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8 hours ago, Ram-Alf said:

I have nothing concrete only suspicion, Navalny was seen yesterday on TV laughing and joking in his new prison, Today he's out walking and he collapses then dies...pretty god damn sudden that, Maybe a stronger dose of the poison than he received once before🤷‍♂️

There are claims that the video is from January.  When I did a search for Navalny last video January, a video from The Independent came up in the Google search.  Reading the link before opening it said from January, but when opening the link it says 15 February.

https://www.koha.net/en/boat/409539/navalny-was-joking-in-the-last-video-that-was-seen/

Perhaps Navalny was done in, but my question remains, what benefit would the Kremlin have in doing that?

Who gains from Navalny's death?  He was already in prison, Avdiivka stronghold is about to fall and Vladimir Putin just finished a moderately successful interview.  If the Kremlin is behind the death, what is the possible motive?  Is sheer psychotic blood lust the reason, even if the act hands the western powers a distraction?

Feeling good today, hope you are too

To win 0-3 with 30% possession shows a ruthless side and that quality outweighs quantity

On 07/02/2024 at 16:42, uttoxram75 said:

I read this comment many years ago but only realised what it meant recently.

"The goal is not to have a successful war but an endless war"

 

It's nothing personal, it's just business

This eruption is over, but things are going from bad to much much worse.  Geothermal hot water pumped from the Svartsengi power station supplies house heating for the entire outer peninsula.  The old pipeline got eaten by magma, but work had started in January to lay another pipe underground in case of the first one being ruined.  There has been a race against time to get that extra pipeline finished, so that during this frosty time, peoples houses wouldn't get damaged and water freeze in pipes. 

The electric output of Svartsengi is very limited now, heating with electricity creates blackouts and so therefor not a viable option.  Last night, just after the new pipe was finished it got destroyed by magma and so now 25-30 thousand people are in freezing homes and all gas heaters are sold out.  It will take many days, if not weeks to lay another pipe.  Emergency meetings are being held of course.  Oh and land has again begun rising under Svartsengi.

16 hours ago, Alph said:

I just finished the Putin interview. 

It's as expected. His contempt for an independent Ukraine is obvious. The first hour is hushed Imperial claims and I'm not sure what else you could pass it off as. Why else give the history lesson. Still think it's worth listening to so you can make up your mind whether you're listening to a man freeing the world of Nazi collaborators or a man trying to piece together an empire. 

I mean it's just the other side of the coin. It's not a lie. It's his truth. As America peddles their truth. Convenient historical facts. Convenient omissions. 

There has been a squeeze on Russia. There's bots that peddle the idea that America blesses us all with freedom and democracy but come on. Give it up. 

It's hard to pick which Imperialistic BS takes the moral high ground so I'm going to say neither. We all want peace. That's why we have the tanks, the missiles and jets and 100,000 troops in your garden 

I think International Law is like VAR. Nice idea but you only really want to acknowledge it when it's working for you. 

 

Fair

I was called a chimp today, I took it really well

7 hours ago, Crewton said:

I'm not going to do an entire critique for you, but as an example he peddled the now well-worn lie about Johnson (I've never called him Boris because I think he's a tw@) telling Zelinskiy (see what I did there) not to sign the peace deal, when it was the Russian seperatists continual breach of the terms of that deal (with Moscow's approval) that made Zelinskiy realise that a peace deal would not put an end to Putin's plans.

As for Icelandic traditions, I note that you have never referred to Zelinskiy by his first name, but would be happy to retract that statement if you can show me that you usually have.

Thank you for that example.  Neither side can or is willing at this point in time to prove the reason for peace talks breaking down back then, so we can leave it at that.

You've got me there, when it comes to Zelenskyy I like to call him by his surname as a tease, because he banned the letter Z.  Also Volodymyr is such an ugly name.  I reserve the right to call people anything I like and to break my rule at my convenience, but generally I choose the first name.

8 hours ago, Crewton said:

It's a mark of familiarity that I personally think is inappropriate for a warmonger. Neither would I call Carlsson "Tucker", for similar but not identical reasons. I think it's an odd way to refer to politicians anyway, regardless of their status or perceived fame or infamy.

Alf got the meaning of the chimp spot on, although it could equally apply to anyone who doesn't need much encouragement to go gooey-eyed over a mass murderer.

This could be called a cultural clash.  Boris is okay because he is English and therefor familiar, ok, got it.  Here in Iceland we refer to everyone by their first names, it is a habit that I choose to transfer to English as well.

Ah, so you are inferring that I am also a chimp, I see, charming.  Shall I now refer to you as a gullible tool of the American empire?  No, that would be hostile and we are all fellow sheep here, heh.

I asked you some questions you have not answered.  Did you watch the entire interview, or are you simply commenting based on previous ingrained views you have had of Vladimir?  At what point in the interview did Vladimir lie?  I understand if the answer does not arrive until a couple of hours from now, I will be patient.

