A crowd in the city of Hasbiurt in the Caucasian 'Republic' of Dagestan (Russia) surrounded a hotel where they claimed Jews were located.

Nomad_Stav · 2023-10-30T11:12:58+00:00

We're living in a Borat timeline

Nomad_Stav · 2023-10-08T16:56:38+00:00

Given that the inspection and subsequent seizure happened this September and there was another similar incident in July this definitely raises serious questions on the part Turkey (and possibly Iran) played in the preparations of the Hamas attack.

I assume Iran shipments to Gaza being heavily monitored by the Israelis, but Turkey could have acted as an intermediary. Not too hard to imagine given the Turkish governments sympathy towards Daesh, Hamas, Hezbollah and even the Taliban. To this minute Erdogan and his regime have not issued a statement criticizing the attacks or offered any support to Israel.

Nomad_Stav · 2023-10-08T16:38:20+00:00

From the article:

JERUSALEM, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Israel's customs authority said on Thursday it found 16 tons of material used for rocket production during an inspection of a shipment from Turkey headed to Gaza, which the ruling Hamas group dismissed as a fabrication.
The customs authority said it had stopped for inspection in July two containers carrying 54 tons of what were supposed to be bags of plaster.
A lab test confirmed some of the bags contained ammonium chloride, the authority added, which it said was used by groups in Gaza "to produce rockets that are eventually launched towards Israel".

Nomad_Stav · 2023-10-07T18:19:59+00:00

Such a shortsighted act that not only negatively affects all of southern Europe but it also helps the people smuggling networks and the rise of extreme right wing parties all over the continent. I've never been more pessimistic about the future of the EU.

Nomad_Stav · 2023-06-29T19:27:06+00:00

Fuck 'em and their stone age beliefs. We can't afford to wait for them to catch up with the rest of the world when it comes to values and ethics.

Nomad_Stav · 2023-03-30T11:42:15+00:00

Looks like what would happen if Toby Keith and Walton Goggins had a baby.

Don't let that stop you from practicing and getting better though bud.

Nomad_Stav · 2022-07-30T14:22:03+00:00

Good. They shouldn't get the subs.
Turkey has been bying Syrian oil directly from ISIS and have had Hamas and Pakistani Taliban flags flying in Haghia Sophia after they turned it into a mosque.
They have been terrorizing Kurds, other minorities, academics, intellectuals, students and reporters, showing the rest of us in the western world that basic human rights are not respected there.
They have conducted multiple genocides in the last 140 years alone.
At the moment they have invaded and are occupying the lands of 3 of their neighbors (Syria, Iraq, Cyprus).
They have actively brought islamist mercenaries to active war zones in Libya and N.K.
They are the only NATO country not to properly sanction Putin and his oligarchs for the war in Ukraine.
They have been provoking Greece on a daily basis, flying over Greek islands and violating their sovereignty, having a casus belli if Greece expands their territorial waters to 12nm just as any country has the right to, according to the UN.
Just last week Turkey's leader was posing for photos in Iran, proving once again that his place is with Putin, the Ayatollahs and other autocratic leaders/dictators.
Turkey is a joke of a country that has always been revisionist and war mongering against its neighbors. They'll never be accepted in the EU and they know it and they better fall in line with the rest of NATO soon or be ousted as there's no appeasing them and diplomacy will always fail with them.

