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McGavin
Sep 18, 2012

Torrannor posted:

Some island nations in the Pacific are just gone :(

So is Denmark.

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Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

McGavin posted:

So is Denmark.

They can just build a lego raft, plastic floats nicely :denmark:

A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

Delicious and Informative!
:3:

McGavin posted:

So is Denmark.
Nah, a third of Denmark still remains.

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon
danish refugees will have to give up their belongings

A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

Delicious and Informative!
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Kurtofan posted:

danish refugees will have to give up their belongings
We'd just be a lean and efficient city state, rather a tiny regular country, so no reason to flee at all. In terms of food production we would still be more than able to feed ourselves.

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




:laffo: Estonian Navy commander has stepped down from duty after the discovery of 1000 litres of alcohol and 56 cigarette crates (all bootleg) on board of an Estonian minesweeper.

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat

cinci zoo sniper posted:

:laffo: Estonian Navy commander has stepped down from duty after the discovery of 1000 litres of alcohol and 56 cigarette crates (all bootleg) on board of an Estonian minesweeper.

Understandable, nobody could live with the shame of running such a pathetic little operation. So much space in the fuel tanks, and all he can fit in is a glorified hotel minibar?

Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

Russia is beginning to realize that they backed the wrong horse. Steve Rosenberg of the BBC looked over the recent Russian newspapers and they've starting to sound more cautious about Trump. Trump's calls for increased fossil fuel production have the Russians worried about cutting into their own declining share of the market (and may continue sanctions to gently caress with them) and his staff picks are among the wing of the American conservatives that still views Russia as the enemy.

https://twitter.com/BBCSteveR/status/801325888273059840

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

A Buttery Pastry posted:

Nah, a third of Denmark still remains.

the Danish Alps

jonnypeh
Nov 5, 2006

cinci zoo sniper posted:

:laffo: Estonian Navy commander has stepped down from duty after the discovery of 1000 litres of alcohol and 56 cigarette crates (all bootleg) on board of an Estonian minesweeper.

Excises on light alcohol go up 65% next year.

Praise Latvia!

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




jonnypeh posted:

Excises on light alcohol go up 65% next year.

Praise Latvia!
I love the weird symbiosis our countries have. Estonians by alcohol in Latvia, Latvians open companies in Estonia.

A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

Delicious and Informative!
:3:

Young Freud posted:

Russia is beginning to realize that they backed the wrong horse. Steve Rosenberg of the BBC looked over the recent Russian newspapers and they've starting to sound more cautious about Trump. Trump's calls for increased fossil fuel production have the Russians worried about cutting into their own declining share of the market (and may continue sanctions to gently caress with them) and his staff picks are among the wing of the American conservatives that still views Russia as the enemy.

https://twitter.com/BBCSteveR/status/801325888273059840
Time for the Russians to leak evidence that the vote actually was rigged in Trump's favor, as some statisticians are apparently claiming there are indications of.

Anne Frank Funk
Nov 4, 2008

A Buttery Pastry posted:

Time for the Russians to leak evidence that the vote actually was rigged in Trump's favor, as some statisticians are apparently claiming there are indications of.

Good for nothing failed Nate Bronze did a quick take on that and said it's nonsense.

alex314
Nov 22, 2007

That campaign made Trump impossible to blackmail. It'd end just like Soviet attempt at blackmailing first president of Malaysia (or Phillipines, I forgot) that when threatened with release of a sextape of him banging Aeroflot stewardess simply asked for an extra copy for himself.

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




alex314 posted:

That campaign made Trump impossible to blackmail. It'd end just like Soviet attempt at blackmailing first president of Malaysia (or Phillipines, I forgot) that when threatened with release of a sextape of him banging Aeroflot stewardess simply asked for an extra copy for himself.
That was Indonesian president.

quote:

However, surprised happened sometimes too, like it was with the notorious case for seducing Indonesian President Ahmed Sukarno. He was known for his sexual passion. That is why KGB sent a group of young girls to him during his visit to Moscow. Those girls got acquainted with Ahmed Sukarno in a plane, under the disguise of air hostesses, then he invited them to his hotel room in Moscow and arranged a grand orgy. The orgy was filmed by two candid cameras that were fixed behind mirrors. It seemed that the operation was just perfect. Before starting the blackmail, KGB invited Sukarno in a small private movie theatre and showed him the pornographic video, in which he was playing the main part. KGB agents were expecting him to get really frightened, that he would agree to cooperate with them at once, but everything happened vice versa: Sukarno fondly decided that it was a gift from the Soviet government, so he asked for more copies to take them back to Indonesia and show them in movie theatres. Sukarno said to flabbergasted agents that the people of Indonesia would be very proud of him, if they could see him doing the nasty with Russian girls.

