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Photo: The Imperial Portrait of the Chinese Emperor Xianfeng. China chastens US as “misguided.” US grits teeth. Stephen Yates, former deputy national security advisor to Vice President Cheney and currently CEO of DC International Advisory. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/26/us-china-tianjin-meeting-wendy-sherman-xie-feng-wang-yi.html “Fundamentally, i…

Photo: Pakistani police erasing the name of Muhammad from the Kalima of a Ahmadiyya Mosque in Faislabad (at Sir Shamsheer Road), Pakistan. Pakistan backs Taliban, China smiles. Kamran Bokhari, director of Analytical Development at the Newlines Institute for Strategy & Policy. AFGHAN CRISIS INTERNATIONAL China, Pakistan outline ‘joint action’ to ali…

Photo: 16th century map of Tabriz, Iran. Matrakçı Nasuh's separate drawings of east and west Tabriz were put together. The Tabriz protests of the water mismanagement by the IRGC. Brenda Shaffer @ProfBShaffer @FDD https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2021/07/25/Protests-break-out-in-Iran-s-Tabriz-in-support-of-Khuzestan-demonstrations- Per…

Photo: In Cuba of long ago: Taíno women preparing cassava bread Despite the risks, is it time to restaff the US Embassy in Havana? Katrina vanden Heuvel @TheNation https://www.thenation.com/article/world/cuba-embassy-letter-havana-syndrome/John Batchelor

Photo: .Taliban convoy was en route to seize a town; here: after US B52s bombed it. Photo, late July 2021. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #KabulDiary: The map shows Kandahar under close siege. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/07/taliban-battled-afghan-military-…

Photo: .A fleeting glimpse of one of the b52s that bombed to Taliban convoy. Photo from late July 2021. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchel CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #KabulDiary: Can "Armed Overwatch" of weapons, air strikes and Special Operations secure Kabul? @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/afgh…

Photo: Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Tajiks. Kufi Sect Notes: This photograph is from the ethnographical part of Turkestan Album, a comprehensive visual survey of Central Asia undertaken after imperial Russia assumed control of the region in the 1860s. Commissioned by General Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufman (1818–82), the first governor-…

Photo: La Constantia nearly complete. La Martiniere in Lucknow from a watercolour of the house in Lucknow. Ref: from 'Views by Seeta Ram from Cawnpore to Mohumdy Vol. IV' produced for Lord Moira, afterwards the Marquess of Hastings, by Sita Ram between 1814-15. Marquess of Hastings, the Governor-General of Bengal and the Commander-in-Chief (r. 1813…

Photo: railroads: Oiling up before the start CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow The Biden Administration vs the Great Railroad Trust and Its Successors. @JohnTamny @RealClearMarkets ttps://www.aier.org/article/biden-places-a-bulls-eye-on-big-rail/John Batchelor

Photo: "C'est un peu dur d'être obligé" — It's a little hard to be forced. Honoré Daumier Lithographs. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow New York City suddenly mandates vaccinations or intense testing. @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNews https://news.yahoo.com/york-city-requiring-covid-vaccines-232938701.html…

Photo: Aerial of highways and the area around the city where flood waters have covered the land. . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 2/2: Deutschland floods during a profound election campaign; & What is to be be done? Vendeline von Bredow, @TheEconomist. GERMAN ELECTION 2021: After almost 16 years as German…

Photo: Flood from the mid-twentieth century. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 1/2: Deutschland floods during a profound election campaign & What is to be be done? Vendeline von Bredow, @TheEconomist. GERMAN ELECTION 2021: After almost 16 years as Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel will step down following …

Photo: National Palace from the Cathedral, Mexico City, Mexico. . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #NewWorldReport: The fragile and untended Mexican middle class. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org https://www.eco…

Photo: Peru: The Meeting of Joachim and Anna ; in the Brooklyn Museum. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #NewWorldReport: Unknown Castillo takes command. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org https://www.msn.com/en-us…

Photo: Noble Hall of Teatro Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #NewWorldReport: Lula on the comeback trail. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org https://en.mercopress.com/2021/07/21/brazil-lu…

