heywood on 21/7/2024 at 12:57
A photograph collection by Andrea Wenglowskyj made the rounds yesterday. It's of a Ukrainian scout camp called Novyi Sokil in Western New York, just an hour from where I grew up. It's just coming up on its 75th anniversary.
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https://www.andreawenglowskyj.com/sokil-1) https://www.andreawenglowskyj.com/sokil-1
Starker on 24/7/2024 at 22:43
A window falls out of Russia's top economist... oh, wait...
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https://www.newsweek.com/top-russian-economist-dies-after-falling-out-window-1929398)
Valentina Bondarenko, a top Russian economist, has died at the age of 82 after falling out of her apartment window in Moscow, Russian state-run media reported on Tuesday.
Bondarenko, a leading research fellow at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, fell out of her apartment window on Monday evening, emergency services told news agency Tass.
"She fell out of the window of her apartment, unfortunately, it was not possible to save her, the injuries she received were incompatible with life," the source said.
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Welcome to the Russian world, where windows are incompatible with life.
nickie on 30/7/2024 at 18:07
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A former US officer who was the only person to be convicted in connection with the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War has died, according to reports.
I doubt there are many or any people here who remember My Lai but it fundamentally changed my perception of the US. I believe that probably every country in the world has committed atrocities at one time or another but this was very shocking to me at the time, still young and naive but not yet cynical. That came later.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9wv9l7pe9po)
Nicker on 30/7/2024 at 18:10
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A window falls out of Russia's top economist... oh, wait...
Welcome to the Russian world, where windows are incompatible with life.
And just knowing a tiny part of the truth is a fatal health condition.
Cipheron on 18/8/2024 at 04:44
Fake electors being put on the paperwork to try and get radical leftist Cornel West onto the presidential ballot. Turns out, it's Republicans pushing it, because they want him to split the liberal vote.
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https://apnews.com/article/ballot-deception-cornel-west-conservatives-0d2c94da68bbd136442e63edadf14398)
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Republicans and their allies have worked to get West on the ballot in Arizona, Wisconsin, Virginia, North Carolina, Nebraska, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Maine.
Their hope is West will serve as a spoiler candidate, boosting former President Donald Trump's chance of winning in November by siphoning liberal support away from the Democratic nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, in battleground states that could be decided by just a few thousand votes.
Some random woman who's name was used used to work for
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a signature gathering contractor called Wells Marketing, a mysterious Missouri limited liability company, is leading the effort to get West on the ballot in Arizona. The company did not respond to a message seeking comment at a phone number listed for it.
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She and her husband were both enthusiastic supporters of Bernie Sanders and were drawn to West's progressive message earlier this year. They later took jobs gathering petition signatures to get an initiative on the ballot that would raise the wages of tipped workers. They soured on West's candidacy when they read that Republican-aligned operatives were working to get him on the ballot to play spoiler.
So her employer basically harvested the name of someone who quit the company, because they didn't like what the company was doing. The fact that they can't find willing people to put their name on this and have to basically steal identities is suss as hell.
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The company is closely affiliated with Mark Jacoby — a brother-in-law of a Wells Marketing official, according to social media posts — who was also listed on state documents as the employer of one signature gatherer working to get West on the ballot in the state.
Jacoby is a Republican-aligned operative from California with a longstanding reputation for using deceptive tactics. He was convicted in 2009 of voter registration fraud, court records show.
... the article goes on to list almost two decades of fraudulent signature-gathering and petition work done by this guy with his front groups. Classic dirty-tactics operative:
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He was accused in 2008 of tricking voters into registering with the California Republican Party by telling them they were signing an initiative to strengthen penalties for child molesters, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Other ones are unusual too:
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One of them, Elizabeth Rothgeb, pleaded guilty to manslaughter after accepting a plea deal stemming from the killing of her then-husband with an ax in 1998. She spent 10 years in prison and was released on Christmas Eve 2010, according to online records from the state prison system.
Rothgeb, who could not be reached for comment, is a registered Republican, as are two other electors for West, voting records show. Two additional electors listed in the state filings are not registered to vote at the addresses provided for them, records show.
So she's a MAGA ax murderer. It's unclear if she agreed to this or they just harvested her details from some database she was on however.
heywood on 19/8/2024 at 14:55
If you hand out wads of dark money to unscrupulous people there will be fraud. In North Carolina, state officials tried contacting a sample of 250 people who signed Cornel West's petition. They were only able to contact 49 out of the 250, and 18 of the 49 said they hadn't signed. Another thing that was fishy about it was the majority of signatories were from Republican-heavy counties, not the cities and university areas you'd expect West's support to come from. So the state board of elections disqualified him. Then a Republican federal judge ordered West on the ballot anyway. He's unlikely to affect the race there unless the margin is very, very close. But every vote counts, so if you've got money burning a hole in your pocket...
DuatDweller on 23/8/2024 at 20:02
Belgian Olympian who got sick after swim in Seine River says virus caused her illness, not E. coli
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/claire-michel-belgian-olympian-sick-seine-river-swim-virus-not-e-coli/)
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Bacteria levels in the long-polluted river have been in flux during the Games, causing test swims ahead of the triathlon events to be canceled and the men's triathlon to be delayed by a day. Organizers had said that water quality tests done the day of the individual triathlon races showed "very good" levels of fecal bacteria E. coli and enterococci.
:eww:
Nicker on 23/8/2024 at 23:05
Events ON the Seine? Splendid.
Events IN the Seine? WTF were you thinking?
DuatDweller on 24/8/2024 at 06:53
Quoted as it was, never touched the thing (e coli).
SD on 24/8/2024 at 20:15
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Events IN the Seine? WTF were you thinking?
You might say that the organisers were in-seine.
