Alameda County Sheriff's Office removed 47 deputies from law enforcement duties after it was revealed they received unsatisfactory psychological exam results
The 47 deputies represent 5 percent of the 1,000-member force
A spokesperson said retesting will begin in the next 'couple months,' and will be performed by an outside firm
A former deputy who was charged with murder reportedly failed his exam before he was hired on to the Sheriff's Office
Anonymous sources claim the exam process under current sheriff Gregory Ahern is flawed
#1
Imagine if Californians voters could demand that their Politicians take and pass the same Psych Evaluations. If they fail, they can't vote on any issues until judged safe again to society.
BTW: what if the failing the Psych Evaluation is a sneaky way of getting to still draw a paycheck and not having to get shot at.
#9
Translation: Departmental lawyers use Bay Area Psychologist Eval that finds cops dangerously prone to civil lawsuit by POC for actually enforcing the law!
#10
I'm surprised its not higher as the current doctrine is aggression. Escalate to intimidate. And I would think psychologists would consider anyone that truly believe these tactics to be unhinged.
When it comes to conventional warfare, Russian leaders have relied upon the same tactic for centuries: throw people at the problem. Russian territory has poor defensibility--so too do the lands of the countries Russia has between its own borders and most overland invasion routes. The solution? Plug the gaps with bodies. Lots of them.
What foreign forces didn't get mucked up in, well, the mire of the Northern European Plain, usually had to contend with the poor souls Russian leadership was able to place between itself and those forces seeking to invade. The advent of modern warfare has diminished the effectiveness of these tactics, from machine guns to modern artillery and drones, but Russian military leadership has to contend with another wrinkle: the mobility of modern Russian men. Gone are the days when you could corral villagers and locals and send them off to front lines. As we're seeing along all roads out of Russia, those who can run away from mobilization notices are choosing to do so. In the hundreds of thousands--to say nothing of those who are likely avoiding call up notices within Russia itself.
BLUF:
[War Zone] Western intelligence agencies are increasingly of the view that the Russian government, or actors acting on its behalf, was responsible for the pipeline leaks. The Times newspaper in the United Kingdom, citing an unnamed U.K. "defense source," reported today that a "likely scenario" for the attacks involved Russian uncrewed underwater vehicles, deployed from a mothership vessel of some kind on the surface, possibly something as innocuous as a fishing boat. Those undersea drones would then have laid explosive devices along the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines.
According to The Times story, the explosives could have been planted weeks or even months ago as part of a "premeditated and planned" operation. This detail follows a separate report from the German magazine Der Spiegel yesterday that said the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has passed along warnings to authorities in Berlin about the possibility of future attacks on Nord Steam 1 and 2 this past summer.
Experts and observers have also put forward the possibility of combat divers planting explosives. The leaks occurred in areas where the pipelines lie at sufficiently shallow depths for divers to operate.
#4
The key here may be the release of intelligence community I&W (Indications and Warnings) that produced the.... "warnings to authorities in Berlin about the possibility of future attacks on Nord Steam 1 and 2 this past summer."
#7
Obviously the US did this. Without the pipeline, Russia just lost a lot of leverage.
This was an attack on Germany, not Russia. Germany might have had a moment of weakness and asked for the gas to be turned back on. The US doesn't want that.
I suppose it's a total coincidence that the US was testing underwater drones in the area a few days ago.
#13
The clowns are posting more ridiculous bullshit again.
This was so obviously the work of the US - consider:
1. NATO dominates the Baltic Sea
2. The US has recently been testing its capabilities to detect and destroy underwater mines and materiel in precisely the area where the explosions occurred
3. The amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge was in the immediate vicinity of Bornholm, Denmark, just this week. The USS Kearsarge led other US Navy ships in the Baltic Sea we’re on a mission only 30 km from the site of the alleged sabotage on the Nord Stream-1 gas pipeline and 50 km from the threads of Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline.
4. In June and July of this year NATO held its BALTOPS exercises near that exact location. The Baltops 22 maneuver took place in June and July of this year, and the U.S. Sixth Fleet left the Baltic Sea only a few days ago. See this translation from a recent article published by the German local news outlet, Fehmarn24):
“Big Fleet Group From U.S. Navy Passes [German island passage] Fehmanbelt
On Wednesday morning the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge, escorted by the Landing Ships USS Arlington and USS Gunston Hall, was en route towards west. Previously, the ships were part of US units that took part in NATO maneuvers and called at numerous ports in Germany, Scandinavia and the Baltic States.
