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...the beauty that is being taken out of our cities, towns and parks will be greatly missed and never able to be comparably replaced!
...can't change history, but you can learn from it. Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson - who's next, Washington, Jefferson? So foolish! Also...
China is providing Harvard University with $360 million that a former military intelligence analyst says appears to be part of an effort to influence one of America’s most important educational institutions.
Anders Corr, a former government analyst who specializes in foreign influence operations, stated in a letter to Vice President Mike Pence that a Chinese military-linked company, JT Capital, gave $10 million to Harvard in 2014, the same year the family of Ronnie Chan, a Hong Kong real estate mogul with ties to China, announced it is giving $350 million to the university. Both donations were "relatively opaque" and raise questions about the purpose of the funds, he said.
Mr. Corr, who received an international relations doctorate from Harvard in 2008, said the Chinese donations appear to be an attempt to introduce biases among the university’s professors in a bid to influence U.S. policy or public opinion in China’s favor.
Read the entire article at the Washington Times.
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Sharpton: Jefferson Memorial Should Not Be Supported by Public Funds
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free_beacon_feedCivil rights activist Al Sharpton said the Jefferson Memorial and other public monuments to people who owned slaves should not receive public funds during an interview Tuesday night.
The Jefferson Memorial is a presidential memorial in Washington, D.C., dedicated to Thomas Jefferson, the third U.S. president and drafter of the Declaration of Independence. It is managed by the National Park Service under its National Mall and Parks Division.
Jefferson, like many of the Founding Fathers, owned slaves and fathered at least one child with one of them, Sally Hemmings.
Asked by journalist Charlie Rose at the 15:30 mark of the above video whether the Jefferson Memorial should be taken down, Sharpton didn't immediately answer, instead discussing the personal nature of the debate about such monuments for African Americans.
"This is not some kind of removed discussion from us. Our families were victims of this," he said.
"So therefore everybody associated with slavery in terms of any public monument to them—" Rose said.
"When you look at the fact that public monuments are supported by public funds, you’re asking me to subsidize the insult of my family," Sharpton said. "I would repeat that the public should not be paying to uphold somebody who has had that kind of background. You have private museums. You have other things that you may want to do there."
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Извержение вулкана Эльдфедль, январь 1973 года, Исландия
Диалог первый.
Платон. Не ты ли, Сократ, сказал, что по одной капле воды человек, умеющий мыслить логически, может сделать вывод о возможности существования Атлантического океана?
Сократ. Не я. То был Шерлок Холмс.
Платон. Можешь ли ты предположить, Сократ, что в землях, именуемых Украиной, появится в будущем некий механизм, который позволяет писать письма другим людям, пусть и живущим на краю света, и получать от них ответ через минуту?
Сократ. Допустим это.
Платон. Тогда можешь ли ты, Сократ, как человек, умеющий мыслить логически, сказать, о чём они там будут писать?
Сократ. Если бы я мог писать, положим, своему другу Ксенофонту, то мы говорили бы о добре и зле, рождая истину в дискуссии.
Платон. А я бы полемизировал со своим недругом Диогеном, который сейчас влечёт жалкую жизнь раба в Македонии, споря с ним о природе вещей.
Сократ. Однако это мы; а что же делают те, в Украине?
Платон. Он обсуждают, справа ли или слева Шабунин бил Филимоненко.
Сократ. Пиздец блядь, ты серьёзно, Платон?
Платон. Сократ, я даю тебе слово афинянина, что это так.
Сократ. Ебать, ебать...
Платон. И более того, они об этом спорят третий день.
Сократ. Пизда, о боги, горе мне. Официант, одну цикуту без льда.
Юрій Гудименко
Платон. Не ты ли, Сократ, сказал, что по одной капле воды человек, умеющий мыслить логически, может сделать вывод о возможности существования Атлантического океана?
Сократ. Не я. То был Шерлок Холмс.
