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Putin facing multi-million pound legal action over alleged role in MH17 crash
The Daily Telegraph ^ | 27 Jul 14 | Robert Mendick, Ben Farmer and Tim Ross

Posted on 07/27/2014 7:41:57 AM PDT by elhombrelibre

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To: DTA; Tailgunner Joe
Soros' disinformation network was used in the past and is still used to defame Israel.

Speaking if anti-semites defaming Israel, remember how you told me "You're only as good as your source"? Your source on Netanyahu and "genocidal" Israel:

"Netanyahu and Rahm Emmanuel Agree: Never Let a Crisis Go To Waste"

http://www.activistpost.com/2014/07/netanyahu-and-rahm-emmanuel-agree-never.html#!bn5dFK

41 posted on 07/27/2014 2:11:51 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Putin's wealth ranges from $40 billion to $70 billion by most estimates. But beyond that he owns Russia and all in it including the military and intel services, every house, building and acre. In addition he controls other countries. He has his cronies who have mega fortunes also, some who became wealthy after former Russian industry leaders disappeared or passed from this earth.

Putin has leveraged his power to acquire a 4.5% ownership stake in natural gas producer Gazprom, a 37% stake in oil company Surgutneftegas and 50% stake in Swiss oil-trader Gunvor. Gazprom alone does over $150 billion in revenue annually, Guvnor does $80 billion and Surgutneftegas over $20 billion. Using their most recent market capitalizations, Putin's combined ownership stakes would give him a personal net worth of $70 billion!

Here is Putin on a Harley Trike at the 14th International Biker Rally in Sevastopol, Crimea, July 24, 2010....note the Ukraine flag in addition the Russian flag on his trike back when he owned both countries.

Another angle ... Sanctions Revive Search for Secret Putin Fortune

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/27/world/sanctions-revive-search-for-secret-putin-fortune.html

42 posted on 07/27/2014 2:18:12 PM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: free_life
Interesting pic I ran across just now.

After graduating from college with a law degree, Putin spent the next 16 years working as a KGB agent. In 1988, the official White House photographer inadvertently photographed Putin spying on President Ronald Reagan while disguised as a regular Russian tourist in Moscow:

43 posted on 07/27/2014 2:22:28 PM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: bajabaja

“Putin is an evil man, yet how does a plane crash in the Ukraine involving either Ukrainian and/or Russian militaries wind up in the US courts?”

Apparently they think an American judge is arrogant enough to think he/she has jurisdiction over the foreign policy of foreign counties.

“If you want an international court of justice, I think there is one in the Hague.”
Just like in theses united States you won’t find justice among men who think their power, ideas, and views not only constitute law but law that extends everywhere.

Such a concept of man made universal law defies the very notion of justice. The Russian nation like all other nations it is a sovereign entity accountable only to itself.


44 posted on 07/27/2014 2:33:18 PM PDT by Monorprise
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To: free_life
Ronald Reagan was 6'1". Putin is minuscule 5'7''

Does not look like this from this picture. IMHO, that's not Putin.

45 posted on 07/27/2014 3:20:51 PM PDT by DTA
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To: elhombrelibre

He committed an act of war and the response is a lawsuit. That’s how he will see it.


46 posted on 07/27/2014 3:41:48 PM PDT by Personal Responsibility (I'd use the /S tag but is it really necessary?)
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To: Gay State Conservative

“This is Vald Putin’s savagery.Nobody but him deserves blame.”

You are right...this is Putin’s problem and I hope it will finally lead to his downfall. Won’t happen in Russia...where public opinion is for Putin (who knows what sort of propaganda the public’s been fed). But I believe if financial pressure is put on Russia’s oligarchy...Putin might feel some pressure to back off.

Or just freeze the assets of these jackasses if they have $$ anywhere in Europe or USA.

Can’t remember where I read it...but something to the effect of taking away Russian women’s access to Channel and other fancy dancy French labels...and the wives and mistresses would apply some, um, ‘pressure’ on the Russian politico’s...forcing Putin to quite his insane attacks.

Or freeze any assets these goobers have in Europe and the USA until restitution is made to the families and the AIRLINE.


47 posted on 07/27/2014 5:29:54 PM PDT by conservaKate ( I grow weary of the goobers in the Republican party. (thanks Chris))
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To: Monorprise

As to the last sentence of your reply, I am not certain Putin answers to his own countrymen, much less the rest of the world.

He is Stalin minus the mustache in viewpoint.


48 posted on 07/27/2014 7:20:39 PM PDT by bajabaja (Too ugly to be scanned at the airports.)
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As Mr. Edd I believe it was said yesterday, when Putin is gone they will replace him with someone just like him.

Soviet doctrine hasn’t changed since the days of Stalin. They only have one line of clones for leader, they all are just like Putin. Russians tried a little democracy for a couple of years, it was snuffed out by the Russian Thugacracy and that isn’t likely to change. Anyone who gets Russians talking of democracy these days is soon counting magic fairies in an asylum.

Putin is not going to die of old age, like all thug kings he will at some point piss the other thugs in the Thugacracy off bad enough and he will have a sudden heart attack and be forgotten. The other thugs in the halls of power will divide his plunder and move on with Stalin/Putin ver.10.2.01

Any loyalty Russians have is to each their own best interests. Putin’s quarterly payola payments must take hours to read through.


49 posted on 07/27/2014 9:33:03 PM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: DTA

Looks like the little weasel to me and the height looks right too.


50 posted on 07/27/2014 9:36:22 PM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: DTA

Soros was then recruited by the KGB, for whom he still works for...


51 posted on 07/27/2014 10:12:37 PM PDT by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinion.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

If the Russian government is sending planes and drones over the war zone then the Ukrainian forces both regular army and the oligarch financed mercenaries are doing a pitiful job of targeting. Are they really that bad? Any explanation for this poor performance?


52 posted on 07/28/2014 5:46:20 AM PDT by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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To: dforest

Good question.


53 posted on 07/28/2014 11:02:22 AM PDT by FBD
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To: elhombrelibre

The Putinistas try to take a complex combination of factors and simplify it in a way that absolves their great “Christian” warrior, Putin. It is shameful, absolutely shameful that Orthodox Russian congregations are stumping for this KGB thug. The likely reality is for some reason, we never know, the flight turned off course. Then we have the Russian backed rebels shooting at everything they can, likely did not realize they just fired on a commercial aircraft. But Putin can’t apologize for their actions, because if he does so, he has to admit his advisers are on the ground with them, and that this coup is backed by him.

Time to hit the Russian people hard. Have them subsisting on furniture and glue for some time. That will teach them for supporting Putin’s actions.


54 posted on 07/28/2014 3:33:01 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Patton)
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