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"Come Back Alive"

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Medieval and Traditional Carols

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 Click this - Magnatune presents Song list: 1. Psallite Unigenito (Traditional)  (0:57) 2. In Dulci Jubilo 1 (Michael Praetorius)  ...loading . 3. In Dulci Jubilo 2 (Michael Praetorius)  (1:22) 4. Maria Durch Ein Dornwald Ging (Traditional German)  (1:53) 5. Joseph Lieber Joseph Mein (Traditional German)  (1:28) 6. Greensleeves (Anonymous)  (2:37) 7. Ballet Dances from Taffelconsort 1621 (Thomas Simpson)  (1:12) 8. Almande Dances from Taffelconsort 1621 (Thomas Simpson)  (1:52) 9. Courant Dances from Taffelconsort 1621 (Johann Krosch)  (0:45) 10. Courant Dances from Taffelconsort 1621 (Christian Engelmann)  (1:03) 11. Aria Mistress Nichols Almand Dances from Taffelconsort 1621 (John Dowland)  (1:26) 12. Volta Dances from Taffelconsort 1621 (John Dowland)  (1:11) 13. Je Donne A Tous Les Amoureux (Guillaume Dufay)  (3:24) 14. Bon Jour Bon Mois (Guillaume Dufay)  (1:41) 15. Entre Vous Gentils Amoureux (Guillaume Duf...

The Russian Bay of Pigs

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Dictatorships produce dependent populations This occurred in Castro's Cuba, and in Spain with Francisco Franco  When I lived their during his reign the people were satisfied as long as their basic needs were met The students in the north were north were not as complacent  Even the Jews expected the redeemer to eradicate their foes and act as king  Every nation has people who want a protector and provider only capitalism encourages individual advancement, but it still needs help for those who are unable to live with a system that rewards mainly the successful  "We can at this point only speculate about why Prigozhin undertook this putsch, and why it all failed so quickly. One possibility is that Prigozhin had allies in Moscow who promised to support him, and somehow that support fell through: Perhaps his friends in the Kremlin got cold feet, or were less numerous than Prigozhin realized, or never existed. Prigozhin, after all, is not exactly a military genius or ...

This is how my blog got started

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Chuck Mistretta's Poetry Page What is this page all about? It's about personal commentary and the things you can't or don't bother to express every day. These are serious viewpoints presented in a sometimes light-hearted and frivolous manner to inform, amuse, and generally bring about awareness that is settling - well at least to some people. Who is Chuck Mistretta? I work as a contractor supporting internet users. My interest is writing and computing. I bike and do gardening. Married with children for twenty + years, Joel and Laura are working their way through college. Chris and Maren are still making it through the wonder years... What is poetry? Poetry is like a puzzle. Everyone owns a piece of the final vision. Unfinished and vague until completion, it almost never conveys its true meaning during construction, and remains dubious to all, even to its creator, until the time is right. My Poetry: Rhymes, but is not lite to the occasional reader. It searches for truths...

World Inequality - a resource

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News Preliminary Estimates of Global Posttax Income Distributions APRIL 4, 2023 | WID.WORLD This technical note combines data from household surveys, government budgets, tax simulators, national accounts, and detailed fiscal incidence studies to construct a new database on Read "Despite a momentous renewal of public and scholarly attention to inequality, most existing estimates of income distributions fail to systematically account for the role of government taxes and transfers—above all for the developing world."

Off with his head

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                  The indictment that overshadows autocracy and returns our country to a constitutional presidency we can feel proud of despite four years of lies and political deceit from Donald Trump

Canadian wild fires engulf eastern US states

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Smoke particles are so small and numerous they are able to invade the entire human body and cloud entire citie s     Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images  Not in Florida  Not until hurricane seson arrives  Then when nothing is seen its becuse its not there  I took this picture

The tower of syllable

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Thought is nothing more than smoke rising from the embers of our reality In some places on this earth, the smoke is all that's left The Shift from pictograms to syllables  has been called "the most important advance in the history of writing"  Wikipedia 

Tampa on high

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Downtown Tampa Ta Tampa Bay South  使用的無人機 - DJI Mavic Mini     Shots were taken about three years ago in 2020

Keep an eye on what's happening

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While looking pretty

I am the debt ceiling

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Catch me if you ca n  May 5th 2023

THOR Anti Drone Microwave Weapon

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  Having spent 14 years in microwave working for a military-industrial company I can see how this approach would work against drones in place of expensive weapons. Click here for more information AFRL's THOR (Tactical High-power Operational Responder) is a prototype Directed Energy (DE) weapon used to disable the electronics in drones and was specifically engineered to counter multiple targets – such as a drone swarm – with rapid results. Source Air Force Research Laboratory

Unable to contribute to the greater good

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The future of politics as we know it

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 I'll be back No, you won't

Think before the act

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Why guns, and killing, war in our streets and homes? Who are we angry at, life, death, ourselves? Legislation can’t stop killing, but it make harder for a person to commit a crime. In the sixties I was stationed in Spain. The country at that time was controlled by it’s dictator Francisco Franco. Non military personal were not allowed by law to own a hand gun, only a shotgun for hunting. Crime was ruthlessly suppressed. The number of unmarked graves in Spain at that time exceeded any other country in Europe. The people didn’t kill each other, the government did if it wanted to. Democracy is not an excuse to use vigilante means to invoke justice. We as a people are the tool, the rule that determines how we act. Unfortunately free information is not free because it can binds usto the will and fiction of others. Think! Know who you are and what is right for your family, for the country before taking up arms and invoking your constitutional rights.    ...

Drone view - friendly

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What I see

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  Disposable shoes, spouses, friends, children... Just hanging, waiting for recess When I was twenty-one, that was a very good year Snuggle I told Nixon using the bomb was a bad idea Jack Benny with wings  who is Jack Benny?   Go ask your grandparents 

Prigozhin an excuse to end a war

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Source CNN   By  Alexandra Meeks Isn't it a pity you don't know what I'm talking about yet but I will tell you soon it's a pity isn't it a pity isn't it a shame yes, how we break each other's hearts and cause each other pain how we take each other's love without thinking anymore forgetting to give back forgetting to remember just forgetting and no thank you isn't it a pity some things take so long but how do i explain why not too many people can see that we are all just the same we're all guilty because of all the tears our eyes just can't hope to see but i don't think it's applicable to me the beauty that surrounds them child, isn't it a pity how we break each other's hearts and cause each other pain how we take each other's love the most precious thing without thinking anymore forgetting to give back forgetting to keep open our door isn't it a pity isn't it a pity some thin...

The recent attack on the Kremlin should have been at Novo Ogaryovo

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  "Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russia’s state news agency RIA Novosti that Putin wasn’t in the Kremlin at the time and was working from the Novo-Ogaryovo residence." How did two drones fly 280 miles without being intercepted by Moscow's air defense? "Mr Putin has very high personal protection and the BBC's Russia Editor Steve Rosenberg says it is astonishing to think that drones could have got anywhere near the Kremlin." sources vindy.com  bbc.com