The "USS Kearsarge", flagship of the association and largest warship of the US Navy, which was in action in the Baltic Sea in the last 30 years, has 40 helicopters and fighter planes as well as more than 2000 soldiers on board, the escort ships about 1000. For the around 4,000 soldiers are heading back home on the east coast of the US after their six-month deployment.
Parts of the Kearsange operations in the Baltic Sea were dedicated to test special sub sea mine destruction technologies:
A significant focus of BALTOPS every year is the demonstration of NATO mine hunting capabilities, and this year the U.S. Navy continues to use the exercise as an opportunity to test emerging technology, U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa Public Affairs said June 14.
In support of BALTOPS, U.S. Navy 6th Fleet partnered with U.S. Navy research and warfare centers to bring the latest advancements in unmanned underwater vehicle mine hunting technology to the Baltic Sea to demonstrate the vehicle’s effectiveness in operational scenarios.
Experimentation was conducted off the coast of Bornholm, Denmark, with participants from Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific, Naval Undersea Warfare Center Newport, and Mine Warfare Readiness and Effectiveness Measuring all under the direction of U.S. 6th Fleet Task Force 68.”
Posted by: Large Angunter3816 ||
09/29/2022 10:22 Comments ||
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#14
“sources tell CNN…”
Hahaha
Send in the clowns
There ought to be clowns
Don’t bother - they’re here
Posted by: Large Angunter3816 ||
09/29/2022 10:31 Comments ||
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#15
Putin says you're a good boy now. Go collect your 50 Roubles.
#21
Why not stop the flow of gas? Maybe the pipeline would fill with seawater?
Posted by: Bobby ||
09/29/2022 11:07 Comments ||
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#22
Incredible - actually quoting ludicrous bullshit from CNN using anonymous “sources.” And ignoring the mountain of evidence, and elementary logic, all of which clearly points to our own side killing off what the President himself and his own people swore publicly they were determined to do.
No wonder you fall back on juvenile and bogus name-calling.
Posted by: Large Angunter3816 ||
09/29/2022 11:07 Comments ||
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#23
Besoeker,
#20 “Your #13 was most informative. That's the type of traffic we need here.”
Thank you. Glad to help move the discussion forward.
Would you please tell the ad hominem guy to do likewise and leave off his stupid playground insults so we can have a normal, intelligent discussion?
Posted by: Large Angunter3816 ||
09/29/2022 11:12 Comments ||
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#24
The Russians destroyed the pipeline in order to jack up the fear and the world price of gas. The pipelines is a written off asset (a sunk cost) and the Germans will never be dependent on it again. It also sends the message that the Russians can attack other pipelines or undersea cables (data as well as power cables).
The Russians hope to cause unrest and peel off the weaker countries like Germany or Hungary. That's why they are also stopping gas transit through Ukraine. That supply of gas also goes to eastern EU members.
Angunter3816, you are Russian. If you can't get what you want, then nobody can have it is so common. For the west, the pipelines are a dead asset. Best to lie there and serve as a monument to the folly of German hopes and Gazprom money.
#26
That gas gets flared off. They don't have the pipelines to move it but a little bit of it to the east. The Turks will buy as much as they can. The Iranians are gas exporters and I doubt the RU->IR pipelines exist. If the Russians get really desperate, they will cap the wells. Getting them back online again is a whole new set of problems.
Posted by: Large Angunter3816 ||
09/29/2022 11:52 Comments ||
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#28
As it happens NS2 was reported leaking before it blew up:
https://gcaptain.com/russias-nord-stream-2-pipeline-leaks-gas-in-baltic-sea/
Pipelines that are not in use generally have minor amounts of product pumped thru them, back and forth, to maintain the integrity of the line. They're designed to be kept under pressure, and need to be kept under pressure. Operators also use the time to run maintenance "pigs" through the system (They clean out trash accumulation and can be used to look for problems).
Posted by: ed in texas ||
09/29/2022 11:52 Comments ||
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#29
Now you are lying like a True Russian. Another 50 Roubles. Your mobilization papers have been rescinded for a week.
#30
Whoever did it picked a great time. Mainstream media is preoccupied with Hurricane Ian so nobody's paying much attention.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
09/29/2022 11:58 Comments ||
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#31
#28 Here's a scenario in which those 'pigs' or something like them were used as the means of sabotage - by Russia:
https://nitter.net/TrentTelenko/status/1575222209525972993#m
Not saying I believe this, but as credible as any other speculation in this thread. This one should be easy to (dis)prove when they divers or ROVs down there, since it would burst the pipe from inside rather than crush it from outside.
