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Russian joke from Facebook
via VDimage of 1950s Soviet refrigerator fromInna Ipolitova пишет из Saint Petersburg, Russia:- Один человек купил себе новый холодильник и старый выставил у ворот дома с надписью: если вам нужен...
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Moscow-based commentator Teeter on “Russian Government Plans New Service...
Mark H. Teeter added 4 new photos. [JB - Facebook entry]1 hr · “Russian Government Plans New Service Exposing 'Fake News'”“I don't think [the West] even understands that all this is very obvious,”...
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Swearing, Italian Style
Swearing, Italian Style, Beppe Severgnini FEB. 15, 2017, New York Timesimage (not from article) from[JB personal note/confession: I spent a wonderful part of my adolescent years -- as a U.S. Foreign...
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Overheard on a Washington, D.C. street
image from"The nice thing about getting old is that you don't think about sex all the time."JB note: Maybe you think more about death ...
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Moscow-based American thinker Teeter on why the USA and the Russian...
John Brown shared Mark H. Teeter's post.13 mins · Mark H. Teeter added 4 new photos.1 hr · AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Renowned Liar calls Renowned Killer a killer -- and Renowned Killer, suddenly All...
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Thursday, February 16, 2017Swearing, Italian StyleSwearing, Italian Style, Beppe Severgnini FEB. 15, 2017, New York Timesimage (not from article) from[JB personal note/confession: I spent a wonderful...
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Facebook Comment from Third-Rome based Thinker Teeter
Mark H. Teeter added 4 new photos.17 hrs · AMERICA, WHERE IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. Really.“How America Lost Faith in Expertise” (Tom...
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Analysis: Trump is a master of language
usatoday.comWilliam Cummings , USA TODAYPublished 3:27 p.m. ET Feb. 17, 2017 | Updated 23 hours agoCLOSEPresident Donald Trump mounted a vigorous defense of his presidency and accused America's news...
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A Short Guide to Famous Foreigners Fascinated with Poland
culture.plWisława Szymborska and Karl Dedecius (translator of Szymborska's poems into German) at the Warsaw Book Fair, 1997, photo: Krzysztof Wojciechowski / ForumAndrukhovych, Brodsky, Davies,...
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For decades they hid Jefferson’s relationship with her. Now Monticello is...
Krissah Thompson, Washington PostCHARLOTTESVILLE — The room where historians believe Sally Hemings slept was just steps away from Thomas Jefferson’s bedroom. But in 1941, the caretakers of Monticello...
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Donald Trump Changes The Name Of Black History Month - Note for a discussion,...
Brendan Kelly, opposingviews.comPresident Donald Trump has reportedly changed the name of Black History Month.According to TMZ, Trump, following a meeting with African-American leaders, has announced...
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This Century Is Broken - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps...
This Century Is BrokenDavid Brooks Feb. 21, 2017, New York TimesImage from article, with caption: A shuttered business in Wilkes-Barre, PA. Most of us came of age in the last half of the 20th century...
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Are There Two Americas? - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps...
Leon Hadar, American ConservativeMany wish to “unsee” their political adversaries.Excerpt:image from articleIt was said on the eve of the American Civil War that Southerners and Northerners shared the...
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Lost in Translation
Sarah Lindemann-Komarovafor Portland Press Herald (Maine) February 19, 2017; via GG on FacebookImage from article, with caption: Food Court at Novosibirsk MallThroughout the 25 years I have lived in...
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Why Art Matters to America
By Thomas P. Campbell, Feb. 22, 2017, New York Times [original article contains links]image from articleFour years ago, in a small warehouse in central China, a team of Chinesearchaeologists showed me...
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Moscow-based media critic Teeter Facebook comment on article, "Putin Enjoys...
Mark H. Teeter added 4 new photos.14 mins · COULD BE A SEASONAL THING. Y'know, Easter and all..."Putin Enjoys Popularity Spike in...
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Humans in Dark Times
Brad Evans, New York Timesimage fromExcerpt:What’s required is a much more affirmative understanding of resistance, which is capable of producing an alterative and creative image of thought to the ones...
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Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, At the Altar of American Greatness - Note for a...
tomdispatch.comImage (not from article) from, under the headline: "‘Babes for Trump’ Want to Break the Internet"The members of what TomDispatch regular Andrew Bacevich, author of America’s War for the...
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An interesting video on Propaganda and the Nazi film Triumph of the Will (via...
image fromTriumph of the Will and the Cinematic Language of PropagandaSee also (1) (2) (3).
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