Платон. Можешь ли ты предположить, Сократ, что в землях, именуемых Украиной, появится в будущем некий механизм, который позволяет писать письма другим людям, пусть и живущим на краю света, и получать от них ответ через минуту?
Сократ. Допустим это.
Платон. Тогда можешь ли ты, Сократ, как человек, умеющий мыслить логически, сказать, о чём они там будут писать?
Сократ. Если бы я мог писать, положим, своему другу Ксенофонту, то мы говорили бы о добре и зле, рождая истину в дискуссии.
Платон. А я бы полемизировал со своим недругом Диогеном, который сейчас влечёт жалкую жизнь раба в Македонии, споря с ним о природе вещей.
Сократ. Однако это мы; а что же делают те, в Украине?
Платон. Он обсуждают, справа ли или слева Шабунин бил Филимоненко.
Сократ. Пиздец блядь, ты серьёзно, Платон?
Платон. Сократ, я даю тебе слово афинянина, что это так.
Сократ. Ебать, ебать...
Платон. И более того, они об этом спорят третий день.
Сократ. Пизда, о боги, горе мне. Официант, одну цикуту без льда.
Юрій Гудименко
Scarborough: ‘President Bannon’ Talks in Interviews Like He’s in Charge
Aug. 17th, 2017 11:28 amfree_beacon_feedMSNBC host Joe Scarborough said Thursday that White House chief strategist Steve Bannon was acting like "President Bannon" again after his interview with a left-wing publication went public.
Bannon gave an interview published Wednesday in the American Prospect, which aides said he thought was off the record, where he mocked Trump administration officials for their reticence on changing trade policy and refuted President Donald Trump's language about a possible military solution to nuclear North Korea.
MSNBC guest Katty Kay wondered on "Morning Joe" how Bannon could survive such an interview.
"You've been saying this for a long time, Joe, that Bannon is acting like President Bannon, and yet so far the real president has not got rid of him, so there's got to be some reason, whether it's personal relationship, whether it's political affinity over nationalism, that Trump is very reluctant to let Bannon go," Kay said.
Scarborough, who has used the "President Bannon" moniker before, said Bannon leaks to "everybody" and does it as if he is the president.
"He is leaker number one, and it is remarkable—the reason I've been calling him President Bannon—because he talks, as he did in that interview, like he's the president," Scarborough said.
Bannon also called economic war with China "everything" and ripped ethno-nationalists on the alt-right as "losers."
Bannon's relationship with Trump has been fraught in recent weeks with the appointment of new Chief of Staff John Kelly and suspicions that he has been behind leaks meant to damage National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster. McMaster was unable to say on Sunday whether he could work with Bannon going forward.
Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci said he suspected Bannon and ex-Chief of Staff Priebus were behind more than half of the leaks coming out of the White House.
Trump would not expressly say Tuesday whether he had confidence in Bannon.
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President Donald Trump ripped into Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) on Thursday for his criticism of Trump's response to white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Va., tweeting that he was telling a "disgusting lie" and could not forget his "election trouncing."
Trump has been under fire since a Tuesday press conference during which he declared "both sides" carried blame for violence in Charlottesville and said there were "fine people" on both sides.
Graham accused Trump of "dividing Americans, not healing them" and said he encouraged him to try to bring the nation together.
"Through his statements yesterday, President Trump took a step backward by again suggesting there is moral equivalency between the white supremacist neo-Nazis and KKK members who attended the Charlottesville rally and people like Ms. Heyer," Graham said. "I, along with many others, do not endorse this moral equivalency."
Referring to Heather Heyer, who was killed when, according to prosecutors, an alt-right protester rammed his car into a crowd of counter-protesters, Trump said Graham was falsely saying he had morally equivocated between her and white supremacist organizations.
Trump tweeted, "Publicity seeking Lindsey Graham falsely stated that I said there is moral equivalency between the KKK, neo-Nazis & white supremacists and people like Ms. Heyer. Such a disgusting lie. He just can't forget his election trouncing.The people of South Carolina will remember!"
