The Quinns & Cavan (1 Viewer)

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

Go to Belarus,it'll be less of a culture shock.

 

[Psycho Punk]

Ah, Belarus!

If you go down to the woods today beware of Teddy Bear paratroops. Vid at link.

Belarus generals sacked over Swedish teddy bear stunt
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19076104

An independent photographer was detained in Belarus for posting images of teddy bears on the internet

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The president of Belarus has sacked his air force and border security chiefs because a Swedish light plane managed to drop teddy bears into the country with labels calling for freedom.

President Alexander Lukashenko expressed fury over the incident, which happened on 4 July.

Only last week did the official media admit that it had actually happened.

Mr Lukashenko has cracked down hard on political opponents. His re-election in 2010 was marred by reports of abuses.

An official statement from the president's office on Tuesday said the Chairman of the State Border Committee, Maj Gen Igor Rachkovsky, and Air Defence Commander Maj Gen Dmitry Pakhmelkin had been dismissed for failing in their duties.

The plane, chartered by a Swedish public relations firm called Studio Total, dropped hundreds of the little teddy bears near the town of Ivenets and on the outskirts of the capital Minsk. It crossed into Belarusian air space from Lithuania.

The bears came down with little parachutes and had labels calling for freedom of speech and human rights.


President Lukashenko has kept many Soviet-era symbols of state power
Belarusian police have arrested two Belarusians suspected of aiding and abetting the Swedish stunt - journalism student Anton Suryapin and Sergei Basharimov, an estate agent. If found guilty they could face up to seven years in jail.

At a meeting with military commanders last week President Lukashenko asked angrily "Why didn't the commanders intercept that flight?

"Who did they sympathise with? Was it bungling by particular officials or a failure in the state's air defence system?"

A BBC Russian Service reporter in Minsk, Tatyana Melnichuk, says the state of Belarusian air defences has been widely discussed in local independent media, as well as in the Moscow press. Yet until last week the Belarusian state media referred only to an "invented" story about a Swedish air-drop.

Belarusian analysts say the president's anger was fuelled by Moscow's indignation, because Russia has helped develop the country's anti-aircraft defences. The former Soviet Union was embarrassed in 1987 when a German pilot, Matthias Rust, flew under the radar and landed a light plane in Red Square.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2012/0804/1224321434497.html?via=mr

A good man who was cheated.

 

[magicbastarder]

brian darcy is just coming across as hopelessly naive by now.

 

[magicbastarder]

i must dig out my copy of 'chaos at the crossroads'; i think i read in here that quinn would routinely stick two fingers up to the planning authorities and build factories he'd been told not to build, and then pull the 'if you make me pull the factory down, 100 people will lose their jobs' line. and he'd always get his own way.

i must mention that it may have been someone else who did this, but i *think* it was quinn.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

brian darcy is just coming across as hopelessly naive by now.

Heard him on the radio yesterday trying to defend his actions and yes,he didn't really have a leg to stand on.I got the impression he knew as much himself.

 

[Deadmanposting]

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2012/0804/1224321434497.html?via=mr

A good man who was cheated.

The Troubles were bad, ergo Quinn is good.

Lovely stuff.

 

[Psycho Punk]

Ah jasus. Tell me I';m hallucinating and this doesn't exist.

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[therealjohnny]

'comments are disabled'...I wonder why?

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

http://www.herald.ie/news/secret-donor-offers-to-give-quinns-500k-3229009.html

Secret donors?A plausible story.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

http://www.herald.ie/news/secret-donor-offers-to-give-quinns-500k-3229009.html

Secret donors?A plausible story.

None more known for the ol' flaithiúileach behaviour than Cavan people.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

How silly of me to forget the benevolence of Cavan folk.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Sometimes its very omnipresence can blind us to it.

 

[Psycho Punk]

Fukwits the lot of them. I'd like to break up their rally on Sunday, set dogs on them.

 

[HMD]

Cavan people are Gas. Did anyone watch Prime Time?

 

[Psycho Punk]

Cavan people are Gas. Did anyone watch Prime Time?

Did you hear about the Cavan man who was depressed?
He went next door to gas himself.

 

[therealjohnny]

any highlights?

 

[ann post]

Cavan people are Gas. Did anyone watch Prime Time?

watched the re-run lastnight. not sure.

 

[HMD]

watched the re-run lastnight. not sure.

Was that a re-run? when did it air first?

 

[ann post]

the 5am re-run of primetime, after shortland street.