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Soft totalitarianism: College professor reflects on childhood in Soviet Union as she observes effects of identity politics in US academia

Victor
The Duran
Sun, 01 Mar 2020 00:00 UTC

I'm in the editing and rewriting stage of Live Not By Lies now, but I couldn't pass up the opportunity to talk yesterday with a woman I'll call "Clarissa," whose stories were so good that I'm weaving them into the book's narrative. Clarissa is a college professor who emigrated to the US from Russia as a young woman, a few years after the fall of the Soviet Union.

She is yet another ex-Soviet bloc person who is extremely anxious about the emergence of soft totalitarianism here. Of course she can't use her real name, because she fears professional retaliation. It should tell us something that not a single academic from a former communist country that I interviewed for this book was willing to speak using their own name — this, in the Land of the Free. Why not? Because they were afraid of facing professional consequences for speaking out against identity politics and the "social justice" regime. Below, some quotes from our interview:

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Unfadable courage: Putin, Shoigu commemorate paratroopers who heroically died in battle against extremists in Chechnya two decades ago

RT
Sun, 01 Mar 2020 20:30 UTC

© Sputnik / Aleksey Nikolskyi
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Defense Minsiter Sergey Shoigu lay flowers to the monument to Pskov paratroopers heroically died in Chechya in 2000, in Pskov, Russia, on March 1, 2020.

Twenty years after heroic but vastly outnumbered Russian paratroopers bravely battled jihadist forces in Chechnya, President Vladimir Putin and Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu have honored the fallen.

"Today... we commemorate the brave paratroopers, pay tribute to their courage and their heroic deed," Putin said as he reviewed the troops of the Pskov Airborne Division. He and Shoigu arrived in the northwestern Russian city of Pskov, the hometown of Russia's oldest and most elite airborne division, to lay flowers at a memorial for those who fell in Moscow's second anti-terrorism campaign in the early 2000s.

They stood in the way of hundreds of militants and entered their last battle as true heroes, staying true to the best traditions of their brothers-in-arms that are held dear by all generations of airborne troops.

The president also attended a memorial service in memory of the paratroopers at the local St. George's church and met with their relatives.

Comment: And who was largely responsible for trying to destabilize Russia via Chechen proxy terror forces? Why the US of course!

Verizon warns shareholders AGAIN about personal injury and death lawsuits from wireless radiation health effects

BN Frank
Activist Post
Sat, 29 Feb 2020 00:00 UTC

Straight from the horse's mouth! Thanks to 5G Crisis for including this information - as well as the link - on their website.

When the wireless companies themselves admit that their products could pose significant dangers to the public, you know we have a problem on our hands.

In its annual SEC 10-K filing published on February 21st, 2020, Verizon announced to its shareholders the following: "We are subject to a significant amount of litigation, which could require us to pay significant damages or settlements...In addition, our wireless business also faces personal injury and wrongful death lawsuits relating to alleged health effects of wireless phones or radio frequency transmitters. We may incur significant expenses in defending these lawsuits. In addition, we may be required to pay significant awards or settlements." Read the full report here. (See page 17)

The New York Patriots may be interested in this because in November Verizon turned on 5G in their football stadium and the team's captain reported that he had never seen so much illness among players. In fact, Verizon has turned 5G on all across the U.S. including at a Cleveland, Ohio school.

Comment: See: UN staffer warns that 5G is a 'war on humanity'

Slovakia's center-right party ousts leftwing, a "victory of rightwing conservative populism" - analyst

The Guardian
Sun, 01 Mar 2020 15:31 UTC

© David W Černý/Reuters
Igor Matovic claims victory after his exit polls showed his OLaNO party won 25.8% of the vote in Slovakia's general election.

A centre-right opposition party focused on rooting out corruption is on course to form Slovakia's next government after voters ousted the governing leftwing party in a general election marked by a backlash over the 2018 murder of a journalist investigating corruption in the eurozone state.

Vowing to push through anti-corruption measures in the judiciary and police, Igor Matovič, the leader of the winning OLaNO party, galvanised voter outrage over the murder of journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancee, and the high-level graft their deaths exposed.

The killings - allegedly a hit ordered by an executive with connections to politicians - triggered the largest anti-government protests since communist times and led to the toppling in 2108 of the powerful head of the populist-left Smer-Social Democracy (Smer-SD), Robert Fico, as prime minister.