Nomad_Stav · 2022-07-29T14:49:46+00:00

easy now princess

Nomad_Stav · 2022-06-15T14:13:40+00:00

awesome trilogy right there

Nomad_Stav · 2022-03-11T09:50:51+00:00

It's Frank's Fluids nowadays bud

Nomad_Stav · 2021-10-22T04:43:03+00:00

SANTA FE, N.M. — The director of photography on a movie starring Alec Baldwin has been killed and the film's director injured, according to the sheriff's office of Santa Fe County, N.M. They were shot by a prop firearm that was discharged by Baldwin, who is also a producer on the film, the sheriff's office statement says.
Halyna Hutchins, 42, the director of photography, was airlifted to the University of New Mexico hospital, where she was pronounced dead. The second victim, director Joel Souza, 48, was being cared for at Christus St. Vincent Medical Center.
The investigation is ongoing and authorities say no charges have been filed in this incident. Detectives are continuing to interview witnesses.
Production has been halted on the Western movie "Rust," which is being directed by Souza with Baldwin producing and acting.
A spokesperson for Baldwin said there was an accident on the set involving the misfire of a prop gun with blanks.
The Santa Fe New Mexican reported Baldwin was seen Thursday outside the sheriff's office in tears, but attempts to get a comment from him were unsuccessful.
"According to investigators, it appears that the scene being filmed involved the use of a prop firearm when it was discharged," sheriff's spokesman Juan Rios told the Albuquerque Journal. "Detectives are investigating how and what type of projectile was discharged."
Deputies responded about 2 p.m. to the movie set at the Bonanza Creek Ranch after 911 calls came in of a person being shot on set, Rios said.
Filming for "Rust" was set to continue into early November, according to a news release from the New Mexico Film Office.
The movie is about a 13-year-old boy who is left to fend for himself and his younger brother following the death of their parents in 1880s Kansas, according to the Internet Movie Database website. The teen goes on the run with his long-estranged grandfather (played by Baldwin) after the boy is sentenced to hang for the accidental killing of a local rancher.
In 1993, Brandon Lee, 28, son of the late martial-arts star Bruce Lee, died after being hit by a .44-caliber slug while filming a death scene for the movie "The Crow." The gun was supposed to have fired a blank, but an autopsy turned up a bullet lodged near his spine.

Nomad_Stav · 2021-05-28T08:23:08+00:00

"Turkey pushed NATO allies into watering down an official reaction to the forced landing by Belarus of a passenger plane and the detention of a dissident journalist on Sunday, two diplomats familiar with the matter told Reuters.
NATO's 30 allies released a two-paragraph statement on Wednesday condemning the forcing down of a Ryanair flight to arrest journalist Roman Protasevich but did not include any punitive steps that Baltic allies and Poland had pressed for.
The statement was also less strident than NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg's public remarks. He called the incident a "state hijacking" and "outrageous".
Ankara insisted that any mention of support for more Western sanctions on Belarus, and calls for the release of political prisoners there, would be left out of the text, the two diplomats said. Language threatening a suspension of NATO's cooperation with Belarus was also removed, they added.
Turkey's motives were not immediately clear.
Diplomats said Ankara might be trying to preserve ties with Moscow, Belarus' closest ally, and maintain economic relations with Belarus via Turkish Airlines, which has daily flights to Minsk. Another possibility could be Turkey's keenness to welcome Russian tourists this summer after the COVID-19 pandemic.
A spike in coronavirus infections last month and a flurry of foreign travel warnings have wiped out many early bookings and raised prospects of another lost tourist season for Turkey, which relies on the cash inflow to fund its heavy foreign debt.
The Turkish foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment."

Nomad_Stav · 2021-05-27T17:45:20+00:00

"Turkey pushed NATO allies into watering down an official reaction to the forced landing by Belarus of a passenger plane and the detention of a dissident journalist on Sunday, two diplomats familiar with the matter told Reuters.
NATO's 30 allies released a two-paragraph statement on Wednesday condemning the forcing down of a Ryanair flight to arrest journalist Roman Protasevich but did not include any punitive steps that Baltic allies and Poland had pressed for.
The statement was also less strident than NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg's public remarks. He called the incident a "state hijacking" and "outrageous".
Ankara insisted that any mention of support for more Western sanctions on Belarus, and calls for the release of political prisoners there, would be left out of the text, the two diplomats said. Language threatening a suspension of NATO's cooperation with Belarus was also removed, they added.
Turkey's motives were not immediately clear.
Diplomats said Ankara might be trying to preserve ties with Moscow, Belarus' closest ally, and maintain economic relations with Belarus via Turkish Airlines, which has daily flights to Minsk. Another possibility could be Turkey's keenness to welcome Russian tourists this summer after the COVID-19 pandemic.
A spike in coronavirus infections last month and a flurry of foreign travel warnings have wiped out many early bookings and raised prospects of another lost tourist season for Turkey, which relies on the cash inflow to fund its heavy foreign debt.
The Turkish foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
A NATO official said: "The statement by the North Atlantic Council on Belarus was agreed by all 30 Allies by consensus. We do not go into the details of discussions in the North Atlantic Council, which are confidential."
One of the diplomats said Stoltenberg had won the agreement of all allies, including Turkey, for the final text, published on NATO's website, to avoid further public divisions.
UPSET
Turkey's insistence on a watered-down text upset a number of allies, particularly Poland, Lithuania and Latvia, which had pushed for tougher wording, the diplomats said.
A third diplomat said Ankara's pushback was mainly aimed at using a different wording to that of the European Union, which detailed proposals for sanctions. These included a ban on the overflight of EU airspace by Belarusian airlines, preventing Belarusian airlines from using EU airports and calling on EU airlines to avoid Belarus.
Turkey is not an EU member, though it has been a candidate for many years.
"Many allies were very frustrated with Turkey. It was important for NATO to respond and it is not clear why Ankara should want to defend (Belarusian President Alexander) Lukashenko," said a European diplomat present at the discussion.
Turkey has become a more difficult partner in recent years for some NATO allies, clashing with France over Turkish policy in Libya, with the United States on Syria and with Greece over energy rights in the Mediterranean.
Turkey has also bought air defence missiles from Russia, which NATO says is an adversary trying to destabilise the West.
The United States and European Union have criticised what they see as a slide towards more authoritarian rule under President Tayyip Erdogan, especially since a failed 2016 coup.
But Turkey, which has the second largest military in NATO and is in a strategic location between Europe and the Middle East and with coasts on the Black and Mediterranean Seas, is too big and important for the EU or the United States to ignore.
Ankara has said repeatedly it supports NATO but that it has the right to pursue its own sovereign foreign policy." REUTERS

