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williegoat
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JUN 26, 09:53 AM
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rinselberg
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JUN 26, 12:21 PM
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Iron Chef?
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rinselberg
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JUN 26, 07:06 PM
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Presidential elections are scheduled to be held in Russia in March 2024. In accordance with electoral law, the first round will be held on Sunday, 17 March. If no candidate receives more than half the vote, a second round will take place exactly three weeks later on 7 April 2024.
"Lightning" poll... Putin or Prigozhin?
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rinselberg
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JUN 26, 08:44 PM
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Bouillabaisse? Lobster Thermidor? Filet of Sole Almondine?
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WonderBoy
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JUN 27, 12:29 AM
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rinselberg
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JUN 27, 08:06 AM
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According to retired U.S. Army general Barry McCaffrey and other sources, "Choke Out" was a young Yevgeny Prigozhin's first commercial venture. The famed Wagner Group magnate was just a teenager, prowling the nighttime streets of Leningrad (now St Petersburg), when he encountered a young, stylishly dressed woman. One of Prigozhin's accomplices approached the woman, courteously asking her for a "light", while Prigozhin slipped around behind her and grabbed her throat with his hands, restricting the airflow to her lungs until she became unconscious. Prigozhin and an accomplice deftly removed the woman's leather boots and earrings, with a mind to strategically redirecting the merchandise towards the second hand fashion market.
Buoyed by this first commercial success, the enterprising young Prigozhin was soon busily burglarizing Leningrad apartments, already exhibiting the trademark ambition and savvy that would later serve him so well as Putin's "chef" and eventually, the CEO of Wagner Group.
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rinselberg
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JUN 27, 09:41 AM
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What a "crock"..!
During World War Two, neither the United States or Great Britain went so far as to shut down all party and electoral politics, but neither the United States or Great Britain had to fight on their home soil against invading armies.
What kind of a doofus thinks that Ukraine should be expected to have party and electoral politics at a time when its major cities are the targets of intermittent missile and drone attacks, its military is fully engaged in fighting against Russian invaders, and millions of Ukrainians have become refugees in other countries or have become internally displaced from their homes and neighborhoods?
The only Orthodox churches that were shut down or restricted were churches with clergy that were seen to have pro-Russian leanings.
The dictator is Vladimir Putin, not Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
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rinselberg
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JUN 28, 12:53 PM
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82-T/A [At Work]
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JUN 28, 01:09 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by rinselberg:
According to retired U.S. Army general Barry McCaffrey and other sources, "Choke Out" was a young Yevgeny Prigozhin's first commercial venture. The famed Wagner Group magnate was just a teenager, prowling the nighttime streets of Leningrad (now St Petersburg), when he encountered a young, stylishly dressed woman. One of Prigozhin's accomplices approached the woman, courteously asking her for a "light", while Prigozhin slipped around behind her and grabbed her throat with his hands, restricting the airflow to her lungs until she became unconscious. Prigozhin and an accomplice deftly removed the woman's leather boots and earrings, with a mind to strategically redirecting the merchandise towards the second hand fashion market.
Buoyed by this first commercial success, the enterprising young Prigozhin was soon busily burglarizing Leningrad apartments, already exhibiting the trademark ambition and savvy that would later serve him so well as Putin's "chef" and eventually, the CEO of Wagner Group.
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Rinse, I am very much enjoying the fact that the left on Twitter was fawning over Prigozhin last weekend. He was their new hero.
Even this post here on Fiero.NL: That's how you do an insurection <sic>
... was to emphasize how thrilled the left was with Prigozhin... and yet also emphasizing what I've known all along... the left believes supporting Ukraine is somehow an attack on Republicans. Which that post was... a dig to Republicans... HA HA... look, the good people will win, take that Republicans. No one except the Communist Party USA (who is very quiet lately) wants Putin to win. Everyone... I mean everyone, wants Putin to lose.
But it was very hilarious to me how quickly the left was willing to immediately fawn over LITERALLY the person responsible for the Internet Research Agency, because they believed the propaganda (which he's known for) that something was going to happen. It didn't even last an afternoon.
But those 3 hours were rife with fantastic stories like... "Putin has fled Moscow..." or, "Putin is preparing a statement from his bunker..."
I can enjoy this, because this moment encompasses pretty much everything I've been expressing is wrong with the left, and how quickly they're willing to follow anything so long as the media-led narrative tells them to. Absolutely no critical thought.
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rinselberg
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JUN 28, 03:36 PM
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I wasn't ecstatic about Choke Out pioneer Yevgeny Prigozhin or the prospects for his "March for Justice" from Rostov-on-Don towards Moscow when it first started to break as a news story. Just hopeful. I'm still hopeful that it augurs something better for Ukraine, and better for the decent people in Russia. Obviously, that is still very much to be seen.
I don't "do" Twitter. Sometimes I will go to Twitter to follow a link from a news story, or a link that someone posts on this forum.[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 06-29-2023).]
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