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Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

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That's uh, pretty ballsy of Snowden to do while in Russia. Hopefully he's got backup asylums lined up

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Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

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I read an interesting thing a couple days ago that the hacker stuff might not be motivated by putins love of trump but rather his extreme dislike of Hillary. Some of her sec state stuff coincided with rough times for him, and she oversaw the "reset" when he was trying to build influence again.

Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

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He thinks (rightly) everyone is watching the Olympics again

Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

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I don't think the Netherlands needs a coup right at this moment

Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

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anilEhilated posted:

Not completely related, but congrats BM to landing a new job, keep up the good work!

I'm kinda tempted to pirate that Smolensk movie just for the wow factor but I don't think anyone will bother with English subtitles...

First you get the YouTubes, then you get the grant funding, THEN you get the women.

Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

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Baronjutter posted:

I'm assuming it was a large amount, like a van load of cheese. Here in Canada cheese smuggling is actually a big deal because Canada has insane cheese protectionism. The mafia in some places found it safer/more profitable to smuggle cheese rather than drugs, which they then sell to restaurants and food supply places. The price difference between what you pay in the US vs Canada for the same imported cheese is that much to make it viable for a large black market on cheese to exist.

Yeah in the sketchier parts the grocery stores have the cheese section locked down like smokes/razors and in the sketchier bars crackheads will try and sell you pounds of cheeses they've lifted. The rumour a few years ago was that Fresh Slice dollar pizza was able to grow so fast and so cheaply was because he was sourcing g cheese almost exclusively through crackhead theft.

Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

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mobby_6kl posted:

Handover process to his son was already literally captured on camera:




That's not a potato

Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

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cinci zoo sniper posted:

Excerpt from another Levada's poll:
Top 5 Russia's friends (desc): Belarus, China, Kazakhstan, Syria, India.
Top 5 Russia's enemies (desc): USA, Ukraine, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania.

Everyone always forgets about Canada...

Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

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I was hoping it was from Arma

Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

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This one is frightening if true (the frame up part, if the other part is true it's just sad)

https://www.yahoo.com/news/hunter-stalins-mass-graves-trial-friends-hes-framed-102350054.html

Guy who is known for finding proof Stalin was a jerk rung up on child porn charges. He was asked to go to a police station to explain an antique gun he had and entirely by coincidence while he's there mysterious parties break into his house and copy all his files. Said mysterious people anonymously forward pictures to police.

Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

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I don't know if the place that made tribute.wmv and "your poison womb is making heaven too loving crowded" will ever earnestly be called a Soros shill factory, bit these guys capacity for self deception is infinite I guess

Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

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I guess we should brace for the usual barrage of useful idiots then, depending on how big the news breaks. Will be curious to see if it's new ones or old ones.

Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

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Finally that Google news alert I set up so long ago for "Eliot Higgins suck my balls" pays off.

Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:

It reminds me of Thomas Paine, who is this icon of the American Revolution was called Tommy Paine the bodice maker by the English because I guess when he lived in England he made women's underclothes.

So you're saying he got his hands on a lot of boobs then

Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

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Any thoughts from you guys on Mikhail's Dossier Center thing? They're starting to publish more now, and have claimed Putin aligned mercenaries killed three of their reporters in Africa.

Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

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hailthefish posted:

It would kinda not surprise me at all if Russia blew him up as an excuse to openly and directly escalate in Ukraine, but who knows.

I was thinking that but just to get rid of the guy. It's not like he covered himself in glory the last little while.

Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

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CBC interviewed a Russian (non state-funded) journalist and apparently internally the response to the Skripal poisoning interview is mockery and disbelief:

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4822220

Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

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Man at this rate we'll be able to just combine all the ME and Russia threads. Save a lot of time that

Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

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CBC article citing the Bellingcat article and again implying that domestically this is going over like a leaf balloon:

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4833212

Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

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Brown Moses posted:

It's a summary of work done by Fontanka in Russia, so that's a harder one for them to argue against. I think they were the Russian organisation who first published the second suspects passport, with the same weirdness as the first suspect's passport. We've got some great stuff coming up on this as well, hopefully we'll be able to have it out early next week. The irony is, if it wasn't for the Russia Today interview with the suspects, we wouldn't have got as much interest in the article we published, which led to people reaching out to us with more information, which further undermines the claims of the suspects. It's great.

I think some of that is the sheer contempt of the "cover up" and the laziness of the RT interview. Like sure MoD can put out nonsensical crap, people are used to that. But when they can poke holes in a story that isn't presented as a fait accompli by a government organ they'll be more tempted to do so.

Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

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Seeing articles from the Beeb, independent, telegraph etc on this. Interestingly they mention that British home office apparently already knows the real id of both guys.

Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

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If I'm that beer company that goes into the advertising right away

Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

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Wow I saw all the posts and came in here for more Russian spy tomfoolery but actually learned Real Info about Latvia instead. Thanks guys that was interesting

Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

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Tonton Macoute posted:

The way I understood it, OIK is a scheme that is intended to subsidize producers of renewable energy. The public distributor (think the public power company) buys energy from small and independent producers that produce energy using renewable sources or co-generation plants and passes a significant part of the cost onto the endusers, thus raising the energy prices for everyone.

Of course, it turned out that the scheme had been set up and managed incompetently and/or negligently for most of this decade. Permits had been given out to power plants that didn't produce electricity, to plants that did not meet the criteria, etc. Lots of money was apparently wasted on bogus contracts and all of that was made worse by the fact that a couple hundred millions were spent on this during the worst periods of austerity while social services were being cut. It's a big talking point.


Hard to tell if you're being sarcastic or not. In either case, see the Q&A for the For Alternative party (the kooks with the strange logo discussed earlier) below:

https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/election/10-questions-to-for-an-alternative.a294293/

No sarcasm here, legit interested

Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

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I'm at work so any deets on the Phillips meltdown would be appreciated. How did he show up at the event, I thought he couldn't enter the country?

Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:

Brown Moses is bad! You'll just have to take my word on that.

Well gently caress, I knew that he posts here

Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

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How's he even there? I thought they expelled a bunch of staff

Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

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I read an article yesterday saying a TV actor (the president from a more comedic west wing type show apparently) is polling ahead of other candidates in Ukraine so that could be interesting. Not sure I'd that's a Donald Trump or Ronald Reagan metaphor though.

Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

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So that comedian I posted about made the run off in first place? Everything all right there Ukraine??

Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

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Oh man that's clever

Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

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Yeah they we're saving that one to take out the dreaded Italian air force

Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

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So is bellingcat going to figure out who "Vadim S." is? Allegedly did a bicycle drive by shooting on a Georgian dissident in Germany while there on "vacation".

Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

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Not sure if that's what brought this on, but the PM just had charges dropped in one of his fraud cases:

https://news.google.com/articles/CB...CA&ceid=CA%3Aen

Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

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I wonder if Bellingcat inspired them in some way...

Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

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I have a winxp start button because I run Classic shell to disable all the tiles/store stuff on Win10, it's not hard to get around

Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

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Is the new thing going to touch on that Chechen critic that was killed in his french hotel a couple weeks back? That one seemed pretty stinky too.

Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

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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.

Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

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Doctor Malaver posted:

I knew that name sounded familiar... She's a former astronaut. That's some CV! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina_Tereshkova

Yeah that was real weird to read about the first woman in space anointing Putin dictator for life.

Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

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Holy craaaaaaap. What a world. This is about as smoking gun as it gets, but what comes next? Obviously a troll farm operation about "crisis actor" on the phone, but like internationally.

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Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

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That 120 btw, almost three times more staff than any other equivalent (and many larger) countries. Almost like they have a lot of intelligence people doing bad poo poo there....

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