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• Another False Prophet Passes On

  
  AnAtheist.Net — Authority: 429
  Wait. “False prophet” is redundant, isn’t it? Please accept my apologies for being needlessly wordy…. Doomsday Sect’s Future In Doubt (Matthew Brown/The Associated Press; Nov 6) BOZEMAN, Montana: It wasn’t long ago that thousands of members of the Church Universal and Triumphant ...
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• Kazakhstan opens its third bio-monitoring station in Almaty

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Almaty (Kazakhstan), Dec. 28 (ANI): Kazakhstan has opened its third biological agent monitoring station in Almaty.The new monitoring system has been built under the Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program, which is better known as the Nunn-Lugar Program.The new facility is the 18th built in the world. Apart from ...
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• It’s Not Socialism. It’s Communism.

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  If you felt a frisson of fear on news that the Senate had passed Obamacare the day before Christmas, then you now know what it was and is like to live in a dictatorship. The voice of the People was ignored in a demonstration of raw political power. There was a time when Americans took Communism seriously. It ...
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• We’ve Forgotten How the Soviets Brutalized Afghanistan

  
  The New Ledger Features — Authority: 623
  N othing is so toxic to good analysis as a bad analogy. Now that Afghanistan looks to be a difficult place to fight after all, opponents of our war effort against the Taliban are grasping at a particularly inapt and offensive analogy — that of the Soviet Union’s invasion thirty years ago today. Much of the ...
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• Seniors are Americas new Jews

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  They are objects of derision.  Influential government officials refer to them as unproductive, of less value than others in society. The political party running the government aggressively denies them access to health services while putting in place bureaucracies devoted, in effect, to ending their lives. The Jews ...
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• Russian Mosin Nagant

  
  On the BorderLine — Authority: 130
  The Best Deal in Collectible Surplus Firearms is Back! Original Russian Mosin Nagant model 1891/30 7.62×54R rifles. Features the original Russian codes on Receiver, Bbl & Stock. Includes accessories as shown, though they may very slightly in size, shape, condition, and color. Arsenally refinished after WWII to ...
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• The Georgian Responsibility for NKVD Crimes

  
  Guy White: Making Sense On Race — Authority: 480
  I was just emailed this article by a History Professor at the American University in Moscow on who is to take responsibility for Soviet crimes. Like all the non-Nazi historians, he mentions that “the 1917 Bolshevik coup [was] funded largely by the German General Staff” which was seeking to end the war on the ...
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• U.S. in Afghanistan : 1979-2009

  
  The Rag Blog — Authority: 483
  Afghanistan: Mujahedin in 1984. Photo from U.S. Foreign Policy in Perspective.The thirty years war:The United States in AfghanistanBy Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / December 27, 2009When the Soviet Union sent 85,000 of its troops to Afghanistan in late December 1979 President Carter declared that the United States was ...
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• Utopian New Left Just Like Old Left

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 735
  How did the European left rationalize communism’s crimes and transform itself into a viable political force after the fall of the Soviet Union? It’s all explained in “Last Exit to Utopia: The Survival of Socialism in a Post-Soviet Era.” First published in 2000, the book by the late French intellectual ...
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• Arthur Koestler, Man of Darkness

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  Arthur Koestler in 1931, on a zeppelin expedition to the North Pole.
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• Much Ado About Nothing

  
  MANSIZEDTARGET.COM — Authority: 494
  One of the worst aspects of conservative “activism” is (a) the dominance of beltway pundits and their utter disconnect from the “tea party” crowd, and in particular the beltway’s contempt for the latter’s untutored and more tribal and culture-focused conservatism and (b) the right’s divisions and ...
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• Only with America’s Help Can ‘Northern Civilization’ Be Saved: Gazeta of Russia

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 669
  For those wondering whether U.S.-Russian relations really have been “reset”, this article from Russia’s Gazeta newspaper should provide food for thought. We must permit our minds to let go of our memories, tormented as we are by past grievances, and understand that only with the United States can the ...
  5 days ago

• Christian Roots Still Valid?

  
  Perfect Argument — Authority: 151
  "Today we understand what Europe thinks about the liberty of religion: respecting religious freedom of minorities while the majority can only express their faith.
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• How Reagan tagged the Commies

  
  News Benedict Brogan — Authority: 132
  Lovely item from the great Ephraim Hardcastle this morning:Rendezvouz With Destiny, a new biography of the late President Ronald Reagan by a former Republican press spokesman, Craig Shirley, discloses: ‘After Reagan was re-elected in 1984, the diplomatic tags on the cars used by the Soviet Embassy in Washington were ...
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• Editorial Observer: Yegor Gaidar, the Man Who Killed the Command Economy

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  The market forces the Russian economist unleashed as Communism fell apart are still spinning upon his death.
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• Beautiful Illustrations from Soviet Childrens Books

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 769
  The artblog A Journey Around My Skull has a compilation of unusual and surreal illustrations from children’s books of the Soviet Union. This image is from the 1989 book Hello, I’m A Robot Stanislav Zigunenko and illustrated by E. Benyaminson. At the link, you’ll see the first post in a series about such ...
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• Beautiful Soviet Childrens Books Make Me Wish I Was Born Behind the Iron Curtain [Art]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 889
  I mean, not really , but still! These wonderfully idiosyncratic illustrations , from 1989s Hello, Im Robot! by Stanislav Zigunenko, render our robot future in a way that conveys big ideas to children, and pure poetry to the rest of us. Perhaps what makes these illustrations work is that they trust their young ...
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• In War, Winners Can Be Losers

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 487
  Thus far, most of the supporters and opponents of escalating the U.S. war in Afghanistan have focused on whether or not it is possible to secure a military victory in that conflict. But they ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Debunking Antisemitism Studies and Yehuda Bauer in Particular

  
  NOVAKEO.COM — Authority: 135
  Holocaust studies is an emerging pseudo intellectual, academic trend. It basically allows rabid Zionists to elevate their discussions on ‘what is really wrong with the goyim’ into a university qualification. I recently learned about the ‘Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism ’. I ...
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• Debunking Myths about me (Part II)

  
  Kazakhnomad's Blog: A Westerner's View of Kazakhstan — Authority: 127
  Myth#5 – The most painful lie used against me was when I was betrayed by someone I thought of and trusted as a friend.  She twisted a sentence that I wrote in a handout for an international TESOL conference paper that I delivered last March in Denver, Colorado.  She immediately flew into a rage that she did not ...
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