Malcolm Gladwell defines the concept of “The Western”:

a Western is where is conceptually a world in which there is no law and order and a laman shows up and imposes personally law and order on the territory the community right

This record is topped by only one other known bat journey in Europe – that of a Nathusius’ pipistrelle that migrated from Latvia to Spain in 2019, a record-setting 1,382 miles (2,224km).

Sammy Rubin, YuLife’s CEO, told me that he founded the London-based start-up in 2016 after noticing that most life insurers faded into the background after they sold a plan. The effect was leading people to lose sight of why they bought insurance and abandon their plans prematurely.

Can CiteIt now quote from Archive.org?

FBI investigators have also read all of the approximately 30,000 e-mails provided by Secretary Clinton to the State Department in December 2014. Where an e-mail was assessed as possibly containing classified information, the FBI referred the e-mail to any U.S. government agency that was a likely “owner” of information in the e-mail, so that agency could make a determination as to whether the e-mail contained classified information at the time it was sent or received, or whether there was reason to classify the e-mail now, even if its content was not classified at the time it was sent (that is the process sometimes referred to as “up-classifying”).

1) Chuck Schumer told Rachel Maddow:

The intelligence community they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you so even for a practical supposedly hard-nosed businessman he’s being really dumb to do this 

NATO Secretary General at joint committee meeting at the European Parliament, 07 SEP 2023

by Jeffrey D. Sachs

During the disastrous Vietnam War, it was said that the US government treated the public like a mushroom farm: keeping it in the dark and feeding it with manure. The heroic Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers documenting the unrelenting U.S. government lying about the war in order to protect politicians who would be embarrassed by the truth. A half-century later, during the Ukraine War, the manure is piled even higher.

According to the U.S. government and the ever-obsequious New York Times, the Ukraine war was “unprovoked,” the Times’ favorite adjective to describe the war. Putin, allegedly mistaking himself for Peter the Great, invaded Ukraine to recreate the Russian Empire. Yet last week, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg committed a Washington gaffe, meaning that he accidently blurted out the truth.

In testimony to the European Union Parliament, Stoltenberg made clear that it was America’s relentless push to enlarge NATO to Ukraine that was the real cause of the war and why it continues today. Here are Stoltenberg’s revealing words:

 

We have to remember the background the background was that President Putin declared in the Autumn of 2021 and he actually sent a draft treat that they wanted NATO to sign to promise no more NATO enlargement.

That was what what he sent us and that was that that was a pre condition for not invade uh uh Ukraine.

Of course we didn’t sign that. The opposite happened he wanted us to sign a promise never to enlarge NATO he wanted us to remove our military infrastructure in in all allies that have joined NATO since 1997 meaning half of NATO all the Central and Eastern Europe we should remove NATO from from that part of of our alliance introducing some kind of e and b or second class membership.

We rejected that.

So he went to war to prevent uh NATO more NATO closest borders he has he he has got the exact opposite he has got more NATO presence in the eastern part of the Lions and he has also uh uh seen that Finand has already joined the alliance and Sweden will soon be a full member

 

The Guardian did a profile of Malcolm Gladwell when his book David and Goliath came out:

this one is a very Canadian sort of book,” says Gladwell, who was born in Fareham, in Hampshire, but grew up in Ontario. “It’s Canadian in its suspicion of bigness and wealth and power. Someone told me – did you know that there’s never been a luxury brand to come from Canada? That’s never happened. That’s such a great fact to have about your home country

There is now, as there always is amid protests, a loud call for the protesters to follow the principles of nonviolence. And that call, as Coates says, comes from people who neither practice nor heed nonviolence in their own lives. But what if we turned that conversation around? What would it mean to build the state around principles of nonviolence, rather than reserving that exacting standard for those harmed by the state?