Caveat: I am not a Ukrainian Troll, nor do I take monies from someone in a thick coat, wooly ushanka hat and enjoys vodka.
The posting below -I believe, is something to do with DFC's thread about Timothy Jerrell Cunningham going missing.
It doesn't make sense on the face of it, but just as DuckForCover commented, it did make alarm bells go off.
As the UK's sabre-rattling at Russia continues in the wake of the former Russian ex-double-spy, his daughter and a Police Officer falling foul
to a 'newcomer' nerve-agent, one has to wonder what ever happened to being innocent until proven guilty?
The poison is reported to have been developed in Russia, the media-friendly title 'Novichok' is bandied about as if it's the single cause and
yet it's really a heading for numerous set of nerve agents that become known in the west around the late 70's and 80's.
So let's put a thumbs-down next to Russia's name for that one.
Sergei Skripal was a Soviet spy who also worked for the United Kingdom's MI6 until those pesky Ruskies discovered his double-wage
earnings and decided that this sort of espionage just wasn't cricket. In 2004, the Federal Security Service arrested him, tried and convicted
him of high treason in 2006, then imprisoned him until a spy-swap with the Brits took place shortly after.
It's alleged he was responsible for blowing the cover of 300 Russian agents.
So Mr. Skripal is Russian and another thumbs-down there, then.
The trust-thing cannot be evaluated because it depends which side of the fence you sit!
In 2011, Sergei Skripal was settled into a small semi-detached abode in the fairly middle-class English town of Salisbury in Wiltshire County.
He had continued to provide information to 'Western intelligence agencies' after his 2010 release and was even pardoned by the then President
of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev. Sergei Skripal's wife died in 2012 and was interred in a Salisbury cemetery, along with a forty-three year-old son
who mysteriously died during a trip to St. Petersburg.
Almost seven years later -during a visit from his daughter who'd been working in Russia, Sergei Skripal and Yulia -his daughter, decided to
drive into Salisbury town and eventually take a meal at a local restaurant.
A BBC timeline:
*Yulia Skripal flew into London's Heathrow Airport on a flight from Russia at about 14:40 GMT on 3 March.
*On 4 March, at about 13:40 GMT, Mr Skripal and his daughter arrived at the Sainbury's upper level car park in Salisbury city centre.
*Police said the pair went to the Bishop's Mill pub before going to Zizzi restaurant at 14:20 GMT, staying until 15:35 GMT.
*At 16:15 GMT emergency services received the first report of an incident.
*Police found the pair on a bench outside Zizzi restaurant in an "extremely serious condition".
*A police officer who fell ill after attending the incident - Det Sgt Nick Bailey - was also taken to hospital and remains in a serious condition.
*Of the 38 people who have been seen in hospital in relation to the incident, 34 have been discharged.
*Only Mr Skripal, his daughter Yulia and Det Sgt Bailey remain in hospital.
*One person is being monitored as an outpatient but is not showing any signs of exposure.
Here's the link to a BBC article that lays out the whole current situation. The only odd-part is that nobody has definitively said there's a
Russian involved. They speculate it was an attempted Russian assassination of someone who hasn't been involved in espionage for over
a decade, but there's no actual fleeing would-be killer.
The UK Government won't let the Russians have a sample of what they've found or see the specifics of their findings.
The same UK gets the majority of it's 'steam' coal from Russia for use in generating electricity and this kind of hostility could certainly switch
off the lights all over the country that's known for its terrible [electrified] rail-service and it's Government-funded news outlet!
If there was only another country that was reopening coal mines...? Someone we could trade with on a better level after Brexit?
Oh well.
Now since the latest House Draft Report cleared Trump of any Russian collusion and it looks like those Troll Farms in the Ukraine (not Russia!)
have been ripping the p*ss out of everyone in American politics, one has to wonder if the 'Jolly-Good-Show'-Brits are being asked to manifest
a crime to blame Putin with.
I could be wrong, it could be that after Great Britain expels 23 Russian diplomats from it's country as a sign of defiance, the evidence that could
bring a second Cold War could be shown for all to see. But there's a smell here that isn't pickled herring or the out-house of a far-off Gulag, it's
something DFC got a whiff of too.
By the way, the expultions heavily involves visas to Britain, so the status of 'diplomat' -as we the public perceive it, probably won't be effected.
Timothy Cunningham is no grunt, The New Post says he was upset by a promotion snub. This young man is a Commander at the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention and is missing. An alleged Russian-created poison of unknown form is somehow used to infect a has-been
spy in a busy town centre far from Cunningham's last known location.
The accused are not allowed to examine the evidence and the specifics of the assumed nerve agent is still vague to all.
The Financial Times reports that Britain’s defence science and technology laboratory at Porton Down gets an additional £48 million boost
after the Skripal incident.
A web being formed?
Lives aren't important on the chessboard, but steel tariff-exemptions and a bite at the space-industry apple are.
Especially when you're a country struggling from the grasp of a union of local countries and want to 'firm-up' a supposed 'special relationship'
with someone across the Atlantic.
To some of the old dogs in the US military-politic, going back to a Cold War would seem better and maybe it's a facet of dowsing the extremism
that's wandering the globe. Sanctions are old-hat and when the new one proclaiming 'MAGA' is waved for all the world to see, those hats are
better noticed when they are distinct, like black and white for instance.
Senator John McCain and a chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in a statement on March 13 that:
'...“whether in the shadow of the Kremlin or in a peaceful town in the English countryside, Vladimir Putin will not hesitate to
engage in state-sponsored assassination and endanger the lives of innocent bystanders.
He must not be allowed to treat the United Kingdom or any other nation as a venue for political murder.”...'
