, 

             AP: "Turkey’s Lake Tuz dries up due to climate change, farming."




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Erdogan sanction buster. Aykan Erdemir, @aykanerdemir @FDD Intl Panel of Parliamentarians for Freedom of Religion or Belief. from 2021-10-29T01:24:24

Photo:  S-400 Triumf missile system, the source of the row.



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#AfterAfghanistan: Pakistan unknowns. Jeff McCausland @mccauslJ @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2021-10-28T00:56:25

Photo:  In the auld, auld days in Pakistan: 

"You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place or worship in thi...

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#AfterAfghanistan: "Tsunami of Destitution" Jeff McCausland @mccauslJ @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2021-10-28T00:55:29

Photo:  An Afghan family near Kholm, 1939 – most Afghans are tribal.  Today, perhaps as much as 80 or 90% of Afghans support the ...

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#NewWorldReport: Peru's Pedro Castillo turns away from the Shining Path. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis @revanellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. lth from 2021-10-28T00:54:07

Photo:  Demonstration in favor of Pedro Castillo as he campaigned in the summer of 2021.  Screen grab from video.



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#NewWorldReport: Ecuador seeks a market economy amid narco-terrorism. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis @revanellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. HFN from 2021-10-28T00:52:01

Photo:  Plantains growing in Ecuador.





#NewWorldReport: Ecuador seeks a market economy amid narco-terrorism.  Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis  @revanellis...

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#NewWorldReport: Venezuela launches hybrid attacks on Colombia. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis @revanellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. HFN from 2021-10-28T00:51:23

Photo:  Customs at the frontier between Colombia and Venezuela.



#NewWorldReport: Venezuela launches hybrid attacks on Colombia. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis  @...

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#HotelMars: The first movie star on the ISS. Anatoly Zak @RussianSpaceWeb; David Livingston, The Space Show from 2021-10-28T00:50:37

Photo:  The ISS, where a portion of the production takes place



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Xi refuses COP26; & What is to be done? Charles Burton @cburton001; @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-10-28T00:49:45

Photo:  Air pollution caused by industrial plants (here, a factory at the Y...

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PRC Antisatellite Arsenal. Rick Fisher, IASC; @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-10-28T00:47:06

Photo:  Known orbit planes of Fengyun-1C debris one month after its disintegration by the Chinese ASAT





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The stark Evergrande window on the troubled PRC economy and state. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-10-28T00:46:21

Photo:  Evergrande Center

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Moscow Lockdown. @Felix_Light @CBSNews @MoscowTimes from 2021-10-28T00:45:03

Photo:  Siege of Moscow.



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Watching Virginia House of Delegates. @SalenaZito SalenaZito.com @DCExaminer; CNN from 2021-10-28T00:44:22

Photo: Virginia State Capitol: Thomas Jefferson's "Temple to Democracy."

Photo courtesy of the Virginia General Assembly.



Watching Virginia House of Delegates.   @Sale...

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PRC rover Zhurong wakes up for mud cones ahead. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-10-28T00:43:16

Photo:  Zhurong's parachute deployment and powered landing sequence



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Starship orbital before Christmas? before Thanksgiving? Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-10-28T00:42:41

Photo:  The Starship/Super Heavy during ascent (artist's concept ...

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Extinction Rebellion at the Glasgow Pubs. Simon Constable @TheRealConstable Edinburgh from 2021-10-28T00:41:16

Photo:  The Horse Shoe Bar, a famous Glaswegian pub.



Extinction Rebellion at the Glasgow Pubs.  Simon Constable @TheRealConstable Edinburgh



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Boris Johnson awakens the North Sea gas fields just in time. Simon Constable @TheRealConstable Edinburgh from 2021-10-28T00:40:44

Photo:   Buchan Oil Field [pronounced, Buck-ann] in the North Sea.  Video screen grab, fair use.



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1799: #LondonCalling: Extinction Rebellion at COP26. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-10-27T00:30:34

Photo:  XR — Extinction Rebellion — logo



#LondonCalling:  Extinction Rebellion at COP26. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion





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#LondonCalling: Extinction Rebellion at COP26. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-10-27T00:30:34

Photo:  XR — Extinction Rebellion — logo



#LondonCalling:  Extinction Rebellion at COP26. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion





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1799: #LondonCalling: Vladmir Putin speaks candidly of energy costs for the EU. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-10-27T00:29:38

Photo:  Utility pole supporting wires for electrical power distribution, coaxial cable for Listen
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#LondonCalling: Vladmir Putin speaks candidly of energy costs for the EU. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-10-27T00:29:38

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1799: #LondonCalling: Boris Johnson speaks candidly of Green costs for the UK. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-10-27T00:28:14

Photo: Test of a one-bladed wind turbine rotor configuration [by NASA; at Plum Brook Station near Sandusky, Ohio]



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#LondonCalling: Boris Johnson speaks candidly of Green costs for the UK. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-10-27T00:28:14

Photo: Test of a one-bladed wind turbine rotor configuration [by NASA; at Plum Brook Station near Sandusky, Ohio]



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1799: DOD dreaming of cyber, AI, hypersonic, quantum computing and more magic. Patrick Tucker, @DefTechPat @DefenseOne, Defense One technology editor, & author, The Naked Future: What Happens in a World That Anticipates Your Every Move. HFN from 2021-10-27T00:27:24

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DOD dreaming of cyber, AI, hypersonic, quantum computing and more magic. Patrick Tucker, @DefTechPat @DefenseOne, Defense One technology editor, & author, The N...

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DOD dreaming of cyber, AI, hypersonic, quantum computing and more magic. Patrick Tucker, @DefTechPat @DefenseOne, Defense One technology editor, & author, The Naked Future: What Happens in a World That Anticipates Your Every Move. HFN from 2021-10-27T00:27:24

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Russian Letters of Marque for cyber pirates. Patrick Tucker, @DefTechPat @DefenseOne, Defense One technology editor, & author, The Naked Future: What Happens in a World That Anticipates Your Every Move. HFN from 2021-10-27T00:26:49

Photo:  "Drake Viewing Treasure Taken from a Spanish Ship" Date before 1923 :  courtesy New York Public Library (www.nypl.org)





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1799: Poland's partisan politics contradict the EU Treaty goals. Judy Dempsey, @Judy_Dempsey. Editor in chief #StrategicEurope, blog of @Carnegie_Europe. lth from 2021-10-27T00:25:56

Photo:  Kobylnica near Pozna?, 1918 




Poland's partisan politics contradict the EU Treaty goals. Judy Dempsey, @Judy_Dempsey. Editor in chief #StrategicEurope, blog...

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Poland's partisan politics contradict the EU Treaty goals. Judy Dempsey, @Judy_Dempsey. Editor in chief #StrategicEurope, blog of @Carnegie_Europe. lth from 2021-10-27T00:25:56

Photo:  Kobylnica near Pozna?, 1918 




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1799: The Northern Ireland troubles return with a Brexit breakdown. Judy Dempsey, @Judy_Dempsey. Editor in chief #StrategicEurope, blog of @Carnegie_Europe.auu from 2021-10-27T00:25:24

Photo:   Large portrait of Charles Stewart Parnell encircled by 18 smaller portraits of men prominent in Irish politics and government.



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The Northern Ireland troubles return with a Brexit breakdown. Judy Dempsey, @Judy_Dempsey. Editor in chief #StrategicEurope, blog of @Carnegie_Europe.auu from 2021-10-27T00:25:24

Photo:   Large portrait of Charles Stewart Parnell encircled by 18 smaller portraits of men prominent in Irish politics and government.



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1799: Measuring Mayors, Part 1. @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNews from 2021-10-27T00:24

Photo:  "The Ruined Town"  1630 - 1690; Art Institute of Chicago



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Measuring Mayors, Part 1. @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNews from 2021-10-27T00:24

Photo:  "The Ruined Town"  1630 - 1690; Art Institute of Chicago



Measuring Mayors, Part 1. @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNews



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1799: Wealth tax and its discontents. @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews from 2021-10-27T00:23:12

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Wealth tax and its discontents. @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews from 2021-10-27T00:23:12

Photo:  Oprah Winfrey at the White House in 2010. She is the first female Black billionaire and was the only Black billionaire from 20...

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1798: The most inflated Thanksgiving meal; & What is to be done? @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews from 2021-10-27T00:20:42

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The most inflated Thanksgiving meal; & What is to be done? @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews from 2021-10-27T00:20:42

Photo:  The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth, by Jennie A. Brownscombe   (1914)










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1798: Hawkish chatter from the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Soumaya Keynes @TheEconomist from 2021-10-27T00:19:32

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Hawkish chatter from the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Soumaya Keynes @TheEconomist from 2021-10-27T00:19:32

Photo:   "Chancellor of the Exchequer" Photomechanical print by Charles Ambrose. Part of the National Library of Wales portrait archive



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1798: The DOD existential threat is China. Nadia Schadlow @HooverInst from 2021-10-27T00:18:40

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The DOD existential threat is China. Nadia Schadlow @HooverInst from 2021-10-27T00:18:40

Photo:   A mural showing chariots and cavalry, from the Dahuting Tomb (Chinese: ?????, Pinyin: Dahuting Han mu...

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1798: #StateThinking: The EU futilely blames Russia. @MaryKissel, Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc. from 2021-10-27T00:17:58

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#StateThinking: The EU futilely blames Russia. @MaryKissel, Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc. from 2021-10-27T00:17:58

Photo:  A. B. Morozova - Real Europe without a backdrop



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1798: #StateThinking: Liz Truss, once and future Cold Warrior. @MaryKissel, Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc. from 2021-10-27T00:17:17

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1797: #StateThinking: Liz Truss, once and future Cold Warrior. @MaryKissel, Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc. from 2021-10-27T00:14:31

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#StateThinking: Liz Truss, once and future Cold Warrior. @MaryKissel, Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc. from 2021-10-27T00:14:31

Photo:    The western end of the FCDO Main Building in 1866, facing St James's Park. It was then occupied by the Foreign and India...

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1796: #AfterAfghanistan: ISIS unbeaten. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-10-25T23:57:19

Photo:  The Congress of the Brutes



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#AfterAfghanistan: ISIS unbeaten. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-10-25T23:57:19

Photo:  The Congress of the Brutes



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1796: #AfterAfghanistan: Khalilzad resigns, speaking of "realities." @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-10-25T23:56:25

Photo:  Peace negotiations, elsewhere



#AfterAfghanistan:  Khalilzad resigns, speaking of "realities."  @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal



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#AfterAfghanistan: Khalilzad resigns, speaking of "realities." @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-10-25T23:56:25

Photo:  Peace negotiations, elsewhere



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1796: #AfterAfghanistan: Famine now. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-10-25T23:55:57

Photo: Victims of famine in Greece during the Second World War.



#AfterAfghanistan:  Famine now.   @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal



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#AfterAfghanistan: Famine now. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-10-25T23:55:57

Photo: Victims of famine in Greece during the Second World War.



#AfterAfghanistan:  Famine now.   @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal



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1796: Khartoum coupmasters threatening stability along the Nile River Valley. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-10-25T23:54:50

Photo:  View from Bezawit Road – Blue Nile River in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia (not Sudan)



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Khartoum coupmasters threatening stability along the Nile River Valley. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-10-25T23:54:50

Photo:  View from Bezawit Road – Blue Nile River in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia (not Sudan)



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1796: Uzbekistan goes to the polls with eyes on the Afghanistan crisis. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-10-25T23:54:16

Photo:   Bukhara Women's unveiled group



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Uzbekistan goes to the polls with eyes on the Afghanistan crisis. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-10-25T23:54:16

Photo:   Bukhara Women's unveiled group



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1796: China's hypersonic missile test accelerates the new arms race in Asia. Jonathan D. T. Ward, @jonathandtward, author, China's Vision of Victory. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-10-25T23:52:48

Photo:  Satellite image of the testing site four days after China's first atomic bomb test.



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China's hypersonic missile test accelerates the new arms race in Asia. Jonathan D. T. Ward, @jonathandtward, author, China's Vision of Victory. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-10-25T23:52:48

Photo:  Satellite image of the testing site four days after China's first atomic bomb test.



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1796: 2/2 The Sputnik moment of China's hypersonic missile test; & What is to be done? Jerry Hendrix III, Telemus Group. from 2021-10-25T23:47:19

Photo:  Postage stamp of the USSR 1 ruble, dedicated to the flight of Belka and Strelka, the Soviet space dogs.



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2/2 The Sputnik moment of China's hypersonic missile test; & What is to be done? Jerry Hendrix III, Telemus Group. from 2021-10-25T23:47:19

Photo:  Postage stamp of the USSR 1 ruble, dedicated to the flight of Belka and Strelka, the Soviet space dogs.



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1796: 1/2 The Sputnik moment of China's hypersonic missile test; & What is to be done? Jerry Hendrix III, Telemus Group. from 2021-10-25T23:46:42

Photo:   Sputnik 1 /   ??????? 1



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Photo:   Sputnik 1 /   ??????? 1



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1796: "Indiana" Hoenlein and King David's Lost City of Judah. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-10-25T23:45:46

Photo:  Under the watchful eye of his father and brothers, Samuel anoints David, who kneels before him. His shepherd's staff lies next to him on the ground. In the background, a sacrifice burn...

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"Indiana" Hoenlein and King David's Lost City of Judah. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-10-25T23:45:46

Photo:  Under the watchful eye of his father and brothers, Samuel anoints David, who kneels before him. His shepherd's staff lies next to him on the ground. In the background, a sacrifice burn...

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1796: Bennett and Putin in lengthy, in-person discussions. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-10-25T23:44:58

Photo:  Ain Karim, Russian colony in Jerusalem.



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Bennett and Putin in lengthy, in-person discussions. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-10-25T23:44:58

Photo:  Ain Karim, Russian colony in Jerusalem.



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1796: Boomers discover climate change activism. Katrina Vanden Heuvel @TheNation from 2021-10-25T23:43:07

Photo:   In Australia, the Orroral Valley Fire viewed from Tuggeranong on the evening of 28 January 2020.



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Boomers discover climate change activism. Katrina Vanden Heuvel @TheNation from 2021-10-25T23:43:07

Photo:   In Australia, the Orroral Valley Fire viewed from Tuggeranong on the evening of 28 January 2020.



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1796: #NewWorldReport: Accusing Bolsonaro; Mexico unready for caring for the aged. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave). Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc lth from 2021-10-25T23:41:45

Photo: A Mexican family



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#NewWorldReport: Accusing Bolsonaro; Mexico unready for caring for the aged. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave). Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc lth from 2021-10-25T23:41:45

Photo: A Mexican family



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1796: #NewWorldReport: Peru's populist newcomer Pedro Castillo withdraws to the palace. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave). Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc auu from 2021-10-25T23:40:16

Photo:   Pizarro on Horseback by Daniel Hernández, which once hung in the Túpac Amaru II Room in the  Lima, Peru, government palace, House of Pizarro



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#NewWorldReport: Peru's populist newcomer Pedro Castillo withdraws to the palace. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave). Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc auu from 2021-10-25T23:40:16

Photo:   Pizarro on Horseback by Daniel Hernández, which once hung in the Túpac Amaru II Room in the  Lima, Peru, government palace, House of Pizarro



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#NewWorldReport: StateSec Blinken speaks of climate change and Covid to Bogota and Quito. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave). Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc HFN from 2021-10-25T23:39:31

Photo:  Leaving Bogota



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1796: #NewWorldReport: Indigenous people disorder Chile's Mapuche and Patagonians. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave). Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc HFN from 2021-10-25T23:38:53

Photo: Mapuche couple



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#NewWorldReport: Indigenous people disorder Chile's Mapuche and Patagonians. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave). Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc HFN from 2021-10-25T23:38:53

Photo: Mapuche couple



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1792: The Biden Agenda in Pelosi-speak: "I think we're pretty much there now." from 2021-10-25T02:30

Photo:  United States Congress c. 1915




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The Biden Agenda in Pelosi-speak: "I think we're pretty much there now." from 2021-10-25T02:30

Photo:  United States Congress c. 1915




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1795: #PacificWatch: Vegas is back. . @JCBliss from 2021-10-25T01:56:08

Photo:  Arts District, Las Vegas,





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Photo:  Arts District, Las Vegas,





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1795: #PacificWatch: EddieWorld charging $6.38 per gallon plus intimidating corn dogs. @JCBliss from 2021-10-25T01:54:54

Photo:  EddieWorld in Las Vegas.  Note Tesla charging stations.



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#PacificWatch: EddieWorld charging $6.38 per gallon plus intimidating corn dogs. @JCBliss from 2021-10-25T01:54:54

Photo:  EddieWorld in Las Vegas.  Note Tesla charging stations.



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1794: J. H. Gelernter #Unbound. Napoleonic-era espionage. The complete, twenty-minute interview. May 3, 2021. LXX GLXXG from 2021-10-25T01:00:25

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1794: The Mesopotamian city of Noah's flood wiped out by an earthquake: Return to Sodom and Gomorrah, by Charles Pellegrino from 2021-10-25T00:58:50

Photo:  Noah's Ark





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The Mesopotamian city of Noah's flood wiped out by an earthquake: Return to Sodom and Gomorrah, by Charles Pellegrino from 2021-10-25T00:58:50

Photo:  Noah's Ark





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1793: Angel Iscovich #Unbound— Routinology: the complete, twenty-minute interview, June 19, 2021. from 2021-10-25T00:48:30

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Angel Iscovich #Unbound— Routinology: the complete, twenty-minute interview, June 19, 2021. from 2021-10-25T00:48:30

Photo:  "The Stoic life centred around habits and routines — practices in which they engaged daily, from their waking moments until going to sleep, that provided the structure necessary for a ...

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1792: #Eurasianism: At the Valdai Discussion Club, Putin philosophizes about the reawakening Russian culture, neither East nor West. Professor H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. from 2021-10-25T00:37:12

Photo:  The enormous Eurasian continent.



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#Eurasianism: At the Valdai Discussion Club, Putin philosophizes about the reawakening Russian culture, neither East nor West. Professor H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. from 2021-10-25T00:37:12

Photo:  The enormous Eurasian continent.



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1791: #ClassicHotelMars: Sim-Colony under the lunar surface. Kim Holder, Moonwards.com. David Livingston. moonwards.com HFN from 2021-10-25T00:27:15

Photo: Moonrise from Earth.



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#ClassicHotelMars: Sim-Colony under the lunar surface. Kim Holder, Moonwards.com. David Livingston. moonwards.com HFN from 2021-10-25T00:27:15

Photo: Moonrise from Earth.



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Elbridge Colby, Jerry Hendrix, Edward "Sonny" Masso. #UNBOUND. China, Taiwan. The complete, forty-minute interview. October 13, 2021. from 2021-10-24T03:01:48

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1790: Elbridge Colby, Jerry Hendrix, Edward "Sonny" Masso. #UNBOUND. China, Taiwan. The complete, forty-minute interview. October 13, 2021. from 2021-10-24T03:01:48

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"Strategic ambiguity" and the Biden Administration's defense of Taiwan; & What is to be done? Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-10-24T02:59

Photo: According to the Treaty of Shimonoseki Taiwan was part of Japan at the establishment of the ROC in 1912. The PRC (found...

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#AfterAfghanistan: Uzbekistan goes to the presidential polls under the new threat of the Taliban. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs, in the Fergana Valley. from 2021-10-24T02:59

Photo:   Uzbekistan of long ago; Ferghana Valley.  Here:  Federal symbol of the Western Turks circa 650 CE. Eleven poles symbolizing the five Dulu...

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1786: "Strategic ambiguity" and the Biden Administration's defense of Taiwan; & What is to be done? Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-10-24T02:59

Photo: According to the Treaty of Shimonoseki Taiwan was part of Japan at the establishment of the ROC in 1912. The PRC (found...

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1786: #AfterAfghanistan: Uzbekistan goes to the presidential polls under the new threat of the Taliban. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs, in the Fergana Valley. from 2021-10-24T02:59

Photo:   Uzbekistan of long ago; Ferghana Valley.  Here:  Federal symbol of the Western Turks circa 650 CE. Eleven poles symbolizing the five Dulu...

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Once-in-50-years tornadoes strike Australia twice in days, at NSW and Queensland. Jeremy Zakis, NSW. HFN from 2021-10-24T02:58

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1786: Once-in-50-years tornadoes strike Australia twice in days, at NSW and Queensland. Jeremy Zakis, NSW. HFN from 2021-10-24T02:58

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1790: David Grantham #Unbound. (Intell.) The complete, forty-minute interview, April 5, 2021. from 2021-10-24T02:57:56

Photo:  US Airfare, OFFICE OF SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS

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1790: The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds, by Christopher E. Mason | Apr 20, 2021 from 2021-10-24T02:56:50

Photo:  An artist's concept of what Kepler-1649c could look like from its surface. Credit: NASA/Ames Research Center/Daniel Rutter




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1789: Devin Nunes #Unbound: Countdown to Socialism. The complete, twenty-six-minute interview, September 15, 2020 from 2021-10-24T02:50:39

Photo:  The celebration of the election of the Commune on 28 March 1871—the Paris Commune was a major early implementation of socialis...

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Mark Piesing, #UNBOUND,Arctic exploration, the complete, forty-minute interview; August 28, 2021 from 2021-10-24T02:49:12

Photo:  THE AIRSHIP ITALIA: A MYSTERY AT THE END OF THE GOLDEN AGE OF POLAR EXPLORATION




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1789: Mark Piesing, #UNBOUND,Arctic exploration, the complete, forty-minute interview; August 28, 2021 from 2021-10-24T02:49:12

Photo:  THE AIRSHIP ITALIA: A MYSTERY AT THE END OF THE GOLDEN AGE OF POLAR EXPLORATION




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#ClassicHotelMars: Colonizing tomorrow. Rod Pyle, Ad Astra Magazine. David Livingston SpaceShow.com HFN from 2021-10-24T02:17:13

Photo:  An artist's conception of a human Mars base, with a cutaway revealing an interior horticultural area



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1788: #ClassicHotelMars: Colonizing tomorrow. Rod Pyle, Ad Astra Magazine. David Livingston SpaceShow.com HFN from 2021-10-24T02:17:13

Photo:  An artist's conception of a human Mars base, with a cutaway revealing an interior horticultural area



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Paul Halpern #UNBOUND: Flashes of Creation. The complete, forty-minute interview. September 18, 2021. from 2021-10-24T02:02:50

Photo:  Georgiy Antonovich Gamov,  b. March 4, 1904 (O.S./Old Calendar February 20, 1904). Russian-Ukrainian-Listen
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1787: Paul Halpern #UNBOUND: Flashes of Creation. The complete, forty-minute interview. September 18, 2021. from 2021-10-24T02:02:50

Photo:  Georgiy Antonovich Gamov,  b. March 4, 1904 (O.S./Old Calendar February 20, 1904). Russian-Ukrainian-Listen
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Canceling the Rolling Stones with Soviet Socialist Realism, 2021. @ThadMcCotter HFN from 2021-10-24T01:54:38

Photo: Brilliant Soviet composers under Stalinist attack:  Left to right, 4 October 1946: Sergei Prokofiev, Shostakovich, ...

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1786: Canceling the Rolling Stones with Soviet Socialist Realism, 2021. @ThadMcCotter HFN from 2021-10-24T01:54:38

Photo: Brilliant Soviet composers under Stalinist attack:  Left to right, 4 October 1946: Sergei Prokofiev, Shostakovich, ...

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1786: 2/2: #Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus debate: what if the Colonies had stayed with an accommodating Parliament and King? Michael Vlahos. from 2021-10-24T01:47:37

Photo: The unaccommodating King George III:  Full-length portrait in oils of a clean-shaven young George in eighteenth-century dress: gold jacket and breeches, ermine cloak, powdered wig, whit...

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2/2: #Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus debate: what if the Colonies had stayed with an accommodating Parliament and King? Michael Vlahos. from 2021-10-24T01:47:37

Photo: The unaccommodating King George III:  Full-length portrait in oils of a clean-shaven young George in eighteenth-century dress: gold jacket and breeches, ermine cloak, powdered wig, whit...

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1785: USAID aims to fund more virus-collecting research & What is to be done? @JoshRogin, Washington Post. from 2021-10-23T01:12:24

Photo:  Level B hazmat suits.  US gov photo.



USAID aims to fund more virus-collecting research & What is to be done? @JoshRogin, Washington Post. 



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USAID aims to fund more virus-collecting research & What is to be done? @JoshRogin, Washington Post. from 2021-10-23T01:12:24

Photo:  Level B hazmat suits.  US gov photo.



USAID aims to fund more virus-collecting research & What is to be done? @JoshRogin, Washington Post. 



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1784: 4/4 The Orphans of Davenport: Eugenics, the Great Depression, and the War over Children's Intelligence, by Marilyn Brookwood @MarilynBrookwo1 @wwnorton. from 2021-10-23T01:04:32

Photo:  In the decades after World War II, the term "eugenics" had taken on a negative connotation and became increasingly unpopular wi...

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4/4 The Orphans of Davenport: Eugenics, the Great Depression, and the War over Children's Intelligence, by Marilyn Brookwood @MarilynBrookwo1 @wwnorton. from 2021-10-23T01:04:32

Photo:  In the decades after World War II, the term "eugenics" had taken on a negative connotation and became increasingly unpopular wi...

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1784: 3/4 The Orphans of Davenport: Eugenics, the Great Depression, and the War over Children's Intelligence, by Marilyn Brookwood @MarilynBrookwo1 @wwnorton. from 2021-10-23T01:03:45

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3/4 The Orphans of Davenport: Eugenics, the Great Depression, and the War over Children's Intelligence, by Marilyn Brookwood @MarilynBrookwo1 @wwnorton. from 2021-10-23T01:03:45

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1784: 2/4 The Orphans of Davenport: Eugenics, the Great Depression, and the War over Children's Intelligence, by Marilyn Brookwood @MarilynBrookwo1 @wwnorton. from 2021-10-23T01:02:46

Photo:  Small children in France



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2/4 The Orphans of Davenport: Eugenics, the Great Depression, and the War over Children's Intelligence, by Marilyn Brookwood @MarilynBrookwo1 @wwnorton. from 2021-10-23T01:02:46

Photo:  Small children in France



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1784: Remembering the luxury liner Il Rex, 1931-1944. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation from 2021-10-23T00:50:39

Photo:  First class grand staircase on the Il Rex.



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Remembering the luxury liner Il Rex, 1931-1944. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation from 2021-10-23T00:50:39

Photo:  First class grand staircase on the Il Rex.



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1784: Vladimir Putin, the Conservative Statesman at Sochi. Anatol Lieven @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst from 2021-10-23T00:49:53

Photo:  The Transfiguration Church in Khosta, Sochi.



Vladimir Putin, the Conservative Statesman at Sochi. Anatol Lieven @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst  



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Vladimir Putin, the Conservative Statesman at Sochi. Anatol Lieven @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst from 2021-10-23T00:49:53

Photo:  The Transfiguration Church in Khosta, Sochi.



Vladimir Putin, the Conservative Statesman at Sochi. Anatol Lieven @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst  



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1784: EU energy fail and going nuke. Vijay Vaitheeswaran @TheEconomist from 2021-10-23T00:48:47

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EU energy fail and going nuke. Vijay Vaitheeswaran @TheEconomist from 2021-10-23T00:48:47

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1784: USAID aims to find more virus-collecting research; & what is to be done? @JoshRogin, Washington Post. from 2021-10-23T00:48:07

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USAID aims to find more virus-collecting research; & what is to be done? @JoshRogin, Washington Post. from 2021-10-23T00:48:07

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1784: #SmallBusinessAmerica: Amazon Hearts Small Business? @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2021-10-23T00:46:57

Photo:  Amazon Spheres from the Sixth Avenue side, Seattle, Washington.  



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#SmallBusinessAmerica: Amazon Hearts Small Business? @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2021-10-23T00:46:57

Photo:  Amazon Spheres from the Sixth Avenue side, Seattle, Washington.  



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1784: #SmallBusinessAmerica: Future Teamsters High School. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2021-10-23T00:46:27

Photo:  Cornelius Shea, first General President of the Teamsters, circa 1905.



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#SmallBusinessAmerica: Future Teamsters High School. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2021-10-23T00:46:27

Photo:  Cornelius Shea, first General President of the Teamsters, circa 1905.



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1784: New York City vs. 7-foot-tall Thomas Jefferson, 2021. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion from 2021-10-23T00:42:27

Photo:  Statue of Thomas Jefferson in the US Capitol.



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New York City vs. 7-foot-tall Thomas Jefferson, 2021. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion from 2021-10-23T00:42:27

Photo:  Statue of Thomas Jefferson in the US Capitol.



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1784: The Battle of Lepanto; & what is to be done? @Clifford May @FDD from 2021-10-23T00:40:07

Photo:  One of the Venetian Galleasses at Lepanto (1851 drawing, after a 1570s painting).



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The Battle of Lepanto; & what is to be done? @Clifford May @FDD from 2021-10-23T00:40:07

Photo:  One of the Venetian Galleasses at Lepanto (1851 drawing, after a 1570s painting).



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1784: Saving the Koalas. Scott Mayman @CBSNews from 2021-10-23T00:39:33

Photo:  Mother with joey on back.



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Photo:  Mother with joey on back.



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1784: The alien cliffsides of Gale Crater. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-10-23T00:38:01

Photo:  Ancient Lake Fills Gale Crater on Mars (simulated view).



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The alien cliffsides of Gale Crater. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-10-23T00:38:01

Photo:  Ancient Lake Fills Gale Crater on Mars (simulated view).



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1784: Jonah on board. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-10-23T00:37:33

Photo:  Jonah and the Whale (1621) by Pieter Lastman





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Jonah on board. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-10-23T00:37:33

Photo:  Jonah and the Whale (1621) by Pieter Lastman





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1783: Why defend a small country far away? @AmbJohnBolton from 2021-10-22T01:15:55

Photo: President Chen Shui-bian (far left) attended the Listen
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Why defend a small country far away? @AmbJohnBolton from 2021-10-22T01:15:55

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1783: First Amendment failure on campus. @VerodeRugy @Mercatus from 2021-10-22T01:14:39

Photo:   Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the ...

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First Amendment failure on campus. @VerodeRugy @Mercatus from 2021-10-22T01:14:39

Photo:   Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the ...

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1783: Recalling the Muslim World League delegation visiting Auschwitz-Birkenau, January 2020. HE Dr. Mohammad Al-Issa @MWLOrg_en Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-10-22T00:55:43

Photo: Mohammad Al-Issa receives award from UN body for his “outstanding efforts” in international diplomacy & combating hatred.




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Recalling the Muslim World League delegation visiting Auschwitz-Birkenau, January 2020. HE Dr. Mohammad Al-Issa @MWLOrg_en Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-10-22T00:55:43

Photo: Mohammad Al-Issa receives award from UN body for his “outstanding efforts” in international diplomacy & combating hatred.




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1783: Is Iraq developing a taste for democracy? James Jeffrey @TheWilsonCenter Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-10-22T00:53:35

Photo: Iraqis in the predominantly Sunni city of Husaybah wait in lines to vote during the national election.



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Is Iraq developing a taste for democracy? James Jeffrey @TheWilsonCenter Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-10-22T00:53:35

Photo: Iraqis in the predominantly Sunni city of Husaybah wait in lines to vote during the national election.



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1783: Confrontation in the region much more likely. Eran Lerman @EranLerman, and Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-10-22T00:42:47

Photo: Selim the Grim, Ottoman conqueror of the Middle East



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Confrontation in the region much more likely. Eran Lerman @EranLerman, and Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-10-22T00:42:47

Photo: Selim the Grim, Ottoman conqueror of the Middle East



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1783: 1/2: Reawakening Antitrust; & what is to be done? @RichardAEpstein from 2021-10-22T00:39:55

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1/2: Reawakening Antitrust; & what is to be done? @RichardAEpstein from 2021-10-22T00:39:55

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2/2: Reawakening antitrust; & what is to be done? @RichardAEpstein from 2021-10-22T00:39:50

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1783: What kind of Plan B? Richard Goldberg and Behnam Ben Taleblu, @FDD from 2021-10-22T00:33:33

Photo: .Contingency:  A cargo pallet assigned to the 621st Contingency Response Wing at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., aboard a C-17 Globemaster III here, Oct. 28, 2012. The equipment...

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What kind of Plan B? Richard Goldberg and Behnam Ben Taleblu, @FDD from 2021-10-22T00:33:33

Photo: .Contingency:  A cargo pallet assigned to the 621st Contingency Response Wing at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., aboard a C-17 Globemaster III here, Oct. 28, 2012. The equipment...

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1783: Taking Tehran's "No" for a "No." @RichGoldberg and Behnam ben Taleblu, @FDD from 2021-10-22T00:26:55

Photo: Nuclear Iran, a POV.


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1783: Unpredictable climate. Svetlana Skarbo @Siberian_Times from 2021-10-22T00:24:32

Photo: Novonikolayevsk in 1895.



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Unpredictable climate. Svetlana Skarbo @Siberian_Times from 2021-10-22T00:24:32

Photo: Novonikolayevsk in 1895.



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1783: Lady of the Rings, 1000 BCE. Svetlana Skarbo @Siberian_Times from 2021-10-22T00:20:15

Photo: Southern Siberia, Tuva: ring unearthed.







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Lady of the Rings, 1000 BCE. Svetlana Skarbo @Siberian_Times from 2021-10-22T00:20:15

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1783: The wildfires abate; the permafrost ablaze. Svetlana Skarbo, Novosibirsk. @Siberian_Times from 2021-10-22T00:15:29


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The wildfires abate; the permafrost ablaze. Svetlana Skarbo, Novosibirsk. @Siberian_Times from 2021-10-22T00:15:29


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1783: The little orphaned polar bear: Svetlana Skarbo @Siberian_Times from 2021-10-22T00:13:20

Photo: Andrey Gorban, a wildlife expert in Siberia, explains: 'The cub is clearly in the state of shock, it hasn't been eating for days'.  Gorban has volunteered to take the cub from Dikson, o...

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The little orphaned polar bear: Svetlana Skarbo @Siberian_Times from 2021-10-22T00:13:20

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1782: Labour is not charismatic; & what is to be done? Adrian Wooldridge @TheEconomist from 2021-10-21T01:11:32

Photo:  Detail from Labor, Charles Sprague Pearce (1896).



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Labour is not charismatic; & what is to be done? Adrian Wooldridge @TheEconomist from 2021-10-21T01:11:32

Photo:  Detail from Labor, Charles Sprague Pearce (1896).



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1781: Sir David Amess: The mystery of the murder of an honorable man. Adrian Wooldridge @TheEconomist from 2021-10-21T01:10:26

Photo:  Massacre of the Innocents



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Sir David Amess: The mystery of the murder of an honorable man. Adrian Wooldridge @TheEconomist from 2021-10-21T01:10:26

Photo:  Massacre of the Innocents



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1781: #NewWorldReport: What about a continental economy built on new supply chains? Professor Evan Ellis @revanellis, Latin American Research. U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. from 2021-10-21T01:09:27

Photo:   Fur trading at Fort Nez Percés in 1841.



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#NewWorldReport: What about a continental economy built on new supply chains? Professor Evan Ellis @revanellis, Latin American Research. U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. from 2021-10-21T01:09:27

Photo:   Fur trading at Fort Nez Percés in 1841.



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1781: #NewWorldReport: SOUTHCOM along the watchtowers. Professor Evan Ellis @revanellis, Latin American Research U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. from 2021-10-21T01:08:20

Photo:  Southcom with multinational forces in amphibious landing during UNITAS LXII




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#NewWorldReport: SOUTHCOM along the watchtowers. Professor Evan Ellis @revanellis, Latin American Research U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. from 2021-10-21T01:08:20

Photo:  Southcom with multinational forces in amphibious landing during UNITAS LXII




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1781: Journey to a newly-threatened Uzbekistan. Gregory Copley @Gregory_Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs HFN from 2021-10-21T01:06:41

Photo:  Dalverzin Tepe, Head. "Termez Dalvarzin Tepe 1st-3rd century CE Head of a Prince, Archaeological Museum Termez"



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Journey to a newly-threatened Uzbekistan. Gregory Copley @Gregory_Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs HFN from 2021-10-21T01:06:41

Photo:  Dalverzin Tepe, Head. "Termez Dalvarzin Tepe 1st-3rd century CE Head of a Prince, Archaeological Museum Termez"



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1781: The PRC falls down. Gregory Copley @Gregory_Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs HFN from 2021-10-21T01:06:04

Photo:  Miner at the end of a shift, Jin Hua Gong [lignite] Mine, Datong, Shanxi, China



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The PRC falls down. Gregory Copley @Gregory_Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs HFN from 2021-10-21T01:06:04

Photo:  Miner at the end of a shift, Jin Hua Gong [lignite] Mine, Datong, Shanxi, China



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1781: To invade Taiwan. Jeff McCausland @mccauslJ @CBSNews @dickinsoncol @CBSradio from 2021-10-21T01:05:17

Photo: Japan invaded Taiwan (The Republic of Formosa) in 1895. Here:  A Japanese triptych woodblock print depicting a native fighter...

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To invade Taiwan. Jeff McCausland @mccauslJ @CBSNews @dickinsoncol @CBSradio from 2021-10-21T01:05:17

Photo: Japan invaded Taiwan (The Republic of Formosa) in 1895. Here:  A Japanese triptych woodblock print depicting a native fighter...

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1781: Remembering the life and times of General and Secretary of State Colin Powell. Jeff McCausland @mccauslJ @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2021-10-21T01:04:44

Photo:  Official portrait of Colin L. Powell as the Secretary of State of the United States of America. Taken in January 2001.
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Remembering the life and times of General and Secretary of State Colin Powell. Jeff McCausland @mccauslJ @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2021-10-21T01:04:44

Photo:  Official portrait of Colin L. Powell as the Secretary of State of the United States of America. Taken in January 2001.
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1781: Moscow warns of full lockdown. Felix Light @CBSNews @MoscowTimes HFN from 2021-10-21T01:03:54

Photo:  Front-line Moscow. Barricade at the intersection of Balchug Street and Lubochny Lane. Built to protect the Kremlin under the leadership of engineer Pavel Andreevich Sokolov.

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Moscow warns of full lockdown. Felix Light @CBSNews @MoscowTimes HFN from 2021-10-21T01:03:54

Photo:  Front-line Moscow. Barricade at the intersection of Balchug Street and Lubochny Lane. Built to protect the Kremlin under the leadership of engineer Pavel Andreevich Sokolov.

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1781: Winter is coming tonight. Simon Constable @RealConstable @Forbes Edinburgh, Barrons, WSJ HFN from 2021-10-21T01:03:29

Photo:  Shine  on, harvest moon (hunter's moon).



Winter is coming tonight.  Simon Constable  @RealConstable  @Forbes Edinburgh, Barrons, WSJ HFN




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Winter is coming tonight. Simon Constable @RealConstable @Forbes Edinburgh, Barrons, WSJ HFN from 2021-10-21T01:03:29

Photo:  Shine  on, harvest moon (hunter's moon).



Winter is coming tonight.  Simon Constable  @RealConstable  @Forbes Edinburgh, Barrons, WSJ HFN




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1781: India talks Abraham Accords with Israel, UAE and the US. @CleoPaskal, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill HFN from 2021-10-21T01:01:33

Photo: In India, Bene Israel Teachers 



India talks Abraham Accords with Israel, UAE and the US.  @CleoPaskal,  @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill HFN


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India talks Abraham Accords with Israel, UAE and the US. @CleoPaskal, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill HFN from 2021-10-21T01:01:33

Photo: In India, Bene Israel Teachers 



India talks Abraham Accords with Israel, UAE and the US.  @CleoPaskal,  @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill HFN


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1781: The leading Korean presidential candidate appears decidedly anti-US and pro-China. @DrTaraO. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-10-21T01:00:08

Photo:   Anti-Trusteeship Campaign in December 1945.



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The leading Korean presidential candidate appears decidedly anti-US and pro-China. @DrTaraO. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-10-21T01:00:08

Photo:   Anti-Trusteeship Campaign in December 1945.



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1781: The call to postpone and move the 2022 Winter games from Beijing. Nury Turkel @nuryturkel . @GordonGChang from 2021-10-21T00:59:35

Photo:  Text is, "Boycott Xinjiang Genocide Products! Also don't attack our Chinese neighbors. Just say no to xenophobia and racism!."  Sign on NYU campus.





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The call to postpone and move the 2022 Winter games from Beijing. Nury Turkel @nuryturkel . @GordonGChang from 2021-10-21T00:59:35

Photo:  Text is, "Boycott Xinjiang Genocide Products! Also don't attack our Chinese neighbors. Just say no to xenophobia and racism!."  Sign on NYU campus.





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1780: #LondonCalling: The Green Royals. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-10-20T01:37:51

Photo:  A tropical plant community on Diego Garcia



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#LondonCalling: The Green Royals. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-10-20T01:37:51

Photo:  A tropical plant community on Diego Garcia



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1780: #LondonCalling: Boris Johnson goes green for decarbonising housing and discard boilers. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-10-20T01:37:22

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#LondonCalling: Boris Johnson goes green for decarbonising housing and discard boilers. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-10-20T01:37:22

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1780: #LondonCalling: The unknowns of the Sir David Amess tragedy. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-10-20T01:36:53

Photo: The Union Jack was lowered in honor of the murdered MP.



#LondonCalling:  The unknowns of the Sir David Amess tragedy. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion




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#LondonCalling: The unknowns of the Sir David Amess tragedy. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-10-20T01:36:53

Photo: The Union Jack was lowered in honor of the murdered MP.



#LondonCalling:  The unknowns of the Sir David Amess tragedy. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion




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1780: #LondonCalling: Heathrow inflates its price a lot. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-10-20T01:36:03

Photo: Aerial photograph of Heathrow Airport—the Heathrow Star—in 1955.



#LondonCalling:  Heathrow inflates its price a lot. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion




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#LondonCalling: Heathrow inflates its price a lot. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-10-20T01:36:03

Photo: Aerial photograph of Heathrow Airport—the Heathrow Star—in 1955.



#LondonCalling:  Heathrow inflates its price a lot. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion




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1780: "You guys are stuck in here with me!" Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass, @TheEconomist, Europe Correspondent from 2021-10-20T01:35:17

Photo:  Polish Economic Guide (Poradnik Gospodarski)




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"You guys are stuck in here with me!" Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass, @TheEconomist, Europe Correspondent from 2021-10-20T01:35:17

Photo:  Polish Economic Guide (Poradnik Gospodarski)




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1780: Will the new mayor secure Penn/Moynihan Station? @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNews from 2021-10-20T01:34:33

Photo: The glorious old Beaux-Arts  Penn. RR Station from Gimbel's N.Y. (Gimbels no longer exists.) The demolition of tha...

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Will the new mayor secure Penn/Moynihan Station? @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNews from 2021-10-20T01:34:33

Photo: The glorious old Beaux-Arts  Penn. RR Station from Gimbel's N.Y. (Gimbels no longer exists.) The demolition of tha...

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1780: The Glasgow COP26 Conference. Elizabeth Peek, Fiscal Times and Fox News. @lizpeek from 2021-10-20T01:32:07

Photo: The official logo of the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26), 2021.



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The Glasgow COP26 Conference. Elizabeth Peek, Fiscal Times and Fox News. @lizpeek from 2021-10-20T01:32:07

Photo: The official logo of the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26), 2021.



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1779: What is Plan B? Richard Goldberg, @rich_goldberg, @FDD ; and Orde F. Kittrie @ordefk from 2021-10-20T01:24:39

Photo:  Liberty, accompanied by Fortitude, reaches out to Peace and Concord. In the background the Temple of Reason. In the foreground is the Human Love, pointing to a tablet on which 'the Rig...

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What is Plan B? Richard Goldberg, @rich_goldberg, @FDD ; and Orde F. Kittrie @ordefk from 2021-10-20T01:24:39

Photo:  Liberty, accompanied by Fortitude, reaches out to Peace and Concord. In the background the Temple of Reason. In the foreground is the Human Love, pointing to a tablet on which 'the Rig...

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1779: Can SecState Blinken reform the anti-Israel UNHRC? Richard Goldberg, @rich_goldberg, @FDD; and Orde F. Kittrie @ordefk from 2021-10-20T01:23:53

Photo:  The Israelites mourn the death of Moses. In the background the burial of Moses on a hilltop by two angels (Deut. 34:8). The print has a Hebrew, Latin, French, English, German and Dutch...

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Can SecState Blinken reform the anti-Israel UNHRC? Richard Goldberg, @rich_goldberg, @FDD; and Orde F. Kittrie @ordefk from 2021-10-20T01:23:53

Photo:  The Israelites mourn the death of Moses. In the background the burial of Moses on a hilltop by two angels (Deut. 34:8). The print has a Hebrew, Latin, French, English, German and Dutch...

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1778: #StateThinking: The Defense of Taiwan; and what is to be done? @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc. @Stephens_Inc from 2021-10-20T01:21:21

Photo: Aerial-view map of Taiwan



#StateThinking: The Defense of Taiwan; and what is to be done?   @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executiv...

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#StateThinking: The Defense of Taiwan; and what is to be done? @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc. @Stephens_Inc from 2021-10-20T01:21:21

Photo: Aerial-view map of Taiwan



#StateThinking: The Defense of Taiwan; and what is to be done?   @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executiv...

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1778: Lucy's solar panels not nominal. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-10-20T01:18:58

Photo:  Lucy Launches on Atlas V to Hunt Trojan Asteroids. NASA.




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Lucy's solar panels not nominal. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-10-20T01:18:58

Photo:  Lucy Launches on Atlas V to Hunt Trojan Asteroids. NASA.




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1778: Is the Starship Orbital Mission delayed? Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-10-20T01:18:09

Photo:  Starship Orbital Mission. NASA.



Is the Starship Orbital Mission delayed? Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com



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Is the Starship Orbital Mission delayed? Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-10-20T01:18:09

Photo:  Starship Orbital Mission. NASA.



Is the Starship Orbital Mission delayed? Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com



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1778: Sea urchin dining. Jon Fasman @TheEconomist from 2021-10-20T01:17:19

Photo:  Sea Urchins



Sea urchin dining. Jon Fasman @TheEconomist





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Sea urchin dining. Jon Fasman @TheEconomist from 2021-10-20T01:17:19

Photo:  Sea Urchins



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1778: Microbes cooking; sunless farming. Jon Fasman @TheEconomist from 2021-10-20T01:16:51

Photo: A long-revered use of microbes in food; here, grapes and wine. 



Microbes cooking; sunless farming. Jon Fasman @TheEconomist





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Microbes cooking; sunless farming. Jon Fasman @TheEconomist from 2021-10-20T01:16:51

Photo: A long-revered use of microbes in food; here, grapes and wine. 



Microbes cooking; sunless farming. Jon Fasman @TheEconomist





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1777: #AfterAfghanistan: ISIS attacks the Taliban East, North, South, Central. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-10-19T02:26:23

Photo:  Surrendered Islamic State fighters after the Battle of Darzab.



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#AfterAfghanistan: ISIS attacks the Taliban East, North, South, Central. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-10-19T02:26:23

Photo:  Surrendered Islamic State fighters after the Battle of Darzab.



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1777: #AfterAfghanistan: What leverage? @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-10-19T02:24:56

Photo:  A comic strip about the traits of reliable sources.



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#AfterAfghanistan: What leverage? @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-10-19T02:24:56

Photo:  A comic strip about the traits of reliable sources.



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1777: #AfterAfghanistan: Speaking Taliban; and the US Senate 20 years later. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-10-19T02:24:04

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#AfterAfghanistan: Speaking Taliban; and the US Senate 20 years later. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-10-19T02:24:04

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#AfterAfghanistan:  Speaking Taliban; and the US Senate 20 years later.   @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal



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1776: Orbital hypersonic missile launch: "We don't know how they did this." Brandon Weichert @WeTheBrandon and @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-10-19T02:14:44

Photo:  Hypersonic weapon, demonstrating its non-parabolic trajectory (denoted in red), has a distinctive signature which is being tracked by one of the layers of the Listen
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Orbital hypersonic missile launch: "We don't know how they did this." Brandon Weichert @WeTheBrandon and @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-10-19T02:14:44

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1775: Small Modular Reactors for Tomorrow. Mike Hewitt CEO IP3 Security from 2021-10-19T02:11:31

Photo:  Illustration of a light-water small modular nuclear reactor (SMR)



 Small Modular Reactors for Tomorrow. Mike Hewitt CEO IP3 Security


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Small Modular Reactors for Tomorrow. Mike Hewitt CEO IP3 Security from 2021-10-19T02:11:31

Photo:  Illustration of a light-water small modular nuclear reactor (SMR)



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1775: Iran invaded Azerbaijan, 2020. Brenda Shaffer @ProfBShaffer @FDD from 2021-10-19T02:05:16

Photo:  The Iranian embassy in Baku.



Iran invaded Azerbaijan, 2020.  Brenda Shaffer @ProfBShaffer  @FDD
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Iran invaded Azerbaijan, 2020. Brenda Shaffer @ProfBShaffer @FDD from 2021-10-19T02:05:16

Photo:  The Iranian embassy in Baku.



Iran invaded Azerbaijan, 2020.  Brenda Shaffer @ProfBShaffer  @FDD
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The unusual new partnership of Russia and the EU. Katrina vanden Heuvel @TheNation from 2021-10-19T02:03:17

Photo:  The night bivouac of Napoleon's army during the retreat from Russia in 1812; by Vasily Vereshchagin.



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1775: The unusual new partnership of Russia and the EU. Katrina vanden Heuvel @TheNation from 2021-10-19T02:03:17

Photo:  The night bivouac of Napoleon's army during the retreat from Russia in 1812; by Vasily Vereshchagin.



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3500-year-old ghost of Babylon. "Indiana" Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 ; @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-10-19T01:51:43

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Plan B for the Iran Deal Ambitions. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-10-19T01:50:22

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1774: Plan B for the Iran Deal Ambitions. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-10-19T01:50:22

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#NewWorldReport: What can Southcom do for abandoned Haiti? Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave); Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-10-19T01:47:59

Photo:  Loading sisal in Haiti






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1774: #NewWorldReport: What can Southcom do for abandoned Haiti? Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave); Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-10-19T01:47:59

Photo:  Loading sisal in Haiti






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#NewWorldReport: Ecuador turns to market solutions. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave); Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-10-19T01:47:25

Photo:  Camino Real guayaquil: Royal Road in Guayaquil



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#NewWorldReport: The Magical China–thinking of impoverished Latin America. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) ;Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-10-19T01:45:43

Photo:  Chinese Troops in Xinjiang (where Xinjiang/Hsin chiang means roughly "new territories"); illustration of Chinese...

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#NewWorldReport: The Caracas-Tehran connection in custody. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave); Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSo from 2021-10-19T01:45:10

Photo:  Visualization of overseas Chinese populations per country



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1774: #NewWorldReport: The Caracas-Tehran connection in custody. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave); Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSo from 2021-10-19T01:45:10

Photo:  Visualization of overseas Chinese populations per country



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#Londinium90AD: When the Optimates lose confidence in the Emperor, from Domitian 96 A.D. to Louis Napoleon 1870 A.D. and 2021 A.D. - Michael Vlahos. from 2021-10-18T03:01

Photo: 1695, Colosseum te Rome




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1768: #Londinium90AD: When the Optimates lose confidence in the Emperor, from Domitian 96 A.D. to Louis Napoleon 1870 A.D. and 2021 A.D. - Michael Vlahos. from 2021-10-18T03:01

Photo: 1695, Colosseum te Rome




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#ClassicHotelMars: Moon Colony Race. Anatoly Zak @RussianSpaceWeb David Livingston, Spaceshow.com from 2021-10-18T01:26:36

Photo:  A NASA model of a proposed inflatable module



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1773: #ClassicHotelMars: Moon Colony Race. Anatoly Zak @RussianSpaceWeb David Livingston, Spaceshow.com from 2021-10-18T01:26:36

Photo:  A NASA model of a proposed inflatable module



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"All signs do point that Pelosi is preparing for her exit." @DevinNunes CA-22 from 2021-10-18T01:26:33

Photo: Hiawatha's departure.





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1773: "All signs do point that Pelosi is preparing for her exit." @DevinNunes CA-22 from 2021-10-18T01:26:33

Photo: Hiawatha's departure.





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California powerless. @DevinNunes CA-22 from 2021-10-18T01:26:26

Photo: Ruins in the vicinity of Post and Grant Avenue, 1906 earthquake



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1773: California powerless. @DevinNunes CA-22 from 2021-10-18T01:26:26

Photo: Ruins in the vicinity of Post and Grant Avenue, 1906 earthquake



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Russia, the EU and the limits of environmental or human rights leverage. H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. from 2021-10-18T01:11:05

Photo:  Grave of Anna Politkovskaya at the Troyekurovskoye Cemetery in Moscow



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1773: Russia, the EU and the limits of environmental or human rights leverage. H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. from 2021-10-18T01:11:05

Photo:  Grave of Anna Politkovskaya at the Troyekurovskoye Cemetery in Moscow



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Civic lesson learned from the late Soviet Union about inflation and supply chains; & What is to be done? @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-10-18T00:27:37

Photo:  One of the several photographs intended to show the two major economic policy makers of the Soviet Union together, Vladimir Lenin...

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1773: Civic lesson learned from the late Soviet Union about inflation and supply chains; & What is to be done? @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-10-18T00:27:37

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1768: 12b/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Lessons Learned after seven years of false witnessing. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-10-17T02:00

Photo: Ninth Commandment:  Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.  Here: The Ten Commandments.



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1768: 12a/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Lessons Learned after seven years of false witnessing. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-10-17T02:00

Photo:.  "The Falcon Plucks out the Eyes of the Falconer for Bearing False Witness Against the Nobleman's Wife", Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna






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1771: 11/12 #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: At CPAC 2020. Publishing "Spygate Exposed" January, 2021. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-10-17T01:57:20

Photo:  The emeritus professor, despite the unusual conduct.



11/12   #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: At CPAC 2020. Publishing "Spygate Exposed" January, 2021. Svetlana Lokhova @TheR...

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1771: 10/12 #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Mueller investigation neither questioned nor contacted Svetlana Lokhova. Washington Post, July 24, 2019. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-10-17T01:56:46

Photo:  Robert Mueller: G-man confused





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1771: 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 from 2021-10-17T01:56:16

Photo:   Convocation dress of a Doctor of Civil Law in the University of Oxford, detail scanned from a reproduction of a 1675 engraving (Habiti Academici, part of the series Oxonia Illustrata)...

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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 from 2021-10-17T01:55:24

Photo:  Book:   Ars moriendi, The Art of Dying.





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1771: 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 from 2021-10-17T01:55:24

Photo:  Book:   Ars moriendi, The Art of Dying.





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7/12 #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: American media name Cambridge Professor Stefan Halper as the source of the allegations, May 18, 2018. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-10-17T01:54:50

Photo:  The Library; Trinity, Cambridge

7/12  #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: American media name Cambridge Professor Stefan Halper as the source of the allegations, May 18, 2018. Svetlana L...

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1771: 7/12 #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: American media name Cambridge Professor Stefan Halper as the source of the allegations, May 18, 2018. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-10-17T01:54:50

Photo:  The Library; Trinity, Cambridge

7/12  #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: American media name Cambridge Professor Stefan Halper as the source of the allegations, May 18, 2018. Svetlana L...

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1771: 6/12 #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: "Glamorous." Daily Telegraph, April 2, 2017. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. from 2021-10-17T01:54:13

Photo:  Russian women of yesteryear





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5/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Allegedly linked to the GRU and Vladimir Putin on the Guardian front gate, April 1, 2017. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. from 2021-10-17T01:53:41

Photo:   The Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, abbreviated G.U., formerly the Main Intelligence Directorate and still commonly known by its p...

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1771: 5/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Allegedly linked to the GRU and Vladimir Putin on the Guardian front gate, April 1, 2017. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. from 2021-10-17T01:53:41

Photo:   The Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, abbreviated G.U., formerly the Main Intelligence Directorate and still commonly known by its p...

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4/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Within a week, 2/28/17-3/4/17, Svetlana Lokhova is contacted by WSJ, WAPO, and NYT, all of whom suspect her to be a Russian agent. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. from 2021-10-17T01:52:42

Photo: Newspaper readers, 1840





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1771: 4/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Within a week, 2/28/17-3/4/17, Svetlana Lokhova is contacted by WSJ, WAPO, and NYT, all of whom suspect her to be a Russian agent. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. from 2021-10-17T01:52:42

Photo: Newspaper readers, 1840





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2/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Remembering the Stefan Halper origins, August 10-16, 2016. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. from 2021-10-17T01:51:50

Photo:   US Theatrical Poster.  Fair use.



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1771: 2/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Remembering the Stefan Halper origins, August 10-16, 2016. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. from 2021-10-17T01:51:50

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1770: Michael Auslin #Unbound. Asia-Pacific. The complete, twenty-minute interview. May 12, 2021. LXX GLXXG from 2021-10-17T01:28:16

 Photo: A simple view of IndoPacific

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#ClassicHotelMars: A long line of tourists -- Captain James T. Kirk? -- for Earth-orbit hotel rooms. David Livingston Spaceshow.com. Marcia Smith, SpacepolicyOnline.com from 2021-10-17T00:57:51

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. 1961

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1769: #ClassicHotelMars: A long line of tourists -- Captain James T. Kirk? -- for Earth-orbit hotel rooms. David Livingston Spaceshow.com. Marcia Smith, SpacepolicyOnline.com from 2021-10-17T00:57:51

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. 1961

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New South Wales reopens for business and festivity in hours; & What is to be done? Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales, Australia. from 2021-10-17T00:36:24

Photo: A 630 lb gold specimen from Hill End, New South Wales, unearthed in 1872



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1768: New South Wales reopens for business and festivity in hours; & What is to be done? Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales, Australia. from 2021-10-17T00:36:24

Photo: A 630 lb gold specimen from Hill End, New South Wales, unearthed in 1872



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Oral antivirals join the remedies. Dr Henry Miller, @henryimiller, @PacificResearch Institute, www.HenryMillerMD.org from 2021-10-16T01:00:48

Photo:  Molecular structure of PF-07321332.



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1767: Oral antivirals join the remedies. Dr Henry Miller, @henryimiller, @PacificResearch Institute, www.HenryMillerMD.org from 2021-10-16T01:00:48

Photo:  Molecular structure of PF-07321332.



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#ScalaReport: The supply chain does not improve quickly into 2022. Chris Riegel CEO Scala.com from 2021-10-16T01:00:12

.Photo:  Punjab Regiment uses mules for carrying cargo in Burma during WWII. Animals have been used for logistic purposes by different peoples...

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1767: #ScalaReport: The supply chain does not improve quickly into 2022. Chris Riegel CEO Scala.com from 2021-10-16T01:00:12

.Photo:  Punjab Regiment uses mules for carrying cargo in Burma during WWII. Animals have been used for logistic purposes by different peoples...

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The James Webb in French Guiana. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-10-16T00:59:27

Photo: Cayenne rue Christophe Colomb, French Guiana



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1767: The James Webb in French Guiana. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-10-16T00:59:27

Photo: Cayenne rue Christophe Colomb, French Guiana



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Captain Kirk outperforms Jeff Bezos. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-10-16T00:58:54

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1767: Captain Kirk outperforms Jeff Bezos. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-10-16T00:58:54

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4/4 The Fall of Taiwan; & What is to be done? @ElbridgeColby The Marathon Initiative. Captain Jerry Hendrix, @JerryHendrixII Telemus Group. RADM Edward "Sonny" Masso USN (ret), Naval Historical Foundation from 2021-10-16T00:58:12

Photo:  Woodcut of the mass killings which took place during the February 28 Incident:   an anti-government uprising in Taiwan that was viole...

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1767: 4/4 The Fall of Taiwan; & What is to be done? @ElbridgeColby The Marathon Initiative. Captain Jerry Hendrix, @JerryHendrixII Telemus Group. RADM Edward "Sonny" Masso USN (ret), Naval Historical Foundation from 2021-10-16T00:58:12

Photo:  Woodcut of the mass killings which took place during the February 28 Incident:   an anti-government uprising in Taiwan that was viole...

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3/4 The Fall of Taiwan; & What is to be done? @ElbridgeColby The Marathon Initiative. Captain Jerry Hendrix, @JerryHendrixII Telemus Group. RADM Edward "Sonny" Masso USN (ret), Naval Historical Foundation from 2021-10-16T00:57:43

Photo:   The Takasago Volunteers were a unit of the Japanese Army recruited from Taiwanese aboriginal tribes.





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1767: 3/4 The Fall of Taiwan; & What is to be done? @ElbridgeColby The Marathon Initiative. Captain Jerry Hendrix, @JerryHendrixII Telemus Group. RADM Edward "Sonny" Masso USN (ret), Naval Historical Foundation from 2021-10-16T00:57:43

Photo:   The Takasago Volunteers were a unit of the Japanese Army recruited from Taiwanese aboriginal tribes.





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1767: 2/4 The Fall of Taiwan; & What is to be done? @ElbridgeColby The Marathon Initiative. Captain Jerry Hendrix, @JerryHendrixII Telemus Group. RADM Edward "Sonny" Masso USN (ret), Naval Historical Foundation from 2021-10-16T00:57:02

photo:  Soldiers of the 1874 expedition in Taiwan



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1767: #SmallBusinessAmerica: The only mistake you make is not to sell to the globe @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2021-10-16T00:54:36

Photo:  The mechanical celestial globe made in 1594 in Kassel by en:Joost Bürgi, clockmaker from Switzerland. Now at Listen
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1767: The Emperor's Clothes are an alternative reality. Dan Henninger, @DanHenninger, @WSJOpinion from 2021-10-16T00:53:11

[htot:  The emperor's new clothes; illustration by Hans Tegner





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1767: 2/2 SCOTUS new term for guns and religious belief. @RichardAEpstein. from 2021-10-16T00:51:49

Photo:  Bible



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1767: 1/2 SCOTUS new term for guns and religious belief. @RichardAEpstein. from 2021-10-16T00:51:22

Photo:  Beecher Bible and Rifle Church is a historic church at the southeastern corner of Chapel and Elm Streets in Wabaunsee, Kansas<...

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1767: Hollywood on Strike. Jeff Bliss, @JCBliss, Pacific Watch from 2021-10-16T00:48:29

Photo:  Holly wood.



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1766: New South Wales aims to emerge with digital certificates. Scott Mayman @CBSNews. Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. from 2021-10-16T00:18:13

Photo: One form of digital certificate.



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1765: Arms control and the unknowns of the PRC nuke arsenal. John Bolton @AmbJohnBolton from 2021-10-15T01:24:06

Photo:  Shah of Iran building two nuclear plants




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1765: 2/2 The UK food, fuel and Christmas shortages coming our way. Simon Constable @RealConstable, Edinburgh from 2021-10-15T01:19:26

Photo: Hopeful children with still-empty Christmas stockings.  



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1765: 1/2 The UK food, fuel and Christmas shortages coming our way. Simon Constable @RealConstable, Edinburgh from 2021-10-15T01:18:16

Photo:   The bitter winter of 1947 with low coal stocks In the United Kingdom.  Welsh: Tarw dur, tractor a sled yn dosbarthu bara i bentre Llanwddyn yn ystod yr eira, 15 March 1947 Listen
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1765: Escape from the Farhud, 1941-1948. Joseph Samuel, and Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_Pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-10-15T01:16:52

Photo:  Monument "Prayer" in Ramat Gan in memory of the Jews who were killed in Iraq in t...

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1765: The fresh lethality of Iranian drones. Seth Frantzman @sfrantzman @MidEast_Center Founder @GulfIsrael. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_Pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-10-15T01:15:54

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1765: Cuban baseball escapes to freedom and the Major Leagues. Mary O'Grady @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion from 2021-10-15T01:09:11

Photo:  Esteban Bellan, Cuban-American, was the first Latin American player to play in a Major League in the United States.



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1765: Friday Night Football, 1965-2021. @SalenaZito SalenaZito.com from 2021-10-15T01:06:11

Photo:  Dick Lee has a running shot at goal in the match against Fitzroy. 

G. Coventry raises his right leg in sympathy with the champion's movement.



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1765: Celebrating Re-enactors of the Battle of Ligonier,1758. SalenaZito.com from 2021-10-15T01:04:01

Photo:  Ligonier, Pennsylvania



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1765: 2/2 The dangers inside all software; & What is to be done? Georgianna Shea @_GeorgiannaShea @FDD from 2021-10-15T01:02:50

Photo:  Virus scanner



2/2  The dangers inside all software; & What is to be done?  Georgianna Shea @_GeorgiannaShea   @FDD



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1765: 1/2 The dangers inside all software; & What is to be done? Georgianna Shea @_GeorgiannaShea @FDD from 2021-10-15T01:02:15

Photo:  An infected version of an app to control the D-30 Howitzer was allegedly distributed to the Ukrainian artillery<...

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1764: 2/2 The pursuit and neutralizing of Al Qaeda's Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines; lessons learned. David Maxwell @DavidMaxwell161 @FDD from 2021-10-15T00:56:44

Photo:  Examples of finely-crafted Moro blades made from Basilan "basih" (iron).



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1764: 1/2 The pursuit and neutralizing of Al Qaeda's Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines; lessons learned. David Maxwell @DavidMaxwell161 @FDD from 2021-10-15T00:55:49

Photo:  A helicopter of the Philippine Air Force conducting airstrikes



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1763: 8/8 Patrick O’Donnell, #UNBOUND: The Indispensables. The complete, 80-minute interview, June 26 & October, 2021 from 2021-10-14T00:04

Photo:   Colonel John Glover directs the evacuation of the American army from Brooklyn, on the night of August 29-30, 1776.



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1763: 5/8 Patrick O’Donnell, #UNBOUND: The Indispensables. The complete, 80-minute interview, June 26 & October, 2021 from 2021-10-14T00:04

Photo:  View of the Attack on Bunker's Hill with the Burning of Charlestown, by Lodge






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1762: 4/8 Patrick O’Donnell, #UNBOUND: The Indispensables. The complete, 80-minute interview, June 26 & October, 2021 from 2021-10-14T00:04

Photo:  John Glover (November 5, 1732 – January 30, 1797) was an American fisherman, merchant, and military leader from Listen
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1761: 3/8 Patrick O'Donnell, #UNBOUND: The Indispensables. The complete, 80-minute interview, June 26 & October, 2021 from 2021-10-14T00:04

Photo:  Gen. Sir William Howe






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1761: 2/8 Patrick O’Donnell, #UNBOUND: The Indispensables. The complete, 80-minute interview, June 26 & October, 2021 from 2021-10-14T00:04

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1761: 1/8 Patrick O’Donnell, #UNBOUND: The Indispensables. The complete, 80-minute interview, June 26 & October, 2021 from 2021-10-14T00:04

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1760: 7/8 Josh Rogin: Chaos under Heaven. #Unbound: the complete, eighty-minute interview, October 2021 from 2021-10-14T00:01

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1760: 6/8 Josh Rogin: Chaos under Heaven. #Unbound: the complete, eighty-minute interview, October 2021 from 2021-10-14T00:01

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1760: 5/8 Josh Rogin: Chaos under Heaven. #Unbound: the complete, eighty-minute interview, October 2021 from 2021-10-14T00:01

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1759: 4/8 Josh Rogin #Unbound: the complete, eighty-minute interview, October 2021 from 2021-10-14T00:01

Photo:    October Revolution Day in 1931, the founding ceremony of the Chinese Soviet Republic in Yeping Village, Ruijin, Jiangxi





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1759: 3/8 Josh Rogin: Chaos under Heaven. #Unbound: the complete, eighty-minute interview, October 2021 from 2021-10-14T00:01

Photo: The earliest portrait of Emperor Shun in the stone inscriptions of the Wu family tombs in Jiaxiang, Shandong.



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1759: 2/8 Josh Rogin: Chaos under Heaven. #Unbound: the complete, eighty-minute interview, October 2021 from 2021-10-14T00:01

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1759: 1/8 Josh Rogin: Chaos under Heaven. Unbound: the complete, eighty-minute interview, October 2021 from 2021-10-14T00:01

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1758: The nuclear football with one key only: Jeff McCausland @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2021-10-13T01:00

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1758: #StateThinking: Russian energy dominates West as well as East Eurasia. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc. from 2021-10-13T00:00

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1758: #StateThinking: The unfinished Czech elections and Central Europe. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc. from 2021-10-13T00:00

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1758: Stagflation mentioned in London. @LizPeek @TheHill @FNC from 2021-10-13T00:00

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1758: The energy shortfall is global, unpredicted, persistent and accelerating. @LizPeek @TheHill @FNC from 2021-10-13T00:00

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1758: The EU migrant tragedy returns in Poland and Lithuania. Judy Dempsey, @Judy_Dempsey Carnegie Endowment for Peace, @Carnegie_Europe, Strategic Europe. from 2021-10-13T00:00

Photo: .Migrants in Hungary at the Serbian border



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1758: Lake Jezero on the planet Mars, once upon a time. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-10-13T00:00

Photo: NASA:  Images from the Perseverance rover confirm that Jezero crater is an ancient Martian lake, researchers say.



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1758: Blue Origin Blues : Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com HFN from 2021-10-13T00:00

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1758: #LondonCalling: The Orionids of Halley's Comet soon over Britain. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-10-12T22:55:11

Photo: An Orionid meteor recorded by the NASA All Sky Fireball Network station on top of Mt. Lemmon, Arizona on October 13, 2015 at 04:31 a.m. EDT. Orionid meteors appear to come from the dire...

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1758: #LondonCalling: China and Not Capitalism @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-10-12T22:55:07

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1758: #LondonCalling: Panic at the hearth. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-10-12T22:55:01

Photo: "The [UK] business secretary has asked the Treasury to support industries hit by soaring energy costs, a source has told the BBC."  Here: traditional hearth.





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1757: #AfterAfghanistan: ISIS strikes Kunduz; Taliban scrambles. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-10-12T01:28:25

Photo: ISIS attacks Sh'ia in Kunduz mosque.  Screen grab.





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1757: #AfterAfghanistan: AQAP speaks of victory in Afghanistan and new threats to the US. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal HFN from 2021-10-12T01:28:22

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1757: #AfterAfghanistan: What is the TTP (Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan) threat to Pakistan? @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-10-12T01:28:19

Photo: Flag of Tehrik-i-Taliban (the Pakistani Taliban)





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1757: #AfterAfghanistan: What Congress knows of Al Q in Afghanistan. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal HFN from 2021-10-12T01:28:17

Photo: .Life in Afghanistan under the Taliban:  lots of death.





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1756: The nuclear arms race slips back into the shadows. Peter Huessy. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-10-12T00:05:23

Photo:  "He's driving me nuts - I'm on the verge of blowing my top" Ed. Valtman '62 (Herblock)



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1756: The Nobelist Dmitry Muratov is a protege of Mikhail Gorbachev and the late Professor Stephen F. Cohen. Katrina Vanden Heuvel @TheNation from 2021-10-12T00:04:39

Photo:  The Academy's Documents.  




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1756: Cowless Milk and Meatless Meat. Jon Fasman @TheEconomist from 2021-10-12T00:03:43

Photo: Front cover of Meatless Meals, published in 1931



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1756: Losing Christmas, saving summer. Alan Tonelson, independent economic policy analyst who blogs at RealityChek and tweets at @AlanTonelson ; @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hil from 2021-10-12T00:01:20

Photo:  Two traders in 16th-century Germany



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1756: Instagram of 14th-century Holy Land travel. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-10-11T23:59:48

Photo:  Saint George 14th Century






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1755: #NewWorldReport: The Chilean presidential election tightens. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-10-11T23:57:29

Photo: Chile — presidential elections 1938



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1755: #NewWorldReport: Pedro Castillo turns toward the markets. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-10-11T23:56:58

Photo: Miniature book of the constitution of Peru





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1755: #NewWorldReport: Unconfirmed report of Iran missiles to Caracas. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-10-11T23:55:16

Photo:  Venezuela:  Return to the homeland 1878 



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1754: #PacificWatch: Cancelling Big Mow 31-HP V-twin Dual Hydrostatic 66-in Zero-turn Lawn Mower. @JCBliss #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-10-11T02:06:01

Photo: Print made by the Library of Congress.

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1754: The Kremlin charge of Europe and China winter. H. J. Mackinder #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-10-11T02:05:35

Photo: View of one of Bröderna Nobel's limited company drilling rigs - for extraction of oil by pumping (Ausschöpfen). Balachani 1883 .. (More text can be found on the back of the photograph)....

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1754: What of the surprising Quinnipiac polling of the suburban Independents? @DevinNunes CA-22 #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-10-11T02:05:32

Photo:   Illustration shows the arrival of a guest at a suburban family's home on Christmas eve; the guest is welcomed, given a drink and a large meal where he carves the turkey; then, after t...

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1754: Ned Ryun #UNBOUND. Adversaries: the complete, twenty-minute interview. from 2021-10-11T02:04:11

Photo:  Photograph of a painting or illustration signed "F. C. Yohn," possibly American Revolution (1775-1783)





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1754: John Tamny #Unbound. When Politicians Panicked: the complete, forty-minute interview. March 28, 2021. from 2021-10-11T02:00:34

Photo:  A London Board of Health hunting after cases like a cholera.



 

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1754: The Mesopotamian city of Noah's flood wiped out by an earthquake. Charles Pellegrino, author. from 2021-10-11T01:58:14

Photo:  An early Christian depiction showing Noah giving the gesture of orant as the dove returns



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1754: Sophie Pedder #UNBOUND. Révolution Française, the complete forty-minute interview, July 17, 2021. from 2021-10-11T01:55:50

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1753: ""Save Australia!" in the streets of New York City. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. from 2021-10-10T02:12

Photo: Australian protests against continuing lockdowns.



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1753: #PacificWatch: "Chris vs Crack" in the Skid Row of LA; & What is to be done? @JCBliss from 2021-10-10T02:11:57

Photo: Close-up of the cooking process that creates crack.





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1752: 11/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: At CPAC 2020. Publishing "Spygate Exposed" January, 2021. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-10-10T01:36:16

Photo: Svetlana Lokhova, author of Spygate Exposed.



11/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: At CPAC 2020.  Publishing Spygate Exposed January, 2021.  Svetlana Lokho...

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1752: 10/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Mueller investigation neither questioned nor contacted Svetlana Lokhova. Washington Post, July 24, 2019. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-10-10T01:35:28

Photo:   Fox News reporting on ". . .  the reports of an FBI employee altering documents in the 2016 Russia probe, the false narrative being pushed by Democrats, the FBI’s surveillance of him ...

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1752: 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 from 2021-10-10T01:35:02

Photo:  Octyabrskaya Hotel, Moscow:  where highest officials and important guests stayed during the USSR, and somewhat later.



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1752: 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 from 2021-10-10T01:34:32

Photo: Book-printing presses



8/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Book launch party with a pride of competing intelligence agents, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, May...

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1752: 7/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: American media names Cambridge Professor Stefan Halper as the source of the allegations, May 18, 2018. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-10-10T01:33:59

Photo:  British poster warns against talking details of operations.



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1752: 6/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: "Glamorous." Daily Telegraph, April 2, 2017. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. from 2021-10-10T01:33:17

Photo: Russian edition, Glamour magazine; screen grab.



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1752: 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 from 2021-10-10T01:32:20

Photo:  Newsboy in tattered clothing selling newspapers as two men fight in front of The Herald building.



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1752: 2/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Remembering the Stefan Halper origins, August 10-16, 2016. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-10-10T01:31:16

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2/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Remembering the Stefan Halper origins, August 10-16, 2016. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety
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1752: 1/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Remembering the Peter Strzok origins, July 31, 2016. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-10-10T01:30:34

Photo:  Peter Strzok in a Congressional hearing.



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

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1751: Paris and Athens sudden teamwork. Bradley Bowman @FDD from 2021-10-09T00:49:21

Photo:  Painting depicting Greek military units in the WWI Victory Parade in Arc de Triomphe in Paris in July 1919.



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1751: #PacificWatch: The Rotterdam Express is the person of interest. @JCBliss HFN from 2021-10-09T00:47:53

Photo:  KOKOPO CHIEF Container Ship:  A technological cousin of the Rotterdam Express.



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1744: Who will contaminate Mars—& What is to be done? Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com HFN from 2021-10-09T00:40:23

Photo:  Mars PathFinder Rover Traverse Image

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1744: Dragon Supreme. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com HFN from 2021-10-09T00:38:23

Photo: Illustration of a wingèd, fire-breathing dragon by Friedrich Justin Bertuch from 1806



 

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1750: 4/4 Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate, by Paul Halpern from 2021-10-09T00:33:11

Photo:  Creation of the Universe; in National Gallery of Art



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1750: 3/4 Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate, by Paul Halpern from 2021-10-09T00:32:03

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1750: 2/4 Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate, by Paul Halpern from 2021-10-09T00:31:08

Photo:  Creation of the air and water; in Rijksmuseum.



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1750: Never before: Two feet of rain in 12 hours. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation HFN from 2021-10-09T00:26:54

Photo: Blinding rain, on the road. (screen grab)



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1750: #SmallBusinessAmerica: Raven 1, Google Drone 0 @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer. Watch this raven take out a Google drone from 2021-10-09T00:20:53

Photo:  Drone delivering coffee interrupted by aerial attack of a raven 



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1750: #SmallBusinessAmerica: The missing workers @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2021-10-09T00:20:04

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1750: Federalism works hard for West Virginia and Arizona. Dan Henninger, WSJ editorial board and Wonder Land columnist. @DanHenninger, @WSJOpinion from 2021-10-09T00:19:23

Photo:   Satiric depiction of late 19th-century political tensions in Argentina



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1750: Middle-power Ottawa has a lot in common with middle-power Baku. Robert M Cutler @RobertMCutler, Canadian Global Affairs Institute from 2021-10-09T00:18:45

Photo:  Ottawa streetcar at Bank and Sparks, 1947 






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1750: Place-holding for fee at the understaffed IRS Call Center. Francis Rose, @FrancisRoseDC , host, Government Matters (Washington, D.C.); NationalDefenseWeek.com and francisrose.com; ABC 7 & News Channel 8 at WJLA-TV. @FrancisRoseDC. from 2021-10-09T00:17:59

Photo:  A very large call centre in Lakeland, Florida (2006)



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1750: Unhappy France returns to Unhappy Australia. Scott Mayman @CBSNews from 2021-10-09T00:17:18

Photo: Ambiguous hilarity: President Macron thanks PM Turnbull and his "delicious wife" for their hospitality.  Screen grab.



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1750: Blaming Green for Christmas. Henry Curr @TheEconomist from 2021-10-09T00:16:44

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1749: 2/2 #RealistInternationalism: Spy vs Spy awakens NATO anxiety. Anatol Lieven, Georgetown University @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst from 2021-10-08T01:00

Photo:  NATO photo



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1749: 1/2 #RealistInternationalism: Spy vs Spy awakens NATO anxiety. Anatol Lieven, Georgetown University @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst from 2021-10-08T00:59:15

Photo:  Spy as seen in a 2004 Mountain Dew television commercial.



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1749: 2/2 #AfterAfghanistan: The Helmandi Afghans and the Battle of Mawandi, 1879. Anatol Lieven, Georgetown University @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst from 2021-10-08T00:58:34

Photo:  The Last Eleven at Maiwand by Frank Feller





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1748: 1/2 #AfterAfghanistan: The Helmandi Afghans and the Battle of Mawandi, 1879. Anatol Lieven, Georgetown University @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst from 2021-10-08T00:57

Photo:  The Last Stand of the British at Maiwand, Afghanistan, 27 July 1880 by John Elder Moultray



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1747: #NewWorldReport: Is there a fix for the Darién Gap? Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis from 2021-10-08T00:19

Photo:  The often-lethal trek from Colombia to Panama (screen grab)



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1746: #NewWorldReport: Is there a fix for the Darién Gap? Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis from 2021-10-08T00:17:11

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1746: #NewWorldReport: Drought and Elections. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis from 2021-10-08T00:15:46

Photo:  Children during the drought of 1878



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1746: #NewWorldReport: Millennial Marxism reader leads in Chile. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis from 2021-10-08T00:15:08

Photo:  Chilean workers marching in support of Allende in 1964



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1746: Green and Blue and Turquoise Hydrogen and You. Vijay Vaitheeswaran @VVVijayEconBiz, @TheEconomist from 2021-10-08T00:14:20

Photo:  Turquoise ("Green hydrogen, blue hydrogen, brown hydrogen and even yellow hydrogen, turquoise hydrogen and pink hydrogen. They’re essentially colour codes, or nicknames, used within th...

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1746: #ScalaReport: Back to the office, not so much. Chris Riegel, CEO @Scala CEO, @STRATACACHE, #TheScalaReport from 2021-10-08T00:13:17

Photo: A desk. 



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1746: The Ex-Im Bank great expectations vs the PRC. Veronique de Rugy, Senior Research Fellow, @Mercatus Center, George Mason University & NRO Online. @veroderugy, @GeorgeMasonU from 2021-10-08T00:12:44

Photo:  Export-Import Bank of the United States. 





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1746: Haitian misrule; & What is to be done? Mary Anastasia O’Grady, Wall Street Journal editorial board and “The Americas” columnist. @MaryAnastasiaOG from 2021-10-08T00:11:45

Photo:  A free clinic established by a Buddhist monk for rural Haitians, who've survived a long sequence of exceptionally bad fortune:  here, a woman receiving acupuncture to cure her ill heal...

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1746: Deregulating New Zealand succeeded in the 20th Century. @RichardAEpstein from 2021-10-08T00:11:01

Photo:  From the album: Views of New Zealand Scenery






Deregulating New Zealand succeeded in the 20th Century. @RichardAEpstein


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1746: The Constitution and the Removal Debate. @RichardAEpstein from 2021-10-08T00:06:32

Photo:  The US Constitution.



The Constitution and the Removal Debate.  @RichardAEpstein



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1746: Unvaccinated Long Covid and the heart damage. Dr Henry Miller, @henryimiller, @PacificResearch Institute, www.HenryMillerMD.org from 2021-10-08T00:05:37

Photo: Symptoms of covid-19 in Occitan language.





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1746: The Biden FDA and the best science for GMO. Dr Henry Miller, @henryimiller, @PacificResearch Institute www.HenryMillerMD.org from 2021-10-08T00:04:45

Photo:  FDA lab at Building 64 in Silver Spring, Maryland



 

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1745: Decoupling from the PRC real or hoped? Simon Constable Edinburgh @TheRealConstable WSJ.com from 2021-10-07T00:36:08

Photo:  Breaking off with China.   (screen grab)



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1745: No petrol queues in chilly Scotland. Simon Constable. Edinburgh @TheRealConstable from 2021-10-07T00:35:30

Photo:  Scotland in winter.



 

No petrol queues in chilly Scotland. Simon Constable. Edinburgh @TheRealConstable




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1745: Bolstering the Garden of Eden of Semiconductors, Taiwan. @WeifengZhong, @Mercatus ; @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newswee from 2021-10-07T00:34:26

Photo:  Semiconductor outlines






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1745: Evergrande losers and worse. Fraser Howie, co-author Red Capitalism: The Fragile Financial Foundation of China's Extraordinary Rise. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-10-07T00:33:37

Photo: Evergrande



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1745: What about the SPD, Olaf Scholz, the Bundestag and Moscow? Gregory R Copley, @Gregory_Copley, editor and publisher of Defense & Foreign Affairs. from 2021-10-07T00:26:06

Photo:   Russia-Germany border before World War I



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1745: Beaver County votes with the winds of waves. SalenaZito.com @SalenaZito @DCExaminer from 2021-10-07T00:24:59

Photo:   Beaver Co. townships in 1800



Beaver County votes with the winds of waves. SalenaZito.com  @SalenaZito @DCExaminer



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1745: Millennial South Korea pushes back at Kim shake-downs. @JoshRogin from 2021-10-07T00:22:41

Photo:    South Korean aid convoy entering North Korea through the Demilitarized Zone, 1998



"Ju-cheh means: how to be a successful shakedown artist" --J Bolton
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1745: Russia battered by a Fourth Wave. Felix Light, Moscow Times, @felix_light, @CBS News, @Moscow Times from 2021-10-07T00:22:02

Photo:   Plague riot in Moscow in 1771



Russia battered by a Fourth Wave. Felix Light, Moscow Times,  @felix_light, @CBS News, @Moscow Times



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1745: Sunspots bloom. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-10-07T00:19:47

Photo:  Sunspots.  NASA.



Sunspots bloom  Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com



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1745: #NATOThinking: Jeff McCausland, @mccauslJ @D6leadership, @USArmy; retired US Army Colonel & Dean of Academics at the US Army War College; @CBSradio natl security consultant; @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2021-10-07T00:18:05

Photo:   The International Military Staff (IMS) is the executive body of the Military Committee (MC), NATO’s senior military authority.

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1744: What of a Mutual Defense Pact with Taiwan? Steve Yates @DCIAdvisory @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-10-06T23:59

Photo: United States Consulate in Taihoku, Formosa





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1744: The Quad reorganizes to answer the PRC. Sadanand @Dhume @AEI @WSJOpinion from 2021-10-06T23:59

Photo:   The promise of the Quad.  (screen grab)





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1743: The Supply Chain that Stole Christmas. @LizPeek @Fox from 2021-10-06T00:33:17

Photo: 1603  Covers northern Asia.

Relief shown pictorially.

From Abraham Ortelius's atlas: Theatrvm Orbis Terrarvm, 1603 ed.

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1743: Suddenly an energy crisis in a bounty. @LizPeek @FoxNews from 2021-10-06T00:31:27

Photo:  The gasoline shortages of World War II brought about the resurgence of horse-and-wagon delivery.. During the German occupation ...

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1742: #LondonCalling: Temporary inflation overstays. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-10-06T00:28:32

Photo: Bushels of C-notes.  Each one devaluing silently under inflation.





