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"... the challenges facing the AUKUS partners in delivering  'at least eight'  nuclear-powered submarines for the Royal Australian Navy ... just how much the undertaking will strain the armed forces and industrial capacity of all three countries ... will be the anvil on which a key set of relationships, capabilities and effects will be either forged or broken ..." (Nick Childs, 2023, 'The AUKUS Anvil: Promise and Peril', Survival , 65.5, 7-24)   AUKUS 15 September 2021 announcement: [US President Biden, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison]  " If things go according to plan  Australia will join an elite fraternity of like-minded nations operating nuclear-powered submarines; the submarine-production capacity of the three partners  will significantly increase; and, by the middle of the century, about a dozen extra such submarines could be added to the combined inventories of the AUKUS navies ... From the outset, AUKUS al...

  'All great powers behave like gangsters. And all small nations behave like prostitutes.' [Emery Reves, 1946, The Anatomy of Peace , London, quoted in  Keith Lowe, 2017, The Fear and The Freedom , New York, p 192 ] 1. Behaving like a prostitute:      ( Jamal Barnes & Samuel Makinda, 2022, 'Testing the limits of international society? Trust, AUKUS and Indo-Pacific security', International Affairs , 98.4, 1307-1325). "... US President Joe Biden, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced a new trilateral military partnership called AUKUS on 15 September 2021, [claiming] their main goal was to protect a rules-based international order and 'preserve security and stability in the Indo-Pacific'; [sharing] military capabilities and critical technologies, such as cyber, artificial intelligence, quantum technologies, and undersea domains'. "... France ... has been the first casualty of the new partnership ......

"100 years ago, the nationalist agitator Andrea Ellendt spread hate slogans from Kitzingen in the Main [River] triangle. The authorities often let her do as she pleased ― with consequences ... The 31 year old   woman, whom her admirers called 'Miss', was a striking figure : an eyewitness described her as 'slim and well-groomed like a lady'. She wore a small hat on her hair that resembled a small helmet, and the black coat with the wide leather belt also had something military about it." Roland Flade. 11 September, 2022, 'Radical "Miss" from Mexico : The first woman to publicly campaign for Hitler on the Main', Main Post, <mainpost.de/regional/kitzingen...> Andrea Ellendt as Rightwing Propagandist     "Andrea Ellendt is [sic] a tireless speaker for the German Nationalist Protection and Defense League [, especially in Munich and Franconia. In this capacity she also appears at a Nazi Party event on 11 May, 1922, in the Munich Burgerbr...

  "Since the early 1980s the idea of the 'Celt' has been subjected to a multi-disciplinary assault ... The cumulative weight of all this 'celto-scepticism' is considerable." Jonathon Wooding, 2002, 'The idea  of the Celt', in Celts and Christians , p.39. This much is obvious from a range of book subtitles published soon afterwards, such as Michael Chapman's The Celts: The Construction of a Myth  (1992) and Simon James' The Atlantic Celts: Ancient People or Modern Invention  (1998).   A more discursive summary of the decades-long dispute is contained in a paper given by Simon Rodway called 'Celtic ― Definitions, Problems and Controversies' (2010). LF Vagalinski (ed.), 'In Search of Celtic Tylis in Thrace (111 C BC)', Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary Colloquium ... Held at the National Archaeological Institute and Museum, Sofia, Bulgaria, 8 May 2010 , pp 9-10. "The traditional consensus holds that the Celts spread from a ...

I   " In 1912, the Titanic  created one of the first global media storms, with the New York Times  devoting its first twelve pages to the disaster ...  The sinking of the Titanic on April 15, 1912, was as shocking to the world as the destruction of the Twin Towers  on September 11, 2001." [Tim Maltin, 2012, Titanic , First Accounts , Penguin Classics, New York, p xvii]  'We begin with "The Sinking of the Titanic  Seen from a Lifeboat", the fourth chapter from second-class passenger Lawrence Beesley's The Loss of the Titanic , written in 1912 ... his account immediately places his reader right on the spot, watching Titanic  sinking.'      "First of all, the climatic conditions were extraordinary. The night was one of the most beautiful I have ever seen: the sky without a single cloud to mar the perfect brilliance of the stars, clustered so thickly together that in places there seemed almost more dazzling points of light set in the b...