Not a franchise. Murdoch's News Corp were somehow able to leverage the Sky brand in Australia when he held shares in BSKYB UK.
Sky News UK is owned by Comcast who also own NBC News and MSNBC.
It gets fuzzy when they systematically kill and abduct thousands of children. You start doing the dreadful calculus of infanticide.
The Russian oil refinery in the city of Novokuibyshevsk, Samara Region, is on fire. (again)
https://twitter.com/ukraine_map/status/1771345671997587954
My punctuation failed me. I meant to say
"Why. Has Putin not gone ..."
The attack is terrible and no civilians, not even Russians, deserve to be slaughtered like this for ideological reasons.
The only good thing from Ukraine's point of view is it seems this was definitely an Islamist attack so cannot be used as pretext to further escalate in Ukraine.
If Putin and his circle of idiots had any sense they might stop and realise: this is what people do when they really want to terrorise you. And Ukraine never does anything like this on Russian soil, though it has more reason to than most. So maybe, you know, Ukraine was never a threat to begin with...
1960's Dutch Garage Psych band The Hunters Russian Spy & I.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEH1qTiGY5w
No it does not "get fuzzy". Murder of innocent people is never acceptable no matter the nationality.
Who owned it before comcast? I thought it was Murdoch.
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How can Putin "escalate further" in Ukraine ?
So these 5 lads have killed more Russians than NATO ever has.
Really justifies Putins invasion of Ukraine.
They could further increase attacks on civilian targets, drop bigger bombs, etc.
If they could do that they would already and need no terrorist attack to do it.
Not true. There are many degrees of further escalation and this would have provided a handy excuse to sell it to the Russian population and justify mass mobilization, that excuse seems thankfully to be lacking now
Almost 100 confirmed dead now. Grim.
Anyone know how Russian state TV is reporting it? Massive coverage? Downplaying it? It's a PR disaster for Putin surely just days after the election, the guy who supposedly keeps the country safe and destroys terrorists
Just released from the FSB, according to Sky News' latest release:
Russian state media is reporting that the Russian security services (FSB) has said that suspects thought to be involved in the Crocus City Hall shooting were attempting to cross into Ukraine.
"After the terrorist attack, the criminals intended to cross the border of the Russian Federation and Ukraine and had relevant contacts on the Ukrainian side," TASS cites the FSB as saying.
So yes, it seems that Ukraine is in some way going to be falsely blamed for this attack.
Yep there it is.
Russias BS lie thrown in without any evidence.
The usual gullible will swallow it of course, expect Mick and Claire to follow suit.
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/polish-fm-says-us-knew-about-nord-stream-attacks
Useful reminder anything coming out of America about the terrorist attack should be treated with skepticism.
They know who really blew up Nord Stream but continue to keep silent on it to this day.
Murdoch made a big push to take control of Sky News in 2010/2011 but came up against all kind of regulatory issues due to phone hacking etc. So it never went ahead.
Before Comcast is was owned by various shareholders, Fox being the largest at 39%
Ukraine denies...
This is about the Moscow attack, not NordStream. Here is a report from Reuters dated March 8th on US warnings of possible ISIS attacks on concerts. Are you going to say that the Reuters report is somehow false?
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-embassy-warns-imminent-extremist-attack-moscow-2024-03-08/
Excellent. I see no reason why they should stop trying to cripple an aggressor's logistics, especially when that aggressor launches salvos of missiles at civilians and civilian infrastructure without constraint. Hopefully they can take the lot out soon. It shouldn't impact oil prices since Russia have sanctions against them and are capped at the price they can sell their stocks for anyway.
Russian media share pictures of four suspected terrorists, in the Crocus concert hall massacre in Moscow, giving their names as (clockwise from the left) Makhmadrasul Nasridinov, 27, Rivozhidin Ismonov, 51, Shokhindzhonn Safolzoda, 21, Rustam Nazarov, 29
Very russian sounding names
Inevitable they'd try and tie it to Ukraine in some way, we'll see how far the link goes, whether the terrorists they caught will soon appear on TV claiming Zelensky gave them the green light to proceed. Scary thought but not impossible
You also couldn't prevent the possibility of them claiming random Ukrainians as part of the cell. They really don't care what international media says.
Absolutely. I'm inclined to believe the US intelligence that this is a genuine Islamist attack but if the Russians use it to announce a huge wave of mobilisation it will start to look very suspicious. Though, much like Netenjahu in Israel, it's hard to know what is just opportunism and using atrocities to carry out personal agenda.
but it has to be believable and credible even to their so called friends like China and Iran and even to gullible russians. The fact that Tehran was also hit by Isis recently at a very high profile memorial would make trying to link it to Ukraine look ridiculous. It throws the whole putin propaganda and narrataive into the fire, Isis hit Moscow the same as it would a western capital because they see no distinction. Even gullible russians must be scratching their heads, why are we prosecuting a war against Ukraine and the West when we are being hit by islamists. Isis would have preferred to hit a european city but Moscow was a much easier target precisely because it is prosecuting the war in Ukraine and because it cut itself off from western intelligence. It circles right back to the year 2000 and putin invading chechnya to take out the terrorist threat, that was credible if brutal, now Russia is being hit by islamists again but Putin is prosecuting a war against Ukraine a non islamic country, even Russians have to see through that
Even before the theater attack happened putin's terrorists spent another day burning through massive military resources in Ukraine yesterday. This attack exposes that putin's hard man act is simply using his massive military as a terrorist organisiation and now he has depleted it to the extent that it can no longer defend moskow from even small groups motivated to make him pay from his terrorist activities. wagner group paved the way for this by showing how weak putin has made his empire by wasting his military resources in a pointless war of conquest and terrorism.
This was tweeted a couple before the attack. Looks even extra ridiculous today after what happened.
So we know ISIS have claimed the attack in moscow last evening.
Putin still has not addressed the russian people.
Word on CNN is the FSB/security forces have captured 4 of the purps on there way into .... yes you have guessed it ... Ukraine.
So i reckon reason putin has not addressed the russian people is because he has to get his story straight and arrange evidence so this can be pinned on Ukraine.
I also imagine he might say this ISIS taking responsibility thing is the US coercing them to do so and that ISIS and US are one and the same or something along these lines.
Regardless putin will pin this on Ukraine and announce some sort of escalation. We can but wait
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