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September 8
"I put it before Congress because I could not honestly claim that the threat posed by Assad’s use of chemical weapons on innocent civilians and women and children posed an imminent, direct threat to...
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September 9
"You can watch a little bit of war from your nice living room - 30 seconds of what's going on in Syria - and when you've had enough, switch over to some celebrity programme. We live our life through...
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September 10-11
"What's all this fuss I keep hearing about military action against cereal?"--From; image from"If Assad is eating Cheerios, we're going to take away his spoon and give him a fork. Will that degrade his...
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September 12-14
"Is eradicating terrorism more difficult or less difficult than making a newsweekly profitable in 2013?"--Juli Weiner, "Obama White House on Hiring Spree," Vanity Fair, noting that "The White House has...
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September 15
"You know, I don’t need to talk to the camera."--President Barack Obama, responding to the request of CNN interviewer Wolf Blitzer to "look into the camera, talk directly to President Bashar al Assad."...
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September 16
“I think John Kerry has been one of the best secretaries of state in the history of America!” --Vice President Joe Biden; image via BB on Facebook; re Obama and propaganda, see John Brown, "The...
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September 17
"America is defined by its resilience. No matter what mistakes we make, we pick ourselves up, we dust ourselves off, and come together with the courage to deny that we ever made a mistake.”--Political...
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September 18
"She can't dance, her body looked like hell, the song wasn't great, one cheek was hanging out. And, chick, don't stick out your tongue if it's coated."--Cher on Miley Cyrus' notorious MTV performance;...
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September 19-20
--Words from a bumper sticker on a car parked in yet another litter-infested neighborhood in Northwest Washington, D.C.VIDEOThe US/Russia Public Diplomacy Battle for Syria - youtube.comPUBLIC...
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September 21
PUBLIC DIPLOMACYOp-ed diplomacy: Ink-stained presidents - bostonglobe.com: "First, it was Russian President Vladimir Putin, outlining his Syria strategy and decrying American exceptionalism in an op-ed...
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September 22
"Specifically, your product contained content which infringes upon the intellectual property rights of National Security Agency. We have been contacted by legal representatives from the National...
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September 23-25
"[T]here’s an argument to be made that her entire life has constituted an exercise in public diplomacy."--Christian Science Monitor correspondent Jennifer Skalka Tulumello, regarding Caroline Kennedy,...
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September 26-27
"DPRK art of any kind is state-supported, prolific and serves to educate people about the government and revolution. This gives artists freedom of subject matter, except for abstract art — something...
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November 1-3
Abbreviated edition"And though 43% of Americans could correctly pick out James Clapper as the director of national intelligence, 74% could correctly identify Miley Cyrus as the person who twerked at...
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November 4
“'I work in the Communications and Public Diplomacy Team. More specifically with public and digital diplomacy.'And that is when I get the baffled expressions.'Hum…okay. But…what is that...
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November 5
“I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained;I stand and look at them long and long.They do not sweat and whine about their condition;They do not lie awake in...
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November 6
"[T]he Department of Defense recently classified a memo about over-classification."--Peter Van Buren, "Over-Classification at State," We Meant Well Blog; image fromPUBLIC DIPLOMACY21st Century...
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November 7-8
Abbreviated edition“Because it’s enough.”--Gilberto dos Santos, a Volkswagen spokesman, why it -- the Volkswagen Kombi, or minivan -- has done so well in Brazil; image fromVIDEOSVideo of Torture in...
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November 9-10
"The shift from government to 'Googlement'— fuelled by the unprecedented ability of companies to gather, store, and evaluate vast amounts of personal data — has just begun."--Karl-Theodor zu...
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November 11
"No words necessary" --Your PDPBR compilerImage from; see alsoAL JAZEERA PROGRAM ON CULTURAL DIPLOMACYSelling America abroad - The Stream Team, Al Jazeera: "Can the government use music and art to...
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