Saturday, August 29, 2015

On Midrats 30 Aug 2015 - Episode 295: "NATO Goes Back to Fundamentals" With Jorge Benitez

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Please join us at 5pm (EDT) on 30 Aug 2015 for Midrats Episode 295: "NATO Goes Back to Fundamentals" With Jorge Benitez : From ...

Saturday Is Old Radio Day: "Let George Do It"

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Let George Do It : Let George Do It was a radio drama series produced by Owen and Pauline Vinson from 1946 to 1954. It starred Bob Baile...
Friday, August 28, 2015

Friday Fun Film: Wacky Wabbit

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Golly what a week! Here: You're welcome. UPDATE: More:
Thursday, August 27, 2015

Nigeria: River Pirates/Kidnappers Strike Again

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Nigeria Reported as "Pirates strike again in Bayelsa waterways, abduct local chiefs" : Barely three weeks after pirates kil...
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Wednesday, August 26, 2015

An Interesting Look at the "Risk-Denying" White House

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Tying in the Iran Deal and the President's Clean Power Plan might seem a stretch, but Bob Tippee of the Oil and Gas Journal sees a conn...

Disaster Prep Wednesday: FEMA asks "Are You Ready?"

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FEMA has a way too long guide asking "Are You Ready?" The guide has been designed to help the citizens of this nation learn ...
Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Iran and the Fictional Pirates Are Back Again

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Photo accompanying the Iranian "news" release is of the French frigate Le Nivose F732 Oil tanker rescued from pirates TEHRA...

Dear Young Men: Co-ed College is not for you.

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Could there be a more egregious overreaction? Old Dominion University's Sigma Nu Frat Suspended During Probe Into Sexually Suggestive Si...
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Saturday, August 22, 2015

Saturday Is Old Radio Day: X-1 "A Logic Named Joe"

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Based on a short story by Murray Leinster (Will F. Jenkins) about computer problems. Or "Logics" as the story has it.  Antici...
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Friday, August 21, 2015

Friday Fun Film: "Medical Defense Against Chemical Warfare: Detection Of Contaminated Food" (1958)

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From the "things the military worries about" collection: Gas masks but no MOPP suits or protective gloves?
Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Disaster Prep Wednesday: Pet Preparedness

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Saturday, August 15, 2015

Saturday Is Old Radio Day: "Gunsmoke"

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Dodge City Described by some as "Radio's Last Great Dramatic Series," Gunsmoke aired from from 1952 to 1961: Gunsmoke ...
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Friday, August 14, 2015

On Midrats 16 August 2015- Episode 293: Russia and the Nuclear Shadow: 2015’s Revivals with Tom Nichols

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Please join us at 5pm (EDT) on 16 August 2015 for Midrats Episode 293: Russia and the Nuclear Shadow: 2015’s Revivals with Tom Nichols : ...

Friday Fun FIlm: "Campus on the March" (1942)

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Recruiting and training new officers for World War II at major college campuses. Almost hard to believe that a little short of 30 years late...
Thursday, August 13, 2015

Fun with China: Recruiting for China's People's Liberation Army Navy

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With a big hat tip to J. Michael Cole at The National Interest , "Watch: China's Shocking New Military Recruitment Video" : ...
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Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Disaster Prep Wednesday: Weapons of Survival

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Unless your are like the survivors of the "Emberverse" , well schooled in the art of sword play and/or the use of bows/crossbows, ...
Monday, August 10, 2015

South China Sea Bully: China's "People's War at Sea"

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Armed Chinese "fishermen" attack Vietnamese fishing boats as reported by Tuoi Tre News here : A Vietnamese fishing boat from the...
Saturday, August 08, 2015

Saturday Is Old Radio Day: "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"

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A series about an insurance investigator ? A freelance insurance investigator? Yep - and the running storyline was that the shows were ba...
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Friday, August 07, 2015

On Midrats 9 August 2015 - Episode 292: The Force of the Future w/Acting Under SECDEF Brad R. Carson

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Please join us at 5 pm (EDT) on 9 August 2015 for Midrats Episode 292: The Force of the Future w/Acting Under SECDEF Brad R. Carson : If p...

Friday Film: Guadalcanal

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7 August 1942 - the first major offensive by U.S. and its allies against Japan begins with the landing on an island in the Solomons - Guadal...