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TheMathieu's JournalThe "STOP THE ANTI-RUSSIA PROPAGANDA" meme is straight from the anti-gay World Congress of Families
World Congress of Families: Criticism Of Putin Is Liberal Media HysteriaRepresentatives of the World Congress of Families held a news conference at the National Press Club on Wednesday to talk about their 2014 summit, which will be held in Moscow in September. The WCF and the Religious Right groups it partners with are ardent promoters of anti-gay legislation worldwide, and they love Russia's anti-gay President Vladimir Putin.
Earlier this week the WCF announced that the opening session would be held in the Congress Hall of the Kremlin Palace, that a special parliamentary session will also be held in the Russian Duma and a special scientific forum at St Petersburg State University. At today's press conference it was announced that the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church is expected to address the gathering.
WCF Managing Director Larry Jacobs, C-FAM’s Austin Ruse, Concerned Women for America’s Janice Shaw Crouse, and Alexey Komov, WCF’s man in Russia, were delighted about anti-gay legislation that has passed in Moscow and were defensive about western criticism of Putin’s regime.
Given the record of the event organizers, none of that was very surprising. What was surprising is the way the press conference was hijacked by conservative activist Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media, who pointed out that Putin was a product of the Communist-era KGB; he took the organizers to task for partnering with Putin and produced a list of political prisoners he said are being held in Russia.
Kincaid’s strident criticism of Russia’s history provoked Komov into a screed against real and imagined problems from American history, from the slaughter of Native Americans to political prisoners in Guantanamo, complete with references to the supposed killing of 200 witnesses to the JFK assassination and the question of who was responsible for the 9/11 attacks. Komov suggested that during the era of Ronald Reagan, the U.S. was free, pro-Christian, and pro-capitalist, while Russia was mired in communism. He suggested that under Obama and Putin, a role reversal is under way. He said he would hesitate to say which country is more free, Russia or the U.S.
See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/world-congress-families-criticism-putin-liberal-media-hysteria#sthash.oF1xR1Xb.dpuf
Tighter fast-food regulations can combat obesity epidemic
Stringent norms and laws regulating global fast food markets can aid in slowing and even reversing the growing obesity epidemic, researchers have claimed.
According to a study published in the World Health Organization’s bulletin, stricter action on part of the government can help their citizens from packing pounds, a significant factor for diabetes, heart diseases and cancer.
“Unless governments take steps to regulate their economies, the invisible hand of the market will continue to promote obesity worldwide with disastrous consequences for future public health and economic productivity,” study’s lead researcher, Roberto De Vogli from the University of California, Davis, United States, averred.
The study suggested that policies like giving incentives to growers of healthy and fresh foods and discouraging the sale of processed foods; lower subsidies for growers using huge amounts of fertilizers, pesticides and plant chemicals; strict norms for fast-food advertising can help nip the evil in the bud.
http://www.healthnewsline.net/tighter-fast-food-regulations-can-combat-obesity-epidemic-who/2532322/
Kentucky opposition to marriage equality has dropped 15% in 10 years, now at 55% opposed.
By a 5:3 margin, voters surveyed in the Bluegrass Poll said they oppose allowing same sex marriages in Kentucky.
“Over time, there is clear movement on this issue but the majority of Kentuckians remain opposed to same sex marriages,” said Bryant.
In 2004, Kentucky voters approved a constitutional amendment defining marriage as only between a man and a woman. At that time, a Bluegrass Poll found 70 percent of Kentuckians favored the ban. While the majority of Kentuckians still oppose same sex marriage, the percentage has dropped over the past decade from 70 to 55 percent.
“Kentuckians are still overwhelmingly opposed to the idea,” Youngman said. “But there has been some movement away from it. So a lot more of the country might be accepting of gay marriage as an issue. Kentucky isn't there yet, but it's getting there.” In January, a federal judge in Louisville started weighing the fate of Kentucky's ban as similar laws around the country have been overturned.
http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/Bluegrass-Poll-Ky-voters-pleased-with-Beshear-opposed-to-gay-marriage-244362921.html
Russian TV Didn't Show The Olympic Rings Malfunction
Remember this? Five giant snowflakes suspended above the Fisht Olympic Stadium were supposed to open up into the five Olympic rings. Only four did, and scheduled pyrotechnics never materialized. If not for the internet, Russian viewers would be none the wiser.
