Avoiding Apocalypse: How Science and Scientists Ended the Cold War

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[PDF file]: […] as long as people adhere to these false notions the ideological conflict continues. The Cold War has not yet come to a final conclusion. It will finally end only when we all learn the lesson of linkage that Andrei Sakharov taught. (pp. 185/6 and 197) I don’t think Mr Putin is listening, do you? 3

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[…] a ‘reputation laundering’ process. In brief, Russian influence in the UK is ‘the new normal’, and there are a lot of Russians with very close links to Putin who are well integrated into the UK business and social scene, and accepted because of their wealth. This level of integration – in ‘Londongrad’ in particular […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] are weighing the possibility that the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was a botched attempt by extremists in the Ukrainian government to assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin whose aircraft was returning from South America the same day, according to a source briefed on the U.S. investigation.’ 26 We shall see; but, given his […]

THEY KNEW: how a culture of conspiracy keep America complacent by Sarah Kendzior

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[PDF file]: […] has even been accused of being ‘an undercover espionage agent with partner, Beyonce Knowles’, protecting the real Tupac Shakur, who is not dead but working for Vladimir Putin. Most hilariously, she has been accused of being the leader of various cults – including the Blue Oyster Cult, actually an 80s rock band – which […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] are weighing the possibility that the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was a botched attempt by extremists in the Ukrainian government to assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin whose aircraft was returning from South America the same day, according to a source briefed on the U.S. investigation.’ 27 We shall see; but, given his […]

Apocryphylia

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[PDF file]: […] Projects at the Finance Committee of the City of St Petersburg – in which role it seems reasonable to assume she would have known and met Vladimir Putin, then beginning his rise to global significance in that city. Calvert 22 is sponsored (the exact wording used is ‘strategic partner’) by VTB Capital, an investment […]

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[…] a ‘reputation laundering’ process. In brief, Russian influence in the UK is ‘the new normal’, and there are a lot of Russians with very close links to Putin who are well integrated into the UK business and social scene, and accepted because of their wealth. This level of integration – in ‘Londongrad’ in particular […]

The Super-rich Shall Inherit the Earth by Stephen Armstrong

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[PDF file]: […] concerns a US banker who in a meeting with one of these gangsters unadvisedly used the phrase ‘You are going to have to bite the bullet’.) The Putin period is covered in some detail, including the murder of Alexander Litvinenko and the rise of Roman Abramovich. (A theory is briefly recounted that Abramovich bought […]

Failed Führers: A History of Britain’s Extreme Right by Graham Macklin

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[PDF file]: […] I was brought up on briefly went BNP. While he was an MEP he, along with much of the international Far Right, declared their admiration for Vladimir Putin as an enemy of liberalism and the saviour of Christianity. At the same time, he was also supporting the Asad regime in Syria, invited to praise […]

Why Bellingcat’s founder promoted a Ukrainian hoax

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[PDF file]: […] the emerging information.2 Soon after that, the bombing of the theatre became international news. Within hours of the incident, US President Joe Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin ‘a war criminal’ for the first time.3 Ukraine has consistently blamed the destruction on a Russian airstrike,4 while Russia has consistently accused Ukrainian forces of destroying […]

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