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Oh good. Erdogan said turkey will back Azerbaijan "until the end." I love cold war 2.
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# ? Apr 3, 2016 10:51 |
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There is a thread for Armenia vs Azerbeijan. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3770770&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1
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# ? Apr 3, 2016 10:58 |
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Armenia and Azerbaijan discussion is fine here too. Brown Moses posted:The OCCRP is promising to release a massive story at 8pm CET about corruption, money laundering, and offshore funds links to lots of different governments in Eastern Europe and elsewhere, in many cases going all the way to the top in those countries. The top guy at the OCCRP has been saying Putin's spokeperson Peskov should plan for a late night, a journalist in Ukraine has been talking about asking Porshenko's office some difficult questions, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists is involved, and other countries being covered also include Azerbaijan and Serbia plus more. I imagine it has to be every CIS state and likely former Soviet satellite still loyal to the Kremlin. Have to keep them all in line somehow. https://twitter.com/GrahamWP_UK/status/716561130102071296
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# ? Apr 3, 2016 11:37 |
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Russian MoD building on fire? Or is it the old building? https://www.periscope.tv/avsolomin/1zqKVoAXYEZGB
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# ? Apr 3, 2016 12:29 |
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Current building, apparently. Address matches up.
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# ? Apr 3, 2016 12:39 |
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The ministry moved to a new building two years ago. https://www.yahoo.com/news/fire-engulfs-russian-defense-ministrys-building-moscow-124020254.html quote:MOSCOW (AP) — A fire is raging at a former headquarters of the Russian Defense Ministry in Moscow.
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# ? Apr 3, 2016 14:22 |
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This Panama Papers thing looks huge as hell. https://twitter.com/hashtag/PanamaPapers?src=hash http://www.bbc.com/news/world-35918844 quote:Eleven million documents were leaked from one of the world's most secretive companies, Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca.
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# ? Apr 3, 2016 19:31 |
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This is why I have a Süddeutsche subscription.
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# ? Apr 3, 2016 19:36 |
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http://fusion.net/story/287227/famous-presidents-shell-companies-trove/quote:MAURICIO MACRI HSBC. Royal Bank of Scotland. Fifa. Brazil.
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# ? Apr 3, 2016 19:51 |
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We're all in it together.
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# ? Apr 3, 2016 20:13 |
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Warcabbit posted:http://fusion.net/story/287227/famous-presidents-shell-companies-trove/ Yeah, I am sure this is just the tip of the ice berg.
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# ? Apr 3, 2016 20:20 |
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Dapper_Swindler posted:Yeah, I am sure this is just the tip of the ice berg. Or one of many icebergs in the ocean, since it's just one firm.
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# ? Apr 3, 2016 21:03 |
The question is whether it's going to have any consequences. Here (Czech) a corruption scandal generally isn't enough to remove a politician - I assume it's very much the same further to the east.
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anilEhilated posted:The question is whether it's going to have any consequences. It won't.
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# ? Apr 3, 2016 21:25 |
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anilEhilated posted:The question is whether it's going to have any consequences. Here (Czech) a corruption scandal generally isn't enough to remove a politician - I assume it's very much the same further to the east. yeah, Everyone living in eastern Europe probably assumes their politicians are corrupt. Nothing will happen and RT will bury the story in russia anyway.
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# ? Apr 3, 2016 21:32 |
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PM, Iceland, resigned.
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# ? Apr 3, 2016 22:34 |
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There's a dedicated thread for this topic now. If any more Eastern European leaders are listed, that discussion can go here. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3770885&pagenumber=1#post458239520 Here's a link to who from Eastern Europe is linked, that is known so far. https://www.occrp.org/en/panamapapers/persons/
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# ? Apr 3, 2016 23:00 |
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Warcabbit posted:PM, Iceland, resigned. Source?
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# ? Apr 3, 2016 23:05 |
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He didn't, it's a rumor.
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# ? Apr 3, 2016 23:10 |
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^^^^ Was the panicked escape from a press conference real, though? HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:There's a dedicated thread for this topic now. If any more Eastern European leaders are listed, that discussion can go here. The site lists 3 Ukrainian names, UP says 20 --- apparently the article on the KyivPost owner gives the number --- but names beyond him, ex-PM Lazarenko, and, uhm, President Poroshenko haven't been shared yet.
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# ? Apr 3, 2016 23:13 |
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OddObserver posted:^^^^ Yup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oapzwJUmujQ
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# ? Apr 3, 2016 23:17 |
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OddObserver posted:
One more name: Odessa mayor Trukhanov .... with things applied for with a ... Russian passport.
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# ? Apr 4, 2016 00:33 |
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Rime posted:He didn't, it's a rumor. http://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/03/iceland-pm-calls-snap-election-offshore-revelations Yep, seems to be a rumor.
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# ? Apr 4, 2016 01:20 |
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There is a silver lining in Church - proposed abortion ban: it activated plenty of women that usually stayed out of the politics. Yesterday there were manifestations against the act in major Polish cities and plenty of people showed up - women outnumbered men, at least visually. There were plenty of other protests - in some churches, several women walked out during the reading of the letter of Polish bishops, urging the Catholics to support total abortion ban. Right now, plenty of activists are flooding Facebook fanpages of the Prime Minister, PiS and the Episcopate with very graphic descriptions of their menstruation cycles.
