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steinrokkan posted:I will jump at every opportunity to shittalk my country and all its neighbors, but I'd sooner die fighting for my Motherland's honor on a mountain of fellow fallen countrymen than suffer a filthy foreigner disparaging her! e: We've got Netflix in Serbia and apparently the choice is pretty good even compared to the US. (Because of easier licensing negotiation?) SaltyJesus fucked around with this message at 10:46 on Apr 20, 2017 |
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SaltyJesus posted:e: We've got Netflix in Serbia and apparently the choice is pretty good even compared to the US. (Because of easier licensing negotiation?)
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Meanwhile, in Donbas - https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-04-20/putin-quietly-detaches-ukraine-s-rebel-zones-as-u-s-waffles quote:Vladimir Putin is seizing on mixed signals from the U.S. to quietly tighten Russia’s grip on two rebel regions of Ukraine, burying hopes for a European-brokered peace deal and relief from sanctions anytime soon. The treasonous government that's taken over Washington DC is too concerned with dick waving at North Korea of all countries and brokering oil deals with Russia, something Christopher Steel said would happen on page 29 of his dossier Putin and Trump both insist is fake.
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That dossier has to be a heck of a read. Even the feds are now making winks and nudges that it's not even remotely a bad piece of work.
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It sure is. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:It sure is. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html E: Well, that was fairly entertaining read. Not sure how far is ti reasonable to buy into it, but it paints a fairly coherent picture, and there seems to be an air of credibility slowly arising around it. cinci zoo sniper fucked around with this message at 12:06 on Apr 20, 2017 |
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It was recently revealed the FBI has a FISA warrant based on this document. So there must be credible information there. Putin and Trump as I said insist it's fiction.
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Meanwhile in the Ukraine, Stanislav Serhiyenko was followed and stabbed repeatedly yesterday. He's one of the only historians who went on record for this article about the historical whitewashing going on in the Ukraine. Thankfully Stas is recovering in hospital, but when historical debate starts turning violent, things are going to get a lot worse before they get better.
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Dreylad posted:Meanwhile in the Ukraine, Stanislav Serhiyenko was followed and stabbed repeatedly yesterday. He's one of the only historians who went on record for this article about the historical whitewashing going on in the Ukraine.
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Dreylad posted:Meanwhile in the Ukraine, Stanislav Serhiyenko was followed and stabbed repeatedly yesterday. He's one of the only historians who went on record for this article about the historical whitewashing going on in the Ukraine. That's crazy. I was in Kiev a few years ago (before the civil war) and went to a wonderful presentation on the hero's of Ukraine/Soviet Union at the war memorial under the big lady with the sword. I'll never forget there was a side by side photo of a female sniper from the war. A photo of her as a young, badass Soldier with a rifle (and a killer's eyes), next to a photo of a little bent over babushka (who still had a killer's eyes).
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There was a fire at a store yesterday. The firefighters showed up with no water. Now there's an empty lot to be bought/fixed up!
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Shes Not Impressed posted:There was a fire at a store yesterday. The firefighters showed up with no water. Now there's an empty lot to be bought/fixed up!
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Apparently an OSCE observer has been killed in Ukraine https://twitter.com/OSCE_SMM/status/856117192231964672 + NSFW video (dead body blurred) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCUBNBKzhpc
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Novaya Gazeta appears to have interviewed a person who served together with Sergey Dubinskiy in Afghanistan.
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Chernobyl nominated to be included on the list of UNESCO World Heritage sites. http://www.svoboda.org/a/28453565.html
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Montenegro said Wednesday that a decision by Russia to ban imports from its biggest winemaker was politically motivated by the Balkan country’s imminent accession to NATO. According to state-owned wine producer Plantaze, Russian authorities have banned the import of its alcohol from Wednesday owing to sanitary failings -- accusations the company denied. “It is clear that the decision is in the context of NATO membership,” said Montenegro’s Prime Minister Dusko Markovic. He said Russian citizens had “lost an opportunity to consume the best wines” owing to the “irresponsible policy” of their authorities.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Montenegro said Wednesday that a decision by Russia to ban imports from its biggest winemaker was politically motivated by the Balkan country’s imminent accession to NATO. That's a pretty big step down on the aggression scale from trying to assassinate the Prime Minister and overthrow the government.
