Merry Christmas!

And joy to the world from the Cosmopolitan Globalists

The Cosmopolitan Globalists wish our Christian friends the merriest of Christmases.

Our annual tradition

Now, for the rest of you, it’s time for our annual tradition: Jewish Christmas!

To our Druze, Jewish, Rastafarian, Hindu, Jain, Buddhist, Sikh, Bahá’í, Shinto, Orthodox Christian, Zoroastrian, Manichaean, Bábist, Confucian, Muslim, Taoist, Wicca, Druid, Santeria, Falun Gong, and plain old Godless friends, we wish you a Merry Jewish Christmas, one and all, with Chinese food, a movie, and a good traditional kvetch that everything’s closed and there’s nothing to do.

This year on Christmas, like last year, we’ve opened the comments section on this post to everyone, for free. Just for today, you don’t have to be a paying subscriber to meet one another, chat with us, and tell us what you’d like us to write about this year. So come on over and introduce yourself. Movie recommendations, anyone?

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Global Eyes, Christmas edition

Today: Good news only.

More than 10,000 Russian troops returning to bases after drills near Ukraine. Want to know what this means? So do we. CG Vladislav Davidzon will be on France24 English at 9:00 pm Paris time to discuss it.

toomas hendrik ilves @IlvesToomas

The EU, Estonian and Latvian flags on my flagpoles are far better.

KGB Files @kgb_files

30 years ago, the red flag was lowered from the Kremlin flagpole https://t.co/xUowQEistV

Here’s Princess Kate playing a Christmas carol. (Poshlost as the day is long, but it’s Christmas, so why not.)

Hopes grow that nuclear fusion is finally for real. The holy grail! If you missed it, here’s CG Owen Lewis explaining how this works.

NASA launches James Webb space telescope. CG Robert Zubrin is thrilled:

Robert Zubrin @robert_zubrin

Webb has successfully launched ! Hurray! #Space #Science #Astronomy #NASA #SpaceX #MarsSociety

cnn.comThe most powerful telescope ever built has successfully launchedThis is how the sunshield looks once it’s been deployed.

The pampered cats of the Hermitage. There have been cats in the Hermitage ever since the days of the Elizabeth Petrovna, and they even have their own PR flack:

A gallery of the winning photos from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest. Just stunning, all of them:

Rudolf Nureyev and Merle Park’s pas de deux from The Nutcracker:

createstreets @createstreets

Happy Christmas everyone. 🎄 🎅 May all your streets be beautiful and neighbourly. Much changes in human life over the centuries but much remains the same. This is an 1896 snowball fight in Lyon via Joaquim Campa after original By Louis Lumiere

From CG Toomas Hendrik Ilves:

toomas hendrik ilves @IlvesToomas

Some Medieval Estonian Christmas songs:

youtube.comMu süda, ärka ülesProvided to YouTube by harmonia mundiMu süda, ärka üles · HeinavankerSongs of Olden Times: Estonian Folk Hymns and Runic Songs℗ harmonia mundi usaReleased on...

From CG Monique Camarra:

Alan Alda @alanalda

I want to watch this over and over again. Such unhinged delight at seeing the impossible happen.

Also from CG Monique Camarra:

Monique Camarra @MoniqueCamarra

Our warmest wishes this holiday season to our friends @cosmo_globalist - un brindisi & augurio sincero for the new year. @VivekYKelkar @ClaireBerlinski @c_smrstik @RachelMotte @is_OwenLewis @IlvesToomas @robert_zubrin & CGees around the 🌎. Cheers 🥂

From CG Vivek Kelkar:

And finally, Merry Christmas from my cat, CG Süleyman the Magnificent, who is hoping that today, at long last, we will celebrate with General Tso’s tuna.

All of us at the Cosmopolitan Globalist wish our readers around the world the merriest of Christmases.

Kisses from us all.

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