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1742: #LondonCalling: China property wobbles. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-10-06T00:27:51

Photo:  An empty corridor in the mostly vacant New South China Mall, 2010



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1742: #LondonCalling: London panics at the pump. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-10-06T00:26:49

Photo:  Screen grab.  



#LondonCalling: London panics at the pump. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion



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1741: #NewWorldReport: The Darién Gap is cruelty. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-10-06T00:11:01

Photo:  Migrants brave the dangers of the  Darién Gap in hope of a better life




 

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1741: #NewWorldReport: Venezuela cuts six zeroes from the bolivar. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org from 2021-10-06T00:10:19

Photo:   100 bolivars.



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1741: #NewWorldReport: Three-year Drought Beggars Patagonia to the Pampas. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org from 2021-10-06T00:09:16

Photo:  Patagonia, Argentina.  Screen grab.



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1740: Berlin and the Russians. And the French. Tom Nuttall @The Economist from 2021-10-06T00:02:07

Photo:  A French medallion shows Napoleon and Alexander I of Russia embracing at Tilsit in 1807; Alexander was much taller and the mutual affection was minimal.



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1740: Berlin in search of a coalition. Tom Nuttall @The Economist from 2021-10-06T00:01:24

Photo:  the-coalition-berlin



Berlin in search of a coalition. Tom Nuttall @The Economist





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1740: Infrastructure is not about the amount. Michael Boskin @HooverInst from 2021-10-05T23:59:47

Photo:  Engine room of municipal water works in Toledo, Ohio, 1908



Infrastructure is not about the amount. Michael Boskin @HooverInst 





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1740: Aiming to Decarcerate Rikers @Harry Siegel @NYDailyNews from 2021-10-05T23:58:54

Photo:  As part of the settlement of Nuñez v. City of New York, a 2011 class-action lawsuit filed by Rikers Island detainees, federal monitors periodically report on use of force across the ja...

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1740: #StateThinking: What National Defense for Germany? @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP, Stephens Inc. from 2021-10-05T23:57:54

Photo:  The Bendlerblock was selected as the official seat in the capital.



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1740: #StateThinking: Ambiguous Trade Speak from Team Biden @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP, Stephens Inc. from 2021-10-05T23:57:01

Photo:  Ambassador Katherine Tai was sworn in as the 19th United States Trade Representative on March 18, 2021. As a member of the President’s Cabinet, Ambassador Tai is the principal trade ad...

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1739: #AfterAfghanistan: The Haqqani Family Supreme @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-10-05T00:29:20

Photo:  Mazrak Khan Zadran (Pashto: ???? ??? ????; fl. 1900s – 1972) was a Zadran chieftain who fought against the Afghan government during the Afghan tribal revolts of 1944–1...

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1739: #AfterAfghanistan: Same as the old Taliban @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-10-05T00:29:18

Photo: Two Taliban from the department of Amr bil Ma-roof (Promotion of Virtue a...

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1739: #AfterAfghanistan: Al Qaeda in Afghanistan @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-10-05T00:29:07

Photo: .Mujahideen crossing in from Pakistan border, Afghanistan





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1739: #AfterAfghanistan: ISIS attacks the Taliban. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kabul-mosque-attack-taliban/ from 2021-10-05T00:29:06

Photo:  ISIS emblem



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1739: 2/2 Myths of the Second War: Fighting a global war. Was Britain the weak partner? Were there two warring alliances? @VDHanson @HooverInst from 2021-10-05T00:21:42

Photo:  A British soldier helps an old woman amongst the ruins of Caen after its liberation, 10 July 1944.



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1739: 1/2 Myths of the Second War: Fighting a global war. Was Britain the weak partner? Were there two warring alliances? @VDHanson @HooverInst from 2021-10-05T00:21:12

Photo:  Back Them Up! whole: the image occupies the upper three-quarters. The title is separate and positioned in the lower quarter, in black, set against a white background. image: a...

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1739: 2/2 The local arm of the Milky Way and our Sun's place in it for now. Ken Croswell from 2021-10-05T00:20:45

Photo:  An artist's impression of the Milky Way as seen from the outside. New research suggests that the Orion Spur, or Arm, is almost twice as long as scientists had previously thought. (Imag...

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1739: 1/2 The local arm of the Milky Way and our Sun's place in it for now. Ken Croswell from 2021-10-05T00:19:28

Photo:  Our spiral arm is formally called the Orion-Cygnus Arm. It's also known simply as the Orion Arm or Local Arm, and you sometimes still hear the names Orion Bridge or Orion Spur. Th Milk...

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1739: The supply chain breaks Christmas. Jonathan Bass, CEO of PTM Images. @jonsbass ; @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-10-05T00:13:59

Photo:  A 1900s greeting card reading 'Greetings from Krampus!'



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1739: North Korea boasts hypersonic weapons. Bruce Bechtol, author, North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa: Enabling Violence and Instability @AngeloState ; @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-10-05T00:12:05

Photo:  Hypersonic weapon, demonstrating its non-parabolic trajectory (denoted in red), has a distinctive signature which is being tracked by one of the layers of the Listen
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1739: Remembering Babi Yar. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-10-05T00:08:43

Photo:  Soviet POWs covering a mass grave after the Babi Yar massacre, October 1, 1941.



Remembering Babi Yar. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1




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1739: The Drones of Iran. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-10-05T00:08:01

Photo:  Iranian drone:  A Shahed 129 flies over Damascus in April 2014.



The Drones of Iran. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1





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1739: The missed presidential ticket in 1972. Katrina vanden Heuvel @TheNation from 2021-10-05T00:07:29

Photo:  Mary Frances Farenthold.



The missed presidential ticket in 1972. Katrina vanden Heuvel @TheNation





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1739: Iran threatens Azerbaijan and Turkey. @ProfBShaffer @FDD from 2021-10-05T00:04:22

Photo: Azerbaijani landscape by the painter Bahruz Kengerli (1892-1922). 



Iran threatens Azerbaijan and Turkey. @ProfBShaffer @FDD






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1739: Four centuries later: Bitcoin and its tulip risks and rewards for portfolios. Alice Fulwood @TheEconomist from 2021-10-05T00:03:36

Photo: Tulips, from the Rijksmuseum.



Four centuries later: Bitcoin and its tulip risks and rewards for portfolios. Alice Fulwood @TheEconomist

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1739: #PacificWatch: On the (forbidden) Beach. @JCBliss from 2021-10-04T23:59:30

Photo: Poster from the film On the Beach.





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1738: #PacificWatch: Catastrophe at Huntington Beach. @JCBliss #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-10-04T01:01:35

Photo: BP oil spill





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#PacificWatch: Catastrophe at Huntington Beach. @JCBliss #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety


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1738: Sacramento and Governor Newsom without recognizable remedy for the surging homeless camps. @DevinNunes CA-22 #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-10-04T01:01:27

Photo: The vagrants.



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1738: Congress hurries to unknown ends. @DevinNunes CA-22 #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-10-04T01:01:21

Photo: US total debt: $25,789,083,508,921 (that was hours or days ago).

See: https://www.usdebtclock.org





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1738: 10/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Mueller investigation neither questioned nor contacted Svetlana Lokhova. Washington Post, July 24, 2019. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-10-04T01:00:53

Photo:  Medieval scholar conducts research



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1738: 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 from 2021-10-04T01:00:36

Photo: Illustration for "Guldnycklarna" by W. E. Björk in Bland tomtar och troll (Among gnomes and trolls), 1915.







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1738: 7/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: American media names Cambridge Professor Stefan Halper as the source of the allegations, May 18, 2018. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-10-04T01:00:33

Photo: The teacher.  Five boys watching another smoke a cigar.

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1738: 6/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: "Glamorous." Daily Telegraph, April 2, 2017. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-10-04T01:00:10

Photo: The girl in the Moon.



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1738: Xi asks Putin for help to keep the lights on. H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-10-04T00:30:53

Photo: Kalgan, 1868



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1732: 1/2: The man who wrote, "I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!" @PeterBerkowitz from 2021-10-04T00:30

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1940





Side street of Bisbee, Arizona. Mining center





Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photogr...

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1737: "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. from 2021-10-04T00:10

Photo: Dr. Geier mine near Bingen, in the Rheinland.

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1736: Nicholas Wapshott #UNBOUND. Samuelson Friedman: The complete, forty-minute interview, July 24, 2016. from 2021-10-04T00:10

Photo: Second dinner held by the Economic Club of New York at the Hotel Astor.



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1736: C. J. Carey #UNBOUND: Widowland. The complete, 20-minute interview, June 26, 2021 from 2021-10-04T00:10

Photo:  Potsdam, girls in the school for female leaders






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1736: Josh Rogin #Unbound: Chaos under Heaven, the complete, eighty-minute interview, March 21, 2021 from 2021-10-03T22:58:03

Photo:  Da  Ch'ing Pao Chao (banknote  design elements) - Ch'ing Dynasty copper: Cash-banknote issued under the Xianfeng Emperor denominated in Wén to be exchanged in cash coins.

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1734: Six Weeks after the Tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, September 27, 2021. @LongWarJournal from 2021-10-03T03:00

Photo: Criminals, assassins, crimes, arrests (Series title). "Diverse deeds of the week."    1. A vendetta. - 2. Killed under a pile of wood. - 3. A fratricide. - 4. A shell. - 5. A murder. - ...

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1734: Five Weeks after the Tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, September 20, 2021. @LongWarJournal from 2021-10-03T03:00

Photo: Visigoths sack Rome




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1734: Four Weeks after the Tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, September 13, 2021. @LongWarJournal from 2021-10-03T03:00

Photo:   Piratical barbarity [Woodcut] Representation of the horrid massacre of the unfortunate crew of the Sloop Eliza-Ann, by the pirates, March 1825. 

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1734: Two Weeks after the Tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, August 30, 2021. @LongWarJournal. from 2021-10-03T02:59

Photo: 1950s Afghanistan - Mothers and children at a city playground; when life was different.

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1734: One Week after the Tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, August 23, 2021. @LongWarJournal. from 2021-10-03T02:59

Photo: Afghanistan map, 1879



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1735: #PacificWatch: The Streetside Homes of the Homeless of Hollywood. @JCBliss from 2021-10-03T01:54:22

Photo: .Unemployed men outside a soup kitchen opened by Al Capone in Depression-e...

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1733: #Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus philosophize on the resilient, confident, tireless senatorial class Optimates (elite) always with us, First Century A.D and Twenty-First Century A.D. Michael Vlahos. from 2021-10-03T01:41

Photo: Music for Gaius and Germanicus.



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1733: Unusual, sudden, mayhap unprecedented tornado in New South Wales; also, the admired premier resigns in a rush of scandal over Wagga Wagga; also, cricket returns! Jeremy Zakis, New South wales, Australia. from 2021-10-03T01:40

Photo:  Wagga Wagga Fire Station (C. 1903) on Morrow Street in 1912.



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1734: Roya Hakakian #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. May 29, 2021 from 2021-10-03T01:30

Photo:  Persian food in Teherangeles (Westwood, Los Angeles). Highly recommended.



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1734: Terry Anderson #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. April 6, 2021 from 2021-10-03T01:30

Photo:   A demonstration.








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1734: The Mesopotamian city of Noah's flood wiped out by an earthquake. Charles Pellegrino, author from 2021-10-03T01:30

Photo:  In the same region, but many centuries later:  Artist's impression of Assyrian palaces from The Monuments of Nineveh by Sir Listen
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1731: The Winter Olympics risks Delta-wracked China; & What is to be done? @JoshRogin GLXXG from 2021-10-02T00:30:10

Photo: A (sort of) skidoo.





Eugenio Monti e Renzo Alverà nel bob a due a Cortina 1956





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1731: The Amazon of NASA @FROSEDC HFN from 2021-10-02T00:30:06

Photo: .NASA has to embrace the private sector: "A flight-ready suit remains years away from completion," Martin wrote in his August report. "NASA officials expect to spend over $1 billion on ...

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1731: #SmallBusinessAmerica: The vegetarian restaurant "Dirt Candy" pays $25 per hour for eager workers @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer HFN from 2021-10-02T00:29:59

Photo: Australian newspaper clipping from 1915 on Gustav Kruger's vegetarian book, Man's Best Food..



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1731: #SmallBusinessAmerica: Suddenly startups unstart in the wide slowdown @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer GLXXG from 2021-10-02T00:29:54

Photo:  Small business: a cooper, or barrel-maker.



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1730: Australia grows gloomy waiting for the end of lockdown. @ScottMayman @CBSNews from 2021-10-01T23:55:20

Photo:  Australian wild turkey



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1730: Trillions for the Unknown. @RichardEpstein @HooverInst from 2021-10-01T23:54:32

Photo:  German Papiermark of the Weimar Republic, post -World War I hyperinflation era (1921–24).  In Europe, "billion" equals what Americans call "trillion."



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1730: 2/2 Ten tasks to confront the PRC aggression. Peter Berkowitz @HooverInst from 2021-10-01T23:53:53

Photo: US State Department issuance.



2/2   Ten tasks to confront the PRC aggression.  Peter Berkowitz @HooverInst





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1730: 1/2 Ten tasks to confront the PRC aggression. Peter Berkowitz @HooverInst from 2021-10-01T23:53:21

Photo:  U.S.-CHINA ECONOMIC AND SECURITY REVIEW COMMISSION



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1730: Blue Origin blues. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-10-01T23:52:07

Photo:  New Shepard propulsion module.  New Shepard is a vertical-takeoff, vertical-landing (VTVL), Listen
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1730: Ingenuity grounded. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-10-01T23:50:48

Photo:  Mars Helicopter Sol 193 - Navigation Camera: NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter acquired this image using its navigation camera during its 13th flight on Sep. 5, 2021 (S...

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1730: US accuses Guatemala. Mary Anastasia O'Grady @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion from 2021-10-01T23:50:07

Photo:  Logo of the Magazine The School of Law of the Faculty of Law and Notaries of the University of San Carlos de Guatemala



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1730: Scandinavia's less-successful experiment with subsidizing child raising. Veronique de Rugy from 2021-10-01T23:49:19

Photo:  Svenska Socialisten, December 12, 1918. Library of Congress.



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1730: Genoa knew of the Americas a century and a half before the Genoese Columbus. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation from 2021-10-01T23:47:17

Photo: Two hundred years later:  The 1590 Skálholt Map showing Latinized Norse placenames in North America: * Land of the Listen
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1730: The Sanctioned Cabinet. Behnam Ben Taleblu @FDD from 2021-10-01T23:46:11

Photo: A vizier, or wazir, was a king's trusted advisor in Persia.  Here: 

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1730: Trillions of Tales of Two Infrastructures. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion from 2021-10-01T23:45:12

Photo:  The water reservoir in a Water Management Park in Sweden.





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1730: Evergrande becomes the Circuit City/Blockbuster/ Enron of 2021? @JohnTamny @RealClearMarkets from 2021-10-01T23:43:36

Photo: The vaguely oxymoric Enron Code of Ethics.



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1708: #LondonCalling: AUKUS, BREXIT, EU & What is to be done? @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-10-01T01:26

Photo:  Miss Colombia - "This English Gentleman is very attentive, very attractive, but these foreign alliances are lotteries."

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1708: #LondonCalling: Inflation is here. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-10-01T01:26

Photo: Silver purity through time in early Roman imperial silver coins: To increase the number of silver coins in circulation while short on silver, the Roman imperial government repeatedly de...

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1729: The New Axis Powers for the New Cold War. Jonathan Spyer, MECRA. @jonathan_spyer Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-10-01T01:12:03

Photo: The 138–126 BCE travels of Zhang Qian to the West, including Persia; from the ...

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1729: Ambassador Wolf Warrior Con mocks and taunts and provokes Canada. @ConradMBlack HFN from 2021-10-01T01:11:58

Photo: The CFO of the company that intended to take over global 5G and vacuum in much of the data on the planet, Meng Wanzhou, arrives in Shenzhen and bows to the huge media scrum.

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1729: The long arm of Durban hatred. Dan Diker @DanDiker84 Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-10-01T01:11:39

Photo: Durban, South Africa — Four young men sitting at the front of rickshaws, facing front; three are wearing horned headdresses and the fourth is wearing a floral headdress.


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1729: Iran boasts of its hirelings. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-10-01T01:11:31

Photo: Iranian casualties of Syrian civil war's bodies return to Kermanshah airport.





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1729: BMW goes electric. Vijay Vaitheeswaran @TheEconomist. HFN from 2021-10-01T01:11:23

Photo: Sketch of the Mega City Vehicle (MCV).  Fair use






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1729: NASA's Landsat 9 Eyes on Climate Change. Bill Harwood @cbs_spacenews GLXXG from 2021-10-01T01:01:56

Photo:  Landsat 9 is an Earth observation satellite launched on 27 September 2021 from Space Launch Complex-3E at Vandenberg Space Force Base on an Atlas V 401 launch vehicle..


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1729: NASA's Lucy in the Sky with Saturn. Bill Harwood @cbs_spacenews GLXXG from 2021-10-01T01:00:55

Photo: An artist's conception of a close-up view of Saturn's ring particles. The planet Saturn is seen in the background (yellow and brown). The particles (blue) are composed mostly of ice, bu...

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1728: #TheScalaReport: The global energy supply chain snaps; & What is to be done? #TheScalaReport. Chris Riegel @scala CEO, @STRATACACHE from 2021-10-01T00:29:25

Photo:  Trollhättan, Sweden: The power station before the expansion, and Flottbergsströmmen.



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1728: #RealistInternationalism: The Remainers celebrate Schadenfreude. Anatol Lieven @QuincyInst from 2021-10-01T00:28:57

Photo:  Song, "I May Not Love Thee."




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1728: #RealistInternationalism: Will Germany stay in NATO? Anatol Lieven @QuincyInst from 2021-10-01T00:28:18

Photo:  A NATO AWACS from NATO Air Base Geilenkirchen, Germany, waits for take off during Red Flag 15-2 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., March 5, 2015. All four branches of the U.S. military an...

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1728: #RealistInternationalism: Germany chooses the Center-Left speaking English. Anatol Lieven @QuincyInst from 2021-10-01T00:27:40

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1728: #NewWorldReport: Tijuana Amazon besides Tijuana Shantytown. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis from 2021-10-01T00:26:27

Photo:  In Mexico.



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1728: #NewWorldReport: Bolsonaro 2022 or Bust. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis from 2021-10-01T00:23:36

Photo: Jair Bolsonaro in 1986



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1727: Common sense answers for flu season in the global pandemic. @HenryIMiller @PacificResearch from 2021-09-30T00:36:07

Photo:  Special hospital for Influenza Epidemic. Celebration of Mass (Roman Catholic) War Influenza Camp, Emery Hill, Lawrence, Mass

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1727: What does it mean: an unprecedented United States of America default on October 18, 2021? Sara Ewall-Wice @CBSNews @EwallWice from 2021-09-30T00:35:24

Photo: .Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) (style of) - A Hand Holding an Empty Purse,



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1727: The UK sprouts spaceports like Peter Rabbit's cabbage patch. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-09-30T00:26:31

Photo: Artist's rendering of a rocket takes off from the Sutherland spaceport.  Source  NASASpaceFlight.com.





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1726: China prepares an orbital bomber; North Korea prepares a hypersonic missile. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. Rick Fisher, senior Fellow of the International Assessment and Strategy Center from 2021-09-30T00:02:45

Photo:  DPRK hypersonic nuclear missile test.  Screen grab.





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1726: PRC agents in white lab coats. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. Brandon Weichert, @WeTheBrandon, The Weichert Report and author of Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower. from 2021-09-30T00:01:16

Photo: Chinese researchers and agents in white lab coats



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1726: Vladimir Putin gone fishing in spectacular Tuva. Felix Light, Moscow Times, @felix_light, @CBS News, @Moscow Times from 2021-09-29T23:52:30

Photo: A Russian stamp:  "World Natural Heritage of Russia. Tyva Republic. Ubsunur Basin"



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1726: Del Rio, Texas, in despair. Salena Zito, CNN, New York Post; author, The Great Revolt. SalenaZito.com from 2021-09-29T23:50:57

Photo:  Del Rio, Texas, in 1930.



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1726: What is the likely coalition after Merkel? Judy Dempsey, @Judy_Dempsey. Editor in chief #StrategicEurope, blog of @Carnegie_Europe. from 2021-09-29T23:50:17

Photo:  Coalition: The giants storm Heaven.  Art Institute of Chicago







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1726: Angela Merkel avoided solving Germany's national security challenges. Judy Dempsey, @Judy_Dempsey. Editor in chief #StrategicEurope, blog of @Carnegie_Europe. from 2021-09-29T23:49:41

Photo:  A security policeman, armed with an M-16 rifle, stands guard outside Fliegerhorst Unit Police Headquarters during Exercise Reforger '81






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1725: China without adequate power, food, water? Gregory R Copley, @Gregory_Copley, editor and publisher of Defense & Foreign Affairs GLXXG from 2021-09-29T23:48:41

Photo: Drought and famine in China:  The public dining hall (canteen) of a people's commune. The slogan on the wall reads "Eat Fr...

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1725: Australian attack submarines Collins Class, British attack submarines Astute Class; & What is to be done? Gregory R Copley, @Gregory_Copley, editor and publisher of Defense & Foreign Affairs GLXXG from 2021-09-29T23:47:22

Photo:  The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) Collins Class Submarine Her Majestys Australian Ship (HMAS) RANKIN (SSK 78) sits pier side at Naval Base Pearl Harbor. The ship is participating in this...

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1725: Everything is pricier from China to Scotland. Simon Constable @TheRealConstable Edinburgh HFN from 2021-09-29T23:46:22

Photo: Hieronymus [Jerome] from Scotland; S. Hieron, Martyr Nordovicensis.  Jerome of Scotland, depicted as a priest with tunic and chasuble, with a falcon on one hand and a sword in ...

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1725: Christmas, and Petrol Panic. Simon Constable @TheRealConstable Edinburgh HFN from 2021-09-29T23:45:29

Photo: "Christmas belles" engraving



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1724: The Party's Global Times attacks AUKUS. @WeifengZhong @Mercatus GLXXG from 2021-09-29T01:20:38

Photo: Chinese legation (not in Australia)





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1724: Decoupling from China's threats. @WeifengZhong @Mercatus GLXXG from 2021-09-29T01:20:36

Photo: Fiery Cross Reef, now a man-made military island, being transformed by the PRC in May 2015.





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1724: 2/2: HotelMars: The unexpected magic of 2001 then and now. Rob Godwin @ApogeeBooks; David Livingston, SpaceShow.com HFN from 2021-09-29T01:09:47

Photo: Confirming Predictions.  NASA/JPL/MSSS/ASU/New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science







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1724: 1/2: HotelMars: The unexpected magic of 2001 then and now. Rob Godwin @ApogeeBooks; David Livingston, SpaceShow.com HFN from 2021-09-29T01:09:44

Photo: 2001 Mars Odyssey mMars Global Surveyor mgs.





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1723: Gun crime in New York; & What is to be done? Harry Siegel, @harrysiegel Daily News and The Daily Beast. from 2021-09-28T23:41:16

Photo:  Forfeited guns.



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1723: The strange history of the nightmarish Rikers Island. Harry Siegel, @harrysiegel Daily News and The Daily Beast. from 2021-09-28T23:39:43

Photo: Panorama of Riker's Island, N.Y.



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1723: Manhattan arts and dining return to cheering demand. @LizPeek from 2021-09-28T23:39:05

Photo: An especially agreeable Manhattan restaurant.



Manhattan arts and dining return to cheering demand. @LizPeek





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1723: The markets wake up to the recovery; & What is to be done? @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews from 2021-09-28T23:38:25

Photo:  The tapeworm.    Several ticker tapes stream from a machine, ensnaring unlucky investors, money bags, a ship, a house, and the entrance of a stock broker's office to which people frant...

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1723: Why did the PRC PBOC attack cryptocurrency? Thomas Hoening, @Mercatus from 2021-09-28T23:37:47

Photo:  CCP decides to control the blockchain. 



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1723: Does containment work? Jeff McCausland. @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2021-09-28T23:37:09

Photo:  It worked in the last century  . . .  Here:  The Soviet flag in the Moscow Kremlin lowered and changed with the Listen
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1723: #StateThinking: Scales fall from EU and US eyes on the PRC. @MaryKissel, Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc. from 2021-09-28T23:35

Photo:  "Break their lineage, break their roots, break their connections, and break their origins. Completely shovel up the roots of 'two-faced people,' dig them out, and vow to fight these tw...

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1723: #LondonCalling: Can James Bond rescue London and Hollywood? @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-09-28T23:33:14

Photo: Board of Admiralty, about 1810

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1723: #LondonCalling: Germany makes no choice. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-09-28T23:32:30

Photo:   Germania sits under a tree with the imperial crown in her lap. Beside her stands Bacchus with a goblet in his hand. On the floor are objects that symbolize Germany: weaponry, cannons,...

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1723: #LondonCalling: Knife-wielding buying at the petrol station. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-09-28T23:26:47

Photo: British Petroleum: A BP Motor Spirit advert from 1922



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1723: #LondonCalling: Evergrande moments, and investment America and Europe. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinio from 2021-09-28T23:24:07

Photo:  Shenzen in 1982





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1722: Praising the bold AUKUS with Burkean caution. @AmbJohnBolton @TheEconomist from 2021-09-28T01:29:08

Photo: Edmund Burke.





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1722: The critical COP26 Glasgow dead ahead. Katrina vanden Heuvel @TheNation from 2021-09-28T01:24:36

Photo: Glasgow Bridge, [Glasgow, Scotland].





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1722: Meung in a red dress. Charles Burton, senior Fellow at the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. HFN from 2021-09-28T00:59:27

Photo: A storied red dress from the last century..





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1722: Bad News Christmas Supply Chain. Jonathan Bass, onshoring advocate and CEO of PTM Images, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. HFN from 2021-09-28T00:56:52

Photo: Christmas tree production..





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1722: Why did Germany attack its Moscow Treaty signatory, Russia, 1941? @VDHanson @HooverInst from 2021-09-28T00:53:14

Photo:   Finnish Foreign Minister Väinö Tanner reading the terms of the peace treaty on the Finnish radio at noon on 13 March...

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1722: The facts are that Germany won the total war 1939-1941. @VDHanson GLXXG from 2021-09-28T00:51:35

Photo: A British 8-inch howitzer near the German border during the Phony War (September 3, 1939–May 10, 1940...

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1722: Admiral Harry Harris USN (ret.) and the Great Wall of Sand. @FRoseDC @FedScoop from 2021-09-28T00:47:56

Photo: Some of Hong Kong's New Territories were created with landfill. Today, Beijing is using an updated method to create militarized islands where never there was one before in order to arro...

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1722: Israel speaks softly to Abbas; & What is to be done? Jonathan Schanzer @JSchanzer @FDD GLXXG from 2021-09-28T00:45:54

Photo: Abu Ammar (Yasir Arafat), Abbas's predecessor, speaking at he UN General Assembly.. He died with billions of dollars in multiple personal accounts; it's fairly well established that tha...

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1721: #AfterAfghanistan: US drone strikes Al Qaeda. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-09-28T00:17:43

Photo:  An air-to-air left underside view of a DC-130 Hercules drone control aircraft with BQM-34S Firebee target drones mounted on its wing pylons. The aircraft is assigned to Fleet Logistics...

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1721: #AfterAfghanistan: ISIS vs Taliban at the Khyber Pass. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-09-28T00:17:09







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1721: #AfterAfghanistan: The economic collapse. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-09-28T00:15:56

Photo:  Voice of America reporter interviewing poppy cultivators.





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1720: #NewWorldReport: Venezuela and Iran swap bad acting. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave); Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-09-28T00:10:14

Photo: The  Iranian president meeting with Venezuela's president, Nicolás Maduro in Saadabad Palace





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1719: The New Russian Communist Party is not Marxist-Leninst atheism, but it is anti-Putin. H.J. Mackinder, International Relations from 2021-09-27T01:52:39

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.

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1718: J. H. Gelernter #Unbound. Napoleonic-era espionage. The complete, twenty-minute interview. May 3, 2021. LXX GLXXG from 2021-09-27T01:42:12

Photo:  At the same time, Karl Ludwig Schulmeister (Charles Louis Schulmeister) (1770–1853) (also known as Carl Schulmeister or Charles Louis Schulmeister) was an Listen
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1718: "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. from 2021-09-27T01:35:33

Photo:  The Tunnel of Love, near Klevan, Rivnenskyi raion.  Tunnel of Love (Ukrainian: ??????? ????????, Tunel Kokhannya...

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1718: Mark Piesing, #UNBOUND, the complete, forty-minute interview, Arctic exploration; August 28, 2021 from 2021-09-27T01:12:16

Photo:  MARIA, PASSING THE DIAMONDS Image extracted from page 25 of  A Narrative of th...

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1718: China and France assault Australia's national security and economy. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-09-27T01:05:11

Photo: Liang Lan-hsun, first Chinese Consul-General to Australia



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1718: Chilly springtime Melbourne protests against the continued severe lockdown in much of populated Australia. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. from 2021-09-27T01:03:53

Photo: Cloud cover over Melbourne and southern Victoria.



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1717: Angel Iscovich #Unbound: the complete, twenty-minute interview (Routinology), June 19, 2021. from 2021-09-27T00:01


 Photo: Practice makes perfect.



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1715: #Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus debate the American Empire led by the unchallenged Optimates, 2021. Michael Vlahos. @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-09-26T00:59:42

Photo: 1898 political cartoon: "Ten Thousand Miles from Tip to Tip," meaning the extension of U.S. domination (symbolized by a Listen
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1715: General Sherman and inadequate forest management in California. @DevinNunes 22-CA. from 2021-09-26T00:54:35

Photo: The general Sherman sequoia; by Ernest Haskell  (1876–1925)



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1715: Winter is coming for Europe. Vijay Vaitheeswaran @Vvvchina @TheEconomist from 2021-09-26T00:43:29

Photo: Winter landscape, Holland; 1600s. 







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1715: The UN doubts the climate plans of the rich nations for the poor nations. @Vvvchina @TheEconomist from 2021-09-26T00:43:27

Photo:   Solar lamp



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1715: The eruption of the Mediterranean legend of Atlantis. Charles Pellegrino, author. from 2021-09-26T00:34:26

Photo: Nicholas Roerich's The Last of Atlantis





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1715: The asteroid that disappeared the Dead Sea Sodom and Gomorrah. Charles Pellegrino, author. from 2021-09-26T00:34:22

Photo: Lot flees the burning cities. 



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1715: The Mesopotamian city of Noah's flood wiped out by an earthquake. Charles Pellegrino, author. from 2021-09-26T00:34:19

Photo: An artist's depiction of the construction of the Ark, from the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493)




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1716: 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. from 2021-09-26T00:27:16

Photo:  Godzilla!





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1715: Russell Shorto #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, April 22, 2021 from 2021-09-26T00:23:51

Photo: Vista of fishing boats in Palermo, Sicily.



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1715: Michael Auslin #Unbound. Asia-Pacific. The complete, twenty-minute interview. May 12, 2021. LXX GLXXG from 2021-09-26T00:21:16

Photo:  An exceprt from the Luo Chong Lu showing Korean, Japanese and Ryukyuan ethnicities.

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1715: Holly Fretwell #Unbound. Forests. The complete, forty-minute interview. April 12, 2021. from 2021-09-26T00:17:10

Photo: Paul Smith's College, a premier school of forestry; in New York State just south of the Canadian border.



 

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1713: The new new Cold War with China or not. @JoshRogin WashingtonPost GLXXG from 2021-09-25T01:39:54

Photo: Obligatory reading of Chairman Mao's Little Red Book.





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1713: #PacificWatch: General Sherman is safe for now.@JCBlissHFN from 2021-09-25T01:39:51

Photo: Fallen giant sequoia.

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1713: More wild boars than ever in the post-pandemic streets of Rome. Lorenzo Fiori, Anslado Foundation GLXXG from 2021-09-25T01:39:47

Photo:   Wild boar corner aN Italian woman and steal her food from shopping. Video grab.





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1714: The unknown cliffsides of Mars. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-09-25T00:55:30

Photo: Mars—Burns Cliff Beckons





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1714: Boeing Starliner paused; & What is to be done? Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-09-25T00:55:28

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...

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1714: Is Stephen Breyer the last SCOTUS Liberal? @RichardAGoldstein @HooverInst from 2021-09-25T00:55:24

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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 from 2021-09-25T00:41:41

Photo:   Exoplanet travel bureau.  "PSO J318.5-22 - Where the Nightlife Never Ends!"  Poster from the NASA Exoplanets Exploration Program's Exoplanet Travel Bureau

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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 from 2021-09-25T00:40:56

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.*)

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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 from 2021-09-25T00:39:55

Photo:  NASA—"Rains of Terror on Exoplanet HD 189733b"








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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 from 2021-09-25T00:39:06

Photo:  Cover art for The Outer Worlds, an action role-playing game.*





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1713: 2/2. #SmallBusinessAmerica: Christmas prices already climbing @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2021-09-25T00:32:45

Photo:  Sheet music for Christmas carols.



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1713: 1/2. #SmallBusinessAmerica: Back to the office is the trend @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquire from 2021-09-25T00:32:11

Photo:  Desk of two centuries ago.  Henry Rust. Made in Salem, Massachusetts, United States







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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 from 2021-09-25T00:31:19

Photo: Robert Mundell (progenitor of the trickle-down theory) in 1961



 

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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 from 2021-09-24T01:15:29

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 summi...

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1712: The Russian Duma elections and the new Communist Party. Anatol Lieven, @QuincyInst HFN from 2021-09-24T01:15:18

Photo: State Duma voting device.




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1712: Liberal Internationalists Tony Blair and George W. Bush fail in Afghanistan and Iraq. Anatol Lieven, @QuincyInst HFN from 2021-09-24T01:15:14

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1712: C. Vann Woodward on the liberal internationalism national myths that inspired the Vietnam War tragedy. Anatol Lieven, @QuincyInsy HFN from 2021-09-24T01:15:13

Photo: Vietnam war.



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1712: Childcare after the worst of the pandemic begins to lift. Claire Cain Miller, @NYTimes from 2021-09-24T01:11:38

Photo:  Children, USA.



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1712: The long, long USA abuse of Haiti continues in the borderland. Nayyera Haq @nayyeroar from 2021-09-24T01:10:48

Photo: Loading sisal in Haiti



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1712: The Agatha Christie Solution to the Debt Limit. Veronique deRugy, @Mercatus from 2021-09-24T01:10:07





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1712: Ebrahim "Hanging Judge" Raisi at the UNGA: meet the new boss. Behnam Ben Taleblu from 2021-09-24T01:08:44

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-Peco...

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1712: Can the EU arbitrate US vs PRC? Yukon Huang, CEIP . #YukonHuang from 2021-09-24T01:06:23

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 Recreati...

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1712: Claiming to be the coolest dictator in the Americas. @MaryAnastasiaOG from 2021-09-24T01:01:14

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 Wash...

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1712: Groundhog Day in the Canadian Election. Conrad Black @ConradMBlack from 2021-09-24T01:00:42

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 ...

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1711: What is the Traffic Light Coalition & What is to be done? Tom Nuttal @TheEconomist Berlin Bureau Chief GLXXG from 2021-09-23T01:30:08

Photo:  Horizontal Dallas display viewed from the left turn bay.



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1711: Lunar Lander VIPER for the South Pole. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com HFN from 2021-09-23T01:30:03

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 with...

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1711: Multiple commercial space stations. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com HFN from 2021-09-23T01:29:58

Photo: Rotating wheel space station. Wernher von Braun 1952 concept.





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1711: War Warning Algeria vs Morocco. Rick Fisher, IASC; and @GordonGChang. from 2021-09-23T01:21:47

Photo:   Traditional peoples of the Mahgreb 



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1711: Biden and Xi name no superpower names. Stephen Yates, @YatesDCIA. Gordon G. Chang @GordonGChang from 2021-09-23T01:15:28

Photo:  United Nations. United Nations office building from 43rd St. I






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1711: What kind of Evergrande bailout? Roger Robinson, @pssi_prague and @GordonGChang from 2021-09-23T01:14:34

Photo: Chinese buildings of yore.



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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 from 2021-09-23T00:20:03

Photo: Probably north of Brody, eastern Galicia.



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1710: Paul Ryan takes the Robert Woodson torch. Salina Zito, CNN, New York Post; author, The Great Revolt. @SalenaZito from 2021-09-23T00:18:35

Photo:  The distinguished Robert Woodson



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1710: Occupy Wall Street 2011 and Evacuate Rikers Island 2021. Harry Siegel, @harrysiegel Daily News and The Daily Beast. from 2021-09-23T00:16:35

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 cou...

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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 from 2021-09-23T00:15:39

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' ...

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1710: The long Covid testing road home from the South of France. Simon Constable @RealConstable from 2021-09-23T00:14:03

Photo:  Provencal Farandole and Tarasque / A. Castaigne.

People dancing in semi-circle around large monster (bull or dragon?) costume, at the Paris Exposition.



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1710: Winter is coming for Scotland. Simon Constable @RealConstable from 2021-09-23T00:13:20





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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 from 2021-09-22T01:44:14

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1709: Memories of twenty years of columns on 9/11. from 2021-09-22T01:44:11

Photo: Panel S-29: tribute to the Jersey City Fire Department.







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1709: The longtime special relationship with Australia Jeff McCausland @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2021-09-22T01:44:08

Photo: "Australians welcome Americans", postcard 1908.





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1709: Milley and the flaw in the nuclear code protocol. Jeff McCausland @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2021-09-22T01:44:06

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1708: 2/2: Australia on the frontlines vs the PRC. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs HFN from 2021-09-22T01:27:16

Photo: A Kuomintang political luncheon in Australia in 1942.

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1708: 1/2: Australia on the frontlines vs the PRC. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs HFN from 2021-09-22T01:27:10

Photo: Lin Sen was the first Chinese head of state (in office 1931–1943) to visit Australia (in 1931–2)..





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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. from 2021-09-22T01:26:47

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*.


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1708: Can Manhattan make another comeback, starting with the ballet?? @LizPeek @TheHill GLXXG from 2021-09-22T01:08:41

Photo: Snowflake Waltz, NYC Ballet 1954

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1708: Is Evergrande a 2008 Minsky Moment of global contagion? @LizPeek @TheHill from 2021-09-22T01:08:24

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 Listen
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1707: Pfizer Nations and Mask Rules. Henry Miller @PacificResearch @henryimiller from 2021-09-22T00:38:22

Photo: Charles Pfizer, chemist and founder of the corporation.



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1707: Winter is coming for London! @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-09-22T00:36:49

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

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1707: AUKUS, BREXIT, EU & What is to be done? @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-09-22T00:35:52

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...

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1707: Inflation is here. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-09-22T00:34:50

Photo:  Dollars & dimes



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1707: After Afghanistan, India rethinks its land and maritime defenses. Sadanand Dhume @AEI @WSJOpinion from 2021-09-22T00:33:47

Photo:  Three-mast sailship, c. 5th century. Ajanta Cave.



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1707: Winter is coming without central heating for the Johnson Government. Adrian Wooldridge @TheEconomist from 2021-09-22T00:33:07

Photo: A stove. LOC photo.



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1707: Boris Johnson sails Global Britain to Australia. Adrian Wooldridge @TheEconomist from 2021-09-22T00:32:06

Photo:  Great Britain in 1853, after her refit to four masts



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1707: Cabinet shuffle and deal. Adrian Wooldridge @TheEconomist from 2021-09-22T00:31:25

Photo:  Queen Victoria convened her first Privy Council on the day of her <...

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1706: The Haqqani Family in charge of Kabul cricket @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-09-21T01:05:10

Photo: Hashmatullah Shahidi is an Afghan cricketer. He made his One Da...

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1706: Reviewing Al Qaeda's regional capabilities. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-09-21T01:05:03

Photo: al Qaeda media





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1706: Taliban boasts of victory on a Khost Province billboard. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-09-21T01:04:59

Photo:  KHOST PROVINCE, Afghanistan - Paratroopers from 2nd Battalion, 377th Parachute Field Artillery Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, secure a helicopter landing zo...

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1706: Taliban bans women in government; ISIS attacks Taliban. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-09-21T01:04:56

Photo: Afghan women








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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 from 2021-09-21T01:00:36

Photo:  Pressed and mounted fern specimen: Lomaria filiformis

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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 from 2021-09-21T01:00:31

Photo: Four butterflies on a flower.  Rijksmuseum.





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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 from 2021-09-21T00:53:49

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 arm...

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1706: Startup Pentagon to combat China's "aversarial capital." Francis Rose FROSEDC from 2021-09-21T00:42:27

Photo: Chinese Army

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1706: @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. Scott Harold, senior political scientist at The RAND Corporation from 2021-09-21T00:32:16

Photo: A sort of AUKUS of yesteryear: Anzus.  Australian, New Zealand, and United States aircraft during a military exercise in 1982



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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 from 2021-09-21T00:29:14

Photo:    Colombia Cartagena 2c fourth issue, purple overprint, December 1899.



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1705: #PacificWatch: Hot, dry, winds and "critical fire conditions" close in on General Sherman and the firefighters. @JCBliss from 2021-09-20T01:53:20

Photo: A solitary Sequoia gigantea





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1705: #Londinium90AD: Germanicus finds the formula for the transformation of the Republic to the Empire. Michael Vlahos. from 2021-09-20T01:50:52

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...

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1703: Peak Putin at the Duma elections. H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. from 2021-09-20T01:46:04

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.

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1704: Nicholas Thomas, author, Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific; @MAACambridge. from 2021-09-20T01:23:33

Photo: Palau Islands, Republic of Palau




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1703: The rocky road ahead for the Biden Agenda in the contentious majority in Congress. @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness @TheAmGreatness from 2021-09-20T00:54:01

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...

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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. from 2021-09-20T00:34:23

Photo:  Amour vaillant: Cupid stands guard by a long burning torch, in the background a loving couple. 

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1701: #ClassiscKenCroswell: #UNBOUND. The Voyager twins can still communicate from interstellar space. Ken Croswell. The Lives of Stars. from 2021-09-20T00:02

Photo:  Artist's concept of Voyager spacecraft in flight



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1700: Josh Rogin #Unbound: the complete, eighty-minute interview, March 21, 2021 from 2021-09-20T00:01

Photo: Man Leaning on Large Bell, from Huchui Temple Destroyed by Taiping Rebels (1850-62). China, 1875 






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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. from 2021-09-20T00:01

Photo: Germany:  Landscape with View of a Farmer's Cottage








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1698: #PacificWatch: Fighting the KNP Complex wildfire to defend General Sherman @JCBliss from 2021-09-19T03:29:21

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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 from 2021-09-19T01:00

Photo: Altar of Diana; found in what became Engelond.



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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 from 2021-09-19T00:19

Photo: Russia in England: Charles Williams. Polar bears are taught to dance. 1801 Painted etching..





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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 from 2021-09-19T00:18

Photo: Quadrangle, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University.





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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 from 2021-09-19T00:18

Photo:  Turncoats



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1698: 6/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: "Glamorous." Daily Telegraph, April 2, 2017. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. from 2021-09-19T00:18

Photo:  Russian belle:  Vasilisa at the Hut of Baba Yaga, by Ivan Bilibin



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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. from 2021-09-19T00:18

Photo:  Spy, in Russian.  Screen grab; fair use.





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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. from 2021-09-19T00:17

Photo: The distinguished Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and New York Times all occasionally descend into tabloidism.





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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. from 2021-09-19T00:15

Photo: The FT. Fair use.





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1698: 2/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Remembering the Stefan Halper origins, August 10-16, 2016. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. from 2021-09-19T00:14

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.<...

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1698: 1/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Remembering the Peter Strzok origins, July 31, 2016. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. from 2021-09-19T00:14

Photo: A GOES-13 infrared satellite image provided by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, Calif., showing the status of Hurricane Irene

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1699: Nicholas Wapshott #UNBOUND. The complete, forty-minute interview, July 24, 2016. from 2021-09-19T00:01

Photo:  The book cover.





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1699: Devin Nunes #Unbound: Countdown to Socialism. The complete, twenty-six-minute interview, September 15, 2020 from 2021-09-19T00:01

Photo: Margaret Thatcher quotation. 






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1699: C. J. Carey #UNBOUND: The complete, 20-minute interview, June 26, 2021 from 2021-09-19T00:01

Photo:  Viscount Rothermere espoused Italian Fascism in this article.






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1696: Tireless Curiosity climbs an unknown, unsolved landscape of Mt Gale. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com HFN from 2021-09-18T00:31:16

Photo: Little Curiosity's organic chemistry lab.





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1696: Begin private space exploration.September 15, 2021. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com HFN from 2021-09-18T00:24:55

Photo: Crew Dragon, first private orbital spacecraft.



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1697: Begin private space exploration. September 15, 2021. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-09-18T00:20:29

Photo:  Opel RAK.1 - World's first public manned flight of a rocket plane on September 30, 1929.





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1696: #AustraliaReport: AUKUS encourages; Covid discourages. Scott Mayman, Brisbane @CBS from 2021-09-18T00:18:08

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 NE...

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1695: Milley: It's Complicated. Josh Rogin, @WashingtonPost from 2021-09-18T00:15:34

Photo:  Col Douglas MacArthur



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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 from 2021-09-18T00:15:19

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. 1813

Macao harbor.

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1695: In praise of Stephen Breyer, the Last SCOTUS Liberal. Dan Henninger @WSJOpinion from 2021-09-18T00:14:34

Photo:  Justice Breyer



In praise of Stephen Breyer, the Last SCOTUS Liberal. 



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1695: The Black Bears Feast along Lake Tahoe. Jeff Bliss #PacificWatch @JCBlisswNews from 2021-09-18T00:02:35

Photo: American black bear (Ursus Americanus)



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

 

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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 from 2021-09-17T23:32:43

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 ...

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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 from 2021-09-17T23:31:49

Photo:  Coastal airship Norge.



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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 from 2021-09-17T23:29:57

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 t...

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1693: How to compete with Amazon on hiring bonuses. #SmallBusinessAmerica: @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2021-09-17T23:22:05

Photo:  Competition, and Amazon’s growing delivery expertise.



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1693: Considerable Tax Hike on Small Business. #SmallBusinessAmerica: @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2021-09-17T23:17:43

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 ...

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1692: 2/2 What Sixty Years of Immigration Represents for Education, Wages, Opportunities. Robert Krol, @Mercatus HFN from 2021-09-17T23:13:22

Photo:  Bedouin refugees 1917



 

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1692: 1/2 What Sixty Years of Immigration Represents for Education, Wages, Opportunities. Robert Krol, @Mercatus HFN from 2021-09-17T23:10:20

Photo:  immigrants disembarking; 1912





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1691: China retreats. Gregory Copley, @Gregory_Copley from 2021-09-17T01:36:23

Photo: Chinese railroad



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1691: Australia goes nuke. Gregory Copley, @Gregory_Copley. from 2021-09-17T01:35:36

Photo:   A Handful of Australia; a Vintage Postcard from the Early 1900s.



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1690: Who knew the Taliban celebrates cricket? @Tunku Varadarajan @WSJOpinion from 2021-09-17T01:31:54

Photo: Non-Taliban cricket.



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1690: Iran unafraid of IAEA or sanctions in run-up to UNGA and an Iran Deal. Behnam ben Taleblu, @FDD from 2021-09-17T01:24:39

Photo: "The Combat of Rustam and Ashkabus", Folio 268v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp





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1690: Boris Johnson's "Global Britain" in search of a global mission in AUKUS. Anatol Lieven from 2021-09-17T01:15:02

Photo:  Patriot's Quick Step



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1690: Scheherazade Doha soothes the savage Taliban. Anatol Lieven @QuincyInst from 2021-09-17T01:05:10

Photo: Scheherazade and the Sultan by the Iranian painter Sani ol molk (1849–1856)



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1689: Erin O'Toole to join AUKUS immediately upon election. @ConradMBlack HFN from 2021-09-17T00:51:33

Photo: Justin Trudeau and his good working colleague Xi Jinping





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1689: Ex-Im Bank for Stalin, William Bullitt, Cordell Hull, FDR: April, 1934 HFN from 2021-09-17T00:49:45

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1949

Chinese communists celebrate Joseph Stalin's seventieth birthday.









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1689: What is AUKUS for China? @RichardFontaine @CNASDC from 2021-09-17T00:42:15

Photo: Chinese sailors.





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1689: What is AUKUS for the US? @RichardFontaine @CNASDC from 2021-09-17T00:42:12

Photo: Typhoon-class submarine at sea; part of AUKUS.



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1689: #NewWorldReport: Peronistas stumble. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis from 2021-09-17T00:36:25

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.



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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 from 2021-09-17T00:31:19

Photo:  Lula Da Silva upbraids his successor, Jair Bolosonaro.

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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 from 2021-09-17T00:29:36

Photo: In September of 2006, then-President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela explained that the US president left the scent of the Devil. 





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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 from 2021-09-17T00:28:10

Photo: FARC guerrillas marching in formation during the Caguan peace talks (1998–2002)





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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. from 2021-09-16T04:01

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Stephen Frand Cohen (1938 – 2020), American scholar of Russian studies.

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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 from 2021-09-16T01:23:54

Photo: DF-31 ballistic missiles

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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 from 2021-09-16T01:15:26

Photo:   The Anglo-Chinese College; from Missionary Sketches XXVIII, January, 1825.





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1688: Wang Yi Wolf Warrior warns Seoul & What is to be done? . @DavidMaxwell161 @FDD @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill GLXXG from 2021-09-16T01:15:03

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


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1688: #AfterAfghanistan: Italy rescues soccer players of Herat. Lorenzo Fiori. Ansaldo Foundation HFN from 2021-09-16T01:09:29

Photo: The country around Herat : projected from Major Holditch's map

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1688: Delta in Asia. Sondre Solsted @TheEconomist HFN from 2021-09-16T01:09:22

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 195...

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1688: Joni Ernst remembers 9-11-01 and 8-30-21. SalenaZito.com @DCExaminer from 2021-09-16T01:09:20

Photo: . Captain Daegan W Page, undated photo released by the Marine Corps.



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1690: Gavin Newsom: The Candidate, 2021. Bill Whalen @HooverInst from 2021-09-16T01:03:29

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 f...

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1689: #AfterAfghanistan: Doha's Ritz-Carlton looks like a winner. Gregg Carlstrom @TheEconomist from 2021-09-16T00:55:50

Photo;  Doha Ritz-Carlton*





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



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1689: Al Qaeda back in Afghanistan? Jeff McCausland, CBSNews from 2021-09-16T00:55:13

Photo:  Abdur Rahman Khan, Emir of Afghanistan from 1880 to 1901



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1689: NATO after Afghanistan. Jeff McCausland, CBSNews from 2021-09-16T00:54:27

Photo: Authentication page for an official copy of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization treaty, signed and sealed by Secretary of State Listen
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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 from 2021-09-16T00:53

Photo:   Certification by the American Board of Regenerative Medicine (ABRM) 





2/2   Doctors on the Flight Deck.  Robert Graboyes, @Mercatus

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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 from 2021-09-16T00:52:26

Photo:  A statue of Asclepius. The Glypotek, Copenhagen.

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1688: The surprising Communist Party of Russia. @Felix_Light, @CBSNews MoscowPhjoto: from 2021-09-16T00:50:58

Photo:  Brief return to Sovietskii Party deeds:  A Politburo resolution to execute 346 "enemies...

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1688: Putin Self-Isolates a Week before the Duma Elections. @Felix_Light, @CBSNews Moscow from 2021-09-16T00:50:56

Photo:  Grand Kremlin Palace Andreevsky hall




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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. from 2021-09-15T00:55:57

Photo: Newspapers as a source of information.   Giornale d'Italia,  11 June 1940



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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. from 2021-09-15T00:55:45

Photo:   Robert Smith, U.S. Secretary of State, March 6, 1809 to April 1, 1811.





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1687: Opportunity finds the Morning Dew of Mars. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-09-15T00:55:26

Photo: Morning dew on a spider web (Earth)



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1687: "Russia moving very very rapidly to consolidate its position." Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs HFN from 2021-09-15T00:48:24

Photo: A map showing the ballistic missile defense system surrounding Moscow. From Soviet Military Power 1985

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1687: "US foreign policy is merely US domestic politics carried out abroad." Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs HFN from 2021-09-15T00:48:23

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 U...

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1687: Does the China turmoil damage the markets? @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews GLXXG from 2021-09-15T00:36:14

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 a...

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1687: The 2.2 Trillion Tax Hike on the Not Rich. @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews GLXXG from 2021-09-15T00:34:34

Photo:   The New Altruism   

Labour M.P.  "My poor friend, here's five shillings for you."

Life-long loafer  "Gawd bless, yer, Gov'nor!"   

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1686: 2/2 The Kennan Sweepstakes for a Grand Mission. James Astill @TheEconomist from 2021-09-15T00:18:47

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.





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1685: 1/2 The Kennan Sweepstakes for a Grand Mission. James Astill @TheEconomist from 2021-09-15T00:17:08

Photo: A containment poster. George Kennan was known above all for his policy of containment:  a geopolitical strategic foreign policy ...

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1685: Manhattan 2001 vs Manhattan 2021. Harry Siegel from 2021-09-15T00:16:29

Photo:  View of construction of the World Trade Center, New York City.






Manhattan 2001 vs Manhattan 2021. Harry Siegel





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1685: Al Qaeda Never Left, and Returns. John Bolton @AmbJohnBolton from 2021-09-15T00:15:54

Photo:   Salafism is the creed espoused by al Qaeda. In a general sense, it's similar to Wahhabism, which is the Saudi theology.  Here:  <...

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1684: Life in 'brolly London's "torrential downpour." #LondonCalling. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-09-15T00:14:57

Photo:  Thames Embankment in London



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1684: Ways and Means for Tax Hikes for Everyone. #LondonCalling. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-09-15T00:14:06

Photo: Tax office . 



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





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1684: Another lockdown if? #LondonCalling. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-09-15T00:13

Photo:  San Quentin State Prison, Building 22, Point San Quentin, San Quentin, Marin County, CA



Another lockdown if?  #LondonCalling.  @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

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1684: China wants capital without capitalism. #LondonCalling. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-09-15T00:11:55

Photo:   The gold standard formed the financial basis of the international economy from 1870 to 1914.



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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 from 2021-09-14T01:31:57

Photo: Death of a soldier in Las Viscacheras, 1829

Muerte de Rauch en las Viscacheras





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1683: Five foreign policy lessons not learned in Afghanistan debacle. Peter Berkowitz, @HooverInst HFN from 2021-09-14T01:04:50

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...

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1683: Memories of 9-11-01 at the Nation office on University Place, Manhattan, NY. Katrina vanden Heuvel @TheNation from 2021-09-14T01:02:50

Photo: .The Nation Magazine 1940





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1683: Xi is driving the asset destruction of China. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-09-14T01:02:02

Photo: The Bar of Destruction [Death as bartender serving rum to a man as two small children beckon from doorway].



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1683: China buys the Solomon Island government to freeze out Taiwan. Cleo Paskal @CleoPaskal, and @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-09-14T00:57:13

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.  C...

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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 from 2021-09-14T00:56:30

Photo:  Geography of the First Island Chain







China vs Japan in the First Island Chain. James Fanell, @NavalHistWar @lauchinainst  @CCL.org and @Go...

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1682: 4/4 #AfterAfghanistan. The awakened Al Qaeda. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-09-14T00:12:49

Photo: Al Qaeda soon after evicting the Soviet Union; now, the enemy was the US.



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1682: 2/4 #AfterAfghanistan Zawahiri speaks @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-09-14T00:11:07

Photo:  Zawahiri from the year 2001; FBI photo.



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



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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 from 2021-09-13T01:44:05

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. 1800





A whaling scene of 1763





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1680: Trillions and Trillions in "the Darkness of August" behind closed Capitol doors. @DevinNunes CA-22 #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-09-13T01:16:54

Photo:   One trillion seconds = 31,710 years





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1680: Memories of 9-11-01 from Visalia, California. @DevinNunes CA-22 from 2021-09-13T01:14:57

Photo: Visalia, California. Children of Mineral King Cooperative Farm




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1680: What is the advantage for the Kremlin in the US-China confrontation? H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-09-13T01:08:31

Photo:. Moscow kreml, perhaps late 1700s.



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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 from 2021-09-13T00:15:16

Photo:  The Cambridge Castle Gatehuse, later replaces by the Assizes Curt.

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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 from 2021-09-13T00:15:12

Photo: .

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1679: Nicholas Thomas #Unbound Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific Hardcover. The complete, forty-minute interview, June 15, 2021 from 2021-09-13T00:00

Photo: Hawaiian navigators sailing multi-hulled canoe, c. 1781






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1679: Devin Nunes #Unbound: Countdown to Socialism. The complete, twenty-six-minute interview, September 15, 2020 from 2021-09-13T00:00

Photo:  Utopian socialist pamphlet of the Swiss social medical doctor Rudolf Sutermeister (1802-1868).






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1679: David Grantham #Unbound. (Intell.) The complete, forty-minute interview, April 5, 2021. from 2021-09-13T00:00

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1679: Charlie Pellegrino #Unbound: Vesuvius; the complete, twenty-minute interview, June 18, 2021. LXX GLXXG from 2021-09-13T00:00

Photo: The skeleton called the "Ring Lady" unearthed in Herculaneum



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1679: Russell Shorto #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, April 22, 2021. from 2021-09-13T00:00

Photo: FBI chart of American Mafia bosses across the country in 1963.

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1679: C. J. Carey #UNBOUND: The complete, 20-minute interview, June 26, 2021 from 2021-09-13T00:00

Photo:  Pierre Laval and Phillippe Pétain ["mal de nom!" comme dis...

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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. from 2021-09-12T01:05:55

Photo: Imperial Roman army.

            Vinkhuijzen collection of military uniforms, NYPL

The collection assembled by Hendrik Jacobus Vinkhuijzen (1843-1910), a Dutch ph...

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1677: Two Weeks after the Tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, August 16, 2021. @LongWarJournal. from 2021-09-12T00:48:56

Photo: U.S. Navy SEALs find valuable intelligence in Afghanistan








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1677: Two weeks before the tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, August 2, 2021. @LongWarJournal. from 2021-09-12T00:41:15

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.
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1676: Three weeks before the tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND The complete, forty-minute interview, July 26, 2021. @LongWarJournal. from 2021-09-12T00:39:11

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 emergenc...

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1676: Four weeks before the tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete forty minute interview, July 19, 2021. @LongWarJournal. from 2021-09-12T00:38

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..



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1676: Five weeks before the tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND The complete, forty-minute interview, July 12, 2021. @LongWarJournal. from 2021-09-12T00:37:11

Photo: Taliban take over Kabul. (Screen grab).





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1675: Seven weeks before the tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND The complete, nineteen-minute interview, June 28, 2021. @LongWarJournal. from 2021-09-12T00:32:44

Photo: Proposed structure of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan government under the (unratified) 1998 constitution





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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. from 2021-09-12T00:32:38

Photo: An aerial view from the window of a Blackhawk helicopter between Balkh Province and Kunduz Province



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1675: Nine weeks before the tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, nineteen-minute interview, June 14, 2021. @LongWarJournal. from 2021-09-12T00:32:29

Photo: Taliban fighters in Kabul, 17 August 2021

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1675: Ten weeks before the tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, nineteen-minute interview, June 7, 2021. @LongWarJournal. from 2021-09-12T00:32:19

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 suic...

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1675: Thirteen Weeks Before the Tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal. #UNBOUND @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn The complete, nineteen-minute interview May 17, 2021.@LongWarJournal from 2021-09-12T00:31:27

Photo: Taliban border guard, 2001.





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1675: Fifteen weeks Before the Tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal. #UNBOUND @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn The complete nineteen minute interview May 3, 2021. @LongWarJournal from 2021-09-12T00:30:43

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1675: Seventeen Weeks before the Tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal. #UNBOUND @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn The complete, nineteen-minute interview April 19, 2021. @LongWarJournal from 2021-09-12T00:29:58

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1674: Memories of 9-11-01 at the World Trade Center. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion from 2021-09-11T00:44:02

Photo: The World Trade Center burns .





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1674: Twenty years later without consensus in the land. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion from 2021-09-11T00:43:58

Photo: Civil troubles, by Gustave Doré 





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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. from 2021-09-11T00:43:47

Photo: The West Wing (lower right) by night, December 2006





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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 from 2021-09-11T00:43:17

Photo: .Angel Falls, the world's highest waterfall, in Southeastern Venezuela





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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 from 2021-09-11T00:43:14

Photo: .Tysons Corner in 1936





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1674: Webb vs SLS: last tortoise to launch wins. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com GLXXG from 2021-09-11T00:43:05

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 tha...

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1674: The blossoming of Commercial Space tourism Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com GLXXG from 2021-09-11T00:43:01

Photo: Schematic of a fusion-driven rocket; NASA.



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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 from 2021-09-11T00:31:15

Photo:  President Theodore Roosevelt in Kansas City, Kansas.

Creator: Underwood & Underwood.  September 28, 1900



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1674: Memories of 9-11-1 at the Farragut Square Metro, Washington, D.C. Francis Rose, @FrancisRoseDC. FedScoop.com. from 2021-09-11T00:29:21

Photo: Farragut North Metro station; google photo



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1674: #HotelMars: Fusion Rocketry for Long Voyages. Stephanie Thomas, Princeton Satellite Systems; David Livingston, SpaceShow.com from 2021-09-11T00:27:05

Photo:  Schematic of a fusion-driven rocket; NASA.



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1674: #Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus remembering the unknowns of unexpected horror such as 9-11-01. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-09-11T00:18:26

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1674: Not ready to go back to the office. Gene Marks @GeneMarks @Guardian from 2021-09-11T00:17:46

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1674: The Presidential Mandate for Vaccines Burdens Small Business America. Gene Marks @GeneMarks @Guardian from 2021-09-11T00:16:44

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1673: Memories of 9-11-01 in Brooklyn, Manhattan and at Ground Zero. @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNew @DailyBeast GLXXG from 2021-09-10T01:03:35

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 Worl...

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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 from 2021-09-10T01:02:38

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..




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1673: No fishing Cuba & What is to be done? @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion from 2021-09-10T00:52:48

Photo: Fidel Castro and Che Guevara participated in the 1960 Hemingway [Fishing...

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1673: Memories of 9-11-01 at the Cato Institute, Washington D.C. @VeroDeRugy @Mercatus from 2021-09-10T00:48:51

Photo: Cato in Washington



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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 from 2021-09-10T00:47:44

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 organizatio...

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1673: #AfterAfghanistan: Is this the close of American primacy? Andrew Bacevich @QuincyInst from 2021-09-10T00:41:53

Photo: Imperial shifts: Rus' under the walls of Constantinople (860 AD)*





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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 from 2021-09-10T00:37:30

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...

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1672: President Moon goes to the agitprop CCP war movies. Tara O, @DrTaraO; and Gordon Chang, @GordonGChang, from 2021-09-10T00:25:40

Photo:  Large sign featuring a propaganda slogan in 1972: "Long Live the Great, Glorious, and Correct Communist Party of China!"



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1672: #TheScalaReport: Normalizing Delta in business travel, hospitality, office work. #ScalaReport. Chris Riegel @Scala CEO, @STRATACACHE #TheScalaReport from 2021-09-10T00:24:35

Photo:  I1919 Sydney NSW.



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1672: Has the Taliban learned a lesson from 2001? Anatol Lieven, Georgetown University @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst from 2021-09-10T00:23:49

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...

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1672: Memories of 9-11-01 in Washington. Anatol Lieven, Georgetown University @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst from 2021-09-10T00:22:02

Photo: DoD video of plane hitting the Penagon, September 11.



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1671: #AfterAfghanistan: The values of nation-building. Henry Nau, @GWU from 2021-09-10T00:10:18

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. Listen
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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 from 2021-09-10T00:07:12

Photo:  Secretary of State  and National Security Advisor  meet with Chinese officials in Alaska, March 2021:  Secretary Anthony Blinken and National Security Advisor Listen
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1669: Marines working the State Department for those left behind. SalenaZito.com @DCExaminer from 2021-09-09T00:57:57

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).
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1669: Memories of 9/11 in Pittsburgh as Flight 93 passed over the stadium. SalenaZito.com from 2021-09-09T00:57:51

Photo: Flight 93 crash site





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1669: #KabulDiary: Panjshir falls; the Taliban designated-terrorists rise. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-09-09T00:57:47

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, Afghanis...

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1669: Memories of 9/11 in New Jersey and New York. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-09-09T00:57:33

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 si...

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1669: Virgin Galactic remains grounded for cause. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com GLXXG from 2021-09-09T00:57:25

Photo: Virgin Galactic presents iteslf

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1669: Memories of 9/11 in Manhattan escaping on foot. Simon Constable @RealConstable GLXXG from 2021-09-09T00:44:18

Photo:   WTC-Fireman requests 10 more colleagues. Photo by the US Government ,




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1669: France protest the pandemic; Scotland protests the UK. Simon Constable @RealConstable HFN from 2021-09-09T00:44:14

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...

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1668: Memory of 9/11 at eight years old. Felix Light @CBSNews @MoscowTimes from 2021-09-08T23:50:08

Photo: The Battle of Borodino, 1812.  





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1668: Memory of 9/11 in Jakarta, Indonesia; also, Taliban are the Deobandi. Sadanand Dhume, @WSJOpinion from 2021-09-08T23:49:16

Photo:   Logo for Darul Uloom Deoband.

 

 

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1668: #AfterAfghanistan: What is NATO's mission? Jeff McCausland @mccauslJ @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2021-09-08T23:48:06

Photo:  A 1952 US postage stamp commemorating the third anniversary of NATO. Stamps honoring the organization were issued by many memb...

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1668: Memory of 9/11 in Madrid, Spain. Jeff McCausland @mccauslJ @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2021-09-08T23:47:24

Photo:  Spain (during the Spanish civil war):   Granollers after being bomb...

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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 from 2021-09-08T23:45

Photo:   A clip originally posted on the Weibo microblogging platform by the People’s Liberation Army’s Eastern Theater Command.  



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1667: The Traffic Light Pulls Ahead with Olaf Scholz. Vendeline von Bredow, @TheEconomist from 2021-09-08T23:42:15

Photo:  Advert for an "Electric Traffic Regulator" in the Pryke & Palmer catalogue of 1930



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1667: Memory of 9/11 in Manhattan, at the Central Park Reservoir. Vendeline von Bredow, @TheEconomist from 2021-09-08T23:41:34

Photo:  The Grotto Reservoir, Central Park, New York City





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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. from 2021-09-08T00:55:23

Photo: City of London coat-of-arms.





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1666: Not just Raab and Johnson, but neither major Party distinguishes itself in this Parliament. @Adrian Wooldridge @AdWooldridge @TheEconomist GLXXG from 2021-09-08T00:54:49

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."



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1666: Goldman Sachs lowers 2021 GDP estimate: Global slowdown, inflation, Delta, taxes. @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews from 2021-09-08T00:54:29

Photo: Fault Lines Widen in the Global Recovery, & Growth Projections by Region., IMF Projections





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1666: Memories of 9-11-01 in Washington, D.C. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs GLXXG from 2021-09-08T00:54:03

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 Pentago...

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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 from 2021-09-08T00:53:46

Photo: Xi with a woman in traditional dress





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1666: How to defeat China without fighting. @KerryGershaneck, and Gordon Chang, @GordonGChang, from 2021-09-08T00:28:06

Photo:  Portraits of the martyrs in the first series of the Records of the Warlords of the War of Resistance Against Japan



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1666: Boris Johnson breaks his no-new-taxes pledge. Vicki Barker @CBSNews London from 2021-09-08T00:24:03

Photo:  Tax office.



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1666: Memories of 9-11-01 in London at the BBC Headquarters. Vicki Barker @CBSNews London from 2021-09-08T00:23:27

Photo:  BBC Radio 1 logo from 1990 to 1994



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1666: Back to School with Delta: Is There an October Lockdown? Joseph Sternberg, @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion from 2021-09-08T00:22:08

Photo:  DECODING DELTA: HOW VIRUSES MUTATE AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT



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1666: Johnson proposes NHS and Social Care Tax to Tory silence. Joseph Sternberg, @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion from 2021-09-08T00:21:05

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 represente...

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1666: Goldman cuts 2021 GDP estimates. Joseph Sternberg, @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion from 2021-09-08T00:20:07

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 divorc...

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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 from 2021-09-08T00:19:28

Photo:  View of William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia.






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1665: #PacificWatch: Pulled the plug on the Oroville Reservoir (24% and sinking). @JCBliss HFN from 2021-09-07T02:07:29

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. 1930

Oroville Station. Postcard.

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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 from 2021-09-07T01:01

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1924





Whale catcher delivering whales





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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 from 2021-09-07T01:00

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 ee...

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1662: 4/4: Révolution Française, by Sophie Pedder. @PedderSophie @TheEconomist HFN from 2021-09-07T00:30

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...

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1662: 3/4: Révolution Française, by Sophie Pedder. @PedderSophie @TheEconomist GLXXG from 2021-09-07T00:30

Photo:  GAME OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, TRACE ON THE PLAN OF THE RENEWED GAME OF OYE OF THE GREEKS.







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1662: 2/4: Révolution Française, by Sophie Pedder. @PedderSophie @TheEconomist HFN from 2021-09-07T00:30

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...

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1662: 1/4: Révolution Française, by Sophie Pedder. @PedderSophie @TheEconomist GLXXG from 2021-09-07T00:30

Photo: The Historical Gallery, or Pictures of the events of the French Revolution - 7th plate



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1659: Michael Auslin #Unbound. Asia-Pacific. The complete, twenty-minute interview. May 12, 2021. LXX GLXXG from 2021-09-07T00:02

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) 

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1659: Terry Anderson #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. April 6, 2021 from 2021-09-07T00:02

Photo:  Energy flows between space, the atmosphere, and Earth's surface. Rising greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere are causing a ...

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1658: Roya Hakakian #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. May 29, 2021 from 2021-09-07T00:01

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1657: Jeff McCausland #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. May 21, 2021. from 2021-09-07T00:01

Photo: Confederate Commanders

Creator: Notman Photo Co, Limited; 1865






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1661: #PacificWatch: "Pleistocene" Bliss explores the La Brea Tar Pits in Downtown LA. ; Caldor fire spares Tahoe so far. @JCBliss from 2021-09-06T02:35:17

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1806

Exhuming the First American Mastodon, 1806 painting by Charles W...

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1661: #AfterAfghanistan: Americans refuse magical thinking about the Taliban. @ThadMcCotter American @TheAmGreatness from 2021-09-06T02:15

Photo: Today's Taliban.  Screen grab.





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1661: Australia Pandemic: New South Wales, Canberra, Victoria, Queensland stay locked down indefinitely. Jeremy Zakis, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia. from 2021-09-06T02:10:19

Photo: .





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1660: #AfterAfghanistan: Lessons learned; opportunities for Putin and the Kremlin. H. J. Mackinder, International Relations from 2021-09-06T01:55:33

Photo:  The new Taliban.



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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 from 2021-09-06T01:49

Photo: The devious Cantabrigian, S Halper..



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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. from 2021-09-06T01:31

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1655: Quarter of the nation's food supply now short of water. @DevinNunes author, podcaster and CA-22. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-09-06T01:30

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1656: 6/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: "Glamorous." Daily Telegraph, April 2, 2017. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova from 2021-09-05T20:55:07

Photo: The 1990 film, La Femme Nikita, starring Anne Parillaud— a glamourous spy (who in the industry are called "sparrows").  (Screen grab). 



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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 from 2021-09-05T20:54:42

Photo: Ivan the Terrible seems to have created the first Russian espionage service, the Oprichnik.   



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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 from 2021-09-05T20:53:28

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1656: 2/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Remembering the Stefan Halper origins, August 10-16, 2016. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-09-05T20:52:30

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1656: 1/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Remembering the Peter Strzok origins, July 31, 2016. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-09-05T20:51:45

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1653: #Londinium90AD: The Senatorial Class (Optimates 2021) cannot and will not acknowledge defeat in Afghanistan. Michael Vlahos. from 2021-09-05T05:00

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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 from 2021-09-05T03:43:33

Photo:  2RAR withdraw to DMZ Korea 1953



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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 from 2021-09-05T03:40:04

Photo:  Romans Defeated Near the Rhine, from The War of the Romans Against the Batavians (Romanorvm et Batavorvm Societas)




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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 from 2021-09-05T03:38:27

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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 from 2021-09-05T03:37:05

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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 from 2021-09-05T03:32:49

Photo: The Imperial Gavotte



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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 from 2021-09-05T03:30:19

Photo: Military exercise of Manchukuo Imperial Army.  Remember that it was the junior officers who pressed for war.






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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 from 2021-09-05T03:28:49

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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 from 2021-09-05T03:26:59

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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 from 2021-09-05T02:22:37

Photo:  Year of the Four Emperors (Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian)



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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 from 2021-09-05T02:20:38

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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 from 2021-09-05T01:17:37

Photo: Roman Empire.  Hendrik Jacobus Vinkhuijzen, Collector



 

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1649: #ClassicGaius&Germanicus: June 26, 2021: #Londinium90AD: Joseph Warren stares down the Church of Woke. Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-09-05T01:15:54

Photo:  Jonathan Edwards sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. (screen grab)



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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 from 2021-09-05T01:14:23

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 wit...

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1648: #Londinium90AD: Taliban perform a mock Roman Triumph 2000 years later. Michael Vlahos. HFN from 2021-09-04T00:53:06

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1647: #AfterAfghanistan: Panjshir digs in. @BillRoggio @LongWarJournal @FDD GLXXG from 2021-09-04T00:42:10

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1647: What of Silicon Valley's devotion to Gavin Newsom? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2021-09-04T00:41:44

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1647: 1. Recall and After. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst HFN from 2021-09-04T00:41:42

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1647: Mandarin-speaking Ingenuity. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-09-04T00:38:55

Photo: ??? (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.
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1647: Virgin Galactic Grounded; & What is to be done? Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com HFN from 2021-09-04T00:38:50

Photo: Unity, or SpaceShipTwo: Virgin Galactic photo.





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1647: Wild boar scavengers running Rome. Lorenzo Fiori. Ansaldo Foundation, Milan. from 2021-09-04T00:38:40

Photo:   Dog hunt for a wild boar.





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1647: #HotelMars: What is Space Solar Power? David Livingston. Steve Wolfe, Beyond Earth Institute GLXXG from 2021-09-04T00:38:27

Photo: NASA Integrated Symmetrical Concentrator SPS concept.





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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 from 2021-09-04T00:38:19

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1648: Superior Small Business Alaska. Gene Marks, Washington Post Small Business columnist. @genemarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2021-09-04T00:26:54

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 dom...

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1648: The Global Hesitation in Jobs, Supplies, Confidence. Gene Marks, Washington Post Small Business columnist. @genemarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2021-09-04T00:26:26

Photo:  The journalist Nellie Bly investigating employment agencies



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1648: More than 15 million excess worldwide deaths to date. Sandre Solsted @TheEconomist from 2021-09-04T00:25:41

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 ...

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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. from 2021-09-04T00:23:41

Photo:  Antonio Basilio Cuervo Urisarri, a Colombian politician (June 13, 1834 – February 19, 1893).



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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 from 2021-09-04T00:17:19

Photo:  Panorama from the Paraguayan side of the border.



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1646: 2/2: #AfterAfghanistan: The winners include Moscow, Beijing, Delhi and Tehran. Gregory Copley, @Gregory_Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs HFN from 2021-09-03T01:40:18

Photo: Amenhotep III Slaying an Asian Enemy, Tomb of Amenemhat Surer.

            Charles K. Wilkinson; from Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes; New Kingdom

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1646: 1/2: #AfterAfghanistan: The winners include Moscow, Beijing, Delhi and Tehran. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs HFN @Gregory_Copley, from 2021-09-03T01:40:14

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...

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1646: How to walk the Dinosaur Highway of the Andes. Sarah Maslin @TheEconomist from 2021-09-03T01:40:07

Photo: Argentinosaurus huinculensis  hypothetical life restoration



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1646: #KabulDiary:After Afghanistan and Climate Adaptation. @AnatolLieven @QuincyInst GLXXG from 2021-09-03T01:39:59

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1646: #KabulDiary: Witnessing four times the fall of Kabul. @AnatolLieven QuicyInst GLXXG from 2021-09-03T01:39:57

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 fo...

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1646: ECB Inflation Hawks take flight against the Fed Inflation Doves. @VerodeRugy @Mercatus from 2021-09-03T01:39:46

Photo: Red-tailed hawk removing fur from a rodent before eating it.


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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 from 2021-09-03T01:39:34

Photo: Coal mine in Chinese-occupied Mongolia.  Predominantly lignite.



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1646: How does the IMF reward the brute Ortega and the deadbeat Argentina; & What is to be done? @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion from 2021-09-03T01:39:30

Photo: The IMF was founded in 1944 at the Mt Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire.   Here; the hotel c 1910.

  



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1648: FBI tracks the rising anti-semitism. Malcolm Hoenlein, @Conf_of_Pres.Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-09-03T01:36:16

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.



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1648: Azerbaijan, emerging bridge among Central Asian nations. Amb Khazar Ibrahim, @hazar_khazar; and Malcolm Hoenlein, @Conf_of_Pres from 2021-09-03T01:35:30

Photo: Azeri "Hounds and Jackals" game box, hounds and jackals, Reniseneb



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1647: Polling Palestinian Anger and Despair. Itamar Marcus, @ItamarPM; and Malcolm Hoenlein, @Conf_of_Pres from 2021-09-03T01:27:34

Photo:  Photograph of Palestinian woman, early 1900s.



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



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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 from 2021-09-03T01:26:53

Photo:  The Russian MID (Ministry Foreign Affairs) building in Moscow.





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1646: The Red Tory moves ahead of Trudeau. @ConradMBlack from 2021-09-03T01:20:43

Photo: Canada:  Head Tax Receipt



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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 from 2021-09-03T01:20:03

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1646: Meet the New Hardliner FM Iran. Behnam Ben Taleblu @FDD from 2021-09-03T01:19:04

Photo:  Contemporary portrait of Karim Khan Zand, the founder of the Zand Persian dynasty (1751).



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1646: Iran and the Taliban. Behnam Ben Taleblu @FDD from 2021-09-03T01:18:05

Photo:  MRAP, Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected



Iran and the Taliban.  Behnam Ben Taleblu @FDD





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1645: The Left Behind. @JoshRogin @WashingtonPost GLXXG from 2021-09-02T01:50:35

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 memb...

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1645: US and Israel R&D together, at long last. Bradley Bowman, @FDD @Brad_L_Bowman GLXXG from 2021-09-02T01:50:29

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1645: More cracks in the Russian part of the ISS. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-09-02T01:50:17

Photo: The Great Crevice in New York State.







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1645: The first 100 Days of Zhurong. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-09-02T01:43:06

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 spac...

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1645: Erdogan (member of NATO) takes the Kabul stage; & What is to be done? @AykanErdemir @FDD from 2021-09-02T01:18:21

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1645: In Vladivostok, Putin reflects on the American defeat in Afghanistan. @Felix_Light @CBSNews Moscow from 2021-09-02T01:15:40

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.<...

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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. from 2021-09-02T01:13:07

Photo: Chinese army maneuvers of the last century



India on alert for China in Afghanistan. @CleoPaskal ;  @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

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1645: Scotland goes Green with candlelight. @TheRealConstable Simon Constable HFN from 2021-09-02T01:10:41

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1645: Afghanistan is the Saudi Arabia of lithium. @TheRealConstable Simon Constable. @Forbes HFN from 2021-09-02T01:08:21

Photo:  CR2032 lithium button cell battery with a Japanese inscription.
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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 from 2021-09-02T01:06:34

Photo: Chinese gunboat, Upper Yang-tze.    Photograph by John Thomson. Nineteenth Century.



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1644: Two-lane highway; small-town America. Salina Zito, CNN, New York Post; author, The Great Revolt. @SalenaZito from 2021-09-02T01:00:12

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1644: Summer camp is back. Salina Zito, CNN, New York Post; author, The Great Revolt. @SalenaZito from 2021-09-02T00:59:23

Photo:  Summer camp



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





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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 . from 2021-09-02T00:58:33

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

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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 from 2021-09-02T00:57:51

Photo:  An economic downturn is a general slowdown in economic activity over a sustained period of time.



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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 from 2021-09-02T00:45:55

Photo:  View of snow-capped peaks near Kashmir in India



Al Qaeda commands the Taliban to liberate Kashmir. 

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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 from 2021-09-02T00:44:23

Photo:  Border between British India and Afghanistan in 1934






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1642: 2/2: After Afghanistan: What of the Great Power alliances: NATO? Quad? Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs HFN from 2021-09-01T01:31:37

Photo: American, Indian, and Japanese ships participating in Malabar 2019

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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 from 2021-09-01T01:31:33

Photo:  A doorway for a great power - harbor at Port Arthur.





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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 from 2021-09-01T01:23:18

Photo: Old age.





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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 from 2021-09-01T01:23:16

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 parti...

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1642: #LondonCalling. Extinction Rebellion on the London Bridge. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion GLXXG from 2021-09-01T01:12:39

Photo: London Bridge & the Monument.






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1642: #LondonCalling. Does a Strong Dollar Equal Strong America? @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion HFN from 2021-09-01T01:12:36

Photo: One dollar. 



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1642: #LondonCalling. Boris Johnson's Leaving of Kabul; US leaving Kabul. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion HFN from 2021-09-01T01:12:28

Photo: The Battle of Maiwand on 27 July 1880 was one of the principal battles of the Second Anglo-Afghan War. Under the lead...

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1642: #LondonCalling. America closes to Europe, but Europe opens to America @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion GLXXG from 2021-09-01T01:10:20

Photo: A rural border crossing.





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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. from 2021-09-01T00:22:21

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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. from 2021-09-01T00:21:51

Photo:  Map of Ancient Arabia - 1720






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1641: Macron, the new DeGaulle. Sophie Pedder @TheEconomist from 2021-09-01T00:19:59

Photo:  The Armistice Day Centennial Commemoration Luncheon






Macron, the new DeGaulle.  Sophie Pedder @TheEconomist

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1641: Europe Ecologie — Les Verts! (The Greens!). Sophie Pedder @TheEconomist from 2021-09-01T00:19:17

Photo:  Exactement: Europe Ecologie — Les Verts! (The Greens!).



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1641: After Afghanistan for Moscow and Beijing. John Bolton @AmbJohnBolton from 2021-09-01T00:17:08

Photo: Afghan coat of arms of yesteryear



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1641: Saigon again. Liz Peek @TheHill from 2021-09-01T00:16:32

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...

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1641: White House raises inflation estimate 100%. Liz Peek @TheHill from 2021-09-01T00:16:04

Photo:  Financial debacle.



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

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1640: #KabulDiary: Al Qaeda and Afghanistan. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal HFN from 2021-08-31T00:51:40

Photo: Taliban and al Qaeda, closely allied. Screen grab.





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1640: #KabulDiary: Why not Bagram? @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal GLXXG from 2021-08-31T00:51:22

Photo: Soviet fighter jets at Bagram, 1980.



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1640: #KabulDiary: Pakistan and Iran and the Taliban and Al Qaeda. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-08-31T00:50:59

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1640: #NewWorldReport: The dramatic Bolsonaro of Brazil. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-08-31T00:50:07

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1640: #NewWorldReport: AMLO raffles El Chapo's house. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-08-31T00:50:07

Photo:  A room in El Chapo's house



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1640: #NewWorldReport: Colombia campaigning. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-08-31T00:49:53

Photo: .El Tiempo de Colombia





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1641: The difference between Brown Dwarfs and Red Dwarfs. Ken Croswell, Science News from 2021-08-31T00:34:49

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1641: North Korea restarts the plutonium plant. David Maxwell @FDD from 2021-08-31T00:34:05

Photo:  North Korea's Hwasong-14 launch on July 28, 2017



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1641: #PacificWatch:Caldor Fire blown close and closer to Tahoe. Jeff Bliss, @JCBliss from 2021-08-31T00:33:27

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1641: Barbara Lee's vote "no" on the Afghanistan war, 9/14/01. Katrina vanden Heuvel @TheNation from 2021-08-31T00:32:32

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1640: PRC persecutes the youngest of the Hong Kong protesters. Mark Simon and @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-08-31T00:29:29

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1640: "Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Great Synagogue of Vilnius. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres, @mhoenlein1; @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-08-31T00:28:10

Photo: Great Synagogue in Vilnius



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1640: Bennett visits Biden during the Kabul tragedy. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1; @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-08-31T00:27:22

Photo: An Old Testament leader: Gideon



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1639: #PacificWatch: Gusting winds expected as the Caldor Fire approaching the Tahoe Basin @JCBliss. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-08-30T02:21:50

Photo:  A line of fires ravages farmland during the four-day Panorama brush fire, which started in canyons north of town and has been whipped out of control by 40-50 mph winds  Firefighters ba...

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1639: Wildfires: "The access roads are completely grown over." @DevinNunes CA-22 #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-08-30T02:17:38

Photo:  Access road.



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1639: "They said they were going to have a limit of the number of troops that could be at Bagram." @DevinNunes CA-22. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-08-30T02:13:22

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1639: Putin plays another weak hand expertly in Central Asia; Putin responds to climate change in the polling. H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. from 2021-08-30T01:00:04

Photo:  Fire tragedy near Irkutsk.  Photo: Siberia Times.







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1638: #Londinium90AD: Three American Empire defeats and the recoveries, 1948, 1953, 1963. Michael Vlahos. from 2021-08-30T00:29:29

Photo: A U-2 reconnaissance photograph of Cuba, showing Soviet nuclear missiles, their transports and tents for fueling and maintenance..





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1638: 6/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: "Glamorous." Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. from 2021-08-30T00:25:49

Photo: Evening dress by Buzenet. The trends. The Odeon Theater in question is that of Monte-Carlo, where Mata Hari danced in 1910 a ballet scene in the third act of the play Antar by ...

