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A millennium of Christianity: What makes the Russian Orthodoxy unique?

RT
Sat, 28 Jul 2018 13:07 UTC

A service commemorating the baptism of Rus' in St. Vladimir Cathedral in Kiev

The faithful in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus are marking 1030 years since their ancestors adopted Christianity - the faith that would ultimately become Orthodoxy, made unique by ten centuries of divergence from Western branches.

Switching an entire nation's religion was obviously not a single day's business - Kievan Rus', the enormous nation that incorporated parts of modern-day Belarus, Ukraine and Russia, did not simply go to sleep as pagan one day and wake up as Christian the next. 988 was the year that the process started. July 28th was chosen as a commemoration date because it's the anniversary of St. Vladimir, or Vladimir the Great, the prince who came to power over disparate Slavic tribes and eventually brought them together under the Eastern Christian faith.

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Trolling the system: Alberta man changes gender on government IDs for cheaper car insurance rates

Reid Southwick
CBC News
Fri, 20 Jul 2018 13:24 UTC

Redacted birth certificates of an Alberta man who changed his gender for cheaper car insurance. The circles in red show that the certificate on the left reads 'male' while the newer one on the right reads 'female.'

He wanted a brand new car - a Chevrolet Cruze with all the trimmings.

As a man in his early 20s, he knew his insurance costs would be high.

So he became a woman, though only on paper.

"I have taken advantage of a loophole," said the man - we're calling him David - who spoke on the condition that his identity be kept confidential because of the potential repercussions.

Comment: More power to him. If someone finds a way to troll ridiculous new regulations in Canada to play the system to their advantage, so be it. If Canada doesn't like it, maybe they should reconsider their gender-fluid insanity.

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That moment The New York Times realizes prosecuting Assange has dire consequences for press freedom

Ray McGovern
Consortium News
Wed, 25 Jul 2018 00:01 UTC

Though The New York Times itself has not reported it, it's No. 2 lawyer told a group of judges that the prosecution of Julian Assange could have dire consequences for the Times itself, explains Ray McGovern.

Well, lordy be. A lawyer for The New York Times has figured out that prosecuting WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange might gore the ox of The Gray Lady herself.

The Times' deputy general counsel, David McCraw, told a group of judges on the West Coast on Tuesday that such prosecution would be a gut punch to free speech, according to Maria Dinzeo, writing for the Courthouse News Service.

Curiously, as of this writing, McCraw's words have found no mention in the Times itself. In recent years, the newspaper has shown a marked proclivity to avoid printing anything that might risk its front row seat at the government trough.

Comment: Unfortunately, one lawyer doesn't represent the opinion of the New York Times as an institution, and it's unlikely they'll change their tune on Assange given it would directly contradict the narrative put forth by their masters. It has always been in the interests of a free press to support Assange, yet the MSM has been relentless in portraying him as a traitor, pounding in the nails on their own coffin.

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Americans overwhelmingly reject voting rights for illegal immigrants

The Hill
Sat, 28 Jul 2018 05:54 UTC

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A United States Border Patrol agent contains people after crossing the Rio Grande River into the United States near McAllen, Texas.

San Francisco's Department of Elections last week made the move to start allowing non-U.S. citizens to vote in the city's school board elections, sparking a national debate.

The idea is unlikely to be copied in many localities, at least if the latest American Barometer poll is any indication.

According to the survey, which is a joint project of Hill.TV and the HarrisX polling company, 71 percent of respondents opposed San Francisco's decision, while only 29 percent said they supported the move.

Dozens of children in Iowa have disappeared in just the last two weeks

Rachel Blevins
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 27 Jul 2018 00:00 UTC

While one young college student has made headlines after she disappeared, dozens of children have gone missing in the same state.

A young University of Iowa student made headlines recently after she disappeared during an evening jog - but she is just one of the dozens of people who have been reported missing in Iowa in the last 10 days, and the overwhelming majority of the disappearances are children.

Mollie Tibbetts, 20, has become the latest face of the missing person database this week after she was last seen going for a jog near her boyfriend's house on the evening of July 18, and she seemingly vanished. Dozens of people of have pitched in to help search for the college student, and as she appeared to have no motive to flee, and her closest friends and family members have cooperated with police, it raises troubling questions about whether she was abducted.

Over 700 migrants storm Spanish exclave of Ceuta, several use homemade 'flamethrowers' (VIDEO)

RT
Sat, 28 Jul 2018 12:53 UTC

© Reuters
African migrants in this still image from video climb the border from Morocco to Spain's North African exclave of Ceuta, Spain, July 26, 2018

Hundreds of migrants armed with sticks and homemade flamethrowers broke through the border fence in Ceuta, according to the Spanish Civil Guard. Over 100 migrants and 15 border agents were injured in the fight.

"Over 700 sub-Saharans" attempted to storm the border fence, the Civil Guard said in a statement, adding that "at least 602" of them managed to cross the barriers. Volunteers and the local branch of the Red Cross said that 132 migrants sustained injuries, while 11 had to be taken to a local hospital.

