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Rise of Crimea: How this strategic republic has become a symbol & star of 'New Russia'

Seraphim Hanisch
The Duran
Tue, 21 Aug 2018 12:35 UTC
Russia Crimea
A piece featured The Duran about two weeks ago noted that the Crimean "takeover", as it is called by the West, is anything but a descent into the darkness of live under the evil overlord President Vladimir Putin.

As a matter of fact, the (real) referendum and vote that was taken in 2014 has not been redone, nor have the people in Crimea expressed any regret over rejoining the Russian Federation.

Yes, "rejoining." Crimea was "given" to Ukraine by the General Secretary of the Soviet Union, Nikita Kruschev in 1954. However, it was part of Russia from the time of the Russian defeat of the Ottomans in the late 18th century. In Russia, as in Westernism-infected Ukraine, the fate and status of Crimea is a hot topic.

Comment: Russian authorities have also presented plans for transforming Crimea into a major cultural capital, as Reuters reports:
"Staff of the Hermitage Museum, the Tretyakov Gallery and the Russian Museum are involved in the creation of [a new cultural] complex," Golodets said.

"The central (building) will be an exhibition center and a permanent exposition of the world's artistic masterpieces, currently located in these museums," she said.

The project aims to transform the city into a cultural capital, the minister said, adding that this was particularly important considering rising numbers of tourists to the area.

Since the auto section of the bridge linking Crimea to Russia's transport network was unveiled in May, it has been used by 1.5 million tourists, Golodets said.
While the bridge linking Crimea to Russia's transport network has brought in millions of tourists, plans to connect the Crimean economy with Turkey, Syria and Iran are also moving ahead at a blistering pace. RT reports:
US-sanctioned Iran is interested in doing business with Russia's Crimea, according to the authorities from the Russian region, which is also facing sanctions from Washington and Brussels.

The trade route would connect Crimea's ports with Iran's Caspian coast via the Volga-Don Canal, Georgy Muradov, Crimea's permanent representative under the Russian president told Izvestiya. [...]

The connection between Crimea and Iran could be part of a much larger project. Moscow and Tehran have long been interested in developing the North-South transport corridor. Part of it will go along the western coast of the Caspian Sea from Russia to Iran through Azerbaijan.

The North-South corridor, when built, is expected to significantly reduce the time for cargo transport from India to Central Asia and Russia. At present, it takes about 40 days to ship goods from Mumbai in India to Moscow. The new route will be able to cut this time to 14 days. The price will also be cheaper than shipping goods through the traditional Suez Canal.

Crimean authorities are also planning to boost trade relations with Syria, another US-sanctioned country.
Also see:

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Red Flag

'Dangerous vandals': Protesters topple century-old Confederate statue on UNC campus


RT
Tue, 21 Aug 2018 12:35 UTC
silent sam statue
© Jonathan Drake / Reuters
Activists have managed to topple the 'Silent Sam' statue of a Confederate soldier that has graced the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill campus for over a century.

The Silent Sam statue came down to the loud cheers of the crowd of around 300, who used ropes to topple the monument during the Monday night rally just before the school year begins on Tuesday.

Despite police attempt to intervene, the statue hit the ground by 9:20 pm local time. According to local media, one person was detained before charged with concealing a face during a public rally and resisting arrest.

Comment: Also see:

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Pistol

3 injured after shooting outside London tube station


RT
Mon, 20 Aug 2018 21:45 UTC
shooting London tube kingsbury
© Reha Kansara ‏ @_kRaay
At least three people have reportedly been shot outside Kingsbury tube station in north London, according to police.

The shooting outside the metro station in North West London happened at around 9:45 pm local time, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said, noting that officers along with London Ambulance Service were sent to the scene.

"They found three people suffering injuries," the spokesman said. Police are now looking for the suspect(s) in the shooting.

After an initial assessment of the crime scene, Met police said the incident is "not terror-related." One of the three victims discovered at the scene of the crime was already discharged from a hospital.

Comment: The UK has seen a surge in violent crime the last few years: And it seems its not just in the UK:

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Attention

It might be too late to save our universities

Frank Chung
news.com.au
Mon, 20 Aug 2018 07:40 UTC
Jordan Peterson
Governments should not 'mandate' gender speech
When university teaching assistant Lindsay Shepherd showed her students a clip of a TV debate about the use of gender-neutral pronouns, she was accused of "epistemic violence".

An LGBT centre official claimed her activities led to a surge in assaults on transgender people. When asked to prove the allegations, he said he didn't have to "perform his trauma".

A professor in Ms Shepherd's own department wrote an opinion piece for the local paper saying the campus "had become unsafe".

"Is freedom of speech more important than the safety and wellbeing of our society?" he asked.

Ms Shepherd, a graduate student at Canada's Wilfrid Laurier University, made international headlines late last year after she released an audio recording of her interrogation by university officials over the tutorial lesson.

Comment: See also: Too Far Left: How Liberals Transformed Into Illiberal Social Justice Warriors

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Bizarro Earth

Texas father stabs 16 month old toddler to death while screaming 'Jesus is coming'


RT
Tue, 21 Aug 2018 08:41 UTC
Texas father stabs toddler to death
© FOX 4 News / YouTube
Texas police are investigating the motive behind a senseless act of violence in which a screaming man stabbed his 16-month-old toddler to death in public, despite an armed neighbor's intervention to stop him.