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1637: 5/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Allegedly linked to the GRU and Vladimir Putin on the Guardian front gate, April 1, 2017. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. from 2021-08-30T00:02

Photo: A GRU emblem





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1637: 4/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Over three days, 2/28/17-3/4/17, Svetlana Lokhova is contacted by WSJ, WAPO, and NYT, all of whom suspect her to be a Russian agent. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. from 2021-08-30T00:02

Photo: Screen grab from advert of the film, Atomic Blonde.





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1637: 3/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: The first sign of the attack on Svetlana Lokhova and Michael Flynn, the Financial Times, December 16, 2016. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. from 2021-08-30T00:02

Photo: The FT escaped this suit.





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1636: 2/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Remembering the Stefan Halper origins, August 10-16, 2016. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. from 2021-08-30T00:02

Photo: Partial portrait.





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1636: 1/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Remembering the Peter Strzok origins, July 31, 2016. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. from 2021-08-30T00:02

Photo: FBI counterintelligence badge for Peter Strzok, who texted that he could "smell" Republicans in a Virginia mall.



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1636: J. H. Gelernter #Unbound. Napoleonic-era espionage. The complete, twenty-minute interview. May 3, 2021. LXX GLXXG from 2021-08-30T00:01

Photo: Taisez-vous! Mefiez-vous!  Be silent!! Beware!

Les oreilles ennemies vous ecoutent — The enemy's ears hear you






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1636: Holly Fretwell #Unbound. Forests. The complete, forty-minute interview. April 12, 2021. from 2021-08-30T00:01

Photo: Trees in snow in Norway



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1635: #PacificWatch: Caldor Fire "apocalypse" approaches the Tahoe Basin. @JCBliss from 2021-08-29T01:34:12

Photo: The immense Caldor fire.  Screen grab.



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1635: #PacificWatch: Gavin Newsom brooms the homeless camp on 19th Street in the Mission District. @JCBliss from 2021-08-29T01:34:08

Photo: Bergner, Beale and Mission Streets, c. 1863

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1634: 6/7: "Mother Treason," a story from the collection, "Gordon Liddy Is My Muse," by John Calvin Batchelor. Read by John Batchelor. from 2021-08-29T01:07:19

Photo: A view of the offices of the KGB Soviet State Police located on Dzerzhinski Circle, a few blocks from Red Square.. ("KGB Soviet State Police building, 1985")

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1634: 5/7: "Mother Treason," a story from the collection, "Gordon Liddy Is My Muse," by John Calvin Batchelor. Read by John Batchelor. from 2021-08-29T01:07:12

Photo: The first public rally at the KGB building in Moscow in memory of the victims of Stalinism on Political Prisoner Day October 30, 1989.



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1634: 4/7: "Mother Treason," a story from the collection, "Gordon Liddy Is My Muse," by John Calvin Batchelor. Read by John Batchelor. from 2021-08-29T01:07:01

Photo:   "Academician Andrei Sakharov being interviewed at a conference of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences." This photo was taken very shortly before the magnificent Andrei Sakharov's death. ...

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1634: 3/7: "Mother Treason," a story from the collection, "Gordon Liddy Is My Muse," by John Calvin Batchelor. Read by John Batchelor. from 2021-08-29T00:56:40

Photo: Ukaz:  Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on the formation of the State Security Committee under the Council of Ministers of the USSR



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1634: 2/7: "Mother Treason," a story from the collection, "Gordon Liddy Is My Muse," by John Calvin Batchelor. Read by John Batchelor. from 2021-08-29T00:56:27

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1633: Jerry Hendrix #Unbound: Naval primacy. The complete, forty-minute interview, March 23, 2021 from 2021-08-29T00:44:03

Photo: P-3 Orion paradropping a sonobuoy.

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1632: James Tooley #Unbound: Really good schools. The complete, forty-minute interview. May 14, 2021. LXX. GLXXG from 2021-08-29T00:39:02

Photo: View of Timbuktu, Heinrich Barth (1858). 



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1632: Michael Auslin #Unbound. Asia-Pacific. The complete, twenty-minute interview. May 12, 2021. LXX GLXXGMichael Auslin #Unbound. Asia-Pacific. The complete, twenty-minute interview. May 12, 2021. LXX GLXXG from 2021-08-29T00:19:34

Photo:  Kerepunu women at the marketplace of Kalo, British New Guinea, 1885

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1632: Charlie Pellegrino #Unbound: Vesuvius; the complete, twenty-minute interview, June 18, 2021. LXX GLXXG from 2021-08-29T00:02:08

Photo:  Vesuvius, from Santa Lucia, Naples



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1631: The row between Washington and London, again. John Peet @TheEconomist from 2021-08-28T01:02:38

Photo: Afghan Border Police officers talk with local Afghans

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1631: Defunding Defense; & What is to be done? Dan Henninger @WSJOpinion from 2021-08-28T01:02:33

Photo:  "Overload Congress-- there's room for everything but that."

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1629: Afghanistan 2021 and South Vietnam 1975 were in the same 12th century. Matt Steinglass @TheEconomist from 2021-08-28T01:02:14

Photo:  Chindit Operations -  A Chindit column crossing a river in Burma, 1943..





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1629: Italy in Afghanistan and in memory of Dr. Gino Strada. Lorenzo Fiori, Anslado Foundation, Genoa Italy from 2021-08-28T01:02:12

Photo: Dr Gino Strada, 2010

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1629: Lake Mead empties in the Millennium Drought. Aryn Braun, @TheEconomist HFN from 2021-08-28T01:02:01

Photo: .Lake Mead from space in November 1985: North is facing downward to the right. The Colorado River can be seen leading southward away from the lake on the top left. The Listen
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1629: Three presidents vs Afghanistan. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst HFN from 2021-08-28T01:01:41

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1631: #NewWorldReport: Cyyptocurrency Bukele of El Salvador. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis from 2021-08-28T01:01:28

Photo:  The coolest president in the world’ is transforming El Salvador into a Bitcoin wonderland. What can possibly go wrong?

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1631: #NewWorldReport: The neo-tropical Amazon gets another neo-minister. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis from 2021-08-28T01:01:19

Photo: 1562 map of the Amazon River Region.

            Brazil’s new environment minister faces huge Amazon challenge.



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1630: Remembering Gemini 5, August 1965: Eight Days in a Garbage Can. Hotel Mars episode n. Rob Godwin @ApogeeBooks, ApogeeBooks.com ; David Livingston, Dr Space of The SpaceShow.com from 2021-08-28T00:44

Photo:  Gemini 5 fuel cell assembly



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1630: Tri-border area for money laundering and easy living. Emanuele Ottolenghi, FDD GLXXG from 2021-08-28T00:32:51

Photo: Iguazu Falls, near Ciudad del Este in Paraguay, a sensible state that nonetheless has weak border controls and is economically aligned with Hezbollah and Lebanese Shi'a.


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1630: Ingenuity leads the way. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-08-28T00:32:26

Photo:  An artist's concept of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flying through the Red Planet's skies.   Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech






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1630: Blue Origin struggles to build BE-4. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack. from 2021-08-28T00:31:59

Photo:   From a video, Blue Origin BE-4 Engine Compilation  (screen grab)






Blue Origin struggles to build BE-4.  Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.

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1629: #PacificWatch: Tahoe burning. Jeff Bliss #PacificWatch @JCBliss from 2021-08-28T00:30:47

Photo:  Scene in the forest near Lake Tahoe






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1629: Australia lockdown disorder. Scott Mayman @CBSNews Brisbane from 2021-08-28T00:30:13

Photo: Protests and heavy police response in Australia.  Screen grab.



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1629: Amazon goes bricks and mortar. Gene Marks @Guardian, @genemarks from 2021-08-28T00:29:39

Photo:  High Street, Acton — an  original bricks and mortar 



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1629: Supply chain slowdown for another two years. Gene Marks @Guardian, @genemarks from 2021-08-28T00:28:55

Photo:  A little perspective: human supply chain. Finschhafen, New Guinea, 1943-10-02. The rough terrain in the area necessitated these human supply chains to get ammunition and food to the fo...

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1628: The State of Pakistan asks to reengage. @JoshRogin @WashingtonPost GLXXG from 2021-08-27T01:23:56

Photo: U.S. and Pakistani officials stand in respect during the Pakistan national anthem. .





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1628: The Scale of Russian Information War & What is to be done? David Shedd, Heritage Foundation GLXXG from 2021-08-27T01:23:46

Photo: Disinformation / Valtman '92..





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1628: #TheScalaReport: The supply chain is also about missing truck drivers.. Chris Riegel, CEO @ScalaInc @STRATACACHE from 2021-08-27T01:23:38

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1628: The unexciting Erin O'Toole neck-and-neck with the likable Justin Trudeau. @ConradMBlack @NationalPost from 2021-08-27T01:23:29

Photo:  Canadian quadrilles

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1628: Waiting for the dovish Fed Chair at the virtual Jackson Hole, Wyoming. @VeroDeRugy @Mercatus from 2021-08-27T01:23:12

Photo: Snake River Valley near Jackson Hole, Wyoming






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1628: 2/2 Climate change living at the margins. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2021-08-27T01:23:06

Photo: Climate change:  Increased Fire in Mojave Desert

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1628: 1/2 Climate change living at the margins. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2021-08-27T01:23:02

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1628: Worker visas solve the border; & What is to be done? @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion from 2021-08-27T01:09:49

Photo: Surinam and Curacao transit visa

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1628: #GreatGame:Lessons learned? Anatol Lieven @QuincyInst from 2021-08-27T01:07:19

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1628: #GreatGame: Filling the vacuum. Anatol Lieven @QuincyInst HFN from 2021-08-27T01:07:13

Photo: Great Game: Siberian Cossack of the Russian army c1890s.





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1628: #GreatGame: 20 years of NATO on the sidelines. Anatol Lieven @QuincyInst from 2021-08-27T01:07:11

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1628: #GreatGame: Fog of War London. Anatol Lieven @QuincyInst from 2021-08-27T01:07:09

Photo:  Afghan tribesmen (in British service) in 1841





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1628: Sunnis and Israel in a responsible regional coalition. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-08-27T01:06:30

Photo:  Zaoud-el-Mara, Jewish Quarters, Alexandria, Egypt




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1628: Iran as a nuclear threshold country: two months? Yossi Kuperwasser @yossikup, and Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-08-27T01:05:40

Photo:  Nagasaki bomb






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1617: Taliban, Al Qaeda and ISIS again within reach of the Pakistani nukes. @AmbJohnBolton @WashingtonPost from 2021-08-26T01:32:44

Photo: Radical Islam, in Arabic.  The sword moves to claim the world.





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1617: Taliban launch phishing attacks to wreck rescue communications. Patrick Tucker @DefTechPat HFN from 2021-08-26T01:21:30

Photo:   An infographic cautioning against the threat of spear phishing.

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1617: Mission to Phobos & What is to be done? Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com HFN from 2021-08-26T01:17:39

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1617: Blue Origin Exodus. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-08-26T01:17:37

Photo:   The coat of arms of Blue Origin.





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1627: The New Great Game is Delhi, Moscow and Beijing for Central Asian supremacy. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-08-26T01:01:42

Photo: People of Central Asia.





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1627: Only Cairo and Addis Ababa can settle the Horn of Africa disorder. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-08-26T01:01:39

Photo: Ethiopian cross.





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1627: The Return of Montana Ryan Zenke; the Rise of Michigan James Craig. SalenaZito.com @DCExaminer. from 2021-08-26T00:52

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1627: The Delta surge has not yet peaked in France and Scotland. @TheRealConstable Simon Constable. from 2021-08-26T00:33:13

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1627: #KabulDiary: Threatened Islamabad and Tehran. Jeff McCausland @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2021-08-26T00:27:42

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1627: #KabulDiary: Can they go overland? Jeff McCausland @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2021-08-26T00:23:34

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1627: South Korea watches America watch Kabul fall into darkness. David Maxwell, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, @FDD @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill GLXXG from 2021-08-26T00:19:26

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1627: Why did Harris visit Singapore and Vietnam? Grant Newsham, president of KCPAC. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill GLXXG from 2021-08-26T00:15:44

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1625: #StateThinking:"Afghanistan isn't just about the region, nor the US," writes MP Tom Tugendhat. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc. from 2021-08-25T01:04:48

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1625: #StateThinking: What was OpMed and why is it not ready for the tragedy? @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc. from 2021-08-25T01:04:45

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1626: What is the tragedy for the "good times" PM Boris Johnson? @AdWooldridge @TheEconomist from 2021-08-25T01:04:34

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1626: Tony Blair on the offensive: Parliament at full volume. @AdWooldridge @TheEconomist HFN from 2021-08-25T01:04:29

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1626: Kathy Hochul takes the stage as Andrew Cuomo relents, retires, reloads. @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNews HFN from 2021-08-25T01:04:15

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1626: The shape of jabs to come. @HenryIMiller @PacificResearch HenryMillerMD.org from 2021-08-25T01:04:10

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1626: 2/2 Xi Jinping's Forced Labor Camps; & What is to be done? Christine McDaniel @christinemcdan; @mercatus : International trade economist. Sr research Fellow for American Economy & Globalization Program; and Weifeng Zhong, @Mercatus from 2021-08-25T00:37:05

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1626: 1/2 Xi Jinping's Forced Labor Camps; & What is to be done? Christine McDaniel @christinemcdan; @mercatus : International trade economist. Sr research Fellow for American Economy & Globalization Program; and Weifeng Zhong, @Mercatus from 2021-08-25T00:36:28

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1625: Watching the Kabul tragedy from rich, secure, shocked America. @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews from 2021-08-25T00:29:58

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1625: The Virtual Fed at Jackson Hole cannot decide. @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews GLXXG from 2021-08-25T00:29:56

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1625: 1/2 The Long, Long Game of Green Tech Investment for Family Offices. Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran, @VVVijayEconBiz, The Economist from 2021-08-25T00:27:09

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1625: 4/4. #LondonCalling: London theatres reopen with full houses, despite Delta. Joseph Sternberg, @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion from 2021-08-25T00:24:29

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1625: 3/4. #LondonCalling: EU fears the refugees and another 2015. Joseph Sternberg, @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion from 2021-08-25T00:23:35

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1625: 2/4. #LondonCalling: Extinction Rebellion in London. Joseph Sternberg, @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion from 2021-08-25T00:22:58

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1625: 1/4: #LondonCalling: Kabul on UK TV. Joseph Sternberg, @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion from 2021-08-25T00:21:34

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1622: #KabulDiary: Watching Taliban Special Forces Badri 313 @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal GLXXG from 2021-08-24T01:27:55

Photo: Taliban social media accounts say the Badri 313 outfit is stationed at Kabul’s airport.





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1622: #KabulDiary: Al Qaeda and ISIS with separate plans. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-08-24T01:27:50

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1622: #KabulDiary: Kandahar siege was the broken arrow. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal GLXXG from 2021-08-24T01:27:47

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1622: #KabulDiary: The Taliban momentum from the Haqqani preachment, June 25, 2021. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-08-24T01:27:46

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1624: Supply chain broken. Jonathan Bass, PTM Images. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-08-24T01:23:20

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1623: Lessons learned from Iraq not heeded in Afghanistan. Bradley Bowman @FDD from 2021-08-24T00:27:49

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1623: Pakistan weaponizes the Taliban. Sadanand Dhume @WSJOpinion @AEI from 2021-08-24T00:26:36

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1621: 2/2 Floods of t2/2 Floods of the Future. Beth Tellman, @Cloud2Street , @NatureMagazine @pazjusticiavida @NatureSciencehe Future. Beth Tellman, @Cloud2Street , @Nature Magazine @pazjusticiavida from 2021-08-24T00:24:01

Photo:  The photographs in the Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Photograph






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1621: 1/2 Floods of the Future. Beth Tellman, @Cloud2Street , @NatureMagazine @pazjusticiavida @NatureScience from 2021-08-24T00:22:57

Photo: NASA Earth Science Division Operating Missions as of 2 February 2015



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1622: #NewWorldReport: Kabul disheartens Latin America's democracy. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org HFN from 2021-08-24T00:19:40

Photo: U.S. and Latin America Marines conduct riverine operations along the Amazon River.






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1622: #NewWorldReport: Castillo Government vs the global miners. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org from 2021-08-24T00:19:29

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1622: #NewWorldReport: Colombia and Mexico offer to shelter Afghan refugees. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org from 2021-08-24T00:19:24

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1621: Afghan terrorists extort funds from Pakistani merchants. Nitin Gokhale @nitingokhale , @StratNewsGlobal.com ; @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-08-24T00:14:21

Photo:  Kissa Khawani bazaar in Peshawar. Screen grab.




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1621: The whole world is watching. Andrew Collier, managing director of Orient Capital Research @acollier from 2021-08-24T00:00:54

Photo:  Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. Source: Wikipedia Commons

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1620: Indiana Hoenlein and the Lost Shark Tooth of the City of David. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 ; @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-08-23T23:41:11

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1620: The tragedy in Kabul encourages Hamas and Hezbollah. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 ; @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-08-23T23:39:59

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1619: Merkel's farewell mission to Moscow & What is to be done? H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. from 2021-08-23T02:02:27

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1616: #PacificWatch: Delta descends on West Hollywood, Venice and Santa Monica. @JCBliss from 2021-08-23T00:35

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1617: 5/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Allegedly linked to the GRU and Vladimir Putin on the Guardian front gate, April 1, 2017. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. from 2021-08-23T00:30

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1617: 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. from 2021-08-23T00:30

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1617: 3/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: The first sign of the attack on Svetlana Lokhova and Michael Flynn, the Financial Times, December 16, 2016. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. from 2021-08-23T00:30

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1617: 2/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Remembering the Stefan Halper origins, August 10-16, 2016. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. from 2021-08-23T00:30

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1617: 1/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Remembering the Peter Strzok origins, July 31, 2016. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. from 2021-08-23T00:30

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1618: Jeff McCausland #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. May 21, 2021. from 2021-08-23T00:02

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1614: James Tooley #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview. May 14, 2021. LXX. GLXXG from 2021-08-23T00:02

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1614: Terry Anderson #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. April 6, 2021 from 2021-08-23T00:01

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1618: Jerry Hendrix #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, March 23, 2021 from 2021-08-22T22:38:35

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1618: David Grantham #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview, April 5, 2021. from 2021-08-22T22:37:49

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1615: #PacificWatch: The Caldor Fire begins; the drought forces rationing. @JCBliss from 2021-08-22T02:23:04

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1615: #Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus observe that the Roman Empire recovered from defeats like Boudica's Iceni, like the Taliban, and so will the American Empire. Michael Vlahos. from 2021-08-22T02:06:23

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1615: #Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus reflect upon the humiliation of the American Empire at Kabul. Michael Vlahos. from 2021-08-22T02:04:59

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1614: Holly Fretwell #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. April 12, 2021. from 2021-08-22T01:11:32

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1614: Seven weeks before the tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND The complete, nineteen-minute interview, June 28, 2021. @LongWarJournal from 2021-08-22T00:41:06

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1614: Five weeks before the tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND The complete, forty-minute interview, July 12, 2021. @LongWarJournal. from 2021-08-22T00:38:59

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1614: Four weeks before the tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete forty minute interview, July 19, 2021. @LongWarJournal. from 2021-08-22T00:38:41

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1614: Three weeks before the tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND The complete, forty-minute interview, July 26, 2021. @LongWarJourna from 2021-08-22T00:38:21

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1614: Two weeks before the tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete forty minute interview, August 2, 2021. @LongWarJournal. from 2021-08-22T00:37:12

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1614: One week before the tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, August 9, 2021. @LongWarJournal. from 2021-08-22T00:37:03

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1610: Protesting Australia Lockdown New South Wales: waiting for the vaccine. Jeremy Zakis, Sydney. from 2021-08-21T23:19:53

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1613: The pandemic alert at the Family Office. Denny Chared. CEO and Founder DC-Finance.com from 2021-08-21T02:31:57

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1612: Ten weeks before the tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete nineteen minute interview, June 7, 2021. @LongWarJournal. from 2021-08-21T01:28:13

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1612: Nine weeks before the tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete nineteen minute interview, June 14, 2021. @LongWarJournal. from 2021-08-21T01:26:01

Photo: Photograph title in Pashto: "How many planes and two Afghan forces flew to Tajikistan?"  --screen grab from video.



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1612: 2/2 Small Business Report, with Gene Marks, Washington Post Small Business columnist. @genemarks from 2021-08-21T01:24:49

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1612: Eight weeks before the tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND n The complete, nineteen minute-interview, June 21, 2021. @LongWarJournal. from 2021-08-21T01:24:24

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1612: 1/2 Small Business Report, with Gene Marks, Washington Post Small Business columnist. @genemarks from 2021-08-21T01:23:36

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1611: Evacuation crisis. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion from 2021-08-21T01:16:39

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1611: Italy rescues the trapped and plans for refugees. Lorenzo Fiori, Anslado Foundation HFN from 2021-08-21T01:16:37

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1610: 2/2: Abbott vs Garland at the Rio Grande. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2021-08-21T00:31:47

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1610: 1/2: Abbott vs Garland at the Rio Grande.@RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2021-08-21T00:31:45

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1610: 2/2: Cybersecurity may not exist. RADM (ret) Mark Montgomery CCTI Senior Director and Senior Fellow @FDD GLXXG from 2021-08-21T00:24:18

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1610: 1/2: Cybersecurity may not exist. RADM (ret) Mark Montgomery CCTI Senior Director and Senior Fellow @FDD GLXXG from 2021-08-21T00:24:16

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1610: Why Rob Malley doubts the Iran deal. @RichGoldberg Benham ben Taleblu @FDD from 2021-08-21T00:19:55

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1612: The Dixie Fire consumes PG&E. @JCBliss from 2021-08-20T23:51:31

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1612: China reverses agitprop on the Taliban. Weifeng Zhong @Mercatus from 2021-08-20T23:50:29

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1612: New Zealand lockdown. Scott Mayman @CBSNews Brisbane from 2021-08-20T23:45:40

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1611: Glaciers on Mars. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-08-20T23:41:45







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1610: Seven weeks before the tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND The complete, forty-minute interview, June 28, 2021. @LongWarJournal. from 2021-08-20T02:25:14

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1609: Canada lost 159 military personnel in Afghanistan; & What is to be done? @ConradMBlack @NationalPost. from 2021-08-20T01:58:21

Photo: Soldiers from the 293rd MP Company, 97th MP Bn., along with a Royal Canadian Mounted Police element, search a ridge of the Sur Ghar Mountain Range behind a police sub-station, May 7, fo...

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1609: August 31 is the deadline; & What is to be done? @JoshRogin @WashingtonPost GLXXG from 2021-08-20T01:56:08

Photo:  U.S. Air Force C-17s and other mobility aircraft around the U.S. Air Forces Central theater are assisting with the drawdown operations from Afghanistan. 



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1609: Parliament debates the tragedy: eloquent, passionate, shocked. Vicki Barker @CBSNews. from 2021-08-20T01:56:06

Photo: King Sher Ali Khan with CD Charles Chamberlain and Sir Richard F. Pollock in 1869. [Note: "sher" means lion.]

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1609: #TheScalaReport: Delta and Ningbo and recovery hesitation. Chris Riegel, CEO @ScalaInc @STRATACACHE from 2021-08-20T01:55:54

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1609: #HotelMars: The day it was Nauka vs ISS. Anatoly Zak @RussianSpaceWeb; David Livingston, Dr. Space, SpaceShow.com HFN from 2021-08-20T01:37:33

Photo: Artist's Conception of the Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM) along with the European Robotic Arm (ERA). a gif made from two earlier wikipedia images. Nauka module - Port SideNa...

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1609: Smart Drones Are the New New. Dana Wheeler CEO, Plymouth Rock Technologies. from 2021-08-20T01:28:09

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1609: Azerbaijani and Turkish troops help guard the Kabul airport . Elin Sulimanov, @ElinSuleymanov is the Appointed Ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan to the United Kingdom. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 GLXXG from 2021-08-20T01:10:57

Photo: Map of the Baku-Supsa and Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipelines (through the nation of Georgia).





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1609: Afghanistan destabilizes the neighborhood. Michael Rubin @AEI @mrubin1971 ; Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-08-20T01:07:26

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1608: Back to school, & What is to be done? Veronique de Rugy, Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University & NRO Online. @veroderugy from 2021-08-20T01:05:50

Photo:  Back to school.



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1608: Fintech for Cuba. Mary Anastasia O’Grady, Wall Street Journal editorial board and “The Americas” columnist. @MaryAnastasiaOG from 2021-08-20T01:04:57

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1608: 4/4 The long, long Anglo-Afghan war. Anatol Lieven @QuincyInst, Georgetown University @LievenAnatol from 2021-08-20T01:03:28

Photo:  In 1893, Mortimer Durand was despatched to Kabul by British India to sign an agreement with Rahman for fixing the limits of ...

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1608: 2/4 The long, long Anglo-Afghan war. Anatol Lieven @QuincyInst, Georgetown University @LievenAnatol from 2021-08-20T01:00:46

Photo:  Interior of the palace of Shauh Shujah Ool Moolk, Late King of Cabul This lithograph is taken from plate 3 of 'Afghaunistan' by Lieutenant James Rattray. This scene sh...

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1608: 1/4 The long, long Anglo-Afghan war. Anatol Lieven @QuincyInst, Georgetown University @LievenAnatol from 2021-08-20T00:59:55

Photo: Afghan forces attacking retreating British-Indian troops



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1604: Four weeks before the tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete forty minute interview, July 19, 2021. @LongWarJournal. from 2021-08-19T01:27:04

Photo: Gustave Doré: Dante Alighieri, Inferno - Plate 65 (Canto XXXI - The Titans)




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1604: Three weeks before the tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND The complete, forty-minute interview, July 26, 2021. @LongWarJournal. from 2021-08-19T01:26:58

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1604: #KeystoneReport: The amazing tale of Wall Drug in Wall South Dakota .Salena Zito, Middle of Somehwre, @DCExaminer SalenaZito.com HFN from 2021-08-19T01:13:51

Photo: Wall Drug dinosaur, Wall, South Dakota

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1604: #KeystoneReport: Kabul and the Open Toomey Seat. Salena Zito, Middle of Somewhere, @DCExaminer SalenaZito.com from 2021-08-19T01:13:49

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1607: After Kabul, Europe alone. Russell Berman, @HooverInst from 2021-08-19T01:13:27

Photo:  Mahmoud Fazli, head of the Afghan Presidential Affairs Department, wanted to escape to Istanbul with a crate of US dollars.  He was arrested, but apparently Ashraf Ghani ordered his re...

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1607: Kabul fail threatens Taiwan. Stephen Yates @DCIAdvisory from 2021-08-19T01:12:37

Photo: Taiwanese aboriginals on a deer hunt. 



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1607: China outnukes the US. Peter Huessy and @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-08-19T01:11:32

Photo: Zhou Enlai announces the success of China's atomic bomb test in 1964.





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1604: #BehindtheBlack: The slushy soup of Saturn. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com HFN from 2021-08-19T00:54:53

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1604: #BehindtheBlack: "Maybe he [Bezos] can get this company fixed . . ." Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-08-19T00:54:39

Photo: (The other Amazon)  Amazon fighting wild beast on horseback.





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1606: After Kabul, Europe alone. Russell A Berman, @HooverInst from 2021-08-19T00:38:42

Photo:  January 1916 bombardment of Paris by Zeppelin.



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1606: Kabul fail threatens Taiwan. Stephen Yates, D.C., International Advisory @YatesDCIA from 2021-08-19T00:37:32

Photo: Preface by Arthur W. Hummel reads: "An album on the aborigines in Taiwan (Formosa).  With interest in the island of Formosa growing, the arrival of a water-color album on the aboriginal...

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1605: Biden and Carter. Bill McGurn, @wjmcgurn @WSJOpinion from 2021-08-19T00:34:34

Photo:  Operation Eagle Claw, known as Operation Tabas in Iran, was a United States Armed Forces operation ordered by U.S. President Jimmy Carter to attempt to rescue 52 embassy staff held cap...

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1605: Moscow remembers the KGB coup, August 18, 1991. Felix Light, Moscow Times, @felix_light, @CBS News, @Moscow Times from 2021-08-19T00:33:40

Photo:  Tanks at Red Square



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1605: 2/2 Occitanie, France, both paradise and the epicenter of Delta. Simon Constable, @RealConstable from 2021-08-19T00:30:23

Photo:  Pont du Gard. Roman acqueduct supplying Nîmes



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1604: #NewWorldReport: Brazil's weak harvest in La Niña; Haiti's earthquake and hurricane; & What is to be done? Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis GLXXG from 2021-08-19T00:30:19

Photo: Western Haiti, where the recent earthquake struck.





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1605: 1/2 Occitanie, France, both paradise and the epicenter of Delta. Simon Constable, @RealConstable from 2021-08-19T00:29:33

Photo: In Le Languedoc: Magalas (Hérault) - rue de la Pousterle.

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1604: #KabulDiary: Pakistan in harm's way. Jeff McCausland @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol from 2021-08-19T00:23:37

Photo:  "Even in a remote city like Quetta there was a cinema in the 1930's, this one was called the 'Opera Talkies'."This image illustrates the destroyed cinema building following the 1935 Ba...

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1604: #KabulDiary: Bagram Airbase can be defended Jeff McCausland @mccauslj @CBSNews GLXXG @DickinsonCol from 2021-08-19T00:23:33

Photo: An A-10 Thunderbolt II sits on a ramp at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, waiting for its next mission. A-10s provide  close-air support for coalition troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. (U.S....

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1603: Two weeks before the tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete forty minute interview, August 2, 2021. @LongWarJournal. from 2021-08-18T01:27:46

Photo: Defense Secretary Dr. Mark T. Esper and President of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani speak at the U.S.-Afghanistan Joint Declaration Announcement at the Dilkusha Mansion Garden, Kabul, Afghani...

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1603: #StateThinking: The Taliban never kept their word. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc. GLXXG from 2021-08-18T01:18:53

Photo: Taliban militants rest at a village.





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1603: Uncertainty of Kabul, the virus, back to school, back to the office. @LizPeek @FoxNews HFN from 2021-08-18T01:18:45

Photo: A sign is displayed on the first day of school for Kindergartners at Aviano Air Base, Italy, Aug. 31, 2020.





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1603: Consumer and Small Business confidence drops: is it Delta? @LizPeek @FoxNews from 2021-08-18T01:18:38

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1605: Joseph Sternberg @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion Life in London in Delta from 2021-08-18T01:16:52

Photo:  THE LONDON HOSPITAL - Croft Home - No. 1 Annexe South Park 1937 Postcard 



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1605: All Europe is shocked. Vice Admiral Benjamin Key CBE, United Kingdom's Permanent Joint Headquarters commander; Joseph Sternberg @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion from 2021-08-18T01:16:12

Photo:  That was then: Rocket, cannon, and machine gun fire from a variety of US Marine Corps (USMC) attack helicopters and aircraft pound a mountain in South-Central Afghanistan (AFG) from wh...

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1605: Britain rushes to rescue. Joseph Sternberg @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion from 2021-08-18T01:14:08

:Photo:  British  evacuation of Dunkirk



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1605: Inflation stalks the planet & what is to be done? Joseph Sternberg @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion from 2021-08-18T01:13:22

Photo: Oeconomia



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1605: #GreatGame : Russia gains. Gregory R Copley, editor and publisher of Defense & Foreign Affairs. @Gregory_Copley from 2021-08-18T01:12:16

Photo:  Khan's Palace, Kokand.




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1605: #GreatGame : Pakistan is at major risk. Gregory R Copley, editor and publisher of Defense & Foreign Affairs. @Gregory_Copley from 2021-08-18T01:11:33

Photo:  Pakistani Passport 1947






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1605: A long history of abusing migrants as diseased. Harry Siegel, Daily News and The Daily Beast. @harrysiegel from 2021-08-18T01:10:55

Photo:  Migrants



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1604: The first business is to get the Americans out. Josh Rogin, Washington Post. @joshrogin from 2021-08-18T01:09:12

Photo:  A "Yankees Go Home" protest sign at a scheduled anti-war protest at Aviano Air Base (AB), Italy






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1603: Boris Johnson Calls Parliament Back from August for MP Questions on Kabul. Adrian Wooldridge @TheEconomist GLXXG from 2021-08-18T00:31:52

Photo: Afghan men dressed women to escape: Generals Dostom and Noor, extremely rich from massive corruption, chose to flee to their estates scattered over Turkey, UAE, Cyprus.



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1603: Britain shocked at Kabul. Adrian Wooldridge (Bagehot) @TheEconomist from 2021-08-18T00:31:49

Photo: The British Indian Army Before the First World War

Artillery and cavalry awaiting the arrival of Yackoob Khan. Afghanistan.





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1603: Germany shocked at Kabul. Vendeline von Bredow @TheEconomist from 2021-08-18T00:25:55

Photo: Kabul in the 1950s.





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1603: The Traffic Light Coalition rising, led by the Center-Left Finance Minister Olaf Scholz. Vendeline von Bredow @TheEconomist HFN from 2021-08-18T00:25:53

Photo: Reichstag (building) .





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1602: Bill Roggio and Tom Joscelyn #UNBOUND: the complete, forty-minute interview, Monday, August 16, 2021. from 2021-08-17T01:26:50

Photo: Zalmay Khalilzad, long Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation at the State Department and beloved of US politicians. An Afghan national consensus has formed that he needs...

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1602: #KabulDiary: Telling the politicians and generals what they wanted to hear. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-08-17T01:16:49

Photo: President George W Bush with Hamid Karzai, now held by Afghans to have been the locus of massive corruption.





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1602: #KabulDiary: Al Qaeda never left Afghanistan. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-08-17T01:16:46

Photo:  Sayyid Qutb, the Egyptian Islamist who inspired al-Qaeda.





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1602: #KabulDiary: The long fall of Kabul. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-08-17T01:15:55

Photo: .Flag of theAfghan Taliban; widely thought to have been essentially founded and since then supported financial, in materiel and in management by the Pakistani ISI.




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1602: #KabulDiary: The map that spelled the Taliban offensive. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-08-17T01:15:52

Photo: Map of the 2021 Taliban-led offensive in Afghanistan after the announcement of the United States's withdrawal.



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1602: "Not only is the policy wrong, but the execution is potentially catastrophic." @AmbJohnBolton Former National Security Adviser. London Telegraph from 2021-08-17T00:57:28

Photo:  Kabul City several days before the Taliban onslaught.  



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1602: What does Russia gain or lose from the Taliban victory over the US? Katrina vanden Heuvel @TheNation from 2021-08-17T00:54:06

Photo: Taliban enforcers patrolling the streets of Herat.



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1602: The Taliban of Afghanistan and the Taliban of Pakistan are two sides of a coin that threatens to radicalize and beggar the region. @KamranBokhari Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy from 2021-08-17T00:51:22

Photo: An aerial view of an Afghan Border Police facility taken from a Blackhawk helicopter, April 4, 2011, near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Strongholds like this are located up and down ...

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1602: The MMA superstar Wolf of Chechnya battles back from Covid-19 to please Kadyrov. Joshua Spencer @TheEconomist HFN from 2021-08-17T00:43:59

Photo: Shamil, Imam of Chechnya and Dagestan.





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1602: #NewWorldReport: Cuban regime whitewashes brutality by claiming to perfect socialism. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org from 2021-08-17T00:30:09

Photo: Cuba. Matanzas. A starving Cuban.





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1602: Russia and PRC deploy warcraft and troops into Central Asia. Rick Fisher, International Assessment and Strategy Center. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill GLXXG from 2021-08-17T00:18:57

Photo: Uzbek collective farmers watching the first waters of Syr-Darya river enter the sluices of the great Fergana canal which they helped to build. This canal irrigates the huge new cotton g...

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1602: "Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Stele of the 26th Dynasty in a farm field. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-08-17T00:13:59

Photo: For perspective:  Egypt, Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12 - Stele of Hetpet - 1932.190 - Cleveland Museum of Art

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1602: Land of the Terror Tunnels: Lebanon. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1@ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-08-17T00:10:21

Photo:   IDF Soldiers Uncover Comparable Tunnels in Gaza

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1601: #ClassicLongWarJournal: April 19 and May 3, 2021: Biden Administration announces Afghanistan withdrawal by September 11. #KabulDiary: @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-08-16T02:10:27

Photo: Afghan father carries his wounded young son. Kabul, 14 August 2021.





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1600: Jerry Hendrix #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, March 23, 2021 from 2021-08-16T00:01

Photo: Seal of the U.S. Department of the Navy from 1879 to 1957.




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1600: David Grantham #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview, April 5, 2021. HFN from 2021-08-16T00:01

Photo:   Military intelligence diagram of defense positions during the Battle of Okinawa, 1945






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1600: James Tooley #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview. May 14, 2021. LXX. GLXXG from 2021-08-16T00:01

Photo:  Group of Girls of a Music School - Mysore, India  c1890








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1600: William Damon #UNBOUND: The complete, forty-minute interview. July 3, 2021. from 2021-08-16T00:01

Photo:  Poster for 'Harlequin King Ugly Mug and my Lady Lee of Old London Bridge', at Marylebone Theatre; dancers and acrobats on stage, and scenes from the pantomime involving actors in elabo...

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1600: Charlie Pellegrino #Unbound: the complete, twenty-minute interview, June 18, 2021. LXX GLXXG from 2021-08-16T00:01

Photo:  Vesuvius



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1600: Michael Auslin #Unbound. The complete, twenty-minute interview. May 12, 2021. from 2021-08-15T23:09:14

Photo: New Guinea

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1600: Jeff McCausland #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. May 21, 2021. from 2021-08-15T23:08:22

Photo: Cavalry battle, Gettysburg, Pa., July 3,  3:30 P.M.:  in detail the cavalry battle east of the town of Gettysburg, with the action depicted as happening at 3:30 P.M..  Also includes pai...

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1600: Terry Anderson #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. April 6, 2021 HFN from 2021-08-15T23:07:26

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1600: Russell Shorto #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, April 22, 2021. from 2021-08-15T23:06:42

Photo:  The folly of crime






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1600: Roya Hakakian #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. May 29, 2021 from 2021-08-15T23:06:07

Photo:  Immigrant men on crowded upper deck of  SS Amerika.





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1600: C. J. Carey #UNBOUND: The complete, 20-minute interview, June 26, 2021 from 2021-08-15T23:05:09

Photo: King Edward VIII (1894-1972) reigned from 20 January to 11 December 1936. Just a few months into his sovereignty he caused controversy by proposing to the American socialite Wallis Simp...

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1600: J. H. Gelernter #Unbound. The complete, twenty-minute interview. May 3, 2021. LXX GLXXG from 2021-08-15T23:04:07

Photo: Napoleon Bonaparte in Russia; Russian engraving.



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1599: Holly Fretwell #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. April 12, 2021 from 2021-08-15T22:47:29

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1597: #PacificWatch: Putting Dixie Fire and Recall aside in the moment, Tout Bliss heads to Del Mar Race Track. @JCBliss from 2021-08-15T02:28:37

Photo: Horse framed by a horseshoe with fair buildings and a racetrack in the background.





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1596: Vilnius closes the border to weaponized migrants from Belarus; Latvia follows the same. Locals.com/MichaelYon from 2021-08-15T01:29:31

Photo:   Baltic letters,  THE CASTLE FALL (Keila-Joa)  RIGBY (1842)





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1596: #GreatMigration: Friends in the US if they can survive the Darien Gap and all of Central America. Locals.com/MichaelYon Michael Yon. from 2021-08-15T01:29:29

Photo: Rwandan refugees enter a camp after a civil war erupted in their country

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1595: 1/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Remembering the Peter Strzok origins, July 31, 2016. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. from 2021-08-15T00:30

Photo:  Calumny of Apelles, by Botticelli



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1595: 3/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: The first sign of the attack on Svetlana Lokhova and Michael Flynn, the Financial Times, December 16, 2016. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. from 2021-08-15T00:30

Photo: Front page of Financial Times, 22 February 2021.



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1595: 2/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Remembering the Stefan Halper origins, August 10-16, 2016. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. from 2021-08-15T00:30

Photo: Fat man with umbrella and bulldog.



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1596: #Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus weigh how the Roman empire deals with rebel armies like Boudica's in 60 A.D; how the American empire deals with rebellions like the Taliban's, 2021 A.D. Michael Vlahos. from 2021-08-15T00:15

Photo:  he letter and initial I with a British queen in the background, probably Boudica, who commits suicide in defiance of the Romans. At the bottom an explanatory text line in French.
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1595: "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. from 2021-08-15T00:00

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1595: Josh Rogin #Unbound: the complete, eighty-minute interview, March 21, 2021 from 2021-08-15T00:00

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1595: Patrick O'Donnell. #Unbound. The complete, eighty-minute interview, June 6, 2021. from 2021-08-15T00:00

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1595: Nick Lloyd #Unbound. The complete, eighty-minute interview. June 5, 2021. from 2021-08-15T00:00

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1595: Adrian Wooldridge #UNBOUND. The complete, eighty-minute interview. July 10, 2016 from 2021-08-15T00:00

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1594: Twenty thousand a month through the savage Darien Gap to reach Panama and then America. Michael Yon, Locals.com/MichaelYon from 2021-08-14T01:40:31

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1594: The European record of 49 degrees Centigrade in Syracuse, Sicily. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation. from 2021-08-14T01:36:53

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1594: #Londinium90AD: Debating withdrawing from the frontiers of the Empire, 1st Century A.D., 21st Century A.D. Michael Vlahos. from 2021-08-14T01:33:38

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1593: "California is really losing a grip." Lee Ohanian @HooverInst HFN from 2021-08-14T00:55:35

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1593: California used to be like Texas. Lee Ohanian @HooverInst HFN from 2021-08-14T00:55:30

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1593: Canberra lockdown. Scott Mayman, @CBSNews Brisbane. from 2021-08-14T00:49:22

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1593: #KabulDiary: Saigon 2021. Jeff McCausland @mccauslj @CBSNews from 2021-08-14T00:41:06

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1593: The return of Lula da Silva. Evan Ellis, @REvanEllis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. from 2021-08-14T00:37:52

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1593: Peru and the Shining Path. Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. from 2021-08-14T00:37:51

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1593: #SmallBusinessAmerica: Are you prepped for the selling Metaverse? @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer HFN from 2021-08-14T00:32:33

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1593: #SmallBusinessAmerica: Confidence dips. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer GLXXG from 2021-08-14T00:28:46

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1592: 4/4 Nicholas Thomas, author, Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific; @MAACambridge. from 2021-08-13T23:52:38

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1592: 3/4 Nicholas Thomas, author, Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific; @MAACambridge. from 2021-08-13T23:52:14

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1592: 2/4 Nicholas Thomas, author, Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific; @MAACambridge. from 2021-08-13T23:51:47

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1592: 1/4 Nicholas Thomas, author, Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific; @MAACambridge. from 2021-08-13T23:50:55

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1591: Bennu, the Near-Earth Asteroid. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-08-13T23:23:21

Photo:  Bennu's regolith-covered surface as imaged by OSIRIS-REx



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1591: Small Sat Rising. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-08-13T23:22:21

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1591: Biden Administration majority failure to lead pandemic, Afghanistan, climate, border. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion from 2021-08-13T23:21:34

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1591: Monster. Jeff Bliss #PacificWatch @JCBliss GLXXG from 2021-08-13T23:20:31

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1590: The Biden Administration and the Palestinians. Dore Gold, @DrDoreGold1; Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres, @mhoenlein1 from 2021-08-13T02:12:51

Photo:  The Temple Mount, Jerusalem






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1590: Lebanon falls down. Yossi Kuperwasser, @yossikup; Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-08-13T02:11:05

Photo:   Cedars of Lebanon. Open mountain sweep below the Cedars.



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1590: Iran is a terror government. Mohsen Sazegara, @sazegara ; Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-08-13T02:10:16

Photo: Teheran: Gate of Government.



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1590: Reawakening the Abraham Accords in Morocco. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-08-13T02:09:02

Photo:  Jewish Musician in Mogador Costume, Morocco






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1589: Advantage the Heartland, Russia. Gregory R Copley, editor and publisher of Defense & Foreign Affairs. @Gregory_Copley from 2021-08-13T01:32:12

Photo:  Russia in the past:  Hydroelectric power plants



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1589: The Great Game Returns to the World Island. Gregory R Copley, editor and publisher of Defense & Foreign Affairs. @Gregory_Copley from 2021-08-13T01:31:05

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1588: The Powers; & What is to be done? Anatol Lieven, Georgetown University @LievenAnatol from 2021-08-13T01:17:28

Photo: Correspondence between temperature and atmospheric CO2 during the last 800,000 years



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1588: IPCC dominates the news. Anatol Lieven, Georgetown University @LievenAnatol from 2021-08-13T01:16:20

Photo: New Look at Gravity Data Sheds Light on Ocean and Climate,  NOAA






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1587: #HotelMars: Happy Ninth Birthday, Curiosity! Bill Harwood @CBSNews David Livingston SpaceShow.com from 2021-08-13T01:08:15

Photo:  Snake River Rock Feature Viewed by Curiosity Mars Rover






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1587: Erdogan entertains the Taliban, Hamas, Moslem Brothers. @AykanErdemir @FDD HFN from 2021-08-13T00:54:19

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1587: New Delhi watches Kabul closely. Sadanand @Dhume @AEI @WSJOpinion GLXXG from 2021-08-13T00:49:28

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1587: Paris welcomes vaccinated Americans; America does not welcome the French. @VerodeRugy @Mercatus from 2021-08-13T00:47:34

Photo:  Construction of the Statue of Liberty in Paris.





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1587: Not yet for Plan B geoengineering. Vijay Vaitheeswaran @TheEconomist HFN from 2021-08-13T00:40:04

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1587: #TheScalaReport: Suburbia reconquista. Chris Riegel, CEO @ScalaInc @STRATACACHE from 2021-08-13T00:37:43

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1587: Trudeau rolls the dice; and did de Gaulle smile? @ConradMBlack @NationalPost from 2021-08-13T00:31

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1587: Lima slipping to Caracas. @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion GLXXG from 2021-08-13T00:28:29

Photo: Palacio de Gobierno, Lima, Peru (Government Palace, Lima, Peru)

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1585: Putin dispatches firefighters to burning Siberia. @Felix_Light @MoscowTimes @CBSNEWS HFN from 2021-08-12T01:06:03

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1585: Delta overtakes Indonesia's 270 millions. Dr. Sana Jaffrey, Jakarta, Indonesia. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from 2021-08-12T01:04:52

Photo: .Stamp of Indonesia (Republic); 1949; regional stamp of the so-called "Vienna issue";stamp drawing with a nurse at work;





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1585: "Gamification" trading is here to stay. @RealConstable from 2021-08-12T01:01:03

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1585: The silver trade in the pandemic. Simon Constable @RealConstable @Barrons from 2021-08-12T01:00:52

Photo: silver —1 guilder, Province of Holland; first common guilder of the Dutch Republic.





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1586: Ransom diplomacy. Charles Burton, @cburton001; Charles Burton, senior Fellow at the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-08-12T00:58:10

Photo:  Ransom note leading to the conviction and sentencing of Joseph Corbett, Jr. for the murder of Adolph Coors, III, heir to the Coors Brewing Company fortune.* 

             
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1586: China breaks its trade deals. Phase 1: with the US. Alan Tonelson, independent economic policy analyst; blogs at RealityChek. @AlanTonelson. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-08-12T00:57:09

Photo: Breach of contact.



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1586: India earns a permanent seat on the Security Council. Cleo Paskal, @CleoPaskal Foundation for Defense of Democracies. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. from 2021-08-12T00:56:03

Photo: United Nations Security Council meeting.



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1586: China threatens tiny NATO nation. from 2021-08-12T00:55:05

Photo:  Usias?a? ?aradziej, Kyiv. Vseslav Sorcerer.



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1585: Perseverance digs. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-08-12T00:50:29

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1585: Is the third shot coming? @HenryIMiller @PacificResearch www.henrymillermd.org GLXXG from 2021-08-12T00:46:02

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1585: Why the FDA moves cautiously to approve vaccines. @HenryIMiller @PacificResearch www.henrymilleerMD.org GLXXG from 2021-08-12T00:46

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1585: 2/2: The unknowns of Long Covid and children: Sierra, 12 and Messiah, 17. @PamBelluck @NYTimes from 2021-08-12T00:35:12

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1585: 1/2: The unknowns of Long Covid and children: Will, 16 and Maya, 16. @PamBelluck @NYTimes from 2021-08-12T00:35:09

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1585: #KabulDiary: Internally Displaced Persons Jeff McCausland @mccauslj @CBSNews from 2021-08-12T00:29:23

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1585: #KabulDiary: Collapse of the North. Jeff McCausland @mccauslj @CBSNews GLXXG from 2021-08-12T00:29:20

Photo:  Back then —U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers with Northern Alliance fighters at Mazar-i-Sharif on 10 November 2001.





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1582: #StateThinking: Democracy retreating & What is to be done? @MaryKissel Former Senior Advisor to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc. from 2021-08-11T01:08:31

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1584: Rabelais vs Scrooge. Adrian Wooldridge from 2021-08-11T00:53

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1584: American meritocracy in decline. Adrian Wooldridge from 2021-08-11T00:52:11

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1582: #LondonCalling. Everybody wins A Levels. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-08-11T00:38:46

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1582: #LondonCalling. August vacation vs Delta. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion HFN from 2021-08-11T00:37:36

Photo: The symptoms of the Delta variant appear to differ from traditional COVID symptoms.  Here: rhinovirus.





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1583: Xi weaponizes space. Weifeng Zhong @Mercatus from 2021-08-11T00:36:43

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1582: #LondonCalling. Boris Johnson and Climate Change. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-08-11T00:36:16

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1583: Boris Johnson vs the Ayatollahs. John Bolton @AmbJohnBolton from 2021-08-11T00:35:42

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1582: #LondonCalling. The closing of the Xi economy. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion GLXXG from 2021-08-11T00:35:12

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1583: 2/2 The Greens on the Campaign Trail. Anna Noryskawiecz, @CBSNews Berlin. from 2021-08-11T00:34:56

Photo:  The German Green Party — Bündnis 90/Die Grünen — had as its motto, "Swords into Ploughshares"



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1583: 1/2 The Greens on the Campaign Trail from 2021-08-11T00:34:24

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1582: Consider that Congress wants its War Powers back. Sara Burns, Rochester Institute of Technology from 2021-08-11T00:29:55

Photo:  Herblock 1963.





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1582: The first New York governor above Westcester County in 100 years. @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNew @DailyBeast HFN from 2021-08-11T00:24:27

Photo: Kathy Hochul soon to be New York State governor, spent over a decade on the Hamburg Town Board, near Buffalo.



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1582: The man from South Carolina and the ghost of Ulysses Grant. @LizPeek @TheHill from 2021-08-11T00:22:28

Photo: Official portrait of U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC)..





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1582: The Delta Recovery puzzle. @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews GLXXG from 2021-08-11T00:19:58

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1579: #NewWorldReport: Tales of the Mexican-US Border. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org Sergio de la Pena, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Wstern Hem from 2021-08-10T01:29:39

Photo: Mexican-US border.   Here: United States Border Patrol at Algodones Sand Dunes, California, USA. The fence on the US-Mexican border is a special construction of narrow, 15 feet (4.6 m) ...

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1581: 2/2 Spending the denarius. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2021-08-10T01:17:51

Photo:  Roman aqueduct.



 

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1581: 1/2 Spending the denarius. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2021-08-10T01:17:03

Photo:  Denarius featuring the emperor Marcus Aurelius



1/2  @RichardAEpstein  @HooverInst   Redistributing tax dollars: State funding for the public good?

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1581: Warming globe, melting ice caps, rising sea temperatures. What is to be done? Terry Anderson @HooverInst from 2021-08-10T01:16:09

Photo:  Iceberg from Northward over the “Great Ice”: a narrative of life and work along the shores and upon the interior ice-cap of Northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891-1897 ...

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1580: Climate deeds, climate justice. Katrina vanden Heuvel @TheNation from 2021-08-10T01:14:08

Photo:  Average Temperature Increase in Indonesia 1981-2018






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1579: Xi chooses control over capitalism, chooses obedience over markets. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. Fraser Howie, co-author Red Capitalism: The Fragile Financial Foundation of China's Extraordinary Rise. from 2021-08-10T00:58:18

Photo:  Chairman Mao Is the Red Sun in Our Hearts, People's Republic of China, 1968, lithograph








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1579: Xi rejects private tutoring & What is to be done? Andrew Collier @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-08-10T00:56:15

Photo:  In China, historically:  teacher, professor..





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1579: "Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost pottery Inscription "Jerubbaal" from 1100 BCS. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-08-10T00:49:35

Photo: Jerubbaal becoming king from BL Royal 2 B VII, f. 37



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1579: Raisi and the unknowns of the Iran Deal. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-08-10T00:46:58

Photo: Fifth-centiury plate with a hunting scene from the tale of the Sassanian Bahram V and Azadeh.  His generally peaceful reig...

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1579: #KabulDiary: What scale evacuation? @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-08-10T00:22:24

Photo:    Al Qaeda captain killed last week by Afghan forces.





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1579: #KabulDiary: Al Qaeda in action. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-08-10T00:17:17

Photo: Al Qaeda officer who was killed in the last week.





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1579: #KabulDiary: The Stans prepare for Taliban rage. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal HFN from 2021-08-10T00:16:04

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1579: #KabulDiary:The Taliban map surrounds Kabul @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal GLXXG from 2021-08-10T00:11:46

Photo: The noose tightens around Kabul as the US leaves on an announced schedule.





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1577: Why doesn't the California GOP endorse a candidate in the recall vote, September 14? @DevinNunes CA-22 from 2021-08-09T00:30

Photo: A cynical view of party competition for the working man's vote in the presidential campaign of 1852. In a polling place, four candidates struggle to force their own election ticket on a...

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1577: Wildfire bad air reaches the San Joaquin Valley; the Oroville hydroelectric power online & What is to be done? @DevinNunes CA-22. from 2021-08-09T00:30

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1578: Jerry Hendrix #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, March 23, 2021 from 2021-08-08T22:37:44

Photo:  Columbia, personification of the United States, wearing a warship bearing the words "World Power" as her "Easter bonnet" on ...

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1578: James Tooley #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview. May 14, 2021. LXX. GLXXG from 2021-08-08T22:36:25

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1578: Charlie Pellegrino #Unbound: the complete, twenty-minute interview, June 18, 2021. LXX GLXXG from 2021-08-08T22:35:22

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1578: Jeff McCausland #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. May 21, 2021.GLXXG from 2021-08-08T22:33:59

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1578: Terry Anderson #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. April 6, 2021 GLXXG from 2021-08-08T22:33:10

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1578: Russell Shorto #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, April 22, 2021. from 2021-08-08T22:32:26

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1578: Roya Hakakian #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. May 29, 2021 from 2021-08-08T22:31:17

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1578: C. J. Carey #UNBOUND: The complete, 20-minute interview, June 26, 2021 from 2021-08-08T22:30:30

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1576: Holly Fretwell #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. April 12, 2021. from 2021-08-08T22:18:07

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1575: #PacificWatch: Special Edition: Dixie Fire monster; Pot Farm Water Rustlers. @JCBliss #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-08-08T03:02:22

Photo: Water theft of oceanic proportions in the California desert—by illegal marijuana growers.





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1575: #GreatMigration: Vilnius expects ten thousand "irregular" migrants by year's end. Belarus closes its border with Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine. Locals.com/MichaelYon #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-08-08T02:49:46

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1575: #GreatMigration: Panama sees children, infants, orphans risk the perilous Darien Gap & What is to be done? @Locals.com/MichaelYon. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-08-08T02:49:43

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1574: Nicholas Wapshott #UNBOUND. The complete forty-minute interview, July 24, 2016. from 2021-08-08T00:03

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1574: Sophie Pedder #UNBOUND. The complete, forty-minute interview, July 17, 2021. from 2021-08-08T00:03

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1574: Adrian Wooldridge #UNBOUND. The complete eighty-minute interview. July 10, 2016 from 2021-08-08T00:02

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1574: Devin Nunes #UNBOUND. Complete, 25-minute interview. August 1, 2021. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-08-08T00:00

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1574: Josh Rogin #Unbound: the complete, eighty-minute interview, March 21, 2021 from 2021-08-08T00:00

Photo:   1968 Hong Xiaobing participated in a lecture on learning Mao Zedong Thought. The classic classroom slogan "study hard, make progress every day" is posted on the wall.



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1574: Patrick O'Donnell. #Unbound. The complete, eighty-minute interview, June 6, 2021. LXX. GLXXG from 2021-08-08T00:00

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1574: Nick Lloyd #Unbound. The complete, eighty-minute interview. June 5, 2021. from 2021-08-08T00:00

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1573: #Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus observe that the army becomes a tool to validate, or not, the emperor, 2000 years later. Michael Vlahos. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-08-08T00:00

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1572: The non-transparent PLA biolabs & What is to be done? @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-08-07T02:04:57

Photo: In 2017 — Hazard suits hang at the National Bio-safety Laboratory, Wuhan, the first lab on the Chinese mainland equipped for the highest level of biocontainment. Credit: Wuhan Virology ...

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1571: 2/2: Second World Wars and the East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: Japan 1939 and PRC 2021. Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson @HooverInst from 2021-08-07T01:49:23

Photo: "Dresden, partial view of the destroyed city center on the Elbe to the new town. In the center of Neumarkt and the ruins of the Frauenkirche." 1945.





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1571: 1/2: Second World Wars and the East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: Japan 1939 and PRC 2021. Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson @HooverInst from 2021-08-07T01:49:17

Photo: A Japanese 10 sen stamp from 1942 depicting the approximate extension of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.


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1571: 2/2: The shape of things to come and the magic of protein prediction. Oliver Morton @TheEconomist from 2021-08-07T01:46:48

Photo: Keytruda, manufacturer's presentation.



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1571: 1/2: The shape of things to come and the magic of protein prediction. Oliver Morton @TheEconomist from 2021-08-07T01:46:40

Photo: St John the Evangelist writing.



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1571: Vasya the Cat vs Junior Brown Bear along the Siberian Angara River. Svetlana Skarbo, @Siberian_Times from 2021-08-07T01:28:24

Photo: Tour group with a carriage on a boat drifts downstream on the Angara, a traveler shooting birds. [There are two Angara Rivers: the smaller is north and feeds into Lake Baikal; the lager...

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1571: Humblingly vast Siberia burning. Svetlana Skarbo, @Siberian_Times, Novosibirsk. from 2021-08-07T01:28:13

Photo: Yakutsk Oblast.



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1571: Magical Italy starts the "Green Pass" for all of Europe's visitors. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation from 2021-08-07T01:14:38

Photo: A laisser-passer [travel pass] allowing M. H. de Villemessant, Attorney General of the Prussian Army, to pass and circulate freely.



 

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1571: Ozzie and Harriet to the rescue of a nation despairing of impulsive Instagram self-doubts. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion from 2021-08-07T01:08:39

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1571: The lithium bounty of Esmeralda County, NV; and the EV of the immediate future. Steve Hanson, CEO Acme Lithium, INC from 2021-08-07T01:01:47

Photo: Prospector in the desert. Esmeralda County, Nevada.





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1571: #PacificWatch: Pyrocumulus Clouds Loom over the Dixie Fire. @JCBliss from 2021-08-07T00:39:26

Photo: Flammagenitus [pyrocumulus] cloud above the Oregon Gulch fire in Oregon and California, 2014. 



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1571: Counterfactual Republican governor of California & What is to be done? @HooverWhalen @HooverInst from 2021-08-07T00:38:44

Photo: California Governor George Grey.





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1571: Intrepid Curiosity. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com GLXXG from 2021-08-07T00:31:03

Photo: Curiosity Mars Rover Drilling into Its Second Rock.





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1571: Starliner down. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-08-07T00:30:53

Photo: Boeing's new spacesuit designed to be worn by astronauts flying on the CST-100 Starliner. Seen here being worn in the same manner as it will on launch day for the walk to the spacecraft...

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1571: 2/2: China twists the UN's International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to block safety for Taiwan skies. @DylanGresik @FDD from 2021-08-07T00:28:48

Photo: An armed Chinese fighter jet.





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1571: 1/2. China twists the UN's International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to block safety for Taiwan skies. @DylanGresik @FDD from 2021-08-07T00:28:46

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1570: #Londinium90AD: Gaius & Germanicus recognize imperial ascension is twinned with the risk of imperial succession, as illustrated by John D. Grainger in the 21st Century. Michael Vlahos. from 2021-08-07T00:00

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1564: PRC digs nukes silo & What is to be done? Peter Huessy, director of Strategic Deterrent Studies of the Mitchell Institute of the Air Force Association. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-08-07T00:00

Photo:   An earlier nuclear silo: for a Titan II missile.

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1569: The Hanging Judge rises. Richard Goldberg @rich_goldberg, Behnam Ben Taleblu @FDD from 2021-08-06T01:33:12

Photo: .An Iranian command and control platform burns after being shelled by US Navy destroyers. The shelling as a response to an Iranian missile attack on a reflagged Kuwaiti supertanker. Listen
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1569: Ten weeks. Richard Goldberg @rich_goldberg. Behnam Ben Taleblu @FDD from 2021-08-06T01:32:50

Photo: At the eleventh-plus hour.

            View  from the inside of the clock face on Portland, Oregon's, historic Union Station's 150-foot-high tower, the signature feature of the ...

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1569: Third jab and travel. @AaronKleinShow Aaron Klein, Senior Adviser to Former PM Netanyahu. from 2021-08-06T01:24:36

Photo: A physician is removing lymph from a calf tied down on a table; another man observes. In the upper left corner is the "distinctive mark of animal vaccination."

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1569: Rockets from Lebanon; drones from Iran. Aaron Klein, Senior Adviser to Former PM Netanyahu from 2021-08-06T01:20:08

Photo:   A sophisticated drone; here: Northrop Grumman Bat carrying EO/IR and SAR sensors, laser range finders, laser designato...

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1569: The ultra-Maoists have the upper hand. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs GLXXG from 2021-08-06T01:10:49

Photo: Maoism:  Establish a new standard of merit for the people : just as the heroic 4th platoon and commrade Li Wen'chung worked to defeat selfishness and promote the common good, we should ...

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1569: The Horn of Africa and disorder in Djibouti. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-08-06T01:05:36

Photo: Forested area of the Mabla Mountains (Djibouti), c. 1930. Photograph from a documentation on French Somaliland published on the occasion of the International Colonial Exhibition of 1931...

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1569: The European turbulence of Nordstream2. Anatol Lieven @QuincyInst from 2021-08-06T01:02:05

Photo: Pipeline being laid, 1942



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1569: Evacuation. Anatol Lieven, Georgetown University @LievenAnatol Taliban murder 900 in Kandahar as Russia deploys fighter jets on border from 2021-08-06T00:56:54

Photo: The most famous and belovèd comedian in Afghanistan, Khasa Zwan, kidnapped, beaten and murdered by Taliban.



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1569: #HotelMars: Likely Birth of an Exo-Moon at 370 Light Years. Kate Follette @Amherst.edu ; David Livingston, SpaceShow.com GLXXG from 2021-08-06T00:48:49

Photo: This artist’s impression depicts the exomoon candidate Kepler-1625b-i, the planet it is orbiting and the star in the centre of the star system. Kepler-1625b-i is the first exomoon candi...

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1569: #TheScalaReport: What is happening on the way back to the office by Labor Day? Chris Riegel, CEO @ScalaInc @STRATACACHE from 2021-08-06T00:39:45

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1929 Sydney.

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1569: Choosing sides against Guatemala. @MaryAnastasiaOG from 2021-08-06T00:30:54

Photo: Guatemala City.



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1569: Cuba loses to despair and Delta. Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. from 2021-08-06T00:26:50

Photo: Photograph shows group of Cuban Red Cross nurses for hospital unit in France with Mariana Seva y Rodríguez, first lady and chairman of the Cuban Red Cross Society and her husband Mario ...

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1569: Virus, vaccine and recovery in Kiev. James Brooke, Ukraine Business News from 2021-08-06T00:20:36

Photo: In the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, the headquarters of the Russian-backed wing of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, often referred to as the Moscow Patriarchate, 26 members of the monastery have ...

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1569: What of the skyrocketing natgas prices and Nordstream2? James Brooke, Ukraine Business News from 2021-08-06T00:20:29

Photo:  Tracking natural gas prices:  Henry Hub Natural Gas Spot Price    https://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/hist/rngwhhdm.htm


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1564: 2/2: Magnitogorsk in the wildfires and pandemic.@Felix_Light @CBSNews @MoscowTimes from 2021-08-05T01:32:47

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1564: Magnitogorsk in the wildfires and pandemic.@Felix_Light @CBSNews @MoscowTimes from 2021-08-05T01:32:29

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1568: Searching for the Apollo 11 Ascent Stage in Lunar Orbit. Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-08-05T01:32:03

Photo: Apollo 11. 



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1567: Nauka nearly wrecked the ISS. Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-08-05T01:29:15

Photo: Roll-out of the Progress 24 vehicle occurred on schedule at 7:00 a.m., Jan. 16, 2007 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.    The vehicle was in the vertical and hard-down at the pad ...

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1567: #GreatMigration: Darién Gap explodes with migrants @Michael_Yon from 2021-08-05T01:27:47

Photo:  Darién Gap: where it is.



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1567: #GreatMigration: Vilnius overrun with weaponized migrants. @Michael_Yon from 2021-08-05T01:26:31

Photo: Vilnius, Lithuania



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1567: Half a million Afghans in Turkey. What is to be done? @aykanerdemir from 2021-08-05T01:23:33

Photo:   Refugees in Turkey, long ago



 

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1567: Erdogan crushed Kurdish democracy while chastising Tunisia for lack of democracy. Aykan Erdemir, @aykanerdemir from 2021-08-05T01:22:46

Photo:  Capo Kurdo - Kurdish Prince (From the Italian book 1876, Giro Mondo)?????: ????? ?????? ????? ?? ????? ?????? ?????? ?? ???? ???? ??????? ???? ?????.





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1564: Tunisia sheds democracy to popular acclaim. Roger McShane @TheEconomist from 2021-08-05T01:18:32

Photo: Tarek el-Tayeb Mohamed Bouazizi  (29 March 1984 – 4 January 2011) was a street vendor who set himself on fire on 17 December 2010 in Ben Arous, Tunisia, which became a catalyst for the ...

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1566: 2/2. Boris Johnson shuns Nicola Sturgeon in Edinburgh @RealConstable. from 2021-08-05T01:17:48

Photo:  18th C Edinburgh was a warren of narrow closes (alleys) like this one drawn by James Drummond in 1850


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1565: 1/2. Boris Johnson shuns Nicola Sturgeon in Edinburgh. Simon Constable, @RealConstable. from 2021-08-05T01:15:32

Photo:  Edinburgh, showing Arthur's Seat, one of the earliest known sites of human habitation in the area



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1564: Delhi watches the Allies rally in the Indo-Pacific. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill @CleoPaskal, non-resident senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, @FDD from 2021-08-05T01:05:33

Photo:   Indo-Pacific. The green circle covers ASEAN.

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1564: Ottawa notes Beijing bullying & What is to be done? @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill Charles Burton, senior Fellow at the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad, Macdonald-Laurier Institute:the closing of the Chinese mind and . . . from 2021-08-05T01:03:56

Photo:  .Chinese bureaucratic structures. Here:  The preface, written by the author, a certain Hong, states that he was promoted to become the Governor of Shaanxi Province many times; this is ...

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1564: #KabulDiary: Evacuation. Jeff McCausland @mccauslj @CBSNews from 2021-08-05T00:57:51

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1564: #KabulDiary: The Afghan National Army is said to stand back. Jeff McCausland @jeffmccausland @CBSNews from 2021-08-05T00:53:19

Photo: The was then: Afghan National Army prepares for a patrol in Forward Operating Base Vulcan, Afghanistan, Feb. 2, 2011. (U.S.Army photo by Spc. David Zlotin)...

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1563: Lawless. Katrina vanden Heuvel @TheNation. from 2021-08-04T02:32:47

Photo:  Fritz Gordon, Al Capone and the Mayor of Havana, Julio Morales; in Cuba






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1563: @Josh Rogin. Much more of what we don’t know about origins. from 2021-08-04T02:29:45

Photo:  It's thought that what exited the Wuhan lab and became someone's dinner were money brains.





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1563: 2/2 Mary Kissel @MaryKissel Xi vs 12-year-olds. from 2021-08-04T02:26:23

Photo:  Chinese children



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1563: 1/2 Xi vs 12-year-olds. Mary Kissel @MaryKissel from 2021-08-04T02:24:52

Photo:  "This is a heliograph of me," wrote the photographer.

               Happens also to be Xi Jinpings least-favorite image.



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1562: 2/2 @RichardAEpstein. Our regulatory agencies and their abduction by “interests.” from 2021-08-04T01:24:48

Photo: US mailman and his truck





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1562: 1/2 @RichardAEpstein. Our regulatory agencies and their abduction by “interests.” from 2021-08-04T01:23:38

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1562: Craig Singleton @FDD. Last of the Confucius Institutes. from 2021-08-04T01:22:37

Photo: Priest paying homage to Confucius' tablet, c. 1900



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1562: Vicki Barker @CBSNews. Boris Johnson saves summer vacation? from 2021-08-04T01:21:53

Photo:  Summertime



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1561: 2/2: BRICS fall down; & What is to be done? Ryan Avent @TheEconomist from 2021-08-04T00:40:54

Photo: A rainbow appears in the mist of Iguazu Falls; Brazil.



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1561: 1/2: BRICS fall down; & What is to be done? Ryan Avent @TheEconomist from 2021-08-04T00:40:51

Photo: . BRICS Congress Hall



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1561: The Provincetown SuperSpreader. @HenryIMiller HenryMillerMD.org @PacificResearch from 2021-08-04T00:34:27

Photo: Provincetown, Massachusetts. Mending the rigging of the Frances and Marion, a Portuguese trawler

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1560: #LondonCalling. Rishi Sunak says back to the City. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-08-04T00:30

Photo: Her Majesty Queen Victoria's Visit to the City on the 9th of November 1837.





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1560: #LondonCalling. Temporary inflation goes global @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion. from 2021-08-04T00:29:57

Photo:  Swiss advertisement for voting regarding the economical crisis of 1935.





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1560: #LondonCalling. Boris Johnson saves summer. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-08-04T00:29:55

Photo: Summer Twilight reverie



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1560: #LondonCalling. China flunks capitalism. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-08-04T00:29:53

Photo: Google translation: 

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1559: 2/2 Commercial geniuses meet government budgeters to uncertain results. Joe Felter @JoeFelter, and Steve Blank @sgblank, @HooverInst from 2021-08-03T03:16:45

Photo: The Pentagon plaque

 

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1559: 1/2 Commercial geniuses meet government budgeters to uncertain results. Joe Felter @JoeFelter, and Steve Blank @sgblank, @HooverInst from 2021-08-03T03:15:54

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1559: 2/2 Middle-Class Pandemic; & What is to be done. . . Edward Carr @EWRCarr Deputy editor @TheEconomist from 2021-08-03T03:14:45

Photo:  Asia-Pacific pandemic influenza program conducted for eight years— until 2020



Edward Carr @EWRCarr Deputy editor @TheEconomist





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1559: 1/2 Middle-Class Pandemic; & What is to be done. . . Edward Carr @EWRCarr Deputy editor @TheEconomist from 2021-08-03T03:13:42

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1558: Manhattan withdrawal. @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNews from 2021-08-03T01:39:55

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1558: Cyberspace is a battle space; & What is to be done? @AmbJohnBolton from 2021-08-03T01:39:03

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1558: Delta in non-transparent China. Sean Lin, former lab director of the viral disease branch of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-08-03T01:18:25

Photo: Porcine deltacoronavirus (OH-FD22) particle detected in intestinal contents from a gnotobiotic pig. The sample was negatively stained with 3% phosphotungstic acid. Scale bar indicates 1...

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1558: Xi turns Maoist and isolationist & What is to be done? @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-08-03T01:18:21

Photo: Chinese Communist revolutionaries in the 1920s. In his greed, the current unelected CCP leader bears no comparison to the idealistic, early revolutionaries.

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1557: #KabulDiary: Successful in Afghanistan, Al Qaeda continues to grow and fundraise. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-08-03T01:01:11

Photo:  Afghanistan this week. The populace is terrified as the US removes military personnel.






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1557: #KabulDiary: Al Shaabab follows the Taliban path. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-08-03T01:01:07

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1557: #KabulDiary: Moscow, Dushanbe, Islamabad, Delhi, Tehran prepare for the Taliban. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal from 2021-08-03T01:01:04

Photo: Taliban at the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, waiting to cross.



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1557: #KabulDiary: The map shows Herat City under siege. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal GLXXG from 2021-08-03T01:01

Photo: Herat, in northeast Afghanistan, close to the Iranian border.





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1557: #NewWorldReport: EU sanctions the already-sanctioned bosses of the Black Berets. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org GLXXG from 2021-08-03T00:43:37

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1556: HMS Queen Elizabeth in Harm's Way 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 (https://navaldiplomat.com/) from 2021-08-03T00:00

Photo: HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH FLIES THE ENSIGN AT HALF MAST FOR HRH THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT. 20 JANUARY 1942, ON BOARD THE FLAGSHIP AT ALEXANDRIA






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1555: #GreatMigration: Threatened Yazidis charged $6,000 each to flee Iraq for Belarus and Lithuania of the EU. Locals.com/MichaelYon from 2021-08-02T01:16:11

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1555: #GreatMigration: Thousands more crashing the Darién Gap and Bajo Chiquito bound for America. Locals.com/MichaelYon from 2021-08-02T01:15:58

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1555: #PacificWatch: The Zombie Donuts of Portland; The wedding-ring-flinging of Reno, starring Norma Shearer (1939) and Marilyn Monroe (1961). from 2021-08-02T01:13:48

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1555: 1/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Remembering the Peter Strzok origins, July 31, 2016. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. from 2021-08-02T01:13:24

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1554: Devin Nunes #UNBOUND. Complete, 25-minute interview. August 1, 2021. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-08-02T01:00

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1555: #HeartlandNation: Putin and Climate Change. Professor H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. from 2021-08-02T00:54:06

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1555: Putin and Climate Change. Professor H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. from 2021-08-02T00:54:06

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1554: Jerry Hendrix #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, March 23, 2021 from 2021-08-02T00:28:38

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1554: David Grantham #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview, April 5, 2021. from 2021-08-02T00:26:32

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1554: Jeff McCausland #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. May 21, 2021. from 2021-08-02T00:25:48

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1554: Terry Anderson #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. April 6, 2021 from 2021-08-02T00:24:20

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1554: Russell Shorto #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, April 22, 2021. from 2021-08-02T00:00

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1554: John Tamny #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. March 28, 2021. from 2021-08-02T00:00

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1554: "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. from 2021-08-02T00:00

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1554: Holly Fretwell #Unbound. The complete forty-minute interview. April 12, 2021. from 2021-08-02T00:00

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1554: William Damon #UNBOUND: The complete, forty-minute interview. July 3, 2021. from 2021-08-02T00:00

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1554: Roya Hakakian #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. May 29, 2021 from 2021-08-02T00:00

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1553: Josh Rogin #Unbound: the complete, eighty-minute interview, March 21, 2021 from 2021-08-01T00:00

Photo: Fifty years on from the famous China-US ping-pong matches.

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1553: Nick Lloyd #Unbound. The complete, eighty-minute interview. June 5, 2021. from 2021-08-01T00:00

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1553: #ClassicJohnTamny: What Federal Reserve power tools? What temporary inflation? @JohnTamny @RealClearMarkets July 14, 2021. from 2021-07-31T15:44:46

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1552: Mars clay, not water. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-07-31T01:10:20

Photo: This image taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows ice sheets at Mars’ south pole. The spacecraft detected clays nearby this ice; scientists have proposed such clays are the s...

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1552: Nauka in trouble. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-07-31T01:09:29

Photo:  The newly-installed MpLM (Multi-purpose Laboratory Module), known as the Nauka module, docked to the Zvezda port on ISS.

 

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1552: In praise of the barn owl. Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Institution, @HooverInst from 2021-07-31T01:07:41

Photo:  Tyto alba Thomas Barnes



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1550: #Londinium90AD: Gaius & Germanicus debate the transformation from Republic to Empire in the 21st Century. Michael Vlahos from 2021-07-31T01:01

Photo: Map of Roman Britain.

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1550: #GreatMigration: Belarus weaponizes migrants from Iraq, Chechnya, Nigeria and shoves them into the EU. Locals.com/MichaelYon from 2021-07-31T01:00

Photo:  Meeting in the Kurapatywoods, 1989, where between 1937 and 1941 from 30,000 to 250,000 people, including Belarusian Listen
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1551: The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won. Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Institution, @HooverInst from 2021-07-31T00:43:30

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1550: 4/4 Samuelson Friedman: The Battle Over the Free Market, by Nicholas Wapshott from 2021-07-31T00:39:38

Photo:  The competitive price system adapted from Samuelson, 1961



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1550: 3/4 Samuelson Friedman: The Battle Over the Free Market, by Nicholas Wapshott from 2021-07-31T00:38:50

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1550: 2/4 Samuelson Friedman: The Battle Over the Free Market, by Nicholas Wapshott from 2021-07-31T00:38:19

Photo: Milton Friedman and his future wife, Rose, in 1935



1935: Rose and Milton Friedman; 30 January 2017.  Source & Author: Hoover Archives





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1550: 1/4 Samuelson Friedman: The Battle Over the Free Market, by Nicholas Wapshott from 2021-07-31T00:37:09

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1549: #SmallBusinessAmerica: Does anyone want to go back to the office? @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2021-07-31T00:22:49

Photo: The Theodore Roosevelt desk in the Oval office during Harry S. Truman's presidency



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1549: Daraa starved by Syria and Russia & What is to be done? @JoshRogin @WashingtonPost from 2021-07-31T00:13:12

Photo: Ancient Syrian female figurine. The marks on this figurinl endicate that it may be a fertility votive. Ornaments may have originally been attached to the holes in the headdress.

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1549: #PacificWatch: Portland in tatters. @JCBliss. from 2021-07-31T00:10:41

Photo: (1882) NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD AND OREGON RAILWAY AND NAVIGATION COMPANY'S OFFICES, PORTLAND, OREGON

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1549: 2/2: The 1969 campus radicals become the 2021 emeritus professors. Peter Berkowitz @HooverInst from 2021-07-31T00:07:29

Photo: Professor Albert Einstein during a lecture in Vienna in 1921



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1549: 1/2: The 1969 campus radicals become the 2021 emeritus professors. Peter Berkowitz @HooverInst from 2021-07-31T00:07:27

Photo: W.I.T.C.H. (Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell) from the late 'Sixties.  Here:  Death and the Devil Surprising Two Women, 1510 - 1520





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1549: The Biden Administration confronts good news of the global recovery. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion from 2021-07-31T00:03:47

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1549: "Biosecurity peacetime" & What is to be done? @FroseDC @WJLA Four Star Forum. GLXXG from 2021-07-31T00:02:27

Photo: Ag biosecurity:  Classical swine fever prohibition to transport pigs (The Netherlands).



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1549: Why is Xi bullying the neighborhood? Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-07-30T01:30:44

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1549: In praise of Wilfrid Laurier. @ConradMBlack @TheNational Post from 2021-07-30T01:25:53

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1549: The firefighters of Yakutia. @Felix_Light @CBSNews @MoscowTimes from 2021-07-30T01:20:38

Photo:  Yakut elder, early 20th century.



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1549: India makes a hard decision about the PRC. Sadanand @Dhume @AEI @WSJOpinion from 2021-07-30T01:16:17

Photo: Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping.





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1549: The ayatollah grows patient at the Washington impatience. Behnam Ben Taleblu @FDDh grows patient at the Washington impatience. Behnam ben Talablu @FDD from 2021-07-30T01:14:15

Photo: A pencil sketch of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini [founding mullah of the current Iranian Islamic republic] shooting missiles at the Persian Gulf through a pea shooter. The sketch was done...

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1549: Retreat from Afghanistan by Britain, by Russia and by the US, so far. Anatol Lieven @QuincyInst from 2021-07-30T01:11:52

Photo: Kabul market, late July 2021.



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1549: Ukraine turns from Washington and Berlin to Beijing. Anatol Lieven @QuincyInst from 2021-07-30T01:04:41

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1549: #TheScalaReport: Why is the PRC destabilizing the tech investor class? Chris Riegel, CEO @ScalaInc @STRATACACHE from 2021-07-30T00:58:40

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1549: Roma is roasting and still missing tourists. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation from 2021-07-30T00:53:24

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1549: Rethinking 21st Century Ohio, especially Dayton. Lt. Governor Jon Husted. from 2021-07-30T00:53:23

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1549: The Third Jab. Aaron Klein, Senior Advisor to Former PM Netanyahu. from 2021-07-30T00:31:53

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1549: King Coal again. Vijay Vaitheeswaran @TheEconomist from 2021-07-30T00:30:17

Photo: A young leader and a driver, Shaft #6, Pennsylvania Coal Company. Pasquale Salvo and Sandy Castina. Location: Pittston, Pennsylvania




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1549: How long the eviction moratorium? Alice Fulwood @TheEconomist. from 2021-07-30T00:28:24

Photo: Eviction - New York; yesteryear

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1548: $20,000 Designer Garbage Cans. Lee Ohanian @HooverInst from 2021-07-29T03:12:28

Photo:  Emptying garbage cans.

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1548: Biden Administration greenlights Russian hegemony. Paul Gregory @HooverInst from 2021-07-29T03:11:57

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1548: “We are hiring” signs plastered all over small shops. Salena Zito SalenaZito.com @DCExaminer from 2021-07-29T03:11:16

Photo: Hired girl washing dishes on the McNally farm. Kirby, Vermont






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1547: Japan backs Taiwan adamantly. @ScottWHarold, @RAND ; @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-07-29T01:34:55

Photo:  Taiwan Exhibition, Japan, Hall of Indigenous Tribes






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1545: Ingenuity pirouettes perfectly above Perseverance. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-07-29T01:11:01

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1545: Europa Clipper to ride Falcon Heavy to 2030 probe of a possible ocean. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com GLXXG from 2021-07-29T01:05:39

Photo: Europa Clipper spacecraft model




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1546: The little Mars rover has MOXIE. Hotel MARS with Michael Hecht @MIT, and David Livingston, SpaceShow.com from 2021-07-29T01:04:15

Photo:  Next NASA Mars Rover Gets Its Wheels




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1546: Lovely, mythic Chang’e belied: China militarizes the Moon. Brandon Weichert, @WeTheBrandon ; @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-07-29T01:03:27

Photo:  The painting depicts the Chinese goddess Chang'e (??).



 

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1546: China’s new nuclear intimidation. from 2021-07-29T01:02:43

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1546: Caveat demolished Chinese stocks. Charles Ortel; @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. from 2021-07-29T01:00:41

Photo:  Curb stock exchange




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1545: 2/2: The unknowns of the assassination of Moise. Amy Wilentz @TheNation @amywilentz from 2021-07-29T01:00:27

Photo: Michel Domingue (President d'Haiti 1874-1876)

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1545: 1/2: The unknowns of the assassination of Moise. Amy Wilentz @TheNation @amywilentz from 2021-07-29T01:00:25

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1545: Scotland waits on First Minister's promised Freedom Day August 9. Simon Constable @TheRealConstable. from 2021-07-29T00:55:41

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1545: Russia already weaponizing natural gas to Europe. James Brooke. Ukraine Business News from 2021-07-29T00:53:48

Photo:   Uncontrolled gas well

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1545: #KabulDiary: PRC looks in on the Taliban. Jeff McCausland @mccauslj @CBSNews from 2021-07-29T00:47:13

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1545: #KabulDiary: Evacuating the doomed Afghans. Jeff McCausland @mccauslj @CBSNews from 2021-07-29T00:46:21

Photo: .Afghanistan exit.




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1544: 2/2 Doomed to new variants? @HenryIMiller HenryMillerMD.org @PacificRresearch from 2021-07-28T01:46:20

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1544: 1/2 Doomed to new variants? @HenryIMiller HenryMillerMD.org @PacificRresearch from 2021-07-28T01:45:40


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1544: Arab Spring fail in Tunisia, where it all started. Josh Rogin @WashingtonPost from 2021-07-28T01:44:22

Photo: Tunisian hamsa



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1544: Wolf warrior insults State again. @MaryKissel, Stephens Inc., EVP. Former Senior Advisor to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. from 2021-07-28T01:42:21

Photo: Traditional Chinese characters for the word huài dàn, a Mandarin Chinese profanity meaning, literally, "bad egg"



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1544: Whisky’s for drinkin’ and water’s for fightin'. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-07-28T01:41:14

Photo: EPA drinking water security poster from 2003



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1544: Egypt is alarmingly low on water. Mohamed Nasr El-din Allma, University of Cairo. Former Minister of Irrigation, Republic of Egypt. from 2021-07-28T01:40:23

Photo:  Feluccas on the Nile



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1544: Big pharma rejects global taxes. @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews from 2021-07-28T01:39:44

Photo: In 1937 over 100 people died after ingesting a solution of the antibacterial sulfanilamide formulated in the toxic solvent diet...

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1544: Waiting for inflation. @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews from 2021-07-28T01:38:53

Photo:  The silver content of Roman silver coins rapidly declined during the Crisis of the Third Century.


