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Question: Was the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in the mid/late 90’s authorized by the U.N?

Something I remember of that time: Republicans were saying it was a “wag-the-dog” type operation and that Clinton was trying, by means of this bombing, to distract the U.S. public from the Monica Lewinsky affair; meanwhile there was a general awareness that Rwanda had occurred earlier in the decade and that Western Powers had done nothing about that but really ought to have done something about that. There was an analaogy in the minds of many people of the West between Rwanda and Kosovo, I think is fair to say. I feel like the term “boots on the ground” may also have originated or gained currency during that time, Republicans having argued that an air war by itself couldn’t achieve anything; what you really needed was “boots on the ground.” (Here is ngrams viewer for boots on the ground. Here is ngrams viewer for Somalia,Rwanda. boots on the ground,Black Hawk Down)

Answer to foregoing question: apparently not: the bombing was not authorized by the U.N., which was a fact that arose during a dispute I had with a very pro-russian person, who sought to compare the Russian invasion of Crimea with the NATO bombing of Kosovo and environs, an idea that seemed wrong and even incredible to me on the face of it, but which I didn’t recall enough about to confidently deny.

This surprised me: Although it was the largest nuclear disaster since the Chernobyl disaster of 1986, and the radiation released exceeded official safety guidelines, there were no casualties officially reported to be caused by radiation exposure.

It was roughly the same size and weight as a Volkswagen Beetle, though flatter in shape… Glyptodon

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(36?) Just saw the movie Guadalcanal Diary in which, at one point, the character named Taxi cries out (transcribed exactly this way in the subtitles) “Yahoo! Mail.” Making me wonder if this could pertain to the origin of the free email service by that name: Wikipedia says not.

The spasm of any muscle is what Kundera understood as excitement, erection, “sin”; if these spasms can be slowed, they can be stopped, “sin” will be slowed and stopped… August

bubbles circles rings circles bubbles eyes cupped rings… to be read as if the words could not be combined into phrases.

Odysseus,Ulysses… I observe with interest that “Odysseus” begins meaningfully to spike right after the publication of Ulysses (1922).

Créer un poncif, cest le génie.
Je dois créer un poncif. –Baudelaire

vibora… “Aeroméxico investiga presencia de víbora en avión” (Informador)

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“φόβος γὰρ μνήμην ἐκπλήσσει, τέχνη δὲ ἄνευ ἀλκῆς οὐδὲν ὠφελεῖ.” Thucydides 2.87.4

“For fear drives memory out, and skill without courage avails not.”

(1) What a fair view of the immigration problem President Bush Senior exhibits in this youtube video of a primary debate (1980) he had with Reagan. (2) Reagan himself, during the debate, says this:

“Rather than talking about putting up a fence… Make it possible for them to come here legally with a work permit, and then while they’re working and earning here, they pay taxes here. And then when they want to go back they go back. Open the border both ways by understanding their problems.”

(He seems to envision the specter of a communist Mexico, and this as an incentive to assuage Mexico’s unemployment problem.) (3) Found on Vox on the occasion of the death of Nancy Reagan.

Interesting ngrams viewer result: Pale Blue Eyes,Candy Says

Even if the textual and historical arguments on both sides of the issue were evenly balanced, respect for the well­settled views of all of our predecessors on this Court, and for the rule of law itself, would prevent most jurists from endorsing such a dramatic upheaval in the law…..District of Columbia v. Heller/Dissent Stevens

Amheric. I walked up to the couple pointing in the direction of their sandwich) — konjo? is it good? “etaffeta,” the man said, (“It’s delicious.”)

What was the meaning of this mysterious feeling? …. Ferdinando

question, is haiku a form of “epiphany“? Reminded I came across the word in my Greek reading this morning, epiphainw — rabbits appearing from out of their opas (holes)

“Intertragic notch“… (may have at last found a suitable name for this blog.) The intertragic notch may be found between the tragus and anti-tragus of your outer ear.

“Frank respected this — who at some point hadn’t come to hate the railroad? It penetrated, it broke apart cities and wild herds and watersheds, it created economic panics and armies of jobless men and women, and generations of hard, bleak city-dwellers with no principles who ruled with unchecked power, it took away everything indiscriminately, to be sold, to be slaughtered, to be led beyond the reach of love.” [Against The Day.]