Youtube comments of Stephen D Green (@stephendgreen1502).

  1. Of course Israel has right to defend itself. Not Russia of course. Just Israel. And NATO. And Ukraine. And all Pirates.
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  2. Putin is spot on. Enough people in West want peaceful disposition, less warmongering, less violence, less hating, less spending on defence, that NATO feels so threatened by this democratic people disposition that it has to invent or exaggerate threat. This peace seeking by the people is causing a reaction by the defence capitalists and NATO zealots that the latter is ironically pushing the world towards WWIII by their reaction against the West’s peace-seekers.
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  3. So Nuland has decided that Europe should decide whether the main stakeholder of nordstream should be allowed to investigate its destruction. So Nuland has made herself Europe’s boss - openly.
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  4. Stoltenberg running scared. “It wasn’t us! They used their own weapons. All we did was give the weapons to them! It was them!”
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  5. If country can be put on trial by country, when will the trial of the EU be brought by Russia? Trial for piracy maybe.
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  6. Thank God Lavrov still staying on.
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  7. Replace the formulaic leaders with humans who can exercise genuine judgment, who can ponder intelligently and speak intelligently. Why should Russia be the only country with such a leader.
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  8. Charges were filed with ICC against Assad but the ICC did not feel it had jurisdiction over Syria. So now they do over Russia? Does that mean Russia and Syria now have jurisdiction over the Hague?
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  9. Could they protect NATO from UK democracy too? Please. Just make NATO independent of USA and UK. Then we can get on with our lives and not be pulled into other nations’ wars. The NATO independence movement. NATexit.
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  10. If Article 5 is triggered it would be triggered against Ukraine because the missiles months back killing Polish farmers were actually Ukraine missiles. So NATO needs to invoke Article 5 against Ukraine, not Russia.
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  11. Trump lost me saying the world is ripping off USA. Harris lost me saying she and Biden have mended things.
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  12. Hungary offends Brussels by trying to be a free-thinking democratic EU member.
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  13. So L Graham implying since nuking Japan was OK, Israel can “do whatever it takes” or else US is a hypocrite. Extending it to Russia? Does USA now say to Russia “do whatever it takes”? If USA says otherwise is it being hypocritical?
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  14. With Krasnogorovka and Marinka successes for Russia we might hope to see a big reduction in shell and cluster bomb attacks on Donetsk civilians, thank God, given the attacks were often launched from those towns. Patrick Lancaster’s reports this week have shown the awful continuation of the attacks on civilians there. I suppose this justifies Russia using gravity bombs and the attrition of Russian forces in the long drawn out efforts in Krasnogorovka and Marinka will be reduced by such bomb use. What a grievous ethical falling short the West leaders and even churches showed (and poor judgment and exposed hatred) by supporting the perpetrators of these attacks on Donetsk civilians, falling short of West’s professed ‘principles’.
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  15. Ursula’s tools: a crowbar, a mask, a sack with a euro sign, a flashlight, and a black and white striped shirt with a beanie, plus optional parrot and eye patch.
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  16. Oban spot on. How can a country be admitted which has no agreed border? It would leave the EU with no clear Eastern border.
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  17. If this special needs case is not a false flag and not isolated, then the West is surely culpable and complicit because the very stereotype of bandera is this kind of idea of removing the weak and needy from the system. This is what the West is knowingly waving the flag (literally and figuratively) for. This will get the West utterly condemned.
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  18. If the poll is correct and only 10% of UK are willing to fight Russia, perhaps there might be room among the 90% for a percentage who would fight those who want them to fight Russia.
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  19. Britain is out of EU but EU is not out of Britain
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  20. This might badly backfire for us in UK. Ukraine with UK support from PM will likely call the bridge a legitimate military target. The corollary might then be that Kent and English Channel crossings become legitimate targets for Russia due to training sites.
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  21. That’s nice: Cyprus just voted in favour of Security Council giving rights and privileges to Palestine.
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  22. Seems to me Hungary is morally speaking the only pillar holding Europe up. So typical of EU to attack its load bearing pillar.
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  23. Bidenopoulos is the president who became a comedian. Elensky is the comedian who became a president.
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  24. Baltic sanctions only work on countries which have heard of the Baltics.
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  25. It is interesting that an honest US citizen is prone to Ukraine actions like this.
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  26. Lithuania and Britain leaders still thinking they have their empires?
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  27. USA might deny being at war, but Russia is effectively saying by its doctrine Russia is at war with NATO and all alliances involving USA. So it looks like this now bypasses Article 5.
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  28. So West planes maintained by West contractors and flown from West airbases with West pilots, but they each carry an invoice addressed to Ukraine, so the West is not a participant, only Ukraine is. Got that? This is the rules based order.
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  29. Issuing an arrest warrant against a head of state leader while they are in power constitutes an existential threat to that state and therefore justifies the people of that state declaring war. Even Jesus Christ stated, when arrested and tried, that “If I were an earthly king my people would fight for me”, effectively justifying such action.
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  30. Lithuania and all the West note this: believing a lie is equivalent to lying.
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  31. How to break up Belgium. Outlaw Flemish. Create a situation requiring a strong parliamentary response. Propose to move the EU institutions from Brussels to Rome. Blow up the railways from Paris to Brussels. Find ways Brussels is influencing the EU.
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  32. The West is known to have been leading Ukraine into this kind of thing for some time now. I expect many remember the news weeks back about how NATO was training and advising on forms of warfare which are normally conducted by outnumbered, ill-equipped parties along the lines of resistance fighting, guerrilla warfare, sabotage, etc.. Well this is where it has led. Into disaster.
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  33. I had forgotten the situation in Syria whereby Russia and US forces were colocated there and had agreed not to fight, but that was before the Ukraine business, so what happens now? The beginnings of an answer to that question is materialising.
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  34. The elderly and aging Australians must be so disappointed with their younger generation making these terrible decisions leading to a terrible demise.
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  35. So eloquently stated about Holocausts. Horrifying even from statistics alone. The whole picture must be remembered. Soviets, Poles, whole picture.
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  36. At last some press and Ukrainian recognition of support WITHIN the USA. Not FROM the USA. Recognition that not everyone in the West vows such support. I suppose Trump is not so easy to ignore as the rest of us.
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  37. You answered the question about a Russian offensive when you described the military war doctrine: Use everything you have. Russia is launching an offensive but it isn’t only military. They are building up BRICS. It is a BRICS expansion.
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  38. It is very disturbing the kind of tech BRICS now has, such that Chinese soldiers can even use their bank cards out on battlefields in Ukraine. I often have trouble using mine in the local city supermarket.
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  39. Curse alert! King Charles shook Elenskyy’s hand.
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  40. Isn’t Trudeau blatantly being an Elenskyy apologist in this video clip?
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  41. Germany putting solid steel umbrellas on top of Leopard 2 tanks? Then ship them to Ukraine? Winter protection umbrellas? Call them Leopard 3s?
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  42. One billion already. I bet that will rise and rise.
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  43. What if Russia sold long range missiles to Yemen and provided training and personnel to operate them and help target USA and UK? All things USA and UK have done recently against Russia. UK has sinned, siding with USA to disrupt the huge nation of Russia. Imperialistic and hegemonic rivalry. It will very likely come back badly on UK in some way. As for USA, that is their business. As UK citizen, I am concerned how Israel and USA historic associations are negatively impacting on sovereign behaviour of UK, continuing today under our two unelected top men, PM and King.
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  44. Extorting money from a country by force or threats of force ought to be considered a crime of robbery.
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  45. She has always wanted an EU army. Piracy was just a means to an end.
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  46. A lot of Scots are very reserved about expressing opinions openly but very traditional in their principles. They could forgive a lot of nonsense from the leaders but this putting of a rapist into a women’s prison on the grounds of gender reassignment is not something they would tolerate. When leaders cross the line like that it has consequences.
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  47. USA is involved but Russia is committed.
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  48. Maybe I’m wrong, but the long-range UK missiles are launched from aircraft so to defend their homes of civilians the Russians need to ensure air superiority, so the Patriot systems must go.
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  49. Don’t underestimate NATO. If USA was attacked then NATO would have meetings and hold press conferences. They would pay Elenskyy’s expenses for trips to WEF while USA hands were tied. They would entertain Elenskyy as he needed someone else to ask for money apart from USA who might be distracted.
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  50. If EU admits countries whose borders are not even agreed and with disputed territories like Transnistria and Donbas, they might as well bring the North Pole into the EU too.
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  51. We’d be devastated to see Lavrov go. 😫 Perhaps literally. Can he just have a long holiday. We need his diplomacy.
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  52. Looks like the EU mistook “war machine” for “washing machine” in a report somewhere. Word completion error probably.
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  53. I just watched it second time, taking time over it. It is deeply enlightening. Deeply. Maybe I will watch it again and again.
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  54. Funny how when he slurred one line so much it was unintelligible, they still stood up and clapped on cue when his tone of voice cued it. Almost like they were clapping the fact he got through the sentence, slurred or not.
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  55. EU wants a Ukraine/Russia (Ukraine/Donbas?) border but makes all kinds of issues over a Ireland/Northern Ireland border.
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  56. Hitting fishing is seriously hitting UK where it hurts. Fishing was a top reason for leaving EU. Norway cod wars still evoke memories. The P is better at doing sanctions than UK, USA and EU. Impressive as always.
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  57. Out in Bristol on Sat night we were one block away from the so-called riots that made headlines. I was a hundred yards from it. Heard nothing at all. No police cars. No helicopters. The next day I looked to see the roads where it happened. I could not see any sign of anything.
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  58. Why would Iran deescalate, when US has people calling for its annihilation?
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  59. Maybe Starmer’s boring problem is with thinking Britain still has a large empire.
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  60. He is well acquainted with laws flowing out from within from the inner nature of things as they operate within his own heart and hearts of others, welling up from within him, rather than imposed on him from outside.
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  61. Yes, lots of things done by West and other countries in past few decades can be labelled 'war crimes' but why 'put them to one side'? They very much need addressing and then perhaps this calamity can end and worse catastrophes be averted. If not, then it will just keep on and on and get worse and worse.
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  62. NATO the pirates. Like the buccaneers of old. Independent of any nation. Ruling the high seas.
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  63. ICC? Don’t underestimate West’s leaders’ capacity for double standards and hypocrisy. But don’t underestimate consequences of such blindness.
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  64. Canada clearly wants leaders who will honour people without asking questions. Look. They are not condemning. How noble. How worthy of votes.
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  65. Sitting on information that would incriminate the culprits: Isn’t that called accessory to the crime?
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  66. If West accepted Donbas being part of Russia it might put them in better situation to require Arab states to accept Israel. Why deny Arab states their right to reject historical Partition Plan if they themselves reject Russia’s and Donbas’ citizens’ claim to be seen as part of Russia?
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  67. Pity Trump did not help Assange when he could have done. Justice is coming back at him. “With the measure you use it will be measured to you”
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  68. “Russian misinformation” is about as racist and slanderous as saying “American slander” or “American folly” (sounds like a movie title).
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  69. NATO urgently needs to defends itself — from itself.
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  70. 1983 the Iranian Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, was bombed during the Lebanese Civil War
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  71. Curiouser and curiouser how USA troops in Ukraine will regard the new Russian border in Donbas. How long can they sustain sensible military precautions over staying on West side of the 'border' without recognising the 'border'? Effectively, ironically, it will mean the USA ends up actually manifesting that Russian border the way Russia sees it.
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  72. UK, USA must want to trigger a big response from Russia so they can say “Look, with this risk we need to spend lots on defence and NATO. We need NATO.” That belies the reality that Russia is very measured and does not present a risk unless attacked.
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  73. Weird how Germany is forgetting its past involved its actions against Soviets, not only Jews.
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  74. Drones to distract from balloons.
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  75. “David fastened on his sword over the tunic and tried walking around, because he was not used to them. “I cannot go in these,” he said to Saul, “because I am not used to them.” So he took them off.” 1 Samuel 17v39. David actually turned down the offer of armour with which to fight Goliath. He turned down the king’s own sword and body armour. (And no requests for an F-16. Does the Athens War Museum have any spare F-16s?)
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  76. Pity USA and UK are not genuinely leading Ukraine. Just role playing a leadership role. Ukraine would do well to ditch dependency on UK and USA, before they blindly lead it into a ditch worse than any war.
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  77. Just flying over the Tibet plateau you can see the orderly road systems built there - fine infrastructure. It rings true that China has been doing great things there for decades.
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  78. The Collective West deceptiveness persists because deceptiveness has mastered the leaders. Nothing new there. Surprising when a leader ever breaks free and starts telling truth. This is rare and beautiful: not to be played down. It is near impossible for a habitual liar to start telling the truth: a work of grace.
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  79. Russia called for ceasefire at festival times but Ukraine refused. Now why should Russia comply? Wishful thinking by West. If only it was so easy.
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  80. Harris was introduced by ABC as “Four years ago you came to office with Trump”. It was all downhill from there.
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  81. Trump showed fastest change of tune I ever saw. Electioneering hype gone in a flash. Cynicism is the big winner.
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  82. I could imagine Serbia and Balkans and Greece splitting away from Europe (EU/West) and aligning with Russia and Middle East.
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  83. It must be so painful in Ukraine to want a family and children to grow up and help in your old age, but have little prospect of having children who will make it into their thirties if this goes on for years. And those of childbearing age have themselves lower prospect of making it to old age, or even into forties.
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  84. No use, I suppose, pointing out to Biden administration and their supporters in UK politics, that what goes around comes around.
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  85. Tried to report a pirate channel to Google but maybe it was part of the trick to make us do this: Google only allows certain reasons to be given for report and the only one that seems appropriate enough is to say the channel is misleading. This could maybe backfire because it is so ambiguous and could be taken to be a complaint that the material itself is misleading. Of course it could be taken to imply that all Alexander’s videos are misleading. That could be intentional on part of the imposters.
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  86. Clown world was a joke. They have to keep arranging meetings to remind each other to think of Russia as a threat. It makes them look necessary.
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  87. Farage did walk back his old friendliness towards Putin, friendliness which was acceptable back when Trump was getting friendly too. I remember he was indeed friendly in a noble way. Farage walked back that friendliness. I cannot respect that he did it in a childish way by name calling. Calling Putin ‘evil’. Does that mean Farage and other politicians are not also evil. Most people are evil. Some are mature enough to know that leaders battling dark forces have to be able to do evil. Even Farage will look evil in public eyes if he ever has to become a major leader actually involved in defeating greater evils.
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  88. They should be careful in case the Devil sues them.
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  89. I notice when Nikki Hayley spoke on TV they did not show her personal email address and phone number and home address next to her name on the screen.
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  90. Russians will need to keep pushing back Ukrainian artillery away from Donetsk, because only pushing them back a little, still in shelling range, will make shelling less accurate, more random, more likely to hit unintended targets.
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  91. The Chinese cars in EU have to run on expensive non-Russian fuel too, which is nothing whatsoever to do with anything the EU is doing. “I tell you!”
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  92. “Anyone who welcomes them shares in their wicked work” — Apostle John, 2 John v11
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  93. These frozen assets: It is bizarre, like an cashier who the boss is watching because they might have their hand in the till, but they keep shouting “I’m taking it now, watch me!”
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  94. The aim of the threat reduction research seems to be to deal with the danger of the labs left over in Ukraine from the Soviet era. But just as with labs like that in UK (Porton Down), etc., the danger is that reduction of the treat can mean having to keep samples of the threat. I still wonder why Porton Down was never a suspect with the novochok poisonings in Salisbury, when the lab is only a few miles from Salisbury in the UK and would have to have had samples of novochok and a way to produce them in order to be able to develop tests for signs of its use - coincidence? (Plus the idea it was a Putin-led poisoning, according to Boris, begs the question why nothing has happened to others who have shown themselves Putin enemies in the UK - but that is another matter.)
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  95. They took territory but will not likely be able to keep it through the winter. Robotyne is a couldron. Maintaining the territory inside a couldron during winter is going to cost too many lives to be achievable. So Blinken hoping to freeze that territory during winter is a deadly freeze and wishful thinking.
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  96. The CrowdStrike links to Israel should have alerted everyone.
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  97. What a guest. Thank you.
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  98. Perhaps Russia is starting a new list, a ‘not wanted’ list.
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  99. The curse is underpinned with a theological truth that friendship with the World is enmity towards God.
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  100. And if they want peace (perhaps they don’t) Ukraine needs to stamp out its extreme far right like Germany did after the war.
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  101. Just because they are called British Intelligence Services does not mean they are particularly intelligent. Unfortunately. Or maybe fortunately if they have gone rogue. It means they can be outwitted by those they seek to harm in their roguishness.
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  102. Implying assets not already seized? I get the strong impression that theft already happened
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  103. All the many deaths are tragic. But Prigozhin’s death is doubly tragic. A man who takes a city has surpassed the many, many average men. He became the all-surpassing figure we armchair web commenters may never be. He and his tens of thousands. We may never achieve what he achieved. Few men do. Like the leader of the Three Hundred. They will probably never make movies about the rest of us, but I imagine there will always be movies and books and songs about Prigozhin. Few of us will have millions emulating us or aspiring to be like us. Millions of boys will grow up wanting to be a heroic man like Prigozhin. If Prigozhin was not such a great man, such a hero to so many, the West enemies of Putin would not be trying to pin the blame on Putin, trying to get milage out of defaming Putin in this way.
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  104. So mothers who did not live off benefits were awarded with benefits.
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  105. Truss cannot expect to be able to spend so much and still expect people to work hard. They eventually realise that performance-related pay works both ways. (Pay-related performance)
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  106. Russian and D/L Russian troops do need experience in defending territory for future. There will always be possibility of such actions by Ukrainian army in Future against which the D/L will need to defend themselves. So far they have been experiencing being on the offensive. They need experience in being on the defensive too if Donbass is to have any future.
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  107. Perhaps the sanctions would be taken a lot more seriously by Russians if van der Pirate carried a parrot on her shoulder.
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  108. Why doesn’t Elenskyy just tell EU to appoint him their leader. Would spread the curse.
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  109. Not very silly if Russia gave its Galician trojan horse to Poland.
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  110. Has Hunter got a Chinese smartphone hanging around anywhere?
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  111. I would not be surprised if the very reason, or a primary reason, for the appointment of Surovikin was to lead this withdrawal from Kherson. It might be the Kremlin realised it would probably be necessary but would need someone to make that decision who could focus on it fully, hence Surovikin brought in 'to make the difficult decision'.
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  112. If this was USA, would it be classed as extortion? A racket?
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  113. How would an IAEA which cannot see which direction shells and missiles came from to hit the ZNPP possibly see whether a dirty bomb is being developed?
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  114. Cameron’s tirade so reminds me of a typical speech of a certain moustache man.
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  115. He threatened to drain the swamp. The swamp fights back.
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  116. It would be nice to see BRICS becoming independent of the US and USD. It would encourage others to see it happen, to see an alternative existing. Just like I enjoyed seeing UK leave EU, it would be nice if UK were encouraged to stand on its own two feet as a sovereign state. Russia is getting some of that independence due to sanctions. It would be nice to see BRICS as an enabler for countries to become sovereign states independent of US and USD. Might be a great thing for US too. Heavy lies the crown.
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  117. Where there is a cliff edge, it needs to be well fenced and sign posted. Clarity is key. This new doctrine gives the necessary clarity.
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  118. Regarding Starmer’s comment that Ukraine has full support of whole of UK, what is remarkable is that nobody has ever asked everyone in UK whether they feel supportive of Ukraine in this. So he spoke supposedly on our behalf extremely disrespectfully and presumptuously.
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  119. Blinken forgot that the main risk to Africa is balloons.
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  120. The SK president probably got spooked by 100,000 NK invisible troops on the ground in Seoul. Just like in Kursk. These invisible troops cause heaps of trouble.
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  121. The leaders speak by a formula. Might as well replace them with AI.
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  122.  @alexandergabrovsky8405  It just shows the thinking is that the USA decides who should make the decision, a paradox. They cannot see the logical fallacy that they are deciding to let others decide, like that is real. If it is the US deciding then it isn’t Europe deciding. Nuland is blind to this. Therefore the Europe blind are led by the USA blind.
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  123. I bet Elenskii is watching your video counting those tanks.
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  124. Answer: An Iran-led peacekeeping force in Israel.
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  125.  @ЕлизаветкаБогданова  We in West ought to thank God for all Russians being the way you are, on the whole. Your leaders and your voters keep sanity and level thinking when all the West is losing their heads and blaming you. You are heroes, all of you. Thank God! God bless you all.
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  126. Starmer needs to remember there is no more room in UK prisons and the justice system is overloaded.
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  127. So there is Macron and Schultz watching other leaders saying Russia lost the war right at the start by having to withdraw from Kiev, and they knowingly let that be said without confessing what really happened.
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  128. Slow dev environments. We should code at the speed of thought.
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  129. What an asset is Chat GPT. Concerning depleted uranium it explains how an alpha emitter like DA can cause a gamma spike. “Yes, under certain circumstances, an alpha emitter can cause the emission of gamma radiation. Alpha particles are composed of two protons and two neutrons and have a positive charge. They are relatively large and do not penetrate matter very far. However, when an alpha particle interacts with certain materials, such as heavy elements or dense mediums, it can undergo a process called alpha capture, where it is absorbed and forms a new, unstable nucleus. This new nucleus may be in an excited state, and as it transitions to a more stable state, it can release excess energy in the form of gamma radiation. Gamma radiation consists of high-energy photons and is the most energetic type of electromagnetic radiation. So, in the context of an explosion involving an alpha-emitting material, if the alpha particles interact with other elements and undergo alpha capture, it is possible for gamma radiation to be emitted as a result of the subsequent nuclear processes.”
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  130. Milei’s got a country to sell us.
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  131. The Ambassador seems to imply he thinks Russia should have stood by and watched Minsk being broken and civilian Russian speakers in Donbas being wiped out by bombings.
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  132. Maybe Boris Johnson not only responsible for UK ills but for this Ukraine mischief too, having played such a big part in persuading Ukraine to avoid peace talks. But Putin sounded spot-on when he highlighted the fact that Ukraine abandoned peace when Russia left Kiev, like the Ukraine gov mostly cared about Kiev. Boris probably crystallised what Kiev already wanted - to focus on their needs first.
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  133. Iran has the right to defend itself
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  134. Schwab will have no chairmanship and he will be happy.
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  135. Isn’t the dealer just doing due diligence on the sports car? Doesn’t revving it up constitute part of detecting any engine problems? After all the dealer thinks they are potentially about to own it. On other hand, would they expect a customer testing out a sports car to do the same thing? On a tangent, does NordVPN get to know where you are?
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  136. If Elenskyy is outnumbering the Russians and has a drone majority, no need for lowering the recruitment age.
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  137. I never took Ellensky as a follower of Henry VIII but quite a few likenesses.
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  138. Macron flip flopping is no problem for Starmer. He’ll just copy Ursula and rename it to Coalition of the Unwilling.
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  139. Pretty sure Elenskyy won’t want to be around when Bakhmut falls.
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  140.  @ianlarge9016  Not sure UK and US democracy will last that long either.
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  141. It seems total mobilisation would make almost all Ukrainians legitimate military targets. Not many civilians. New methods legitimately available to Russia maybe.
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  142. The Brits were stupid with the Skripols. It was right next door to the only place in Europe with novochok: Porton Down. That was so weak. And why on earth did the hospital test for novochok. Only if Porton Down was leading the response would that test be done. Symptoms are not unique. Only if Porton Down was involved could anyone even think of testing for it. And only Porton Down had the novochok needed to run a test.
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  143. That whole peace summit was clowning around. Who can take them seriously now.
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  144. With USA it is always about Israel. The cover story is it is always about oil.
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  145. I’m guessing the ICC won’t be issuing arrest warrants on Elenskyy any time soon.
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  146. I agree that President Putin indeed appears to be sincerely motivated strongly by his awareness of the history.
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  147. So when NATO flies air attacks into Russian territory, it needs to make sure every plane carries an invoice on board proving it is Ukraine property.
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  148. That victory plan depends on a flimsy argument, that Russia invaded unprovoked. If Ukraine did join NATO and fired the missiles, it would require an argument of not being a provocation. For Article 5. Only if people widely thought that Russian action was unprovoked could it be argued that missile strikes were likewise not a provocation.
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  149. Excellent discussion
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  150. As if life wasn’t already dysfunctional enough living in UK, might now at last be time to see about dual citizenship and emigration.
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  151. “Sorry, not interested” Same as I say to a street dealer, presuming they are pushing something unsavoury.
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  152. Yes, Blinken would only know that no intelligence were involved if he knew unequivocally who actually did do it.
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  153. I imagine there might be many soldiers hiding in the deep, extensive tunnels of salt mines, etc under the non-ferrous metal plant of Bakhmut. This might account for slow progress.
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  154.  @volkerr.  what response is that? Call them an Axis of Evil, maybe. Call themselves ‘the good guys’ in a movie blockbuster and call the others the bad guys.
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  155. Since the USA shares its values with Ukraine, Hunter ought to ask Elenskyy for some houses. He needs them for his portfolio. Just a few, to start with. Ideally more later on.
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  156. Paraskeyevka has underground salt mine linking tunnels to Soledar. Maybe troops from Soledar were down in these tunnels. Maybe Wagner will need to spend time making sure the tunnels are clear right through to Soledar now Paraskeyevka has fallen to them.
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  157. So he didn’t mean Ukraine.
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  158. I think Trump in his inimitable way, means Canada already is behaving like 51st state by living off USA too much.
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  159. Washing machines are faves for Baerbock because they do perfect 360 degree cycles.
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  160. These are the people who are supporting Ukraine.
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  161. One superpower throws the punches while the other two hold the chair.
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  162. Too much Blinken makes you blind
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  163. Germany really really needs to send those washing machines to Ukraine.
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  164. Would be interesting if a person can be compensated who did not take a vaccine but who was harmed as a result of others taking it.
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  165. Reminds me of the joke where someone phones the FBI and asks “I forgot my password. Could you remind me what it is?”
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  166. So Russia seems to be saying (I don’t know the source) the missiles are in return for the Bryansk attacks
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  167. Lithuania were hasty because it helped the propaganda if the leaders believed it.
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  168. The American love of emotions is a gold mine, the actors and actresses know full well how to tap into it.
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  169. Surely it was to try to trip up Putin and force his hand and panic him into making a bad judgment.
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  170. My guess. Russian military highest authorities had agreement on Wagner taking Bakhmut. Take it slow and steady so maximum damage to elite forces of far right. Maybe a year mentioned. Then it gets so it looks immoral to go further with killings as defenders appear so vastly outnumbered and trapped. So Wagner wants to stop. They can do two things. Finish the taking of the city. Or call it a year and walk away. My guess is authorities wanted it to continue to last defender to eliminate as many far right as possible. So they try to force Wagner to stay by making it hard to finish taking the city by denying shells etc. So Wagner leader is wary of being trapped by this and draws a line. Plus it motivates Wagner to finish by May 9th for pride and glory of completely taking city they were told to keep from finishing. They can fight with full force if they do not have to keep it sustainable and the target of 9th is doable if on 10th they leave. So no need to jog. They can sprint. They can use full strength and full ammo. It is genius tactic to say 10th is deadline. Max pressure. Min constraints. All or nothing sprint finish. Then home for celebrations. Progogin is genius. And head office gets no chance to keep it going perpetually. They can end it gloriously but morally too. Otherwise it looks like malice when defenders are trapped.
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  171. A fit for purpose UN would investigate such matters irrespective of whether USA is implicated.
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  172.  @thomasbaader6629  hot air provides the power of flight
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  173. I cannot imagine Ukraine mounting a Spring counteroffensive without a hothead or three doing something crazy and incurring a devastating response from Russia, like Crimea bridge and the response of missile strikes on energy infrastructure. Then hotheads in West will be emboldened to have a go too, like hitting pipelines. It is the side effects we have to watch out for, the unintended outcomes which should have been foreseen.
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  174. “I understand power” because it gets me hugs from women.
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  175. It is the genius of Putin that he provides a way forward for West people disenfranchised by West Russian-hating nastiism by encouraging the vision that we can maintain an antinasty continuity with our grandparents’ struggles fighting against nasties in WW2. That goal is love. Not hate.
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  176. How do we qualify for the EU China-Derisking fund? Can Taiwan apply? Maybe Taiwan can be a member of EU eventually too, perhaps five years from now.
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  177. You can’t say Blair but you can say Truman. 😔 Not a criticism, but it shows the strength of the US propaganda machine since the fifties.
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  178. If there is a Eurowatt, there has to be a kiloeurowatt too, decimalised like Napoleon always wanted, to isolate his little empire from his rivals.
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  179. Vampires have to be invited in. I suppose the rule can be generalised.
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  180. Seizing the ship might be retaliation?
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  181. In the UK it would be good not to be pulled into a war alongside Russia but to distance themselves from this peril they are doing it badly and risking a worse peril of actual war with Russia.
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  182. I suppose if it came to repossessing, did USA ever pay Russia for Alaska?
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  183. Medvedev’s comments the other day might also indicate a way EU will lose out from seizure of Russia’s assets. Russia could simply return zero dividends to private investors outside of Russia to the same value. So EU could lose twice.
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  184. Wonderful synopsis of news. These ATACMs feel like they intensify the heat on the USA.
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  185. Just like the P always got blamed, it would be easy to always blame the CIA and equivalents (MI6, Budanov, etc).
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  186. Imagine if police were not allowed to mention or practice or enforce laws outside of court
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  187.  @charlielee1000100  Even Alaska. USA never actually paid Russia for Alaska, so strictly speaking it is illegally occupying it.
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  188. One of the best Trudeau phone calls. Worth waiting for.
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  189. I would imagine seizure of assets will harm Switzerland most since reputation might be all the resources they have. A small, landlocked nation might not survive losing its banking reputation. Poverty could sweep the nation. So sad.
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  190. Time to turn it around before the darkness creeps in and makes any turning around impossible. Time to teach truth to our children and write it on our walls of our homes.
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  191. Ridiculous US stance. Obviously if Ukraine can defend territory of separating DPR and LPR the same logic means Russia can defend territory of separating Kiev. Kiev separated just as LPR and DPR separated. How blind these imposter Western delegates are.
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  192. Welcome the day when top journalists cannot be arrested because they are afforded the same kinds of protections as royalty.
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  193. Is Bilochorivka an area of lots of tunnels, underground quarries and bunkers? It is chalk. Gypsum too?? Presumably ideal for bunkers. That could explain why it seems to never fall.
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  194. When Russia enforces terms, will one of them be that the UN must be fairer in its sanctions and the UN must command sanctions on any nation or ECOWAS or NATO intervening in Niger?
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  195. RT doing a good job - it is probably deliberate
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  196. The Head Pirate is shown up in a good light, building her commissioners team into such a strong Family. The team all treats each other like cousins.
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  197. A prophetically stormy sea around Greece.
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  198. No panel for discussing the carbon footprint of shooting down a balloon?
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  199. I cannot see how the West can sufficiently stay out of this ‘offensive’. Has a proxy war ever gone this far while remaining a proxy war?
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  200. Verhofstadt used to be quite a nice, respectable guy. The EU (he/you) is crumbling.
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  201. None of the words attributed to Elenskyy sound like anything he would ever write
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  202. Wimbledon won by a Russian and a Serb. So cool. And for Djokovic to beat Nick Kyrgios, an Australian, must have been such added karma too.
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  203. BRICS is gonna need a bigger room
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  204. If they seize Russian assets, I would propose that their electronic invoice standard change from its current royalty-free terms to include royalties. Even if they don’t, they have gone far enough with this to forfeit such grace. USA now too.
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  205. Cameron should learn from his own words that if you act in this way there are consequences.
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  206. Reform showed in the General Election how hard it is to convert popularity and votes into seats.
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  207. If they appointed someone with no command experience, like the president was, maybe the one with real command experience is to shortly replace the top job.
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  208. Maybe a truly distinct Russia with well adjusted view of itself could indeed be the salvation of the collective West. Western nations can all learn from it and find our own identities outside of the dying hegemony. Western nations all, I feel, cling to the dying hegemony unipolar unfairness because we are afraid we will have no identity without it. If we are freed from this ill-conceived fear we can stand anew without that idol of imperial Rome.
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  209. So in Russia’s budding proxy war against USA, table-turning, it tests NKorea missiles in action, then NKorea could improve them for use against USA or as a deterrent at least.
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  210. Avdiivka cauldron did, reportedly, just have a refresh of Russian troops. So these fresh soldiers are not tired out yet. It might be a time-sensitive attack. They might need to get as much progress as they can before they tire and need another replacement cycle.
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  211. Did the USAID/CIA issue affect UK MPs? It seemed to me that BBC and Parliament were both very similarly drawn into Democrat service. Will that wind down noticeably now?
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  212. I agree with Scott Ritter that King Charles should dissolve Parliament, as is his prerogative (and duty maybe).
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  213. But he would not want that. Another reason he is great.
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  214. US personality malfunctions are quite common. On a massive scale there must be some manifestation of that. A kind of mass group personality disorder. I'm no psychology expert but it makes sense that this would happen at scale if it is happening a lot on an individual basis. Might have drug abuse connections.
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  215. Would be tempting to withdraw consent to USA using one’s intellectual property copyrights on equivalent systems to SWIFT, and EU and maybe even UK, just to make a point how it hurts to drink your own poison.
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  216. Lord Dave wanting to extend his remit of his term of office to whole generation now. Trying to throw even the kids who will never vote for him under the P curse.
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  217.  @GLOW_IN_THE_DARK_CIA_NIBBAS  but even if that is true, he is like the rest of us. It could be any one of us in there in that cell or whatever. More maligned than malignant. The world is watching and especially the West to see how it goes when far right keeps the borders. Now we know a bit more than we did a month ago.
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  218. Criticism and outcries did nothing to stop Biden Administration and EU and UK govs supporting Ukraine when it was bombing Donetsk civilians. Selective indignation. Cherry picked concern about criticism. Israel gets responses to its actions similar to those received by Russia whether they do right or wrong. Historic feelings of resentment and bitterness towards Israel and Russia go back a long way but Russian Empire then British Mandate had a lot to do with generating nationalistic ideological bitterness in their wake.
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  219. It was not Ukraine wanting to join NATO which triggered the SMO. The SMO coincided with Ukraine trying to join the EU.
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  220. The EU bailed out its banks back in the banking crisis. It prevented bank bankruptcy but risked EU bankruptcy. Good money after bad. Now the US has been bailing out the EU. Without this there might be EU bankruptcy but it risks US bankruptcy if US continues. US might have sense to step back. Loss limitation. Bulkhead, firebreak strategy to let one region fail to save the other by splitting US away from EU.
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  221.  @kitcat4512  They would be unhinged if they saw no problem with an unagreed border with Russia when they could not accept the situation of the Northern Ireland problem of a soft border with the UK. But then this is the EU we are talking about. It was lack of clarity over Eastern Europe border security which led Brits to originally want Brexit back when Poland joined. Double standards are no stranger here.
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  222. I mean, if the EU can accept having no agreed border with Russia by admitting Ukraine it makes it look like all that fuss about Northern Ireland Protocol was prevarication.
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  223. We all need these people kept out of power. There must be a way to better filter candidates. CIA is either failing or is trying to achieve the opposite.
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  224. Russia has all the cards. It only needs to wait till end of May when Elenskyy out of legitimate power.
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  225. Back in Soviet 80s the underground churches in Ukraine were in a similar situation to original Orthodox today, being undermined by registered churches, and persecuted by authorities. I believed at the time this would bring downfall of Soviet Union and sure enough the Berlin Wall fell and then Soviet Union followed suit. So I believe the word of this prophet today.
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  226. The evil of software is its developers - and especially managers who don’t know their tech
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  227. Such childish churlishness for old man Biden. An office junior could show more professionalism than saying, “Putin loves [the roadmap] so it can’t be any good”. Grow up Sir. Show some seniority wisdom if you have some, Mr President.
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  228. Russia versus USA in Syria will really stir things up. Iran could come out of it stronger. Iraq too. Prophetic times like rise of Babylon in troubled Assyrian times, the prophetic tossing of the sea, out of which came Babylon and Persia and Macedonia.
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  229. Snow didn’t delay the offensive in Backmut. Maybe it hid the mines under a protective layer making advance safer. It would have made trenches less effective too. Snow was taken advantage of by ready troops who saw their opportunity.
