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Germany authorizes pipe-laying for Nord Stream 2 in its waters TASS and Scoop: Biden to waive sanctions on company in charge of Nord Stream 2 Axios. ZOMG Putin has kompromat on Biden ZOMG ZOMG. Does not make sense IMO. Especially with possible return of Iranian energy on world market. Only way maybe it does, is if some got spooked by the gas shortage caused by the recent hack attack and the political folk in Team Dem overruled the warmongers in this instance because they’re not happy with re-election prospects in 2022. With energy prices and inflation spiking voters could get uncooperative, and since the warmongers got their preferred team in power, they are on board with that. ....
1. In April 1924 Rabindranath Tagore arrived in Shanghai for a lecture tour of China. Soon after receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, Tagore had become an international literary celebrity, lecturing to packed audiences from Japan to Argentina. His message that modern civilization, built upon the cult of money and power, was inherently destructive, and needed to be tempered by the spiritual wisdom of the East had a receptive audience among many people in the West who had been forced by World War I to question their faith in science and progress. But when, traveling in the East, he exhorted Asians not to abandon their traditional culture, he was often heckled and booed. ....
Chairman Mao’s conquest of China on 1 October 1949 marked the start of the China holocaust (I use a small “h” as I appreciate the uniqueness of “the” Holocaust of the Jews). Historian Antony Beevor estimates 70 million innocent men, women, and children died under Mao’s regime. At the University of Auckland in July 1993, a handful of students and academics sat in the living room of a 19th-century merchant house listening to visiting Sinologist Professor Jonathan Spence explain why Chairman Mao was one of the 20th century’s “Great Leaders.” This was too much to bear for my teacher, China holocaust survivor Professor Pang Binjun, a Christian who stood up and with considerable emotion countered, “What about the Cultural Revolution?” ....
Cambridge Building Society has appointed John Spence as its new chair. He joins after a 32-year career in banking at Lloyd’s TSB, where he rose to become a director of the firm in a variety of roles. His time at the bank saw him lead a team of over 30,000 as director of retail distribution. As the lender's director ....