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The Turbulence Begins
American history continues: The Turbulence Begins by Michael Doyle As the post-war alliance fell apart, the United Nations started The start of Cold War began and sustained as peace departed Confrontations began and nuclear weapons were on both sides’ hands … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Abuse of Power, Accommodation, Address, Ailment, Alliance, America, American History, Arab Conflict, Ascendency, Balance, Begin, Bi-Partisan, Border, Champion, China, Citizens, Civil War, Cold War, Command, Common Man, Communists, Confrontation, Consolidation, Containment, Continent, Crystal Ball, Cuba, Danger, Dangers, Deep State Government, Defense, Devastation, Eisenshower, Empire, Expansionism, Fidel Castro, Fiscal Conservatism, Foreign, Forgot, Forward, Free, Free People, Freedom, George Kennan, Global Challenges, Government, Grow, Guard, Hard Times, Harry S Truman, Heritage, History, Hitler, Hostility, Hour, I Like Ike, Ill-Informed, Imperatives, Impulsiveness, Inchon, International Relations, Iron Curtain, Isreal, Issues, Korean Peninsula, Korean War, Legend, Liberty, MacArthur, Mao, Middle East, Military, Military-Industrial Complex, Misplaced Power, Moral Conscience, Mortal Man, Mortgage, New Deal, No Subtitution For Victory, Non-Partisan, Normalization, North, Nuclear, Occupy, Pass, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Police Action, Policy, Politics, Post-War, Presidency, Radical Challenges, Rank, Rectification, Reunification, Russian, Salvation, Security, Self Determination, Sentiment, Settle, Sino, Society, Sorrow, South, Soviet, Stabilize, Stalemate, Stalin, Statesmanship, Stettin, Subjugation, Suez Canal, Technocratic State, Tension, Territory, The People, Tomorrow, Trieste, Truman Doctrine, Turbulence, United Nations, Veteran, Vietnam, Vigilance, Vote, Vulnerable Nations, Warn
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Our Finest Hour
At this stage of American history, we advanced onto the world stage having no real choice but to fight a war on multiple fronts in World War II and rather self consciously becoming a, if not the, world leader in … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged 1930s, 1940, Accommodation, Admiral Nimitz, Admiral Yamamoto, Air Craft Carrier, All-American, Allied Commander, Allies, America, American History, American Pride, Appeasement, Atom Bomb, Back, Battle, Battle of Britain, Battle of Midway, Beast, Berlin, Blitzkrieg, Break, Brunt, Capacity, China, Christian Civilization, City, Conflagration, Consideration, Converge, Countries, D-Day, Dead, Death Camps, Decision, Decisive, Decisively, Defeaat, Demoralize, Destructive, Devour, Dictator, Die, Direction, Domination, Drums, Dwight Eisenhower, Dynamics, Emperor, Endure, Engage, Expansion, FDR, Finest, Finest Hour, Fire Side Chat, Fourth, Free World, Freedom, General MacArthur, Germany, Halt, Hard Fought, Harry S Truman, Heart, Hiroshima, History, Hitler, Horror, Hour, Impossible, Industrial Ability, Infamy, Institution, Internal, International, Internationalist, Isolationist, Italy, Japan, Japanese, Jewish, June, Knockout Blow, Know, Last, Lend Lease Act, Luftwaffe, Manhattan Project, Mantle of Leadership, Materials, Merge, Might, Nagasaki, Nation, Navy, Nazi, Neutrality, Non-Aggression Pact, Normandy, North Atlantic, Obligations, Occupy, Okinawa, Opinion Poll, Organic, Pacific, Pacific Fleet, Paris, Past, Pearl Harbor, Permanent Sense, Philippines, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Precedent, Predictability, Prinicples, Priority, Productivity, Reality, Revelation, Royal Air Force, Ruins, Russians, Secret, Secure, Self Conscious, Shadow, Shoulders, Shudder, Siege, Skies, Smoulder, Soviet Union, Stalin, Standing, Standing Army, Strategic, Stubborn, Supplies, Surrender, Sustain, Symbolic, Territorial Aggression, Thug, Treaty of Versailles, Turning Point, Two Prong, Typhoon of Steel, Unstoppable, Vain, VE Day, Victory, War, Will, Win, Winston Churchill, World, World Affairs, World Leader, World War II, Wrong
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Kermode White In Blues
Na/GloPoWriMo Day 23 sets out a challenge to write a poem about an animal or animals: Kermode White In Blues by Michael Romani Two white tigers, not in biology More in a thing of Chinese astrology Set about that day … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Astrology, Balance, Berry, British Columbia, China, Creator, Douglass Channel, Embrace, Family, First Nation, Fish, Ghost Bear, Greed, Gribbell Island, Habitat, Haunt, Hippopotamus, Home of the White Bear, Human, Imagine, Kermode Bear, Kitasoo, Land of Plenty, Legacy, Loss, Magic, Na/GloPoWriMo, Niche, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Rain Forest, Raven, Tiger, Trickster, Vancouver, Walk, zoo
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Thought For the Day: Capitalism Has Been the Most Effective Way To Eliminate Poverty In History
Socialists like to blame every inequity, the actions of every greedy criminal, every downturn and every social ill on the injustice of capitalism. But none of them admit that capitalism has been the most effective way to eliminate poverty in … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day, Uncategorized
Tagged Blame, Capitalism, China, David Harsanyi, Elimination, History, India, Inequity, Millenials, Poverty, Socialism, Soviet Union, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: The Tale of Global Socialism Is One of Ruination
“The young Democrats swooning for Sanders appear unfamiliar with socialism’s century-long career, a dismal tale of ruination from Russia to Cuba to Venezuela. Indeed, are they even aware that China’s greatest reduction in poverty in human history correlates precisely with … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernie Sanders, China, Cuba, Democrats, Destruction, Distrust, Economic, Populism, Power, Recovery, Ruination, Russia, Socialism, Thought For the Day, Venezuela, Will
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Laughter
Free Tibet said the laughing eyes of the Buddha To that unwelcome guest, China, the intruda’ While around the globe in a thousand points of lights Advocates spoke up on the solemn issue of human rights The occupation has caused … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories
Tagged China, Daily Prompt, Free Tibet, Human Rights, Laughing Buddha, Laughter, Occupation, Parasites In Paradise, Tibet, Wordpress
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Himalayan Journey
https://flic.kr/p/pVs3dC Himalayan Journey by Michael Romani Far from the bustling cities of China Is a tale of life in all of its glory The spirits are lifted on the backs of cranes In the springtime of this magical story … Continue reading
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Tagged China, Dreamscape, Golden Monkeys, Himalayan Mountains, Journey, Panda, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Snow Leopards
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 