Forums Terrorist posted:

And then one gets through and whoops, there goes Los Angeles.

Brown Moses posted:

MH17 Truther logic on display

https://twitter.com/tedcruzinvasion/status/703724459652308992

Libluini posted:

poo poo, right after you posted this I noticed it too. Wow, that really is goddamn stupid.

blowfish posted:

Political reality and allied intervention aside, Poland could totally beat Germany in a fair fight right now. It's ridiculous how geographically-central EU members apart from France have completely atrophied militaries beyond the point of reasonable post-cold war drawdowns.

Friendly Humour posted:

The EU as a whole is still the second biggest military spender in the world, and almost four times bigger than Russia by budget. We'll be fine, thanks.

Friendly Humour posted:

Neither the US, nor Russia is a state, they are both federations.

Friendly Humour posted:

Read between the lines ya dumb gently caress

Friendly Humour posted:

Cool!

Friendly Humour posted:

Sarcasm is lost on the american, what a scoop.

Arglebargle III posted:

Have you not been paying attention to anything ever?

HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:

Any idea if Katu.com is a decent news site or not?

quote:

New call in Poland to extradite Roman Polanski to US

Poland's justice minister says he will appeal against a decision not to extradite film director Roman Polanski to the US for statutory rape.

Zbigniew Ziobro, who is also Poland's prosecutor general, said he would make the appeal in the Supreme Court.

A judge rejected Polanski's extradition in October as "inadmissible".

The director, who lives in France, fled the US ahead of sentencing in 1978 after admitting having sex with a girl aged 13.

Polanski's victim, Samantha Geimer, described the ordeal of giving testimony against Polanski in an interview for the BBC's HARDTalk programme in 2013.

Polanski has French and Polish citizenship. France does not extradite its own citizens but the director occasionally visits Poland, attending a press event in Katowice just last week.

Swiss authorities turned down a US extradition warrant in 2010, after placing Polanski under house arrest for nine months.

Discendo Vox posted:

I read a headline today about how the total abortion ban failed?

Rinkles posted:

Felix on CHAPO has on more than one occasion parroted the Nazi Maidan line.

cinci zoo sniper posted:

"and you lunch negroes"

Rinkles posted:

What's with these questions?

rear end struggle posted:

Just the opposite, VB. The spirit of the average Russian is so broken they make 1919 Berlin look like a jubilee. They aren't a threat to your neo-con world order.

Brown Moses posted:

More pro-tier spy work from the GRU, one of the officers detained in Holland and ID'd today was using his real name, which we found on a leaked Russian Car Registration database, and he had registered the car with his office address, his office being the GRU. So we searched that address in the database, and found 304 other cars registered there, listed with the names of their owners.

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2018/10/04/305-car-registrations-may-point-massive-gru-security-breach/

Flavahbeast posted:

Mark Ames? I wouldn't really call him a Kremlin shill, certainly not to the extent that Graham Phillips is.

LeoMarr posted:

Where does the artificial island fit into this?

Gantolandon posted:

This happened in Poland in a single day:

• A deputy of the largest opposition party was caught by CBA (Central Anti-corruption Bureau) taking bribes from some shady businessman. This happened for at least 2 years. What makes this case unique that he didn't get any money from this, they just hired prostitutes for him. This probably costed them less then the deputy's monthly salary.
  
• Today, an important witness in the re-privatization case testified. What everyone knew before, it involved the Warsaw authorities (from Platforma Obywatelska) pretty much giving away real estate to people pretending to be their original owners. What nobody knew until now, CBA (the mentioned anti-corruption agency, pretty much staffed by PiS) offered the witness protection for a 30% cut of his profits from privatization.
  
• From the same testimony: during the meetings with people from CBA and their go-between that was supposed to secure the deal, the coordinator of the special forces got so drunk that he was seen walking on all hours and kissing the host's dog. The word used in the testimony suggested that this passionate kissing was mutual.
  
• The former Prime Minister of Poland (the one from PO) believes that the early humans used to hunt dinosaurs. By throwing rocks at them.
  

Anne Frank Funk posted:

Here’s the write up as tl;dr as I can make it.