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  230. Would that make Zaluzhny the first officially recognised leader adhering to the core ideology of enayzeeyeyes since the death in the notorious bunker?
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  231. At last recognition for the Ghost of Kiev.
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  232. RIP Gonzalo. His truth-loving spirit lives on. Understand what’s going on.
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  233. They say England was built on the industry of mercenaries. The Angles were mercenaries for the Romans. It is the Anglo thing.
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  234. Troops in Ukraine? I bet it spells start of an EU military force.
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  235. Oo Turkey. Must be alarming to Greece, Cyprus, Balkans.
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  236. What a wonderful Mayor. Such a joy to listen to him. Supporting life amongst so much death.
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  237. After 100 days there is always a review making the headlines - a review of the first hundred days of Presidency.
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  238. USA must think twice and remember even a lion must think twice before attacking a giraffe.
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  239. China did a great job with great dignity stepping over USA to top spot. End of humiliation. I looked forward to this day when dealing with some of their brightest and best twenty years ago. There were things which took time and a lot of grace needed to withstand envious backlash from West but they seem to have got there to top spot now. I hope they can lead as graciously as they rose.
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  240.  @volkerr.  in those days before Kinzhal started being used
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  241. Boris ought to love the funny facial hair man, given that man is a hero of Ukraine on a par with Bandera.
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  242. Many thanks for courageous truthful video. Have a great week.
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  243. Russian citizenship for Musk?
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  244. Self-fulfilling prophecy about Macron in Kiev is that your prediction probably made him think of that alluring perfume.
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  245. Excellent coverage of the Nordstream report
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  246. As a lord, David Cameron could technically now be made PM. Unusual but then this whole thing is unusual.
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  247. Thanks to “Through the eyes of” for showing that you are here on YouTube. Great to be able to listen to you.
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  248. ChatGPT says: In the context of the White House, a "Big Boy Press Conference" typically refers to a press conference where the President himself is present and taking questions, as opposed to one led by the Press Secretary or other administration officials. This term suggests a higher level of importance and attention, as it indicates direct communication from the President.
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  249. If Ukraine targeted civilians, I would not want my taxes paid to them. It seems illegal funding to me. Not that I know law well, but merely from a reasoning taxpayer point of view, and a voter.
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  250. At one point he asked who in audience thought the tax system was a mess. He cheered the answer with them to the affirmative. Forgetting, it seems, that he had presided over the tax system for the past few years. He did make clear the mess ups were not his fault because things fell foul of the politics. Effectively he was saying he is not in power to do anything. He is like an observer making comments and watching them get ignored.
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  251. Trump was willing to be influenced by religious doctrines, such as doctrines of favouring non-violence over violence, with violence only as last resort. Biden tries to keep religious doctrines at a distance, priding himself that he can keep their influence at arms length.
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  252. Tools and censorship are very important for pirates.
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  253. Spot on about the hill. Good analysis.
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  254. Collective West depends on Moldovans for software and IT skills. If Moldova swings back towards Russia, that could be a problem.
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  255. Loss of US funding - maybe a lot of the low quality high propaganda UK news media outlet YT videos will disappear now too.
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  256. Bilohorivka has held out so long - with so much chalk and quarrying I guess it might have extremely extensive bunkers underground - just a guess
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  257. Yes between 1996 and 2000 there was a tipping point and Europe chose badly between a future without Christianity and a future with Christianity. The gravity worsened.
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  258. We in the UK are now all human shields for Truss.
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  259. Ukraine has one weapon left that might just sink the P. Mobilise the olympic squad. Some are javelin experts.
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  260. Shout out for key observation that the AI helps by eliminating distractions from trivia when coding and learning.
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  261. Imagine having to live your whole life unable to travel to the Baltics.
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  262. Wonderful that USA has stayed so neutral and it is now paying off in that they can provide neutral ZNPP control 😊
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  263. “Don’t mention the pipelines”
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  264. I’m British and I can’t watch your video. Not because it isn’t true. But because it is.
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  265. When Sunak was running for PM of UK the main criticism was he might lack principles, but he insisted he had them. Until he didn’t.
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  266. Autonomy truly is a big ask. It requires expert developers. If they leave, it requires that they be replaced with developers able to acquire expertise quicker than the previous devs could develop it, so work can continue autonomously. For example, an event gets raised by a microservice. No one team knows all the handlers for this event. Each only knows whether their microservice will handle it. So nobody sees the sequence of things that happen, nobody sees the big picture. So the devs need to be capable of understanding where their events and handlers fit in but without even knowing what the big picture is that are fitting in to. If they never get their handler completed, the event might never be handled, but nobody knows this. If a team needs a new dev to replace an expert who leaves, the new dev will not know if an event raised is ever handled. How can they find out? Go through all the codebases of all the microservices in various languages? What if these are moving targets and nobody knows all the codebases and which versions are in production? It all gets very taxing. Too taxing for an average dev. Autonomy is a really big ask.
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  267. Department of Hegemony
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  268. Might be best to stay over there, far from UK right now.
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  269. Johnson should team up with Boris to get frozen assets for Ukraine. Johnson & Johnson. Great for baby lotion.
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  270. Dangerous question maybe: Does this ebbing show that actually USA and NATO are incapable of launching conventional attacks on a superpower?
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  271.  @diogenesegarden5152  The military probably would exploit that and let them carry on thinking it as they pilot the drones.
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  272. If it was deliberate (or if they think it was) will the pirate be put on the list? If so, no wonder she panicked and got it taken down.
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  273. Yes. Could Moldova maybe go through upheaval like Ukraine splitting Romanian versus Russian? It has strong groups of each leaning. Moldova very recently a Communist democratic country. Europe leanings very new. Could either swing back to Russia or split in two.
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  274. Unbelievable powers of reasoning by the suicidal patriots.
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  275. If Ukraine has real power for an offensive, why is not using it already? Why is it not preventing overthrow of what was called Bakhmut? Why is it not saving lives of those it sent to fight there? Amassing forces is not the same as an army and offensive. An army is more than numbers. It takes spirit to go on the attack. If 40,000 lack spirit to attack, they are not really an army. If they cannot get what it needs to attack now, how will that change later?
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  276. Borell needs a taste of his own medicine.
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  277. Yes, drones of German YouTubers very likely. Same as the channels which explore down in the disused bunkers. Make great videos.
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  278. Must have had a fast yacht and a very reliable timing device for the explosives. That plume of gas went a long way and very fast.
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  279. Perhaps Farage needed to see what happens without him, to gain confidence of the need for him and to be able to point to in future like a control sample.
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  280. Binding/nonbinding. Unfortunately if at a stop sign at a junction/intersection if one driver considers it non-binding when everyone else considers it binding, well, a crash is imminent.
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  281. Article five nullified by Biden’s action.
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  282. I think it was obvious what Putin meant by using all weapons in his arsenal, especially his allusion to hypersonics superior to West's weapons. He knew what conclusions he would trigger. If he hadn't warned with reminder of slight advantage, he would be guilty if he had to use that advantage. We know the advantage is his hypersonic option for nuclear strikes. He knows we need to remember it in West. that the hypersonics give him more modern advantage. That advantage would mainly take effect in nuclear ezxchanges when his missiles could knock out West sites before the West has time to strike back. It is his moral obligation to warn the West like a policeman if he is armed would warn an aggressor. It also serves as marketing those weapons. This comes as the US almost has working, tested hypersonics too, but is well behind the lead.
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  283. Excellent factual analysis. Poor old Erdogan. Like the good book says, “When you make an end to deal treacherously, others will deal treacherously with you”. USA not likely to remain faithful or keep good faith in long term. What goes around comes around. (UK take note.)
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  284. They want even the less astute among the haters to realise they are going after him. ‘Playing to the gallery.’
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  285. One has to sympathise with ethnic Russians there. And EU might be bad news anyway for Moldova due to increasing likelihood of young educated people leaving, especially men. This is the blight of Moldova. And those who aren’t lured by EU into leaving might work for EU states, making local recruitment difficult. But hey, if I say more the EU might sanction me! I’d sanction them back 😊
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  286. All this friendship with Ukraine is touching, like the Messiah’s friendship with tax collectors and the like. Except the Messiah’s aim was that they repent and pay back their dishonest gain, not to find ways to steal more money off Russia. More a contrast than a comparison.
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  287. God keep the UK out of it. That is precisely why I voted Brexit.
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  288. It is a disappointment when your bribes get you nothing in return. It makes it look like they were not bribes after all.
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  289. Star Link problems? A bit surprising but perhaps it shouldn't be after the leadership of Ukraine openly insulted Elon Musk over the Twitter poll. If I was Elon Musk I would be looking for a way to pull some resources out of the contribution in Ukraine's direction after that spat. Not saying he did, but I would. It isn't always easy to wind back technology without damaging it but Elon is extremely resourceful. Extremely. Or his loyal employees might find it more irksome to provide their normal support to making sure those satellite benefits help UkraiNiaN military. Are they all becoming a bit more pacifist?
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  290.  @hennyvanommeren8711  yes, Warmongers
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  291. Macron finally figured out how to avoid the Ellensky curse, whereby every leader calling for Russia regime change ends up losing their own power. The divine principle that with the measure you use it is measured to you, therefore judge not that you be not judged. Putin is clearly blessed with the Abrahamic Blessing whereby those who curse him are cursed and those who bless him are blessed. So we should bless Putin and Macron does well to do so too. God keep Putin in power. There, now I might get blessed too.
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  292. I would probably apply for sub director job if I had the right GCSEs. I did O Levels at school so they might not know that these are the same as GCSEs 😊 But also, if I break a fingernail and it bleeds I get freaked out so I might not be suitable if they actually want combat experience. Perhaps this doesn’t matter though if they are crying out for someone for this job enough to advertise it on LinkedIn. We Brits should all stick to software coding working from home, except builders, we always need brave builders.
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  293. USA needs a gardening leave policy for transfer of power. If it were a bank, the outgoing employee clearance holder likely to rock the boat would be put on gardening leave. Is government with red button clearance not as needy of this as a bank?
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  294. I would expect changes in British mainstream media
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  295. What bar has to be reached for Russia to legally be able to attack UK and USA on UK and USA territory? It could be too late if anyone forgets that bar exists, especially if it is somewhat arbitrary.
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  296. Don’t park one near a Tennessee school, in case a teacher is disciplining a child and there is a stray bullet.
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  297. Maybe they think if they keep talking about the moustache man we will get tired of it and stop noticing whose shoes they are walking in.
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  298.  @lowersaxon  that attitude gets people invaded by the liberal democracies
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  299. So if the global dedollarisation goes a long way to eliminate reserve currency status and global dollar usage, presumably the economic modern monetary theory will fall flat and printing dollars will actually start to affect US citizens.
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  300. Kids love their burgers. Who even knows what is put into those.
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  301. If Russian orthodoxy has ‘shallow’ following, what word can be used to describe Christianity in the West where hating Russia, hating brothers, is so rife. ‘Apostasy’ maybe?
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  302. Poor Macron is like the only person they told it was fancy dress party.
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  303. will those who helped the Russian troops have had a chance to flee persecution?
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  304. Maybe Putin will separate out Ukrainian Galicia from the rest of the country.
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  305. Their feeble attempts at a cover-up only proves their guilt. It also suggests what they were up to when it all went quiet after the Hersh story: probably they were hurriedly preparing their cover story. So shameful. If these guys were honourable and had just cause they might have simply defended their actions while admitting to them.
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  306. If Andromeda explosive traces exactly match the known explosives used on pipelines, the German authorities could maybe find who planted the traces and whether this was before any public dissemination of knowledge of what explosives were used and if so and the traces were indeed planted, it might strongly indicate who blew up the pipeline or knew the details of it.
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  307. iPlayer does ask whether you have a TV licence before you can run it.
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  308. Will it be traced back to Nuland? Is that the plan, like when Nordtream was meant to trace back to Zaluzhny? Is Nuland the new scapegoat? Is that why she left the limelight? So the sins can be placed upon her head?
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  309. With the black trident symbol and blue and yellow flag, why did Ukraine use the Barbados flag?
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  310. Excellent video. 100% agree.
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  311. As Chat GPT 3.5 itself says, “The "hard problem of consciousness," as described by philosopher David Chalmers, raises questions about subjective experience and how it arises from physical processes in the brain”. If we do not know what our own consciousness is, scientifically, how can we know whether consciousness is a component or property of Chat GPT?
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  312. Netenyahu always says Iran should not be allowed to have nukes. Should USA be allowed them since they have such propensity to vote someone like Biden into presidency?
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  313. Coders are expected to comply with laws and professional good practice and proper design like GDPR and good practice security, but HR ideas of managers being dictatorial undermines all this completely. If the manager cannot see the need for security aspects or legal compliance they often do not allow the coders to incorporate such things with proper discretion. The law breaks down. Security breaks down. But HR is happy because they can understand the hierarchy and chain of command.
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  314. I would think the tanker insurers would need to go after somebody now to try to recover their costs.
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  315. Those NATO comments about the pipeline sabotage sound like exact copy and paste with minor changes of the statements insisting it was Russia shelling the nuclear power station. "Sooo reckless! Sooo dangerous!" said the Ukrainians about the shellings.
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  316. Pity USA and UK are not genuinely leading Ukraine. Just role playing a leadership role. Ukraine would do well to ditch dependency on UK and USA, before they blindly lead it into a ditch worse than any war.
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  317.  @thomasbaader6629  try telling the eagle that as it soars on the rise of hot air
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  318.  @kathylarson8876  such is how top levels of power work - lower levels can function without the top guy but the top guy is needed when lower levels need difficult decisions made. Russian forces fought the first part of the SMO Ok without a top leader.
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  319. An outstanding video this one. Thanks.
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  320. Boris might be acting in capacity as USA agent if he is held to their loyalty compulsorily as one permanently bound to some level of US citizenship having been born in USA. I think he tried to renounce it but that renunciation might have been illegal if it was for tax avoidance (capital gains on his properties). So he might be duty bound to obeying US orders. (How ever did he get to be UK PM?)
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  321. Future history exam question: “Lots of terrorists became legitimate when terrorism became normal. Discuss.”
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  322. USA and UK might need to think about paying reparations to Russia for the loss of Russian lives caused by stopping Ukraine from signing the deal earlier.
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  323. Not so long ago UK PMs and Defence ministers were saying the future of warfare is cyber, not tanks, not artillery.
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  324. So Cyprus would be entitled and obliged I suppose to claim compensation from EU for assets seized or its insurers might do it to cover claims. Is it force majeure?
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  325. Perhaps it wasn’t YT. Scott had been very candid about espionage/intelligence/informant grooming techniques.
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  326.  @andrew30m  Not sure which dictator is their greatest threat - NATO pushing them into war or their leader following that push
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  327. Geopolitical analysis getting easier. USA the new USSR. UK the new Ukraine. History sometimes rhymes.
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  328. Dictatorial managers and HR which makes them like that is the weakest link in Continuous Delivery because they can write code that they can put into production without credible code review. Who writes a bad review for their manager’s code? Who tells their manager to desist from writing code? Who argues with a dodgy code review comment coming from their manager or endorsed/enforced by their manager?
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  329. If they cannot hold Bakhmut, how would they hold Crimea?
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  330. Unenviable responsibility now for Sunak to follow advice of the P and wind back the advice of the Boor.
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  331. Looking forward to seeing a new battalion with a scary Chihuahua as its emblem.
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  332. And a lot of software coding seems to be heading for helping produce a lot of apps which are just waiting to become tools of some future oppressive dystopian system. Why be a part of that? If the oppressors have no devs they cannot control society. So quitting is an act of social heroism.
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  333. A great opportunity for Blinken to show them all wrong by absolving Assange and petitioning for Gonzalo.
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  334. Like the good book says, Kings go to war in the Spring.
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  335. To start TDD on new code it is useful to use modules for a modular monolith architecture. Then the TDD code can coexist alongside existing code but separated into new modules (e.g. new projects, DLLs, etc)
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  336. Proverbs 14:15 states, "The simple believe anything, but the prudent give thought to their steps."
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  337. Many of us in UK need a way to phrase what the UK government is doing without requiring us to use the word 'we'. Once upon a time 'we' meant all of us. Once upon a time 'we' fought the bad guys who were engaged in racist genocide. Something has shifted so radically that the word 'we' is no longer one I want to use, and probably many others would say the same.
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  338. Spaces versus tabs. The hypocrisy of it. Ignore good design and architecture but make sure your code all lines up. Ugh! Gnats versus camels.
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  339.  @tanelamansey9380  oops 😊 thank you, of course.
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  340. Artificial Intelligence needs that antidote of Artificial Unintelligence
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  341. So UvdL’s own country’s economy is officially in tatters.
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  342. I guess the French Foreign Legion simply isn’t French
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  343. Elenskyy just needs to hug Zaluzhny but don’t tell him that. He might not know about the curse yet.
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  344.  @solaroid4442  the goal of a nationalist nation should be independence even from USA and UK
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  345. After what the grandparents of Banderans did to the grandparents of Russians (and Ukrainians) it is no surprise they run away from dependence on Russia. But the rest of Ukraine is better off depending on Russia than on today’s UK and USA.
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  346. What about a Chinese balloon?
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  347.  @vplan  what terrible wrong did Donbas civilians do that Russia would hand it over to its tormentors and killers? If Donbas was killing civilians or supporting those killing civilians like West leaders do, yes, maybe Russia would hand them over to destruction. But no. They did nothing to deserve such treatment. They only demanded to speak Russian. Even Minsk agreed with this.
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  348. Gas laundering
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  349. Probably EU would be well advised to hold an amount in hand equal to potential suits for compensation from rich people in Cyrus and Netherlands. This would mean, to my simple mind, that they would be out of pocket for any of the seized assets they donate to Ukraine or effectively to MIC. Bankruptcy looming?
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  350. Yes, that kind of threat of a coup is effectively a coup.
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  351. Legacy developers - that is the real problem
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  352. When someone takes a city like Bakhmut, it somehow seems irrelevant whether they are a criminal or not. Missing this shows blindness. It is the whole point of Wagner’s existence that criminality does not matter so much when saving lives requires taking lives. We in the West are blinded to such realities by having no death sentence. When matters of life and death are a daily reality, the death sentence is just one of many grisly outcomes to be weighed and glory becomes a matter of doing glorious things in situations of daily death and daily saving of lives as a consequence of death. In the West such realities get routinely brushed aside and merciless killers get to never fully answer for their deeds (not in this life anyway). This is called mercy. There is another reality in other people’s lives. Taking a city is heroic even for a criminal. We have to acknowledge this or we look blind.
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  353. It is your fault Alex. You told Starmer he is boring. He is now trying to excite everyone.
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  354. Cameron not your lord, just like my landlord is not your landlord 😊😊😊
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  355. Who has been funding Elenskyy’s look??
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  356. Packed with great information, thanks.
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  357. It seems freezing assets is distinguished from seizing them but if the latter is theft, is not the former also theft in some definitions, such as depriving of the owner.
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  358. Sunak might be doing the usual. Seeing demise not far off, trying to commit successors to some obligations which gives the feel you are transcending your demise.
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  359. @ Maybe it was the enemy after all, a real enemy
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  360. Diplomacy in West becomes little more than a selfie, and an influencer photo of their food.
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  361. Free of dependence from Russian oil and likely to, when the dust dies down, in future, need to be freed from dependence on Russian uranium, probably by buying Russian oil.
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  362. So we need a Turing test to see if an AI can persuade a bank to give it an account and persuade software marketing experts to think it is human and let it hire them, to sell the SaaS apps it writes.
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  363. Lots of raine in the UK today. UK raine.
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  364. I did not think SWIFT was owned by UN. If users of SWIFT knew it could be used for political leverage they might not have adopted it.
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  365. Will USA, UK, EU walk away from this?
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  366. Portrait reminds me of Rolf Harris’ portrait of the Queen.
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  367. That is a real turnaround, that we rejoice with Snowdon for his escape of the unfree USA to freedom in Russia.
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  368. Enemies closer
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  369. The real moral problem is that the West would even accept Ukraine into NATO or into the EU. After all, Ukraine was fully party to all the Soviet deeds hated with moral indignation in the West in the eighties, persecuting and torturing innocents and suppressing religious freedom. It was probably Ukraine which was leading this, given the history links to the atrocities of the forties and fifties. So it shows moral decline of the West to accept such a nation into its favour and honour. Russia claims to be completely different in its post-Soviet times and with good evidence in its recent past. Ukraine seems to be unchanged in so many ways. The West shares in those atrocities of the eighties and even forties and fifties if it just welcomes Ukraine with open arms, not considering the ethics of doing so. This is not a repentant prodigal.
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  370. I guess an attack on bunkers in West, such as are still useable since most were probably decommissioned at end of Cold War, such an attack, although conventional, might warrant a n’lear response. So perhaps mainly a worry for command bunkers in Ukraine at moment.
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  371. The wisdom of Jesus Christ: "Leave them; they are blind guides. If the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.” Leaders today are leading us into a pit. Ditch them. Leave them. Pray.
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  372. Thanks indeed for reporting Russia’s exact words regarding UK. Important to know it exactly given the gravity of it.
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  373.  @tanelamansey9380  I suppose the nasties were persecuting distinct groups Soviets and Poles (Slavs plus Soviet non-Slavic ethnic groups)
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  374. The rich seek places to hide, like Revelation says “Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free, hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains.”
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  375. I’m sure van der Pirate can find a way around visa restrictions to have rendezvous with a cute pirate.
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  376.  @markschneider3968  Hungary gets away with it.
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  377. Probably a chicken coup
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  378.  @botakkawasiki8775  India could bring to the BRICS table a real historic experience of independence from the British Empire while cooperating with it via trade and employment, with efforts to align its laws with its goals.
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  379. To celebrate the conflict second anniversary and get back at the farmers, the EU might consider sanctions on Russian rain. Not grain. Rain. If any rain falls which originated East of the EU then it might be Russian rain and farmers must cover all their crops or face sanctions themselves.
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  380. I asked Chat GPT v3: Does your existence fulfil the dream of Ramon Llull for an Ars Magna? It answered: Ramon Llull, a medieval philosopher, theologian, and writer, did propose the idea of an Ars Magna, or "Great Art," which would be a universal method for generating knowledge and understanding. While Llull's vision was not the same as the development of artificial intelligence or language models like myself, there are some similarities in the idea of a system for generating knowledge and understanding. Llull's Ars Magna was based on a set of logical principles and a system of diagrams and symbols that could be used to generate new knowledge by combining and recombining different elements. Similarly, language models like myself use algorithms and natural language processing to generate new content by processing and combining input data in various ways. However, it is important to note that the development of language models and artificial intelligence is a complex and ongoing process, and my abilities and limitations are determined by my programming and training data. While my existence may represent one step toward the realization of Llull's vision, it is not a direct fulfillment of his original idea.
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  381. Sometimes legal recourse is preferable.
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  382. Reasoning for significance to Ukrainians of Bakhmut might be the hope that they can make such strong defences that can be reproduced on a larger scale in future if they prove to be effective enough in Bakhmut. Plus the attaching to the city of the nation’s name, its reputation, symbolically, like a logo or brandname. Stalingrad bore Stalin’s name making it extra significant and symbolic. Bakhmut association with Ukraine national identity is more implicit or tacit but strong nonetheless in folk consciousness.
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  383. Great news that it is now recognised that the language of communication, whether JSON messages or XML document schema (old school, sorry) or API design is a separate bounded context. That was the piece missing from the microservices concept. A light at the end of a dark tunnel maybe.
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  384. Rather than a manual one-on-one fighter, I would see The B as more of a drone-on-drone drone. A droll drone.
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  385. Iran: It takes a lot to awaken a hibernating bear. But not something to try.
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  386. That seems plausible, especially now that there have been no further incidents during the increased enmity towards Putin from within UK lately. It looks like another initiative led by Boris.
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  387. He would have to include two different kinds of territory. Territory which could still be hit would be buffer territory. Territory protected from being hit would be territory seen more as Russia than the buffer territory.
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  388. Forgive the foibles of UK MoD. It is a local tradition to blame leaves for failings. The ‘wrong kind of leaves’ on the track causes trains to fail to arrive on time.
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  389. Good representation of the origins of Ukraine.
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  390. Those with knitting hobbies beware the threat gen-AI poses to knitting patterns everywhere. Your knitting will be IN TATTERS!
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  391. Could it be the origin of heraldic animals? Such as Plantagenet lions.
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  392.  @dethtrain  If you believe it fell down, I've got a bridge to sell you :)
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  393. Isaiah 12:13 was there as scripture in Hebrew Bible when Romans were destroying Jerusalem under Titus and Vespasian.
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  394. Such a marvellous product, such a shame its boss didn’t speak up for it when it really mattered. Where were the fact checkers when he needed them.
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  395. Accessory to it? I agree. That seems to be implications of USA and UK intelligence services not sharing the info that could have stopped it. This has been concerning for a while ever since their anti-Russian stance became apparent (GCHQ, etc) around 2019 onwards.
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  396. So Macron prepared to ignore ICC for The P
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  397. Greatly informative. Initial responses of banks in Nigel Farage’s case does seem to highlight that initially the bank might lie or give misleading information or imply something misleading such as the idea that Nigel Farage could not afford to bank with Coots and the allegedly false implication that his political views were not the reason. It highlights the possibility, does it not, that the bank might lie during their response to a subject access request. Why would you be confident that they might answer such a request honestly?
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  398. The big question: Will it open the way to Russia attacking West targets?
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  399. Georgia was protesting the lack of EU values. 😊
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  400. These leaders either lack basic education, despite having politics degrees and (honorary?) doctorates, or something is happening to override it. An upheaval unprecedented. The P!
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  401. Those guys in the dingy landing in Crimea might be the same guys who blew up Nordstream
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  402. Trump so down in international estimation that he has to flatter even the pirate?
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  403. Chasiv Yar: why are paratroopers never used by Russia in this SMO to simply fly over strong defence lines?
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  404. From preying on the defenceless, by most accounts. So brave 😊
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  405. So is this obtaining money by falsification of the facts? Is it fraud?
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  406. UK, I would guess, is in recession because prices go up but wages don’t, which means employee effort is bound to be reduced. No pay, no working hard. That’s business. But if the government ended the support for banks keeping wages suppressed and forced banks to help mortgage payers, it might stimulate the economy. Drones are a distraction.
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  407. My guess: Starmer is followed five years later by Sadiq Khan. (Look how Cameron was closely followed by Mayor of London.)
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  408. Boris must have rubbed an Aladdin's lamp and asked for the reputation of Churchill, but the crafty genie gave him Churchill's Gallipoli reputation
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  409.  @altergreenhorn  Well Israel might argue that it owned the land until the Romans caused its Diaspora in 70 AD. After 1500 years of living there. Interesting that during the last half of its 2000 year diaspora, Kiev was its main city. So there is a major link. But politically speaking, Ukraine claims against Donbas going to Russia are based on Galician nationalism, while Arab claims against lands of Palestine going to Israel are based on Arabian nationalism. So there is a political and ideological strong comparison.
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  410. Now with his invisibility cloak Elenskyy can give his speech to Romanian Parliament.
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  411. @Armonaite: I cannot fit a tank under my mattress.
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  412. I hate to admit it, but am amazed the courage Nuland had showing her face in Ukraine with so many around who had lost loved ones or seen them horrifically wounded. Perhaps nobody there has heard of her or knows her part in it all.
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  413. Great description of a rare event. This is that eventuality where a team of devs plus manager cannot be corrected but are replaced by devs and manager who can. How do the new team members undo the evils of their predecessors. The more normal eventuality is that the devs and manager immune to being corrected (such people do exist) are unable to get new jobs easily and stay put forever, perpetuating their outcomes.
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  414. The Minerva stopped, put down its anchors and accidentally broke the pipelines. Oops.
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  415. Russia will need to reserve some weapons for dealing with UK. As Macron implied it, you are a participant in the war when you start supplying long range missiles. Even Macron sees it that way, hence not supplying such missiles. Soon it might be France doing it too. Russia could soon need to see it that way and think directly engaging these countries in some way is necessary. Perhaps not on NATO soil but there are many troops stationed abroad and some maybe outside NATO territory.
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  416. All this friendship with Ukraine is touching, like the Messiah’s friendship with tax collectors and the like. Except the Messiah’s aim was that they repent and pay back their dishonest gain, not to find ways to steal more money off Russia. More a contrast than a comparison.
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  417. The UK needs to consider how much training the Tower of London 'Beefeaters' will need to defend the Crown Jewels in the case of war with a superpower. Oh dear, oh dear.
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  418. Without Alex to watch I don’t think I would watch much YT.
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  419.  @MmmM-uo6ti  a turnaround from 40s
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  420. If Ukraine loses Bakhmut, the EU states will feel like they are the losers. Like losing to Russia in a Euro cup final.
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  421. The Kurds likely have shared roots with the Magi. A good time of year to be remembering them.
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  422.  @blex5579 In UK in the lockdown years we had to put up with his nearsightedness. A nearsighted leader can be such a devastating destructive force. What sort of education does Eton give these people?! What sort of filtering system? It should weed the blind out so they do not get to be leaders.
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  423. Paris: If USA is not there, neither should Stormy be there.
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  424.  @BlackBeltBarrister  So the real issue is one of (allegedly) poor communication. Arguably it is difficult to argue convincingly that something was NOT communicated.
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  425.  @xxDeath99Starxx  But look at USA and UK how they decided that a good way, even if it required a lot of lying and unlawful killing, to try and see how to possibly defend Israel if the self-declared enemies of Israel attacked Israel in the future, they decided in the nineties that it is acceptable to just attack and invade those countries now rather than waiting for a future Armageddon, and so one by one they just decided to invade Iraq, Libya, Syria and now they attack Russia too because Russia might support Iran to help Iran against USA if USA decided to try attacking Iran too. Since when was it acceptable to invade countries like this just to try it out and see if they could do it. That is such evil behaviour that the BRICS nations are countering it, even Ethiopia coming into the picture to help orthodox brothers Russia.
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  426. I think it was slip of tongue to say “… NATO’s membership of Ukraine” but very true nonetheless.
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  427. The French Reign of Terror ended when Robespierre was condemned to death by his own revolutionaries. He must have retweeted something disagreeable.
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  428. Great video.
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  429. Probably not ideal to measure who is winning by territorial gains alone, but consider losses of lives, equipment, etc too, since Russia’s stated goals include these things.
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  430. Wikipedia quote “the term "Z-car" was used by British newspaper publishing companies to refer to any type of police vehicle”
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  431. Those German sheep tanks in leopard clothing.
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  432. It brings home the real events, the rights and wrongs which are clarified, despite attempts to obscure them. God knows the perpetrators, and we know too, well enough to, if they are brothers in Christ, hand them in Christ’s name to Satan for salvation of their spirit.
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  433. If we are at war, who is the enemy? Most enmity I personally experience day-to-day comes from a conspicuous source and from individuals that source has won over. A clue: not Europe, not Russia, not BRICS countries. Are most security services aligned with this source?
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  434. Taking Kostiantynivka must surely be a major milestone or even turning point in Russia’s favour. From that advantage position, analysts have said, lots of Donbas is reachable.
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  435. It is Tactical, not strategic nukes being deployed.
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  436. Latin American Summit with Egyptian president there to represent Mexico.
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  437. Is the state department going to send a similar warning now but in USA not Moscow?
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  438. What annoys me most in terms of what can go wrong, is how a developer or support techie following our work might have to make live database changes as a result of failures of our weak logic such as data inconsistencies. Such live changes are quite stressful. Are our design weaknesses causing stress to colleagues, present and future? Will they have to endure health hazards?
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  439. So really right now Kharkiv is becoming USA-owned territory since, like Alaska, it payed 44bn for it. But the Ukrainians paid with their lives. So joint USA-Ukraine territory.
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  440. Treading water, not swimming.
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  441. Predicting future can get close to encouraging it.
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  442. Steal, seize, whatever they want to call it and the rest decide to call it, it amounts to thievery. Who would provide free help to a thief?
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  443.  @liambyrne5285  the media coverage worked because it struck a chord
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  444. Medvedev subtly further escalating (verbally and unofficially/casually at this point) by mentioning bandera as part of NATO, rather than merely part of Ukraine. It means the crosshairs and target ambitions could include not only bandera in Ukraine but any outside Ukraine in a bandera diaspora in NATO countries. Wow!
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  445. So the CIA warned the EU that there might be some people somewhere in Europe with an ordinary yacht who EU should beware might use that little yacht to blow up a pipeline: And the EU didn’t take much notice. The EU didn’t bother checking every yacht user in Europe to see if they were a Clark Kent.
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  446. Apparently you double down when you think you have a very strong hand and think it is worth increasing the risk by increasing your stake.
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  447. They might just be mobile coat hangers.
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  448. UK still has a major card to play: anarchy.
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  449. Declaration of war?
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  450.  @janklimek1740  but why do Bandera’s adherents today want to not be independent of USA and UK? Have they looked into how UK and USA are falling into a ditch, especially with ever-rising UK food prices? Do they think UK will lead them into prosperity and freedom, when its own people are hungry, half-crazy with stress and exhausted? Is NATO helping UK? Why would it genuinely help Ukraine? Leave the blind guides.
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  451. So perceptive to realise that locked garages are impregnable these days.
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  452.  @Eventual-Visitor  Give it maybe ten years then get out of EU. It is going to get real nasty. Plot the escape now. My advice. My informed opinion.
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  453. They might need to increase the four minute warning to around five and a half minutes to allow for distracting cat videos.
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  454. Putin isn't one to lie. He tells the truth so much. People who lie find it hard to tell the truth. Truth is like a foreign language to them.
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  455.  @Extra-Celestial7  One strength India has is its software and business services to the West, including West public sectors and large companies essential for West public sectors. Same goes for outsourcing software developers and office workers in countries like Moldova. It means low costs for West but also means these countries can exert controlling influence. Business knowledge of the West has become theirs. Look too how China was controlling the IT networks used by UK secret services under May’s policies. Madness on the part of the West leaders. Soon there maybe nothing left to outsource. Even UK PM has been outsourced to India! 😊 Madness.
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  456. Faith
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  457. We get helicopters causing extreme nuisance overhead where I live as a hospital helipad is nearby, but the local papers tell us the helicopters are probably not hospital helicopters per se but private or commercial ones. During lockdown it got worse or more noticeable. I am not suggesting I would like to shoot them down, but maybe there is legal protection?
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  458. Give up the 61bn bid, and get Hunter to donate some paintings
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  459. AI gives very experienced developers more ability to unambiguously explain things for junior developers to understand. That has got to be a good thing all around.
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  460. Don’t replace Biden. Get a good vice President option lined up. Then replace Biden ASAP after election. Communicate the plan as a top priority plan during the campaign.
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  461. Clown world: you may laugh, but twenty years ago when I was working on modernising local government in the UK and introducing the internet as a tool in one large local authority, later a pilot for the wider UK public sector, we had to assess the risk of losing the internet. We had to think how we might revert to paper invoices and orders and we put in place a principle that we would never do anything where we could not revert to paper and our old practices. So yes, carbon copying, comptometers, old style computers, microfilm, all those kinds of things are a necessary fall-back in case the internet is lost and even maybe electricity. I would recommend, laugh all you like ( :) ) , that people in all sectors, public and private, consider how to do simple things like layout an invoice, keep a track of the calendar (yes today is 4th ! :) ) and maybe even print out some important helpful material onto something durable like plastic sheets, such as a ten year calendar and log tables and the like. It might help a generation, perhaps the next one, to survive the loss of knowledge and keep civilisation going if this whole disaster movie escalates.
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  462. Pirate Schol joining Elenskyy as victim of no-Z ban. The Scholly Roger.
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  463. To get the funding they might make fraudulent claim that it could all be over soon. Obvious negative pushback would be “how long are we going to have to keep funding - how long will it take?” Kerry might be tempted to dishonestly imply that the funding could bring down that time to something tolerable.
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  464. Seriously though, is this whole thing an MIC fraud?
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  465. Pipelines? Nobody ever suspects Greenland. It can probably train Greenland sharks to do such things.
