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GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 22-Sep-2022 15:46:49 EDT 
GeniusMusing
>As of late August, 80% of Russians approve of Putin
What happens if you are in the 20%...
Russian businessmen keep dying under mysterious circumstances since Putin invaded Ukraine: report
https://nu.federati.net/url/287897
>A number of businessmen have turned up dead over the past few months as Russians grow increasingly dissatisfied with the drawn-out invasion in Ukraine. Ivan Pechorin, a managing director for aviation industry at the Corporation for the Development of the Far East and Arctic, on Sept. 12 died after reportedly falling from a speeding boat off the coast of Vladivostok.
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>Ravil Maganov, chairman of Russian oil giant Lukoil, died after reportedly falling from the sixth-floor window of a Moscow hospital on Sept. 1. He and his company had urged Putin to end the invasion, calling it a "tragedy." Lukoil claimed Maganov "passed away after a severe illness."
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>Aleksandr Subbotin, a former top manager of Lukoil, was found dead in the basement of a Moscow residence in May after he allegedly visited a healer to cure him of hangover symptoms but instead suffered heart failure.
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>At least eight other Russian oligarchs have died in strange circumstances over the past few months, according to Euro News. International investigators have suggested looking at the deaths as staged suicides or assassinations as retaliation for their opposition to the Ukraine invasion or links to corruption in Russian gas company Gazprom.
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GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 22-Sep-2022 10:34:41 EDT
GeniusMusing
@lnxw48a1
We had the Arab Spring and now maybe the Russian Fall...
Although there is another opposition going on in Iran these days...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring
Iran protests spread, death toll rises as internet curbed Reuters
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GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Sep-2022 21:13:45 EDT
GeniusMusing
Russia protests: more than 1,300 arrested at anti-war demonstrations Russia | The Guardian
https://nu.federati.net/url/287880
>Security forces detained more than 1,300 people in Russia on Wednesday at protests denouncing mobilisation, a rights group said, hours after President Vladimir Putin ordered Russia’s first military draft since the second world war.
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>The independent OVD-Info protest monitoring group said that according to information it had collated from 38 Russian cities, more than 1,311 people had been held by late evening.
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>It said those figures included at least 502 in Moscow and 524 in St Petersburg, Russia’s second most populous city. Unsanctioned rallies are illegal under Russia’s anti-protest laws.
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GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Sep-2022 09:33:33 EDT
GeniusMusing
I think due to extreme over play back in the days... https://nu.federati.net/attachment/287877 -
GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 15-Sep-2022 17:09:35 EDT
GeniusMusing
@lnxw48a1
If you want info without the legaleze, follow the link below to TechDirt and some really great info.
Ab 2273 stories at Techdirt.
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GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 15-Sep-2022 10:44:42 EDT
GeniusMusing
Update:
Freight Rail Workers Reach Tentative Deal
https://gizmodo.com/rail-workers-union-strike-biden-amtrak-1849539113
>Apparently, all it took for unionized freight rail workers to finally force their companies to let them see a doctor without being penalized was to threaten to upend the entire supply chain. In tense, near-day long negotiations, White House and rail company trade groups both announced there is a deal, and all they’re waiting on is ratification from union membership.
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>Though they were granted pay raises in this latest round of contract negotiations, unionized freight rail workers were particularly hung up on rail company’s policies that penalized them for taking medical appointments. Workers had also called for more standardized working hours after years of being forced to be on-call practically all day, any day of the week. Federal law under the Railway Labor Act only guaranteed 10 hours off every 24 hours.
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GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 15-Sep-2022 08:58:10 EDT
GeniusMusing
This might help.
Some BNSF workers say a Kafkaesque scheduling system has turned railroad work into a dangerous nightmare Local News | Spokane | The Pacific Northwest Inlander | News, Politics, Music, Calendar, Events in Spokane, Coeur d'Alene and the Inland Northwest
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GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 15-Sep-2022 08:47:50 EDT
GeniusMusing
No Plan Survives First Contact With the Enemy – Quote Investigator
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2021/05/04/no-plan/
>Kein Operationsplan reicht mit einiger Sicherheit über das erste Zusammentreffen mit der feindlichen Hauptmacht hinaus.
>No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first encounter with the main enemy forces.
1871 Helmuth von Moltke
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