calodo2003
Flaming Full Member
Fair enough.NATO ally too.
Fair enough.NATO ally too.
At Site of U.K. Poisoning, Doubts About Case Creep In.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/16/world/europe/uk-skripal-russia-salisbury-propaganda.html
That's the NYT headline.How do you expect to be treated seriously if you are going to paraphrase that unbelieveable crap you just just posted as " doubts creep in ".
Yeah but justify it, go on I dare you, find the new source, new information or new logic in this report. Have you read it? Are you going on record as supporting the headline?That's the NYT headline.
I've used up my free NYT articles for this month unfortunately...
Yeah but justify it, go on I dare you, find the new source, new information or new logic in this report. Have you read it? Are you going on record as supporting the headline?
"I've used up my free NYT articles for this month unfortunately...
Fair enough!"
- June 16, 2018
SALISBURY, ENGLAND — After Sergei V. Skripal, her Russian neighbor, was poisoned by a military-grade nerve agent, Lisa Carey pricked her ears for any information about this bizarre series of events.
Three and a half months later, Ms. Carey, 45, a resident of Salisbury, England, where the attack on the former Russian spy occurred, has come to a firm conclusion: Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, whom Britain holds responsible for the poisoning, would never have ordered an assassination on the eve of a national election or the World Cup.
Mr. Putin is “not a silly man,” she says. If he wants someone dead, she added, they end up dead. “Someone stitched him up,” she wrote recently. “Whoever did this made it look like Putin did it.”
Though Ms. Carey’s opinion is not a common one in Salisbury, she’s not alone, either."
If that is not an expert opinion I don't know what is.
Are you out of your meds and need your prescription renewed or something? All I did was post a link to the NY Times article with the headline from that very same article, nothing more.Have you read the shit you just linked there. How do you expect to be treated seriously if you are going to paraphrase that unbelieveable crap you just just posted as " doubts creep in ".
Here is the highlight for me
"Others fret about the ducks that used to gather on the Avon River near where the Skripals collapsed, saying they must have been quietly culled."
OMG the shells fall from my eyes, the ducks have gone Russia is innocent.
FFS you are embarrassing yourself.
So basically your article confirms Russian social media & news outlets are spreading fake news about the incident. What a scoopIn the weeks that followed, though, Britain’s control over the narrative slipped away.
As the British authorities went silent on the progress of their investigation, English-language Russian outlets flooded social media with more than a dozen alternative theories: The United States had poisoned Mr. Skripal to deflect attention from Russia’s geopolitical successes; Britain did it to deflect attention from Brexit; the nerve agent had been accidentally released from a chemical weapons laboratory nearby; a drone did it; Yulia Skripal’s future mother-in-law did it.
This blitz of skepticism came to dominate social media conversations. In early April, the Atlantic Council found that four of the six most-shared English-language articles on the case came from Kremlin media outlets. The theories are seeding doubt, even in Salisbury.
“It’s really peculiar the Russian government is going out and saying all this stuff, and, generally speaking, there is no response from the British government,” said Matthew Dean, the leader of Salisbury’s City Council and the owner of the Duke of York, a local pub.
There have been plenty of fake news from the British media about the case as well from the moment the incident took place, doesn't mean much, since propaganda is spread from both sides. And not every article is supposed to be a scoop, genius. Sometimes it's just food for thought, for everyone to draw their own conclusions.So basically your article confirms Russian social media & news outlets are spreading fake news about the incident. What a scoop
What fake news would that be then? Most of the UK news I've read on this seems, to me at least, based on what little knowledge we publicly know about this incident.There have been plenty of fake news from the British media about the case as well from the moment the incident took place, doesn't mean much, since propaganda is spread from both sides. And not every article is supposed to be a scoop, genius. Sometimes it's just food for thought, for everyone to draw their own conclusions.
It’s a criminal investigation and a pretty serious one at that. The government aren’t likely to give a running commentary on their findings even if people have questions that “they” want answering. They don’t give confidential information away just to humour the general public. That’s the way investigations work in most countries.Whether the residents of Salisbury are a bunch of morons who know nothing or speak nonsense is irrelevant. Nobody in this forum has any insight into what's really going on and it doesn't stop anyone from voicing their opinion, sitting on their own sofas thousands of miles away from the crime scene. The point of this article is that when you keep people in the dark and don't give answers for months now to any legitimate questions that arise in the aftermath of what happened, it creates a vacuum that can be filled with either the opposing side propaganda or any sort of hare brained conspiracy theories that start floating around whenever the government fails to come up with anything remotely believable to back up their claims.