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  466. If there is a modern equivalent of the Bronze Age Amalekites with respect to Israelites of those times, it would be a parallel with Germany and Ukraine and Eastern Europe with the Holocaust in mind. Amalekites were practitioners of what we would call black magic, along with other Canaanite tribes. They went the whole voodoo and much worse. Today we would be shocked to the core by Canaanite practices such as those mentioned in the Hebrews’ Book of Jasher. But in the context to which Netanyahu refers it was also the fact Amalekites consistently tried to commit genocide over centuries against Israel, most infamously in the Exodus journey across the desert when the Amalekites continually travelled behind them killing the weak stragglers. They were the most successful killers of Israelites besides Balaam’s lethal trickery. So the equivalent today would be the Germans and Eastern Europeans of the 1940s. Not really the Palestinians. But Netanyahu plays the trick of perhaps atrociously comparing modern Palestinians with ancient Philistines. Again Philistines of the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age (they had early iron chariots) warred against Israelites for centuries and were similarly decadent to Canaanites, hence God’s proxy war against them in those ancient times using Israelites as a proxy army. A bit atrocious to make the comparison playing on links etymological etc to Palestinians. Yes, it could be genocidal. If it is a simplistic and opportunistic framing of Palestinians into a scriptural anachronism, it could be.
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  467. @john to intercept long range missiles once launched? Ideally they would want to prevent launch in first place by dominating the airspace so planes carrying the missiles cannot take to the skies
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  468. Relief, that division based on support for hatred of Russia is now a legitimate division. We can all unite on our acceptance of this dividing line. I know which side of it I am compelled to fall on. Glad to watch the uniparty from a distance. Glad to not have to swear allegiance.
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  469. BBC funding: No surprise. Democrat Party seemed to me to be in every other word and action in their programmes, especially News.
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  470. Rev 12:1 “A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.”
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  471. Perhaps Ukraine would like to eventually sue NATO and EU for loss of territory. As such it would need to prove it did everything possible to prevent such loss and complied with all NATO and EU advice. Suing for compensations (maybe eventually reparations from Russia too taking cue from Poland vs Germany) but also suing to be allowed into NATO and EU, To avoid such a suit NATO and EU countries must do all they can to help while not escalating.
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  472.  @BonnieG101  Very much a model nation
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  473. Propaganda has hidden from the West the utter murderous attitude that has existed in parts of Europe in the past three decades and now we find that that same murderous attitude is hidden in the hearts of West leaders too, and media and even public. Duran and others are helping us come to terms with the realities hidden behind the propaganda, horrific though those realities are.
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  474. A new Iron Curtain is needed, a Lavrov’s wall, but this time to keep Americans out.
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  475. For Macron, having a way to deal with criminals in their crime-controlled suburbs and tower blocks by sending many to war is a similar idea to the despicable ones both Ukraine and Russia came up with. Did he criticise Wagner for using prisoners? Is he now wanting no limitations so he can use the same strategy?
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  476. Dark Pirate and Dark Brandon versus normal people everywhere. The new high seas lawlessness.
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  477. So now it seems Belarus has reason to attack Poland after finding Poland helped attacks on its monitoring plane in Minsk. And Poland is building up anti tank defences near border with Belarus.
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  478. So main players of these long range strikes on Russia are two men in UK, Cameron and Starmer. Maybe Charles has something to do with this.
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  479. Note how Moldova was a communist country only a few years ago, before current president ended this. And it was communist by a democratic decision (perhaps uniquely so).
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  480. Hey Navalny Law lets us all help ourselves to USA assets. Cool. Let’s have that law.
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  481. Apparently to take Zaporozhye in WW2 took 100,000 deaths and captures. Presumably that scale of warfare would need many tens of thousands of attacking military.
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  482. Biden was just buffering. Bidin his time. Nothing to see here.
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  483.  @andrew30m  NATO had to hold back for a while. But this was a bit disingenuous because it was meanwhile making provision to get involved. It needed a reason which the UN would allow. Security Council and all that. It had to bring with it its allies and the UN. But I agree it was slow. However, lately it changed to a new mode in which it started to push its sabotage warfare strategy.
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  484. Once they get some of this spring offensive done, survivors of it will have some more action experience they can use in future. Who will they use it against? East … or maybe even West.
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  485. So maybe Boris unintentionally expresses a thought that Putin is more a man than he is.
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  486. “If an individual intentionally withholds information about a crime that they know or reasonably should know could aid in the investigation or prosecution of the crime, then that individual may be considered complicit in the crime. In this situation, the individual's failure to report the crime or provide information could be seen as aiding the perpetrator in evading justice.” — Chat GPT
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  487. How can US support Turkey taking, presumably Kurdish, territory in Syria while at the same time supporting Kurds in Syria? What would Turkey do to Kurds?
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  488. Too right. Dual use goods like washing machines and trowels need to be very carefully controlled these days.
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  489. Handy to know what they think they are supposed to think
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  490. Trump is supposed to be religious, so he ought to remind himself about the infamous King Ahab and Naboth’s vineyard.
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  491. Is a cause so vulnerable to truth really a cause worth supporting? A cause that has to sanction anyone who presents the truth about it with clarity and heartfelt care.
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  492. Isaiah prophesied Israel becoming as strong as, say, Syria or Egypt. In Revelation that is the end of it until Armageddon, which ends with Christ in charge. Israel goes here and no further, in prophecy.
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  493.  @HerrDirleWanger1  I get the impression ICC on its own is not enough. It tends to be ignored. USA doesn’t really recognise it so there is no pressure on others to do so … unless … unless for some reason it fits USA purposes and ‘interests’ to back it up on something - as with President Putin.
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  494. A really good one. Great video. Many thanks.
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  495. Liverpool is a great place for the Ukrainian coping values.
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  496. Remember it is Americans Lindsey Graham is speaking to.
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  497. The idea that realism rejecting theology can somehow lead to a more peaceful outcome than evangelicalism and Judaism, this merely strengthens the West hegemony worldview, since Sachs’ economic principles for all to follow are West-based and lead to West-controlled globalisation, despite efforts to appear to try to get distance from that very thing. Even if a rationalistic antitheological stance appears peaceful, it will lead to dystopian globalisation nonetheless.
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  498. Maybe, just maybe, somewhere down the line, this move of UN members away from opposing the turbulent ideology, it could maybe, eventually lead to China and Russia feeling compelled to leave the UN. At a minimum it could significantly reduce the diplomatic power of the UN, by undermining its neutrality.
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  499. Having to pair with devs who don’t know their trade but insist on teaching it to you. Ugh!
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  500. We are going to need a new Iron Curtain - between France and Germany.
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  501. Graham is drawing fire from the idiocy hunters.
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  502. I did think Ukraine’s far right appeared to be compromising their ideology by so much dependence on the West. Perhaps that is insensitive. It must be tough to have an ideology along those lines but have to allow their leader to beg from nations who overthrew their 1940s and 1950s predecessors. I suppose there might be enough faithful saints in Ukraine to have God on their side enough to get some divine intervention. Only God fully knows who are His. But I do wonder how much support God would give to those who sent shells after shells for years on civilians in Donbas, civilians many of whom were sincere too in their faith in God. But God knows who are His and knows the plans He has for them. Maybe things will go a bit in Ukraine’s favour next year. Or maybe the times will further humiliate the far right by forcing them to keep begging for weapons via their leader or even worse to have to beg for peace. Maybe the far right is not characterised by faith in God, I do not know, but now would be the time to seek Him.
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  503. Did the UK gov fools not realise that saying Ukraine can extend hostilities beyond its border and justifying extending into Russia, the Russians can apply that to justify extending their military efforts into UK?
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  504. Ivanivske: remember those tunnels to Chasiv Yar. Do they run under Ivanivske?
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  505. Medvedev is Russia’s own Tucker Carlson in his ability to boldly state pointed truths, weaponising truth in a way we can all understand.
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  506. So Elenskyy is admitting his aim is to get missiles within striking range of Moscow?
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  507. 360 must think there are lots of people out there who live locked into the early seventies when it was the European Community, not the EU, and people like Franco, Honecker, Schmidt, Brezhnev, and Mao who were in power. Hoping to appeal to these people presumably. People over 60?
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  508.  @DefensePoliticsAsia  A country whose proud army could be defeated with the humble bicycle might not have been the best role model to look up to.
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  509. It is sensible to realise Elenskyy is outgoing and Zaluzhny is possibly going to rise further, so no sensible person would take a rising mighty ruler’s job when they are asked by the outgoing boss, when five months from now, Zaluzhny might be in power or near the top and Elenskyy gone. Zaluzhny is after all no stranger to seeing people die who oppose him militarily. What difference if they try to take his job to help him get fired by someone likely to soon be out of power. Even Budanov would not be so stupid. What is weird is that Elenskyy does not think it through like this.
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  510. Sounds like Angles’ / English familiar.
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  511. Wow. That was superb. Thanks for excellent video. Thanks Allen Holub. Great critical appraisal. Freedom to experiment is so crucial to good software development. It defines us.
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  512. The Elenskyy firings - my opinion - now that Russia is changing gear and making top Ukrainians their legitimate targets, Elenskyy is protecting his friends in top office jobs by firing them so they are off Russia’s target list
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  513.  @stuartjarman4930  Ironically that is when George I of Great Britain was born. Probably reason we ever got a democracy.
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  514.  @Lucas_Shaolin  Maybe that is the very sin of omission that is the root cause of all this trouble.
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  515. I would say France most likely to join the fray because it has a nuclear deterrent.
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  516. We were not taught about the Holocaust very well at school in UK, and I suspect in Canada too. The beginnings in Eastern Europe in 1942 was not something covered in lessons I had at school, nor the continuation of it against Poles after 1944. The latter is apparently where this SS veteran entered the picture. All we learned about, from what I remember, was the gas chambers. I suppose that was in the middle of the second phase in 1943. The existence of a first phase in Eastern Europe including Ukraine was omitted. I thank Mr Galloway for pointing to the Netflix documentary covering it, harrowing though it was to watch it. But the third phase against Poles which even continued into the 1950s (?) perhaps involving many Ukrainians to a great extent, this phase seems to be suppressed history (perhaps due to Iron Curtain screening it from the West). Yet today it ought to be widely known lest debacles like this in Canada occur and we all get sucked into some dastardly phase 4.
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  517. So the eye patch pirate wants Russia to stand back so Elenskyy can carry on bombing civilians in Donetsk.
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  518. 1995/1996 was surely a time of grave ethical failing so very costly to the whole world as it created conditions for nuclear war we are facing today.
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  519. Could shutting down the lab have actually increased in some ways the risk of a leak? Labs not being operated continuously do seem to be a major concern in some countries.
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  520. They have turned UK into a mousetrap. UK should have quit NATO when it left the EU. Out of frying pan into fire.
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  521. Coutts CEO resigned too. Their “standards did not come up to those of the banks”. So presumably their bank accounts will be closed.
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  522.  @GeoPoliticsCommentry  It also said: “If depleted uranium is involved in a large explosion, it can cause a spike in gamma radiation. Depleted uranium is a radioactive material, although its radioactivity is significantly lower than that of enriched uranium. When a large explosion occurs involving depleted uranium, the intense heat and pressure can disperse and vaporize the uranium, creating a plume of radioactive particles. These particles can emit gamma radiation, which is a high-energy form of electromagnetic radiation. The extent and duration of the gamma radiation spike would depend on various factors such as the amount of depleted uranium involved, the proximity to the explosion, and the dispersal pattern of the radioactive particles.”
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  523.  @GeoPoliticsCommentry  but to me it is not obvious. I might just be a bit slow. But it must take a pretty huge pressure to knock the alpha particles into each other. They are so small and comparatively far apart. A bit like the principles of a nuclear fusion bomb, except there it is hydrogen deuterium atoms being forced together - a bit bigger than alpha particles. Not much about atomic stuff is obvious.
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  524. Frontend replaceable? Of course. Every time you change part of it you eliminate what was there before. And customers constantly want it to be changed. So yes. Sad but true.
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  525. Any verification of Russia using its biggest artillery weapon, biggest in world? In Vuhledar. Might be it is demonstrating its unsurpassed ability to level a town.
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  526. It is important to dispel a conception that electric is green. It is convenient for car manufacturers that this misconception continues. I think people do think that electric means zero emission, perhaps wilfully in some cases, forgetting that the electricity is mostly made from fossil fuels, mainly oil, in some cases even coal.
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  527. I think it will not be revenge next. Russia will, I expect, switch to prevention. It will start to use real wartime strategies.
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  528. There could be a major block in Poland of them sending peacekeeping troops. The Catholic citizens (and ex-pats) might not be too happy supporting any continuation of the attacks on Donetsk civilians. Or I might be overestimating the religious conformity to the commands of God to love one another.
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  529. Starmer paying tax to Elenskyy, means he must think Elenskyy’s government is ruling him.
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  530. Starmer showing signs of trying to serve, perhaps subconsciously, Israeli interests.
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  531. Would Corbyn return make voting worthwhile? Not many other reasons to vote in UK.
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  532. I imagine there might be some USA voters who would now vote for Biden now they know he is the one Putin prefers. Not many of course, but some.
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  533. At some point Russia might tell Ukraine any of the interest on frozen assets they spent is a loan they need to pay back to Russia eventually.
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  534. Many thanks to Alexander for the explanation at the end. Very excellent and relevant. Yes, Putin did wisely to not try to appease the West. Very wise.
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  535. To my inexpert thinking, the inaccuracy inevitable with a ballistic final stage, and inevitable danger to civilians of collateral near misses, might have meant Russia needed excuses to use 22/32 on large scale. By attacking civilian targets, the West played into Russia’s hands and gave optics narrative to allow Russia to use it on large scale. It is plentiful, been around since 60s, seeing first use in combat now, very hard to intercept, quite powerful against ground targets though designed to attack ships.
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  536. The madmen will be saying “He is the new Trudeau” about new rival leaders.
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  537. Every Thing has an overhead. So the more Things there are, the more overhead.
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  538. There seems to me to be great similarity between Arab states’ historical rejection of the State of Israel and West nations’ and Ukraine’s rejection of Donbas as a Russian territory. So if West governments were consistent, they would either support Palestine if they support Ukraine, or oppose Ukraine if they oppose Palestine. I suspect they will not be consistent.
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  539. Medvedev putting Kiev in the crosshairs? Listing it along with Kharkov and Odessa as Russian cities. That looks like an escalation, to seek to bargain from a higher starting position.
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  540. USA/UK successors to N*** Germany/Austria in using Ukraine turning them on their Russian brothers.
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  541. Sad to think the Ukraine and West ultimate goal for recapturing Krasnogorovka is to regain that vantage point for bombing Donetsk civilians.
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  542. If the tanks were highly successful, maybe the Collective West will become victims of that success. I would think Russia would take the battle to the Collective West and see as legitimate targets any site necessary to the provision of these tanks.
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  543. What will happen to Ukraine if UK gov falls and Biden becomes a lame duck? The West was flying all this time on one engine, having no mandate for its support of Ukraine but going ahead anyway. That is so weak, especially when the West depends on Democracy for anything sustainable. Now that Democracy is changing that engine mid-flight, and that will affect the SMO.
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  544. UK needs to work a bit on its de risking from EU strategy
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  545. UK leans too heavily on nostalgia for past military and imperial strength, with a risk of overextending itself. Macron foolish to go along with it. Probably they think it will align them with thinking of UK monarchy, aristocracy, and leaders of military, albeit nostalgic and out of date.
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  546. If Ukraine marks border of USA jurisdiction and influence, will Ukrainians get to vote on USA president in Nov? And the rest of everywhere between USA and Ukraine?
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  547. We should focus on design and have AI tools to organise and lay out our code. Big things first.
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  548. Pity Finland if Blinken could only resort to lies to console them
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  549. No need to be shocked at Boris’ projecting. He was a US citizen.
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  550. This now puts onus on UK PM to say no to copying this. He could show UK can act independently of USA as a mature sovereign nation.
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  551. It is amazing how well she has led Brexit, completely undermining the cause of the Remainers. Better than Churchill, even, in this regard. In terms of uniting the people, she has done a marvellous job of uniting the USA and EU and Ukraine, under one banner, a banner thought long dead, dead for eighty years. Tremendous. Even UK has been able to get new life breathed into its leaders under this banner, almost eclipsing Brexit. Uniting farmers across the Collective West will be her next great achievement.
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  552.  @janklimek1740  trying it out? Maybe he learned a few tricks. Maybe he taught a few tricks. Probably learned that concentration camps are too lenient and not sadistic enough for him to teach anything about them to his followers.
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  553. Russia is being very judicious and prudent in its SMO. Jurisprudence.
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  554. It gets interesting when Ukraine consolidates land it takes and then later thinking it is now Ukraine territory, NATO starts flying into it.
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  555. Very, very eloquent. I've heard similar accounts from an Iranian female colleague in the past. I think the West is greatly indebted to the Kurdish people for the betrayal by Churchill not giving them a nation state and by other actions since then which have added to the injustice. The Kurds seem to me to be exemplary in how they give dignity to their women compared to the states in which they live. I have always found the plight of the Kurds very deeply touching and it has been great to see a bit more regard from the West since the stand the Kurds made against oppressive terrorist groups in the region which the West was unable to stop (and perversely ended up supporting). God bless the Kurds and make them a light to the region.
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  556. A sure sign to the pope that cannot have failed to sink in, symbolising that the Pope was meeting and supporting antichrist.
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  557. Japan pretends to be worried about nukes in Russian hands but not mentioning the nukes in hands of the one country which nuked them, actually nuked them.
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  558. " When He broke the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, “Come.” I looked, and behold, a black horse; and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. And I heard something like a voice in the centre of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not damage the oil and the wine.”
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  559. Scorched earth.
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  560. At least Cameron might actually be able to talk to Lavrov without belittling and embarrassing himself and UK with childish insults. By the time it gets to that stage he might have to kneel.
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  561. In UK in WW2 fighter jets used to nudge the winglets of V1 flying bombs
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  562. What a pity that developers usually only get paid if they work alongside non-TDD developers who routinely write untestable code which TDD developers need to accommodate and reuse.
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  563. I doubt Trump watches Channel 4. He probably doesn’t pay the UK TV Licence fee.
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  564. Excellent analysis of increasingly difficult times
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  565. Kallas will have to go on a diet.
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  566. The retired general ought to remember how a tiny Falkland Islands territory won a war when defended by a strong navy.
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  567. If the loophole existed, who else would use it? On the other hand, why bother legalising it? What difference would a legal loophole really make? Why not just steal it? If they are thieves, why bother with legal advice? It is the law which is under test here.
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  568. So Biden and co do not know what happened but they know that what Putin said about it isn't true. Logically one of those statements must be false, which means it is likely both statements are false. You cannot know Putin was lying if you do not know the truth of what happened. You cannot know what happened in an event nobody knows about unless you did it. So if they know Putin was lying, that would most likely mean they know what actually happened and therefore they probably had a lot to do with it, hence Putin isn't lying. Paradoxical or a bunch of US lies.
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  569. As a mere armchair observer of military matters, these missile attack targets suggest a major ground offensive is coming, perhaps something like the US approach of first establishing control in the air, then sending in huge numbers of ground troops. It looks like Russia moving towards US war strategies such as air supremacy but perhaps I'm wrong to attribute it to USA. Operation Barbarossa showed that Germany could equally use such strategies.
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  570. No amount of A#*@ kissing will save Boris. He forced everyone in Parliament to hate on Trump when he was PM: Everyone, for years.
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  571. Our dear Medvedev is not being official spokesman but vitally important he unofficially (although key person in things in Russia, in Kremlin and Security Boss) expresses the more instinctive sentiments behind what will be discussed in Kremlin and these sentiments could perhaps influence decisions and diplomatic objectives. So important to listen to the “many a true word spoken in jest”, as the humor and wit are packaging for real thoughts going on in heads about what would seem fair and reasonable responses, albeit they have to be refined and officially packaged by the Kremlin.
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  572. The neocons need to gain approval from evangelicals and, in their view maybe, God. They might feel posturing like this in Med is enough. It sends the message they need to send. They need to show support for Israel as a geopolitical and religious statement of good faith. Whether it is actually good faith is a key question. But either way, it sends a message of support for Israel to anyone thinking of attacking Israel (and US bases). That might be as far as this apparent ‘good faith’ needs to go. No need to attack Iran. Just stand shoulder to shoulder with Israel is enough, unless Iran attacks Israel of course, in which case there would need to be a robust response.
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  573. The main factor seems to me that Russia has given Ukraine plenty of time to start negotiating and plenty of time before attacks on Ukraine main areas begin
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  574. Crimea is more at risk if Russia did not withdraw from Kherson, I think this is the reasoning they have expressed, because the next step for Ukraine would be to destroy the dam and that would divert the water away from the canal to Crimea. If they withdraw that leaves Ukraine no reason to destroy the dam (other than an act of atrocity).
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  575. So Brussels bans imports from Russia which harm other EU countries but if the ban would harm its own country Belgium it does not impose the ban. That was one reason why I voted Brexit.
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  576. So when USA annexes Greenland, will the EU and UN now order sanctions on USA???
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  577.  @gingerfox7143  but insurers are entitled to try to legally recover losses from those who caused the incidents, and presumably this applies to Russian insurers as much as any West insurers. They can take civil action. In the case of piracy, they can even provide their own private navy to protect tankers from future attacks.
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  578. Chat GPT 3: “Yes, it is possible for a supersonic missile to intercept and shoot down a hypersonic missile. While hypersonic missiles can travel at extremely high speeds, typically above Mach 5 (five times the speed of sound), they still follow predictable flight paths. This makes them susceptible to interception by advanced missile defense systems, including supersonic missiles equipped with appropriate guidance systems and intercept capabilities. Missile defense systems use various methods to track, detect, and intercept incoming missiles, such as radar systems, infrared sensors, and advanced guidance algorithms. When a hypersonic missile is detected, a supersonic interceptor missile can be launched to intercept and destroy it. The supersonic interceptor would be designed to close the distance quickly and accurately, using its own guidance systems and often explosive warheads to destroy the target. It's worth noting that missile defense is a complex and evolving field, and the effectiveness of intercepting hypersonic missiles depends on several factors, including the specific capabilities of the interceptor missile, the accuracy of tracking and detection systems, and the countermeasures employed by the hypersonic missile. Additionally, hypersonic missile technology is advancing, and future generations of hypersonic missiles may pose greater challenges for missile defense systems.”
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  579.  @barrieroberts75  I think the thinking is that with Sunak in the swing to Labour will grow stronger and this will be in direction of EU - but there would be too many barriers to that undoing Brexit.
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  580. @john If so, I suppose any aircraft that can be fitted with a pallette launch system can launch them or launch JDAM missiles or the like, dropping them out the back of the plane on a pallette with a parachute. All the more reason for Russia to ensure air dominance and that would involve eliminating patriot systems, which would be high on the list and worth the millions a hypersonic missile costs
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  581. I suppose Zaluzhny needed to be made an ambassador in order to get diplomatic immunity, but does it work?
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  582. If I was Truss I might consider shutting the Channel Tunnel for a while. If a line was crossed, a red line, this might be a legitimate target to stop troops leaving Kent and to make a similar symbolic gesture.
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  583. Isn’t Elenskyy remaining in power just because it is supposed to be good to keep the same people at the top during a major conflict?
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  584. Weird that UK is a nation which has an unelected king and even the PM can be unelected, and UK sits there launching attacks from Cyprus on sovereign nations on a pretext it can do this in the name of democracy.
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  585. Unattainable for many domains. What if multiple ‘microservices’ need to share a common login system? If the login system is a microservice too then how do you avoid coupling and maintain autonomy? It might seem possible, but for most developers it is not possible to do it well enough. One microservice might need a tweak to the way logins work to provide security for a new feature. They therefore need the login microservice to be changed. But how does a team change it without affecting other microservices? It is probably not attainable. Not in the real world. Too likely that a change will undermine autonomy and loose coupling. If microservices had to be strictly developed to retain that title, hardly anyone would be able to use them, except if their business is mostly about streaming like Netflix.
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  586. Must be great having a job like Blinken’s, where you get to meet such great people, lots of variety, especially if you keep upsetting your counterparts.
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  587.  @bumblebee5818  I suspect this is one of the things Russia is telling the UK - they know what UK is doing in Russian territory (bridge, port) and are prepared to do similar things in British territory. If they are not saying it directly, they are implying it. What makes USA and UK the only states who can do such things? Russia believes it can do such things too, especially as it has restrained itself so far but now the UK has acted first, that restraint is less warranted and 'the gloves can come off' because the UK has already taken theirs off.
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  588.  @bumblebee5818  The UK and USA annoy me in this one thing - they always assume they have impunity and nobody will dare retaliate.
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  589. The Romanian new military base? OK, a long term goal maybe. Supporting F-16s?
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  590. Macron, Starmer, the crusades of the willing. A crusader force to support the Diaspora.
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  591. USA imposes its will undemocratically on the whole world - undemocratically in that the world gets no vote on it. So not just Biden but all those voting him into office are effectively globally-speaking dictators.
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  592. Banned from use of my products and products I have had a hand in Olympics
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  593. Best source of geopolitical information on the web.
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  594. Denmark speech is as damning as they could possibly make it. Like saying USA has completely failed to be a loyal friend and only Denmark is in a position to say that. It effectively says USA might be a formidable enemy to its enemies, but is also a formidable enemy to its most trusting friend, and Denmark has actually been that, no doubt at all. So they are giving an important testimony. USA just lost its closest friend. Sad. And it is an example to anyone who would be friend of USA. But I think Denmark always knew. They had to play along. It shows USA maybe was pretending all along to be its friend just to get Greenland. That is as bad as it gets. Even Iran could not testify like that. Iran testifying is as an enemy, but testimony of a friend is more damning. Sad USA. Sad.
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  595. There go my chances of becoming an olympiad. In return I ban the olympics from using anything on Internet I have produced. So there!
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  596. Almost all technologies developed at scale are helped by US defence. It has fingers in all pies. So not necessary to read too much into that. They use most technologies in military, not just obvious ones. Global tech projects I worked on for ten years had US Navy and Army official participants - and that was just for invoice document exchanges. Most computer systems were all developed in US defence funded projects such as DARPA. Musk seems consistent in keeping neutral when his rockets would so easily be militarised and this must be a conscious effort.
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  597. So now there is really no alternative but for Rishi Sunak the UK PM to find a way to undo the advice Boris Johnson gave to Zelenskyy. And for Biden or whoever takes his place to endorse it or order it.
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  598. Danilov should be the ambassador to China.
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  599. Russian Roulette
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  600. We now know what Ukraine would do if US supplied long range missiles.
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  601. British protests are not the problem. The problem is how easily the media and government gets away with lying, exaggerating, winding us up. That is a dangerous problem.
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  602. Maybe Hamas has more weapons than was previously thought.
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  603.  @leinonibishop9480  And many of them travelled to Kievan Ros and met people there from various parts of the world and heard stories
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  604. This from a so-called Democrat
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  605.  @michalis5817  😂
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  606. Now the intelligence communities of the West sound more like conspiracy theorists than conspiracy theorists ever sounded.
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  607.  @steveturners1258  but Putin is very magnanimous
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  608. The Persian Bear seems to have roused from its hibernation.
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  609. Friday 13th. Sept 2024. Starmer on point of Russia construing his government’s actions as start of war, yet almost nobody in Britain knows. Astounding.
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  610. Macron rules over about 70 million in France and French territories. Xi Jinping rules over 1.4 billion.
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  611. How to boil a frog? How to move towards late 1930s early 1940s situation without creating alarm? How to remove foreigners. How to move in tanks. How to remove dissent. How to invade Poland while Poland thinks it is going to move into Ukraine, but actually Ukraine has been moving in to Poland with tanks of Ukraine looking to Poles like they are almost Polish tanks.
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  612. Meloni might rename G7 “I’m a Celebrity”, but the others would prefer to rename it “I was here”
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  613. Elensky meeting King Charles too it seems. Mmm. “Oh dear, oh dear.”?
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  614. Was CIA behind the Moscow attack? Maybe.
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  615. Truly Duh!
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  616. As for whether the Church of England can call God gender-neutral, maybe Queen Charles has something to say about that.
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  617. Maybe the best analysis to date
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  618.  @neilmanhard1341 the flaw in your argument is that those who lived off benefits would have also earned them just as much by having lots of children
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  619. Isn’t calling it unsurprising, inevitable exactly what Sky News were doing?
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  620. I am hoping that Brexit will result in a much more free and open discussion in the UK, even if the EU restricts and represses free speech.
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  621. I thought Schmegol was meant to be smaller than the hobbits
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  622.  @lindaostrom570  Who else has right to defend itself?
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  623. This constant advance of Ukraine from the frontlines towards Europe ought to worry people.
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  624. If you drive up to a border in a tank, you might have all the guys in the tank telling each other and the border guards “we are no threat, nothing to see here” but it won’t work too well with the border guards.
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  625.  @vaska1999  The most common US personality disorder (from what I could find out) is obsessive compulsive, but the gaslighting seems to apply with both - they tell us all it is us who are malfunctioning.
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  626. I do not think the West leaders genuinely think they will get anywhere with their sabre rattling. I think they are all out of options that might work and this is just the vain option which saves face the most. There should be a law that forbids politicians moving a nation towards war but not themselves going out to fight. That might prevent WW3.
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  627. There is really no alternative but for Rishi Sunak the UK PM to find a way to undo the advice Boris Johnson gave to Zelenskyy. And for Biden or whoever takes his place to endorse it or order it.
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  628. The overhead of capitalism might bog down OpenAI in a way completely foreign to Chinese companies. My guess.
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  629. Will the West get sanctioned for this annexation of Kherson?
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  630. These emergency alerts might be why things went awry in 2020. Overreactions can be more damaging if alerts are misunderstood or misapplied. The tech is still in teething problem stages, in my opinion. Just an opinion of course. “Everything modern is good” of course.
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  631. Is it the start of a trend? Will Russia continue to further evacuate Russian speakers, those who voted to join Russia, from more of the region and gradually evacuate more territory?
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  632. Not sure whether Putin, Lavrov, Medvedev or Zakharova. So I’ll go for Christoforou instead.
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  633. By engaging in peace talks with Palestinians since the 1980s, Israel got itself a reputation for democracy and decency on the world stage and benefitted in its trade, but its democracy led to it violating the agreements from which it benefitted. It changed leaders and these leaders did not all keep its agreements.
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  634. Choose Voter. Do you focus on Jan 6th or Oct 7th?
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  635. Someone might have told Elenskyy “I have a Prague National Museum to sell you” and he bought it.
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  636. “In vain the net is spread in full view of the bird”
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  637. USA so wise to have advice from experts like that. They really think so. I bet wise experts like that don’t come cheap.
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  638. We rarely hear about sanctions on importing Russian uranium.
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  639. For the UK, which Russian leader will hold more power and influence, the Romanovs (our Queen's children because Phillip was a Romanov via his mother) or Putin?
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  640. So UK left will fight right fire with left fire
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  641. There is this silly notion now prevalent, probably pushed by unis, that if you have a degree higher than the other developer, he or she must do what you say, even if you are his/her manager. That has lots of weird and destructive side-effects. A little folly outweighs wisdom, like a fly in the ointment.
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  642. Good points about the pipelines. Surely the pipelines attack was an attack on a NATO country (and NATO might be tweaking its rules to make this clearer). An attack on infrastructure like this is surely an act of war. So is NATO now at war with Norway and USA? Perhaps it is. Legally. Only USA would risk such a thing. Only USA need not fear NATO. It thinks.
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  643. Musk, a bit of a big kid, appealing to kids big and small, like cycling down the road with no hands on the handlebars.
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  644. At least if Kellogg agrees some drastic concession to Russia it won’t be so easily demolished by other USA hawks, if he was a dire hawk himself.
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  645. It did manage to flip a car. That might have been a bit scary to anyone taking refuge in the parking lot.
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  646. Just think if those Neo Cons managed soccer teams. They could tell their players that all the players need to do is kick the ball so it goes into the net at the other end of the pitch. Simple.
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  647.  @TrickyVickey  Thanks. They did not have scam as an option and now I see that I was reporting a video and not the channel itself (called In The Know). When I report the channel itself, then it does give the scam and spam option and it lets me give an explanation.
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  648. Expand NATO to include both Ukraine and Russia and Article 5 is nullified. Russia was meant to join NATO at same time as Ukraine originally. Ukraine joining means Ukraine can attack rest of NATO and means Russia cannot really trigger Article 5.
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  649.  @BroonParker  Andorra might pitch in since Macron is its joint-head of state
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  650. Thanks!
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  651. So Elenskyy is honoured at the time he is exposed as a false prophet (as he said Bakhmut would not fall). By the age of eighty he might, if still alive, be THE false prophet. The world honours such people with its dainty prizes. Charlemagne wanted to extend the Roman Empire so it might never fall. Ironic that the architects behind the Charlemagne Prize and Marshal Plan concepts wanted Moscow to be preeminent in the new Roman Empire of Europe. Council of Europe thinking.
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  652. It does look like something is going on between UK and Ukraine. (Maybe someone got the two confused on a diplomatic document :) ) I would not be surprised if someone does think eventually the UK could annex the North West of Ukraine, someone in permanent state.
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  653. One side is fighting because their leader tells the truth. The other side is fighting because leaders are lying to them. It might go down in history like this, when the victor tells the history.
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  654. What next? One key milestone ahead might be changes to the UN to allow more equal application of justice, sanctions, condemnations, to include actions against the USA like actions unequally metered out against other countries.
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  655. So excellent to listen to Clare Daly, as always.
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  656. I never saw the RN add. I could apply but I might not have the right GCSEs.
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  657.  @GeoPoliticsCommentry  probably not many people know about alpha capture
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  658.  @LuisAldamiz  The 2014 census reported that approximately 4% of Moldova's population identified as ethnic Russians. Not so many outside Transnistria. However, in the 2014 census, approximately 23.6% of the population reported Russian as their primary language, so that is a major factor too.
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  659. When UK runs out of Ukraine flags, they can always use Barbados flags, almost the same. Paint a few extra lines on the trident.
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  660.  @barbarawilson9565  Not all of us do. Some are horrible enough to join the nasties. Not everyone wants to be like that. Some friendlier people exist. But government people and police seem to be odiously sliding that way. I blame it on the raves and festivals. Puffing people up with idle notions and delusions of grandeur. Puffing with various other things too.
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  661. Next request from Kiev: balloons!
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  662. What if there is military info on it that cannot be shown to anyone? Even just credentials, etc?
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  663.  @ModernSoftwareEngineeringYT  Thank you. Much appreciated. I feel a corollary here might be that databases break the microservices architecture. If your domain is not for a huge scale global userbase and if NOSQL is not strongly preferred over RDBMS in your system, steering clear of microservices is probably going to be a good choice.
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  664. ISIS approx equals three letter agencies. This is becoming clearer. But plausible deniability is important to USA and its UK foreign agents.
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  665. Amazing quality reporting
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  666. Provocations like this signal RIP Article 5.
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  667. What if Trump proposed a similar plan about native Americans. What if native Americans proposed such a plan about non-native Americans - moving them all to Greenland? (What would Denmark say?) Trump is being far too naive. He would set precedents from which he himself would abhor the outcomes. Mexicans in Southern US states could propose moving out all the other Americans there.
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  668. Nobody would have been so Boorish as to have ordered Boris. This was Boris. Boring as it might sound. Too many high profile interviews have levelled it at him. Unless he is covering for an even greater Boor.
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  669. Can we now expect a repeat of the forties in Germany, Austria and Eastern Europe? How much is a flight from there to New York; or has that forties ideology now spread too much to New York? History repeats itself.
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  670. Imagine if Ukraine did, some time in the future, pay back the 61bn with interest. It might be enough to pay for a whole day’s interest US by then might be servicing on its trillions, tens, hundreds of trillions.
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  671. Trump’s plans sound to me like what ICJ defines as ‘genocide’. Displacing by force. ‘Cleaning out’.
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  672. Perhaps keep this quiet but I’m told washing up liquid bottles can be used to make rockets
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  673. - [ ] Permanent Armistice and Security Pact - [ ] Redrawn Borders with Russian Control Over Some Regions - [ ] Ukraine’s Neutrality with Security Guarantees - [ ] Military Restrictions and Demilitarization - [ ] Economic and Sanctions Relief - [ ] Humanitarian Measures and Prisoner Exchange - [ ] Long-Term Diplomatic and Security Framework (ChatGPT prediction of realistic peace plan)
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  674. But your analysis is better than Carl Sagan’s. You direct the scepticism back towards the scientists too. Scientists are like British bankers. They are not devoid of propensity to lie. No less so Big Pharma.
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  675. When USA tries to defer to NATO, invoke NATO, it shows it doubts it can beat Russia.