Comment: Populist parties continue to make serious gains throughout Europe:

And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Populism Explained

3 Sputnik employees in Turkey detained - UPDATE: Journalists questioned & cleared by prosecutors, OSCE condemns incident

RT
Sat, 29 Feb 2020 01:08 UTC

Groups of people descended on homes of three Russia's Sputnik agency staffers in Ankara, Turkey, chanting "Turkey for the Turks" and accusing journalists of treason for working for Moscow, RT Editor-in-Chief reported on Twitter.

What appears to be a coordinated attack on Sputnik employees in the Turkish capital was first reported by Margarita Simonyan, RT and Sputnik's Editor-in-Chief on Saturday, and later confirmed by the agency itself.

Simonyan tweeted that three separate groups, each numbering about 10 hooligans, swooped on the flats of three agency's employees, hurling threats and accusing them of betraying their homeland, Turkey, for doing journalistic work for the Russian outlet.

"They were shouting: 'Turkey for the Turks!' 'Traitors!' and 'Russian spies!'", Simonyan tweeted, comparing the raids to the pogroms against ethnic Armenians by Turks in the Ottoman Empire.

Comment: An update this morning from RT:

Three employees of the Turkish branch of Sputnik News, whose apartments were attacked by Turkish nationalists on Saturday night, have been missing since going to file complaints about the incident to Turkish police.

"We have not been able to contact our employees in Ankara for nine hours now," Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of RT and Sputnik, said in a tweet on Sunday morning.

Following denials by Turkish police of the whereabouts of these journalists, they were eventually found at Ankara's hall of justice where they were questioned by prosecutors and found to not be involved in any wrongdoing. Turkish media indicated that the reason behind the arrests was an article focused on the Turkish province of Hatay, which has long been disputed by Syria.

Questions arose as to just how these thugs knew of the names and home addresses of these journalists.

Moscow had this to say about the incident:

Moscow said the incident and the suspected detention of the victims by the police constitute a gross attack on the freedom of journalists. "We call on the Turkish authorities to intervene, provide safety to employees of the Russian media and ensure that all circumstances are clarified," the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

The OSCE condemned the harassment of Russian agency journalists in Turkey.

Sputnik parent organization Rossiya Segodnya appealed to the UN, OSCE, and UNESCO to draw their attention to the case.

Harlem Desir, the OSCE representative on freedom of the media, condemned the harassment and suspected detention. "I urge the authorities to ensure the safety of foreign correspondents," he tweeted.

RT provides more detail on the incident:

Shortly after their release, Mahir Boztepe, the head of Sputnik's Turkish branch, was freed from police custody as well. The journalist was briefly detained amid searches of Sputnik's Istanbul office.

The Sputnik employees were released shortly after Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had a phone call with his Turkish counterpart, Mevlut Cavusoglu. The top diplomat urged Ankara to "swiftly resolve" the situation with the journalists and called upon the authorities to ensure their safety.

The harassment of the Sputnik journalists has been condemned by seven Turkish journalist associations, as well as by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Harlem Desir, the OSCE representative on freedom of the media, urged Ankara to "ensure the safety of foreign correspondents," and raised concerns over reports linking the detention to a Sputnik article.

Woman who claims she was rushed into taking 'experimental' puberty-blocking drugs at 16 wins right to take NHS gender clinic to court in landmark case

Sophie Law
Daily Mail
Sun, 01 Mar 2020 15:48 UTC

Keira Bell, 23, (pictured outside the Royal Courts of Justice in January) started gender reassignment at the clinic when she was just 16 after she felt suicidal and asked to be called by a boy's name at school

A woman who claims she was given 'experimental' puberty-blocking drugs at 16 without being warned of the consequences is set to lead as a witness in a landmark case.

The Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, which runs the UK's first gender clinic in London, is being sued over concerns it gave powerful drugs to children as young as 12 without proper consent.

Keira Bell, 23, started gender reassignment at the clinic when she was a teenager after she felt suicidal and asked to be called by a boy's name at school.

She was prescribed hormone blockers to halt the development of her female body after just three one-hour appointments.

But Ms Bell has now stopped transitioning and argues staff did not challenge her want to become a teenage boy.

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Chicago police shoot man at grand-state red line station after he was moving between cars

CBS
Sat, 29 Feb 2020 04:00 UTC

© Twitter
The officer with her back to the camera has just drawn her gun. Seconds later, a shot is fired and the suspect runs up the escalator.

Chicago police shot a man Friday afternoon during a struggle at the Grand station on the CTA Red Line, after the officers tried to stop the man from moving between train cars. Video of the incident was posted on social media.

Deputy Police Supt. Barb West on Friday night said the officers were assigned to the mass transit unit and observed the man improperly moving between train cars, which is against city ordinance. They engaged with the suspect on the platform when the struggle ensued. The shooting is being investigated by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability and the Cook County State's Attorney.

