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2022-01-08 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Kazakhstan's biggest city Almaty looks like something from an apocalypse film.

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Posted by Fred 2022-01-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

Posted by Hupath Glaiting1773 2022-01-08 18:58|| 2022-01-08 18:58|| Front Page Top

#2 Goodbye, stupid f*ck

Posted by Frank G 2022-01-08 20:03|| 2022-01-08 20:03|| Front Page Top

#3 I see our efficient moderators have been at work sponging up the stupidity, however that is no reason to waste a good rant.

"Why are you listening to *those* lying arseholes?" is a not infrequent comment here at the 'Burg.

At first glance, Rantburg appears to be a news aggregator for the War on Terror and Poetry. But we are also playing a higher level game here - Intelligence and Analysis.

No one is claiming that our sources are 100% gold standard true. Sometimes the news is not news, but magician's patter. Sometimes, the informative bits are not the message, but who is saying it and why. The question is not whether they are lying, but what are they selling?

On a personal note, I rather like the idea that Fred's totem animal is the Rhino, a friendly but unstoppable rhinoceros.

Posted by SteveS 2022-01-08 20:15|| 2022-01-08 20:15|| Front Page Top

#4 ^True. Most* of the longtime commenters here have a known mindset/world opinion - Mine included. The inclusion of foreign and other inputs mean a challenge to the local MSM narratives. I/We post JPost, Khaama, Tolo, and others NOT because we believe that shit verbatim , but to show what others are seeing. Mock away

Posted by Frank G 2022-01-08 20:33|| 2022-01-08 20:33|| Front Page Top

#5 *happy sigh* So beautifully said, and so true. Frank G was the efficient one today.

Over the years, some of those who came to troll learnt to appreciate what we do here. Others got spam copped and chew toyed until they retreated in disorder.

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