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Mar 8Liked by Greg Olear

Greg, Off topic. Sorry. How do I find content from your older SubStack essays. I recall your essay about you recovering from a Covid bout and listening to a piece of music that dying Aids patients used to request. How do I find that post?

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Mar 8Liked by Greg Olear

I think you are looking for the one about Tabula Rasa: https://gregolear.substack.com/p/sunday-pages-tabula-rasa

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Rick has helpfully and kindly showed you. The fill archive is here:

https://gregolear.substack.com/archive

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Greg,

I have a friend who had just had open heart surgery and he and his wife commented that classical music was helping him during his rehab. I recalled your posting and wanted to refer them to it. I had purchased the music you mentioned, and I enjoy it often.

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Thank you, Greg, for focusing on Ukraine and Putin today and in last week's post. What's going on over in Gaza is horrific, to be sure. But it pains me that it has shoved Ukraine way back to the backburner. I have donated to united24's Safe Skies initiative, and have preached to the choir to my three Democratic reps who are doing a stellar job calling for their respective chambers to deliver funding. Obviously, it is not enough!

I did send you a link about drones being made inside the kitchens of Ukrainian jewelry makers. According to the article, it's a huge effort that is meeting with success among the military. https://www.counteroffensive.news/p/honey-theres-a-ukrainian-drone-in?r=2xoo6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&triedRedirect=true

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Mar 8Liked by Greg Olear

Thanks. Fine article about Ukrainian drone production and adaptation of a population.

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Thanks, Lynell. I saw that article. War makes us do extreme things, things we never thought we would do. I feel extremely lucky never to have been in that position.

Biden seems pretty anti-Putin. He mentioned that right off the bat. I hope he continues swinging.

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Thank you for something that isn't a rehashing of the SOTU speech. While I enjoy reading the takes on this (not so much the narratives of what he said, because I watched it, of course) too many people forget that there IS news out there that isn't about trump or Biden.

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Thanks, Susan. We discussed the SOTU on the Five 8 on Friday night, but I don't know that I had anything to say that would fill an entire essay. Especially, as you point out, with all he other stuff going on in the world.

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I was afraid Navalny’s death wouldn’t make much difference in Putin’s aggression. We have to get more support to Ukraine. I wonder if Biden’s SOTU address—which I thought was stellar—will help get this deadbeat Congress to do something!

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I don't think Mike Johnson's whoremasters will ever allow him to bring it to a vote. Joe will have to get creative.

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Mar 8Liked by Greg Olear

Murdering: The Russian Mafia is everywhere. Putin could have anyone shot "in the middle of 5th Avenue " and Trump would admire such.

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Putin prefers throwing men from 10-story windows, but yes, your point holds...

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Another wonderful, wonderful Post Evil propaganda can be a kind of invasion as well as an actual armed invasion. We will always be vulnerable and need to be alert for the so-called fake news.Billserle.com

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And now with AI, it only feeds the beast...

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