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Большинство жителей Турции проголосовали за расширение президентских полномочий

Принятые в ходе плебисцита поправки могут позволить Реджепу Тайипу Эрдогану оставаться у власти до 2029 года. Он сможет распускать парламент, назначить и увольнять министров и судей

Британские спецслужбы ищут сотрудников со знанием русской лагерной фени для интерпретации речей представителей российского МИДа
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Гудвин писал(а):что то мне напоминает какую то страну

In the early morning hours of Monday, masked men in black bulletproof vests gathered at the Battle of Liberty Place in downtown New Orleans. They arrived in flatbed trucks, the name of the company on the trucks’ sides concealed by tape and cardboard. Snipers took up positions on nearby rooftops.

This wasn’t the scene of a bank heist or a mob hit. The snipers were New Orleans police, and the workers were under contract with the city. They were there to tear down a 126-year-old monument linked to the Confederacy. New Orleans is the latest city to embark on the removal of its Confederate monuments, a rising trend among progressive municipal leaders and activists who claim to be acting in the name of tolerance but whose true purpose is political.
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Tearing Down Statues Is Always About Politics And Power
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Progressives claim a special prerogative to purge our public spaces of disfavored symbols and monuments, whether of the Confederacy or other historical figures whose views are now offensive by contemporary standards. It’s not enough, they say, to add plaques that give greater historical context or add Unionist monuments alongside Confederate ones. That should tell you something.

The drive to erase the Confederacy from our public squares isn’t really about unity or tolerance. It’s about power and politics. Censoring historical symbols is after all the cousin of censoring speech and inquiry. Hence the spectacle of Mayor Landrieu explaining how the Confederacy was “on the wrong side of history,” even as he rips up historical monuments in the name of progress.

At a time when the divisions in our country are deepening, and Americans are sorting themselves into increasingly hostile factions, we could do worse than to gaze on Confederate statues, contemplate their reasons for fighting, and consider what it took to put the country back together.

Биркин писал(а):интересное кино, оказывается в Штатах начали спиливать памятники конфедератам относящиеся к гражданской войне 1860-х. Причем спиливают ночью, рабочие в касках похожих на военные, говорят даже в бронежилетах и с большим полицейским сопровождением

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nat ... 100834730/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/24/us/n ... .html?_r=0
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/04/24/ne ... ments.html

казалось бы зачем такие меры предосторожности если решение принято в соотв с положенной процедурой. Да и потом, сами события были больше 150 лет назад, памятники простояли примерно столько же и никому не мешали все годы пока шла борьба против расизма, за равенство итд итп. Сейчас все тихо но памятники конфедератам вдруг начали сносить

кое-какие ответы я нашел тут

https://thefederalist.com/2017/04/25/ne ... monuments/

In the early morning hours of Monday, masked men in black bulletproof vests gathered at the Battle of Liberty Place in downtown New Orleans. They arrived in flatbed trucks, the name of the company on the trucks’ sides concealed by tape and cardboard. Snipers took up positions on nearby rooftops.

This wasn’t the scene of a bank heist or a mob hit. The snipers were New Orleans police, and the workers were under contract with the city. They were there to tear down a 126-year-old monument linked to the Confederacy. New Orleans is the latest city to embark on the removal of its Confederate monuments, a rising trend among progressive municipal leaders and activists who claim to be acting in the name of tolerance but whose true purpose is political.
...
Tearing Down Statues Is Always About Politics And Power
...

Progressives claim a special prerogative to purge our public spaces of disfavored symbols and monuments, whether of the Confederacy or other historical figures whose views are now offensive by contemporary standards. It’s not enough, they say, to add plaques that give greater historical context or add Unionist monuments alongside Confederate ones. That should tell you something.

The drive to erase the Confederacy from our public squares isn’t really about unity or tolerance. It’s about power and politics. Censoring historical symbols is after all the cousin of censoring speech and inquiry. Hence the spectacle of Mayor Landrieu explaining how the Confederacy was “on the wrong side of history,” even as he rips up historical monuments in the name of progress.

At a time when the divisions in our country are deepening, and Americans are sorting themselves into increasingly hostile factions, we could do worse than to gaze on Confederate statues, contemplate their reasons for fighting, and consider what it took to put the country back together.

Проф. Преображенский писал(а):Так, и какие идеи? Кстати, конфедераты представляли рабовладельческий юг, не так ли?

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Гудвин писал(а):что то мне напоминает какую то страну

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tasko писал(а):Преимущества социализма в цифрах

China used more cement between 2011 and 2013 than the U.S. used in the entire 20th Century.

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tasko писал(а):Преимущества социализма в цифрах

Данные по фанере и гипсокартону есть?

Hairy Potter писал(а):Есть данные по количеству ваты в России. 86%

General Motors Co (GM.N) said on Tuesday it would take a charge of up to $100 million after a judge ordered the seizure of its plant in Valencia last month, a move that prompted the halting of its operations in Venezuela.

The largest U.S. automaker said it was deconsolidating its business in the country following the seizure of its Valencia plant on April 18 by judicial authorities, which led GM to fire 2,700 workers. The plant had not produced a car since the beginning of 2016 because of parts shortages and strict currency controls.

GM, the market leader in Venezuela for 35 years, said executives have expressed a willingness "to talk with government officials and union leaders about the circumstances under which it could be possible to start production and employ some number of workers with a new, viable business model."

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-gm-ve ... SKBN17Y1R0