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SOTT Focus: Sorry Russophobes And Neocons, The World Cup in Russia is Off to a Flyer

John Wight
Sputnik
Tue, 19 Jun 2018 21:31 UTC
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The World Cup in Russia is off to a flyer, serving up a feast of football amid the special and unique atmosphere generated by this quadrennial event. Fans from every corner of the globe having been packing the stadiums, some of them custom-built, reminding us that, despite our differences, we are one human family.

However not everyone is happy. For Russophobes and neocons the success of the World Cup in Russia is something to mourn rather than celebrate, interfering as it does with their relentless demonisation of a country, in Russia, which refuses to know its place as a subaltern power, home to retrograde cultural values, relative to the West.

In fact given the intensity of anti-Russia invective that has played out in the Western mainstream media these past few years, many watching the World Cup will have been genuinely surprised to know that, yes, the sun actually shines in Russia too; and that, yes, its people are not oppressed and living in gulags.
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SOTT Focus: Remember The Russian Artist Who Nailed His Nuts to Red Square? You Won't Believe What Happened to Him Next


Sott.net
Tue, 19 Jun 2018 20:38 UTC
Russia's Vesti news network has the incredible story of how an ultra-liberal star wound up sharing bunks with Muslim terrorists outside Paris
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You may remember Russian performance artist Petr Pavlensky from such daring 'art' as sewing his lips shut in protest over the arrest of 'edgy' punk band Pussy Riot, cutting off his earlobe with a chef's knife while sitting naked on the roof of the Serbsky Center to protest political abuse of psychiatry in Russia, and nailing his scrotum to Red Square's cobblestone paving ("A naked artist, looking at his testicles nailed to the cobblestone is a metaphor of apathy, political indifference, and fatalism of Russian society," he said in a press statement).

Celebrated among liberal intelligentsia at home and abroad, Pavlensky's last major stunt in Russia - in 2015 - was to set an entrance to the FSB HQ on fire, an offense for which he was fined. In 2017, he fled to France with his partner and their two children after being accused of sexual assault by a Moscow actress. There he received political asylum, and was feted in Paris as a champion of freedom persecuted by Big Mad Vlad.

Until a repeat performance of the FSB stunt at an entrance to the Banque de France landed him in one of the worst prisons in Europe...

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SOTT Focus: Pentagon Freaks Out as Trump AGAIN Calls for Cessation of US War Games in Korea


RT
Sun, 17 Jun 2018 21:46 UTC

Comment: The Donald has apparently turned into a peacenik. Deep Staters, nihilists/postmodernists, pedo-criminals and build-a-burgers everywhere are fuming right now, scheming about what to do with this 'dictator'. Meanwhile the 'left' in the US is almost completely under the sway of the War Party, impervious to the fact that Trump's doing what they always wanted: reining in the military...


Trump repeats call to halt US-South Korea drills, stirs unease among military & allies
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Military exercises put the US in a "bad light" during talks with North Korea and are expensive, Trump said, calling again for the drills to be cancelled. His plans have apparently unsettled both the Pentagon and regional allies.

"Holding back the 'war games' during the negotiations was my request because they are very expensive and set a bad light during a good faith negotiation," US President Donald Trump tweeted on Sunday, reaffirming his intention to suspend the annual joint US-South Korean military exercises. He also said the drills are "quite provocative."



Comment: Americans haven't heard this much common sense from their leader since... well, since 1963.

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SOTT Focus: Anti-Russian propaganda means nothing to hundreds of thousands of international fans enjoying World Cup in Russia

Simon Rite
RT
Sun, 17 Jun 2018 07:24 UTC
Russia and Mexico fans together in Moscow.
© Vitaly Belousov / SputnikRussia and Mexico fans together in Moscow.
The striking thing about Moscow during the World Cup so far is just how much the atmosphere of openness and joy is in stark contrast to the bad spirited build up seen in parts of the western, english speaking media.

Scare stories of hooliganism, racism, and homophobia dominated coverage which seemed more interested in confirming its own stereotypes than uncovering the complexities of a nation. The vast majority of the locals and fans meeting in Russia couldn't care less about the politics.

How about this headline from The Times newspaper in Britain after Russia's opening 5-0 win over Saudi Arabia? "Russia get party started with goal feast for Vladimir Putin." To me it seems extremely cynical to suggest the team did it for Putin; they did it for the excited kids who came out of Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium afterwards with big smiles on their faces. They did it for the Russians that love football. That is a headline written by someone who can't get out of the way of their own preconceptions.

Comment: The West's unrelenting, baseless anti-Russia propaganda is... being completely ignored by the vast majority of people.

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SOTT Focus: Boy with Obvious Psychological Issues Wins First Place in Female Sporting Event

Timothy C. Trepanier
Sott.net
Sun, 17 Jun 2018 22:26 UTC
High School Runners
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The war on reality continues.

