RIP Alexei Navalny. The US/UK should free Assange, free Ulbricht, pardon Snowden, and double-down on freedom as a contrast. They won't, but they should. Russia is way more politically controlled and censored than their western counterparts, but if the western counterparts were smart they would emphasize this fact rather than lean more into being even half-like Russia. Kudos to builders of various freedom tech.

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frphank 1 year ago
Surely the Fed is to blame for this one and Bitcoin will fix this. What happened in 1971?
Of course I don't think he should be incriminated for running a website. The problem is with him personally putting out a contract for murder.
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uncleJim21 1 year ago
We’ve fallen so far. Contrast this case with Gonzalo Lira’s treatment by Ukraine (green lit by US). These cases are eerily similar. It’s shameful and I wish more people spoke out about it.
the western counterparts ARE smart. nobody knows who Ulbricht is or have long enough memory to remember Assange or Snowden. actually makes me wonder why Putin didn't bring up those points during interview though - my guess is he was going for a more conciliatory tone because he recognizes Russia can't fight the war in Ukraine forever ... or as Sun Tzu said in Art of War "no nation has ever benefitted from prolonged warfare" ...
For us (in Poland)he was just another Russian imperialist. Not opposition but competition for Putin. He clearly stated that Poland should be part of Russian empire. Also he officially said that Crimea is Russia. Americans still don't understand Russia.
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sms 1 year ago
#gangsterment #brainwash is an amazing tool! Politicians as well as a myriad of their servants routinely put out extrajudicial contracts for murder, as well as commit ALL the largest mass murders , usually with complete impunity , for any tosh reason they dream up. All who remember #Ulbricht’s trial, saw that it was a rigged show trial, which had nothing to do with #justice, including the #murder #contract charge. All who orchestrated it, got away with crimes, even under their own #laws, much less #morality. This #ClownWorld #PrisonPlanet would be far more peaceful, if murder contracts on #politicians were common. #AnimalFarm
If the public don't have the memory to remember Assange or Snowden then maybe it's on ALL of us to remind people?
“Attempting murder”? Hey Brunswick, maybe you should familiarize yourself with the Ulbricht case before spouting off demonstrably false nonsense like that. It is public information, after all. For “attempted murder,” a court would have to prove beyond reasonable doubt that he attempted to kill someone. However, in the Ulbricht case, the judge determined that *did not* happen. You are confusing that with the allegations that Ross agreed to pay a contract to kill someone. And yet, Ross was never charged at trial with “murder for hire” and thus this charge was never ruled on by a jury. In fact, these unproven and unprosecuted allegations were dismissed *with prejudice* in 2018. What did happen? During the trial, prosecutors alleged that he discussed and paid a contract, but this was only presented as evidence by the prosecutors and was weak. Why weak? Because “the accusations relied on anonymous chats and text files never proven to have been authored by Ross. Hard evidence and testimony, including from the lead Silk Road investigator, showed that, over time, multiple people were behind the site admin’s DPR handle. Most significantly, two corrupt investigators (who later sent to prison) also had unfettered access to Silk Road and were admittedly involved in numerous plots.” Ross has always denied being involved with these allegations, and even Curtis Green, the only alleged victim ever identified, is a longtime, fervent supporter of Ross’s release.
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sms 1 year ago
#Useful reading, even in translation, #Navalny’s final words in a #trial in 2014: Noteworthy how just by changing the names, dates and idiosyncratic details, this final word could be said by a local Navalny/#Assange/#Snowden/#Ulbricht worldwide, including of course #US, #UK, #EU, et al! (That’s because he failed to mention, as a #politician, that continuous #lying is the vital foundation of any coercively funded, armed gang calling itself “#government”, including the one he wanted to lead.) #рустр #Russia
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Paul 1 year ago
can you imagine?! that's the sad part. life could literally be orders of mutitude better with some simple , easy to implement solutions.
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sms 1 year ago
It’s far worse than that, and also applies to #Poland, regarding socialism, as one of my associates wrote: “ Difficult to feel sorry for anyone who was trying to become the next government and still live by forcing 100% of their funding from the productive captives. From following him and his supporters many years, clear that he would have at most tried to build a socialist, bureaucratic tyranny that exists in Europe, US, Canada, Australia, practically everywhere, except monarchies. That's straight from his collaborators among Russian economists - Milov, Guriev. Nothing else - besides that and the dictatorships that have existed in Russia for a thousand years - is possible there. “
Is this guy? Doesn't look like a hero depicted by the west. There is a lot if stuff out there which realy looks weird and fascist out there. Was it just an episode or you like this about him? Serious question since I was looking to go and buy and read your bitcoin book. Thx
This reminds me of that old saying, "When the cookies are done, you gotta take 'em out of the oven. Otherwise, they'll taste like shit."
