Comey was allegedly put in a bind by campaign(/russia)-linked machinations of the NY field office. I'm not impressed by the Obama handwringing either, but then I wasn't impressed by Gore or Clinton's concessions.
― Moo Vaughn, Saturday, 10 March 2018 18:24 (six years ago) link
When they go low, we go high!
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 10 March 2018 18:26 (six years ago) link
Here, cop a load o' some Novichok, gerrit down yer neck.
Although they're still alive, I assume this guy and his daughter are goners, they're never going to wake up are they?
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Monday, 12 March 2018 18:57 (six years ago) link
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/russian-spy-claims-poisoned-just-12165770
― Moo Vaughn, Monday, 12 March 2018 22:40 (six years ago) link
xp. From wikipedia :
Their effect on humans was demonstrated by the accidental exposure of Andrei Zheleznyakov, one of the scientists involved in their development, to the residue of an unspecified Novichok agent while working in a Moscow laboratory in May 1987. He was critically injured and took ten days to recover consciousness after the incident. He lost the ability to walk and was treated at a secret clinic in Leningrad for three months afterwards. The agent caused permanent harm, with effects that included "chronic weakness in his arms, a toxic hepatitis that gave rise to cirrhosis of the liver, epilepsy, spells of severe depression, and an inability to read or concentrate that left him totally disabled and unable to work." He never recovered and died in July 1992 after five years of increasing ill-health.[24]
― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Monday, 12 March 2018 22:55 (six years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/06/sergei-skripal-does-revenge-for-treason-lie-behind-harm-to-ex-spy
― Moo Vaughn, Monday, 12 March 2018 23:31 (six years ago) link
https://www.buzzfeed.com/patricksmith/counterterrorism-police-are-investigating-the-unexplained?utm_term=.vp5NWR4y56#.wgam96q2Nl
Here we go...
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 17:07 (six years ago) link
Although they're still alive, I assume this guy and his daughter are goners, they're never going to wake up are they?― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Monday, 12 March 2018 18:57 (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Monday, 12 March 2018 18:57 (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
O me of little faith...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03/29/yulia-skripal-conscious-talking-nearly-month-chemical-attack/
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 March 2018 18:09 (six years ago) link
Amazing: Putin bombs Syrians to aid Assad, precipitating a refugee crisis in which decent people fled for their lives.Now Putin's RT makes a racist documentary about why refugees should not be welcome in Sweden.Truly, the pits https://t.co/Qb4hoO9qxq— teresa smith (@treesey) July 6, 2018
― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Friday, 6 July 2018 22:12 (five years ago) link
Hardly surprising.
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Friday, 6 July 2018 22:14 (five years ago) link
https://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/21/europe/montenegro-attempted-coup-accusation/index.html
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 13:27 (five years ago) link
Vlad has his Bond villain pic
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-just-showed-off-a-potentially-world-ending-nuclear-doomsday-torpedo-that-the-us-cant-stop/ar-BBL0a2h
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 15:00 (five years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/world/europe/russia-uk-novichok-skripal.html
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 September 2018 12:18 (five years ago) link
Fuck, I had missed the whole part about the people finding the perfume bottle and falling ill/dying.
― how's life, Thursday, 6 September 2018 12:44 (five years ago) link
those two novichok victims are exactly the type of people who the Tory government have been trying to kill off themselves for the last 8 years. But they get upset when other ppl do it!
― calzino, Thursday, 6 September 2018 12:53 (five years ago) link
interesting
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/manhattan-us-attorney-announces-extradition-alleged-russian-hacker-responsible-massive?
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 7 September 2018 22:31 (five years ago) link
OTM, Russians >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> evil fucking Tory bastards.
― Scottish Country Tweerking (Tom D.), Friday, 7 September 2018 23:36 (five years ago) link
I find those alleged Russian agents' choice in street fashion 1000% unsurprising in every way
― Paleo Weltschmerz (El Tomboto), Saturday, 8 September 2018 00:18 (five years ago) link
i like how one is in all black and one is in all blue
― crüt, Saturday, 8 September 2018 01:50 (five years ago) link
Putin jokes Russia will "definitely" intervene in the 2020 US elections pic.twitter.com/wY51XTpboQ— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) October 2, 2019
― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 14:45 (four years ago) link
meh what's the big deal?
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 14:46 (four years ago) link
just a little surrealism for your wednesday
― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 14:47 (four years ago) link
maybe i'm alone in thinking things like this are intensely surreal
― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 14:48 (four years ago) link
Putin would be good at Cheat
― ogmor, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 14:49 (four years ago) link
lol
― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 14:54 (four years ago) link
The Russian Federation is possibly evil, but is it an "empire"?
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 3 October 2019 04:14 (four years ago) link
I don't speak Russian and this doesn't have subtitles and I don't know how to get subtitles for it but the translated original tweet pretty much says it all:
Неделю назад, перед публикацией видео об отравителях из ФСБ, я сел за телефон и начал звонить своим убийцам. С одним из них я говорил 45 минут. Теперь мы знаем очень многое:https://t.co/cEi8rbgxO4— Alexey Navalny (@navalny) December 21, 2020
"A week ago, before publishing a video about the FSB poisoners, I sat down at the phone and started calling my killers. I spoke with one of them for 45 minutes. Now we know a lot"
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 21 December 2020 14:10 (three years ago) link
OK, translation and story apparently here:
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2020/12/21/if-it-hadnt-been-for-the-prompt-work-of-the-medics-fsb-officer-inadvertently-confesses-murder-plot-to-navalny/
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 21 December 2020 14:11 (three years ago) link
this is just astounding
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 21 December 2020 14:37 (three years ago) link
I can't begin to imagine goig through this and then returning to the country, as he plans
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 21 December 2020 14:38 (three years ago) link
what kind of numbskull is this guy to answer these questions on an unsecured line? It can only be that the virus/fever impaired his judgment that he actually went along with this...just incredible
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 21 December 2020 14:49 (three years ago) link
Amused by the protracted Tomsk/Omsk confusion at the beginning
― timber euros (seandalai), Monday, 21 December 2020 18:06 (three years ago) link
WATCH: 8 Russian diplomats and their families used a hand-car to cross the border from North Korea to return home as rail service between the 2 countries was suspended due to the pandemic pic.twitter.com/NJlxFHQpJ6— Bloomberg Quicktake (@Quicktake) February 26, 2021
― calzino, Friday, 26 February 2021 18:15 (three years ago) link
damn i was hoping it was going to be one of those ones with the pumping arm
― himpathy with the devil (jim in vancouver), Friday, 26 February 2021 18:36 (three years ago) link
lol yeah that would have been perfect
― calzino, Friday, 26 February 2021 18:37 (three years ago) link
it's actually even worse that they don't even get the pumping arm!
― Nhex, Friday, 26 February 2021 19:09 (three years ago) link
this is a classic 'what's on your ipod?' situation
― map ca. 1890 (map), Friday, 26 February 2021 19:55 (three years ago) link
Some story this.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/24/belarus-put-on-notice-of-sanctions-over-hijack-of-ryanair-flight
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Monday, 24 May 2021 19:11 (two years ago) link
See also https://ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?showall=true&bookmarkedmessageid=7990150&boardid=40&threadid=100650
― nashwan, Monday, 24 May 2021 21:36 (two years ago) link
I represented Belarus in the Model United Nations summit in Hershey, Pennsylvania, 2005. AMA.
― treeship., Monday, 24 May 2021 21:55 (two years ago) link
(xp) Oh right, somehow failed to notice that thread.
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Monday, 24 May 2021 22:09 (two years ago) link