![]() ![]() In the summer of 2001, Morell found himself in the Oval Office telling the president that the “system was blinking red” with signals that a major terrorist strike was imminent. Morell’s career exposed him to a diverse array of agency activities, especially the year he spent as the principal CIA briefer for President George W. His memoir, The Great War of Our Time: The CIA's Fight Against Terrorism-From al Qa'ida to ISIS, offers a tour of agency successes and failures and also explores a number of other highly controversial matters, including the “enhanced interrogation” of terrorists, and the agency’s convoluted role in the 2012 Benghazi imbroglio. Not long ago, Michael Morell hung up his trench coat after a 31-year career in the agency that took him from an entry level position to an array of high-level postings, ending up as CIA deputy director under Barack Obama. Second, it issued a faulty estimate that Saddam Hussein was developing weapons of mass destruction, which led to a major war. First, it failed to detect the September 11 plot. Two of the spy agency’s mistakes had terrible consequences for the future of the country. When the history of United States in the 21st century is written, the role of the Central Intelligence Agency will loom large in its early chapters. The Great War of Our Time: The CIA's Fight Against Terrorism-From al Qa'ida to ISIS ![]()
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![]() The past several decades haven’t been an American Century. The entire concept of the Order is that the United States disadvantages itself economically in order to purchase the loyalty of a global alliance. Not only despite the global churn and degradation, but also in many cases because of it, the United States will largely escape the carnage to come. How do the things we know and understand about food and money and fuel and movement and widgets and the stuff we dig out of the ground change? Grow, rearrange. What the world we are all going to live through is going to feel like. Instead, the purpose of this book is to lay out what our transition looks like. …The 2020s will see a collapse of consumption and production and investment and trade almost everywhere. Which is a poetic way of saying this era, this world-our world-is doomed. Since 1945 the world has been the best it has ever been. A moment that will certainly not come again in our lifetimes. The period of 1980–2015 in particular has simply been a unique, isolated, blessed moment in time. ![]() What you and your parents (and in some cases, grandparents) assumed as the normal, good, and right way of living-that is, the past seven decades or so-is a historic anomaly for the human condition both in strategic and demographic terms. Because the world-our world-is breaking apart. Instead of cheap and better and faster, we’re rapidly transitioning into a world that’s pricier and worse and slower. The world of the past few decades has been the best it will ever be in our lifetime. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “The division between politics and religion, I dare say, is an ideological ploy. By reconciling you to himself, God also reconciles you to his family, the church, and enables you as his people to represent together his own holy character and triune glory.”Ĭhurch Discipline: How the Church Protects the Name of Jesus The gospel therefore calls all people to “repent and believe.” A contraconditionally loving God will take you contrary to what you deserve, and then enable you by the power of the Spirit to become holy and obedient like his Son. ![]() We’re justified by faith alone, but the faith which works is never alone. Anyone who repents and believes can have eternal life, a life which begins today and stretches into eternity. But God sent his Son to die on the cross and rise again so that we might be forgiven and begin to follow the Son as King and Lord. We have all sinned, separating us from God. ![]() The gospel therefore calls all people to “just believe!” An unconditionally loving God will take you as you are. Everyone who believes in Jesus can have eternal life. But God sent his Son to die on the cross and rise again so that we might be forgiven. ![]() ![]() ![]() The degree of blessing enjoyed by any man will correspond exactly with the completeness of God’s victory over him. “The experiences of men who walked with God in olden times agree to teach that the Lord cannot fully bless a man until He has first conquered him. God's Pursuit of Man: Tozer's Profound Prequel to The Pursuit of God Nothing can take the place of the touch of God in the” We must see with our eyes, and hear with our ears, and our hands must handle of the Word of Life. ![]() He is best discerned by an intellectual touch of Him. To seek our divinity merely in books and writings is to seek the living among the dead we do but in vain many times seek God in these, where His truth too often is not so much enshrined as entombed. He will crave to know God with a vital awareness that goes beyond words and to live in the intimacy of personal communion. What have I to do any more with idols?” For he cannot love a God who is no more than a deduction from a text. ![]() ![]() His language will be, “I have heard Him and observed Him. But the man who has been taught even slightly by the Spirit of Truth will rebel at this perversion. By this they mean a conviction of the trustworthiness of the Word of God (a conviction, it may be noted, which the devils share with them). “Some who desire to be teachers of the Word, but who understand neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm, insist upon “naked” faith as the only way to know spiritual things. ![]() ![]() The sideways jump from magic realism to fantasy was unexpected. This was a surprise from the author of Chocolat. I really loved all the little references to popular culture: all the subtle and not so subtle references to texts such as the war of the worlds, lotr, got. Read by Rosie Jones, with a preface and prophecy read by Joanne Harris. Now, as the Order moves further north, threatening all the worlds with conquest and cleansing, Maddy must finally learn the truth to some unanswered questions about herself, her parentage, and her powers.