"Due to the criminal nature of this incident, we have asked the state's attorney to respond," West said.

The officers have been placed on administrative duties. Interim Supt. Charlie Beck has been briefed and was decribed as "extremely concerned" about the incident. "We are conducting concurrent administrative and criminal investigations," West said.

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France's Louvre closed over coronavirus concerns, leaving blindsided visitors freezing outside

RT
Sun, 01 Mar 2020 23:46 UTC

France's Louvre unexpectedly kept its doors shut on Sunday, saying management is discussing the Covid-19 situation. The Twitterati were amused, unlike hundreds of people freezing in the street instead of gazing at the Mona Lisa.

To be fair to the museum, they were themselves apparently caught off guard by "ministerial instructions transmitted by the competent authorities," as a statement explained, prompting the museum to remain closed on Sunday. Three hours after the announcement, the museum said that it would not open at all on March 1, and left people in the dark regarding Monday.

Nearly 10,000 migrants 'stopped at Greek border', some have managed to slip through

RT
Sun, 01 Mar 2020 20:15 UTC

© Ozan Kose/AFP via Getty Images
Migrants clash with Greek police on the buffer zone Turkey-Greece border, at Pazarkule, in Edirne district, on February 29, 2020

The Greek government said almost 10,000 people were prevented from crossing into the country from Turkey on Saturday. Though stopped at the gate, the migrants are attempting to cut through the border fence or cross the river.

Thousands of people in Turkey rushed to the border with Greece after the government in Ankara announced this week that it will no longer stop them. Athens responded by closing the border crossing and deploying riot police and soldiers to halt the wave.

Around 9,600 attempts were made to cross the border on Saturday alone, Greek Deputy Defense minister Alkiviadis Stefanis told the media. The UN's International Organization for Migration estimated that as many as 13,000 people flocked to the border area in Turkey's Edirne province.

Comment: Greece appears to be more successful than not in turning back the refugees Turkey has cynically dumped on their border. This woman sends a warning message to those who are contemplating the trip.

Thousands of migrants try to cross border to Europe as Erdogan says Turkey will no longer 'close the gates'

Video shows last moments of Russian blogger's dry ice pool party stunt that killed 3

RT
Sat, 29 Feb 2020 20:47 UTC

Three people have died and more are in hospital after a birthday surprise at a Moscow party had unforeseen consequences. Video shows dry ice being poured into a pool for effect, inadvertently creating a carbon dioxide gas chamber.

The chilling incident occurred at a Moscow sauna late on Friday. Ekaterina Didenko, an Instagram blogger with over a million subscribers, was celebrating her 29th birthday with her family and friends.

No-one expected the festivities to turn into a tragedy when the blogger's husband Valentin presented the guests with a surprise treat. The man brought out a large amount of dry ice - solid carbon dioxide - and after everyone donned symbolic 'protection', he poured it into a pool to create the fancy mist effect for everyone to take photos and videos.

Comment: It would appear that the motivation behind this event wasn't really the celebration of someone's birthday but a stunt for publicity - how tragically sad.

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Ehret an idiot beyond belief

smertzasmert

.. .. are wheel barrel sales are up too?

Jibrish

I doubt any pureblood would object to the "vaccinated" being masked, but if they (the "vaccinated") still feel unsafe then maybe their problem is...

HashAttack2

I said this would happen...now they are looking to mandate companies with less that 100 employees...shits getting real, people[Link]

Bezel Bub

it's all a lie ! :O

cracker

Society's Child

Soft totalitarianism: College professor reflects on childhood in Soviet Union as she observes effects of identity politics in US academia

Unfadable courage: Putin, Shoigu commemorate paratroopers who heroically died in battle against extremists in Chechnya two decades ago

Verizon warns shareholders AGAIN about personal injury and death lawsuits from wireless radiation health effects

Slovakia's center-right party ousts leftwing, a "victory of rightwing conservative populism" - analyst

3 Sputnik employees in Turkey detained - UPDATE: Journalists questioned & cleared by prosecutors, OSCE condemns incident

Woman who claims she was rushed into taking 'experimental' puberty-blocking drugs at 16 wins right to take NHS gender clinic to court in landmark case

Chicago police shoot man at grand-state red line station after he was moving between cars

France's Louvre closed over coronavirus concerns, leaving blindsided visitors freezing outside

Nearly 10,000 migrants 'stopped at Greek border', some have managed to slip through

Video shows last moments of Russian blogger's dry ice pool party stunt that killed 3

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