Tracker Posted October 27, 2022 Report Share Posted October 27, 2022 (edited) 16 minutes ago, Wideleft said: My mistake. For some reason I misread "satellites" as "airliners". You are forgiven. Go and sin no more. Edited October 27, 2022 by Tracker WildPath, Wideleft and JCon 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Mark F Posted October 28, 2022 Report Share Posted October 28, 2022 7 hours ago, 17to85 said: Yeah putin seriously overplayed his hand here. Why would countries go back to an unreliable source now? very stupid move by Europe/ Germany to get involved with Putin. "Gerhard Schröder, the former left-leaning Chancellor of Germany, has been nominated to the board of a Russian state-owned gas company. The move to nominate Schröder to the board of Gazprom has prompted mass outcry amongst German politicians, while the country as a whole has been slammed as of late for its overreliance on Russian natural gas. According to a report from POLITICO, Gerhard Schröder was on an official list of candidates for the board of directors that was published on Friday. Names for the board will be voted on during a shareholders’ meeting in St. Petersburg that is slated for June. If elected, this will be far from the first senior position on a Russian energy company the ex-chancellor has held, with German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle reporting that he is also serving as chairman of the supervisory board of Russian state energy company Rosneft, chairman of the shareholders’ committee for Nord Stream AG, and as president of the board of directors at Nord Stream 2 AG. Of particular note is the fact that Schröder was the one to initially approve the Nord Stream 2 project during his time as Germany’s Chancellor, a project that has since come under heavy fire for making Germany too reliant on Russian energy. The ex-German Chancellor is also well known for being very good friends with Russian President Vladimir Putin." think he is a mite unpopular in germany now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HardCoreBlue Posted October 28, 2022 Report Share Posted October 28, 2022 15 hours ago, Tracker said: I love that last sentence. Great way to frame it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wideleft Posted October 28, 2022 Report Share Posted October 28, 2022 15 hours ago, Tracker said: Great quote, but the important question is, "Who do you think "they" are?" The left has been saying this for decades and yet we hear this as mainstream right-wing rhetoric now. The problem is, the right does everything in it's power to preserve the status quo, while talking out of the other side of their mouths to attract the low-information vote. JCon, WildPath, Fatty Liver and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wideleft Posted October 28, 2022 Report Share Posted October 28, 2022 aaaaand a google search of that quote takes me to an anti-vax, climate denying, pro-Putin twitter account..... WildPath and Wanna-B-Fanboy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCon Posted October 28, 2022 Report Share Posted October 28, 2022 1 minute ago, Wideleft said: aaaaand a google search of that quote takes me to an anti-vax, climate denying, pro-Putin twitter account..... This is my shocked face: Wideleft, WildPath, blue_gold_84 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wanna-B-Fanboy Posted October 28, 2022 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2022 46 minutes ago, Wideleft said: aaaaand a google search of that quote takes me to an anti-vax, climate denying, pro-Putin twitter account..... JCon and blue_gold_84 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iHeart Posted October 30, 2022 Report Share Posted October 30, 2022 Brazil is wiser than I thought and they're the country with the bigass Christ the Redeemer statue WildPath and Mark F 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracker Posted October 30, 2022 Report Share Posted October 30, 2022 In the last few days the Russians have poured some 30,000 troops (mostly untrained, many unarmed or armed with WW2 weapons) into the Donbas conflict zone. In the last 24 hours, the Russians have suffered their largest single-day losses (1100-1300) of the invasion. The Russian air force has lost more than a quarter of their warplanes and are no longer providing air support out of fear of Ukrainian anti-aircraft weaponry. It has been estimated that more than 75% of Russian tanks and APCs are non-operational. As a real blow to Russian military morale, a capital ship in a harbour once thought safe has been hit by missile and is on fire. this ship was used to launch cruise missiles against civilian targets in Ukraine. Putin is apoplectic. In retaliation, Russia has said it will fire on any grain ships leaving port with grain desperately needed in Africa and Asia, but NATO has announced it will send escort ships into the Black Sea to protect these ships. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracker Posted October 30, 2022 Report Share Posted October 30, 2022 A SCRAP OF SANITY HAS RETURNED TO THE WORLD AS NEO-FASCIST BRAZIL PRESIDENT BOLSONARO IS DEFEATED DESPITE HIS DIRTY TRICKS Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won the presidential election. Wideleft 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue_gold_84 Posted October 31, 2022 Report Share Posted October 31, 2022 https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/lula-wins-brazilian-election-bolsonaro-has-not-conceded-2022-10-31/ Quote SAO PAULO/BRASILIA, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Brazil's outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro had on Monday yet to concede defeat in the presidential election, raising fears the far-right nationalist might contest the victory of his leftist rival, former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Of course. Just part of the playbook. Mark F, JCon, the watcher and 1 other 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracker Posted October 31, 2022 Report Share Posted October 31, 2022 18 minutes ago, blue_gold_84 said: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/lula-wins-brazilian-election-bolsonaro-has-not-conceded-2022-10-31/ Of course. Just part of the playbook. Sounds familiar.....where have we heard this before? Trump? Manitoba PC party leadership race? WildPath 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracker Posted November 1, 2022 Report Share Posted November 1, 2022 Bolsonaro Plays Trump Card: Won’t Concede as Fans Block Roads -Reuters SÃO PAULO—The biggest and busiest city in South America was forced into a stunning standstill Monday night after supporters of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro blocked roads across the city to protest the results of a fair and free election. Hundreds of Bolsonaro supporters, embittered by the victory of former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva on Sunday, blocked the highway to the main airport in São Paulo, setting up barricades, chanting phrases like “Lula the robber!,” and