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Russian President Vladimir Putin claims he has earned less than $1 million during the past six years as president, according to financial documents published Tuesday by Russia's election authority. The documents from the Central Election Commission (CEC) show Putin reported making 67.6 million rubles, which is approximately $753,000, between 2018 and 2024. Along with his salary as president, this figure includes income from bank deposits, a military pension and money made from property sales. -snip- According to information Putin provided to the CEC, he has savings of 54.5 million rubles ($606,000) spread across 10 different bank accounts and owns a...

The NASA-backed Peregrine One moon lander is now hurtling back towards Earth after last week failing on its historic journey. Astrobotic, which had been hoping to hoping to land the first American-made spacecraft on the Moon in more than 50 years, predicts its spacecraft will likely burn up in the atmosphere in the next few days, the BBC reports. Experts had been working with NASA and other space companies to find the most safe and responsible way of ending Peregrine’s mission.

One of Russian President Vladimir Putin's top allies said on Tuesday he favoured holding referendums in two eastern Ukrainian regions in order to formally make them part of Russia, a move that would seriously escalate Moscow's confrontation with the West. The statement by Dmitry Medvedev, a former president who is currently deputy chairman of the Security Council, marks a hardening of Russian rhetoric on Ukraine and is the strongest sign yet that the Kremlin is considering going ahead with a plan that Ukraine and the West have said would be illegal. He made his comments as Putin ponders his next...

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The United States Supreme Court Violated their Oaths

Am I in trouble? Does Google keep track of those things? Will I still receive my free money?

I saw the oddest propaganda message from North Korea this morning: "Our Republic already warned them spending a hard time of every minute of their miserable lot while putting their necks into the noose with their own hands to reasonably think and pass correct judgment if they wanted to avoid a fresh blow from us in front of the world."........ So I decided to expand on it. Perhaps Glorious Leader Kim will see my work and hire me as Nork's spokesperson!Starting with their original statement, I shall expand upon it: Our Republic already warned them spending a hard time of...

Zero Wing, an old shooter most famous for its "All your base are belong to us" intro, was presumed (at least among Westerners) to have three to four different endings. Turns out only the English language version has three; the Japanese one has 35, most of which are absolute nonsense. Legends of Localization dug into the game at a reader's request and found that outside the game's more traditional endings there are a ton comprised of gibberish, lame jokes and references to pop culture gags made before most of us were even born. Each one of these secret endings uses...

Look at weather map for anomaly coming from Ft Smith AR

Perhaps I am missing something... From:John.Harwood@nbcuni.com To: john.podesta@gmail.com, jbenenson@bsgco.com, axelrodfam52@gmail.com, daplouffe@icloud.com Date: 2015-06-06 23:09 Subject: Perhaps I am missing something... ...but it seems to me the idea in this story that Bill Clinton ran broad centrist "50-state" campaign and Obama ran narrow "liberal" campaign is ridiculous on its face: http://nyti.ms/1AVmBTS Yes, Bill Clinton of Arkansas won some Southern states and Colorado and Montana with help from Ross Perot on way to 370 EVs in 1992. But was his campaign really more expansive than that of the black guy who won VA and NC and IN, 50%+ of popular vote (twice)...

Sometimes Youtube comes up with very "All your base belong to us" quips via their captioning function. Being a hobbyist musician I often watch videos on new equipment. This one made me wake the dog up laughing. He is SUPPOSED TO be saying "Now I'm gonna show you a cool feature". Didn't quite work out that way though... https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=3hSWl3kaHA8#t=487

The American thought the animal was a stray but discovered its collar the next morningA drunkard is searching for a cat's owners after 'accidentally stealing' it after a boozy night out. The unnamed man has placed an advert on Craiglist in a desperate attempt to find the pet's owner . The American said he picked the animal up while walking home from a night out, thinking it was a stray . But when he woke up the following morning, he discovered the cat’s collar with its name written across it. Under the title ‘Possibly stole someone’s cat when I was...

wow, really great. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fvTxv46ano

GRAPHIC CAPTION SNIPPET: "Location of the core membership of the Ansar al-Mujahideen forum (English section)" GRAPHIC CAPTION SNIPPET: "US location data obscured for reasons that should be obvious"

Come one, come all, and post anything and everything related to this subject (within taste, of course). I am in the mood for a laugh.

There is a new Tourist Guy music video. I think it's great. Starts a video game, then...: Tourist Guy Flash Video . Not in the video, but a nice picture anyway

In a Belgrade ElevatorTo move the cabin, push button for wishing floor. If the cabin should enter more persons, each one should press a number of wishing floor. Driving is then going alphabetically by national order. Dr Office in RomeSpecialist in women and other diseases. In a Rome laundryLadies, leave your clothes here & spend the afternoon having a good time. On a menu of a Polish hotel Salad a firm's own make; limpid red beer soup with cheesy dumplings in the form of a finger; roasted duck let loose; beef rashers beaten up in the country people's fashion. ...

I'm a relative newbie to posting (Mid September), but I've been lurking for well over a year. Even though I 've probably read hundreds of Free Republic Threads and participated in dozens, I've still got some basis questions if anyone is interested in providing some answers or sources... Questions about Free Republic... I understand "Cheese" (reference to whining, correct?) but, what about "Moose, we control all your bases" (Or, whatever the correct term is) and the reference to Ted Nugent (I know he's a Conservative)? What are the basic and literal definitions of these? I'm sure someone has a "Glossary ...

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It is not just a happenstance that the last four letter in "Democrats" are "rats." At a recent new conference Claire McCaskill (D-MO) let us know what Democrats really believe. McCaskill is the loathesome scumqueen who spit on the earpiece she handed to Mitt Romney. It wasn't simply that she called for violence if tax cuts are ended for those making more than $250,000 per year. Amid the posturing and hard bargaining in Washington over extending tax cuts, McCaskill, D-Mo., said this afternoon that if Republicans sacrifice the middle class in order to protect the wealthy "it really is...