Nah Ulbricht got what he deserved. He didn't enforce proper OPSEC rules, and got caught because of his own mistakes. Boontje komt om z'n loontje, as we say in holland.
So You’re shure that Navalny was a good guy? And what do you have to say about the american citizen and journalist Gonzalo Lira who was killed in a Ukranian prison a month ago?
He was a right-wing nationalist and basically on the same side as Pootin. He challenged the emperor and got what he deserved. I really respect and admire you Lyn but you only seem to know what the media were feeding you about him being a "democratic" contender.
No, you're not saying NATO killed Nawalny... BUT you're implying it. That's after the playbook of any true conspiracist. Fuck Nawalny, he challenged Pootin with the exact same mindset, nationalistic, imperialistic and right-wing. There can only be one original and that's Pootin and so he eliminated him.
Yeah, Americans are very naive. Nawalny was a piece of shit and got what he deserved. RuZZia is a mafia state and when someone challenges the capo (Pootin) he gets eliminated.
He was a tax evader and woke liberal CIA asset looking to destroy the country. Good riddance! I can't believe there are so many neo-liberal simps here on nostr who want to promote heroes of degenerate lifestyles and world order lol.
Nothing to see here. Just a foreign agent died. In this video made in 2010 and leaked in 2012, Navalny's man, Vladimir Ashurkov, asks the British Mi-6 officer, James William Thomas Ford, to pay $10 million a year provide him with the ability to start a colorful revolution in #Russia.
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uncleJim21 1 year ago
I doubt it but the point is the US cedes all its moral superiority on a regular basis
Vrai mais la plupart des gens ne semblent pas s'inquiéter du nombre exponentiel de plus en plus de nazis en Europe et dans d'autres pays à travers le Monde où leurs aeuils ont dû trouver refuges durant la WW2.. Aujourd'hui ce sont leurs descendants qui reprennent le même chemin un peu partout et ça craint qu'au sein de l'Europe qu'il ait de plus en plus la montée des extrémistes de droite qui n'hésitent plus à se rassembler dans de grandes européennes en faisant allégeance à Hitler. Certains ont d'ailleurs commencer à prendre le pouvoir politique de plus en plus dans certains pays de l'EU
Sur le plan psychique oui et d'ailleurs fait de ceux qui ont une des problématiques d'ordre psychique des pires..l'armee n'a qu'exacerber sa pathologie, devait normalement être inapte pour intégrer le KGV. Me rappelle d'une de ses phrases à l'époque de la courtisanerie d'avec Berlusconi, Sarkozy etc ces mecs très dangereux qui détestaient au plus haut point celui qu'ils nommaient le trop bronzé qu'étaient Obama pour eux, Putin lors d'une conférence de presse, avait bien dit qu'on n'était jamais un ex du KGB, détestait Elsine l'ivrogne tel qu'il le nomme, quant à Gorbatchev il lui en voulait de la perostroskia, suivie de l'éclatement de l'URSS, ne rêve depuis reconstituer l'URSS voire plus l'empire Russie. En veut depuis son enfance selon sa grille de lecture à les leaders russes qui se sont faits avoir durant durant la WW2, sans oublier toute la force armée russe très addicte à l'alcool, les viols au passage de coins libérés ... qui de plus été la première sur Berlin puis s'est retrouvée dupée par les alliés, pour la répartition, sans oublier la première bombe atomique que l'Allemagne avait de prête, infine les soldats Us l'ont eue tout en prenant au passage tant de grands ingénieurs nazis spécialisés de la bombe qui furent prisonniers en UK et USA...in fine elle fut dans dans des zones aux USA et en Corée du Sud etc.. Cette ère de notre sale histoire est declassifiée et d'ailleurs toutes les guerres suivantes Vietnam, Afghanistan sous les russes, reste une partie pas totalement declassifiee Koweït Irak celles d'après 2003, tempête du désert, l'Irak, Afghanistan post 11 sept très médiatisée puis géopolitiquement machiavélique pour l'homme désastreuse pour les Terres
Ils rêvent tous de reconstruire l'empire des Tsars idem que le Sultan Erdoğan qui ne rêve de reconstituer le Sultanat de Constantinople, ainsi effacer toute d'Ataturk
Il ne fait qu'humilier une fois de plus ceux avec lesquels ils jouaient depuis stratégiquement depuis la perostroskia..
