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"Four militants have been killed in this drone attack," said a security official in Peshawar. (photo: Dawn)  The US has delivered over 500,000 halal meals to Pakistani flood victims, among other aid, yet this photograph leads on the premier Anglophone newspaper in Pakistan, obviating whatever good may have been done by "anemic" US public relations efforts.

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Friday 905P Eastern Time:  Aaron Task, Yahoo TechTicker, in re: the professorial Bernanke at Jackson Hole: "We'll do all we can . . . "

We need 3% PA growth to grow jobs; at 2% we're weakly; at 1.6% growth PA - the magic number released at 8:30 this morning - we're bleeding economically.  Unhappy vindication of deflationistas.

Friday 920P Eastern Time:  Leora Vestal, NYT, in re: wind turbines disrupt air traffic radar control

Friday 935P Eastern Time: Matt Gertken, Stratfor, in re: North Korea, Hu Jintao, Carter

Friday 950P Eastern Time:  Eric Dash, NYT, in re: TARP and profit

Friday 1005P (705P Pacific Time):  Sebastian Gorka, FDD, and Gordon Chang, Forbes.com, in re: the PLA in the Twenty-first Century. The Middle Kingdom unsheathes the sword.

Friday 1020P (720P Pacific Time):  continued. Chinese flag officers now moving into foreign policy; vide: Unrestricted Warfare, esp chapter headings. Warfare now indirect, unrestricted, cyberic, economic. 

Friday 1035P (735P Pacific Time):  Rufus Phillips, author; Bill Roggio, LongWarJournal; Arif Rafiq, Pakistan Policy blog, in re: Pakistan floods and relief; flood sets back years of gains on infrastructure. Taliban hint at attacks on relief workers .  Karzai corruption hired on by the CIA. 

Friday 1050P (750P Pacific Time):  continued

Friday 1105P (805P Pacific Time): .Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins and Naval War College,in re: "History is written by collective choice -- shifts in our consciousness." ". . . the question in 2010 is not the question of 1940. . . . Today a society divided, adrift, self-serving, inward looking, anxious, narcissistic, and afraid, has no coherent story to tell itself of its own future. Those who might tell it -- the Defense Confederacy -- are locked deep in their own mythic sagas of Forever War, and no longer know how to talk to once fellow-countrymen."

Friday 1120P (820P Pacific Time): continued. Glenn Beck is no Will Rogers. ("I wish he were more entertaining.")

Friday 1135P (835P Pacific Time): Boris Borisovich Volodarsky, author, in re: MI6 agent murdered in London

Friday 1150P (850P Pacific Time):  Thanassis Cambonis, NYT, in re: The new Cairo and new (nouveaux riches) sister cities

Friday/Sat 1205A (905 Pacific Time):  Motoko Rich, NYT, in re: second-quarter GDP revisions

Friday/Sat  1220A (920 Pacific Time):  Joe Rago, WSJ, in re: Obamacare double-taxation

Friday/Sat  1235A (935P Pacific Time):  Harvey Sachs, author, The Ninth

Friday/Sat  1250A  (950P Pacific Time): Exeunt.