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1543: #LondonCalling: Walking in the rain in London's open parks. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-07-28T00:44:20

Photo: Rain, Thames Embarkment in London

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1543: #LondonCalling: China trashes China IT; Green Weather Forecasts; Inflation Speech in September? @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion GLXXG from 2021-07-28T00:29:02

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1543: #LondonCalling: Boris Johnson, at two years of the Premiership, "flourescent-jacketed chain gangs" & What is to be done? @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-07-28T00:24:48

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1543: #LondonCalling: Recovering from lockdowns, IMF posts that the UK will grow at 7% GDP @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-07-28T00:24:46

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1542: 2/2: Modern SCOTUS cases for bigness. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst GLXXG from 2021-07-28T00:11:29

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1542: 1/2: Modern SCOTUS cases for bigness. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2021-07-28T00:11:27

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1542: 2/2: Boris Johnson at two years of the Premiership. Adrian Wooldridge @TheEconomist from 2021-07-28T00:04:30

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1542: 1/2: Boris Johnson at two years of the Premiership. Adrian Wooldridge @TheEconomist GLXXG from 2021-07-28T00:04:28

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1541: China chastens US as “misguided.” US grits teeth. Stephen Yates, former deputy national security advisor, and DC International Advisory. from 2021-07-27T01:24:57

Photo:  The Imperial Portrait of the Chinese Emperor Xianfeng.






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1541: Pakistan backs Taliban, China smiles. Kamran Bokhari, director of Analytical Development at the Newlines Institute for Strategy & Policy, from 2021-07-27T01:16:55

Photo:  Pakistani police erasing the name of Muhammad from the Kalima of a Ahmadiyya Mosque in Faislabad (at Sir Shamsheer Road), Pakistan.



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1541: The Tabriz protests of the water mismanagement by the IRGC. Brenda Shaffer @ProfBShaffer @FDD from 2021-07-27T01:16:26

Photo:  16th century map of Tabriz, Iran. 

             Matrakç? Nasuh's separate drawings of east and west Tabriz were put together.





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1540: #KabulDiary: The map shows Kandahar under close siege. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD from 2021-07-27T00:38:53

Photo: .Taliban convoy was en route to seize a town; here: after US B52s bombed it.  Photo, late July 2021.





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1540: #KabulDiary: Can "Armed Overwatch" of weapons, air strikes and Special Operations secure Kabul? @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD from 2021-07-27T00:37:51

Photo: .A fleeting glimpse of one of the b52s that bombed to Taliban convoy. Photo from late July 2021.









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1540: #KabulDiary: Moscow and Dushanbe plan a border post and military exercises to secure Tajikistan. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD from 2021-07-27T00:35:02

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1540: #KabulDiary: India prepares for the worst in Afghanistan @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD from 2021-07-27T00:31:01

Photo: La Constantia nearly complete.




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1539: The Biden Administration vs the Great Railroad Trust and Its Successors. @JohnTamny @RealClearMarkets from 2021-07-27T00:19:58

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1539: New York City suddenly mandates vaccinations or intense testing. @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNews from 2021-07-27T00:13:12

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1539: 2/2: Deutschland floods during a profound election campaign; & What is to be be done? Vendeline von Bredow, @TheEconomist. from 2021-07-27T00:07:12

Photo: Aerial of highways and the area around the city where flood waters have covered the land.

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1539: 1/2 Deutschland floods during a profound election campaign & What is to be be done? Vendeline von Bredow, @TheEconomist. from 2021-07-27T00:06:46

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1538: #NewWorldReport: The fragile and untended Mexican middle class. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc. securefreesociety.org from 2021-07-26T23:57:27

Photo: National Palace from the Cathedral, Mexico City, Mexico.

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1538: #NewWorldReport: Unknown Castillo takes command. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc securefreesociety.org from 2021-07-26T23:53:58

Photo: Peru: The Meeting of Joachim and Anna ; in the Brooklyn Museum.



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1538: #NewWorldReport: Lula on the comeback trail. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc ; securefreesociety.org from 2021-07-26T23:51:53

Photo: Noble Hall of Teatro Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil.





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1538: #NewWorldReport: Cuba's "Black Berets" & What is to be done? Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc ; securefreesociety.org from 2021-07-26T23:49:42

Photo:  The infamous and dreaded Black Berets special forces in Cuba.





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1537: #PacificWatch: Remembering San Diego Comic-Cons past and a lost outtake of Star Trek. @JCBliss #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-07-26T00:12:08

Photo: Seal of San Diego, California

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1537: #HeartlandNation: Nordstream2 Deal entangles the capitals Berlin, Moscow, Warsaw, Kiev and Washington. Professor H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. from 2021-07-26T00:10:10

Photo: The Lakhta Center, an 87-story skyscraper in Saint Petersburg, Russia.  Standing 462 meters (1,516 ft) tall, it is the Listen
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1537: Nordstream2 Deal entangles the capitals Berlin, Moscow, Warsaw, Kiev and Washington. Professor H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. from 2021-07-26T00:10:10

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1537: #Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus under suspicion by Domitian as they speculate upon "Seven Days in May" for succession protocols. Michael Vlahos. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-07-26T00:06:24

Photo: The letter and initial H with soldiers in the background who slaughter the young Celtic queen Boudica or Boadicea. At the bottom of the margin an explanatory text line in French.
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1536: C. J. Carey #UNBOUND: The complete, 20-minute interview, June 26, 2021 from 2021-07-26T00:04

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1536: Russell Shorto #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, April 22, 2021. from 2021-07-26T00:04

Photo: Berryman Political Cartoon Collection: "Them guys [politicians] makes us look like pikers."





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1535: Roya Hakakian #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. May 29, 2021 GLXXG from 2021-07-26T00:04

Photo: Hine portrayed the European immigrants who came to America at the beginning of the 20th century. Life was hard in a big city where hundreds of thousands of people were looking for ways ...

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1535: "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.GLXXG from 2021-07-26T00:03

Photo: Glen-Holly Hotel, first hotel in Hollywood, at the corner of what is now called Yucca Street. It was built in the 1890s.
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1536: Charlie Pellegrino #Unbound: the complete, twenty-minute interview, June 18, 2021. from 2021-07-26T00:02

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1536: Terry Anderson #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. April 6, 2021 from 2021-07-26T00:02

Photo:.Market/bazaar:  Carpet Merchant in the Khan el Khaleel, from Georg Ebers, Egypt: Descriptive, Historical, and Picturesque, Vol. 1, Cassell & Company, New York, 1878

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1535: Jeff McCausland #Unbound. The complete forty-minute interview. May 21, 2021.GLXXG from 2021-07-26T00:02

Photo:    L. Prang & Co. print of the painting "Hancock at Gettysburg" by Thure de Thulstrup, showing Pickett's Charge. Restoration by Adam Cuerden. This is a Listen
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1536: J. H. Gelernter #Unbound. The complete, twenty-minute interview. May 3, 2021. LXX from 2021-07-26T00:01

Photo: The comparison French Folly opposed to British wisdom

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1536: Holly Fretwell #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. April 12, 2021. from 2021-07-26T00:01

Photo:  Wildfire - Yorba Linda, California, December 12, 2008 — Homeowners sift through debris after the wildfires destroyed their home in Mission Hills. So far, 275 applicants have registered...

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1536: James Tooley #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview. May 14, 2021. from 2021-07-26T00:01

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1535: David Grantham #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview, April 5, 2021. GLXXG from 2021-07-26T00:01

Photo: Destroyed Iraqi tank near road 2003-03-25

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1536: John Tamny #Unbound. The complete, forty minute interview. March 28, 2021. from 2021-07-26T00:00

Photo: Kazan's Panic in the Street trailer screenshot.



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1536: Michael Auslin #Unbound. The complete, twenty-minute interview. May 12, 2021. from 2021-07-26T00:00

Photo: Indian Sappers and Miners in Hiroo, Japan, 1946




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1535: Jerry Hendrix #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, March 23, 2021 GLXXG from 2021-07-26T00:00

Photo:  Boatswain's Mate 3rd Class Kevin Reeves, a harbormaster assigned to Naval Station Newport, R.I., helps guide in the guided-missile destroyer USS Lassen (DDG 82) as the ship arrives for...

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1536: Angel Iscovich #Unbound: the complete, twenty-minute interview, June 19, 2021. from 2021-07-25T23:53:41

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1534: #PacificWatch: The Undead Bullet Train @JCBliss #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-07-25T01:37:13

Photo: The real bullet train: A JNR map from the October 1964 English-language timetable, showing the then-new Tokaido Shinkansen line (in red) and conventional lines



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1534: #PacificWatch: The natural burdens of California. @JCBliss #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-07-25T01:35:52

Photo: A Texas Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk out of the Austin Army Aviation Facility helps fight wildfires threatening homes and property.



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1534: Adrian Wooldridge #UNBOUND. The complete eighty-minute interview. July 10, 2016 from 2021-07-25T01:19:06

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1516: Josh Rogin #Unbound: the complete, eighty-minute interview, March 21, 2021 from 2021-07-25T01:00

Photo:. President Trump with President Xi, April 2017






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1533: William Damon #UNBOUND: The complete, forty-minute interview. July 3, 2021. from 2021-07-25T00:28:30

Photo: The Book of Natural Wisdom (1490)



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1532: #Great Migration: Forty yards from the KGB HQ in Vilnius, watching for Russia to invade again. Michael Yon, Locals.com/YON #FriendsoftheHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-07-25T00:00

Photo: KGB (now FSB) headquarters, Moscow, Kuznetsky Most Street 24



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1532: #GreatMigration: Iraq human traffickers sending the disabled and ill to Lithuania via Belarus, charging $15,000.00 per plane ticket. Michael Yon, Locals.com/YON #FriendsoftheHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-07-25T00:00

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1531: #Londinium90AD: Gaius & Germanicus philosophize about violent Emperor succession episodes. Michael Vlahos. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety GLXXG from 2021-07-24T13:00

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1530: 2/2. Nuclear weapons and Tehran. Andrea Stricker, @StrickerNonpro, @FDD from 2021-07-24T01:24:06

Photo: Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Old Waste Calcining Facility, Scoville, Butte County, Idaho.






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1530: 1/2. Chemical weapons and the Kremlin. Andrea Stricker, @StrickerNonpro, @FDD from 2021-07-24T01:23:16

Photo: Japanese used a chemical weapon in Hebei in 1937






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1529: Gathering Ransomware Summiteers in August. @FRoseDC @WJLA GLXXG from 2021-07-24T01:02:50

Photo: A Reveton payload, fraudulently claiming that the user must pay a fine to the Metropolitan Police Service. [Fair ...

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1529: #PacificWatch: Earlier, hotter, bigger: the wildfires of Siberia and Pacific Northwest @JCBliss GLXXG from 2021-07-24T01:00:28

Photo: Hundreds of wildfires have broken out in Siberia, some of which can be seen in this image captured from space on 28 July 2019. Almost three million hectares of land are estimated to hav...

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1528: 4/4 Révolution Française, by Sophie Pedder. @PedderSophie from 2021-07-23T23:54:55

Photo: France: Castle of Combourg.






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1528: 3/4 Révolution Française, by Sophie Pedder. @PedderSophie from 2021-07-23T23:54:11

Photo:   Lit de justice held by Louis XIII in the Parliament of Paris the day after the death of Henri IV his father. May 15, 1610

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1528: 2/4 Révolution Française, by Sophie Pedder. @PedderSophie from 2021-07-23T23:53:03

Photo: Women get the vote.

Auclert - Le vote des femmes, 1908






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1528: 1/4 Révolution Française, by Sophie Pedder. @PedderSophie from 2021-07-23T23:49:47

Photo:  Engraving of the National Assembly, c. 4 February 1790



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1528: Geoengineering for Real. Oliver Morton @TheEconomist from 2021-07-23T23:44:32

Photo:  Microbubbles (MBs) are bubbles smaller than one hundredth of a millimetre in diameter, but larger than one micrometre. They have widespread application in industry, life science, and m...

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1528: The Green Shape of Post-Pandemic Cities to Come. ScalaReport: Chris Riegel from 2021-07-23T23:43:58

Photo:  The Hawkmen's floating metropolis Sky City depicted in Flash Gordon (1936) [public domain]



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1528: The UN no-show in Havana and Port-au-Prince. Cliff May, FDD from 2021-07-23T23:43:25

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1528: The spat that veils the critical question of virus origin. @JoshRogin @WashingtonPost from 2021-07-23T23:42:36

Photo: The Institute Waltz






The spat that veils the critical question of virus origin.  @JoshRogin @WashingtonPost

 

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1528: Lunar Crater-Hopping for Water Ice. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com GLXXG from 2021-07-23T23:41:52

Photo:  The image shows the distribution of surface ice at the Moon’s south pole (left) and north pole (right), detected by NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument. Blue represents the ice lo...

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1528: NAUKA FIXED! Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com GLXXG from 2021-07-23T23:41:23

Photo: A Proton rocket launched a multipurpose laboratory module named Nauka to the International Space Station on Wednesday from Kazakhstan. Photo: NASA. 



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1528: 2/2 Kiev and Warsaw doubt the US-Germany-Russia deal on Nordstream2. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute, @LievenAnatol from 2021-07-23T23:40:41

Photo:  A piece of Nord Stream pipe on public display in Kotka, Finland.



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1528: 1/2 Kiev and Warsaw doubt the US-Germany-Russia deal on Nordstream2. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute, @LievenAnatol from 2021-07-23T23:39:55

Photo:  A station on a natural gas pipeline used for the loading and unloading of pipeline inspection gauges, commonly known as "pigs".



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1527: Italy reopens discreetly. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation from 2021-07-23T02:03:05

Photo: Italian Theater Company



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1527: The youth of Cuba take lifespan risks. @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion from 2021-07-23T02:02:36

Photo: The prison "Presidio Modelo" on the island Isla de la Juventud  [Island of...

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1527: Russian weapons system rollouts. Bradley Bowman, @Brad_L_Bowman, FDD from 2021-07-23T02:02

Photo:  S-400 Triumf air defense missile system manufactured by Almaz-Antey
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1527: The Founding Father of Canada John MacDonald and the Native Canadian population. @ConradMBlack @TheNationalPost from 2021-07-23T02:01:11

Photo:  Photograph of Macdonald circa 1875 by George Lancefield.



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1527: Cybercrime has no sharp lines between spying and robbing. Georgianna Shea, @FDD Press from 2021-07-23T02:00:26

Photo:  The Capture.  Soldiers stand behind Christ ready to take him along. T





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1527: Remembering the early days of an unnamed pneumonia in China. Jonathan Lambert @ScienceNews from 2021-07-23T01:59:54

Photo: Streptococcus pneumoniae






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1527: Commodities suffer the drought. Simon Constable @RealConstable from 2021-07-23T01:59:13

Photo:  Part of commodity relief line, San Antonio, Texas






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1527: Scotland unaltered by Freedom Day. Simon Constable @RealConstable from 2021-07-23T01:58:47

Photo:  A treatise of union of the two realmes of England and Scotland by the English historian Sir John Hayward, ...

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1526: What is the status of the JCPOA negotiation?. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres, @mhoenlein1 from 2021-07-23T00:41:41

Photo: Souvenir signatures of lead negotiators on the cover page of the JCPOA document. The Persian handwriting on top left side is...

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1526: Hamas fired the rockets from Lebanon. Sarit Zehavi, @Israel_Alma_org; Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-07-23T00:38:20

Photo: .Hamas anti-tank rockets, captured by Israel Defense Forces during Operation Protective Edge



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1526: Search for justice in the Jerusalem pizzeria bombing 2001. Arnold Roth @arnoldroth @ThisOngoingWar @FrimetRoth; Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-07-23T00:35:45

Photo: A bombing in Jerusalem



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1525: Lessons from the Vietnam War 2021. @WJMcGurn @WSJOpinion GLXXG from 2021-07-23T00:22:42

Photo: Vietnam war.



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1525: Lessons from the Vietnam War 2021. @WJMcGurn @WSJOpinion from 2021-07-23T00:22:42

Photo: Vietnam war.



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1525: Tehran bypasses the sanctions regime. Behnam ben Taleblu @FDD from 2021-07-23T00:18:13

Photo: .Courtyard of the French Mission to Teheran in 1848







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1525: The drought comes to Tehran. Behnam Ben Talablu @FDD from 2021-07-23T00:16:34

Photo: Drought at Si-o-se Pol, Isfahan, Iran





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1525: Supply Chain Inflation & What is to be done? @VeroDeRugy @Mercatus GLXXG from 2021-07-23T00:12:33

Photo:. Supply and demand. The supplier and the demander come to an (implicit) agreement, on things like price, quality, delivery time, etc. Supplier 1, 2, 3 and 4 can be diff...

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1525: Supply Chain Inflation; & What is to be done? @VeroDeRugy @MercatusInflation & What is to be done? @VeroDeRugy @Mercatus from 2021-07-23T00:12:33

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1523: The Nordstream2 deal is a win for the Kremlin. @Felix_Light @CBSNews. from 2021-07-22T00:50:42

Photo: Nordstream 1 (blue) & Nordstream 2 (red)





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1523: Is the Kremlin turning to accept climate change as a driver for wildfires and extremes? @Felix_Light CBSNews from 2021-07-22T00:49:24

Photo: Siberian territory: in Yakutia .



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1523: Ben & Jerry's BDS antisemitism, & what is to be done? @AaronKleinShow Aaron Klein. Senior adviser to Former PM Netanyahu. In Jerusalem. from 2021-07-22T00:26:51

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1524: Major Chinese land purchases in the US. Christian Whiton, Center for the National Interest, @TheNatlInterest; @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. from 2021-07-22T00:25:27

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1524: China has a yen for North Korea. Greg Scarlatoiu, @GregScarlatoiu, @committeehrnk; @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. from 2021-07-22T00:23:46

Photo: A mural in the Hermit Kingdom.  



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1524: China angles for fish and ocean territory. @CleoPaskal, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. from 2021-07-22T00:22:51

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1523: #PacificWatch: @JCBliss Wildfire Drought Siberia Wildfire Drought Oregon. from 2021-07-22T00:22:30

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1524: Kiev was not at the table for the Nordstream2 deal. James Brooke, Ukraine Business News. from 2021-07-22T00:21:26

Photo:   The Cathedral of the Ascension of the Virgin, Pecherskoi Monastery, Kief, Russia.



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1524: Along the Russian frontier Michael Yon, Locals.com/MichaelYon, @Michael_Yon. from 2021-07-22T00:20:46

Photo:  December 969, a complicated journey to the imperial throne; Russia and present-day Lithuania.



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1523: Rocketing the Kabul palace; & What is to be done? Jeff McCausland @CBSNews from 2021-07-22T00:20:17

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1524: 2/2 Now surrounding the wolf warrior. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs. from 2021-07-22T00:19:52

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1524: 1/2 Now surrounding the wolf warrior. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs. from 2021-07-22T00:19:01

Photo: The Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi prepares for a cheerless discussion on China's growing powe,.



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1523: Hubble Returns for a Last Hurrah. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com GLXXG from 2021-07-22T00:08:31

Photo:  This image taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is of the nearby dwarf galaxy NGC 1569. This galaxy is a hotbed of vigorous star birth activity which blows huge bubbles that riddle...

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1523: Prepping SuperHeavy for Starship orbital. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com GLXXG from 2021-07-22T00:06:38

Photo: 2017 artist's concept of BFR with payload bay door open.



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1522: South Africa: the calm after the storm. John McDermott @TheEconomist South Africa from 2021-07-21T00:51:57

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1522: Jeff Flake to Ankara; and what is to be done? Aykan Erdemir, @ FDD from 2021-07-21T00:51:17

Photo: Ankara:  Ulus Square in the night, 1940s






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1522: 2/2 Biden Administration vs China. from 2021-07-21T00:50:15

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1522: 1/2 Biden Administration vs China. Gady Epstein @TheEconomist from 2021-07-21T00:49:35

Photo:  A Chinese nationalist party propaganda poster depicting a foreign imperialist and a local warlord torturing a Chinese patriot in the aftermath of the May 30th Movement in China.
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1522: Waiting for the FDA. @PacificResearch @HenryIMiller from 2021-07-21T00:48:30

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1522: The unvaccinated. Henry Miller @HenryIMiller from 2021-07-21T00:47:06

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1522: Pay for green @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinions from 2021-07-21T00:45:42

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1522: Pingdemic in London @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinions from 2021-07-21T00:44:50

Photo:  A separate room outdoors, isolation unit for tuberculosis patient in the backyard of her family's home on La Delta project. Thomastown, Louisiana






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1521: Did the French Laundry fiasco educate Gavin Newsom in governance? Bill Whalen @HooverWhalen @HooverInst from 2021-07-21T00:21:30

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1521: The failed state of Lebanon is under occupation by the Tehran tyranny. Russell Berman @HooverInst from 2021-07-21T00:19:25

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1521: The five million Ahwazi Arabs of Iran vs the Tehran tyranny. Brenda Shaffer @ProfBShaffer @FDD GLXXG from 2021-07-21T00:16:43

Photo: Seal of the National Liberation Movement of Ahwaz.



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1521: The five million Ahwazi Arabs of Iran vs the Tehran tyranny. Brenda Shaffer @ProfBShaffer @FDD from 2021-07-21T00:16:43

Photo: Seal of the National Liberation Movement of Ahwaz.



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1521: Ransomware is state-sponsored thievery of successful enterprise; & what is to be done to protect digital communications? Alain Ghiai, CEO,Globex Data Ltd. from 2021-07-21T00:14:49

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1520: What can the US do for the Cuban protesters? Roseann Lake @TheEconomist from 2021-07-20T23:58:49

Photo: Union and confederate soldiers shaking hands in front of young female personification of Cuba with broken shackles; large flag in background..





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1520: The Cuban regime shows fear of the Cuban protesters. Roseann Lake, @TheEconomist from 2021-07-20T23:58:46

Photo: La libertad de Cuba (The Liberty of Cuba)

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1520: Spending lots of money in a pandemic-dominated recovery. @LizPeek @TheHill from 2021-07-20T23:54:34

Photo: [from World War II]  Don't Take the Squander Bug When You Go Shopping

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1520: The unresolved Hayek vs Keynes, Friedman vs Samuelson, dispute in 2021 Biden Administration policies. @LizPeek @TheHill from 2021-07-20T23:46:49

Photo: Professor Dahrendorf presenting Professor F. A Hayek with a Commemorative Plate, 1981 

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1519: The Biden Administration accuses China of attacking Microsoft. Stephen Yates @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-07-20T02:31:30

Photo: Dutch attack on the Chinese city of Chittat (Chi'ta), November 16, 1662. In connection with the expeditions of the VOC of 1662-1668 led by Balthasar Bort against the Chinese warlord Cox...

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1519: The Cultural Revolution in 1966 when she was seven. Xi Van Fleet, and Gordon Chang @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-07-20T02:30:04

Photo:  The Chinese leader Mao Zedong inaugurated the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in August, 1966. It was was intended as a means of restoring the spirit of the Chinese Revolution. M...

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1519: 2/2 The Supreme Court, Facebook, and the White House.@RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2021-07-20T02:29:12

Photo: Portrait of Robert Gallahan, White House Plumber






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1519: 1/2 The Supreme Court, Facebook, and the White House. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2021-07-20T02:28:16

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1518: 4/4 Afghanistan — Reawakening of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. @ThomasJoscelyn @FDD from 2021-07-20T02:23:51

Photo: Afghan Girl Scouts 1950s






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1518: 3/4 Afghanistan — Al Qaeda takes a victory lap. @ThomasJoscelyn @FDD from 2021-07-20T02:23:15

Photo: Arabic document found in an Al Qaeda safehouse -






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1517: 2/4 Afghanistan — Moscow, Delhi and Beijing: watching. @ThomasJoscelyn @FDD from 2021-07-20T02:16:38

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1517: 1/4 Afghanistan — The ring of fire closes in on Kabul City. @ThomasJoscelyn @FDD from 2021-07-20T02:13:29

Photo: Nighttime commerce, Kabul—before the current crisis.



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1516: AI defense as critical as AI offense. Patrick Tucker @DefPatTech @DefenseOne from 2021-07-20T00:19:55

Photo:  Artificial intelligence defense: The figure shows two chaotic systems starting in very different places in their orbits, but soon synchronize and do a "dance" much like synchronized sw...

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1516: The Data Wars vs Russia and China. Patrick Tucker @DefPatTech @DefenseOn from 2021-07-20T00:19:52

Photo:   A room in Montreal City Hall littered with magazines, parcels and various documents of Communist allegiance confiscated under the law of the padlock, in particular The Moscow Revi...

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1516: Fretful, puzzling Freedom Day in the UK. Vicki Barker @CBSNews London from 2021-07-20T00:19:49

Photo: Britannia carrying a staff topped with a liberty cap and followed by attendants from a temple in the background on the right, advancing over weapons and a shield decorated with fleur-de...

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1516: Everyone grabs a mop and boots for the clean-up. Chris Livesay @CBSNews Germany from 2021-07-20T00:19:47

Photo: Floodwaters in Germany.



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1516: #NewWorldReport: Latin America learns to deal with a China that is not trustworthy. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal. Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-07-20T00:19:38

Photo: Architecture from, China to Peru, over the Andes: A journey through South America ... With Reports and Letters on British Interests ... by Col. Howard Vincent, etc.
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1516: #NewWorldReport: Colombia's Independence Day and the bad actors who plan to attack. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal. Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-07-20T00:17:29

Photo: El Tiempo de Colombia, 1928

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1516: #NewWorldReport: Cuba is the nexus for Moscow, Managua, Caracas, Tehran. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org from 2021-07-20T00:17:27

Photo: Painting, "The Effects of Good and Bad Government," at the William Kenzo Nakamura U.S. Courthouse, Seattle, Washington








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1516: #NewWorldReport: Is AMLO using corruption charges against former ministers to fend off corruption charges at AMLO? Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-07-20T00:17:14

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1516: #PodcastExtra: #PacificWatch: The masking, unmasking, of LA County; & What is to be done? @JCBliss #FriendsoftheHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-07-19T03:01

Photo: .Barbers in California wearing masks during [an earlier] epidemic.



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1516: #HeartlandNation: Moscow losing control of its 62-year-old Cuba colony. H. J. Mackinder, International Relations #FriendsoftheHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-07-19T03:00

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1516: Moscow losing control of its 62-year-old Cuba colony. H. J. Mackinder, International Relations from 2021-07-19T03:00

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1515: Roya Hakakian #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. May 29, 2021 from 2021-07-19T02:18:04

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1515: Jeff McCausland #Unbound. The complete forty-minute interview. May 21, 2021. from 2021-07-19T02:16:37

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1515: J. H. Gelernter #Unbound. The complete, twenty-minute interview. May 3, 2021. LXX GLXXG from 2021-07-19T02:15:14

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1515: J. H. Gelernter #Unbound. The complete, twenty-minute interview. May 3, 2021. LXX from 2021-07-19T02:15:14

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1515: C. J. Carey #UNBOUND: The complete, 20-minute interview, June 26, 2021 from 2021-07-19T02:09:44

Photo: The Duke and Duchess with Adolf Hitler, 1937.

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1515: John Tamny #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. March 28, 2021. from 2021-07-19T02:08:52

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1515: Michael Auslin #Unbound. The complete, twenty-minute interview. May 12, 2021. LXX GLXXG from 2021-07-19T02:06:33

Photo: A junk from Through Unexplored Asia ... Illustrated by L. J. Bridgman.

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1515: Michael Auslin #Unbound. The complete, twenty-minute interview. May 12, 2021. LXX from 2021-07-19T02:06:33

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1515: Russell Shorto #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, April 22, 2021. from 2021-07-19T02:05:13

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1515: "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. from 2021-07-19T02:04:17

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1515: Angel Iscovich #Unbound: the complete, twenty-minute interview, June 19, 2021. from 2021-07-19T02:02:29

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1515: Patrick O'Donnell. #Unbound. The complete, eighty-minute interview, June 6, 2021. LXX. from 2021-07-19T01:56:29

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1515: James Tooley #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview. May 14, 2021. from 2021-07-19T01:54:25

Photo:.Burning of the 'Tin School' January 5, 1945

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1515: David Grantham #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview, April 5, 2021. from 2021-07-19T01:53:41

Photo: Spc. Anil Parshad, criminal investigation special agent, 2nd Special Troops Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, cuts a rug with Spc. Lucy O'Dell, health care spec...

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1515: Charlie Pellegrino #Unbound: the complete, twenty-minute interview, June 18, 2021. LXX GLXXG from 2021-07-19T00:00

Photo: Eruption of the volcano Vesuvius, 1631.



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1515: Holly Fretwell #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. April 12, 2021. LXX GLXXG from 2021-07-19T00:00

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1515: Charlie Pellegrino #Unbound: the complete, twenty-minute interview, June 18, 2021. LXX from 2021-07-19T00:00

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1515: Holly Fretwell #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. April 12, 2021. LXX from 2021-07-19T00:00

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1515: Terry Anderson #Unbound. The complete forty-minute interview. April 6, 2021 LXX from 2021-07-19T00:00

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1515: Jerry Hendrix #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, March 23, 2021 from 2021-07-19T00:00

Photo: The Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Chosin (CG 65) and the Russian Navy Udaloy-class destroyer Marshal Shaposhnikov (DDGHM 543) sail in formation ...

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1514: #PodcastExtra: #PacificWatch: Opening Day at Del Mar and no mask in sight. @JCBliss #FriendsoftheHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-07-18T02:09:06

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1514: #PodcastExtra: The Communist Cuba regime is the entire problem. @ThadMcCotter #FriendsoftheHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-07-18T02:07:10

Photo: Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev make their way in the midst of a crowd / World Telegram & Sun photo by Herman Hiller.

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1513: #PodcastExtra: #TheGreatMigration: In Vilnius, the Lithuanians engage in an escalating information war with the Russian Federation. Michael Yon, Locals.com/YON #FriendsoftheHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-07-18T00:59:15

Photo: Office of War Information poster (OWI). Poster distributed by the OWI to manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, banks, liquor stores, taprooms, hotels, bars, beauty parlors, barber shop...

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1513: #PodcastExtra: 2/2: #Londinium90AD: General Milley's reported remark: "We're the guys with the guns." Michael Vlahos. #FriendsoftheHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-07-18T00:53:26

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1513: #PodcastExtra: 1/2: #Londinium90AD: Gaius & Germanicus remember with foreboding the Year of Four Emperors. Michael Vlahos. #FriendsoftheHistoryDebatingSociety from 2021-07-18T00:53:22

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1511: #SmallBusinessAmerica: Our pets, our pandemic devotion.@GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2021-07-17T01:21:30

Photo: Theodore Roosevelt's pet one-legged rooster

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1511: #SmallBusinessAmerica: Rise of the Right to Repair Cadres, led by Wozniak. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2021-07-17T01:21:25

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1511: #GuestPodcast: Four Star Forum with Gen. David L. Goldfein, USAF (ret.), former chief of staff of the United States Air Force. @FRoseDC from 2021-07-17T01:21:19

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1512: Fintech Start-Up Planet. Matthieu Favas @TheEconomist from 2021-07-17T01:09:25

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1512: China bills the UN. @JoshRogin @WashingtonPost from 2021-07-17T01:08:46

Photo:  Chinese money changer on a street of Kansu*, a crossroads of the big commercial roads linking China, Tibet, interior Mongolia, Kokonor, Turkestan, and the Sinkiang**.

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1512: The Buckeye State prospers while Washington squabbles. Dan Henninger @WSJOpinion from 2021-07-17T01:07:45

Photo: Mule Deet on hind legs to reach green Buckeye leaves.






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1512: California drought: La Niña will not bring relief. Jeff Bliss @JCBliss #PacificWatch from 2021-07-17T01:06:50

Photo:  La Niña, the counterpart to El Nino, alters rainfall patterns over the Pacific and Indian Ocean basins. La Nina develops when stronger-than-average trade winds push the warm surface wa...

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1511: The last best hope for fixing Hubble remotely. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com LXX GLXXG from 2021-07-17T01:03:32

Photo: Hubble View of a Dying Star

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1511: The last best hope for fixing Hubble remotely. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com LXX from 2021-07-17T01:03:32

Photo: Hubble View of a Dying Star

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1511: 21st Century Regulating a Texas spaceport. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com LXX GLXXG from 2021-07-17T01:03:28

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1511: 21st Century Regulating a Texas spaceport. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com LXX from 2021-07-17T01:03:28

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1510: 8/8 Adrian Wooldridge, author: The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World, PART 2 from 2021-07-17T00:49:28

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1510: 7/8 Adrian Wooldridge, author: The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World, PART 2 from 2021-07-17T00:48:53

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1510: 6/8 Adrian Wooldridge, author: The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World, PART 2 from 2021-07-17T00:48:14

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1510: 5/8 Adrian Wooldridge, author: The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World, PART 2 from 2021-07-17T00:47:42

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1510: 4/8 Adrian Wooldridge, author: The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World, PART 1 from 2021-07-17T00:47:07

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1510: 3/8 Adrian Wooldridge, author: The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World, PART 1 from 2021-07-17T00:46:07

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1510: 2/8 Adrian Wooldridge, author: The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World, PART 1 from 2021-07-17T00:45:33

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1510: 1/8 Adrian Wooldridge, author: The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World, PART 1 from 2021-07-17T00:44:18

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1509: #HotelMars: Helping to build a moon colony in 3-D online. Kim Holder, Moonwards.com. David Livingston. moonwards.com from 2021-07-16T00:47:18

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1509: #TheScalaReport: Ohio reforms taxes on enterprise to attract investment; & What is to be done? Chris Riegel, CEO @ScalaInc @STRATACACHE from 2021-07-16T00:41:52

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1509: Azzurri: A silence at the moment of victory, and then an explosion of joy. Lorenzo Fiori. Ansaldo Foundation, Genoa and Milano. from 2021-07-16T00:31:26

Photo: Italian football team at Arena Civica in Milan, 15 May 1910, before the match against France.



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1509: Lagarde of the ECB follows exactly the monetary uncertainty of Jerome Powell of Federal Reserve. @VerodeRugy @Mercatus from 2021-07-16T00:21:14

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1509: Tehran threatens 90% enrichment unless. Benham ben Taleblu @FDD from 2021-07-16T00:08:25

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1509: Tehran agents plot to abduct an American citizen from Manhattan. Benham ben Taleblu @FDD from 2021-07-16T00:07:14

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1509: Will Erin O'Toole challenge Justin Trudeau on the sluggish double vaccination protocols? @ConradMBlack @NationalPost from 2021-07-16T00:03:45

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1509: Cuban healthcare is falsehood; & What is to be done? @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion from 2021-07-15T23:59:35

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1508: 4/4 Preparing for the worst-case Taiwan. Admiral Gary Roughead,USN (ret) @Adm_GaryR ; and Professor Joe Felter, @HooverInst from 2021-07-15T23:50:25

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1508: 3/4 Preparing for the worst-case Taiwan. Admiral Gary Roughead,USN (ret) @Adm_GaryR ; and Professor Joe Felter, @HooverInst from 2021-07-15T23:49:31

Photo:  The Self-Sacrifice of Pastor Hambroeck on Formosa, 1661



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1508: 2/4 Preparing for the worst-case Taiwan. Admiral Gary Roughead,USN (ret) @Adm_GaryR ; and Professor Joe Felter, @HooverInst from 2021-07-15T23:48:32

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1508: 1/4 Preparing for the worst-case Taiwan. Admiral Gary Roughead,USN (ret) @Adm_GaryR ; and Professor Joe Felter, @HooverInst from 2021-07-15T23:48:02

Photo:  Preface by Arthur W. Hummel reads: An album on the aborigines in Taiwan (Formosa).  The album depicts vividly the conditions of Formosa of about a century ago [close to two centuries t...

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1508: 2/2 Iran's Zarif claims the U.S. is willing to lift nearly all Iran sanctions for return to dangerous 2015 nuclear deal. Aaron Klein @aaronkleinshow from 2021-07-15T23:45

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1508: 1/2 Iran's Zarif claims the U.S. is willing to lift nearly all Iran sanctions for return to dangerous 2015 nuclear deal. Aaron Klein @aaronkleinshow from 2021-07-15T23:44:13

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1507: 1/2 The Chinese plan to take over the global telecommunication rule book; & What is to be done? Emily de la Bruyere & Nathan Picarsi, @FDD https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2021/06/30/international-telecommunication-union/ from 2021-07-15T02:15:25

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1507: 1/2 The Chinese plan to take over the global aviation rule book; & What is to be done? Emily de la Bruyere & Nathan Picarsi, @FDD from 2021-07-15T02:15:25

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1506: Brave little Ingenuity is the delight of the mission. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-07-15T01:51:22

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1506: Market-makers not quite in orbit. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-07-15T01:39:06

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1505: Readiness in East Asia and the Surface Warfare Officer class of the US Navy, 2021. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. James Holmes @TheNavalWarCollege from 2021-07-15T01:15:53

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1505: PLA Air Force provokes Taiwan with 1960s antique; & What is to be done? @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-07-15T01:12:33

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1505: Delta variant sweeps Russia from the Moscow metro to the black earth of Tambov. Felix_Light @CBSNews from 2021-07-15T00:57:40

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1505: Ninety-seven percent of India believes in God: Hindu, Moslem and Christian. Sadanand @Dhume @WSJOpinion from 2021-07-15T00:57:38

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1504: "If you ignore the parts of the data you don't like, you're going to make a mistake." @Henry Curr @TheEconomist London from 2021-07-15T00:38:26

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1504: What can go wrong and why in the global recovery? Henry Curr @TheEconomist from 2021-07-15T00:34:02

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1504: #KabulDiary: Siege tactics in a warlord war. Jeff McCausland @CBSNews from 2021-07-15T00:30:03

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1504: #KabulDiary: Turkey at the airport. Jeff McCausland @CBSNews from 2021-07-15T00:30

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1504: Scotland masks until Christmas. Simon Constable Edinburgh, Scotland. @TheRealConstable from 2021-07-15T00:10

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1504: Food security and petrol supply at risk in Johannesburg and Durban disorder. @Debora_Patta @CBSNews from 2021-07-15T00:05:13

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1504: 2/2: The middle three of the Roberts Court @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2021-07-14T23:59:47

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1504: 1/2: The middle three of the Roberts Court @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2021-07-14T23:59:43

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1504: 2/2: The discovered joys of Route 20 Small Town America? SalenaZito.com. @DCExaminer from 2021-07-14T23:59:36

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1504: 1/2: The discovered joys of Route 20 Small Town America? SalenaZito.com. @DCExaminer from 2021-07-14T23:59:33

Photo: Sign for US 20 along with the sign for State Route 7 in Conneaut, Ohio.



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1503: 2/2. Ukraine has the largest lithium deposit in Europe. Jim Brooke, Ukraine Business News. from 2021-07-14T02:11:32

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1503: 1/2. Ukraine begs Germany to turn off Nordstream2 Jim Brooke, Ukraine Business News. from 2021-07-14T02:10:07

Photo:   Fair (Little Rus), 1885 oil on canvas painting by Vladimir Egorovich Makovsky.



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1503: 2/2. Who gave manpads to the Tigray Popular Liberation Front, and why? Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-07-14T02:07:34

Photo:  Hand Cross (mäsqäl q?ddase or yä??an). Metropolitan Museum of Art.




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1503: 1/2. China lacks water, food and security, and Xi knows it. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-07-14T02:06:35

Photo: Grain. A home mill. Women and children take the place of the donkey in all but prosperous homes

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1503: 4/4. #NewWorldReport What are the patterns of street protests in South America? Ecuador, Chile, Colombia, Brazil. Buenos Aires, Caracas, Managua, Bogota. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal. Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https:// from 2021-07-14T02:03:54

Photo:  Conscripted soldiers of the Nicaraguan Army, Managua, Nicaragua, C.A.




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1503: 3/4. #NewWorldReport The most powerful unions in South America are the teachers’s unions. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal. Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org from 2021-07-14T02:03:23

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3/4. #NewWorldReport  The most powerful unions in South America are the teachers’s unions. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @...

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1503: 2/4. #NewWorldReport Haiti is the poorest country in the New World; and what is to be done? Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal. Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org from 2021-07-14T01:59:58

Photo: A free, naturopathic health clinic among the poorest Haitian villagers, set up in Haiti by a Tibetan Buddhist nun and a Vajrayana monk.  Here:  Robinson takes Marie Lucie to treat a per...

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1503: 1/4. #NewWorldReport Cuba is the second-poorest country in the New World. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal. Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org from 2021-07-14T01:58:50

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1502: #LondonCalling: London Parks become London Lakes after the deluge of football hooligans and rain @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-07-14T01:56:41

Photo: Kew Gardens, with bridge over lake; London, England




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1502: #LondonCalling: Boris Johnson hesitates on what can happen after July 19 @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-07-14T01:56:35

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1502: #LondonCalling: Transitory inflation continues to rise from groceries to used cars. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-07-14T01:56:34

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1502: #LondonCalling: The ECB is changing its thinking about inflation; & What is to be done? @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion. from 2021-07-14T01:49:45

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1502: International Criminal Court: ". . . while it ignores real crimes, both by dictators and its own employees." Orde Kittrie @FDD LXX from 2021-07-14T01:38:54

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1502: International Criminal Court: ". . . while it ignores real crimes, both by dictators and its own employees." Orde Kittrie @FDD LXX GLXXG from 2021-07-14T01:38:54

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1502: Free Trade, says Macron, is for the worker, not for the job; & What is to be done?. David Henderson @HooverInst LXX from 2021-07-14T01:35:33

Photo: Free trade: Storck Harbour scene.



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1502: Free Trade, says Macron, is for the worker, not for the job; & What is to be done?. David Henderson @HooverInst LXX GLXXG from 2021-07-14T01:35:33

Photo: Free trade: Storck Harbour scene.



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1502: Tehran orders its proxies to attack the process of normalization in the Abraham Accords. Tony Badran @FDD from 2021-07-14T01:31:51

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1502: The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) is long out of date. Tony Badran, @FDD from 2021-07-14T01:24:19

Photo: UNIFIL Sisu Pasi in the snow, close to the Israeli border in South-Lebanon, 1998



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1501: 2/2 The Birth of the Amazon Forest. Carlos Jaramillo, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. @ScienceMagazine from 2021-07-13T02:38:14

Photo:  The banks of the Amazon forest



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1501: 1/2 The Birth of the Amazon Forest. Carlos Jaramillo, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. @ScienceMagazine from 2021-07-13T02:37:38

Photo: Workers Making Their Meals in Front of a Shack in Palmeiras - 508, USP Paulista Museum Collection



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1501: 2/2 Eric Adams aims to be the big, prosperous, practical-ideas mayor. @Siegel, Harry, @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNews from 2021-07-13T02:35:52

Photo: The three mares/mayors, New York course, spring races, 1838






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1501: Fraser Howie (co-author, Red Capitalism) and @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-07-13T02:22:38

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1501: Huawei; and Hostage Diplomacy Fails Again in Canada Charles Burton and @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-07-13T02:21:29

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1501: 2/2 The longtime tragedy of Haiti; & What is to be done? Amy Wilentz @TheNation, University of California Irvine from 2021-07-13T02:20:25

Photo: Toussaint Louverture.



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1500: 1/2 The longtime tragedy of Haiti; & What is to be done? Amy Wilentz @TheNation, University of California Irvine from 2021-07-13T02:18:25

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1499: The fresh growth of Christina Lake cannabis in the burgeoning THC and CBD oils marketplace. Joel Dumaresq, CEO & Director, Christina Lake Cannabis, British Columbia, Canada. from 2021-07-13T01:42:16

Photo: Marijuana leaf, sand sculpture contest, Canonchet Beach, Rhode Island




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1499: 4/4: The Long War Journal map of Afghanistan tells the story of the decline and fall of Resolute Support; and the rise of the Taliban and its Al Qaeda brethren. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD from 2021-07-13T01:31:14

Photo: The Second Afghan War 1878-1880

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1499: 3/4: The Long War Journal map of Afghanistan tells the story of the decline and fall of Resolute Support; and the rise of the Taliban and its Al Qaeda brethren. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD LXX from 2021-07-13T01:31:10

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1499: 3/4: The Long War Journal map of Afghanistan tells the story of the decline and fall of Resolute Support; and the rise of the Taliban and its Al Qaeda brethren. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD LXX GLXXG from 2021-07-13T01:31:10

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1499: 2/4: The Long War Journal map of Afghanistan tells the story of the decline and fall of Resolute Support; and the rise of the Taliban and its Al Qaeda brethren. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD from 2021-07-13T01:31:07

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1499: 1/4: The Long War Journal map of Afghanistan tells the story of the decline and fall of Resolute Support; and the rise of the Taliban and its Al Qaeda brethren. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD from 2021-07-13T01:31:05

Photo:   Sultan Alauddin Khalji.  Copied from old school textbook of Afghanistan.



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1499: The PRC moves to command a myriad of 20th-century utopian international bodies; & What is to be done? @CliffordDMay @FDD LXX from 2021-07-13T01:26:46

Photo:  A promotional poster of D'Oyly Carte's Opera Co. in Utopia, Limited, Gilbert & Sullivan's opera.



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1499: The Biden Administration accepts big risks in departing Afghanistan. Katrina vanden Heuvel @KatNation @TheNation @WashingtonPost from 2021-07-13T01:09:41

Photo: Afghan children pose for a picture during a visit to the Shamal Bridge project by Provincial Reconstruction Team Khost, Sept. 22..



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1499: Nobody much likes big social media; & What is to be done? @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews from 2021-07-13T01:06:51

Photo: ARPANET logical map circa 1977.





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1499: China discards investors in order to corral Didi and Tik-Tok. @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews from 2021-07-13T01:05:34

Photo: Text to the picture: "Greetings from Uddevalla".



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1498: C. J. Carey #UNBOUND: The complete, 20-minute interview, June 26, 2021 from 2021-07-12T01:34:08

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1498: Josh Rogin #Unbound: the complete, eighty-minute interview, March 21, 2021 from 2021-07-12T01:33:52

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1498: Holly Fretwell #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. April 12, 2021. from 2021-07-12T01:16:01

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1498: John Tamny #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. March 28, 2021. from 2021-07-12T01:12:58

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1498: "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. from 2021-07-12T01:06:58

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1498: Russell Shorto #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, April 22, 2021. from 2021-07-12T01:05:16

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1498: Terry Anderson #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. April 6, 2021 from 2021-07-12T01:04:19

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1498: Angel Iscovich #Unbound: the complete, twenty-minute interview, June 19, 2021. from 2021-07-12T01:03:20

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1498: Charlie Pellegrino #Unbound: the complete, twenty-minute interview, June 18, 2021. from 2021-07-12T01:02:01

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1497: Russian cyberattacks continue; & What is to be done? Professor H. J. Mackinder, International Relations LXX from 2021-07-12T01:00

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1498: Jeff McCausland #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. May 21, 2021. from 2021-07-12T00:59:53

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1498: Nick Lloyd #Unbound. The complete, eighty-minute interview. June 5, 2021. from 2021-07-12T00:58:50

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1498: Roya Hakakian #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. May 29, 2021 from 2021-07-12T00:56:04

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1498: David Grantham #Unbound. The complete forty-minute interview, April 5, 2021. from 2021-07-12T00:49:19

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1498: Jerry Hendrix #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, March 23, 2021 from 2021-07-12T00:48:39

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1498: James Tooley #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview. May 14, 2021. LXX. from 2021-07-12T00:41:20

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1498: J. H. Gelernter #Unbound. The complete, twenty-minute interview. May 3, 2021. LXX from 2021-07-12T00:35:06

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1498: Michael Auslin #Unbound. The complete, twenty-minute interview. May 12, 2021. LXX from 2021-07-12T00:34

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1498: Patrick O'Donnell. #Unbound. The complete, eighty-minute interview, June 6, 2021. LXX. from 2021-07-12T00:32:55

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1496: #PacificWatch: Pausing the Venice Beach homeless camp clean-up; and Mayor Garcetti departing for Delhi. @JCBliss from 2021-07-11T01:43:01

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1496: #PacificWatch: Lightning in the Beckwourth Complex Fire; and cooler in Death Valley at 126° F. @JCBliss from 2021-07-11T01:40:38

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1496: #GuestPodcast: Four-star forum: Admiral James Stavridis (USN ret.) is former NATO Supreme Allied Commander. Francis Rose, @FRoseDC ; @FRoseDC ; @FrancisRoseDC, WJLA-TV, from 2021-07-11T01:34:57

Photo: India-China war of 1962: Indian soldiers surrender to Chinese forces.





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1496: #TheGreatMigration: Hong-Kongers have an open invitation to emigrate to Lithuania. Michael Yon. Locals.com/MichaelYon. from 2021-07-11T00:00

Photo: Vil?na, Lithuania. Zamkovai?a?  mountain

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1496: #TheGreatMigration: Recalling the one-way mission to harass the first Cold War Soviet invasion of NATO. Michael Yon. Locals.com/MichaelYon from 2021-07-11T00:00

Photo: NATO Council Meeting, December 1952

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1493: 2/2: #TheGreatMigration: Belarus weaponizes the Lithuanian border with migrants from Baghdad. Locals.com/MichaelYon, Vilnius, Lithuania, from 2021-07-10T01:49:22

Photo: Church in Lithuania, by Ferdynand Ruszczyc.

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1493: 1/2: #TheGreatMigration: Belarus weaponizes the Lithuanian border with migrants from Baghdad. Locals.com/MichaelYon, Vilnius, Lithuania, from 2021-07-10T01:49:19

Photo: Grand Duke of Lithuania from "The Last of the Valois (Henry III.), and accession of Henry of Navarre. 1559-1589"

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1493: #Londinium: What follows the end of empire? Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-07-10T01:43:03

Photo: Ancient Roman Pavement

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1495: The PRC fails IPO Didi. @JohnTamny @RealClearMarkets from 2021-07-10T01:41:48

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1495: #TheScalaReport: Concern for the "Lockdown Cohort" and the missing year of office mentorship and sociability. Chris Riegel, CEO @ScalaInc @STRATACACHE from 2021-07-10T01:31:19

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.

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1495: PRC influence operations to sow disorder in the US. @WeifengZhong @Mercatus from 2021-07-10T01:11:52

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1495: Ingenuity on patrol. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-07-10T00:59:36

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1495: Hubble in doubt. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-07-10T00:57:52

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1495: Return to Global Normalcy in patches. James Fransham @TheEconomis from 2021-07-10T00:52:37

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1495: September Showdown for the Iran Deal and the IAEA. Anthony Ruggiero @FDD from 2021-07-10T00:45:52

Photo: Fifth Annual IAEA (International Conference on the Safe and Secure Transport of Radioactive Material). Takahashi (alternate from Japan), Chairman Glenn Seaborg, Miki (delegate from Japa...

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1494: 4/4 A Round of Golf with My Father, by William Damon. from 2021-07-10T00:21:37

Photo:  Grand golf tournament by professional players on Leith Links, 17th May 1867




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1494: 3/4 A Round of Golf with My Father, by William Damon. from 2021-07-10T00:21:03

Photo: Danseuse — a French ballerina.




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1494: 2/4 A Round of Golf with My Father, by William Damon. from 2021-07-10T00:20:33

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1494: 1/4 A Round of Golf with My Father, by William Damon. from 2021-07-10T00:20:01

Photo:   Granny Clark's Wynd (road) in the foreground on the 18th hole on the Old Course, 18th (Tom Morris) Hole, St Andrews.



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1494: 2/2 #Smallbusinessamerica: The SBA does have cash for those asking. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer #SmallBusinessAmerica from 2021-07-10T00:17:33

Photo: VISIT TO KELLY NASA BY WILLIAM D LEWIS, SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION/SBA; COLUMBUS, OHIO






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1494: 1/2 #SmallBusinessAmerica: Fresh concern for the mental health of the returning workforce. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer #SmallBusinessAmerica from 2021-07-10T00:16:08

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1/2      #SmallBusinessAmerica:  Fresh concern for the mental health of the returning workforce. @GeneMarks  @Guardian @PhillyInquirer  #SmallBusin...

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1493: Marine Corps tries 3-D printing in the field. Francis Rose, @FRoseDC @WJLA from 2021-07-10T00:08:45

Photo:  3-D printing (screen grab)





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1493: Much hotter, much thirstier, much wildfire. Jeff Bliss @JCBliss #PacificWatch from 2021-07-10T00:07:05

Photo: Berryman Political Cartoon Collection:  Sweltering Heat.



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1492: 2/2 SCOTUS secures the Takings Clause, 6-3. @RichardAEpstein from 2021-07-09T02:24:54

Photo:  U.S. Supreme Court, woman in foreground






2/2  SCOTUS secures the Takings Clause, 6-3.  @RichardAEpstein

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1492: 1/2 SCOTUS secures the Takings Clause, 6-3. @RichardAEpstein from 2021-07-09T02:23:59

Photo: U.S. Supreme Court exteriors. Statue of Contemplation of Law at U.S. Supreme Court, 




 

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1492: 2/2 UNWRA is not honest; & What is to be done? Richard Goldberg @FDD Press from 2021-07-09T02:22:13

Photo:  Northern Palestinian territory






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1490: 3/4: "Peopling of the Americas as inferred from ancient genomics." David J. Meltzer, SMU. @NatureMagazine from 2021-07-09T01:59:53

Photo: Engraving after Jacques le Moyne, showing the burial of a Timucua chief.



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1490: 2/4: "Peopling of the Americas as inferred from ancient genomics." David J. Meltzer, SMU. @NatureMagazine from 2021-07-09T01:59:23

Photo: A depiction of the Serpent Moundin southern Ohio—Marietta—as published in the magazine The Century, April 1890

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1491: 1/2 UNWRA is not honest; & What is to be done? Richard Goldberg @FDD Press from 2021-07-09T01:54:56

Photo: UNWRA top nongovernmental donors: Islamic Relief; Welfare Association; UNWRA US & UNWRA EspanaA





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1490: The long-term security crisis of Haiti; & What is to be done? @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion from 2021-07-09T01:50:02

Photo: The French Army takes Cap Francais.  







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1490: Port-au-Prince lacks food security in the emergency shelter-in-place. Magilie Noel Dresse, Port-au-Prince. from 2021-07-09T01:44:58

Photo: Slums in the area of Bas-Ravine, in the northern part of Cap-Haïtien.
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1490: Canada investigates the unmarked graves of Indigenous Peoples church-sponsored schools. @NationalPost @ConradMBlack from 2021-07-09T01:40:36

Photo: Inuk in a kayak, c. 1908–1914.



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1490: Is space tourism a fad or a market? Hotel Mars: David Livingston, SpaceShow.com; Leonard David, LeonardDavid.com from 2021-07-09T01:37:27

Photo: The Virgin Galactic founder Sir Richard Branson (second from right) will launch on the company's first fully crewed flight on July 11, 2021 as part of a six-person crew. They are (from ...

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1490: Azzurri vs Three Lions. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation, Genoa from 2021-07-09T01:36:13

Photo:  The Azzurri face England at Wembley on Sunday after beating Spain in the s...

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1490: The new normal for Hollywood is streaming. Tom Wainwright @TheEconomist. from 2021-07-09T01:35:19

Photo:  Festival Hall from a theatrical scene




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1490: The Biden Administration quietly welcomes the "unacceptable" Kingdom @JoshRogin from 2021-07-09T01:34:27

Photo: Secretary of Defense Ash Carter greets the Saudi Arabian Minister of Defense Mohammad bin Salman as they meet at NATO headquarters in Brussels to discuss matters of mutual importance Fe...

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1490: The Central Bankers reconsider the rapid recovery. Veronique de Rugy, @veroderugy @Mercatus. from 2021-07-09T01:33:32

Photo:  The club of Manchuria central bank




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1489: Xi Jinping says he can conquer the world. Charles Burton McDonald Laurier Institute; and @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-07-08T04:03:12

Photo:  A Sabine man wanted to offer his exceptionally big and beautiful cow to Diana to procure world domination for the Sabines in accordance with the prediction of an oracle/.  The Roman pr...

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1489: Beijing flunks the modern business plan IPO Didi. Charles Ortel and @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-07-08T03:57:52

Photo:  The Chinese ride-sharing behemoth DiDi Chuxing filed for its U.S. IP...

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1489: India watches China and Pakistan move into Afghanistan. @CleoPaskal @FDD Press and Gordon Chang @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-07-08T03:55:32

Photo:  Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the North-West Frontier Province along the Afghanistan–Pakistan border. Here:  Aerial view of flood damage taken during humanitarian relief efforts in the Khyber-Pa...

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1488: Solar Flare X1.5 Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-07-08T03:50:26

Photo:  Solar Flare.  Scanogram of solar flares shot from Skylab. NASA Identifier: S74-17573

 

 

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1488: Branson vs Bezos suborbital showdown. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-07-08T03:49:33

 Photo:  An illustration of Newton's cannon, which describes how gravity connects motion of everyday objects on Earth to motion of celestial objects such as the Moon.

 
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1488: Russian Orthodox Church declares nonvaccination a sin. Felix Light, @MoscowNews from 2021-07-08T03:48:24

Photo:  Chapel, Valaam Monastery, in the madly beautiful Karelia, northern Russia

 

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1487: Russia and Cozy Bear check NATO, Washington and the Taliban. @ Felix_Light @CBSNews from 2021-07-08T03:45:17

 Photo:  A soldier stands guard over the ancient city built by Alexander the Great at Khujand, Tajikistan.

 

 

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1486: Afghanistan National Army units fleeing into Tajikistan; & What is to be done? Jeff McCausland @CBSNews from 2021-07-08T02:09:35

Photo: Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Tajiks, Dzhakhri Sect 

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1486: Awakened by gunshots and assassination reports in Port-au-Prince. Magalie Noel Dresse, Port-au-Prince. from 2021-07-08T02:05:59

Photo: This landscape view provides an elevated perspective of the harbor of Port-au-Prince, the capital city of Haiti. The view is from south to north, with the bulk of the developed town on ...

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1486: The sudden price of wheat in a global drought. Simon Constable @TheRealConstable from 2021-07-08T02:00:26

Photo: Winter wheat. Whitman County, Washington

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1486: Remembering Donald Rumsfeld and the spilled ink incident, August 2006. SalenaZito.com @DCExaminer from 2021-07-08T01:54:43

Photo: Inkwell

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1486: Donald Rumsfeld (1932-2021) did not believe in the Pottery Barn rule. @AmbJohnBolton from 2021-07-08T01:51:28

Photo: Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld testifying at a Senate hearing on the Defense Department budget WKL

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1486: Jacob Zuma and his Zulu supporters defy the court. @johnpmcdermott @TheEconomist from 2021-07-08T01:48:29

Photo: Logo for Umkhonto we Sizwe*, Spear of the Nation: an organization co-founded by Nelson Mandela in the wake of the Sharpevill...

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1486: New York City needs everything. @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNews. from 2021-07-08T01:40:44

Photo: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.



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1486: Eric Adams from Brooklyn and Queens to City Hall 2022. @HarrySiegel@NYDaily News. from 2021-07-08T01:40:41

Photo: Classic New York City brownstone apartment building in the Boro Park (often spelled Borough Park) neighborhood in New York City's Brooklyn borough. Brownstone, a brown Triassic-Jurassic...

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1476: 2/2: Happy Birthday Nation Magazine, 156 years of sober, unpopular, compelling anti-imperialism. Katrina vanden Heuvel, Publisher @TheNation @katnation from 2021-07-07T01:23:25

Photo:   The Nation magazine.





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1476: 1/2: Happy Birthday Nation Magazine, 156 years of sober, unpopular, compelling anti-imperialism. Katrina vanden Heuvel, Publisher @TheNation @katnation from 2021-07-07T01:23:22

Photo: The Evening Post and The Nation, 210 Broadway, Manhattan, New York.



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1485: 2/2 Ceuta is the promised land. #TheGreatMigration ; locals.com/MichaelYon and Chuck Holton ; locals.com/ChuckHolton. from 2021-07-07T01:09:15

Photo:  Ceuta (Spanish Morocco) 1928-




2/2   Ceuta is the promised land.  #TheGreatMigration

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1476: Back-to-work tall bank buildings; & What is to be done? @LizPeek @TheHill from 2021-07-07T01:08:50

Photo:  Bank of America Corporate Center. Public domain.



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1485: 1/2 Ceuta is the promised land. #TheGreatMigration ; locals.com/MichaelYon and Chuck Holton; locals.com/ChuckHolton. from 2021-07-07T01:08:35

Photo:  Ceuta from "The Story of Africa and its Explorers.




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1485: 2/2 War Drums on the Blue Nile Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs. from 2021-07-07T01:06:49

Photo:  1719 Mallet Map of the Source of the Nile, Ethiopia (Abyssinia) - Geographicus






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1476: Even the EU is in recovery thanks to the vaccines. @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews from 2021-07-07T01:06:19

Photo: NATIONAL VACCINE & ANTITOXIN INST.

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1485: 1/2 War Drums on the Blue Nile Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs. from 2021-07-07T01:05:07

Photo:  Sudan. Khartoum. Bridge across Blue Nile from Khartoum to Khartoum north




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1484: 4/4. Romeo and Juliet in Lockdown. Joseph Sternberg, WSJ London, @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinions from 2021-07-07T01:00:18

Photo: Romeo and Juliet



4/4.  Romeo and Juliet in Lockdown.  Joseph Sternberg, WSJ London, @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinions

 

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1483: #NewWorldReport: Panama seeks to exit the Gray List. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal ; Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-07-07T00:56:44

Photo: Diagram of triangular arbitrage in the foreign exchange market.



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1483: #NewWorldReport: Failing food security in Cuba. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-07-07T00:52:14

Photo: Waiting for distribution of food before Consul Brice's office; Cuba.

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1484: 2/4. The New Rules of London Virus. Joseph Sternberg, WSJ London, @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinions from 2021-07-07T00:49:31

Photo:  1665 London plague:  Two men discovering a dead woman in the street.



2/4.  The New Rules of London Virus.  Joseph Sternberg, WSJ London, @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinions<...

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1483: #NewWorldReport: Undermining Bolsonaro in the time of the virus. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-07-07T00:48:36

Photo: Jair Bolsonaro and two of his sons, Eduardo and Flávio, in the late 1980s.





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1484: 1/4. China's many weaknesses. Joseph Sternberg, WSJ London, @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinions from 2021-07-07T00:48:07

Photo: Chinese girl.   Photo form Peking (1906) by Sanshichiro Yamamoto.



1/4. China's many weaknesses.  Joseph Sternberg, WSJ London, @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinions

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1483: #NewWorldReport: Colombia crackdown on disorder Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-07-07T00:43:11

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1482: #GuestPodcast: Four Star Forum with Gen. Norton Schwartz, USAF (ret.), former chief-of-staff United States Air Force. @FRoseDC from 2021-07-06T01:07:16

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1481: Charlie Pellegrino #Unbound: the complete, twenty-minute interview, June 18, 2021. from 2021-07-06T00:00

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1480: 2/2: #HeartlandNation: Is Putin a Russian version of Plato's Philosopher King? H. J. Mackinder, Professor of International Relations from 2021-07-06T00:00

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1480: 1/2: #HeartlandNation: Is Putin a Russian version of Plato's Philosopher King? H. J. Mackinder, Professor of International Relations from 2021-07-06T00:00

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1480: Patrick O'Donnell. #Unbound. The complete, eighty-minute interview, June 6, 2021. from 2021-07-06T00:00

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1481: Angel Iscovich #Unbound: the complete, twenty-minute interview, June 19, 2021. from 2021-07-05T00:25:54

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1480: Terry Anderson #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. April 6, 2021 from 2021-07-05T00:22:41

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1480: Russell Shorto #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, April 22, 2021. from 2021-07-05T00:22:13

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1480: Roya Hakakian #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. May 29, 2021 from 2021-07-05T00:21:58

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1480: John Tamny #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. March 28, 2021. from 2021-07-05T00:21:32

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1480: J. H. Gelernter #Unbound. The complete, twenty-minute interview. May 3, 2021. from 2021-07-05T00:21:25

Photo: L'Espion [The Spy] d'Alphonse de Neuville, 1880.



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1480: Jeff McCausland #Unbound. The complete forty-minute interview. May 21, 2021. from 2021-07-05T00:21:05

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1480: Holly Fretwell #Unbound. The complete forty-minute interview. April 12, 2021. from 2021-07-05T00:20:39

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1480: David Grantham #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview, April 5, 2021. from 2021-07-05T00:08:36

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1480: Gordon Liddy Is My Muse, Hardcover; by John Calvin Batchelor (Author) from 2021-07-05T00:04:26

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1479: #PacificWatch: LA accidentally blows up confiscated fireworks with Baghdad-style damage.@JCBliss from 2021-07-04T01:31:48

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1479: #PacificWatch: The Battle of Venice Beach. @JCBliss from 2021-07-04T01:30

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1478: 3/3: #Londinium: Gaius and Germanicus philosophize on the limits of empires; the Church of Woke; and Climate Change. Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-07-04T00:13

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1478: 2/3: #Londinium: Gaius and Germanicus philosophize on the limits of empires; the Church of Woke; and Climate Change. Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-07-04T00:12

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1476: 1/3: #Londinium: Gaius and Germanicus philosophize on the limits of empires; the Church of Woke; and Climate Change. Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-07-04T00:11

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1478: #GreatMigration: At the Greece/Bulgaria border: funding gambling dens and not much virus concern. Michael Yon, Locals.com from 2021-07-04T00:02

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1478: #GreatMigration: At the Greece/Turkey weaponized border fence. Michael Yon, Locals.com from 2021-07-04T00:01

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1477: 2/2 Adversaries, by Ned Ryun from 2021-07-03T02:27:29

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1477: 1/2 Adversaries, by Ned Ryun from 2021-07-03T02:21:29

Photo:  Dr Joseph Warren (right) offering to serve General Israel Putnam as a private before the Battle of Bunker Hill.


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1477: WTO and UNHRC. The Dictators's Club. Craig Singleton, @FDD Press: from 2021-07-03T02:13:26

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1477: Craig Singleton, @FDD Press WHO cannot self-enforce. from 2021-07-03T02:09:57

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1476: 1/2: #LitCrit: Widowland by C .J. Carey. Paperback from 2021-07-03T01:36:53

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1476: 2/2: #LitCrit: Widowland by C. J. Carey. Paperback from 2021-07-03T01:36:52

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1476: #100: The PRC cannot figure the Biden Administration; & What is to be done? @Weifengzhong @Mercatus from 2021-07-03T01:02:30

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1476: NASA is regarded as the 2020 best federal place to work. @FRoseDC from 2021-07-03T00:53:02

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1476: #SmallBusinessAmerica: The confidence of the recovery. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2021-07-03T00:46

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1476: #SmallBusinessAmerica: Hotels rising and travel surging. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2021-07-03T00:44:41

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1476: The return of Ulysses Grant and Francis Scott Key. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion from 2021-07-03T00:39:42

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1476: #PacificWatch: Summer season wildfires, droughts, heat and brownouts. @JCBliss from 2021-07-03T00:38:10

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1476: Scrambling commercial space booster builders. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-07-03T00:33:28

Photo:  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, Falcon 9 rocket is in position for a wet dress rehearsal at Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force S...

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1476: Hubble troubles continue. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-07-03T00:31:26

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1476: 2/2: Crimea is not negotiable; & What is to be done? Anatole Lieven @QuincyInst from 2021-07-03T00:30

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1476: 1/2: Crimea is not negotiable; & What is to be done? Anatole Lieven @QuincyInst from 2021-07-03T00:29:16

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1475: The Delta Variant vs the Euro 2021 Championship. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation. from 2021-07-02T01:39:30

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1475: 2/2: Lee's Gettysburg mission was to win the war. Meade's Gettysburg mission was to outlast Lee. Jeff McCausland, @CBSNews author, Battle Tested! from 2021-07-02T01:39:06

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1475: 1/2: Lee's Gettysburg mission was to win the war. Meade's Gettysburg mission was to outlast Lee. Jeff McCausland, @CBSNews author, Battle Tested! from 2021-07-02T01:39

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1475: The Biden Administration blames bigness for the price of cable TV, chicken and baggage; & What is to be done? @VerodeRugy @Mercatus from 2021-07-02T01:19:28

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Else Marie Stai f. 1933 forer høner i hønsegården på Raknerud nordre, Helgøya.





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1474: Rivlin, Biden, Blinken, Lapid and Bennett talk Iran. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-07-02T00:58:40

Photo: Map of Asian Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan, Baluchistan and Greater Bocharia, with parts of neighboring states.

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1474: What we can know of the Vienna negotiations. Dennis Ross @AmbDennisRoss. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-07-02T00:46:19

Photo: Opening of the city railroad, Vienna 1898

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1474: #TammanyHallNeverSleeps: The NYC count surprises. @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNews from 2021-07-02T00:38:11

Photo: Cartoon concerning the Republican defeat of Tammany Hall candidates in the 1875 elections: "Tammany's Waterloo" trumpeting elephant standing on crushed remnants of "Reformed Tammany Hal...

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1474: #TheScalaReport: IPads replace wait staff, self-service is the new new, and Bigness alert. Chris Riegel, CEO @ScalaInc @STRATACACHE from 2021-07-02T00:27:59

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1474: Canada National Day and the lessons of North American history. @ConradMBlack @TheNationalPost. from 2021-07-02T00:18:33

Photo: A celebration in Canada, 1834.



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1474: #KabulDiary: The Embassy and the Airport. Charlie D'Agata @CBSNews from 2021-07-02T00:15:41

Photo: Kabul—compound site.

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1474: #100Years: Succession Unknown. The challenge by Bo Xilai. James Miles @TheEconomist. from 2021-07-02T00:04:26

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1474: #100Years: Recruiting. James Miles @TheEconomist. from 2021-07-02T00:04:20

Photo:   1952 Chinese stamp: 800 soldiers marching past peasants

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1474: #100Years: The challenge by Bo Xilai. James Miles @TheEconomist. from 2021-07-02T00:04:15

Photo: The US Secretary Gutierrez meets with the Chinese Minister Bo Xilai

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1474: #100Years: Shanghai was the birth of the China Communist Party. James Miles @TheEconomist. from 2021-07-02T00:04:13

Photo: Mao Tse-Tung, leader of China's Communists, addresses some of his followers (photo taken somewhere between 1933-1945).

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1473: The PRC vs Canada in the time of the virus. Charles Burton. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-07-01T02:37:01

Photo: Chinese Empire Reform Association of Canada member portraits.



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1473: No worthy choices for the PRC at the Communist Party's 100th anniversary. Stephen Yates. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-07-01T02:31:49

Photo: Chairman Mao delivering his opening speech for 6th National Congress of the Communist Party of China..



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1473: Hong Kong liberty failing. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. Mark Clifford, director of Next Digital, the publisher of Apple Daily. from 2021-07-01T02:26:55

Photo: Protesters carry a flag with the slogan during a demonstration at Harbour City mall on Christmas Eve 2019..

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1473: 100 years of flexibility and deception by the Chinese Communist Party. Helen Raleigh, author. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-07-01T02:24:25

Photo: Chinese Soviet Republic. In 1934, the Chinese Soviet second meeting of delegates.

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1473: #KabulDiary: South Vietnam collapsed unpredictably swiftly, 1975. @CBSNews Jeff McCausland from 2021-07-01T02:04:38

Photo: A National Front soldier in South Viet Nam.



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1474: Raptor arrives. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-07-01T02:01:05

Photo: Raptor engine delivery, Boca Chica. Screen grab.



Raptor arrives.  Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com

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1473: Vladimir Putin takes call-ins about the virus and the food prices. @Felix_Light @CBSNews @MoscowTimes from 2021-07-01T02:00:03

Photo: Russian phone booth.



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1473: The United Steelworkers Union District 10 on strike yet not hearing from the Biden Administration. SalenaZito.com from 2021-07-01T01:57:31

Photo: Steelworkers reading the newspaper, Aliquippa, Pennsylvania.



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1474: Hubble at risk. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-07-01T01:55:42

Photo: Hubble Spies Spectacular Sombrero. 




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1474: Cryptocurrency Bandits. Simon Constable, WSJ, Forbes from 2021-07-01T01:52:56

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1473: On the road to Gettysburg's 50th Reunion, 1913. SalenaZito.com @DCExaminer from 2021-07-01T01:50:02

Photo: The Gettysburg Reunion (the Great Reunion) of July 1913, which commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg.

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1473: Searching for unknown memories of Father. Bill Damon, @HooverInst from 2021-07-01T01:44:36

Photo: The Pleasures of Fatherhood.  Louis Philibert Debucourt (French, Paris 1755–1832 Paris)

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1474: Delta variant in Scotland. Simon Constable, WSJ, Forbes from 2021-07-01T01:43:02

Photo:  Scottish suffragettes, c.1906-1914.




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1473: Credit without borders. @JohnTamny @RealClearMarkets from 2021-07-01T01:38:53

Photo:  New York scenes in a Chinese gambling-house:A game of Fan-Tan in progress.

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1473: The Surfside Tragedy and the North Tower. Charles Pellegrino, author, Ghosts of Vesuvius: A New Look at the Last Days of Pompeii, How Towers Fall, and Other Strange Connections. from 2021-07-01T01:35:26

Photo: Vesuvius eruption, 1944

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1473: Pausing Iran. @AmbJohnBolton from 2021-07-01T01:33:10

Photo: The Qajar prince Abbas Mirza Farman Farmaian. From the 'Takie-e Muien El Molk' in Western Iran



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1471: Grumpy Marine Le Pen and Not-Unpopular Emmanuel Macron, with Center-Right Rivals for 2022. Sophie Pedder @PedderSophie @TheEconomist from 2021-06-30T01:12:25

Photo: Bodleian Libraries, Cri de Paris (French political cartoon)




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1471: The French vote not much in a pandemic recovery. Sophie Pedder @PedderSophie @TheEconomist. from 2021-06-30T01:12:19

Photo: L'hôpital.  Label on the cardboard below the image, with the handwritten title in black ink: "Hospice des Incurables (Porte de la Chapelle)" as well as the number of the Marvil...

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1472: 2/2 Biden's Syrian message. Andrea Stricker, @FDD @StrickerNonpro from 2021-06-30T01:08:44

Photo: Damascus. General view. Tomb of Saladin / Bonfils.




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1472: 1/2 Never nukes in Iran, and what of the JCPOA? ? Andrea Stricker, @FDD @StrickerNonpro from 2021-06-30T01:07:41

Photo: Persepolis, in Iran.



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1472: 2/2 UK/NATO vs Russia. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-06-30T01:04:51

Photo:  HMS Defender, Acheron-class destroyer (not the current version)




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1472: 1/2 Tigray vs Ethiopia. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-06-30T01:02:36

Photo:  Tigray, Processional Cross




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1471: The paradox of entitlements in a market-rollicking recovery. @LizPeek @TheHill @FixNews from 2021-06-30T01:02:07

Photo:  Economic Geyser[its real name}.  Part of series: Wonders of the Yellowstone, as Mirrored in the Camera, Views of the National Park.





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1471: Rosy recovery scenario with premium-priced roses from the US to the EU & What is to be done? @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews from 2021-06-30T00:45:47

Photo: Rose on porcelain..Den Kongelige porcelain factory - Hallwylska museet.





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1471: #LondonCalling: Wimbledon without masks or obvious distancing @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-06-30T00:35:55

Photo: Gentlemen's Doubles final at the 1897 Wimbledon Championships. Players shown are, at the near side, Reginald Doherty (left) ...

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1471: #LondonCalling: Unsolved Fed: "Talking about talking about tapering."@JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-06-30T00:35:52

Photo: Federal Reserve Board, 1917 .



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1471: #LondonCalling: Brexit always ready for a spat. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-06-30T00:35:48

Photo: Coat of arms of the United Kingdom, bearing the motto of the Order of the Garter. Above the coat of arms in letterpress the title of the book, below the imprint. (Book in Dutch.)
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1471: #PacificWatch: 116° F in British Columbia, 115° F in Portland. @JCBliss from 2021-06-30T00:17:31

Photo: Congressional Weather Forecast: Long Hot Summe.  Jim Berryman cartoon.

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1471: Hamas meets with Hizbollah in Beirut; & What is to be done? Aaron Klein @Aaron JKleinShow senior adviser to Bibi Netanyahu. from 2021-06-30T00:15:15

Photo: The Beirut explosion occurred behind the grain silos in this view..



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1471: Xi rules until succession. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-06-30T00:12:27

Photo: .Xi Jinping's signature





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1471: 100 years of Communist China rule leads to Bo Xilai vs Xi Jinping. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-06-30T00:09:51

Photo: Slogan for the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China in Tianxin District of Changsha, Hunan, China.  ??????????????????????100?????



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1470: 4/4 Thomas Joscelyn, FDD, @ThomasJoscelyn, @LongWarJournal ; @BillRoggio @FDD @LongWarJournal from 2021-06-29T02:13:43

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1470: 3/4 Thomas Joscelyn, FDD, @ThomasJoscelyn, @LongWarJournal ; @BillRoggio @FDD @LongWarJournal from 2021-06-29T02:13:15

Photo: The hosts Bill Roggio and Tom Joscelyn discuss the Taliban’s massive offensive in Afghanistan. The campaign demonstrates, once again, that the “peace process” is a Western delusion. The...

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1470: 2/4 Thomas Joscelyn, FDD, @ThomasJoscelyn, @LongWarJournal ; @BillRoggio @FDD @LongWarJournal from 2021-06-29T02:12:46

Photo: Taliban control in  Afghanistan. "In the six weeks since the May 1 deadline for U.S. troops to withdraw from Afghanistan, the Taliban has seized control of 32 additional districts, thei...

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1469: 2/2: SEC Regulatory Power and Climate Change. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2021-06-29T01:38:16

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1469: 1/2: SEC Regulatory Power and Climate Change. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2021-06-29T01:38:09

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1469: "Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Neshar Ramla archaic human unearthed in an Israeli quarry. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-06-29T01:32:50

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1469: Biden Administration strikes Iraq and Syria in order to intimidate Iran. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-06-29T01:30:03

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1469: #NewWorldReport: Russia shouts out Managua, Havana and Caracas as allies. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org from 2021-06-29T01:19:47

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1469: #NewWorldReport: Haitian migrants aiming for South America and the USA. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org from 2021-06-29T01:16:16

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1469: #NewWorldReport: Shots fired Colombia. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-06-29T01:03:51

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1469: India reinforces the Line of Acual Control, High Himalayas.@CleoPaskal @FDD @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-06-29T00:58:52

Photo: The Line of Actual Control (LAC) is a notional demarcation line that separates Indian-controlled territory from Chinese-controlled territory in the Sino-Indian border dispute. Here;  Fo...

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1469: Nike embraces the Gulag of the PRC. @AlanTonelson @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-06-29T00:55:27

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1469: The unknowns of the Lambda variant; & What is to be done? @HenryIMiller @PacificReasearch HenryMillerMD.org from 2021-06-29T00:48:44

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1469: The Delta variant; & What is to be done? @HenryIMiller @PacificReasearch HenryMillerMD.org from 2021-06-29T00:47:18

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1468: Nick Lloyd #Unbound. The complete eighty-minute interview. June 5, 2021. from 2021-06-28T00:00

Photo: British and German wounded, Bernafay Wood, 19 July 1916. Photo by Ernest Brooks..



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1468: "In the Tunnel of Love" #Unbound. A story from the collection, Gordon Liddy Is My Muse, by John Calvin Batchelor. The complete eight-five minutes. Read by John Batchelor. from 2021-06-28T00:00

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1468: Josh Rogin #Unbound: the complete, eighty-minute interview, March 21, 2021 from 2021-06-28T00:00

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1468: Terry Anderson #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. April 6, 2021 from 2021-06-28T00:00

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1468: Russell Shorto #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, April 22, 2021. from 2021-06-28T00:00

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1468: Roya Hakakian #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. May 29, 2021 from 2021-06-28T00:00

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1468: Patrick O'Donnell. #Unbound. The complete eighty-minute interview, June 6, 2021. from 2021-06-28T00:00

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1468: John Tamny #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. March 28, 2021. from 2021-06-28T00:00

Photo: Global panic over a flu.  Here:  An electron microscopic image of a thin section of SARS-CoV within the cytoplasm of an infected cell, showing the spherical particles and cross-sections...

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1468: J. H. Gelernter #Unbound. The complete, twenty-minute interview. May 3, 2021. from 2021-06-28T00:00

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1468: James Tooley #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview. May 14, 2021. from 2021-06-28T00:00

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1468: Holly Fretwell #Unbound. The complete forty-minute interview. April 12, 2021. from 2021-06-28T00:00

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1468: Michael Auslin #Unbound. The complete, twenty-minute interview. May 12, 2021. from 2021-06-28T00:00

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1468: David Grantham #Unbound. The complete forty-minute interview, April 5, 2021. from 2021-06-28T00:00

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1472: #Londinium90AD: Joseph Warren stares down the Church of Woke. Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-06-27T01:28:22

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1472: #PacificWatch: Watching Lake Shasta dry up from low-Earth orbit; & What is to be done? @JCBliss from 2021-06-27T00:33:15

Photo: Fog obscures the exit from Lake Shasta Caverns, northeast of Redding, California

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1472: #PacificWatch: Gavin Newsom welcomes Hollywood royalty to his recall. @JCBliss from 2021-06-27T00:31:25

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1472: The plague of mice surges and closes in on Sydney. Jeremy Zakis from 2021-06-27T00:28:53

Photo:Mice Orchestra.  Flute, 'cello, timpani, clarinet?, Bugle, trombone; late 19th–early 20th century

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1472: Stark, sudden Sydney, Australia, lockdown for fear of the variants. Jeremy Zakis. from 2021-06-27T00:26:52

Photo: "Magnificent harbor of Sydney, Australia"

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1472: The variants reach the migrants in Panama's Darién Gap; & What is to be done? Michael Yon, Patreon.com, Locals.com from 2021-06-27T00:21:50

Photo: One of the structural locations of the spike mutations of lineage B.1.526..



"Detection and characterization of the SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.526 in New York"

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1470: 2/2: The Art of Routine: Discover How Routineology Can Transform Your LifeHardcover – June 1, 2021 by2Angel Iscovich MD (Author), Joe Garner (Contributor), & 1 more from 2021-06-26T02:30:53

Photo: A fictional social network diagram. It consists of 165 Nodes and 1851 Edges. The SVG-file was auto-generated by script. The underlying node/edge data can be extracted from the circl...

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1470: 1/2: The Art of Routine: Discover How Routineology Can Transform Your LifeHardcover – June 1, 2021 by Angel Iscovich MD (Author), Joe Garner (Contributor), & 1 more from 2021-06-26T02:30:49

Photo: Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. Routine inspection of "Mae Wests," life-preserving vests worn by flyers on all patrols over water
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1470: If they are watching our solar transit. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-06-26T02:08:54

Photo: In astronomy, a solar transit is a movement of any object passing between the Sun and the Earth. This mainly includes the planets Mercury and Venus.  Here: On May 9, 2016, Mercury passe...

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1471: Defending from cyberattacks. Georgianna Shea, FDD from 2021-06-26T02:07:20

Photo:  Real-time cyber attacks, including information on the attack's origin, type and target, as well as, the attacker's IP address, geographic location and ports being utilized, are display...

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1471: The data storm around climate change. Francis Rose, WJLA from 2021-06-26T02:05:14

Photo: An artist's interpretation of the topics discussed at the White House Safety Datapalooza event. The drawing shows themes and projects that use open government data related to public saf...

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1471: The Putin-Biden conference. Cliff May, FDD from 2021-06-26T02:03:02

Photo: Russian Activities, WWI.  American Y.M.C.A. are doing a wonderful work among the Russian soldiers.  This is the Moscow hut which was started by Jerome Davis and Wheeler.   Harris & ...

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1471: East Bay and the drought. Jeff Bliss, PacificWatch from 2021-06-26T01:53:55

Photo: Whalebone drying at the Pacific Steam Whaling Co. yard in the Potrero, San Francisco, CA, 




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1470: Out of the world in a balloon. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-06-26T01:53

Photo: Secret preparation for the destruction of Napoleon's army using aeronautics (Native 1912) [Detailed description: below]





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1469: 1/2: Biodiversity in peril; & What is to be done? Catherine Brahic @Catbrahic @TheEconomist from 2021-06-26T01:28:08

Photo: Biodiversity is the biological variety and variability of life on Earth. Biodiversity is a measure of variation at the genetic, species, and ecosystem level.  Here: Listen
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1469: Genocide, climate change, and the Biden Administration. @JoshRogin from 2021-06-26T01:24:07

Photo: Daily Express, 7 Aug 1934. Holodomor Genocide

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1469: NYC votes for security and prosperity. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion from 2021-06-26T01:18:55

Photo: Approved insignia for 7160th Security Police Flight

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1468: 2/2: Finding the Hero of Herculaneum two thousand years later. Charles Pellegrino from 2021-06-26T01:10:20

Photo: Théâtre d'Herculanum

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1468: 1/2: Finding the Hero of Herculaneum two thousand years later. Charles Pellegrino from 2021-06-26T01:10:16

Photo: View through the Herculaneum Gate, Pompeii

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1468: #Londinium90AD: The Mithras cult in the 21st Century; & What is to be done? Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-06-26T01:05:50

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1468: Scotland recovers, alert to the last 24 hours of pandemic news. @TheRealConstable Edinburgh from 2021-06-26T01:01:36

Photo: James I appointing Charles as King of Scotland at center, Minerva spearing Ignorance at right, and Hercules beating Envy at left






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1467: A close vote in Peru: Beijing's man in Lima? Mary Anastasia O'Grady, The Americas column, WSJ. @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion from 2021-06-25T02:55:39

Photo: Chinese Peruvians, also known as tusán, are Peruvian citizens whose ancestors came from China. Here: Chinese laborers in Peru, 1890s.  Today, CCP hopes for a warmer and larger ...

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1467: Uneven vaccination rates creating a new divide? Veronique de Rugy @Mercatus from 2021-06-25T02:50:50

Photo; The history of vaccination seen from an economic point of view: A pharmacy up for sale; an outmoded inoculist selling his premises; Jenner, to the left, pursues a skeleton with a lancet...