A story from a Connecticut high school earlier this month reports how a male to female transgender track and field athlete broke two state records.
On Monday, when Connecticut had its State Open track and field championships at Willow Brook Park, one person broke the State Open records for girls in both the 100 and 200-meter runs.

That person was a biological boy.

Comment: Girls' track meet records being set by transgender biological boys who now claim to be "girls"

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SOTT Focus: An Extraordinary Thing Happened At Jordan Peterson's Indianapolis Performance

Miriam Weaver
Chicksontheright
Sun, 17 Jun 2018 10:12 UTC
Zašto komunisti ne mogu izdražati Jordan Petersona
Y'all know I've been intellectually crushing on Jordan Peterson for months now, basically ever since I discovered him via the Lindsay Shepherd story back in December. And then, when he mind-spanked Cathy Newman in that Mother Of All Interviews back in January? Well, that was it. I was hooked, and I've spent many hours binge-watching his videos since. He is currently on a speaking tour, promoting his book, "12 Rules for Life" - which is a must-read.

When I discovered he was coming to Indy, Mr. Mock and I were pretty stoked. We bought tickets, and spent a little extra on VIP passes so that we could meet him and attend a smaller Q&A session with him.
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SOTT Focus: The Truth Perspective: Lord of the Underworld: The Secret Life of Carl Jung


Sott.net
Sat, 16 Jun 2018 16:00 UTC
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C. G. Jung
Carl Jung is a giant of 20th century history and thought, widely regarded as a pioneer of the psychology of the unconscious. His defection from Freud and his ideas like the archetypes of the unconscious are widely known, even if many have not read his works. But there is a hidden side to the man that few are aware of. From visions of the gods to an acceptance of polygamy and a plan to revitalize civilization by returning to the paganism of the past, Jung privately held some ideas that don't appear in his published works - and which may come to many as a shock.

Today on the Truth Perspective we'll be taking a closer look at the hidden Jung: his encounter with the deranged Otto Gross, his libertine views on sexuality, his modelling of psychoanalysis on ancient mystery cult initiations, his interest in mediumship, and his trance-induced visions of the underworld. If you thought you know Jung, chances are you don't. Tune Saturday, June 16, 12 pm EDT.

Running Time: 01:29:45

Download: MP3

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SOTT Focus: Petrodollar, Trade Deficit and Tariff: What is Trump Doing?

Chris Kanthan
Sott.net
Fri, 15 Jun 2018 18:25 UTC
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"The Chinese are raping us" and "Canada is killing our farmers"! Such melodramatic claims from Trump resonate with many Americans, because the effects of globalization have been devastating for half the population. To his credit, Trump has been harping on trade deficit for thirty years - he was complaining about the Japanese in the 1980s. However, he's vastly oversimplifying the issue and the solutions. This is an important topic that requires serious thought.
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SOTT Focus: Joe Quinn on Sputnik: 'Blaming Russia For Brexit is Ridiculous Conspiracy Theory - English People Simply Want Out of The EU'


Sputnik
Thu, 14 Jun 2018 12:54 UTC
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Brexit donor Arron Banks met with Russian officials, including the Russian Ambassador to the UK, several times in the run up to EU referendum. According to the Independent, the millionaire co-founder of Leave.EU also flew to Moscow to discuss business opportunities. Banks and Andy Wigmore, the director of communications for the campaign, reportedly had lunch with Alexander Yakovenko, the Russian ambassador, in November 2015. On Friday, Banks and Wigmore announced they were being targeted in a 'coordinated witch hunt' of Leave Groups.

Radio Sputnik discussed the possible reasons for Brexit with Joe Quinn, internet essayist, researcher, author.

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SOTT Focus: No, George Monbiot, Dropping Meat and Dairy Will Not Reduce Your Impact on the Earth

Doug DiPasquale
Sott.net
Wed, 13 Jun 2018 15:18 UTC
Guardian George Monbiot
© The GuardianFeel the awesome power of meat guilt
If you were to believe the headlines (something not generally recommended) gracing newspapers and interwebs this week, you'd be assured that if you don't go vegan, you're going to kill the planet. Peer-reviewed research published in the prestigious journal Science late last month is based on a database of a bunch of different food products, which the study's authors analyzed from production to retailing to determine their environmental impact. From Science Daily:
Researchers at Oxford University and the Swiss agricultural research institute, Agroscope, have created the most comprehensive database yet on the environmental impacts of nearly 40,000 farms, and 1,600 processors, packaging types, and retailers. This allows them to assess how different production practices and geographies lead to different environmental impacts for 40 major foods.
So how did they assess the environmental impact of our daily foodstuffs? Pollutants like heavy metals or toxic chemicals being released? Destruction of fragile ecosystems? The number of endangered species affected? Invasive genetically modified technologies and their consequences? Nope. Those things don't matter in the grand scheme of things, apparently. All that matters now is carbon dioxide, the innocuous gas that feeds plants. In the current media landscape, all the horrific things we do to the environment get a pass. The only thing that gets attention is CO2.
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