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Excommunication isn't apostasy, guys. It means you cannot take part in Church ceremonies (sacraments) until you repent. Edit: In other news, the Polish Supreme Court decided today they are going to honor rulings of the Constitutional Court despite the executive not publishing them. This creates an interesting (as in "interesting times") situation where state courts sometimes are going to use different law than the administration. Gantolandon fucked around with this message at 21:23 on Apr 26, 2016 |
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Russia banned the Crimean Tatar Mejlis. http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-ukraine-crimean-tatars-mejlis-banned/27699264.html
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ANNA News, the pro-Russian outlet famous for putting GoPros on Syrian tanks, has been hacked, and the hackers have started publish their emails. The first one is a concerned DNR commander asking them about Russian military equipment caught in shot in one of their videos. https://twitter.com/Euan_MacDonald/status/726044866170486784 https://twitter.com/24todayneteng/status/725974406531567616
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Modern conflict is loving weird. The general public can not only watch everything happen, but can now interact with it themselves. This was predicted in Rainbow's End. Truly cybepunk is dead because it is now nonfiction.
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In the other direction, a couple of Russian opposition activists had their Telegram accounts hacked. The process apparenty "coincided" with their phone company (MTS) disabling their service for a period overnight, then someone doing some sort of recovery process and mysteriously getting the code SMS that should have been sent to the temporairly disabled phone number. Wonder how that happened....
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Dusty Baker 2 posted:Russia banned the Crimean Tatar Mejlis. God drat it.  I'd been hoping that the status of the Tatars would be one of the fairly few bright spots in this whole kerfuffle.
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GreyjoyBastard posted:God drat it. Uhhhh, Russia has been loving with the Crimea Tatars pretty hard since the annexation.
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GreyjoyBastard posted:God drat it. One of the first deaths of this war was a Crimean Tatar activist who was kidnapped from a protest and then founded dead, naked, with knife through his eye.
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GreyjoyBastard posted:God drat it. Not to dogpile you, but you thought that Crimea being annexed by Russia via ultranationalist militias would somehow lead to an improvement in the situation for an ethnic minority in that region?
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GreyjoyBastard posted:God drat it. Russia is a bad country.
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I always thought that when Danzig was annexed, it would get better for the locals!
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Gaj posted:I always thought that when Danzig was annexed, it would get better for the locals! It was pretty poo poo for most of the locals, but I don't see how this compares to Crimea.
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Why is Russia trolling our forces with extremely close flybys as if to dickwave in our faces? What would it hope to gain from this? Doesn't it know better than to provoke a loving war? Is it a French-style prestige ploy?
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OddObserver posted:Well, neo-fascists seem like the fastest growing market segment in Europe these days, so the second category might just be soulless capitalists instead. I've joked that neo-folk who want to make a real splash and stand out from the rest should be emulating IS iconography instead of Nazis, because that poo poo's played out. And I still hold that opinion after the Paris attacks. In fact, the Paris attacks just made me double down on that belief. 
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Grouchio posted:Why is Russia trolling our forces with extremely close flybys as if to dickwave in our faces? What would it hope to gain from this? Doesn't it know better than to provoke a loving war? Is it a French-style prestige ploy?
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alex314 posted:It was pretty poo poo for most of the locals, but I don't see how this compares to Crimea. Palpek posted:It's because Russia knows this won't start a war, dickwaving is all it is. The US could do the same to Russian army honestly but the US has a different PR idea than petty actions like these. edit: Also, the Czech pro-Kremlin media state the ship was trespassing in Russian territory and, I poo poo you not, disabled by a secret EMP weapon, upon which Russian plane offered assistance, which was refused. The ship's crew was so demoralized that 27 crewmen immediately resigned from the Navy (this one is actually in English, anyone can vouch for the redness of the source?). So yeah, the Russian interpretation goes just a bit wilder. anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 09:24 on Apr 30, 2016 |
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Grouchio posted:Why is Russia trolling our forces with extremely close flybys as if to dickwave in our faces? What would it hope to gain from this? Doesn't it know better than to provoke a loving war? Is it a French-style prestige ploy? Domestic propaganda consumption, coupled with believing their own domestic propaganda.
