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To bring in a wonderful 2009, I'd like to quote an e-mail I received from a mentor of more than a decade: While many are wringing their hands, I recall the 1970s when we were suffering from an oil shock causing long lines at gas stations, rationing, and 55 MPH speed limits on fe...

own, in which we could achieve the self-determination and security denied to us elsewhere. During the 1890s and the early years of the new century, more than a million Jews fled Eastern Europe, but mostly for America. It was only in the 1920s and 1930s that significant numbers a...

politics and vowing to defeat Labor, Bibi had seized on Oslo I to accuse Rabin of “surrendering” to Arafat, and by extension to Hamas terrorism. I couldn’t sleep the night before the cabinet meeting. I had no desire to be disloyal to Yitzhak. I certainly didn’t want to add to th...

Unsteady Undertow As market observers attempt to explain the recent drop in US equities, the risks of geopolitical factors have garnered considerable attention. Potential US retaliation over the recent disappearance of a Saudi journalist has only added fuel to the fire of worrie...

204 “T don’t know him, but I know someone who does,” he answered. “Why are you interested in seeing Kucherena?” I told him that I wanted to speak to him about Snowden but that I had been unable to arrange a meeting. “That’s no problem,” he said, raising his cell phone (which n...

…d stolen from the NSA four weeks earlier. Poitras vetted the Lam interview. Soon afterward, she suspected that she was being followed. That was likely, because by June 14 all the intelligence services in Hong Kong knew that she was in contact with Snowden. “I was being tailed,”...

…ent trial failed to remove him from oftice. # Gentlemen--and lady (I guess you must be the Episcopalian)—thank you for being here. It’ s too bad Reverend Moon isn’ t among us this morning, so he could perform a mass impeachment of all the senators who swore under oath that they...

…idn’t want to push cuz she takes her 930 presentation here very seriously. Better after her talk. Am I thanking her or being sorry re my being married. I think the former. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026333

…ofession. | also told me | would be paid for attending. 4. The parties were held at a New York City residence that was being used by Defendant Jeffrey Epstein. Each of the parties had other minor females and a number of guests of Mr. Epstein, including Defendant Donald Trump at...

…in 19 -- excuse me, back in 2009, August of 2009, four and a half years before you allege that this story about you was being made up out of whole cloth, that lawyers representing Jeffrey Epstein's victims, including Katherine Ezell, E-Z-E-L-L from Bob Josefsberg's office, who ha...

…ear-old Nir Poraz, whom I remembered from operational briefings in the kirya on previous sayeret missions. Wachsman was being held in a room on the first floor. The commandos would simultaneously detonate explosives on three doors: at the front, on the side, and a third one leadi...

…lt the time was right to present the country with a choice: not just between those for and against specific compromises being contemplated in pursuit of peace, but between those who wanted a tolerant, functioning democracy and those who were ready to use demagoguery and violence...

…aggar and Salman Rushdie. We are a programme that carries considerable weight and influence and which prides itself in being a first port of call for many of the most important and influential figures on the international stage. | can best be reached via my cell phone - ii or t...

…ay both be included on the list, the number of author names on the list very slightly exceeds the number of individuals being examined. The numbers reported in the figure are the number of names on the list. It is worth pointing out that Adolf Hitler appears as an author of one...

…n is the key for us," Keating says. He rates it as more important than economic reform. “There is less interest now in being part of East Asia than there was in the 1990s," he laments. Keating wants this idea revived. And he ties it to the republic arguing that to succeed in As...