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December 28
“There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.” ―-Stephen Colbert; image fromVIDEO[The Babushka] - YouTubePUBLIC DIPLOMACYU.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential...
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December 29-30
"Love, and do what you like."--Saint Augustine; St. Augustine image fromVIDEOSU.S. Embassy in Uganda Slays Christmas - Peter Van Buren, We Meant WellAnimated Soviet Propaganda - American Imperialist:...
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December 31
"So far her protégé, a desktop computer named Todai-kun, is excelling in math and history but needs more effort in reading comprehension."--New York Times reporter Michael Fitzpatrick, on the efforts...
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January 1
"a sensible precept in public diplomacy, namely, superlatives should never be used."--Commenter Ken Ward, reacting to an article on Australian-Japanese relations; image fromPUBLIC DIPLOMACYUS-Myanmar...
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January 2
DIPLOMATIC LIFEGifplomacy - C'est la vie of French Diplomats. Via DiploPunditBLOG OF INTERESTDeveloping TomorrowIMAGEVia RB on Facebook, with comment: "Uh, methinks the Associated Press needs to...
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January 3-4
"We’ve got too many priests and not enough jesters."--Intenet skeptic Evgeny Morozov; image fromVIDEOThis World Oft Can Be - Paul Rockower, Levantine: Covers the State Department Central Asian tour of...
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January 5
"Waste"--Industry parlance for Internet "low-value targets," the bottom 20 percent of customers, who may spend “too much” time on customer service calls, and may cost companies in returns or coupons,...
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January 6
"While the civic, commercial context of the seventeenth-century public sphere was founded on rational exchange and the expectation that one's utterances would be accepted as truth, by the modernist...
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January 7-8
"I’ve dedicated over a decade of scholarship to the topic without any acknowledgment from State."--Jami Fullerton, "Do PD officers read the academic research on public diplomacy?"PD News–CPD Blog, USC...
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January 9-10
"He Looks Like a Monster."--The reaction of one Pyongyang man shouted, when he saw visiting former NBA start Dennis Rodman on the street; image from, with caption: Kim Jong Un and Dennis Rodman watch...
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January 11-12
"Effective public diplomacy is like motor oil; it may not fuel forward motion, however it greatly reduces friction along the way."--newmoviex.net; image fromFELLOWSHIPFulbright - National Geographic...
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January 13
“What I mean to say is that the best way to judge a culture is to see what kind of people are in the jails.” --Philosopher John Dewey; image fromVIDEOBehind the scenes at Propaganda Doughnuts: Check...
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January 14
"I was put off by the way the president closed the meeting. To his very closest advisers, he said, 'For the record, and for those of you writing your memoirs, I am not making any decisions about Israel...
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January 15-18
"ARSO”--Acronym for State Department Assistant Security Officer; image from"HIPPA"--The Health Information Portability and Accountability Act first passed by Congress in 1996; image fromVIDEOSBBC's...
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January 19
"STEPHANOPOULUS: The most famous American in Russia right now is Edward Snowden. Is he invited to Sochi? PUTIN: The most renowned American in Russia right now is Barack Obama."--From Stan Stein,...
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January 20
--Martin Luther King images fromVIDEOS"I Have A Dream" (August 28, 1963) - David Pescovitz, boingboing.net: "Tell them about the dream, Martin!" [on Martin Luther Day in Washington, January 20, 2014,...
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January 21
“I don’t really even need George Kennan right now.”--President Barack Obama; image fromVIDEOLenin's Legacy? - RFL/RL: "With January 21 marking 90 years since the death of Vladimir Lenin, RFE/RL asked...
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January 22-23
Q. Is this [the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act] an attempt to influence or propagandize US citizens?A. No. Our journalists must abide by legally mandated broadcasting standards and principles to present...
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January 24-25
"the NSA has to 'make RAS'— that is, to show 'reasonably articulable suspicion."--Jack Riley, vice president of the nonpartisan, nonprofit Rand Corp. and director of the Rand National Security Research...
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