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28 Nov

Today's Eight Things To Know:
DOD & aerial surveillance
Trump bolsters Taliban
Brexit/pandemic combo pummel UK
#Navalny update
Spacejunk cleanup mission
Florida wetlands concerns
Barr authorizes federal executions by firing squad
“September 1, 1939”--Auden
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Trump has w/drawn from the Open Skies Treaty, which allows 35 nations to conduct aerial surveillance over member states’ territories to collect military intelligence data. This week, the DOD decided to sell the US overflight aircraft; but DOD claims no intent to knee-cap Biden.

Trump has recklessly w/drawn US troops from Afghanistan and closed US bases. The Taliban, in an ever-closer partnership with ISIS, is gobbling up territory the US abandoned. Trump defies US military leaders and throws away gains made w/sacrifices--a shocking dereliction of duty.

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10 Oct

-Trump earns praise from Taliban
-Trump restricts Iran’s ability to buy medicine
-Biden/Ukraine/Boris Johnson
-Texans opposes border wall
-Putin’s hypersonic cruise missile
-Neanderthal gene a risk factor for serious covid
-Greek migrant camps
-Penguins look.substack.com/p/eight-things…

Under a Feb deal w/the Taliban, US troop withdrawals from Afghan were to be conditioned on a reduction in violence and a severing of ties between the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Neither condition has been met, yet Trump says he will pullout all troops by Xmas.look.substack.com/p/eight-things…

Analysts have warned that a precipitous US withdrawal will further destabilize Afghanistan. The Taliban called Trump’s pullout announcement, which came in a tweet, “a very positive step.” Violence in Afghanistan has escalated dramatically in recent months. Taliban is to blame.

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9 Oct

Tomorrow in "Eight Things To Know," powerful south Texas landowners have joined forces with tribes and local charities to oppose Trump's border wall construction.

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[the Rio Grande, near Laredo, TX]

"Few things are less American, less Texan, than losing or seceding our property to the federal government and creating a military installation on the border." -- from the Rio Grande Landowner's Coalition. The group includes one of the largest landowners in the US.

Also tomorrow, we report on Putin's birthday present. He turned 68 on Wednesday.

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9 Oct

Prime Minister Winston Churchill with his daughter aboard the HMS Duke of York en route to America, December 1941.

British troops awaiting evacuation from Dunkirk, May 26, 1940.

FDR and Churchill aboard the HMS Prince of Wales, off the coast of Newfoundland, after signing the Atlantic Charter, August 1941. The principles of the Atlantic Charter served as the basis for the UN Charter.

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8 Oct

Lincoln is featured in our "Advice Column" in Wed's
"Eight Things To Know."
"Wise statesmen as [the Founding Fathers] were, they knew the tendency of prosperity to breed tyrants and so they established these great self-evident truths that when in the distant future some man,

"...some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.."

"...their posterity might look up again to the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began." —Abraham Lincoln, Aug. 17, 1858.
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[Blue Room reception, 1862]

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