Posts by kravietz@social.privacytools.io
(DIR) Post #ABqhXkfKPSn6fchk5g by kravietz@social.privacytools.io
2021-09-29T09:08:42Z
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Nobody cares about CO2, especially if they live in EPC category "D" houses, which make ~60% of UK housing market. Or at least nobody cared as long as gas was cheap.Probably the best thing you can do to *actually* reduce CO2 emissions is to go all electric (boiler, induction plate, heating) and EDF that runs on low-carbon nuclear.> UK’s home gas boilers emit twice as much CO2 as all power stations – studyhttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/29/uks-home-gas-boilers-emit-twice-as-much-co2-as-all-power-stations-study
(DIR) Post #ABqiTus6cbdN7UPre4 by kravietz@social.privacytools.io
2021-09-29T09:19:11Z
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@modrobert Have you noticed these clips are edited? Navalny interview and the neo-nazis are filmed on different events.My point stands: it's a bit of double standards to highlight Navalny's presence on these marches while ignoring Rogozin, MP and current head of Roscosmos:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI0eEH_ZuHE
(DIR) Post #ABqidg3MZT7S3bKtge by kravietz@social.privacytools.io
2021-09-29T09:20:57Z
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@modrobert Russian relationship with neo-nazism is... complex. On one hand, xenophobia among Russian elites is widespread and Russian March was also frequented by many Russian Ordhodox church priests. Back then FSB controlled the most violent BORN group, many of whose members were later arrested and jailed.Right now you have open neo-nazis like Utkin, head of the Wagner Group, or Anton Rayevsky, fighting in Donbass. And it's fine, because they fight for Kremlin.
(DIR) Post #ABqjYFJEg2c7cOjaoy by kravietz@social.privacytools.io
2021-09-29T09:31:10Z
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@modrobert And then you have Margarita Simonyan, head of RT, accusing Navalny of being "neo-nazi" because of his 2011 comments, while she makes rather disgusting and openly racist comments on regular basis - her husband made a whole racist sketch about Obama, she defended him and argued about "criminal negroes" being a plague in the US.https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/kremlin-funded-tv-airs-mind-numbingly-racist-blackface-attack-on-obama/ar-BB1bv1U7
(DIR) Post #ABqjgfqFuhBqDyCKlE by kravietz@social.privacytools.io
2021-09-29T09:32:41Z
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@modrobert Oh, in the context of Sweden neo-nazis I can't resist from posting this one:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woman_with_the_Handbag
(DIR) Post #ABqkYKKk63pN9g2e2q by kravietz@social.privacytools.io
2021-09-29T09:42:25Z
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@modrobert Yes, except there's no "Navalny organization taking money from MI6" 🤷 If you take the video apart, it's a chain of unfounded accusations: you have Ford, who is a former UK diplomat, and "designated MI6 agent". Designated by whom exactly? By FSB of course, a very respected source. Married to Elizabeth Greenberg, again "designated as Swedish agent", which may sound convincing only from Russian villager's point of view where there's a "single evil West", but is otherwise nonsense.
(DIR) Post #ABqktFceo7oQcpOlXM by kravietz@social.privacytools.io
2021-09-29T09:46:11Z
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@modrobert Then you have Ashurkov who is asking for money, and you have Ford barely saying anything apart from "yes, yes".And that's it - there's *nothing* else in the video, all the rest is RT narrative.Can you now see how you were manipulated into believing what you saw was:> footage of Navalny's organization taking money from MI6
(DIR) Post #ABqnGvsA5YY8EL4QsK by kravietz@social.privacytools.io
2021-09-29T10:12:53Z
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@modrobert If you periodically watched Russian and English-language media about Russia, you'd know it's simply not true. FBK activities received quite a lot of coverage for the last decade or so, so it was anything but "sudden".
(DIR) Post #ABqomeg1eodW7T5IEC by kravietz@social.privacytools.io
2021-09-29T10:29:50Z
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@modrobert Let's me take that into parts for you:* There's evidence for Ashurkov meeting a former UK diplomat for fund raising* There's no evidence of Ford having anything to do with MI6* There's no evidence of Ford actually committing to any funding to Ashurkov* There's no evidence of Navalny coordinating that with AshurkovBut if all you were able to see there was:> footage of Navalny's organization taking money from MI6Then it's clearly a manipulation, and a quite effective one!
