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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.

The UK is soon to have the "hard Brexit" that many right-wingers desire.
Economists say it will cost the UK 8% GDP. It comes as the pandemic takes off another 1.7% of UK GDP. Good luck, BoJo.

Ah, sovereignty!
Taking back control!

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RU oppo leader #Navalny, who was poisoned with novichok in Aug, delivered a zoom-address in English to the EU Parliament yestday. He called Putin's govt a bunch of crooks and urged sanctions against oligarch-yacht owners vacationing in Monaco. Listen here->look.substack.com/p/eight-things…

There are 500,000 pieces of space junk up there threatening the Intl Space Station & other satellites; but the Swiss company ClearSpace has figured out how to get rid of the big pieces. The EU Space Agency hired ClearSpace to get the cleanup party started->look.substack.com/p/eight-things…

FL has applied to the EPA to get authority to do federal permitting under the Clean Water Act, even tho the FL Dept. Enviro Protection has been gutted of manpower and $$ under GOP governorships. Developers are delighted; conservationists are aghast. More->look.substack.com/p/eight-things…

Barr ended the fed moratorium on the death penalty. The US has executed 8 people in the last year. 5 more will be executed in these last weeks of the Trump admin. Friday, Barr gave an ok to use hanging, electrocution, gas and firing squads. Sick-o stuff-->look.substack.com/p/eight-things…

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From yestday's journal: "One should insist on the right of every citizen to actually vote without fear or interference. Once that is accomplished for every citizen then immediately every citizen has a better chance to fight for his own rights to equal standards. E. Roosevelt '56

Tomorrow's Eight Things To Know begins with Day #113 of protests in #Belarus.

More state violence.

Persistence by old and young men and women seeking democracy.

It is time for the US to step up.

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Britain is planning a four-day celebration for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, in 2022.

She will have served for 70 years then.

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Protests against police brutality gripped Paris on Saturday, following the beating of a Black music producer outside his studio.
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I doubt that Nixon intended to help the US bird population; but when he signed the Clean Air Act into law, that's what happened. We explain in today's Eight Things To Know, which goes out to subscribers later today.

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Our Monday edition of Eight Things To Know concludes w/ a reflection on the 1962 state visit of German Chancellor Konrad Adenaur. He served successfully/effectively as Chancellor from age 73 to age 87 & was called "The Elder."
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