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Paladinus posted:Somehow this is happening in Ukraine. They have the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone right there, wtf not use it smh
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# ? Feb 21, 2020 18:24 |
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Nenonen posted:They have the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone right there, wtf not use it smh Some protesters unironically suggested that along with abandoned military bases, and occupied territories.
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# ? Feb 21, 2020 18:26 |
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Some of our work on IDing Russian spies has resulted in Bulgaria issuing red notices for the real identities of GRU agents involved with a 2015 assassination plot:quote:Bulgaria names Russians charged with poisoning linked to Skripal case We'll be publishing more details on this next week, including more details of GRU activities elsewhere in the world connected to the individuals identified as part of the Bulgaria plot.
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# ? Feb 21, 2020 20:43 |
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Brown Moses posted:Some of our work on IDing Russian spies has resulted in Bulgaria issuing red notices for the real identities of GRU agents involved with a 2015 assassination plot: Small world, wild af.
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# ? Feb 22, 2020 11:35 |
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We've published our latest Russian spy investigation, this time IDing a GRU officer involved in a 2015 assassination attempt with a nerve agent in Bulgaria who was then placed at the WTO as a diplomat, and who ended his posting early when we started publishing about Russian spy activity in Europe and returned home:quote:Was A Russian Diplomat In Geneva An Agent Overseeing A Secret Hit Squad? Bellingcat Says Yes With our work on the Bulgaria case we've managed to get a case local authorities had brushed under the carpet reopened, linked it to other spy activity across Europe, including the Skripal case, and got it attention from investigators in various countries working on GRU and FSB related activity in Europe. More to come as well.
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# ? Feb 25, 2020 14:58 |
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Saw you on 60 minutes. Very nice you're getting some air time.
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# ? Feb 25, 2020 15:09 |
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They put some extra footage on the CBS site as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EgTXJ-49IQ The whole thing is here. Currently in MH17 world Max van der Werff, an MH17 truther, has got his hands on documents apparently leaked from the JIT about the investigation. There's nothing really special in them, if anything it supports the case against Russia, by the usual suspects are spinning the contents anyway.
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# ? Feb 25, 2020 15:14 |
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Van der Werff is getting enormous amounts of attention from Russian TV right now. Even Russian state propaganda basically says that only a foreign independent investigator has it all figured out, because nobody believes Russian truthers anymore.
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# ? Feb 25, 2020 15:51 |
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The last leak they announced shows the Buk Russia presented satellite imagery of which they claimed moved on July 17th, was disabled, proving again Russia lied about it, but they completely ignore that and just try to spin it. If what they've leaked so far is the best they've got then they really haven't for a leg to stand on.
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# ? Feb 25, 2020 16:09 |
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Given that the broad strokes of what happened were pretty clear shortly after the incident you must feel like Sisyphus still rehashing it over and over.
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# ? Feb 25, 2020 16:45 |
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I've tried to avoid debating this stuff with the truthers, at this point if they still think Russia is innocent then there's no hope for them. The most interesting thing about the Max van der Werff leaks is they appear legit, but sadly for Max and pals they're not the shocking revelations about the investigation they like to pretend they are.
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# ? Feb 25, 2020 17:09 |
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Breaking news! Western imperialist Higgins says that mh17 leaks are legit!!11
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# ? Feb 26, 2020 13:05 |
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You forgot the RT link.
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# ? Feb 26, 2020 14:06 |
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The MH17 trials start on March 9th in The Netherlands, with 4 suspects charged. Ahead of the trial some details have already come out:quote:Thirteen witnesses in the MH17 crash case will remain anonymous as their life may be at significant risk. And some more details here https://twitter.com/sl0zhny/status/1232461007907368960 There's probably not going to be evidence presented to the court for quite some time, even with the trial starting on March 9, but it's already interesting they've got 14+ witnesses, so expect to see a lot of new information come to light over the next year as the trial continues.
