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John David Olsen

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Brazen Globalist | Technologist | World Affairs | Travel 🇦🇺 🇺🇸 beacons.ai/jolsen

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John David Olsen @johndavidolsen.com · 10/03/2026

Commonwealth Day at NSW Parliament House. Bagpipes, brilliant company, and the honour of representing the English-Speaking Union Australia — Gov Beesley, Commander Vallar, superb tablemates, and the lads from Scots College doing what they do best on the pipes. 🎶 God Save the King. #commonwealthday

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John David Olsen @johndavidolsen.com · 15/10/2025

A few nights ago, I stayed at Villa Rothschild in Königstein, just outside Frankfurt. Built in the 1890s by Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild as a summer residence. In 1948–49, the Parliamentary Council met here to draft the Grundgesetz — the Basic Law that founded the Federal Republic of Germany.

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John David Olsen @johndavidolsen.com · 14/10/2025

Visited Huis Doorn outside Utrecht in the Netherlands — the final home of Kaiser Wilhelm II. After Germany’s defeat in 1918, the Kaiser went into exile at the insistence of Woodrow Wilson—as a condition for ending The Great War. He brought with him 64 train carloads of possessions.

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John David Olsen @johndavidolsen.com · 10/10/2025

I learned details yesterday about the persecution of the Jews in Holland while I was visiting the Dutch National Holocaust Museum. It is located next to a kindergarten, which was used as a deportation site for children. It is said that 'History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.'