State broadcaster Russia-1, carrying these games, quickly cut to footage taken during a rehearsal, and viewers at home saw the spectacle go off as planned.
http://deadspin.com/russian-tv-didnt-show-the-olympic-rings-malfunction-1518516472?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_twitter&utm_source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow
The Big Dog Bites Mitch: Bill Clinton to Campaign for Kentucky’s Alison Grimes
Kentucky Democratic Senatorial candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes’ campaign issued a statement that they are “proud to announce that President Bill Clinton will be in Kentucky for his first stop of the 2014 cycle later this month.” On Tuesday, February 25, President Clinton will visit Louisville to campaign for Alison Lundergan Grimes, the current Kentucky Secretary of State.
Yes, that’s right. The Big Dog is coming to Kentucky to take a bite outta Mitch.
“We appreciate President Clinton’s friendship and are excited that he is making our campaign a top priority,” Grimes senior adviser Jonathan Hurst said Friday. “We’re proud to have the President as a key part of this campaign.”
http://www.politicususa.com/2014/02/07/big-dog-bites-mitch-bill-clinton-campaign-kentuckys-alison-grimes.html
FOX Business calls 'Lego Movie' "anti-capitalist," accuses Hollywood of indoctrinating children
Oh, Jesus Christ.
http://mediamatters.org/video/2014/02/07/fox-host-lashes-out-at-lego-movie-it-pushes-an/197974
NSA is collecting less than 30 percent of U.S. call data
The disclosure contradicts popular perceptions that the government is sweeping up virtually all domestic phone data. It is also likely to raise questions about the efficacy of a program that is premised on its breadth and depth, on collecting as close to a complete universe of data as possible in order to make sure that clues aren’t missed in counterterrorism investigations.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-is-collecting-less-than-30-percent-of-us-call-data-officials-say/2014/02/07/234a0e9e-8fad-11e3-b46a-5a3d0d2130da_story.html?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost
NEW POLL: Alison Lundergran Grimes leading McConnell by 4, 46-42.
Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes holds a slim 4-point advantage over U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in a new Herald-Leader/WKYT Bluegrass Poll, with many voters saying they disapprove of McConnell but don't yet know Grimes nine months from Election Day.
While Grimes leads the poll 46 percent to 42 percent, which is within the poll's margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points, data reveals that her relatively strong starting position is more about voters disapproval of McConnell than solid support for Grimes.
"This new poll confirms that Kentucky's U.S. Senate seat is up for grabs, and that the contest here will be one of the most exciting in the country," said Stephen Voss, a political science professor at the University of Kentucky. "The voters are evenly divided right now, and so many of them are still making up their minds that the contest could swing in any direction."
Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2014/02/06/3073014/alison-lundergan-grimes-holds.html#storylink=cpy
My generation got royally fucked, no one went to prison for it and relatively little has changed
It could be a long struggle. "Lisa Kahn, a labor economist at the Yale School of Management, studied the earnings of men who left college and joined the work force during the deep recession of the early 1980s,” the New York Times’s Annie Lowrey wrote last March. “Unsurprisingly, she found that the higher the unemployment rate upon graduation, the less graduates earned right out of school. But those workers never really caught up. 'The effects were still present 15 or 20 years later,' she said. 'They never made that money back.'" Citing additional research, Lowrey noted, “For the first time in modern memory, a whole generation might not prove wealthier than the one that preceded it."
In April, Sarah Ayres of the liberal Center for American Progress attached numbers to the phenomenon: “We estimate that the nearly 1 million young Americans who experienced long-term unemployment during the worst of the recession will lose more than $20 billion in earnings over the next 10 years.” But as Weissmann and Derek Thompson noted in the Atlantic in August 2012, while the recession is partly to blame for a decrease in home and car purchases, “It’s highly possible that a perfect storm of economic and demographic factors -- from high gas prices, to re-urbanization, to stagnating wages, to new technologies enabling a different kind of consumption -- has fundamentally changed the game for Millennials.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-03/going-on-30-living-with-mom-and-dad.html
As someone living in this situation with anxiety problems exacerbating the problems already caused by this "perfect storm," a fancy name for a criminal hoarding of wealth and financial manipulation, I have one thing to say to the 1%:
Hillary Clinton: "It's so much more fun to watch FOX when it's someone else being blitzed & sacked!"
Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton
It’s so much more fun to watch FOX when it’s someone else being blitzed & sacked! #SuperBowl
http://www.twitter.com/HillaryClinton
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