A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

Delicious and Informative!
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Pierogi posted:

Good for nothing failed Nate Bronze did a quick take on that and said it's nonsense.
Irrelevant if the Russians can produce evidence. :v:

Anne Frank Funk
Nov 4, 2008

Fair point

jonnypeh
Nov 5, 2006
Estonia's new minister of agriculture is a fellow with high school level education, formerly a welder. But now... a goat farmer. Producing goat cheese there and marketing it as organic food. However, one major publication in Estonia dug up that he actually buys goat cheese from Netherlands (produced non-organically - but he doesn't have the organic product label on his products it so it's still legal), which is then repackaged here. Also owes (former) workers money and the handling of food is anything but sanitary. He has also owed money to other firms, but luckily there's the yearly agricultural support money that seems to help out every year. Of which he will be in charge now.

In addition, on the TV he has said several things that indicate that he doesn't really know much about EU laws or how the common market works. Most notable ones being that 1) fixed minimum price should be enforced for milk, and 2) that in requests for tenders, local producers should be chosen over foreign ones just because others are foreign. Meaning other EU countries.

Now, it's only 7 months until Estonia gets to assume the presidency of the council of EU. The potential for huge international embarrassment has increased by a lot. The previous government did not take us forward and it looks like the new one won't either. I think this particular case is probably some sort of a concession to the russian faction of the center party. Or they seriously lack competent people.

poo poo.

Baronjutter
Dec 31, 2007

"Tiny Trains"

HUGE PUBES A PLUS
Apr 30, 2005

https://twitter.com/AndreaChalupa/status/802208493503709186

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




The radiation expert who discovered the poison that killed Alexander Litvinenko "committed suicide" by stabbing himself repeatedly with two knives months after a trip to Russia, a coroner ruled.

Matthew Puncher, 46, bled to death at his home after receiving multiple stab wounds across his body from two kitchen knives, an inquest heard.

A pathologist said he could not completely exclude the possibility that someone else had been involved in the death of the father, but came to the conclusion that the injuries were self-inflicted.

But one detective claimed she didn't think he could have done so much damage to himself without falling unconscious.

A coroner recorded that Dr Puncher, who discovered the amount of polonium inside Litvinenko after he drank poisoned tea in London in 2006, committed suicide.

Dr Puncher was an expert in radiation protection dosimetry and worked for Public Health England at the UK's Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, Oxon.

He had been given sole responsibility over a contract with the US Federal Government for a programme measuring polonium inside former USSR nuclear weapons workers.

His wife Kathryn and work colleagues told an inquest into his death that he had "become obsessed" with a mistake he had made in his research.

She also said his mood "completely changed" after a visit to Russia before Christmas.

He was found dead at his home in Drayton, Oxfordshire, in May, with stab wounds to his arms, neck and upper abdomen.

His body was examined by Home Office pathologist Dr Nicholas Hunt who also conducted the post mortem on weapons expert Dr David Kelly in 2003.

Dr Kelly was found dead in woodland near his South Oxfordshire home, less than 10 miles from where Dr Puncher lived.

The Hutton Inquiry concluded that Dr Kelly had committed suicide.

Detective Constable Rachel Clarke, who investigated Dr Puncher's death, said: "His injuries were so extensive, I didn't know how he could have inflicted them on himself without becoming unconscious so we looked at the wider circumstances."

Pathologist Dr Hunt said it was possible for a person to self-inflict the number of wounds he did before becoming unconscious.

DC Clarke told Oxford Coroner's Court there was no evidence of a disturbance or a struggle and no evidence of anyone else's blood.