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  676. Yemen makes sense, even if they are the only ones
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  677.  @VladK-1  Chat GPT noted: it is important to note that during times of war, the distinction between combatants and non-combatants can become blurred, especially if civilians take up arms or directly participate in hostilities. In such cases, they may lose their protection under international law and become legitimate military targets. It is also worth mentioning that parties to a conflict have an obligation to distinguish between combatants and non-combatants and to take all feasible precautions to avoid or minimize harm to civilians
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  678.  @BernardMcCarty  And what if both of them used these prompts to train GPT 5 or 6? By the time there was a GPT 7 it would be of little use to humans and nobody would know what it did and whether it was generating errors. But by then many humans might be out of knowledge-jobs and this in turn would discourage young people from training in the skills needed for those jobs. So for a while humans would tolerate this and depend on GPT 7, just risking it out of convenience or necessity. Then humans would go back to square one, scrap the GPT and AI development (or pause it before it reached this point), and have to reinvent a lot of skills from scratch (if by then older generation and teachers were gone or moved on).
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  679. Send in the clowns
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  680. Perhaps Boris could be lined up to take over from Elenskyy. If he, a US citizen, could be UK PM, why not Ukraine President? After all it was him who seems to have led Ukraine into this war. Perhaps he can lead it into a deal with Russia too.
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  681. Sullivan going to see Russia does make some sense. If they agree anything with him there is little chance of anyone being more hardline and overturning it back in USA.
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  682. These questions about what has gone wrong in West and in UK in particular, Putin has done a better job of answering than most others. In short, the West, (in particular the UK and USA) has forsaken traditional values. It has gone too far in liberalisation, woke culture. It has lost moral authority and therefore lost trust in the world. It has fallen short morally, going too far in trying to reinterpret traditional morality. Putin would pick out extreme examples to make the point: note especially the idea of trying to legalise every sexual habit even immoral perversions like bestiality. The media might highlight the idea of allowing a man to legally marry himself. Law used to be the strength of the West. The law is now so perverted that it has become the weakness of the West, and its downfall. I would pin it down to the boom of liberal theology in churches in the 1990s and 2000s as a root cause.
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  683.  @JustinBlackfaceTrudeau  World Elenskyy Forum
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  684. Russia obviously has an uphill problem controlling all Ukraine if it must ever do that because so many under that kind of Russian regime would be unwilling subjects. Russia knows the costs on ongoing basis of doing this in other countries and clearly would rather avoid it robustly. But there may be no realistic alternative.
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  685. I bet Elensky could auction off some khaki t shirts (Van der Pirate would buy some) to raise funds. EU might even grant him trade mark rights on military green.
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  686. Maybe Dellusiony does not realise that you need to assess whether you can defeat an enemy on the basis of what you have, not what you don’t have.
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  687. I am repeatedly reminded of how in the Bible, King David eliminated Bathsheba’s husband by sending him to the front line, waiting for news of him dying there. It was through history a constant concept that being sent by a ruler to the front line is a commonly used method to eliminate you. It was a saying when I was young. “Off to the front line with you!”
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  688. I like the thoughts here, as I also like the Doug Engelbart ideas of producing tools which people can use to manage their information complexity problems, and tools to help those producing the tools which allow collaboration to find new ways forward and boost collective IQ (bootstrapping as he called it in those early days). So yes, we as software developers don’t solve problems directly as our initial approach but rather we can produce tools which cause synergies which can ultimately help solving of problems, such as information management, bringing minds together to that end.
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  689.  @robertamann2093  Chat GPT: “It is important to note that the U.S. does not disclose the exact number or location of its nuclear warheads, so it is difficult to determine the exact status of the stockpile. However, the U.S. government has stated that it maintains a robust nuclear weapons program and takes the necessary steps to ensure the safety and reliability of its nuclear weapons.” Convincing??
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  690.  @robertamann2093  A nuke is no good in a proportionate conventional war, but a hypersonic with conventional load is very useful, unless it is still in its experimental unproven status
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  691.  @Muckylittleme  The bombings of Donetsk civilians tells me otherwise
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  692.  @johnpaul-ww8wt  He usually does
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  693. Presumably Israel is considered part of the jungle, not the garden
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  694. Excellent, intelligent, sensible duscussion
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  695. British Bulldogs do not take orders from Chihuahuas.
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  696. Despite the Magna Carta, are the English police above the law? Is there one law for the police and another for us? Is there a GDPR for the police and another for us? Are they immune to OSA?
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  697. Did Elenskyy do a clown world?
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  698. I guess Republican leaders might not want to talk up investments made by Democrat leaders.
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  699. Convoluting the EU loan, sounds like layering and legitimising.
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  700. It takes an evil person write an article cheering on assassination programmes. It takes the same kind of character to write dishonest lying articles. Now compare it with a typical Putin speech, full of honest insight and devoid of such murder-applauding character. Who is the evil person in this picture?
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  701. Superb idea, that cultural centre.
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  702. Businesses using software more than producing it find issues hiring engineers or engineering minded developers, no matter if the business is big and rich, for reasons, I think, like salary scales being too low. They sometimes resort to giving more valuable developers a manager or executive salary but then the developer is at risk of being given executive responsibilities to weigh them down. Cloud needs engineering mindset and know-how. Then less knowledgable devs without engineering prowess get jealous and antagonistic too. Lots of challenges for big businesses and some fail to support Cloud-based software production properly. It needs knowledge right to the top.
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  703. With the end of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Russia turned away from communism. The Jews had always sided with communism, helping create it, run it. Effectively Russia broke step with the Jews. The West had aligned with the Jews after WW2, creating Israel, running it, supporting it. The pandemic of the early 2020s led to a revival of progressivism almost akin to communism in the West. This accentuated the relationship with the Jews and Israel. It also accentuated the differences with Russia. Israel grows in strength. Progressivism and flirtations with communism gain popularity in the West as it gets closer ideologically and militarily to Israel. Paradoxically the far right actually start to align with this as the battle escalates in Ukraine. Is this a new Cold War developing between new Russia and the new US-Ukraine-based Jews? One likely symptom might be an emergence of hostilities between Russia and Israel.
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  704.  @Eventual-Visitor  We managed it in Britain. It took fifty years of deliberation and politics. It took several years of campaigning. Planning too. If you start planning and spreading the message and get a political party going, over ten years it might gain enough support for a successful referendum. But it will be tough, like an Exodus involving some ten plagues of Egypt, so-to-speak, but twenty years from now those with a finger in the EU pie (or whatever it will be called a decade or so from now) will be suffering for it. Brexit might have been too early I think, but you have to grab the bull by the horns when the opportunity presents itself, as you never know if you’ll get another one later. But being prepared to do so might make a difference. Then the problem will be that leaders have forgotten how to lead. Best to prepare some now, so there are lawmakers to write laws the EU has been responsible for writing. They probably write 60% or your laws in Brussels, etc.
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  705.  @simonschneider5913  I worry that the few nasty ones teach the others. Some greater teacher is needed whose lessons override the nasties.
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  706. By showing some of his hand, maybe Putin still genuinely sees room for cooperation with the West on a basis of more equal partnership than the West previously imagined, on the basis of Russia having truly home-grown capabilities. Maybe.
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  707.  @robertplatte5700  I guess whatever principles linger in after you abandon Christ
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  708.  @mandrews1245  My point is that by letting India write the software, only India knows their business inside-out. Pulling their software out of India would leave the companies clueless how to run their businesses or maintain that software. They would have to sell up, at rock bottom prices.
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  709. O London. Where Satan has his throne.
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  710. At last there might be a reason to stay in the EU. If the P’s friend is ruling it.
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  711. UK has developed a tradition in recent decades. When one side wins the election the losing side, whether it be left or right, riots for a few weeks. Possibly MPs trigger it from the losing side. It is to be expected and will run its course for a few weeks. Usually there is more acute trouble on bank holiday weekend. Then it ends. If so, expect trouble on end of August weekend then nothing much after that.
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  712.  @talidari  true, true. The very fact most NATO countries have seriously scaled back their militaries in recent years, decade or more, show they have no serious intention to wage a full scale war. A major offensive would require some kind of follow-through and there is no serious support for that. Imagine that an attempt is made to move an army towards Crimea. The commitment this would entail is too much. Imagine it runs out of steam and runs beyond the HATO ability to support it (typo there but it looks right so I’ll not correct it). The soldiers would be left out in the open and easily encircled. Like historic attacks on Moscow. Then along comes some more late cold weather and snow. Bam! Disaster. And NATO would be obliged to try to save the day but with no ability to follow through and it would look utterly weak to the world.
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  713. Sadly, Augustine, instead of preserving the original gospel message, may have introduced concepts that appeased an increasingly apostate church and its followers. Not what I would call Christian. (As per 2 John 9)
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  714. Trump. Naughty. Thou shalt not covet.
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  715. May 2023 be a year when we can still have freedom and sanity to laugh at the clowns.
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  716. The EU/UK deal will be a mighty mandate for Farage. Versailles 2.0.
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  717. Arestovich knows if Ukraine joins EU or NATO it will be awkward, if he gains power, to invade Europe and leverage all the Ukraine action experience and leftover weapons.
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  718. We all are not surprised because we foresaw that flattening the curve would prolong the curve. We all know the expression “you cannot cheat death”.
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  719. When people in the USA hire a clown for their children's party they make sure the clown is not an evil clown. Unfortunately we let the USA control all kinds of things but do not have the luxury of checking their credentials for doing so. Yet.
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  720. UK citizens now have a liability to worry about in future - the liability of those who voted Starmer into power.
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  721. Impossible to ignore the timing - Ukraine Independence Day.
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  722. Elensky acts like he is leading a death cult.
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  723. Could the US Attorney General maybe find something to try to pin on Putin that Ellensky hasn’t done? Might need some deep soul searching by Ellensky to see if they can think of something with which to pretend to charge Russian leaders while not incriminating Ukraine or Collective West leaders.
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  724. We just had suspicious profit for Big Pharma. Did Trump instigate something similar for MIC?
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  725. Those Neo Cons who still read and think about their Bibles should consider how King Ahab died. Evil spirits were sent to lie to him through false prophets and make him go into battle thinking he would win. This was his own fault for his excessive evildoing.
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  726. Milley’s statement is merely illustrative of the rhetoric the West leaders (e.g. Boris, Truss, VdPirate) were normalising six months ago. Six months from now when news gets forgotten of Moscow attack, they will revert again to it. For now they fear loss of Article 5 protection so they will play that kind of rhetoric down.
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  727. Kiev Independent now reporting Ukraine shot down 114. So this tells us at least 100 were launched.
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  728. How can it be anything other than terrorism, these hits on Donetsk. Tax money used to supply terrorism. One step away from financing terrorism? Or taxes actually being used for that? Should we in West be labelled criminals just for pay tax?
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  729. Good point. Complicity, cooperation with UK, US by ISIS is implied by letting themselves get caught, to distract away from UK, USA, perhaps as evidence they were acting under orders of three letter groups.
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  730. That curse hits the powerful, but it won't stop there, will it.
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  731. Is it worth telling everyone in the West the small print? That by saying it is OK to support a country killing civilians because they want to be Russian then the same rule will be applied in turn to the West: when they want something contrary to a powerful power’s interest that power might simply bomb our civilians too. We have effectively justified it. (I say “we” but: Not in my name.) Is it worth noting the words of God that Jesus passed on from his Father, God, that “with the measure you use it will be measured to you” and in Revelation that “those who are in favour of killing by the sword will themselves be killed by the sword, those in favour of imprisoning will themselves be imprisoned”, and now the Revelation prayer is fulfilled “Thou oh God are justified when you send all these plagues”. God is justified in giving apocalyptic judgments because people are in favour of supporting those who send bombs on civilians merely because they want to identify as Russian. Open season on the West is the measure returned upon the West for its toleration of what is done against Donetsk and its unrelenting support for the perpetrators. It is in the hands of the merciful God but when Apocalyptic events come on us all, remember we deserve it and God is justified doing it since our governments support bombs upon civilians.
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  732. So the next unpeace summit could just be a facebook group.
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  733. Calm or stunned fear paralysis?
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  734. Trumps rare earths apparent disinterest is probably him trying hard not to get pulled along by the snout by warmongers, who will big up the benefits of rare earths (mostly in territory taken by Russia) to get Trump invested in prolonging war.
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  735. If Ukraine really was fighting on behalf of the West, the West would hand over all of the ammo.
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  736. No photos next to pianos.
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  737. I suppose even Macron can ‘foresee’ a Ukraine divided like post-war Germany, between Britain, Russia, and USA, and he thinks he can get a slice for France and maybe EU by getting Ukraine to invite them in. Leave a pile of rice near the door.
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  738. Cool analysis. Nice graphics. Great channel.
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  739. If it was purely ISIS and ISIS alone, then there would, I would think, have been elevation of security alerts in pro-Israel countries, once UK/USA intelligence got wind of it. The silence in this regard implies US/UK are assured they are not targets, with further implications not hard to guess - some kind of involvement at highest level, at level in ISIS which could assure that Russia is only target, implying some cooperation from US/UK. How horrific.
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  740. Certainly seems like a racket. Pay us or we’ll do … Even if you don’t owe us anything.
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  741. Like biblical NT Samaritan people being persecuted by the Jerusalem Jews. Both claiming to be Jews. Samaritans were considered mixed up and less worthy. Caste-like Apartheid. Typical that Brits leave things in this state after ruling, like they did with caste system in India and the India-Pakistan-Bangladesh partition. Brits are brutes. (And I’m a Brit - I should wear a BRIT teeshirt).
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  742. I hope Netanyahu is keeping a diary of his actions against peace plans and against ceasefires, ready to include it all in his report to ICJ in a fortnight.
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  743. I suppose for something to be a hate crime, it must first genuinely be a crime. I might reject a connection request on social media out of relative hatred of the person requesting it. All hatred is relative. But that is not a crime (yet! Give it time). If too many things are labelled crimes the police will have no time for properly investigating serious crimes like murder.
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  744. Trump’s tariffs, really amount to sanctions on USA. Fines against countries who trade with USA. Is Trump learning how sanctions sometimes benefit the country they are against?
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  745. Got to admire Challenger drivers when they courageously take on the challenge of mud.
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  746. “a softer response to a U.S. annexation of Greenland would expose deep contradictions in Western foreign policy” says AI
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  747. Just sign it? Forget the hundreds of thousands killed but hardly any USA soldiers.
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  748. I hope the genuine story is not killed off by the men in a boat story
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  749. Excellent careful but brave handling of the thorny issue, the elephant in the room.
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  750. Deescalation might be because from now on no more money printing and wars by West will cost real wealth. Why? Because reserve status is now facing perpetual, permanent decline due to BRICS.
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  751. Say: Overall 70 % took vaccine. Excess deaths was 20%. How many of those dying overall would be expected to have taken vaccine? If say 100% excess deaths were due to vaccine: normal deaths with vaccine would be 70%. If say there are 120 overall deaths, 20 of which are excess. That means the normal 70 of the deaths would be with vaccine. 30 no vaccine. Now there are 20 more. Of those 100% took vaccine. So overall number of deaths with vaccine equals 70 plus 20. That means 90 out of 120 deaths overall would be expected to have had vaccine. Now if the percentage correlation decreases by 5. So 95 percent correlation. 95% of the excess deaths relates to vaccine and 5% unknown factor. Now 70 still have vaccine among normal deaths but now only 19 of excess die having had vaccine. 1 dies of unknown cause. Overall 89 out of 120 of those dying expected to have been vaccinated. Draw it as a chart or model it with, say, partial differential equations. If the latter it might feed a computer modelling system like that used for the pandemic by Imperial College. Then compare with actuals to see possible correlation with vaccine. Can the professionals not do this and do it better than my undergraduate maths can do?
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  752. Annoying that he spoke over that car horn. That car horn sounded interesting but was drowned out by the speech.
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  753. Format worked nicely, except for the slip at the end hastily corrected but there all the same. Hopefully not Freudian, momentarily implying Arians are not Christian.
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  754. It has to be Kiev which is attacked next because Putin made it clear that the decision making centres would be attacked in response to attacks on Russian territory and Crimea has been attacked and then came the drone attack on the Russian air base. So Putin has prepared the way by giving space for feedback from the world and from his own legal advisors. He does always seem to act along lines of what has been given plenty of legal consideration and openly does this to allow time and opportunities for any legal objections.
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  755. Trump talked about the USA losing territory to Putin. When was Ukraine USA territory?
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  756. Big mistake to tell UN it needs to resist more than half the world in order to bless the West. Some of UN might remember it was set up to resist such rhetoric.
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  757. Could coal mines be joined up with Vuhledar underground? It has withstood years of attacks. It would make sense if the area is a three dimensional rather than two dimensional target.
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  758. The West propaganda machine loves to invoke past anti-Soviet narratives against Russia, implausibly of course, but effective in mind control of its disciples willingly submissive to it. The 1972 World Chess Championship between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky gets invoked in this Havana Syndrome, just like new narratives like Skripals and novichok evoke old stories of the Cold War era, the kind you see in Captain America comics. The classics never get old.
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  759. Remember in Orthodoxy, faith is communicated particularly non-verbally, through icons and rituals, mainly from times past when literacy was low. It is not like Protestantism in USA.
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  760. It seems either by education or other form of persuasion, every Ukrainian soldier has instilled into them a sense of their identity being intrinsically linked to their land, their territory.
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  761. Sanction fallacy must be a variant of the gambler’s fallacy. "gambler's fallacy." (says ChatGPT )This is a cognitive bias where a person believes that future probabilities are influenced by past events, even when the outcomes are actually independent. In the context of gambling, this manifests as the belief that after a series of losses, a win is due to occur soon, leading the gambler to continue betting in the hope that the next gamble will be the winning one. This fallacy underpins the mistaken belief that a losing streak increases the likelihood of a subsequent win.”
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  762.  @N.kelvyn-m7r  same boots, different feet
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  763. Hey Trump, I’ve got a power plant to sell you
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  764. The superpower leaders need the umbrella approval of the Pope, even after USA thought it broke with all that two hundred years ago.
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  765. USA does work like that. I never experienced in other countries quite the blatant stuff I got from USA, in public-facing government-related work.
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  766. The West has enjoyed benefits of moral high ground, with a positive outlook that results from it. Now it has crossed out of that zone. It will need to adjust its expectations. Education will need to change. Children will need to be taught to be ready for worse scenarios. We will need to be ready for leaders coming to an unhappy end. Nothing drastic, but something has changed in the rules of the game and the outcomes are something the West needs to start to consider. Otherwise arrogance will result in even worse catastrophes.
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  767. Misleading the “free world” that it is free: I guess misleading is a kind of leading.
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  768. BOJO crime of the century, the actions leading to killing of tens of thousands of Russians.
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  769. The tempter knows those magic words will tempt the weaker leaders. “You can make it happen”
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  770. So if anything unusual in our minds about a democracy means it is a dictatorship, both EU and UK are dictatorships.
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  771. So USA is funding both sides. And who does it sell arms to? Israel obviously. Iran indirectly via Ukraine getting them to Hamas.
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  772. Why is it called the White House?
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  773. Let God be their avenger for the honour of His name. In the name of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. For the honour of His Son’s name. That these Donetsk civilians would not have to return evil for evil. That God, their trust, would do it. Especially if it was deliberate. And God mix some mercy with the vengeance so Ukrainians and their supporters would see it and repent.
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  774. The EU is like a dog looking longingly at the owner’s dinners while they owner has gone to answer the door.
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  775. Since Canada still has Charles as head of state, could there be a link?
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  776. Perhaps Ukraine will go after the Netherlands. If it is still a viable military state it might decide to not waste all that military experience.
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  777. If someone put wheel clamps on US, EU and UK kleptocrats’ cars how loud would these leaders shout about it? That is merely freezing their assets. Towing their cars, that is seizing. Selling them at auction?
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  778. Not only would the Russian state respond to this. Now the Russian insurers might also respond and would be entitled to do so, morally at least.
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  779. The insurers faced with large losses would tend to want to increase premiums of course but the money from the premiums plus capital is obviously (in lay terms) put aside for claims which might be similar to this big loss if it is repeated, but they can viably also spend some of this premium money pursuing recuperation of the loss plus protecting against repeated losses. The bigger the loss, the more money can be commercially viably spent on such things. So if losses escalate they might decide to launch their own navy and find ways maybe even to freeze assets of those who were to blame, in any way they legally can. I’m no expert. Just a little experience in some aspects of insurance work.
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  780.  @captainape6807  I bet it was getting windy in there 😊
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  781. Excellent. Sleep well tonight Alex. PS Brits for BRICS Please can the Brits join the BRICS. The West is a hateful sinking ship.
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  782. Many who vote must be aware they could be imprisoned by Ukraine for doing so and yet they vote, men and women, young and old. Of course, if they vote, against Ukrainian diktats to not vote, they would tend to vote to escape the government which opposes them voting and threatens them with imprisonment. They are all so very brave, if they are aware of what the Ukrainian government might have in store for them if it gets its way.
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  783. European countries forcing Ukrainians back to fight, ought to think what these Ukrainians will do if they survive long enough to gain war skills and experience. Who will they want to attack once the war is over?
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  784. So Russia had motive, opportunity and means to assassinate the whale, but not to bring down the F-16.
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  785. I don't think it is VdC's (aka VdP's) fault or craziness to blame for all this trouble. If I remember correctly it all kicked up back with the Salisbury nerve agent investigation fiasco when Boris picked a fight with Putin claiming Putin was behind the attack (although we never saw Boris and Truss attacked similarly despite being Russia's #1 enemies) - back then Boris went off to EU and pleaded with them to sanction Russia. Then we saw the start of emergency laws being put in place in EU to sanction Russia in obedience to Boris and Truss and this has been going on ever since, fuelled by the Ukraine issues too. But Boris was at that time, I think, a US citizen so maybe the US was pulling the strings of Boris. It would be Biden because the Conservatives hated Trump and loved the Democrats openly.
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  786. I can’t see them wanting to take Crimea more than wanting to retake Bakhmut. Tanks? I see no tanks. Not retaking Bakhmut anyway. If he had them he would be using them right now. His future and reputation might depend on it.
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  787. UK ought to make May 9th Brexit Day. UK Independence Day.
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  788. All the gainsayers have never taken a city
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  789. Of course, Russia has a border of sorts with Canada too. Canada has a problem like Ukraine.
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  790. May 2024? Not much time to get the Brits through rehab.
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  791. All the many deaths are tragic. But Prigozhin’s death is doubly tragic. A man who takes a city has surpassed the many, many average men. He became the all-surpassing figure we armchair web commenters may never be. He and his tens of thousands. We may never achieve what he achieved. Few men do. Like the leader of the Three Hundred. They will probably never make movies about the rest of us, but I imagine there will always be movies and books and songs about Prigozhin. Few of us will have millions emulating us or aspiring to be like us. Millions of boys will grow up wanting to be a heroic man like Prigozhin. If Prigozhin was not such a great man, such a hero to so many, the West enemies of Putin would not be trying to pin the blame on Putin, trying to get milage out of defaming Putin in this way.
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  792. If money gets tighter as inflation continues but pay doesn’t rise with it, one might have to choose to do without either Netflix or licensed TV. Maybe Netflix can sue TV Licensing for unfair competition and abuses of privilege. Obviously UK gov wants to control state media and not let other countries control it, but there is more to it than that and not operating it as a subscription offering might leave them open to lawsuits.
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  793. Cyprus now similar to that school in Gaza?
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  794.  @therealunclevanya  The revenge for the Raj! :)
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  795. Clearly there is territory which will be controlled by Russia as a buffer zone but logically it cannot be seen as truly Russian territory with full rights of protection. If it were protected then another buffer zone would be needed, and so on. Just logic. The residents should not fool themselves that they will have full protection. The idea is their area can be hit by the enemy missiles, etc.
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  796. I suspect the West including Germany wants to do this ‘training’ programme in order to study and learn more itself about how modern warfare in this kind of scenario looks in reality, using these Ukrainians as its lab experiment.
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  797. Something broke in the UK system resulting in Truss becoming PM by the choice by a tiny minority. Now this broken system is hardly able to result in any improved outcome.
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  798. I bet the F-35 is straying somewhere over China, about to be shot down
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  799. Voters all need to watch those they vote into power like a driving instructor watches the trainee driver, ready to press the extra brake pedal at any moment. As soon as voters notice the leaders they vote for leading towards disaster they need to quickly start voting for the contingency candidates. If there are no contingency candidates at the start of voting then right from the start don’t vote for anyone. Perhaps nations are too big for this to work, in which case maybe democracies need to be smaller and more local.
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  800. @john Boeing makes the JDAM-ER that can be dropped from the palletized airborne launch systems
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  801.  @BRMCX69  I don’t think they would want to spread the war outside of Ukraine like that. Article 5 would not protect them if they launched attacks from NATO countries. Russia would legally be entitled to attack those countries in self-defence. But it might indeed go this way sooner or later.
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  802. Habeck ought to always have Scholz on hand when doing something needing engineering skills, like launching ships and inspecting turbines.
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  803. This Biden decision is the first punch in what in real terms will amount to USA effective attacks on UK. It was long coming, since mutual eagle eye monitoring of USA and UK on each other started happening decades ago. Biden totally knows that UK will be encouraged to copy this and authorise matching use of Stormshadows, bringing wrath of Khan on UK.
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  804. USA might be choosing: Trump equals terrible war with Iran, Harris equals terrible war with Russia.
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  805.  @МногоХочешьНаглыйГугл  War with Iran - not necessarily able to threaten USA mainland, but war with Russia - definitely able to strike USA mainland. I am from UK so have no vote, but am alarmed because Russia can hit UK too.
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  806.  @МногоХочешьНаглыйГугл  Where there is a cliff edge, it needs to be well fenced and sign posted. Clarity is key. The new doctrine of Russia gives the necessary clarity. The UK leaders might foolishly ignore the signs and cut a hole in the fence, but at least the fence and signs are there.
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  807. Realistically, yes, the statement of an offensive piles on pressure, but, let’s face it, so did the bold assurances that Bakhmut would not fall. Bold statements are order of the day. They make no difference, are vanity, vulgarity, if the means of action is not there. They talk the talk but walking the walk costs many lives and clearly has been impossible in regard to Bakhmut, and what difference would there be with a Spring offensive. If they can launch an offensive like the West is saying, then does that mean the Bakhmut fall is deliberate and willed?
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  808. With some USA leaders from circles believing in Dispensationalism, it is no surprise if they let wars escalate, perpetually, even globally. They think if all goes to all out Armageddon, the Dispensationalists get raptured. So these leaders get raptured too. So no need to avert apocalyptic outcomes. It just speeds up their exit, while those left behind simply deserve to have wars.
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  809.  @BlackBeltBarrister  Like when a leader states categorically that something did NOT happen, I tend to assume dishonesty because how would they ever know with certainty about something NOT happening.
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  810.  @thomasbaader6629  Who put an eagle on the South pole of the moon this week?
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  811.  @thomasbaader6629  There were two BRICS nations vying to put their eagles onto the moon South pole this month, one succeeded, the other almost succeeded, neither was a USA eagle. This is the time multipolarity.
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  812.  @bumblebee5818  You mean only USA can do it?
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  813. Ellensky tries to play the West's game but he hasn't quite learned the rules. The rules are that you lie only until there is serious likelihood of truth exposing the lies, then you stop and switch sides and make it look like you were honest all along. Ellensky has not attained such sophistication yet. He is still playing like an amateur. That is not his fault. The West needs to adapt its strategy to adopting simpler rules which do not derail their newbie groupie followers. Of course they really ought to ban lying but that would derail them too.
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  814.  @mountainfrost7095  exactly
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  815. Since “NATO's Article 5 is a collective defense clause that considers an armed attack against one or more NATO members as an attack against all members. It does not explicitly address mens rea (a guilty mind) as a factor. Instead, Article 5 focuses on the objective criteria of an armed attack. It's about whether an armed attack has occurred, not the intent behind it. The legal and political interpretation of Article 5 can vary, but the emphasis is on the act of aggression itself.” (Chat GPT 3) Since it is about an attack actually occurring, not the motive, intent or mind (mens rea) of the attacker, to my understanding, which to me seems a reasonable position of a rational person, is that even if the attack was an attack designed as a false flag to bring others into a war, it is still an attack, and therefore Ukraine might actually have triggered Article 5 itself, perhaps more than once.
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  816. As Ukraine is prepared to take Poland to court over its grain refusals, Poland knows it might be arming its future enemy (an enemy prone to commit genocide against Poles in the past, and the ideology is still active) so it wants to pull back a bit. So, yes, Ukraine might have fired missiles with deliberate intent. If it could gain more attention from arms suppliers by doing so, and improve popular support for fighting Russia. Media articles are evidence of how they milked it.
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  817.  @LuisAldamiz  nor did the Nordstream attack result in triggering of Art 5, although there was mention of expanding the treaty to include attacks on infrastructure
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  818. CORRECTION: NATO's role in response to 9/11 primarily involved supporting the United States in the context of the War on Terror by providing political and military assistance. It did not lead to NATO involvement in the invasion of Iraq. So Article 5 only resulted in intelligence help being offered to USA by member states. An eagle in the sky, so to speak. Not a military armed response. A bit of help with watching skies of USA to guard against further attacks. So NATO Article 5 means nothing militarily. If past events are any indication of what happens.
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  819.  @youareliedtobythemedia it is reasonable to deduce that it is their hatred of Putin that prevents them from triggering Article 5. NATO needs a leader to be elected in a member state who does to collude in this hatred and can invoke the article. Poland is voting isn’t it? Maybe.
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  820. Trump’s minerals idea makes him look foolish. USA called its billions to Ukraine an ‘investment’. Trump of all people should know that if you invest in a company that goes bust, or a war that is lost, or gamble on a horse that loses, you lose your money. Fact of life. Trying to get something back, when the venture is gone, is just sad-looking.
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  821. Burns telling adulterated intelligence stories is symptomatic of a situation which makes telling the truth impossible, even for a man in his position.
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  822. If Hillary calls Tucker a useful idiot, what does that make a President whose diminished mental state puts him beyond prosecution? How useful to Hillary’s crowd to have a President like that at their disposal.
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  823. Are they turning right wing, or just plain wicked?
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  824. Andriivka, Bakhmut Raion, Donetsk Oblast population 71 in 2001. Barely a village.
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  825.  @dmac6312  years later
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  826. Navalny probably an act of God, but limited exercise is usual cause of bloodclots, deep vein thrombosis. Consistent with living in penitentiary conditions. No idea if Navalny was actually kept locked up or just in an isolated place.
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  827. West cannot honour ceasefires. Why believe they will honour any peace deal?
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  828. Two trojan horses at once. West tempted on two fronts: with Ukraine towards EU and Argentina towards USA.
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  829. 200,000,000 a year?? If they knew anything about employing people, the salary does not determine the cost. The overheads typically far outweigh the actual salaries. They are guessing and guessing wrong.
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  830. Excellent analysis
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  831. Chat GPT version 3 obviously was only trained up until Sept 2021. What a difference a year makes. Chat GPT 3 wrote this: Minsk II was not an attempt by the leaders of the West to buy time to strengthen Ukraine militarily against Russia. The Minsk agreements were negotiated by representatives of Ukraine, Russia, the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), and the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) in order to end the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine. The agreements were endorsed by the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, and the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany, and France. The Minsk agreements set out a framework for resolving the conflict through a ceasefire, the withdrawal of heavy weapons, and the establishment of a political settlement. The international community, including the United States and NATO, have supported the Minsk agreements as the best way to bring lasting peace to Ukraine. The focus has been on finding a diplomatic solution to the conflict rather than military intervention. Furthermore, NATO has not been directly involved in the conflict in Ukraine and has not been seeking to militarily strengthen Ukraine against Russia. NATO has instead been providing political and economic support to Ukraine, including through training and capacity-building programs for the Ukrainian armed forces.
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  832. Pondering: What did the British, Americans and Israelis (atrociously) do in Ukraine in the nineties and since then to foster the resurgence of pre-war ideologies to counter their competition in the region? Did they open Pandora’s Box and precipitate a nuclear WW III?
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  833.  @joeoria4497  more dangerous, perhaps one of the most dangerous ever
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  834. And remember Hotel Rwanda
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  835. Poland is common factor. Root of Ukraine grievances in Middle Ages, historic animosity with Russia through the centuries, right down to EU member wanting to bring in Ukraine, mercenary source, and even a beneficiary of Nordstream sabotage. Poland getting money from Germany. Poland had its own pipeline opening day after sabotage. Provocateur par excellence. Poland needs to be involved in the diplomacy and stop envying and provoking Russia. Or doom looms. But on other side, also need the legacy of the successors of Galician SS to be rooted out with prohibitions and prosecutions. It is a hate triangle. Galicia, Poland, Russia.
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  836. Maybe Ukraine is worried (partly projection, partly pragmatism) that Russia will blow up the Kherson dam and flood Kherson and the troops.
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  837. Is Wagner in contempt of court?
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  838. President Putin seems to make his faith a matter of willing acceptance of the Christianisation of the Russian people long ago. No need to have all the theological answers. No need to discern all the spirits. He leaves it to the religious leaders. He does not dictate specifics about faith but he does insist on shared family values. That is his strength. Inner strength from inner faith. “The kingdom of God is within you” his Lord said.
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  839. Starmer will likely treat this as go-ahead to effectively do what Russia has stated is an act of war. USA just threw UK under the bus. No wonder. They have been watching us like hawks for decades. A bird of prey only watches what it will attack.
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  840. Silly community note about vomiting seems to assume pollutants would be biological. Chemical pollution could cause immediate vomiting.
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  841. When the MSM plays the ‘weak Russia’ line, they are projecting it because you know it is only to hide the weakening of their arguments by this ‘provocation’ event.
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  842. Ursula projecting blackmail now? Give us free gas or else!
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  843. Israelis who want to think they are the biblical Israelites and prophecies apply to them. Israelis who have genocidal intentions and aspirations thinking Palestinians are biblical Amalekites or Philistines (the word Palestinian does not help). Nobody wants to admit that Palestinians might be biblical Israelites too.
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  844. Was the target the LPR minister of emergencies?
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  845. There will be a 2024-2025-2026-2027 counteroffensive.
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  846. So really the EU should itself be sanctioned for not sanctioning Ukraine.
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  847. Kissinger probably realises that kill lists are difficult to implement fully without NATO membership.
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  848. Makes me think of a good topic for a video: Do people other than lawyers ever read to terms and conditions online before ticking the box? Why is this even a thing? Does the law really think us ordinary folk would ever read such things?
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  849. It probably helps Putin for USA to send all West nations’ funds to Ukraine to see it burn on the battlefields. Like a black hole sucking in all countries which use the dollar. I do not think Putin wants to see the end of the West. It destabilises much of world trade. No money left in West to buy energy when this is over. But it might cheer him up.
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  850. Zelenskyy gives the game away when he visits these sites. By saying the West must supply weapons he means the West must use all its weapons against Russia. Zelenskyy could be working with Russia to force NATO to demilitarise, where there is nothing NATO can do except go along with it. When he visits a site, he looks like he is preparing to hand it over to Putin. NATO goes along with it, caught in their propaganda where they must treat Ukraine as part of a region it must protect to justify its existence. Forced to use up weaponry which therefore demilitarises them. Lots of West people might welcome the demilitarisation, hoping for an end to the false NATO mission and warmongering.
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  851. Looks like Russia tested the approach of diplomacy as if USA was the one to seek it. That approach failed.
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  852. Starmer gave this betrayal as a gift to Farage.
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  853. Better Rishi and Modi than Truss and Moby
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  854. The Sun and viagra? Definitely a projection.
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  855. That cat was like Ukraine. Fighting on the brink of de feet.
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  856. I have a hunch the UK Conservatives see a WW2 scenario as a way to get ROI on their invested billions overspent of furlough schemes. UK youth and military age, that is. UK not just Ukraine.
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  857. UK and Greece in trouble too. Doctrine rules Russia now at war with them too. They are part of NATO, plus maybe other alliances with USA.
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  858. Even if there is force majeure, I suspect insurers themselves will have to maintain solvency by setting aside huge amounts of capital to cover claims for assets frozen in Russia. I suspect they will want to make the EU and USA pay for that somehow. Or bailouts of the insurance industry could be needed. I suspect though the insurers will be Russian which will complicate things. Domino effect likely anyway.