įrom the bestselling author of Chocolat and The Gospel of Loki comes a fantastical tale of magic, adventure and Norse mythology. According to One-Eye, the secretive Outlander who is Maddy's only real friend, her ruinmark - or runemark, as he calls it - is a sign of Chaos blood, magical powers and gods know what else. But what the villagers don't know is that Maddy has skills. ![]() In a remote valley in the north, 14-year-old Maddy Smith is shunned for the ruinmark on her hand - a sign associated with the Bad Old Days. ![]() Magic is outlawed, and a new religion - the Order - has taken its place. The old Norse gods are no longer revered. ![]() ![]() It's been 500 years since the end of the world and society has rebuilt itself anew. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The color version has long since been forgotten. But despite his boast that “once people start watching the colored version, they won’t bother with the original,” a gorgeous, black and white restoration of the film aired again today on the channel that bears his name. For that alone, he’ll be remembered as the single most important figure in keeping classic film alive. After enduring widespread condemnation, investigation and even lawsuits over his colorization efforts, Turner went on to use that library to launch Turner Classic Movies in 1994. That TV executive was Ted Turner, who had just paid $1.6 billion for the decaying Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio – for the express purpose of acquiring a library of more than 3,000 movies, including all pre-1986 MGM and pre-1948 Warner Bros films, most RKO releases, and some United Artists titles. “The last time I checked, I owned the films that we’re in the process of colorizing,” a television executive said in 1986. “I can do whatever I want with them, and if they’re going to be shown on television, they’re going to be in color.” ![]() ![]() Hughes's Australian childhood, when Australians desiring respectability denied that the convict system had in any ultimate way marked the complicated nation Australia eventually became. There was a time, partly encompassing Mr. Their crimes were written on their faces, Adam and Eve arrived involuntarily and in chains. In the Australian case, however, the choice of landfall had been made by the Home Secretary of Britain. They were redeemed by their arrivalĪnd their tread sanctified the earth. The largest difference between both nations, as conveyed by Robert Hughes in ''The Fatal Shore,'' an authoritative and engrossing record, is that in America the European Adam and Eve arrived by choice. ![]() The Australians themselves know that the kinship and theĭifference are more subtle than that, but generally keep their counsel. IT is common for Americans to say of Australians - if they say anything about them at all -that they are people of a frontier experience similar to their own and therefore, at the least, cousins. ![]() ![]() Lead: LEAD: THE FATAL SHORE By Robert Hughes. ![]() Section 7, Column 2 Book Review Deskīy Thomas Keneally: Thomas Keneally is an Australian whose novels include ''A Family Madness'' and ''The Playmaker,'' which will be published in the fall. January 25, 1987, Sunday, Late City Final Edition ![]() ![]() Gate number two had a pressure lock rigged over it it carried a big skull & crossbones sign and the symbol for chlorine. It was late afternoon and heavily overcast at east coast North America, but gate one was open to some planetary spot having glaring noonday sun Rod could catch glimpses through it of men dressed in shorts and sun hats and nothing else. Rod did not glance at the statue he looked at the gates. The gate also went to planets that did not have what you would call a balmy climate: They poured out of nowhere, for the floor back of the auxiliary gate was bare, hurried like cattle between the two fences, spilled through gate five and were gone. This pen was packed with humanity moving from the temporary gate toward and through gate five-and onto some planet light-years away. ![]() ![]() ![]() Two high steel fences joined the two gates, forming with them an alley as wide as the gates and as long as the space between, about fifteen meters by seventy-five. This is another of those ubiquitous ideas in sf other stories that include this element are Millennium. ![]() ![]() ![]() This new edition begins with a preface by author Dan Wells, the first person to read the completed novel, and a new afterword by Sanderson explaining how he came to write the book and its place in the Cosmere, the unified universe of all his Tor novels.Īlso included is an expanded version of the "Ars Arcanum" appendix, with more of the technical details of the book's magic that fans can never get enough of.Įlantris was truly a milestone both for Sanderson and for the genre of epic fantasy. ![]() To celebrate its tenth anniversary, Tor is reissuing Elantris in a special edition, a fresh chance to introduce it to the myriad readers who have since become Sanderson fans. In 2005, Brandon Sanderson debuted with Elantris, an epic fantasy unlike any other then on the market. ![]() ![]() ![]() In short, law enforcement has developed a “warrior” problem. ![]() Though adopted with the best of intentions, the warrior concept has created substantial obstacles to improving police/community relations. An article in Police Magazine opens with a sentence that demonstrates with notable nonchalance just how ubiquitous the concept is: “ probably hear about needing to have a warrior mindset almost daily.” 4 Modern policing has so thoroughly assimilated the warrior mythos that, at some law enforcement agencies, it has become a point of professional pride to refer to the “police warrior.” 5 This is more than a relatively minor change in terminology. Officers are trained to cultivate a “warrior mindset,” the virtues of which are extolled in books, articles, 1 interviews, 2 and seminars 3 intended for a law enforcement audience. Within law enforcement, few things are more venerated than the concept of the Warrior. ![]() |