And she added: "It was very unusual. All the information told us he was very depressed and no-one in his family seemed particularly surprised he had taken his own life."

Dr Puncher's wife of 16 years, Kathryn said: "He was always an upbeat and sensitive man.

"He was brilliant with the children as he was so intelligent and enjoyed helping them with their homework.

"After Christmas he changed completely. He just lost interest and I had to prompt him to do things like getting dressed and washing up, things he did without thinking before.

"He used to cook all the meals but he just stopped. He seemed to stop caring about anything."

Head of department at Harwell, George Etherington, described Dr Puncher's concerns that his 'coding error' would land him prison for breaking a contract with the US Government as "irrational".

A colleague also described it as a "minor problem".

Dr Puncher and a colleague calculated the amount of polonimum-210 found inside Alexander Litvinenko's body following his death in 2006.

Litvinenko was a former officer of the Russian FSB secret service who specialised in tackling organised crime.

He fled with his family to London and was granted asylum in 2000 and worked as a journalist, writer and consultant for the British intelligence services.

In January 2016 a UK public inquiry concluded the defector was probably murdered on the direct orders of the Russian security service FSB, approved by President Putin.

Oxfordshire Coroner Nicholas Graham recorded a conclusion of suicide on Dr Puncher.

Edit: In other news, Dozhd' reporter group has gone dark in Donetsk, last thing heard from them was a note sent to editor by one of the journalists, that they have been detained by State security ministry of DPR.

cinci zoo sniper fucked around with this message at 20:41 on Nov 25, 2016

Meta-Mollusk
May 2, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
Grimey Drawer
Well, that's not scary or terrifying at all. :stonklol:

Lucy Heartfilia
May 31, 2012


death to putin yo

Chair In A Basket
Aug 6, 2005

I'm basically Jesus.

Nap Ghost
Polonium Puncher Suicided by Putin's Secret Psychic Assassins

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless

Torrannor posted:

Some island nations in the Pacific are just gone :(

So is most of England, you have to take the bad with the good. v:shobon:v

aphid_licker
Jan 7, 2009


Why on earth would you visit Russia if you were that guy

Swan Oat
Oct 9, 2012

I was selected for my skill.
Russia is a cool and fun place, it's a shame that their government is bad

Baronjutter
Dec 31, 2007

"Tiny Trains"

My friend is in army and is going over to Ukraine to try to teach them to army better. Good luck dude!

Punkin Spunkin
Jan 1, 2010

cinci zoo sniper posted:

The radiation expert who discovered the poison that killed Alexander Litvinenko "committed suicide" by stabbing himself repeatedly with two knives months after a trip to Russia, a coroner ruled.

Matthew Puncher, 46, bled to death at his home after receiving multiple stab wounds across his body from two kitchen knives, an inquest heard.

A pathologist said he could not completely exclude the possibility that someone else had been involved in the death of the father, but came to the conclusion that the injuries were self-inflicted.

But one detective claimed she didn't think he could have done so much damage to himself without falling unconscious.

A coroner recorded that Dr Puncher, who discovered the amount of polonium inside Litvinenko after he drank poisoned tea in London in 2006, committed suicide.

Dr Puncher was an expert in radiation protection dosimetry and worked for Public Health England at the UK's Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, Oxon.

He had been given sole responsibility over a contract with the US Federal Government for a programme measuring polonium inside former USSR nuclear weapons workers.

His wife Kathryn and work colleagues told an inquest into his death that he had "become obsessed" with a mistake he had made in his research.

She also said his mood "completely changed" after a visit to Russia before Christmas.

He was found dead at his home in Drayton, Oxfordshire, in May, with stab wounds to his arms, neck and upper abdomen.

His body was examined by Home Office pathologist Dr Nicholas Hunt who also conducted the post mortem on weapons expert Dr David Kelly in 2003.

Dr Kelly was found dead in woodland near his South Oxfordshire home, less than 10 miles from where Dr Puncher lived.

The Hutton Inquiry concluded that Dr Kelly had committed suicide.