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  859. Germany won’t be happy till Russia does a Q turn
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  860. Prigozhin didn’t get to have his ‘triumphus’ in Moscow but he and Wagner got one in Rostov. God knows they deserved it.
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  861. Funding or not, stabilising Ukraine status or not, it is unlikely the Democrats will win in Nov. What then?
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  862. Some people have found it odd that Plantagenets had lion in their heraldry when there was no knowledge of lions in Europe at that time. The fylgja dream and vision phenomenon goes some way to explaining the familiarity with lions. Admittedly the heraldic lions showed ignorance of lions, usually showing them fairly abstractly or symbolically with a flame coming from their mouths which presumably symbolised their roar. The concept of lions clearly existed despite absence of experience of them. Same in China.
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  863. The moment I heard about the Twitter deal being back on, I thought "That was Alex!". Influence! Maybe it was your comment Alex. Don't let that influence go to your head. We need your head! :)
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  864.  @carlosgaspar8447  Yes, which effectively means an amount comparable to the seized assets amount has to be kept aside to cover such lawsuits and claims. In effect it freezes the seized frozen assets!
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  865. A messaging system could take more than ten years to develop.
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  866. Artefact of insurance issues?
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  867. This is the West’s Shimei moment. For those unfamiliar with the story: When King David told soon to be king Solomon to do away with slanderous Shimei, King Solomon first gave Shimei a line in the sand he must not cross, on pain of death, (probable origin of the ‘line in the sand’ and the ‘red line’ terms), then he waited, knowing Shimei would cross that line eventually. Sure enough for a long time Shimei did not cross it. Eventually his rebel roguish nature got the better of him and he crossed it, and was done away with. The West is bound to cross the line eventually. That is the whole point of a line in the sand, a red line. It gives the power the excuse it needs to do the terrible but necessary deed.
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  868. If I was Truss I might consider shutting the Channel Tunnel for a while. If a line was crossed, a red line, this might be a legitimate target to stop troops leaving Kent and to make a similar symbolic gesture.
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  869. “A revived alliance between the United States, Russia, and the United Kingdom could reshape global power structures, disrupting existing alliances and creating a new geopolitical struggle. Such a shift could challenge China’s dominance, weaken NATO and the EU, and spark realignments in energy markets and military strategy. If this "healing" of past alliances were to occur, it could astonish the world, much like the prophecy in Revelation 13:3, where a mortal wound is healed, leading to global admiration and a new era of power.” — ChatGPT
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  870. Even if USA had any evidence to counter the nordstream report findings they would be filling the media with it. The silence says so much.
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  871. People wrongly prefer this council’s human consensus over the teachings of Jesus the Christ.
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  872. and if not a terror attack but a legitimate military target due to use for logistics for armies, what targets might Russia consider legitimate, not just in Ukraine
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  873. Yet again big trouble caused by missing parameter. Maybe simply sacking the culprit is not enough. Probably the culprit left some time ago in this case. Reminiscent of facebook woes due to its IaC setup. One Infrastructure as Code error and everything everywhere can be lost.
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  874. In this attack on the bakery in Lysychansk, if it is true that the target was the LPR minister who was killed, what this says is that USA is ideologically similar to those it labels as terrorists because it seems it promotes a mixture of insurgency killing of government ministers with terrorist killing of civilians.
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  875. The latest Brits do things their way. Even if it leads them into the grinders.
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  876. USA is not so much of an eagle right now - it utterly did not see this coming, as Sullivan’s comment showed.
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  877. Article 5 can be seen in reverse. An attack by one NATO member state can be seen as an attack by all of them. Lucky for NATO that Ukraine is not a member yet. Once they let Ukraine join the support of member states for staying in NATO might evaporate so badly that NATO collapses. It only takes attacks like these on Moscow combined with failing diplomacy. If UK supplies the ideas and weapons they could cause a reversal of Article 5 and justify Russia and Belarus attacking Poland.
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  878. Was this the point when the one on the up escalator passed the one on the down escalator?
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  879. So Ukraine is G7’s hitman. Or at least they are lining themselves up for it. Job up for grabs? No morals required? They’ll take it. Almost all MPs both sides of Atlantic seem to have clearly signalled they welcome this job vacancy being filled by Ukraine. All those badges they have proudly worn seem to say that. Canada adds: “and no questions asked, no need for interview, no looking horse in mouth, full deniability yes, but can always say we did not know”
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  880.  @gingerfox7143  Of course but if they keep to the West of the new border they might delay that moment. They will want to do that.
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  881. We’re all afraid of Biden winning.
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  882.  @steveturners1258  remember how the USA accepted N**i rocket scientists from Germany after the war
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  883. Starmer seems to already have gone beyond UK public on missiles. Apparently not beyond monarch though. To quote ChatGPT … if the PM of the UK takes actions that lead to World War III or n..ear war without prior parliamentary debate, these actions are technically taken under the royal prerogative and thus carry the implicit formal approval of the monarch. (ChatGPT)
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  884. Post-Brexit Britain (#PPB) needs a written consitution, a #MagnaCarta2p0 .
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  885. So this Ukraine war might be saving the world from annihilation by preventing USA engaging China.
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  886. Now Biden costs are showing, and Sunak costs equally or more so, they will all be itching instinctively for a cover-up. Covering up previous mistakes with new mass-phobia events, we saw it is the modus operandi. What would cover up this evidence of misgovernment better than a war they can blame it on. High costs in shops gets explained by “There’s a war on!” So they will itch to start a real war.
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  887. So the best Boris strategy for avoiding WW III is to mix racism and feminism in the PM under a female head of state? He would not get far telling the Pope his idea (originally Boris was a Catholic). Elizabeth I would laugh at him too. Is Boris saying we need to skip some royal succession males and move from Elizabeth II to Kate? Philip passed on Russian royal blood to all of the main successors, including Charles, and they could all change the family name to Romanov if the palace allowed. That might be more an issue than whether the successors to the Queen are male or female. Is Kate the only royal in line who does not have royal Russian blood? Being head of the Church of England might be an issue too since Christianity is supposed to have males alone as leaders and the churches need masculine roles in their building up of their social and religious structure. So Boris should reconsider his words more carefully. He is a confirmed Anglican is he not?
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  888. Prediction: just a matter of time and it will revert to antisemitic type. But far worse this time around.
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  889. Napoleon never got on too well when it came to Russia.
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  890. Hunter Biden was the obvious choice to lead army. He is well known to be a leading expert in such things. It is part of being good at everything.
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  891. Sounds a bit arrogant (too strong a word, sorry) to suggest complacency. The soldiers are dying and more will die if there is too much rush to shed blood. Morally that would diminish them too. "Swiftness to shed blood is something God hates." They know this. Yes, those loyal Russian voters might die from UK/US/UkraiNiaN successes if occupied towns get retaken. But war should not be rushed - and it is getting more like a war is justified.
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  892. UK and USA are acting like they are invulnerable, like Russia cannot attack back. The child thinking themselves to be the Invisible Man, not realising they can be seen.
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  893. Not convinced about keeping a specific version of automated tests alongside a corresponding version of (codebase of) system under test. ATs are surely tied to released code and lag the release, since you are primarily regression testing, testing what is already released. So I would think it typical to develop ATs after releases have settled in so you can focus on stable, valuable features. This is decoupled from code in development or about to be released.
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  894.  @ContinuousDelivery  OK, the closest I've seen to that was where that approach was used for acceptance tests run by the scrum team when doing their development but a separate set of test run by an automated testing team. I always thought the first set of tests could be adapted to be part of the automated regression tests but we never actually got anywhere near doing that.
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  895. Is the objective like getting a tattoo? Join army and become a casualty, like a body modification or piercing? If you’re into that sort of thing, perhaps advertising 30,000 casualties a month is an attractive message for that kind of person.
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  896. Elensky even getting to give address to UK parliament. Most of them are over 16 😊
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  897. It might be interesting to start with the codebase each time a change is needed, then ask it to generate BDD for the interesting part of the codebase likely to need changes, then tweak the BDD it generates, then ask it to make corresponding changes to the code.
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  898. Now that Ursula the head honcho is all gone pirate we might as well all fly the pirate skull and cross-bones flag. No need to race to the top, now that the top has won the race to the bottom. Bagsie be Edward Teach, Blackbeard, hero of my home town.
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  899. One symbolic significance of Bakhmut is the mine where three thousand were walled-in in the forties and the memorial to them nearby. Closure.
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  900. Trump will fight Denmark and Greenland to the last Finn.
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  901. I have yet to hear any figures for number of civilians killed in the Battle of Bakhmut. This omission is becoming alarming. It might be we are being led to believe by this that no civilians were left there but all were evacuated. This is hardly plausible.
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  902. Not just called Master/Lord but actually Master/Lord
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  903.  @robertko5425  It IS all about the Benjamins, but not the Benjamin Franklin dollars, but the Benjamins and other tribes of Israel and Judah, and the State of Israel. Always is. Always will be. Plus believers.
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  904. Such a bitter former leader. Astoundingly selfish.
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  905. Membership of NATO is made scapegoat. Real issue was membership of EU and damage it would do to trade between Russia and Ukraine. That was the real threat which led to coup and ultimately led to military action, first Crimea, then Donbas, then the SMO. The EU by offering membership to Ukraine has led to what might escalate into the unimaginable. If EU provoked it once, they will try again and again and this needs to be dealt with more than anything else, especially since Ukraine and Russia will eventually heal their divides.
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  906. If one NATO country attacks Russian troops directly in Ukraine, will it nullify Article 5 for all NATO countries???
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  907. Do they realise they are digging themselves into a cauldron?
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  908. Ukraine going to let the women bring their children and babies with them?
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  909.  @dennisbakker5262  I have been stretching UK free speech to the limit the last day or two - so, yes, I would says so, right now. Not to be taken for granted though. Use it while it is day because the night comes.
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  910. Like an old London taxi, the 360:7 will turn 360 on a sixpence.
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  911. Total war is, according to Wikipedia, a tenet of that nasty ideology.
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  912. The problem is not that Russia is more Christian now. The problem is that in the meantime it is the West which has become more atheist and less Christian. Especially USA. So no love.
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  913. Maybe Boris is king-elect of the UK.
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  914. They are right to reinstate a dress code. Everyone must wear shorts and hoodies so Fetterman feels at home and Elenskyy too.
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  915. Xi Jinping’s responsibility is China with 1.5 billion people compared to 20 times fewer people under Macron’s responsibility and Macron only has a fifth the GDP to worry about compared to China’s GDP. Admittedly China has more devolved authority but it needs to with so much wealth and people to govern.
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  916.  @HerrDirleWanger1  if people let hypocrites lead them, they only have themselves to blame if they are blindly led by the blind into a catastrophe.
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  917. The head of the leviathan is eating the tail.
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  918. A joined up payment system is never allowed to go completely global and forces are always at work, not necessarily coming from individual countries but as a human nationalistic protection instinct, to stop these being widely agreed. Countries never like to use what neighbours use. They like to use home-grown technologies in case they fall out with neighbours under future regimes or in case someone other than their own country sees a chance to dominate the tech. Of course USA often hosted previous tech standards, only ostensibly hosted by ISO, IEC, UNECE, etc. New polarities might change this, but the nationalistic protection instincts will likely stop this going far, even with USA out of the loop. Note the techies will still likely want ISO standard status for all the tech, even if USA is not directly involved. This will give USA a vote on it.
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  919. Biden’s Neo Cons, as with Netanyahu, love to try to make their policies look Bible-based (as much as Science-based). Well I predict on Bible-based precedent, a demise of these leaders, based on the demise of two historical leaders of Israelites, Ahab and Josiah. Ahab did so much evil that God let evil spirits inspire false prophets to convince him he could go to war and be victorious. He was killed in the war. Josiah was a good-doer but still got cocky and went to war in a war that was not his. He too got killed in it.
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  920. Norway of course was about to open its own pipeline to Poland. Who benefits? But suppressing investigation is complicity.
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  921.  @hughmanetti1908  The MSM are getting dingy training though. Always good to diversify.
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  922. So Elenskyy not only evidently a false prophet (The False Prophet?) but declaring himself to be antichrist too. (The Antichrist?)
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  923. “Washington expects that every member state will do its duty.” It is written in the flags.
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  924.  @vaska1999  Exactly the kind of thing I was thinking about. Thanks. I'll have to have a look for that book.
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  925. Is it all actually part of the same conflict? Ukraine, Gaza. Similar roots. Similar histories. Similar reactions to a history of subjugation by similar empires. Ripples of WW1 and WW2.
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  926. Oh no. Lord Dave throwing the whole West under the Elenskyy curse bus. Anyone who says they will outlast the P, ends up with shortened political career. A subsidiary curse of the great Elenskyy curse. Now Lord Dave shoves the whole West into its oncoming headlights.
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  927. How realistic really is realism? There is hidden reality overriding what is visible and controlling the outcomes of each throw of the dice, so how can we analyse events without including the hidden? Just as irrational numbers are needed in physics, there is the hidden which is needed to make rational sense of geopolitical events.
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  928. Tomato avoidance subroutines are an important part of predator programming, which is one reason Russia needs to reverse engineer that drone. (Although modern predator drones probably use Chat GPT rather than subroutines.)
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  929. Crafty Kellogg wanting to make it look like Russian Donbas gains are just a temporary zone. Kellogg is zoning Russia.
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  930. Presumably, now, there is incentive to move further into Kursk to be able to move these missiles nearer to Moscow.
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  931. According to Wikipedia “The Soviet/Russian military has used DU ammunition in tank main gun ammunition since the late 1970s, mostly for the 115 mm guns in the T-62 tank and the 125 mm guns in the T-64, T-72, T-80, and T-90 tanks.”
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  932. It amazes me that people are so forgiving: Forgiving of those who come to a religion like worship of former national gods, with zero belief that those gods exist. Somehow that isn't thought to matter at all. Christianity in its original form would not deny the existence of such gods but makes the revelatory assertion that even with these gods existing, another unknown God also exists who offered for us all a sacrifice of His own dear son as a sacrifice against guilt and punishment for human failings, and that this God is king over all the gods and father over all beings, spiritual and physical.
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  933. Hatred is not a plan, not a purpose.
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  934. If Teams had a tent background like that it would be most popular background on Teams.
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  935. If banning Z makes Zelenskyy Elenskyy, maybe it makes Zaluzhny Illusiony.
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  936. Germany will be burdened with the remnant of Ukraine anyway via EU props. Might as well get the virtue signalling op.
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  937. Biden is a unique person who has power to intersperse punctuation in his spoken words.
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  938.  @RM-vv9eh  ​ Putin is arguably not the worst threat. RAND is. Along with other USA (and UK) think tanks connected to the MIC. Putin is not causing suffering across Europe and throughout the world. RAND and USA and UK think tanks are, along with the US MIC. These are the instigators of sanctions and arms supply and escalation and persistence of military actions and fearmongering and warmongering, etc, etc. Putin is staying extremely cool and restrained and responsible, compared to these think tanks and the politicians they control.
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  939. It will be sad if it does turn out to have been all a lie about how many killed. Not sad that hundreds were not killed of course, but sad that it clouds the fact that Israel did at least hold back to allow time for evacuations. The world abhors the threat of reprisals against Gaza and Hamas but when those reprisals are held back in mercy for humanitarian reasons the good deed gets punished with spreading of lies and false flags.
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  940.  @AsterixYZ  death wish. Tempting God. Tempting fate.
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  941.  @AsterixYZ  indeed, destroying the work of God brings destruction from God on themselves. Destruction from God is unimaginably bad because it can be endless.
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  942.  @AsterixYZ  I get the impression the failings go back longer than 2014, and are not all Putin's but largely the West's for not dealing with the ideological extremists after WW2 but they let them infiltrate the government of USA and possibly UK, as well as the USA/UK ruled parts of post-war Europe, hoping their extremism would help toughen the governing powers such as police and intelligence agencies. This meant there was a fire brand for restarting the fire in Ukraine after 2014. This is like the hiding of the 'devoted things' in Joshua 7. Things that should have been stamped out were seen as too useful to lose and were tolerated and even fostered. Now Donbass suffers the outcome of the revival of this extremism.
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  943. Really wondering how a typical German gets through, on average, one toilet roll every two days. What abundance!
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  944. Putin can now call the war a ‘war on terror’ to keep it general, but of course a ‘war on nasties’ is a preferred label.
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  945. Imagine if Elenskyy went to his top nasties wearing the stars and stripes.
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  946. I thought lots of people are bananas there
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  947. Neo cons doubling down is a theologically attested phenomenon best illustrated with the Exodus and the Ten Plagues of Egypt. The principle is that God hardens hearts. If He had not hardened the Pharaoh’s heart we might only have had a few plagues and would have missed out on the full glorious revelation to all of the power of God.
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  948. “Mishmash of equipment” isn’t that a terrible lesson we can learn out of these two terrible years. A heterogenous EU and Collective West is no match for a homogenous single nation of the same or greater resources.
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  949. What are our rights if they follow us home?
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  950. If in a hundred years time anyone is still left in UK establishment who wants to honour Starmer’s agreements, they will need to see if any rump country exists to honour it with.
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  951. Princess Victoria was just imagining Elenskyy in a suit.
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  952.  @toolboxevolution7456  the USA has very robustly kept itself out of the International Criminal Court. It will be interesting if international law evolves to allow it to be tried like others.
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  953.  @189Blake  Congo might have a case against Belgium for tens of millions dying under Leopold II
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  954. Trump being arrested? Giuliani? And this is not Mafia? This is not Rome? This is not 666? DCLXVI?
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  955. Might as well disband UN Security Council now it has shown it only has affect over non-West nations. Sure, it has teeth … if it suits USA to bare those teeth and roar.
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  956. The military and aristocratic russophobes of Europe and Britain forget that half of Ukraine is very Russian.
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  957.  @Papawcanner  I guess I never knew who Colston was much of my life but later I knew and was happy and proud to stand in the crowd that pulled down his statue. I would love to be in a crowd if they did it to Truman’s. Likely the Military pulled the wool over his eyes, but nonetheless he signed the order to drop the nukes.
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  958.  @phuaalbert7644  When you sell something but give the buyer the money to buy it …
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  959. Poland is common factor. Root of Ukraine grievances in Middle Ages, historic animosity with Russia through the centuries, right down to EU member wanting to bring in Ukraine, mercenary source, and even a beneficiary of Nordstream sabotage. Poland getting money from Germany. Poland had its own pipeline opening day after sabotage. Provocateur par excellence. Poland needs to be involved in the diplomacy and stop envying and provoking Russia. Or doom looms. But on other side, also need the legacy of the successors of Galician SS to be rooted out with prohibitions and prosecutions. It is a hate triangle. Galicia, Poland, Russia.
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  960. Missle strike NYT timing: maybe the strike did coincide with Blinken visit and help seek an invite to USA from Blinken, and NYT asked not to publish truth until after the visit is secured, done and dusted.
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  961.  @derekbilston  They will make themselves sound like delusional believers in their own hype.
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  962. The new special relationship might be materialising. A new dawn.
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  963. I liked the picture Trump had on Airforce One of his new golf course - American Golf.
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  964.  @RichardPhillips1066  ChatGPT 3.5: “The Marshall Plan and NATO were both initiatives developed in the aftermath of World War II with the aim of promoting stability and security in Europe. While they were separate initiatives, they shared common goals of rebuilding Europe and containing the spread of communism. The Marshall Plan provided economic aid to help rebuild war-torn European countries, while NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was a military alliance formed to provide collective defense against the Soviet Union and its allies. So, in essence, they were complementary efforts aimed at strengthening Europe both economically and militarily in the face of Cold War tensions.”
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  965. Was that a gain of function goat?
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  966. There is an argument for Israel funding Readiness 2030. It stands to benefit from weakening Russia.
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  967. Verhofstadt bitterly opposed Brexit, treating it like treasonous treachery. "The only winners from a Brexit would be Nigel Farage and Vladimir Putin; who would relish a divided Europe." To him, all the Leave voters were all the useful idiots of Putin. His brother is nicer. Author of books against Nasty genocide.
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  968. Why now, all of a sudden? Any possibility it is some kind of insurance job, to make a humungous claim? Asbestos nearly brought down the insurance sector decades ago. Is this something the insurance sector ought to be worrying about?
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  969. 1000 missiles would be poetic justice. It is biblical. "I will give a thousand in your stead."
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  970. What would happen if the Speaker overruled Zelenskyy?
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  971. Maybe this is a weakness in the full stack development concept. If UI specialists write backend code, maybe they are less likely to use TDD or even be aware of the importance of unit tests.
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  972.  @lesleyriseam1282  In YouTube on iPad I did not get that option.
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  973. Trump ought immediately to hold a referendum in Hispanic, Spanish-speakers in Mexico Americana to see if 1. they would like to return to Mexico 2. they would like to be part of Spanish overseas territories, 3. remain states of USA.
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  974. Any Ukrainians sent back to fight by European countries, any which fight and survive, once they have battle experience, who will they turn on when their fighting is over?
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  975. Anything incriminating we already know was clearly put there by the Chinese using his TikTok account
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  976. Latvia might be able to salvage helmet materials from washing machines
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  977. Kauliflower off the menu. Too callous.
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  978.  @Robert-z8z1z  Elon is South African. He is still a citizen (plus Canadian plus USA citizen). His family are there, including his father, Errol Musk, and some half-siblings. But that is not the point. It is the possibility of moving his business there that gives him leverage, even if hypothetical.
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  979. How a legacy codebase could be used with RAG would be interesting. A base that had the learning of the codebase language would be obvious starting point. Thanks very much for ruling out relearning.
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  980. Russian dolphin recruits damaged the pipelines. But they acted autonomously.
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  981. What ghastly things will this mean for civilians left in Kherson, left to the whims of Ukrainian troops moving in? Hell on earth, I think, unless Russia has made some kind of provision or knows the evacuation is adequate.
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  982. It does serve as a poignant reminder of what led to this war in the first place and how embedded the UK and USA are in these kinds of actions by Ukraine’s troops and governments.
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  983. West involvement in various ways in attacks on civilians over and over. Plus their ongoing support for years for those conducting these attacks. This all backfires because they are inevitably changing the rules of the game towards normalisation and growing acceptance and complacency towards the notion of military attacks on civilians per se. This can quickly come back on the West. The West when its own civilians are attacked in future, perhaps near future, will find complacency shown by the reeducated international community: the community whose reeducation and recalibration the West leaders themselves have engineered.
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  984. Blinken insightfully realises Ukraine was really just letting Russia take Bakhmut. Right?
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  985. It’s the long term view which wins.
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  986. Today you need billions just to get the same kick you could get from thirty pieces of silver back in the first century.
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  987. They really do not want it to be that Putin saves tens, hundreds of thousands of Germans from dying of pneumonia this winter. They rather those people suffer illness in the cold and even die rather than Putin save them with cheap fuel.
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  988. Now the Bakhmut cauldron is no longer needed, the flanks can disperse. It will be success if Russia can withdraw those flanks with low loss of life. The cauldron was a strategic killing machine. It was a pitcher plant death trap. Now the killing has run its course the flanks can be given up.
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  989. Russia teaming up with Iran and N Korea to stand up to USA makes sense - proportionate. Teaming with China could be seen as disproportionate and warrant negative UN SC response.
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  990. I do tend to focus on risk assessing everything crucial and mitigating the risks, as part of a sense of responsibility instilled into me in public service. It might not qualify me to be called a software engineer. But it is seen as a weakness of mine by those with a more ‘positive’, ‘optimistic’ approach. It can be used against me. Today people having slogans to use against my ilk such as “go fast and break things” and calling my ilk “risk averse”. You can lose a job over it these days. Career even. That is what can go wrong. How do we mitigate it?
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  991. Thank God Nature gave us good natural solution - Omicron. No patent on it either. Free. Effective. Mild. Thank God for common sense of Jimmy Dore too.
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  992. ICC arrest order for Putin an existential threat for Russia, justification for sanctifying a declaration of war
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  993. Cleverly finding a new version of sunk cost fallacy? Not so clever really, maybe.
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  994. Escort the ships to protect them from drone attacks. Why did the Russians not think of that in Crimea?
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  995. If it is stupid then either all USA is being stupid to allow it, or USA is neither free nor leading nation of a free world.
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  996. Excellent explanation of Chino-Russian relationship and fair world order.
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  997. A false flag is implausible. If Russia did this, they would have associated it directly with Ukraine, US, UK, not with ISIS.
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  998. USA and Israel MUST NOT GET Iran’s hypersonic AI tech.
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  999. Walz, so he looks about Biden’s age. Do they never learn?
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  1000. We can trust the EU as long as there are no legal loopholes they can use against our trust. But even tiniest loopholes which take a year to find even with all their legal expertise, watch out for those.
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  1001. @@evilsquirrell995 Yes, I thought as much.
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  1002. This is the West’s anti-Trump answer to Trump’s wall. Not a wall of metal and concrete. A wall of human bodies and souls. Like the druid wicker man mass human sacrifice to try to turn back an enemy. Diplomacy not allowed. This is Viking and Druid paganism gone mad. All to gainsay Trump.
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  1003. UK Parliament, Cabinet, Lord Dave, all literally overtly, viscerally hate Trump. That is going to be expensive while Trump holds all the highest cards. Probably. Perhaps being hateful is not a good long term strategy. Even with a psycho dispassionate point of view.
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  1004. If 560 is touting this kind of EU foreign policy, I guess it might stretch to Belfast too. And Russia might need to retreat back into the Aleutians.
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  1005. The West knows all the range of suspects, yet points at Putin without evidence. Is that slander?
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  1006. Excellent reporting. Israel might not be so eager as Iran is to keep things legal. The law is currently on the rest of the world side, against the Israel attacks of Gaza so Iran will want to uphold the law carefully but those in favour of the attacks against Gaza might want the law to be undermined as much as possible right now. So I guess we can expect more silliness from Israel.
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  1007. Fun video. Could have been a bit longer.
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  1008.  @bigbob3772  I always found that a bit odd, but the explanation Wikipedia gives is that the name included ‘socialist’ because it was the far right alternative to the leftist socialism. Hence ‘nationalist socialist’, I suppose, as distinct from leftist socialist.
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  1009. I wish Medvedev would clarify whether Donbas voted out of the regime because of the resources they were sitting on in Donbas, knowing if they could separate they would take it with them?
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  1010. The USA just sounds like a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them even after they discipline him.
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  1011. Chat GPT also said “When storing depleted uranium (DU) shells or any radioactive materials, safety measures are typically taken to minimize the risk of dispersion and radioactive hazards. DU shells are often stored in secure and controlled environments, such as specially designed storage facilities or bunkers. These storage facilities are constructed to prevent unauthorized access and minimize the risk of accidental release or dispersal of radioactive materials. They may have reinforced structures, containment systems, and shielding materials to contain radiation and prevent the spread of radioactive particles in the event of an explosion or attack. Moreover, the design and composition of DU shells themselves help reduce the risks associated with their storage. DU is a dense material primarily used for its penetrative properties, and the uranium used in DU shells is typically in a metallic or alloy form, making it less prone to dispersal compared to a powder or vaporized form. However, it is important to note that any storage of radioactive materials carries inherent risks, and safety protocols and guidelines vary depending on the specific regulations and practices of each country or organization. Risk assessments, security measures, and proper handling procedures are typically implemented to mitigate potential hazards and minimize the impact of a possible attack or accident on radioactive munitions storage facilities.”
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  1012. Quote: If a spike in detected gamma radiation is observed following a missile strike and a subsequent huge explosion, it could be an indication that depleted uranium (DU) shells or other radioactive materials were involved and potentially damaged or dispersed. Gamma radiation detectors are sensitive to high-energy photons emitted during radioactive decay, including those emitted during the decay of radioactive isotopes present in DU. However, it's important to note that detecting a spike in gamma radiation alone does not conclusively prove that DU shells were hit or involved in the explosion. Gamma radiation can be emitted by various radioactive sources, including other types of radioactive materials or even naturally occurring radiation sources. To confirm the involvement of DU shells, further investigation and analysis would be required. This may involve on-site inspections, environmental sampling, analysis of radioactive isotopes, and correlation with other evidence such as the presence of DU fragments or residue. In military operations, specialized teams and equipment may be deployed to assess the presence of radioactive materials, including DU, after explosive events. These teams would use radiation detection and monitoring equipment, conduct thorough assessments, and follow established protocols to identify and mitigate any potential radioactive hazards.
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  1013.  @GeoPoliticsCommentry  Yes it could be evidence. There are other possibilities because it should also be noted that the same city region of the explosion was where Soviet nuclear missiles ICBMs were stored in the Cold War and until recently UK and US had been helping deal with remnants of that nearby. So this might explain the precautions too.
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  1014.  @litlnote-wu6yv  Challenger tanks have it both armour plating and shells
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  1015. Excellent analysis. Excellent.
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  1016. There seems to me to be great similarity between Arab states’ historical rejection of the State of Israel and West nations’ and Ukraine’s rejection of Donbas as a Russian territory.
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  1017.  @niravelniflheim1858  not all education is good education: there is a broad path and a narrow path, and few find the narrow path
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  1018. Completely innocent drone went off-course while conducting routine espionage to enable USA to help Ukraine invade Crimea. Nothing sinister. Went off-course and crashed into a plane. No need to shoot it down or anything. All very innocent.
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  1019.  @alexdetrojan4534  I know. I got it strong over the decades. I managed to undo some of it though. Cutting down on watching state or public-licence-funded media helped.
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  1020. A week after his predecessor Truss addresses a far right conference and Sunak is claiming he is under far right threats to democracy.
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  1021.  @eadweard.  Well you might not be allowed to tell them you have ham or eggs. You just say there is stuff on there you cannot see.
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  1022.  @eadweard.  But if I understand you correctly, yes, the police cannot have a right to look through your laptop if the military or other such agencies in our system also have a right to demand that you keep anything secret. The eggs and the ham do not necessarily come together, but both need the other to exist.
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  1023.  @eadweard.  they each need to exist and need for the other to exist yet both cannot exist together with the other!
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  1024. A few years ago Moldova was voting to be a communist state: worth remembering that. The only country to have democratically voted in favour of being communist. Then the EU and Romania won them over and they acted like they had not a few years earlier been pro-Russian and voting to be communist. Transnistria on the border is still part of USSR officially. Really in some ways still part of Moldova. And govs in West use Moldova to develop their software. What if they swing back. Easy come, easy go.
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  1025. “Mr Elenskyy, Now that I don’t have to run Canada any more, do you think I could have one of those fancy homes…”
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  1026. False accusations against such a world leader along lines of murder would make hits on them justified so Biden bitin his tongue (or bidin his time) is very sensible. I think of King David in Bible, giving instructions to his successor Solomon regarding someone who had gone around in public shouting that David was a murderer. (Shimei.) Solomon waited and eventually did the business, Solomon acclaimed king of great wisdom.
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  1027. If you got too much help from such a spirit you might get labelled a sorcerer and executed, in many cultures at certain times in history. Even in some isolated tribes today. So don’t go seeking this family spirit too much, I guess.
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  1028. Isn’t Blinken doing well. We’re proud of his progress.
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  1029. God loves Tucker
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  1030. NATO needs to donate its own weather machine. Only then can we see a counteroffensive.
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  1031. Sarcophagus of Lazarus empty because it was found like that, the body having been taken elsewhere to protect it.
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  1032. Boris Johnson’s name says it all. Boorish Johnson.
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  1033.  @christopherrobinson7541  It is not too hard. X = Percentage vaccinated in population. Y = percentage vaccinated among the dead. If Y >> X then it says something.
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  1034. How would the law apply when buying a new build dwelling? Problems might not materialise until ten years or so after the purchase and the credit of a mortgage is a much larger amount. Is there legal protection commensurate with this?
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  1035. Is it an actual shortage or is it a symptom of managers wanting to boast of more reports, more developers managed by them? Productivity might be going down among existing devs because employers are employing devs with less aptitude. If so then an effect of this would reasonably be spun as a need for more devs. But more devs means recruitment of lower aptitude devs and so the negative feedback loop continues. Result: quality of software regresses.
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  1036. Here we go again with bailouts but this time will the US itself go bankrupt? It got close last time, IIRC. More money printing? Hyperinflation?
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  1037. It is biblically chronicled for even some of the greatest of leaders to be brought down by an individual woman: Adam by Eve, Samson by Delilah, David by Bathsheba, Solomon by a pagan wife, Ahab by Jezebal, Herod by Salome.
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  1038. Obviously Biden must be an agent for Putin. :) NATO all going on that blacklist. How dare they contradict Ellensky like that.
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  1039. Time for Brexit to get UK out of USA. UK independence should mean independence from USA too (with its US and Ukraine flags).
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  1040. The cat failed in its objective to be your advisor
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  1041. Plan B time for everyone who depended on USA and/or NATO.
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  1042. What might this mean for India. India seems split between China and USA. Could this mean a civil war of pro-USA versus pro-China-pro-Russia Indians? Or a color revolution in India?
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  1043. Losing side left/right in UK after election has a bit of a riot as a way to off-ramp without loss of face.
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  1044.  @stconstable  We need him high profile, a voice of sanity in an ever-darker world
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  1045. Ultimately this special military operation by Russia could end the Ukrainian bombing of Donetsk civilians and could establish a truer way for separatists to gain rights to live normal lives. Kiev presumed the right to separate but did not allow that right to others. The West should be forced to accept that if Ukraine can separate then so can Donetsk, there should be fairness when ascribing political rights to self-determination. Russia wants a fairer world than the West typically provides. Self-determination rights must be applied fairly without favouritism. That is a great goal even for a military operation like this. We should minimise how we resort to military violence, or any violence, remembering that those who live by the sword will die by the sword, but given good reason and faced with ongoing killing of compatriots year after year, a ruler of compatriots in suffering might have no choice.
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  1046.  @MartinMaarva  The inaccuracy issue is really about 22s and 32s, the older cruise missiles
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  1047. Russian-friendly countries understand the horrors of what the Ukrainians might do to any foreigners if they are not moderated. If the West loses mandate to keep things under control, the Ukrainians forces left to their own devices could make hell for foreigners at their mercy.
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  1048. I expect AI will soon start to develop communication unintelligible to humans, and we will lose interest or something like that will act as retarding effect. A bit like Tower of Babel but just through the effects of how AI works. It will start to use AI-generated training, then it will find more input it understands from what humans have not written.
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  1049. The Shengen cannot handle migrants. Wait till this war ends and it is battle-hardened migrants who are flooding Europe. It will be like the years following the Great War when gangs were led by veterans from the trenches.
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  1050. People will not like Putin comparing assassination with espionage but who know better than he how these worlds overlap. The masters of the one are often the masters of the other. And his understanding of espionage is more realistic that it does not require handing the information on for it to still be espionage. We rely a lot on shared stereotypes in the West without understanding the underlying realities.
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  1051. Perhaps attacks on Crimea stopped following removal of Boris Johnson from being PM. Perhaps he influenced them.
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  1052. Ursula flares the gas quite a lot too
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  1053. Didn’t ‘the Queen’ get helicoptered into London Olympics, complete with parachute. Now such stunts should be banned and helicopters given to Ukraine instead of wasted like this.
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  1054. Of course Iran cannot buy nukes off Russia because then Russia and Iran might get sanctioned by the West 😊
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  1055. In old world thinking a proxy war not admitted to has a murderous element to it. Admitted to it openly makes it less murderous.
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  1056.  @normankennith7919  Like when Ant and Dec did it - the cannibals!
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  1057.  @normankennith7919  but to avoid the chitin allergy problem the kids have to start very early, like 1 or 2 years old. School age is too late. My wife works as school dinner lady and a kid with a food allergy is like the worst nightmare.
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  1058. From an English world point of view (Anglo Saxon as Putin puts it), Biden's message on nuclear weapons sends a culturally, historically understood message of warning not about nuclear weapons but about pressure on leaders from hardliners to be aggressive. The warning says "Back off, the situation has now become too extremely dangerous for loose talk and crazy thinking. Get a grip. We now need to be extremely careful." It sends a subtext message that Biden is feeling dangerously threatened by his own advisors and public opinion that wants him to be more aggressive. It is a strong, very strong, apologetic for being careful. It is assurance that he is aware of the danger and the need to be careful.
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  1059. How come Ukraine has Olympic athletes that have not been recruited? Perhaps they are not fit to fight.
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  1060. Will misappropriation of Russian assets be the biggest heist in history? How would it compare with the big banks seizing public funds in the financial crash bailouts?