The attacker was heard shouting gibberish before charging his kid with a knife in a common area of the Oak Forest Apartments on Sunday, Lewisville police department said after interviewing witnesses to the horrific incident.

"The information we have is that the suspect came out of the apartment carrying the child, and he was yelling some very loud, random things about religion and 'Jesus is coming,'" police Captain Jesse Hunter said.
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No Entry

Ridiculous! California school rejects piano teacher because she wouldn't tear religious hymns from music book

Kaylee McGhee
Liberty Headlines
Fri, 17 Aug 2018 00:00 UTC
Amazubg Grace
Was told her Christmas recitals and lessons in classical blues, jazz, and gospel were problematic also...

A piano teacher in California is suing a charter school after she was accepted, and then rejected, from a teaching position because her beginning music lessons were deemed "too religious," and therefore, "problematic."

The Sky Mountain Charter School in Riverside County asked Dimitra Solomos to become a "vendor" for the school, which would allow families to use extracurricular funds to pay for piano lessons rather than using out-of-pocket expenses.

Solomos agreed and completed a background check, got a business license, and completed the other application requirements.

The charter school's management company approved her application, but told her that they prohibited teaching religious music, like hymns.

Comment: And on that note:



No one less than Bill Moyers even made a documentary about the song and its lasting cultural and spiritual impact:



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Eye 2

Flashback The untouchable William Browder?

Israel Shamir
The Unz Review
Mon, 20 Jun 2016 01:47 UTC
Browder
© Michael Wuertenberg/World Economic ForumWilliam F. Browder, Chief Executive Officer Hermitage Capital Management.
The Browder affair is a heady upper-class Jewish cocktail of money, spies, politicians and international crime.

Chapeau, Mr Browder! Hats off for this incredible man. Last month, he succeeded in stopping a film screening in the European parliament and took off a few articles from American web sites. This week, he turned the only US screening of a film critical to his version of events into a ruckus. No freedom of speech for his enemies! His lawyers prowl around and issue summons to whoever digs in his sordid affairs. His hacks re-wrote his Wikipedia entry, expunging even discussions of the topic: despite hundreds of edits, nothing survived but the official version. Only a few powerful men succeed purifying their record to such an extent. Still, good fortune (a notoriously flighty lady) is about to desert Mr Browder.

Who is this extremely influential man? A businessman, a politician, a spy? The American-born Jewish tycoon William Browder, says The Jewish Chronicle, considers himself Putin's Number One enemy. For him, Putin is "no friend of the Jews", "cold-blooded killer" and even "criminal dictator who is not too different from Hitler, Mussolini or Gadhafi". More to a point, Browder is the man who contributed most to the new cold war between the West and Russia. The roots were there, still he made them blossom. If the US and Russia haven't yet exchanged nuclear salvos, do not blame Browder: he tried. For a valid reason, too: he was hit by cruel Hitler-like Mr Putin into his most susceptible spot, namely his pocket. Or was there even a better reason?

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Bizarro Earth

Liberal Hollywood caught in sexual feeding frenzy as #Metoo movement's Asia Argento is now one of the accused

Seraphim Hanisch
The Duran
Tue, 21 Aug 2018 00:20 UTC
Asia Argento called out by a man SHE sexually abused, revealing the true nature of Hollywood's "moral cause".
Harvey Weinstein
The #MeToo phenomenon looked to the first glance a bit like a "moral snapback" in Hollywood, as it appeared that the years of hidden sexual perversity and predatory behavior was being revealed so that it might be stopped.

However, a slightly more serious look at this began to reveal that it was far less upstanding than Hollywood's elite wanted the adoring public to believe. Swiftly, the movement became the feminist movement's latest salvo against men, because it provided women accusers with virtually unlimited power to defame any man - all that was needed was for her to say that man X made an unwanted advance and that man's life would be mired in the mud of slander.

Comment: Did Anthony Bourdain commit suicide as reported or is something more sinister in the works? What role, if any, does he play in all this? Or is it possible that this latest news story is being used to distract from the current Catholic church child abuse scandal?

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Bizarro Earth

We must be willing to face uncomfortable truths in order to find ways to protect children from pedophiles

Deborah Soh
Globe and Mail
Mon, 20 Aug 2018 20:34 UTC
Catholic church abuse
On Aug. 14, a grand jury report found that more than 300 Roman Catholic priests in Pennsylvania have been implicated in the sexual abuse of thousands of child victims since the 1940s.

The Church, according to the report, has systematically covered up the abuse to avoid scandal - for example, downplaying incidents of rape and sexual assault by describing them as "inappropriate behaviour," and transferring clergy to new locations without notifying parishioners as to why.

Comment: One of the ways to tackle this issue is for parents and caregivers to arm themselves with information and then have age appropriate discussions with their children. See:

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Sheriff

Video shows cops attack dad, taser him as he held his 2-month-old baby

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 18 Aug 2018 20:08 UTC
Cops taser man with baby
A deeply disturbing video has been shared with the Free Thought Project showing multiple police officers surround a man - who was holding his two-month old baby - and taser him.

The video, uploaded to Facebook by the man who took it, Kelvin Williams, shows Westland City police officers assault and arrest a man as he held his baby son.

According to Williams, police showed up at his neighbor's home claiming that there was a fight. However, Williams noted that no one was fighting and the neighbors were all outside barbecuing and listening to music, peacefully.
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