Clickbait for Marxists - WSJ

Clickbait for Marxists - WSJ
"Sunday marked the anniversary of the construction of the Berlin Wall, erected in 1961 by East Germany’s Communist government to prevent its captive citizenry from fleeing to the West. 
In 1989 Germans tore down the wall and then the regime. 
Germany was reunified in 1990 and in the years since its people have not forgotten the horrors of totalitarianism. 
On Friday German Chancellor Angela Merkel sought to honor the memory of communism’s victims with a visit to the former Hohenschoenhausen prison operated by East Germany’s Stasi secret police. 
The New York Times for its part chose to offer a different take on Saturday, publishing a piece arguing that women in the former East Germany had better sex than those in West Germany....

But how was the sex? 

Veering again into self-parody with another in its series on the lighter side of an ideology that killed an estimated 100 million people, the Times has found another Ivy League professor willing to defend the indefensible. 

This time someone named Kristen Ghodsee from the University of Pennsylvania must surely be making Quaker alums proud with her argument that there were orgasms galore behind the Iron Curtain.

Ms. Ghodsee sees the Communists as pioneers of sexual equality and writes, “The Soviets extended full suffrage to women in 1917, three years before the United States did.”..."

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Family where mum is daddy, dad is mummy and son, 4, is being raised as gender neutral - Mirror Online

Family where mum is daddy, dad is mummy and son, 4, is being raised as gender neutral - Mirror Online:
"Parents Louise and Nikki Draven are raising Britain’s first gender-fluid family, bringing up their four-year-old son Star Cloud to “not get hung up” on being a boy.
Star’s mum is Louise, who was born a man but having hormone treatment ready to fully transition to a woman.
Dad is pansexual Nikki, born a woman but who dresses some days as male and some as female.
Nikki, 30, says:
“Neither of us gets hung up on the gender we were born as."..."
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Protesters pull down Confederate statue at old Durham County courthouse | WNCN

Protesters pull down Confederate statue at old Durham County courthouse | WNCN:

"Around 7:10 p.m. a woman using a ladder climbed the statue of a soldier and attached a rope around the statue.

Moments later, the crowd pulled on the rope and the statue fell.  One man quickly ran up and spat on the statue and several others began kicking it.

It’s not clear where law enforcement officers were during the protest.

In 1924, the Confederate statue was dedicated to Durham."

WATCH: This Video Shows Violence From Antifa In Charlottesville | Daily Wire

WATCH: This Video Shows Violence From Antifa In Charlottesville | Daily Wire
"Video from Saturday’s “Unite The Right” demonstration in Charlottesville shows what appears to be the initiation of violence by counter-demonstrators — presumably “AntiFa,” “Black Lives Matter,” and assorted neo-Marxist and Democrat-aligned agitation groups. 

“Unite the Right” demonstrators — presumably white racial nationalists and assorted “alt-right” persons — are seen displaying Confederate flags.
Watch the video below.

Persons associated with “AntiFa” and “Black Lives Matter” initiated violence in Charlottesville, according to The Rebel’s Faith Goldy who reported on the scene:

"The AntiFa and BLM guys who activated this entire violent streak that we saw today with their mace, and throwing rocks."
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War?!!-----China sets Aug. 19 deadline before it will ‘annihilate’ Indian troops over disputed territory in Bhutan | American Military News

China sets Aug. 19 deadline before it will ‘annihilate’ Indian troops over disputed territory in Bhutan | American Military News:
"China has reportedly set an August 19 deadline before it “annihilates” India’s troops over a disputed region on the Doklam plateau in Bhutan, a very small country that borders both India and China.
China has demanded that India withdraw its troops from the area, and allow China to invade and annex the region.
...Both India and China have military troops in the region right now, which China is trying to annex.
Chinese troops were sent there earlier this summer, as well as construction workers, who were reportedly beginning road construction.
When Bhutan tried to stop the Chinese troops, they were overrun..."

Lunch video-----How Much of the Earth Can You See at Once?

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Condoleeza Rice Says Keep Monuments to Slave Owners

Condoleeza Rice Says Keep Monuments to Slave Owners:

"Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stopped by “Fox & Friends” Monday morning to talk about her latest book, “Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom.” Part of that road, of course, involved slavery and the Civil War.

Co-host Brian Kilmeade came out of the gate strong:

"I want to talk about where your book starts, and that's our constitution [...] As an African-American woman, do you see yourself in this constitution?

Do you think that, when we look at nine of our first twelve presidents as slave owners, should we start taking their statues down and say, we’re embarrassed by you?”"

Liberals Aren't Liking This Newly-Discovered Photo Of The 1924 Democratic Convention...

Liberals Aren't Liking This Newly-Discovered Photo Of The 1924 Democratic Convention...: 
"The above picture was taken during the 1924 Democratic Convention.
It was also known as “Klanbake.”
In Madison Square Garden, New York City, from June 24 to July 9, a dispute during came up revolving around an attempt by non-Klan delegates, led by Forney Johnston of Alabama, to condemn the organization for its violence in the Democratic Party’s platform.
But Klan delegates defeated the platform plank in a series of floor debates.
To celebrate, tens of thousands of hooded Klansmen rallied in a field in New Jersey, across the river from New York City. 
This event, known subsequently as the “Klanbake”, was also attended by hundreds of Klan delegates to the convention, who burned crosses, urged violence and intimidation against African Americans and Catholics, and attacked effigies of Smith.
The final vote was 546.15 for the Klan, 542.85 against it."

All the solid surfaces in the solar system stitched together

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#1 This day 1984-----Ray Parker Jr. - Ghostbusters

Nomophobia: Made Up Disease Or Real Smartphone Anxiety Condition? | Science 2.0

Nomophobia: Made Up Disease Or Real Smartphone Anxiety Condition? | Science 2.0
"Nomophobia, defined as smartphone separation anxiety,  is when people perceive smartphones as part of their extended selves.
Counselors, lawyers and therapists are aggressively pushing it as the fad diagnosis of 2017, but what behaviors and descriptors can help identify people with high nomophobia ? 
A new paper compares how people considered to have high and low nomophobic tendencies perceive and value their smartphones.

In the pay-to-publish journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, Seunghee Han and Jang Hyun Kim, PhD, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Republic of Korea and Ki Joon Kim, PhD, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, created a model that they say has identified a link between factors such as personal memories and user's greater attachment to their smart phones, leading to nomophobia and a tendency to phone proximity-seeking behavior.


Source: American Council on Science and Health, Nomophobia - How You Can Claim Your Cell Phone Is Like A Service Dog

They hope this becomes mainstream, and therefore covered under insurance, but the National Institute of Mental Health started cracking down on the increased number of minor diagnoses found in DSM-5 and dismissed it as a diagnosis tool, calling it simply a glossary..."
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