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1466: 2/2 Hotel Mars, with Haym Benaroya, Rutgers, and David Livingston, SpaceShow.com from 2021-06-25T02:45:53

Photo: The goddess Chang-e (??).



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1465: 1/2 Hotel Mars: Haym Benaroya, Rutgers, and David Livingston, SpaceShow.com from 2021-06-25T02:44:03

Photo: Alan Chinchar's 1991 rendition of the Space Station Freedom in orbit. The painting depicts the completed space station. Earth is used as the image's backdrop with the Moon and ...

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1464: Apple Daily the end. @ElishaMoldanado from 2021-06-25T01:54:32

Photo:  Photograph of the original Goddess of Democracy statue in Tiananmen Square, taken sometime between 30 May - 3 June 1989.



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1464: :Is the USA withdrawing from the Middle East? Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 ; Eli Lake @EliLake from 2021-06-25T01:50:27

Photo Ion Iraq, Yezidis of Mount Sinjar

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1464: Attack drones over the Middle East. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-06-25T01:50:23

Photo: An air-to-air left underside view of a DC-130 Hercules drone control aircraft with BQM-34S Firebee target drones mounted on its wing pylons. The aircraft is assigned to Fleet Logistics ...

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1464: Face to face with the executioner, Raisi, 1986. Mohsen Sazegara @sazegaraa. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-06-25T01:50:19

Photo: Hanging turkey as the killer slits the turkey's throat while it is in this position. Cooperative poultry house, Brownwood, Texas

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1464: Hamas rearms its rocket arsenal. Yoni Ben Menachem @yonibmen. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-06-25T01:50:16

Photo: The Laborts of Hercules: Hercules carries the columns of Gaza.

Hercule plante deux colonnes au détroit de la Gade pour bornes de ses travaux.  Les Travaux d'Hercule <...

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1464: Suspect North Korean Kumsuky cyberattacks ROK defenses & What is to be done? Matthew Ha @FDD from 2021-06-25T01:29:26

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1464: #TheScalaReport: Instagram fades as the Millennials pause the return to the office. Chris Riegel, CEO @ScalaInc @STRATACACHE from 2021-06-25T01:20:37

Photo: "Father hanging around the home while family works on feathers. Said, 'I not work. Got some sickness. Dunno what.'... - NARA"

 

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1464: 2/2: Warship diplomacy in the Black Sea. @AnatolLieven @QuincyInst from 2021-06-25T01:12:11

Photo: Warship Kaiser on which Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany went to Istanbul.  Abdullah Frères.

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1464: 1/2: Warship diplomacy in the Black Sea. @AnatolLieven @QuincyInst from 2021-06-25T01:12:08

Photo: Thomas Ender: steamship Marianne in a storm on the Black Sea.



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1464: Utilities and Big Tech begin energy adaptation. Vijay Vaitheeswaran @TheEconomist from 2021-06-25T01:06:26

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1464: Leaked IPCC draft identifies present climate tipping points. Vijay Vaitheeswaran @TheEconomist from 2021-06-25T00:59:20

Photo: Kenai Fjords Bear Glacier 1909 and 2005

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1464: PM Trudeau snaps at a virus-related Parliamentary inquiry and looks toward an autumn election. @ConradMBlack @NationalPost. from 2021-06-25T00:54:55

Photo: The irritable PM.  Saturn sits on a cloud and eats one of his children. He represents the planet of the same name. Above him are three zodiac signs: Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn, which c...

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1464: Canada queues vs. US, UK, EU queues for vaccine and recovery. @ConradMBlack from 2021-06-25T00:51:53

Photo:. La Queue au Spectacle, Honoré Daumier lithograph.




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1463: #KabulChronicle: The pressing Taliban offensive in the north; & What is to be done? Jeff McCausland from 2021-06-24T02:02:07

Photo: Afghanistan, Mazar-i-Sherif  (means "Tomb of the Prince"). 






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1463: Apple Daily silenced. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-06-24T01:40:10

Photo: Apple Daily newspaper front page.



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1463: The impossible children's journey from Haiti to Mexico via Surinam, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras. Michael Yon, Patreon.com from 2021-06-24T01:37:24

Photo: A canoe in Surinam.



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1462: After the pandemic, the twice-told tale of two recoveries. Simon Cox @TheEconomist from 2021-06-24T01:29:22

Photo: COVID-19 vaccine research in NIAID lab freezer.  

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1462: The Delta variant plagues Russia anew. Felix Light @CBSNews Moscow @felix_light @MoscowTimes from 2021-06-24T01:21:34

Photo: Nicholas II with the wounded and the staff of the officer hospital, 1914

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1462: "Guarded optimism from his [Adams's] camp." Steve Burns @StvBurns wcbs880.com from 2021-06-24T01:17:58

Photo:  Election day in New York.



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1462: The undiscovered clues in the Military Games, October-November 2019, in Wuhan, China. @JoshRogin @WashingtonPost from 2021-06-24T01:13:34

Photo: Contestants in the military games, Queensland, 1936

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1462: The undiscovered clues in the Military Games, October-November 2019, in Wuhan, China. @JoshRogin @WashingtnPost from 2021-06-24T01:13:34

Photo: Contestants in the military games, Queensland, 1936

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1462: Blue Origin is troubled. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-06-24T01:02:31

Photo: 11-20-13 .  Van Horn, Texas. : Blue Origin Milestone 3.6 BE-3 Engine Test Fire PHOTOGRAPHER: Lauren Harnett 






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1462: The wounded Hubble. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-06-24T01:01:29

Photo: HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE BATTERY SERVICE






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1462: Five years after Brexit Day. Brett Arends, Marketwatch from 2021-06-24T00:59:36

Photo: Sample referendum ballot paper for Brexit



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1462: New York CIty's odd elections. Harry Siegel, NY Daily News from 2021-06-24T00:58:16

Photo:  Edwin Hubble's identity card in the American Expeditionary Forces.



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1461: Surprisingly inadequate DoD budget to face the declared adversaries. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. Peter Huessy, director of Strategic Deterrent Studies of the Mitchell Institute of the Air Force Association from 2021-06-24T00:57:44

Photoo: Four of the fives sides of the Pentagon building.

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1461: Trudeau rebukes Parliament for pursuing the disappeared China microbiologist. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. Charles Burton, Macdonald-Laurier Institute from 2021-06-24T00:54:02

Photo: Library of Parliament, Canada.



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1461: Home schooling and "Washington Slept Here" prosper in the pandemic. SalenaZito.com from 2021-06-24T00:50:44

Photo: Westmoreland Homesteads, Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Home schooling

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1461: Joy of Lion's Club Demotion Derby in recovering Pennsylvania. SalenaZito.com from 2021-06-24T00:48:41

Photo: At a meeting of the Lions Club in Greensboro. Greene County, Georgia

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1460: Private enterprise answer to the Western wildfire season on Federal lands. Holly Fretwell @PERCtweets from 2021-06-23T02:14:52

Photo: Private lands—Langston Mountain and Lee Valley, aerial view for land appraisal purposes; ZION Museum and Archives Image 

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1460: Raisi: "The scowling face of the Islamic Revolution in Iran." @AmbJohnBolton. from 2021-06-23T02:14:41

Photo:  Lifelong deceit:  Khomeini told questioners that "the religious dignitaries do not want to rule.".



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1460: What does Israel make of Raisi's election? @AaronKleinShow Aaron Klein, senior advisor and chief strategist to former PM Netanyahu. from 2021-06-23T02:13:40

Photo: Qajar Shah of Persia, 1900.



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1460: The Palestinian Authority rejects vaccine. @AaronKleinShow, Aaron Klein, senior adviser and chief strategist to former PM Netanyahu. from 2021-06-23T02:13:37

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1460: Caged and fretful mullahs of Qom. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs. from 2021-06-23T02:02:38

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1460: Ethiopia votes in the tumultuous Horn of Africa. Gregory Copley Defense & Foreign Affairs. from 2021-06-23T02:02:36

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1460: "We're up to Delta, but there a lot of Greek letters left." @HenryIMiller @PacificResearch, HenryMillerMD.org from 2021-06-23T01:51:54

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1460: Bermuda dissents from the G-7 global tax plans & What is to be done? @LizPeek from 2021-06-23T01:15:59

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1460: "No wavering from the idea that this year is going to be huge for-profit growth . . ." @LizPeek @FoxNews from 2021-06-23T01:13:47

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1460: European Cup Team Italy leads the reawakening. Lorenzo Fiori. Ansaldo Foundation from 2021-06-23T01:09:05

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1460: #NewWorldReport: Migrating to Mexico. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org from 2021-06-23T00:53:33

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1460: #NewWorldReport: The ELN stalks Colombia. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org from 2021-06-23T00:46:30

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1460: #NewWorldReport: Post-election strife imperils Peru. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org from 2021-06-23T00:42:41

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1460: The Delta variant and the UK summer plans. Vicki Barker, @CBSNews from 2021-06-23T00:40:22

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1458: Remembering the turbulent and fraught 1960s and 70s for William vanden Heuvel (1931-2021) working with the Kennedy brothers and Jimmy Carter. Katrina vanden Heuvel @KatrinaNation from 2021-06-22T01:31:37

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1458: 2/2: Perils of mis-bubbling the ballot for the next NYC mayor; & What is to be done? @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNews from 2021-06-22T01:31:27

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1458: 1/2: Perils of mis-bubbling the ballot for the next NYC mayor; & What is to be done? @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNews from 2021-06-22T01:24:17

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1458: #HotelMars: Three robots for Venus. @Funkyspoon David Grinspoon. Planetary Society. David Livingston SpaceShow.com from 2021-06-22T01:20:19

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1458: #HotelMars: Ice skating on the gigantic Galilean moon Ganymede. Planetary Society. David Livingston SpaceShow.com from 2021-06-22T01:20:16

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1458: Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Two-Thousand-Year-old Anchor. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-06-22T01:09:19

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1458: President Hanging Judge. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-06-22T01:05:21

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1459: Savvy, quick, energetic, resentful President Putin "has no vision where Russia is going." H J Mackinder, Professor of International Relations. from 2021-06-22T01:05

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1458: 2/2: "Taxation competition is an extremely important device to be sure governments don't get out of hand." @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2021-06-22T01:01:03

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1458: 1/2: "Taxation competition is an extremely important device to be sure governments don't get out of hand." @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2021-06-22T01:01:01

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1459: Congress closely watching the early days of the Biden Doctrine for adversaries Russia, China, Iran, Afghanistan, North Korea, Venezuela, Ukraine. @DavidMDrucker @ThadMcCotter from 2021-06-22T01:01

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1458: Iranian dissent doesn't vote. Ahmad Obali from 2021-06-22T00:56:50

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1457: Al Qaeda is embedded in the Taliban @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD from 2021-06-22T00:33:24

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1457: The Taliban are already inside Kunduz City. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD from 2021-06-22T00:32:07

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1457: PRC space weapon platform in low-Earth orbit. Rick Fisher. International Assessment and Strategy Center. Rick Fisher. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-06-22T00:25:23

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1457: The disappearing microbiolgist couple of Winnnipeg's Level 4 Lab; & What is to be done? Charles Burton. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-06-22T00:22:31

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1457: What is Deliberative Polling? Larry Diamond @HooverInst from 2021-06-22T00:18:11

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1457: "Well, not the president mattering, but the Supreme Leader mattering." Benham ben Taleblu @FDD from 2021-06-22T00:15:58

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1456: Patrick O'Donnell. #Unbound. The complete eighty-minute interview, June 6, 2021. from 2021-06-21T00:02

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1456: Jerry Hendrix #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, March 23, 2021 from 2021-06-21T00:00

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1456: Josh Rogin #Unbound: the complete, eighty-minute interview, March 21, 2021 from 2021-06-21T00:00

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1456: Terry Anderson #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. April 6, 2021 from 2021-06-21T00:00

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1456: David Grantham #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview, April 5, 2021. from 2021-06-21T00:00

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1456: Roya Hakakian #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. May 29, 2021 from 2021-06-21T00:00

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1456: John Tamny #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. March 28, 2021. from 2021-06-21T00:00

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1456: "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. from 2021-06-21T00:00

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1456: Russell Shorto #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, April 22, 2021. from 2021-06-21T00:00

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1456: Holly Fretwell #Unbound. The complete forty-minute interview. April 12, 2021. from 2021-06-21T00:00

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1456: Michael Auslin #Unbound. The complete, twenty-minute interview. May 12, 2021. from 2021-06-21T00:00

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1456: J. H. Gelernter #Unbound. The complete, twenty-minute interview. May 3, 2021. from 2021-06-21T00:00

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1456: James Tooley #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview. May 14, 2021. from 2021-06-21T00:00

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1455: 2/2: #CivilWar? The might of Rome confronts the Church of Woke, 90 A.D. Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-06-20T02:37:13

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1455: 1/2: #CivilWar? The might of Rome confronts the Church of Woke, 90 A.D. Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-06-20T02:37:09

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1455: 2/2: Following the migrant Haitian family from the Darién Gap, Panama, to Tapachula, Mexico. from 2021-06-20T02:35:03

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1455: 1/2: Following the migrant Haitian family from the Darién Gap, Panama, to Tapachula, Mexico. from 2021-06-20T02:34:52

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1455: The G7 returns to 1914. @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-06-20T02:32:04

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1462: #PacificWatch: Governor Newsom shows off Netflix-friendly for recall. @JCBliss from 2021-06-20T02:14

Photo: On Saturday, Nov. 17, 2018, a neighborhood in Malibu, California, devastated by the Woolsey fire. Visitors are Governor-elect Gavin Newsom, then-Governor Jerry Brown, President Donald T...

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1462: #PacificWatch: The Willow fire in the drought and heat wave. @JCBliss from 2021-06-20T01:15:29

Photo: Photograph of Clyde Hart Using a Hose from a Tanker to Suppress a Fire on the Willow Springs Ranger District (historic photo).




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1461: 8/8 Nick Lloyd, The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918 – March 30, 2021. Hardcover. from 2021-06-19T02:37:46

Photo: A unit of the National Defence Army Corps on its way to the front in 1918

 

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1459: 5/8 Nick Lloyd, The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918 – March 30, 2021. Hardcover. from 2021-06-19T02:31:43

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1458: 4/8 Nick Lloyd, The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918 – March 30, 2021. Hardcover. from 2021-06-19T02:30:25

Photo: French bayonet charge, 1914; huge casualties in the early months of the war had to be replaced by French colonial troops.

 

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1456: 2/8 Nick Lloyd, The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918 – March 30, 2021. Hardcover. from 2021-06-19T02:09:19

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1456: 1/8 Nick Lloyd, The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918 – March 30, 2021. from 2021-06-19T02:07:54

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1455: #SmallBusinessAmerica: Introducing the post-pandemic 5-hour workday. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2021-06-19T02:07:40

Photo:  1906 – strike for the eight working hours per day in France.

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1455: The PRC seeks to vaccine-blockade Taiwan; & What is to be done? @JoshRogin @WashingtonPost from 2021-06-19T01:50:39

Photo: According to the Treaty of Shimonoseki Taiwan was part of Japan at the establishment of the ROC in 1912. The PRC (found...

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1455: The Biden Administration genuinely admires the EU. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion from 2021-06-19T01:43:09

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1455: #PacificWatch: The Hoover Dam, the drought, and brownouts. @JCBliss from 2021-06-19T01:31:11

Photo: The Hoover Dam (formerly Boulder Dam) from across the Colorado River; from the series, Ansel Adams, Photographs of National Parks and Monuments, compiled 1941–1942, documenting the peri...

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1455: Hubble safe mode event undetermined restart. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-06-19T01:29:46

Photo: The Hubble Space Telescope in orbit.



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1455: #CivilWar? Roman patriotism confounded by Christian otherworldliness in 90 AD Londinium. from 2021-06-19T01:11

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1455: #SmallBusinessAmerica:The 8th grade drafted to labor on Nantucket Island. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2021-06-19T01:00

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1454: The Hanging Judge of Tehran wins. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-06-18T01:55:32

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1453: The Second Coming of Somoza. @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion from 2021-06-18T01:36:40

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1453: #NextClimate: The Alberta oil sands live long past the Keystone XL Pipeline. Vijay Vaitheeswaran @TheEconomist from 2021-06-18T01:31:26

Photo: Alberta oil; 1940.



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1453: The Abraham Accords promise peace for the children of the Middle East. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 Dr. Ali al Nuaimi @Dralnoaimi from 2021-06-18T01:31:10

Photo:  Abraham gives Hagar and Ishmael loaves of bread and a pitcher of water and sends them away. In the right background you can see the cause of this rejection: Ishmael mocks Isaac. So Sar...

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1453: #NextClimate: Bath is an energy wasteland; & What is to be done? Vijay Vaitheeswaran @TheEconomist from 2021-06-18T01:28:43

Photo: The photo archive by Rolf Sundt sr. (1881-1956) was handed over to the Norwegian Folk Museum in 2010. Sundt practiced as a court lawyer in Oslo and was an avid amateur photographer. Fro...

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1453: 2/2: The Moscow and Washington (foreign policy/security) blobs and the Geneva summit. Anatol Lieven @QuincyInst @LievenAnatol from 2021-06-18T01:19:35

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1453: #TheScalaReport: Asking is the China supply chain temporary inflation explanation convincing? Chris Riegel, CEO @ScalaInc @STRATACACHE from 2021-06-18T01:13:11

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1456: The hard-won Classics Education of Victor Davis Hanson @HooverInst @VDHanson from 2021-06-18T01:05:50

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1453: Netanyahu's unfinished legacy. @VictoriaCoates, Center for Security Policy. from 2021-06-18T01:04:36

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1455: Twitter's India Problem. Sadanand Dhume, AEI, WSJ from 2021-06-18T01:02:18

Photo: An earlier technology; in India.



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1454: Stop Blaming Kamala Harris. Bill McGurn from 2021-06-18T00:59:52

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1453: Canada catching up on vaccinations and summer plans. @ConradMBlack @NationalPost from 2021-06-18T00:56:23

Photo: Vaccine Hunters Canada is an online volunteer group many Canadians have used to find vaccine appointments.

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1453: Inflation and its discontents. @VerodeRugy @Mercatus Veronique de Rugy, Mercatus Center from 2021-06-18T00:55:35

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1453: Russian opportunity in the Levant. Ilan Berman, American Foreign Policy Council. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-06-18T00:54:59

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1453: The fire balloons of Gaza; & What is to be done? Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-06-18T00:53:02

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1452: #GenevaSummit: "You cannot achieve peace in cyberspace unless you achieve deterrence." @AmbJohnBolton @DailyTelegraph from 2021-06-17T02:33:01

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1452: The Delta Variant strikes London; & What is to be done? @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-06-17T02:30:29

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1452: Did Erdogan win or lose at the NATO summit? @AykanErdemir @FDD from 2021-06-17T02:27:10

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1452: Temporary inflation hangs around. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-06-17T02:26:15

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1452: Cosmonaut Krikilev refuses Russian Hollywood onboard ISS.Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-06-17T02:24:57

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1452: Watching out for prisoner-of-conscience Jimmy Lai condemned by the PRC. Mark Simon. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-06-17T01:57:04

Photo: The globally-admired Jimmy Lai, senior Hong Kong publisher, democracy activist, and currently a prisoner of Beijing, possibly being tortured.



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1452: Journey to the restored Azerbaijan-Iran border at the Khoda Afarin Bridges; & What is to be done? @ProfBShaffer @ElinSuleymanov from 2021-06-17T01:52:25

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1452: All Erie politics is as local as Sara's diner for milkshakes. @SalenaZito from 2021-06-17T01:48:15

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1452: Moscow TV and the measure of the American people. Felix Light @CBSNews from 2021-06-17T01:39:28

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1452: "It would be a catastrophe to see our embassy overrun." @JeffMcCausland @CBSNews "That's why it's an open question how many US troops will remain." from 2021-06-17T01:33:34

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1452: One year since the PRC attacked at the Line of Actual Control; & What is to be done? Nitin Gokhale @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-06-17T01:24:50

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1452: Why return to the JCPOA? Why not? @Russell Berman, @HooverInst from 2021-06-17T01:08:46

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1452: Where in the world is the PRC probe Zhurong? Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-06-17T01:06:02

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1451: 2/2: A NYC election like no other before. @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNews from 2021-06-16T02:04:53

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1451: 1/2 A NYC election like no other before. @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNews from 2021-06-16T02:04:44

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1451: Iran's two warships are provoking and testing the Biden Administration. Emanuele Ottolenghi @eottolenghi from 2021-06-16T02:02:08

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1451: Imminent Iran elections and the hard-line road ahead. Behnam ben Taleblu @FDD from 2021-06-16T01:39:54

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1451: Imminent Iranian elections and the hard-line road ahead. Behnam ben Taleblu @FDD from 2021-06-16T01:39:54

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1451: "Technically known as enriched uranium, and it's a short step from making weapons-grade uranium." Andrea Stricker @StrickerNonpro @FDD from 2021-06-16T01:35:12

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1451: After Netanyahu. @AaronKleinShow from 2021-06-16T01:11:57

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1451: What Netanyahu leaves done. @AaronKleinShow from 2021-06-16T01:11:10

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1451: Supply Chain News: You cannot buy a bicycle in Nantucket; & What is to be done? @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews from 2021-06-16T01:03:13

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1451: What is the Indo-Pacific "Quad Plus"? @MichaelAuslin @HooverInst from 2021-06-16T01:00:34

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1451: How does the Indo-Pacific Quad fit with NATO in the stand-off with the PRC? @MichaelAuslin @HooverInst from 2021-06-16T00:52:47

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1451: NATO back-to-the-future Cold War talk. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-06-16T00:51:02

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1451: Why does NATO side with Egypt over Ethiopia in the Blue Nile dispute? Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs. from 2021-06-16T00:48:06

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1450: Russian-protected ransomware; & What is to be done? @MarkCMontgomery @FDD Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy (Retired) from 2021-06-16T00:42:58

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1450: The day after the Iran Deal returns; & What is to be done? Chicago sports fan. @rich_goldberg @FDD @JIPodcast from 2021-06-16T00:39:21

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1450: US-EU trade feuds quieting. Teri Schultz @terischultz @CBS terischultz.com from 2021-06-16T00:36:19

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1450: Will Geneva speak of the nuclear arsenals? @KatrinaNation @TheNation from 2021-06-15T01:37:17

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1450: Syria and Russia weaponize famine; & What is to be done? @JoshRogin @WashingtonPost from 2021-06-15T01:36:24

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1450: 30 more Districts to the Taliban. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD from 2021-06-15T01:30:57

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1450: Report Russia selling a spy satellite to Iran. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-06-15T01:17:21

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1450: #NewWorldReport: Colombia remains vulnerable to outside-actor agitation. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal. Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org from 2021-06-15T00:56:31

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1454: NATO stares back at Russia and China. Theresa Fallon and Gordon Chang from 2021-06-15T00:54:22

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1450: #NewWorldReport: Peru election unsettled, much advantage Pedro Castillo. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org from 2021-06-15T00:52:04

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1453: The new Atlantic Charter and the ghosts of 1941 colonialism. Cleo Paskal and Gordon Chang from 2021-06-15T00:51:41

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1452: 2/2 The new Global Taxman. Richard A Epstein from 2021-06-15T00:48:38

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1451: 1/2 The New Global Taxman, Richard A Epstein from 2021-06-15T00:46:23

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1450: Afghanistan after NATO, the UN observation @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD from 2021-06-15T00:41:12

Photo: An Afghan girl looks around as coalition forces soldiers line the street of the village of Argan, Charkh District, Logar province, Afghanistan, July 14, 2011.



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1450: The tireless and resourceful small Haitian migrant family in Tapachula, waiting to go north. Michael Yon Patreon.com from 2021-06-15T00:38:21

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1450: "Indiana" Hoenlein and the lost 1000-year-old egg. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-06-15T00:33:38

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1448: Darién Gap migrants arrive in Tapachula, Mexico, waiting for the trail to the US. Michael Yon, Patreon.com from 2021-06-14T01:30

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1448: Flying and driving Central America in the pandemic: few masks, little vaccine. Michael Yon, Patreon.com from 2021-06-14T01:30

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1449: 2/2 The Biden-Putin Summit in Geneva addresses Human Rights; & What is to be done? H. J. MacKinder, Professor of International Relations. from 2021-06-14T01:25

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1449: 1/2 The Biden-Putin Summit in Geneva addresses Ukraine; & What is to be done? H J MacKinder, Professor of International Relations. from 2021-06-14T01:25

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1449: Roya Hakakian #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. May 29, 2021 from 2021-06-14T01:17:58

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1449: Terry Anderson #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. April 6, 2021 from 2021-06-14T01:17:24

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1449: Josh Rogin #Unbound: the complete, eighty-minute interview, March 21, 2021 from 2021-06-14T01:17:14

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1449: John Tamny #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. March 28, 2021. from 2021-06-14T01:16:22

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1449: Jerry Hendrix #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, March 23, 2021 from 2021-06-14T01:15:58

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1449: Holly Fretwell #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. April 12, 2021. from 2021-06-14T01:15:31

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1449: Russell Shorto #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, April 22, 2021. from 2021-06-14T01:15:23

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1449: Michael Auslin #Unbound. The complete, twenty-minute interview. May 12, 2021. from 2021-06-14T01:14:49

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1449: J. H. Gelernter #Unbound. The complete, twenty-minute interview. May 3, 2021. from 2021-06-14T01:14:40

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1449: Really Good Schools: Global Lessons for High-Caliber, Low-Cost Education — Hardcover. April 12, 2021., by James Tooley from 2021-06-14T01:14:35

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1449: Jeff McCausland #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. May 21, 2021. from 2021-06-14T01:14:15

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1447: Taliban: "Look, we know that harboring Al Qaeda and Bin Laden before 2001 was disastrous." @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst from 2021-06-13T02:35:13

Photo: .Frame grab from the Osama bin Laden videotape released by the Department of Defense on December 13, 2001.



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1447: #PacificWatch: Is California prepped for the next big earthquake, three decades later? @JCBliss from 2021-06-13T02:27:48

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1447: #PacificWatch: Drought-watering the tule elk of Tomales Point. @JCBliss from 2021-06-13T02:21:17

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1446: #CivilWar?: Is the Church of Woke a spontaneous Millenarianism? Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-06-13T00:00

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1446: #CivilWar?: Why do the America Empire elites embrace the Church of Work (as did the Roman Empire elites)? Michael (Germanicus) Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-06-13T00:00

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1446: #CivilWar?: The swift rise of the Church of Woke in the Later American Empire. Michael (Germanicus) Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-06-13T00:00

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1445: Weapons-laden (and fuel-laden) Iranian warships slow down in the South Atlantic. @USNINews @NavalInstitute @samlagrone from 2021-06-12T01:37:16

Photo: Representation of the ordinary course of the Traverse Winds which reign along the coasts in the Atlantic Sea and that of India



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1445: The joyful newlyweds at the Cornwall G-7. Vicki Barker @CBSNews. from 2021-06-12T01:27:55

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1445: 8/8: The Indispensables: The Diverse Soldier-Mariners Who Shaped the Country, Formed the Navy, and Rowed Washington Across the Delaware. Kindle Edition. by Patrick K. O'Donnell from 2021-06-12T01:24:19

Photo: Washington taking command of the Continental Army, just before the siege.



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1445: 7/8: The Indispensables: The Diverse Soldier-Mariners Who Shaped the Country, Formed the Navy, and Rowed Washington Across the Delaware. Kindle Edition. by Patrick K. O'Donnell from 2021-06-12T01:24:04

Photo: Washington crossing the Delaware River.

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1445: 5/8: The Indispensables: The Diverse Soldier-Mariners Who Shaped the Country, Formed the Navy, and Rowed Washington Across the Delaware. Kindle Edition. by Patrick K. O'Donnell from 2021-06-12T01:22:41

Photo: Ferry Farm, the residence of the Washington Family on the Rappahannock River.



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1445: 4/8: The Indispensables: The Diverse Soldier-Mariners Who Shaped the Country, Formed the Navy, and Rowed Washington Across the Delaware. Kindle Edition. by Patrick K. O'Donnell from 2021-06-12T01:22:31

Photo: Attributed to Samuel Blyth - His Excellency, George Washington Esq. 




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1445: 3/8: The Indispensables: The Diverse Soldier-Mariners Who Shaped the Country, Formed the Navy, and Rowed Washington Across the Delaware. Kindle Edition. by Patrick K. O'Donnell from 2021-06-12T01:22:19

Photo:  Sketch for The Republican Court - Daniel Huntington.  Lady Washington's reception day.



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1445: 2/8: The Indispensables: The Diverse Soldier-Mariners Who Shaped the Country, Formed the Navy, and Rowed Washington Across the Delaware. Kindle Edition. by Patrick K. O'Donnell from 2021-06-12T01:21:42

Photo: Atlas of the Borough of Brooklyn, City of New York (Volume Two): from actual surveys and official plans

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1445: 1/8: The Indispensables: The Diverse Soldier-Mariners Who Shaped the Country, Formed the Navy, and Rowed Washington Across the Delaware. Kindle Edition. by Patrick K. O'Donnell from 2021-06-12T01:21:39

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1445: #PacificWatch: The Jerry Brown–inspired bullet train rises from the wooden stake. @JCBliss from 2021-06-12T01:21:13

Photo: Bullet train at station; Odawara, Japan 1970-08-11

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1445: Normalcy interrupted. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion from 2021-06-12T01:17:57

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1445: US Government lessons learned about ransomware. @FRoseDC WJLA from 2021-06-12T01:14:48

Photo: ". . . but it does increase the likelihood of the the kidnapped person's being killed."  Screen-grab from a video, https://www.yout...

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1445: The Americans are coming back! Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation. from 2021-06-12T01:12:19

Photo: From, A . . . handbook for English and American tourists ... With seven maps, etc.



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1445: Brave little flying toaster Ingenuity leads the way. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-06-12T00:58:06

Photo: Ingenuity on Mars.



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1445: Russian space tourism for cheaper? Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-06-12T00:55:37

Photo: Zhezkazgan Space Ceremony

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1444: Justin Trudeau and the Keystone Pipeline; and the Quebec Nationalist Bill 96. @ConradMBlack @NationalPost from 2021-06-11T01:51:31

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1444: Suspect Iran floods Twitter with hatred; & What is to be done? Joel Finkelstein (@ncri_io) ; Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-06-11T01:51:21

Photo: The stamped acronym of the Iranian state-owned and operated Shahid Hemmat Industries Group (SHIG) appears on an Iranian Qiam class missile guidance component remnant on display at Joint...

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1444: #TheScalaReport: The post-pandemic future of high end office buildings with canine privileges and Bermuda shorts. Chris Riegel, CEO @ScalaInc @STRATACACHE from 2021-06-11T01:43:50

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1444: Resolving Ukraine at Geneva now. Anatol Lieven, @QuincyInst from 2021-06-11T01:34:59

Photo:  Tomb of Mithridates, near the Lazaretto of Kertch, Crimea.

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1444: Crimea is Russia. Anatoly Lieven @QuincyInst from 2021-06-11T01:34:52

Photo: Map from, The Invasion of the Crimea: its origin, and an account of its progress down to the death of Lord Raglan.   

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1444: What do we know about the two Iranian warships headed toward the Caribbean? Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-06-11T01:28:04

Photo:  The Iranian warship Babr (Tiger) after being shelled by the Royal Navy during a surprise attack on Iran, August 1941.<...

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1444: The trouble in Guatemala is long-term and well-known corruption in the leadership. @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion from 2021-06-11T01:24:59

Photo: Ruïns from old Guatemala.

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1444: Is the Latino vote in McAllen, Texas, a trend? WJMcGurn @WSJOpinion from 2021-06-11T01:21:11

Photo: Door details at Quinta Mazatlan, a historical adobe mansion within a nature and birding center in McAllen, Texas

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1444: Planetary EV is the new new. Simon Wright @TheEconomist from 2021-06-11T01:19

Photo: At Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Calif., the new Chevrolet Volt government vehicle at the charge station.



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1444: The relentless building of a global tax cartel. @VeroDeRugy @Mercatus from 2021-06-11T01:04:12

Photo: World Peace Tax Fund People morally opposed to paying taxes for war will be forced to pay a share.

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1444: Dutch Shell confesses. Vijay Vaitheeswaran @TheEconomist from 2021-06-11T00:55:32

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1444: Is OPEC planning for a change in the weather? Vijay Vaitheeswaran @TheEconomist from 2021-06-11T00:53:34

Photo: Weather vane, Whiskey Island, Cleveland, United States 




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1444: The most recent Israeli election explained. Gil Hoffman (@Gil_Hoffman) ; Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-06-11T00:26:15

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1444: Who would build a war tunnel under a school? Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer, @UNWatch); Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-06-11T00:22:54

Photo:  Human shield war postcard by Sergey Solomko.



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1444: #HotelMars: Supersonic when? Alan Boyle CosmicLog.com; David Livingston SpaceShow.com from 2021-06-11T00:20:45

Photo: .Unitary Plan Supersonic Tunnel.  NASA.




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1443: Mass-murder of HALO Trust in Afghanistan; & What is to be done? Jeff McCausland @CBSNews from 2021-06-10T01:39:46

Photo: At 21:50 local time on June 8, ten HALO staff were killed and 16 injured by an unknown armed group at a demining camp in the Baghlan Province of Afghanistan. The group entered the camp ...

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1443: What does the Kremlin want to achieve in Geneva? @felix_light @CBSNews from 2021-06-10T01:34:18

Photo: Moscow Kreml.  



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1443: Reported PRC abduction of Uyghurs from Moslem countries. Nury Turkel @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-06-10T01:31:05

Photo: Xinjiang, China:Street construction with shovel and spade; Urumchi, Xinjiang, China.



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1443: North Korea threats; Moon's disappointment. Greg Scarlatoiu. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-06-10T01:28:54

Photo: Pyongyang Times.



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1443: 2/2: Flying down to Puerto Obadila to trace the migrants flooding the jungle. Michael Yon, Patreon.com from 2021-06-10T01:23:55

Photo: Kuna Indians.

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1443: 1/2: Flying down to Puerto Obaldila to trace the migrants flooding the jungle. Michael Yon, Patreon.com from 2021-06-10T01:23:33

Photo: Guna children in 1927. The child in the center is albino.



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1443: Bezos not in orbit; Musk to Mars. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-06-10T01:23:07

Photo: Milky Way over Split Mountain

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1443: The rugged, winding road ahead for Curiosity on Mars. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-06-10T01:14:36

Photo: Curiosity Mars Rover Approaches Dingo Gap, Mastcam View

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1443: Threats and challenges to the proposed new Israeli coalition. @AaronKleinShow; Senior Adviser to Prime Minister Netanyahu. from 2021-06-10T01:07:59

Photo:Rabbi Avraham Aminoff, Chief Rabbi of the Bukharian community .



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1443: The violence and the disappointment in the Mexican midterms. Adrienne Bard @CBSNews from 2021-06-10T01:04:24

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1443: The EV to to exclusion of all else; & What is to be done? Bernard L. Weinstein is professor emeritus of applied economics at the University of North Texas and a Fellow of Goodenough College in London. from 2021-06-10T01:00:49

Photo: Electrical Vehicle, 8/12/1977.



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1443: China bullies Canada; & What is to be done? Charles Burton. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-06-10T00:58:47

Photo:  Buster and the bully. (Rememberthat "yellow-bellied" meant cowardly.)



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1443: 2/2: Ethiopia moves to reunite with Eritrea to build a power of 120 million in the Horn of Africa. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-06-10T00:57:16

Photo: Ethiopian medley

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1443: 1/2: Ethiopia moves to reunite with Eritrea to build a power of 120 million in the Horn of Africa. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-06-10T00:56:55

Photo: 1818 Pinkerton Map of Abyssinia (Ethiopia), Sudan, Nubia 




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1443: PRC Wolf Warriors meet stony stares in Europe. Theresa Fallon, CREABrussels.com ; @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-06-10T00:52:50

Photo: Queue of Chinese warriors, central sector of China's Salween front

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1443: #NewWorldReport: The Peru count goes Castillo's way. Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-06-10T00:50:15

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1442: 2/2: Meet the Democratic candidates: Two weeks to the New York City mayoralty primary: Wiley, Gonzales, Stringer, Yang, Adams, McGuire, Donovan, Garcia. from 2021-06-09T01:59:57

Photo:  "Herman A Metz for Comptroller."

              A collection of 77 leaflets, pamphlets broadsides and sample ballots of the New York City election of 1905.




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1442: 1/2: Meet the Democratic candidates: Two weeks to the New York City mayoralty primary: Wiley, Gonzales, Stringer, Yang, Adams, McGuire, Donovan, Garcia. from 2021-06-09T01:59:50

Photo: "Our choice for mayor, and his record."

            A collection of 77 leaflets, pamphlets broadsides and sample ballots of the New York City election of 1905.

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1442: 2/2:The promising, discouraging, confounding, humbling Brazil in the pandemic. @sarahmaslin @TheEconomist. from 2021-06-09T01:58:56

Photo: Hospital das Clínicas - S. Paulo Fotolabor, São Paulo, Brazil

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1442: 1/2: The promising, discouraging, confounding, humbling Brazil in the pandemic. @sarahmaslin @TheEconomist. from 2021-06-09T01:58:49

Photo:  Brésil.  Etched by Stefano della Bella (Italian, Florence 1610–1664 Florence)

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1442: Global taxes and the markets. @LizPeek @TheHill from 2021-06-09T01:50:17

Photo  World Peace Tax Fund People morally opposed to paying taxes for war will be forced to pay a share . . .  




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1442: The jobs reports and America's Help Wanted. @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews from 2021-06-09T01:45:47

Photo:  "Boy! Did we do a day's work! They give the job all they've got!" Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Domestic Operations Branch. Bureau of Special Services. Be...

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1442: Guatemala: "Nobody wants to leave their home." @edokeefe @CBSNews from 2021-06-09T01:43:24

Photo: A Guatemalan child stands by his home

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1442: Before the EU-US trade war over digital taxes. @ChristineMcDan @Mercatus from 2021-06-09T01:38:49

Photo: . The last emperor of Rome's Golden Age, Marcus Aurelius (161-180 A.D.) struggled to maintain the low tax and stable money principles of Augustus. ... In an effort to avoid raising taxe...

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1442: The courtroom saga of the Obama Presidential Center @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2021-06-09T01:30:33

Photo: President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama board Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Md., March 7, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza).

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1442: The glamourous future for big-city, high-end commercial offices post-pandemic. Vinjeru Mkandawire @vinjerum @TheEconomist from 2021-06-09T01:22:01

Photo: Hearst Tower, New York.



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1442: Planning officers and your corrected micropark in pandemic, backyard London. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-06-09T01:00:06

Photo: A little park.



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1442: The global taxman approaches. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-06-09T00:57:14

Photo: The tax collector

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1442: Brexit risks a sausage war in Northern Ireland. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-06-09T00:53:46

Photo: "The Wurst Girl" Series 20, copyright 1908 by Chas. Rose







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1442: London locks down Manchester and calls off summer vacation. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-06-09T00:51:06

Photo:  The Massacre of Peterloo! Or a specimen of English liberty, August 16th, 1819  / Marks, fecit

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1442: The noisy silence of Victoria Park on Tiananmen Day, 2021. @Crosett @IWF from 2021-06-09T00:48:48

Photo: Victoria. Hong Kong. China

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1441: Endemic Covid-19 likely requires vaccines and remedies indefinitely. @HenryIMiller @PacificReasearch from 2021-06-08T01:27:04

Photo: NATIONAL VACCINE & ANTITOXIN INST.

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1441: The Nation challenges Google; & What is to be done? Katrina vanden Heuvel, TheNation.com @KatrinaNation from 2021-06-08T01:25:35

Photo: .Justice Department Hits Google With Antitrust Lawsuit




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1441: Roscosmos planning a Moon sample return and a Moon manned lander. Anatoly Zak @RussianSpaceWeb, David Livingston SpaceShow.com from 2021-06-08T01:23:04

Photo: NASA Expedition 9 backup Commander jogs on the grounds of the Cosmonaut Hotel, Friday, August 16, 2004, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.  Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

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1441: Is Puerto Rico looking purple? @DavidMDrucker @DCExaminer @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-06-08T01:22:38

Photo: The President at Caguas, P. R.  From http://loc.gov

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1441: "Indiana Hoenlein" and the Lost Bone Arrowheads of Goliath's Gath. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-06-08T01:19:45

Photo: National Cathedral interiors. Tapestry of David and Goliath story in National Cathedral

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1441: Reopening California awash in Help Wanted signs. @DevinNunes CA-22 from 2021-06-08T01:19:30

Photo: Advertisement in Billboard

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1441: Does the PRC leadership believe in UFOs? Rick Fisher, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-06-08T01:09:42

Photo:  The Hopeh Incident refers to a UFO that was supposedly spotted and photographed over Hebei, China, in 1942. .



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1441: UN Report identifies Hattin Shura as Al Qaeda high command for all of the ummah. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD from 2021-06-08T01:02:54

Photo: Arabic document found in an Al Qaeda safehouse.

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1441: Taliban overrun a dozen districts, offer reconciliation to Afghan soldiers who surrender. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD from 2021-06-08T01:02:49

Photo: Evidence of a campfire, a sign of Taliban fighter activity, in a cave, in the mountains of ADI Ghar, during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

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1441: PRC vaccines Sinopharm and Sinovac reported absent trial data and inadequate for recipient nations such as Bahrain. Sean Lin, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-06-08T00:53:39

Photo: Chinese plague, removing bodies

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1441: The hate-filled damage to the synagogues of Lod. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1@ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-06-08T00:48:41

Photo: Synagogue.   From the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.



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1441: Report from Pompeo's Mahogany Row at the US State Department: China, Russia, EU. @MaryKissel from 2021-06-08T00:45:55

Photo: State Department, Washington, D.C.

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1441: #NewWorldReport: Guatemala's longstanding corruption challenge; & What is to be done? Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org from 2021-06-08T00:36:02

Photo: Guatemala a century ago..



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1441: #NewWorldReport: What is the balance between preserving the Amazon forest and prospering from Amazonia? Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal, Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org from 2021-06-08T00:35:54

Photo: Amazon rubber boat, Brazil

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1441: #NewWorldReport: Turmoil continues in Colombia. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal, Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org from 2021-06-08T00:35:36

Photo: Peruvian demonstrators set cars afire.  Screen grab from video.



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1441: #NewWorldReport: Surprise election results for Peru president and Mexico midterms. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org from 2021-06-08T00:35:31

Photo:  Peruvian delegates long ago.

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1440: 2/2: Russia-US Summiteers in Geneva, 2021: What does the US want & What is to be done? Professor H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. from 2021-06-07T03:02:57

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1890-1910.

Ryska militärer. .Foto Gustaf Sandberg..sls1849_719..Ur boken Helsingfors i ord och bild..Utgiven av Svenska litteratursällskapet...

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1440: 1/2: Russia-US Summiteers in Geneva, 2021: What does Russia want & What is to be done? Professor H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. from 2021-06-07T03:02:54

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1915.

Photograph shows Russian soldiers with guns in trenches during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

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1439: Jeff McCausland #Unbound. The complete forty-minute interview. May 21, 2021. from 2021-06-07T02:37:08

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1913.





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1439: Josh Rogin #Unbound: the complete, eighty-minute interview, March 21, 2021 from 2021-06-07T02:34:53

Photo: Peking observatory.   John Thomson:  "Peking consists of two cities: one the Tartar or Manchu city, with the Imperial palace in its centre; the other, the Chinese, containing the altars...

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1439: Jerry Hendrix #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, March 23, 2021 from 2021-06-07T02:33:30

Photo: US Navy (USN) sailors assigned to the Visit, Board, Search and Seizure (VBSS) Team from the USN Whidbey Island Class Dock Landing Ship USS GERMANTOWN (LSD 42), prepare to board...

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1439: Terry Anderson #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. April 6, 2021 from 2021-06-07T02:32:32

Photo: Climate Change.  Terminal moraine, Exit Glacier, AK. Exit Glacier has retreated over 1.25 miles from it's 1815 maximum. September, 2006. 

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1439: Russell Shorto #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, April 22, 2021. from 2021-06-07T02:31:41

Photo:  Italy. Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, 1810-1812.




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1439: John Tamny #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. March 28, 2021. from 2021-06-07T02:30:23

Photo: Free territory for a free people



A proof, printed on paper, for a small campaign badge or banner for 1860 Republican candidates Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin. The...

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1439: J. H. Gelernter #Unbound. The complete, twenty-minute interview. May 3, 2021. from 2021-06-07T02:30:17

Photo: On 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 cle...

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1439: Holly Fretwell #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. April 12, 2021. from 2021-06-07T02:30:12

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1439: Michael Auslin #Unbound. The complete, twenty-minute interview. May 12, 2021. from 2021-06-07T02:30:07

Photo: Entrance to Ballygunge, Calcutta by Francis Frith

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1439: James Tooley #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview. May 14, 2021. from 2021-06-07T02:30:04

Photo: Berea College students present quilt, 6/3/26

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1438: D-Day 2021: Remembering the Boys of Pointe du Hoc and Gap Assault Team #13 on Omaha Beach, Lt. Calvin R. Batchelor. Patrick K. O'Donnell @combathistorian from 2021-06-07T00:00

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1944.





New York, New York. June 6, 1944. Preschool age children at L'Ecole maternelle francaise on D-day

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1438: Flash floods and Tom Tiffany from Wisconsin. Michael Yon, Patreon.com from 2021-06-06T04:25:37

Photo: The border shows how it needs additional barrier support from the 937th Route Clearance Company, 20th Engineer Battalion, 36th Engineer Brigade in Bisbee, Arizona, November 6, 2018. U.S...

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1438: Flying the Darién Gap. Michael Yon, Patreon.com from 2021-06-06T04:25:36

Photo: Along the Atrato Rive.  Map of South America, showing its political divisions ; Map showing the proposed Atrato-inter-oceanic canalroutes, for connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans...

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1438: #PacificWatch: The decline and fall of Venice Beach, @JCBliss from 2021-06-06T04:24:59

Photo: Aerial view of Venice Beach, California




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1438: #PacificWatch: Earthquake yarns from 1989 to 2021. @JCBliss from 2021-06-06T04:24:53

Photo: Spectators sitting on hillside watching fires consume the city after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake

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1438: 2/2: #CivilWar? Is Woke weakening & What is to be done? Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-06-06T03:46:05

Photo: Cover of Appletons' Journal.

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1438: 1/2: #CivilWar? Is Woke weakening & What is to be done? Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-06-06T03:46:01

Photo:  1882    Baths of Trajan (Sette Sale, Villa Brancaccio, Rome)




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1437: Remembering Tiananmen: Confiscation in Hong Kong, PRC style. Elisha Maldonado, @NYPost @IWF @elishamaldonado from 2021-06-06T00:00

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1905

 Title: Rio Blanco factory near Orizaba

Creator: Waite, C. B. (Charles Betts), 1861-1927

Date: 1905

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1436: "Zero-Trust" is the new new cybersecurity. @FRoseDC @WJLA from 2021-06-05T01:41:02

Photo: Put No Trust in Any of the Trusts

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1436: Hints that the Biden Administration is slowing. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion from 2021-06-05T01:35:10

Photo: "Slowly drifting"   -  01/01/1889; Little, C. E. (composer)

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1436: Both Houses of Congress equivocate before the PRC threat. @JoshRogin @WashingtonPost from 2021-06-05T01:27:30

Photo: Chinese communists celebrate Joseph Stalin's birthday, 1949.



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1436: #CivilWar?: The secretive Roman cults of Londinium; & What is to be done? Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-06-05T01:20:43

Photo: Excavating a Roman floor from Londinium.

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1436: #SmallBusinessAmerica: The ice cream man who failed (in SF). @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2021-06-05T01:11:49

Photo: Zaharako's Ice Cream Parlor, 329 Washington Street, Columbus, Bartholomew County, IN

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1436: Newsom tries Game Show MC to advance vaccination rates. @HooverWhalen @HooverInst from 2021-06-05T01:10:57

Photo: A famous Finnish game show, Tesvisio.



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1436: #SmallBusinessAmerica: Lots of small business, not enough workers. @GeneMarks @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2021-06-05T01:05:03

Photo: A close-up of the 1911 Dempster employee picnic photo. Employees and their families gathered in Chautauqua Park to celebrate the company's 33rd Anniversary.



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1436: 2/2: The miraculous engine inside Operation Warp Drive was DARPA. David Adler. American Affairs @AmericanAffrs from 2021-06-05T01:00:12

Photo:  The ARPA Vela program developed sensors to detect nuclear explosions in space, the upper atmosphere, and underwater to support the 1963 Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

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1436: 1/2: The miraculous engine inside Operation Warp Drive was DARPA. David Adler. American Affairs @AmericanAffrs from 2021-06-05T01:00:03

Photo: From a DARPA video: For sixty years, DARPA has held to a singular and enduring mission: to make pivotal investments in breakthrough technologies for national security. The genesis of th...

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1436: Another Webb Gremlin delay, this time the booster. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-06-05T00:54

Photo: Webb telescope in a NASA video.



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1436: Starship drafted by the DoD. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-06-05T00:51:18

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1436: 4/4: A Beginner's Guide to America: For the Immigrant and the Curious. Hardcover – Deckle Edge, March 16, 2021. by Roya Hakakian from 2021-06-05T00:47:51

Photo:  Registering immigrants at Castle Garden, New York City.

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1436: 3/4: A Beginner's Guide to America: For the Immigrant and the Curious Hardcover – Deckle Edge, March 16, 2021. by Roya Hakakian (Author) from 2021-06-05T00:47:43

Photo: Qashqai-migration.



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1436: 2/4: A Beginner's Guide to America: For the Immigrant and the Curious Hardcover – Deckle Edge, March 16, 2021. by Roya Hakakian (Author) from 2021-06-05T00:47:36

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1436: 1/4: A Beginner's Guide to America: For the Immigrant and the Curious. Hardcover – Deckle Edge, March 16, 2021. by Roya Hakakian from 2021-06-05T00:47:28

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1435: The US bomber fleet: Waiting for the B-21 Raider. Tyler Rogoway @thewarzone from 2021-06-04T01:53:43

Photo: A B-2 Spirit Bomber, cousin of the B-21. 

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1435: Debt is expensive, anti-growth, pro-taxes, even more expensive. @VerydeRugy @Mercatus from 2021-06-04T01:50:50

Photo: Debt: Berryman Political Cartoon



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1435: "Both history and Keynesian-influenced economic theory teach that . . ." @VerodeRugy @Marcatus from 2021-06-04T01:50:46

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1435: NATO is a success on defense and not a success on offense. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute from 2021-06-04T01:33:56

Photo: NATO:  A main battle tank (M60A3) of the 3rd Armored Division drives through the Fulda Gap—an area between the Hesse-Thuringian border and Frankfurt am Main that contains two corridors ...

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1435: Belarus is a crisis red line for Moscow. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statesmanship. from 2021-06-04T01:31:09

Photo: Members of the Soviet resistance in Belarus hanged by the German army on 26 October 1941.

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1435: OPEC denialism about the unknowns of Iran deal and American and European demand. Vijay Vaitheeswaran @TheEconomist from 2021-06-04T01:24:47

Photo: Oil wells and camp of the Iraq Petroleum Company. (5 miles S. of Kirkuk). Kirkuk District. An oil driller. Showing full height of drill.tower.





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1435: "They will obstruct, obscure, and continue to play political warfare." Stephen Yates, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-06-04T01:15:45

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1435: The Russians in Burma with guns. Michael Yon, Patreon.com @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-06-04T01:13:28

Photo: A view of the Cantonment Gardens (now Kandaw Minglar Garden) in 1868.



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1435: Quebec's French-speaking cultural elite once more seeks division in a bilingual land. @ConradMBlack @NationalPost from 2021-06-04T01:07

Photo: Canada's First Lady Susan Agnes Macdonald, wife of Sir John A. Macdonald.





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1435: #TheScalaReport: What if it isn't temporary inflation? China's leadership fears inflation above all else. Chris Riegel, CEO @ScalaInc @STRATACACHE from 2021-06-04T01:01:45

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1900. Street market in Shandong, China, later XIX century. Photo taken by the Fragata Sarmiento's crew during a trip to that country.

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1435: President Nixon flies the Doomesday Plane, 1969. Tyler Rogoway @thewarzone from 2021-06-04T00:51:38

Photo: White jet with blue cheatline in-flight over land, flying left. The aircraft features a distinctive bump above the usual 747's trademark nose profile.



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1435: Covid-19, Hong Kong, Uyghurs genocide: "They’re testing Joe Biden." @WJMcGurn @WSJOpinion from 2021-06-04T00:45:22

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1435: Mexico: "We've had thirty-five candidates killed. Assassinated." Adrienne Bard, @CBSNews, Mexico City. from 2021-06-04T00:36:19

Photo: The death of Capt. Walker, at Huamantla in Mexico




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1435: The Iran deal talks slow down. Behnam ben Taleblu,@FDD from 2021-06-04T00:33:16

Photo: Kashan, a city north of Tehran. Here: ancient dwellings, called "caves." ..



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1434: 2/2: A plane crash at Kaduna, Nigeria; and a war of all against all in Central Africa. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-06-03T02:04:50

Photo: Northern and Central Africa

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1434: 1/2: A plane crash at Kaduna, Nigeria; and a war of all against all in Central Africa. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-06-03T02:04:46

Photo: Boeing 737 Aircraft Tests

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1434: Scotland reopens, except Edinburgh; and the price of hogs in China. @TheRealConstable Simon Constanble, Edinburgh. from 2021-06-03T01:56:18

Photo: Scotia Depicta - Part of Perth from the north.

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1434: The German tourists return; Americans, too. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation. Genoa from 2021-06-03T01:52:12

Photo: Pisa from "The Great Eastern Railway Company's Tourist-Guide to the Continent. ... With illustrations ... and a map"




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1433: Origins: "No one has high confidence in any of these assessments." Gady Epstein @TheEconomist from 2021-06-03T01:30:37

Photo:   Wuhan 120 years ago: foreign concessions along the Hankow Bund c. 1900.



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1433: "Biden would like to return to that kind of normalcy, but I don't think normalcy in relations is possible . . . " @AmbJohnBolton, John Bolton, @WashingtonPost from 2021-06-03T01:23:20

Photo:   "The new diplomacy (formerly dollar, now 30 [cents])" on sign. Uncle Sam seated at table with Chinese official, possibly Yuan Shih-kai.  John Bull (Great Britain) writing order on "Bi...

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1433: The miraculous survival of the man from Ecuador who was trapped in the Darién Gap. Michael Yon. Patreon.com from 2021-06-03T01:14:58

Photo: The Ecuadorean man is a special story.



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1433: Upriver and into the Darién Gap with Congressman Tom Tiffany. Michael Yon, Patreon.com from 2021-06-03T01:12:35

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1432: Brave little Ingenuity glitches and recovers. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-06-03T01:08:34

Photo: Diagram showing the components of Ingenuity.



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1432: Superheavy orbital flight is credible this year. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com. from 2021-06-03T01:05:42

Photo: Views of rear of orbiter with cargo bay doors unopened




ENDEAVOUR (ORBITER), FLIGHT DECK, STS-47. 11/20/1998





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1432: The vast, tireless, magical, beloved Appalachia. Salena Zito from 2021-06-03T01:00:08

Photo: The Appalachian Trail traverses the dense, moss-covered spruce-fir understory near the summit of Old Black in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee.



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1432: Remembering Henry Peiffer (1837-1916), Company I, 201st Pennsylvania Infantry Volunteers, 1861-1865. Salena Zito. from 2021-06-03T00:57:45

Photo: 12th Pa. Volunteers [i.e., 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry] at Bloody Angle

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1432: PRC defeated by simple kindness in the Solomon Islands. @CleoPaskal @FDD @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-06-03T00:51:06

Photo:   Unknown Solomon Island Man

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1432: PRC sudden three-child policy signals long-term defeat for the CCP central planners. Reggie Littlejohn @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-06-03T00:48:47

Photo:  Three Chinese children.



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1432: Will the US buy in to the Iron Dome success? @VictoriaCoates Center for Security Policy. from 2021-06-03T00:43:22

Photo: .Israeli Minister of Defense Benny Gantz, Defense Secretary.  Photo cropped because the hardware behind the men is, in fact, what Iron Dome looks like from up close.



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1432: NATO preps virtually for trouble in Kabul, Minsk, Ankara, Moscow. Terri Schultz @CBSNews Brussels from 2021-06-03T00:39:28

Photo: .Afghanistan exit






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1432: 2/2: Debating Civics debating about 21st Century Civics; or, not much debating about April 18/19, 1775. @PeterBerkowitz @HooverInst from 2021-06-02T01:34:07

Photo:  To the people of America. Stop him! ... a traitor! ... Isaac Wilkins ... New-London, May 4, 1775.  Revolutionary War period broadside.

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1432: Why did Turkey's Erdogan block NATO sanctions on Belarus? @AykanErdemir @FDD from 2021-06-02T01:24:25

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1431: ". . . a lot of social spending—big and presumably permanent expansion in the government . . ." @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-06-02T01:13:12

Photo: Logo for the eighteenth season of the American adaptation of Big Brother.  Fair use.

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1431: Pandemic Britain on the beach; & What is to be done? @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-06-02T01:05:04

Photo: Waratahs at twickenham 1928.  George VI, Duke of York, meets the Waratahs before playing England at Twickenham.

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1431: Boris Johnson surprise remarries as Britain celebrates his personality. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-06-02T01:03:37

Photo: Prime Minister Lloyd George and his wife.  Photograph shows British Liberal Party statesman David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor (1863-1945) who served as Prime Minister ...

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1431: The EU and the "temporary inflation" explanation. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-06-02T01:03:31

Photo: An Emblem of Europe.  Anonymous, British, 18th century. [Britons lightly making fun of the Continent}

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1431: No one drops out of the NY mayoralty election; & What is to be done? @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNews from 2021-06-02T00:52:59

Photo: .A collection of 97 pieces including posters, cards, announcements, etc., pertaining to New York Mayoralty campaigns 1903-1910.








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1431: Frenemies Lukashenko and Putin vs NATO. @FelixLight, CBSNews, Moscow. from 2021-06-02T00:52:55

Photo: Stamp of USSR; Coat of arms of Belarus [Byelorussian] Soviet Socialist Republic; 1938; 20 kopeks;.



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1431: The Biden Budget and the Roaring Recovery. @LizPeek @TheHill from 2021-06-02T00:38:33

Photo: .Roaring 'Twemties:  Josephine Baker dancing the Charleston at...

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1431: ". . . that people are already expecting inflation will be 3% versus 2.5% . . ." @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews from 2021-06-02T00:38:30

Photo: Swidd advertisement "Against the ruination of the nation." — concerning the economic crisis of 1935. .







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1431: #NewWorldReport: Argentina Fernandez fails vaccine diplomacy. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org from 2021-06-02T00:27:45

Photo:   Vaccine on a trip.   Doctors, surgeons, bonesetter.



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1431: #NewWorldReport: AMLO aims to consolidate authority with the midterm elections. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org from 2021-06-02T00:27:40

Photo: Children in a school festival in honor of the Heroes of Celaya; November 1942.






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1431: #NewWorldReport: Indications of Venezuela hands in Cali and Bogota disorder. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org from 2021-06-02T00:27:35

Photo: The situation in Venezuela:  the body of Paola Ramírez after being killed during the Mother of All Marches.



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1431: #NewWorldReport: Colombia rocked by sophisticated disruption at Cali. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org from 2021-06-02T00:27:31

Photo: FARC guerrillas marching in formation during the Caguan peace talks (1998–2002)..



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1430: "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. from 2021-06-01T01:56:40

Photo: Rural Landscape, "Radstadt am Tauren." Johann Christoph Erhard (German, Nuremberg 1795–1822 Rome)





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1429: #MicePlague4: May 30: Mice turn cannibal as the farms and suburbs wait for winter to stem the plague. Jeremy Zakis #OzWatch. from 2021-06-01T00:00

Photo: Moiuse.



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1429: #MicePlague3: May 15: The plague of mice threatens NSW, joined by a plague of Beijing threats. Jeremy Zakis #OzWatch. from 2021-06-01T00:00

Photo: Communist jahkrit ai lam hpe..  Magawap maga mu.  Propaganda aimed at the Kachin people in northernmost Burma, for whom the Jingpho language is traditional.

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1429: #MicePlague2: April 27: Celebrating ANZAC Day is no refuge as the mice plague quickens. Jeremy Zakis, #OzWatch from 2021-06-01T00:00

Photo: Netsuke of Gourd and Mice

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1429: #MicePlague1: March 27: The foundational #Ozwatch report of floods driving a plague of mice, snakes and all creatures onto high ground. Jeremy Zakis, #OzWatch. from 2021-06-01T00:00

Photo: Mouse.





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1428: James Tooley #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview. May 14, 2021. from 2021-05-31T01:11:34

Photo: High School Building, Abilene, Texas

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1428: Josh Rogin #Unbound: the complete, eighty-minute interview, March 21, 2021 from 2021-05-31T01:11:30

Photo: Chao Yen; National Palace Museum




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1428: Jerry Hendrix #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, March 23, 2021 from 2021-05-31T01:10:50

Photo: War and Navy Department.

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1428: David Grantham #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview, April 5, 2021. from 2021-05-31T01:10:45

Photo: Turkish Spies - an Intelligence Officer interrogating two spies

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1428: Terry Anderson #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. April 6, 2021 from 2021-05-31T01:10:05

Photo: Panoramic view from Mount Reynolds, Glacier National Park - 180 degrees to 300 degrees

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1428: Russell Shorto #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, April 22, 2021. from 2021-05-31T01:09:02

Photo:   Dillon's mob

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1428: John Tamny #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. March 28, 2021. from 2021-05-31T01:08:42

Photo: Misplaced economy

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1428: J. H. Gelernter #Unbound. The complete, twenty-minute interview. May 3, 2021. from 2021-05-31T01:08:21

Photo: Carel Hendrik, as head of a deputation with Napoleon, pleads for preservation of the Batavian Republic, April 1806. Numbered top right: LXXIX.





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1428: Fix America’s Forests: Reforms to Restore National Forests and Tackle the Wildfire Crisis. Holly Fretwell , Jonathan Wood April 12, 2021 from 2021-05-31T01:08:11

Photo:  Forest Officer making preliminary survey of area of red pine needing side and top release from overtopping of aspen.





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1428: Michael Auslin #Unbound. The complete, twenty-minute interview. May 12, 2021. from 2021-05-31T01:07:50

Photo: PACOM's Indo-Pacific map.



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1427: A plague of cannibal mice in NSW. A plague of State Security in PRC. Jeremy Zakis, Sidney. from 2021-05-30T01:38:36

Photo: A plague of mice: "mice everywhere."  Screen grab  





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1427: Risking the Darién Gap jungle ten thousand migrants a month from all continents, men, mothers, children, aiming for the USA. Michael Yon, Patreon.com from 2021-05-30T00:16:31

Photo:  Bothrops asper (a fer-de-lance) photographed in Ecuador 2013 by Robert Wedderburn.  A commonplace visitor in the Darién Gap.  (See below for permissions.)  Listen
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1427: Congressman Tom Tiffany, WI-7, goes to Panama's triple-canopy Darién Gap to meet the migrants. Michael Yon, Patreon.com from 2021-05-30T00:00

Photo: Boa constrictor - 1734-1765 - Print - Iconographia Zoologica - Special Collections, University of Amsterdam




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1427: #PacificWatch: Container Ship Jam; the Return of Echo Park. @JCBliss. from 2021-05-30T00:00

Photo: A starboard bow view of the container ship PRESIDENT TAFT tied up at the pier at the Naval Supply Depot freight terminal and warehouse compound






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1427: #PacificWatch: Severe drought warning; water rationing begins, Russian River to Santa Clara County. @JCBliss from 2021-05-30T00:00

Photo:  Russian River, California.




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1426: #CivilWar? Germanicus and Gaius weigh the Christian martyr threat to the Roman Empire, 90 A.D.; & What is to be done? Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins from 2021-05-29T03:27:20

Photo: Roman Empire 1700-1900.




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1425: 2/2 Stare decisis and Roe v Wade: a history @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2021-05-29T01:40:20

Photo: Demonstrators in the first March for Life in Washington, D.C. on January 22, 1974, a year after Roe v. Wade was passed



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1425: 1/2 Stare decisis and Roe v Wade: a history @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2021-05-29T01:39:38

Photo:  Stare decisis defined



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1425: Not trusting the news or what you read; & What is to be done? @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion from 2021-05-29T01:38:51

Photo:  First page of Tan, 23 November 1938

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1425: 4/4 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 from 2021-05-29T01:36:48

Photo: Gettysburg; the pictures and the story


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1425: 3/4 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 from 2021-05-29T01:36:02

Photo: The Battlefield, Gettysburg, Pa


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1425: 2/4 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 from 2021-05-29T01:34:46

Photo: Battle of Gettysburg cyclorama.   The greatest work of the celebrated French artist Paul Philippoteaux.


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1425: 1/4 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 from 2021-05-29T01:33:57

Photo: Round Top from Devil's Den, Gettysburg, Pa.


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1425: #SmallBusinessAmerica. Chocolate-covered cicadas. @GeneMarks from 2021-05-29T01:30:47

Photo: Seventeen-year old cicada 


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1425: #SmallBusinessAmerica. Hotel occupancy surges. @GeneMarks from 2021-05-29T01:29:09

Photo:  Hôtel de Crillon, Paris: one of the grand hotels of the world.  Fair use.


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1425: #PacificWatch: Graduation day, 2021, in Angels Stadium. Jeff Bliss @JCBliss from 2021-05-29T01:28:30

Photo: In Angels Stadium, Sgt. Maj. of the Marine Corps Micheal P. Barrett stands in a football stadium prior to the 2013 Semper Fidelis All-American Bowl football game in Anaheim, Calif., Jan...

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1425: A 90-day search for the origins of the virus; & What is to be done? @JoshRogin, Washington Post from 2021-05-29T01:28

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1425: Rules-based order for killer robots and killer satellites. Patrick Tucker, Defense One, @defPatTech from 2021-05-29T01:27:25

Photo: Robot at machine fair in Jaarbeurs Utrecht, the Netherlands (1941). Photo by unknown photographer from Stapf Bilderdienst

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1425: Cybersecurity after the Colonial Pipeline hack. Patrick Tucker, Defense One, @defPatTech from 2021-05-29T01:26:47

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1425: The galactic center revealed. Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-05-29T01:25:18

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1425: Starship at the Equator. Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-05-29T01:24:30

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1424: "Australia would like the US to do more." Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-05-28T02:56:02

Photo: Ship passing the U.S. Army base at Bulimba, Brisbane, ca. 1943
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1424: The PRC moves to persuade Indonesia in the fishing village of Daru. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-05-28T02:55:59

Photo: Indonesian naval patrol boat.

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1424: "Reaching out to do personal deals with the Taliban." Anatol Lieven, @QuincyInst @Georgetown. from 2021-05-28T02:55:39

Photo: Coat-of-arms of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, the proclaimed state of the Taliban.

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1424: No logical returning to the Iran Deal. David Albright. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-05-28T02:37

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1424: Anti-semitism and the V-2s over Jerusalem. Chris Smith. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-05-28T02:31:11

Photo: U.S. Army cut-away of the V-2.


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1424: Reopening Canadian summer: Quebec electioneering in two languages. @ConradMBlack from 2021-05-28T02:28:30

Photo:  Election publicity of Henri Lavigueur during the 1920 elections in Quebec.  Published in the 14 February edition of Le Soleil newspaper.

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1424: When you first heard the air raid sirens over Jerusalem? Dore Gold, @DrDoreGold. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-05-28T02:21:17

Photo: Fire outside the al Aqsa Mosque (screen grab)..

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1424: Recommending an ambassador to combat anti-semitism. @RepJoshG, Josh Gottheimer; Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-05-28T02:09:31

Photo: Swiss anti-Jewish engraving:  Solothurn Central Library —"Jewish man, you always cheated me."


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1424: #HotelMars: A long line of tourists for Earth-orbit hotel rooms. David Livingston Spaceshow.com. Marcia Smith, SpacepolicyOnline.com from 2021-05-28T02:05:25

Photo: Orbital Assembly Corporation, a new construction company run by former pilot John Blincow, is planning to open a luxury space hotel by 2027. Voyage...

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1424: Popular, authoritarian, shrewd, term-limited AMLO looks to Mexico's June 6 midterms. @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion from 2021-05-28T02:01:29

Photo: LLópez Obrador, July 2018.


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1424: #TheScalaReport: The Icahn Short on American Malls; the Market Long on American Green. Chris Riegel, CEO @ScalaInc @STRATACACHE from 2021-05-28T01:56:43

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1424: Deregulating childcare and rewarding overtime lifts the burden on parenting. @VerodeRugy. @Mercatus from 2021-05-28T01:55:23

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1424: Galileo and the bat cave in Southwest China; & What is to be done? @VDHanson from 2021-05-28T01:43:44

Photo: Bat.  Drawing collected by Felix Platter, to be used in Historiae animalium.

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1424: 2/2: Big Oil: The shot heard round the world. Vijay Vaitheeswaran, @TheEconomist from 2021-05-28T01:38:24

Photo: 2/2 "Big Production", panographed from Middle States Lease block 96 featuring, from left to right, blocks 95-89-88-87, "Burkwaggoner Pool".
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1424: 1/2: Big Oil: The shot heard round the world. Vijay Vaitheeswaran, @TheEconomist from 2021-05-28T01:37:21

Photo: "Big Production", panographed from Middle States Lease block 96, "Burkwaggoner Pool".


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1424: Congress seeks protection from China; & What is to be done? Weifeng Zhong @Mercatus from 2021-05-28T01:21:25

Photo: Chinese PLA.  Credit: U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal J.J. Harper.

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1423: Warplanes vs war drones vs war AI; 2 of 2, Tyler Rogoway, @thewarzone, @thedrive from 2021-05-27T02:20:45

Photo:  Rare second edition of the very important early manual on gunpowder first published in 1529. Perhaps even rarer than the first, this edition is held by only three libraries worldwide, ...

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1423: Warplanes vs war drones vs war AI; 1 of 2, Tyler Rogoway, @thewarzone, @thedrive from 2021-05-27T02:20:26

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1423: Italy opens its arms to American tourists. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation from 2021-05-27T02:16:40

Photo:  The welcome.  Mary's visit to her cousin Elisabet (Luke 1:39). Joseph and Zechariah shake hands. To the right of the stairs is a woman with a basket on her head.

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1423: The PRC confiscates Jimmy Lai's stock in Apple Daily. Mark Clifford. Gordon Chang. from 2021-05-27T02:13:38

Photo:   Confiscation; stolen treasure

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1423: Why does the PRC buy private schools in Canada? . Charles Burton, Gordon Chang @gordongchang from 2021-05-27T02:11:33

Photo: Toronto through its history has seen the development of multiple Chinese ethnic enclaves in its downtown and metropolitan regions.


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1423: Baku recovers from the pandemic. Brenda Shaffer, @profbshaffer; @fdd from 2021-05-27T02:09:47

Photo: Hurshidbanu Natavan with her children

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1423: More tragedy in Nagorno-Karabakh. Brenda Shaffer, @profbshaffer, @fdd from 2021-05-27T02:08:43

Photo:   Historical photos of Azerbaijan - tschajchana


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1423: The unknowns of asteroid Ryugu. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-05-27T02:07:19

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1423: Clarence Thomas and the New-New Scotus. Bill McGurn, @wjmcgurn, @wsjopinion, Wall Street Journal editorial board from 2021-05-27T02:05:24

Photo: US Supreme Court of long ago

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1423: The historical case for the January 6 Commission. Gerald F Seib, Wall Street Journal from 2021-05-27T02:03:31

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1423: Boycott the Olympics because of the Uyghurs? Reggie Littlejohn and Gordon Chang @GordonGChang from 2021-05-27T02:02:07

Photo: Founding of the First East Turkestan Republic

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1423: The battle in the Solomons: PRC vs Taiwan. @CleoPaskal; @GordonGChang from 2021-05-27T01:59:38

Photo: Solomon Islands postage, 1938, fowl

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1423: A conversation with the Senator from Charleston: Tim Scott. SalenaZito.com from 2021-05-27T01:58:27

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1422: Small-town America awakens: Hot Springs, Virginia SalenaZito.com from 2021-05-27T01:56:02

Photo: The Homestead, Hot Springs, Virginia. Ballroom, stair end

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1421: Unknowns and secrets of a bat cave in China. @JoshRogin @WashingtonPost from 2021-05-26T02:13:20

Photo: Panel with Fish, Bats, and Clouds. In Mandarin Chinese, while the radical for “bat” means “insect," the rest of the character is a homonym for "good luck.” ..
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1421: South Korea must wait in line with the others. @JoshRogin @WashingtonPost from 2021-05-26T02:10:35

Photo: "A traitor's peace! Workingmen! The politicans who cry out for 'peace,' and 'The Union as it was, tell us that it is a very easy thing to settle the troubles between the North and the S...

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1421: Tehran confidence in Vienna. Behnam ben Taleblu, @FDD from 2021-05-26T02:03:11

Photo: Where the Iranian representative would stay: Palais Paar in Vienna.

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1421: "Belorussian exiles in Europe will be feeling most alarmed by this." @FelixLight @CBSNews Moscow from 2021-05-26T01:59:57

Photo: How to combat piracy:  A visit, board, search and seizure team assigned to the guided-missile cruiser USS Anzio investigates a suspected pirate skiff. Anzio is assigned to Combined Task...

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1421: The Cuomo Brothers Win Again. @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNews from 2021-05-26T01:53:43

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1421: Goodbye 2020; Hello 2022. @LizPeek @TheHill from 2021-05-26T01:50:29

Photo: The year rolls over into the next year . . . .

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1421: The consumer sallies forth. @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews from 2021-05-26T01:46:22

Photo: Lumber in the US is now at least a third more expensive than it was six months ago.  Here:  Lumber being loaded onto truck at the Producers and Consumers Cooperative. Phoenix, Arizona.<...

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1421: Sleeping America awakens from DC to AZ. @JohnTamny @RealClearMarkets from 2021-05-26T01:39:15

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1420: The EU suddenly looks sturdy in a storm. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-05-26T01:26

Photo: Belarus:  Catholic Church of St. Joseph and the Monastery of Jesuits in Viciebsk

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1420: Scandal too many from "Dom Bomb" to BBC lies. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-05-26T01:24:31

Photo: Personifications of Truth, Hypocrisy and Wisdom with portrait of Terentius.

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1420: Inflation and its discontents. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-05-26T01:21:43

Photo: Inflation: helicopter money?.

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1420: Lockdown lifts London despite the Indian variant. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-05-26T01:18:38

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1420: #NewWorldReport: Bogota anarchy; & What is to be done? Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org from 2021-05-26T01:12:29

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1420: #NewWorldReport: Why did Panama close its border with Colombia? Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org from 2021-05-26T01:08:14

Photo: .1903 political cartoon: Panama separates from Gran  Colombia



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1420: #NewWorldReport: Horror return on the Shining Path. Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org from 2021-05-26T01:06:09

Photo: Abimael Guzmán, founder of the Peruvian Shining Path.

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1420: #NewWorldReport: Caracas warlords dominate the borders. Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org from 2021-05-26T01:04:25

Photo: Detail of The Battle of Carabobo (1887) by Martín Tovar y Tovar. Federal Capitol of Venezuela.


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1419: Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab points to a Kremlin link to the Belarus affair. @Felix_Light @CBSNews from 2021-05-25T03:01:20

Photo: The arrival of British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour (1848-1930) at Battery Park, New York City, May 11, 1917. Balfour and others are seated in an automobile.
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1419: Tehran likely ordered and directed the Gaza rockets and drones. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-05-25T02:56:50

Photo: Iran named one of its drones "Gaza."  Here: a photo of part of one.
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1419: "Indiana" Hoenlein and remembrance of Leo Frank, 1884-1915. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-05-25T02:54:59

Photo: The Atlanta Georgian, April 29, 1913, announcing that the police are closing in on Leo Frank for the murder of Mary Phagan...

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1419: Merrick Garland hunts for Timothy McVeigh in 2021. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-05-25T02:50:58

Photo: A view of the destroyed Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building from across the adjacent parking lot, two days after the bombing.
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1419: Healthcare and the economy remain atop the Biden Administration's list. Elliot Morris, @TheEconomist from 2021-05-25T02:45:36

Photo: Nurses and doctors perform surgery 
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1419: The Republican primaries and the long shadow of Trump for President, 2020. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter from 2021-05-25T02:38:49

Photo: President Donald J. Trump boards Air Force One Monday, Oct. 15, 2018, at Joint Base Andrews, Md., en route to Florida.(Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead).

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1419: The looming California drought is a political event. @DevinNune CA-22 from 2021-05-25T02:30

Photo:  Stranded in southern California. Belongings of Oklahoma drought refugees camped alongside the road
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1418: The Hamas falsehoods that drive US antisemitism attacks. @AaronKleinShow Aaron Klein, Strategic Adviser to Prime Minister Netanyahu. from 2021-05-25T02:13:02

Photo: Caricature of the anti-semitic policies of the Grand Union Hotel in Saratoga, N.Y.   Lithograph by Joseph Keppler.

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1418: BBC suspect in a deception that damaged the royal family, especially Princess Diana's children. Vicki Barker @CBSNews from 2021-05-25T02:04:23

Photo: The BBC's radio studio in Birmingham, from the BBC Hand Book 1928, which described it as "Europe's largest studio"..

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1418: Afghanistan resistance after America departs: "He said fifty, sixty thousand." Charlie D'Agata, @CBSNews from 2021-05-25T01:59:23

Photo: Ahmad Shah Massoud (right) with Pashtun anti-Taliban leader Abdul Qadir (left) in November 2000.

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1418: Al Qaeda in Kabul. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD from 2021-05-25T01:50:07

Photo: Sayyid Qutb, the Egyptian Islamist who inspired al-Qaeda.

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1418: The Kremlin pays no price for Navalny affair or Nordstream2 Enterprise @PaulR_Gregory @HooverInst from 2021-05-25T01:48:41

Photo: Castoro Sei semi-submersible on station in the Baltic Sea south-east of Gotland (Sweden) whilst pipe-laying for Nord Stream.

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1418: Moon leaves disappointed. Bruce Klingner, @Heritge @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-05-25T01:47:28

Photo: Group of Koreans in traditional dress standing near a carved post on a mountain road. .

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1418: The Taliban, the Coalition, the Afghan government, and a bad ending. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD from 2021-05-25T01:38:53

Photo:  Afghan women in the 1920s
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1418: Dr. Li-Meng Yan, a Chinese virologist who was based in Hong Kong before fleeing to America, on this: from 2021-05-25T01:36:22

Photo: Wuhan Institute of Virology. Wuhan, China.


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1417: #PacificWatch: The second year of severe drought: California fears a third. @JCBliss from 2021-05-24T02:01:10

Photo: Drought refugees in California, 1930s
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1416: Michael Auslin #Unbound. The complete, twenty-minute interview. May 12, 2021. from 2021-05-24T01:02:51

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1416: J. H. Gelernter #Unbound. The complete, twenty-minute interview. May 3, 2021. from 2021-05-24T01:02:37

Photo: Bodleian Libraries, an hieroglyphic describing the state of Great Britain and the continent of Europe, for 1804
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1416: Russell Shorto #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, April 22, 2021. from 2021-05-24T01:02:25

Photo: J. Fritz Gordon, Al Capone and Mayor of Havana, Julio Morales - Cuba; 1930.

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1416: Holly Fretwell #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. April 12, 2021. from 2021-05-24T01:02:13

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1416: Terry Anderson #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. April 6, 2021 from 2021-05-24T01:01:16

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1416: David Grantham #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview, April 5, 2021. from 2021-05-24T01:00:36

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1416: John Tamny #Unbound. The complete,forty-minute interview. March 28, 2021. from 2021-05-24T01:00:17

Photo: Het slechte huishouden--"bad housekeeping".

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1416: Jerry Hendrix #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, March 23, 2021 from 2021-05-24T01:00:04

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1416: Josh Rogin #Unbound: the complete, eighty-minute interview, March 21, 2021 from 2021-05-24T00:57:21

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1415: #PacificWatch: Remembering the now dismantled Fantasyland Station as the Magic Kingdom reopens without temperature checks. @JCBliss from 2021-05-23T02:27:59

Photo: Entrance to Disneyland, Aneka Amerika 102 (1957),
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1415: #PacificWatch: Special: Venice Beach disorder is the trend; Tent City in Sausalito is the trend. @JCBliss from 2021-05-23T02:21:50

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1415: 2/2: #CivilWar? Thermidorian Reaction to the wavering Church of Woke: Biden Foreign Affairs Scenario. Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins from 2021-05-23T02:18:12

Photo: Thermidor.  Célébrités 1877-1890 (Serie's title).

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1415: 1/2: #CivilWar? Thermdiorian Reaction to the wavering Church of Woke: Biden Domestic Affairs Scenario. Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins from 2021-05-23T02:18:06

Photo: The interrogation of Robespierre on the morning of the tenth Thermidor
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1414: Animal welfare with the revival of the 1970's Gunhill Road rock band: in a simple declaration, "I know you are real." Michael Harrison from 2021-05-23T00:35:21

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1414: Censoring dissent from DeToqueville to Winnie the Pooh and the Twitter owners. Emmett McGroarty, Clifford Humphey. @TheAmGreatness from 2021-05-23T00:00

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1414: Panama closes its border with Colombia and the Darién Gap . Michael Yon in Panama City, Patreon.com from 2021-05-23T00:00

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1413: #PacificWatch: Drought, arson, wildfires, brownouts,SMUD: Here comes summer. @JCBliss from 2021-05-22T01:48:40

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1413: Valuating and Monetizing SpaceX Starlink. Tim Cross, @TheEconomist from 2021-05-22T01:48:28

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1413: 4/4: Really Good Schools: Global Lessons for High-Caliber, Low-Cost Education. Hardcover – April 12, 2021 by James Tooley from 2021-05-22T01:48:13

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1413: 3/4: Really Good Schools: Global Lessons for High-Caliber, Low-Cost Education. Hardcover – April 12, 2021 by James Tooley from 2021-05-22T01:47:59

Photo: Boys's school inSfax, Tunisia.

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1413: 2/4: Really Good Schools: Global Lessons for High-Caliber, Low-Cost Education. Hardcover – April 12, 2021 by James Tooley from 2021-05-22T01:47:03

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1413: 1/4: Really Good Schools: Global Lessons for High-Caliber, Low-Cost Education. Hardcover – April 12, 2021 by James Tooley from 2021-05-22T01:46:57

Photo: Education.   Claude Gillot (French, Langres 1673–1722 Paris)

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1413: Space tourism is the new new. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-05-22T01:15:57

Photo: Travel poster of yesteryear.

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1413: PRC Zhurong careful steps on Mars. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-05-22T01:15:37

Photo: This photo is the first color view of Mars from China's Zhurong rover, looking toward its rear, from its landing spot on a plain in Utopia Planitia following a May 14, 2021 landing. Thi...

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1413: #SmallBusinessAmerica: Expectations are almost everything. @GeneMarks from 2021-05-22T01:15:28

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1413: #SmallBusinessAmerica: Customers knows (masking) best. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2021-05-22T01:15:02

Photo:  Hiring troubles prompt some employers to eye automation and machines.  Here:  General Electric Company exhibit including a 3000 horsepower Steam Turbine and 200 kilowatt alter...

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1413: The Rule of the Thirds and what the US Navy needs. @FRoseDC from 2021-05-22T01:08:24

Photo: Print shows a starboard view of an American battleship with the parts numbered and lettered; also shows a rowboat and a small sailboat in the foreground.

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1413: As the pandemic fades, NYC is not safe from crime. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion from 2021-05-22T01:05:55

Photo: The oldest daily newspaper in the US, founded in 1801 by Alexander Hamilton. 
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1413: The vaccine at the senior prom. @VeroDeRugy @Mercatus from 2021-05-22T01:00:23

Photo: Senior prom held by the high school graduating class at the time of graduation; conversation during an intermission
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1413: Green New Deal and the miners of Mongolia, Congo, Brazil. @VeroDeRugy @Mercatus from 2021-05-22T00:54:20

Photo: Belgian Congo Katanga copper mine.

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1413: #CivilWar?: Labour Party also divides into the Optimates and the Populares. Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins from 2021-05-22T00:50:52

Photo: Gaius Grac  addressing the Concilium Plebis.

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1413: #TheScalaReport: TEU (Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit) pricing explodes if you can find one to hire and a port to land in. Chris Riegel, CEO @ScalaInc @STRATACACHE from 2021-05-22T00:46:20

Photo: tTranshipment of containers at the Container Terminal Amsterdam.

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1412: PRC Olympics ice hockey fail. Gady Epstein @TheEconomist from 2021-05-21T01:50:18

Photo: Winger Olympics a century ago: Narve Bonna en 1924 à Chamonix
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1412: The Kremlin moves to end the Navalny party. Felix Light @CBS News Moscow. @felix_light from 2021-05-21T01:50:11

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1412: 2/2: Growing American Seapower in the Twenty-First Century; & What is to be done? @JerryHendrixII from 2021-05-21T01:50:03

Photo: US Navy helos at the South China Sea.

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1412: 1/2: Growing American Seapower in the Twenty-First Century; & What is to be done? @JerryHendrixII from 2021-05-21T01:49:58

Photo: The Aircraft Carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) Conducts Operations in Support of Exercise Valiant Shield 2020.
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1412: "I think that Biden, the people around him, are reverting to that Obama doctrine." @VDHanson @HoooverInst from 2021-05-21T01:38:34

Photo:  An earlier president and vice-president:  Theo. Roosevelt & Wm. McKinley
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1412: The American Electoral College supports a balance of power: compare Latin America. @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion from 2021-05-21T01:35:23

Photo: Electoral count, House of Representatives
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1411: Closely watching Javad Zarif. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-05-21T01:26:27

Photo: Mirza Shafi Mazandarani, vizier/advisor to the Qajar king, 14 April 1801 to 12 July 1819.


