The Ukrainians were losing badly at Debaltza and as a result of that this was buying them some time and they took the ceasefire as a way to rebuild their army andthen expand the civil war now they uh it was really sort of fro a frozen conflict from you know 2015 on for the next uh seven years until 2022 and then that’s when Russia realized that Ukraine was getting ready to launch a major invasion they were building up their forces and uh Russia said okay we’re going to launch a preemptive strike
Larry Johnson’s Start as a CNN Commentator
Pat called his brother Joe goes “Hey I need somebody to come on air and talk about the capture of Carlos the Jackal.” And Joe said “Hey Larry Johnson just left retired you know left the office.”
Trump’s Economic Gamble: David Friedberg Predicts the Master Plan
I don’t have any direct
line of communication to folks that are
constructing the theory and the policy
if I were to say what’s the most
masterful plan in an optimistic way of
what could be going on here what’s the
master plan I would kind of craft it as
follows tariffs aren’t being done in
isolation they’re being done along with
a coordinated policy effort to reduce
income taxes and another policy effort
to reduce government spending so those
are three actions three legs on a stool
Who Blew Up the Nord Stream Pipelines? “Russia, Russia, Russia!”
Why Print Needs new Ground Rules
On America This Week, Walter Kern and Matt Taibbi discussed 60 minutes‘ edit/collage of the Kamala Harris interview.
“This 60 minutes format is dead”
Walter declared the 60 minutes television format is dead because it required the good faith of the audience and the integrity of the network okay and the producers and the editors
Why Print Needs new Ground Rules:
It’s not just the 60 minutes video format. Walter says he currently avoids print media because they can take a statement you made and make it seem that it occurred in an entirely different context than than when you made it and there’s no way you know there’s no way for the audience to tell
Solution?
Would Walter be more willing to do print media interviews on the internet, if print media agreed that they would:
- publish the full interview transcript and
- use contextual citations for all their print quotes?
Donald Trump Warns of a “Bloodbath!”
Today, a lot of the media carried a quote in which Donald Trump says: if I don’t get elected it’s going to be a blood bath
. Television is seldom able to present the whole context of a quote, given space limitations. This could be an advantage for Substack writers because CiteIt enables interested readers to have the option of pursuing a quote’s context without commandeering the attention of all viewers.
CiteIt becomes like an advanced form of footnotes that works across:
- text,
- audio, and
- video.
Jack Nicholson: You Can’t Handle the Truth.
With CiteIt, writers can evoke the Jack Nicholson line:
You can’t handle the truth
! — by pulling in the context from a YouTube video.
This contextual citation doesn’t provide factual context, but rather helps the reader recall a favorable memory.
Ocsar winner “Refutes his Jewishness”!
Isn’t it outrageous that this year at the 2024 Oscars, an Oscar winner Jonathan Glazer went on stage and said: Right now we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness
. What a disgraceful thing to say!
No, the director of Zone of Interest did not disavow his Jewish identity at the Oscars (Vox)
When Context is Stripped Away
I think that Judaism has the same problem that any thick civilization has in a world in which um as you say context is stripped away and not only is context stripped away but but attention to any one thing is is scanter and less than it used to be.
JFK: Inaugural Address
In his inaugural address John F. Kennendy said ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.
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What else did Kennedy’s famous inaugural address say?