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polymoog

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It's a dramatized HBO mini-series. One episode in, and it's terrifying.
https://www.rt.com/news/461348-chernobyl-disaster-tarakanov-hbo/

No one told rookie troops to shoot cows in Chernobyl and the miners there never worked naked, Major General Nikolai Tarakanov, who headed the real ‘liquidators’ in 1986, has told RT’s documentary channel.
Tarakanov praised other aspects of the show, adding that the actor who played him in the HBO hit did a “great job.”
Major General Tarakanov was one of the key participants of the events in Chernobyl in 1986, receiving a high dose of radiation while in charge of the troops working to decontaminate the ill-fated power plant.
Now 85 years old, he has watched the entire new hit miniseries, in which he was portrayed by Scottish actor Ralph Ineson, and commented on its most iconic moments to documentary channel RTD.
 
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Hooligan69

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I bought a book a while back on Chernobyl called Voices from Chernobyl: An Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster. I should give it a read at some point in the near future. The author's name is Svetlana Alexievich.

On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear reactor accident in history occurred in Chernobyl and contaminated as much as three quarters of Europe. Voices from Chernobyl is the first book to present personal accounts of the tragedy. Journalist Svetlana Alexievich interviewed hundreds of people affected by the meltdown---from innocent citizens to firefighters to those called in to clean up the disaster---and their stories reveal the fear, anger, and uncertainty with which they still live. Composed of interviews in monologue form, Voices from Chernobyl is a crucially important work of immense force, unforgettable in its emotional power and honesty.
 
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https://www.rt.com/news/461348-chernobyl-disaster-tarakanov-hbo/

No one told rookie troops to shoot cows in Chernobyl and the miners there never worked naked, Major General Nikolai Tarakanov, who headed the real ‘liquidators’ in 1986, has told RT’s documentary channel.
Tarakanov praised other aspects of the show, adding that the actor who played him in the HBO hit did a “great job.”
Major General Tarakanov was one of the key participants of the events in Chernobyl in 1986, receiving a high dose of radiation while in charge of the troops working to decontaminate the ill-fated power plant.
Now 85 years old, he has watched the entire new hit miniseries, in which he was portrayed by Scottish actor Ralph Ineson, and commented on its most iconic moments to documentary channel RTD.
Tarakanov is part of the cover up. :cool:

The only complaint I have about this series is that most of the actors are clearly not Russian or Ukrainian, sometimes to the point where it's distracting. Everyone is too well fed for this to be in the Soviet Union. My great-uncle had come for a visit from Ukraine a couple years before Chernobyl happened, and I measure every Soviet citizen against him. Thin, dark and haunted, is how I remember him. Walking down a street in Canada, he went into a white panic when he saw two cops coming up the sidewalk. He had to be assured they weren't going to ask for his papers.

Other than the fat, laid back, and sometimes Sicilian looking Soviets, it's a thrilling and well done series. I have two episodes left.
 

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I watched a programme last night that sickened me. It was a documentary presented by Ross Kemp. A little backround on Kemp, he became a household name here in the UK as one of the main characters "hard man" Grant Mitchel in the BBC's depressing soap opera Eastenders.

After leaving the show he then went on to be an investigative journalist presenting documentaries on such topics as Britain's hardest criminals, gangs, drug dealers, dangerous prisoners and such like, all in keeping with his manufactured tough guy image. He's been on drug raids with the
police, interviewed notorious criminals and had meetings with various underworld characters, at all times with the protection of a camera crew and production team obviously.

His shows always tried to give the impression he was in some type of danger with his narration claiming how many risks they were taking.

In the programme I watched last night Kemp was in Mumbai investigating the appalling problem of child sex trafficking. During the documentary he revealed facts such as children as young as 2 and a half years old were being taken by traffickers, thousands of young girls had been taken from villages around Mumbai. Some children were forced into selling sex for 23 pence a day. Any girls who tried to escape were being killed. The child trafficking CID unit only had 13 employees to cover a populace of 90 million people. The.police dept were being bribed to turn a blind eye to this horrifying trade and some were thought to be help facilitate it.

The big finale of his documentary was him managing to track down and interview one of the most established traffickers in the area. Some of the admissions he makes on camera are astonishing.

As somebody who has worked with children who have experienced this vile reality I'm more aware than most on the impact it has on the victim and their families. From a personal point of view I simply cannot understand why a documentary would even matter when faced with such a disgusting admission of guilt. I would have had to have acted at that point, I would have jumped on this sick bastard and took him out myself, without hesitation. It would have been a natural instinct to me. But that's just me.

You can see how Kemp handled the situation here. This world gets sicker by the day.

 

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This is pretty good so far. Didn't really pay attention in the early 90s. Too busy being a teenager.


I believe her
 

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I watched a programme last night that sickened me. It was a documentary presented by Ross Kemp. A little backround on Kemp, he became a household name here in the UK as one of the main characters "hard man" Grant Mitchel in the BBC's depressing soap opera Eastenders.

After leaving the show he then went on to be an investigative journalist presenting documentaries on such topics as Britain's hardest criminals, gangs, drug dealers, dangerous prisoners and such like, all in keeping with his manufactured tough guy image. He's been on drug raids with the
police, interviewed notorious criminals and had meetings with various underworld characters, at all times with the protection of a camera crew and production team obviously.