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1411: Reinforcing the disordered cities. Superintendent Micky Rosenfeld, Israel Police. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-05-21T01:22:49

Photo:  Israel— A collection of work by the photographer Zoltan Kluger;  Mikve Israel, Gymnastics.

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1411: The inexplicably not-much vaccinated Canada. @ConradMBlack @NationalPost. from 2021-05-21T01:19:19

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1411: "The Biden Administration wants to recapitulate the policies of the Obama Administration." Cliff May @FDD @WashTimes from 2021-05-21T01:13:14

Photo: President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden pose with the full Cabinet for an official group photo in the Grand Foyer of the White House, July 26, 2012.

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1410: Italy reopens to tourists—and to migrants. Sabina Castelfranco @CBSNews from 2021-05-21T00:53:09

Photo: A hilltop town with the Sanctuary of Lampedusa.  Lampedusa is an island where many migrants stop.
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1410: Battle of the Bay: A's vs Giants for fans and favors. @HooverWhalen @HooverInst from 2021-05-21T00:47:32

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1410: "You have to do what the Allies did in the Second World War. You have to go in with ground forces and conquer the street." Yaakov Amidror (@jinsadc) Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-05-21T00:47:17

Photo: Soldiers wave from the back of a truck towing a Howitzer from a drop zone during NATO Exercise, 1987.
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1410: Sean Parnell vs Conor Lamb, the rematch—for Toomey's seat. SalenaZito.com from 2021-05-21T00:42:36

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1410: Joe Biden helps hold onto Scranton. SalenaZito.com @DCExaminer from 2021-05-21T00:39:21

Photo:  U. S. Post Office, North Washington & Linden Streets, Scranton, Lackawanna County, PA
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1409: Anecdotal indications that the India variant has spread to the nearly defenseless countryside. Sadanand @Dhume @AEI @WSJOpinion from 2021-05-20T02:32:44

Photo: Small village in India: Kibber, Spiti, Himachal Pradesh; Population: 366.
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1409: In praise of the small-state success of the Abraham Accords; & What is to be done? Peter Berkowitz @HooverInst from 2021-05-20T02:25:26

Photo: Abraham Accords Declaration.

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1409: The PRC in a hurry to construct a space station. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-05-20T02:23:05

Photo: Connector piece with over 50,000 cables, pipes, mechanical parts --from How to Build A Space Station video
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1409: The freedom of commercial space rockets ahead of the PRC. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-05-20T02:06:15

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1409: Can the Blue States jettison the SALT problem without upsetting Bernie Sanders? @WJMcGurn @WSJOpinion from 2021-05-20T02:03:30

Photo: Salt flats in what is now a town named Salt Flat along the road carrying U.S. Highways 62-180 near the New Mexico border in Hudspeth County, Texas
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1409: Americans are most welcome to Italy starting today. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation. from 2021-05-20T01:59:03

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1409: #HotelMars: Virgin Galactic and cracks in the enterprise. Doug Messier, Parabolic Arc. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com from 2021-05-20T01:55:35

Photo:  Sign on rail, Las Cruces, New Mexico (a US home fo Virgin Galactic)
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1409: Tale of the Badr 3 missiles from Iran. Jonathan Schanzer @FDD from 2021-05-20T01:49:39

Photo: From a video on the Badr 3 missiles fired by Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of Islamic Jihad resistance movement, at Sderot and Ashkelon.

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1410: The PRC on Mars. Brandon Weichert. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-05-20T01:46:17

Photo: Chinese Planetary Exploration Mars logo.


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1410: The Blue House romances the North again.@FDD @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill; David Maxwell from 2021-05-20T01:45:08

Photo: The photo of the destruction of Inter-Korean Liaison Office published in 17 June by Korean Central News Agency.

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1410: The PRC aims to acquire the vaccine patents; & What is to be done? Sean Lin. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-05-20T01:34:02

Photo: L Gross, Dealer in Drugs and Chemicals (1867) 
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1410: PRC chooses a side in the Gaza war. Stephen Yates @DCIInternatonal @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-05-20T01:18:56

Photo: NZ Vickers Gun Section under fire during Second Battle of Gaza
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1409: 2/2: The constitutional trouble with suspending evictions. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2021-05-20T01:00:54

Photo: The eviction, by Hubert O'Grady.
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1409: 1/2: The constitutional trouble with suspending evictions. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2021-05-20T01:00:51

Photo:  New York - East Side eviction.  Two men standing on sidewalk with possessions, in front of stores. one with Yiddish sign,
Bain News Service photograph.


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1409: 2/2: The grim estimates of of the virus deaths worldwide so far. Slavea Chankova @TheEconomist from 2021-05-20T00:57:15

Photo:  Master of the Death of Absalom
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1409: 1/2: The grim estimates of of the virus deaths worldwide so far. Slavea Chankova @TheEconomist from 2021-05-20T00:56:53

Photo:  Main illustration for the short story "The Man Who Lived." Internal Illustration from the pulp magazine Weird Tales (September 1941, vol. 36, no. 1).


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1409: Boris Johnson warns of drunkenness.@JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-05-19T02:14:39

Photo: Drunkenness.

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1409: The White House tale of temporary inflation; & What is to be done? @JosephSternberg @@WSJOpinion from 2021-05-19T02:09:34

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1409: America is on the amber list. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion on the amber list. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-05-19T02:06:41

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1409: Joy and chaos and the unknown in the opening UK. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-05-19T02:04:12

Photo: Thames from "The rivers of Great Britain. The Thames, from source to sea, etc. [With “Rivers of the east coast”.]"
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1409: 2/2: Growing Five Eyes to contain the PRC. Gregory Copley Defense & Foreign affairs from 2021-05-19T01:42:41

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1409: 1/2: Growing Five Eyes to contain the PRC. Gregory Copley Defense & Foreign affairs from 2021-05-19T01:42:31

Photo: The cover page of the first version of the secret UKUSA Agreement in 1946, which was disclosed to the public in 2011.

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1409: The strangely partisan scheming called HR1 @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews from 2021-05-19T01:38:15

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1409: The Biden administration does not hear the inflation. @LizPeeks @TheHill @FoxNews from 2021-05-19T01:34:24

Photo: Inflation drawing. Probably published in Harper's Weekly.


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1409: #NewWorldReport: Peru on the edge. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-05-19T01:28:53

Photo: The principal square of Arequipa, after the earthquake
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1409: #NewWorldReport: Caracas seeks to replace democracy with narco-terrorism. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal ; Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-05-19T01:27:41

Photo: Alleged drug traffickers are arrested by Colombian naval forces in this still frame from a forward-looking infrared video camera from a U.S. Navy helicopter assigned to the guided-missi...

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1409: #NewWorldReport: The disorder is paid for. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-05-19T01:27:31

Photo: The Bogotazo in 1948
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1409: #NewWorldReport: No food security in Brazil. No certainty in Chile. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal ; Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-05-19T01:27

Photo: Spreading coffee beans in Brazil
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1409: Labour and Sir Keir Starmer struggle with the beer drinkers opposite the wine drinkers. Adrian Wooldridge @TheEconomist from 2021-05-19T01:21:01

Photo: The Labour party’s founding commitment to nationalisation, Clause Four, was drafted by two professional scribblers, Sidney and Beatrice Webb. Labour’s most radical prime minister, Cleme...

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1409: "Remarkably stable, with Andrew Yang ahead, and Eric Adams, the Brooklyn borough president, behind him." @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNews. from 2021-05-19T01:17:13

Photo:Newspaper clippings relating to political campaign for election of candidates for mayor of Indianapolis. Oct. 22–Nov. 6, 1929
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1409: The Taliban looms. Jeff McCausland@CBSNews: from 2021-05-19T01:12:35

Photo. An Afghan and coalition security force arrested a Taliban facilitator in Arghandab district, Kandahar province, Dec. 9, 2012. The detained Taliban facilitator organized high-profile att...

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1409: The scary India variant in the reopening London. Vicki Barker @CBSNews from 2021-05-19T01:09:50

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1408: The PRC money-laundering gangs of British Columbia. Charles Burton. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-05-18T01:56:49

Photo:  Postcard of a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer on horseback.  Card was postmarked in 1935.

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1408: Lesson from the 2014 Gaza War and the Obama Administration hesitation. Victoria Coates, Center for Security Policy. from 2021-05-18T01:56:42

Photo: Gaza ruins
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1408: "Nobody wants this to go on for fifty days." Robert Berger @CBSNews from 2021-05-18T01:49:37

Photo: War cemetery in Palestine (probably Gaza)
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1408: 2/2: What becomes of the Obama Administration's "experiment" of the Iran Deal in the Biden Administration? Michael Doran @HudsonInstitute Tony Badran @FDD from 2021-05-18T01:40:09

Photo: Untitled illustration by the cartoonist Clifford Berryman, in the Washington Evening Star on August 2, 1917: shows Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany displaying one of his propaganda speeches...

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1408: PRC looking for a port in West Africa; & What is to be done?James Holmes @NavalWarCollege @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-05-18T01:39:04

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1408: 2/2: "They would even go to the homes of these Covid victims and collect the bodies." Chris Livesay @CBSNews @SayChrisLive from 2021-05-18T01:19:27

Photo: Bodies gathered for burial, created from an Alexander Gardner photograph
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1408: 1/2: "They would even go to the homes of these Covid victims and collect the bodies." Chris Livesay @CBSNews @SayChrisLive from 2021-05-18T01:18:59

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1408: "Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Grotesque Roman Halved Oil Lamp. from 2021-05-18T01:08:36

Photo:  Oil Lamp
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1408: "Rockets did fall in the Jerusalem vicinity." Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-05-18T01:03:10

Photo: Jerusalem.

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1408: Republican-on-Republican fisticuffs including the Liz Cheney controversy. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund from 2021-05-18T01:00:57

Photo: Zachary Taylor and Lewis Cass engage in a bout of fisticuffs in their battle for the presidency in 1848.  Taylor, clearly getting the better of his opponent, seizes Cass by the lapels s...

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1408: Susan Hennessey and Liz Cheney carry on battling 2016 and 2020. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO from 2021-05-18T00:56:22

Photo: Two cartoons showing politicians trying to buy votes.
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1408: Suddenly Gavin Newsom discovers a treasure chest of billions for his admirers. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund from 2021-05-18T00:52:59

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1408: What of the ISIS of Afghanistan? @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD from 2021-05-18T00:49:43

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1408: Taliban encircle Kabul like a boa. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD from 2021-05-18T00:47:41

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1408: The uncontested rubber stamp of the UN General Secretary. @JoshRogin @WashingtonPost from 2021-05-18T00:46:11

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1407: #PacificWatch: Special: Palisades Fire arson; & What is to be done? @JCBliss from 2021-05-18T00:20:01

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1406: J. H. Gelernter #Unbound. The complete twenty-minute interview. May 3, 2021. from 2021-05-17T00:42:56

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1406: Russell Shorto #Unbound: the complete forty-minute interview, April 22, 2021. from 2021-05-17T00:42:42

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1406: Holly Fretwell #Unbound. The complete forty-minute interview. April 12, 2021. from 2021-05-17T00:42:34

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1406: David Grantham #Unbound. The complete forty-minute interview, April 5, 2021. from 2021-05-17T00:41:55

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1406: Terry Anderson #Unbound. The complete forty-minute interview. April 6, 2021 from 2021-05-17T00:41:45

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1406: Josh Rogin #Unbound: the complete, eighty-minute interview, March 21, 2021 from 2021-05-17T00:41:15

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1406: John Tamny #Unbound. The complete,forty-minute interview. March 28, 2021. from 2021-05-17T00:40:54

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1406: Jerry Hendrix #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, March 23, 2021 from 2021-05-17T00:40:42

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1405: Australia: Of a plague of mice and a plague of men. Jeremy Zakis. from 2021-05-16T02:53:48

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1405: 2/2: #CivilWar?: Three possible outcomes for the post-pandemic Church of Woke. Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-05-16T02:45:57

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1405: 1/2: #CivilWar?: Three possible outcomes for the post-pandemic Church of Woke. Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-05-16T02:45:25

Photo: In simple, practical terms, the Church of Woke is pledged to the destruction of Racism, Patriarchy, and Heteronormativity.
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1405: Biden Administration blames the bishops for what it chooses not to explain about church doctrine and the president. @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-05-16T02:35:18

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1405: Panama's Darién Province is a "dirty jungle" of mud that cannot be shoveled. Michael Yon, Patreon.com from 2021-05-16T02:30:13

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1405: Whitmer struggles to explain. @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-05-16T02:23:46

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1403: Challenging the Kremlin in the Gray Zone of ex-Soviet States. @AmJohnBolton from 2021-05-15T03:04:48

Photo: Soviet negotiations with basmachi, 1921

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1404: Macron despairs of Beirut and the failed state of Lebanon.@CliffMay @FDD from 2021-05-15T02:58:41

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1404: #HotelMars: Long March 5B is a design flaw failure. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com; Jonathan McDowell, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard and Smithsonian. from 2021-05-15T02:52:13

Photo: The Long March 5 rocket was named after the extraordinary trek of thousands of Party members, led by Mao Tse-tung, who's pictured here:  in the Northern Shaan-hsi during the second civi...

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1404: #TheScalaReport: Digital banking, digital shopping, digital entertainment and digital autos are convenient, cool, global and without privacy. Chris Riegel: @ScalaInc @STRATACACHE from 2021-05-15T02:43:01

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1403: #PacificWatch: Arson suspected near the Venice Beach homeless camp. @JCBliss from 2021-05-15T02:36:51

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1403: Prepping a virtual conference on Mars 2321. Chris Carberry Explormars.org from 2021-05-15T02:33:08

Photo:  Mars Landing Sites (16 December 2020): 300 years to prepare .

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1403: The Biden Administration jobs market that isn't; & What is to be done? @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion from 2021-05-15T02:29:55

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1403: Webb telescope delay watch routinely. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-05-15T02:17:56

Photo: JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE (JWST) HELIUM SHROUD AT GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER
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1403: Welcome to the already-crowded space tourism business. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-05-15T02:16:33

Photo: KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A Starfighter F-104 piloted by Rick Svetkoff approaches the Shuttle Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center. The aircraft will take part in a series of pa...

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1403: The USN shipyard gap and the USAF squadron gap; & What is to be done? @FRoseDC Government Matters @WJLA from 2021-05-15T02:08:24

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1403: 2/2: How Allies can confront the bad actor of the PRC. @MichaelAuslin @HooverInst from 2021-05-15T02:03:45

Photo: Freedom of Navigation: Nemesis (1857) moored to quay side.


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1403: 1/2: How Allies can confront the bad actor of the PRC. @MichaelAuslin @HooverInst from 2021-05-15T02:03:38

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1403: #SmallBusinessAmerica: Two easy steps to avoid ransomware. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2021-05-15T01:56:36

Photo: Hex dump of the Blaster worm, showing a message left for Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates by the worm's programmer

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1403: #SmallBusinessAmerica: The missing labor force. @GeneMarks from 2021-05-15T01:55:05

Photo: All are workers in Knoxville Knitting Mills. Smallest boy "Ravels." Smallest girl is a steady worker. Location: Knoxville, Tennessee.
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1403: #CivilWar? Is the Church of Woke losing its moment? Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-05-15T01:51:37

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1403: Janet Yellen mentions inflation; & What is to be done? @JohnTany @RealclearMarkets from 2021-05-15T01:46:20

Photo:  Inflation. In Germany after the last war, it was possible to pay 50 million dollars for a nickel cup of coffee, and 35 million dollars for a $35 suit of clothes. This Berlin woman, rea...

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1402: #PacificWatch: Special: Time-worn Camp Roberts in the wilderness to house thousands of unaccompanied children. @JCBliss from 2021-05-14T03:00:05

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1401: Terror in Lod. Tali Gottlieb Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-05-14T02:14:39

Photo: Lod (or Lydda): Troops at Lydda, July 15, 1938
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1401: Biden's capital gains tax especially shortchanges California. David Henderson @HooverInst from 2021-05-14T02:14:18

Photo: The home of the American citizen after the tax bill has passed
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1401: Burning Israel's forests. Shaul Goldstein. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-05-14T02:14:12

Photo: Ceremony of planting King's tree. Jubilee Forest, Dec. 19, 1935.   American Colony (Jerusalem). Photo Dept.,
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1401: The recognizable big lie on Palestinian TV. Itamar Marcus. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-05-14T02:00:36

Photo: Jericho entertainment by the Palestine Broadcasting Service. Olden days.
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1401: The strongman of El Salvador. @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion from 2021-05-14T01:57:55

Photo: The eruption of the Ilopango volcano in El Salvador, 1891.


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1401: Ten percent of the Gaza rockets get through Iron Dome. Yossi Kuperwasser, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-05-14T01:51:11

Photo: Gazan ruins .

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1401: 2/2: Future banking and unsolved digital privacy. @AliceFulwood @TheEconomist from 2021-05-14T01:41:17

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1401: 1/2: Future banking and unsolved digital privacy. @AliceFulwood @TheEconomist from 2021-05-14T01:41:10

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1401: Canada's climate voices and all those envied natural resources. @ConradMBlack @NationalPost from 2021-05-14T01:33:50

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1401: Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina and 2024. @ConradMBlack @NRO from 2021-05-14T01:29:44

Photo: South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott gives remarks  during the USS Charleston (LCS 18) commissioning ceremony held in the ship’s namesake city. LCS 18 is the sixteenth littoral combat...

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1401: The Arlington public school teachers remain virus-fearful; & What is to be done? @VerodeRugy @Mercatus from 2021-05-14T01:25:04

Photo: Football game on Arlington High School field, November 1973
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1401: The Export-Import Bank finds opportunity for the favorite Boeing during the pandemic. @VerodeRugy @Mercatus from 2021-05-14T01:21:23

Photo: Warren Lee Pierson, president of Export-Import Bank in days of old.
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1401: 2/2: Canada vs Michigan over the Enbridge 5 Pipeline. Bud Weinstein, former Maguire Energy Institute. Terry Clower, George Mason University. from 2021-05-14T01:17:38

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1401: 1/2: Canada vs Michigan over the Enbridge 5 Pipeline. Bud Weinstein, former Maguire Energy Institute. Terry Clower, George Mason University. from 2021-05-14T01:17:35

Photo: Canadian and US pipelines. Fair use.

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1401: The Deplorables at the Tulare International Agri-Center. @VDHanson @HooverInst from 2021-05-14T01:12:34

Photo: United States Agricultural Fair, in Boston, October 23, 24, 25, 26, and 27, 1855

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1401: Biden Administration: "They exude a sense of doubt about who they are." @VDHanson @HooverInst from 2021-05-14T01:10:40

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1400: The crematorium workers are front-line heroes in the India pandemic. Chris Livesay @CBSNews from 2021-05-13T02:21:17

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1400: 2/2: War-warning for the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea–Mediterranean Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-05-13T02:11:40

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1400: 1/2: War-warning for the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea–Mediterranean Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-05-13T02:10:43

Photo: The Horn of Africa.
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1400: The Mountain State Infrastructure Plan by Shelley Moore Capito. SalenaZito.com from 2021-05-13T02:05:23

Image: Antique photo —Along the main road between Charleston and Gauley Bridge, West Virginia

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1400: Why couldn't Eric Holder flip one State legislature? @SalenaZito.com from 2021-05-13T02:05:11

Photo: New York State Albany City Hall, built circa 1743.

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1400: Shrugging off the PRC digital currency. Charles Ortel of the On the Money with Charles Ortel podcast. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-05-13T01:56:12

Photo: Binance is a cryptocurrency exchange that provides a platform for trading various cryptocurrencies founded in 2017. As of April 2021, it was the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the w...

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1400: The strangely sloppy PRC space program. Rick Fisher, senior Fellow on Asian Military Affairs of the International Assessment and Strategy Center. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-05-13T01:54:56

Photo:  Annotated image of the approximate landing site of the Chinese Chang'e-3 lander. It was launched at 17:30 UTC on 1 December 2013 and reached the Moon's surface on 14 December 2013. The...

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1400: The perils of nuke plants on Taiwan. Henry Sokolski, executive director of The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center. from 2021-05-13T01:47:13

Photo: Taiwan nuclear plant.  Screen grab. .

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1400: The Azerbaijanis of Iran; & What is to be done? Ahmad Obali Gunaz.tv from 2021-05-13T01:44:45

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1400: The PRC punches down. Why? Gady Epstein @TheEconomist from 2021-05-13T01:41:44

Photo:  A soldier extracting teeth from a Chinese man.
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1400: OSIRIS-REx call home. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-05-13T01:26:29

Photo: Bennu.
           OSIRIS-REx traveled to near-Earth asteroid Bennu and is bringing a small sample back to Earth for study. The mission launched Sept. 8, 2016, from Cape Canaveral Air...

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1400: Intransigent English Boris Johnson and Immovable Scot Nicola Sturgeon. Matthew Holehouse @TheEconomist from 2021-05-13T01:21:09

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1400: Return of the Mueller hunt for Russiagate. @WJMcGurn @WSJOpinion from 2021-05-13T01:15:04

Photo: Finnish soldier is executing Soviet Union spy in 1942.

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1400: Commercial space also fails. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-05-13T01:11:32

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1399: #LondonCalling: "Spending on that scale changes a country's or a society's politics, often not for the better..." @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-05-12T02:27:43

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1398: 2/2: Devin Nunes Freedom Festival in the San Joaquin Valley bread and fruit basket. @DevinNunes from 2021-05-12T02:21:58

Photo: Stanislaus County, San Joaquin Valley, California. Roadside settlement in commercial pea district 
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1398: 1/2: Devin Nunes Freedom Festival in the San Joaquin Valley bread and fruit basket. @DevinNunes from 2021-05-12T02:21:49

Photo: Loading cotton. San Joaquin Valley, California
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1398: "The Administration is trying to downgrade what was achieved in the Abraham Accords." @VictoriaCoates Center for Security Policy. from 2021-05-12T02:17:30

Photo: Miniature of Abraham and Melchizedek.

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1398: Reawakening Italy opens for tourism after May 15. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation from 2021-05-12T02:12:15

Photo: Pompei, 1910.
Pompei scavi. Visitatori e portantini sul Foro. Autore sconosciuto.

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1398: Russia: "...or else the system is going to come down on you." @BethKnobel, Fordham University from 2021-05-12T02:07:44

Photo: A view of one of the trains of the Moscow subway system as it pulls out of the Belo Russia station
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1398: Higher prices have hit the food shopping carts. @LizPeek from 2021-05-12T02:00:30

Photo: Price control. Anti-inflation window display. The joint effort of the government and merchant to prevent inflation is the big selling point of this display. Most important is the "shy-c...

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1398: Biden's tax and spending plans and the all-tied-up Senate. @LizPeek. from 2021-05-12T01:54:41

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1398: Taliban advances. @BillRoggio @FDD from 2021-05-12T01:51:10

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.

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1397: #NewWorldReport: Biden doubts sanctions work in Venezuela. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org from 2021-05-12T01:46:31

Photo:   Four A-7E Corsair II aircraft fly in formation during an air show off the coast of Caracas, Venezuela. The aircraft are assigned to Attack Squadron 46 (VA-46) and Attack Squadron 72 (...

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1397: #NewWorldReport: Castillo is not running away with Peru. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org from 2021-05-12T01:45:16

Photo:Peruvian scene, with llamas .

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1397: #NewWorldReport: The Bolivarian Wind. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-05-12T01:41:20

Photo: Monolithic portal. (Puerta del Sol. Tihuanacu, first excavations) 1903-1904
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1397: #NewWorldReport: Colombia threatened by widespread disorder, especially in Cali. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-05-12T00:57:51

Photo: Historic picture of Puente Ortiz, bridge in Cali.

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1397: #LondonCalling. Boris Johnson wins again. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-05-12T00:50:47

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1397: #LondonCalling. Inflation Monster Stalks the Recovery. @JosephSernberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-05-12T00:47:57

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1397: #LondonCalling. Britain hugging. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-05-12T00:43:31

Photo: "Hug me closer, George."


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1396: Boris Johnson at the Hartlepool victory: "And he showed up with a new slogan, 'Jabs, Jabs, Jabs and Jobs, Jobs, Jobs.'" Vicki Barker @CBSNews from 2021-05-11T02:31:22

Photo:  England, London. View past small boats on Thames toward the tower Bridge, highlighted against a dramatic cloudy sky.  


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1396: Kabul: "They were never going to honor any sort of assurances that they were going to hold fire." Charlie D'Agata, @CBSNews from 2021-05-11T02:31:13

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1396: New Delhi: "And so this parking lot was converted into an open-air crematorium, and again, running non-stop around the clock." Chris Livesay @CBSNews from 2021-05-11T02:31:05

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1907. 

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1395: Is Merrick Garland a strong horse? @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-05-11T01:46:39

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1395: The peculiar morning raid on Rudy Giuliani. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-05-11T01:45:18

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1395: 2/2: Biden Administration proposes taking vaccine patents; & What is to be done? from 2021-05-11T01:35:58

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1395: 1/2: Biden Administration proposes taking vaccine patents; & What is to be done? from 2021-05-11T01:35:42

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1395: Immigrants drive start-ups. @GeneMarks from 2021-05-11T01:29:48

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1395: Really Help Wanted. @GeneMarks from 2021-05-11T01:26:18

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1395: Andrew Yang's Bloomberg connection. @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNews from 2021-05-11T01:23:03

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1395: Jerusalem Day and the threats. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-05-11T01:19:49

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1395: "Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost British Hero (Major Lionel Mansell Jeune) of the 1921 Jaffa riots. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-05-11T01:11:28

Photo: 1921 Jaffa riots

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1395: Republican royalty Cheney loses the GOP Conference. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter from 2021-05-11T01:08:04

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1395: Newsom allies push back at Jenner's disruption. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter from 2021-05-11T01:06:11

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1395: PRC backs off from immediate provocations of Taiwan; & What is to be done? @ScottWHarold @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-05-11T01:04:13

Photo: Taiwan): Photos of the second issue of the Shandong Provincial Automobile Road Administration Special Issue .

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1395: Reported evidence of a PRC bioweapons program dated from 2015. Li-Meng Yan. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-05-11T01:00:42

Photo: The Biological Weapons Convention.

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1394: The relentless Church of Woke; & What is to be done? Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-05-10T02:57:35

Photo: . Hinton St Mary Mosaic with face of Christ in the centre, from Dorset, southern England, 4th century AD

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1393: Russell Shorto #Unbound: the complete forty-minute interview, April 22, 2021. from 2021-05-10T01:50:38

Photo: Cambria Iron Works, Johnstown, Pennsylvania


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1393: Holly Fretwell #Unbound. The complete forty-minute interview. April 12, 2021. from 2021-05-10T01:38:23

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1393: When Politicians Panicked: The New Coronavirus, Expert Opinion, and a Tragic Lapse of Reason. Hardcover – March 30, 2021 by John Tamny (Author), George Gilder (Foreword) from 2021-05-10T01:31:35

Photo:The recent panic - scene in the New York Stock Exchange on the morning of Friday, May 5th. Drawn by Charles Broughton from sketches on the spot
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1393: David Grantham #Unbound. The complete forty-minute interview, April 5, 2021. from 2021-05-10T01:30:19

Photo: Pre-strike and post-strike photographs of the Baghdad Directorate of Military Intelligence Headquarters used for bomb damage assessment by Pentagon officials in press briefings during D...

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1393: Jerry Hendrix #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, March 23, 2021 from 2021-05-10T01:28:55

Photo: Throughout Obama's presidency, the US Navy's Seventh Fleet routinely patrolled the Indo-Asia-Pacific to maintain the freedom of seas .

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1393: Josh Rogin #Unbound: the complete, eighty-minute interview, March 21, 2021 from 2021-05-10T01:28:34

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1393: Terry Anderson #Unbound. The complete forty-minute interview. April 6, 2021 from 2021-05-10T01:27:05

Photo: Adaptation: Darwin's finches or Galapagos finches. Darwin, 1845. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle r...

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1392: The US Congress introduces H.R. 841 in order to move the hemp story to the American consumer. Jason Mitchell, CEO and Co-Founder, HempFusion Wellness. from 2021-05-09T03:26:37

Photo: Manila hemp industry, Philippines: cutting down the tree
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1392: #MotownReport: Liz Cheney loses the confidence of the Republican House Conference & What is to be done? @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-05-09T03:11:57

Photo:  Liz Cheney, second from right, at Fiddleback Ranch, near Douglas, Wyoming, on July 31, 2019


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1392: #MotownReport: March 12 questions unanswered by Governor Gretchen Whitmer. @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-05-09T03:09:58

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1391: #PacificWatch: Is California an Exodus? @JCBliss from 2021-05-09T01:57:23

Photo:Almos a century ago:  Deserted houses are becoming more common in Placer County, California, as farms are abandoned and even the tenants move away. Changed market conditions, which make ...

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1391: #PacificWatch: "The Homeless Industrial Complex" wins Venice Beach. @JCBliss from 2021-05-09T01:52:30



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1390: Yevita is the end of the Panama Highway in the triple-canopy rain forest (with jaguars) of Darién Province. Michael Yon, Patreon.com from 2021-05-09T00:01

Photo: FARC insurgents in 1998.


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1389: #PacificWatch: Already Drought Warning in Marin County. @JCBLISS from 2021-05-08T01:59:43

Photo: State Prison, San Quentin, Marin Co., Cal.
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1389: After history's pandemics: boom, risk, unrest. Callum Williams, @TheEconomist @econcallum from 2021-05-08T01:55:02

Photo: The economy is depicted as a seated woman with a wreath of ears of corn on her head, a scepter in her left hand and a compass in her right hand. Her left arm is leaning on a rudder that...

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1389: Moving toward Universal Income. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion from 2021-05-08T01:54:39

Photo: Socialist feminists Clara Zetkin and Rosa Luxemburg in 1910.

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1389: Europe rejects Biden's aim to give away vaccine patents. @HenryIMiller @PacificResearch from 2021-05-08T01:51:30

Photo: Patent medicine labels for Perry Davis & Son, showing view of Providence, R.I., and four patent medicine bottle
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1389: 2/2: #CivilWar? The Justinian Plague and the Black Death, and Lessons Learned. Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-05-08T01:45:24

Photo: Emperor Justinian and Members of His Court
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1389: 1/2: #CivilWar? The Justinian Plague and the Black Death, and Lessons Learned. Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-05-08T01:45:23

Photo:  The Barberini Ivory, which is thought to portray Justinian. 

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1389: #TheScalaReport: Winston Smith in China: Your TV watches you. Chris Riegel: @ScalaInc @STRATACACHE from 2021-05-08T01:34:25

Photo: The first-edition front cover of the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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1389: 2/2: "Iran is more than Persia." @ProfBShaffer @FDD from 2021-05-08T01:04:34

Photo: Some Iranians are not Persians. Mar Elias (Eliya), the Nestorian bishop of the Urmia<...

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1389: 1/2: "Iran is more than Persia." @ProfBShaffer @FDD from 2021-05-08T01:04:32

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1389: 2/2: The Voyager twins can still communicate from interstellar space. Ken Croswell. "The Lives of Stars." from 2021-05-08T00:58:01

Photo:  Interstellar probes (cropped)
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1389: 1/2: The Voyager twins can still communicate from interstellar space. Ken Croswell. "The Lives of Stars." from 2021-05-08T00:57:44

Photo:  This artist's concept shows NASA's Voyager spacecraft against a backdrop of stars.   

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1389: 2/2: Hold Fast: A Novel; Hardcover – May 4, 2021, by J. H. Gelernter from 2021-05-08T00:48

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1389: 1/2: Hold Fast: A Novel, Hardcover – May 4, 2021; by J. H. Gelernter from 2021-05-08T00:47:52

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1389: Surprising vulcanism on Mars. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-05-08T00:44:26

Photo: Planet Mars – volatile gases (Curiosity rover, October 2012).

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1389: Starship#15 is the ticket. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-05-08T00:38:45

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1388: Student debt is the "unleashed monster." @VerodeRugy @Mercatus from 2021-05-07T01:47:31

Photo: In debt and broke .

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1388: Still no free lunch, President Biden. @VerodeRugy @NRO from 2021-05-07T01:39:26

Photo: TANSTAAFL: a plan for a new economic world order. (Pierre Dos Utt, 1949.)

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1388: Tim Scott, show-stopper. @WJMcGurn @WSJOpinion from 2021-05-07T01:32:04

Photo: Washington, D.C., Sept. 12, 2018 — South Carolina Senator Tim Scott.
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1388: China is the threat, espionage to nukes. @DefTechPat from 2021-05-07T01:30:50

Photo: The China War 1857. Junks enshrouded in smoke
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1388: Connectivity goes to war exercises. @DefTechPat @DefenseOne from 2021-05-07T01:28:44

Photo: Connectivity since time immemorial:  a soldier in uniform holding a rifle and writing a letter.
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1388: Snap elections and a failure to vaccinate Canada. @ConradMBlack National Post from 2021-05-07T01:23:47

Photo: In the 1918 influenza epidemic, Albertan farmers wore masks to protect themselves from the flu.


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1388: Lenin in Peru. @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion from 2021-05-07T01:21:11

Photo: 23d anniversary of Vladimir Lenin's death. Lenin's Mausoleum.

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1388: How did the campus become one-sided? @VDHanson @HooverInst from 2021-05-07T01:18:45

Photo: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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1388: The mythical in American politics; & What is to be done? @VDHanson @HooverInst from 2021-05-07T01:16:21

Photo: Betsy Ross sewing the first American flag. From a painting by G. Liebscher. Copyright by F.A. Schneider.

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1387: The Israeli election process moves away from Netanyahu. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-05-07T01:08:57

Photo: Listening to election results in Israel. From the booklet "President Nixon and the Role of Intelligence in the 1973 Arab-Israeli War."  For more information, visit Listen
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1387: The unnamed Biden policy toward the predictably hostile Pyongyang. @JoshRogin from 2021-05-07T01:04:31

Photo:  Triumphal arch, Pyongyang.  "Joint issue of the Russian Federation and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. 70th Anniversary of the Liberation of Korea."   Postage stamp.

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1387: The Gulf at risk from the Iran deal. Ebtesam Al Ketbi @ekitbi, Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-05-07T01:01:40

Photo: Achaemenid king fighting hoplites .

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1387: The Zarif Tapes and the Iranian Elections. Reza Parchizadeh @rezaparchizadeh. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-05-07T00:59:16

Photo:  Logo of th Iranian parliament.

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1387: Can the Abraham Accords survive a new Iran deal? @SebGorka #AmericaFirst from 2021-05-07T00:57:35

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1387: Hamas violence and the postponed PA elections. Judah Ari Gross @JudahAriGross Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-05-07T00:57:30

Photo: Gaza City.   In 2006, Israel withdrew entirely from the Gaza Strip; in a burst of enthusiasm, Gazans voted in Hamas.  Soon, they discovered the Muslim Brotherhood's electoral motto: One...

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1387: Facebook tolerates PRC ugliness; and What is to be done?. @SebGorka #AmericaFirst from 2021-05-07T00:53:12

Photo:  Pu Zhiqiang, a student protester at Tian An Men, taken on May 10, 1989. The Chinese words written on the paper say, "We want the...

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1386: 2/2: Heavy rains and swollen rivers slow the migrant trail of tears at the perilous Darién Gap. Michael Yon, Patreon.com from 2021-05-06T02:42:20

Photo: The Pan-American Highway from Billings to Buenos Aires. The deadly Darién Gap is within the yellow square.

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1386: 1/2: Heavy rains and swollen rivers slow the migrant trail of tears at the perilous Darién Gap. Michael Yon, Patreon.com from 2021-05-06T02:42:13

Photo: Traversing the Darién Gap.  Screen grab.

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1386: Progressive Democrats cancel US Steel and thousands of jobs at Braddock, PA; & What is to be done? @SalenaZito from 2021-05-06T02:07:55

Photo: U.S. Steel National Tube Works, Auxiliary Buildings, Along Monongahela River, McKeesport, Allegheny County, PA
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1386: McConnell is the senator from tobacco, hemp and beautiful horses. SalenaZito.com from 2021-05-06T02:03:15

Photo: The Darley Arabian, one of the three traditional foundation sires of the Thoroughbred.

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1386: The brave new world of vaccine nasal spray and hundreds more ambitions. @GregiryZuckerman @WSJOpinion from 2021-05-06T01:58:47

Photo: Nasal Spray - laboratory for eye, ear, etc
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1386: Lessons and limits learned with Zoom diplomacy. Daniel Franklin @Economist from 2021-05-06T01:51:30

Photo: Swedish diplomat, politician and poet from Sveriges Historia från äldsta tid till våra dagar, etc.


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1386: Long March5B is a failed design. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-05-06T01:46:44

Photo: Space debris populations seen from outside geosynchronous orbit (GSO). There are two primary debris fields: the ring of objects in GSO and the cloud of objects in low-Earth orbit (LEO)....

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1386: Robots become creatures become pals: Ingenuity Ingenue. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-05-06T01:43:57

Photo: Diagram showing the components of Ingenuity.

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1385: The closing of the Swarthmore mind. @BerkowitzPeter @HooverInst from 2021-05-06T01:34:59

Photo: Alice Paul (Swarthmore lass of 1905), Suffragist and Listen
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1385: The Zarif Tapes warning. @AmbJohnBolton @WashingtonPost from 2021-05-06T01:32:40

Photo: Iranistan, P. T. Barnum's house near Bridgeport, Connecticut.

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1385: The first 100 days produce unsurprising polling. Elliot Morris @Economist @gelliottmorris from 2021-05-06T01:29

Photo: President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Vice-President Kamala Harris.
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1385: Singapore and Southeast Asia prosper as the PRC threatens everyone. Fraser Howie, author Red Capitalism.@GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-05-06T01:24:42

Photo: Botanical Garden at Singapore, circa 1890.
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1385: Democracy dies in Hong Kong Daylight. Mark Simon. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-05-06T01:20:40

Photo: Storms under tyranny.  Here:  A squally day in Hong Kong harbor.
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1385: Pyongyang restarts nuclear blackmail; & What is to be done? @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill.@FDD David Maxwell from 2021-05-06T01:18:33

Photo: Chinese generals captured at the Battle of Pyongyang beg for mercy
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1385: Cuba, China and the mystery of the microwave weaponry. Rich Fisher, International Assessment and Strategy Center. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-05-06T01:16:43

Photo:  Comidas Chinas y Criollas — another conjunction of China and Cuba; from Nuevo Jardin de China in Astoria, New York.  Fair use.


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1384: #PacificWatch: Jenner is talented, informed, determined, tireless. @JCBliss from 2021-05-05T03:11:02

Photo: Jenner, a winner at the 1975 Pan American Games.

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1383: #NewWorld: The pandemic ravages Venezuela. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JSHumire @SecureFreeSoc. from 2021-05-05T02:13:02

Photo: Road to Caracas.
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1383: #NewWorld:AMLO deals with the Devil. . Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JSHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-05-05T02:10:10

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1383: #NewWorld: El Salvador for Full Chavez. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JSHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-05-05T02:08:15

Photo: El Salvador: army personnel in e field .

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1383: #NewWorld: Severe unrest in Colombia; & What is to be done? Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JSHumire @SecureFreeSoc from 2021-05-05T02:06:45

Photo: Massacre. Image of the worker strike of the Banana plantation in Santa Marta, Colombia. From left to right Pedro M. del Río, Bernardino Guerrero, Raúl Eduardo Mahecha, Nicanor Serrano a...

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1383: The London parks are full; waiting on the pubs. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-05-05T02:04:47

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1383: The European manufacturing recovery; & What is to be done? @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-05-05T02:04:42

Photo: Electric locomotive type E69 (steeple-cab) and manufactured by MAN Siemens-Schuckert in 1924 for the Company Guarujá.

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1383: Buffett says inflation. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-05-05T02:01:19

Photo: The Inflation Waltz.  From Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 .

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1383: Can Europe save summer despite vaccine nationalism?. @JosephSternber @WSJOpinion from 2021-05-05T01:58:31

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1383: The US can watch as Russia annexes Eastern Ukraine. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-05-05T01:55:56

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1383: Australia readies for a long struggle with the predatory PRC. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-05-05T01:52:50

Photo: On October 1, 1949 a grand ceremony was witnessed by 300,000 people in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, and Mao Zedong, chairman of the Central People's Government, solemnly proclaimed the f...

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1383: Never seen a boom like this boom. @LizPeek @FoxNews from 2021-05-05T01:50:36

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1383: Afghanistan: "We want you to leave; we just don't want you to leave right now." Colonel Jeff McCausland, USA (ret). @CBSNews from 2021-05-05T01:45:20

Photo: ANP in partnership with Charlie Company 1-24 Inf. search the villages of Musa Khely and Nowrak with the purpose of disrupting  a recent string of IED attacks.
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1383: 2/2: The US Navy 2050 AD needs everything now. Tom Modly, U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings from 2021-05-05T01:39:48

Photo: Stereograph image of the Washington Navy Yard, probably dating from the late 19th century.
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1383: 1/2: The US Navy 2050 AD needs everything now. Tom Modly, U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings from 2021-05-05T01:39:35

Photo: Landing Craft, Air Cushion 81, from Assault Unit Craft Five, US Fleet Activities, Sasebo, Japan, glides onto a Gogu beach for the D-Day Mobile Fuel Distribution System concept demonstra...

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1383: Politics of the India pandemic. Sadanand @Dhume @AEI @WSJOpinion from 2021-05-05T01:29:47

Photo: Demonstration at the Red Cross Emergency Ambulance Station in Washington, D.C., during the influenza pandemic of 1918
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1383: Payback to the Progressives who voted for moderate Biden.@LizPeek @FoxNews, from 2021-05-05T01:27:52

Photo: Comité de Salut public, An II / Committee of Public Safety, Year Two

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1382: Silicon Valley and the exit door from California. @DevinNunes, CA-22 from 2021-05-04T02:46:38

Photo: Clusters of jumping cactus on the Colorado desert in Riverside County, 1900
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1382: California loses a seat; & What is to be done? @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter from 2021-05-04T02:27:44

Photo: Congressional hearing with Charles Lindbergh(?)
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1382: The PRC destroys a Hong Kong dissident. @ElishaMaldonado @NYPost from 2021-05-04T02:26:08

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1382: Harris and the Border. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter from 2021-05-04T02:24:05

Photo:  Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to [Pima County,] Arizona's border area with Mexico.
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1382: The politics of the worst-case pandemic in vulnerable in India. @CleoPaskal @FDD @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-05-04T02:22:42

Photo: Abids Hyderabad, 1898
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1382: FDR's Forgotten Man contrasted with Joe Biden's Forgotten Man. @AmityShlaes. Coolidge Foundation. from 2021-05-04T02:19:23

Photo: Forgotten Man by Maynard Dixon, 1934
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1382: #TammanyHallNeverSleeps: Allegations of sexual abuse by politicians across the New York landscape. @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNews from 2021-05-04T02:16:21

Photo: Gov. Wilson Refused to Mix Up in New York State Politics At Syracuse Yesterday
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1382: "Indiana" Hoenlein and the 2000-year-old Lost Pregnant Mummy. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-05-04T02:13:01

Photo: Mummy of Nesiamun
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1382: The Taliban prepare Islamic judges for an Afghanistan with NATO departed. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD from 2021-05-04T02:10:47

Photo: Islamic Easter.

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1382: Italy reopens again with an ambition to save summer. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation from 2021-05-04T02:06:43

Photo: The_Mamertine_prison from Three Vassar Girls in Italy. A holiday excursion of three college girls through the classic lands
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1382: Tape-leaking Zarif is running for president of Tehran as a moderate. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-05-04T02:03:23

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1382: Mitt Romney's unwise (and extravagant) plan for a child allowance & What is to be done? David Henderson @HooverInst @davidrhendersonMonterey from 2021-05-04T02:00:35

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1382: 1/2: "The Benefit Theory of Taxation" and Its Discontents. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2021-05-04T02:00:25

Photo: Tax forms.

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1382: The B-1 is grounded; the bomber fleet is tasked. Tyler Rogoway @TheWarZone from 2021-05-04T01:54:38

Photo: An underside view of a B-1 bomber aircraft on its first flight since April, 1981
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1382: The screaming diving killer drone Harop. Tyler Rogoway @thewarzone from 2021-05-04T01:52:42

Photo:  IAI Harpy, the first-generation loitering munition for SEAD role; immediate predecessor to IAI Harop.

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1382: Anarchy and mass murder in the failed state of Myanmar. Michael Yon. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-05-04T01:50:01

Photo: Burmese Funeral procession 1900
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1381: Holly Fretwell #Unbound. The complete forty-minute interview. April 12, 2021. from 2021-05-03T01:20:10


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1381: Terry Anderson #Unbound. The complete forty-minute interview. April 6, 2021 from 2021-05-03T01:20:01


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1381: David Grantham #Unbound. The complete forty-minute interview, April 5, 2021. from 2021-05-03T01:19:54




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1381: John Tamny #Unbound. The complete forty minute interview. March 28, 2021. from 2021-05-03T01:19:31



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Clemenceau, Wilson and Lloyd George leaving Palace of Versailles after signing peace treaty

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1381: Jerry Hendrix #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, March 23, 2021 from 2021-05-03T01:19:07



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1381: Josh Rogin #Unbound: the complete, eighty-minute interview, March 21, 2021 from 2021-05-03T01:18:50



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1380: Is the Biden Administration retreating on denouncing the American citizenry? @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-05-02T03:32:40

Photo: Miss Democracy: "He'll run better without it."


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1379: #PacificWatch. Special: Tijuana begins to move the migrants away from the San Ysidro crossing. @JCBliss from 2021-05-02T02:38:42

Photo: Rebels Marching to U.S. Camp, Tijuana; 1911
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1379: #PacificWatch. Special: Disneyland reopens as California begins the recovery. @JCBliss from 2021-05-02T02:34:42

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1379: The Darién Gap migrant march has suddenly slowed to stopped. Michael Yon. Patreon.com from 2021-05-02T02:32:38

Photo: Fer-de-lance, Bothrops asper (educational fair use).

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1379: Jaguar-hunting in Panama's rain forest in the time of the virus and the Great Migration. Michael Yon Patreon.com from 2021-05-02T02:31:18

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1379: #CivilWar? Special Report: Yale concentrates the concentration of elite power; & What is to be done? Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-05-02T02:28:54

Photo: Political cartoon from October 1884, showing wealthy plutocrats feasting at a table while a poor family begs beneath.

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1379: #CivilWar? Special Report: The pendulum swings on Big Tech. Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-05-02T02:25:28

Photo: Microsoft headquarters (western side), Redmond, Washington.

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1378: Chicken wing shortages along with labor shortages. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2021-05-01T02:13:36

Photo: 1933-Lamona pullet
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1378: #SmallBusinessAmerica: Facing labor shortages and taxes, Boomers choose retirement from small business. @Gene from 2021-05-01T02:11:30

Photo: One version of retirement. Here: near Washington, Pennsylvania.  Dorothea Lange, photographer


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1378: Russian ASAT outpaces the China ASAT; India ASAT surprises.@FRoseDC @WJLA from 2021-05-01T02:07:07

Photo: Artist's concept of a Soviet anti-satellite interceptor on a launch pad. From Soviet Military Power 1985
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1378: The Non-Negotiables vs the Deplorables. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion. from 2021-05-01T02:03:18

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1378: The Rio Grande Valley remains overwhelmed. Camilo Montoya-Galvez @camiloreports camiloreports.com from 2021-05-01T02:01:09

Photo: Field of chili peppers growing in the Rio Grande Valley at Dixon, New Mexico
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1378: Roscosmos aims for a stepping stone space station of its own. Anatoly Zak @RussianSpaceWeb; David Livingston SpaceShow.com from 2021-05-01T01:55:34

Photo:At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 50-51 crewmembers Peggy Whitson of NASA (left), Oleg Novitskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, c...

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1378: 4/4: Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob Hardcover – February 2, 2021. by Russell Shorto (Author) from 2021-05-01T01:48:40

Photo:  In northeastern Sicily, Mt. Etna continues to erupt. NASA's  modarch.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer  (MODIS) o...

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1378: 3/4: Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob. Hardcover – February 2, 2021. by Russell Shorto (Author from 2021-05-01T01:47:54

Photo: Constance of Sicily.

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1378: 2/4: Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob Hardcover – February 2, 2021. by Russell Shorto (Author) from 2021-05-01T01:47:40

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1378: 1/4: Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob. Hardcover – February 2, 2021, by Russell Shorto (Author) from 2021-05-01T01:47:25

Photo: A Sicilian noble. .

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1378: Taffy pull on Mars. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-05-01T01:33:42

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1378: China starts the Long March 5B building of its space station, Tianhe. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-05-01T01:32:51

Photo: Colour drawing of China's Long March 3B carrier rocket.  1 May 2008; Own work. Author | me
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1378: 2/2: #CivilWar? The Church of Woke sees 2021 as an existential conflict that must end in total victory. Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-05-01T01:22:20

Photo: Fear.
Mort de peur: Le jeune cub pris de panique seul dans la cabine de pilotage

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1378: 1/2: #CivilWar? The Church of Woke sees 2021 as an existential conflict that must end in total victory. Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-05-01T01:22:18

Photo:  Angst.

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1378: Solving the pandemic with vaccinations and discipline is a credit to the nation. @MajorCBS from 2021-05-01T01:16:13

Photo:  Good order and discipline is among the highest values in the Marine Corps. The graphic depicts the importance of maintaining high moral standards which helps prevent the spread of COVI...

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1378: #TheScalaReport: The labor shortage is severe at all levels; & What is to be done? Chris Riegel: @ScalaInc @STRATACACHE from 2021-05-01T01:07:28

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1377: Woke Hollywood at the box office; & What is to be done? @WJMcGurn @WSJOpinion from 2021-04-30T02:56:25

Photo: Beans in Hollywood.   Screenshot from Hollywood Capers, a 1935 Warner Bros. 
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1377: Is the fossil fuel favorite natural gas falling out of favor in the West? Charlotte Howard @Economist. from 2021-04-30T02:53:45

Photo:   Concord Gas Light Company, Gasholder House, South Main Street, Concord, Merrimack County, NH
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1377: Apollo 11 Michael Collins departs us as the SLS arrives at the Kennedy Space Center. CBS News @cbs_spacenews from 2021-04-30T02:49:19

Photo: This is the official NASA portrait of the astronaut Michael Collins. Collins chose an Air Force career following graduation from West Point. He served as an experimental flight test off...

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1377: Canada's astounding serenity and caution in the time of the virus and lockdowns. @ConradMBlack from 2021-04-30T02:43:13

Photo:  Ontario's first parliament buildings
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1377: Postponed. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @yonibmen from 2021-04-30T02:38:11

Photo: Ramla, Ramallah, 1945
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1377: The glacial pace of Japanese vaccination with the already-once-postponed Olympics under 90 days away. Lucy Craft @CBSNews from 2021-04-30T02:35:30

Photo: Japan at Olympics: Kohei Murakoso, Arvo Askola, Ilmari Salminen 1936
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1377: What to make of the Zarif tape? Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-04-30T02:29:42

Photo: Ayatollah Sayyid Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini and the interim prime minister, Mehdi Bazargan.

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1377: ". . . more assertive Turkish claims, a more aggressive stance . . ." @BlaiseMisztal & @JINSA; Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-04-30T02:09:27

Photo: Ottoman troops with flag.  Ottoman Infantry Religious flag (Fedais Volunteers) during the Balkan Wars
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1377: The scary image is Saigon 1975 in Kabul September 2021. @SebGorka #AmericaFirst from 2021-04-30T02:01:29

Photo: Afghan Girl Scouts 1950s

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1377: The Biden Administration blames the entrepreneurs of Central America. @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion from 2021-04-30T01:58:09

Photo: Gathering rubber in Nicaragua
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1377: Berlin leans in toward Moscow; & What is to be done? @SebGorka #AmericaFirst from 2021-04-30T01:54:12

Photo: Russia-Germany border before World War I.

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1377: Mysteries of the reported Iran talks with Saudi Arabia? with Iraq? @MichaelSinghDC Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-04-30T01:48:47

Photo: Turk negotiations with Arabs.  Photo shows the official opening of Beersheba (Israel) by the Ottoman Turkish government before World War I. 
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1377: The strangely out-of-date Arlington, Virginia, school system virus protocols; & What is to be done? @VerodeRugy @Mercatus from 2021-04-30T01:40:53

Photo: Children await inoculation
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1377: Prime Minister's Questions spectacular: Johnson vs Starmer! Vicki Barker @vickibark CBS Radio from 2021-04-30T01:38:03

Photo:   Back view of Jimbour House during renovations around 1925
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1377: "Now we're told it doesn't matter; if you're vaxxed you still wear a mask..." @VDHanson @HooverInst from 2021-04-30T01:33:03

Photo: Mask.

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1377: "...a Justice Roberts or others may feel so intimidated...." @VDHanson @HooverInst from 2021-04-30T01:27:53

Photo: Satirical print; the French army being intimidated by the shadows of the Prussians; 3rd of a series of twelve pen lithographs drawn by Christian Förster and bound in a portfolio.  1870<...

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1376: The JCPOA (Iran Deal) and Its Discontents. Richard Goldberg @FDD. from 2021-04-29T02:37:35

Photo: The Persian Sibyl - also known as the Babylonian, Hebrew or Egyptian Sibyl - was the prophetic priestess presiding over the Apollonian...

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1376: Farewell to the Most Alone Man in Human History: Michael Collins on the far side of the Moon, July, 1969. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-04-29T02:33:11

Photo: Far side of the Moon, photographed by Apollo 16.

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1376: China vaccine diplomacy wins friends and influences Latn America. Evan Ellis. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-04-29T02:25:27

Photo: United States Air Force Captain John R. Vydareny, vaccinates a Vietnamese woman against plague during a MEDCAP visit.
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1376: Is leaving Afghanistan, 2021, the same as leaving Vietnam, 1975? @AmbJohnBolton from 2021-04-29T02:22:24

Photo: Scene of Viet Cong terrorist bombing in Saigon, Republic of Vietnam
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1376: The surprising Mr. Biden maintains Trump's China tariffs. @AlanTonelson @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-04-29T02:16:12

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1376: 2/2: A short history of the American corporation in politics. Henry Tricks, @Economist from 2021-04-29T02:14:17

Photo: Cartoon shows little men, labeled "Foreign officials," running to catch briefcases full of money being dropped by parachutes labeled "Northrop" and "Lockheed Aircraft."  In 1976, an inv...

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1376: 1/2: A short history of the American corporation in politics. Henry Tricks, @Economist from 2021-04-29T02:13:58

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1376: The shape of automobile things to come: Teslas, EVs, self-driving shuttles and a BMW back-up. @jefferygilbert, WWJ CBS News from 2021-04-29T02:10:47

Photo:  Nino Rovelli in a Fiat-BMW 328 at GP Bari on 30 May 1948. He did not finish, his entry #58 is for a "BMW 328".[1] This car (in this picture) is a Fiat 1100 chassis, with a cycle-fender...

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1376: "Ban the Bomb" 2021. Peter Huessey, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-04-29T01:54:57

Photo: Sabotage of the pitch barrels intended for the celebration in Brussels of the victory in the Four Days Battle, 1666.

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1376: 2/2: The Equality Act (HR 5) elbows aside religious belief; & What is to be done? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2021-04-29T01:49:43

Photo: Imam Izak-EL M. Pasha with Imam W. D. Mohammed. Masjid Malcolm Shabazz in Harlem, New York.
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1376: 1/2: The Equality Act (HR 5) elbows aside religious belief ;& What is to be done? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2021-04-29T01:49:39

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1376: Coal miner inquires of carbon capture sequestration (CCS) @SalenaZito.com @DCExaminer from 2021-04-29T01:42:30

Photo: Group of miners and mine car at mine entrance, ca 1910
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1376: Saving St. Boniface and losing the neighborhood that built it. SalenaZito.com @DCExaminer. from 2021-04-29T01:37:38

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1376: Blood cotton in China; & What is to be done? Stephen Yates @DCIAdvisory @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-04-29T01:35:02

Photo: Slavery in the cotton fields: African-Americans in the Southern United States.

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1376: The Super League crashes. Tom Wainwright, @Economist from 2021-04-29T01:31:44

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1376: Brave Little (Toaster) Ingenuity Records Farthest Mars North Flight. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-04-29T01:27:23

Photo: Perseverance's Left Navcam Views Ingenuity During Its Third Flight?: NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter can be seen hovering during its third flight on April 25, 2021, as...

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1376: Blue Origin protests SpaceX for the Lunar Lander. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-04-29T01:25:31

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1375: #PacificWatch: Special: Burning Man canceled alongside Gavin Newsom's gambit to avoid recall. @JCBliss from 2021-04-28T02:53:15

Photo: Opening night, f1906 estival, Washington.
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1374: Walking in Hyde Park with the Bats of London (common pipistrelle). @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-04-28T02:10:20

Photo: The Rousette of Dussumier ; The Rousette of Keraudron ; Cephalote of Pallas ; The Molossus Bat ; The Hare-Lipped Bat
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1374: The EU fails vaccine nationalism; & What is to be done? @JosephSternberg from 2021-04-28T02:08:22

Photo: NATIONAL VACCINE & ANTITOXIN INST.
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1374: Vaccine Britannica politics at No. 10. @JosephSternberg from 2021-04-28T02:02:37

Photo: Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection
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1374: The search for the inflation already in the room. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-04-28T02:00:48

Photo:  The silver content of Roman silver coins rapidly declined during the Crisis of the Third Century.

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1374: #NewWorld: Vaccine nationalism becomes vaccine elitism. @JMHumire @MariaFdaCabal from 2021-04-28T01:53:07

Photo:  Nationalism in 1960.   Dr Kenneth Kaunda with United National Independence Party supporters after a meeting with Iain Macleod, Colonial Secretary.

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1374: Meet the new boss of Cuba, same as the old boss. @JMHumire @MariaFdaCabal from 2021-04-28T01:51:11

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1374: #NewWorld: The trouble in Guatemala. @JMHumire @MariaFdaCabal from 2021-04-28T01:47:46

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1374: #NewWorld: Russian agents reported along the Venezuela-Colombia Border. @JMHumire @MariaFdaCabal from 2021-04-28T01:46:26

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1374: 2/2: Russia's future may be as straightforwardly dramatic as Putin vs Navalny. Arkady Ostrovsky, @Economist from 2021-04-28T01:41:11

Photo: Russian peasants ("Christianin").  Group of women, most seated, and a boy, in front of building.

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1374: 1/2: Russia's future may be as straightforwardly dramatic as Putin vs Navalny. Arkady Ostrovsky, @Economist from 2021-04-28T01:40:30

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1374: India's fragile health care system collapses; & What is to be done? Shruti Rajagopalan @Mercatus from 2021-04-28T01:34:38

Photo: Hanuman Bearing the Mountaintop with Medicinal Herbs
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1374: The magical thinking of capital gains tax at 55%. @LizPeek @TheHill from 2021-04-28T01:32:41

Photo: Calculating the new income tax
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1374: It is imaginable to see plus 8% growth. @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews from 2021-04-28T01:14:48

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1374: The severe labor shortage follows from the unemployment bonuses. @JillianKayM @WSJOpinion from 2021-04-28T01:13:18

Photo: Unemployed trappers, Louisiana
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1374: Macron attends Chad, and the vulnerability of the Sahel. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-04-28T01:09:24

Photo:   Group of Kanem-Bu warriors. The Kanem-Bornu Empire controlled almost all of what is today Chad.


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1374: The five tiers of competing nations in the Indo-Pacific. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs. from 2021-04-28T01:07:24

Photo: Into-Pacific: map of East Asia and Oceania.
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1373: #PacificWatch Special: Recall when? Congress minus? Harris where? Drought now? @JCBliss from 2021-04-27T03:09:44

Photo: U.S. Census Bureau Regions and Divisions.

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1372: The vaccine makes it possible for Italy to reopen again, except Sardinia. Lorenzo Fiori. Ansaldo Foundation from 2021-04-27T02:07:34

Photo: Sardinia, 1859
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1372: Gaza's Iran cut-out Islamic Jihad rains rockets on Israel; & What is to be done? Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1@ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-04-27T01:58:33

Photo:   Islamitische vorsten op jacht / Muslim monarchs on the prowl.

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1372: Chile outperforms then hesitates with China vaccine diplomacy. @MaryAnastasiaOG from 2021-04-27T01:55:59

Photo: Salvador Allende assumes the position of President of Chile in 1970. In front of La Moneda with escort.

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1372: Will virus-scarred Peru move hard left? @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion from 2021-04-27T01:52:19

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1372: Lessons learned of the shutdown Blue states such as MI. @DavidMDrucker @ThadMcCotter from 2021-04-27T01:48:44

Photo: Isolation unit for contagious diseases at Osceola migratory labor camps. Belle Glade, Florida
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1372: PRC vs Musk in China. Charles Ortel. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-04-27T01:35:20

Photo: Pekin cart.

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1372: PRC races to orbit a space station; & What is to be done? Rick Fisher, International Assessment and Strategy Center @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-04-27T01:34:06

Photo: The Moon Goddess Chang'e.
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1372: The unfinished business of the Eric Garner tragedy, July 2014, on DeBlasio's watch. @HarrySiegel @NYDDailyNews from 2021-04-27T01:23:15

Photo: Staten Island Hospital, Staten Island, N.Y.
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1372: #SmallBusinessAmerica: Great time to be a restaurateur—if you survived the pandemic. @GeneMarks. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2021-04-27T01:20:04

Photo: Kitchen equipment exhibition in Gefle, 1901. Gold medal was awarded to Bolinders for this restaurant kitchen equipment.

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1372: #SmallBusinessAmerica: The Architecture Index takes off with the across-the-board recovery boom. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2021-04-27T01:18:42

Photo: Ornate architectural design
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1372: The Biden Administration and the de-mining of the ravaged Nagorno-Karabakh. @ProfBShaffer @FDD from 2021-04-27T01:14:56

Photo: WWII italian land mine.

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1372: The cheaper GOP infrastructure plan is also pricey. Diana Furchtgott-Roth. @GWU from 2021-04-27T01:07:03

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1372: Blaming Xavier Beccera for the border crisis is a work in progress. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter from 2021-04-27T01:02:01

Photo: Photograph of Border Patrol Agents Blocking a Road in Gainesville, Florida
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1372: "Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Pirate Henry Avery, 1696. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1@ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-04-27T00:59:30

Photo:   An 18th-century depiction of Henry Every, with the Fancy shown engaging its prey in the background
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1372: Ignatius's Payback to Kash Patel for Russiagate. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-04-27T00:55:52

Photo: Engraving by Gustave Doré illustrating the Erinyes, chthonic deities of vengeance and death.

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1372: AG Merrick Garland investigates the police. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-04-27T00:54:15

Photo: Advertisement in The Moving Picture World for the American comedy film Police (1916).
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1371: Terry Anderson #Unbound. The complete forty-minute interview. April 6, 2021 from 2021-04-26T00:37:25

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1896. 

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1371: David Grantham #Unbound. The complete forty-minute interview, April 5, 2021. from 2021-04-26T00:37:01

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1932.

[Baghdad, the riverfront, looking north to the Old City from the right bank, near the British Embassy]

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1371: John Tamny #Unbound. The complete forty minute interview. March 28, 2021. from 2021-04-26T00:36:49

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1371: Jerry Hendrix #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, March 23, 2021 from 2021-04-26T00:36:40

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1942.1942.80-G-457861:  Battle of Midway, June 1942.  The burning Japanese heavy cruiser Mikuma, photographed from a U.S. Navy aircraft during the a...

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1371: Josh Rogin #Unbound: the complete, eighty-minute interview, March 21, 2021 from 2021-04-26T00:36:22

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1938. Eighth Route Army fighting on Futuyu Great Wall in Laiyuan, Hebei, China, 1938
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1370: #MotownReport: Whitmer's two days in Florida: "I wasn't partying in Miami." @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-04-25T03:14:56

Photo: "The porch party: the refreshments were perfectly delicious, everybody said."
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1370: The Ice Age of the 1970s becomes the Climate Change of the 2020s. @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-04-25T03:10:20

Photo: Snowshoeing (Norway or Russia?)
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1369: #PacificWatch Special: The California cruise ships are coming back. The California wildfires are coming back. @JCBliss from 2021-04-25T01:59:49

Photo: RMS Strathaird, a P&O cruise ship of the early-20th century. The company began offering luxury cruise services in...

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1369: #PacificWatch Special: Becerra Looks to Be the Fall Guy for the Border fail. @JCBliss from 2021-04-25T01:53:02

Photo: Mexican child in Crystal City, Texas..

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1368: Celebrating ANZAC Day in the time of the virus without enough vaccine anytime soon. Jeremy Zakis. from 2021-04-25T01:00:40

Photo: Anzacs present Madame Ada Crossley with floral tributes - 19 November 1915
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1368: 2/2: The Darién Gap Marauders include the Embera of Panama and Colombia. from 2021-04-25T00:58:08

Photo: Interior of a medicine man's home, Sambú River, Darién. Panama.
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1368: 1/2: The Darién Gap Marauders include the Emberá of Panama and Colombia. from 2021-04-25T00:58:02

Photo: The riverine Emberá people, Sambú River, Darién. Panama 
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1367: #PacificWatch Special: Poison Bombing Farallon Islands and the Tiny Houses of the LA homeless from 2021-04-24T03:41:40

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Light-house at Farallon Islands, Pacific Ocean.





 
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1366: No guard rails, just like 1968. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion from 2021-04-24T02:30:34

Photo: Representatives Maxine Waters and William Delahunt, members of the House Judiciary Committee, at a press conference on the committee's hearings into the investigation of President Clint...

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1366: 4/4: Fix America’s Forests: Reforms to Restore National Forests and Tackle the Wildfire Crisis. Holly Fretwell, Jonathan Wood April 12, 2021 from 2021-04-24T02:19:32

Photo: Pine Forest. Florida.
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1366: 3/4: Fix America’s Forests: Reforms to Restore National Forests and Tackle the Wildfire Crisis. Holly Fretwell Jonathan Wood April 12, 2021 from 2021-04-24T02:19:23

Photo:  Forested mountain, DIxville Notch, New Hampshire. LM photo.

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1366: 2/4: Fix America’s Forests: Reforms to Restore National Forests and Tackle the Wildfire Crisis. Holly Fretwell Jonathan Wood April 12, 2021 from 2021-04-24T02:18:55

Photo: MISTY MORNING ON TWITCHELL LAKE SHOWING VIRGIN WHITE PINES IN THE ADIRONDACK FOREST PRESERVE
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1366: 1/4: Fix America’s Forests: Reforms to Restore National Forests and Tackle the Wildfire Crisis. Holly Fretwell, Jonathan Wood April 12, 2021 from 2021-04-24T02:17:24

Photo: Arizona boasts one of the largest yellow pine forests in the country. This is the Apache National Forest. Navajo County, Arizona
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1366: Thirteen years later DoubleVerify launches NYSE IPO. David Blumberg, Blumberg Capital. Oren Netzer, Co-founder. from 2021-04-24T02:09:31

Photo: Excellence in advertising: Pub Peugeot-Le Chauffeur-1900
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1366: 2/2: #CivilWar? — Not forgetting the deep divisions in Spain and America. Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-04-24T01:53:32

Photo: Bursting of a shell in the streets of Charleston, South Carolina; 1864
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1366: !/2: #CivilWar? —Not forgetting the deep divisions in Spain and America. Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-04-24T01:53:26

Photo:  Spanish civil war: Attack on Rebel Position, Somosierra, Madrid
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1366: Falling behind the PRC. @FRoseDc @WJLA from 2021-04-24T01:22:09

Photo: Competition:  Horsemanship Competition for the Shunzhi Emperor  ? ???? ????????????? ?

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1366: The US Navy Shipyard Gap; & What is to be done? JerryHendrixII @WSJOpinion from 2021-04-24T01:18:30

Photo:The frigate USS MOINESTER  and USS JESSE L. BROWN are moored together at a pier at a Mobile shipyard.
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1366: Debt is expensive and attracts endless tax hikes now and forever. @VerodeRugy @Mercatus from 2021-04-24T01:13:10

Photo: Debt.  Abuse of article 214 of the civil law. “My lady wife, you let me want for everything, you only allow me a miserable pension of three thousand francs, you throw me out of your doo...

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1366: #TheScalaReport: Major cities are recovering more slowly than the nation; & What is to be done? Chris Riegel: @ScalaInc @STRATACACHE from 2021-04-24T01:03:19

Photo:  Produce peddler's truck in market at San Antonio, Texas
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1366: 1/2: Where do the migrants of Panama's Darien Gap come from? @Michael_Yon from 2021-04-24T00:48:28

Photo: Emberas : Cultura viva en el Alto Baudó-Chocó. Screen grab.
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1366: 2/2: Where do the migrants of Panama's Darién Gap come from? @Michael_Yon from 2021-04-24T00:48:12

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1366: Pioneering the skies of Mars. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-04-24T00:44

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1366: PRC copies the Soviet Mir space station as soon as 2022? Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-04-24T00:40:14

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1365: 2/2: Into Panama's Darién Gap with the Emberá People and the Great Migration. @Michael_Yon. from 2021-04-23T02:04:21

Photo:The Emberá are a riverine people, historically building their houses along the banks of rivers. 

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1365: 1/2: Into Panama's Darién Gap with the Emberá People and the Great Migration. @Michael_Yon. from 2021-04-23T02:04:16

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1365: Joe Biden is not FDR class. @ConradMBlack @NRO from 2021-04-23T01:49:03

Photo: Casablanca Conference, January 14-24, 1943.  President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill in garden of the presidential villa at Casablanca during the Casablanca...

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1365: "It is a continuous monarchy since William the Conqueror." @ComradMBlack from 2021-04-23T01:45:34

Photo: Ships of William the Conqueror,
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1365: Abbas: "Looking for excuses to avoid and election." Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-04-23T01:39:01

Photo: Costumes and characters, etc. Family group, Ramallah
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1364: "Putin is facing a lot of problems at home." @AnnaBorsh @WashInstitute from 2021-04-23T01:35:25

Photo: Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump at the G20
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1364: Iran-controlled militia camped on the Golan. Serit Zehavi, ALMA. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-04-23T01:30:13

Photo: Fighting on the Golan Heights - The Central Intelligence Agency
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1364: #JerusalemReport: Expanding levels of Iranian activity in Morocco. @IlanBerman, American Foreign Policy Council; Malcolm Hoenlein, @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-04-23T01:26:18

Photo: The Sultan of Morocco on his way to worship in the Kutubia mosque in his capital at Fez.
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1364: McCotter: "As an Irishman, John, I have never been part of the British Empire." @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-04-23T01:19:30

Photo: Ruins from A History of the Irish Nation, etc. 
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1363: The Supreme Court reads the headlines. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-04-23T01:11:40

Photo: New Supreme Court Nominee faces "firing squad." Washington, D.C., Jan. 15, 1938
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1363: Is the GOP waiting for another Shane? @VDHanson @HooverInst from 2021-04-23T01:04:29

Photo: Cowboy hero: mural in Sheridan, Wyoming, showing a subject often depicted in the Cowboy State, including on its license plates, of a cowboy aboard a bucking bronco. The movie Shane<...

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1362: Biden: "Talk loudly and carry a switch" @VDHanson @HooverInst from 2021-04-23T00:59:09

Photo: Anti Patriotic Federation of Ci-devant Aristocrats / Convened by Discord greeted by Ambition, Hipocrisy and Personal Interest &c..

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1361: Iran Deal: The Odd Man Out Is the US. Behnam ben Taleblu, @FDD from 2021-04-23T00:33:08

Photo: Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar  sixth king of the Qajar Dynasty
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1361: The Climate Czar flies private jet.@SebGorka #AmericaFirst from 2021-04-23T00:31:49

Photo: Gulfstream IV.  Fair use, and screen grab.

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1361: What does the Royal Family represent to an Englishman? @SebGorka #AmericaFirst from 2021-04-23T00:29:02

Photo:  The British Royal Family, 1914-1918. 
   Queen Mary and Queen Alexandra turn to smile for the camera as they look at the work on display during the private view of an exhibition of ...

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1361: Who leaked NSC North Korea detail December 2017? @VictoriaCoates Center for Security Policy. from 2021-04-23T00:28:12

Photo: National Security Council in the Cabinet Room of the White House; 1974.

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1360: #HotelMars: Bill Nelson is not a NASA risk-taker. Rand Simberg. Dave Livingston SpaceShow.com from 2021-04-22T02:35:59

Photo: Martian sunset, Spirit rover, 2005. 
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1360: NGO Freedom House demotes India; & What is to be done? Sadanand @Dhume @AEI from 2021-04-22T02:28:41

Photo: Parliament of India.

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1360: The Uyghurs are watching Washington. Nury Turkel. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-04-22T02:27:17

Photo: Kashgar road scene, 1870s.

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1360: PRC DNA thieves target the 2022 Winter Olympics. @CleoPaskal @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-04-22T02:22:01

Photo: DNA helix.
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1360: Spaceflight monetizes. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-04-22T02:20:34

Photo: A 10-inch-long ceramic model of the Sierra Nevada Corporation, or SNC, Dream Chaser spacecraft is prepared for high-speed wind tunnel tests at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton,...

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1360: Ingenuity wows 2 planets. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-04-22T02:15:49

Photo: Little Ingenuity.

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1360: Trump banners displayed, Populism waits for a hero. Salena Zito @DCExaminer Salenazito.com from 2021-04-22T02:12:23

Photo: Privae photo, Schoharie Co.
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1360: After the pandemic, Biking bonanza. SalenaZito.com @DCExaminer from 2021-04-22T02:06:05

Photo: New bicycle helps solve transit problem
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1359: Nord Stream 2: Is Berlin leaning toward Moscow? @PaulR_Gregory @HooverInst from 2021-04-22T01:43:01

Photo: German with Russian hand grenades


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1359: The Biden Administration reinforces NATO. @Brad_L_Bowman @FDD from 2021-04-22T01:35:15

Photo: NATO Defense College, Ecole Militaire
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1359: 2/2: SCOTUS reads the headlines. John Yoo, @HooverInst @AEI from 2021-04-22T01:27:57

Photo: "The red specter of revolution." Cartoon showing robed Supreme Court justices John Marshall Harlan and Edward Douglass White lifting up armed man "anarchy."
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1359: 1/2: SCOTUS reads the headlines. John Yoo, @HooverInst @AEI from 2021-04-22T01:27:37

Photo: Supreme Court of the United States, 1911.


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1359: Kerry in Beijing: Energy appeasement. Christian Whiton. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-04-22T01:22:16

Photo:  Appeasement: Eight-frame comic strip.  Spareribs comes up with a scheme to appease an African king.  He dresses Gravy up in a bearskin he has stolen from the palace.  Spareribs pretend...

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1359: Why does the PRC spy on Vancouver diners? Charles Burton @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-04-22T01:18:55

Photo: Logo, Haidilao restaurant.  Logos are public domain.

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1359: After DeBlasio. @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNews from 2021-04-22T01:16:33

Photo:New York City .

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1359: Amazon outmaneuvers the Biden Administration. @WJMcGurn @WSJOpinion from 2021-04-22T01:14:24

Photo: Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder..

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1358: Suddenly uncertain, Gretchen Whitmer hesitates at another expert-recommended lockdown of Michigan; & What is to be done? from 2021-04-21T04:06:09

Photo: Alabama Guardsmen and Romanian military medical professionals take photos and converse with Jefferson County Health Officer Dr. Mark Wilson in Birmingham, Ala., May 29, 2020. Wilson pro...

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1358: Inflation: "Are we going to replay the 1970s?" John Cochrane @HooverInst from 2021-04-21T04:01:22

Photo: Line at a gas station in Maryland, June 15, 1979.
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1358: The Pentagon shows growing confidence with AI. @FroseDC @WJLA. from 2021-04-21T03:57:34

Photo: Silver didrachma from Crete depicting Listen
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1358: "Democracy" is the new tool for good old-fashioned autocracy. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-04-21T03:55:38

Photo: Good bye Autocracy: words and music by Flora Leaverton Belford ; arranged by Minnie Webb Castle. For voice and piano..

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1358: "I'm not a silly woman!" said Elizabeth to Philip during lockdown. "I'm the Queen!" Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-04-21T03:53:24

Photo: Postage Stamp Depicting Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip 1953
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1358: Economical Putin uses the same team to poison expat enemies that he uses to blow up Czech arms manufacturers. @JosephSternberg from 2021-04-21T03:50:49

Photo: Munition Works
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1358: The EU fails even at vaccine nationalism. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-04-21T03:47:27

Photo: Well-clad bureaucrats make unhelpful decisions.  Here:  OEEC Favors Continuation of European Payments Union




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1358: "Get out!" says the publican to the labor leader of London about the failure to challenge the year-long lockdowns. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-04-21T02:35:10

Photo: The Publican's Coat of Arms Explain'd and Figure'd
A mock coat-of-arms satirizing over-charging by tavern keepers. The shield is divided into three parts: the upper half contains a v...

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1358: London parks fill with happy trash as the people return. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-04-21T02:35

Photo: International symbol "Tidyman" used on packaging to remind people to dispose of it in a bin instead of littering.

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1358: The Biden spending is for the unions. @LizPeek @FoxNews from 2021-04-21T02:26:46

Photo: Local 32 B, original logo.

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1358: "People haven't spent their money in a year." @LizPeek @FoxNew @TheHill from 2021-04-21T02:26:39

Photo: Buffalo Savings Bank, Buffalo, N.Y.
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1358: #NewWorld: Peru chooses between the radicals of Castillo and the unknowns of Fujimori. @JMHumire @MariaFdaCabal from 2021-04-21T02:14:01

Photo:  Traditional Peru.

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1358: #NewWorld: Confident Chile suddenly doubts the Chinese vaccine. @JMHumire @MariaFdaCabal from 2021-04-21T02:13:59

Photo: The Vaccine
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1358: #NewWorld: Social welfare Costa Rica sags into unsustainable debt during the virus. @JMHumire @MariaFdaCabal from 2021-04-21T02:05:25

Photo: Postcard written in 1898. It is one of the oldest postcards of San José, in Central America. Lithographically printed..

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1358: #NewWorld: Under the volcanoes of St. Vincent and Venezuela and FARC. @JMHumire @MariaFdaCabal from 2021-04-21T02:02:19

Photo: South lip, Crater, Soufriere, St Vincent.
The steep crater walls are on the right-hand side. The tuff deposits dip outwards from the crater, and drape over its rim. They have ...

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1358: 2/2: The Obama Presidential Center is not a library; & What is to be done? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2021-04-21T01:56:37

Photo: Sailors stationed aboard various tenant commands of Naval Station Great Lakes, assist in unloading artifacts from the Obama administration at the Obama Presidential Library in Schaumbur...

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1358: 1/2: The Obama Presidential Center is not a library; & What is to be done? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2021-04-21T01:56:34

Photo: The picnic area of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library..

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1357: #PacificWatch: The Homeless in LA and the Undocumented in Long Beach, @JCBliss from 2021-04-20T03:35:07

Photo:  A large group of people claimed by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection to be illegal Listen
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1357: Beijing aims to silence Jimmy Lai's Apple Daily. Mark Simon. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-04-20T03:28:46

Photo: Chinese prisoners.
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1356: Does the Court-packing gambit intimidate the Chief Justice and Justice Kavanaugh?@AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-04-20T02:34:16

Photo: "A person is guilty of intimidating a judge if a person directs a threat to a judge because of a ruling or decision of the judge in any official proceeding, or if by use of a threat dir...

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1356: Russian-made Iskander missile fragments found in Azerbaijan craters from the Nagorno-Karabakh War 2020. @ProfBShaffer @FDD from 2021-04-20T02:32:24

Photo: A Russian missile rocket booster stage lies in the bedroom of a home in Gori (2008).

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1356: "Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Alphabet on the Levant. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1@ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-04-20T02:29:57

Photo: Example of an ancient alphabet; here: the Phoenician alphabet. Note that and were originally full consonants in the Phoenician language. Several of...

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1356: Estimating Iran's breakout after the Natanz incident. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1@ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-04-20T02:28:21

Photo: Iranian coup soldiers
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1356: The extremely sturdy PM Suga the White House with POTUS. Scott Harold @RAND @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-04-20T02:26:23

Photo: Japanese cabinet, 1927
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1356: Dissent and the Woke Corporate elite of Starbucks and Ben & Jerry's. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-04-20T02:23:23

Photo: Eating ice cream at the "World's Fair" in Tunbridge, Vermont.  All this before Ben & Jerry's.
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1356: Trillions and trillions for the loyal. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter from 2021-04-20T02:17:44

Photo: Trillion: 1,000,000,000,000, i.e., one million million, or ten to the...

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1356: Packing the Court three-step by Nadler, Markey and Peloso. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter from 2021-04-20T02:07:54

Photo: U.S. Supreme Court interiors. Stairwell looking down at U.S. Supreme Court
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1356: The PRC breaks a Hong Kong printing press; & What is to be done? Elisha Maldonado @elishamaldonado from 2021-04-20T02:04:34

Photo: Lilien Printing press
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1356: The 2020 disinformation that Russia paid bounties to the Taliban. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD from 2021-04-20T02:00:23

Photo: Soviet ground forces in action while conducting an offensive operation against the Islamist resistance, the Mujahideen.

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1356: The Taliban order the US out May 1. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD from 2021-04-20T01:58:09

Photo: Evidence of a campfire, a sign of Taliban fighter activity, in a cave, in the mountains of ADI Ghar


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1356: The physical limits of climate change mitigation; & What is to be done? Terry Anderson @HooverInst from 2021-04-20T01:54:59

Photo: El Nino damage at San Onofre Beach aboard Camp Pendleton,
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1356: Italy preps to reopen as the vaccine makes summertime tourism imaginable. Lorenzo Fiori. Ansaldo Foundation. from 2021-04-20T01:50:21

Photo:  Tourists at the Forum Romanum, with the Colosseum; Rome, Italy
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1356: 2/2: At the hopeless edge of the Darién Gap. @Michael_Yon from 2021-04-20T01:43:30

Photo: The Darién Gap is a lawless wilderness on the border of Colombia and Panama, 10,000-square-mile rectangle of swamp, mountains, and rainforest teeming with everything from deadly snakes ...

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1356: 1/2: At the hopeless edge of the Darién Gap. @Michael_Yon from 2021-04-20T01:43:25

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1355: David Grantham #Unbound. The complete forty-minute interview, April 5, 2021. from 2021-04-19T00:01

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1932. 

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1355: Josh Rogin #Unbound: the complete, eighty-minute interview, March 21, 2021 from 2021-04-19T00:00

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. 1949. Peking University Students Welcoming PLA    
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1355: John Tamny #Unbound. The complete forty minute interview. March 28, 2021. from 2021-04-19T00:00

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1918.In the fall of 1918, the worldwide influenza epidemic hit Seattle. The flu was sudden and deadly. The ...

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1355: Jerry Hendrix #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, March 23, 2021 from 2021-04-19T00:00

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1924. The British carrier HMS Hermes (95), the first ship laid down as an aircraft carrier, pictured in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii
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1354: Frustrated Whitmer orders the masking of two-year-olds. @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-04-18T03:07:56

Photo: Full-length portrait of a toddler seated on a chair / M. L. Albright, Photographer, Urbana, Ohio
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1354: Counting the usual suspects of woke corporations; & What is to be done? @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-04-18T02:58:53

Photo: "The Bosses of the Senate", corporate interests as giant money bags looming over senators.

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1354: #PacificWatch:Chief Coyote in a gold Cadillac. @JCBliss from 2021-04-18T01:41:47

Photo: Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol Agents Rescue Abandoned Honduran Woman


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1354: #PacificWatch: Disneyland reopening Sold out, thank you, Governor Newsom. @JCBliss from 2021-04-18T01:36:38

Photo: President Sukarno riding mini car with Walt Disney, Aneka Amerika 102 (1957),
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1353: 2/2: #CivilWar?: Criminalizing Spanish and American history. Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-04-18T00:00

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Surrender of Red Soldiers, Somosierra, Madrid - Google Art Project



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1353: 1/2: #CivilWar?: Criminalizing Spanish and American history. Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-04-18T00:00

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1352: Surprise SpaceX to the surface of the moon for $2.89 B fixed price. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-04-17T02:19

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1971.This item consists of a black and white photograph taken from the surface of the moon during the Apollo 14 mission.
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1352: John Bolton on Afghanistan, Russia, Ukraine, China, Taiwan.@AmbJohnBolton Foundation for American Security & Freedom from 2021-04-17T02:17:57

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1944.Canadian Forces in Italy 1944
Gunner Howard Potter has a shave near his 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun, while other members of the crew scan ...

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1352: The IC: Spying on trees and Americans? @DevinNunes CA-22. from 2021-04-17T01:57:42

Photo: The Royal Oak is the English oak tree within which the future Kin...

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1352: Rio Grande Valley: "Lots and lots of children, lots of small families, and they just kept coming over the bridge." @DevinNunes CA-22 from 2021-04-17T01:50:28

Photo: San Juan, Puerto Rico. Children living in the huge slum area known as "El Fangitto." Improvised "bridges" have been constructed throughout the area as the only means of walking about wi...