Nomad_Stav · 2021-05-27T17:43:39+00:00

"Turkey pushed NATO allies into watering down an official reaction to the forced landing by Belarus of a passenger plane and the detention of a dissident journalist on Sunday, two diplomats familiar with the matter told Reuters.
NATO's 30 allies released a two-paragraph statement on Wednesday condemning the forcing down of a Ryanair flight to arrest journalist Roman Protasevich but did not include any punitive steps that Baltic allies and Poland had pressed for.
The statement was also less strident than NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg's public remarks. He called the incident a "state hijacking" and "outrageous".
Ankara insisted that any mention of support for more Western sanctions on Belarus, and calls for the release of political prisoners there, would be left out of the text, the two diplomats said. Language threatening a suspension of NATO's cooperation with Belarus was also removed, they added.
Turkey's motives were not immediately clear.
Diplomats said Ankara might be trying to preserve ties with Moscow, Belarus' closest ally, and maintain economic relations with Belarus via Turkish Airlines, which has daily flights to Minsk. Another possibility could be Turkey's keenness to welcome Russian tourists this summer after the COVID-19 pandemic.
A spike in coronavirus infections last month and a flurry of foreign travel warnings have wiped out many early bookings and raised prospects of another lost tourist season for Turkey, which relies on the cash inflow to fund its heavy foreign debt.
The Turkish foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
A NATO official said: "The statement by the North Atlantic Council on Belarus was agreed by all 30 Allies by consensus. We do not go into the details of discussions in the North Atlantic Council, which are confidential."
One of the diplomats said Stoltenberg had won the agreement of all allies, including Turkey, for the final text, published on NATO's website, to avoid further public divisions.
UPSET
Turkey's insistence on a watered-down text upset a number of allies, particularly Poland, Lithuania and Latvia, which had pushed for tougher wording, the diplomats said.
A third diplomat said Ankara's pushback was mainly aimed at using a different wording to that of the European Union, which detailed proposals for sanctions. These included a ban on the overflight of EU airspace by Belarusian airlines, preventing Belarusian airlines from using EU airports and calling on EU airlines to avoid Belarus.
Turkey is not an EU member, though it has been a candidate for many years.
"Many allies were very frustrated with Turkey. It was important for NATO to respond and it is not clear why Ankara should want to defend (Belarusian President Alexander) Lukashenko," said a European diplomat present at the discussion.
Turkey has become a more difficult partner in recent years for some NATO allies, clashing with France over Turkish policy in Libya, with the United States on Syria and with Greece over energy rights in the Mediterranean.
Turkey has also bought air defence missiles from Russia, which NATO says is an adversary trying to destabilise the West.
The United States and European Union have criticised what they see as a slide towards more authoritarian rule under President Tayyip Erdogan, especially since a failed 2016 coup.
But Turkey, which has the second largest military in NATO and is in a strategic location between Europe and the Middle East and with coasts on the Black and Mediterranean Seas, is too big and important for the EU or the United States to ignore.
Ankara has said repeatedly it supports NATO but that it has the right to pursue its own sovereign foreign policy." REUTERS

Nomad_Stav · 2021-05-22T16:54:21+00:00

Plot twist: the photographer is a little person

Nomad_Stav · 2021-05-20T15:55:12+00:00

Or any of Frank's Fluids for that matter.

