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MOSCOW TV REVIEWER. Revenge Is Its Own Worst Enemy
Teeter image fromMark H. Teeter shared a link. (from Facebook)17 minsMOSCOW TV REVIEWER. Revenge Is Its Own Worst EnemyFrontline: “Putin’s Revenge” (Documentary. USA, Oct. 25/Nov.1)(PBS, YouTube; links...
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The False Prophecy of Hyperconnection
Neall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs; see also (1)image (not from article) fromHow to Survive the Networked AgeIt is a truth universally acknowledged that the world is connected as never before. Once upon a...
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The Soviet Language Revolution
Michele A. Berdy, Moscow Times; via MT - Many thanks!Pixabay, Soviet Posters / MTЯть: yat, an obsolete letterThis week Russia may not be marking the 100th anniversary of the 1917 Revolution with much...
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Thank-you notes - a reconstructed conversation
image fromAt a "youngsters'" luncheon the other day, several snobby prep school classmates and I -- we graduated in '66, which makes us automatic reactionaries -- chatted about the younger Millenerian...
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Who says the USSR had no "soft power"?
John Brown [facebook entry]13 hrs · Who says the USSR had no "soft power"?Riders in Vietnam love their vintage Soviet-made Minsk motorcyclesThese riders on their Minsk motorcyclists try to get over the...
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Firm founded by KGB spy to guard US Moscow embassy
bbc.com; via PK on Facebook -- thank you!Image from article, with caption: The US embassy in Moscow had to cut staff amid a diplomatic spat The US State Department has employed a private firm set up by...
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Jerry Brown, President of the Independent Republic of California - Note for a...
David Sivers, PoliticoAs he crusades across Europe, the governor is acting like the leader of a sovereign country—an alternative to the United States in the Trump era.image (not from article)...
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Is the Age of the Artistic Recluse Over?
By MEGAN O’GRADY NOV. 14, 2017,New York Times [Original contains links and additional photographs]Image from article, with caption: An image from Chris Buck's "Presence," a series of portraits shot...
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Race and America’s Soul - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps...
city-journal.org[JB -- a "politically incorrect" piece with some important quotations from "abolitionists"; as for the article's commentary on more recent racial divides/tension in the USA, I leave it...
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Grassroots Diplomat: Where are you REALLY from? - Note for a discussion, "E...
grassrootdiplomat.org [entry cites a video]; JB note: This entry is not a PDPBR endorsement]EPISODE #10Excerpt:Sometimes, it doesn’t matter how you sound or where you are born. Curiosity about one’s...
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Bolshevism’s New Believers
nybooks.comBolshevism’s New BelieversBenjamin NathansNOVEMBER 23, 2017 ISSUEThe House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolutionby Yuri SlezkinePrinceton University Press, 1,104 pp., $39.95Russian...
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Our Elites Still Don’t Get It - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What...
David Book, "Our Elites Still Don’t Get It,"New York Timesuncaptioned image from articleExcerpt:Freedom without covenant becomes selfishness. And that’s what we see at thetop of society, in our...
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A Foolish Take: Here's how much debt the average U.S. household owes
Leo Sun, The Motley Fool, USA Todayimage from articleThe average American household carries $137,063 in debt, according to the Federal Reserve's latest numbers.Yet the U.S. Census Bureau reports that...
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New Russian Thriller has US State Department Working for an Independent Siberia
Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia -- New SeriesImage (not from entry) from, with headline: Siberia wants to become a republic.Staunton, November 17 – In the best traditions of Soviet agitprop, a new movie...
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Power and love
image fromSoft power, smart power, and now sharp power -- Why so much said about the love of power, rather than the power of love?***Power is the ability to alter the behavior of others to get what you...
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No, the Divide in American Politics Is Not Rural vs. Urban, and Here’s the...
Colin Woodard, medium.com [Original article contains links and more illustrations]; via TC on linkedin -- thank you!Images from article, with comment: For now, please repeat after me: What divides...
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Review: The Pilgrims’ Progress - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum?...
wsj.comThe story of Plymouth Colony, told afresh through the life of one of its lesser-known founders, the Puritan printer Edward Winslow. David M. Shribman reviews ‘The Mayflower’ by Rebecca Fraser.By...
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From a Facebook entry on the "Divided States" ...
Happy Thanksgving [sic] or as The Precedent of the Divided States would say, I'm just another "Ungrateful Fool" #ucladadimage (not from facebook entry) from
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On the film Casablanca
John Anderson, "Best Enjoyed, Not Dissected: How the iconic ‘Casablanca’ came together almost as a series of accidents—or, at the very least, undistinguished circumstances,"Wall Street Journalimage...
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