8 hours ago, Crewton said:

"Vladimir"?

"Wicked sense of humour"?

I bet he makes the trains run on time too!

Of course, everything he says is true, otherwise surely "Tucker" would have challenged him on some of it, wouldn't he?

 

We speak of Tucker, so why not Vladimir?

Alright, subtle humour then and granted not all are capable of grasping instances of it.

Perhaps Vladimir strayed from the truth in some segment of the interview, can you help me spot at what point he lied?

What's with the chimp?

9 hours ago, Crewton said:

Well, the interview is up on X now and I don't think anything has "come out" that wasn't already known from previous statements from the Kremlin and its pet journalists (ie: the strictly uncritical ones). But then did you really expect a Paxman-like grilling from a man who has referred to the Ukrainian president in the past as "a Ukrainian Pimp" and who has repeatedly criticised Ukraine whilst blithely repeating Kremlin propaganda?

Anyhow, it's good to know that if the UK ever decided to take back Ireland, half of France (I could go on) and liberate the "oppressed" English-speaking citizens of the Costa del Sol (for example), we'd have Putin's full support and the tacit support of the BRICS countries too.......

Did you listen to the whole interview?  I found much of it fascinating and even if Tucker wasn't exactly a hostile interviewer, he did put forward some challenging questions, tricky even, to get Vladimir to name names and reveal what other leaders had told him in discussions.  One thing came out that I don't recall Vladimir saying directly before, that the president of the USA, be it Biden or any of his predecessors is not really in charge of the big issues of foreign policy.  Who are making those decisions then, Tucker inquired, you must ask your people that was the answer, to me it is a mystery.  You have to admit, Vladimir has a wicked sense of humor.

I had not realized that English speaking inhabitants of Ireland are being oppressed by a mob of the Irish speaking minority, but live and learn.  The French however I can believe all kinds of crazy stories about, I suspect they are allies to UK in name only and must never be trusted.

The American empire must be the only strong player in the world.  A robust Russia cannot be allowed to exist.  This is the thought within the Russian power structure and so figures like Nadezhdin are seen as a direct threat to the existence of Russia, as an agent of the American empire.  There can be no peaceful coexistence with the folks running the west is the grim prevailing mentality in Russia today.

It cannot be denied that the American power structure doesn't want anyone hearing both sides of any matter they are intimately involved with, to understand the opposition, folks must only hear one side of the story. 

An American journalist is in Russia and has interviewed Vladimir Putin.  Before that interview is even aired there is loud talk of that journalist being a traitor to his country for daring to speak to that vilified man.  That kind of reaction reeks of fear of what might come out in that interview.

The flow is moving fast, at 500 meters per hour, it has crossed the Grindavík road and running beside the barrier around the power plant.  There is great risk that the water pipe supplying 25 thousand people with hot water will be severed, that is Keflavík, Njarðvík, Sandgerði, Garður, Hafnir and Vogar.  The houses are heated with this hot water.  Switching to electric heating is not really an option, the power station cannot handle that output.

My wife and I were looking at houses in Sandgerði and Garður, almost bought one.   Glad we chose Stykkishólmur.

There is work going on that started some days ago, laying a new pipe in case this pipe goes, it will take a few days to finish it though.

Eruption began at 6am in the same general area as the last one, fissure is 3km long, however lava flows west this time.

Up until these latest eruptions, the prevailing scientific thought has been that there are 4 volcanic systems under Reykjanes peninsula, the revised opinion by some now is that it is in fact just 1 system, or at the very least all 4 interconnected.  A new eruption is now expected at any time, the magma chamber under Svartsengi has exceeded 9 million cubic meters in magma volume.  It will come up somewhere close to the last one.  Lots of quakes all over the peninsula and some in the sea and there is serious talk of the Reykjavík area being in considerable danger of lava flow in the near future, some scientists want protective walls being piled up sooner rather than later.  Much of the newer neighborhoods have unwisely been built over old lava fields.

Grindavík is finished, the town is torn apart.  Former inhabitants have been collecting their belongings from their houses in groups, each group having only 6 hours to clear everything out.  The weather has been really bad, delaying these actions, for roads have been snowed over.  It is like the townspeople have a curse on them, nothing goes their way.

There was hope that the sports arena had not been badly damaged, but then some sagging on the floor covering was noticed...

Pictures:

https://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2024/02/06/myndir_uppgotvudu_hyldypi_undir_gervigrasinu/

7 hours ago, RoyMac5 said:

Yeah Derby are great. 🍺

This is a thread about Warne. 👍

8 hours ago, David said:

3️⃣🎒➕🤬🤐🟰1️⃣😁🐏

7 hours ago, Ghost of Clough said:

Most away wins in the league too

Warne out?

7 hours ago, Caerphilly Ram said:

Sibley looking to make things happen in that left channel 

What kind of things?