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November 18
ABBREVIATED EDITION(From Dubrovnik, Croatia)"Movie Name: Rosemary's Baby (1968)Quote:Roman Castevet: Rosemary...Rosemary Woodhouse: Shut up.Roman Castevet: Rosemary...Rosemary Woodhouse: Shut up....
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November 19
FROM DUBROVNIK"The Taliban consider adultery as a violation of Islam's sharia law, punishable by death."--Richard S. Ehrlich, "Panetta: Taliban Won't Turn Petraeus Story Into Propaganda," scoop.co.nz;...
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November 20
PDPBR SENT FROM DUBROVNIK“We need to flatten entire neighborhoods in Gaza. Flatten all of Gaza. The Americans didn’t stop with Hiroshima — the Japanese weren’t surrendering fast enough, so they hit...
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November 21
PDPBR SENT FROM DUBROVNIK"[S]he excelled in chemistry."--New York Times gossip Maureen Dowd citing one of the talents, noted by Natalie Khawam, displayed by Khawam's identical saturnine twin, General...
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November 22
PDPBR SENT FROM DUBROVNIKFACEBOOKSPEAK"Updates to Data Use Policy and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities [:] We are also proposing changes to our site governance process for future updates to our...
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November 23
PDPBR SENT FROM DUBROVNIK"[Y]ou really can’t win a lasting peace by arguing on Facebook."--Tom Watson, Forbes; image fromREPORTA 21st Century Vision for U.S. Global Media - A. Ross Johnson and R....
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November 24
PDPBR SENT FROM DUBROVNIK“Le silence éternel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie."--Blaise Pascal; image from; on bells that break the silence, see.PODCASTFootball Diplomacy: Australia's Engagement with...
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November 25-26
PDPBR SENT FROM DUBROVNIK "There are fewer of them."--University of Chicago Public Policy Professor Christopher Berry and Stanford doctoral candidate Sarah Anzia, explaining (according to Scripps...
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November 27-28
PDPBR SENT FROM DUBROVNIK"The American people are free to do exactly what they are told.”--Ward Churchill, former professor of ethnic studies in Colorado at Boulder from 1990 till 2007; image...
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November 29
"America is approachable."--Digger, Life after Jerusalem: The Musings of a Two-Spirit American Indian, Public Diplomacy-Coned Foreign Service Officer: I think you know I love being a Public Diplomacy...
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November 30
PDPBR SENT FROM DUBROVNIK"It is possible to imagine a distant future in which most other species of life are extinct but the ocean will consist overwhelmingly of immortal jellyfish, a great gelatin...
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December 1
"[Russian government spokesman Dmitry] Peskov has said Putin cut his trips to the Kremlin because he didn't want to further complicate bad Moscow traffic."--Sergei L. Loiko, "Russian he-man Vladimir...
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December 2-6
"As the State Department assumed many of the military’s tasks, including training Iraq’s national police, the diplomatic mission grew to nearly 20 support personnel for each official." --Karen DeYoung,...
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December 7-12
"Diplomacy not just for diplomats; but not diplomacy without diplomats."--Tom Fletcher, the British Ambassador in Beirut, writing about the use of digital media in carrying out international relations;...
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December 13-14
"America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing...
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December 14-20
"The best history books do one of two things: they change one's mind or they tell a terrific story."--Theodore K. Rabb, Times Literary Supplement (November 30, 2012), p. 12; image fromVIDEOThe Bureau...
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December 21
"Happy Everything!"--Inscription on a holiday card; image fromVIDEOUS Embassy Warsaw Rocks with All I Want For Christmas Is You - DiploPundit: The video below is from US Embassy Warsaw with Ambassador...
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December 22
“The only way of knowing a person[s] is to love them without hope.”--Literary critic Walter Benjamin; image fromVIDEOPyongyang Racer - Propaganda Racer (free browsergame) - youtube.comPUBLIC...
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December 23
“History will judge us kindly, because I shall write the history.”--Churchill, speaking to Roosevelt and Stalin in 1943 "We never know what will happen yesterday."--Soviet-era joke in Russia; image...
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December 24
"God has a sense of humor."--Rabbi Jonathan Sacks; image fromVIDEONorth Korea sees South Korean Christmas tree tower as propaganda - guardian.co.ukPUBLIC DIPLOMACYBishtek [December 23] - Paul Rockower,...
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