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Survey finds 4 in 10 German students don't know what Auschwitz was


RT
Fri, 29 Sep 2017 13:36 UTC
Inmates of Auschwitz concentration camp, January 1945
© SputnikInmates of Auschwitz concentration camp, January 1945.
A survey of German school children aged 14 or older has found that only 59 percent of students know about the Nazi death camp Auschwitz. Experts blame the findings on a lack of history education.

The surprising results were released Thursday by the Korber Institute, who carried out the survey of 1,009 Germans aged 14 and up, including 502 school children.

The survey found that 47 percent of 14 to 16 year olds knew of the infamous death camp. While only seven out of ten people aged 17 or over had heard of the place in Poland were 1 million people were killed between 1941 and 1945.

"We are worried to see that ever fewer German states offer history as a separate subject during middle school," said Sven Tetzlaff, head of educational research at the Körber Institute, to the Local.

"For me, this is one of the reasons why such a shockingly large number of school kids don't know about the Auschwitz concentration camp," added Tetzlaff.

Some 86 percent of the German population as a whole were aware of the camp and its purpose, the study found.
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Blue Planet

Sub-Saharan Africans suffer while Al Gore and his ilk talk 'sustainability'

Steven Lyazi
Townhall
Thu, 28 Sep 2017 12:48 UTC
Mudslide
I express my deepest sympathies to the people in the Caribbean and United States who have been impacted by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria. The loss of life was tragic but has thankfully been much lower than in many previous storms. Buildings are stronger, people get warned in time to get out, and they have vehicles to get to safer places until the storms pass.

I also send my sincere sympathies to my fellow Ugandans who have been affected by terrible landslides in eastern Uganda, near Kenya. Natural disasters often strike us hard. Sometimes it is long droughts that dry up our crops and kill many cattle. This year it is torrential rains and landslides.

This time we were lucky. The collapsing hillsides destroyed three villages, but thankfully it was daytime and people were outside. They lost their homes, cattle and ripened crops, but not their families. A horrendous mudslide in the same mountainous area in 2010 buried 350 parents and children under 40 feet of mud and rock.

People there have been cutting down trees for decades - for fuel, lumber and to grow crops. Now no roots hold the hills together when it rains. More cracks have appeared in the hills, so more slides are likely. But people don't want to leave their lands, and they're not planting new trees either.
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USA

Americans work longer hours than the majority of other countries

Gregory Bresiger
New York Post
Sun, 03 Sep 2017 13:45 UTC
american hardhat
© Shutterstock
Start up the grill. Get the burgers and chicken going. And start imbibing. You deserve it, according to a new work study.

"We're hard workers. We deserve the day off," says Liz Bagot, a spokeswoman for NationalToday.com, which conducted the survey of 2,000 Americans.

It turns out the average American works harder than our Japanese counterparts or the average European worker.

"Statistics show that Americans work longer hours than the majority of other countries - 137 hours per year more than Japanese, 260 per year more than in the UK," according to the study.

By the way, when the comparison is made between the average French worker and the average American worker, we're talking vive la différence. The American worker records about 500 more working hours per year than his or her French counterpart.
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Attention

10 y.o. boy seriously injured after stealing mom's truck and leading police on a high speed chase

Kelli Wiese
CBS 11
Wed, 27 Sep 2017 11:57 UTC
truck crash
© Kevin Fitch KFDM/Fox4A 10-year-old boy who took his mother's pickup truck (pictured) was injured when the vehicle crashed during a high-speed police chase in Southeast Texas.
A 10-year-old boy is in serious condition after he crashed his mother's pickup truck during a high-speed chase in Southeast Texas.

Vidor police chief Rod Carroll says officers received a reckless driving call on Wednesday. Upon the first officer's arrival near the pickup, the officer observed the truck run through a red light. The responding officer turned on his emergency lights but the boy raced off.

According to Carroll, the boy reached 85 miles an hour and eventually lost control and rolled into the front yard of a home.

"Officers then saw it was a 10-year-old boy and I could hear the stress in my officers' voices," the chief said while adding that the boy wasn't wearing a seatbelt.
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Bulb

Aging adolescents: To be an adult

Robert A. Hall
American Thinker
Fri, 29 Sep 2017 05:26 UTC
Peter Pan Syndrome
© Seamus
The Peter Pan Syndrome -- males who remain boys all their lives -- has long been with us. But now what I call "Aging Adolescents" (AAs) include as many females as males, and may be a majority in the younger generations. And they are raising, if one dares use that word, children who will replicate themselves as lifelong children. This threatens the economic, fiscal, and political well-being of our society and culture. Children are unable to lead, function in, or defend a society.

I consulted with a couple of friends and thought it might help if I put down what we believe an adult is. Perhaps not, but it can't hurt.

Comment:
Adulting and the disappearance of the American grown-up

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Red Flag

Megyn Kelly's new show immediately plagued by awkward interactions and offensive remarks

JUSTIN CARUSO
The Daily Caller
Wed, 27 Sep 2017 10:28 UTC
megyn kelly
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It's only day three of Megyn Kelly's new daytime show on NBC, and the program is already being dragged down by a series of offensive remarks, cringeworthy interactions, and awkward moments.