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It's a joke, Raoul. You really need to stop posting about stuff you have no slightest understanding about. Slutsky was commenting the game and his co-commentator used the phrase "navalny football' to describe what was going on on the pitch. In Russian the word 'navalny' means something like "attack in mass", "pile up" and it's also coincindentally the last name of the Russian blogger/opposition leader Alexey Navalny. So when Slutsky heard the word he replied jokingly:"Navalny's playing football? That's interesting". Slutsky is a new manager of Vitesse and he's starting a preseason with the club on June 24th. The fact that he's not going to comment any more of the WC games has nothing to do with this innocent comment and everything to do with his new job. No need to look for conspiracy where there's none.Tweet
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Viktoria’s films and chemistry lessons sound very different from those in the rest of the world.What was not at play was a military grade nerve agent, she insisted: “We all studied chemistry at school, we watched the films. We know a military grade substance when we see it.”
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45122723
Breaking : Russia faces US sanctions over Skripal incident.
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Just delete the word mobile in the URLhttps://mobile.twitter.com/Schuldensuehner?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author
Can’t seem to paste tweets but Russian rouble just dropped >3%
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Just done it accidentally but don’t remember how. Best I try to remember your bit about the mobile in future. Thanks.Just delete the word mobile in the URL
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But the daughter is potentially going back to Russia, right? How can Russia be behind the poisoning then?https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45122723
Breaking : Russia faces US sanctions over Skripal incident.
I'm sure its possible for her to want to return home and at the same time her government were responsible for the poisoning.But the daughter is potentially going back to Russia, right? How can Russia be behind the poisoning then?
Poor attempt at sarcasm in my part, stuck in I-4 traffic & typing left handed.I'm sure its possible for her to want to return home and at the same time her government were responsible for the poisoning.
Mystery Russian satellite's behaviour raises alarm in US
- 15 August 2018
The US says it does not know what the satellite is or why it is behaving strangely
A mysterious Russian satellite displaying "very abnormal behaviour" has raised alarm in the US, according to a State Department official.
"We don't know for certain what it is and there is no way to verify it," said assistant secretary Yleem Poblete at a conference in Switzerland on 14 August.
She voiced fears that it was impossible to say if the object may be a weapon.
Russia has dismissed the comments as "unfounded, slanderous accusations based on suspicions".
The satellite in question was launched in October last year.
"[The satellite's] behaviour on-orbit was inconsistent with anything seen before from on-orbit inspection or space situational awareness capabilities, including other Russian inspection satellite activities," Ms Poblete told the conference on disarmament in Switzerland.
"Russian intentions with respect to this satellite are unclear and are obviously a very troubling development," she added, citing recent comments made by the commander of Russia's Space Forces, who said adopting "new prototypes of weapons" was a key objective for the force.
Ms Poblete said that the US had "serious concerns" that Russia was developing anti-satellite weapons.
Alexander Deyneko, a senior Russian diplomat, told the Reuters news agency that the comments were "the same unfounded, slanderous accusations based on suspicions, on suppositions and so on".
He called on the US to contribute to a Russian-Chinese treaty that seeks to prevent an arms race in space.
'Lasers or microwaves'
Space weapons may be designed to cause damage in more subtle ways than traditional weapons like guns, which could cause a lot of debris in orbit, explained Alexandra Stickings, a research analyst at the Royal United Services Institute.
"[Such weapons may include] lasers or microwave frequencies that could just stop [a satellite] working for a time, either disable it permanently without destroying it or disrupt it via jamming," she said.
But it was difficult to know what technology is available because so much information on space-based capabilities is classified, she added.
She also said it would be very difficult to prove that any event causing interference in space was an intentional, hostile action by a specific nation state.
Ms Poblete's comments were particularly interesting in light of President Donald Trump's decision to launch a sixth branch of the US armed forces named Space Force, added Ms Stickings.
"The narrative coming from the US is, 'space was really peaceful, now look at what the Russians and Chinese are doing' - ignoring the fact that the US has developed its own capabilities."
A spokesman for the UK's Ministry of Defence said he could neither confirm nor deny any tracking of Russian satellites.
"There are a range of threats and hazards to all space capabilities in what is an increasingly contested domain," he said.
"These include the development of counter-space weapons by a number of nations.
"The UK is working closely with international allies, including the US, to re-enforce responsible and safe behaviours in space and to build knowledge, understanding and resilience."
This happened some time ago didn't it ?Three Russian journalists investigating a Russian private military contractor, working for the Kremlin, shot dead in Central African Republic.
Yes, a few weeks ago. I'm just hearing about it on CNN.This happened some time ago didn't it ?