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Meet Timothy Snyder, Western intellectual and anti-Russian fanatic

Sophie Pinkham
The Nation
Sun, 06 May 2018 20:49 UTC

Timothy Snyder is a Yale historian whose scholarly reputation rests on his wide-ranging histories of Central and Eastern Europe. Trained at Oxford, Snyder demonstrated a capacity for research in some 10 languages and a willingness to engage with many different areas of specialization; his colorful prose increased his work's potential appeal for nonacademic readers, as did his ability to cover large swaths of territory and time. His most important early work, The Reconstruction of Nations, mapped the development of Polish, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, and Belarusian nationhood from 1569 to 1999, and was met with wide acclaim from academic reviewers.

Capitalizing on his credentials as a historian, over the past decade Snyder has positioned himself as a public intellectual, shifting from academic histories to more popular works, writing for magazines like The New Republic and The New York Review of Books, and appearing often on the national and international speaking circuits. His first popular success was 2010's Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, which set out to tell the story of the millions of people - especially Jews, Ukrainians, and Poles - who were killed between 1933 and 1945 in the area between central Poland and western Russia. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Bloodlands offered a conceptual revision, grouping the victims of Hitler and Stalin together and arguing that the Nazi and Soviet governments spurred each other on to increased violence.

Comment: What a deranged mind this critter has.

Masters of rhetoric with no (or a skewed) moral compass have been around since forever. Their flowery prose still holds sway over truth.

The scary part is that large portions of Western populations eat this stuff up.

The good news is that they're not the majority.

(We hope!)

Retirees are leaving America, living abroad to save money

Gregory Bresiger
New York Post
Sat, 05 May 2018 10:16 UTC

Retired Americans who are down on their luck are moving out of the country to stretch their savings and Social Security income.

"For folks worried about stretching their nest egg, even a few years spent in a good-value place abroad can make a big difference on the bottom line. Moving overseas can be a solid strategy for shoring up savings," according to Jennifer Stevens, executive editor of International Living.com.

Stevens said the expatriate option is enticing many Americans.

"It's never been easier to retire overseas - the infrastructure is better than ever, technology keeps you connected to family and friends back home, and there is a wealth of safe, welcoming, beautiful options overseas," she said.

Pentagon spends $700k teaching soldiers dating etiquette

RT
Mon, 07 May 2018 20:54 UTC

Learning about relationships and when it's okay to kiss someone might seem like topics for a middle school sex education class. However, the US military has spent $700,000 teaching soldiers exactly that.

The 'Can I Kiss You?' presentation was part of a Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Prevention Program which was held at Joint Base Langley-Eustis on April 25.

Comment: Semantogymnastics about Microconsent: The absurdity of demanding explicit sexual consent

Olympic silver medalist skater Medvedeva splits with coach, confirms move to Canada while still representing Russia

RT
Mon, 07 May 2018 16:21 UTC

Double Olympic silver medalist Evgenia Medvedeva has parted ways with long-time coach Eteri Tutberidze and is moving Canada where she will work with figure skating coach Brian Orser.

Medvedeva confirmed the split with Tutberidze, who guided her to two world titles and multiple awards at junior level, on Monday.

"I will continue to compete for Russia and represent 'Sambo 70' school, but I will train with the Canadian coach Brian Orser,"Medvedeva said, according to TASS.

"I'm taking this step to use new opportunities and acquire new training techniques to represent Russia at the highest level possible."

Televangelist Jim Bakker offers his cabins and $150.00 bottles of water to help you escape the Apocalypse

Sputnik
Mon, 07 May 2018 20:32 UTC

Incidentally the location, which televangelist Jim Bakker offers to escape the Apocalypse, would help him make money in real estate. The preacher has already relived his person end of day as his Christian TV empire crushed amid a sex scandal and term in prison for fraud and conspiracy.

Televangelist Jim Bakker suggested his followers and those who want to survive the end of the world to buy one of his cabins in Missouri's Ozark Mountains, he markets as a safe spot in the times of the Apocalypse. The outlet Belleville News-Democrat reports that the televangelist cited some researches by the government and NASA, which prove that Morningside, Missouri, where he accidentally started his real estate venture.

Comment: Also see:

Russian Ka-52 helicopter crashes in Syria during routine flight, both pilots killed

RT
Mon, 07 May 2018 20:33 UTC

A Russian Ka-52 attack helicopter has crashed during a routine flight in eastern Syria, both its pilots were killed during the incident, Russia's Defense Ministry has said.

High-level judge sentenced to jail for sex trafficking children, gets 20 years

Matt Agorist
Free Thought Project
Mon, 07 May 2018 00:00 UTC

A top level judge who used his position of authority to prey on young girls has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for dozens of counts of child trafficking and sex abuse.