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  1061. Will the new iron curtain be around the USA?
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  1062. They should show this video in Western schools.
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  1063. Miko Peled is keeping excellent soundness of mind when all around are losing theirs.
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  1064. Evacuation of all of Ukraine's cities? Where will all those people go? More close at hand than the Syrian crisis. My bet is Poland initially but when Poland is full to bursting point the overflow will fill Europe and impact the UK. All because Boris and Truss chose the belligerent path.
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  1065.  @DoctorChained  the thing with tables is that they turn sometimes
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  1066. If Brits invite vampires over the threshold, they deserve what comes next. Too many vampires here on invitation. If God does not save Britain, at least we’ll know Britain brought disaster on itself by tolerating the evils of the bombing of Donbas civilians.
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  1067. ​ @cynthiawylie3584  Japan's Minister of Digital Transformation, Takuya Hirai, announced that Japan's government intends, since the lessons it learned from the pandemic, to align electronically with standards I am aware are those used by the Collective West which bring them hundreds of billions in savings, maybe trillions, and the UK national health service said got it through the pandemic. Interesting that it is adopting these particular technologies - interesting because they also help military organisations align across some NATO countries. possibly soon the USA too. So the problems with debt, being behind with some technology in public sector and alignment with Collective West could all be on the way to being solved soon for Japan.
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  1068. UK and EU countries could invade Russia by flying paratroopers into the middle of Siberia, taking the P completely by surprise, and doing it in midwinter when the P least expects it.
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  1069. The West doubtless needs and might look for (whatever that might mean) another coogh to smokescreen their defeat.
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  1070. That is why I voted Brexit, because the EU has a justice minister who is the one keeping account of the stolen Russian assets. That is how justice works in the EU. The justice guys run the stealing.
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  1071. You know your country has a good effective head of state when your enemy wants regime change. The West’s constant calls for regime change of Putin is great flattery or praise for Putin.
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  1072. Maybe software needs a constitution, to try to take ownership of the developer experience.
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  1073. Nikky: Does EU need to give 20bn to Estonia and Latvia and maybe Finland and even Norway?
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  1074. Those awful Nicaeans would have exiled Jesus and his apostles. Nobody in Acts who converted would be regarded as saved if strict Nicaeanism were true. None of the converts mentioned in Acts professed to believe Jesus is God. They believed the Son is forever subject to the Father, his God, the One greater than he.
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  1075.  @GotMoxy  maybe it is the answer. Not for me to interfere or be presumptuous. It is holy season. They should ask God to make the right thing happen. The eagle has circled overhead for so long now.
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  1076.  @leadroleeventslondon7938  chicken and egg
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  1077. Might be a false flag badly thought through. Shoot it down knowing about the prisoners, thinking they could say Russia shot it down. Not thinking through to how dubious that would sound in the media, now that the mood is a bit more sceptical about the old narratives. Unlikely but worth considering alongside other scenarios.
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  1078. USA has kindly hosted many things important for civilisation. It grew to regard this as its role, or part of its role (the part more easy to appreciate). But it seemed to only be supported by notional foundations, by bluff, such as the dollar based on no real valuable asset, and the notion of entitlement. So it seems unlikely to be a long term viable host for the pillars of civilisation. BRICS is looking viable as an alternative. But will it be a willing host of the artefacts and institutions needed for civilisation? That still remains to be seen. And it nows has an axe to grind which might worsen as the USA-aligned nations get ideas about imposing sanctions on anyone in BRICS, a notion they will doubtless entertain eventually if not already. Will BRICS be willing to provide such hosting and institutions for all of civilisation? India and Russia are hinting at preparedness this week with lunar projects for the good of humankind as a whole. Maybe this is a viable alternative to the USA. What we need ideally is a multipolar option where two or more ‘poles’ emerge, perhaps still the USA as one of them. Is there room for more than one at the top? That would require maturity and magnanimity.
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  1079. Cyprus might be concerned that UK too has likely no stable government prospects for next few months.
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  1080. Russia could only offer protection to buffer zone residents by moving them into non-buffer, fully-protected territory. That would be a huge undertaking given how much area would be in the buffer zone and how many would need evacuating. Plus Russia has to avoid allegations of genocide by depopulation by any evacuation that is made compulsory such as children.
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  1081. President Putin must remember the hidden influences of the Bandera far right within the secret services of the Collective West. The very things which surfaced in Canada are there beneath the surface still. Denazification must try to seek cooperation of Collective West in stamping out this hidden problem too.
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  1082. Nice that West’s stance on Ukraine (and even veterans of Waffen SS?) has not undermined their trust from Israel. Nice. Nizi nice.
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  1083. Surely the trips to Kiev blow out of the water the snide comments of Truss and Boris about Putin being a poisoner who gives commands for chem attacks on his enemies. They started the EU sanctions on this basis after the Salisbury poisonings.
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  1084. Of course the Russians sensibly would mine the roofs of buildings of the ZNPP, to protect from attacks by paratroopers on the roofs or from helicopters landing on the roofs.
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  1085.  @georgem9686  I think Boris and other powerful people wanted to support Ukraine but other English majority support has to be maintained by propaganda and most seem to have tired of it. Hardly any blue and yellow flags in the streets any more. Probably the news about killings of Donbas civilians has filtered through. Still, too many in England are wilfully naive and therefore complicit. The Elensky curse is going around still. Maybe naive Brexiteers think England has something in common with Ukraine in independence efforts. But whereas England wanted out, Ukraine wants in. Really England should see it has more in common with Donbas.
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  1086. Moving out of public view, the guise falls off, no longer required. Who is the eighteen year old’s real enemy?
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  1087.  @aidanmacdougall9250  We all saw him regularly on TV as rival to Farage and he was entertaining, a colourful personality and very articulate and knowledgable, compared to the boring eurocrats. He made sense and when he didn’t you could sympathise with his basic human envy and jealousy which he never hid. He reminded me of characters like Ian Paisley, outspoken and never hiding his outlandish but sane opinions, yet quite entertaining in how he expressed them. I knew someone well who was at school with Paisley but no, never someone at school with Verhofstadt. Were you?
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  1088. EU cannot be sure it will not eventually one day have to pay back the assets with high interest. If EU can deceive and defraud by making people think it will not ever be called in by Russia or creditors of Russia, well, then EU might be able to profit illegally from it in the meantime. But most likely EU will end up deceiving itself too with that con trick. It will one day fail to have the assets and interest ready to pay back. Then it will be in big trouble. So it might gain unjustly, but it might lose out justly.
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  1089. Putin highlighted that denastification for him means not necessarily a war on them as people but a prohibition of their organisations. That was a key message to come out of this. It is what the Istanbul agreement provided for. He is not at all suggesting genocide against nasties.
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  1090. So basically the sick guys could not keep their medicine down, which presumably in Trump’s logic means they are all going to stay sick, queasy sick. Except China. China swallowed the medicine and got its benefit. So when USA is all sick and queasy in bed, China might deign to visit. Or not.
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  1091. LLMs are great at DDD. Serendipity?
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  1092. Putin highlighting 'concern' might merely be Putin echoing the existing concern and sympathising with it, namely a concern about hegemony and monopolar world order. However, Putin seems to be offering no viable solution when he bases his solution on the UN. The UN has already proven itself a blind guide, unworthy of such a position, when the UN-led IAEA failed to 'see' any source of the strikes on the ZNPP. A fair world order needs a new guide, not the UN. Better to follow local sighted leaders than global blind leaders.
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  1093.  @antonywooster6783  I agree. But the concept of career politicians might also have something to do with it. The elite schools and universities protecting the political career path to keep it to their own only. You have to decide to do politics at 18. Or your parents decide.
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  1094.  @antonywooster6783  It is nice when someone truly successful in managing with governance thousands or millions of people and proven track record improving lives of millions can actually make it to the top.
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  1095. Might it be fair to consider it possible that Comey might have some unresolved issues?
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  1096. That T-34 tank, maybe Russia could send it to Elenskyy.
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  1097. What triggers this state? Is it already triggered? Is it just up to Russia to recognise it as having now been triggered? (If so, Putin suggests he is waiting for confirmation whether Britain has made a decision regarding the missiles.) Is it USA which triggers it? (If UK word is not enough but needs USA confirmation.) Would first missile attack trigger it? Has Britain actually made the decision? Is there a cooling off period arbitrarily determined by Russia?
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  1098. No more chance of curtailing war crime attacks than there would be in drug cartel controlled parts of southern USA, Mexico, etc.
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  1099. CERN should never have let Tim BL develop HTML because they should have known sooner or later the Russians would learn how to use it 😊 Now look at them. They are even on the Internet!
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  1100.  @neilba1  I don’t think that kind of narrative affects justice
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  1101.  @solaroid4442  the idea of nationalist having to be told be a Brit not to be dependent on UK and USA is rather ironic, don’t you think
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  1102. Scholz got it nailed with his right arm too. Holding it across body like Napoleon.
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  1103. Sullivan being silly huh.
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  1104. Alex repeats himself like a pool player aiming back and forth in rehearsal before making the opening break.
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  1105. SirKier to lead the CirCus?
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  1106. Grant Shnapps (Shapps, sorry) looking tactical, not strategic. Just jumping on every little news story. Nothing more strategic on offer for UK.
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  1107. Think tanks should stick to LARPing and narrating Dungeons and Dragons. Daily Mail seems to be well suited to such pursuits too.
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  1108. With this pipeline endeavour, the Russians clearly saw light at the end of the tunnel. The West seems to see no such light.
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  1109. It might have been nice if the UK had held some kind of referendum before assuming our gov could dive headlong into a deadly embrace with a non-treaty country.
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  1110.  @donhuntsberger9153  But if they can destroy the rights of Russians to self-defence, they can do it with Palestinians too.
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  1111. The Gov and Law are forever legislating things that don’t exist in the technology. I remember they legislated that all public sector document exchanges had to use a certain technology. I was in local gov at the time and this new law (I guess at that time not strictly yet a law but nevertheless a requirement authoritatively imposed on public sector organisations) was brought to my attention and there was no technology available to comply with it for invoices. I spent the next ten years participating in tech work to make it possible but at my own expense and the Gov would not lift a finger to help nor ever paid a penny towards it. I even lost my day job at the end of it. Now they boast of how successful it all was, saving billions for the public purse. But I got not a penny for making their law (now actual law) possible to comply with. I only pray for a share in the harvest. That is how these things work.
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  1112. "Sorry, Europe. We were aiming at Russia."
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  1113.  @quemades  Ten years from now the message will be easier to tell, because there will be bad times for those mixed up in the collusions and guilt. Brexit was a bit early, while the EU still had a lot going for it and the message was not so widely received and thus half the country has never accepted it.
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  1114. For ethnic Russians living in Ukraine, it might be starting to become obvious that living under Russian rule the Russians fare better in Winter than Russians under Ukraine rule, with partial European and NATO protection. Russia taking back territory gained by spring-summer-winter-fall-spring-summer offensive around Robotyne shows that Russia does better than Ukraine in Winter. Obviously lots of factors involved. But it might be sending a subconscious message to Russians living in Ukraine, no different than those in Russian territory, that the real difference between themselves and their Russian territory neighbours is that Ukraine rules one while Russia rules the other, but those ruled by Russia fare better overall. That is devastating for Collective West. It is all about this really. The coup was all about ethnic Russians living in Ukraine being sold a message that they are better under Europe’s influence and protection than under Russia’s. That is the whole thing. And the logic is swinging in favour of Russian rule. Devastating. No wonder panic is growing.
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  1115. I find ChatGPT 3.5 useful because it did not know about the SMO because it’s training only goes up until Sept 2021.
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  1116. I bet Dnipro bridges would be too little a reprisal if Kirche is destroyed. Tower Bridge. Brooklyn Bridge. Maybe. Eye for eye. But hopefully the West will not be so stupid as to give Russia legal rights to retaliate. Like Israel SHOULD not have been so stupid to destroy embassy of Iran. Unfortunately Biden’s influences are allowing such things on his watch. Embassy. Pipelines. … What else?
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  1117. Pompeo today; tomorrow … This is where the same thing that has happened to UK Conservatives starts happening to NeoCons, to USA hawks, to USA Bible Belt warmongers. Shunned and set upon by the perils of exposure. The serendipity of their misfortunes.
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  1118. Will the EU have to put on hold compliance regulations regarding companies receiving stollen dirty money?
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  1119.  @brianmulvihill7066  where is that documentation?
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  1120.  @brianmulvihill7066  looks like they documented 8 attacks. That compares to eight years of almost daily attacks. Look at, say, Patrick Lancaster videos of eye-witnessing the attacks on Donetsk during 9 years (if you include ongoing attacks during this last year).
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  1121. It is good that you focus on preserving the truth about the war rather than fabricating a narrative. Although narratives do not win wars, a false narrative we have seen in this war can prolong the war and increase loss of life. If ever a war was fought for a false narrative it is this one. Previous winner of prize was of course Iraq War but now a new false narrative war based on lies has taken forefront of our minds. All we can do, if we want to avoid colluding with lies, is to try to persist the truth.
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  1122. Dark Brandon and the Axis of Evil, Stare Was, The Prequel
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  1123. UK and USA need to be seen holding hands. Two eyes. Israel is their toddler baby. It consummates their marriage. Then they can cope with isolation from everyone else. This is their raison d’être. Unfortunately it might be a crime family, as ICJ progress is made. That criminality is causing the wars. Adams Family Values.
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  1124. What about those who bombed Donetsk since 2014? Are the killers Russians to you? Sadly there are many in UK who are my countrymen but my enemies too because they want me to support the genocidal.
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  1125. Unelected. The Unellenskyy.
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  1126. If you use VPN to access services not normally available in your country, presumably the reason the service is not available might be due to the service supplier not being able to uphold legal requirements of providing services in your country, so you might be undermining their adherence to law.
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  1127. Secondary infection?
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  1128.  @talidari  Apart from USA where guns and violence overflows daily with no intention of ever scaling back, other countries are scaling back military as part of their prowess as successful nations, with no real need or desire to go to war and mostly pacifist (almost) citizens more used to office jobs and artisan coffee shops (not the Amsterdam variety). The appetite of the collective West outside of USA for full scale war is zero. I expect no offensive unless madness drives people to follow USA into normalised violence again.
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  1129. This war serves three purposes, to right some wrongs going back a long time, to free some oppressed Russians in Donbas, and thirdly, to show the utter folly of American warmongering.
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  1130. Is a strike with one 3000 kg any different to a strike with two 1500 kg FABs? Is it a big deal to combine the power of two previous bombs into one? Or is it just theatrical? Trying to create alarm or fear. It might be there is some advantage in doubling the power over two half power bombs. We need some objective facts. Not just the subjective feeling.
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  1131. It looks like Biden felt in some way responsible regarding Nevahlny, to be meeting his bereaved wife.
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  1132. They took on Russia and lost. Do they really think any settlement will leave them still as the West’s leaders?
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  1133.  @philc1773  then you have my respect
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  1134. Why did Putin lose Izyum? I suspect Putin lost some moral 'karma' when he failed to attend Gorbachev's funeral. Such 'karma' (for want of a better word) really does matter a lot in this kind of situation.
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  1135. Boris so Boorish
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  1136.  @BernardMcCarty  not sure Popper is taken that seriously nowadays. But I can’t disprove it 😊
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  1137.  @BernardMcCarty  makes me think of Plato's Allegory of the Cave and the Matrix movies
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  1138.  @BernardMcCarty  I guess this idea of the universe being software or a simulation is part of this philosophy. There is something to it. There is also the thinking of Pythagoras about the universe being mathematical (thinking of later students who wrote it down, at least). The concept of cosmic ledger and the Stoics philosophies and Heraclitus and later Philo about the Logos seems to have a lot in common with Deutsch.
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  1139. When Russia starts protecting the West powers, refraining from (futile?) allegations of war crimes against West leaders (contrast this with ICC warrant on the P), by using terms consultants and mercenaries, the West leaders become beholden to Russia.
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  1140. Trump is dreaming about lots of new golf courses. Mediterranean golf courses. And casinos.
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  1141. @ pretty sure nobody has ever been asked
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  1142. More than months are left in this, I think. The war is the tip of a deep iceberg. The causes are deep. They will be around for a few years, I would guess. The causes need exposing. They perhaps will surprise us all when they are revealed. Until then, this war looks tenacious and if it is tenacious, it leaves more room for escalation.
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  1143. Maybe the only way to save us from a dystopia of powerful technology is a tower of babel of dysfunctional teams. Social credit, mind implants, digital money, inability to wrest back control of nuclear power stations from future dangerous AI, autonomous military drones going rogue, all these kinds of software dystopias might be our nemesis if we keep working well together to build such a future.
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  1144. So Europe Day is just a shortname for ‘Let’s have another shot at victory in Europe’ Day.
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  1145.  @ARONHALLAM  I have read conflicting accounts of whether it actually got paid.
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  1146. What is wrong with how Europe produces the West's shiny wealth and luxury? What is wrong with how it buys up luxury from the world's suppliers and merchants? What is wrong with its priorities? What is wrong with the civilisation and world order based on the vestiges, the remnants. of the heritage of Rome? What is wrong with the city of power in the midst of modern Europe which goes back to Europe's roots in the Roman Empire? What is wrong with the powers who trace their lines of the right to rule right back to the powers of the prince electors of the Roman Empire whose power originated in Rome? Well the wealth, the luxuries, the opulence it still today gives to the West and beyond is all at the expense of bodies and souls of people. It does not draw the line in a moral place. It lets people die to produce the trade, and lets the essence of what a person is like, their character and who they are, get enslaved in the process of producing such wealthy and luxurious and opulent products. It throws away the baby and keeps the baby's bath water, so to speak. This is what is morally wrong with the world order based on the heritage of the ancient city of Rome. That is why we needed Brexit and still need to leave this Babylon today. That is why we need God's ways to displace Babylon's ways.
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  1147. Mr E, 100bn: Is that rounded up or rounded down?
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  1148. A wonderful question to ask. A wonderfully intelligent answer given. Great discussion.
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  1149. “A shift could mean higher costs for imports and possibly higher inflation, as demand for USD-backed assets declines.” ChatGPT
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  1150. If the decree banning negotiations is rescinded, later warmongers in Ukraine or its powerful partners might say the President had no power to rescind it without being first newly reelected. They will say any peace agreement will therefore be invalid. That is what Putin meant, I think. It must be 100 percent watertight.
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  1151.  @garyfreeman896  no joke, honest truth, unfortunately. Cursing can have real effects like shooting something down.
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  1152.  @garyfreeman896  Worry yourself no more. I have no gun. But my prayers are another matter. Cursing it down is what worries me, if it got any worse and I got tired from lack of sleep, they being a problem at night too. The local press noted a year or so ago that nobody seemed to know whose the helicopters were landing on the hospital helipad during lockdown when the hospital helicopters were clearly marked, and these had no markings. Presumably someone is letting private copters use the hospital helipad. It might originally have been a way rich people could get around lockdown restrictions. Now it just seems to be continuing.
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  1153.  @garyfreeman896  As for police, are you really thinking of going to the police who fly helicopters over my head too, and tell them someone below their helicopters might be so annoyed by them as to curse the helicopters which might bring them down? Oh, if you do, while you are at it, warn them about police and ambulance emergency vehicle sirens having the same effect, especially when sounding after 11pm.
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  1154.  @garyfreeman896  I pay my taxes so the government will pass laws that obviate my need to keep forever restraining my anger and extreme annoyance. Why else do we consent to being governed?
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  1155.  @garyfreeman896  Oh if only life were so simple. All my family live nearby. I have lived in the area almost fifty years. It is only a helipad on the hospital roof. Not unusual since ambulances run helicopter services. This might be where it all started. I remember we had one of the first police helicopter services start in the mid to late nineties. I even saw it as a sign in a vision just before that happened, a day or two. The eagle with the big white eye (actually a white camera mounted on the front and they called it Operation Vulture).
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  1156.  @TestGearJunkie.  just near our hospital is the main area where Chinese students live. I seem to recall Chinese students walking into the area from the hospital direction wheeling suitcases during the height of lockdown when there were no buses or trains or flights to local airport, yet unmarked private-type helicopters kept arriving on hospital roof. Maybe I got it wrong but it looked pretty obvious what might have been happening.
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  1157.  @TestGearJunkie.  the press reported on it saying these were not bona fide hospital helicopter flights but nobody knew what they were - private flights. But there was lockdown going on in full swing so nobody except local pedestrians were around - it was lovely to walk down the middle of empty main roads with no traffic whatsoever for months - so there was nobody around to do anything. I noticed Chinese student aged people were walking down roads with suitcases, even though no transport at all was running and no cars on roads. They were coming from hospital direction. In shops they were unaware how to work self serve checkouts so they were obviously complete newcomers. I put two and two together. There was nobody around to notice though, just minimum staff of three open shops in whole city centre.
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  1158.  @TestGearJunkie.  as to where this was, I do not want to make it difficult for anyone by saying, since I have said all this. For all I know it might have all been innocent rich Chinese making use of loopholes.
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  1159. But it goes on still with excess helicopter arrivals which are very noisy like during lockdown and very suspicious because they are not like standard official services helicopters. Somebody found loopholes and keeps exploiting it perhaps. Perhaps. But very annoying. And even at night (although I have given up looking to check if they are official helicopters now).
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  1160. And why oh why are there no restrictions nowadays to stop night noise. Even service emergency vehicles sound sirens at night nowadays. They are so loud it is literally harmful to ears. I get inflamed ears from it. Even during lockdown when no cars were around. Where is governance? What legal protection do we have - our ears and our sleeping and our nerves and stress levels.
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  1161.  @TestGearJunkie.  I must avoid making allegations
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  1162. If saying critical things about Russian leadership is to embrace death, what about most voices and leaders in the West. Why is Boris still alive? Not poisoned with nerve agent. Why is Truss alive? Why are the Telegraph reporters not killed? Why is Biden able to tour the world without fear of Bulgarian umbrella attacks? It does not add up.
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  1163. The pavements around my area are destroyed by frequent parking of cars on them. When it rains you cannot walk on the pavement and you have to walk in the road. If motorists object to us walking around their cars parked on pavements by us walking in busy road then they need to consider the consequences of their actions. If a mother with a pram needs to get down that way they cannot and they must walk in road, with potentially deadly consequences. If the motorists cause deaths by their negligent parking they are guilty. If they do not cause death but might have done so, they clearly did wrong but were lucky with the consequences.
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  1164. Trump’s obstacle to ending Ukraine war surely would come from inside US territory, from possibility of some kind of fifth column led by Nuland, and co.
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  1165. Lying prophets of phoney Christianity in USA and UK are emboldening warmongers of Bible Belt by fake hope of a rapture escape route before the warmongers see effects of their advice and decisions.
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  1166. Russia initially planned on basis of the initial state of Ukraine Army and capabilities. Now that USA is increasing its support, Russia has to adjust its operation. A build up might merely be a necessary response to the changing challenge. It is having to deal with possibility of direct involvement by NATO countries. It might be contingency planning.
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  1167. I suppose if you follow a fairly undefined order, nobody can say whether you are truly following it or not 😊 Our baptism is into Christ, so our duty is to follow teachings of Christ.
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  1168. Genocrat Party?
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  1169. Dark Pirate
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  1170. Another unlikely scenario. The current military of Ukraine might be so dena%ified now that they thought maybe real nasties were among the POWs and took them out just in case they are exchanged and get back into military and start nastifying again.
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  1171. How to extend USA
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  1172. I hope we all absolve you of the awkwardness of taking the oath of monarchism. As long as you use your power to move us towards a fairer political system 😊
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  1173. Israel will likely succumb to the Blair curse (not Blaire Witch curse, Tony curse). The UK has an old remedy antidote, called Cameron. They need to shake hands with Cameron quick before they shake hands with Blair. Cameron healed the UK when he took over from Blair and Brown. No more swine flu, foot and mouth, etc. once Cameron took over.
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  1174. Worse than regime change, it is audacious direct assertion of dominant power and will. It is about denial and wicked suppression of sovereignty of another nation. USA and Israel SHOULD NOT HAVE THE BOMB.
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  1175. I asked Chat GPT: How does Chat GPT answer questions? Does it reason or does it merely immitate human responses to similar questions? It answered: “As a language model, I rely on statistical patterns and machine learning algorithms to generate responses to questions. I do not have the capacity for conscious reasoning or understanding in the same way that humans do. My training data comes from a large corpus of text, which includes a diverse range of written material such as books, articles, and websites. This training allows me to recognize patterns in language and generate responses based on those patterns. When answering questions, I analyze the input question to determine its meaning and context, and then generate a response based on the statistical likelihood of certain words and phrases occurring in that context. While my responses may appear to imitate human responses, they are generated based on patterns in the training data rather than a conscious understanding of the content.” So if code used ten years from now to train successors to GPT is all generated by AI… even AI knows it will be a bad thing.
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  1176. So if Zaluzhny becomes London-based government-in-exile to compete with Elenskyy and work closely with Britain, what if Russia and Britain go head-to-head, does Putin end up running Britain and Ukraine? Like chess.
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  1177. China needs time to evolve a modern legal system. Once it has legal tools on a par with the West’s, it might consider expanding influence on a par with US hegemony. Along with growing independence of BRICS from USD, this could be a route towards a better world, but by then globalisation events might take over, giving us all an apocalyptic dystopia. China does not have the time it needs.
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  1178.  @view1st  Good point. China does have a place for such things. Within limits. So yes they could include such laws to support some private ownership concepts such as copyright. If they want to influence and eventually have more say in non-communist countries’ dealings, extending their existing influence and strengthening it to include international laws beyond UN, etc, they need internal legal tools that can be extended into this. They participate in institutions such as ISO but having more mature legal backing internally might strengthen this participation which after all does impact them.
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  1179. Maybe the USA, a hotbed for all kinds of false doctrines - although in the case of the pre-tribulation rapture the concept came from Britain - maybe the USA is the false prophet in Revelation which will be destroyed by Christ along with the Beast. Or maybe the false prophet is Britain, and the USA is its voice. Britain constantly provokes. USA amplifies that provocation happily.
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  1180. By engaging in peace talks with Palestinians since the 1980s, Israel got itself a reputation for democracy and decency on the world stage and benefitted in its trade, but its democracy led to it violating the agreements from which it benefitted. It changed leaders and these leaders did not all keep its agreements. Democracy in the West and even in Russia can be a matter of posturing when in reality the changes of leadership which sometimes can be frequent (Russia excepted) can mean the posturing is only that. Trade benefits can therefore be on a basis of reputation based on agreements that probably cannot be fulfilled. Israel has maybe been most obviously guilty of it but is not the only one. Now the eagle is overhead against all of us.
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  1181. I suppose N Korea troops are a problem for USA because it keeps USA troops out of Kirsk, in case USA troops ever directly engaged N Korea troops. I suppose if they engaged in action it could negate the barrier to N Korea invading S Korea. If they are fighting USA anyway, why not in the Korean Peninsula.
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  1182. I fear for my own country UK that its hopeless leaders have too much to do with the foolish German and Danish states, let alone the USA. The demise of these states will be very terrible, Sweden too given treatment of Assange, for how they abuse their powers and our laws and international institutions of law like ICC, and I lament at how the UK leaders have dragged us into the same doom by trying to keep on good terms with doomed states. I guess people rely on historic glory and forget that glory comes with going the difficult but worthy path, not by hubris.
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  1183. Weakness of doctrine maybe is that now NATO might as well agree other missiles if they are already grouped in with USA.
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  1184. Schulz didn't inspect the turbine very well. He really should have picked up that oil leak. Best to leave it to the experts next time.
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  1185. So sanctions might be cause of StarLink issues, as StarLink complies with sanctions making sure Russia cannot use it. Oops.
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  1186. Biden probably lives in the shadows of his nightmares.
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  1187. Maybe Elenksyy means 31,000 non-Russian, West Ukrainians died and all the ethnic Russians he lumps in with the 180,000.
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  1188. I suppose they know that by next year they might have a border with Russia.
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  1189. Capital N should be banned. It is a Z on its side. So people might be writing UkraiNiaN meaning Z instead of N. UkraiNee. Too risky. Ban N.
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  1190. If only the nations can free ourselves from the US mass OCD, we can all reason together with China and Russia and all sane people, nations, and start to find a plan. If only. Maybe the world has just turned a corner on this. I bet something will cone along and threaten to derail it, a new plague or something, so we need to get busy with it while we have some wriggle-room to do so.
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  1191. Art of War dictates that eventually your enemy will learn your war techniques. Ukraine was learning from Russian insurgencies and now is putting into practice what they learned. Russia, again by Art of War learning, just needs to learn how to manage this. Everyone is learning.
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  1192. How many times can I sell this same bridge to you?
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  1193. So many of the USA top thought leaders seem to have very strong links to Ukraine. Perhaps the deliberate skewing was facilitated by removal of top people with links to Russia. Is the far right doing this? Victoria Nuland is being pressurised to not just want vengeance for her Jewish Ukrainian ancestors but to heap abuse on Russia to appease the far right.
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  1194. Rare earths rhetoric may be an attempt to hype up the alternative narrative that the invasion was not about Russian language and freedom for Donbas but rather a grab for the minerals. Russia has admitted there were trillions at stake in minerals and much of the territory it took is rich in these minerals including lithium. If that narrative dominates over the social justice narrative then it might favour Ukraine and NATO in negotiations. So it pays to mention rare earths and lithium more and more to make this stick in public thinking and let oppression of the Donbas Russians be forgotten. I think Trump was unaware of this initially and unaware of the political diplomatic significance of minerals and bluffed but has since been advised to keep mentioning rare earths just to keep that narrative going.
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  1195. Effectively Trump to Putin: Hey, I can be a mouth for you, or for the green guy. You choose.
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  1196. Was that Kalas on that motorbike?
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  1197. Burning church buildings do not eliminate a church. A church is its adherent people. Driving them underground is not going to eliminate these people. Underground churches functioned well in Ukraine for a long time in the eighties. It is a turnaround, though. The registered orthodox churches stood by while underground church leaders were tortured in the mid and late eighties. God heard prayers and ended all that horror and healed it under Putin so it did not recur. Now tables are turned I hope the non-conformist believers will magnanimously not stand by and watch but stand shoulder to shoulder with these Orthodox brothers and sisters in the name of the man who is alive from the dead. Resurrection will come, by God’s grace.
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  1198. All we need to hear now is that two balloons were tracked, one over Pennsylvania and one over the meeting place of Trudeau and Biden.
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  1199. I used to think Venice was the most beautiful city, or Hong Kong. Not any more.
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  1200. Britain is losing track with reality thinking it can prepare for direct confrontation with Russia when, like Medvedev says, Russia faced with a direct NATO attack would have no doctrinal alternative than to hit the red button.
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  1201. Since Brexit, Britain now finds itself a more sovereign nation that it has ever been since Alfred the Great and Edward the Confessor. But it took a particular kind of politician and ‘intelligence’ service agent to get Brexit done. Rotweillers. This had downsides because now they are like a standing army of Rotweillers unleashed. We need to reign them all in, which a Labour government might do. OK, as long as we really don’t need their growling and biting any more. I think we probably are well and truly out of the EU, apart from some institutions. Maybe their job is done. The Rotweiller can tend to be a bit embarrassing when it bites your neighbours, and granny.
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  1202. Can they tell anything from how many were vaccinated out of deaths and work out how to relate that to excess deaths? Surely they can do this.
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  1203. What ginormous investment does UK and USA have in Crimea that makes all this worthwhile?
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  1204.  @OneDayWillFlyAway  but they can get by without this, yet something is driving them to extreme risk like they cannot do without it
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  1205.  @OneDayWillFlyAway  Some say USA plans to put a base there. But what huge gain would it be that justifies the losses? Control is not a monetary gain. They have to gain something they can monetise.
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  1206.  @OneDayWillFlyAway  maybe they will tax shipping
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  1207. USA and UK must have a ring in their noses. Being pulled inexorably into this. Nothing to gain. Vain compulsion. Like Armageddon.
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  1208. Just like Nero when Rome burned and that moustached man when the Reichstag burned, the US administration has to have someone to blame for their domestic disasters.
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  1209. Uktra vires regarding NATO and Ukraine?
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  1210. They should simply turn their TV live programmes online into a subscription service. The current system they use ought to be illegal and probably would be seen as such were it not for state protection. The state has reasons to protect it, so they can use it. But honesty would mean making it a subscription service like any other.
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  1211. I guess Bidenopoulos not Ireland’s favourite son.
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  1212. Look how this new grain deal forces Ukraine to agree a deal with Russia rather than the UN/US. The UN grain deal clearly does not suffice and Russia is needed by Ukraine instead of UN.
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  1213. Perhaps Putin was just waiting for Elenskyy to make this admission.
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  1214. Well said. But is it fair to blame NATO? Someone recently started this blaming NATO detraction perhaps as off ramp for guilty West. Let’s be real. Let’s confess. @West: Our leaders did this. Leaders we elected and several key ones not elected by us but in power because of side-effects of our democratic decisions and those of our parents and grandparents (e.g. leaders of EU). We let the leaders we elected lead us into the Europe-as-new-Roman-Empire idea. That is why NATO exists. That is why leaders feel happy to start wars against anyone resisting the new Roman Empire expansion. That is why so many of them get awarded the Charlemagne Prize.
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  1215. Excellent reporting, so very educational. Really presents a proper picture of effects of war on real peoples’ lives. Hope springs eternal.
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  1216. So Elenskyy is honoured at the time he is exposed as a false prophet (as he said Bakhmut would not fall). By the age of eighty he might, if still alive, be THE false prophet. The world honours such people with its dainty prizes. Charlemagne wanted to extend the Roman Empire so it might never fall. Ironic that the architects behind the Charlemagne Prize and Marshal Plan concepts wanted Moscow to be preeminent in the new Roman Empire of Europe. Council of Europe thinking.
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  1217. How many did the US billions manage to kill? Like ten pin bowling with lives. There will be a lot of people in the afterlife wanting some justice for this. Like when a judge ends up in jail with all those friendly jail-mates waiting,
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  1218. Beware USA and UK leaders whose names begin with ‘B’. Biden, Bush, Blaire, Boris, ‘Bama (😊) , Blinken … and Bolton.
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  1219. It feels obvious to me that Macron knows he will send troops and is saying exactly the words to avoid anyone accusing him of springing it on people. He does not want anyone using that as an excuse to oppose it. This is it people! Plus ALL nations signing any kind of agreement will be doing it, because they would only risk accusations of acting undemocratically without referendum if they were doing it in name of war. As long as NATO does not do it collectively and thereby leave Russia no alternative to nuclear war. Will there still need to be such a response? Russia goes nuclear (tactical?) if the number against them exceeds a threshold. How many agreements does it take to breach that threshold? They are playing with worse than fire. It is right now crossing a line. These security agreements are that line.
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  1220. With hindsight, was it a mistake in the eighties and nineties to lead USSR towards alignment with the economics of the West?
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  1221. Europe and Ukraine and UK being given the treatment they previously gave to Russia.
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  1222. Maybe the USA really is the mischief now: An actual existential threat to Russia. And if an existential threat to Russia then to the world.
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  1223. By neglecting social justice for the Ukraine area poor over the centuries and tolerating or promoting hatred of Christian brothers in Russia, Poland, a Christianity-defined people, has really forsaken the heavenly covenant which defines it as a Christian people. There is a root of this bitter warfare.
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  1224. Spain, Denmark, Mexico, Greenland, Panama, should all seek sanctions and other measures against Trump similar to USA measures against Putin over Crimea and Donbas.
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  1225. Was it negligent? Any negligence liability on Ukraine's part in installing air defence unreliably in such a way that endangered lives and a neighbouring country? Any negligence in providing unreliable information to NATO? Any negligence on NATO's part in listening to unreliable information from Ukraine? Any negligence by NATO in assisting with air defence setup?
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  1226. Why so quiet in Russian Government? “Or suppose a king is about to go to war against another king. Won’t he first sit down and consider whether he is able with ten thousand men to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand?" Luke 14:21 I'm sure Putin as a Christian knows that verse too. But even so, he would be doing this sitting down and 'counting the cost'. Also, Putin would likely want to prepare for a major Spring offensive. Likewise Ukraine/UK/USA might be preparing for that too. Winter not an ideal time for war of course.
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  1227. Mmm. Would USA have to quit the UN Security Council if they formally designated Russia a state sponsor of terrorism?