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1352: CEOs fall into line. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion from 2021-04-17T01:43:59

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1352: "He wants to outdo his former boss, President Obama." @ConradMBlack @TheAmGreatness from 2021-04-17T01:38:42

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1352: #SmallBusinessAmerica: When Ben Franklin and John Adams argued over an open window as the grumpy pair slept in the only bed, 1776. @GeneMarks from 2021-04-17T01:19:57

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1352: #SmallBusinessAmerica: Jobs, housing and manufacturing rising for small business prosperity. @GeneMarks from 2021-04-17T01:16:27

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1352: #PacificWatch: Fentanyl seized at the border. Long Beach provides for the homeless. @JCBliss from 2021-04-17T01:10:59

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1352: #TheScalaReport: The Three Laws of Robotics and the future of AI at work. Chris Riegel: @ScalaInc @STRATACACHE from 2021-04-17T01:05:54

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1352: #CivilWar?: The Roman Pontificate, the Vestal Virgins, and Court-Packing. Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-04-17T00:54:10

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1352: ISS Zvezda is a fail; & What is to be done? Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-04-17T00:50:30

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1352: What is the progress of Bezos's Blue Origin's New Shepard? Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-04-17T00:46:26

Photo: New Shepard Crew Capsule after landing.

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1352: 4/4: Adapt and Be Adept: Market Responses to Climate Change. Paperback – April 1, 2021, by Terry Anderson (Editor) from 2021-04-17T00:00

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1352: 3/4: Adapt and Be Adept: Market Responses to Climate Change. Paperback – April 1, 2021, by Terry Anderson (Editor) from 2021-04-17T00:00

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. 1900-1950.  Captioned "In the miners' boarding house." Miners around a table at the end of the meal, which looks to have been a pretty good spread....

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1352: 2/4: Adapt and Be Adept: Market Responses to Climate Change. Paperback – April 1, 2021, by Terry Anderson (Editor) from 2021-04-17T00:00

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Celebration, Metlakahtla. Alaska. Church visible in background on left. - NARA - 297977



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1352: 1/4: Adapt and Be Adept: Market Responses to Climate Change. Paperback – April 1, 2021, by Terry Anderson (Editor) from 2021-04-17T00:00

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1351: Why cannot technocratic California get the vaccine as in as orderly a way as technocratic South Carolina? @HooverWhalen @HooverInst from 2021-04-16T03:08:41

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1351: The Border: "Well, Joe Biden promised me this." @VDHanson @HoverInst from 2021-04-16T03:03:45

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1351: The persuasion of the Woke: "They don't really consider themselves Americans. They consider themselves citizens of the world." @VDHanson @HoooveInst from 2021-04-16T02:58:20

Photo: Globe.

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1351: "NATO doesn't do anything by itself." @SebGorka @AmericaFrst from 2021-04-16T02:47:01

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1351: Five hundred children a day. @SebGorka #AmericaFirst from 2021-04-16T02:43:35

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1351: A thousand centrifuges were destroyed and a 22-foot crater was formed. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-04-16T02:27:36

Photo: Diagram of the principles of a Zippe-type gas centrifuge with U-238 represented in dark blue and U-235 represented in light blue.
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1351: Tales of arriving in the armed camp of Baghdad, 2021. David Schenker, & Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-04-16T02:22:29

Photo: PARSONS (1808) View of Baghdad on the Persian side of the Tigris
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1351: Happy 73d birthday, Israel; & What is to be done? Benjamin Krasna. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 from 2021-04-16T02:19:16

Photo: seal: View of the Tombs of the Kings.
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1351: The Iran sanctions drift away. @Behnam ben Taleblu @FDD from 2021-04-16T02:17:02

Photo:  Man holding sign during Iranian hostage crisis protest (Release all Americans now) flipped over vertical axis in MS Paint with emphasis (red) added.

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1351: Beijing is pleased by its bullying of Hong Kong, Taiwan and Anchorage and after. Weifeng Zhong @Mercatus from 2021-04-16T02:14:55

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1351: Crony capitalism discovers Infrastructure is everything. @VerodeRugy@Mercatus from 2021-04-16T01:58:22

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1351: Why did Blinken say "repudiate" when speaking of the Commission of Religious Freedom? @susancrabtree from 2021-04-16T01:50:43

Photo:  A circle enclosing emblems of liberty and reform is surrounded by symbols of oppression. Liberty, holding her cap on a staff, points to a column inscribed '561 Free and unbought Votes'...

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1351: Open letter to challenge the International Olympic Committee for the 2022 winter games in the PRC; & What is to be done? @reggielittlejhn from 2021-04-16T01:39:29

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1350: Infrastructure is everything the Biden Administration says it is. @WJMcGurn @WSJOpinion from 2021-04-15T03:14:51

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1350: #HotelMars: What can Bill Nelson do for the troubled SLS? David Livingston, SpaceShow.com, & Jeff Faust @SpaceNews from 2021-04-15T03:12:35

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1350: New York hate crimes and the unmentioned shadows of the mentally ill. @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNews from 2021-04-15T03:07:54

Photo: Eight patients representing mental diagnoses as of the 19th century at the Salpêtrière, Paris.

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1350: Zelensky on the front lines; & What is to be done? @PaulR_Gregory @HooverInst from 2021-04-15T02:57:21

Photo: Russia is building up its forces on the Ukrainian border and in Crimea.  Here:  Steppes between Perekop and Simferopol.



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1350: Del Rio, Texas, and the unceasing tragedy on the border. SalenaZito.com @DCExaminer from 2021-04-15T02:54:28

Photo:  President McKinley's first stop on the Mexican border—at Del Rio, Texas.
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1350: Black Friday May 31, 1889: the Johnstown Flood tragedy. @SalenaZito @DCExaminer from 2021-04-15T02:47:12

Photo: Debris litters and completely covers the ground above a Pennsylvania Railroad bridge. A small bridge and several mills and smokestacks are viewable in the distance.

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1350: There is no doing business with "corrupt, violent, lawless Iran." @VictoriaCoates Center for Security Policy from 2021-04-15T02:43:22

Photo: Portrait of Muhammad Shah Qajar and his Vizier Haj Mirza Aghasi


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1350: The mystery of a USN Seventh Fleet FONOPS in Indian waters. @CleoPaskal @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-04-15T02:32:24

Photo: The US Department of Defense defines FONOPs [freedom of navigation] as “operational challenges against excessive maritime claims” through which “the United States demon...

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1350: Deepening doubts of the PRC vaccines in any combination. Sean Lin. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-04-15T02:26:17

Photo: Acupuncture chart from Hua Shou (fl. 1340s, Yuan dynasty). This image from Shi si jing fa hui (Expression of the Fourteen Meridians). (Tokyo: Suharaya Heisuke kanko, K...

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1350: Puzzling what the Biden Administration may mean by pronouncing, "America is back!" from 2021-04-15T02:17:46

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1350: Has Berlin failed alongside the departing Merkel? Russell Berman, @HooverInst from 2021-04-15T02:13:21

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1350: PRC bullies Canada. Charles Burton. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-04-15T02:09:06

Photo: Azuchi-Momoyama period wall scroll depicting Yanluo Wang  ????, god of Hell.

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1350: Kerry to China to talk climate, not cruelty. Stephen Yates, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-04-15T02:07:06

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1350: Carefully with Ingenuity. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-04-15T02:03:42

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1350: Docking satellite to the rescue. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-04-15T02:01:41

Photo:   This is the second time Northrop Grumman has docked two commercial spacecraft in orbit. The company’s MEV-1 made history when it successfully docked to the Intelsat 901 (IS-901) satel...

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1349: #NewWorld: Surprising good news from Ecuador's elections. @JMHumire @MariFdaCabal from 2021-04-14T04:07:22

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1349: #NewWorld: The unanswered border tragedy. @JMHumire @MariaFdaCabal from 2021-04-14T04:07:20

Photo: Refugee children (here: from Anatolia). 


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1349: #NewWorld: AMLO remains popular and well-connected to the region's strongmen. @JMHumire @MariaFDACabal from 2021-04-14T04:07:08

Photo:  Gen. Porfirio Diaz, former president of Mexico.

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1349: #NewWorld: Child soldiers in the cocaine wars along the Colombia-Venezuela frontier @JMHumire @MariFdaCabal from 2021-04-14T04:07:02

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1349: Blinken of Biden strangely quibbles about the derivation of "unalienable rights" while Rome burns. @BerkowitzPeter from 2021-04-14T03:51:17

Photo:  Nero Fiddling, Rome Burning; Pompaja & Agrippina Smiling
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1349: What about a Hominin Park? — asking if we can recreate Neanderthal man from ancient DNA? Charles Pellegrino from 2021-04-14T03:34:33

Photo: Neanderthal man.

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1349: The 25h Anniversary of Jurassic Park asks, Can it be done? Charles Pellegrino from 2021-04-14T03:31:14

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1349: Iran: "The U.S. has all the leverage it will never have again." Michael Pregent @Hudson @MPPregent from 2021-04-14T03:28:05

Photo: Persian cuirass (armor consisting of breastplate and backplate fastened together).

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1349: Farewell to Prince Philip of the Greatest Generation. June 1921–April 2021. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-04-14T03:20:59

Photo: Prince Philip and Elizabeth II, 1954
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1349: Russia and China, and the renewal of nationalism: Global Britain next. US nowhere. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-04-14T03:04:38

Photo: Elegant dining room in the Australian pavilion at the British Empire Exhibition, Wembley 1924
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1349: Walking in the reawakened springtime parks of London.@JosephSternberg @ from 2021-04-14T02:57:18

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1349: "The most effective economic stimulus right now is a vaccination program." @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-04-14T02:51:05

Photo: Information pamphlets hang on the wall of the 20th Medical Operations Squadron immunizations clinic at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, Oct. 23, 2017. The immunizations Airmen offer...

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1349: Vaccine nationalism wrecks the European Union confidence in recovery. @JosephSternberg from 2021-04-14T02:48:44

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1349: Britain reopens to shopping for haircuts, shoes and the non-essentials of life. @JosephSternberg from 2021-04-14T02:46:56

Photo: Dorian Stripling getting his first haircut.
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1349: "People have no patience for immigration, period, when they see our border overwhelmed."@LizPeek @TheHill from 2021-04-14T02:29:02

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1349: US recovery: "People are spending." @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews from 2021-04-14T02:20:17

Photo: Pay Day in the Army of the Potomac, 1863 
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1348: PacificWatch: Special: Biden and AMLO send Mexican troops to the Guatemala and Honduras borders & Steve Scalise charges "Child abuse" in Texas. from 2021-04-13T05:39:22

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1844.

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1347: Mauna Kea's Subaru Telescope discovering a very early (because oxygen-poor) galaxy only Warp Speed 3 away (430 million light years) from 2021-04-13T04:48:17

Photo: Researchers studied two galaxies shown here in a Hubble image and as detected by ALMA (inset panels). The color gradients in the ALMA images show the motion of the gas, indicative of ro...

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1347: Indiana Hoenlein and the Lost Jewish quarter of Medieval Oxford. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-04-13T04:43:33

Photo: Exeter College, Oxford
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1347: Italy's GDP to grow again as the Red Zones are lifted cautiously. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation from 2021-04-13T04:41:32

Photo: Cauldrons from the Mirandola tannery.

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1347: When Prince Charles visited his maternal grandmother's grave (Prince Phillip's mother) on the Mount of Olives. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres@ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-04-13T04:37:33

Photo: Moun of Olives, circa 1899

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1347: Will Putin pay a price for a destroyed Navalny? @PaulR_Gregory @HooverInst from 2021-04-13T04:30:35

Photo: The new prison in Irkutsk (just west of Lake Baikal); next to it is the old prison.
Transfer; Manuscript Division (George Kennan Papers); 1973.
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1347: Is Kiev the next Moscow false-flag operation? @PaulR_Gregory @HooverInst from 2021-04-13T04:27:25

Photo: Moscow Kiev. Russian pre-WWI Advertisements
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1347: Al Qaeda strangles Kabul like a boa. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD from 2021-04-13T04:23:21

Photo: Boa Iconographia Zoologica.
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1347: Abandoning Afghanistan. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD from 2021-04-13T04:22:01

Photo: The 7 km-long railway between Kabul and Darul-Aman was very crowded.

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1347: #PacificWatch: LA joins San Diego in offering shelter and kindness to the unaccompanied children, including three-year-olds. Waiting for the Bay Area to respond. @JCBliss from 2021-04-13T04:17:32

Photo: Mildred Kron, three years old, and Gertrude Kron, five years old. Help shuck oysters every day in the Barataria Canning Co. Live in New Orleans.
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1347: The GOP enjoys a surprising cash bonanza; & What is to be done? @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund from 2021-04-13T04:10:17

Photo: Couple weighs money (Rijksmuseum).


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1347: Border: "The Biden Administration is desperate." @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund from 2021-04-13T04:09:08

Photo: Two members of the New York National Guard's 23 Infantry Regiment Provost Guard pose with their Indian motorcycle while on duty near McAllen, Texas in 1916. The New York National Guard ...

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1347: Hollywood is the original American-made cancel culture. Christian Toto @RealClearInvestigations from 2021-04-13T04:04:01

Photo: Hollywood starland : official moviegraph of the land of stars, where they live, where they work and where they play
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1347: Biden court-packing threat to intimidate Chief Justice Roberts. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-04-13T03:58:46

Photo: Franklin Delano Roosevelt fireside chat on U.S. Supreme Court plan (the one that did't work).


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1347: Major League balderdash goes to Denver; & What is to be done? @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-04-13T03:57:27

Photo: Rowe, Denver Team, baseball card portrait
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1347: Can the US Navy defend Taiwan from a PRC sneak attack?Rick Fisher, senior Fellow on Asian Military Affairs of the International Assessment and Strategy Center. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-04-13T03:54:55

Photo: Taikang ship (ROC).  ???.

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1347: PRC complains loudly about high-end chip sanctions. Brandon Weichert. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-04-13T03:53:23

Photo: Venus complains to Jupiter that the promise of Aeneas' destiny is not being fulfilled. Jupiter's response:  The gods are destroying Troy because this is my will.

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1346: Josh Rogin #Unbound: the complete, eighty-minute interview, March 21, 2021 from 2021-04-12T03:18:27

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1918.WiN-10-1:   1918: Spanish Flu was an epidemic.  Red Cross volunteers taught residents how to prevent the disease.  Courtesy of BUMED Historian’...

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1345: Jerry Hendrix #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, March 23, 2021 from 2021-04-12T03:14:11

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1927.


Langley Aerial, starboard bow, underway, aircraft on deck, 06-1927 - NARA - 520809



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1345: John Tamny #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. March 28, 2021. from 2021-04-12T02:00

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Republican National Convention, 1920



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1342: Does Whitmer pay any price for Michigan's decline? @Thaddues McCotter @TheAmGreatness from 2021-04-11T05:20:59

Photo: The Causeway Memorial Park fountain, Muskegon, Michigan


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1342: Wokeness Incorporated: Lessons learned so far. @ThadMcCotter @TheAmGreatness from 2021-04-11T05:20:57

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1344: 2/2: #CivilWar?: The Omnipotent Elite and the Great Migration. Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-04-11T03:57:46

Photo: Political cartoon from October 1884, showing wealthy plutocrats feasting at a table while a poor family begs beneath.

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1344: 1/2: #CivilWar?: The Omnipotent Elite and the Great Migration. Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-04-11T03:57:43

Photo: Elite quadrille.

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1343: #PacificWatch: Special: Welcome back to the Hollywood Bowl. @JCBliss. from 2021-04-11T02:47:49

Photo: .Two women performing on a barn door in the first known musical event at the Hollywood Bowl, ca.1920 


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1343: #PacificWatch:Special: Dumped in Tijuana without shoelaces. @JCBliss from 2021-04-11T02:46:04

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1342: #YonReport: Special: Reports from inside Burma of military and police plundering, detaining, murdering. @Michael_Yon from 2021-04-11T02:00

Photo: Burma:  Recorder's Court on Sule Pagoda Road, with the Sule Pagoda at the far end, Rangoon, 1868. Photographer: J. Jackson.
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1342: #YonReport: Special: Haitian migrant family wades across the river with a human trafficker from Guatemala to Tapachula, Mexico. @Michael_Yon from 2021-04-11T02:00

Photo: Quetzaltenango is the capital of its predominantly Mayan Department in Guatemala.  Here: Quetzaltenango central park c. 1894.
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1341: #PacificWatch Update: Steve Scalise at the border to witness the great migration in waves. @JCBliss from 2021-04-10T04:55

Photo: Alfred Jacob Miller (American, 1810-1874). Pawnee Indians Migrating, 1858-1860. watercolor. Walters Art Museum .

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1341: Major league baseball forfeits the all-star game to wokeness. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion from 2021-04-10T04:51:49

Photo: Brooklyn Dodgers, baseball card portrait; 1914 or earlier.
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1341: #ScalaReport: Reopening is a mixed picture, with the US and UK confident, the EU and Latin America in retreat. Also: The new normal office. Chris Riegel @Stratacache Scala.com from 2021-04-10T04:49:39

Photo: In England:  The Circus comes to town!  On 21 June 1901, George Sanger’s travelling circus wended its way into Beverley.  Here, the elephants slope into Wednesday Market, followed close...

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1341: The USN needs friends in Africa to weather another Suez Canal disruption. @FRoseDC @WJLA @GovernmentMatters from 2021-04-10T04:40:26

Photo: Sudan.

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1341: 4/4: Consequences: An Intelligence Officer's War Paperback – November 11, 2020. by David Grantham (Author) from 2021-04-10T03:57:13

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1341: 3/4: Consequences: An Intelligence Officer's War Paperback – November 11, 2020. by David Grantham (Author) from 2021-04-10T03:57:08

Photo: Philippine Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) personnel search for a simulated improvised explosive device (IED) during Balikatan 2017 to showcase the importance of EOD and CBRN operatio...

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1341: 2/4: Consequences: An Intelligence Officer's War Paperback – November 11, 2020. by David Grantham (Author) from 2021-04-10T03:57:02

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1341: 1/4: Consequences: An Intelligence Officer's War Paperback – November 11, 2020. by David Grantham (Author) from 2021-04-10T03:56:46

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1341: 2/2: Post-pandemic New Normal looks like Pandemic New Normal. @HenryIMiller @PacificResearch from 2021-04-10T03:52

Photo: Poster from before the 1979 eradication of smallpox, promoting vaccination.
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1341: 1/2: Post-pandemic New Normal looks like pandemic New Normal. @HenryIMiller @Pacificresearch from 2021-04-10T03:51:51

Photo: A representation of the cholera epidemic of the nineteenth century.
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1341: 2/2: #CivilWar?: Cycles of the elite for 2000 years since Rome; & What is to be done? from 2021-04-10T03:28:37

Photo: Roman sulphur baths.

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1341: 1/2: #CivilWar? Cycles of the elite for 2000 years since Rome; & What is to be done? from 2021-04-10T03:27:19

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1341: #PacificWatch: Newsom opens California one step ahead of recall posse. @JCBliss from 2021-04-10T03:16:02

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1341: #PacificWatch: California's 250,000 homeless overshadowed by border encounters and unaccompanied children. @JCBliss from 2021-04-10T03:12:41

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1341: "The destructive economic policies championed by President Biden..." @MonicaCrowley. Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Public Affairs. from 2021-04-10T03:05:51

Photo: Allegory of the bad state.

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1341: Warming up Ingenuity for first flight on Gagarin Day, April 12, 2021. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-04-10T02:00

Photo: Yuri Gagarin was born on March 9, 1934 in a town outside of Moscow, Russia. After being graduated from secondary school in 1949, Gagarin went to several technical schools before joining...

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1341: ISS leak in Zvezda can be worked around, if it cannot be solved. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-04-10T02:00

Photo:   ISS    Roll-out of the Progress 24 vehicle occurred on schedule at 7:00 a.m., Jan. 16, 2007 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.    The vehicle was in the vertical and hard-down at...

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1340: "We are crossing the desert," said De Gaulle. @ConradMBlack from 2021-04-09T05:14:01

Photo: Free French Foreign Legionnaires wearing distinctive kepi hats "leap up from the desert to rush an enemy strong point".
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1340: "...from China or Russia, I would warn them of the dangers of underestimating the United States." @ConradMBlack @TheAmGreatness from 2021-04-09T05:09:24

Photo: Wreckage of giant German transport planes intended for the Axis troop evacuation from Tunis
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1340: Can the US Navy hold off the PRC invasion of Taiwan? Jerry Hendrix. Telemus Group @JerryHendrixII from 2021-04-09T04:58:30

Photo: USS Carpenter (DDE-825) in Formosa Strait under way in heavy seas on 20 August 1953
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1340: September 17, 1939: Berlin and Moscow. April 17, 2021: Beijing and Moscow @VDHanson @HooverInst from 2021-04-09T04:55:11

Photo: Moscow Kremlin:  Stalin & Ribbentrop, 23 August 1939
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1340: "He's going to be very radical. It's his way of saying, 'I'm more iconic than Obama ever was.'" @VDHanson @HooverInst from 2021-04-09T04:52:39

Photo: The Radical Convention in Philadelphia, September 3d, 1866
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1340: Probing Biden: China provokes Taiwan, and Russia provokes Ukraine. @SebGorka #AmericaFirst from 2021-04-09T04:37:45

Photo: The Pittsburgh Press news report on post-World War II Taiwan.

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1340: Biden's HHS speaks of filling "gaps" in the border wall. @SebGorka #AmericaFirst from 2021-04-09T04:36:18

Photo: The door in the wall:  Family living in an arch under the Great Wall
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1340: 2/2: Reawakening the out-of-date Iran deal of 2015 in a five-star Vienna hotel & What is to be done? Behnam ben Talablu @FDD from 2021-04-09T04:32:22

Photo: Sachertorte, Viennese pastry designed o smooth negotiations

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1340: Europe welcomes Janet Yellen's taxes on the rich. Christine MCDaniel @christinemcdan International trade economist. Sr research Fellow for American Economy & Globalization Program, @mercatus at George Mason University from 2021-04-09T04:24:09

Photo: Lawyers, by Hans Holbein the Younger.
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1340: 19th Century protectionism in 21st Century Alaska. @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion from 2021-04-09T04:18:41

Photo: Portrait of two indigenous women. Alaska 1950s.

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1340: Biden's and Yellen's tax regimes raising America up and up so that it is just like France. @VerodeRugy @Mercatus from 2021-04-09T04:15:40

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1900. 

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1340: March of the Living: Next year in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres from 2021-04-09T04:09:15

Photo: Auschwitz I (Main Camp) - Oswiecim, Poland 


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1340: The perilous family feud in Jordan; & What is to be done? Robert Satloff @robsatloff Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres from 2021-04-09T04:03:21

Photo: Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, April 1921
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1340: Rescuing the last Jews in ravaged Yemen. Rabbi Dr. Elie Abadie @RabbiElieAbadie, @AmericanSephard, Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres from 2021-04-09T03:54:43

Photo: Yemenite Jewish family reading from the Psalms.

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1339: The hard-to-understand prosecution of Bibi Netanyahu for bribery by good headlines. @AaronKelinShow from 2021-04-08T04:59:02

Photo: Israeli newspapers.

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1339: Four Groundhog Day Elections in Israel--and now the fifth? @AaronKleinShow from 2021-04-08T04:55:49

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1339: 1/2 "Biden's notion of a compromise is that I'm going to do something and if you don't agree with me I'm going to call you a name." @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2021-04-08T04:52:17

Photo: Imprecations:  A woman performs a cursing ritual (Hokusai).
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1339: Anti-Asian at the Ivy League; & What is to be done? @JMcGurn @WSJOpinion from 2021-04-08T04:47:50

Photo: A cartoon portrait of the stereotypical Columbia man, 1902.

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1339: "We had a very nice experiment in 2017. We lowered taxes and investment grew substantially." Diana Furchgott-Roth, GWU. from 2021-04-08T04:45

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1339: What is Biden's middle-class foreign policy? What is Biden's "New American Exceptionalism? @BerkowitzPeter @HooverInst from 2021-04-08T04:36:04

Photo: American middle-class Cape Cod–style house c. 1920.

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1339: Base-load electricity from fossil fuels is the backstop to the renewables that can fail. Bud Weinstein, Goodenough College, London from 2021-04-08T04:29:47

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1339: PRC tasks Maoist anarchists in India to attack. @CleoPaskal @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-04-08T04:26:24

Photo: Prime Minister Nehru and Chinese Chairman Mao Zedong in Beijing
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1339: PRC threats obliges Japan to build frigates and ally with Indonesia. Rick Fisher, International Assessment and Strategy Center @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-04-08T04:21:44

Photo: Japan, from Notes and Sketches from the wild coasts of Nipon, with chapters of cruising after pirates in Chinese waters
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1339: Lessons learned from the mistakes of the pandemic lockdowns. @JohnTamny from 2021-04-08T04:17:23

Photo: DARCO premises disinfection


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1339: Chinese manufacturing makes the US richer and more specialized; & What is to be done? @JohnTamny @RealClearMarkets from 2021-04-08T04:15:11

Photo:  Record of the Commemorative Tablet by Imperial Manufacture of the Great Buddha Temple of Longxing at Zhengding
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1339: Do the Trump tariffs on China remain for Biden? @AlanTonelson @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-04-08T04:10:41

Photo: Consulate of the United States in Tsinan (Jinan), long ago.  ??: ????????.

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1339: Fleeing Burma. @Michael_Yon @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-04-08T04:08:44

Photo: Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma highway. A village street along the Burma road with a ditch running down the center. The anopheles minimus mos...

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1339: Ingenuity weathers Mars first night alone. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-04-08T04:04:11

Photo: Illustration of NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter flying on Mars. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech


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1339: What happened to Starship #11? Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-04-08T03:59:58

Photo: Screen grab of the three Raptor engines on SpaceX's SN11 prototype firing during the craft's test flight on March 30, 2021. (Image credit: SpaceX)


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1338: #PacificWatch: The Biden Administration talks of restarting Border Wall building. @JCBliss from 2021-04-07T04:55:29

Photo: Ground views of a border wall prototype.
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1338: The London Parks awaken the vaccinated Britain. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-04-07T04:20:59

Photo: London park.

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1338: The US recovers to find the Inflation Monster warming up. @JosephSternberg @WSJopinion from 2021-04-07T04:18:48

Photo: Price control. Anti-inflation window display. Well designed because it is easily read, this poster illustrates the correct method for displaying ceiling price items on the Office of Pri...

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1338: Even the WHO decries the EU's management of the pandemic. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-04-07T04:16:59

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1338: Boris Johnson speaks of opening in Springtime with vaccine passports. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-04-07T04:15:41

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1338: Denouncing Bolsonaro's populism in a pandemic; & What is to be done? @JMHumire @MariaFdaCabal Secure Free Society from 2021-04-07T04:06:10

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1338: The Border cartels "are like a Hydra" that cannot be solved more than tactically. @JMHumire @MariaFdaCabal Secure Free Society from 2021-04-07T04:01:49

Photo:  Hercules in battle with the Hydra.

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1338: Five hundred years of the Spanish Empire in Central America. @JMHumire @MariaFdaCabal Secure Free Society from 2021-04-07T03:53:56

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1338: #NewWorldReport: Firefight in the Colombian jungles between warring narco-terror gangs. @JMHumire @MariaFdaCabal Secure Free Society from 2021-04-07T03:53:34

Photo: The vegetation on Rio Sambus' beaches at the house of the medicine man Selimo. Primeval forest and banana cultivation.
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1338: Partisan dupes of the CCP pretend that opposing Beijing's brutality is anti-Asian hate; & What is to be done? Sadanand @Dhume @AEI @WSJOpinion from 2021-04-07T03:34:11

Photo: 7th National Congress of Communist Party of China.

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1338: #KanooReport: Global shipping badly disrupted by the Suez Canal incident; & What is to be done? Mishal Kanoo, The Kanoo Group from 2021-04-07T03:28:20

Photo: Suez Canal at Port Said, Egypt
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1338: Italy locked down for Easter and exhausted with lock-downs. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation from 2021-04-07T03:24:25

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1338: The Biden administration announces a mysterious "New American Exceptionalism" and a puzzling "foreign policy for the middle-class." @PeterBerkowitz @HooverInst from 2021-04-07T03:21:28

Photo: The disgraced Boutros Boutros-Ghali with Cyrus Vance, father of the current New York DA, at Camp David.
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1338: Erdogan arrests loyal admirals accused of yet another coup against Erdogan. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-04-07T03:17:12

Photo:  Kaiser Wilhelm II inspecting Turkish troops of the 15th Corps in East Galicia, Poland. Prince Leopold of Bavaria, the Supreme Commander of the German Army on the Eastern Front, is seco...

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1338: The coup in Jordan is closer to a family melodrama. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-04-07T03:13:09

Photo: The Passage of the Jordan (Dalziels' Bible Gallery)
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1338: Biden embarks of a fool's mission to raise taxes on the American workplace. @LizPeek @thehill @foxnews from 2021-04-07T03:11:29

Photo: Tax bills, 1895-1903
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1338: The jobs roar back without bothering with the Biden hand-outs. @LizPeek from 2021-04-07T03:08:22

Photo: Illustration entitled, "The Prosperity Painter", by cartoonist Clifford Berryman, which appeared in the Washington Evening Star on January 30, 1915, depicts President Woodrow Wilson as ...

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1337: #PacificWatch: Echo Park remains sealed off from the relentless homeless. @JCBliss from 2021-04-06T04:33:13

Photo: The area now known as Echo Park in 1894. Echo Park Lake is at the top left. Glendale Blvd. is marked as Lake Shore Ave. Temple-Beaudry district is at the right center.
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1337: Al Qaeda draws upon a deep reserve of leadership talent. @ThomasJoscelyn from 2021-04-06T04:28:32

Photo: Application form from the Khalid bin Whalid training camp.
A registration form for Harkat’s Khalid bin Whalid training camp. The form says ‘‘Jihad’’ on the top of the page, an...

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1337: 2/2: The persecution of Christians in Nigeria's Benue State and the rebuilding of the Agatu Methodist Church of Makurdi for Easter, 2021. Bill Devlin REDEEM, USA. from 2021-04-06T04:25:57

Photo: Akaniobio Church, Old Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria, ca. 1900-1910
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1337: 1/2: The persecution of Christians in Nigeria's Benue State and the rebuilding of the Agatu Methodist Church of Makurdi for Easter, 2021. Bill Devlin REDEEM, USA. from 2021-04-06T04:25:55

Photo: Ukpabio of Adiabo, Calabar, Nigeria, ca. 1900-1910 
Black and white lantern slide of The Reverend Esien Esien (Essien) Ukpabio of Adiabo, a town on the Calabar River. In 1853,...

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1337: Gavin Newsom survives clumsily. @DavidMDrucker @DCExaminer @JohnFund @NRO from 2021-04-06T04:01:27

Photo: "An Awkward Position," from the Illustrated London News
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1337: The Border Tragedy goes to Washington. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund from 2021-04-06T03:59:41

Photo:   Newly-installed 30-foot steel bollard barrier panels stand ready for the next panel placement at the Yuma 1 project site near Yuma, Arizona, Dec. 18, 2019. The Yuma 1 project spans ap...

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1337: Vulnerable to compromised China-manufactured hardware.@BrendanCarr @FCC @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-04-06T03:55:21

Photo: Industrial espionage (and sabotage): Vezzi porcelain. The Vezzi brothers were involved in a series of incidents of industrial espionage. It was these actions that led to the secret of m...

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1337: The open question of a military biological program in the unsolved origins of the pandemic. Dr Li-Meng Yan. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-04-06T03:53:40

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1337: Al Qaeda-linked Jihadists spread widely in East Africa, from Somalia to Mozambique. @ThomasJoscelyn @FDD. from 2021-04-06T03:45:05

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1337: "Depraved indifference" suits the Chauvin trial. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO from 2021-04-06T03:42:42

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1337: Revisiting the slander-proof Sullivan v. New York Times (1964) and the Democratic Party broadsheets of today. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO from 2021-04-06T03:39:17

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1337: The Taliban training camps wholly integrate Al Qaeda and its kindred of Cain. @BillRoggio @LongWarJournal from 2021-04-06T03:19:43

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1337: 2/2: Women prosper and innovate in the gig economy. Liya Palagashvili @Mercatus Center from 2021-04-06T03:16:17

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1337: 1/2: Women prosper and innovate in the gig economy. Liya Palagashvili @Mercatus Center from 2021-04-06T03:16:09

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1337: 2/2: Extreme risk across Central America with a Haitian family. @Michael_Yon from 2021-04-06T03:12:15

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1337: 1/2: Extreme risk across Central America with a Haitian family. @Michael_Yon from 2021-04-06T03:12:11

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1335: Jerry Hendrix #Unbound: the complete forty minute interview, March 23, 2021 from 2021-04-05T02:00

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1336: Will Biden get his trillions before the economy rockets to the moon? @ThadMcCotter @TheAmGreatness from 2021-04-04T05:30:52

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1336: Book-burning, dissent and everybody knows, @ThadMcCotter. @TheAmGreatness from 2021-04-04T05:30:48

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1334: #PacificWatch: Special Edition: Two million migrants --including 200,000 unaccompanied children and 1.1 million single males -- encountered at the border by the end of the year from 2021-04-04T03:09:01

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1333: Republican Members of Congress heading to the border crisis; & What is to be done? @DevinNunes 22-CA from 2021-04-03T04:13:21

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1333: California looks to end new natural gas housing & What is to be done? @DevinNunes CA-22 from 2021-04-03T04:00:33

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1332: The resources the US Navy must secure to sustain the global mission. Elaine Luria, 2-VA. Vice Chair House Armed Services Committee. @ElaineLuriaVA from 2021-04-03T04:00

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1333: #CivilWar?: Cato the Younger was irksome like the Cancel Culture. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-04-03T03:45:59

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1333: #CivilWar?: The Red and Blue Elite don't see the migrant tribes are winning. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-04-03T03:45:55

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1332: Making the DoD Quadrennial Defense Review agile and "ripe for destruction." @FRoseDc @WJLA from 2021-04-03T02:39:42

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1332: #PacificWatch: The Border tragedy at Gila Bend, Arizona. @JCBliss from 2021-04-03T02:29:18

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1332: #ScalaReport: Can Online hold its gain when the stores (clothing, shoes, food, florists, specialty) reopen? Chris Riegel @Stratacache Scala.com from 2021-04-03T02:22:46

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1332: https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/ingenuity-unfolded-and-ready-for-placement-on-ground/ from 2021-04-03T02:19:03

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1332: Manned Dream Chaser to Earth-orbit private space station. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-04-03T02:17:57

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#SmallBusinessAmerica: Beware of your unchecked presence in Yelp! @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2021-04-03T02:00

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Yelp publishes crowd-sourced reviews about businesses.

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1332: #SmallBusinessAmerica: Cannot find workers coast to coast just as in February 2020. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2021-04-03T02:00

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1332: 4/4: When Politicians Panicked: The New Coronavirus, Expert Opinion, and a Tragic Lapse of Reason, by John Tamny (Author), George Gilder (Foreword); Hardcover – March 30, 2021 from 2021-04-03T02:00

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1332: 3/4: When Politicians Panicked: The New Coronavirus, Expert Opinion, and a Tragic Lapse of Reason, by John Tamny (Author), George Gilder (Foreword) ; Hardcover – March 30, 2021 from 2021-04-03T02:00

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1332: 2/4: When Politicians Panicked: The New Coronavirus, Expert Opinion, and a Tragic Lapse of Reason Hardcover – March 30, 2021 by John Tamny (Author), George Gilder (Foreword) from 2021-04-03T02:00

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1332: 1/4: When Politicians Panicked: The New Coronavirus, Expert Opinion, and a Tragic Lapse of Reason, by John Tamny (Author), George Gilder (Foreword) ; Hardcover – March 30, 2021 from 2021-04-03T02:00

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1331: The jobs economy blasts off plus 916,000. Jim McTague, author, "Follow the Leader." "Shake the Money Tree." from 2021-04-03T00:49:32

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1330: 2/2: Nigerian Christians under assault in the Benue State breadbasket on Easter weekend. Pastor Bill Devlin, REDEEM from 2021-04-02T20:10:26

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1330: 1/2: Nigerian Christians under assault in the Benue State breadbasket on Easter weekend. Pastor Bill Devlin, REDEEM from 2021-04-02T20:10:20

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View of Lokoja and native town from Mount Pattey, looking S.E. - the Benue in the distance.



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1329: The last of the anti-Trumpers fade to the vanishing point. @ConradMBlack @TheAmGreatness from 2021-04-02T05:03:38

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1329: Transparent Canadian history and the few anti-Canadian voices of self-decrying. @ConradMBlack @NationalPost from 2021-04-02T05:00:43

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1329: Australia shuffles the Defence Ministry to Peter Dutton, prepping for PRC predation. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-04-02T04:53:29

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Fragile Egypt and the Red Sea Wars of Somalia, Ethiopia, Tigray and Eritrea. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs. from 2021-04-02T04:51:06

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1/2: Takings and SCOTUS before and after the New Deal.@RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2021-04-02T04:44:15

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1329: Taiwan in the cross-hairs of history. @SebGorka #AmericaFirst from 2021-04-02T04:26:59

Photo: Conquest of Fort Zeelandia on Formosa by the Chinese and the torture and murder of the Reformed pastors, 1661.

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"We're here, because we were told to come, because the Biden Administration invited us..." @SebGorka #AmericaFirst from 2021-04-02T04:25:40

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"Joe Biden will never, ever deport anyone..." @VDHanson @HooverInst from 2021-04-02T04:21

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China regards Biden's diplomatic magnanimity as weakness. @VDHanson @HooverInst from 2021-04-02T04:16:43

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The China-Iran deal from both sides and Moscow, too. @Benham ben Talablu @FDD. from 2021-04-02T04:12:35

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1329: Tehran continues masterful provoking of the Biden Administration. Benham ben Talablu @FDD from 2021-04-02T04:09:26

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1329: The well-known double standards of California: schooling, working, vaccinating, governing. @HooverWhalen @HooverInst. from 2021-04-02T04:06:10

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1329: What if Newsom asked his senior politicians, Feinstein, Brown and Wilson? @HooverWhalen @HooverInst from 2021-04-02T03:57:54

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1329: Evo Morales back in charge. @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion from 2021-04-02T03:46:08

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1329: Higher spending and higher taxes do not prosper. @VeroDeRugy @Mercatus from 2021-04-02T03:41:49

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1328: As the ISM soars, searching for the unfriendly Inflation monster. @BrettArends @MarketWatch from 2021-04-01T18:19:40

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1327: #PacificWatch: Special Report: San Diego refuge at $6500 per child per day. @JCBliss from 2021-04-01T05:31:15

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The Great Migration waits for Biden's promises in Matamoros, Mexico. @JillianMelchior @WSJOpinion from 2021-04-01T04:28:59

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Human traffickers heave babies into the Rio Grande River. @JillianMelchior @WSJOpinion from 2021-04-01T04:28:54

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1326: Blunt questions about the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the origins of the pandemic. @JoshRogin @WashingtonPost from 2021-04-01T04:21:36

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1326: The PRC turns rude and deaf. @JoshRogin @WashngtonPost from 2021-04-01T04:21:21

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1326: China denounces Canada as a "running dog of the US." Charles Burton, Macdonald-Laurier Institute. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-04-01T04:03:51

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1326: China uses Vaccine Diplomacy to deploy Huawei in South America. Evan Ellis, professor of Latin American Studies at the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute.@GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-04-01T04:01:12

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1326: 2/2: Can China and Russia build and sustain a manned colony underneath the regoliths surface of the Moon? Haym Benaroya, Rutgers University. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com from 2021-04-01T03:59:37

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1/2: Can China and Russia build and sustain a manned colony underneath the regoliths surface of the Moon? Haym Benaroya, Rutgers University. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com from 2021-04-01T03:59:33

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1326: PM Mario Draghi leads locked-down Italy with the AstraZeneca jab for Easter. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation from 2021-04-01T03:53:27

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1326: Myanmar descends into the horror of anarchy. @Michael_Yon @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-04-01T03:48:25

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The PRC is a deliberate nuclear weapon proliferator; & What is to be done? Peter Huessy, director of Strategic Deterrent Studies of the Mitchell Institute of the Air Force Association, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-04-01T03:47:13

Photo: First Stage of Mushroom Cloud 


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The relentless pursuit of happiness in the war-damaged South Caucasus. @ElinSuleymanov Azerbaijan Ambassador to the United States from 2021-04-01T03:40:03

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1326: Central Bankers turn Green in search of climate risk. @JohnCochrane @HooverInst from 2021-04-01T03:35:39

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1/2 The pull factors of the Biden policy in the Great Migration. @TimKane @HooverInst from 2021-04-01T03:33:04

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1326: 1/2 The push factors of crime, climate and poverty of the Great Migration. @TimKane @HooverInst from 2021-04-01T03:31:35

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1326: The China-Iran energy deal means Tehran no longer fears sanctions. Victoria Coates, Center for Security Policy. from 2021-04-01T03:26:47

Photo:  "Leaving Teheran for Mashhad." Architecture from Across Asia on a Bicycle: the journey of two American students from Constantinople to Peking.


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1326: Starship #11 anomaly, onto Starship #15. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-04-01T03:21:23

Photo:   SpaceX chief Elon Musk confirmed on Twitter Tuesday that the latest prototype of the company's Starship rocket series had crashed, after the video feed of its test flight cut out. "At...

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1325: #PacificWatch: Special Report: Overwhelming from San Diego CA to San Ysidro Mexico to Gila Bend AZ to Donna TX. @JCBliss from 2021-03-31T15:42:20

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1324: Great Migration Trail of Tears from Colombia to Mexico: Madeisy, 16, Miguel, 12, and their mother reach Costa Rica. from 2021-03-31T04:24:53

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1324: Honduras said to be dominated by narco-terror-linked elite led by the presidency @JosephHumire @MariaFdaCabal from 2021-03-31T04:21:50

Photo: Tegucigalpa from "Notes on Central America, particularly the States of Honduras and San Salvador ... and the proposed Honduras inter-oceanic railway. With original maps and illustration...

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1324: Virus-damaged Peru's election polls for none-of-the-above. @JosephHumire @MariaFdaCabal from 2021-03-31T04:17:42

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1324: Highly infectious P1 variant out of Manaus and the Amazon wilderness. @JMHumire @MariaFdnaCabal from 2021-03-31T04:11:07

Photo: São Sebastião Place, Manaus
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1324: The Great Migration throughout the New World. @JMHumire @MariaFdaCabal from 2021-03-31T04:06

Photo: Photograph of a Family with Their Covered Wagon During a Great Migration


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1324: Can the markets signal renewable adaptation? Terry Anderson @HooverInst from 2021-03-31T04:03:23

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1324: Can the new Interior Secretary free the reservations to prosper? Terry Anderson @HooverInst from 2021-03-31T03:58:42

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1323: Why isn't gold soaring? @BrettArends @Marketwatch from 2021-03-31T03:50:13

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1323: Margin-call sell-off on Wall Street illustrates no Big Bank change since 2008. @BrettArends @Marketwatch from 2021-03-31T03:48:50

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1323: Walk in the Springtime London Parks after the Lockdown @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-03-31T03:44:33

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1323: The EU fails to protect its own citizens. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-03-31T03:44:31

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1323: Angela Merkel falls to Earth in the Jab Wars. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-03-31T03:44:18

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1323: Vaccine Nationalism, a/k/a Jab Wars, sweeps across Europe; & What is to be done? @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-03-31T03:44:02

Photo: Gare la Vaccine


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1323: The Supermoon floats all recovering economies, or, Not a House for to Buy All through the Land. @LizPeek from 2021-03-31T03:30:36

Photo: A perigree full moon or supermoon is seen over the US Marine Corps War Memorial, Sunday, August 10, 2014, in Arlington, Virginia. A supermoon occurs when the moon’s orbit is closest (pe...

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1323: Joe Biden's novel ideas are tax-raising and filibuster-busting in a pandemic. @LizPeek from 2021-03-31T03:30:34

Photo: Cartoon shows four tax collectors searching the home of an "American citizen," including under his wife's dress and under the children's bed; with the caption: "Scroggs says he is ready...

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1323: Commercial space is about the boosters. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com. from 2021-03-31T03:23:44

Photo: This early chart conceptualizes the use of two parallel Solid Rocket Motor Boosters in conjunction with three main engines to launch the proposed Space Shuttle to orbit. At approximatel...

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Apophis non-dangerous until the 22nd Century. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-03-31T03:18:50

Photo: Apophis is the Great Serpent, enemy of the sun god Ra, in ancient Egyptian religion; associated with earthquakes, thunder, darkness, storms, and death, and also with chaos, disorder, st...

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1322: #PacificWatch: Special Report: Many migrant children at the San Diego Convention Center test positive for the virus. Also hundreds of migrants camped at the San Ysidro border, waiting. @JCBliss from 2021-03-30T05:59:29

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1876.


Bird's eye view of San Diego, California 1876.







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1321: What is the Army Future Command 'Valley of Death?" @FRoseDC from 2021-03-30T04:28:40

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1321: What UAVs for the USN? @FRoseDc @WJLA from 2021-03-30T04:21:47

Photo: Sierra Uninhaited Aerial System (UAV plane) in the Ames hangar. aks; Sierra Unpiloted Aerial system



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1321: Biden's DOJ likely nixes the death penalty for the Boston Bomber. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-03-30T04:20:08

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1321: The pending trials of Hunter Biden . @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-03-30T04:14:25

Photo: The Rake's Rendez-Vous; or the Midnight revels wherein are delineated the various humours of Tom King's Coffee House in Covent Garden


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1321: POTUS Biden decries the filibuster & What is to be done? @DavidMDrucker @DCExaminer @JohnFund @NRO. from 2021-03-30T04:12:31

Photo: The closing days of the Senate present their customary arguments in favor of a revision of the Senate rules


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1321: Best-selling JD Vance weighs the open senate Seat Ohio. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund from 2021-03-30T04:08:43

Photo: Ohio photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Photograph.


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1321: The Royal Navy swims into the post-Cold War world of All Against All. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-03-30T04:07:08

Photo:  The Admiralty : Seen through the archway of Old Scotland Yard


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1321: "Global Britain" awakens with well-known friends. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-03-30T04:04:25

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1320: If Andrew Carnegie had remained in Scotland, he would have died a weaver. @JohnTamny @RealClearMarkets from 2021-03-30T03:18:06

Photo: Residence of Andrew Carnegie, New York, N.Y.
 
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1320: The Folly and Tragedy of Central Planning at the Border. @JohnTamny @@RealClearMarkets from 2021-03-30T03:14:19

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1320: Calculating the "Averted Deaths" thanks to Big Pharma. @PaulR_Gregory @HooverInst from 2021-03-30T03:11:49

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1320: Carbon tax is superior tool to Washington regulation such as the CLEAN Future Act. Bud Weinstein, Goodenough College, London. from 2021-03-30T03:06:20

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1320: PRC makes empty promises about coal and GHG. @CleoPaskal @FDD @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-03-30T03:03:56

Photo: Lignite coal mine:  China has almost no coal, but significant reserves of its most polluting form, lignite.



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1308: Josh Rogin #Unbound from 2021-03-30T03:00

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1320: PLA Navy swarms over Whitsun Reef to intimidate the Philippines. James Holmes, @NavalWarCollege @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-03-30T02:50:43

Photo: Filipino pirogue, early 1800s; from Aventures d'un Gentilhomme Breton aux iles Philippines by Paul de la Gironiere, published in 1855.


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1320: Are Al Qaeda and ISIS expecting Biden to leave Afghanistan and elsewhere? @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD from 2021-03-30T02:48:40

Photo: Afghan women in the 1920s


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1320: How does the Taliban hear the Biden hesitation on leaving Afghanistan & What is to be done? @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD from 2021-03-30T02:44:06

Photo: First railway from Darulaman to Kabul


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1319: Josh Rogin #Unbound: the complete eighty minute interview, March 21, 2021 from 2021-03-29T02:29:05

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Ninth U.S. Infantry in Camp, in the court of the Forbidden City, Peking, China



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1317: #McCotterMotownReport: "AmCom" youth reject the esteemed Progressive Liberal Democrat Michael Tomasky & What is to be done? @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-03-28T05:38:32

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1986.

1968-06 1968? ???????







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1318: 2/2: #CivilWar?: Two thousand years of the optimates (elite) without self-awareness. Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-03-28T05:19:19

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1646.

Gezicht op het Capitool te Rome







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1318: 1/2: #CivilWar?: Two thousand years of the optimates (elite) without self-awareness. Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-03-28T05:19:15

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1729.

Forum Romanum te Rome







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1316: 2/2 #YonReport: Panama City: Gibbous Moon: The Great Migration is money-making for the nations between South America and Texas. @Michael_Yon from 2021-03-28T03:06:51

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[Panorama of Panama City, Republic of Panama, showing railroad station in right center]





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1316: 1/2 #YonReport: Panama City: Gibbous Moon: The Great Migration is money-making for the nations between South America and Texas. @Michael_Yon from 2021-03-28T03:06:48

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Calle Bolivar, a street in Panama City, Panama







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1316: #PacificWatch Special Edition: Migrant families flown from El Paso to San Diego and turned out across the Mexican border. @JCBliss from 2021-03-28T03:03:02

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VANDYKE1885 pg063 A SCENEIN PARADISE VALLEY, SAN DIEGO COUNTY







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#PacificWatch: The Battle of Echo Park @JCBliss from 2021-03-28T03:00:13

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1894.The area now known as Echo Park n 1894. Echo Park Lake is at the top left. Glendale Blvd. is marked as Lake Shore Ave. Temple-Beaudry district ...

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1315: #McTagueDCReport: Millennial journalism in contrast to "Joe Friday" journalism. Jim McTague, author, the Martin and Twyla Boundary series. from 2021-03-28T01:00

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United States Office of War Information (OWI) and United States Office for Emergency Management (OEM) newsrooms. Washington, D.C. Listen

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#McTagueDCReport: The Capital awakens with Cherry Blossoms, tourists and shoppers: More realtors than homes for sale. Jim McTague, author. from 2021-03-28T01:00

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Group at Cherry Blossoms, Washington, D.C.







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1314: #OzWatch: Australia's "No worries, mate" plagues of wildfires, drought, Noachian floods, swarming non-native mice, fleeing snakes and reptiles in battalions and a virus travel restriction. Jeremy Zakis, OzWatch. from 2021-03-28T01:00

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1932:Searle, E. W. (Edward William)..Part of the collection: Official air views of the opening celebrations of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, 19 March, ...

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1314: The Biden-planned Green Renewable Jobs are dangerous, sparse, underpaid, nomadic and dead-ended in a race to the bottom. @VinceBielski @RealClearInvestigations from 2021-03-28T01:00

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1860s.St Martin's Black Mill, Canterbury. Painting by Thomas James Judkin. Mill demolished 1868. Reproduce...

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1314: 4/4: To Provide and Maintain a Navy: Why Naval Primacy Is America's First, Best Strategy Hardcover – December 19, 2020 by Henry J Hendrix (Author) from 2021-03-27T03:53:44

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1986.PictionID:42766345 - Title:Grumman F-14A production line, Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant, Calverton, 1986 mfr 863853 [GHC via RJF] - Ca...

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1314: 3/4: To Provide and Maintain a Navy: Why Naval Primacy Is America's First, Best Strategy Hardcover – December 19, 2020 by Henry J Hendrix (Author) from 2021-03-27T03:53:35

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1985.

Interior space on board the nuclear-powered attack submarine ex-USS NAUTILUS (SSN 571) moored at the Naval Shipyard

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1314: 2/4: To Provide and Maintain a Navy: Why Naval Primacy Is America's First, Best Strategy Hardcover – December 19, 2020 by Henry J Hendrix (Author) from 2021-03-27T03:53:28

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1942.The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Lexington (CV-2) underway during the Battle of the Coral Sea, 8 May 1942. This view appears to have been tak...

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1314: 1/4: To Provide and Maintain a Navy: Why Naval Primacy Is America's First, Best Strategy Hardcover – December 19, 2020 by Henry J Hendrix (Author) from 2021-03-27T03:53:22

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1918.Nederlands: Collectie / Archief : Fotocollectie Eerste Wereldoorlog
Reportage / Serie : Journalists visit the Grand Fleet
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1314: "Word travels fast. Socialist Democrats are in. The Border is open...No more wall." @DevinNunes CA-22 from 2021-03-27T03:52:16

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MEXICO. FOOD SUPPLY STATION







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1314: Why are the Democrats denting Newsom's future? @DevinNunes CA-22 from 2021-03-27T03:49:22

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. Leland Stanford House, 800 N Street, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA






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1314: #ScalaReport As Big Tech and Big Office reopen with hybrid models, what to expect by September.Chris Riegel, CEO, Scala.com from 2021-03-27T02:09:15

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1911.

[New York City: New York skyscrapers from Brooklyn]







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1314: #SmallBusinessAmerica: Four reasons to be cheerful for Small Business. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer from 2021-03-27T02:02:14

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Storefronts in center of town. Woodstock, Vermont







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1314: #SmallBusinessAmerica: The economy awakens from the virus sleep. @GeneMarks @Guardian from 2021-03-27T01:59:49

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1864.

Rip Van Winkle asleep







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1314: Prepping Ingenuity for the maiden voyage of controlled flight on Mars. William Harwood @cbs_spacenews from 2021-03-27T01:42:10

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1314: Border crisis sends unaccompanied children to the San Diego Convention Center. @JCBliss from 2021-03-27T01:35:52

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1314: #PacificWatch: Legoland and the Dodgers are welcoming back the fans in reopening CA. @JCBliss from 2021-03-27T01:33:07

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1911. Photograph shows Bill Dahlen, manager for the Brooklyn Dodgers in the National League, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front.
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1314: Diane Feinstein is not stepping aside for Gavin Newsom's Recall convenience. @HooverWhalen @HooverInst from 2021-03-27T01:26:07

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1916.Fmr. Governor Charles Evans Hughes of New York at a reception for him in San Francisco, California. Former Gov. of New York and Associate Justi...

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1314: How did lucky Gavin Newsom get into this predicament & What is to be done? @HooverWhalen @HooverInst from 2021-03-27T01:21:48

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The river and steamers at Sacramento City.







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1313: Biden Administration ambushed by the PRC talking of "gunpowder" in Alaska. @SebGorka #AmericaFirst from 2021-03-26T04:39:01

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1830.

City Wall with Gunpowder Magazine







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1313: Can capital investment in Honduras stem the Great Migration? @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion from 2021-03-26T04:35:49

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Honduras



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1313: #HotelMars: China and Russia aim to colonize the Lunar South Pole. Anatoly Zak @RussianSpaceWeb David Livingston, Spaceshow.com from 2021-03-26T04:32:41

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1972.

AS16-120-19242 - Apollo 16 - Apollo 16 Mission image - 70mm handheld camera view of the moon featuring the Bullialdus Crater.

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1313: #HotelMars: Roscosmos cannot solve the leaks on Zvezda on the ISS. Anatoly Zak @RussianSpaceWeb David Livingston, Spaceshow.com from 2021-03-26T04:32:36

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.2009.

KAZAKHSTAN -- The Soyuz rocket is rolled out to the launch pad Monday, Sept. 28, 2009 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The S...

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1310: Biden deploys Harris at the Border & What is to be done? @SebGorka #AmericaFirst from 2021-03-26T04:30

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1910.

Insurrectos crossing Juarez St. under fire







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1313: Italy bows to another "Red Zone" lockdown for Easter & What is to be done about the variants? Lorenzo Fiori Ansaldo Foundation from 2021-03-26T04:23:57

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1859.

Rome



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1313: Burma in the grip of Beijing. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-03-26T04:21:29

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1939.

Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma highway. The old Burma road passing through a village. The bridge i...

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1313: Passing ("planting") of the Zulu king & What is to be done? Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-03-26T04:18:43

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1897.

Stannard and Son's perspective view of the seat of war in South Africa







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1313: Reviewing the utility of the CANZUK alliance with or without the US. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-03-26T04:12:33

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1897.New Zealand.

1897 Waikinos Victoria Battery







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1313: Boris Johnson awakens the Royal Navy. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-03-26T04:07:11

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1914.The Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve during the First World War
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1313: HR1 intends for a 'ballot-box stuffing contest." @ConradMBlack @TheAmGreatness from 2021-03-26T04:04:01

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1906.

Odd Fellows Hall. The Victors Temperance Brigade, Election Day, Dec. 8, 1906. Corbin, Ky.






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1313: The survivor Netanyahu survives another Groundhog Day election. @ConradMBlack @NRO from 2021-03-26T04:00:32

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1920.

Indian and British guards, St. Stephen's Gate, Jerusalem







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1313: Tehran defies the UN and baits the Biden administration & What is to be done? Behnam ben Taleblu @FDD from 2021-03-26T03:58:23

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1830.

Isfahan from "[Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia, etc.]"







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1313: Biden continues Trump's immigration, trade and industrial policies to little success. @VerodeRugy @Mercatus from 2021-03-26T03:54:42

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Trade card of I. Crowder, goldsmith at Union Street, Birmingham, the text inscribed on a roundel surmounted by a cup, a putto standing to ...

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1313: AMLO calls Biden "the migrant president." @VDHanson @HooverInst from 2021-03-26T03:49:58

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1912.

Camp for Mexican refugees, Fort Bliss, Tex: U.S. corporal standing amid refugees







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1313: Beware the political speakers of "follow the science." @VDHanson @HooverInst from 2021-03-26T03:48:26

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1935.Photograph of Bakelite resin and varnish inspection laboratory. Image from Bakelite review : silver anniversary number, 1910-1935 published by ...

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1312: London park-walking in the time of Vaccine Nationalism & What is to be done? @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-03-25T17:31:04

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1942.London Parks- Entertainment and Relaxation in the Heart of the City, London, England, 1943
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1311: Salena speaks with a Border Democratic Mayor. SalenaZito.com @DCExaminer. from 2021-03-25T04:51:02

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1874.Gun fight between cattlemen and bandigs, among herd of cattle and sheep.
Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1874 Jan. 31, p. 100.
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1310: Why have the PLA websites suddenly and uniformly gone non-transparent or dark? Rick Fisher @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-03-25T03:46:10

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1949People's Liberation Army troops entered to Nanjing Road, Shanghai on May 25, 1949.
?????????: 1949?5?25????????????????
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1310: India succeeds with "Vaccine Friendship" while China stumbles in Pakistan with Vaccine diplomacy. from 2021-03-25T03:42:23

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1895.

Delhi - ruins of Shershak



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1310: The PLA Navy swarms Whitsun Reef in the South China Sea & What is to be done? James Fanell, a former director of Intelligence and Information Operations at the U.S. Pacific Fleet. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-03-25T03:40:24

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Philippine Islands: The Harbor of Manila by moonlight



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1310: Can the Filibuster (power of the Republican Minority) survive the Democratic Majority? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2021-03-25T03:34:25

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1915.This untitled illustration by cartoonist Clifford Berryman, which appeared in the Washington Evening Star on February 8, 1915, shows the diffic...

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1310: Operation Warp Speed and the Nay-Sayers. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2021-03-25T03:30:15

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1905.

NATIONAL VACCINE & ANTITOXIN INST.







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1310: American business in China and the persecution of the Uyghurs. @NuryTurkel @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-03-25T03:25:29

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1949.On October 20, 1949, Burhan Shahidi welcomes the first People's Liberation Army led by Hu Jian entering Urumqi.
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1310: The persecution of the Uyghurs 2009-2021.@NuryTurkel @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-03-25T03:23:17

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1942.w:Kuomintang party in w:Urumqi, capital of w:Xinjiang province of China in 1942.





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1310: Farewell to a hero of Apollo 11 and Apollo 13. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-03-25T03:18

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1970.S70-35096 (16 April 1970) --- As the problem-plagued Apollo 13 crewmen entered their final 24 hours in space, several persons important to the ...

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1310: Inflation and Its Discontents in the Roaring Recovery of 2021. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-03-25T03:14:53

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1924.Hans Baluschek: Die Auswandernden, 1924, Öl auf Leinwand, 150,5 × 120 cm, Märkisches Museum (Berlin)
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1310: Vaccine Nationalism in the European Union & What os to be done? @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-03-25T03:10:41

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.Nederlands: Prentbriefkaart van de Brusselse beurs met diverse trams









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1310: Mother Britain continues a swift vaccination pace to Boris Johnson's surprising and served credit. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-03-25T03:04:39

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1941.Guy's Hospital- Life in a London Hospital, England, 1941
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1310: Fair weather clouds on Mars. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-03-25T03:01:22

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1940.

Late afternoon clouds over the desert. Apache County near Springerville, Arizona







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1310: SpaceX Starlink can defeat Tehran's Great Wall of Internet Control built by Beijing. @VictoriaCoates Center for Security Policy @Newsweek from 2021-03-25T02:59:33

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1310: Face-off with famous Minister Yang Jiechi in Anchorage & What is to be done? WeifengZhong @Mercatus from 2021-03-25T02:56:51

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1310: Stacking Falcon SuperHeavy taller than Saturn V. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-03-25T02:52:46

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1309: Border politics; Voter ID politics; Filibuster politics. @DavidMDrucker @DCExaminer @JohnFund @NRO from 2021-03-24T20:01:26

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Exhausted after wage-hour fight in senate. Washington, D.C., June 13. Senator Allen Ellender Democrat of Louisana and onetime Lieut...

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1308: 8/8: Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First CenturyHardcover – March 9, 2021 by Josh Rogin (Author) from 2021-03-24T04:22:13

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1308: 7/8: Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First CenturyHardcover – March 9, 2021 by Josh Rogin (Author) from 2021-03-24T04:22:04

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1308: 6/8: Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First CenturyHardcover – March 9, 2021 by Josh Rogin (Author) from 2021-03-24T04:21:57

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Shanghai tram, British section, 1920s, John Rossman's collection








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1308: 5/8: Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First CenturyHardcover – March 9, 2021 by Josh Rogin (Author) from 2021-03-24T04:21:49

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Nanking Road, Shanghai, c. 1930s








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1307: How did Gavin "French Laundry" Newsom get into this Recall fix? @JCBliss from 2021-03-24T03:59

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The restaurant Duval was one of the many eateries at the 1878 Paris World Fair. It was located next to the École militaire, on the Champ-de-...

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1307: "No screaming!" on the roller-coasters as CA reopens. @JCBliss from 2021-03-24T03:56:36

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Backety-Back Scenic Railway Post Card








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Biden fails the human rights catastrophe at the border. @LizPeek @FoxNews @TheHill from 2021-03-24T03:49:16

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1307: The vaccines open the American economy. @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews from 2021-03-24T03:44:36

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1307: #NewWorld: Chile's democracy retreats under a widespread authoritarian assault. Joseph Humire. Senator Maria Fernando Cabal @jmhumire securefreesociety.org @MariaFdaCabal Bogotá, Colombia mariafernandacabal.com from 2021-03-24T03:41:51

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1307: #NewWorld: Will Bolsonaro and Biden work together or at odds? Joseph Humire. Senator Maria Fernando Cabal @jmhumire securefreesociety.org @MariaFdaCabal Bogotá, Colombia mariafernandacabal.com from 2021-03-24T03:41:50

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Pinga em Brasil X México








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1307: #NewWorld: The continuing FARC threat. Who is Alex Saab? Joseph Humire. Senator Maria Fernando Cabal @jmhumire securefreesociety.org @MariaFdaCabal Bogotá, Colombia mariafernandacabal.com from 2021-03-24T03:41:37

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Capitolio nacional Colombia 1893








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1307: #NewWorld: The border crisis is only starting. Joseph Humire. Senator Maria Fernando Cabal @jmhumire securefreesociety.org @MariaFdaCabal Bogotá, Colombia mariafernandacabal.com from 2021-03-24T03:41:14

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[Post office, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico]








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1307: Navalny in the Gulag and Nord Stream 2 in play. @PaulR_Gregory @HoverInst from 2021-03-24T03:32:35

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, speaking at a meeting of the AFL-CIO MST




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1307: The uniform success of Trump's Operation Warp Speed and its doubters @PaulR_Gregory @HooverInst from 2021-03-24T03:26:09

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Art Brown and family. Potomac Drugstore interior








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1307: Congress fiddles with fund-raising and filibusters while California burns Newsom. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund from 2021-03-24T03:23:37

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Nero, römischer Kaiser








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1306: 4/8: Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First CenturyHardcover – March 9, 2021 by Josh Rogin (Author) from 2021-03-23T03:30

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1306: 3/8: Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First CenturyHardcover – March 9, 2021 by Josh Rogin (Author) from 2021-03-23T03:30

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Third Yard of the Forbidden City




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Shanghai, China, 1900. LME. Telefonstation. Interiör




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1306: 1/8: Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First CenturyHardcover – March 9, 2021 by Josh Rogin (Author) from 2021-03-23T03:30

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Shanghai, China, 1900. LME. Telefonstation. Interiör




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1306: The Biden administration hesitates on Afghanistan & What is to be done? @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD from 2021-03-23T02:30

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Stamp of Afghanistan - 1933 - Colnect 667305 - 15th Independence Day








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1306: Taliban celebrates Al Qaeda gunfight at Operation Anaconda, March, 2002 & What is to be done? @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD from 2021-03-23T02:30

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Looking towards birdi from emergency picket. Taken during the action of 21st June 1919.





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1306: The Johnson & Johnson vaccine may yet rescue tragic Ecuador. @MaryAnsasiaOG @WSJOpinion from 2021-03-23T02:28

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Ecuador - 42-5370 - Covered bridge on mule trail









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1306: No justice or peace in Colombia for the female victims of the FARC. @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion from 2021-03-23T02:15

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Dunkirk 26-29 May 1940 NYP68075








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1306: 2/2: The fragile filibuster (1972, 1975) is the last obstacle to the likely unconstitutional HR1. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2021-03-23T02:11:02

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If we have to make speeches until morning!' Austin on Senate filibuster. Washington, D.C., July 1. The Senate met at noon yesterday ...

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1306: 1/2: The fragile filibuster (1972, 1975) is the last obstacle to the likely unconstitutional HR1. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2021-03-23T02:10:58

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A long filibuster, Wash. D.C. A five and half hour filibuster by Sen. Long of Louisiana, caused the seventy-fourth congress, first s...

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1306: "Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Hitlerite death list for 3000 Britains. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres@ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-03-23T01:34:01

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Dunkirk 26-29 May 1940 NYP68075








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1306: Tehran's nuke provocations are to leverage the Biden administration. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres@ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-03-23T01:30:48

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ETH-BIB-Grosse Moschee von Isfahan-Persienflug 1924-1925-LBS MH02-02-0160-AL-FL








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PRC threats to annex Taiwan are deadly earnest. Stephen Yates, former deputy national security advisor to Vice President Cheney and currently CEO of DC International Advisory. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-03-23T01:00

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Aborigines porters in mountain area Taiwan








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Goliath of China's hostage-taking to intimidate David of Canada & What is to be done? Charles Burton @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-03-23T01:00

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David onthoofdt Goliath








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How do the unending investigations (Chao, Sicknick, Cuomo, Russiagate) suit the Progressive Left ambition? @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-03-23T01:00

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Anarchist meet. 5/1/14 Union Sq.








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The Pursuit of Elaine Chao & What is to be done? @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-03-23T01:00

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House Committee on Committees meets to consider abolishment of Navy House Committees. This is probably the first picture to be made ...

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1305: Zimmerman #Unbound, Week of 3/15-3/19. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-03-22T04:44:42

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Dr. Robert H. Goddard's tower and shelter at the Army artillery range at Camp Devens, in Ayer, Massachusetts in the winter of 1929-1930. Go...

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1304: #PacificWatch: Is Silicon Valley NIMBY for sheltering Unaccompanied Children? @JCBliss Jeff Bliss. from 2021-03-22T04:08:48

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Navy (circa in 1931) Hangar 1 under construction, NAS Moffett Field ARC-1931-A93-0073-2






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1303: 2/2: Chaos, pandemic, child abuse, despair at the El Paso border crossing. @Michael_Yon from 2021-03-22T03:01:45

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Page 129 of LE CANAL DE PANAMA (1866)








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1303: 1/2: Migration to the US via the extreme risk of the Darien Gap, Panama. @Michael_Yon from 2021-03-22T03:01:39

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Page 129 of LE CANAL DE PANAMA (1866)




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Victor Hanson #Unbound. @VDHason @HooverInst from 2021-03-22T00:07

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1302: 2/2: #McCotterMotownReport: What happens if the Democrats eliminate the filibuster? @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-03-21T03:22:19

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Albert B. Fall at Senate


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1302: 1/2: #McCotterMotownReport: Meet the AMCOMS & What is to be done? @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-03-21T03:22:09

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17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
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1301: #MissionNigeria: Into Al Qaeda's Boko Haram reach to win the release of Leah Sharibu. Reverend Bill Devlin, REDEEM, NYC. from 2021-03-21T02:15:22

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Inside Kano city.




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1300: Previewing Monday: Stephen Yates, DC International, on the PRC growing threat to Taiwan; Charles Burton, MacDonald-Laurier Institute, on the the PRC hostage-taking of the two Michaels. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-03-21T01:16:05

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Ottawa Arena 1910




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1300: The PRC is neither Food Secure nor Water Secure. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-03-21T01:11:21

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1300: Finger-wagging China in Alaska & What is to be done? @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-03-21T01:09:44

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Hospital




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1300: 3/3: #CivilWar? Rome is the two thousand year-long model for building republics and empires out of disorder. Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-03-21T01:02:58

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1300: 2/3: #CivilWar? Gladiator (2000): The Roman Senate (Curia) celebrated the Empire for guaranteeing permanent privilege. Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis. from 2021-03-21T01:02:20

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Marcus Aurelius, römischer Kaiser








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1300: 1/3: #CivilWar? Gladiator (2000):The barbarian tribe was the conqueror not the conquered & What is to be done? Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-03-21T01:02

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Colonna aureliana, rilievi 02


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1299: Donald Duck and the Freeways are back & What is to be done? @JCBliss from 2021-03-20T02:44:14

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1299: Bernie Sanders won the Election. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion. from 2021-03-20T02:36:53

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Harding receiving Nat'l. Conf. of Social Workers, 5/21/23








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1299: Equivalent of major city populations are crossing the border every month & What is to be done? @DevinNunes CA-22 from 2021-03-20T02:26:20

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1858. Rio Grande

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1299: Red State schools open; Blue State schools not & What is to be done? @DevinNunes CA-22 from 2021-03-20T02:12:16

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Lebanon High School, Lebanon, Mo.








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1299: 2/2: Iran is playing Nuclear Chicken with Washington, and winning. Behnam ben Taleblu @FDD from 2021-03-20T01:28:34

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ETH-BIB-Faltengebirge mit Salzpfannen südlich von Isfahan aus 3000 m Höhe-Persienflug 1924-1925-LBS MH02-02-0173-AL-FL

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1299: 1/2 Iran is playing Nuclear Chicken with Washington, and winning. Behnam ben Taleblu @FDD from 2021-03-20T01:28:04

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ETH-BIB-Gebirgslandschaft-Persienflug 1924-1925-LBS MH02-02-0239-AL-FL








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1299: Bonuses up to $420,000 for USAF pilots to re-up. FRoseDC @GovMattersTV from 2021-03-20T01:00

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1299: Congress and the Air Force hesitate with the F-35. Also trouble with KC-46. @FRoseDC @GovMattersTV from 2021-03-20T01:00

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British and U.S. Air Force ground crew members refuel a Royal Air Force Jaguar aircraft during Operation Desert Shield

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1299: IDF to the rescue in tragic Equatorial Guinea. @LTCJonathan Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres from 2021-03-20T00:00

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Frimärke ur Gösta Bodmans filatelistiska motivsamling, påbörjad 1950.Frimärke från Spanska Guinea, 1956. Motiv av män med signaltrum...

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Yemen still burning. @varshakoduvayur @FDD Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres from 2021-03-20T00:00

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231 A valley in Yemen








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1299: Biden's Green Power pours money into heavy crude PEMEX (thanks to Ex-Im Bank) and high-demand mining metals. @VerodeRugy @Mercatus from 2021-03-20T00:00

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[Copper mine, interior]




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1299: The variants are not contained. @HenryIMiller @PacificResearch HenryMillerMD.org from 2021-03-20T00:00

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2/2: #CivilWar? Pretorian National Guard occupying the Capital Building grounds is not strength. Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-03-20T00:00

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Proclaiming claudius emperor








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1/2: #CivilWar? Relentless migrating Gauls signaled the Roman Republic was brittle. Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-03-20T00:00

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"Assembly of the Gauls in Rheims




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Starship to Orbit soonest, says Musk. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-03-20T00:00

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German rocket car by Max Valier








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More water mysteries on Mars. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-03-20T00:00

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1298: Queen Elizabeth's 69-year unerring labor for the United Kingdom and Commonwealth. @ConradMBlack @NRO from 2021-03-19T19:15:36

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H.M. Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip arrive at the Cocos Islands, April 1954




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1297: Patriotic Biden loses his way on the left turn. @ConradMBlack @AmericanGreatness from 2021-03-19T05:22:05

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President Johnson in his office at the LBJ Ranch, Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park, 2016.





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1297: American Conservatism flourishes in the Age of Woke. @PeterBerkowitz @HooverInst from 2021-03-19T05:02:04

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[King George VI and Queen Elizabeth on steps of U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.D., during their royal visit]





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1297: Cancel Culture sells books! @PeterBerkowitz @HooverInst from 2021-03-19T05:02

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Forty-two keys to victory. One of America's foremost cartoonists comes through with a poster for the Office of War Information's (OW...

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Who is first back to the office and what cities will sparkle? Chris Riegel, Scala.com, @ScalaInc @STRATACACHE from 2021-03-19T04:57:43

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Electric street car, c 1900, Ottawa




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1297: #HotelMars: Reviewing the heavy lift of SpaceX, NSA and Blue Origen. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com. James Bennett, space consultant. from 2021-03-19T04:29:47

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1297: The F-35 in doubt. @JedBabbin @WashingtonTimes from 2021-03-19T04:27:08

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Eastern Air Lines




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1297: Iran on offense. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres from 2021-03-19T04:24:47

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Ahmed Feizi Pasha, Governor-General of the Yemen




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1297: "We are back in an age of grand power competition." @SebGorka #AmericaFirst from 2021-03-19T04:22:23

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USS Maryland broadside 1920s








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1297: FEMA at the Border & What is to be done? @SebGorka #AmericaFirst from 2021-03-19T04:19:48

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1297: The Mummy in the Cave of Horrors. Joe Uriel, Israel Antiquities Authority. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres from 2021-03-19T04:16:59

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1297: Ten thousand years old in the Judean Desert. Joe Uriel, Israeli Antiquities Authoruty. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres from 2021-03-19T04:13:49

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1297: Liberty Valance stars in Russiagate. @VDHanson @HooverInst from 2021-03-19T04:07:59

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1297: The border surges past Biden. @VDHanson @HooverInst from 2021-03-19T04:05:45

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1296: The reawakening of "Little Pittsburgh." SalenaZito.com from 2021-03-18T05:09:52

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The Woodard Coal Mine near Plymouth, Pa. which broke the world's record by mining 1,000,000 tons of coal for the year 1905

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1296: Chasing the Best of Fish Fries for Easter in the pandemic. SalenaZitio.com from 2021-03-18T05:07:40

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Easter Parade 1911




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1296: DeBalsio's Springtime Schadenfreude. @WJMcGurn @WSJOpinion from 2021-03-18T04:45:42

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Falls of Minne-ha-ha, in the merry springtime.




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1296: Who gains by decrying India's democracy and government? @CleoPaska @FDD @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-03-18T04:43:36

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The Jama Masjid, Delhi by Samuel Bourne (10)




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1296: The dismantling of Alibaba and Tencent. Charles Ortel of the On the Money with Charles Ortel podcast. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-03-18T04:42:37

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Outside moat of the Old City of Shanghai




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1296: South Korea and Japan before China. Scott Harold, senior political scientist of The Rand Corporation from 2021-03-18T04:37:56

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1296: Biden maintains the Trump tariffs & What is to be done? @AlanTonelson, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill from 2021-03-18T04:36:27

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1296: The amazing resilience of the Universe in a Mirror: Hubble.Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-03-18T04:33:15

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1296: Zvezda leaks unsolved again. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-03-18T04:32:24

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1296: Perseverance moves; Curiosity climbs. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-03-18T04:02:42

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1296: SpaceX Starlink masterwork rising. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-03-18T03:58:58

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1296: Who is Confidential Human Source Stefan Halper, and why did Halper deceive the FBI about Flynn and Lokhova? Svetlana Lokhova from 2021-03-18T03:55:13

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1296: The famous February 2014 Cambridge dinner with Flynn, Dearlove, Andrews and Lokhova. Svetlana Lokhova, author, Spygate Exposed. from 2021-03-18T03:52:23

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1296: Immigration quickly creates productivity, specialization, profit. @JohnTamny @RealClearMarkets from 2021-03-18T03:50:21

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Arrival at Castle Garden




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1296: Hard economic lessons from the pandemic and lockdown. @JohnTamny @RealClearMarkets from 2021-03-18T03:46:27

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1295: Lula on the comeback trail, Bolsonaro on defense. Joseph Humire. Senator Maria Fernanda Cabal from 2021-03-17T06:06:27

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1295: Gavin Newsom launches the counterattack. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund from 2021-03-17T06:03:30

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1295: AMLO takes charge of PEMEX and Mexico. Joseph Humire. Senator Maria Fernanda Cabal. from 2021-03-17T06:01:13

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1295: Biden talks slow caution while America talks swift opening. from 2021-03-17T05:59:22

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The American economy surges past Democratic rescue. @LizPeek. from 2021-03-17T05:59:11

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1295: What are the limits of Governor Cuomo? @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund from 2021-03-17T05:51:56

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1295: Evo Morales and cronies crash back into Bolivia. Joseph Humire. Senator Maria Fernanda Cabal from 2021-03-17T05:50:28

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1295: The United Kingdom takes the nuke lead for the CANZUK Alliance. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-03-17T05:45:35

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The troubles in fragmented and disdained Ethiopia. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-03-17T05:33:36

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1295: Inflation dawns. @JosephSternberg WSJOpinion from 2021-03-17T05:18:01

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1295: Beijing cannot solve pensions as China gets old without getting rich.@JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-03-17T05:03:16

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1295: Unsolved Libya & What is to be done? Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-03-17T04:43:44

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1295: The Sarah Everard tragedy and the limits of London police power. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-03-17T04:40:25

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1295: Springtime in London Parks at the end of lockdown. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-03-17T04:35:25

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1295: The Submarine Gap in Australian waters vs the PLA Navy.Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-03-17T04:33:06

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1295: The children walking from Columbia to the Border. Joseph Humire, Senator Maria Fernanda Cabal from 2021-03-17T04:31:20

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Translating Soviet Media in the American Media. @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-03-16T05:10

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Translating Maoism in the Woke 21st Century. @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-03-16T05:08

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1968-02 1967? ????????








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California struggles to recover from Newsom and the pandemic. @DevinNunes CA-22 from 2021-03-16T04:40

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"Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Fertility Amulet of the Negev. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres@ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-03-16T04:15

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Why is Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov touring the Gulf? Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres@ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-03-16T04:10

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Andrew Cuomo will not leave voluntarily & What is to be done? @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-03-16T03:30

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Italy's Mario Draghi orders Red Zone lockdown for Easter. Lorenzo Fiori Ansaldo Foundation from 2021-03-16T03:15

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Centennial Easter celebrations. Holy Year. Vatican representative from Rome arriving at Ramleh. The papal plane landing on April 2nd,...

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1294: Have we reached the limits of Federal intervention in private property during the pandemic? @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-03-16T03:13:23

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1294: The 237th spacewalk & Waiting for the SLS. William Harwood @cbs_spacenews from 2021-03-16T03:02:41

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1294: China grabs for power in failed Myanmar and troubled Southeast Asia.Michael Yon, a war correspondent, on latest in Thailand.@GordonGChang from 2021-03-16T02:55:56

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China and Russia aim to win Moon Race 2. Brandon Weichert, @TheBrandon @GordonGChang from 2021-03-16T02:52:57

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1294: The Taliban rejects democracy completely and forever. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD from 2021-03-16T02:49:46

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1950s Afghanistan - Furniture display room








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1294: Al Qaeda's Zawahiri pleads for the doomed Rohingya of Myanmar & What is to be done? @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD from 2021-03-16T02:32:04

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Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma highway. A village street along the Burma road with a ditch runnin...

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1292: 2/2: The Birth of CANZUK without the US. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-03-15T03:05:05

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1292: 1/2: The Birth of CANZUK without the US. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-03-15T03:04:22

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1291: 3/3: #CivilWar? Why didn't Eisenhower become Emperor of the American Empire? Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-03-14T05:19:07

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1291: 2/3: #CivilWar? Gaius and Germanicus ponder the role of the Emperor to end the Roman civil war? Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-03-14T05:19:01

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Marble portrait of the emperor Augustus



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1291: 1/3: #CivilWar? Gaius and Germanicus ask why did the Roman Republic fail? Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-03-14T05:18:54

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Marble portrait of the emperor Augustus


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1289: #PacificWatch: Disneyland and California reopening for springtime business. @JCBliss from 2021-03-13T00:42:42

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Main Street, U.S.A., Aneka Amerika 102 (1957), p33



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1289: #PacificWatch: Gavin Newsom readies to fight an imminent recall vote. @JCBliss from 2021-03-13T00:11:41

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Redwood Highway CA - Elk at Prairie Creek Park 

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1269: Where we're headed, Mars. Host from 2021-03-05T07:48:43

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1269: 2/2: Lincoln Unbound: How an Ambitious Young Railsplitter Saved the American Dream---And How We Can Do It AgainKindle Edition.by Rich Lowry (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-03-05T07:28:20

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1269: 1/2: Lincoln Unbound: How an Ambitious Young Railsplitter Saved the American Dream---And How We Can Do It AgainKindle Edition.by Rich Lowry (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-03-05T07:28:18

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[Boy's Clubs in front of Lincoln National Monument, Illinois making the scout's honor sign and presenting a wreath.]

 
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1269: The Milwaukee Brewers add Jackie Bradley Jr to the swift Lorenzo Cain and the long-ball hitter Christian Yelich. Host. from 2021-03-05T07:26:25

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1268: 2/2: David's Sling: A History of Democracy in Ten Works of Art 1st Edition, Kindle Edition.by Victoria C. Gardner Coates (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-03-05T06:59:54

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Bronze bull

 
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1268: 1/2: David's Sling: A History of Democracy in Ten Works of Art 1st Edition, Kindle Edition.by Victoria C. Gardner Coates (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-03-05T06:58:12

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Standbeeld van Apollo

 
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1264: Self-parody Cancel Culture vs the Treasured Dr. Seuss. @SebGorka from 2021-03-05T05:00

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1267: 8/12: 1932: The Rise of Hitler and FDR--Two Tales of Politics, Betrayal, and Unlikely Destiny Kindle Edition.by David Pietrusza (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-03-05T04:46:28

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1267: 7/12: 1932: The Rise of Hitler and FDR--Two Tales of Politics, Betrayal, and Unlikely Destiny Kindle Edition.by David Pietrusza (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-03-05T04:46:20

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1267: 6/12: 1932: The Rise of Hitler and FDR--Two Tales of Politics, Betrayal, and Unlikely Destiny Kindle Edition.by David Pietrusza (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-03-05T04:46:12

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1267: 5/12: 1932: The Rise of Hitler and FDR--Two Tales of Politics, Betrayal, and Unlikely Destiny Kindle Edition.by David Pietrusza (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-03-05T04:45:49

Photo: 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 ...

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1266: Biden was fifth in New Hampshire because there was no sixth. @ConradMBlack from 2021-03-05T04:36:43

Image: Pruning in New Hampshire

 

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1265: Suspect Iran for the environmental war crime on Israel's beaches. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres from 2021-03-05T04:36:33

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1266: What’s wrong about $1.9 trillion? @veroderugy, @Mercatus from 2021-03-05T04:36:01

Image: Debt crisis.  "A man is sitting in a chair leaning his elbow on the table. In the top center an image of a star and a number of ships on the water."

 

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1266: Stanford academics attack their own scholars. @VDHanson; @HooverInst from 2021-03-05T04:35:27

Image:  Cannibal Tom (80 years old), the last relic of Fiji cannibalism -- Fiji Islands

 

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1266: Insurrection: impossible without firearms, of which none was found. @VDHanson; @HooverInst from 2021-03-05T04:34:51

Image:  A real insurrectionist: Emiliano Zapata. Here:  Emiliano Zapata, posing in Cuernavaca in 1911, with a rifle and sword, and a ceremonial sash across his chest. (Archivo General de la Nación,...

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1265: The Biden breach with MBS pushes the Kingdom toward the PRC. @Jschanzer @FDD Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres from 2021-03-05T04:31:10

Photo: Scene in a desert oasis of Al-Gowf, Arabia

 
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1265: Closely-watched Iraq for more Iran provocations. Nader Uskowi, Atlantic Council. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres from 2021-03-05T04:26:42

Photo: An AH-N Cobra from Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron (HMLA)-67 prepares to launch off the flight line on Asad Air Base, Iraq on March 5, 2007. HMLA-67 is deployed as a part of MNF-W in...

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1265: The ICC smear of Israel is meritless and groundless.Tama Kaplan Tourgeman, Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs.Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres from 2021-03-05T04:23:43

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1264: #TheScalaReport: What kind or size of shopping malls will recover from the pandemic? What kind or size will deteriorate? Chris Riegel: @ScalaInc @STRATACACHE from 2021-03-05T04:10:53

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Interior of a shopping mall in Virginia

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1264: The Janet Yellen pandemic relief bill is payback to the Blue States for electing Joe Biden. @MonicaCrowley from 2021-03-05T03:52:36

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1264: Joe Biden seeks accommodation (appeasement?) with China, Iran, Taliban. @SebGorka #AmericaFirst from 2021-03-05T03:43:57

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1263: Watching sunspots may be watching the Earth's climate. Host. from 2021-03-04T05:07:33

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1263: New York Yankee Manager, Aaron Boone, 48, expected back in action after a pacemaker surgery. Host from 2021-03-04T05:02:47

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1262: Xi fancies his name will thunder down history if he invades Taiwan. Steve Yates: ???, @YatesDCIA, @dciadvisory from 2021-03-04T04:48

Image:  Students of the Taihoku First Girls' High School near the Nishiyama Shrine in Taiwan

 

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1262: Beijing’s genocide of Uyghurs: the world is looking to the US to lead the movement to boycott 2022 Olympics. @nuryturkel, @USCIRF from 2021-03-04T04:47:10

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1262: China aims for all-domestic chip manufacturing just as the US reins in its own factories. @WeifengZhong, @mercatus, @HKUniversity from 2021-03-04T04:44:40

Image: A 1974 microcircuit board

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1262: Democratic Congressmen show alarm at President Biden’s capacity to determine war. @JedBabbin @WashingtonTimes, from 2021-03-04T04:43:54

Image:  Dr. Strangelove poster. Fair use.

