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Mother Nature threatened Tuesday night’s season opener, but the Redbirds would not be denied. After a nearly two-hour rain delay, it was finally time to play ball in Memphis.
Memphis summer events are back with COVID-19 protocols in place
Memphis summer events are back with COVID-19 protocols in place By Kelly Roberts | May 3, 2021 at 4:08 PM CDT - Updated May 3 at 6:00 PM
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - Some favorite Memphis summer activities are back.
Organizers are trying to stay on top of the constantly changing COVID-19 mandates and recommendations to provide a safe and fun time.
The summer season, though still seven weeks away, starts to get back to some sort of normal on Tuesday as the Memphis Redbirds are finally back in action after almost 600 days in the Bluff City.
The Lost Hegemon: Whom the Gods Would Destroy
Opium Wars, bin Laden, and Mujahideen
“When the operation started in 1979, this region grew opium only for regional markets and produced no heroin. Within two years, however, the Pakistan-Afghanistan borderlands became the world’s top heroin producer. . . . CIA assets again controlled this heroin trade. As the Mujahideen guerrillas seized territory inside Afghanistan, they ordered peasants to plant opium as a revolutionary tax.” Alfred McCoy, author, The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia
A Soviet “Vietnam”
By far the most influential voice in the US Administration of President Jimmy Carter was his National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. Brzezinski’s influence drew largely from the fact that he had one of the most influential patrons in the United States at the time. David Rockefeller, then chairman of the family’s Chase Manhattan Bank, one of the most influential banks internationally, had taken Brzezins