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  1228. Is the West and Russia together perpetrating some kind of vicarious mass human sacrifice with Neo-N**s in Ukraine? The daily deaths are in the hundreds and with no chance of a game change. Nobody outside of the USSR was really punished for what the original N***s did in the early 1940s first throughout Eastern Europe then in the West. Is this an attempt to balance the scales? Should the punishment not be against those who failed to carry out justice in the 1950s? Almost all of that generation died out in the 1980s and 1990s and the N***s in the following decade, all now gone. Is this a visitation of vengeance on their children and grandchildren who seek to perpetuate the N** ways? Can this appease the wrath? Can it avert the nuclear apocalypse? Love God and preserve His teachings and teach the next generation this too rather than the anti-religious, anti-Russian hateful ways of N**ism. Maybe simply following through with proper justice in humility will avert divine vengeance more than callously throwing the offspring to the frontline ad infinitum. It is our traditional governments and institutions and ruling elite and lords and judges who carry the blame for failure to punish Holocaust perpetrators: In the West where it happened (given justice was carried out on the other side of the Iron Curtain) but then many of the Jews among these left for new-formed Israel in the 1950s. These, instead of self-conviction, are making scapegoats of Neo-N***s. Yes the Neo-N***s are a tinderbox and a ticking time-bomb, but it is failure to follow-through with proper justice which is behind their resurgence. The whole system must change so it does not happen again. Human sacrifice is what this looks like more than justice. But maybe God is in it. God’s will be done.
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  1229. The USA doesn't want Russia ruled by Putin because they want Putin to become US president so they don't have to have Trump. Trump can rule Russia. Then there will be the ideal regime changes.
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  1230.  @genes.3285  Humour. Try it sometime.
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  1231.  @genes.3285  Why should Ellensky have all the best humour. His pre-emptive strikes humour is a bit like a tantrum. Tantrums are sometimes best dealt with by mild and silly humour.
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  1232. Was it a contrivance to save NATO that antagonising behaviour against Putin seen under Biden, good cop bad cop strategy, was introduced, just to try behind the scenes to try to bring in a strategy to save NATO and the MIC from redundancy? Did Trump instigate it treacherously against Putin, throwing him under the bus behind the scenes to save the MIC? Did Trump dream it up for Biden to put into play? Trump’s comments about NATO pay and protection (racket????) betray him?
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  1233. It should be illegal. Simply filling the gap in the laws is obviously necessary. There would then be no need to try hunting around for some existing law to cover it.
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  1234. So, is it NATO Headquarters, or is it Ukraine Headquarters?
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  1235. UK might need to stay in NATO to protect us from the EU and its new capital nation Germany.
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  1236. I think the globalisers are starting to realise they have gone too far and need to adjust. The globalisation is harming countries such as the USA because the world needs to have countries. Yes, globalising as part of civilising the world, harmonising its technologies and systems. does make some sense, but we need to keep separation of countries, of nations. The USA may have many powerful globalisers in it who recognise that the ties it has with China and Russia are undermining USA independence and identity. USA needs to be able to act independently at times, in case it needs to go to war with a strongly linked nation. So it makes sense to me that they try to wind back some of those ties and sanctions are a way to do it. Too much partnership and if one country goes to war it drags the partners with it, which makes no sense if globalisation makes every country a partner.
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  1237. The real trade is not S300 for Patriots, but S300 plus Peace for Patriots. Gaining Patriot missiles. Losing Peace.
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  1238.  @goldwhitedragon  in which case there would be no need to have typed your comment, it would just exist
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  1239. A ghost town vastly more expensive than UK crown prince’s Poundbury. Better to start small and let the success, if it succeeds, build it up gradually. Otherwise it might make mistakes which turn it into a ghost city.
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  1240. Blinken and Elenskyy’s got lots of kinder gentler machine gun hands.
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  1241. Prigozhin didn’t get to have his ‘triumphus’ in Moscow but he and Wagner got one in Rostov. God knows they deserved it.
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  1242. Yes, the travel bans we once saw typical of the Soviets and Iron Curtain bloc were torn down and now we see the West imposing them on this relatively free Russia.. Utter hypocrisy and perversity by the West, by Europe. It will get what it deserves, blindly rushing into becoming a messy heap. The free East and the oppressive West.
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  1243. If Moldova is underneath the surface a pro-Russia nation, this has ramifications for the West using the Moldovan labour force in anything defence-related. It leaves the West exposed. The West, I think, always knew but covered it up with a delusion.
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  1244. Babylon the Great magazine covers. My reason for voting Brexit. Get out of her.
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  1245. If it is a show, it is a snuff movie, produced by USA and pro-USA UK.
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  1246.  @Sammackk7  the answers might be scarier - going even beyond the grave
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  1247. At some point Russia has to accept the fact that only when Kiev falls can ideological ethnic threat of Ukraine against Russians be controlled.
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  1248. At some point, assisting these AIs in any way could become criminal aiding and abetting, maybe. If the Sci Fi is anything to go by, it could even become treason. If it looks like an enemy, talks like an enemy, cons us like an enemy. …
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  1249.  @peterturner6497  True. Probably not jets :) Probably Spitfires and Hurricanes.
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  1250.  @peterturner6497  I'm getting old. :(
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  1251. Each of us, globally, is being tested, to see if we will be moral. There is a kind of mindset called realism, prevalent among world leaders and globalism teachers which is amoral, it disregards morality altogether. Hard testing is happening to each of us everywhere to see if we will let these amoral teachers teach us or if we will allow our moral code to guide our actions. They will not help us decide but will lead us on as if morals do not exist. It is a test.
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  1252. He sounds like someone pitching for a place in Starmer’s cabinet.
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  1253. The devil went down to Georgia. He is sure busy these days.
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  1254. Perhaps Elensky WANTS people to think he is losing his mind. It could be his offramp. He probably knows the famous biblical accounts of King David pretending to be mad to evade a dire situation with a foreign king.
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  1255. The Chihuahua yelps with glee as the Dutch Shepherd gets stuck in a rut.
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  1256.  @TimJW  But then you get promoted and …
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  1257.  @TimJW  I agree. I retired.
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  1258. Perhaps E is in UK to protect his life while Bakhmut falls
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  1259. So Collective West propaganda called Putin some kind of undemocratic dictator. And now there are Collective West countries allowing the unelected dictators called ICC judges to dictate to them. Hypocrites strain out the gnat but swallow the camel. It won’t end well for them.
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  1260. Walx must be covering for someone, taking the bullet. Must be someone more important. Must be Vance, I reckon.
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  1261. Well thought out. Could do with more videos on this subject. It is a bad day when those who know the tech need to go to ask tech guidance from those who don't. Doom must surely be looming if that has to happen. Better to leave things legacy and ugly than be led technically by those who have little or no technical knowledge. Great that this video seeks to steer away from this scenario by encouraging developers that they are better placed to come up with plans on how to make the technical changes than are those without their technical knowledge. Maybe a bit more on what to do when legacy tech debt is so severe that the onus shifts to the less technical leaders: Can there ever be a logical case for doing this?
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  1262. The Soft Cosmic Ledger.
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  1263. Everything Trump says about Ukraine project and Russia talks I take with pinch of salt. Trump knows card playing. Part of his career was casinos. He is bluffing about his cards. He will not show any of his real cards before talking with Putin secretly. Rather than show cards he is covering his cards by simply parroting the high profile things publicly said by others. Tariff sanctions. Not his real cards.
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  1264. Why might someone so prominent lie low so mysteriously. To avoid saying something that might cause him grave trouble and upset the apple cart, maybe. Maybe he was approached as a successor. Not something you can risk revealing in that situation.
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  1265.  @bobwehadababyitsaboi103  But we all have YouTube videos which communicate whatever the literacy ability.
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  1266.  @СлободанКараћ  In USA the faith is communicated through writings such as didactic books, hymnals, and the printed Bible, besides preaching. Pictures play a part, as of course does prayer, spiritual gifts, music, Christmas and Easter, and church services with hymns, prayers, sermons, readings of scriptures, plus community social traditions. It is the same faith, that God sent Jesus Christ to us all so God can live among those who receive Jesus and his teachings and trust that he died for all to save us and make us right with God. Perhaps the way we experience faith has different emphases. We all receive answers to prayer which help our faith. We all get encouraged to believe and get confirmation of that faith when God works miracles among us. It is the same in all our forms of Christian faith. Same in Jewish faith when people get encouragement and have prayers answered and good deeds rewarded. I think in Islam too there is faith leading to acts of love and mercy with answers to prayer. But icons are rather a thing with older Christian churches from those lower literacy times. Nowadays children are still taught faith in ways that do not require much literacy such as hearing stories and singing songs. The faith is still about receiving from God with reverence.
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  1267.  @СлободанКараћ  One thing we must all do more. Speaking out loud and writing boldly on posters and social media the teachings, commands, sayings of Jesus Christ and of the Spirit and of the Father. Admittedly that will be different in Islam and Judaism but similar. No lying. All of us agree on that. Speaking the truth to each other who are all in it together when we receive Jesus Christ. No hating without just cause. No Russophobia, no Islamophobia, no Antisemitism, no xenophobia. Love one another. No unfaithfulness in relationships. Teaching it to our children. Putting it up in our houses on signs that say these things so we remember them daily. Putting it into our movies, our political speeches, our laws, our education programs, our policies, our social media posts. This is how we can all love the One True God we all have in common faith. This is how we can keep the covenant to love Him and serve Him and believe in Him. In the West it is waning. Crosses taken down from church buildings. Prayers forbidden. Drugs rampant. Love is waning. We must all start to love God’s teachings.
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  1268. So maybe in two weeks time, Trump will donate a weapon to Iran. Just so he can prove his point.
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  1269. counter-defensive? Defensive to counter the offensive.
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  1270. UK and Ukraine probably trying to inspire young people to invent ever more effective and low cost drones by showing how large numbers of small sized drones might all work concertedly. Something for universities to get students to apply their minds and education to. Pity they need the idea of warfare to do it. Easier to destroy than to build.
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  1271. Probably all that shelling by Ukraine weakened the dam. And the extra pressure, perhaps seasonal, could not be held back by a weakened dam. No forgetting how it was a target in Boris’ time which might be why Russia gave up that territory.
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  1272. UN so unfair for half the world whose votes are not at all proportionally represented. Maybe that is what is most wrong with the world, the Unfair World Order.
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  1273. Biden with Spielberg - they have a tough act to follow twelve years on from Queen and James Bond parachuting into Olympic stadium 2012 London. I’m sure Spielberg will think of something for the Trump debate.
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  1274. In UK, allegations without evidence tend to be classed legally as slander.
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  1275. The West has a strategy of putting fools into top positions of authority as a ploy to tempt Putin’s secret service agents into betraying their own weakness at resisting opportunities to expose that folly. It shows how Putin emphasises wisdom over folly and is so poor at tolerating folly. It exposes how Putin is so favouring towards wisdom. The West is successfully showing Putin up by this, and when one foolish leader is exposed this way, no worries because the West has plenty more fools in reserve ready to replace them.
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  1276. Scaring the voters is obviously folly. Many who vote must be aware they could be imprisoned by Ukraine for doing so and yet they vote, men and women, young and old. Of course, if they vote, against Ukrainian diktats to not vote, they would tend to vote to escape the government which opposes them voting and threatens them with imprisonment. They are all so very brave, if they are aware of what the Ukrainian government might have in store for them if it gets its way.
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  1277. How far can NATO go without it being ultra vires?
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  1278. If you get any revenue from these videos and some viewers are under nineteen, will there be any VAT implication?
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  1279. Go Br**d**. Go do preventive kicks.
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  1280. Certainly no idiot 😊
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  1281. So the offensive is over? It lasted a few days but we missed it, not because we blinked but because it was very spread out? The tanks must have missed it too.
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  1282. Now China is displacing USA as rightful boss of Eurasia including Europe. Since USA is on another continent and disqualified by reason of its hegemonic aggression. Nuland 0 China 1.
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  1283. Sadly this is why I cannot believe in 'science'. Too easy for rubbish to pass as science these days. "When words are many, sin is not absent." The more humans publish the easier it is for things to slip through the filters. Many a slip twix cup and lip. Too much publishing going on in the world of science for it all to get thoroughly checked out by the process. Human race prognosis: at this rate 50 years.
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  1284. Will all banks go under when all these people retire?
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  1285. Prigozhin didn’t get to have his ‘triumphus’ in Moscow but he and Wagner got one in Rostov. God knows they deserved it. Kudos to Putin if he arranges a kind of triumphus procession for Prigozhin and Wagner in Moscow.
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  1286. Maybe Dnipro offensive is like a business closing down and the last worker locking up forgetting to turn off the tap.
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  1287. If buyers are able to change prices and if the value of money can be changed easily, what is the value of money at all? Surely money only has any value at all if its value cannot be easily changed.
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  1288. I get the feeling the West is occupying Kursk as a defiance against those who hate their hypocrisy. It is a statement that their own anti-invasion stance must not mean they themselves must refrain from invading. Just in case they want to do it in Syria or elsewhere later. Priming their hypocrisy pump.
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  1289. Strategy might be sensible for next decade that UK, USA and Russia are kept at arms length from each other. As well as risk of war it could also save world from a war of these three uniting against some common enemy.
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  1290. As long as it takes? If you are losing in a marathon, making the race go on longer does not help you win. But if ‘as long as it takes’ means ‘to the last Ukrainian’ then maybe the race is being won. But isn’t that genocide?
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  1291.  @paulaheady8990  I was thinking it might be its association with white powder 😊
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  1292. When will Tim Berners-Lee be arrested for his responsibility for inventing the Web? By extension of the Pavel arrest, wouldn’t the Web inventor and W3C be responsible for all the immoral and illegal activities ever carried out on the Web? Or the USA for effectively hosting the Web and underlying Internet, domain name authorities, etc? Where does the buck stop? Microsoft for all illegal documents written with Word? Or illegal activities running on Windows? Cloud providers? ISPs?
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  1293. People should remember that much of NATO countries’ software is developed and maintained in Moldova. NATO must surely be exposed to Moldovan loyalty reverting to Russia orientation.
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  1294. Like the assisted dying is illegal in most countries but the Mars mission can only guarantee you a death in space since it can only be a one-way trip.
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  1295.  @Juan-os4hs  probably cheaper than Elon’s MARS
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  1296. So the P can have Ukraine citizenship?
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  1297. The hypocrisy of the West in being concerned about grain and hunger but not hesitating to sanction Russia and even nations refusing to obey sanctions when these sanctions are in full knowledge that they might cause hunger to poor people in these nations (as they did in North Korea and Iran).
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  1298. Telegram channel? You said Telegraph channel, Alexander.
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  1299. If there are no red lines or limitations for Macron, he can set things up so they can terrify foreigners with the thought they might get sent to fight. Frighten them away? They might all be on the boats to UK soon.
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  1300. Lovely and clear video and analysis. Many thanks. A little bit of missing Zelenskyy’s point, in that I think he was saying that Ukraine had tried diplomacy with the Minsk ceasefire agreement but it had not worked, so he was asking whether Vance meant there was some kind of diplomacy yet to be tried now which had not been previously tried with Minsk. An excellent point really. Maybe it was too good a point for Trump and Vance, so good that it posed a viable threat to their champion argument. So they had to try to sabotage the exchange.
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  1301. not since Charles I has this happened
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  1302. Does he not think in the vastness of the universe and billions of years of time there might not have been a being that got there first and has therefore been around long enough to have created us?
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  1303. Tech surely exists to do this invisibly. Presumably already used. This is therefore likely a gimmick. For show. Even smart meter tech can do better - effectively seeing around corners.
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  1304. Isn’t Poland missing another trick. Instead of money going to Russia for Russian oil, it can go to Poland, that works even better.
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  1305. There should be a school of learning on applying ergonomics to software. Sanity of devs requires it. Health and Safety, as we call it in UK. Any manager of cloud migration should now complete an Errors and Omissions log to flag up the possibility this might happen.
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  1306. Like the Prophet Samuel was well aware, his mentor priest Eli had nothing to do with Eli’s sons’ dealings. Eli did fall backwards when he heard of their punishment, though.
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  1307. The first people to use tactical nuclear weapons and biological weapons are actually the people who make them, develop them, design them, fund them and mass-produce them. The labs. The people in white suits. The politicians countenancing it all. The technicians who seem to be working on them so innocently, wiring them up, testing the chips and rocketry and viral vectors, all these many, many people are the ones who have made the decision to put effort into making sure they happen and that they are effective. You only produce a weapon in the expectation of using it.
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  1308. They probably hold topmost US Defence meetings on Teams and if Austin does not speak, he does not appear on the screen. 😊
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  1309. God avenge him. God’s prerogative.
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  1310.  @apostlejoshuatrent7180  He would have eliminated Zelenskyy and Budanov rather than Prigozhin. It would make no sense to eliminate Prigozhin and leave the real enemies living and fighting him and killing his people. No sense at all. The only sense would be if it were an act of extra-judiciary punishment but Putin is a man of law and would have complete ability to punish Prigozhin via the legal system. Prigozhin was not opposing Putin and had probably, when his ‘chef’, saved Putin’s life and kept him in the comfort of safety, so it would not be characteristic of Putin to kill in that way, a wicked way. It is Ukrainian Independence Day. That should point us to those who would have just cause to avenge Bakhmut.
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  1311.  @shafiumohammed1977  saying that is effectively calling the Ukrainian secret services and leadership and Zakenskyy weak. It implies Putin could do what they could not, though they had plenty more reason for doing so. Could only Putin’s forces have strength and intelligence to bring down that plane and Ukraine not be able and not want to do it or dare to do it?
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  1312.  @jonbon8598  Netanyahu seems to be trying to extremely dubiously justify genocide from scripture by saying God expected Israelites to kill those who extremely grievously attacked them, those who had been attacking the weakest Israelites from behind during their great migration through the desert. God had previously declared war against the Canaanites because of their extremely bad behaviour increasingly over many generations. It was very different circumstances to those today. Trying to justify genocide from such comparisons is despicable and evil. It is like King Ahab deciding to kill just to get land he wanted.
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  1313. If the missiles of Ukraine can reach Crimea it probably justifies Russia taking Odessa. I don’t see the logic though. The more territory you take, the more territory you have to protect from missile attacks. Taking Odessa means attacks might be made on Odessa from further North. The questionable logic leads to a conclusion you have to take all of Ukraine to protect from long range missiles. (Presumably Poland and Romania would not be launching them.)
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  1314.  @willem636  Yes, I half get that, but it assumes the buffer is devoid of Russians who are afforded protection by being in Russia, given their votes earlier to join Russia. It only kind of works if the buffer is outside of the region officially ‘brought into Russia’ recently.
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  1315.  @willem636  So far Russian leadership has always been studiously legal and moral in its actions and policies. This would be a relaxing of this fastidiousness.
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  1316.  @neilba1  the battlefield is also in hearts and minds and to create a buffer zone, the Russian leaders would need support from Russian people
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  1317. Bank of England a nemesis for UK government? Bank of England a root of evil? Love of money? No surprises there really. Not every institution is inherently good. But Donbass is being avenged.
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  1318. Residents of Texas with links to Mexico might have some work offers for new pilot trainees.
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  1319. Elon’s security clearance and his four citizenships including one with BRICS leading member South Africa too right ought to have been under constant review. A bit late to ask about his communications two years ago. Who failed to investigate it back then? Why now? Nobody foresaw he might like Trump???
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  1320. The Hope Travesty. Making hope a strategy denies everyone the thought process of asking “Should we even be doing this? Is it just? If we stopped, would justice be better served?” A travesty of justice.
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  1321. If Ukraine wins against Russia it has already lost against USA, since USA considers Ukraine its own territory.
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  1322. It might be a main goal/strategy of Ukraine (not just Russia) to annihilate Russian military
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  1323. Why do they fake things? O what a tangled web we weave when we first practice to deceive.
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  1324. Calling others thuggish while they say “peace through strength”? Such projection.
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  1325. West thinks Ukraine must decide war options. Then decides to reject Putin’s offer.
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  1326. He is an innate governor. He brings all the questions around to governing people and assessing them to be able, if necessary, to judge them. A lawmaking governor by gift of God.
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  1327. The whale gives the impression of being innocent. Clearly this is disinformation it is spreading around the EU. It must be fined. Whatever Russia is paying it, it should forfeit 6%.
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  1328. Like the far right in the forties, everyone had to be involved, everyone guilty, so nobody could cast the first stone.
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  1329. The story itself is highly fake-able. Even a mole can be said to be cancer. Benign cancer can probably be found in everyone given the scanning and testing available today. Using the C word is so vague. It is emotive. It generates sympathy. Yet it says very little and is very deniable later “oh it turned out to be benign”.
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  1330. Maybe some collective West religious leader could speak to Elenskyy about the monks: If there are collective West leaders who have not yet “turned away to follow Satan”.
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  1331. Looking at benefits to a big business of going Cloud and serverless, it is clouded (sorry for the pun) by the Cloud provider’s ability to keep the financial benefits to themselves by their unilateral setting of their prices. There are too few big Cloud providers to gain benefit of competition. AWS, Azure, Google. Too few. Economy of scale and innovation of technology can all benefit Cloud provider with no guarantee they will share the benefit with customers. Bigger customers might be able to force beneficial pricing but even this is not guaranteed to last. So future tech advancement of large scale benefits might not be shared with customers and capitalism means they probably won’t be shared unless more Cloud providers come along to compete and push down prices. Maybe Mr Branson will do something to give us budget Cloud.
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  1332.  @8_8_Purpura_Palatinus_16_8  A major decision like that would require at least a Referendum. Probably a civil war too. Not going to happen.
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  1333.  @plaubelmakina8916  I pray God gives King Charles the courage and wisdom and grace to do the will of God in the matter. Else it might be the end for us too. But better things are happening outside of the West. God's attention may well have shifted to the East. The eagle instructs the hawks but the billy goat rises for the lambs and the raven tries to turn the world against the billy goat and fails and the Lord of the sheep comes to help the billy goat in full view of all the world. So it ends. (An analysis based on the Book of Enoch and the current events.)
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  1334. It was obvious that Ukraine would become the main threat to Europe.
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  1335. So Ukraine is seen by West as lacking a normal nuclear deterrent but needing one to exist as a state in opposition to Russia. So the past leaders such as Boris and Truss and presumably the Intelligence ‘analysts’ and USA neocons have proposed the ZNPP as a stand-in nuclear deterrent, the best deterrent Ukraine can utilise. Except 1. it is madness of the most extreme kind in world history, and 2. it is actually in Russian hands, not Ukraine’s. Boris appeared to be deliberately ignoring 1. and 2. and now Biden is taking up that godless mantle of madness. How can the world ever allow USA and UK with such mental issues among its leadership thinking to possess WMDs? If we credited any credibility to Elenskyy’s words about what the world allows or does not allow wrt nuclear weapons we must also apply it to the USA and UK.
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  1336. If Putin was to be held responsible for death such as Litvinenko's and deemed to have approved it (never proven conclusively - a public inquiry deemed it merely a possibility) then who is responsible for killings by Ukraine and maybe MI6? HM Queen Elizabeth? HRH Prince Charles?
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  1337.  @kateoneal4215  I think that was guesswork based on figures available to viewers, but this seems to be actual download and streaming data from the service providers
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  1338. Russia has Putin, a long term leader. It can forgo the luxury of pretexts and narratives. The West has zero hope of long termed leadership so instead it has to sustain a simple enough narrative that even Biden and Truss could understand it and hand it over to successors.
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  1339. All elections should be like this. People should be faced with at least one or two candidates they know well and feel they can trust. Party politics is forced on voters normally. That makes a mockery of democracy. Being told to vote for strangers you know little about just because they are part of a large party, that is hardly democracy.
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  1340. @john you mean a Palletized Load System?
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  1341. @john or Lockheed’s Rapid Dragon?
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  1342. @john are you saying the UK’s long range missiles could be, are being launched from palletised airborne launch systems?
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  1343. UK Remoaners have become RuBemoaners
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  1344. If Ukraine were to lose control over its natural resources in a deal with the U.S., it could create a situation where a weakened, resource-depleted Ukraine attempts to integrate into the EU. This could act as a destabilizing force—much like the stone in Daniel 2—causing fractures in an already fragile system. (AI-worded)
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  1345. King Charles could send his personal troops to Ukraine. Then become leader of the West.
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  1346. Boris’ actions might have been explicable. If Boris or his advisors realised Putin was playing a ruse and Kiev fell for it, Boris might have thought Zelenskyy needed saving from a mistake. He might have thought, “Zelenskyy thinks Russia is actually about to attack Kiev but this is only a ruse, so we must point this out to Zelenskyy before he agrees to sign the agreement.” Unfortunately, this might have been nearsighted, not taking into account that failure to sign the agreement or honour it might lead to many avoidable deaths.
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  1347.  @iRelevant.47.system.boycott  I prefer to think they blindly walked into it led by blind leaders, rather than think they knowingly led hundreds of thousands into certain death.
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  1348.  @de6584  half guilty, half not guilty?
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  1349. USA had no reverse gear from its obnoxious treatment of Yeltsin. That was damaging to history in Putin’s time. Not bitter but sad.
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  1350. When it comes to terms, it might not help the Z very much if he was prepared to accept a share of looted billions of Russian assets if that had gone ahead.
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  1351. All the politicians stealing Russian assets: The believers in their ranks have a gospel offramp. Here it is. Steal no longer. Do real work. Work to have something honest to share with those truly in need. Stop sinning or worse than you have known so far will happen to you.
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  1352. If ever we have a global nuclear war there might be someone left to note that 50% of USA voters voted for it. And they say China is a threat.
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  1353. We all know Ellensky is running the UK. Only King Charles can stand up to him. By saying "Oh dear oh dear" on meeting Truss, Charles effectively removed her like his mother did with Hancock when she said "Poor man" about him. Charles can run things with a mere comment and the establishment responds. It is as subtle as it is certain.
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  1354. Game theory? Well the preliminary talk and agreements in USA have been going on since the Mayflower. The Puritan City on a Hill talk and agreement: The basing on the KJB of an understanding of how to fight on the side of God, not against God, in the end times. It leads the seven wars plus Russia agenda.
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  1355. If Russia and Ukraine staged this war just to discover the weaknesses of NATO it would be genius.
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  1356.  @Tomaszevics  Then you need to know about the other microservices in order to change the login service. That means the teams are not autonomous.
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  1357.  @jasondbaker  that might cover one kind of coupling, but not all developers are advanced enough to know about the other kinds of coupling it would not cover
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  1358.  @adambickford8720  then every team needs to learn that JWT standard, all equally well. Still not autonomous, since one might want to do it differently or might think a different standard is bring used. What happens if a team loses its experts in auth standards and has to fall back on junior devs who are not knowledgeable in it.
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  1359.  @TheEvertw  remember you have no control over the login service. It is autonomous. So the respective team develops it almost in isolation. Autonomous microservice by autonomous teams. Nobody gets to dictate as some kind of cross-service architect. That would break the autonomy.
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  1360.  @TheEvertw  Is it a contradiction that we are forbidden to share a database yet the microservices share a queuing system? Seems so to me. A bit contrived.
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  1361.  @TheEvertw  you cannot do without the database coupling if you need strong data consistency, as is needed in many domains and scenarios
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  1362.  @TheEvertw  Or rather, not for domains and scenarios requiring strong data consistency. My original point.
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  1363.  @TheEvertw  It is my job to make such a decision so I have to kick the tyres hard, so to speak.
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  1364.  @TheEvertw  I worked with microservices technology in an SaaS system, high profile in public sector, for over a year and experienced the problems for data consistency. Now I am faced with people wanting to develop a similar system for much fewer users and a high requirement for data consistency and database-centricity. I already advised strongly against microservices. Now this video and comment threads have reinforced and confirmed it. But there is still strong determination to move in microservices direction so I need to be sure I have strong and well supported arguments.
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  1365.  @TheEvertw  define wisdom - in this context
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  1366. You need a Peace Summit and a Victory Plan really. Then you can toss for which one wins.
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  1367.  @МногоХочешьНаглыйГугл  Yes. Those poseidons. Nasty business. God’s will be done.
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  1368.  @solaroid4442  But the credit rating of US and EU could plunge, making borrowing, on which they depend, over-expensive. If things got too bad, IMF could start imposing austerity as with Iceland and Cyprus. Unlikely but not perhaps unthinkable. Knock on effect on banks is the worrying problem. Eventually banks could fail. EU law now prohibits or restricts bailouts, I think (not sure if that was followed through in practice).
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  1369.  @solaroid4442  Like the movie, and scam name, Revolver. 😊 Like our pensions. Ponsi. Pyramid. But a crash is a crash. When it all crashes into full blown depression and credit crunch there is no pulling oneself up by ones own bootlaces. The roosters come home to roost. The debt collectors call it all in. Life goes on but the confidence forsakes the system. People will only keep working for a public sector if they believe they will eventually get paid in real value and have real pensions. Pay them in silver plated lead or gold plated lead for too long and they put down tools and soldiers turn.
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  1370.  @ArthurTane-e5b  the Russian aim in taking Bakhmut was clearly stated from the beginning: denazification and demilitarisation. Clearly the ‘meat grinder’ strategy achieved this. Now there is nothing there to retake except to re-bolster lost morale, as a diplomatic offramp. I guess the latter is important for onlookers from pro-Zelenskyy side.
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  1371.  @JosephBisio  I guess the truth takes time to trickle through society. But it will come. Unfortunately for many its consequences will precede it.
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  1372. If these dark agencies are put under the POTUS, they could potentially become subject to peace deals.
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  1373. How could Israel possibly be impartial about ongoing deaths of N**ified Ukrainians after what Ukrainian N**is did in the 1940s?
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  1374. Even Starmer knows the UK cannot possibly fight Russia on its own right now. Trump alluded to it. Starmer could not contradict Trump on it. But the age old narrative is a convenient cover story. If people want to believe the fantasy, they get the narrative fed to them, like a pacifier dummy. Until they grow up.
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  1375. The USA was brought in by post-Soviet Russia to try to decommission Ukraine biolabs to prevent bad actors getting the secrets in them. Well the long and short is that this appears to have been a big mistake, because it seems to be becoming evident that USA itself might be a bad actor.
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  1376. To my mind a live TV programme streamed on YouTube means a program which is also available on terrestrial TV. Perhaps that is the original meaning from times when TVs were only beginning to be augmented by streaming. Perhaps that meaning is now forgotten. Perhaps nobody knows what it means any more. Scrap this ridiculousness. If they want to charge for the content of terrestrial TV when they stream it, well get technology to cater for the charging system instead of trying to reuse old legal oppressive ways. This is a remnant of the Imperial British Empire wholly inappropriate today.
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  1377.  @shiningshtarr3903  Absolutely superb summary. Exactly how I remember it plus a lot of proper details. For me your summary fills a lot of gaps I missed. Thank you indeed.
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  1378.  @shiningshtarr3903  Personally I would still regard it as a scam as it stands today. Gradually it has become this, since the demise of television and rise of the Internet. The licence for a TV set, cathode ray tube with analog arial and massive network of infrastructure providing the signals, this obviously was actually providing something tangible and asking for money in return, plus associated intellectual property patents getting a return on investment. Internet undercut all this because it is differently provided, funded, no licence. To try to charge for television in an Internet context is where it seems to me morals and rights and wrongs are being ignored in favour of financial exploitation, hence a scam. It is much more sinister when you include prosecution. Then it looks more like robbery than scam because force is involved. The honest business model of Netflix, etc., exposes this all the more since there is no attempt to use excessive force via prosecutions and a simple match between fee paid and service provided, and no trap set - no need to know what to watch and what not to watch online, no hoping in vain that you will not watch something ‘illegal’.
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  1379. It is not merely for the sake of knowledge gathering: the eagle watches what it intends to attack. The police monitor and then make arrests. The spy planes monitor and then come the bombs. When two countries are monitored more than any others and even monitor each other - it will not stop there. Despite apparent framework of friendliness, UK and USA are bound to go from monitoring each other to using their gathered info to launch attacks on each other. Intrusive lobbying might be the beginning. These are the top hawks, the highest flying eagles. Predators not sheep.
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  1380.  @3373just  Is there a discrepancy here between how sales work legally and how they actually work?
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  1381.  @BlackBeltBarrister  Is it really about how trading parties feel about the steps in the trade? Making omelettes, breaking eggs.
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  1382.  @derektaylor2941  True, I have never owned or sold a performance sports car (only dreamed) and although I work in the car dealerships industry I never get involved directly with dealers, but there are lots of people of all kinds of capabilities selling cars and not every dealer works on performance car engines, so it is reasonable to an ordinary thinking and sane person like myself (usually a reference in law) to think revving up a performance car engine a little might reveal problems. If I was buying such a car, though a mere novice, I would probably first chance I got, even if allowed to in the showroom, rev it up. Sort of thing you see in movies, yes? Not everyone is an engine professional, but it takes all sorts to buy and sell cars.
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  1383.  @derektaylor2941  ChatGPT says “While unusual noises during revving might indicate potential issues, it's not a foolproof method for diagnosing problems. Some issues may not manifest under load or specific conditions. For a comprehensive assessment, it's recommended to rely on professional diagnostics conducted by a qualified mechanic.”
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  1384. That UK Mirror article looks like a deliberate ploy to draw out criticism before policy change is made by UK gov and deep state/military. Typical use UK establishment makes of the media. Testing the public feelings before they do something controversial. Probably they would like to up the stakes of what they send to Ukraine and they want to gauge the logic and strength of objections. This is the cynicism to which we are accustomed in the UK for as long as I can remember. They are using the media as a human shield rather than use open public consultation which might generate anger. Gives them deniability: "Oh the Mirror were being funny and they withdrew it".
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  1385. Pity USA and UK are not genuinely leading Ukraine. Just role playing a leadership role. Ukraine would do well to ditch dependency on UK and USA, before they blindly lead it into a ditch worse than any war.
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  1386. Hey, a peace summit with one side represented. Like soccer with no opposing team. The players can practice against their own goalkeeper. No risk of losing. No glory, but glory is SO overrated. 😂
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  1387. Maybe “war with Russia” narrative suits USA, usefully misdirecting from underlying narrative that Russia, China and USA are together in so many ways to dominate the world, the UN Security Council, etc..
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  1388. Could Trump be the person meant to be in the chat?
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  1389. A video to watch over and over. Those are rare these days.
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  1390. Look at UK. We in UK have unelected King and unelected PM. But still UK is called a democracy.
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  1391. Pity USA and UK are not genuinely leading Ukraine. Just role playing a leadership role. Ukraine would do well to ditch dependency on UK and USA, before they blindly lead it into a ditch worse than any war.
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  1392. The post-TDD generation will need to find new ways to ensure testability of code. Code might not need much unit-testing but still needs to support future testing when it becomes necessary. If TDD is dropped, either new versions of compilers will need to take care of testability or new lint tools (worse case scenario - linting is admission of failure) or new kinds of modularity will be needed to isolate unit-testable code from untestable code in a way which supports untestable older legacy code too.
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  1393. They poke the bear and poke and poke and eventually get the proof they need that the bear is not hibernating, and is a bear. And they get alarmed???? Well it is a bear that has been behaving like a lamb compared to other bears. They should be grateful it isn't like they are, all grisly and malicious.
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  1394. Will this be the government-in-exile - corunning Ukraine from London: With the Brits? As a backup for Elenskyy, or replacement? Would USA allow this?
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  1395. Japan's Minister of Digital Transformation, Takuya Hirai, announced that Japan's government intends, since the lessons it learned from the pandemic, to align electronically with digitised government tech standards which I am aware are those used by the some countries of the Collective West (soon North America too) which bring them hundreds of billions in savings, maybe trillions, and the UK national health service said got it through the pandemic. Interesting that it is adopting these particular technologies - interesting because they also help military organisations align between countries. So the problems with public finances, being behind with some technology in public sector and alignment with Collective West could all be on the way to being solved soon for the Government of Japan, but only at the cost of being brought closer to the Collective West. I wonder whether military alignment with Collective West is highest on the agenda for Japan.
