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Speaking of Prague, there was a competition called sexist piggy, to determine the most sexist ads. Sex sells as everyone knows but some of these really do raise it to the next level beyond the usual "girl in bikini posing next to product". These are among the winning entries as judged by a panel and public vote:  "The path to success doesn't have to be difficult, if you understand it." - Lenka Vesela, banking adviser. It's an ad for a radio station   Shall we get to work? This would've been bad in any situation but it's a personnel agency supposedly. Although their site is dead so it might as well be a brothel.   Suck out everything that smells. It's a septic services company.  Profession for those, who care about security.//Team, on which you can lean [rely].  Even the beaver goes to the saw. Lumber supply company, and yes, beaver has the same connotations.   
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The latest progressive-regressive personal income tax reform in Estonia, in effect from 1st of January. x-axis is yearly income, y-axis is tax rate. I don't even know how it came to that.
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This doesn't bode well. https://twitter.com/julianborger/status/935554237995548673 Ah, Tillerson is talking about normalizing relations with Russia depends on Ukraine. http://liveuamap.com/
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It's pretty insane to me how much power the single executive seat holds in the US, explicitly and in all the smaller ways it trickles down to policy
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Well, I guess as long as it doesn't involve Russian peacemakers slowly stealing territory that might not be the worst idea, because people are still dying there. E: actually his statement is pretty solid, not that it's likely to resolve anything: quote:The secretary of state defended his record after a speech on US-European relations that emphasised Nato solidarity in the face of what he called Russian “aggression”, ruling out lifting Ukraine-related sanctions until the country’s territorial integrity had been fully restored. mobby_6kl fucked around with this message at 21:37 on Nov 28, 2017 |
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One of our (Croatian) war criminals , general Praljak, just drunk something in front of cameras during sentencing in Hague https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/nov/29/un-war-crimes-defendant-claims-to-drink-poison-at-trial-in-hague-slobodan-praljak quote:Seconds after his sentence was upheld, former military commander Slobodan Praljak, 72, shouted out angrily: “Praljak is not a criminal. I reject your verdict.” Local media reports he died in hospital.
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Gervasius posted:One of our (Croatian) war criminals , general Praljak, just drunk something in front of cameras during sentencing in Hague Well that's one way to make sure you get the last word.
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Gervasius posted:One of our (Croatian) war criminals , general Praljak, just drunk something in front of cameras during sentencing in Hague Once you start referring to yourself in the third person, it's probably time to go.
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He was among other things a theater director. Shows he kept his sense for drama.
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Doctor Malaver posted:He was among other things a theater director. Shows he kept his sense for drama. Wait, like a military theater or broadway theater?
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mobby_6kl posted:Wait, like a military theater or broadway theater?
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Yeah, not a typical soldier. Graduated three university programs - electrical engineering, sociology/philosophy, theater or film directing. I'm not sure he had any military experience (except for the mandatory army service) before the war.
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... the Aristocrats. 2017 is a little different. (And the scary part seems to be that the only difference is, poo poo gets revealed now!)
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mobby_6kl posted:Well, I guess as long as it doesn't involve Russian peacemakers slowly stealing territory that might not be the worst idea, because people are still dying there. And now Tillerson is getting canned. Nobody puts Baby in the corner!
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For the last few weeks a group claiming to be Anonymous Poland has been falsely claiming Bellingcat worked with them on the hack of data from Ukraine and the hacks of Lithuanian banks. They've been renaming dozens of zombie Twitter accounts to impersonate me, Bellingcat, and my staff members, even using fake news websites. The Daily Beast did a write up about it here https://www.thedailybeast.com/kremlin-linked-hackers-expose-a-network-of-fake-tech-news-sites The dumbest thing about this is they've been using dozens of these zombie accounts, fake news websites that have been stealing articles for over a year from other sites to appear legitimate, and have spent 3 weeks posting every day trying to link Bellingcat to these hacks, but all it's achieved is a couple of Daily Beast articles and a headache for Twitter Support. If I was Russia I'd ask for my money back.
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mobby_6kl posted:Well, I guess as long as it doesn't involve Russian peacemakers slowly stealing territory that might not be the worst idea, because people are still dying there. It doesn't really make much sense to give the country whose troops have invaded and whose support the irregular combatants rely upon a way to install a tripwire in the region with international legitimacy. Look at how that turned out for Georgia - they got shelled regularly from across the Russian-peacekeeper patrolled border for half a year with no way to retaliate and no response from Russia. When they eventually did retaliate, Russia justified a large scale invasion as a response to attacks on their peacekeepers.
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Apparently the Russian Orthodox Church are conducting an investigation to see whether Tsar Nicholas II was ritual-murdered by Jews so the Bolsheviks could achieve world domination.
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vyelkin posted:Apparently the Russian Orthodox Church are conducting an investigation to see whether Tsar Nicholas II was ritual-murdered by Jews so the Bolsheviks could achieve world domination. No-one is talking about Jews, but it's still pretty ridiculous on the surface. It would be like one of Pelevin's books where Chapaev is a Buddhist mystic.
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Paladinus posted:No-one is talking about Jews, but it's still pretty ridiculous on the surface. It would be like one of Pelevin's books where Chapaev is a Buddhist mystic. When they say "ritual murder" by "Bolsheviks" they mean Jews.
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vyelkin posted:When they say "ritual murder" by "Bolsheviks" they mean Jews. I know it's an easy conclusion to jump to in today's political climate, but the man behind this hypothesis, Bishop Shevkunov, says the following: 'ROC understands ritualistic murder of the Czar's family specifically as an act of revolutionary bolshevik vengeance. [...] I've spoken to the leader of the largest Jewish community in Russia, Alexander Boroda, and explained our position. As I see it, he was absolutely satisfied with our explanation.'
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Some of my best friends are Jewish!
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Paladinus posted:I know it's an easy conclusion to jump to in today's political climate, but the man behind this hypothesis, Bishop Shevkunov, says the following: Even RT made this link man, come on. quote:“The murder of the Tsar and his family was a very special act with a ritual and symbolic meaning as it put an end to the 300-year Romanov dynasty, which was loathed by the new authorities,” Tikhon said. “Bolsheviks and their henchmen of all sorts were not alien to very unexpected and various ritual symbolism,” he added, citing Vladimir Lenin’s Mausoleum in Moscow as an example of a typical ritual building. The ritual murder theory that they want to investigate is a "ritual murder by Jews" theory, the fact that they claim otherwise at the moment doesn't matter. And I know this is a weird way to prove it, but read the comments on that article. It's nothing but "the murderers were Zionists", "the Jews are scared the truth will be exposed", etc. It's the loudest dogwhistle in the world.
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vyelkin posted:Even RT made this link man, come on. I know of the existing conspiracy theory, yes, and an official investigation that can potentially rectify that, in fact, no, it's not some secret Jewish ritual, but a secular one, is a good thing ultimately, even if a bunch of anti-Semites cling to it. Those people don't need a reason to hate Jews, no matter what, and any piece of news they see as an undeniable proof of their beliefs. When the investigation inevitably concludes in strong terms that there is no connection to any Jewish religious practices, they'll just say that the Jews have obviously infiltrated ROC to hide the truth.
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Across November there had been some stink in Polish social media regarding tracked packages from Southeast Asia that either disappeared outright (stopped tracking after dispatch from the country of origin) or got delayed for up to two months. Turns out, a Holy Roman Empire-obsessed NGO that was already known for influencing right-wing politicians colluded with the national post office to stop the import of female birth control.quote:Ordo Iuris claims that their guidelines for prosecutors on the crime of inciting abortion allowed to block shipments with emergency contraception and pharmacological abortion kits. The PiS surveillance law has helped, which allows the services to follow online activity. And parcels disappear, you do not even know where and how RIP goons importing anime figurines.
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Ruffian Price posted:Across November there had been some stink in Polish social media regarding tracked packages from Southeast Asia that either disappeared outright (stopped tracking after dispatch from the country of origin) or got delayed for up to two months. Turns out, a Holy Roman Empire-obsessed NGO that was already known for influencing right-wing politicians colluded with the national post office to stop the import of female birth control. How is this a real story? 
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So that is why I'm still waiting for my copy of Gloomhaven.
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Looks like last sunday Saakashvili was arrested. https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...m=.2b2d188e7ef4 quote:...Several hours after Sunday’s rally, about 150 people in camouflage and balaclava masks blocked the entrance to the only Ukrainian television station that covered Saakashvili’s rally. That says enough. edit: wait, that was the other article. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/05/former-georgian-president-mikheil-saakashvili-is-detained-in-ukraine He was arrested today. jonnypeh fucked around with this message at 11:25 on Dec 5, 2017 |
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Ruffian Price posted:Across November there had been some stink in Polish social media regarding tracked packages from Southeast Asia that either disappeared outright (stopped tracking after dispatch from the country of origin) or got delayed for up to two months. Turns out, a Holy Roman Empire-obsessed NGO that was already known for influencing right-wing politicians colluded with the national post office to stop the import of female birth control. The reincarnation of Anthony Comstock is upon us.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:How is this a real story?
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Because that's their only option? Amazon isn't allowed to sell them in poland while ali express gives 0 fucks about that is my guess.
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It seems that supporters of Saakashvili released him from the car he was taken into before he could be taken away. https://1plus1.ua/1plus1video/novos..._campaign=media
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Will Poroshenko be impeached? If yes, will Russia
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Or people will get tired and vote in whatever Russian puppet Putin sends. Maaaybe Donetsk and Luhansk end only as autonomous regions instead of SSR (or whatever's the name of new Russian Federation Republics).
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Ruffian Price posted:Across November there had been some stink in Polish social media regarding tracked packages from Southeast Asia that either disappeared outright (stopped tracking after dispatch from the country of origin) or got delayed for up to two months. Turns out, a Holy Roman Empire-obsessed NGO that was already known for influencing right-wing politicians colluded with the national post office to stop the import of female birth control. Why is a Polish NGO obsessed with the HRE? Please tell me they are run by a guy who claims to be the rightful Emperor.
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Paladinus posted:Will Poroshenko be impeached? If yes, will Russia I don't think I'm comfortable making any bets here. Doubt Russian military will step in, but the political drama/fallout is going to be a lot of "fun", should that happen.
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https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/938113541038661632 Russia has bigger problems
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Heh, finally remembered the check the medal tally after Sochi, and after the disqualifications Russia is now in 4th overall in medals. Norway rules supreme!
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Rincewinds posted:Heh, finally remembered the check the medal tally after Sochi, and after the disqualifications Russia is now in 4th overall in medals. Norway rules supreme! Ah yes, the national team full asthmatics is the supreme ruler now that the cheating nation has been dealt with.
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