Detective Constable Rachel Clarke, who investigated Dr Puncher's death, said: "His injuries were so extensive, I didn't know how he could have inflicted them on himself without becoming unconscious so we looked at the wider circumstances."

Pathologist Dr Hunt said it was possible for a person to self-inflict the number of wounds he did before becoming unconscious.

DC Clarke told Oxford Coroner's Court there was no evidence of a disturbance or a struggle and no evidence of anyone else's blood.

And she added: "It was very unusual. All the information told us he was very depressed and no-one in his family seemed particularly surprised he had taken his own life."

Dr Puncher's wife of 16 years, Kathryn said: "He was always an upbeat and sensitive man.

"He was brilliant with the children as he was so intelligent and enjoyed helping them with their homework.

"After Christmas he changed completely. He just lost interest and I had to prompt him to do things like getting dressed and washing up, things he did without thinking before.

"He used to cook all the meals but he just stopped. He seemed to stop caring about anything."

Head of department at Harwell, George Etherington, described Dr Puncher's concerns that his 'coding error' would land him prison for breaking a contract with the US Government as "irrational".

A colleague also described it as a "minor problem".

Dr Puncher and a colleague calculated the amount of polonimum-210 found inside Alexander Litvinenko's body following his death in 2006.

Litvinenko was a former officer of the Russian FSB secret service who specialised in tackling organised crime.

He fled with his family to London and was granted asylum in 2000 and worked as a journalist, writer and consultant for the British intelligence services.

In January 2016 a UK public inquiry concluded the defector was probably murdered on the direct orders of the Russian security service FSB, approved by President Putin.

Oxfordshire Coroner Nicholas Graham recorded a conclusion of suicide on Dr Puncher.

Edit: In other news, Dozhd' reporter group has gone dark in Donetsk, last thing heard from them was a note sent to editor by one of the journalists, that they have been detained by State security ministry of DPR.
Down here in Merica we call this the old classic "Elliot Smith"

Flavahbeast
Jul 21, 2001


killing elliot smith is Putin's greatest atrocity

Grouchio
Aug 31, 2014

cinci zoo sniper posted:

That was Indonesian president.
Man Sukarno was awesome. If not for the Cold War Indonesia could've avoided Suharto.

Qtotonibudinibudet
Nov 7, 2011



Omich poluyobok, skazhi ty narkoman? ya prosto tozhe gde to tam zhivu, mogli by vmeste uyobyvat' narkotiki

cinci zoo sniper posted:

The radiation expert who discovered the poison that killed Alexander Litvinenko "committed suicide" by stabbing himself repeatedly with two knives months after a trip to Russia, a coroner ruled.

Matthew Puncher, 46, bled to death at his home after receiving multiple stab wounds across his body from two kitchen knives, an inquest heard.

A pathologist said he could not completely exclude the possibility that someone else had been involved in the death of the father, but came to the conclusion that the injuries were self-inflicted.

But one detective claimed she didn't think he could have done so much damage to himself without falling unconscious.

A coroner recorded that Dr Puncher, who discovered the amount of polonium inside Litvinenko after he drank poisoned tea in London in 2006, committed suicide.

Dr Puncher was an expert in radiation protection dosimetry and worked for Public Health England at the UK's Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, Oxon.

He had been given sole responsibility over a contract with the US Federal Government for a programme measuring polonium inside former USSR nuclear weapons workers.

His wife Kathryn and work colleagues told an inquest into his death that he had "become obsessed" with a mistake he had made in his research.

She also said his mood "completely changed" after a visit to Russia before Christmas.

He was found dead at his home in Drayton, Oxfordshire, in May, with stab wounds to his arms, neck and upper abdomen.

His body was examined by Home Office pathologist Dr Nicholas Hunt who also conducted the post mortem on weapons expert Dr David Kelly in 2003.

Dr Kelly was found dead in woodland near his South Oxfordshire home, less than 10 miles from where Dr Puncher lived.

The Hutton Inquiry concluded that Dr Kelly had committed suicide.

Detective Constable Rachel Clarke, who investigated Dr Puncher's death, said: "His injuries were so extensive, I didn't know how he could have inflicted them on himself without becoming unconscious so we looked at the wider circumstances."