Former District Court Judge and school board member Tim Nolan plead guilty to 21 counts of human trafficking in February and this week, he was sentenced to 20 years behind bars.

In court it was revealed that the judge threatened young women and girls under the age of 18 with arrest to force them into sex. On one occasion a victim was living on his property and he forced to evict her if she did not have sex with him. He also gave numerous victims heroin.

During the sentencing, Prosecutor Barbara Whaley read statements from some of the women in court. Whaley noted that seven of the 19 victims were under 16 years old.

"Tim Nolan, I want to say, you ruined my life," one teenage victim wrote in her letter. "You ruined my childhood teenage years and made me lose hope. I hate you."

'Nazi grandma' on the run after failing to start 2-year prison sentence for Holocaust denial

RT
Mon, 07 May 2018 17:07 UTC

An arrest warrant for an 89-year-old woman, who failed to show up to begin her two-year prison sentence for "inciting the German people to holocaust denial," was issued by German authorities on Monday.

Dubbed the "Nazi Grandma" by German media, prolific Holocaust denier Ursula Haverbeck was sentenced to two years behind bars in August 2017 after losing her appeal to reverse a 10-month sentence she received earlier that year. She was initially charged with sedition and incitement after publishing several articles denying the Holocaust in a right-wing newspaper, Stimme des Reiches ('Voices of the Reich').

Haverbeck was supposed to start her prison sentence on Wednesday in the town of Bielefeld.

Local media reported that Haverbeck's home in central Germany appeared to be empty, with uncollected mail piling up at the front door. Haverbeck has been prosecuted numerous times for her unorthodox beliefs, including that notorious concentration camp Auschwitz was a labor camp that had no gas chambers.

Doctor belonging to NXIVM cult group allegedly ran pathological human experiments in Albany, NY

Melissa Klein and Isabel Vincent
The New York Post
Sat, 05 May 2018 14:34 UTC

Dr. Brandon Porter made Jennifer Kobelt watch gruesome videos for a "fright study" he was conducting

A doctor described as the resident physician to the twisted upstate sex cult Nxivm has been charged by a state oversight board with illegally conducting human experiments.

The action comes eight months after the state Health Department refused to act on a complaint from a former cult member who alleged that Dr. Brandon Porter, 44, forced her to watch disturbing rape and dismemberment videos for a "fright study" he was conducting.

Jennifer Kobelt, the former member of the notorious cult whose leaders are accused of brainwashing and blackmailing women into becoming sex slaves, said in her August 2017 complaint that Porter may have performed his "fright study" on as many as 100 people.

"He continued to film my reaction for at least 10 minutes as I just sat there, dry heaving like I was going to puke and crying very hard," Kobelt, a Canadian actress, said in the complaint to the Health Department, adding that Porter began showing her the violent images without warning.

Comment: The stories about what this pathological group has been doing continue to trickle out. We can probably expect to see more as people realize and investigate just what this group was up to. See also:

'Islam is the problem!' French mayor says government's poverty plan ignores root of crisis

RT
Mon, 07 May 2018 16:19 UTC

© Pascal Rossignol/Reuters
French police evict thousands of migrants living on sidewalks near the reception center for migrants and refugees at porte de la Chapelle, north of Paris, France.

A government blueprint for addressing poverty, unemployment and crime in France's poorest, high-immigration suburbs ignores Islam's role in the growing social crisis, a controversial mayor has said.

Robert Menard, mayor of the southern town of Béziers and an ally of Marine Le Pen's anti-immigration and Euroskeptic National Front party, said on Friday that a government initiative aimed at alleviating France's urban poverty failed to identify the roots of the problem. A video with a part of his appearance on a show, on France's LCI channel, has been published online.

Menard said that projects designed to revitalize the country's suffering suburbs have largely focused on cosmetic changes. Menard noted that even after a troubled neighborhood in his town had received 130 million euros for a new housing project, the situation did not improve.

"It has never been as much a ghetto and apartheid as now!" Menard insisted.

Comment: Menard - a guy without brains or heart who sees Muslims as clutter in his city.

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Society's Child

Meet Timothy Snyder, Western intellectual and anti-Russian fanatic

Retirees are leaving America, living abroad to save money

Pentagon spends $700k teaching soldiers dating etiquette

Olympic silver medalist skater Medvedeva splits with coach, confirms move to Canada while still representing Russia

Televangelist Jim Bakker offers his cabins and $150.00 bottles of water to help you escape the Apocalypse

Russian Ka-52 helicopter crashes in Syria during routine flight, both pilots killed

High-level judge sentenced to jail for sex trafficking children, gets 20 years

'Nazi grandma' on the run after failing to start 2-year prison sentence for Holocaust denial

Doctor belonging to NXIVM cult group allegedly ran pathological human experiments in Albany, NY

'Islam is the problem!' French mayor says government's poverty plan ignores root of crisis

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