CNN or Trump derangement syndrome - the battle rages on

RT
Thu, 26 Jul 2018 20:00 UTC

It's not just President Trump's opponents suffering from a form of derangement any more, as the Weekly Standard flipped the script and diagnosed President Trump as suffering from "CNN Derangement Syndrome."

The neoconservative magazine made its diagnosis after the White House banned a CNN reporter from a photo op on Wednesday, for rude and "inappropriate" behavior. The Standard conceded that CNN spews out anti-Trump content from morning to night, but gave the president a stone-faced dressing-down for hitting back.

"Trump's obsession with CNN is irrational," the editors wrote, "and his constant and frequently personal attacks on the organization and its employees are regrettable."

The normally rocky relations between the president and the media outlet hit a new low when the White House banned CNN reporter Kaitlin Collins from covering a media event on Wednesday evening, after she chose to interrupt a press meeting with Trump and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker earlier that day. Collins shouted a barrage of questions about unrelated White House gossip at Trump, which he refused to answer.

Almost half of Swedes and Danes reject EU, prefer to create own 'Nordic Union'

RT
Fri, 27 Jul 2018 18:33 UTC

Nearly half of Swedes and Danes said they'd rather be in a 'Nordic Union' with their neighbors from Norway, Finland and Iceland than in the EU, a fresh poll revealed.

Research conducted by pollster Sentio for Norwegian newspaper Klassekampen showed 47 percent support the hypothetical Nordic Union in Sweden and 45 percent in Denmark.

32 percent of Swedes and 36 percent of Danes were happy to remain in the European Union, while the rest said they were undecided on the issue.

As for non-EU member Norway, only 10 percent suggested that it would be a good idea for the country to join the European Union. The concept of the so-called 'Nordic Union,' which would see Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland implementing joint policies, was backed by 32 percent of Norwegians.

Comment: The Euro-project is failing and the arrogant, out of touch, dictatorial bureaucrats in Brussels only have themselves to blame:

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Did America become a nation of slobs?

Jeff Minick
Intellectual Takeout
Fri, 27 Jul 2018 21:15 UTC

One evening in early April I was waiting for my ten-year-old twin granddaughters to finish their indoor soccer practice when a girl their age approached me and said, "Your coat looks really nice."

It was a wet, chilly evening, and I was wearing a London Fog given me thirty years ago by an elderly widow whose deceased husband no longer had to fret about the rain or the cold.

Though I thanked the girl, her comment took me aback. Then I looked at the other adults milling around me, and thought, as I often think nowadays, that all of them were dressed like...well, like slobs. Several were wearing sweat pants and hoodies, others ragged trousers and rumpled sweaters. One woman, a thirty-something mom, wore designer jeans torn artfully at the knees.

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Caitlin Johnstone: Humanity is deciding if it will evolve or die

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Fri, 27 Jul 2018 20:08 UTC

I write a lot about consciousness, enlightenment and the potential humanity has to rise above its conditioned patterns, because if I only wrote about politics and media propaganda I'd be accomplishing nothing but helping the anti-establishment fringe feel good about itself while waiting for human extinction. I can't do this thing honestly and sincerely without periodically pointing to the dangers on the horizon, and to what I perceive as the only off-ramp in sight.

Human society is clearly at its most interesting point ever. Billions of human brains are now interconnected in real time by the internet, we're realizing on a mass scale that all the rules of society were invented by dead people long before any of us got here, and we're seeing that we are free to re-write those rules in a way that benefits us. From popular grassroots examinations of socialist ideas, to cryptocurrencies and an evolving understanding of what money is, to redefining social institutions as ancient and ingrained as marriage and gender identity, more and more people are saying in effect, "Hmm, it looks like all those old thoughts we've been using to describe our reality are causing some problems. Let's find new ones."

Comment: Ok, but how many of those new ones are making life hell on Earth?

It could be described as a collective awakening to the fact that reality and our conceptual model for it are two very different things, and the model is as flexible as your ability to change your mind. We've never seen anything like this before as a species. We've literally never been here.

Comment: Some of it will be beautiful. Some of it will be ugly.

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Society's Child

A millennium of Christianity: What makes the Russian Orthodoxy unique?

Trolling the system: Alberta man changes gender on government IDs for cheaper car insurance rates

That moment The New York Times realizes prosecuting Assange has dire consequences for press freedom

Americans overwhelmingly reject voting rights for illegal immigrants

Dozens of children in Iowa have disappeared in just the last two weeks

Over 700 migrants storm Spanish exclave of Ceuta, several use homemade 'flamethrowers' (VIDEO)

CNN or Trump derangement syndrome - the battle rages on

Almost half of Swedes and Danes reject EU, prefer to create own 'Nordic Union'

Did America become a nation of slobs?

Caitlin Johnstone: Humanity is deciding if it will evolve or die

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