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# ? Apr 4, 2016 11:09 |
Next step: witch hunts.
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# ? Apr 4, 2016 12:03 |
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Are women in Poland generally more or less pro-abortion/"choice" then men?
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# ? Apr 4, 2016 12:21 |
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mobby_6kl posted:Are women in Poland generally more or less pro-abortion/"choice" then men? The only research I saw (from 2010) maintains there is no significant difference in attitude to abortion according to the gender. I heard, however, that young women statistically lean left more than young men.
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# ? Apr 4, 2016 13:51 |
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A couple more Ukrainian names in Panama papers, both from Yanukovich era, per the Guardian: his associated Yiruy Ivanishenko, and the son of his PM Oleksiy Azarov.
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# ? Apr 4, 2016 15:40 |
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Putin seems unhappy. China also seems unhappy.
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# ? Apr 4, 2016 16:28 |
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RT is reporting that the personal data of 50 million Turkish citizens was just leaked online. I know that it's RT, but Jesus. Is anyone else reporting or am I just really dumb? QuoProQuid fucked around with this message at 20:46 on Apr 4, 2016 |
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It's been linked from some tech sites, though I don't know if there was any thorough verification. It's a pretty lovely thing for hackers to post, and I imagine a lot of people are reluctant to touch something so private.
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# ? Apr 4, 2016 20:51 |
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http://praguemonitor.com/2016/04/04/kurdish-militia-ypg-opens-office-prague YPG (Kurdish militia) opened an office in Prague. Did this get any publicity in Czech media? Is there a Kurdish minority in Czech Republic?
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# ? Apr 5, 2016 00:56 |
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So yesterday Polsat, a tv channel*, has shown The Wolf of Wall Street. The kicker is, they chose to remove all the sex scenes and censor swear words. I have no idea what is the meaning behind that, but nevertheless I find it quite funny. * I'd guesstimate it's the second biggest private channel in the country, but can't be bothered to look up the numbers.
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Doctor Malaver posted:http://praguemonitor.com/2016/04/04/kurdish-militia-ypg-opens-office-prague
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Gantolandon posted:There is a silver lining in Church - proposed abortion ban: it activated plenty of women that usually stayed out of the politics. Yesterday there were manifestations against the act in major Polish cities and plenty of people showed up - women outnumbered men, at least visually. There were plenty of other protests - in some churches, several women walked out during the reading of the letter of Polish bishops, urging the Catholics to support total abortion ban. Right now, plenty of activists are flooding Facebook fanpages of the Prime Minister, PiS and the Episcopate with very graphic descriptions of their menstruation cycles.
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Lichtenstein posted:So yesterday Polsat, a tv channel*, has shown The Wolf of Wall Street. The kicker is, they chose to remove all the sex scenes and censor swear words. I honestly have no idea how anyone watches movies on tv anymore in this tyool of our lord 2016. Unless it's a paid channel specifically for movies (or a public station I guess), it's something like 20min sections interrupted by 10min blocks of commercials. Seems like a weird thing to be upset about in comparison.
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Palpek posted:One of the worst things about that abortion ban idea not mentioned yet is that because of women being held legally responsible for getting one...every miscarriage would have to be investigated by the police as a potential crime. Imagine how that would go given how bad Polish police already is at treating crime victims (zero psychological training) and now they'll be asking every women who lost a child 'why did you abort your baby?' So how long till Poland just has papal police?
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grate deceiver posted:I honestly have no idea how anyone watches movies on tv anymore in this tyool of our lord 2016. Unless it's a paid channel specifically for movies (or a public station I guess), it's something like 20min sections interrupted by 10min blocks of commercials. Seems like a weird thing to be upset about in comparison. And even if it's a feature movie, it's still dubbed by the worst, cheapest actors possible. I suspect that recently TV stations started bringing drugged up hobos to the studio to do the work for free, because no other alternative makes sense.
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grate deceiver posted:I honestly have no idea how anyone watches movies on tv anymore in this tyool of our lord 2016. Unless it's a paid channel specifically for movies (or a public station I guess), it's something like 20min sections interrupted by 10min blocks of commercials. Seems like a weird thing to be upset about in comparison. Why do you think that they will stop with TV? DVD's, BR's and streaming services can be censored just as easily.
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grate deceiver posted:I honestly have no idea how anyone watches movies on tv anymore in this tyool of our lord 2016. Unless it's a paid channel specifically for movies (or a public station I guess), it's something like 20min sections interrupted by 10min blocks of commercials. Seems like a weird thing to be upset about in comparison. There are no viable legal alternatives in Poland (Netflix is in its infancy, Polish VOD services are laughable). Buying/renting from places like iTunes or google play is too expensive. Piracy holds strong thanks to our comparatively lax piracy laws (only seeders can potentially be prosecuted). steinrokkan posted:And even if it's a feature movie, it's still dubbed by the worst, cheapest actors possible. I suspect that recently TV stations started bringing drugged up hobos to the studio to do the work for free, because no other alternative makes sense. Thankfully in Poland we only have a clique of rather professional "lectors" who voice all characters in a given movie. None of the pseudo dubbing they have in Russia or dubbing done "right" (it's never right) as in Germany. I'd buy a TV for real if we switched to subtitles like in Scandinavia.
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