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Astonishingly, rather than interrupting the Soviet deliveries to prioritize the Luftwaffe, Goering in early October 1940 ordered that, at least until 11 May 1941, deliveries to the Soviet Union, and thus to the Red Army, should have equal priority with the demands of the Wehrmacht. Even in the immediate prelude to operation Barbarossa, Germany could not afford to do without Soviet deliveries of oil, grain and alloys.

"Looting, even when done by Germans, is not an activity that lends itself to precise statistical enumeration."

Lol

The 19th century Illinois countryside sounds like such a godawful place to live. Widespread poverty, loads of debt and staking your family fortunes on commercial gambles, heinous diseases, the most backward superstitions – why would Spanish gold be buried a 1.000 km from the coast?

And amidst all this, the most American Church sunk its roots.

While from a security perspective, the Reich wanted its Jewish population expelled as quickly and radically as possible (cfr Lachlan MacNamee), from a fiscal perspective every emigrant meant an outflow of hard currency. Jews were trapped between the anvil of impossibly high exit taxes and the hammer of escalating animosity.

Rather than domestic mobilization creating the conditions for war, international tension was to become the principal lever through which the leadership of the Third Reich - ably assisted both by key industrialists and careerist soldiers - catapulted the German economy into a dramatically higher level of mobilization.

Whereas Hugenberg and the nationalists were loyal to the landowner interest, the 'agrarian bolshevists' who were now in control of the Ministry were rumoured to be planning a massive programme of land reform to break the stranglehold of the aristocracy on the east. Of all the economic measures taken by Hitler's government in its first years, the Erbhof law was the measure marked most distinctively by Nazi Ideology.

Its forces, like those of every other Trotskyist group, are reduced to an ever-smaller core of fanatical true believers. In consequence, the leaders of the CWI and Ted Grant's split-off, have "immatured" with age. They have become theoreticians without a theory, and organizers with nothing much left to organize.

The aircraft industry was the Third Reich's model of successful state-directed industrial expansion. However, even here there was scope for entrepreneurial initiative. At times, indeed, the German aircraft industry was to become a byword for independent, competitive and often coun-terproductive entrepreneurship.

'Het is niks voor jou om troebel te zijn,' zegt hij dan. 'Zodra jij met zulke formuleringen aankomt weet ik dat je vooral iets niet wilt zeggen.'

Toch is het niet onwaar, het is hoogstens nog niet waar genoeg.

In een studie naar de top 10 van bedreigingen voor 8688 met uitsterven bedreigde plant- en diersoorten uit 2016 stond klimaatverandering op plaats zeven (1688 soorten). De grote meerderheid van deze 8688 soorten (6241) wordt bedreigd door overexploitatie, waaronder boskap, jacht en visserij, gevolgd door 5407 soorten waarvan het voortbestaan door landbouwactiviteiten op het spel staat.

Het konijn is van oorsprong een soort van het Iberische schiereiland en het uiterste zuidoosten van Frankrijk. Ze werden in de Middeleeuwen voor vlees en bont in Groot-Brittannië en Midden-Europa geïntroduceerd. In dezelfde periode verschenen ook de eerste konijnen in Nederland.

To get 2.5 terawatts of installed wind power by 2030, we would need an aggregate rotor mass of 23 million tons, incorporating the equivalent of about 90 million tons of crude oil. ... Undoubtedly, in less than a year a well-sited and well-built wind turbine will generate as much energy as it took to produce it.

Following the invasion and the revelation that there were no WMD in Iraq, the Senate Intelligence Committee and the Israeli Knesset released separate reports revealing that much of the intelligence Israel gave to the Bush administration was false.

The United States has three main interests in the Middle East today: keeping Persian Gulf oil flowung to world markets, discouraging the spread of weapons of mass destruction, and reducing anti-American terrorism originating in the region. ... many of the policies that organizations in the lobby have promoted over time have left the US worse off.

AIPAC had explicitly Zionist roots ... the organization was renamed AIPAC in 1959. Kenen relied on personal contacts with key legislators rather than public campaigns or mass mobilization, and AIPAC generally followed "Kenen's Rules" to advance Israel's cause. Rule No. 1 was: "Get behind legislation, don't step out in front of it (that is, keep a low profile)."

Might be the first novel where I have to get out a highlighter to differentiate between narrators

De reden dat ze allebei zo waren opgebold was niet dat ze zoveel aten, maar vooral onverschilligheid, het feit dat ze het domweg hadden opgegeven. Ze lieten het gebeuren.

Bijna alles wat je in je leven overkomt vergeet je weer. Hij had een dagboek moeten bijhouden.

"I suggested Malcolm Caldwell [who later disappeared in Cambodian custody] get a list of members of the CPK Central Committee, and asked him to enquire about the whereabouts of my Cambodian in-laws.*

*All nine members of my wife's family, we later discovered, had already been killed."

It's not unusual for communists to die at the hands of their own state, but Cambodia was by far the most wanton self-destruction.

The more I read, the less I understand. Michael Vickery embedded the Khmer revolution in a history of rural jacqueries; Kiernan goes out of his way to debunk this interpretation. Successfully so, but he puts nothing in place. Persecution and murder seem like the only actionable courses that made sense to Angkar. But why? No clue.