#32
Getting back to "who would do such a thing", we can start with a cui bono list:
U.S. : Gonna start here because it's so freakin obvious. I can't see Joey being capable of decisive ation.
Russia : Doesn't make any sense, but not much about this whole shooting match makes much sense.
France: Well, Germany's economy just got kneecapped. In EU politics, France's stock just went up.
Irans and/or China: Due to the pipeline shutdowns, both of these made very favorable deals to buy gas. Maybe they want to make sure the deals stay good. As it happens, both have had naval assets in the Baltic recently.
Ukraine: The obvious beneficiary. I don't see them having the capability.
Greta Thunberg: because why not.
Discuss
Posted by: ed in texas ||
09/29/2022 12:08 Comments ||
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#33
As it happens NS2 was reported leaking before it blew up:
Not sure about that. The articles says that the leak occurred on the 26th. The next day, the two NS1 pipelines were discovered to be spewing gas. At that time, nobody at that checked the seismographs to look for an explosion. The second NS2 pipe leak was detected some time after the other three.
#34
Add Poland, Finland, and the Baltics. Motive: Anti-Russian frontline states.
Add Sweden and Norway. Motive: Eliminate competition.
Capability: I have no idea, but this didn't need to be a big high tech operation with a visible logistical tail. Big underwater drones dumped off the back of fishing trawlers would do it. Watching fleet movements is not very helpful, IMO.
#36
After what we learned in the Afghan area of operations, I would look beyond nation-states as the potential actor is this pipeline drama. Certain individuals have the means and capability to direct ops such as this.
Remember, an individual directing a terrorist org destroyed the twin towers and damaged the Pentagon using our own means against us. OBL pales in comparison to some of the actors that exist in the EU AO...
Re. cui bono, obviously the Poles are the biggest beneficiaries.
The pipeline from Norway to continental Europe just so coincidentally (Gomer Pyle: “Surprise, surprise, surprise!”) began flowing gas to Poland on literally the same day that NordStream was sabotaged.
The pipeline was opened yesterday, the very same day the Nord Stream system was sabotaged.
The Polish government isn’t even being coy about this — they’re crowing from the treetops. The former Polish Foreign Minister even came out and said, “Thank you, America!”
Read the Polish official government accounts:
Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland @PremierRP_en - 11:25 UTC · Sep 27, 2022
🇵🇱🤝🇩🇰 The #BalticPipe is a joint Polish-Danish investment in the energy security of the region.
Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland @PremierRP_en - 13:43 UTC · Sep 27, 2022
🎥The launching ceremony of the #BalticPipe gas pipeline with participation of PM @MorawieckiM , PM of Denmark Mette Frederiksen & @prezydentpl @AndrzejDuda.
The Baltic Pipe is a strategic infrastructure project aimed at creating a new gas supply corridor on the European market.
Posted by: Large Angunter3816 ||
09/29/2022 12:22 Comments ||
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#38
More on Poland:
100 kilometer south is the Polish naval base Kolobrzeg (the former German Kolberg) which harbors mine laying ships and the 8th Kołobrzeg Naval Combat Engineer Battalion. Naval combat engineers are experts in blowing up anything that is under water, be it mines or pipelines.
In 2021, while Nord Stream 2 was still being build, the Polish navy had interfered and endangered the pipe laying vessels in the very same place.
Artifaktus @bzyqer - 7:49 UTC · Sep 28, 2022
Gdy Wy mycie zęby, przebieracie się w piżamy i szykujecie do snu, jeden niestrudzony Polak wyrusza w swoją łodzią w kierunku Bornholmu mając na sercu dobro Polski a może i Niemiec ...
Translated from Polish:
When you brush your teeth, put on your pajamas and get ready to go to sleep, one tireless Pole sets off in his boat towards Bornholm with the good of Poland and maybe Germany at heart ...
Posted by: Large Angunter3816 ||
09/29/2022 12:26 Comments ||
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#39
The pipeline from Norway to continental Europe just so coincidentally (Gomer Pyle: “Surprise, surprise, surprise!”) began flowing gas to Poland on literally the same day that NordStream was sabotaged.
Then that would be very stupid timing. Pipelines don't just begin pumping full capacity. There is testing and low volume flow, increasing to full capacity.
#41
Globalist, Bullingdon Club member, AEI fellow, former Minister of Defense of Poland, and Blob spouse Radek Sikorski confirmed the USA was behind this act of international terrorism by posting a photo of the awful gas pollution happening in the ocean and saying, "Thank you, USA."