(DIR) Post #ABqrYSGTJBQZQr3IGW by kravietz@social.privacytools.io
2021-09-29T11:00:52Z
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SMS extreme weather alerts seem to have reduced number of casualties according to data seen in Poland. I ran some stats and after 2018 the average deaths is 2.75 while before it was 7 deaths per year (or 6 if we skip especially tragic 2017). Number of wounded saw only small reduction (133 vs 139/163 before) but nothing is known about the character of these wounds, while there's significant difference between a scratch and a serious injury.https://www.twojapogoda.pl/wiadomosc/2021-09-29/od-czasu-uruchomienia-alert-rcb-znaczaco-spadla-liczba-ofiar-smiertelnych-gwaltownej-pogody/
(DIR) Post #ABqrsZxqOK4D6Tw2Uq by kravietz@social.privacytools.io
2021-09-29T11:04:30Z
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@modrobert As someone who was born in Poland and frequently visits both Russia and Ukraine, I call this narrative bullshit. Thousands of people are going out to the streets because their governments suck at providing them with reasonable life, not because they're paid by some "West" or "NATO". And calling Ukraine "neo-nazi fractions" only indicates that you never actually visited the country and 100% adopted the RT narrative.
(DIR) Post #ABqsH4TCch7UfKHW7s by kravietz@social.privacytools.io
2021-09-29T11:08:57Z
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@modrobert I can only say it's rather inconsistent for someone who quotes World Socialist Website to then engage in a fierce defence of current Kremlin oligarchs.Go and *actually* read the WSWS article you referenced - they are equally critical of Navalny as the Kremlin oligarchic rule that exploits Russian resources and leads to massive income inequality.Wikileaks cable actually describes Navalny inquiry into *exactly* the same issues - the corruption and theft in largest oil companies.
(DIR) Post #ABqsUz2Rc9UlsFOpjU by kravietz@social.privacytools.io
2021-09-29T11:11:28Z
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@modrobert Sorry, they are delusional and they lied to you. Go and fly to Kyiv, tickets are cheap and you will see for yourself. Hard to find a more cosmopolitan and liberal capital than Kyiv today in Europe. And, contrary to the bullshit in RT, you can freely speak Russian in Ukraine, which I do all the time as I hardly speak Ukrainian.
(DIR) Post #ABqsuHkz9mnnASIXqq by kravietz@social.privacytools.io
2021-09-29T11:16:02Z
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@modrobert "The West" doesn't care - US and Europe happily trade with Kremlin and buy their oil and gas. Germany just completed a new pipeline from Gazprom, Poland imports most of its coal from Russia, so someone lied to you.The point Navalny was investigating in all of his publications was specifically that the massive amounts of money generated by Russian gas and oil industry is being stolen and turned into luxurious mansions, yachts and lavish lifestyle by people close to Kremlin.
(DIR) Post #ABqtf5G9RISI1CBtgm by kravietz@social.privacytools.io
2021-09-29T11:24:29Z
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RT Deutsch basically says:> We don't spread conspiracy theories, we just spread them😂
(DIR) Post #ABr4dyZxtGicVP8Iz2 by kravietz@social.privacytools.io
2021-09-29T13:27:07Z
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@modrobertWhich Russia you think he's "undermining" exactly? Because your logic seems to assume anything good for Putin is good for everyone in Russia, and any criticism of Putin is criticism of Russia as a whole.Did that apply to Trump as well? Was criticism of Trump "undermining of USA"? Why not? And why are you then not applying the same standards to Putin and Russia?
(DIR) Post #ABr593UxeOhojuc1Dc by kravietz@social.privacytools.io
2021-09-29T13:32:44Z
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@modrobertThis again assumes Navalny is the only opposition politician in Russia, and that he will be somehow automatically made president to replace Putin.He won't. Or he will, we don't know. In most countries this is decided in elections, and the most fierce fight for presidency we just saw recently in the US.But there *was* that fight in the US. And the problem of Russia is not Putin or Navalny, but that after 1999 there was no way to tell any of them "you're wrong, go away".
(DIR) Post #ABr7nhsJ9OnPSO2npo by kravietz@social.privacytools.io
2021-09-29T14:02:29Z
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@modrobertIf you like any of my comments you're free to quote them and use them for your own purposes, aren't you? But this doesn't mean you control me or made me post these comments. So yes, those in Russia and Europe who don't like Putin are naturally quoting Navalny and others, but it doesn't mean they control him. They may even make donations to FBK, as thousands of people did, but then — so what? If donate to FBK I'm not event free to tell him what to investigate next.
(DIR) Post #ABrVUUBmCz0KPNWC24 by kravietz@social.privacytools.io
2021-09-29T18:27:57Z
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@modrobertThat was figurative, not statement of fact. I don't mean you control me — I'm giving an example, if you liked my comments and quoted them, it wouldn't be you controlling me. Same story with Navalny & Western media.
(DIR) Post #ABrWYtlFAqckpam9Oi by kravietz@social.privacytools.io
2021-09-29T18:39:56Z
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@modrobertNonetheless, Americans had the freedom of first electing Trump and then removing him in elections. They changed their Congress completely as well. Russians didn't have this freedom since 1999.