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A trucker with no license or insurance from Luhansk decided to very slowly back up into my in-laws cars, destroying the mirror and crunching the door. He was apologetic and extremely scared at being caught doing whatever illegal trucking he was doing and gave them 50 euros and ran off. The repair will be $1600, money my poor inlaws don't have so we're going to have to help them out. So Putin has personally hosed me over for $1600. gently caress you Putin and gently caress you "Luhansk People's Republic"
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Baronjutter posted:A trucker with no license or insurance from Luhansk decided to very slowly back up into my in-laws cars, destroying the mirror and crunching the door. He was apologetic and extremely scared at being caught doing whatever illegal trucking he was doing and gave them 50 euros and ran off. The repair will be $1600, money my poor inlaws don't have so we're going to have to help them out. the bourgeois's cars will be crushed in the anti-imperialistic revolution
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Baronjutter posted:A trucker with no license or insurance from Luhansk decided to very slowly back up into my in-laws cars, destroying the mirror and crunching the door. He was apologetic and extremely scared at being caught doing whatever illegal trucking he was doing and gave them 50 euros and ran off. The repair will be $1600, money my poor inlaws don't have so we're going to have to help them out. tell them, extremely snarky " this would not have happened in Canada"
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skipThings posted:tell them, extremely snarky " this would not have happened in Canada" They also dropped on us that because they didn't have the money to fix the car they were just going to sell it for like 1/10th what they paid along with their house and move. They want to get out of Ukraine and maybe back to Russia but have no plan and it's insane and it's making my wife crazy with stress because she knows her parents are totally capable of huge knee-jerk reactions and have made short-sighted drastic changes in their lives over smaller things. So hopefully by paying for the car they'll not do anything crazy like abandon their house they sunk all their savings into and just walk to Russia. How were they even planning on surviving in rural Ukraine without a car?
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Baronjutter posted:They also dropped on us that because they didn't have the money to fix the car they were just going to sell it for like 1/10th what they paid along with their house and move. They want to get out of Ukraine and maybe back to Russia but have no plan and it's insane and it's making my wife crazy with stress because she knows her parents are totally capable of huge knee-jerk reactions and have made short-sighted drastic changes in their lives over smaller things. We're going through trying to get mom taken care of (dad died). We gotta get the house sold (along with all the junk in it), and get the money in a US bank (for helping to start mom's new life in the US). The problem is, she is so overwhelmed by everything that she does nothing. So either my wife, or I, have to go to crimea to handle everything, or I don't know what to do. Find a russian estate lawyer who isn't too criminal to handle it?
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https://twitter.com/navalny/status/857609955003826176 Navalny got involuntarily painted again, briefly before a speech he intended to give.
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Baronjutter posted:So hopefully by paying for the car they'll not do anything crazy like abandon their house they sunk all their savings into and just walk to Russia. How were they even planning on surviving in rural Ukraine without a car? You don't move from Canada to rural Ukraine or Russia because you're planning on surviving; you move because you're planning on drinking yourself to death.
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Cat Mattress posted:You don't move from Canada to rural Ukraine or Russia because you're planning on surviving; you move because you're planning on drinking yourself to death. From Canada? Also neither of them drink.
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Baronjutter posted:From Canada? Also neither of them drink. I thought perhaps they had moved back from Canada because of that post: skipThings posted:tell them, extremely snarky " this would not have happened in Canada" Just a dumb joke.
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They're also slightly mad we can't just scoop them up and move them to Canada and pay them a pension out of our pockets that would let them live in one of the most expensive cities in the country  Yes we can send money to help, but we're still only working class relative to our own country. This also fills my poor wife with extreme levels of slav-guilt for being unable to take care of her parents. I'm pretty sure we don't even make enough money to sponsor them for a visa. Would love to have them come actually visit us some time, but them being allowed even a visitor visa is pretty much out of the question. Baronjutter fucked around with this message at 21:38 on Apr 27, 2017 |
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Apparently the fascists are staging a coup in fyromia? wtf is going on in there
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So things are going to poo poo in Macedonia: https://www.ft.com/content/af17531e-2b7c-11e7-bc4b-5528796fe35c Based on what I've heard from someone living in Macedonia, and googling and looking at tweets about this poo poo, it seems like the country's been sitting on a powder keg that's now exploding.
