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PREVIEW: #MARS: Conversation with colleague Bob Zimmerman re new studies based on modeling that indicate the long voyages to and from Mars are profound health threats without present solutions - in particular, damage by cosmic rays. More later.1957

PREVIEW: #GATES: #SODIUM REACTOR: Conversation with colleague Henry Sokolski on the announcement that a Bill Gates-founded company, TerraPower, has started building a Natrium Nuclear Energy Plant in Wyoming - and what to make of the claim that it is safer than existing hot water reactors. More detail later. 1979 Three Mile Island PA

PREVIEW: #FRANCE: Conversation with colleague Lord Conrad Black in Toronto re the savvy decision by President Emmanuel Macron to call a snap election on June 30 and July 7. More tonight. 1909 Bonaparte and his mother and sisters.

PREVIEW: #ITALIA: #G7: Conversation with colleague Lorenzo Fiori in Genoa re the leadership success of Italian PM Giorgia Meloni at the G7 meeting near Bari, Italy. Much more tonight. 1778 Rome

Eric Deters sends Chuck Holbrook to Omaha to attempt to resolve the cases.

Harry Potter e l’ordine della fenice - Analisi della Saga - scritta e discussa da Gandalf Gray

सात पंक्तियाँ - मंगलेश डबराल मुश्किल से हाथ लगी एक सरल पंक्तिएक दूसरी बेडौल-सी पंक्ति में समा गईउसने तीसरी जर्जर क़िस्म की पंक्ति को धक्का दियाइस तरह जटिल-सी लड़खड़ाती चौथी पंक्ति बनीजो ख़ाली झूलती हुई पाँचवीं पंक्ति से उलझीजिसने छटपटाकर छठी पंक्ति को खोजा जो आधा ही लिखी गई थीअन्ततः सातवीं पंक्ति में गिर पड़ा यह सारा मलबा।

PREVIEW: UKRAINE: Conversation with colleague Jeff McCausland of CBS News re the Biden Administration now permitting Ukraine to fire back at the Russian missile and artillery batteries that sit in Russian territory. More later.1943

PREVIEW: #CONSTITUTION: Conversation with colleague Peter Berkowitz of a new book by Yuval Levin - American Covenant - in which the Constitution is celebrated for its encouragement of negotiation and compromise between the three branches - a skill lost today with more and more power taken by the Executive. More later tonight. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/06/09/yuval_levin_counsels_civic_renewal_through_constitutional_repair_151075.html 1770 The Stamp Act, Boston

PREVIEW: EU VOTE: Conversation with colleague Anatol Lieven of the Quincy Institute re the nationalist trend in the EU vote - and the surprise that liberal-minded Sweden now features a nationalist party - and that the future of the EU appears rightward toward states regaining their borders. More later on nationalism in the EU.1898 Brussels major reovations

PREVIEW: #BRAZIL: #PARAGUAY: #ARGENTINA: Conversation with colleague Mary Anastasia O'Grady of WSJ Editorial re the Tri-Border Region of South America that encourages and struggles with the extravagantly rewarding crimes of the black marketeers -- and what is needed to improve all cross-border trade. More tonight. https://www.wsj.com/articles/brazil-enables-the-black-market-eedb14c7 December 1936 FDR and Paraguay President Gabriel Terra in Montivideo

PREVIEW: #SAIPAN: Conversation with colleague Cleo Paskal of FDD in Saipan of the Northern Mariana Islands re the 80th anniversary of the USMC, USN, USA landings and liberation of Saipan from the Imperial Japanese Empire -- on Green Beach on June 15. More tonight and on Monday. 1945 Fat Man plutonium bomb on Tinian, Northern Marinas

PREVIEW :#PRC: #DEFLATION: Conversation with colleague Chris Riegel of Scala.com re the report of deflation for the consumer in China -- and that this also touched the manufacturing centers in a continued swoon of the PRC economy. More tonight. 1857 China

Recorded by Jacqueline Bishop for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on June 14, 2024. www.poets.org

2/2: #FRANCE: #UK: Perfect weather for the farmers of the National Rally. . Cold and stormy for the MPS of the Conservatives. Simon Constable, Occitanie.https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/12/world/europe/macron-france-elections.html undated Bank of England

#BETA PICTORIS: Asteroid Belt at 63 light years. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/evidence-of-giant-asteroid-collision-in-debris-disk-surrounding-the-star-beta-pictoris/ undated Cosmos

2/2: #Merchant Marine: Logistics and warfighting in the vast Pacific. Admiral Gary Roughead, USN (retired), Hoover

बहुरूपिया | मदन कश्यप जब वह पास आयातो पाँव में प्लास्टिक की चप्पल देखकर एकदम से हँसी फूट पड़ीफिर लगाभला कैसे संभव हैमहानगर की क्रूर सड़कों पर नंगे पाँव चलना चाहे वह बहुरूपिया ही क्यों न होवैसे उसने अपनी तरफ़ से कोशिश की थीदुम इतनी ऊँची लगायी थीकि वह सिर से काफ़ी ऊपर उठी दिख रही थीबाँस की खपच्चियों पर पीले काग़ज़ साटकर बनी गदाकमज़ोर भले हो चमकदार ख़ूब थीसिर पर गत्ते की चमकती टोपी थीचेहरे और हाथ-पाँव पर ख़ूब लाल रंग पोत रखा था लेकिन लाल लँगोटे की जगह धारीदार अंडरवियर और बदन में सफ़ेद बनियानउसकी

PREVIEW: #RUSSIA: #BANK RUN:  Conversation with colleague Michael Bernstam of the Hoover Institution re the sudden news that the US Treasury has sanctioned the Moscow Exchange, leading to the rouble climbing to 120 or 200 to the dollar -- and suggesting a bank run.  More later tonight. 1890 Moscow