"Megyn Kelly TODAY" has created a number of bad headlines since its Monday premiere.

In response to a promo video where Kelly claims to be a "unifying force," John Oliver's HBO program, "Last Week Tonight" ran a supercut of Kelly's most "controversial" remarks:

On her first day, Kelly created a mini-controversy by hosting the cast of "Will & Grace" and making a bizarre comment about a gay fan of the show.
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Sherlock

The History Channel's assault on truth: How 'Ancient Aliens' distracts from legitimate conspiracies using shoddy and fantastical reporting

Jon Coumes
The Awl
Tue, 19 Sep 2017 09:40 UTC
ancient aliens

Comment: One could make a strong case that the purpose of shows like Ancient Aliens is to discredit any investigation into "conspiracy theories" that actually do have a lot of validity, such as 9/11 being orchestrated by factions within the US government. It's this sort of "tar-and-feathering" that make Ancient Aliens' shoddy and fantastical reporting useful to the Deep State, since it has even led the author of this article to throw a bunch of other events into the same pot as Ancient Aliens. That's a simple way to get rid of uncomfortable thoughts for the author, but the truth is that there certainly are conspiracy theories that exist because they rightfully have a lot of evidence and truth to offer, unlike Ancient Aliens.

This isn't about the Far Right living in a fantasy world, despite the author's continued insistence that it's the fault of the GOP for engendering fantasies. It's about people realizing that if they look at the facts long enough, there is a lot of evidence to make the mainstream explanations for some events come into serious question. He can use the existence of Ancient Aliens to bash the Right all he wants, but that is missing the point of why shows like this exist.


I don't know if you knew, but the Hebrews didn't spend forty years in the Sinai after the Exodus because they'd incurred the wrath of God. And they didn't leave that desert because the offending generation had died off. The chosen people were forced into the Promised Land because the algae-based-protein-bar machine that dispensed the "manna from heaven" they'd been eating finally broke down.

"Of course, [the machine] needed energy, for cultivating the algae, and this was produced, we postulate, by a small nuclear reactor," says Rodney Dale, a wild-eyed madman.

This is the History Channel, circa 2009. "But," asks the narrator, "If the Israelites' survival depended upon the manna machine, where did they get it? Some believe they had stolen it from the Egyptians prior to their exodus. Other suspect extraterrestrials gave it to them as a humanitarian gesture to prevent their starvation in the desert." The show is "Ancient Aliens," and it's everything that's wrong in America.
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Bullseye

RT Editor-in-Chief: RT's promotional spending no different than ad campaigns for Western news organizations


RT
Fri, 29 Sep 2017 12:44 UTC
rt office
© Evgeny Biyatov / Sputnik
Twitter's "revelation" before the US Congress that RT spent thousands of dollars on promotion has "forced" Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan to "come clean" that the news organization was also running ad campaigns on billboards, radio and even CNN.

"Twitter has just unveiled horrendous information in Congress - that we've been spending money on our advertising campaigns, just like every media organization in the world," said RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan.

"This is forcing us to go a step further and come clean that we also spent money on advertising at airports, in taxis, on billboards, on the Internet, on TV and radio. Even CNN ran our commercials. Somehow it did not cross our mind that in a developed democracy, regular media advertising can be considered suspicious or detrimental activity."

"By the way, similar campaigns are conducted by the American media in the Russian segment of Twitter. It'll be very interesting to find out how much they spend on it, who they target and for what purpose," added Simonyan.
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Cardboard Box

Transgender activist thinks men should 'work through' not being attracted to transgender women

Dave Urbanski
The Blaze
Mon, 03 Jul 2017 14:04 UTC
Transgender
There's no difference between women and transgender women, so what's the problem, right?
Seems it's not enough for transgenders to merely push for acceptance and force laws to change so they can use bathrooms that correspond to whatever gender they identify with. Hitting deeper, the new push has been to get people to speak transgenders' preferred pronouns in conversations - or suffer shaming and backlash.

What could possibly be next, you might ask?

Well, one transgender activist insists that straight men who don't desire transgender women simply have an issue they "should try to work through."

Comment: Talk about trying to force a square peg into a round hole! This has nothing to do with transphobia or finding acceptance within the greater society, but everything to do with attempting to impose her beliefs and lifestyle choices upon men (and ultimately women) who are naturally attracted to the opposite sex.

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Bug

'Beyond comprehension': 82-year-old UK man left with broken back after brutal robbery, family devastated

Jane Lavender and Lewis Pennock
The Mirror
Thu, 28 Sep 2017 10:37 UTC
pensioner attacked
© PAThe pensioner had his back broken in three places
Ahmet Dobran, who also suffers from Parkinson's, is now fighting for his life after he was dragged to the ground during the cruel robbery

The devastated family of an 82-year-old who had his back broken in three places during a brutal robbery say the attack has stolen his independence.

Ahmet Dobran's family are begging witnesses to come forward as they warn his attackers could strike again as they "have no conscience".

Mr Dobran, who also suffers from Parkinson's, is fighting for his life in hospital after he was dragged to the ground during the violent robbery.
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