His shows always tried to give the impression he was in some type of danger with his narration claiming how many risks they were taking.

In the programme I watched last night Kemp was in Mumbai investigating the appalling problem of child sex trafficking. During the documentary he revealed facts such as children as young as 2 and a half years old were being taken by traffickers, thousands of young girls had been taken from villages around Mumbai. Some children were forced into selling sex for 23 pence a day. Any girls who tried to escape were being killed. The child trafficking CID unit only had 13 employees to cover a populace of 90 million people. The.police dept were being bribed to turn a blind eye to this horrifying trade and some were thought to be help facilitate it.

The big finale of his documentary was him managing to track down and interview one of the most established traffickers in the area. Some of the admissions he makes on camera are astonishing.

As somebody who has worked with children who have experienced this vile reality I'm more aware than most on the impact it has on the victim and their families. From a personal point of view I simply cannot understand why a documentary would even matter when faced with such a disgusting admission of guilt. I would have had to have acted at that point, I would have jumped on this sick bastard and took him out myself, without hesitation. It would have been a natural instinct to me. But that's just me.

You can see how Kemp handled the situation here. This world gets sicker by the day.

Thank you for caring about sex trafficking.

That man Kemp was interviewing will split hell wide open.

I need to do more to prevent sex trafficking. Used to be involved with Women at Risk jewelry parties; Women at Risk sells the jewelry that the rescued women now make to support themselves financially and it's good quality work. But then I'd probably buy cheesy friendship bracelets type stuff if it would help rescue a woman from being perpetually raped and mistreated.

Jamie "the Very Worst Missionary" Wright inspired me to be involved in Exodus Road for awhile, which is another ministry that rescues women from the sex slave trade. That's another reason I support her even if I don't agree with everything she says and does. She's real, authentic, and hates injustice.

Anyway, thanks for bringing more awareness to this important issue.
 

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“You see, Alyosha,” Grushenka turned to him with a nervous laugh. “I was boasting when I told Rakitin I had given away an onion, but it’s not to boast I tell you about it. It’s only a story, but it’s a nice story. I used to hear it when I was a child from Matryona, my cook, who is still with me. It’s like this. Once upon a time there was a peasant woman and a very wicked woman she was. And she died and did not leave a single good deed behind. The devils caught her and plunged her into the lake of fire. So her guardian angel stood and wondered what good deed of hers he could remember to tell to God; ‘She once pulled up an onion in her garden,’ said he, ‘and gave it to a beggar woman.’ And God answered: ‘You take that onion then, hold it out to her in the lake, and let her take hold and be pulled out. And if you can pull her out of the lake, let her come to Paradise, but if the onion breaks, then the woman must stay where she is.’ The angel ran to the woman and held out the onion to her. ‘Come,’ said he, ‘catch hold and I’ll pull you out.’ he began cautiously pulling her out. He had just pulled her right out, when the other sinners in the lake, seeing how she was being drawn out, began catching hold of her so as to be pulled out with her. But she was a very wicked woman and she began kicking them. ‘I’m to be pulled out, not you. It’s my onion, not yours.’ As soon as she said that, the onion broke. And the woman fell into the lake and she is burning there to this day. So the angel wept and went away. So that’s the story, Alyosha; I know it by heart, for I am that wicked woman myself. I boasted to Rakitin that I had given away an onion, but to you I’ll say: ‘I’ve done nothing but give away one onion all my life, that’s the only good deed I’ve done.’ don’t praise me, Alyosha, don’t think me good, I am bad, I am a wicked woman and you make me ashamed if you praise me. Eh, I must confess everything. Listen, Alyosha. I was so anxious to get hold of you that I promised Rakitin twenty-five roubles if he would bring you to me. Stay, Rakitin, wait!”

- from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
 

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Mow Your Lawn or Lose Your House!
https://www.bitchute.com/video/dGtGmYqWcwnZ/
(4:31)
Jim Ficken left his home to take care of his recently deceased mother's estate. While away, the man he paid to cut his lawn died. The grass in Ficken's yard grew more than 10 inches long.
The city of Dunedin has an ordinance against long grass. City officials fined Ficken $500 a day. Over time the fines added up to almost $30,000.
"I was shocked," Ficken tells John Stossel, "It was just amazing that they would fine me that much."
Ficken doesn't have $30,000, and now the city wants to foreclose on his home.


by the way, i love john stossel.
 
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Just got a free trial to Hulu and am catching up on Leah Remini's Afternath series
We cut cable after season 1. It is really gripping to hear ex-LRH believers talk about their experiences. Also watched some other cult show that had an episode about NXIVM. That wass interesting to hear the MLM aspect of that cult as that was new to me.
 

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https://www.bitchute.com/video/PY31CEzs4ABZ/

Billy Joel crew focuses on Bill Clinton in "Only The Good Die Young"

a 3 minute clip of a billy joel concert. after singing "only the good die young", joel says, "this next song is dedicated to my good friends, bill and hillary clinton". first, the crowd cheers, then starts booing.

"good friends"? another reason for me to dislike joel.
 
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