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Wicked Blue

(7,710 posts)
Sat Feb 15, 2025, 01:46 PM Feb 15

Russia asks Elon Musk to hand over names of dissidents

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Source: Reuters via The Times(UK)

Moscow has appealed to the US to identify exiled Russian opposition figures who received funding from America’s international aid agency, which Elon Musk described as a “criminal organisation”.

President Trump’s move to freeze international assistance for 90 days and suspend the work of the US Agency for International Development (USAid) has devastated funding for Russian opposition media and human rights groups.

Vyacheslav Volodin, the chairman of the Duma, Russia’s parliament, said on Tuesday: “If they recognised the [USAid] organisation as an enemy, let them give us the lists. Congress will send us the lists — we will give them to the FSB [Russian security service].”

Musk, who has been tasked by Trump with slashing billions from public spending, has alleged that USAid was illegally funnelling money to far-left organisations. He did not provide evidence. Trump said USAid was “run by radical lunatics”.

Read more: https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/russia-elon-musk-list-names-dissidents-usaid-s798gktd7

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Russia asks Elon Musk to hand over names of dissidents (Original Post) Wicked Blue Feb 15 OP
Well, Elon, whatcha gonna do? lanlady Feb 15 #1
We are officially on the wrong side jayschool2013 Feb 15 #2
While you're at it, Leon Bayard Feb 15 #3
Last year Teflon Musk helped Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu during the Nakba. C0RI0LANUS Feb 15 #4
Locking. Lasher Feb 15 #5

lanlady

(7,203 posts)
1. Well, Elon, whatcha gonna do?
Sat Feb 15, 2025, 02:00 PM
Feb 15

See what you started, you foolish man, you vindictive, evil clown? It's bad enough that you destroyed our nation's greatest and most effective generator of good will, and that you, a greedy, entitled billionaire, literally took food out of the mouths of starving children. Now you've but delight in the heart of authoritarians everywhere. I have to stop there - I hate this man SO much my blood pressure soars every time his name is mentioned.

jayschool2013

(2,547 posts)
2. We are officially on the wrong side
Sat Feb 15, 2025, 02:02 PM
Feb 15

of everything, apparently.

That needs to be remedied immediately.

Bayard

(24,526 posts)
3. While you're at it, Leon
Sat Feb 15, 2025, 02:17 PM
Feb 15

Throw in the identities of all covert agents.

C0RI0LANUS

(3,015 posts)
4. Last year Teflon Musk helped Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu during the Nakba.
Sat Feb 15, 2025, 02:34 PM
Feb 15
"Elon Musk's X Suspends Nelson Mandela's Grandson Account as He Calls for Palestinian Liberation"


Zwelivelile Mandla Mandela was heading to Gaza on a Freedom Flotilla when Felon Musk cut him off.




Source:

https://www.vcpost.com/articles/126072/20240427/elon-musk-x-suspends-nelson-mandela-grandson-account-palestinian.htm



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Lasher

(28,701 posts)
5. Locking.
Sat Feb 15, 2025, 02:51 PM
Feb 15

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