He's deleted it, but only because he said the quiet part out loud. He didn't get the memo that this was a false flag that was going to be blamed on Russia. In fact, everyone seemed surprised. Usually when they have a false flag planned everyone is on the same page and they start bleating in unison. Remember the fake gas attack in Syria, just when Trump had ordered the troops out?
#42
Thanks, Besoeker, for posting that link to Tucker Carlson's segment on this incident. In it, both Biden and Nuland are shown threatening to "end" the pipeline if Russia were to invade Ukraine. Those statements might not be smoking guns but they are pretty convincing evidence.
The presence of US Naval assets in the area of the explosions is more evidence that it was Biden's doing.
The idea that Putin would destroy his own cash cows is absurd.
Convincing evidence also exists that Biden and Nuland were at least complicit in the Maidan coup. This evidence points to Nuland as being the chief engineer of the coup. This evidence is strong enough to render any claims they make about fighting for democracy laughable.
These individuals are dangerous war mongers who could end up getting us all killed with their false claims of fighting for democracy in a far away country where America has no historic, economic or strategic interest.
I call on every member of Congress to stop funding Biden's proxy war against Russia and demand an end to this madness.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
09/29/2022 12:51 Comments ||
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#43
Nero, I find the pig blast source interesting because of the locations of the pipeline blasts. The two NS1 breaks occurred near each other. The first NS2 break occurred about 80km to the south. That seems to rule out the scuba diver theory. I couldn't find any data yet on the second NS2 break.
#44
FFS - The Baltic is a NATO Sea. To think NATO is so grossly incompetent to allow Eurasia, I mean the Soviets, I mean the Russians - so incompetent to a allow the Russia freedom of movement in NATO's backyard - if that is the case, NATO should be dismantled on that failure alone. To think NATO doesn't have radar and sonar and birds in space monitoring that front/sea just seems ludacris to me. NATO cant see their backyard, please...
Then we have the case of a NATO training exercise on September 26 (the day of the sabotage) and 27: Hungary, Germany, Czech Republic, Italy, Turkey, the United Kingdom, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and Finland... The training missions will take place in the international airspace above the Baltic Sea...
So Eurasia snuck into the Baltic Sea, NATO's backyard, surrounded by NATO ports and air force bases, during a NATO Training Exercise being held over the region. And the story continues that Eurasia bombed the pipeline with a charge/explosive that registered ~3 on the Richter Scale, and was able to sneak out undetected.
#45
Tell us how does NATO prevent Russian ships from traversing the Baltic? Hint: Russian Baltic Fleet.
Are you claiming the EU or CNN is lying when they say Russian ships were sailing near the pipeline breaks? This is a testable hypothesis, just like an outward blast from rigged pipeline pigs.
#46
mossomo, a camp fire and a good Scotch would be the ideal place to discuss which would actually be worse.
Sort of need debris field pics to get a sense of what was used - torpedo, limpet mines, suicide drone, pig bomb (a la The World is Not Enough), Taco Bell Family Meal, a dragging anchor, a pod of juvenile whales using a bend as a sex toy, any clue to the sophistication level both technologically and operationally.
#49
CNN is correct. Peskov didn't deny the presence of Russian ships near the leak sites. Instead, the usual Russian deflection when confronted with facts they can't refute. U.S. news channel CNN reported Thursday, citing three unnamed sources, that European security officials observed Russian navy support ships and submarines near the area of the leaks in the Nord Stream gas pipelines.
When asked to comment on the CNN report, the Kremlin’s Peskov said there had been a much larger NATO presence in the area. NATO did not immediately respond to a request for comment from CNBC.
#57
The people (who are still alive/their heir apparents) on Team DC pushing this conflict are the same who pushed war on Russia back in Obama when Once a Future ISIS claimed Assad launched a massive chemical attack on....somewhere? Pictures of people wondering about an active chemical attack area wearing what would be Covid style protection. Like a couple days later, France has passed a resolution, one was in British Parliament, and John McCain was banging drums like they were Ukrainian hookers on a Biden tour guide budget.
They have earned the skepticism.
After the Kabul Circus, we also know there are high-ups in the military also full of the bullshit. They too have earned the skepticism. Drone Zapped a station wagon for PR points furcrissakes, kicked people off a rescue plane for a souvenir Helix, and took staged photos of Last Boots to Leave.
Now out of those examples, the only one involving the US Military is Kabul security and flying most of the plane - however the passengers were not selected by US Military were they.
