Новости за 21.05.2019

The United States has just suspended flights to Venezuela. Per the New York Times:

The head of Russia’s Orthodox Church has proposed a national ban on abortion to boost the country's lagging population numbers.

A mental health assessment of the Democratic Party suggests that identity politics had lately turned into an identity crisis. Years of staying woke finally produced hallucinations and violent outbursts. It was time to medicate the patient. Enter, stage right, the Tranquilizer, smiling Uncle Joe Biden, the perfect agent to quell an acute case of adolescent rebellion.

Orlov is one of our favorite essayists on Russia and all sorts of other things. He moved to the US as a child, and lives in the Boston area.

Over the past three decades, there have been thousands of such examples in Russia, where the construction of Orthodox churches has truly transformed the urban space, and not only aesthetically but also meaningfully. After all, the church is not only a prayer room, where hundreds of believers gather once a week for worship. Each church is, first of all, a parish — a community built on the principle of a “big family” — in which a joint life exists, even outside the walls of the church building.

While a two-year investigation into President Donald Trump’s alleged ties to Russian officials has produced no evidence of any “collusion,” the mainstream media continues to ignore troubling connections between the Obama administration and foreign governments.

Here is a rather sterling example of the great divide between the people of Western nations and the elite. The deep state Vs. the people who have to pay for them. Put bluntly, the commie bastards who are trying to utterly transform all of Western civilization into a 3rd world socialist toilet, and using muslims to do it.

Talk about a graphic display of soft power: Beijing this week hosted the Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations. 

By the European standard of destructiveness in war — civil war and invasion — only one country exceeds Russia in the frequency of violence over the past two centuries and in casualties per head of population: this  is Greece. In Europe of today, no country has been as damaged by the serial attacks of the Turks, Germans, British, Americans, and also by the Greeks themselves, as Greece. No European suffers today from more impoverished future prospects than the Greek.