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• Soviet Punitive Pedagogy (Part II)

  
  Kazakhnomad's Blog: A Westerner's View of Kazakhstan — Authority: 127
   I had learned while in Ukraine about “Initiative is Punitive,” I’ve found that according to Soviet pedagogy, it is true in Kazakhstan as well.  I learned from what Vladimir Sirotin wrote about Anton Makarenko and his Soviet punitive pedagogy.  It’s paraphrased from Johnson’s Russia List JRL 2009-219, ...
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• Moscow Cultural Landmark Is Seen as Threatened

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 903
  Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin has signed a decree that critics say would allow developers to demolish a Soviet-era cultural landmark, the Central House of Artists.
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• LOC News 53

  
  Left Of Center Podcasts — Authority: 124
  Click Image For More... All the News That’s Printed To Fit For December 14th, 2009 From now until the end of the year, we’re forgoing the shills in favor of an experiment during the podcasts. We’re interested in seeing what a fully user generated donation campaign is capable of doing here. So, No ...
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• A LOOK ON WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION

  
  WERI CHANNEL — Authority: 112
  When the environment becomes less valuable or damaged, environmental degradation is said to occur. There are many forms of environmental degradation.   When habitats are destroyed, biodiversity is lost, or natural resources are depleted, the environment is hurt.     A habitat is a more permanent ecosystem ...
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• Coke says green strategy will win business

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Having an integrated clean technology strategy will be a big part of winning business in the 21st century, a Coca-Cola executive told Reuters.com on Monday, and its investments in refrigeration will likely have the biggest impact on that strategy long-term. The worlds biggest soft drinks maker has hooked up with ...
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• Maybe Googlers Eat Their Own Dog Food, But Will It Be Tasty to Anyone Else?

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 702
  Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. Leave it to Google to compare its most aggressive new product to date to one that often includes meat by-products, bone meal, brewer’s rice, corn syrup and– yum! –”dried animal digest.” But that’s exactly how the Silicon Valley search giant ...
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• Gorbachev Presses World Leaders to Deliver on Climate: Rossijskaya Gazeta, Russia

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 682
  Chiding his former colleagues to act and to act now, Mikhail Gorbachev, the last head of state of the USSR, has weighed in on the climate debate with this op-ed published in the Rossiyskaya Gazeta , a newspaper that he partly owns. For Rossiyskaya Gazeta , Gorbachev writes in part : “The latest scientific ...
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• Paul Samuelson: Form and Function in Economics

  
  Incentives Matter — Authority: 129
  Paul Samuelson (1915-2009), economics titan, died Sunday . He was the first American to win a Nobel Prize in Economics. Early on my life I was exposed to economics thanks to the celebrated textbook that he wrote with Nordhaus . My father had an old two-volume Brazilian edition of 1975 (cover on the right). I was ...
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  IZO — Authority: 488
  Old conversation.
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• Ukraine Rearms Iraqis

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  In a deal brokered by the United States, Ukraine will be selling $2.4 billion worth of weapons to Iraq. Most of these will be of Russian design, which many Iraqi military personnel are familiar with. Ukraine has, and still manufactures, lots of Russian designed weapons. Ukraine split from the Soviet Union (and Russia) ...
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• More Work Party Photos and Soviet Pedagogy

  
  Kazakhnomad's Blog: A Westerner's View of Kazakhstan — Authority: 127
  My first exposure to Soviet pedagogy was in a somewhat unlikely place when I taught English for two years in Harbin, China from 1986-1988.  As teachers and foreign experts, we all lived in a foreign guest compound far removed from the Chinese masses with about five or six other Soviet experts. Add to the mix a few ...
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• Russia-France arms deal raises concerns for neighbours

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  A potential deal that would see France selling advanced military technology to Russia has been causing concern among former Soviet states. Moscow is said to be getting closer to buying from the French a Mistral-class assault warship - capable of transporting and deploying up to 16 helicopters, 13 battle tanks and 450 ...
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• Twitter Attack and Blogger Linked

  
  Palm PDA Handheld — Authority: 142
  The outage that knocked Twitter offline for hours was traced to an attack on a lone blogger in the former Soviet republic of Georgia — but the collateral damage that left millions around the world tweetless showed just how much havoc an isolated cyberdispute can cause. complete article Read the rest here: Twitter ...
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• Pakistan Is Fully Prepared For World War III

  
  Pak Alert Press — Authority: 588
  Project 2012Technology to cover range of 7,000 Kms, Pakistan, to increase its defensive capabilities, has started preparing intercontinental missile with a range of 7000 kilometres.According to sources, the intercontinental missile has a range of 7000 kilometres and is capable of hitting its target falling within its ...
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• Zinaida Serebryakova: An Artist of Charm and Simplicity

  
  Art and Faith — Authority: 128
  At the Toilette (Zinaida Serebyakova, 1909) Zinaida Serebryakova was the first Russian woman to become famous in the history of world art. 12 December marks the 125 th anniversary of the birth of this famous artist, whose work has recently become one of the more expensive offerings in international auctions. In ...
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• Solar power mounts in Canada

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Solar power is heating up in the northern reaches of Canada, a country not exactly known for its sunny rays and warm weather. The industry has seen a heap of news from the region this week. US. solar heavyweight First Solar and Canadian pipeline company Enbridge announced that they are quadrupling the size of a ...
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• Howard Zinn, Intellectual Moron

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 745
  “Objectivity is impossible,” self-styled “peoples’ historian” Howard Zinn once remarked, “and it is also undesirable. That is, if it were possible it would be undesirable, because if you have any kind of a social aim, if you think history should serve society in some way; should serve the progress of the ...
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• Official: KGB chief ordered Hitlers remains destroyed

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  Moscow, Russia (CNN) -- The remains of Adolf Hitler were burned in 1970 by Soviet KGB agents and thrown into a river in Germany on direct orders from the spy agencys chief, a top Russian security official said this week. Original Article: Forum: News/Activism
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• the story of a crime (1962)

  
  Hugo Zoom — Authority: 117
  The original title is История одного преступления. Apparently "Story of a crime" is considered a somewhat important short animated film, if it having its own Wikipedia article demonstrates that this is so, although I guess thats an arguable proposition.It was the first animated short made by ...
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• Meet the ultra fast scout

  
  PETS AND ANIMALS — Authority: 119
  klawneed IN SOVIET RUSSIA STEROIDS TAKE YOU! OMGZORZ HONOURS - #1 - Top Favorites (All time) Pets and Animals #1 - Most discussed (All time) Pets and Animals Tags: games pets , about animals , pictures of animals , pets and animals , man and animals , animals species , animals wild , pets online , ...
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