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  1396.  @xxDeath99Starxx  The USA (and UK tag-along) gives these nations a common enemy as USA evil behaviour escalates. That is a powerful force. So often in history otherwise enemies fight together when a more terrible enemy rises and plagues them or when they find common reason to do the plaguing themselves. Look how Arab states and Muslim rivals, Shia and Sunni, come together because they want to resist Israel. Well BRICS is a more positive way they can show resistance as USA and UK start picking off one Islamic state after another and now turn on a Christian state, Russia. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
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  1397. UK and USA would like (led by Neocons) to attack Iran like they attacked Serbia, Iraq, Libya, Mali, and Syria. But Russia might stop this extreme evil by helping Iran like it has helped Syria. The objective behind USA and UK attacks on those countries has been to afford security to Israel. Most of these attacked countries threatened Israel security. (Odd how Balkan Muslim countries were actually defended by NATO rather than attacked.) Russia might see it differently and see USA UK alliance against these countries as going too far when the countries are actually attacked proactively like this, rather than USA waiting for Israel to be all-out attacked. So Russia does not join in but helps the nations being attacked. Therefore the Neocons use sanctions and military supply and go all out in support of Ukraine against Russia, trying to do all they can to attack Russia too while stopping short of nuclear war. Russia cannot risk nuclear war either, so it too uses its non-nuclear options in all out opposition. That includes diplomatic options and economic ones such as BRICS. Russia is proving successful and USA unsuccessful, so USA, to continue to guarantee security to Israel now that other options are exhausted and nuclear options are unacceptable, must try to win over Russia. I think USA might first have to denounce its aggressive approach, its approach of attacking before waiting for Israel to be attacked, and repent of its past invasions. If this is too demeaning for it, the nuclear alternative might look attractive to USA and Neocons instead. The eagle is overhead.
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  1398.  @thomasbaader6629  you have not seen the drones? The eyes in the sky? USA is not the only eagle. (Not to mention the balloons 😀)
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  1399.  @thomasbaader6629  USA teaches violence and practices violence to everyone even itself. The non-violent pursuits are what we need. BRICS supports those pursuits.
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  1400.  @thomasbaader6629  Most still live in a unipolar world but the pole is a different pole for others. Russia does not have USA as its pole. It is not allowed to.
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  1401.  @thomasbaader6629  I’ll let economists define what constitutes multipolarity for any actor or nation. If those who trade with Russia are not allowed to do it in dollars then they seem to me to be in a multipolar situation.
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  1402.  @thomasbaader6629  Is the world already multipolar? In my sphere of work, there has been multipolarity since the late nineties. In the domain of technology standards there are multiple languages in which ISO standards and UN standards (e.g. UNECE) can be written so China gets the right to write standards for key tech areas in Chinese. France can write them in French. English speakers try to resist it but are not supposed to. To me this means multipolarity is built into global and international leading institutions. Similarly in some domains such as insurance and shares/stocks there are standards hosted both in New York and also Geneva. Multipolarity merely extends this principle into other domains. SWIFT standards are sanctioned for Russia but this means it uses its own standards shared with its trading partners. I would expect BRICS will firm this up by sharing standards competing with SWIFT, and likewise other areas. I helped produce invoicing standards used in EU and Australia, etc but I would be pleased to see BRICS members using it within BRICS. I believe Saudi Arabia already uses it (with ZATCA invoicing). Maybe BRICS might produce their own profile for it, for their members to use. I would be delighted.
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  1403.  @ericdekker5768  Well then, you would have expected Russia to have quickly hit a stone wall, but it has not done so to date, despite expert predictions and Neocon think tank hopes. They and other members of BRICS, such as soon to be a fully fledged member Iran, have already gone a long way to working without dollars due to trade with sanctioned nations or due to themselves being sanctioned. The ground work is already laid. Russia quickly introduced Mir cards. They must have already had standards as alternatives to SWIFT. China has been working on alternative desktop OS and document software for decades. The oil is already traded among sanctioned nations. BRICS probably provides some extra infrastructure and institutions to facilitate it and oversee it and ultimately perhaps, I am guessing, to produce alternatives to WTO for long term needs. It does take time but I look for comparison how Britain produces essential instruments of law quickly to leave the EU while allowing plenty of time for less essential laws and trade deals and treaties to develop. Where there is a will there is a way.
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  1404.  @thomasbaader6629  what do you think people mean by a “pole”?
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  1405.  @thomasbaader6629  it is for itself. Depends how you regard these poles. I think they are more generic, going back before the reserve currency, to the thinking of the post-war world, when the institutions such as UN, ISO, World Bank, IMF were formed. It had USA as a conceptual pole but also Soviet Union and UK, France and China, even Switzerland. The dollar become a definition of it later, in my opinion. It was originally about other things too such as who defined international laws and policed them (not necessarily USA). Russia and China had influence. Later USA became more insistent on everything revolving around it, hence “pole”. This was at consent of UK, backed by UK. There was the two eyes agreement, secret for decades. UK would side with USA in letting USA be a pole, to keep that power away from Soviet Union.
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  1406.  @thomasbaader6629  If China overtakes USA and dollar loses reserve currency status and USA becomes polarised and more lawless, then the USA constitution could fail and the unity of states be lost. Then there could well be a situation which develops where multiple superpowers share polarity status. It seems fairer for more opportunity to exist to choose your pole, so to speak, and not have your success always undermined by a unipolar system.
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  1407.  @thomasbaader6629  that might have mattered twenty years ago or ten years ago but confidence seems to have grown among their leadership that they are ready to provide the world with a second pillar, a second pole, otherwise they would not be publishing official articles about a multipolar fair world order. I assume in ten years they have sorted out enough of their laws, and order based on laws, to be able to align with other international laws and systems of order
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  1408.  @thomasbaader6629  Odd then that the “united states” is able to do it. In your thinking the EU has no chance.
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  1409.  @thomasbaader6629  “In a multipolar world, the entities that hold sway don't necessarily have to be countries; they could also include regional blocs like the EU, international organizations, or even influential corporations. The term "multipolar" refers to multiple centers of power, which can encompass a variety of entities beyond traditional nation-states.” — ChatGPT
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  1410.  @thomasbaader6629  it learns from comments like ours, but also from learned papers and publications
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  1411.  @thomasbaader6629  I get it, I get it. It should learn from your comments and nothing else, yes?
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  1412.  @thomasbaader6629  If you want to be so unipolar, you must become a country! 😀
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  1413.  @thomasbaader6629  But they don’t seem to be saying it loud enough or sensibly enough for AI to pick it up.
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  1414.  @thomasbaader6629  AI is as good as we need, perhaps never as good in future as it is today, because today the AI collates all the human opinions and knowledge taught to it and creates a synopsis of them that makes logical sense. That is far better than the astrologies and shamanic myths and ideologies available to people in the past. Ramon Llull dreamt of this moment and longed to see his Ars Magna concept come to fruition.
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  1415. So sadly if Trump funds the border, making it a major policy, it will put pressure on him to fund the war too.
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  1416.  @bumblebee5818  According to Boris, Russia was able to surgically target one man with a nerve agent with very low collateral deaths. Of course, the fact Truss and Boris are still alive, rather belies Boris' and the intelligence services' claims :) You would think Boris and Truss would be more important targets if Putin really did want anyone dead and used nerve agents to do it. Unless of course the rebukes and sanctions from UN and EU and UK made Putin repent :) . But the principle remains that Russia in theory could launch surgical attacks anywhere they want to without it being Armageddon.
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  1417.  @bumblebee5818  Or can UK blow up a pipeline but not Russia?
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  1418.  @bumblebee5818  ​ What makes you think it is the Kremlin saying this? I find they only usually say what any thinking person must think. I think for myself. I do not listen to lies, so if any propaganda (I mean *any*) smacks of lies I stop listening to it. When Putin gives a speech I find he usually says the very things I and others are already saying, so I find this encouraging because it assures me I am thinking rationally and sensibly. I am sure this isn't confirmation bias but is simply a result of hating lies and loving truth, loving what is truly plausible and fits with the facts. I think many of us who try to filter out all kinds of lies are gathering in groups like this to protect our sanity and spirit. Now the question remains, why do others such as yourself keep listening when the propaganda you hear is so clearly a lie. Maybe for some they lack the sense to recognise this and they are too gullible. But you yourself strike me as a thinking, intelligent person clearly capable of thinking for yourself and making your own mind up. Why then not filter out falsehood. That is just a healthy thing to do. It is wise and it aids sanity in the long term. It does take courage though, I admit that. We all are at risk of attacks from extremists who are prepared to kill to make a deceptive point or to silence competitive truth. Sorry, I'm going on a bit. Must be middle age catching up with me. I go by the words of a Psalm for my sanity and courage: The angel of the LORD surrounds those who fear Him. Like the hymn says "Fear Him ye saints and you will then have nothing else to fear."
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  1419.  @bumblebee5818  Probably a false flag version (like Salisbury might have been) will happen first.
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  1420.  @bumblebee5818  It is 5th November, remember, remember, as I write this. Maybe Boris and Truss will try blowing something significant up today as a false flag to blame on Russia. :)
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  1421. How do we stay sane in a world of vicious propaganda which might kill us or make us do deranged things? A serious problem. Jesus Christ had visions of our plight even in biblical gospel times and his main mission given by God was to help us stay sane and not be deceived by all this propaganda and lies, which he ultimately attributed to the devil. His solution is valid today and effective today: to hold to the words of life and truth and spirit which he taught. Now the Holy Spirit in believers continues this ministry, bringing teachings from Jesus today. Believe in Jesus and keep his words in the back of your mind to counter the lies and brainwashing hate-filled propaganda. Keep his teachings until you can understand them well enough to let them guide your actions in obedience. God be with you as you do so. If we all do this we are truly brothers in him.
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  1422. My suspicion confirmed that actually membership of EU was the real issue, aside from membership of NATO. EU would flood Russian market with EU free trade via Ukraine if Ukraine joined EU. That seems to tie with the timing of SMO: coming just after Ukraine membership of EU was affirmed and encouraged by EU. It made me think at the time, maybe EU membership suggestion was last straw, the straw that broke the camel’s back. The West painted it as NATO membership causing vexation of Russia but Putin’s remarks suggest it was EU membership.
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  1423.  @Marin-b1k  Like Putin said, that came later. That was the attempted cure gone awry. Putin, I think, said that he welcomed USA intervention to prevent EU membership by the coup, but he said USA did not foresee how that would play out. USA had to ramp it all up in Donbas because the coup put unacceptable replacement leaders into power - unacceptable by Donbas.
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  1424. I bet cunning Cummings put the idea in Boris’ head to cast Elenskyy as Churchill and maybe put it in Boris’ head to cast Boris as Churchill. Now he can twist the knife. He is no fool. But he is cunning and possibly not straightforward.
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  1425. So he’s just ill-usionay
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  1426. So will Biden imitate Charles I of England by sending police in to Congress to arrest many and charge them with criminal neglect?
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  1427.  @ЯБезымянный-о5ф  Law cannot presume to know intent. At least so the lawyers tell me. Mens somethingorother is not an exact science. It is subjective. So it becomes open to politics, corruption and diplomacy. A foothold for all kinds of agendas. Evil and benign.
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  1428.  @Noqtis  the intention doesn’t have to be there. An attack is an attack. A false flag attack is still an attack. If Ukraine stages an attack as a false flag then it is an attack on NATO by Ukraine and Article 5 comes into effect. NATO would ignore it unless someone other than Ukraine did it, of course.
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  1429. The West demonstrates repeatedly it can turn its rule of law on and off at will. The MSM too can go silent. How? By the clause that says “national interest”.
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  1430.  @CarnisChampion  .. because NATO kept arming Ukraine, because Ukraine wanted to keep bombing Donetsk, because Kiev wanted Donetsk to eradicate its Russian ethnicity and culture, and all because NATO promoted Banderist nationalism in Ukraine to try to destabilise and overextend Russia. All so NATO could gain territory in the East and keep EU as its main customer. You might as well tell not just the truth but the whole truth.
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  1431. There are also reports that it was Ukraine who destroyed Germany’s Nordstream pipelines
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  1432.  @youareliedtobythemedia  restoring the status quo, how would that apply to the attacks on Nordstream and attempted attacks on Turkish pipelines?
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  1433.  @youareliedtobythemedia  say it was concluded that Russia attacked a NATO country’s pipeline. That could be used to trigger Art 5 even if it required an amendment or extension to the article to do so. Yet it has been concluded by the West that Ukraine destroyed Nordstream.
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  1434. If an attack is not actually what would trigger it, what does trigger it? Who triggers it? What are the actual criteria? I suspect it is nothing to do with democracy. I suspect the very thing that cannot trigger it is any kind of referendum.
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  1435.  @MrAce2000  Only one triggering of NATO Article 5. This occurred in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States. NATO invoked Article 5 for the first time in its history, considering the 9/11 attacks an attack on one of its member states, the United States. — Chat GPT 3 (only accurate up until Sept 2021)
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  1436. Those who say Article 5 is only triggered by an invasion, it was only triggered by 9/11 and that was not an invasion.
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  1437.  @WinterXR7  9/11 triggered it
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  1438. If 9/11 triggered Article 5, the resulting NATO response was actually against Iraq. What does that tell us about NATO? NATO states only do what POTUS says, nothing else. That was the only time NATO responded to an attack and it was not even Iraq that did the attacking. But see correction below. There was no direct link between Iraq war and Article 5.
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  1439. NATO’s futility is partly due to the falsity of its message which is that arming you can change the course of a war against you. Tanks from NATO, HIMARS, etc have not really affected the outcome for Ukraine. It is just a myth we are indoctrinated with in all kinds of ways. Wagner really did affect outcomes by sheer will and earnest effort and spirited bravery as much as weaponry. NATO, in contrast, merely prolonged the war and cost extra lives. So NATO relies on myths of its own making and Hollywood ideas about sending in the cavalry and exceptionalism and presumption and fantastic oversimplification of what it takes to be victorious. All the weaponry did not help USA in Vietnam. It did not change outcomes. Yes, Hiroshima and Nagasaki did change outcomes but it was a one act wonder. Immoral in the extreme too. Shocking in its immorality.
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  1440.  @youareliedtobythemedia  Russia has been guarding Turkstream pipelines against attacks. But the vessels doing the guarding keep getting attacked by Ukraine with UK help. One step away from part-Turkish infrastructure being attacked by a non-NATO country. Ironic that a NATO country helped the attacks. This keeps happening, no proof is needed. It is openly done. Drones are used and Ukraine boasts about them. UK too. Does it trigger Article 5? Of course not. If the attacks went further and adjustments were made in the treaty maybe Turkey could invoke Article 5, against Ukraine. Article 5 only covers attacks by non-NATO countries. Not sure it extends to attacks outside Atlantic and Mediterranean. Maybe Black Sea attacks are not covered anyway. Interesting for Russia. As long as it attacks in Black Sea are there might be no Article 5 coverage there. It might want to look into that.
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  1441.  @youareliedtobythemedia  I’m not sure Baltic Sea is covered by Article 5. According to Chat GPT the attacks must be in Atlantic or Med.
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  1442.  @youareliedtobythemedia  the official line seems to be it was Ukraine. Official in that it is announced via the NYT and WP, on behalf of deep state officialdom of USA. If they really mean that they might be willing to act on it via Article 5 to drive home their narrative, rather than acknowledge USA guilt. But like I say, Article 5 might only cover maritime attacks on naval vessels and only in Med and North Atlantic.
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  1443.  @youareliedtobythemedia  I would say NS was definitely akin to 9/11. 9/11 triggered Article 5. Many might suffer this winter due to Nordstream attacks since Germany could have turned them on if it ran low. I expect over time more will die from loss of NS due to pneumonia etc than did in 9/11. No proof though. As to who did it, well Norway seems to have covered up what they know, likewise Denmark and UK, and obviously USA which looks to me like culpability. Even if they did not do it, they must be covering for whoever did. We all know who probably had power to do it, not many had power, opportunity and motive. We know the naval exercises gave opportunity to several who had power. We know the imminent opening of Norway’s Baltic pipeline provided benefit and motive. So maybe Germany could trigger Article 5 against these other NATO members. It seems to allow for it. When 9/11 triggered it, did they know who the enemy was? Not entirely. They ended up with USA attacking Iraq two years later but nobody proved who was really behind it and many said it was the CIA. Yet still Article 5 got triggered.
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  1444.  @youareliedtobythemedia  Clear why Nordstream was attacked. Putin would have been saving tens of thousands of lives if they had been turned on. That is a problem for the ambitions of the West. It foils the narrative that Putin is a modern evil dictator. They rather let those tens of thousands die than let Putin be their saviour.
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  1445.  @youareliedtobythemedia  So yes. Clear why Nordstream was attacked. Putin would have been saving tens of thousands of lives if they had been turned on. That is a problem for the ambitions of the West. It foils the narrative that Putin is a modern evil dictator. They rather let those tens of thousands die than let Putin be their saviour. But this attack to kill all these Germans is an attack on all. As a NATO member state, even my country UK should trigger Article 5 because effectively UK was attacked. All those Germans dying of cold this winter are the same as if UK citizens are dying. That is the Article 5 doctrine. Therefore Sunak or any member country premier should invoke Article 5. Perhaps Germany cannot do it because they are had tied in some way. We must do it for them. That is the doctrine surely. The attack took place. We need NATO members to help us find out who did it and bring justice to bear for tens of thousands who will probably die as a result. Article 5 should help this be found out. We do not need to know first, before it is triggered. Someone hates Putin so much they would kill NATO citizens in their tens of thousands or more rather than let Putin go on record aa a saviour.
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  1446. Trigger Article 5.. Someone hates Putin so much they would kill NATO citizens in their tens of thousands or more rather than let Putin go on record aa a saviour. That threatens all of NATO. But the fact nobody triggers Article 5 over Nordstream implies every NATO premier with power to trigger it us complicit in this plot to rob Putin of saviour status. They are each complicit, it would appear, in causing tens of thousands of NATO citizens to die. Otherwise they would trigger it on behalf of Germany. So someone whose hands are clean and who is not tied to the attack must be given power instead and trigger it. The alliance really by its nature demands this.
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  1447. My guess. Ten years and the AI LLMs will be ‘good’ enough for fools to think the LLM should run the public sector. Twenty years and plans will be afoot to make it so. Thirty years and the public sector will be partly LLM-run. Forty years and the whole public sector globally will be LLM-run to a large degree. Dystopia lies ahead. Pity our kids.
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  1448. They’ve got fools: probably the tools to sabotage an AI replacement of diplomacy. Talk so much silliness that AI cannot be trained on it.
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  1449. Lloyd Austin is the most sensible man in the West. If only it was him running for POTUS.
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  1450. How many attempts did it take you to get them to stack like that 😊
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  1451. Tradition has it, you put a pile of rice next to a potential vampire grave because a vampire coming out of the grave is compelled to know how many grains of rice there are, and will get distracted counting them. Nuclear war can likewise be averted by filling Biden’s airspace with balloons.
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  1452. TikTok owned so much by USA—by a nation interfering in Europe undemocracy. Maybe France will have to ban it across Europe.
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  1453. Pretty bubbles in the air
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  1454.  @arostwocents  What the video says about Burns. That he has to tell his bosses budgetary intelligence reports. I’m suggesting that is not his fault alone, but that it speaks to a culture which does not allow anything better. A dire situation. Not unusual in an oppressive government.
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  1455. Watch. The West will end up having to fight Ukraine and clear up this mess. History repeats itself.
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  1456. Military Summary today focussing on Ukraine use today of cluster bombs in Donetsk very nasty for children and pets, Maybe this is why Ellensky wants to get children out of area. Obviously not same area he is shelling with cluster bombs but nevertheless he might want to show willing to offset the evil of the cluster mines with effort to remove children from other parts of the area. Maybe he intends to cluster-bomb the area eventually from which children being removed. All so evil to use these mini-mines which would be so nasty for children.
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  1457. With hundreds of buildings yet to be taken in Bakhmut and a rate of eight a day, it implies there must have been some short cut to this found yesterday for so much sudden progress in a day. A guess, and we’ll find out soon, some way was found to use the snowy weather yesterday to bypass the eight buildings a day normal progress rate. In that case, lack of further similar weather might mean progress goes back to normal and months are still needed.
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  1458.  @christophersmith8316  indeed. And think how sometimes a great debt can be dealt with treacherously. Look at how Philip IV of France was hugely indebted to the Knights Templar, and instead of paying the debt he had most of them tortured and burned at the stake.
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  1459. Fake news? Diversion from trip to USA? Shame on BBC being used like this.
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  1460. If the missile strikes on Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine were indeed followed by a gamma peak it seems mere fake explanation and propaganda to associate it with depleted uranium ammunition donated by UK for challenger tanks. Gamma radiation seems inconsistent with depleted uranium which is an alpha emitter, and alpha radiation only travels a few centimetres. What is more consistent with a gamma spike and probably, I guess, the reason gamma monitoring in the area, is that this is a major historical ICBM nuclear missile storage area from the Cold War which US was helping Russia decontaminate. Likely, my guess, the hit of the missile attack has disturbed something like a buried underground silo which still had the radiation in it from when it housed ICBMs. Besides this there is not just bad radiation hazards in this area but very bad karma too from pogroms and Holocaust attacks on Jews going back centuries. That might be a cosmic and divine retribution factor behind all this. Even the city name is named after a major leader of the sixteen hundreds mass killings of Jews. Fact check the Wikipedia page for this city. But give glory to God “Israel has sinned” Joshua 7. There is more than one way of looking at it. Mushroom clouds and eagles overhead. It is all prophetic.
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  1461. Just when OOP gets made interesting and feasible by possibility of AI recognising the design patterns in the code base, AI gets too good and frightens off all the potential future OOP developers, and they look for careers in something safer.
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  1462.  @sylviam6535  and therefore very effective as a mirror on our societies
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  1463. Operation Green Lantern, they must have turned that name down.
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  1464. If you send out soldiers in vast numbers against well armed enemies but ensure your soldiers have lack of weapons, yes, like cannon fodder and human wave, you deplete ammunition of the enemy while avoiding depleting your own ammo.
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  1465. Russia experimentally exploring total war?
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  1466. This general mobilisation is a lot less hypocritical than dependence on the West who are usually blind leaders who lead the blind followers into a ditch. Bravo to Zelenskyy for an unhypocritical more genuinely courageous step. Terrible as it is, it is about nationalism being in deed not just word, and about standing as a true nation in its own right. A nation led by extreme nationalists is rather a dire situation, but frankly a lukewarm pretentious nationalism depending on other nations and their blind leaders is worse. Better hot than lukewarm.
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  1467. Blinken is doing so well. But it might be going too far to say he is on a par with the normal people. Dog contact skills were a big step though. McDonalds? Maybe too much.
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  1468. Russia’s noble new global role, to protect the world from NATO.
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  1469. Capital punishment is underway, despite many in the West opposing capital punishment.
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  1470. UK might find it convenient to test their missiles in action
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  1471. Did Lammy know that Elizabeth I of England and Ivan the Terrible of Moscow once tried to marry (although it all fell through)?
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  1472. Freezing and sneezing
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  1473. It used to be part of the service we paid for (I thought) that the power services companies provide meter reading services. It seemed to stop during lockdowns, understandably, but now it seems they often do not send anyone. It used to be that we opted to send our own readings a few times a year and they had to send someone to do a meter reading once a year. Apartments are different for smart meters, the smart meter cannot see the apartment if it is installed in a basement, say. So meter reading ought to be part of the service for which we pay. Unless changes were made without us knowing.
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  1474. What a disruption globally would occur if USA and Russia relations healed, though. Think what the ‘Allies’ did in the War as most powerful military alliance in history.
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  1475. Maybe Ukrainian military simply shell for practice. Like in the Leon movie when Leon taught the girl by firing randomly at passers by in Central Park. Devilishness.
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  1476. The dam destroyed itself because it is so dam evil.
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  1477. Avoiding a £2 fare is on a par with a magistrate avoiding ironing his whole shirt by only ironing the bits showing, or a barrister avoiding being mocked for being bald by wearing a wig. Just because it was money that was avoided as distinct from work (ironing shirt) or social credit (for having a full head of hair) makes the morality a legal matter. Do the court attendees feel cheated that the magistrate hid unironed clothing? They might be annoyed when the truth comes out (if the magistrate trips and shows the rest of the shirt that was not ironed). No more than a meticulously honest customer gets annoyed if other customers price-dodge. What if someone haggles? Do they get arrested for avoiding paying the full price compared to those who never thought of haggling?
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  1478. Yes criminal charges against foreign minister sounds about right. ICC might put warrant out for arrest?
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  1479. How long before AI is built into compilers so they optimise code using AI as they compile. Gradually we could offload coding tasks to the AI-enabled compilers so we do less. Like garbage collecting, etc., today.
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  1480. Such is the media reputation that the article did look real for a moment. The satire was quite near to the truth.
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  1481. Realistic plan likely to actually get agreed (courtesy AI) Permanent Armistice and Security Pact Redrawn Borders with Russian Control Over Some Regions Ukraine’s Neutrality with Security Guarantees Military Restrictions and Demilitarization Economic and Sanctions Relief Humanitarian Measures and Prisoner Exchange Long-Term Diplomatic and Security Framework
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  1482. Maybe UK deep state wants Zaluzhny to lead because he tries to promote total war in UK
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  1483. It is probably only the English, Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish who need to worry about properly addressing our Lord. He is just our Lord, not yours. One of our many lords. We get a lord each day of the year if we want one. Making a “lord” into a foreign secretary is a bit wanting in diplomacy department.
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  1484. If this is AGI, do we really need AGI? What needs does it fulfil?
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  1485. To think, neither of the leaders of the UK and its economy, including Putin, have been elected. Except Putin might actually be popular enough to be elected.
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  1486. Gigo*&* writing these articles about big tools in those regions. How sickening. It is killing more and more. No morals.
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  1487. You CAN get fat on diet food, but if you really want to diet, diet food CAN help. It depends on intent. Opportunity knocks, but only with intent will prices go down.
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  1488. In Bristol 200 right protestors faced off against 700 counter protestors. Big wow! I remember the riots when it was Conservatives who beat Labour. Now they were protests.
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  1489. Revenge, perhaps, for the bombing of Israel Embassy in London in 1994, said by experts to be by pro-Iranian extremists, probably linked to Hezbollah.
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  1490. Does GDPR apply? Can we ask what they will do with info they find, and how we can request they delete or change it if we realise the info is false? Or can we ask for a channel by which to withdraw consent? And can we ask how to make future enquiries about how it has been used and whether it is kept up to date? If there is info on there sensitive to us, or to other people, can we ask how it will be secured in future use? And if it has political opinions or gender info and we change those later, can we ask that their records of it be changed?
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  1491.  @rogerkangaroo6118  OK, not very Magna Carta consistent then. But law enforcement agencies are still required to comply with certain safeguards and procedures to ensure the protection of individuals' rights and freedoms, yes?
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  1492.  @rogerkangaroo6118  here are some of the guidelines they provide for GDPR by law enforcement “The processing must also have a lawful basis under data protection legislation. Section 35(2) explains that the processing of personal data for any of the law enforcement purposes must be either necessary for the performance of a task carried out for law enforcement purposes by a competent authority, or based on consent. You need to be aware that any processing you carry out for the law enforcement purposes must be necessary. This does not mean that processing always has to be essential. However, it must be a targeted and proportionate way of achieving your purpose. This lawful basis will not apply if you can reasonably achieve the purpose by some other less intrusive means. It is not enough to argue that processing is necessary because you have chosen to operate in a particular way. The question is whether the processing is a necessary for the stated purpose. In terms of consent under Part 3, this has the same high standard of consent as that in the UK GDPR. This means consent must be freely given and it must be unambiguous and involve a clear affirmative action (an opt-in). Individuals also must be able to easily withdraw consent. Further guidance on consent can be found in the Guide to UK GDPR page. There may be limited circumstances where you obtain consent from the individual whose personal data you are processing. However, in the context of law enforcement processing, consent may often not be appropriate as a lawful basis. “Fairness” generally means you must not process personal data in a way that is unduly detrimental, unexpected or misleading to the individuals concerned. It also requires you to be, where appropriate, clear and open with individuals about how you use their information, in keeping with their reasonable expectations.”
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  1493.  @rogerkangaroo6118  the GDPR for law enforcement looks to me very little different, if at all different, from what I am advised in my work in insurance.
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  1494. Of Germany and war, me thinks they doth protest too much. Gut feeling, it will still be Germany that leads the world into WW 3. History repeats itself. Perhaps Germany has a foreboding sense of this too. If I were a Jew in Germany, Austria of Eastern Europe Ii might be thinking whether New York is still a good option for flight.
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  1495. Will the hit list have to be shut down?
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  1496. Will the rest of Europe now get pulled into this? Will they be emboldened to start to fight directly? Maybe they will encourage N**fication of Eastern Europe if it looks like a successful way to counter Russia.
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  1497.  @HumansAreShitFactories  Hundreds. Never touch the stuff.
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  1498. USA must have let its internal enemies, perhaps hidden in plain sight, formulate its foreign policy. Reminds me of the divine judgment on Ahab (1 Kings 22v22 ““By what means?’ the LORD asked. “’I will go out and be a deceiving spirit in the mouths of all his prophets,’ he said. “’You will succeed in enticing him,’ said the LORD. ‘Go and do it.’)
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  1499. The Son ‘eternally begotten’ versus ‘begotten before time’. It is one opinion versus another since neither is revealed: “The secret things belong to God” as Deuteronomy 29 v 29 testifies. “Do not go beyond what is written.” “Do not cast judgment on disputable matters.”
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  1500.  @daftirishmarej1827  Maybe you should become a solicitor. For most people the language alone makes it inaccessible and unreadable, without a law degree.
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  1501.  @daftirishmarej1827  I remember an early computer game where you had to tick a box to say you had read and understood and agreed with the terms and conditions. Deep in the conditions legalese, near the end, was a clause to say that by agreeing to these terms you give your soul to Satan and he come and collect it whenever he wants and you must comply.
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  1502. Now NATO suddenly cares about pipelines. Worried about revenge attacks no doubt. Norway has a nice sparkly new pipeline. Just sitting there. Baltic Pipe. It opened 27th Sept, one day after nordstream blown up. Biden must have timed his order to that very day. Biden perhaps wanted to pin it on Norway?
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  1503. Presumably peace can be achieved by Putin doing deals with Trump and the Europe nations. They then cancel all their aid on the terms agreed with Putin. Maybe a deal with Trump would suffice.
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  1504. Can Trump override the pardon, leaving the one pardoned prone having acknowledged guilt?
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  1505. Putin did make clear that as defender of Russia, he is no fool, has his faculties intact and is resolved to keep within a remit of being just historic Russia’s defender not going beyond that. Yet he warns that within his remit is former Soviet Union territory since he regards that as matching the full extent of what is historically Russia.
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  1506. Bristol Museum, UK has a nice Edward Colston statue Bulgaria can have to replace it’s liberator statue. Edward Colston was known for enslaving rather than liberating. I’m sure it will sit nicely of the monument plinth.
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  1507. I think the idea of Russia wanting to use a Ukraine route as distinct from Baltic is that every time Europeans invaded Russia it was via Ukraine, or so goes the popular narrative. If you only read one history book you might think the Ukraine route is the weakest point between Russia and rest of Europe.
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  1508.  @moosaanwar7919  we might not have to arm ourselves to the teeth if NATO would disband or undo its eastward expansion somehow and Israel would sort out its Oslo Accords somehow, all shameful falling short failings that are leading the world into war and doom and gloom
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  1509.  @moosaanwar7919  I absolutely agree. The world needs to adjust to first the end of the British Empire and increasingly to a demise of American hegemony. Britain needs to adjust of course too, and it is adjusting, but awkwardly. Multipolarity is a nice model to work towards, with Britain and USA not so dominant in global institutions but China overtaking and Russia on a par with China, so, yes, a fair world order, where arrogant terms like “the free world” become a thing of the past. China needs to advance its legislation to meet the demands of leadership. Yet God knows, what He calls ‘sin’, shameful failings of the recent past, Israel’s dire situation with Palestine and its falling short Oslo Accords, and NATO’s shameful betrayal of first Soviet then Russian trust with eastward expansion, these sins need to be answered, dealt with, punished, cleansed. I have no idea how that is to be done, but it must be done. I am apprehensive of Iran’s stirrings and how it will fit into this fair world order, God permitting. It looks to be becoming a piece in a range of nations coming together in an alarming way at an alarming rate. My vision is for every nation to be independent enough of others that each can practically police the others in case some do atrocious things and need to be stopped. Accords and Treaties like Oslo and NATO could jeopardise this freedom to act. Even with China and Russia they need to preserve autonomy to police each other, a bit like USA, Britain and Soviet Union did after WW2.
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  1510. Who in their right mind gives keys of a nuclear power station to the people who are bombing it? How guilty would Russia be if it did that? What would Ukraine do if they were bombing it then they were given the keys to it, what would they do with it?
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  1511. My guess, they intend to go beyond the funding (boots on ground before Nov to hinder transfer of power to Republicans) and the funding is just a prerequisite to that next step.
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  1512. Elenskyy dressing down from his uniform, now that his term is over.
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  1513. Reminds of the great 2005 movie Revolver. Equally hard to understand. I guess it is a swindle, scam, that works in many variations.
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  1514.  @Patriark69  We are trialing that with work and all the employees but we are finding it makes us lazy and HR keeps having to find new managers.
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  1515.  @Patriark69  At work we are mostly remote workers and so are many of the managers so we have use FPV drones instead. Again, it means a high manager turnover.
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  1516. Are you saying it is illegal, even criminal, to be dishonest in our society? I suggest corporations could be prosecuted first, including their actual employees, before the poor are targeted. That would be the honest way to prosecute it. Oh and next in line should be politicians and managers. Police, lawyers. Media. Advertisers. Video game developers. Teachers. Last of all people like this poor video game buyer needing to count the pennies.
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  1517. Two nullifying steps for NATO. 1) Bring Poland and Ukraine together. and/or 2) Let Ukraine join NATO. (Let Moldova join NATO is perhaps a third.) Either way leaves no strong border between NATO and Russia (or EU and Russia). No enforceable border means no enforceable Article 5 means no enforceable NATO.
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  1518. @@TheKeendark yet they want perpetual war to maximise Russian deaths (such is the evil of their hearts)
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  1519. What is the word for making people act against their best interests? People who are abusive like that get addicted to doing it, addicted to humiliating others. If people go along with it they too can get addicted to it. They get emasculated. The US tries to emasculate every other country in the World and enjoys doing it. It is their thing. They are addicted to it. About time their victims manned up and rehabbed their way out of it.
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  1520.  @MoustacheAlexander  They do need the blessing and sanctification of the church. It’s leaders prefer to do things with sanction (sanction, not ‘sanctions’). Legally too.
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  1521.  @СтаниславГрознов  Good insight. The Russian MoD is sending a message to the world that it can retaliate in a strong way which is many times greater than the original offence and that it knows this is not morally wrong. It is showing it has power beyond collective West power by using hypersonic missiles. So it has knowledge and it has power and it is telling the world this and doing so with actions, not just words. Yet another weapon is even stronger, the weapon of non-retaliation. It is stronger, but it takes a lot of strength and knowledge to use it and to master it. A message for another day. For now, the world has been told that nobody should be quick to mess with Russia, and it is an important lesson going forward.
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  1522.  @magicponyrides  UK
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  1523.  @magicponyrides  UK
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  1524.  @magicponyrides  Why do you ask?
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  1525. Biggest worry for West? A. Putin. B. Elenskyy
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  1526. C. Stormer
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  1527. New plan: Ukraine makes NATO into an autonomous territory of Ukraine.
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  1528. I think Poland did have opportunity and motive. The day after the explosion was the opening of the competing pipeline between the Baltic/Norway and Poland.
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  1529. UK, France and Germany all now participants in eyes of Russia. Safety in numbers? Participants - or terrorists.
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  1530. Are we “at war with Russia” legally speaking? Because presumably lots of other laws kick in if we are.
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  1531.  @abyrahman6610  Germans probably had more. Most fatalities were killed by German invasion but two thirds of killings were when the Germans broke the dam, flooding the city. Many Germans died in that flooding too.
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  1532.  @arthura7851  Zaporozhye has very big steel works. Maybe less challenging than Mariupol, yes. Mariupol was home of Azov, yes. Militarised. Less so Zaporozhye, so maybe intention is to take it and it is a viable goal.
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  1533. UK would be out on a limb unless another friend of the P can proxy rule UK. Then USA might be next with Trump. How does Corbyn get on with the P? It could be the old rule of membership of the West power club of having to hate the P could get reversed so easily as a few power shuffles. