roseweird posted:could you make all of your future posts pm's to yourself? tia
i agree but pms to me
mongosteen posted:I'm sniping this page, but will, upon request, edit it to whatever the first person who asks desires.
change it to this: "I'm sniping this page, but will, upon request, edit it to whatever the first person who asks desires."
mongosteen posted:Does anybody remember the WDDP poster "peenworm?" I just remembered how he wouldn't let his vegan son watch TV or videogames because he didn't want him to grow up to be a weirdo. I respect his commitment to principles.
Personally I feel like he should have focused on improving his son by giving him a non broken home to grow up in, but life isn't always what we want it to be.
and it stinks to high heaven!
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jools posted:its more wikileaks shite
the state dept. cables were actually a great resource for analyzing US imperialism, sorry for your cynicism.
jools posted:mark ames is a whining baby, apparently
he makes a legitimate point, and he makes it because he's angry that glen greenwald once commented on ames' being a misogynist and rapist
jools posted:is that you who unlocked that HK. if so why do you have my surname.
i v. rarely pay for subscriptions to online content, so no.
its hilarious to me that every time these horrendous programs and international campaigns of murder and injustice are revealed, confirmed, or elucidated through direct leaks of classified information, the entirety of the conversation boils down to whether or not the leakers zhimselves are "Heroes", a designation automatically conferred to every 18 year old date rapist, drug-sentence-avoiding juvie, and Green Zone file clerk "brave" enough to walk into a tent and sign a government contract in exchange for college money, with people on the left obsessing over the leakers not sufficiently sacrificing themselves on the Cross of the American Justice System to make their actions valid, not pouring enough of their own blood onto the documents to baptize them in Meaning. Everyone in America has a martyr complex by proxy--on the right it manifests as an everpresent sense of persecution where none exists, and on the left it manifests as the desire to throw onesself in front of the spear when none have asked
The investment company I worked for at that time needed a lawyer (lol), and we arranged to meet Vasya at the Radisson hotel, but he never showed up that day — it turned out that he’d been arrested by Moscow’s racist police. Vasya was half-Armenian, which to Russian cops meant he was a “black-ass” who could be shaken down for bribe money, or tossed into a holding cell.
Now it was 2002, and Vasya was the top legal executive at Russia’s largest oil company, Yukos, which at one time ranked as the fourth largest oil company in the world.
First they came for the top legal executive at Russia's largest oil company,
and I didn't speak out because...
The oil company was stripped and looted, its global investors robbed by Putin’s cronies. My old circle of friends in Moscow was gutted by the jailings — both Russian and American friends of mine were jailed or exiled. Nothing was ever the same.
my circle of millionaire oil fiends...the global investors... 
Superabound posted:zhimselves
I don't think you "get" what we're trying to do here.
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if he was carrying anything of importance surelly the russians, chinese, other passengers in the international area of the moscow airport would have taken it by now.
Noosphere posted:i don't understand why this is a thing.
if he was carrying anything of importance surelly the russians, chinese, other passengers in the international area of the moscow airport would have taken it by now.
the Internet is one big dead drop
Austria's deputy chancellor, Michael Spindelegger, claimed Morales "agreed to a voluntary inspection". But Bolivian officials denied that, and said the Austrians had risked the president's life. Bolivia's vice-president, Alvaro García Linera, said Morales was "kidnapped by imperialism".
It is assumed that the US was behind the operation, though Washington has yet to comment. Earlier in the week, the US state department said it hoped Snowden would be returned to the US to face charges of espionage and theft after a string of other countries said they would not accept his petition for asylum.
Speaking before the developments in Vienna, a state department spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, rejected claims made by Snowden on Monday that the US had bullied other potential hosts, such as Ecuador, into withdrawing their offer of asylum. The US says it has only impressed upon possible host countries the seriousness of the crimes that Snowden has been charged with.
Psaki said: "We have been in contact with a range of countries that had a chance of having Snowden land or travel through their country, but I am not going to outline those countries were or when this happened." She refused to confirm or deny specific involvement in the flight or address questions on whether it was a breach of diplomatic protocol, saying these were matters for European countries.
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It's a match made in spy heaven!
Sexy spook Anna Chapman, busted in the summer of 2010 as part of a sleeper cell of Russian agents, proposed to fugitive NSA leaker Edward Snowden on Twitter.
Before being outed as a spy, Chapman — the daughter of a Russian diplomat — worked as a real estate agent in New York City. Following her return to Russia, Chapman worked as a model, became the celebrity face of a Moscow bank and joined the leadership of the youth wing of the main pro-Kremlin party.
https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=ChapmanAnna&tw_i=352480982101798913&tw_p=tweetembed
not quite the subtlety of bond, but its always pleasing to see hollywood emerge in the real life.