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Sorry for the lack of posting, but I have been back in the Whining States of America for an extended period and been quite busy for both personal and professional reasons. One thing about being back, that is jarring every time I come back, is the large presence of Fox
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Another week down and it’s Thursday again. With events in the Middle East heating up and as a nod to my previous post about Israeli TV, I thought I would do a throwback post to how Israel fucked up my plans for some primo liberty back in England in 1982.
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I subscribe to several daily business newsletters via e-mail. One is called Morning Brew. It is a trendy and very visually exciting newsletter that is focused on millennials but is also kind enough to let older gentlemen such as myself subscribe and read its content. In their June 11th edition
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Is an Israeli TV show that is running on Netflix. I started watching it off and on during my trips to Israel late last fall and in the spring when I was there for a few weeks. I didn’t really get into it though, watching bits and pieces of it,
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Hong Kong is one of my favorite cities in the world. I like it almost as much as I like Singapore and that says a lot. I first visited the city in 2000, only three years after the tragedy that saw it pass from British Control to that of the
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My apologies for the site being down for a bit. We were doing a server upgrade and also doing some “under the hood” tinkering. But it is back up now. There is a lot to write about this week – and very little of the news is good. So I
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Without a doubt, one of the foremost highlights of my time here in Europe has been the work I have been privileged to do in Israel. To be able to have been there for protracted periods, learn the language and see the society has been a fond memory for me
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Watching the ceremonies for the 75th anniversary of D-Day gave me poignant reminders of my own visit to the area some 5 years ago. The area is astounding, especially the area around Point du Hoc where fierce fighting occurred, with US Rangers fighting literally straight up. This was the post
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I could not help observing during the visit of the Orange Monster to the mother country, how a certain segment of the American population is so blind to the realities of the world that was created in the wake of World War II. And I am talking specifically of that
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Walter Schaub was the director of the United States Office of Government Ethics from 2013 -2017. Watching how Trump adminstration officials were playing fast and loose with government ethics rules, he quit because he knew that he could not do his job the way it should be done. Since then
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