Photo: The infamous and dreaded Black Berets special forces in Cuba. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #NewWorldReport: Cuba's "Black Berets" & What is to be done? Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org Cuba's communis…

Photo: Seal of San Diego, California . @Batchelorshow #PacificWatch: Remembering San Diego Comic-Cons past and a lost outtake of Star Trek. @JCBliss #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety https://www.wsj.com/articles/san-diego-struggles-to-recover-as-comic-con-stays-virtual-11627119002John Batchelor

Photo: The Lakhta Center, an 87-story skyscraper in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Standing 462 meters (1,516 ft) tall, it is the tallest building in Russia, the tallest building in Europe, and the fifteenth-tallest building in the world. Lakhta Center is intended to become the new headquarters of Russian energy company Gazprom. . You are free to use th…

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. @Batchelorshow #Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus under suspicion by Domitian as they speculate upon Seven Days in May for succession protocols. Michael Vlahos. #…

Photo: Windmill used to pump water for irrigation, Compton, ca. 1900–1901. @Batchelorshow #PacificWatch: "Emergency Curtailment" in the Solar System's bread- and fruit- basket of the San Joaquin Valley @DevinNunes CA-22 #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-07-23/thousands-of-california-farmers-may-lose-acce…

Photo: German occupation of Poland CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow C. J. Carey #UNBOUND: The complete, 20-minute interview, June 26, 2021 #LitCrit: Widowland by C .J. Carey. Paperback n alternative history with a strong feminist twist, perfect for fans of Robert Harris' Fatherland, C. J. Sansom's Dominion …

Photo: Berryman Political Cartoon Collection: "Them guys [politicians] makes us look like pikers." CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Russell Shorto #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, April 22, 2021. Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob. Hardcover – February 2, 2021, by Russell Shorto (Aut…

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 to make a living. Italian women were employed in ‘sweatshops’, sewing workshops, where they were grievously exploited. Even children were sent out to earn mon…

Photo: Glen-Holly Hotel, first hotel in Hollywood, at the corner of what is now called Yucca Street. It was built in the 1890s. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow "In the Tunnel of Love" #Unbound. A story from the collection, Gordon Liddy Is My Muse, by John Calvin Batchelor. The complete, eighty-five minutes…

Photo: .The Mount Vesuvius funicular in the 19th century CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Charlie Pellegrino #Unbound: the complete, twenty-minute interview, June 18, 2021. Finding the Hero of Herculaneum two thousand years later. Charles Pellegrino https://news.yahoo.com/2-000-old-skeleton-roman-135559332.…

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 CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Terry Anderson #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. April 6, 2021 Adapt and Be Adept: Market …

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 retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: This image, like many Thulstrup prints, was done on vellum, with a characteristic dapp…

Photo: The comparison French Folly opposed to British wisdom "An engraving in two divisions; in that on our left a French officer, "1," with a closed letter in his hand and his finger on his lips, walks away from another, "2," who asks for news from him... In the division on our right an English naval officer, "3," is in conversation with a noblema…

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 with FEMA in Orange County. FEMA/Michael Mancino . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Holly Fretwell #Unbound. The com…

Photo: Reformed school, ca. 1650. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow James Tooley #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview. May 14, 2021. Really Good Schools: Global Lessons for High-Caliber, Low-Cost Education - Hardcover – April 12, 2021.by James Tooley (Author) “James Tooley has taken his argument ab…

Photo: Destroyed Iraqi tank near road 2003-03-25 . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow David Grantham #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview, April 5, 2021. GLXXG Consequences: An Intelligence Officer's War Paperback – November 11, 2020. by David Grantham (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Consequences-In…

Photo: Kazan's Panic in the Street trailer screenshot. 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's a film noir semidocumentary shot exclusively on location in New Orleans, Louisiana. . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow John T…

Photo: Indian Sappers and Miners in Hiroo, Japan, 1946 Queen Victoria's Own Madras Sappers and Miners, British Indian Division (BRINDIV), employed in the construction of a brick building as part of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF). Hiroo, Japan. 30 April 1946. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorsho…

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 the International Seapower Symposium (ISS). CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Jerry Hendrix #Unbound: the complete, f…