Publicity seeking Lindsey Graham falsely stated that I said there is moral equivalency between the KKK, neo-Nazis & white supremacists……
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 17, 2017
…and people like Ms. Heyer. Such a disgusting lie. He just can't forget his election trouncing.The people of South Carolina will remember!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 17, 2017
Graham was one of 16 Republicans who Trump dispatched during his road to the GOP nomination in 2016.
He later hit Sen. Jeff Flake (R., Ariz.) as "toxic" and said he was glad to see Kelli Ward running against him for the 2018 nomination, calling Flake a "non-factor." Flake has been one of Trump's toughest critics from the GOP.
Great to see that Dr. Kelli Ward is running against Flake Jeff Flake, who is WEAK on borders, crime and a non-factor in Senate. He's toxic!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 17, 2017
Trump also criticized "fake news" for misrepresenting his views on hate and bigotry.
The public is learning (even more so) how dishonest the Fake News is. They totally misrepresent what I say about hate, bigotry etc. Shame!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 17, 2017
Trump came out Monday and specifically condemned white supremacist groups like neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan after only criticizing "many sides" on Saturday. On Tuesday, he reiterated he condemned such groups but also said not every person rallying against the removal of Robert E. Lee's statue was a white supremacist.
"I've condemned neo-Nazis. I've condemned many different groups," he said. "But not all of those people were neo-Nazis. Believe me. Not all of those people were white supremacists by any stretch."
He said "alt-left" groups also bore blame for violence at the event.
"What about the alt-left that came charging in—excuse me—what about the alt-left that came charging at the, as you say, the alt-right? Do they have any semblance of guilt?" he asked reporters. "Let me ask you this. What about the fact that they came charging with clubs in the hands, swinging clubs? Do they have any problem? I think they do."
UPDATED 7:00 A.M.: This article was updated with Trump's tweet attacking Flake.
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Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments. You.....
Many meetings today in Bedminster including with Secretary Linda M and Small Business. Job numbers are looking great!
RQ-4 Global Hawk отслеживал ситуацию на границах с Россией и не только...
Aug. 17th, 2017 11:27 amzloy_odessit_feedНамедни БПЛА ВВС США RQ-4 Global Hawk совершил продолжительный полет у западных границ России и Беларуси. Его путь был проложен через Румынию в воздушное пространство Украины, а оттуда прямиком в страны Балтии. Полёт осуществлялся на высоте 53 тыс футов (чуть более 16 км).
В принципе, вполне ожидаемый полёт с учетом приближающихся на территории Беларуси учений "Запад-2017" и съезжающихся в эту страну российских военнослужащих. Однако, не только Беларусь явно была целью данного беспилотного разведчика.
RQ-4 Global Hawk благодаря своим возможностям мониторить вглубь территории на расстояние до 300 км (а может и больше), с легкостью достал до Пскова и, что так же важно, полностью собрал информацию по ситуации в Приднестровье. В общем, одним выстрелом трёх зайцев.
С другой стороны, весьма показательно, что ВВС США уделяют столь пристальное внимание мероприятиям, которые намечаются в Беларуси на осень. На сегодняшний день звучит довольно много версий о том, чем могут эти учения закончиться, однако, куда более правдоподобная из всех – размещение ВС РФ в Республике Беларусь на постоянной основе без таких либо возражений со стороны Минска.
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Great to see that Dr. Kelli Ward is running against Flake Jeff Flake, who is WEAK on borders, crime and a non-factor in Senate. He's toxic!
The public is learning (even more so) how dishonest the Fake News is. They totally misrepresent what I say about hate, bigotry etc. Shame!
...and people like Ms. Heyer. Such a disgusting lie. He just can't forget his election trouncing.The people of South Carolina will remember!
Publicity seeking Lindsey Graham falsely stated that I said there is moral equivalency between the KKK, neo-Nazis & white supremacists......