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# ? Feb 26, 2020 15:17 |
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Looking forward to that
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# ? Feb 27, 2020 18:22 |
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Russia has been having a pretty bad month with the international court ruling they have to return 50 billion for taking over YUKOS, the above MH17 thing and now the oil/gas prices crashing. A small, victorious war against Turkey is exactly what can get support ratings back on track!
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# ? Feb 28, 2020 10:47 |
Elections in Slovakia took place yesterday, results show conservative right-wing Catholic populism everywhere. Looks like it's about to go the way of Poland. Neo-Nazis still in parliament, too.
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anilEhilated posted:Elections in Slovakia took place yesterday, results show conservative right-wing Catholic populism everywhere. Looks like it's about to go the way of Poland. To be fair there was the whole left-wing government being involved in the murder of a journalist thing which entirely dominated the elections. I wouldn't blame the people too much for it. After all the (centre-)left has been in power there for a very long time and still managed to get around a third of the vote despite what happened. Now watch the same thing happen in the Czech Republic, which hasn't even had that many leftist government recently. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 17:27 on Mar 1, 2020 |
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Well, most of the current Czech opposition is conservative right-wingers, but considerably fewer of them want to bring the country back to the Middle Ages. Also, Babiš is still the most popular politician in the polls in spite of all the evidence; he hasn't shat the bed the way Fico did. So far, anyway.
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# ? Mar 1, 2020 22:25 |
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And the liberal / progressive faction didn’t make the government cut by like 900 votes. Yea I’m personally not too fond of Matovic, he’s kind of a clown and said some homophobic things in the past, but the pressing issue on most people’s minds in Slovakia is dealing with all the fraud and blatant corruption, and he’s been very vocal about that so we’ll see. My main concern is how he’ll be able to work together with Kollar who could easilly turn out to be Fico2 if left unchecked.
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# ? Mar 2, 2020 09:05 |
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I know she's apparently of legal age but I'm getting serious child soldier vibes from this poor girl. At least she has a lot of stickers on her gun?? She looks like... 14. Some local "instagrammer" got called up and now she's paroling trenches in full combat gear. https://imgur.com/gallery/fPMgxoA I can't read any of it but apparently her twitter is quite surreal. https://twitter.com/ohiAnnablya Baronjutter fucked around with this message at 20:56 on Mar 2, 2020 |
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Baronjutter posted:I know she's apparently of legal age but I'm getting serious child soldier vibes from this poor girl. At least she has a lot of stickers on her gun?? She looks like... 14. Some local "instagrammer" got called up and now she's paroling trenches in full combat gear. Call me cynical, but it looks like a viral ad for that online perfume store.
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# ? Mar 2, 2020 21:04 |
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OTOH when has a right winger elected to sort out the corrupt establishment ever worked out well.
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# ? Mar 3, 2020 02:54 |
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Munin posted:OTOH when has a right winger elected to sort out the corrupt establishment ever worked out well. It depends on how many of the current corrupt are his friends/share his views.
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# ? Mar 3, 2020 08:31 |
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Scaramouche posted:It depends on how many of the current corrupt are his friends/share his views. The thing about strong right-wingers is that the very best you can hope for is that they are incompetent and corrupt. Because the alternative is much more terrifying, see just about any of them.
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# ? Mar 3, 2020 20:33 |
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https://twitter.com/mfa_russia/status/1235847911885299720 You better believe our spin or else.
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# ? Mar 6, 2020 09:46 |
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:https://twitter.com/mfa_russia/status/1235847911885299720 I've got to the point now when I just think these denials are great content for our upcoming podcast series on Unit 29155. The Russian Embassy to the UK also put out a lengthy statement on the Skripals, but it boils down to the usual denials.
