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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TO MAP CRIMEA AS PART OF RUSSIA
Breitbart ^ | March 19, 2014 | Breitbart News

Posted on 03/19/2014 7:54:28 AM PDT by Biggirl

On Wednesday, the National Geographic Society announced that they would be altering the global map to include Crimea in the map of Russia after Crimea’s secession from Ukraine is legally finalized. On Tuesday, National Geographic editorial leadership, led by geographer Juan Jose Valdes, determined that maps used by the organization must show “the world as it is, not as people would like it to be…As you can only surmise, sometimes our maps are not received in a positive light by some individuals who want to see the world in a different light.”

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: crimea; crimeareferendum; map; nationalgeographic; putin; russia; ukraine; viktoryanukovich; yuliatymoshenko
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1 posted on 03/19/2014 7:54:29 AM PDT by Biggirl
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To: Biggirl

Who do we need to pay to get D.C. off the map of the US?


2 posted on 03/19/2014 7:57:23 AM PDT by bgill
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To: Biggirl
so much for NatGeo..bending to WH pressure.
3 posted on 03/19/2014 7:57:25 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi)
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After Russian Duma ratifies the treaty signed between Crimea and Russia, National Geographic will paint Russia the same color as Crimea

So wait, is Crimea absorbing Russia?

4 posted on 03/19/2014 7:59:53 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Screw the farmers. I can get everything I need at the grocery store.)
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To: Biggirl

NatGeo is full dhimmi


5 posted on 03/19/2014 8:00:01 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: Biggirl

Uuuuummmmm, I’m pretty sure Putin alread took care of that.


6 posted on 03/19/2014 8:00:14 AM PDT by areukiddingme1 (areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.))
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To: Biggirl

If National Geographic were to show the world as it really is and not as what some people would like to think it is, the Crimea would be shown as a territory of the Ukraine under unlawful occupaton and administration by Russia. So, National Geographic chooses to publish a fraud.


7 posted on 03/19/2014 8:00:33 AM PDT by WhiskeyX ( provides a system for registering complaints about unfair broadcasters and the ability to request a)
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To: Biggirl
Geographer Juan Jose Valdes


8 posted on 03/19/2014 8:02:19 AM PDT by PGR88
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I’m curious if they recognize Israel?


9 posted on 03/19/2014 8:02:31 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Over production, one of the top 5 worries for the American Farmer every year.)
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To: WhiskeyX

How did NG paint Kuwait while it was being raided by So-damn Hussein?


10 posted on 03/19/2014 8:03:17 AM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: Biggirl

Not the first time land has changed hands by force, and maps are ever-changing.

A big fuss over the invasion and usurpation is appropriate. Fussing because a map shows reality is not.


11 posted on 03/19/2014 8:04:01 AM PDT by Jedidah
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An emergency remapping! They couldn’t wait until the dust settled before they did the Prankster’s bidding.


12 posted on 03/19/2014 8:04:02 AM PDT by duckworth (Perhaps instant karma's going to get you. Perhaps not.)
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To: WhiskeyX

The people of Crimea did vote to become part of Russia again. It is their wish.


13 posted on 03/19/2014 8:04:19 AM PDT by tillacum
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To: Biggirl
I'm sure they painted Sudetenland into the Greater German Reich as well in 1938.
14 posted on 03/19/2014 8:06:22 AM PDT by AU72
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To: C210N

Had Saddam succeeded, Kuwait would no doubt have been re-mapped as a province of Iraq.

But Saddam failed. Putin succeeded because all that opposed him was hot air.


15 posted on 03/19/2014 8:06:29 AM PDT by Jedidah
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To: Biggirl

Then they may as well show northern mexico as being part of the US.


16 posted on 03/19/2014 8:06:34 AM PDT by alancarp
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To: Biggirl; caww; grania
"“the world as it is, not as people would like it to be"

That's how V.Putin sees it: Imperial Russia, under Catherine the Great's rule (18th century):


17 posted on 03/19/2014 8:06:51 AM PDT by Marguerite (When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm even better)
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To: tillacum

The people of Crimea did vote to become part of Russia again. It is their wish.


No they did not. A vote under the barrel of a gun is not a democratic process.


18 posted on 03/19/2014 8:06:56 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: Biggirl

It is what it is. The vacuous leadership of the current Oval Office occupant, obsessed with forcing sodomy and increased debt on America, created an opportunity for the nationalistic ambitions of Putin.


19 posted on 03/19/2014 8:07:48 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: C210N

Does NG show Taiwan as part of PRC?


20 posted on 03/19/2014 8:08:49 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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