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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   On Jan 26, 2021, David Dalton wrote   
   (in article<0001HW.25BFDF1F0008C7B170000B4C138F@news.eternal-september.org>):   
      
   > On Jan 25, 2021, David Dalton wrote   
   > (in article<0001HW.25BEA4C900222599700003FC138F@news.eternal-september.org>):   
   >   
   > > Shared/forwarded from alt.buddha.short.fat.guy :   
   > >   
   > > Alexey Navalny barely survived being poisoned on Vladimir Putin’s   
   > > orders. Predictably, as soon as he returned to Russia, he was   
   > > arrested. But he arranged for this documentary to be released:   
   > >   
   > > https://youtu.be/ipAnwilMncI   
   >   
   > But I’ve only watched the first couple of minutes of it so far,   
   > though I do plan to watch it all eventually. So I don’t know   
   > yet (and maybe won’t even after I watch it) how much of it   
   > is credible and how much is anti-Putin propaganda. It   
   > could be that someone other than Putin ordered the poisoning,   
   > which after all could create a martyr effect.   
      
   But probably at least some of it is true, and I think that   
   Putin should order the release of Navalny even if some   
   oligarchs are against that. And even Navalny’s   
   imprisonment could have an Arab-Spring-like   
   escalating martyr effect.   
      
   --   
   David Dalton dalton@nfld.com http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   “And now the angry morning/Gives the early signs of warning/You must face   
   alone the plans you make/Decisions they will try to break" (Sarah McLachlan)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)