 

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1261: Can Japan and the US contain the aggressive PLA Navy inside the First Island Chain? James Holmes, first holder of the Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy at the Naval War College and blogger at The Naval Diplomat (https://navaldiplomat.com/), @GordonGChang @ from 2021-03-04T04:33:33

Photo: Kamchatka peninsula, northernmost region of the First Island Chain.

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1261: Climbing to the Solar Maximum 2025. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-03-04T04:27:40

Photo:  A drawing of a sunspot in the Chronicles of John of Worcester (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of_Worcester) .

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1261: The many leaks of the aging ISS & What is to be done?. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-03-04T04:26:17

Photo: International Space Station (ISS).
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1261: The confusing CDC recommendations about quarantine after exposure to COVID-19. @HenryIMiller @PacificResearch HenryMillerMD.org from 2021-03-04T04:23:03

Photo: New hospital building, Ellis Island; quarantine buildings on Swinburn Island and Hoffman Island

 
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1261: State of the City, the State, the Union: Waiting on the multiple investigations of Governor Andrew Cuomo. Catsimatidis @JCats2013 @CatsRoundtable @JohnCats from 2021-03-04T04:19:41

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Hawk Street Viaduct, Albany, Albany County, NY

 
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1261: Move the 2022 Winter Olympics away from the PRC bad actors. Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean at the Simon Wiesenthal Center. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast from 2021-03-04T04:14:09

Photo: Olympic Games 1928 Amsterdam

 
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1261: Famous Titusville, PA, and the future of energy demand in America. SalenaZito.com @DCExaminer from 2021-03-04T04:08:51

Photo:  The Drake Well is a 69.5-foot-deep  oil well (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_well) in Cherrytree Township (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherrytree_Township,_Venango_County,_Pennsylvania...

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1261: Into the critical metallurgical coal face with the veterans of of the Acosta Mine, Somerset County, PA. @SalenaZito @DCExaminer from 2021-03-04T04:05:43

Photo: Sons of Temperance Pennsylvania

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1262: 4/4: Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?Paperback – September 22, 2015. by Karen Dawisha (b.1949-d.2018) (Author) from 2021-03-04T04:00

Photo: The coronation of Mikhail Romanovich Romanov in 1613. Coronation album.

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1262: 3/4: Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?Paperback – September 22, 2015. by Karen Dawisha (b.1949-d.2018) (Author) from 2021-03-04T04:00

Photo: Schamyl, the political, military, and spiritual leader of Caucasian resistance to Imperial Russia in the 1800s.

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1262: 2/4: Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?Paperback – September 22, 2015. by Karen Dawisha (b.1949-d.2018) (Author) from 2021-03-04T04:00

Photo: Russian peasants ("christianin")
 
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1262: 1/4: Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?Paperback – September 22, 2015. by Karen Dawisha (b.1949-d.2018) (Author) from 2021-03-04T04:00

Photo:  Dmitriy Pavlovich of Russia in car

 
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1261: 2/2: Free Immigration, Free Trade and the problem at the Southern Border. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2021-03-04T03:59:17

Photo:  Free trade wharf, by James McNeill Whistler (American, Lowell, Massachusetts 1834–1903 London)

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1261: 1/2: Free Immigration, Free Trade and the problem at the Southern Border. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2021-03-04T03:58

Photo: Public health workers checking Immigrants arriving to the US

 
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1261: The Biden Administration chooses to go or stay in Afghanistan on May 1. @AmbJohnBolton @DCExaminer from 2021-03-04T03:53:20

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1261: Beware of the word "Great" in the works of presidential administrations, 1914-2021. @AmityShlaes Calvin Coolidge Foundation from 2021-03-04T03:51:26

Photo: The patriots getting their beans.* [See below]
 
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1260: Iran doesn't mean, "No." Behnam Ben Taleblu, @FDD. from 2021-03-03T06:43:54

Image:  At the dance.

Here:  Wellington, wearing a top-hat, walks dejectedly (right to left) with bent back. Brougham, dressed as a German broom-girl as in BM Satires No. 14769, &c., takes...

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1260: Navalny condemned. @PaulR_Gregory @HooverInst from 2021-03-03T06:43:13

Image: On the Sea of Okhotsk, Russian Far East

Navalny condemned. @PaulR_Gregory @HooverInst

 

 

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1259: Stefan Halper lied to the FBI August 11 and 12, 2016 & What is to be done?. Svetlana Lokhova: @RealSLokhova; from 2021-03-03T06:42:21

Image:  FBI director J. Edgar Hoover,

Stefan Halper lied to the FBI August 11 and 12, 2016 & What is to be done?. Svetlana Lokhova: @RealSLokhova;

 

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1258: To pay for the virus, taxing Capital Gains, realized or not. Host from 2021-03-03T06:38:37

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1959. 

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1258: Will open Texas open fully the MLB stadiums in Houston and Arlington? Host. from 2021-03-03T06:36:37

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Night baseball, Marshall, Texas

 
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1257: 4/12: 1932: The Rise of Hitler and FDR--Two Tales of Politics, Betrayal, and Unlikely Destiny Kindle Edition.by David Pietrusza (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-03-03T06:24:38

Photo: Adolf Hitler's speech in the Reichstag, 30 January 1939

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1257: 3/12: 1932: The Rise of Hitler and FDR--Two Tales of Politics, Betrayal, and Unlikely Destiny Kindle Edition.by David Pietrusza (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-03-03T06:24:29

Photo: FDR's first inauguration
 
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1257: 2/12: 1932: The Rise of Hitler and FDR--Two Tales of Politics, Betrayal, and Unlikely Destiny Kindle Edition.by David Pietrusza (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-03-03T06:24:18

Photo: Berryman Political Cartoon Collection
 
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1257: 1/12: 1932: The Rise of Hitler and FDR--Two Tales of Politics, Betrayal, and Unlikely Destiny Kindle Edition.by David Pietrusza (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-03-03T06:24:12

Photo: Franklin Delano Roosevelt

 
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1256: Reaching out directly to Iranian people would yield much better results than coaxing the mullahs. @VictoriaCoates from 2021-03-03T05:48:41

Image:  Nestorian (Assyrian) Christian family making butter, Mawana, Persia

 

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1255: What is the risk in the Red Sea? Gregory R Copley, Defense and Foreign Affairs from 2021-03-03T04:41:44

Image:  Abyssinian warriors going to the northern front during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War

 

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1255: Why does the US condemn Ethiopia? Gregory R Copley, Defense and Foreign Affairs from 2021-03-03T04:41:06

Image:  Passage of the Red Sea

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1254: London finances brighten as the vaccinated get ready to return to normal. @JosephSternberg, @WSJOpinion from 2021-03-03T04:30:43

Image: Bank in London

 

Joseph Sternberg: @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion; Political Economics column; WSJ editorial board;  in re: The successful UK vaccination program leading to:...

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1254: Taxing the rich. @JosephSternberg, @WSJOpinion from 2021-03-03T04:30:05

Image: The Rich Man at His Table, from The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus

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1253: Cancelling "Horton Hears a Who" is much too much. @LizPeek from 2021-03-03T04:24:14

Photo:    Dr Seuss (Geisel)  at work on a drawing of the Grinch (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grinch) for How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_the_Grinch_Stole_Christ...

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1253: Biden's $1.9 Trillion slush fund in a Springtime bursting recovery. @LizPeek @FoxNews from 2021-03-03T04:19:27

Photo: Chas. B. Hilles of New York before Borah Slush Fund Com., 10/23/24

 
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1253: Cuban regime threatened by a popular ballad, "Patria y Vida!" @MariaFdaCabal & @jmhumire from 2021-03-03T04:16:03

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1253: Joe Biden remote-faces the challenges of Mexico and Leftist AMLO. @MariaFdaCabal & @jmhumire from 2021-03-03T04:11:27

Photo: Mexican street scene, two centuries ago.
 
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1252: 4/4: A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age Reprint Edition, Kindle Edition.by Matt Richtel (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-03-03T03:48:32

Photo:  Hemispatial neglect is a neuropsychological (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuropsychological) condition in which, after damage to one hemisphere of the brain is sustained, a deficit in att...

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1252: 3/4: A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age Reprint Edition, Kindle Edition.by Matt Richtel (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-03-03T03:48:28

Photo: Inattention.
 
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1252: 2/4: A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age Reprint Edition, Kindle Edition.by Matt Richtel (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-03-03T03:47:58

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1252: 1/4: A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age Reprint Edition, Kindle Edition.by Matt Richtel (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-03-03T03:47:52

Photo: Attention!

 
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1248: #CrisisInAlbany: Allegations of widely known executive office bullying & What is to be done? @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNews. from 2021-03-02T06:04

Photo: Albany Courthouse

 
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1251: The 4-part color code of Italy in the virus and Sardinia. Host. from 2021-03-02T06:03:06

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Karl Emanuel I., König von Sardinien

Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library
 
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1251: Armenia becomes unstable while Azerbaijan recovers and prospers. @ElinSuleymanov, @azembassyus, @ProfBShaffer @FDD from 2021-03-02T06:01:51

Image:  Trans-Anatolian gas pipeline (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Anatolian_gas_pipeline) inauguration at the Turkish city of Eski?ehir (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eski%C5%9Fehir) , 12 J...

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1250: "Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Phylacteries of the Warsaw Ghetto. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-03-02T05:43:13

Image:  Phylacterys for head & arm. The one with letter shin for the head. Deut. X: 13-21, Exodus XIII: 1-16 inclusive ; Quotation contained in phylactery for the arm. Deut. VII: 4-9

 
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1249: Iran refuses to talk. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres@ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-03-02T05:39:58

Image: Iskander missiles travelling in Russia. ????????-? ? ????????   Screen grab.

 

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1244: #MLB: Baltimore Oriole Trey Mancini recovers from colon cancer by singling to center. Host. from 2021-03-02T05:30

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1938.

Waterfront. Baltimore, Maryland

 
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1247: 12/12: Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947 Kindle Edition.by Bruce Hoffman (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-03-02T04:25:40

Photo: Nazareth; a 2,000-year-old wall, regularly restored.

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1247: 11/12: Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947 Kindle Edition.by Bruce Hoffman (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-03-02T04:25:20

Photo:  Jewish anti-Palestine White Paper demonstrations. [Women's demonstration on May 22, 1939]. Delegation of women who carried the "Protest" to the chief secretary.

 
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1247: 10/12: Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947 Kindle Edition.by Bruce Hoffman (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-03-02T04:25:10

Photo: Wings over Palestine - Certificates of Flying School, April 21, 1939. Dr. Herzog, Chief Rabbi of Palestine (Askenazim) addressing gathering thro[ough] loudspeakers [Lydda Air Port]

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1247: 9/12: Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947 Kindle Edition.by Bruce Hoffman (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-03-02T04:25:07

Photo:  Jewish procession to Absalom's Pillar

 
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1246: China cyberattacks India; & What is to be done? @CleoPaskal @FDD @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast from 2021-03-02T04:14:01

Image:  India

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1244: Andrew Cuomo makes hasty, futile, serial, surprising mistakes. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund from 2021-03-02T03:49:07

Photo: Their Presence of Mind (or In this case, error).  Life Cartoons

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1246: The Hong Kong hero Jimmy Lai condemned to jail forever by the PRC. @Michael_Yon, war correspondent; and Gordon Chang, @GordonGChang from 2021-03-02T03:47:35

Image: The KOWLOON ESTATE, HURLEY (1897)

 

Michael Yon: @Michael_Yon, war correspondent; and Gordon Chang, @GordonGChang, Daily Beast, in re: For decades, Jimmy Lai has resisted B...

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1244: Progressive Merrick Garland and the class struggles of the counter-revolutionaries, wreckers and kulaks.@DavidMDrucker @JohnFund from 2021-03-02T03:44:50

Photo: Poster “Tsar, Pope and kulak”
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1245: There is no Afghanistan peace talk, and Al Qaeda is stronger than ever. @thomasjoscelyn, @FDD; @billroggio; @LongWarJournal; podcast: Generation Jihad from 2021-03-02T03:44:14

Image: 1950s Afghanistan - Kabul University students changing classes

 

Tom Joscelyn, @thomasjoscelyn, Long War Journal and @FDD; and Bill Roggio, @billroggio, Long War Journal an...

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1244: Trump commands the GOP. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund from 2021-03-02T03:40:18

Photo: This untitled illustration by cartoonist Clifford Berryman, which appeared in the Washington Evening Star on March 29, 1915, shows former President Theodore Roosevelt, rumored to be interest...

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1244: Mario Draghi's Italy grows cautious at Covid-19 mutations. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation. from 2021-03-02T03:32:41

Photo: The Optimist at Genoa

 
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1244: Biden bombs Iran in Syria; & What is to be done? @thomasjoscelyn, @FDD; @billroggio; @LongWarJournal; podcast: Generation Jihad from 2021-03-02T03:31:13

Image:  Persepolis from Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia, etc.

 

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1243: 4/4 The Blood of Heroes: The 13-Day Struggle for the Alamo—and the Sacrifice That Forged a Nation, by James Donovan from 2021-03-02T01:00

Image:  William B. Travis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_B._Travis) became sole Texian commander at the Alamo on February 24.

 

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1243: 3/4 The Blood of Heroes: The 13-Day Struggle for the Alamo—and the Sacrifice That Forged a Nation, by James Donovan from 2021-03-02T01:00

Image: Santa Anna's retreat from Cerro Gordo

 

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1243: 2/4 The Blood of Heroes: The 13-Day Struggle for the Alamo—and the Sacrifice That Forged a Nation, by James Donovan from 2021-03-02T01:00

Image: The Fall of the Alamo, painted by Theodore Gentilz in 1844, depicts the Alamo complex from the south. The Low Barracks, the chapel, and the wooden palisade connecting them are in the foregro...

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1243: 1/4 The Blood of Heroes: The 13-Day Struggle for the Alamo—and the Sacrifice That Forged a Nation, by James Donovan from 2021-03-02T01:00

Image:  This is a drawing of the Alamo Mission in San Antonio. It was first printed in 1854 in Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion and was reprinted in Frank Thompson's 2005 "The Alamo", p 1...

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1241: 2/2: #ClassicScience: Time Machine, First Century BCE. Alexander Jones @NYU. from 2021-03-01T02:01

Photo: Computer-generated front panel of the Freeth model
 
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1241: 1/2: #ClassicScience: Time Machine, First Century BCE. Alexander Jones @NYU. from 2021-03-01T02:01

Photo: Schematic of the artefact's known mechanism

Antikythera mechanism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Antikythera_mechanism) fragment (fragment A). The mechanism consists of a complex...

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1240: 2/2: #ClassicScience: Globalization 2000 BCE. Andrew Lawler @ScienceMagazine from 2021-03-01T02:00

Photo: Harappan (Indus Valley) Civilization Gallery, India National Museum, New Delhi. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com.
 
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1240: 1/2: #ClassicScience: Globalization 2000 BCE. Andrew Lawler @ScienceMagazine from 2021-03-01T02:00

Photo: An antique map of Irkutsk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irkutsk) and Lake Baikal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Baikal) in its neighbourhood

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1239: #ClassicKenCroswell: The mysteries of Halo Stars. Ken Croswell, Scientific American. from 2021-03-01T01:50

Photo: Hot stars burn brightly in this image from NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer, showing the UV side of a familiar face. At 2.5 million light-years away, the Andromeda galaxy is our Milky Way’s ...

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1238: 4/4: The War Below: The Story of Three Submarines That Battled Japan Kindle Edition. by James Scott (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-03-01T01:45

Photo: Submarines are exceptionally cramped.  Real World War II galley attire: T-shirt and apron over dungarees. This June 1945 snapshot is of George Sacco, a cook and baker in USS Cod (SS 224). (C...

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1238: 3/4: The War Below: The Story of Three Submarines That Battled Japan Kindle Edition. by James Scott (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-03-01T01:45

Photo: Drum, c. 1943

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1238: 2/4: The War Below: The Story of Three Submarines That Battled Japan Kindle Edition. by James Scott (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-03-01T01:45

Photo:  Periscope photo of Japanese ship attacked and damaged by USS Silversides, 14 Oct. 1942
 
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1238: 1/4: The War Below: The Story of Three Submarines That Battled Japan Kindle Edition. by James Scott (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-03-01T01:45

Photo: Broadside view of USS Silversides (SS-236) on or about 31 March 1942 as she was on sea trials.

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1238: 2/2: #ClassicScience: Seeking Atlantis. Charles Pellegrino @CharlesPellegri from 2021-03-01T01:32

Photo: Map of Atlantis according to William Scott-Elliott (The Story of Atlantis, Russian edition, 1910)
 
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1238: 1/2: #ClassicScience: Seeking Atlantis. Charles Pellegrino @CharlesPellegri from 2021-03-01T01:32

Photo:    Athanasius Kircher (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athanasius_Kircher) 's map 's map of Atlantis, placing it in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, from Mundus Subterraneus 1669, published i...

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1236: Berlin at War Kindle Edition. by Roger Moorhouse (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-03-01T01:31

Photo:  British and French Battle Fleet at the entrance to the Dardanelles. Gallipoli.
 
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1236: 2/2: #ClassicTerryAnderson: The death of Cecil the Lion & What is to be done? Terry Anderson @HooverInst from 2021-03-01T01:30

Photo:  Wingèd lion.
 
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1236: 1/2: #ClassicTerryAnderson: The death of Cecil the Lion & What is to be done? Terry Anderson @HooverInst from 2021-03-01T01:30

Photo: Cecil the lion at Hwange National Park 

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1242: 2/2 My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth That Led to an American Tragedy, by Nora Titone. Foreword by Doris Kearns Goodwin. from 2021-03-01T01:00

Image:   Edwin Booth with his daughter Edwina, circa 1864

 

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1242: 1/2 My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth That Led to an American Tragedy, by Nora Titone. Foreword by Doris Kearns Goodwin from 2021-03-01T01:00

Image:   John Wilkes Booth, Edwin Booth and Junius Brutus Booth, Jr. in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar in 1864

 

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1237: 4/4 Neutrino Hunters: The Thrilling Chase for a Ghostly Particle to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe, by Ray Jayawardhana from 2021-02-28T23:37:56

Image:   Summary of interactions between certain particles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary_particle) described by the Standard Model (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Model) .
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1237: 3/4 Neutrino Hunters: The Thrilling Chase for a Ghostly Particle to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe, by Ray Jayawardhana from 2021-02-28T23:37:10

Image:   Setup view of Antares neutrino detector.  

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1237: 2/4 Neutrino Hunters: The Thrilling Chase for a Ghostly Particle to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe, by Ray Jayawardhana from 2021-02-28T23:36:23

Image:   The inside of the MiniBooNE (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiniBooNE) neutrino detector

 

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1237: 1/4 Neutrino Hunters: The Thrilling Chase for a Ghostly Particle to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe, by Ray Jayawardhana from 2021-02-28T23:35:39

Image:   The first use of a hydrogen bubble chamber to detect neutrinos, on November 13, 1970. A neutrino hit a proton in a hydrogen atom. The collision occurred at the point where three tracks ema...

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1236: 2/2: Lessons of Halford Mackinder in the 21st Century. Ian Morris from 2021-02-28T05:30:23

Image:  A 1904 map from Mackinder's The Geographical Pivot of History.

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1236: 1/2: Lessons of Halford Mackinder in the 21st Century. Ian Morris from 2021-02-28T05:30:15

Photo: The Right Honourable Sir Halford Mackinder* [see below]

 
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1239: 2/2 Popular Economics: What the Rolling Stones, Downton Abbey, and LeBron James Can Teach You about Economics, by John Tamny from 2021-02-28T04:12:39

Image:  Cuneiform tablet case impressed with cylinder seal, for cuneiform tablets 1983.135.4a, b: private letter

 

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1239: 1/2 Popular Economics: What the Rolling Stones, Downton Abbey, and LeBron James Can Teach You about Economics, by John Tamny from 2021-02-28T04:11:47

Image:  Vegetable Market, from the pair Meat Market and Vegetable Market

 

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1237: 8/8 The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World, by Andrea Wulf from 2021-02-28T03:31:41

Image:  Canary Islands: distribution of vegetation on the Peak of Teneriffe.

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1237: 7/8 The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World, by Andrea Wulf from 2021-02-28T03:30:36

Image:  Statue of the South American liberator Simón Bolivar, near the U.S. Department of the Interior building, Washington, D.C.

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1237: 6/8 The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World, by Andrea Wulf from 2021-02-28T03:29:45

Image:  The German government printed postage stamps to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Alexander von Humboldt. Image: German Federal Ministry of Finance

 

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1237: 5/8 The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World, by Andrea Wulf from 2021-02-28T03:28:57

Image:  Digestive system of a sea mouse

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1237: 4/8 The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World, by Andrea Wulf from 2021-02-28T03:28

Image:  Alexander von Humboldt's System of Isothermal Curves, in Mercator's Projection

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1237: 3/8 The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World, by Andrea Wulf from 2021-02-28T03:27

Image:  Altai castles

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1237: 2/8 The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World, by Andrea Wulf from 2021-02-28T03:26:21

Image:  Central library Zurich - ideas for a geography of plants together with a nature painting of the tropical countries. [Zentralbibliothek Zürich - Ideen zu einer Geographie der Pflanzen nebst ...

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1237: 1/8 The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World, by Andrea Wulf from 2021-02-28T03:25:31

Image: Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt

 

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1235: 2/2: The Brother: The Untold Story of the Rosenberg CasePaperback – May 13, 2003. by Sam Roberts (Author) from 2021-02-28T01:30

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1951. 
Scope and content:  This is a cross-section sketch of an atomic bomb produced by David Greenglass, a defendant in this espionage case.
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1235: 1/2: The Brother: The Untold Story of the Rosenberg CasePaperback – May 13, 2003. by Sam Roberts (Author) from 2021-02-28T01:30

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1951.

Ethel Rosenberg Arrest Photograph - NARA - 596909

 
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1236: 2/2: #ClassicScience: "Outlaw Ocean" Ian Urbina @NYTimes from 2021-02-28T01:01

Photo: The Coming Storm, from S.S. COLUMBIA, mid-ocean

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1236: 1/2: #ClassicScience: "Outlaw Ocean" Ian Urbina @NYTimes from 2021-02-28T01:01

Photo: A Ship on the High Seas Caught by a Squall, Known as ‘The Gust’

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1238: 4/4 The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust, by Diana B. Henriques from 2021-02-28T01:00

Image:  The Punished Robber

 

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1238: 3/4 The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust, by Diana B. Henriques from 2021-02-28T01:00

Image:  The Dishonest Steward(1576 – 1580)

 

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1238: 2/4 The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust, by Diana B. Henriques from 2021-02-28T01:00

Image:  Curb Stock Exchange

 

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1238: 1/4 The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust, by Diana B. Henriques from 2021-02-28T01:00

Image:  The Stock Exchange, New York City

 

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1234: 4/4: Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present 1st Edition, Kindle Edition.by Max Boot (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-02-28T01:00

Photo: An Australian commando, possibly Sergeant William (Bill) Ernest Tomasetti, in the mountains of Timor on December 12, 1942. The picture shows terrain typical of the territory in which members...

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1234: 3/4: Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present 1st Edition, Kindle Edition.by Max Boot (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-02-28T01:00

Photo: Guerrilla Depredations - Seizing Horses; Harper's Weekly, 1864 Dec. 24, p. 829.

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1233: How many baseball fans will be permitted to attend opening day in person & What is to be done? Host from 2021-02-27T04:44:40

Photo: Yankee Stadium opening day, 1923

 
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1233: #PacificWatch: Imminently recalled Gavin Newsom without a mask at a shutdown Sacramento restaurant -- passing out other people's money. @JeffBliss1 from 2021-02-27T04:36:34

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Southern Pacific, Sacramento Shops, Water Tower, 111 I Street, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA

 
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1233: The coming Outer Space Pearl Harbor. @FRoseDC @WJLA from 2021-02-27T04:26:53

Photo: USS Arizona burning amidships, afternoon December 7, 1941.
 
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1233: Door-to-door listening to the exuberant Rush Limbaugh, Summer, 1989. @JohnTamny @RealClearMarkets from 2021-02-27T04:22:19

Photo:  President Donald J. Trump and radio commentator Rush Limbaugh pose for a photo Friday, April 19, 2019, during their round of golf at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fl...

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1233: The futility of lockdown and the government spending to undo the damage of the futile lockdown. @JohnTamny @RealClearMarkets from 2021-02-27T04:22:14

Photo: A man looks from a top-floor window of a brick house, saying, "I am lockd up against my will, pray is the Poll over". In front of the house a stout, plainly dressed man holds up a key; he sa...

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1232: 2/2: #NewAmericanCivilWar: A fragile stalemate. Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-02-27T04:00:25

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1870. 

Gezicht op het Forum Romanum te Rome

 
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1232: 1/2: #NewAmericanCivilWar: A fragile stalemate. Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-02-27T04:00:17

Photo: Gezicht op het Forum Romanum te Rome.   (View of the Forum Romanum in Rome)

 
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1232: Why the global elite disdain for the successes (and conspiracy-mongering) of PM Modi in India? from 2021-02-27T03:51:28

Photo: Gesellschaft (society)

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1232: There is no manufacturing labor crisis & What is to be done? @VeroDeRugy @Mercatus from 2021-02-27T03:47:13

Photo: The Soho Manufactory in 1800.
 
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1234: 2/4: Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present 1st Edition, Kindle Edition.by Max Boot (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-02-27T03:40

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1234: 1/4: Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present 1st Edition, Kindle Edition.by Max Boot (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-02-27T03:40

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1231: 2/2: The war between the US Navy and the PLA Navy: September, 2025. @MichaelAuslin @HooverInst from 2021-02-27T03:37:08

Photo: Mawei Naval Academy 1

 
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1231: 1/2: The war between the US Navy and the PLA Navy: September, 2025. @MichaelAuslin @HooverInst from 2021-02-27T03:37:03

Photo: The expeditionary fast transport ship USNS Carson City (EPF 7) arrives at Naval Station Newport in preparation for the Chief of Naval Operations' 22nd International Seapower Symposium (ISS)....

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1231: 2/2: What the Texas cold snap teaches about the future of base power. @RichardAEpstein from 2021-02-27T03:33:03

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1231: 1/2: What the Texas cold snap teaches about the future of base power. @RichardAEpstein from 2021-02-27T03:32:59

Photo:   "Frozen up."
 
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1230: Neera Tanden Deletes 1000 Tweets & What is to be done? @DanielHenninger @WSJOpinion from 2021-02-27T03:16:59

Photo: Deletion symbol
 
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1230: The Democrats move swiftly to censor and deplatform the GOP. @DevinNunes CA-22 from 2021-02-27T03:14:19

Photo: Censorship:  Book burning in Chile (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_burnings_in_Chile) following the 1973 coup (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat) that install...

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1230: #SmallBusinessAmerica: States that aim to tax the Payroll Protection Program & What is to be done? @GeneMarks @Guardian from 2021-02-27T03:12:14

Photo: George Washington Papers, Series 4, General Correspondence: John Blagg, December 4, 1755, Payroll Receipt for Recruits

 
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1230: #SmallBusinessAmerica: Spring growth metrics everywhere: GDP, jobless claims, personal income, architecture index. @GeneMarks @Guardian from 2021-02-27T03:09:08

Photo:   Springtime Landscape

 
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1229: #ClassicScience: Warning on Bat viruses, June, 2017. @NatalieAngier. from 2021-02-27T02:59:48

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Common Bat ; Vampire Bat ; Common Bat ; Dog Headed Bat ; Horseshoe Bat ; Fruit Eating Bat

 
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1229: 2/2:#ClassicScience: The mystery of Dark Matter in a galaxy without Dark Matter. Pieter van Dokkum, Sol Goldman Professor of Astronomy. @Yale from 2021-02-27T02:51:17

Photo: 3-D map of the large-scale distribution of dark matter, reconstructed from measurements of weak gravitational lensing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak_gravitational_lensing) with the Hubb...

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1229: 1/2: #ClassicScience: The mystery of Dark Matter in a galaxy without Dark Matter. Pieter van Dokkum, Sol Goldman Professor of Astronomy. @Yale from 2021-02-27T02:51

Photo:  Shedding Bent Light on Dark Matter

 
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1228: The Juggernaut of the Eastern Division. Host from 2021-02-26T07:17

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1911. 

[Connie Mack, Philadelphia Athletics manager (baseball)]

 
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1228: Private property SpaceX surpasses the Big Space SLS fail. Host from 2021-02-26T07:15

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1968. S68-18733 (22 Jan. 1968) --- Dr. Robert R. Gilruth (right), MSC Director, sits with Dr. Christopher C. Kraft Jr., MSC director of flight operations...

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1228: Hamantaschen, JCPOA, digital platform. A vast sweep. Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres, from 2021-02-26T07:07:42

Image: Purim

 

Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres, Conference of Presidents, in re: Hamantaschen, triangular, mimic Hamen’s hat; filled with different foods, esp fruit. Delicious. In...

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1228: Entire region judges US responses to Iraqi rocketing from Iran. Michael Rubin, @mrubin1971, Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres from 2021-02-26T07:05:18

Image:  MILLINGEN(1870) Wild life among the Koords

 

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1228: The 2015 JCPOA is irrelevant to today. Ehud Yaari, @EhudYaariJLM, Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres from 2021-02-26T07:04:35

Image:  Foundation for shielding. Photograph taken March 19, 1957. Bevatron-1253

 

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1228: Russia fears a pro-Western Iran and will complicate all discussions. Anna Borshchevskaya, @annaborsh, Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres from 2021-02-26T07:03:58

Image: Russian village (https://picryl.com/media/russian-village)

 

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1227: The hunt for the second ISS leak continues. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-02-26T06:29:11

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1994. ???????: ???????? ????? ?????? ?? ????? «??????????? ????????????. ????? ?????????? ??????????? ????? ?. ?. ????????», ?????????? 12 ?????? 1994 ??...

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1227: Are these the last days of SLS? Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-02-26T06:25:17

Photo: Berryman Political Cartoon Collection: "Can't you fellows spare a little, maybe $17,000.000.000?"
 
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1227: North Korea must be challenged with military options. @AmbJohnBolton from 2021-02-26T06:22:42

Photo: Supersedes the 1994 ed. of North Korea : a country study, edited by Andrea Matles Savada.
 
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1227: After the cold snap, Texas Governor Abbot's natural gas threat suits Mexico President AMLO's PEMEX statism. @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion from 2021-02-26T06:18:32

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White migrant and his wife in camp near Sebastian, Texas. Both are west Texans who have come to the valley for the winter vegetable harvest

 
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1226: 4/4: When Britain Burned the White House: The 1814 Invasion of Washington Kindle Edition. by Peter Snow (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-02-26T04:36:10

Photo: The Blodget Hotel which housed the US Patent Office; spared during the burning of Washington in 1814. The Patent Office later burned in 1836.
 
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1226: 3/4: When Britain Burned the White House: The 1814 Invasion of Washington Kindle Edition. by Peter Snow (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-02-26T04:36:06

Photo: Burning of Washington, August 1814
 
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1226: 2/4: When Britain Burned the White House: The 1814 Invasion of Washington Kindle Edition. by Peter Snow (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-02-26T04:36:02

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1812.

Contemporary sketch of the pursuit of the Governor Simcoe

 
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1226: 1/4: When Britain Burned the White House: The 1814 Invasion of Washington Kindle Edition. by Peter Snow (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-02-26T04:34:34

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1812.Engagement of the American Brig Oneida and British Corvette Royal George in Kingston Harbour, Upper Canada. Incident occured Nov. 10, 1812. A histor...

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1225: When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state —Sonnet 29 -- Andrew Cuomo. @MonicaCrowley from 2021-02-26T04:21:53

Image:  Phaeton, from The Four Disgracers

 

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1225: The passing of the great gift of Rush Limbaugh. @ConradMBlack from 2021-02-26T04:21:23

Image: Rush and Kathryn Limbaugh. Screen grab.

 

Conrad Black, @ConradMBlack (https://twitter.com/ConradMBlack) , publisher, littérateur, biographer, commentator; the National Pos...

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1225: Beware the Biden reset as a predicate for Iran predation. @VDHanson from 2021-02-26T04:20:53

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Victor Davis Hanson: @VDHanson; Hoover Institution, and The Case for Trump,in re:  Self-correction. Tensions between nations that lead to war is a lack of knowledge: let’...

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1225: The illustrious Stanford Left turns against three of its own not on the Left. @VDHanson from 2021-02-26T04:20:21

Image: Stanford clock tower

 

Victor Davis Hanson: @VDHanson; Hoover Institution, and The Case for Trump; andAmerican Greatness; in re:   

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1224: Fintech PowerBandSolutions.com transforms and revolutionizes the automotive future with transparency, flexibility and confidence for consumers, dealers, manufacturers. John Lamb, President, PowerBandSolutions.com Drivrzexchange.com from 2021-02-26T04:14:32

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1916. 

People riding in Franklin automobiles.

 
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1224: #TheScalaReport: Is San Francisco too toxic to hold on to and/or recover Big Tech? Chris Riegel: @ScalaInc @STRATACACHE from 2021-02-26T03:59:20

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1906. 

San Francisco fire on the 18th [of April 1906] at 4 p.m.

 
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1224: Returning to the Iran Deal is trading with all the adversaries at once. @SebGorka #AmericaFirst from 2021-02-26T03:49:26

Photo: An even earlier press for Iranian nuclear development.  Fair us.
 
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1224: Why do the Pelosi Democrats fear Trump? @SebGorka #AmericaFirst from 2021-02-26T03:47:58

Photo: 1962.President Kennedy said that the event was "probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house, except for those times when Thomas Jefferson dined alone." Photo court...

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1223: PM Trudeau ducks both the Keystone XL Pipeline and the PRC genocide of the Uyghurs. Charles Burton Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.@GordonGChang from 2021-02-25T05:35:35

Photo:1947.

Ottawa streetcar at Bank and Sparks 1947 (16004468255)

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1222: My Bill Buckner baseball card as a time machine to the magic moment, Shea Stadium, 1986, and a squib down the first base line. from 2021-02-25T05:30

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Charlie Bastian and Denny Lyons

 
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1223: Hawkish India confronts China trade in the Indo-Pacific, from Mauritius to the Maldives. @CleoPaskal @FDD @GordonGChang from 2021-02-25T05:24:51

Photo:1652

UBBasel Map Malediven Sri Lanka 1652 Kartenslg Mappe 251-72

Hawkish India confronts China trade in the Indo-Pacific, from Mauritius to the Maldives. @CleoPaskal
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1223: The ammo shelves are nearly empty in New Alexandria Pennsylvania. Salena Zito @DCExaminer salena zito.com from 2021-02-25T05:22:26

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Charleroi, Washington County Pennsylvania, 1897

The ammo shelves are nearly empty in New Alexandria Pennsylvania. Salena Zito @DCExaminer salena zito.com

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1223: Congressman Lee Zeldin (NY-1) tilting with the All Powerful New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. @SalenaZito @DCExaminer from 2021-02-25T05:22:22

Photo: 1900. 

Capitol building, Albany, N.Y.

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1223: #ClassicKenCroswell: Satellite galaxies of the Milky Way can be very slight. Ken Croswell, @NewScientist. from 2021-02-25T05:15

Photo: 2020

#ClassicKenCroswell: Satellite galaxies of the Milky Way can be very slight. Ken Croswell, @NewScientist.

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1222: The secret message on NASA's Perseverance parachute to the surface of Mars. Host. from 2021-02-25T04:32:35

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.2020 Perseverance
 
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1221: 8/12: Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947 Kindle Edition.by Bruce Hoffman (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-02-25T04:14:58

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1938. Siege of Jerusalem
 
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1221: 7/12: Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947 Kindle Edition.by Bruce Hoffman (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-02-25T04:13:41

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1940. Damascus Gate
 
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1221: 6/12: Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947 Kindle Edition.by Bruce Hoffman (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-02-25T04:13:18

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1938 Siege of Jerusalem
 
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1221: 5/12: Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947 Kindle Edition.by Bruce Hoffman (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-02-25T04:12:41

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1898. Jaffa Gate
 
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1220: Would the Biden Administration trade Taipei for a climate deal with the PRC? @ChristianWhiton, @GordonGChang, from 2021-02-25T04:02:50

Image: At Kelung, Formosa (Taiwan) 

 

 

Christian Whiton:  @ChristianWhiton, Center for the National Interest; and Gordon Chang, @GordonGChang, Daily Beast, in re: Xi Jin...

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1217: Perseverance prepping for its five year mission and beyond. Tanwen-1 detected in orbit. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-02-25T03:59:06

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1217: SLS fails again. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-02-25T03:52:29

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1219: The trouble in Thailand includes China's bad actors. @Michael_Yon, @GordonGChang, from 2021-02-25T03:49:28

Image: From the Kingdom of Siam 
(Koninklijk vaartuig met 120 roeiers te Siam [Thailand])

 

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1217: The long American history of prejudice against Asian-Americans & What is to be done? @WJMcGurn @WSJOpinion. from 2021-02-25T03:45:04

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Street in Chinatown, San Francisco

 
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1217: State of the City, the State, the Union: Andrew Cuomo & New York City & Keystone XL Pipeline -- unresolved. Catsimatidis @JCats2013 @CatsRoundtable @JohnCats from 2021-02-25T03:38:04

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1913. 

[Woman boarding NYC streetcar by jumping onto running board. 1913]

 
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1219: The Dried Blood Red Surface of Mars. #HotelMars. David Livingston, @SpaceShow. from 2021-02-25T03:37:53

Image: Mars topo map; rotating at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars#/media/File:Mars-topo-200-fast.gif

 

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1218: The-little-biotech-company-that-couldn't gets very lucky. @GZuckerman from 2021-02-25T03:35:05

Image:  Brewing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewing) was an early application of biotechnology

The-little-biotech-company-that-couldn't gets very lucky.  @GZuckerman

 

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1217: 2/2: The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott: Unseen Images from the Legendary Antarctic Expedition Hardcover – October 18, 2011. by Dr. David M. Wilson (Author) from 2021-02-25T02:07:09

Photo: Three lonely strays find a lost brother after a blizzard [Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914].
 
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1217: 1/2: The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott: Unseen Images from the Legendary Antarctic Expedition Hardcover – October 18, 2011. by Dr. David M. Wilson (Author) from 2021-02-25T02:07:06

Photo: Antarctic ice cliff.
Here: Xavier Mertz, in charge of the Greenland Dogs at the Main Base during the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, on the ice cliff near the expedition's main base a...

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1214: #MLB: The grand old man of the Yankees returns for the 14th season. Host.. from 2021-02-24T05:45

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1216: Colombia's coca crop is bigger than ever & What is to be done? Host from 2021-02-24T05:40

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Coca plantation. Peru

 
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1214: 4/12: Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947 Kindle Edition.by Bruce Hoffman (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-02-24T05:30

Photo:  Ancient boundary line at Raffah, between Egypt and Palestine

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1214: 3/12: Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947 Kindle Edition.by Bruce Hoffman (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-02-24T05:30

Photo: Ancient scrolls in Istambouleye [i.e., Stambouli] Synagogue, interior. In Old City of Jerusalem

 
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1214: 2/12: Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947 Kindle Edition.by Bruce Hoffman (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-02-24T05:30

Photo: Israel, northern views. Ancient sculptures found at Samaria.

 
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1214: 1/12: Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947 Kindle Edition.by Bruce Hoffman (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-02-24T05:30

Photo:  Ancient Jerusalem A.D. 65

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1215: 2/2 Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle, by Thor Hanson from 2021-02-24T04:06:56

Image:  Two Native Americans, wearing feather headdresses, looking at photographic film; they stand next to a stream with photographic equipment at their feet and tipis in the background

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1215: 1/2 Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle, by Thor Hanson from 2021-02-24T04:05:21

Image: Feather

 

Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle, by Thor Hanson (https://www.amazon.com/Thor-Hanson/e/B001IXPR2O/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1)  

 

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1213: What good, union, green jobs to replace good, union, fossil fuel jobs? @vincebielski from 2021-02-24T03:39:04

Image:  Windmill, the Netherlands

 

Vince Bielski, @vincebielski, RealClearInvestigations,  in re: What good union green jobs to replace good union fossil fuel jobs?

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1213: Nationalizing California AB5 that aims to tame the gig economy. Michael D. Farren, from 2021-02-24T03:37:40

Image:  Cactus garden in Riverside, California, ca.1920

 

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1212: Does Joe Biden know how Andrew Cuomo has damaged New York City? @LizPeek @FoxNews from 2021-02-24T03:31:18

Photo:  Berryman Political Cartoon Collection: Tammany Democrats
 
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1212: Topsy-turvy return of the Inflation Fear. @LizPeek @FoxNews from 2021-02-24T03:29:01

Photo: From Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885
 
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1212: #NewWorld: Vaccine corruption in Argentina and Peru. @MariaFdaCabal & @jmhumire from 2021-02-24T03:26:09

Photo:  NATIONAL VACCINE & ANTITOXIN INST.

 
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1212: Germany adds 1,200 words for the pandemic. @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion from 2021-02-24T03:22:29

Image:  Hospital train, Germany

 

Joseph Sternberg:  @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion; Political Economics column; WSJ editorial board; in re:  My favorite new virus story: New Germa...

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1212: Promises Boris Johnson: London reopens March, April, May and June. @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion from 2021-02-24T03:21:43

Image: from page 213 of London and its Environs. A picturesque survey of the metropolis and the suburbs . . .  Translated by Henry Frith. With . . . illustrations

 

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1212: #NewWorld: Colombia crop-spraying the coca crop again & What is to be done? @MariaFdaCabal & @jmhumire from 2021-02-24T03:21:38

Photo: Cocaine bricks

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1211: The Chinese Communist Party is the threat. Gregory R Copley: Defense and Foreign Affairs from 2021-02-24T02:48:17

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1211: Washington's endless, pointless Russia-bashing. Gregory R Copley: Defense and Foreign Affairs from 2021-02-24T02:47:07

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

 

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1211: Will the Biden Administration follow the Pompeo lead on China? @BerkowitzPeter from 2021-02-24T02:37:13

Image:  Chinese artillery at Bai ling miao 1936

Peter Berkowitz, @BerkowitzPeter, Hoover, in re: Will the Biden Administration follow the Pompeo lead on China?  https://hoover.us1.list-man...

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1211: The Middle East needs Shark Tank. @VictoriaCoates from 2021-02-24T02:36:11

Image: 1915

Shark caught on Pacific Coast

 

Victoria Coates, @VictoriaCoates,Center for Security Policy;  in re: The Middle East needs Shark Tank   https://themedialine.o...

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1210: Texas electricity was 42% renewable before the cold snap & What is to be done? Host from 2021-02-23T06:33:20

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Dreyfuss & Son Store, Main & Ervay Streets, Dallas, Dallas County, TX

 
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1210: SCOTUS ducks Pennsylvania voting irregularities and lets the Manhattan DA pursue allegations against Trump. @AndrewCMcCarthy, @ThadMcCotter, @theamgreatness from 2021-02-23T06:32:26

Image: Statue of Contemplation of Law at U.S. Supreme Court, front view 

 

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1209: How much DOJ trouble for NY Governor Andrew Cuomo? @AndrewCMcCarthy, @ThadMcCotter, @theamgreatness from 2021-02-23T06:26:58

Image:  Capitol building, Albany, N.Y.

 

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1209: #IndianaHoenlein: Indiana Hoenlein and the passing of the man who led 120,000 Iraqi Jews to safety. Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres; @ThadMcCotter, @theamgreatness from 2021-02-23T06:21:02

Image:  The Great Synagogue of Baghdad (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Synagogue_of_Baghdad) circa early 20th century

 

 

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1209: No major rival for Abbas in the Palestinian election; & What is to be done? Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres; @ThadMcCotter, @theamgreatness from 2021-02-23T05:54:57

Image: Mahmoud Abbas (far right) in Moscow at the opening of the Moscow Cathedral Mosque.  Photo: www.kremlin.ru (http://www.kremlin.ru/) .  Abbas, Vladimir Putin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vla...

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1208: Major League Baseball's highest paid players per annum led by Mike Trout and Gerrit Cole and including Roger Clemens in retirement. Host from 2021-02-23T05:01:51

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1926. Major League Baseball's highest paid players per annum led by Mike Trout and Gerrit Cole and including Roger Clemens in retirement. Host
 
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1207: What Rush Limbaugh means to the GOP. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @NRO @DCExaminer from 2021-02-23T04:49:32

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1910. 

The Cape Girardeau paddle steamer and a Benoist flying boat on the Mississippi river (cropped)

 
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1207: Cuomo survives unhappy revelations..@DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @NRO @DCExaminer from 2021-02-23T04:45:20

Photo: Group of elderly people on porch.

 
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1205: Questioning Governor Andrew Cuomo's forceful rulings during the pandemic, starting with the nursing homes. Joel Zinberg, @CityJournal from 2021-02-23T04:34:58

Photo:  Down with the power of the despot, wherever his stronghold may be. ~ Lincoln and Liberty
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAopyfP9dzo)

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1206: Biden prepares Wall Street for trading with the enemy. Roger W Robinson, @pssi_prague; @GordonGChang from 2021-02-23T04:23:39

Image:  Jacques Callot, “Greed,” probably after 1621

 

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1206: Europe seeks a side deal with China's Huawei and ZTE. @BrendanCarrFCC, @GordonGChang, from 2021-02-23T04:22:36

Image:  Instructions for making astronomical instruments (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_astronomy) from the time of the Qing Dynasty (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qing_Dynasty) .

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1206: The Taliban waits to celebrate Biden's exit. @thomasjoscelyn, @billroggio, @FDD from 2021-02-23T04:21:49

Image:  A postcard showing the city of Erbil in 1900

 

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1206: Biden at play in the Yemen chaos. @thomasjoscelyn, @billroggio, @FDD from 2021-02-23T04:21

Image:  Abraham hosts angels, folio 2v

 

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1205: Remembering one year since the first two Italian cases of Covid-19 & What is to be done? Lorenzo Fiori, ansaldo Foundation from 2021-02-23T04:20:12

Photo: Sick man drinking tea

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1205: Texas energy mix requires natural gas, nuclear and coal to augment and back-up renewables. Bud Weinstein. @DallasNews from 2021-02-23T04:16:31

Photo: Iowa coal mine, 1936.
 
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1205: Andrew Cuomo routinely makes blunt telephone calls, because it works for him. @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNews from 2021-02-23T04:02:57

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1205: Texas cold snap: frozen citrus and avocados; & What is to be done? @HenryIMiller henrymillermd.org from 2021-02-23T04:00:51

Photo: Damage to an orange grove in Bartow, Florida (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartow,_Florida)

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1205: Cuomo's Emmy award; & What is to be done? @JedBabbin @AmSpectator from 2021-02-23T03:55:49

Photo: Awards: Alfonso XIII of Spain (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_XIII) (left) with his cousin, the future King George V (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_V) (right) during his State ...

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1204: 4/4 Against the Tide: Rickover's Leadership Principles and the Rise of the Nuclear Navy, by Dave Oliver from 2021-02-23T02:44:14

Image:  USS Hyman G. Rickover (SSN-709)

 

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1204: 3/4 Against the Tide: Rickover's Leadership Principles and the Rise of the Nuclear Navy, by Dave Oliver from 2021-02-23T02:41:23

Image: USS ScorpionSSN589

 

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1204: 2/4 Against the Tide: Rickover's Leadership Principles and the Rise of the Nuclear Navy, by Dave Oliver from 2021-02-23T02:40:22

Image:  Crewmen participate in a firefighting exercise during refresher training aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise(CVN 65)

 

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1204: 1/4 Against the Tide: Rickover's Leadership Principles and the Rise of the Nuclear Navy, by Dave Oliver from 2021-02-23T02:39:39

Image:  Admiral Rickover aboard USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear-powered vessel. "I did not recruit extraordinary people. I recruited people who had extraordinary potential—and then I traine...

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1198: 4/4: July 2015 conversation with the late Art Bell (1945-2018) about story-telling on air, Art Bell of Midnight in the Desert, Coast to Coast. Host from 2021-02-22T05:06

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1910. 

[Scenes of open gambling in Reno, Nevada casinos: roulette wheel at left; bar at right]

 
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1198: 3/4: July 2015 conversation with the late Art Bell (1945-2018) about story-telling on air, Art Bell of Midnight in the Desert, Coast to Coast. Host from 2021-02-22T05:05

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1904 Panoramic view of the Tonopah Mining Park (now a historic site) and Mount Butler in the distance, Tonopah, Nevada, ca.1904
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1198: 2/4: July 2015 conversation with the late Art Bell (1945-2018) about story-telling on air, Art Bell of Midnight in the Desert, Coast to Coast. Host from 2021-02-22T05:05

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1939.

Brakeman on the Challenger. Nevada

 
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Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1905. A long stagecoach traveling down an unpaved dirt road towards the mines, Goldfield, Nevada, ca.1905
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1200: #ClassicLeeMason: Yazidis in Duhoq, Kurdistan, Iraq. December 23, 2014; report by Lee Mason. Executive Producer, John Batchelor Show. from 2021-02-22T04:56

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1932. 

Iraq, Ziggurat, Ur

 
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1203: 4/4 North Korea and Regional Security in the Kim Jong-un Era: A New International Security Dilemma (Palgrave Pivot), by Bruce E. Bechtol Jr. from 2021-02-22T04:52:57

Image: This night image of the Korean Peninsula shows that North Korea is almost completely dark compared to neighboring South Korea and China.

PHOTOGRAPH BY EARTH SCIENCE & REMOTE SENSING...

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1203: 3/4 North Korea and Regional Security in the Kim Jong-un Era: A New International Security Dilemma (Palgrave Pivot), by Bruce E. Bechtol Jr. from 2021-02-22T04:52:07

Image:  The North Korean cargo vessel, So San,being stopped and boarded during maritime interception operations (MIO), conducted by two Spanish Navy ships, the Santa Maria-class Frigate Navarra(F-8...

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1203: 2/4 North Korea and Regional Security in the Kim Jong-un Era: A New International Security Dilemma (Palgrave Pivot), by Bruce E. Bechtol Jr. from 2021-02-22T04:51:14

Image:  Welcome celebration for the Red Army (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army) in Pyongyang (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyongyang) on 14 October 1945

 

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1203: 1/4 North Korea and Regional Security in the Kim Jong-un Era: A New International Security Dilemma (Palgrave Pivot), by Bruce E. Bechtol Jr. from 2021-02-22T04:49:49

Image: The Rooftops of Pyongyang.These images are from the estate of the Utrecht deacon Jan Adriani. He made them on a missionary trip he undertook together with his wife, the artist Elizabeth Adri...

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1199: #ClassicIndianaHoenlein: Indiana Hoenlein & the Lost Crusader Escape Tunnel of Tiberias. Malcolm Hoenlein @Confofpres. @ThadMcCotter from 2021-02-22T03:30

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Tower of David from "In the brave days of old, the story of the Crusades"

 
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1202: 4/4 Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century, by Christian Caryl from 2021-02-22T03:28:02

Image: Pope John Paul II in the Netherlands with Cardinal Simonis.

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1202: 3/4 Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century, by Christian Caryl from 2021-02-22T03:27:15

Image: Afghan exit visa

 

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1202: 2/4 Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century, by Christian Caryl from 2021-02-22T03:26:37

Image:  Ettela'at (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ettela%27at) newspaper: Tomorrow Morning at 9, Meeting with the Imam [Khomeini] in Tehran

 

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1202: 1/4 Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century, by Christian Caryl from 2021-02-22T03:25:55

Image: China invaded Viet Nam in 1979, and lost. Here: Chinese tank destroyed in Cao Bang

 

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1200: 2/2: Escape from North Korea: The Untold Story of Asia's Underground Railroad Kindle Edition. by Melanie (Author), Melanie Kirkpatrick (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-02-22T03:10

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1963.

1963-11 1963 ????????????

 
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1200: 1/2: Escape from North Korea: The Untold Story of Asia's Underground Railroad Kindle Edition. by Melanie (Author), Melanie Kirkpatrick (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-02-22T03:10

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.2008.As North Korean government website states, "The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a genuine workers' state in which all the people are comple...

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1201: 4/4 America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder, by Bret Stephens from 2021-02-22T02:58:48

Image:  Awake! America, awake!  music

 

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1201: 3/4 America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder, by Bret Stephens from 2021-02-22T02:57:54

Image:  Iranian women physicists, 1968

 

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1200: 2/4 America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder, by Bret Stephens from 2021-02-22T02:56:40

Image:   1898 political cartoon: "Ten Thousand Miles from Tip to Tip" meaning the extension of U.S. domination (symbolized by a bald eagle) from Puerto Rico to the Philippines.

 

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1200: 1/4 America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder, by Bret Stephens from 2021-02-22T02:56:07

Image:  Michael III, Tsar of Russia

  

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1198: November, 2017 initial analysis of the Oumuamua passage through the Solar System. David Grinspoon, @funkyspoon Planetary Science Institute. from 2021-02-22T01:00

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Naval Observatory. Telescope house, Naval Observatory

 
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1197: #ClassicKenCroswell: Shakespeare in Space: The Moons of Uranus. Ken Croswell. @newscientist. from 2021-02-21T06:21:52

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1998. This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the planet Uranus reveals the planet rings and bright clouds and a high altitude haze above the planet so...

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1196: 4/4 Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century, by Michael Hiltzik from 2021-02-21T04:28:40

Image:  Hoover Dam, Los Angeles Bureau of Power & Light Lines 1-3, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

 

 

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1196: 3/4 Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century, by Michael Hiltzik from 2021-02-21T04:27:46

Image: High Scalers drill into the canyon wall 500 feet above the Colorado River in Black Canyon at the Hoover Dam site. April 1, 1932. Bureau of Reclamation.

 

 

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1196: 2/4 Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century, by Michael Hiltzik from 2021-02-21T04:27:06

Image:  Portrait of William Mulholland with a surveyor's scope on a tripod, ca.1908-1913

 

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1196: 1/4 Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century, by Michael Hiltzik from 2021-02-21T04:26:21

Image: Hoover Dam, Nevada-Arizona (Union Pacific Railroad Pictorial Post Card). Less than thirty miles from Las Vegas, Nevada, on the main line of the Union Pacific Railroad, is gigantic Hoover Dam...

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1195: 4/4 Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York, by Richard Zacks from 2021-02-21T03:59:48

Image:  Theodore Roosevelt holding his granddaughter.

 

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1195: 3/4 Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York, by Richard Zacks from 2021-02-21T03:58:52

Image:  Children sleeping on Mulberry Street (1890).

 

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1195: 2/4 Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York, by Richard Zacks from 2021-02-21T03:58:08

Image:  Bandit roost (59 Mulberry Street in New York City). This famous photo was taken in 1888 by Jacob Riis (May 3, 1849 – May 26, 1914), a Danish-American social reformer, muckraking journalist,...

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1195: 1/4 Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York, by Richard Zacks from 2021-02-21T03:57:27

Image:  Tammany Hall & 14th St. West

 

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1194: 8/8 King John: And the Road to Magna Carta, by Stephen Church from 2021-02-21T03:36:14

Image:  King John's tomb in Worcester Cathedral (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester_Cathedral)

 

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1194: 7/8 King John: And the Road to Magna Carta, by Stephen Church from 2021-02-21T03:35:34

Image:   John Foxe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Foxe) 's Book of Martyrs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Martyrs) , officially titled Acts and Monuments, which took a positive view of...

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1194: 6/8 King John: And the Road to Magna Carta, by Stephen Church from 2021-02-21T03:34:23

Image:   Ever since the loss of Normandy John had been building up a coalition of rulers in Germany (https://www.britannica.com/place/Germany) and the Low Countries (https://www.britannica.com/plac...

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1194: 5/8 King John: And the Road to Magna Carta, by Stephen Church from 2021-02-21T03:33:41

Image: Section of the Bayeux Tapestry showing the final stages of the battle of Hastings (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hastings)

 

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1193: 4/8 King John: And the Road to Magna Carta, by Stephen Church from 2021-02-21T01:51:48

Image: John, King of England

 

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1193: 3/8 King John: And the Road to Magna Carta, by Stephen Church from 2021-02-21T01:51:02

Image:  A silver (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver) King John penny (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny)

 

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1193: 2/8 King John: And the Road to Magna Carta, by Stephen Church from 2021-02-21T01:50:13

Image:  Images of warfare in the thirteenth century.

 

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1193: 1/8 King John: And the Road to Magna Carta, by Stephen Church from 2021-02-21T01:49:27

Image:  A drawing of the effigy of King John in Worcester Cathedral.   John (24 December 1166 – 19 October 1216) was King of England (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_England) from 1199 until ...

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1192: Last Stand at Khe Sanh: 4of4: The U.S. Marines' Finest Hour in Vietnam Kindle Edition. by Gregg Jones (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-02-21T01:01:21

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An aerial view of the Viet Cong infested Tay Ninh Province 45 miles northwest of Saigon. - NARA - 531439

 
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1192: Last Stand at Khe Sanh: 3of4: The U.S. Marines' Finest Hour in Vietnam Kindle Edition. by Gregg Jones (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-02-21T01:01:09

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1962. 

[Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson standing among group of Vietnamese soldiers and Americans during a visit to Saigon, South Vietnam] / TO...

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1192: Last Stand at Khe Sanh: 2of4: The U.S. Marines' Finest Hour in Vietnam Kindle Edition. by Gregg Jones (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-02-21T01:00:59

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1957.

[Paris-Saigon-Wings of Mercy]

 
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1192: Last Stand at Khe Sanh: 1of4: The U.S. Marines' Finest Hour in Vietnam Kindle Edition. by Gregg Jones (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-02-21T01:00:49

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1919.

Saigon. La Pointe des Blagueurs -- Le Paul-Lecat sur rade.

 
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1188: Recalling Newsom while advancing Harris. @DevinNunes CA-22 from 2021-02-20T06:00

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Hudson-Cippa-Wolf Ranch, Granary, Sorento Road, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA

 
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1189: The Toronto Blue Jays open the season as refugees from the virus. Host. from 2021-02-20T05:59

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1876. Downtown Toronto, looking northwest up Church Street from east side of the street, just south of Lombard Street.  Metropolitan Church and St. Micha...

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1191: From what derive a person’s fundamental rights? The debate continues. @GorkaKatie, @KatharineCGorka, @Heritage, from 2021-02-20T04:51:40

Image:   The Bill of Rights amendments add to the Constitution specific guarantees of personal freedoms and rights, clear limitations on the government's power in judicial and other proceedings, an...

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1191: #NewAmericanCivilWar: What the 1860s teach us about the Democratic surge in 2021. Michael E Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-02-20T04:50:43

Image: 1860s

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

 

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1191: #NewAmericanCivilWar: The Show Trial continues; and why? Michael E Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis from 2021-02-20T04:50:05

Image:  Show trial: Bukharin and Rykov, shortly before the trial in 1938.

Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (9 October 1888 – 15 March 1938) was a Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician, Marx...

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1189: #ClasssicScience: Trilobites. Natalie Angier, @NYTimes. from 2021-02-20T04:21:53

Photo: Trilobites from, The Geological Story briefly told. An introduction to geology ... With numerous illustrations

 
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1189: Man's Best Friends. @JamesGorman from 2021-02-20T04:15:38

Photo: Watercolor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watercolor) tracing made by archaeologist Henri Breuil (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Breuil) from a cave painting (https://en.wikipedia.org/w...

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1189: #ClassicScience: Flight. @JamesGorman from 2021-02-20T04:13:53

Photo: A roseate tern (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseate_tern) uses its low wing loading and high aspect ratio to achieve low speed flight.

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1189: Massachusetts biosurgical device maker Arch Therapeutics wins FDA approval, raises capital and readies to go to market with its much-needed self-assembling wound system. Terry Norchi, CEO and founder, ArchTherapeutics.com from 2021-02-20T03:34:08

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1882. 

South Framingham, Massachusetts : 1882

 
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1190: A Republican who favors $15 minimum wage and why. @genemarks @Guardian #SmallBusinessAmerica from 2021-02-20T03:19:57

Image:  FSA (Farm Security Administration) client with mules bought by government loan, Southeast Missouri Farms

 

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1190: Startups dominate the pandemic. @genemarks @Guardian #SmallBusinessAmerica from 2021-02-20T03:19:11

Image:  Trade and business.  Sheet with 8 representations of craftsmen and professions, such as street seller and woodworker. Below each image a two-line verse. 

 

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1190: Recalling Newsom and abandoning San Francisco. @JCBliss, #PacificWatch from 2021-02-20T03:18:06

Image:  Stanford University Quadrangle, Stanford University Campus, Stanford, Santa Clara County, CA.  “Too many rich kids are accepted.”   Tuition: $53,529 USD

 

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1190: The Democrats turn on Cuomo. @DanHenninger, @WSJOpinion from 2021-02-20T03:17:18

Image:  Frank Costello, half-length portrait, seated, behind microphone, testifying before the Kefauver Committee investigating organized crime / World Telegram & Sun photo by Al Aumuller.

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1189: Sprout Lands: 4of4: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees Kindle Edition by William Bryant Logan (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-02-20T03:11:03

Photo: Nothofagus betuloides (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothofagus_betuloides) , Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
 
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1189: Sprout Lands: 3of4: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees Kindle Edition by William Bryant Logan (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-02-20T03:10:55

Photo: Winter trees, rural New work State.
 
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1189: Sprout Lands: 2of4: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees Kindle Edition by William Bryant Logan (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-02-20T03:10:46

Photo: Gnarled trees near the water

 
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1189: Sprout Lands: 1of4: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees Kindle Edition by William Bryant Logan (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-02-20T03:10:40

Photo: Fig tree, sycamore tree, close up

 
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1188: Mitt Romney's version of Very Big Government: taxing the rich to pay for the young. @VeroDeRugy. from 2021-02-20T02:45:33

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1921.

Kindergarten band, 4/7/21

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1188: VA innovation, US Army invention; DoD precaution. @FRoseDC from 2021-02-20T02:41

Photo:  Veteran reunion, 1917

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1188: California exiting & What is to be done? @DevinNunes CA-22 from 2021-02-20T02:38:46

Photo: The emigrant's farewell. Air: The emigrant's lament. J. Andrews, Publishers, 38 Chatham Street, N. Y

 
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1183: Perseverance all nominal on the surface of Mars at Jazero Crater. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-02-19T05:46

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.2021. Mars from first glimpse Perseverance.
 
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1183: Texas cold bites the gremlins of Big Space Starliner but not the luck of Commercial SpaceX Starship. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-02-19T05:45

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1865
Photograph shows a view of Elizabeth Street in Brownsville, Texas, ca. 1865. Commercial buildings line one side of the dirt road and pedestrians...

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1187: Meantime, back on Earth, the Texas cold spell stalls Boeing Starliner while SpaceX Starship adapts. Host from 2021-02-19T05:40

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.Relief shown by hachures.
Prime meridians: Washington, Greenwich, Paris, and Ferro.
In upper left corner: Myer's Handatlas.
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1183: Even in the pandemic (Bieber tests positive), even after trades and departures, the Cleveland baseball team sports a talented pitching staff. Host from 2021-02-19T05:40

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.Original Caption: The entrance to Jacobs Field is toped with a large sign declaring the field to be the home of the Cleveland Indians.

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1185: Iran taunts the IAEA. @OlliHeinonen, Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres from 2021-02-19T05:30

Image:  Hematite Fuel Fabrication Facility, Recycle Recovery Building, Jefferson County, MO

 

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1184: Erdogan's private army of Neo-Ottomanism. @jonathan_spyer, Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres from 2021-02-19T05:30

Image: Ottoman weapons and armor

 

Jonathan Spyer, @jonathan_spyer, director of the Middle East Center for Reporting and Analysis; and Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres, Conference ...

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1186: Iran rocketing Iraq tests Biden. Behnam Ben Taleblu, @FDD, and Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres, from 2021-02-19T05:25

Image:  Early Rockets

 

Behnam Ben Taleblu, @FDD,and Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres, Conference of Presidents;  in re: Iraqi rocket attack.  Why would Iran do this.  Perhaps as a...

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1183: 2/2: The 2020 Covid-19 crisis onboard USS Theodore Roosevelt & Lessons Learned. Tom Modly, former Acting Secretary of the Navy. from 2021-02-19T04:15:43

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. 2018.ARABIAN GULF (Feb. 09, 2018) The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) transits the Arabian Gulf. Theodore Roosevelt and its carrier str...

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1183: 1/2: The 2020 Covid-19 crisis onboard USS Theodore Roosevelt & Lessons Learned. Tom Modly, former Acting Secretary of the Navy. from 2021-02-19T04:15:35

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.2014.ATLANTIC OCEAN (Sep. 18, 2014) The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) transits the Atlantic Ocean. Theodore Roosevelt is underway cond...

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1183: The Biden Administration, in quest of tolerance, damages the opportunities for young female athletes. @SalenaZito, @DCExaminer @RealClearPolitics from 2021-02-19T04:10:14

Image:  Woman crosses the finish line in a foot race, ca. 1954

 

Salena Zito, @SalenaZito,@DCExaminer @RealClearPolitics; New York Post, CNN; Middle of Somewhere column; in re: Yo...

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1183: Joe Manchin supports the Byrd Rule, the filibuster, fossil fuels, Senate deliberation and aiding West Virginia in the pandemic opioid tragedy. @SalenaZito, @DCExaminer @RealClearPolitics from 2021-02-19T04:09:44

Image:  The Ohio River near Wheeling, West Virginia

 

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1183: The Biden immigration plan is open borders. @VDHanson from 2021-02-19T04:05:46

Image:  Pima County, Arizona's border area with Mexico, 

 

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1183: The strange tale of the deceitful Lincoln Project. @VDHanson from 2021-02-19T04:05:18

Image: Pederasty.  In Greek mythology (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_mythology) , Ganymede is a divine hero (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_hero) whose homeland was Troy (https://en.wiki...

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1182: Will Biden respond to the Iran backed rocket attack in Iraq? @SebGorka #AmericaFirst from 2021-02-19T04:02:29

Photo: The Erbil Citadel in northern Iraq Courtesy of the High Commission for Erbil Citadel Revitalisation  [A favorite town of the JBS producer]

 
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1182: Biden and Harris cannot explain when the children will be back in school. @SebGorka #AmericaFirst from 2021-02-19T03:55:31

Photo:  Orange, Texas. In the extended school day program in the public schools, some children of families where both parents are employed, come to school as early as 6 a.m. to enable the parents t...

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1182: Cuomo, Newsom, Lincoln Project, Pelosi: the unraveling of the Trump-hate sessions. @ConradMBlack from 2021-02-19T03:50:36

Photo: Poor Tammany! 

 
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1182: #TheScalaReport: Two unanswered questions: When do we return to the office? & How long for travel recovery post-pandemic? Chris Riegel: @ScalaInc @STRATACACHE from 2021-02-19T03:45:52

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1920.

View of the Public Trust Office building in Wellington, decorated for the visit of the Prince of Wales in 1920. ATLIB 293530

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1181: Circle of Treason: 4of4: CIA Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed Kindle Edition. by Sandra V. Grimes (Author), Jeanne Vertefeuille (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-02-19T03:13:21

Photo:  Trial of Robert Emmet, Emmet replying to the verdict of high treason, Sept. 19, 1803.

 
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1181: Circle of Treason: 3of4: CIA Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed Kindle Edition. by Sandra V. Grimes (Author), Jeanne Vertefeuille (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-02-19T03:13:11

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1181: Circle of Treason: 2of4: CIA Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed Kindle Edition. by Sandra V. Grimes (Author), Jeanne Vertefeuille (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-02-19T03:13:02

Photo: Actor Daniel Craig visited the agency to discuss the "Reel vs. Real" of espionage in 2018. (CIA photograph)
 
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1181: Circle of Treason: 1of4: CIA Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed Kindle Edition. by Sandra V. Grimes (Author), Jeanne Vertefeuille (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-02-19T03:12:54

Photo: The traitor, the thief, the liar, the murderess, the criminal sits there

 
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1187: Biden and Netanyahu spoke substantively of their differences. Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres, Conference of Presidents from 2021-02-18T17:40

Image:   Israel from, Palestine Past and Present. Pictorial and descriptive ... Illustrated, etc.

 

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1180: The richly talented San Diego Padres (aka Friars) get richer. Host from 2021-02-18T04:56:11

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1180: "And we won't know for another 11 minutes." Host from 2021-02-18T04:53:51

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1180: #HotelMars: "Seven minutes of terror" as Perseverance descends to the surface of Mars. William Harwood @cbs_spacenews David Livingston SpaceShow.com from 2021-02-18T04:42:26

Photo: A cross-section of underground water ice is exposed at the steep slope that appears bright blue in this enhanced-color view from the MRO.[105] The scene is about 500 meters wide. The scarp d...

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1180: Counting the average number of nova explosions in the Milky Way each Earth year (46). Ken Croswell @ScienceNews from 2021-02-18T04:36:05

Photo: GK Persei (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GK_Persei) : Nova of 1901

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1180: The Pacific Island groups of Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia fragment into factions that the PRC seeks to exploit. Cleo Paskal, non-resident senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. from 2021-02-18T04:29:59

Photo: Three men wave life jackets and look on as a U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon maritime surveillance aircraft discovers them on the uninhabited island of Fanadik.

 
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1180: PRC threatens to withhold rare earth metals from the F-35 fleet; & What is to be done? Rich Fisher, International Assessment and Strategy Center. @GordonGChang from 2021-02-18T04:26:59

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1179: Who gains from the conflict at the shores of the Red Sea and Mediterranean (RedMed)? Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs from 2021-02-18T04:16:36

Photo:  Destruction of the Egyptian army in the Red Sea
 
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1179: Why does Egypt drive Sudan to invade the beleaguered and fractured Ethiopia? Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs. from 2021-02-18T04:15:09

Photo: Hunting in Ethiopia
 
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1179: Diverse representation defined and mandated at the Florida Bar. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst from 2021-02-18T04:08:19

Photo: Lawyer; Hans Holbein the Younger

 
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1179: Difficult diversity goals for legal representation and Coca-Cola, 2021. @RichardAEpstein @Hoover from 2021-02-18T04:07:02

Photo: Black children playing on top of a Coca Cola stand. Little Rock, Arkansas

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1178: SpaceX Starlink an easy-to-assemble, out-of-the-box treasure to use. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-02-18T04:03:52

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1178: Mars rover-orbiter reporting on Curiosity, Perseverance, Tianwen-1, Amal. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com from 2021-02-18T04:01:39

Photo: Illustration of the Ingenuity Mars helicopter. NASA/JPL-Caltech.
 
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1178: Everything went wrong in Texas & What is to be done by 2035? Bud Weinstein, Far North Dallas. from 2021-02-18T03:49:36

Photo:  GOES-16 satellite imagery of the February 2021 ice storm at 21:11 UTC on February 10
 
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1178: State of the City, the State, the Union: Should Governor Cuomo welcome an independent investigation of the nursing home tragedy and alleged cover-up? John Catsimatidis @JCats2013 @CatsRoundtable @JohnCats from 2021-02-18T03:47:19

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1177: Lessons learned from the failure of the random lockdowns. @JohnTamny @RealClearMarkets from 2021-02-18T03:39:20

Photo: Elegant lock.
 
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1177: Why does Elon Musk bull Bitcoin? @JohnTamny @RealClearMarkets from 2021-02-18T03:37:08

Photo: Ancient coin.
 
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1177: PRC condemns Canada for protesting hostage-taking & What is to be done? Charles Burton @GordonGChang from 2021-02-18T03:28:50

Photo:  Princelingesse Meng.   Interior of special state room, promenade deck, RMS Empress of Japan at Vancouver circa 1890s

 
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1177: PRC birthrate in sharp retreat, a consequence of the cruel one-child policy. Susan Yoshihara, @GordonGChang from 2021-02-18T03:23:45

Photo: Chinese children.
 
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1176: The Last Viking: 4of4: The Extraordinary Life of Roald Amundsen Kindle Edition. by Stephen R. Bown (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-02-18T02:17:45

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1176: The Last Viking: 3of4: The Extraordinary Life of Roald Amundsen Kindle Edition. by Stephen R. Bown (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-02-18T02:17:39

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1926.

[Airship Norge, used in Roald Amundsen's polar flight in 1926, being brought out of hangar, Kings Bay, Spitzbergen, Norway]

 
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1176: The Last Viking: 2of4: The Extraordinary Life of Roald Amundsen Kindle Edition. by Stephen R. Bown (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-02-18T02:07:34

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1906.

[Deck of Capt. Amundsen's ship "GJÖA," Nome, Sep. 1st, 1906]

 
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1176: The Last Viking: 1of4: The Extraordinary Life of Roald Amundsen Kindle Edition. by Stephen R. Bown (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-02-18T02:06:31

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1920

[Roald Amundsen, full-length portrait, facing left, walking on pier, with group of people]

 
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1175: The trouble with renewables is that they don't always renew. Host from 2021-02-17T05:31

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1939. 

Windmill propellers, Dumas, Texas

 
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1173: Where in the World is Inflation? Bitcoin? Markets? Das Notgeld? @Joseph Sternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-02-17T05:30

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1173: An upbeat Boris Johnson knows that he cannot lockdown the UK again. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion from 2021-02-17T05:30

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1175: #MLB: You get what you pay for! Host from 2021-02-17T04:27:16

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Title: Out at home 
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1174: Good news from the long-struggling South Caucasus. Brenda Shaffer @ProfBShaffer @ElinSuleymanov from 2021-02-17T04:20:07

Image:  Arrival of Shah Museferdin in Baku. 1902

 

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1174: Lessons learned in Europe and America from surrendering liberty to medical experts and executive authority. @RussellBermanSF from 2021-02-17T04:19:22

Image:  An April afternoon with Lady Liberty

 

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1174: Fintech supremacy and what can go wrong early. John Berlau, @jberlau from 2021-02-17T04:18:48

Image:  Louis L. Klotz, Minister of Finance:  12 September 1917 — 20 January 1920, in the second government of Georges Clemenceau. He was responsible for negotiating reparations from Germany. His p...

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1174: What happened in the two-hour phone call to the Communist Party of China? JedBabbin, @WashingtonTimes, from 2021-02-17T04:18:16

Image:  The F=first Chinese telephone operator in Chinatown, San Francisco

 

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1173: Biden Administration scrambles in reaction to the Myanmar coup & What is to be done? @JoshRogin @WashingtonPost from 2021-02-17T04:12:35

Photo: Mandalay - tower of palace

 
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1173: Iran tests Biden in Iraq & What is to be done? @VictoriaCoates, Center for Secure Society. from 2021-02-17T04:10:07

Photo:  Iraq. Arbela (Erbil). Iraq. Arbela. (Erbil). Center of Ishtar cult in Assyrian period, 2200 B.C. Typical group: man, boys, and girl

 
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1172: The genuine Democratic obsession with Trump launches a commission to hang on to Trump. . @LizPeek @TheHill from 2021-02-17T03:56:14

Photo:  Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental disorder in which a person has certain thoughts repeatedly (called "obsessions")
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1172: Biden Administration unforced economic errors (aka blunders) begin with canceling the Keystone XL pipeline. @LizPeek @FoxNews @TheHill from 2021-02-17T03:56:10

Photo: Inspecting the Canol pipeline

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1172: Carlos Menem passes away at 90 but Argentine's debt troubles and unsolved terror attacks remain. @MariaFdaCabal/ @jmhumire from 2021-02-17T03:50:54

Photo:   Carlos Menem, entonces gobernador electo de la provincia argentina de La Rioja, después de su victoria en las elecciones de 1983.
 
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1172: #NewWorldReport: UN envoy asserts that the US and EU sanctions of the Maduro regime cause Venezuela's failure. @MariaFdaCabal/ @jmhumire from 2021-02-17T03:50:50

Photo: Slapping the mouth for telling lies.

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1171: 8/8: The Return of George Washington: Uniting the States, 1783-1789, by Edward J. Larson from 2021-02-17T02:05:36

Image: A View of Mount Vernon with Washington Family on the Terrace Artist: Benjamin Henry Latrobe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Henry_Latrobe)   1796

  

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1171: 7/8 The Return of George Washington: Uniting the States, 1783-1789, by Edward J. Larson from 2021-02-17T02:04:44

Image: By the United States in Congress assembled, September 13, 1788 : Whereas the convention assembled in Philadelphia, pursuant to the resolution of Congress of the 21st February, 1787, did, on ...

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1171: 6/8 The Return of George Washington: Uniting the States, 1783-1789, by Edward J. Larson from 2021-02-17T02:03:51

Image: Dr. Benjamin Franklin

 

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1171: 5/8 The Return of George Washington: Uniting the States, 1783-1789, by Edward J. Larson from 2021-02-17T02:02:55

Image:   Leaving Mount Vernon for the Congress of the Colonies

 

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1171: 4/8 The Return of George Washington: Uniting the States, 1783-1789, by Edward J. Larson from 2021-02-17T01:44:50

Image: Liberty Bell and stairway, Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

 

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1171: 3/8 The Return of George Washington: Uniting the States, 1783-1789, by Edward J. Larson from 2021-02-17T01:44:15

Image:  James Wilson's ideas shaped the American presidency more than those of any other delegate.

 

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1171: 2/8 The Return of George Washington: Uniting the States, 1783-1789, by Edward J. Larson from 2021-02-17T01:43:37

Image:  George Washington's room at Mt. Vernon

 

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1171: 1/8 The Return of George Washington: Uniting the States, 1783-1789, by Edward J. Larson from 2021-02-17T01:43:02

Image:  Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union between the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode Island and . . .

 

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1170: 2/2: Kissinger on Trump, December 2016: Niall Ferguson, @HooverInst @Nfergus from 2021-02-16T07:22:07

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1910. 

Meeting Prince of China Zaitao, St. Petersburg, Russia. 1910

 
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1170: 1/2: Kissinger on Trump, December 2016: Niall Ferguson, @HooverInst @Nfergus from 2021-02-16T07:22:04

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1910.

Meeting Prince of China Zaitao, St. Petersburg, Russia. 1910

 
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1169: Can Third Baseman superstar Nolan Arenado hit in Busch Stadium as he hit in Coors Field? Host from 2021-02-16T06:22:48

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1930-1945.

The Arena. St. Louis. Mo.

 
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1169: 2/2: #ClassicScience: Translating climate risk to transnational costs. David Victor, @GPS_UCSD School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California San Diego. from 2021-02-16T06:01:05

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1913.

[Woman, holding umbrella, pushing baby in carriage equipped with rain cover (ad?)]

 
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1169: 1/2: #ClassicScience: Translating climate risk to transnational costs. David Victor, @GPS_UCSD School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California San Diego. from 2021-02-16T06:01:02

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1922.

[People standing in rain outside building], 12/28/22

 
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1169: The still-unknown fate of Officer Brian Sicknick on January 6. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-02-16T05:56:43

Image: Brian Sicknick's basic training photo in 1997

 

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1169: "Indiana" Hoenlein and the lost 5,000-year-old megabrewery of ancient Egypt. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres@ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness from 2021-02-16T05:46:21

Image: Ancient Egyptian clay pots for brewing beery. Screen grab,

 

Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres, Conference of Presidents, in re: A huge beer brewery, over 5,000 years old, ne...

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1169: Biden administration reverts to old JCPOA as Iran speeds into nukes. Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres, @ThadMcCotter, @theamgreatness from 2021-02-16T05:45:47

Image:  Wrestlers from About Persia and its people. A description of their manners, customs, and home life. ... Illustrated

 

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1167: Nancy Pelosi is a character from an English novel (Miss Havisham?) with one overwhelming obsession to get even with the POTUS who did wrong. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund from 2021-02-16T04:30:05

Photo:  Miss Havisham, in art by Harry Furniss from the library edition of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations.

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1167: The London bookies say 5-1 Gavin Newsom survives recall; & What is to be done? @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund from 2021-02-16T04:13:28

Photo:  This week’s photograph is Bugg’s Cobblers shop, Beckside circa 1940.  Although officially a cobbler’s,  it appears as though Mr Bugg sidelined as a bookie as well - note the shopfront adorn...

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1167: Biden Latin America policy is back to the Obama Latin American Policy. @MaryAnastasiaOG. @WSJOpinion from 2021-02-16T04:09:36

Photo: Colombia Cartagenia, San Pedro Claver Church 

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1167: Tehran threatens to enrich in secret in order to intimidate Europe and to break the US sanctions. Richard Goldberg @FDD @Rich_Goldberg from 2021-02-16T03:59:55

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1944. Significance: 185-D, 189-D and 190-D, building in what is commonly known as the 190-D complex, were completed in December, 1944 in conjunction with...

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1168: 150 minutes chatting with Xi Jinping. Unususal. @YatesDCIA, @dciadvisory, @GordonGChang from 2021-02-16T03:52:32

Image:  Demonstration of telephone at the Formosa Memorial Exhibition

 

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1167: The inspirational elder Jimmy Lai still imprisoned by China. @Michael_Yon, @GordonGChang from 2021-02-16T03:48:34

Image:  The charming Star Ferry boats have been faithfully carrying passengers from Hong Kong Island to Kowloon and back since 1888. While the two sides of Victoria Harbour are now connected by a w...

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1167: Italy starts to pull through a rough patch with the virus. Lorenzo Fiori from 2021-02-16T03:46:14

Image:  Bucolic scene in winter with a pack donkey.

 

Lorenzo Fiori: Direttore Generale Ansaldo Fondazione ; in re: The virus numbers are diminishing in Italy.   The British varia...

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1166: "Indiana" Hoenlein and the lost Roman payslip from the siege of Masada. Host from 2021-02-16T03:35:35

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1898. 

Masada

 
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1166: Al Qaeda explains that US travails are theologically foretold and deserved. @thomasjoscelyn, @FDD from 2021-02-16T03:34:55

 Image:  Barely visible among the rocks, US Marine Corps (USMC) Marines assigned to the Battalion Landing Team (BLT), 1ST Battalion, 6th Marines, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), Special Opera...

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1165: 4/4 The Founders at Home: The Building of America, 1735-1817, Illustrated Edition, by Myron Magnet from 2021-02-16T01:00

Image:  A Committee of Five (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_of_Five) , composed of John Adams (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adams) , Thomas Jefferson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...

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1165: 3/4 The Founders at Home: The Building of America, 1735-1817, Illustrated Edition, by Myron Magnet from 2021-02-16T01:00

Image:   Stratford Hall, established by Thomas Lee in the 1730s, is one of the great houses of American history. Four generations of the Lee family passed through its stately doors, including Richa...

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1165: 2/4 The Founders at Home: The Building of America, 1735-1817, Illustrated Edition, by Myron Magnet from 2021-02-16T01:00

Image:   William Livingston

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1165: 1/4 The Founders at Home: The Building of America, 1735-1817, Illustrated Edition, by Myron Magnet from 2021-02-16T01:00

Image:  The Founders at Home book cover

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1164: John Quincy Adams: 4of4: by Harlow Giles Unger Kindle Edition from 2021-02-15T05:27:58

Photo: John Quincy Adams

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1164: John Quincy Adams: 3of4: by Harlow Giles Unger Kindle Edition from 2021-02-15T05:27:54

Photo:  John Adams, residence in Quincy, Massachusetts. Kitchen, to stoves

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1164: John Quincy Adams: 2of4 by Harlow Giles Unger Kindle Edition from 2021-02-15T05:27:50

Photo: Engraving of Young John Quincy, 1783

 
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1164: John Quincy Adams: 1of4: Kindle Edition. by Harlow Giles Unger Kindle Edition from 2021-02-15T05:27:46

Photo: Woodcut of the Residence of John Quincy, 1846

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1163: #ClassicScience: Wary of Mayan self-deception in the 21st Century: 2of2. Avi Loeb, Harvard. from 2021-02-15T05:20:32

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1163: #ClassicScience: Wary of Mayan self-deception in the 21st Century: 1of2. Avi Loeb, Harvard. from 2021-02-15T05:20:28

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1162: Heretics and Heroes: 4of4: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World (Hinges of History Book 6) Kindle Edition.by Thomas Cahill (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-02-15T04:33:08

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1162: Heretics and Heroes: 3of4: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World (Hinges of History Book 6) Kindle Edition.by Thomas Cahill (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-02-15T04:32:26

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1162: Heretics and Heroes: 2of4: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World (Hinges of History Book 6) Kindle Edition.by Thomas Cahill (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-02-15T04:32:17

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1162: Heretics and Heroes: 1of4: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World (Hinges of History Book 6) Kindle Edition.by Thomas Cahill (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-02-15T04:32:10

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1161: Mermaid: 2of2: A Memoir of Resilience Kindle Edition. by Eileen Cronin (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-02-15T04:21:32

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1161: Mermaid: 1of2: A Memoir of Resilience Kindle Edition. by Eileen Cronin (Author) Format: Kindle Edition from 2021-02-15T04:21:28

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1660.Een schildpad, een krab, een zeemeermin met kam en spiegel en een zeemeerman die op een schelp blaast. Deze prent maakt deel uit van een album.
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1160: 4/4 Enduring Courage: Ace Pilot Eddie Rickenbacker and the Dawn of the Age of Speed, by John F. Ross from 2021-02-15T01:18:38

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1160: 3/4 Enduring Courage: Ace Pilot Eddie Rickenbacker and the Dawn of the Age of Speed, by John F. Ross from 2021-02-15T01:17:41

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