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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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To: Genoa

Alaska was too far away for the Impearial central power to manage; so they sold it to the higher bidder ...


41 posted on 03/19/2014 8:23:18 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: bgill

I’d settle for Detroit, Los Angeles, San Francisco, NYC, Boston, and a random small town in Kansas.


42 posted on 03/19/2014 8:23:50 AM PDT by FateAmenableToChange
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To: Marguerite
Seward got them liquored up and got it for a ridiculous price. They will probably try to void the sale.

43 posted on 03/19/2014 8:26:49 AM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: RinaseaofDs

And like one ones we used to get Florida, most of the west, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and some other places.

This isn’t some thing invented by Germans or Russians unfortunately. The strong prey on the weak is the rule of nations.


44 posted on 03/19/2014 8:27:58 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: Biggirl

Wonder what took them so long.


45 posted on 03/19/2014 8:28:06 AM PDT by Texicanus (Texas, it's a whole 'nother country.)
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To: VanDeKoik; All
so Neo Geo, is now, making maps/material to ppl. wishes...
America back to the injuns
North Africa/Spain back to the Muzzies
France back to thr Romans
Eurasia back to the Mongols.
..etc..etc..

46 posted on 03/19/2014 8:29:53 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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To: Jedidah

There’s no comparison to Kuwait at all. Kuwait did not vote to return to Iraq.


47 posted on 03/19/2014 8:33:39 AM PDT by grania
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To: WhiskeyX

Is that how they have marked the so-called “west bank” of the Jordan River, or as part of Israel?


48 posted on 03/19/2014 8:33:47 AM PDT by Pecos (The Chicago Way: Kill the Constitution, one step at a time.)
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To: GeronL
re: that question you asked someone "will you say the same thing when parts of CA vote to join Mexico?

My answer to that question is YES. That's why the border has to be secured and invaders sent home. Otherwise, they become the majority....a successful invasion force. That's why we call them invaders.

49 posted on 03/19/2014 8:37:21 AM PDT by grania
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To: Marguerite

Say that to Kosovo and Iraq. They voted with USNATO occupying forces present.


That’s a false equivalence. US soldiers don’t take their insignia off and wear masks while prancing about like fairies at a gay day parade.


50 posted on 03/19/2014 8:37:27 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: grania

Crimea didn’t vote to do anything. It is a war zone right now and no western countries are recognizing the “vote”.


51 posted on 03/19/2014 8:39:52 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: grania

There are towns that are Muslim majority, can they secede?


52 posted on 03/19/2014 8:41:31 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: Genoa

I don’t think so.


53 posted on 03/19/2014 8:43:57 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: GeronL
There are towns that are Muslim majority, can they secede?

They can certainly elect a town government that allows for Muslim law. But my guess would be no. We're the United STATES of America. This is one of the things us anti-invasion constitutional conservatives have been cyber-screaming all along. If the numbers and culture of the invaders overwhelm our numbers and culture, they can vote us out of power.

54 posted on 03/19/2014 8:48:18 AM PDT by grania
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To: grania

I know. That was my point. I was replying to Post #10, which tried to make the comparison.


55 posted on 03/19/2014 8:54:08 AM PDT by Jedidah
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To: skinkinthegrass

Not wishes but reality.

Read about “stateless nations”. There are dozens. None are drawn on Nat. Geo maps. However, if a Kurdistan controlled territory or gained a de facto control over some place then they would at least show the “nation” with a dotted-line border.

Depending on how this shakes out they will likely draw it like that or place a small passage on the map spelling out the disputed nature of the area.


56 posted on 03/19/2014 8:54:25 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: Biggirl

That’s a bit premature. An announcement from Moscow is different from established and stable facts on the ground. While NatGeog may be right, I would not bet such an organization’s reputation on something so uncertain.


57 posted on 03/19/2014 9:13:20 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Pecos

In one of their atlases they did both, by coloring it to show the West Bank territories as part of Israel, but with crosshatching to show it was occupied territory.

Supposedly the new map of the Crimea will not depict it as occupied territory like they discriminated with the Israeli occupied West Bank. Stranger still is how Israel was originally laid out with the West Bank as an integral part of israel, and even earlier the entire Trasjordan was once promised to belong to a future Israel.


58 posted on 03/19/2014 9:32:11 AM PDT by WhiskeyX ( provides a system for registering complaints about unfair broadcasters and the ability to request a)
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