Russians — Russia, Putin, it is all the same — will never submit.

Our animus against Russia as the other, the alien, the stranger became a self-defeating cultural filter. Is the Russia we see today, to an appreciable extent, not the product of our prejudicial wish fulfillment and our bullying over these post-1991 decades?
Truth is, we Americans treated Russia (nee Soviet Union) like a defeated power in 1991 — as if it had been some kind of junior Third Reich righteously vanquished. It was never seen as the ally we had known so long, finally come to its senses and having seen the light.

If Germany and Italy, after deep defeat, could be allowed to rediscover themselves and make their identities whole again, why not Russia? We have never let Russia — always banished to in-between realms of identity — find its own place of honor in our own halls.
If Russia seeks acknowledgment, why should we always, reflexively, deny them? Is Russia not, after all, a great civilization and a great nation? Can we not embrace them as such? It seems not.

@темы: link, Russia, society, US, WW III

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What Ordinary Greeks Think Of Friday's Deal:

"We Went Through Two Months Of Agony To Realize We Are Still A Debt Colony"

@темы: link, Europe, Zero hedge, economy

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Financial War: US wants to trigger wave of Russian bankruptcies

The US government insists on a tightening of sanctions against Russia, and demands that the EU follow suit. Washington now wants sanctions that will have a “devastating” effect, which Russia must “suffer.” Financial measures are planned to trigger a wave of bankruptcies in Russia.

@темы: link, Russia, US, RINF, WW III, economy

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Top British Politicians Offer Influence For Cash

Who exactly has benefited from these services? Who else is offering a similar service? To what extent is British policy, foreign and domestic, shaped by external oligarchic interests? Have British intelligence agencies been compromised due to these activities?

@темы: link, society, UK

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U.S. Army Claims to Be Full of Liars

Soldiers realize pretty quickly that they’re not benefitting the people of Iraq or Afghanistan or whatever country they’re terrorizing. They understand that the entire mission is a lie. They learn to lie about their own actions, to plant “drop weapons,” to invent justifications, to provide support for their commanders’ efforts to believe their own lies.

@темы: link, society, US

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9 surprising industries getting filthy rich from mass incarceration

Private prison companies aren't the only ones benefiting from America's prison-industrial complex

@темы: link, society, US, fascism

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John Oliver

@темы: video, John Oliver

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Big Pharma Is America’s New Mafia

Pharmaceutical companies have more power than ever, and the American people are paying the price—too often with our lives.

@темы: link, video, US, John Oliver, Medical Tyranny

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'Citizenfour,' the Edward Snowden documentary, wins an Oscar

Citizenfour, the Laura Poitras documentary that closely chronicled whistleblower Edward Snowden's journey across the world and into the worldwide zeitgeist, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary tonight.

@темы: link, society, US

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Which Corporations are Benefiting from Ukraine Fiasco?

The Ukrainian government is irresponsibly driving the nation deeper and deeper into a debt trap, analysts say, while the country's financial and industry sectors are facing tremendous losses unable to facilitate the growth of the state's economy. More than 50 percent of Ukrainian enterprises are unprofitable: over the last nine months the financial losses of large and medium-sized companies in the country mounted over $14 billion. Ukrainian GDP dropped by 7.5 percent. According to some estimates, Ukraine's external debt (including the debts of the country's enterprises) could reach $135.85 billion, with a debt repayment of $58.55 billion in 2015 alone. On the other hand, the internal war, launched by Kiev against the Ukrainian eastern region in 2014 has severely weakened the country's economy.

@темы: link, Ukraine, economy

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Buyer Beware: Talking Barbie Records Kids’ Conversations

@темы: web, video, US, gadgets

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New Computer Will ‘Decide If You Receive Healthcare’

For years, it has been an open secret that all of our “Big Data” has been harvested and stored without our consent. This includes every Facebook thought, phone conversation, every purchase, and even household conversations, to name a few. There is no doubt that this “Big Data” is waiting to be used towards withholding or forcing medical treatment at the stroke of a bureaucratic pen in the future.

All personal medical records will be uploaded and “delivered from the cloud” according to IBM’s press release. Presumably, the same cloud computing software that was recently hacked resulting in the public release of nude celebrity photos taken from their trusted wireless devices and computers linked to the cloud.

@темы: link, web, US

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Alexander Hamilton's connection to Jews

In my view, whether or not Alexander Hamilton was in fact Jewish is largely irrelevant at this point. What is relevant is that many of the ideas championed by Hamilton - strong central government (i.e., Federalism), a national bank, and "tolerance" for Jews - are exactly what is wrong with America. I believe a strong argument can be made that these ideas run counter to the true spirit of the American revolution, and the America men like Thomas Jefferson had in mind - a nation of hard-working, God-fearing farmers, craftsmen, and artisans of European descent who were educated, righteous, and independent.

@темы: link, history, US

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Police seize property and cash in questionable raids

Police seized more than $24 million in assets from Michiganders in 2013, under asset forfeiture laws. In many cases the citizens were never charged with a crime but lost their property anyway.

@темы: link, society, US

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New Edward Snowden documents...

show that the NSA and its British counterpart, GCHQ, stole cell-phone encryption keys embedded in SIM cards manufactured by Gemalto, a Dutch company that makes two-billion cards per year.

@темы: link, web, US, UK, Investment watch blog

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Alison Weir - My Wake Up

@темы: history, video, US, zionism, fascism, Israel

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THE ISRAEL YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT

Israelis torturing non-Jewish children documentary film full length

@темы: link, Desertpeace, fascism, Israel

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1 in 4 Americans Apparently Unaware the Earth Orbits the Sun

When asked that question, 1 in 4 Americans surveyed answered incorrectly. Yes, 1 in 4. In other words, a quarter of Americans do not understand one of the most fundamental principles of basic science. So that’s where we are as a society right now.

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DICTATORSHIP

@темы: society, video, US

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Greece could once again become the ‘cradle of democracy’

What are at stake are the livelihoods of 11 million Greek workers, employees and small business people and the viability of the European Union. If the ruling Syriza government capitulates to the demands of the EU bankers and agrees to continue the austerity programs, Greece will be condemned to decades of regression, destitution and colonial rule. If Greece decides to resist, and is forced to exit the EU, it will need to repudiate its 270 billion Euro foreign debts, sending the international financial markets crashing and causing the EU to collapse.

@темы: link, Europe, Veterans news now, economy