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Polish expat into UK. Information security engineer. Caver & cave rescuer (thus the bat). NHS volunteer & blood donor.
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Reality: filming of a video clip by rapper Trouble using rented film vehicles https://heavy.com/news/2020/06/stolen-tanks-atlanta-ga/
"Photos from Atlanta. Black protesters ride armored vehicles ... stolen from police" (Russia Today)
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Bristol • history • slavery
Precisely, I have actually preserved this quote for future reference as it's just incredible...
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Councillor Richard Eddy:
"Contrary to Jeremy Corbyn's utterances, although understandably some human mistakes were made at the time, the creation and maintenance of the British Empire is a huge positive achievement of which Britons should rightly feel great pride.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/jeremy-corbyn-labour-richard-eddy-2111110
I consider Corbyn to be a bigot either, this referenced just for the Eddy citation and the history of plaques.
Agreed, that might result in terror on unprecedented scale as there's enough para-military extreme groups on all edges of the political spectrum.*
Let's hope the country will reform *before* people are forced to go on the streets.
* OTOH, in the past terror by Soviet authorities and army rarely resulted in violent all-on-all war in Russia - see Vilnius 1991, Tbilisi 1989, Baku 1990, Sumgait 1988, Moscow 1993. We should be more concerned about 1917 like scenario.
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Not only that, but there were debates going on even adding a second plaque with more information about his business and its casualties, which were consistently blocked by Tory councillors.
Which is precisely why it ended in the river eventually.
Same here, I've been to Bristol many times and probably passed by his statue, but never realized who he was. To be honest, this part of the history was not... very prominently displayed, to put that lightly :)
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Seriously, I had never even heard Edward Colston's name before his statue was toppled, rolled through the streets, and dumped into the water at the same docks where his slave ships used to be moored.
He will not be missed. Anyone who claims his statue was of historical importance is fooling themselves.
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Turns out, pulling a statue down can sometimes teach people a lot more about history than leaving it standing would have.
In 2015 there was proposal to create an international investigative tribunal but it was vetoed in UN Security Council, guess by which county :)
Hague happens to host the International Court of Justice and International Criminal Court, but MH17 trial is at Dutch court and by Dutch law.
Probably the most shocking aspect of Russian political reality is that people are being arrested for even standing on the street alone with a piece of paper or reading Constitution. Hard to imagine what would happen if US-style riots started...
The only people saying US is a "developed country" are Republicans and Russian tax officers buying luxury properties in Miami :)
Especially here on Mastodon there's a very strong representation of voices criticising US for what it is: a rich country with huge income inequality, Middle Ages healthcare and widespreas racism.
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https://daniel.haxx.se/docs/encrypted-transfer-protocols-compared.html
If you remember the Polish Tu-154 crash in Smolensk, investigations there were led by Russian MAK (air safety agency), then independently by Polish air safety commission, then again in parallel by Russian prosecution (not finished yet!), second Polish air safety commission, and then it resulted in a dozen of court trials in Poland.
You mean what institutions exactly? DSB is Dutch air safety regulator, JIT is a body for cooperation between law enforcement and forensic bodies of countries who lost their citizens there. Trial is happening at Dutch court.
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Now, MH17 investigations and trial have been going on their own speed since 2014 so I don't see anything political here. Trial dates were known well in advance and even before the pandemics. Trial hearings started well in March so long before any riots.
Right now Russian media are in extasy about what's going on in the US, although their message is also ridiculous as they show crocodile tears over "police brutality" while people like Kiselyev always justified police brutality in Russia.
Someone has likely noticed that absurd, because over the last days they changed the message presenting US police as being largely passive and allowing the looting (which is also false).
Both governments use the "foreign trace" narrative to mask their incompetence. Kremlin always blamed any internal protests on CIA, even though you know very well they were genuine discontent of Russian people. Republicans are doing the same right now.
Let's not mix Republican obsessions which serve only to disguise their own stupidity, with actual Russian involvement in Donbass and MH17.
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