Friday 1 December 2023

#COP28: Electricity: Christmas 2022, christmas 2023 and the looming threat of a blackout for week, which the WSJ calls "Zombie Apocalypse."s. SalenaZito,com

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/one-year-after-win...

1030-1045

#SPACEX: Artemis delayed till at best 2027 and blaming Musk.. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/gao-fi...

1045-1100
#Exoplanets: Six Earth-scale Neptune-like planets in 3/2 resonance. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/astron...

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115

5/8: /Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden’s Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End Hardcover – by Jerry Dunleavy (Author), James Hasson (Author)

https://www.amazon.com/Kabul-Untold-Bidens-American-Warriors/dp/1546005307/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1701296521&sr=1-1

America’s chaotic retreat from Afghanistan in 2021 was nothing short of a horror show. Women and children were trampled to death outside the gates of the Kabul airfield. Desperate Afghans fell from the landing gear of departing planes. Taliban fighters mercilessly whipped and humiliated U.S. civilians trying to access the few square miles still controlled by American forces. Countless Afghan interpreters were abandoned to the mercy of the Taliban after risking their lives alongside American troops for years. And thirteen U.S. service members—eleven of whom were still in preschool on 9/11—were murdered in an ISIS suicide bombing that could easily have been prevented.

Still, the full story is worse than anyone imagined. Drawing from hundreds of hours of first-person interviews, investigative reporter Jerry Dunleavy and former Army Captain and Afghanistan veteran James Hasson provide an exclusive, no-holds-barred account of the disastrous events of August 2021. Kabul is packed with shocking and infuriating exclusive details about fatal politics and bureaucracy that contributed to the catastrophe. The authors also tell, for the first time, inspiring stories of the bravery and sacrifices exhibited by countless Americans on the ground.

Kabul's original reporting includes eyewitness accounts from servicemembers of all ranks who participated the rescue effort, inside information from senior intelligence officials, interviews with high-ranking members of allied governments, harrowing stories from Americans and Afghan allies willfully abandoned by craven officials in Washington, and exclusive details about veteran-led rescue missions that continue to this day. Chapter after chapter, Kabul depicts American government at its worst and “ordinary” Americans at their best.

1115-1130

6/8: /Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden’s Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End Hardcover – by Jerry Dunleavy (Author), James Hasson (Author)

1130-1145

7/8: /Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden’s Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End Hardcover – by Jerry Dunleavy (Author), James Hasson (Author)

1145-1200

8/8: /Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden’s Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End Hardcover – by Jerry Dunleavy (Author), James Hasson (Author)

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215

#MrMarket: Shopping scrupulously in Amish country. Jim McTague, former Washington Editor, Barrons. @MCTagueJ. Author of the "Martin and Twyla Boundary Series." #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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1215-1230

#COP28: Grossi recommends nuclear energy plants that are the guaranteed pathway to bomb-making

https://apnews.com/article/cop28-climate-talks-grossi-iaea-iran-nuclear-power-11a37c802d7e0bca6538d5c66a9ec6fd

1230-1245
CA: Newsom vs DeSantis insult hour. Bill Whalen, Hoover Institution.

https://www.hoover.org/research/newsom-desantis-and-fox-news-debate-they...

1245-100 AM

#Ukraine: Stronger rumors of arm-twisting Kyiv to negotiate now or lose the more. Josh Rogin, Washington Post.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/29/ukraine-negotiations-...