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How Russia swap happened: Secret talks, a hitman and Biden's fateful call
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... The White House had worked desperately " and largely out of public view " to free Wall Street Journal reporter Gershkovich, former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reporter Alsu Kurmasheva and U.S. green card holder Vladimir Kara-Murza, an outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Kurmasheva is a Prague-based editor on the Tatar-Bashkir Service of VOA sister outlet Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
This meant high-level talks with Russia at a time when East-West relations are in open conflict over the Ukraine war.
But it also meant, say U.S. officials, leaning hard on European allies reluctant to give in to Moscow's demands for getting back a string of Russian citizens imprisoned in the West for serious crimes.
In the end, Biden secured the key piece of the puzzle on July 21 -- the very day that the 81-year-old Democrat stunned the world by announcing that he would no longer stand in November's election. ...
So... while Pres Biden had on his mind the upcoming announcement that he would step down, this hostage release negotiations were also occurring?
@#20 ... The convicted sexual molester's new t-shirt says that? ...
Looks that way....
Wanna buy one?
Here's the spot...
Anybody Anytime Anyplace Black T-Shirt
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@#2 ... Haphazardly purging names that sounded alike (mostly Spanish speaking) ...
My first question is -- got links?
After that I note...
Dee-Santis or Deh-Santis? His team won't say (2023)
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@#6 ... I saw a fireball outside the window. Lightning hit a tree in the front yard ...
A video I remember...
Imagining looking out your window and seeing this...
Electrical fireball in Lachine (2013)
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... Oh my God, that is not cool ...
From the cited sub-article...
... "This is the first time the date has been scientifically established," said archaeologist Margot Kuitems, a researcher at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands who also led the study. ...
Norse colonization of North America
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... The Norse exploration of North America began in the late 10th century, when Norsemen explored areas of the North Atlantic colonizing Greenland and creating a short term settlement near the northern tip of Newfoundland.
This is known now as L'Anse aux Meadows where the remains of buildings were found in 1960 dating to approximately 1,000 years ago.[1][2][3] This discovery helped reignite archaeological exploration for the Norse in the North Atlantic.[4] This single settlement, located on the island of Newfoundland and not on the North American mainland, was abruptly abandoned. ...
From the 1989 [1} citation in the above...
... Recent progress in high-precision calibrations of radiocarbon dates has led to evaluations of earlier research. This has been the case with dates from the Norse settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows which was discovered by Helge Ingstad in 1960. The most problematic feature of this series up to now was the use of sample material which partly derived from driftwood.
The present paper concludes that charcoal from this site demonstrated no greater errors than normal from other settlement sites.
With an assumed total systematic error of 30 20 years, as a mean for various tree rings, the calibrated age range of L'Anse aux Meadows is AD 975"1020. This agrees well with the assumed historical age of ca AD 1000, a result which has also been recently corroborated by high-precision accelerator dating at the University of Toronto. ...
Who might Mr Musk be sharing that data with?
Exclusive: Trump campaign had at least 18 undisclosed contacts with Russians: sources (2018)
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... Michael Flynn and other advisers to Donald Trump's campaign were in contact with Russian officials and others with Kremlin ties in at least 18 calls and emails during the last seven months of the 2016 presidential race, current and former U.S. officials familiar with the exchanges told Reuters.
The previously undisclosed interactions form part of the record now being reviewed by FBI and congressional investigators probing Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election and contacts between Trump's campaign and Russia.
Six of the previously undisclosed contacts described to Reuters were phone calls between Sergei Kislyak, Russia's ambassador to the United States, and Trump advisers, including Flynn, Trump's first national security adviser, three current and former officials said.
Conversations between Flynn and Kislyak accelerated after the Nov. 8 vote as the two discussed establishing a back channel for communication between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin that could bypass the U.S. national security bureaucracy, which both sides considered hostile to improved relations, four current U.S. officials said. ...
Democrats made 'weird' an effective weapon, and then Republicans turned it on LGBTQ people
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... This week, the race for president got "weird."
The relatively benign word suddenly seemed to be everywhere in the political discourse, from campaign videos and podcast appearances to X posts and cable news hits. People on the left hurled it at those on the right, seizing on it as a fresh rallying cry amid a broader burst of energy sparked by the ascension of Vice President Kamala Harris as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. People on the right, in turn, sought to reverse the affront by leaning on some of the topics that have most resonated in their social media circles, most notably stigmatizing LGBTQ and gender-nonconforming people.
Harris' official campaign account on X, "Kamala HQ," has used the word "weird" to describe Trump and Vance in 14 posts since July 23, while the Democratic "Won't PAC Down" super PAC released a political ad themed around calling conservatives weird on Monday that has over 12 million views on X and YouTube combined.
By Friday, the word had made its way to the upper echelons of the ongoing political dogfight, with White House senior deputy press secretary Andrew Bates needling a Republican media account on X with "Don't be weird," in response to a video of President Joe Biden going to thank the pilot of the plane that brought home U.S. prisoners from Russia. ...
Sen Vance has so many issues his candidancy for VP is dragging behind him.
His possible use of eyeliner seems to be the least of those issues.
I'd say this may be more of a concern to the Trump campaign...
Republicans are already souring on JD Vance
www.politico.com
... It's all starting to get some Republicans worried " and frustrated. Some, like Arizona Republican operative Chuck Coughlin, conceded that Vance has had a "tough week."
"Nothing like a baptism by fire," Coughlin said.
Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro bluntly questioned whether Trump should have picked Vance, saying on his show: "If you had a time machine, if you go back two weeks, would [Trump] have picked JD Vance again? I doubt it."
Other Republicans also wondered aloud if the Trump campaign had truly anticipated the tidal wave of resurfaced comments, book writings and remarks that would come with picking a 39-year-old, recently elected senator who had grown up online and was firmly seated on the right of the Republican Party.
"Of the people that were mentioned as finalists, he had the most risk, because he had never been vetted nationally," said Bill McCoshen, a Republican strategist in Wisconsin. "Doug Burgum ran for president, he had been vetted, mostly. Marco Rubio has run for president, he had been vetted. JD Vance hadn't. So there was risk in the pick. And we're going to see over the next 102 days how he stands up to the bright lights of a national campaign."
One House Republican lawmaker suggested those vetting concerns weren't just coming from the pundit class.
"Find me one publicly elected official in the Senate who is pushing JD Vance other than Mike Lee," said the Republican lawmaker, who was granted anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter. "I'll wait." ...
Murray Head - One Night In Bangkok (extended version) (1984)
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Lyrics excerpt...
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