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French architects list the top 5 most beautiful Moscow Metro stations


RT
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 15:41 UTC
Moscow Metro
© Grigory Dukor / Reuters
People walk inside Komsomolskaya metro station in Moscow
Widely considered one the of the world's most beautiful underground networks, the Moscow Metro has become one of the major tourist attractions, and even inspired a group of French architects, the city authorities revealed.

Urban designers coming from France to support their team at the 2018 World Cup told Moscow authorities that they were so impressed by the aesthetic of the Russian capital's ornate metro system they made their own urban architecture guide of the network, with a list of the five most beautiful stations.

Comment: Stark contrast to San Francisco's metro... so take your pick - junkies or yoga?



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The illusion of Ocasio-Cortez: New faces won't mend a corrupt political system

Teodrose Fikre
The Ghion Journal
Fri, 06 Jul 2018 10:23 UTC
Ocasio-Cortez
I'll admit, for a minute I fell for it again. Watching a young, telegenic woman take on and defeat an entrenched politician produced a temporary moment of euphoria mixed with schadenfreude. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's unbelievable knockout of Democratic party boss Joe Crowley almost made me believe that these two equally bankrupt political parties can be fixed from within. The feeling proved to be short-lived; no person is more powerful than the institution they are desperate to join.

I am no longer the naive loyalist who believed that a little known Senator from Illinois would deliver the change we have been waiting for. As much as I want to root for Alexandria, I know that in the end she too will be co-opted by the DNC and party leaders. The problem in DC are not the candidates but the system as a whole. A government hijacked by two mafia parties will not allow true change agents to survive let alone prosper. In this paradigm, even the most well-intentioned of people will end up conforming to the norm and have zero chance of transforming our broken state of politics.

Comment:

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Kalashnikov legal team proposes 10 shotguns and rifles per citizen limit in new Russian Law on Weapons


RT
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 10:21 UTC
Kalashnikov
© Reuters
Alexey Krivoruchko, CEO of Kalashnikov Group, poses for a photograph during an interview with Reuters in Abu Dhabi
Lawyers for Russian firearms producer Kalashnikov have prepared amendments to the national legislation liberalizing the purchase and ownership of firearms and introducing rules regulating gunsmithing, according to reports.

Kommersant newspaper reported on Thursday that it had managed to acquire and study the reworked draft of the Law on Weapons prepared by Kalashnikov's legal team. The changes include an increase in the maximum quantity of guns of one type (shotguns and rifles) allowed for possession by one person from current five to ten.
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Episcopal Church considers using gender-neutral language to describe God in its book of prayers

Jana J. Pruet
The Blaze
Wed, 04 Jul 2018 09:56 UTC
priest bible
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The Episcopal Church will consider adding gender-neutral language to its Book of Common Prayer at its convention in Austin.
The Episcopal Church will consider whether to add gender-neutral language regarding God to its Book of Common Prayer at its 79th General Convention, which starts Thursday in Austin, Texas.

The debate is centered on making sure that the faith's prayer book is clear that God, the supreme being, is genderless. The proposed changes will be considered at the eight-day convention, the Washington Post reported.

The church has always addressed God through the use of masculine terms such as Him, Father, and King, among others.

In the New Testament, Jesus taught his disciples to pray using male pronouns.

"And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth," Jesus said in Luke 11:2.

Comment: See also:

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Iraq war veteran: Prevent suicides by stopping US immoral, illegal wars across the globe


RT
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 10:03 UTC
Veterans Arlington cemetary
© Lucas Jackson / Reuters
Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, U.S., May 30, 2016.
Moral injury is the real reason why US veterans are committing suicide, as they realize all the horrors of war and innocent people killed were for nothing but US corporate interests, US Iraq war veteran Vince Emanuele told RT.

Dozens of US veterans gathered for a march in front of the New Orleans VA hospital on July 1, to raise awareness for the high rates of veteran suicides across the nation. The demonstrators were wearing 'dead masks' to represent the high cost of war.

Last month, US Department of Veterans Affairs released a report stating that the average number of veterans who die by suicide daily is 20.

RT spoke to US Iraq war veteran and activist Vince Emanuele who shared his view on the matter. He believes that the US government is not doing everything possible to prevent more veteran suicides.


Comment: Twenty veterans committing suicide every day is an outrageous number.

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Cult

Senator Bob Corker: Trump supporters are like cultists

Cal Thomas
Townhall
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 09:35 UTC
Donald Trump
© AP / Charlie Neibergall
Bob Corker, the outgoing Republican senator from Tennessee, recently compared supporters of President Trump to members of a cult. The Washington Post quoted Corker as saying: "It's becoming a cultish thing, isn't it? It's not a good place for any party to end up with a cult-like situation as it relates to a president that happens to be of -- purportedly -- of the same party."