starting fires in the middle of the road. The populist rightwinger has yet to concede the election since the unprecedentedly close result was announced Sunday, with leftist former president Lula winning by just 1.8 percentage points. With fears mounting that Bolsonaro could take a leaf from the playbook of his close ally, Donald Trump, and refuse to accept the result, truckers loyal to the incumbent have taken matters into their own hands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue_gold_84 Posted November 2, 2022 Report Share Posted November 2, 2022 https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/north-korea-missiles-1.6637613 Quote North Korea fired at least 17 missiles into the sea on Wednesday, including one that landed less than 60 kilometres off South Korea's coast, which the South's President Yoon Suk-yeol described as "territorial encroachment" by Pyongyang. It was the first time a ballistic missile had landed near the South's waters since the peninsula was divided, and the most missiles fired by the North in a single day. South Korea issued rare air raid warnings and launched its own missiles in response as tensions spiralled in the region. South Korean warplanes in response fired three air-to-ground missiles into the sea north across the Northern Limit Line (NLL), a disputed inter-Korean maritime border, the South's military said. An official said the weapons used included an AGM-84H/K SLAM-ER, which is a U.S.-made precision attack weapon that can fly for up to 270 kilometres with a 360-kilogram warhead. The South's launches came after Yoon's office vowed a "swift and firm response" so North Korea "pays the price for provocation." "North Korea's provocation today was an effective act of territorial encroachment by a missile intruding the NLL for the first time since [the two Koreas'] division," Yoon's office said. Nuclear-armed North Korea has tested a record number of missiles this year, and officials in Seoul and Washington say the North has completed technical preparations to conduct a nuclear weapon test for the first time since 2017. The launches came just hours after Pyongyang demanded that the United States and South Korea stop large-scale military exercises, saying such "military rashness and provocation can be no longer tolerated." The United States and South Korea began one of their largest combined military air drills on Monday. Dubbed Vigilant Storm, the exercises involve hundreds of warplanes from both sides staging mock attacks 24 hours a day. North Korea had said that a recent flurry of launches were in response to allied drills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrostyWinnipeg Posted November 2, 2022 Report Share Posted November 2, 2022 New record now North Korea launches a record 23 missiles in one day, and sends one across its sea border with South Korea for the first time. South Korea responded by performing its own missile tests at the same border area. https://nbcnews.to/3DT9yXF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCon Posted November 2, 2022 Report Share Posted November 2, 2022 1 minute ago, FrostyWinnipeg said: New record now North Korea launches a record 23 missiles in one day, and sends one across its sea border with South Korea for the first time. South Korea responded by performing its own missile tests at the same border area. https://nbcnews.to/3DT9yXF Without Trump in power to lavish praise on Kim, he needs attention from elsewhere. Dictators are attention ***res. Mark F 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Mark F Posted November 4, 2022 Report Share Posted November 4, 2022 On 2022-11-02 at 10:26 AM, FrostyWinnipeg said: New record now North Korea launches a record 23 missiles in one day, and sends one across its sea border with South Korea for the first time. South Korea responded by performing its own missile tests at the same border area. https://nbcnews.to/3DT9yXF ours is such a clever species. "he did it first" the watcher 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue_gold_84 Posted November 5, 2022 Report Share Posted November 5, 2022 https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ukraine-power-blackouts-russian-drones-iran-1.6641922 Quote Iran acknowledged for the first time on Saturday that it had supplied Moscow with drones but said they were sent before the war in Ukraine, where Russia has used them to target power stations and civilian infrastructure. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said a "small number" of drones had been shipped a few months before Russia's Feb 24 invasion. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Tehran of lying, saying Kyiv's forces were downing at least 10 of the unmanned aerial vehicles every day. In Iran's most detailed response to date, Amirabdollahian denied Tehran was continuing to supply drones to Moscow. "This fuss made by some Western countries that Iran has provided missiles and drones to Russia to help the war in Ukraine — the missile part is completely wrong," the official IRNA news agency quoted him as saying. "The drone part is true and we provided Russia a small number of drones months before the Ukraine war," he said. In recent weeks Ukraine has reported a surge in drone attacks on civilian infrastructure, notably targeting power stations and dams, using Iranian-made Shahed-136 drones. Russia denies its forces have used Iranian drones to attack Ukraine. Scumbag regimes can't get their stories straight. **** 'em. Tracker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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FrostyWinnipeg Posted November 7, 2022 Report Share Posted November 7, 2022 Getting close to zero hour. North Korea says missile tests were practice to attack South and U.S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wanna-B-Fanboy Posted November 7, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2022 33 minutes ago, FrostyWinnipeg said: Getting close to zero hour. North Korea says missile tests were practice to attack South and U.S. To be fair though DPRK, has always run tests to strike South Korea and the U.S.A. Nothing new here. Tracker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracker Posted November 7, 2022 Report Share Posted November 7, 2022 Kim Jung-Un knows, despite his bluster and strutting for attention, that he would be among the first casualties in an all-out war. His personality mirrors Trump almost perfectly and egotists value their own comfort and survival above all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark F Posted November 8, 2022 Report Share Posted November 8, 2022 19 hours ago, Tracker said: Kim Jung-Un knows, despite his bluster and strutting for attention, that he would be among the first casualties in an all-out war. His personality mirrors Trump almost perfectly and egotists value their own comfort and survival above all. saudi arabia would probably take him. remember when they sheltered idi amin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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