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Dec 4 • 11 tweets • 7 min read
From 2011 until 2016, Peter Navarro was a frequent guest on the radio program The John Batchelor Show.

John Loftus previously had a radio show on Talkline Communications Network with co-host John Batchelor.

Aaron Klein, at the time Jerusalem bureau chief for WorldNetDaily, was also a regular and served as a co-host.

Klein was chief strategist for Netanyahu's December 2019 Likud leadership primary in which Netanyahu scored a landslide victory.

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Nov 27 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Maggie Haberman - Wikipedia

In October 2016, one month before Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the US presidential election, a stolen document released by Guccifer 2.0 outlined how Clinton's campaign could induce Haberman to place sympathetic en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_Ha… stories in Politico.

Haberman married Dareh Ardashes Gregorian, a reporter for the New York Daily News, formerly of the New York Post, and son of Vartan Gregorian, in 2003.
Nov 20 • 87 tweets • 32 min read
Peterson Institute for International Economics - Wikipedia

PIIE's origin can be traced back to an urgent request sent to the German Marshall Fund from C. Fred Bergsten, then assistant secretary at the Treasury Department during the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterson_… Carter administration, in 1980.

In 1969 Bergsten became assistant for international economic affairs to Henry Kissinger at the National Security Council where he coordinated US foreign economic policy until 1971. From 1972 to 1976 he was a senior fellow at the Image
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Nov 11 • 31 tweets • 9 min read
After earning his bachelor of arts, William “Wild Bill” Donovan spent two years at Columbia Law School, where he was a classmate of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and studied under Harlan Fiske Stone.

Stone was the Dean of Columbia Law Schooland a partner with Sullivan & Cromwell. During World War I, Harlan Fiske Stone served on the U.S. Department of War's Board of Inquiry, which evaluated the sincerity of conscientious objectors.

An early recognition of conscientious objection was granted by William the Silentto the Dutch Mennonites in 1575.
Nov 5 • 62 tweets • 22 min read
The high-ups at Western Electric were perceived as anti-Semitic.

Sam Warner, though, was able to convince the high-ups to sign with the studio after his wife Lina Wormer wore a gold cross at a dinner he attended with Western Electric brass.

After this, Harry Warner signed a partnership agreement with Western Electric to use Bell Laboratories to test the sound-on-film process.

After leaving Michigan State University, Stanley Sheinbaum moved to Santa Barbara, California, and became part of a think tank headed by Robert Hutchins Image
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Nov 2 • 61 tweets • 18 min read
Richard Grenell - Wikipedia

Prior to his service at the State Department, Grenell was a political adviser to a number of Republicans, including George Pataki and Dave Camp. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_G… For 4 years Dave Camp was special assistant to the Michigan attorney general from 1980 to 1984. He served another 4 years on the staff of his boyhood friend U.S. Representative Bill Schuette (R-MI) from 1984 to 1987.

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Oct 31 • 72 tweets • 18 min read
The Three-Body Problem (novel) - Wikipedia

During the Cultural Revolution, Ye Wenjie, an astrophysics graduate from Tsinghua University, sees her father get beaten to death during a struggle session by Red Guards from Tsinghua High School. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three… Tsinghua University was established in Beijing during a tumultuous period of national upheaval and conflicts with foreign powers which culminated in the Boxer Rebellion, an uprising against foreign influence in China.
Oct 30 • 53 tweets • 16 min read
The Sharks, who are recent migrants from Puerto Rico, and the Jets, who are white, vie for dominance of the neighborhood, and the police try to keep order.

WestExec Advisors LLC is a consulting firm founded in 2017 by Antony Blinken, Michèle Flournoy, Sergio Aguirre, and Nitin Chadda firm is named after West Executive Avenue, a street near the West Wing of the White House.

In 1951, following the attempted assassination of Harry S. Truman, West Executive Avenue was closed permanently as it was believed traffic on the street would pose a
Oct 29 • 47 tweets • 17 min read
Soviet biological weapons program - Wikipedia

In the 1990s, Boris Yeltsin admitted to an offensive biological weapons program as well as to the true nature of the Sverdlovsk biological weapons accident of 1979, which had resulted in the deaths of at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_bi… least 64 people. Defecting Soviet bioweaponeers such as Vladimir Pasechnik and Colonel Kanatjan Alibekov [known as Kenneth "Ken" Alibek] confirmed that the program had been massive and still existed.

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Oct 27 • 36 tweets • 13 min read
As a child, Walter and Victor Reuther accompanied their father on a visit to a jail to meet Eugene V. Debs, who was being incarcerated for his pacifism during World War I.

When Henry Ford retired the Model T in 1927, he sold the production mechanisms to the Image Soviet Union, and American workers who knew how to operate the equipment were needed. Walter and Victor were promised work teaching Soviet workers how to run the machines and assembly line. With that employment assurance, the brothers embarked on a Image
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Oct 27 • 41 tweets • 14 min read
The current members of the board of directors of The Economist Group are: Rupert Pennant-Rea (Chairman), Zanny Minton Beddoes (editor-in-chief of The Economist), Lady Suzanne Heywood, Brent Hoberman, David Bell, John Elkann, Alex Karp, Sir Simon Robertson, Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, Chris Stibbs and Baroness Jowell, Mustafa Suleyman.

