Bad time to be a Russian

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Sep 222022
 

Seems there’s a run of just darn bad luck for those fellers, especially the rich, powerful and politically connected. It’s like gravity keeps reaching up and grabbin’ ’em.

A Kremlin ally died falling down the stairs, report says — the latest in a series of unexplained deaths among prominent Russians

The Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI) university announced the death of Anatoly Gerashchenko, 72, saying he died “as a result of an accident.”

An unnamed source told Russian newspaper Izvestia that he died on the university’s grounds, by falling “from a great height” down several flights of stairs.

Huh.

 Posted by at 4:58 pm

Political violence

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Sep 212022
 

Suspect Admits to Fatally Plowing Car into Republican Teen in ‘Politically Motivated’ Attack

A suspect accused of fatally plowing a car into a Republican teen in North Dakota over the weekend confessed on Monday to the attack, which he confirmed was “politically motivated.”

Shannon Brandt, a 41-year-old male, allegedly ran over 18-year-old Cayler Ellingson with his car after the pair had an altercation of a political nature at a street festival. …  The driver reported the crime himself, informing police that the victim was affiliated with a “Republican extremist group” and intended to target him after the two had a political disagreement.

Huh. I wonder what might have happened in recent weeks that could have radicalized Mr. Brandt and, through the power of “Stochastic Terrorism,” turned him into a murderer?

 

 Posted by at 11:16 am

I guess that war is going *great*

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Sep 212022
 

Putin announces a draft of 300,000 or so Russians with prior military service:

So this is what a tyrant looks like when he’s losing. He’s apparently trying to scare the Russian people by telling them that *they* are being threatened with nukes. That ranks up there with “the wage gap,” “hands up don’t shoot” and “Russia collusion” in the grand scheme of blatant political lies.

 Posted by at 7:20 am

So much for that “afraid of NATO” BS

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Sep 182022
 

It *seems* that Russia has pulled a fair amount of the air defense missile systems from St. Petersburg to transfer them to Ukraine. But wait! Wasn’t the whole point of the war that Ukraine joining NATO was a major threat to Russia? If so… St. Petersburg is not only real close to NATO member Estonia, it’s real close to *Finland,* which, thanks to the war, is now joining NATO. So… shouldn’t the Russians be kinda worried about an immanent attack on their second most important city from eeeeeeviiiiil forces of NATO?

 

Exclusive: Russia moves missiles from St Petersburg to Ukraine

Satellite images reveal that both mobile firing platforms and missiles disappeared during the summer from a base in the Zelenogorsk (Terijoki) area on the Karelian Isthmus, northwest of St Petersburg, among others.

The transfer of equipment has not previously been publicly reported in Russia or western countries.

St Petersburg—Russia’s second-most important city—has long been surrounded by a protective ring of 14 anti-aircraft missile bases. Now several of them stand empty.

Huh.

 Posted by at 1:15 pm

Welcome to New York

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Sep 182022
 

High population densities with lax law enforcement and no throwing of loons into bins: not even once.

McDonald’s ax swinger had just been ‘rejected’ by woman, witness says

 

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