Yes with a totally different context to it. I highly doubt the two things are linked.
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You're correct there is no evidence, and in fact the people who published the story (not even journalists just people trying to write a scandalous book) eventually retracted it.
However it's stuck because it's the sort of thing they probably would do. The Tories are like that.
It annoys me though because there's many many many many many reasons to criticize him, and a potentially untrue story isn't one of them. Even if he'd actually done it, it would have probably been the least worst thing he's done, but people repeat it because it's funny. Unlike the other stuff which is just depressing.
What are you all about NPR is in American broadcaster. Even I knew that.
Yeah but same question. It being sponsored doesn't really make it any less stupid.
The Olympics is supposed to be somewhere every country can participate.
Yes that's the line the Olympic committee always trot out as well when anybody is ever asking them to make a decision on anything. They always argue that the Olympics is not political, but refusing to take a political stance is itself a political stance.
Continuing to allow Russia to compete even when they cheat constantly (because it is basically all the time it's not one or two athletes it's basically everyone they send) is itself saying that cheating is acceptable if you get away with it. It's like the cost of doing business for Russia.
Why on earth would they try doping? They know that people are tested, I don't get how they think that's going to work. They either need to stop cheating, or they need to get much better at it.
They are allies of the US but that doesn't mean they will follow the US's lead into war.
St Petersburg isn't that far from the border so it's not that surprising. I think they've probably been within weapons range since the beginning but Ukraine has held off on attacking them, but there's not much risk of escalation at this point (what Russia going to do), so why not right?
They say there's nothing wrong with their products and they don't admit liability.
As far as I understand they're settling which isn't the same as accepting liability. I have no idea on the guilt or innocence here, but in general companies will often settle, just to make the lawsuit go away because it's cheaper to just pay out then it is to go through litigation, even if they thought they might win. They just see it as another cost of doing business.
I don't know, technically killing your opponents isn't really rigging the election.
Rigging an election is something subtle, and Putin doesn't really do subtle. They don't even bother to make their murders look like accidents anymore.
And he wouldn't lie would he. Internationally known as being a reasonable person that he is.
God, what a stupid article, why the hell was this even reported? Oh never mind it's Yahoo news, that's why
And in which broadcast was it that they platform "literal terrorists". What are their names and what act of terrorism did they commit?