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Baronjutter posted:They're also slightly mad we can't just scoop them up and move them to Canada and pay them a pension out of our pockets that would let them live in one of the most expensive cities in the country Our plan is to move mom into our home and have her help out (take care of the kids, manage our garden, cook, clean). She's done those things for 50 years and it'd really help us out, and make her feel useful. We'd immediately drop the paperwork to have her become a U.S. citizen (as a parent of a US citizen it'll take about 6 months according to our lawyer), and she'd be my dependent (and as such fall under my family medical plan). Does Canada not have a similar thing where as your parent she can become a citizen? And then, as a citizen, apply for benefits?
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spacetoaster posted:Our plan is to move mom into our home and have her help out (take care of the kids, manage our garden, cook, clean). She's done those things for 50 years and it'd really help us out, and make her feel useful. We'd immediately drop the paperwork to have her become a U.S. citizen (as a parent of a US citizen it'll take about 6 months according to our lawyer), and she'd be my dependent (and as such fall under my family medical plan). When you say home I assume you live in a house that you own with multiple bedrooms and slightly more living space than you need? We're in a little apartment that every year we're worried we'll be forced out of due to another $100+ monthly rent increase. Also it's been a while since we did the research but you need to have paid into a pension to get a pension here, you can't just show up as a retirement aged person and get (enough) government money, you need to have worked. Even then the pensions are nowhere close to even afford rent here. So in order to get aged parents over here you have to prove you make enough money to support them so the government doesn't have to because they don't want to import old poors who won't pay into the system and we don't make enough money to qualify. The other big problem is Canada is hosed economically right now. The rent on our little 800sqft apartment is $1500. A 2br condo in a lovely old building will run you about $350k and a house starts around 700k, all this on low and stagnant wages with poor job security and a grim economic outlook for the future.. Canada is not a place anyone should be trying to immigrate to for any reason other than money laundering, which is about the only thing this country is extremely good at.
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SpiritOfLenin posted:So things are going to poo poo in Macedonia: https://www.ft.com/content/af17531e-2b7c-11e7-bc4b-5528796fe35c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBkeVvDxgLs Can't wait for Albania-Macedonia war after Albanian speaker of Macedonian parliament gets lynched.
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Baronjutter posted:Canada is not a place anyone should be trying to immigrate to for any reason other than money laundering, which is about the only thing this country is extremely good at.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBkeVvDxgLs I understand that main problem is that the coalition that includes Albanian parties wants to make Albanian an official language. It's currently only a 'regional language'. I'm trying to find insightful commentary in Croatian media but since our government is disintegrating (again  ) there are hardly any other news (except football of course).
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Doctor Malaver posted:I understand that main problem is that the coalition that includes Albanian parties wants to make Albanian an official language. It's currently only a 'regional language'. I'm trying to find insightful commentary in Croatian media but since our government is disintegrating (again As of exactly 7 hours ago, our state media are reporting that the protesters have successfully broken through the police perimeter, and entered the parliament building.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:As of exactly 7 hours ago, our state media are reporting that the protesters have successfully broken through the police perimeter, and entered the parliament building. Broken or "broken"? Also they have done a lot more than entering the building...
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OddObserver posted:Broken or "broken"? Also they have done a lot more than entering the building...
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Thanks for that even though I'm more interested in an analysis (what caused this political situation and what are possible outcomes) than hour-to-hour casualty count.
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Doctor Malaver posted:Thanks for that even though I'm more interested in an analysis (what caused this political situation and what are possible outcomes) than hour-to-hour casualty count. http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21718549-tensions-countrys-albanian-politicians-could-deteriorate-conflict-macedonian As for potential outcomes, who knows. It's not like Balkan countries haven't gone to war over bruised honour before.
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