Mark F Posted September 16, 2022 Report Share Posted September 16, 2022 (edited) serious, complicated Problems in Sweden and other places are maybe to some extent blowback from American wars, middle east, afghanistan. millions emigrated there, and probably many have not found a place, and probably some do not want tomfit in. throw in saudi funded extremist religious schools teaching hate, and .you have a problem. . Edited September 16, 2022 by Mark F Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue_gold_84 Posted September 20, 2022 Report Share Posted September 20, 2022 https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ukraine-russia-donetsk-luhansk-1.6588501 Quote Two Russian-controlled regions in Eastern Ukraine announced plans to hold referendums on joining Russia later this week and an ally of President Vladimir Putin said the votes would alter the geopolitical landscape in Moscow's favour forever. The move, which seriously escalates Moscow's standoff with the West, comes after Russia suffered a battlefield reversal in northeast Ukraine and as Putin ponders his next steps in a nearly seven-month-old conflict that has caused the most serious East-West rift since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. The Russian-backed, self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) and the neighbouring Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) said the planned referendums would be held from Sept. 23 to 27. In a post on social media addressed to Putin, DPR head Denis Pushilin wrote: "I ask you, as soon as possible, in the event of a positive decision in the referendum - which we have no doubt about - to consider the DPR becoming a part of Russia." Pretty much the same slimy **** they pulled in Crimea in 2014. Wanna-B-Fanboy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracker Posted September 20, 2022 Report Share Posted September 20, 2022 4 hours ago, blue_gold_84 said: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ukraine-russia-donetsk-luhansk-1.6588501 Pretty much the same slimy **** they pulled in Crimea in 2014. One of these ad hoc offices that was to be conducting the sham plebiscites was blown up a few days ago and in another instance, the Russian-appointed overseer of these referenda was killed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue_gold_84 Posted September 21, 2022 Report Share Posted September 21, 2022 https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/putin-russia-ukraine-military-escalation-1.6589739 Quote Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday announced a partial mobilization in Russia as the war in Ukraine reaches nearly seven months and Moscow loses ground on the battlefield. Putin also warned the West that "it's not a bluff" that Russia would use all the means at its disposal to protect its territory. The total number of reservists drafted in the partial mobilization is 300,000, officials said. Putin said the decision to partially mobilize was "fully adequate to the threats we face, namely to protect our homeland, its sovereignty and territorial integrity, to ensure the security of our people and people in the liberated territories." Putin accused the West in engaging in "nuclear blackmail" and noted "statements of some high-ranking representatives of the leading NATO states about the possibility of using nuclear weapons of mass destruction against Russia." "To those who allow themselves such statements regarding Russia, I want to remind you that our country also has various means of destruction, and for separate components and more modern than those of NATO countries, and when the territorial integrity of our country is threatened, to protect Russia and our people, we will certainly use all the means at our disposal," Putin said. He added: "It's not a bluff." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracker Posted September 21, 2022 Report Share Posted September 21, 2022 2 hours ago, blue_gold_84 said: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/putin-russia-ukraine-military-escalation-1.6589739 Desperation time for Putin. The Russian military has been giving their new recruits (from mental hospitals and max penitentiaries) two weeks training and sending them into battle. Many did not even know how to reload their weapons. I predict that, like the American army in Viet Nam, a lot of of officers and NCOs are going to be fragged (shot by their own men). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue_gold_84 Posted September 21, 2022 Report Share Posted September 21, 2022 https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/flights-out-russia-sell-out-after-putin-orders-partial-call-up-2022-09-21/ Quote GDANSK, Sept 21 (Reuters) - One-way flights out of Russia were rocketing in price and selling out fast on Wednesday after President Vladimir Putin ordered the immediate call-up of 300,000 reservists. Putin's announcement, made in an early-morning television address, raised fears that some men of fighting age would not be allowed to leave the country. Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said the call-up would be limited to those with experience as professional soldiers, and that students and conscripts would not be called up. The Kremlin declined to comment on whether the borders would be closed to those subject to the mobilisation order, and asked people to be patient as the law is clarified. Meanwhile, Google Trends data showed a spike in searches for Aviasales, Russia's most popular flight-booking site. Direct flights from Moscow to Istanbul in Turkey and Yerevan in Armenia, both destinations that allow Russians to enter without a visa, were sold out on Wednesday, according to Aviasales data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracker Posted September 21, 2022 Report Share Posted September 21, 2022 2 hours ago, blue_gold_84 said: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/flights-out-russia-sell-out-after-putin-orders-partial-call-up-2022-09-21/ And the road at the Russia-Finnish border is backed up for many kilometers. Some half-million Russians (many engineers, doctors etc) have left Russia in the past few months. There are critical shortages now in many fields (and I am not referring to farmers). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Tracker Posted September 22, 2022 Report Share Posted September 22, 2022 Ex-Putin Ally Plunges to His Death ‘From a Great Height’ at Moscow Aviation Institute An aviation expert has become the latest Russian official to fall to his death in mysterious circumstances. Anatoly Gerashchenko, the former head of Moscow’s Aviation Institute (MAI), died in a mysterious fall inside the institute’s headquarters in the Russian capital on Tuesday. The organization’s press office released a statement describing the 73-year-old’s death as “the result of an accident,” adding that his untimely demise was a “a colossal loss for the MAI and the scientific and pedagogical community.” Russian news outlet Izvestia, citing an unnamed source, reported that Gerashchenko “fell from a great height” and careened down several flights of stairs. He was reportedly pronounced dead at the scene. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildPath Posted September 22, 2022 Report Share Posted September 22, 2022 6 hours ago, blue_gold_84 said: This brought back memories I didn't realize I had. Having to guard phones to make sure a download finishes.... JCon, blue_gold_84, Tracker and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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blue_gold_84 Posted September 23, 2022 Report Share Posted September 23, 2022 https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/italy-election-vote-setup-1.6591602 Quote As Italy heads to the polls this Sunday to elect its next government, the country looks set to take its sharpest turn to the right since Benito Mussolini. Four years ago, Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy party, named after the opening words of the country's national anthem, was a hard-right outlier that had a mere four per cent of the vote, its post-Fascist origins and angry nationalist rhetoric too much for most Italians. Since then, Meloni, 45, has gone from little sister status among Italy's right-wing parties, including the anti-immigrant League led by Matteo Salvini and Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia, to dominating them. Latest polls put Brothers of Italy at 25 per cent — twice that of the League — and place Meloni in position to head a right-wing coalition that could capture enough votes for an unprecedented "super majority" in parliament. Observers say Meloni has got there through savvy, patient strategizing. A fractious centre-left whose main Democratic Party, several points behind the Brothers of Italy and whose leader Enrico Letta has all but conceded defeat, hasn't hurt. "The whole campaign of the centre-left has been, 'Vote for us because if [the right-wing coalition] wins, it's going to be a disaster,'" said Cecilia Emma Sottilotta, professor of politics at the American University of Rome. Mark F 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wideleft Posted September 23, 2022 Report Share Posted September 23, 2022 The "reservists" really don't want to do this. blue_gold_84 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HardCoreBlue Posted September 23, 2022 Report Share Posted September 23, 2022 37 minutes ago, Wideleft said: The "reservists" really don't want to do this. Oh to have a magic wand to wave where all of a sudden Rittenhouse finds himself once again needing to defend himself and provide medic care in a hostile environment . Wideleft 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue_gold_84 Posted September 23, 2022 Report Share Posted September 23, 2022 WildPath, Tracker, bustamente and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracker Posted September 23, 2022 Report Share Posted September 23, 2022 2 hours ago, blue_gold_84 said: The "poll" is being conducted door to door by an armed squad that looks on as the person fills out the form. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Mark F Posted September 25, 2022 Report Share Posted September 25, 2022 (edited) large demonstrations Iran. I remember Egypt, hope destroyed. seems that revolutions are often perverted, and taken over by the worst people. but brave people. hope they finally get something decent there. their first, and last democracy overthrown by CIA, early fifties. to save british oil interests. k Edited September 25, 2022 by Mark F blue_gold_84 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrostyWinnipeg Posted September 26, 2022 Report Share Posted September 26, 2022 https://edition.cnn.com/2022/09/26/europe/edward-snowden-russian-citizenship-putin-intl/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue_gold_84 Posted September 26, 2022 Report Share Posted September 26, 2022 https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-sanctions-morality-police-iran-1.6596070 Quote Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday that Canada will levy sanctions on "dozens" of Iranian individuals and entities — including the country's so-called "morality police" — as security forces in Iran continue to crack down violently on protesters. Iran has been rocked by protests since Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman, died after being detained by Iran's morality police this month — allegedly for not wearing her hijab properly. The demonstrations have spread to all of Iran's 31 provinces as people take to the streets to express their anger with Iran's theocratic government and its heavy-handed policing of what women wear. According to Iran's state media, at least 41 people have been killed during the protests. The state deployed live ammunition against demonstrators and has beefed up security forces in Kurdish areas of western Iran, where the protests have been concentrated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iHeart Posted September 26, 2022 Report Share Posted September 26, 2022 https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/26/americas/cuba-legalizes-same-sex-marriage-intl-latam/index.html?fbclid=IwAR3pL_E9fV9upwH3Vd4pMD-2iRenF2bUzA9bUFXaB2K1tncU1Tds5ztLagg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigblue204 Posted September 27, 2022 Report Share Posted September 27, 2022 On 2022-09-23 at 7:49 PM, Tracker said: Would this be better or worse? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCon Posted September 27, 2022 Report Share Posted September 27, 2022 12 hours ago, Bigblue204 said: Would this be better or worse? If it were real? Probably a lot worse, as it would mean that someone within the Party has taken control and they control the military. Bigblue204 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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