SOURCE:
Now... what would you do to get your own way?
The posting below -I believe, is something to do with DFC's thread about Timothy Jerrell Cunningham going missing.
It doesn't make sense on the face of it, but just as DuckForCover commented, it did make alarm bells go off.
As the UK's sabre-rattling at Russia continues in the wake of the former Russian ex-double-spy, his daughter and a Police Officer falling foul
to a 'newcomer' nerve-agent, one has to wonder what ever happened to being innocent until proven guilty?
The poison is reported to have been developed in Russia, the media-friendly title 'Novichok' is bandied about as if it's the single cause and
yet it's really a heading for numerous set of nerve agents that become known in the west around the late 70's and 80's.
So let's put a thumbs-down next to Russia's name for that one.
Sergei Skripal was a Soviet spy who also worked for the United Kingdom's MI6 until those pesky Ruskies discovered his double-wage
earnings and decided that this sort of espionage just wasn't cricket. In 2004, the Federal Security Service arrested him, tried and convicted
him of high treason in 2006, then imprisoned him until a spy-swap with the Brits took place shortly after.
It's alleged he was responsible for blowing the cover of 300 Russian agents.
So Mr. Skripal is Russian and another thumbs-down there, then.
The trust-thing cannot be evaluated because it depends which side of the fence you sit!
In 2011, Sergei Skripal was settled into a small semi-detached abode in the fairly middle-class English town of Salisbury in Wiltshire County.
He had continued to provide information to 'Western intelligence agencies' after his 2010 release and was even pardoned by the then President
of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev. Sergei Skripal's wife died in 2012 and was interred in a Salisbury cemetery, along with a forty-three year-old son
who mysteriously died during a trip to St. Petersburg.
Almost seven years later -during a visit from his daughter who'd been working in Russia, Sergei Skripal and Yulia -his daughter, decided to
drive into Salisbury town and eventually take a meal at a local restaurant.
A BBC timeline:
*Yulia Skripal flew into London's Heathrow Airport on a flight from Russia at about 14:40 GMT on 3 March.
*On 4 March, at about 13:40 GMT, Mr Skripal and his daughter arrived at the Sainbury's upper level car park in Salisbury city centre.
*Police said the pair went to the Bishop's Mill pub before going to Zizzi restaurant at 14:20 GMT, staying until 15:35 GMT.
*At 16:15 GMT emergency services received the first report of an incident.
*Police found the pair on a bench outside Zizzi restaurant in an "extremely serious condition".
*A police officer who fell ill after attending the incident - Det Sgt Nick Bailey - was also taken to hospital and remains in a serious condition.
*Of the 38 people who have been seen in hospital in relation to the incident, 34 have been discharged.
*Only Mr Skripal, his daughter Yulia and Det Sgt Bailey remain in hospital.
*One person is being monitored as an outpatient but is not showing any signs of exposure.
Here's the link to a BBC article that lays out the whole current situation. The only odd-part is that nobody has definitively said there's a
Russian involved. They speculate it was an attempted Russian assassination of someone who hasn't been involved in espionage for over
a decade, but there's no actual fleeing would-be killer.
The UK Government won't let the Russians have a sample of what they've found or see the specifics of their findings.
The same UK gets the majority of it's 'steam' coal from Russia for use in generating electricity and this kind of hostility could certainly switch
off the lights all over the country that's known for its terrible [electrified] rail-service and it's Government-funded news outlet!
If there was only another country that was reopening coal mines...? Someone we could trade with on a better level after Brexit?
Oh well.
Now since the latest House Draft Report cleared Trump of any Russian collusion and it looks like those Troll Farms in the Ukraine (not Russia!)
have been ripping the p*ss out of everyone in American politics, one has to wonder if the 'Jolly-Good-Show'-Brits are being asked to manifest
a crime to blame Putin with.
I could be wrong, it could be that after Great Britain expels 23 Russian diplomats from it's country as a sign of defiance, the evidence that could
bring a second Cold War could be shown for all to see. But there's a smell here that isn't pickled herring or the out-house of a far-off Gulag, it's
something DFC got a whiff of too.
By the way, the expultions heavily involves visas to Britain, so the status of 'diplomat' -as we the public perceive it, probably won't be effected.
Timothy Cunningham is no grunt, The New Post says he was upset by a promotion snub. This young man is a Commander at the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention and is missing. An alleged Russian-created poison of unknown form is somehow used to infect a has-been
spy in a busy town centre far from Cunningham's last known location.
The accused are not allowed to examine the evidence and the specifics of the assumed nerve agent is still vague to all.
The Financial Times reports that Britain’s defence science and technology laboratory at Porton Down gets an additional £48 million boost
after the Skripal incident.
A web being formed?
Lives aren't important on the chessboard, but steel tariff-exemptions and a bite at the space-industry apple are.
Especially when you're a country struggling from the grasp of a union of local countries and want to 'firm-up' a supposed 'special relationship'
with someone across the Atlantic.
To some of the old dogs in the US military-politic, going back to a Cold War would seem better and maybe it's a facet of dowsing the extremism
that's wandering the globe. Sanctions are old-hat and when the new one proclaiming 'MAGA' is waved for all the world to see, those hats are
better noticed when they are distinct, like black and white for instance.
Senator John McCain and a chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in a statement on March 13 that:
'...“whether in the shadow of the Kremlin or in a peaceful town in the English countryside, Vladimir Putin will not hesitate to
engage in state-sponsored assassination and endanger the lives of innocent bystanders.
He must not be allowed to treat the United Kingdom or any other nation as a venue for political murder.”...'
SOURCE:
Now... what would you do to get your own way?
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