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The Bedford Incident is a wonderful movie with a not unforseen ending. Please see: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058962/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_5_nm_0_in_0_q_bedford%20incident Sidney Poitier and Richard Widmark and Martin Balsam.

Carey Grant and James Mason. Both in the movie North by Northwest. Please see: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053125/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_north%20by%20northwest William Holden in his early years. John Wayne, smoking took him away from us. Westerns actors and actresses. Leslie Nielson, Anne Frances, and Walter Pidgeon in Forbidden Planet. Please see: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049223/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_forbidden%20planet There are many more such as James Whitmore and James Arness and Edmund Gwenn in THEM! Please see: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047573/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_7_tt_7_nm_1_in_0_q_them ENOUGH ALREADY... Driving to Bangkok Saturday morning for 'Saht-Gen' and a meetup with expats at the Future Park Mall in Rangsit. Terry ( a few miles south of Hua Hin )...

The bawdy look at the British and French rulers was not found in my British literature classes in high school in America. I read on my Kindle, "1,000 Years of Annoying the French". Please see: https://www.amazon.com/Years-Annoying-French-Stephen-Clarke/dp/0552775746 . Also, finishing up reading "UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry". Please see: https://www.amazon.com/UFOs-Government-Historical-Michael-Swords/dp/1933665580 This is coffee-table size. It extensive sources end each chapter, fully indexed, and with photos of major players. I have extensive margin notes that follow my experiences in reviewing somewhat hidden data in the Project Blue Book archive. The normal month and year format in alphanumeric order is punctuated by extensive dumps of pages that are just dumped. The current one is 8,198 pages. My point of view is that I am neither a hostile skeptic nor a true believer. What I find at Project Blue Book I share with Robert Powell (radar reports), Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos (photos and videos), and Michael Hudson at BUFORA, all the EMI reports.

Yes, ideas are hard to kill. It will take integrating the radical Islamist world into 'normal' cultures. That will take decades and perhaps hundreds of years. That reminds me of the discussion I had with the owner of Craig's Modern Market in Evansville, Indiana in the 1960s. He was a former fundamentalist preacher. He said that after WW 1 we should have killed off the German population, their animals, and raze their structures. He must have been an Old Testament believer.

In 2007, visited the main gate of the former Camp Samae San and my nephew driving asked if we could enter. I overheard him say the base was Top Secret. It was a Royal Thai Marine base after we left in 1976. The location is ideal as U-Tapao International Airport is about one mile east of the base. Ferry prisoners in and out using military aircraft

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During a time of increasing tension with Russia we would share nuclear depth charges with the Dutch Navy. Nukes are not stored in the Netherlands. Poland is out of the question as too close to Russia and Belarus. Crimea was stolen in 2014, and the West did next to nothing. This fantasy that Russia fears NATO is plain weird. NATO is a defensive system. I worked the NATO communications center in Naples, Italy 1977 to 1980. Your recall of history is incomplete and smacks of wanting Putin to be successful in Ukraine. This allegation that Putin only wanted to take part of Ukraine is plain wrong. Did you forget the Russian tank column north of Kyiv? Perhaps they were looking for mushrooms?

I think three or four CGI infused remakes appeared. In January 1973, assigned to a communications center at Camp Samae San, Thailand. The B-52 base at U-Tapao RTNAB was a mile or so to our east just beyond MARS hill. I lived in a bungalow a few kilometers from the air base. If I climbed the hill topped with tapioca fields I could easily see the air base. I took photos of B-52s and once a U-2. Helo from the air base came over to check me out. I hid the 35mm camera in the brush. Yes, atomic cannon were deployed to Germany roughly between 1954 and 1963. Here is a history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M65_atomic_cannon My friend and mentor Charlie Hedgpeth (RIP) worked communications support for one of these nuclear cannons. HF and Morse Code with SPECAT coding. Charlie was at the Choisin Reservoir in the Korean War providing radio and teletype support to the U.S. Marines and Allies. He said during the retreat they chanced across a Chinese Army medical unit. Someone began firing and the small unit, maybe 15, was wiped out.

Your mention of American biscuits reminded me that I saw at Villa Market in Hua Hin a can of biscuits. It was a fat and small size. The price was 283 baht. Heck no.

Rod Taylor in The Time Machine is a favorite of mine. Please see: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054387/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_6_tt_7_nm_1_in_0_q_time%20machine I believe his last movie was Inglorious Basterds, role as Winston Churchill. Elois munching on fruit and veggies, and Morlocks munching on Elois. The remakes appeal to new generations I suppose. You know the U.S. and its Allies used tactical nukes at the end of war games as the Soviet tank armies came through the Ruhr and Po valleys.

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I've read he protected his children from rapper lyrics but he willingly profited from his own rapper lyrics being heard by adults and their children. Hypocrisy.

Thai used to fly to America. We took one flight nonstop from LAX to Bangkok. We flew economy. Service and food was good, but the price a little high. I think this was 2008. Our first trip to the U.S. in nine years was last year, the summer of 2023. We flew Korean Air from Bangkok to South Korea, then non-stop to Washington, DC. Our son paid for the business class trip, quite pricey I thought. Fully lying down seats was OK, but I do not sleep well on planes. Who does. Our return four months later was also on Korean Air from Las Vegas to South Korea to Bangkok. Cost was $1,000 in economy. Middle row seats with one seat not occupied. We each had aisle seats and a vacant seat in between. Wheelchairs for my wife and I. More so for my wife of 50 years, who is Thai. I couldn't keep up on my own as those wheelchair guys and gals are wickedly fast. In South Korea the wheelchair pushers were too few. Guy asked if I could walk. I said a few hundred feet was OK. No wheelchair. Terry ( a few miles south of Hua Hin ) . . .

Which channels will have overall coverage of the sports events in Paris? I use True Visions and hope that the SPOTV channels will have overall coverage.

She was on the Johnny Carson and other talk shows. She was direct and funny at times too.

PAX America replaced by PAX China or PAX Russia would be a road fraught with danger. Methinks there are people here just poking the pooch.

Here is a good pictorial history and most have captions: https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/declassified_194081.htm In the SHD a storyboard listed the countries included in the pooled intelligence network. The full 12 nations (in 1979) and a few more. I recall Japan and South Africa. These were not obviously countries in Europe. Technical note: All proper names were repeated; punctuation was spelled out in an abbreviated form (e.g., CMM for comma, PD for period or full stop, QUESTION MARK for ?, paren for ( and unparen for ), and others. The punched Baudot paper tape from the teletype had the full message in 5-letter code groups (e.g., ABCDE ZRUZE EATDZ RUMOU HAZDR DEFGH). This perforated paper tape was fed through an HL-1B after setting the code for that day. There is an excellent overview of the KL-7 system. Please see: http://jproc.ca/crypto/crypto2/kl7.html The final message from the KL-7 system was sent from Ottawa, Canada. Office symbols include "SSO" which means Special Security Office or shall we say back channel communications. As the paper tape fed through the tape reader it produced a small white paper tape, not unlike correction tape in size. This was torn off and placed on a page of typing paper and enveloped for delivery. In 1979, a compromise forced the rewiring of all rotors globally. I recall spending most of the night rewiring our rotors, a group effort by several of us.

Hamas is hiding in urban areas, inside some hospitals and just mixing with the civilian population. They are breaking the rules of war, such as they are.

I worked the AFSOUTH, Allied Forces South, NATO communications center in Naples, Italy from 1/77 to 1/80. Pooled intelligence was received and sent in five letter code groups. Only three or four people working each shift or watch was cleared. Other intelligence messages were sent and received via on-line encrypted circuits. The pooled intelligence I mentioned was handled in the Special Handling Detachment. The source country was not revealed. I saw Soviet ship movements, Fidel Castro's visits to Angola, and special data. At NATO headquarters in Brussels there is a special handling (U.S.) group that served Colonel promotable and above officers. These were restricted to United Kingdom and U.S. officers. Those 13 other countries, and especially the French, were not to be trusted. The French military did participate in NATO exercises. One of our customers in Naples, Italy was the French Military Mission. Quite a few of the classified NATO teletypes were clearly marked NOT RELEASABLE TO THE FRENCH. We sent and received teletypes to French ships as well as including Marseilles, Toulon, and Paris.

A welcome 0.5 inches of rain this mid-afternoon just a few miles south of Hua Hin. Our first good rain in June.