In Crimea's Capital, Gratitude for a Russian Takeover

Many on the streets seemed to welcome the continued incursion, saying the Kremlin was their only guarantor of stability. They referred to the interim government in Kiev as “fascist,” due to the presence of ultranationalist right-wing groups in the three months of protests that led up to the ouster of president Viktor Yanukovych last Saturday.

“Make no mistake about it, they are not occupying us, they are protecting us,” said Tatyana, an older woman who refused to give her last name for fear of what would happen if the Russian troops left. She said western Ukrainians were calling the pro-Russian segment “separatists” and suggested they would come to take their revenge if Russian forces left.

“Three months of chaos in Kiev. I didn’t sleep, I woke in the night worried and scared. The first night I slept well was when I knew they came,” she said of Russian troops. Many Russian speakers here watch Russian television, which has been deriding the Kiev protests since the beginning and highlighting the role of ultranationalist groups in the uprising.

The Monkey Cage

The real story behind the FCC’s study of newsrooms

Is the news giving Americans the information they need? You have to do the research to know.

The FCC doesn’t need to invade newsrooms (academics have already done it for them)

The controversial study the FCC wanted is lurking in Google Scholar.

The political science of cybersecurity III – How international relations theory shapes U.S. cybersecurity doctrine

Basic political science ideas about offense, defense and deterrence shaped the politics of the Cold War. They also shape the politics of cybersecurity today.

Why secular but illiberal governments are no guarantee of religious freedom

Recent calls to view post-Soviet Central Asia as a model for political development in the broader Muslim world overlook the fact hostility to religious extremism does not imply an embrace of liberal values.

Dr. John v. Kampen
Don't believe everything that is written or you see in media. Be critical, skeptic even and use the Internet to find out what is pretended to you and what appears to be true. There are websites full of retouched "news" pictures. On TV-"news" we often see biased images.
We often are led to believe in matters that do not even exist.
The media landscape however is dramatically changing right now. People are rapidly shying away from traditional newspapers, magazines and TV-shows delivering biased opinions and covert propaganda. They try to find trustworthy independent sources instead, with sufficient, well-chosen links to verify claims contributing to building a balanced opinion. Mind you though for 'social networks' that already become infiltrated with (disguised) manipulators! Where to start finding the information behind the 'news'? Independent and investigative websites may assist you. But even there you've to use critical thinking.
James Corbett for instance is one of my sources. His Corbett Report offers interesting material. Corbett is an independent journalist living in Japan. He aggregates and produces news from and for other independents. From topics about Fukushima, the climate scandal, even the 'economy (of banking) crisis', to mind-boggling media manipulations in preparation of a war with Iran during 2012. His reporting is different but verifiable. A modus operandi for this journalism is that you have the right to know the facts as well as the right to reject certain claims. The latter being of great importance.

Greg Palast has just released a compilation of his investigative reports for BBC Television and Democracy Now! as a full-length documentary, Vultures and Vote Rustlers. Catch the trailer at http://youtu.be/N4f0Ekqg5t0

Rise and Fall of Reader's Digest
In the U.S., Reader's Digest had the highest subscription rate of any magazine except TV Guide.

Avon Ridgefield • a year ago

incompetent overpaid management at all levels. one of the most horrible places to work in my career

Reader's Digest on photo manipulation

"Calling Out The Worst Members Of Congress On Their Environmental Votes"

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Anonymous said...: Unfortunately, the solution to our environmental problem is not votes on the type of "environmental" bills that have been allowed to see light of day on the floors of the legislative bodies.

THE problem is the economic system itself. Capitalism is deemed successful if and only if its output/consumption continues to grow. This implies an infinite source of inputs. We have only a finite, albeit large, source of inputs.

Further, the major "producers," the corporations have NO legal mandate to consider the effects of their activities on anything but their profit. Therefore, the effects of their production, and our consumption, on the ecological system that sustains us is simply not an issue for capitalism.

The virtual complete control of mass media by the same corporations has succeeded, in more a half-century of propaganda, to get the population to believe that corporate lack of any meaningful responsibility to society is completely justified.

Only a complete reversal of global economic "thought" can hope to slow our self-destruction. Even if that happened tomorrow, much future damage and suffering is already "in the pipeline." Of course, the chances of anything substantive happening tomorrow, or in the next 10-50-100, years is practically nil.

The corporate fascists control who gets into congress. The Christo-fascists cheer our self-imposed ecological destruction as a welcome forcing of their God's hand on the promised Armageddon. We succumb to the extremely comfortable habits passive consumption.

From where, then, does the critical change come?

John Puma

11:40 PM
opit said...: "From where, then, does the critical change come?"
From where, indeed ? While you are busily flogging concern about 'climate change' there is zero about mountaintop mining, rollback of separation allowances from watercourses, the buildup of radioactive and toxic coal ash in porous degrading holding piles ( see the Coal Ash nexus at Sourcewatch ). I'm not a scientist, but I do not fall for the proposition that 'consensus' and 'peer review' provide a 'scientific' and balanced assessment of a hot potato of energy policy that would rescind the gift of Prometheus to taxation on the basis of a global tax to fund the UN ( the IPCC is a UN bureaucracy tasked with providing fodder to justify an international tax on fire ) on a trace gas exhaled from every living animal. Meanwhile effective water pollution deregulation coincides with ability of municipalities and other government agencies to fund water treatment vanishing - the capacity to supply a necessity of life ready to be absorbed by private 'persons' at fire sale prices ( nonperson creation is the true act of incorporation : personal liability vanishes ).
"Leading People with False Information" http://fabiusmaximus.com/2011/04/13/26624/
http://www.care2.com/causes/proof-that-the-united-states-intentionally-tanked-climate-change-talks.html

Vaccination

Evidence Against Vaccines: Why Parents Should Be Given a Choice

thousands of children die and many thousands more are injured, often within hours of receiving a vaccine, and the vaccine is automatically said to be unrelated.

The Lethal Dangers of the Billion Dollar Vaccine Business With Government Approval

DRUG COMPANIES SELL VACCINES THAT CAN LEAVE YOUR CHILD BRAIN DAMAGED, CAN SPREAD POLIO FROM YOUR BABY TO YOU--AND CAN EVEN KILL. SAFER STUFF IS AVAILABLE.

Vaccine Conflict of Interest

Pharma Planning to Dump Experimental and Controversial Vaccines in Public Schools

China’s Dagong Cuts U.S. Credit Rating After Debt Limit Raised

The 3 agencies with the power to make or break economies

With mysterious and obscure methods, three private US-based credit rating agencies wield immense power over national economies across the globe, and the outcomes can be catastrophic. But what if there was another way?