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37 maps that explain how America is a nation of immigrants -- Note for a...
1. We’re all immigrantsThis map from the 2000 Census colors each county according to which country most of its residents cite as their "ancestry." What might be most surprising about this map is the...
View ArticleNBC Tee-Vee "World News"
For my sins, looked (for a few instants) at NBC's "world" news this evening on Tee-Vee. No 1 item all about the weather in the US of A. Can't remember what the second item was about or the ad following...
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ни пешком, ни на лошади, ни голая, ни одетая, ни с гостинцем, ни без...
Avvakum image fromYuri Avvakumov - Facebook entry 6/16/202523 mins ·ни пешком, ни на лошади, ни голая, ни одетая, ни с гостинцем, ни без подарочкаьности поменяла название "культурный центр"на "музей"....
View ArticleNEW BLACK PANTHER HEAD: LIKE FOUNDING FATHERS, WE ARE WILLING TO KILL FOR...
breitbart.comPAM KEY 30 Apr 20157303This Week on the New Black Panther Party’s “Black Power Radio,” national chairman Hashim Nzinga said since America has “declared war on us,” evidenced by “military...
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‘Are You Black?’ ‘Yes.’ An Interview With Rachel Dolezal - Note for a...
thenation.com; see also.Dolezal image fromIn these excerpts from an interview [on video] with Melissa Harris-Perry, Rachel Dolezal, the former president of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP who resigned...
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Интервью РЕМ КОЛХАС: «МЫ НЕ ВОССТАНАВЛИВАЛИ ЗДАНИЕ, А КОНСЕРВИРОВАЛИ ЕГО РАСПАД»
[JB Note: For Koolhaas, who got a deal in Moscow on an "avant-garde" (I'd said "retro") museum of art as essentially a vehicle for his self-promoting, $millions-making publicity stunts funded by...
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Почему Кремль уже не сможет «выключить телевизор»
nr2.com.uaimage from entryСтратегия и тактика российской пропагандыСиэтл-Киев, Июнь, 17 (Новый Регион, Ксения Кириллова) О российской пропаганде сказано и написано уже немало. Я, со своей стороны,...
View ArticleRussia and America: Toward a New Détente
via GA on Facebooknationalinterest.orgLeslie H. Gelb [2]August 2015 [4]WITH THE Cold War’s demise, the menacing Russia that long loomed over Europe seemed to vanish. The Russia of 1992 was just a...
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With Eye on Fiscal Armageddon, Texas Set to 'Repatriate' Its Gold To New...
Via WHS on Facebooktalkingpointsmemo.comChristine FrapechByBRIAN MURPHYPublishedJUNE 16, 2015, 9:18 AM EDT34036 ViewsTexas wants its gold back.On Friday, Gov. Greg Abbott signed legislation that will...
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«Кто не кормит свою культуру, будет кормить чужую армию»
izvestia.ruМинистр культуры Владимир Мединский — о том, по каким правилам строится взаимодействие государства, общества и творческих деятелей в сфере культурыФото: ИЗВЕСТИЯ/Владимир СуворовДолжно ли...
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Latino Conference Brings Immigration Overhaul Back to the Trail: Note for a...
View First Draft on the web | Add nytdirect@nytimes.com to your address book6/16/2015nytimes.com/firstdraft »Latino Conference Brings Immigration Overhaul Back to the TrailImmigration overhaul...
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Bill Bradley: 5 Steps for Peace in Ukraine
[JB Note: In my modest opinion, one of the more rational pieces on Ukraine].via VK on Facebooktime.com June 11, 2015 [please click on this link if your wish to avoid my below comments on the...
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For Charleston’s Emanuel A.M.E. church, one of the oldest in America,...
washingtonpost.comBy Sarah Kaplan June 18 at 5:03 AM The steeple of Emanuel AME Church is visible as police close off a section of Calhoun Street early Thursday, June 18, 2015 following a shooting...
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Rachel Dolezal Facing New and Old Questions; note for a lecture,...
abcnews.go.comSPOKANE, Wash. — Jun 18, 2015, 5:02 AM ETBy MATTHEW BARAKAT and NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated PressIn this image released by NBC News, former NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal appears on the...
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You can’t understand how Russians think by reading Russian literature
washingtonpost.comVia MP on Facebook[JB comment: "If you want to know something vital about what it means to be American, are you better off reading Walt Whitman or David Ignatius (in his role as...
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Vladimir Putin opens Russian 'military Disneyland' Patriot Park
via TL on Facebooktheguardian.coPresident says theme park is part of Russia’s ‘military-patriotic work with young people’, and announces 40 new intercontinental missilesForeign visitors examine a...
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The Decline of International Studies
via MVH on FacebookWhy Flying Blind Is Dangerousimage fromBy Charles KingIn October 2013, the U.S. Department of State eliminated its funding program for advanced language and cultural training on...
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Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, The Theology of American National Security
tomdispatch.comimage from[Tom Engelhardt:] In April 2003, with Baghdad occupied by American troops, the top officials of the Bush administration were already dreaming of building bases in Iraq that...
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Rachel Dolezal’s brother, author Joshua Dolezal, faces trial for alleged...
[JB Note --"Re-Invention" -- Isn't that what America, our cherished land of immigrants, is all about -- people remaking (optimists would say "improving) themselves to achieve the American dream (hard...
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" It [Russia] annexed the Ukrainian region of Crimea, not all of Ukraine" --...
Via a very sharp observer of Russian-Ukrainian relations, GA.From: E.U. Agrees to Extend Economic Sanctions Against Russia, ANDREW HIGGINS; article from the "newspaper of record,"The New York...
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