Kaczynski has ties to a foundation established after his brother died in the Smolensk catastrophe. This foundation owns a company (Srebrna) which in turns owns quite a bit of lucrative real estate in Warsaw. Both of the organizations are staffed with PiS people as you might imagine.
Srebrna has all this real estate because of totally legal and not shady split of public wealth between political parties done after the collapse of communism.
Naturally when you have land and real estate in city center you want to make money. So Srebrna rents some buildings and wants to build even bigger buildings, namely two gently caress off towers (twin towers anyone? Kaczynski TWINS?? GET IT!?). They would be located on a plot of land formerly occupied by a building entered into a registry of historical buildings. Demolishing such a building is quite illegal and there are two ways to deal with this.
Brute force way is to “oops it was consumed by an accidental, I repeat accidental fire” method, which is by the way employed by some companies in Warsaw. Nice way is to have your guy in a decision body where rulings on whether to cross a building out of the registry are made. Srebrna, being the known property of LAW AND JUSTICE party, chose the second way.
So the eyesore is no more, what next? Well, to build the towers there’s quite a bit of legwork to be done by lawyers, the developer, etc. To that effect, Srebrna has established a front company to deal with this side of business. All of that so that the media wouldn’t catch that quickly to the fact that poor man Kaczynski is a big developer bozo. This front company dealt with lawyers and one Austrian businessman who by the way has family ties to Kaczynski. Now this dude and the lawyers have for 1,5 years been doing the stuff one does to prepare for actual construction work. However, he did it basically for free, paying out of his own pocket, on the assumption that Srebrna would pay him after the construction permit is issued. No contract has been signed to that effect, because Kaczynski is a LAWFUL AND JUST man and after all they are family.
Well then, the local elections are upon us and Kaczynski realized that with PO in power in Warsaw they won’t get the permit because PO hates PiS (questionable but possible). The PiS candidate for city mayor is a laughable shmuck and by the way a non party candidate representing people of Warsaw starts to reveal the Srebrna business dealings during his campaign.
So Kaczynski, Austrian businessman and some other guy have a meetup which is recorded by the Austrian because he knows that something's up.
Kaczynski unknowingly goes on record, saying that he’s sorry but there is no way they can pay for all the work that the Austrian has done because there is no legal reason for them to do so without seeming suspicious. After all, the money were to exchange hands only after the permit was acquired. BUT he devised a devilish plan to get the Austrian his money in another way, that is, the Austrian is to sue the Foundation threatening legal action if not paid for whatever fictional reason and the institute will fold like a house of cards, not even go to court with the Austrian, instead they will settle the matter out of court (the deal will be secret so that no one knows the real amount of money transferred and for what it was) and the Austrian will drop charges.
The Austrian refused this approach and instead dropped the tape to journalists.

In the background of this is from where the actual money to pay for all of this would come. The front company would get a loan from Srebrna and at the same time take a mortgage from a bank under PiS control. The loan from Srebrna would then be repaid with money from the mortgage. And the way you organize all of this is one quick conversation with CEO of the bank.

This is all real, this is on tape.

The cherry on top is that PiS actively pursues all suspected shady real estate dealings of their arch enemies PO and has built quite a political capital on this over the last years.

Hooray no one cares especially not PiS MPs and electorate. The official party line is that Kaczynski is a genius strategic mind and a savvy businessman to boot, oh and by the way, he didn't use one curse word during the whole recording.

OddObserver posted:

Depends on how exactly you define that:
https://mobile.twitter.com/grudkev/status/1108062133504364545

Brown Moses posted:

TASS is reporting 5 are dead following the mysterious radiation incident

https://twitter.com/tass_agency/status/1159936368027602950

Brown Moses posted:

Seems like a missile test failed, and when they tried to recover it the missile exploded

https://twitter.com/ain92ru/status/1160840071135879168

Brown Moses posted:

Preview of something we're planning to publish tomorrow

https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1287502223719706626
https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1287667463942025216

I'd genuinely like to know the origin of "tune my pow".

HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:

The latest on Maria Kolesnikova is she was not kidnapped she attempted to cross the border into Ukraine but Belarusian authorities stopped her and now she has been detained in an undisclosed location.

aphid_licker posted:

Absolutely wild that this is taking so long to figure out

HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:

CMYK BLYAT! posted:

i took my parents to moscow and they thought that statue was cool

they didn't get to see the superior peter the great statue though

OddObserver posted:

https://twitter.com/MID_RF/status/1438768364353114115

jonnypeh posted:

Meanwhile in Estonia we're doing about as well as Latvia and Lithuania on the COVID front. Which means that we're the worst in the world and not because we can't afford vaccines. There's plenty to go around. More people just won't get vaccinated. Hospitals are nearly full again and regular treatments will have to be stopped. Better not get into a traffic accident.

I look around in the stores and they're full of shoppers, depending on the area 1/4 to half of the customers don't even wear masks. Or on public transport. I'M SURROUNDED BY IDIOTS.