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=)(= 1 year ago
Finally some sanity here on nostr. Russia is more totalitarian and controlling than any western state and support for Ukraine is fighting against oppressive government. Just see what happened to the Navalny supporters the moment they took to the streets.
There's going to be no proof But people know He's keeping his citizens in line Or making a big mistake
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FoooBarBazz 1 year ago
Once the global #Agenda2030 finished, life in western world will be by far more restricted, than it is in China right now.
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oldphone 1 year ago
Why would Putin kill Navalny? Why wouldn't the CIA kill Navalny? ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯
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oldphone 1 year ago
Perfect reason for CIA supported "opposition" to assassinate Navalny.
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oldphone 1 year ago
Moved and lost by whom? ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯
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oldphone 1 year ago
What I heard was that Navalny was a fun guy who just wanted freedom and fun for everyone and that he wanted to become supreme leader of Russia for fun, for goodness, and for truth (kinda like Zelensky). I also heard that everyone in Russian politics is pure and wonderful except for Putin and anyone who doesn't condemn him.
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Care 1 year ago
Yes.. thank you 😊 💕
I would think the overthrow of a duly elected gov't in Ukraine in 2014 and the 2014 coup by Obama and his CIA henchmen should be factored in to these discussions.. Has the installed (Nazi?) gov't attacking Ukrainians in the ensuing years? Were/are there biolabs being dismantled? Is Russian spoken in these areas? Zelensky closed down the Orthodox Church. He outlawed news groups & t.v. stations.. Are these free market moves?? Why isn't this kind of stuff factored into discussions??
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star girl 1 year ago
Navalny aligned himself with Nazis & had a wild look in his eye. Clearly an egoist. Useful for Western propaganda, though.
Way more censored in Russia? IDK Lyn, I'm not in Russia I doubt Russia has the Fiat printing press power to support all the various spook agencies, think tanks and toys that the west does Everyday in my western sphere the narratives are all maximal BS. Spewing propaganda non-stop But yes, betting on freedom to create a better world for everyone is the way to go
Trump had his chance to do this while poking his finger in the eye of the deep state, instead the midwit pardoned a bunch of rappers. I guess now HE knows what it's like to be hunted by the deep state.
Russia is not only way more controlled, it is a total dictatorship! While i agree with you Snowden and Assange need to be released, they leaked secret documents, which was considered a crime. In contrast Nawalny did not commit any crime whatsoever and was killed just for speaking up. So there is a huge difference.
Just asked a question. What's wrong with asking questions to investigate?
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uncleJim21 1 year ago
So that means he should be imprisoned without trial and killed? Fuckin lol get a grip bro this isn’t commie Twitter.
The West is kiddos comparing to them — they have media outlets, politicians and the whole political parties all over the world etc. The amount of anti-western (esp. anti-US), anti-Ukrainian propaganda skyrocketed in recent years (blueticks on Twitter spreading it non-stop)
It's a russian bs — nobody overthrown govt. Moreover, Ukraine is parliament-presidential republic, and the whole parliament continued to work till the next elections. Both parliament and president were elected during democratic elections according to Constitution, with international observers, and were internationally recognized, even by russia.
Everyone in russian politics is controlled by putin/kgb/fsb. The whole political spectrum in russia exists only to make an illusion of democracy and to deliver putin's speech indirectly — just check out transcripts by Julia Davis' Russian Media Monitor https://youtube.com/@russianmediamonitor
hmmm. Maybe. If so, it's like which poisen do you prefer to kill yourself with Naomi's Kliens "The shock doctrine" details source material of the western psy-op complex development they literally worked with bonsai tree sculpture focus on how to kill a mind we saw that rolled out on us in C19 western propaganda is no playful puppy and it has world destroying consequences
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Tim 1 year ago
What if I told you modern western leaders derive their power from the same tribe that formed the Bolsheviks in Russia and murdered tens of millions of white Christians there.