'Tis strange no tars' tongues are a-waggin'
On what haunts the Baltic, and braggin'
Of seeing the tail
Of a monstrous great whale
Or the firebreathing snout of a dragon.
#59
The Bear had retired to his booze,
The Teuton his Schultzian snooze,
The old Nordic trolls
And droll Poles to their holes,
When Joe Biden remembered...
[SNL busy B. skit ensues]
Posted by: Large Angunter3816 ||
09/29/2022 17:35 Comments ||
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#61
And to be fair, I did come across a Maintenance Issue explanation; short of it is a happy machine, is a machine being used. Which this pipeline hasn't been, at least as intended, in quite a while.
I'm not sold on anything yet, but I do have Russians Attacked Pipeline over there with Dallas Wins SuperBowl.
#62
#53 "...spotted near site of the Nord Stream blasts just days ago..." most likely by our naval assets that were directly over the blast site. Just guessing.
Posted by: Rex Mundi ||
09/29/2022 17:52 Comments ||
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#63
KS, how about "maintenance issue" in quotes for a real long shot?
Odd duck in Adidas and hoodie,
As nuts as a two-headed Woody:
"Your Red Army fraction
Required a distraction?"
"All lies!"
"And an oldie but goodie."
#65
It's been a cute day of trolling, assumptions and accusations with no new evidence. HT AOSHQ
Posted by: Frank G ||
09/29/2022 18:59 Comments ||
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#66
Biggest problem I'm running into would be motive. On the Western Alliance, whether Team DC was in charge or not is now moot, and whether they were in any way responsible, or not, Team DC has $Trillions with a T riding on war, as well as the legitimacy of the Biden Brand.
Its why Abu Uluque is right. Given a long enough time line, there will be an incident which is used by the warmongers as a reason to cross that line.
Other than, you know, nuking the global economy - twice - to bring Russia to its knees by June.
Posted by: Large Angunter3816 ||
09/29/2022 19:54 Comments ||
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#69
fantasy that a country would blow up its own pipeline and eliminate its #1 source of leverage?
That pipeline is of no economic value for Putin. The Germans will never use it while Putin or any successor dictator is in power. In addition, the US will use its veto.
The only power the NS pipelines now have are as a negative example. My pipeline is blown up. Your pipelines in the west can also be blown up. The Crazy Ivan ploy. Don't mess with Putin, let him rape Ukraine and reassemble the old band (Soviet Union).
No, Russia will be defeated in Ukraine and completely isolated from the West. Your economy will grind to a halt and then the real fun begins in Russia. China waits in the wings.
#71
Why interior/exterior inspection schedule (and actual inspection), plus pictures of the rapture/debris field would be important.
Also chemical analysis of the pipeline jacket (concrete?). Embedded in it will be explosive residue. Russian explosive formula or western formula? Same for metallurgical analysis. More datapoints.
#72
“That pipeline is of no economic value for Putin.”
Hahaha. The clown who doesn’t understand anything about project finance or sunk costs shows his total ignorance of the natural gas market. Who cares about $100 billion in annual revenues?
We get it, you’re a manic-obsessive Russia-hater with next to no knowledge of economics or strategy or politics. But your and the Nuland-Applebaum neocons’ obsession is leading this country into the ditch. There is no reason — none at all — that we should risk a war with a nuclear-armed Russia over Ukraine.
We have no vital interest at stake in that shitty country. Enough already with this madness.
Posted by: Large Angunter3816 ||
09/29/2022 20:19 Comments ||
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#73
Clearly inflation has hit those who post for reimbursement
Posted by: Frank G ||
09/29/2022 20:22 Comments ||
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#74
No gas pumped through. No revenue. Did you learn economics in the old Soviet Union where only labor input determined value?
#76
Nothing says credibility like anons who show up to spew the Kremlin line whenever Putin gets his nuts in a vise. Just as effective as the orcs stuck in Lyman.
“European manufacturing will no longer be economically viable. Energy inputs - one of the key inputs in manufacturing - will be too expensive to viably produce products. They will simply be cheaper to buy elsewhere.
3/ There is a good chance some of this manufacturing will move to America - but only in the very short-term. Why? Because investment in manufacturing creates demand for manufactured products. Manufacturing creates jobs in Europe, the workers buy the products.
4/ With no manufacturing jobs, Europeans will have far less purchasing power. If some of the manufacturing moves to America, it will be short-lived. America will realise that much of its export market has collapsed. Note that the EU makes up around 10% of US exports….