Pathologist Dr Hunt said it was possible for a person to self-inflict the number of wounds he did before becoming unconscious.

DC Clarke told Oxford Coroner's Court there was no evidence of a disturbance or a struggle and no evidence of anyone else's blood.

And she added: "It was very unusual. All the information told us he was very depressed and no-one in his family seemed particularly surprised he had taken his own life."

Dr Puncher's wife of 16 years, Kathryn said: "He was always an upbeat and sensitive man.

"He was brilliant with the children as he was so intelligent and enjoyed helping them with their homework.

"After Christmas he changed completely. He just lost interest and I had to prompt him to do things like getting dressed and washing up, things he did without thinking before.

"He used to cook all the meals but he just stopped. He seemed to stop caring about anything."

Head of department at Harwell, George Etherington, described Dr Puncher's concerns that his 'coding error' would land him prison for breaking a contract with the US Government as "irrational".

A colleague also described it as a "minor problem".

Dr Puncher and a colleague calculated the amount of polonimum-210 found inside Alexander Litvinenko's body following his death in 2006.

Litvinenko was a former officer of the Russian FSB secret service who specialised in tackling organised crime.

He fled with his family to London and was granted asylum in 2000 and worked as a journalist, writer and consultant for the British intelligence services.

In January 2016 a UK public inquiry concluded the defector was probably murdered on the direct orders of the Russian security service FSB, approved by President Putin.

Oxfordshire Coroner Nicholas Graham recorded a conclusion of suicide on Dr Puncher.

Edit: In other news, Dozhd' reporter group has gone dark in Donetsk, last thing heard from them was a note sent to editor by one of the journalists, that they have been detained by State security ministry of DPR.

:goshawk: :drugnerd: kamera is on fleek yo, dat some black mirror rear end poo poo.

Lovely Joe Stalin
Jun 12, 2007

Our Lovely Wang
The reason they're pointing out that it is the same pathologist who said David Kelly committed suicide is because a lot of people think Kelly was murdered and covered up as a suicide.

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

aphid_licker posted:

Why on earth would you visit Russia if you were that guy

precisely because he was that guy, ie. a polonium expert

"He had been given sole responsibility over a contract with the US Federal Government for a programme measuring polonium inside former USSR nuclear weapons workers."

Lovely Joe Stalin posted:

The reason they're pointing out that it is the same pathologist who said David Kelly committed suicide is because a lot of people think Kelly was murdered and covered up as a suicide.

Actually it was to cover up Madeleine McCann's whereabouts (she was abducted by princess Diana after Diana faked her own death), Maddy is actually Vladimir Putin's and Diana's daughter and wait there's more *farts*

Nenonen fucked around with this message at 12:17 on Nov 27, 2016

Lovely Joe Stalin
Jun 12, 2007

Our Lovely Wang
But where does Prince Philip fit into this?

Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

Nenonen posted:

Actually it was to cover up Madeleine McCann's whereabouts (she was abducted by princess Diana after Diana faked her own death), Maddy is actually Vladimir Putin's and Diana's daughter and wait there's more *farts*

The hilarious thing was recently they thought some Swedish :spergin: college student who went off her meds and ended up panhandling in Rome was a grown up ARE MADDY, which tells you that it's still one of those tabloid tropes that hanging around.

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless

Young Freud posted:

The hilarious thing was recently they thought some Swedish :spergin: college student who went off her meds and ended up panhandling in Rome was a grown up ARE MADDY, which tells you that it's still one of those tabloid tropes that hanging around.

She didn't even have the loving eye. This is :effort: even by Mail standards.

Grouchio
Aug 31, 2014

I hope that Putin will be cautious in dealing with Trump, for both Russia and the US' sake.

Dusty Baker 2
Jul 8, 2011

Keyboard Inghimasi

Grouchio posted:

I hope that Putin will be cautious in dealing with Trump, for both Russia and the US' sake.

haha

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Apr 30, 2005

Grouchio posted:

I hope that Putin will be cautious in dealing with Trump, for both Russia and the US' sake.

Trump has talked to Putin more than the US intelligence departments he is going to be in charge of come January. Pence is the one sitting in on intelligence briefings.

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