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anilEhilated posted:Same excuse for invasion. Granted, it's the excuse and not a reason. It's why their hair-pulling and teeth-gnashing response when Turkey shot down their fighter-bomber was so delicious. It made exposed all this dickwaving and storytelling as posturing, especially when we find out that the Russia military doesn't even use their own GPS and uses Garmin handheld GPS for their expensive military aircraft because they can't afford anything but. Even them bringing out their anti-aircraft ship didn't do much, because the U.S. ended up just increasing their airstrikes.
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anilEhilated posted:Also, the Czech pro-Kremlin media state the ship was trespassing in Russian territory and, I poo poo you not, disabled by a secret EMP weapon If this blog is the main arm of Kremlin's influence, things are pretty good 
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steinrokkan posted:If this blog is the main arm of Kremlin's influence, things are pretty good
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The fantabulous EMP claim refers to a previous buzzing incident with the Donald Cook, when it was in the Black Sea. The more recent incident was in the Baltic Sea.
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What I love about the magical EMP story is just how many times it has been regurgitated on anti-western websites. 27 Homo-Nazi JewSA officers in the limp-wristed Imperialist American Navy resigned over the incident. Is good. Is good.
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Cat Mattress posted:The fantabulous EMP claim refers to a previous buzzing incident with the Donald Cook, when it was in the Black Sea. The more recent incident was in the Baltic Sea.
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Apparently some norwegian site aldrimer.no came up with a claim that russian drones have been flying in Estonia and have been shot at. Well I really doubt those claims, especially after seeing this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooGSSLA_LFM If it looks like propaganda, and it smells like propaganda, then it is propaganda.
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https://twitter.com/GrahamWP_UK/status/726425141840896000 What is it like to have no shame? Brown Moses posted:ANNA News, the pro-Russian outlet famous for putting GoPros on Syrian tanks, has been hacked, and the hackers have started publish their emails. The first one is a concerned DNR commander asking them about Russian military equipment caught in shot in one of their videos. This is awesome. HUGE PUBES A PLUS fucked around with this message at 16:32 on Apr 30, 2016 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBKN7_vx2xo Is there any significance to the change in uniform colour?
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All I know is that the gilded insignia are used to signify her status as an admiralty court marshal, which means civilian law has been suspended in RUssia. This is the source of my expertise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfSkBONbDwA
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Russia (and probably much of the rest of post-Soviet space) has a serious thing for overuse of dress-military style uniforms --- even the foreign ministry spokeslady has one (in a rather... evocative... black, at that).
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OddObserver posted:Russia (and probably much of the rest of post-Soviet space) has a serious thing for overuse of dress-military style uniforms --- even the foreign ministry spokeslady has one (in a rather... evocative... black, at that). Have you seen the new 
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OddObserver posted:Russia (and probably much of the rest of post-Soviet space) has a serious thing for overuse of dress-military style uniforms --- even the foreign ministry spokeslady has one (in a rather... evocative... black, at that). Their postal services had a rather snazzy uniform, too. 
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Paladinus posted:Their postal services had a rather snazzy uniform, too. Owned like Crimea 
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It's almost like authoritarians regimes have a huge boner for uniforms.
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The girls, they love to see you shoot
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Baronjutter posted:It's almost like authoritarians regimes have a huge boner for uniforms. Well Russia does have a history of authoritarianism. They also have a history of loving uniforms. Look at Tsarist uniforms for the civil service.
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Crowsbeak posted:Well Russia does have a history of authoritarianism. They also have a history of loving uniforms. Look at Tsarist uniforms for the civil service. The same applied to Prussia / German empire too, until the first world war. Apparently in Estonia, if an illegal immigrant is detained but refuses to say who he is and has destroyed his documents, then he can not be detained for more than 18 months and gets to stay on as a homeless person because he can not be deported anywhere. Terrific. jonnypeh fucked around with this message at 18:48 on May 1, 2016 |
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jonnypeh posted:The same applied to Prussia / German empire too, until the first world war. No one owned it like the Tsarists did.    
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Crowsbeak posted:No one owned it like the Tsarists did. Huh, didn't know they had SA back then.
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Soviet tradition of huge May 1 parades revived in the Donetsk People's Republic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKnChL75eHs
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