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PREVIEW - #IRELAND: #NYC: Excerpt from a two-hour conversation with Professor Tyler Anbinder, author of the rich new book "PLENTIFUL COUNTRY: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York" regarding the spectacular way an immigrant, Michael J. Sause, overcame the prejudices against Irish religion, culture (and the crude language of race) to become famous and prosperous in New York. More details to follow tonight.

1857 Wall Street

PREVIEW: #SCOTUS: Conversation with Professor Richard Epstein of the Hoover Institution regarding the decisions by the Roberts Court to stay out of the election drama -- first in the ballot cases in Colorado and Maine, and likely now in the immunity case -- delaying the matter until after the Election. More details to follow later.

1923 SCOTUS

PREVIEW: #NUKES: Conversation with colleague Henry Sokolski of NPEC regarding the Russian Federation building a new breeder reactor that will be operational by 2032 -- capable of producing extremely efficient plutonium for bomb making -- and worse: export. Details to follow tonight.

1955 Teapot/BEE at the Nevada Test Site

PREVIEW: #ANTISEMITISM: Conversation with colleague Richard Goldberg of FDD regarding the unprecedented violent hate conduct directed at Jewish students on elite college campuses in America. More details to follow tonight.

1903 Princeton

GOOD EVENING: The show begins tonight in Ukraine, waiting for weapons and ammo, and then moves to Russia, waiting out the American election. We then head to Mexico to observe protectionism regarding the PRC's BYD EV. Next, we visit China to check on manufacturing, followed by Toronto to puzzle about the slow growth of the economy. We then travel to Rome to speak of the shadow fleet of dilapidated oil tankers with bogus insurance running Russian oil to black marketeers. From there, we go to Wyoming and Montana to discuss the land dispute between public and private land in the Federal checkerboard. We then journey back in time to NYC during 1847-1850 and after to discuss the arrival of the Famine Irish. Finally, we visit Quito, Caracas, Panama City, Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, and Mexico City.

1907 Perth

#NewWorldReport:Claudia Sheinbaum talks of water management and Green tech.  Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexican-presidential-frontrunner-would-focus-renewable-energy-water-2024-04-19/

1647 Gulf of Mexico