Photo: . The Overscheduler: Their calendars look like a kindergartener’s finger painting. Meetings overlap meetings while reminders for events, breaks, tasks, and more meetings are going off like it’s New Year’s Eve. Their days are determined from the moment they wake up to their evening routine. The Minimalist: Also known as “The Dreamer”. They’ve…

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 @Batchelorshow #PacificWatch: The Undead Bullet Train @JCBliss #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety Dianne Feinstein, Alex Padilla urge California Democrats to spend on high-speed rail --…

Photo: A Texas Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk out of the Austin Army Aviation Facility helps fight wildfires threatening homes and property. As of July 24, about 4,266 firefighters were on the California Dixie Fire with 365 engines, 60 water tenders, 31 helicopters, 76 hand crews and 100 dozers. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS A…

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. A burly Roman senator and a small, thin, knock-kneed Englishman face each other. Over one is etched "The Roman Senator"; over the other, "The British Senator". The Roman (left) in profile to the right., wearing armour and a voluminous cloak, stands in front of a pillar with his left foot on a raised step…

Photo:. President Trump with President Xi, April 2017 CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Josh Rogin #Unbound: the complete, eighty-minute interview, March 21, 2021 Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century, Kindle Edition by Josh Rogin Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon…

Photo: The Book of Natural Wisdom (1490) CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow William Damon #UNBOUND: The complete, forty-minute interview. July 3, 2021. A Round of Golf with My Father, by William Damon. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Round-Golf-Father-Psychology-Exploring/dp/1599475634 Viewing our past through the e…

Photo: KGB (now FSB) headquarters, Moscow, Kuznetsky Most Street 24 @Batchelorshow #Great Migration: Forty yards from the KGB HQ in Vilnius, watching for Russia to invade again. Michael Yon, Locals.com/YON #FriendsoftheHistoryDebatingSociety https://coldwarsites.net/country/lithuania/the-kgb-building-prison-and-memorials-vilnius/ Permissions: Date …

Photo: Capt. Mohamed, the division surgeon assigned to 6th . @Batchelorshow #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 https://news.yahoo.com/lithuanias-plea-iraq-probe-human-143556705.html ..…

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #Londinium90AD: Gaius & Germanicus philosophize about violent Emperor succession episodes. Michael Vlahos. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety GLXXG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Days_in_MayJohn Batchelor

Photo: Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Old Waste Calcining Facility, Scoville, Butte County, Idaho. 2/2. Nuclear weapons and Tehran. Andrea Stricker, @StrickerNonpro, @FDD https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2021/06/30/international-atomic-energy-agency/John Batchelor

Photo: Japanese used a chemical weapon in Hebei in 1937 1/2. Chemical weapons and the Kremlin. Andrea Stricker, @StrickerNonpro, @FDD https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2021/06/30/organization-for-the-prohibition-of-chemical-weapons/John Batchelor

Photo: A Reveton payload, fraudulently claiming that the user must pay a fine to the Metropolitan Police Service. [Fair use] CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Gathering Ransomware Summiteers in August. @FRoseDC @WJLA GLXXG https://govmatters.tv/possible-revolution-underway-for-fighting-ransomware-says-cybers…

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 have been affected, according to Russia’s Federal Forestry Agency. This Copernicus Sentinel-3 image shows a number of fires, producing plumes of smoke. The smoke…

Photo: France: Castle of Combourg. 4/4 La Révolution Française, by Sophie Pedder. @PedderSophie https://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Française-Emmanuel-Macron-reinvent/dp/1472948602 The extraordinary story of how an outsider candidate—an unknown technocrat and economics minister on the fringes of French politics—made his way to the Élysée palace, with…

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 {Lit de justice tenu par Louis XIII au Parlement de Paris le lendemain de la mort de Henri IV son père. 15 mai 1610) In France under the Ancien Régime, the lit de justice "bed of justice") was a particular formal session …

Photo: Women get the vote. Auclert - Le vote des femmes, 1908 2/4 La Révolution Française, by Sophie Pedder. @PedderSophie https://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Française-Emmanuel-Macron-reinvent/dp/1472948602 The extraordinary story of how an outsider candidate—an unknown technocrat and economics minister on the fringes of French politics—made his way…