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On Thanksgiving Day in 1965, two young guests visiting Alice Brock and her husband, Ray, repaid the hospitality by helping clean up an old church that the couple had converted into their home in western Massachusetts. read more
The international criminal court has issued arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, the county's former defence minister Yoav Gallant and the Hamas leader Mohammed Deif for alleged war crimes relating to the Gaza war. read more
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According to usveteransmagazine.com this is the sixth such hooraw Foxfest but Trump's "award" is of the "inaugural " - i.e., brand spanking new - type. Of course.
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I'm reading Max Hastings Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 (www.amazon.com) and the rot that still lies at the heart of Russia's military often comes into play in that saga. A system lying to itself is a recipe for effups. Paraphrasing, one Russian explained at the time. "We're a planned society, not a planning society."
Probably moreso, which could be why he's turned a lot of the job over to Musk.