Purportedly? It would be nice to know what the Republican Party stands for these days, especially when it comes to spending and debt, but I will leave that for another day.

The Post story says "...the Republican Party appears united now not by fealty to ideas or policies but to a man, who defied the odds to win the presidency and who has magnetically drawn the party's power base to himself."

Doesn't that reasoning also describe the rise to power of Barack Obama and Bill Clinton -- the former this country's first African-American president, the latter the former governor of a Southern state with a great gift of gab, though personally flawed in ways similar to President Trump? Why did the media not label Clinton followers cultists? Why weren't people who appeared to worship President Obama regarded as blind followers of a cult-like leader? Answer: because they are Democrats, and the standards are different for Democrats.

Corker is right about how the GOP focused less on ideas and more on winning, but that could describe both parties at varying points in history.

Comment: Pretty much everything the left goes around accusing everyone of they are guilty of themselves. Either you end up having enough and #WalkAway or become ideologically possessed. There is no middle ground... that would be too 'rational' and you'd probably be called a Nazi for it.

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Biohazard

Deadly 'zombie' poison stolen from safety vault in Dutch museum


RT
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 14:13 UTC
Inside the Rijksmuseum Boerhaave.
© Boerhaave / Facebook
Inside the Rijksmuseum Boerhaave.
Dutch police are trying to trace a powerful paralyzing poison stolen from the vault of a museum of medicine in the Netherlands.

A jar of curare, a plant extract sometimes used in blow dart guns and on arrows, went missing on Wednesday morning from Leiden's Boerhaave Museum, according to Omroep West news.

The stolen glass case contained a small dark block of the poison about the size of a sugar cube, reports Holland's The Post Online.

"We are now urgently looking for the poison," a Leiden police spokesperson said. "It should not be on the street where people can come into contact with it."

Comment: The topic of poison is often in the headlines these days:

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Illegal Immigration has become a lawless Frankenstein in the 'Land of Is'

Will Alexander
Townhall
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 07:44 UTC
wall
When the first bud sprouted that made light of illegal immigration a few decades ago, it was hard to be alarmed because such sentiments strayed so far from basic common sense. "The law is the law," we thought. Simple.

Democrats thought so, too:

Chuck Schumer: "Illegal immigration is wrong; plain and simple." (2009)

Hillary Clinton: "... I am adamantly against illegal immigration." (2003)

Harry Reid: "If making it easy to be an illegal alien is not enough, how about offering a reward for being an illegal immigrant? No sane country would do that, right? Guess again. If you break our laws by entering this country without permission and give birth to a child, we reward that child with U.S. citizenship ..." (1993)

Dianne Feinstein: "Mexico must do its share because the day when America could be the welfare system for Mexico is gone. We simply can't afford it." (1993)

Bill Clinton: "... we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes, to better identify illegal aliens in the workplace... We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws." (1995)

Back then, illegal meant illegal.

Comment: With the makings of what potentially could turn into a civil war, Lincoln's warning is quite relevant for today.

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Broom

Deluded: Israeli lawmaker thinks recent quake was linked with plans for Western Wall mixed-gender prayer area


RT
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 17:18 UTC

"The Creation of Adam" by Michelangelo
An ultra-Orthodox MP has said the less-strict adherents of Judaism are "not Jews" and claimed a recent earthquake in Israel was a divine warning not to establish a mixed-gender prayer area at the Western Wall.

During a heated debate at the Knesset on Wednesday, Yinon Azoulay, from the ultra-Orthodox party Shas, alluded to higher powers to support his position: "Today we heard there was some sort of earthquake. Perhaps we should consider that this earthquake was because someone is trying to get at what is holy to us."

He was referring to a series of minor tremors in the Haifa area on Wednesday, the Times of Israel reported. The issue on the line is a thorny one, as often happens with religious views.

Comment: As if God has nothing more important to think about. It really does provide insight into the narcissistic and delusional mind set of many in the Israeli parliament. Instead, here are some issues that are much more likely to bring about divine retribution:

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Attention

River turns blood red in south-west China - Authorities blame nickel pollution from factory spill


Yahoo
Thu, 28 Jun 2018 12:00 UTC
china river blood red July 2018
A river has been filmed flowing blood-red much to the shock of residents.

Footage taken of the Xiangbi River in Yibin city in China's south-western Sichuan province shows the river turned a bright red.

The video was filmed on June 28, with residents complaining to local officials about the pollutant appearing in the stream, which was confirmed not to be a source of potable water.

The man filming claims the pollution is "very widespread".

On July 1, Cuiping district environment bureau officials confirmed that the pollutant came from the Heshun Packing Company plant further upstream.

An investigation revealed that workers there had accidentally spilt large quantities of enamel paint into the river during a cleaning operation.

Comment: Are all these rivers that turn blood red due to the same criminal negligence, or is there perhaps, for some at least, another cause?

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