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# ? Mar 6, 2020 10:52 |
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man, TVP news programs are such clumsy propaganda. jeez, at least pretend to give a gently caress about impartiality. also it's deeply ironic after years of (rightly) decrying dziennik telewizyjny
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# ? Mar 7, 2020 22:32 |
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Americans in the state of Pennsylvania have strong opinions about potato dumplings and they want people to know about them: https://twitter.com/treblaw/status/1236456067212640264?s=19
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# ? Mar 8, 2020 04:36 |
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The MH17 trial started today, the prosecution is about to start presenting its case (way earlier than I thought they would), so you can watch a live stream of it in English here, and I've created a Twitter list of people covering the trial live here. Last year we worked with Newsy on putting this video together based on our research into the identity of separatists and their involvement with the downing of MH17, and the suspects in court today are the same people who are the subject of the video, so it gives you an idea of their involvement and why they were charged: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7dC2etVPTM
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# ? Mar 9, 2020 12:49 |
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It's good the see the trial happening but what are the end results if the defendants are found guilty? They can't exactly be punished. In other news it seems that Russia has rebuffed the Saudis. quote:OPEC and key ally Russia failed to agree Friday on a cut to oil production that would have contained the plunge in the price of crude caused by the new coronavirus outbreak’s massive disruption to world business.
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# ? Mar 9, 2020 13:22 |
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It appears the court can award compensation, and it'll likely have a knock on effect with the European Court of Human Rights case which is currently asking for roughly $2.8 billion from Russia, as $10 million per person killed. I think the bigger impact will be seeing the cases presented in court with all the supporting evidence, it'll rather destroy Russia's position it's all based on fake YouTube videos, even among its own public.
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# ? Mar 9, 2020 13:29 |
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:https://twitter.com/mfa_russia/status/1235847911885299720 On first glance my brain was telling me I was looking at two budgies.
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# ? Mar 10, 2020 15:30 |
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Nenonen posted:On first glance my brain was telling me I was looking at two budgies. They're probably very relieved no one can tell who they are in those outfits
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# ? Mar 10, 2020 15:39 |
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Is this working for everybody? Im on mobile and it's taking me to main menu.
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# ? Mar 10, 2020 15:45 |
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so, about those constitutional reforms where putin at least gave up some nominal control (while moving more of the country's overall government under the executive): https://twitter.com/meduza_en/status/1237349219167592448
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# ? Mar 11, 2020 08:50 |
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So he's resetting his terms count to zero, huh. Just as well, honestly. Better just come out and say "Yeah I don't give a gently caress what anyone thinks.", than continue to trash the entire political system in order to "conceal" it. They were legitimately considering annexation of Belarus ffs
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# ? Mar 11, 2020 10:06 |
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The first two days of the MH17 trials is over, and is planned to meet again on March 23rd. Other dates span all the way until February 2021, so it'll be a long haul, but there's been some interesting information already. According the prosecution there was at least one other Buk that came from Russian, arriving on July 14th, but it promptly broke down and got sent back. That clears up some earlier confusion about claims from the separatist and Ukrianians about the separatist controlling a Buk prior to July 17th, as the investigation established the Buk that shot down MH17 arrived on the night of July 16th-17th and left on the morning on July 18th. The prosecution also talked about a lot of witnesses, one of which was a separatists who was near the Buk when it fired the missile, plus witnesses who provided additional video and photographic material. Only one defendant has a lawyer, the rest are doing the best they can to ignore the trial, and his defence argued the airspace should have been closed by Ukraine, which the prosecution had already pointed out wasn't a valid defence in this case, and I expect the judges are going to agree. We also heard details of the Russian defence in the European Court of Human Rights case over MH17, separate from this trial, which includes Russia claiming metadata in one of the videos shows it was from the day before MH17 was shot down, but it's actually a known YouTube bug that was addressed almost as soon as it was brought up by the MH17 truthers who first discovered it 5 years ago, so it's rather mind-blowing Russia's defence is reduced to cribbing debunked conspiracy theories off the internet.
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# ? Mar 11, 2020 12:20 |
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woodenchicken posted:So he's resetting his terms count to zero, huh. Just as well, honestly. Better just come out and say "Yeah I don't give a gently caress what anyone thinks.", than continue to trash the entire political system in order to "conceal" it. They were legitimately considering annexation of Belarus ffs So is that not going to happen now or is it just postponed? Presidential elections are this year I think, which means five more years of Lukashenko
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:So is that not going to happen now or is it just postponed? Presidential elections are this year I think, which means five more years of Lukashenko
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