9/ The European energy war will likely go down in hitory, together with the Treaty of Versailles and the trade wars of the 1930s, as one of the biggest economic policy errors in history.
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[FoxNews] The U.S. Embassy in Moscow has urged all Americans in Russia to flee the nation following President Vladimir Putin’s "partial mobilization" decree last week.
"Russia may refuse to acknowledge dual nationals’ U.S. citizenship, deny their access to U.S. consular assistance, prevent their departure from Russia, and conscript dual nationals for military service," the embassy warned Tuesday.
Commentary by Sergei Shipov
[ColonelCassad] The news has swept the world chess federation.
Grandmaster Sergei Shipov writes:
Insanity in the name of the notorious "tolerance" is growing. And FIDE does not stand aside.
I remember how Dubov, at the World Cup in Sochi, joked on the air about the presence of porn films on his computer - and was immediately fired.
Now Smirin in Astana quite good-naturedly noted some differences in conditions for women and men - with the same result.
The trend is clear: FIDE officials actively use all the plagues of the Western world in chess. Sports are actively interfering with big politics, they are looking for sexism and other "isms" where they do not exist.
It looks like they can't! In the big world they won't understand, sir.
PS It is strange that I, who never climbed into my pocket for a word, did not find such "crimes" in official comments. Apparently they didn't search well.
PPS It became known who dispersed the current scandal.
Gulrukhbegim Tokhirjonova acted as a "slaughterer".
And then more serious figures came up: Zsuzsa Polgar (referring to FIDE on her Twitter) and Hikaru Nakamura (on her YouTube channel), who ensured a massive response.
Rate the dialogue:
Ilya Smirin (commentator): I've always wondered why women can play with men, but men can't play in the women's tournament (smiles)
Fiona Stiyl-Anthony (commentator): You have to ask someone other than me
Smirin: I don't ask. Let's just say it's a rhetorical question
<...>
Stiyl-Anthony: Are you saying that chess is not for women?
Smirin: I did not say this openly. Sorry. It was a private conversation
https://t.me/Crestbook - Zinc
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
Smirin, of course, according to Orwell, committed a thought crime and voiced it. For which he suffered.
Tokhirjonova is a former chess player from Uzbekistan who now plays for the United States. Well, as you can see, very quickly integrated into the local mainstream.
It is interesting that Maria Manakova, who emigrated from Russia to Serbia, writes about this, Maria Manakova is another chess player and a Russian émigré residing in Serbia
"How disgusting all this is, all these tolerances of yours, aggressive feminists, kissing the feet of representatives of other races and licking refugees from the Middle East. It is already forbidden for a person to express his opinion, either in Sovka or in "civilized" countries. "We're walking like a minefield.
Soon the pendulum will go in the opposite direction. And it won't seem enough. Look, Italy is an example of this."
Clever and one of the most educated people in the chess world Ilya Smirin, in his usual manner, joked live about women's chess. About some kind of chess player, I didn’t even really understand which one, her name will be forgotten the very next day. Like, why does she need the title of a male grandmaster when she already has the title of a female one.
And, they say, why women can play in men's tournaments, but women can't. Everything.
They always talked and joked about it, in the same expressions, everyone understood the joke of humor, and nothing.
Now the chess player complained, got indignant, offended right to the depths of her soul.
As a result, a terrible scandal erupted, and Ilya was forced to fucking apologize. FIDE published some sort of ruling about this and he was kicked out of the commentators for the Women's Grand Prix.
Vile times, oh, vile."
She can hardly be reproached with great sympathy for Russia or "traditional values", but even she got through. But it seems that this is only the beginning. Such international structures dependent on Western money and Western pressure are forced to railway station prostitutes adapt to the requirements of the client who dances them.
Talk about the fact that "chess is out of politics" now betrays only the infantilism of those who say it. Like any great sport in the conditions of the Cold War, it is primarily politics, and therefore already sports and everything else. And grandmasters are now being reminded of this point-blank, telling who to play, who not to play, what can be said and what cannot be said. However, given the overwhelming conformity of the grandmaster environment, one can be sure that the majority will silently eat it. Not for the first time.
#1
Yeah, China in the 90s illegally helped Bill Clinton win in '96. He had to pay them back, so he got them in the WTO. The result was a disaster for the American worker, as we were put in direct competition with slave labor. They were selling at retail for less than the cost of our production.
#2
CIA needs people to act like they have power and position and basically act as magnets to draw in the honey-traps. I'm sure they'd get a lot of volunteers.
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