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A woman who lived a short distance from where Sergei and Yulia Skripal were poisoned with the Novichok nerve agent has died. Prime Minister Theresa May is "appalled and shocked" by the death:
Police have launched a murder inquiry after a woman exposed to nerve agent Novichok in Wiltshire died. Dawn Sturgess, 44, died in hospital on Sunday evening after falling critically ill on 30 June. Charlie Rowley, 45, who was also exposed to the nerve agent in Amesbury, remains critically ill in hospital.
[...] Officers are still trying to work out how Ms Sturgess and Mr Rowley were exposed to the nerve agent although tests have confirmed they touched a contaminated item with their hands.
[...] Mrs May sent her "thoughts and condolences" and said officials are "working urgently to establish the facts". She said: "The government is committed to providing full support to the local community as it deals with this tragedy." British diplomat Julian King, the European Commissioner responsible for the EU's security union, said: "Those behind this are murderers."
[...] The working hypothesis is that the pair became contaminated after touching a poison container left over from the March attack on Sergei and Yulia Skripal. The death of Dawn Sturgess, a British citizen on British soil, now changes the investigation to a murder inquiry, with all the diplomatic and security ramifications that carries. Britain has been blaming Moscow for the original attack in March, saying there is no plausible alternative to the Kremlin having ordered the assassination attempt. Russia has denied any involvement, suggesting instead this was the action of a weak British government looking to undermine the success of the current World Cup being hosted by Russia.
Here's something from the other side.
Previously: Former Russian Spy Exposed to "Unknown Substance" in Salisbury, England
Use of Nerve Agent Confirmed in Skripal Assassination Attempt
UK Gives Russia Until Midnight to Explain Use of Novichok Nerve Agent
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 09 2018, @01:15PM (11 children)
First post modded redundant?
(Score: 2, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Monday July 09 2018, @01:35PM
British intelligence, they call it intelligence. But it's very dumb. MI5, MI6, GCHQ & JIC. And possibly some we don't know about. The British kill their own people. They killed RONALD GEORGE MADDISON and many more. So many in Australia. Mostly the blacks, frankly. While they perfected their Weapons of Mass Destruction so they can go to war with Russia. So they can kill tens of millions of people in Russia. With the nuclear, with the bacteria, with the chemicals. Now we have people getting sick, people dieing from the chemicals, very close to Porton Down where they make the chemicals. And they hate it when I tweet about that!!
(Score: 4, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Monday July 09 2018, @03:32PM (1 child)
Well I personally like having our own version of the president to yell at.
But, every single post is shtick. I can see that being redundant to some folks...
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 10 2018, @03:38PM
Bet you couldn't tell the diff between realDonaldTrump and real Donald Trump. Some shtick, huh?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 09 2018, @05:07PM (7 children)
*Dramatic Music Plays*
In a world where Takyon posts an article that will be critical of the Russians, one man sits down at his computer with a coffee to save the republic. Deathmoney is a simple communist man looking to do nothing more than point out how Russians are trying to destroy the world.
But on this day.
*Don Don*
Something was wrong.
*Music pitch gets higher*
With his eyes getting red from rage and spitting coffee all over his keyboard he noticed.
The first post was by TheRealDonaldTrump
Our defender of the republic, a good communist fellow from perhaps Alaska, knew what he had to do.
He modded that Nazi, as redundant
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 09 2018, @06:04PM (6 children)
Must be Stalinist. (Or maybe if the quick DuckDuck search I did indicates, just DSA, which is pseudo-left [but good enough for me given the alternatives tbh :/ ].) The Trotskyists don't buy this Novichok crap and suspect that MI6 was involved in the Skripals. I don't think wswswswsws has published anything about this new incident (may have to check the archives, since they're usually pretty on top of things), but personally I don't believe it.
Maybe this time it's actually Novichok (it's not a secret and can be made, including possibly right in London). Who knows. The fact that the Skripals survived means it probably wasn't, and UK won't let international investigators take a look. Maybe there actually was some other poison involved and this person was indeed accidentally exposed. It's all very suspicious, and the media has done a shit job of presenting the case that this is a giant Russian conspiracy.
There are lizard people ancient aliens conspiracies that make more sense than this Russia shit. I've read Weather War conspiracy theories with more supporting evidence.
None of this shit can be trusted. It's the elites trying to Gish gallop us straight for World War 3. Our @realDonaldTrump may be the stopped watch effect (didn't read his whole comment, sometimes they're amusing, other times it's just so much blah).
(Score: 0, Troll) by Sulla on Monday July 09 2018, @06:27PM (5 children)
What I have found interesting about living in the age of Trump when it comes to foreign policy is that he appears to be the first president in a long time who has not made money off of the traditional military industrial complex. The majority of American politicians will make money from conflict between the US and Russia due to weapons sales/research/etc. Trump makes his money on trade, real estate, and hotels.. Trump's ability to make money is hampered by excessive foreign conflict and he stands to make more money if everything gets less hostile. Weird having a president who has personal financial gain to make from peace.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 09 2018, @07:12PM
From peace abroad and at home. Or as the useful idiots on the loony left say, "what a fascist"!
(Score: 5, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Monday July 09 2018, @07:27PM (3 children)
he appears to be the first president in a long time who has not made money off of the traditional military industrial complex.
All previous presidents divested themselves from all investments to prevent that exact conflict of interests. Trump is the first one to NOT do so.
Your post is the exact opposite of reality.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Sulla on Monday July 09 2018, @07:52PM (1 child)
So Trump didn't divest from investments that would benefit from Peace? Sounds good to me!
Cheney's divestment from Halliburton sure helped us avoid that fiasco. If Bush had not divested from oil we might have gone to war in Iraq. If Hillary stopped kept taking speaking fees and continued their foundations foreign donations we might have sold uranium to our Russian enemies. If Biden's son hadn't quit his job at the top Ukrainian oil firm we might have had increasing border conflict between Nato and Russia. If the Bush and Clinton families hadn't divested from their interests in Saudi oil we might have avoided our involvement in Syria to get a pipeline build by our terms through Syria.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 10 2018, @03:40PM
So we need more conflicts of interest. Huh? What a good idea!
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday July 11 2018, @12:59PM
In June 2016, I sold all my stocks. Because I felt I was very much going to be winning. And I would have a tremendous, tremendous conflict of interest owning all of these different companies. I don't think for me to be owning stocks when I'm making deals for this country that maybe will affect one company positively and one company negatively -- I just felt it was a conflict.