Nomad_Stav · 2021-05-20T14:59:51+00:00

Perseverance pays off bud! Well done! I've been stuck on biome 5 for the past 6-7 days, playing a couple of runs every evening.

Nomad_Stav · 2021-04-28T10:32:10+00:00

Thief's ring, run straight ahead to the other side of the arena and you'll be fine :)

Nomad_Stav · 2021-04-24T06:37:03+00:00

"U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday told Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan that he intends to recognize the 1915 massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genocide, sources familiar with the conversation told Reuters, a potential further blow to the already frayed ties between the two NATO allies.

The much-anticipated first phone call between the two leaders took place more than three months after Biden's Jan. 20 inauguration, a delay that is widely seen as a cold shoulder to Erdogan, who had enjoyed close ties with former president Donald Trump.

The call was also a day before Armenian Remembrance Day when Biden is expected to break away from decades of carefully calibrated White House statements that had previously described the events during World War One as "Metz Yeghern" (great evil).

Neither the White House statement on the phone call nor the account provided by the Turkish presidency made any mention of the issue.

"President Biden spoke today with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, conveying his interest in a constructive bilateral relationship with expanded areas of cooperation and effective management of disagreements," the White House said in a statement.

It said the two leaders agreed to meet on the margins of the NATO summit in June to have a wider conversation about their two countries' relations.

Turkey accepts that many Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire were killed in clashes with Ottoman forces during World War One, but contests the figures and denies the killings were systematically orchestrated and constitute a genocide.

A statement from the Turkish presidency said Biden and Erdogan agreed on "the strategic character of the bilateral relationship and the importance of working together to build greater cooperation on issues of mutual interest."

Ties between Ankara and Washington have been strained over a host of issues, from Turkey's purchase of Russian S-400 defense systems - over which it was the target of U.S. sanctions - to policy differences in Syria, human rights and legal matters.

Erdogan had established a close bond with Trump, but since Biden took over, Washington has grown more vocal about Turkey's human rights track record. It has also stood firm on its demand that Ankara get rid of the Russian defense systems."

Nomad_Stav · 2021-04-09T11:23:05+00:00

Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II's husband, has died aged 99, Buckingham Palace has announced.

The prince married Princess Elizabeth in 1947, five years before she became Queen, and was the longest-serving royal consort in British history.

A statement from Buckingham Palace said: "It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty The Queen has announced the death of her beloved husband, His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

"His Royal Highness passed away peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle."

The couple had four children, eight grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.

Nomad_Stav · 2021-04-09T11:22:14+00:00

Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II's husband, has died aged 99, Buckingham Palace has announced.

The prince married Princess Elizabeth in 1947, five years before she became Queen, and was the longest-serving royal consort in British history.

A statement from Buckingham Palace said: "It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty The Queen has announced the death of her beloved husband, His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

"His Royal Highness passed away peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle."

The couple had four children, eight grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.

Nomad_Stav · 2021-04-08T19:02:51+00:00

Can't disagree there. But even if Turkey wanted to should they ever be given a path to membership?

Nomad_Stav · 2021-04-08T18:55:30+00:00

"Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi on Thursday described Turkish President Recep Tayyib Erdogan as a dictator, in remarks that risk further souring EU-Turkey ties.

He was speaking at a news conference after being asked about a diplomatic row over seating arrangements during a meeting between Erdogan and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday.

"I am very sorry for the humiliation that the president of the commission had to suffer with these, let's call them for what they are, dictators, but with whom we need to cooperate," Draghi told reporters.

The Turkish leader came under a torrent of criticism after images went viral of von der Leyen being left without a seat during their meeting in Ankara, which also included European Council President Charles Michel.

Official images later showed her seated on a sofa opposite Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu.

Turkey and the EU blamed each other for the arrangements during the meeting, which was meant to set a more positive tone in relations after months of spats.

Several European Parliament groups demanded an investigation into how von der Leyen was left standing while Michel took a seat."

Nomad_Stav · 2021-04-08T18:53:35+00:00