FIRST HOUR

9-915 
#MrMarket: Big rigs running empty in a trucking contraction. Jim McTague, former Washington Editor, Barron's Magazine.
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/truckload-contract-market-showing-early-signs-of-deterioration

915-930  
#Pandemic: Reasons to be cheerful. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion. 
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-case-for-optimism-crime-prosecutors-boudin-nyc-court-dobbs-west-virginia-epa-schools-teachers-unions-recession-11659560463

930-945
#SmallBusinessAmerica: The slowdown is not uniform. @GeneMarks  @Guardian @PhillyInquirer
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/03/tech-companies-banks-overstaffed-while-airlines-hotels-need-workers.html

945-1000
#SmallBusinessAmerica: Confidence dips.@GeneMarks  @Guardian @PhillyInquirer
www.upi.com/amp/Top_News/US/2022/08/03/economy-small-business-owner-confidence-hits-low/3771659543585/?a

SECOND HOUR

10-1015 
#Ukraine:  Counteroffensive; & What is to be done?  Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncolhttps://www.reuters.com/world/europe/nato-chief-says-russia-must-not-win-ukraine-2022-08-04/

1015-1030 
#Italy: Risotto rice crop at risk for years ahead. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation.
https://www.msn.com/el-gr/news/other/italy-drought-risotto-rice-harvest-fears-as-paddy-fields-dry-up-amid-lack-of-rainfall/vi-AA10lUS9

1030-1045 
#ScalaReport: The global slowdown unknowns. Chris Riegel, CEO, Scala.com. #STRATACACHE
https://www.ft.com/content/1455576f-d461-4e90-8b1d-b0eedb2c857d

1045-1100
#PRC: Airbus cooperates with the military-civil apparatus; & What is to be done? Emily de La Bruyere, FDD
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2022/08/02/time-for-a-us-eu-industrial-strategy-china/
 

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115
1/4: Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the world: What China's Crackdown Reveals about Its Plans to End Freedom Everywhere, by  Mark L. Clifford  x Hardcover – February 1, 2022
 
https://www.amazon.com/Today-Hong-Kong-Tomorrow-World/dp/1250279178
 
Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World tells the complete story of how a city once famed for protests so peaceful that toddlers joined grandparents in millions-strong rallies became a place where police have fired more than 10,000 rounds of tear gas, rubber bullets and even live ammunition at their neighbors, while pro-government hooligans attack demonstrators in the streets. A Hong Kong resident from 1992 to 2021, the nauthor Mark L. Clifford, has witnessed this transformation firsthand. As a celebrated publisher and journalist, he has unrivaled access to the full range of the city’s society, from student protestors and political prisoners to aristocrats and senior government officials. A powerful and dramatic mix of history and on-the-ground reporting, this book is the definitive account of one of the most important geopolitical standoffs of our time.

1115-1130
2/4: Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the world: What China's Crackdown Reveals about Its Plans to End Freedom Everywhere, by  Mark L. Clifford  x Hardcover – February 1, 2022

1130-1145
3/4: Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the world: What China's Crackdown Reveals about Its Plans to End Freedom Everywhere, by  Mark L. Clifford  x Hardcover – February 1, 2022

1145-1200
4/4: Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the world: What China's Crackdown Reveals about Its Plans to End Freedom Everywhere, by  Mark L. Clifford  x Hardcover – February 1, 2022

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215 #PRC: #Argentina: The debt weapon and the InterAmerican Development Bank. Mary Anastasia O'Grady
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-china-took-latin-america-beijing-nancy-pelosi-expansionism-taiwan-regimes-south-america-11659289457

1215-1230 #PacificWatch: Drought for the creatures of Catalina Island.@JCBliss
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2022-08-05/as-drought-grips-catalina-desalination-keeps-crisis-at-bay

1230-1245 
#ISS: Rules for Space Tourism. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-imposes-new-rules-for-any-private-launches-to-iss/

1245-100
#Mars: Perseverance mementos for the Smithsonian on Mars. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-scattered-debris-from-perseverances-landing-now-being-tracked-by-the-rover/
 
 
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