The Political Thread

[Grim]

MSN

www.msn.com

Ah man, look at that. The sex pest was found liable for being a sex pest.

 

[Alexa]

Is the man even in Jail?

 

[Samoa Looch]

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/09/politics/george-santos-charged-justice-department/index.html

Exclusive: Rep. George Santos charged by Justice Department in federal probe​

Federal prosecutors have filed criminal charges against New York Rep. George Santos, the Republican lawmaker whose astonishing pattern of lies and fabrications stunned even hardened politicos, according to three sources familiar with the matter.

Santos is expected to appear as soon as Wednesday at federal court in New York’s eastern district, where the charges have been filed under seal.

The exact nature of the charges couldn’t immediately be learned but the FBI and the Justice Department public integrity prosecutors in New York and Washington have been examining allegations of false statements in Santos’ campaign finance filings and other claims.

 

[Samoa Looch]

Kaliningrad: Russia fury as Poland body recommends renaming exclave

A Polish state body says dropping the "imposed name" is partly a result of Russia invading Ukraine.

www.bbc.com

The Kremlin has reacted furiously after a Polish government body advised using a different name for Russia's exclave of Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea coast.
The Polish committee said the city and wider area should instead be called Królewiec.

This was the area's traditional name, it said, and the decision no longer to use an "imposed name" was partly a result of Russia invading Ukraine.
Russia said the decision was "bordering on madness" and "a hostile act".

"We know that throughout history, Poland has slipped from time to time into this madness of hatred towards Russians," said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

For hundreds of years before World War Two, the area was known as Königsberg and was part of East Prussia. Królewiec is the Polish translation of Königsberg.

However, after World War Two, the city and wider region were placed under Soviet administration. The Soviets renamed it Kaliningrad after Mikhail Kalinin, one of the leaders of the Bolshevik revolution.

On Tuesday, Poland's Committee on Standardisation of Geographical Names Outside the Republic of Poland said it was recommending with immediate effect that the city be known in Poland as Królewiec and the exclave's wider area as Obwód Królewiecki. It said the name Kaliningrad was unrelated to either the city or the region and had an "emotional and negative" resonance in Poland.

Mikhail Kalinin was one of six Soviet Politburo signatories to the order to execute more than 21,000 Polish prisoners of war in the forests of Katyn and elsewhere in 1940.

The polish Committee wants that the city and region being called Królewiec within Poland, mind you, not internationally.

From the same article and it's also about Kaliningrad, but has to do with the border to Poland:

Poland has also begun to fortify its border with the exclave following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The Polish military has erected a temporary 2.5m-high razor wire fence and last month began work to install cameras and motion sensors along the 232-km border. Anti-tank obstacles have also been positioned at border crossings.

Polish officials are concerned that Russia could use that border as a new migrant route into the EU, following reports of increased direct flights from the Middle East and elsewhere to Kaliningrad.

Poland has erected a 5.5m-high steel fence along part of its border with Belarus after an increase in migrants crossing into Poland, Lithuania and Latvia from there.

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[Alexa]

I am a bit impressed by this because I think Poland is pretty much controlled by the extreme/semi-extreme right wing group. Then again, I could be wrong and be missremembering things

 

[Comrade Khan]

Poland is a tough one because they are indeed politically ran by the religeous right atm, but also their hate for Russia is undying n they have good historical reasons for wanting to maintain their identity and sovereignty. Just that as usual the crazies are using that to aquire more n more power

 

[Alexa]

Yeah, thought it wa ssomething like that

 

[Grim]

And sadly the Polish common man is going to suffer for it in the end.

 

[Grim]

Not really political, but really really glad to finally see some justice done for what has been a long time coming.

MSN

www.msn.com

 

[Alexa]

America really sucks at protesting

Protesters march in Serbia to demand better security after shootings

Tens of thousands of Serbians protested on Friday demanding better security, a ban on violent TV content and the resignation of key ministers following two mass shootings in which 17 people died.

www.reuters.com

 

[Comrade Khan]

Twitter censored accounts in Turkey due to Musk and Erdogan deals: critics

One day ahead of Turkey's closely contested presidential election, Twitter restricted accounts belonging to political dissidents and whistleblowers.

www.businessinsider.com

hey look he was a liar about censorship, but most of us already knew that

 

[Grim]

Twitter censored accounts in Turkey due to Musk and Erdogan deals: critics

One day ahead of Turkey's closely contested presidential election, Twitter restricted accounts belonging to political dissidents and whistleblowers.

www.businessinsider.com

hey look he was a liar about censorship, but most of us already knew that

Whaaaaat, Elon Musk, a liar? Nooooo... h-he's a patriot! A real hero! He'd never be so spineless!

 

[Chris]

 

[Grim]

Ah man, another day, another domestic terrorist.

 

[Alexa]

Ah man, another day, another patriot

Fixed that for you