Her second husband was Andrew Stein (born March 4, 1945), a New York politician and son of multi-millionaire businessman Jerry Finkelstein, was the multi-millionaire publisher of the
Oct 26 • 19 tweets • 7 min read
In 1973 the series won the Pulitzer for local investigative reporting.

When Buffett talked about his role in the Boys Town expose in 1977, he revealed for the first time that he had a foundation.

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Image Walter Annenberg, a moderate conservative who had served as President Nixon’s Ambassador to Great Britain, contacted Buffett.  Annenberg invited Buffett to his Palm Springs mansion and decided that he would teach Buffett how to be an effective donor. Image
Oct 17 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
Robert Keohane - Wikipedia

Robert Keohane was the student of Harvard University Professor Stanley Hoffmann. He described Judith Shklar as his strongest intellectual mentor during his graduate studies. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ke… Originally founded as "West European Studies" in 1969, the Center for European Studies (CES) at Harvard evolved from two prior initiatives, the "German Research Program" initiated by Henry Kissinger, at the time Harvard faculty member, and Image
Oct 16 • 26 tweets • 15 min read
Christopher Steele had a “personal” relationship with Ivanka Trump and gifted her a “family tartan from Scotland”. Image
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Image 64 btw 5&Maddy is loaded with intriguers. I made the video of Bo before I learned that the current art gallery next to Oleg’s brownstone was owned by a well known Seagram Gin heir. I wouldn’t be surprised if Marc Rich knew that since RUSAL and Glencore went mergerlicious Image
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Oct 11 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Chautauqua was founded in 1874 by inventor Lewis Miller and Methodist Bishop John Heyl Vincent as a teaching camp for Sunday-school teachers.

Mina Miller Edison, Miller's daughter, spent summers at the cottage with her husband, inventor Thomas Alva Edison.

Mina Miller Image met Thomas Edison at the home of the inventor Ezra Gilliland, a mutual friend of her father and Edison, in Boston in 1885. After he taught her Morse code, he used it to ask her to marry him.

Edison was an advocate of Zero Population Growth.

Population Connection was founded
Sep 27 • 100 tweets • 42 min read
Perry family is world leading in gunboats and gunboat diplomacy.

The Japanese delegation presented President Buchanan with elaborate gifts, including silk screens, swords, and porcelains.

In return, Secretary of State Lewis Cass gave them commemorative medals featuring the

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In September 1817 Zion Lodge provided much needed support for the newly created University of Michigan. The idea first took shape in the minds of Augustus Woodward, a Mason and the first Judge of the Image
Sep 20 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Piazza San Marco - Wikipedia

A remark usually attributed (though without proof) to Napoleon calls the Piazza San Marco "the drawing room of Europe". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piazza_Sa… The history of the Piazza San Marco can be conveniently covered in four periods, but the only pre-renaissance buildings and monuments still standing there are St Mark's, the Doge's Palace and the two great columns in the Piazzetta.

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Sep 20 • 32 tweets • 10 min read
Robert Koch - Wikipedia

Robert Koch’s work with anthrax is notable in that he was the first to link a specific microorganism with a specific disease, rejecting the idea of spontaneous generation and supporting the germ theory of disease. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ko… While at Walter Reed, Stanley "Stan" Falkow worked with African-American microbiologist Othello Washington. Washington was older and more experienced than Falkow, but was assigned to be Stan's technician.

Washington is an author on a study titled
Sep 17 • 97 tweets • 27 min read
Barbara Ruthven - Wikipedia

The Earl of Gowrie and one of his brothers were killed in a struggle with James VI of Scotland on 5 August 1600 at Gowrie House in Perth.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_R… The "Gowrie conspiracy" resulted in the killing of the earl and his brother by attendants of King James at Gowrie House, Perth, a few weeks after Ruthven's return to Scotland in May 1600.

The King was lured to Perth from his hunting near Falkland Palace, possibly by a story of
Sep 17 • 56 tweets • 17 min read
Richard Hooker (author) - Wikipedia

His experiences at the 8055th M.A.S.H. were the background for his novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors (1968), which he worked on for eleven years. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_H… MASH was rejected by many publishers. He worked with the famed sportswriter W.C. Heinz to revise it. A year later, the book was acquired by William Morrow and Company.

When William Morrow died in 1931, Thater Hobson bought control of William Morrow and Company and made
Sep 16 • 46 tweets • 12 min read
Bernard Lovell - Wikipedia

At the end of the Second World War, Lovell attempted to continue his studies of cosmic rays with an ex-military radar detector unit, but suffered much background interference from the electric trams on Manchester's Oxford Road. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_L… He moved his equipment to a more remote location, one which was free from such electrical interference, and where he established the Jodrell Bank Observatory, near Goostrey in Cheshire. It was an outpost of the university's botany department and had been a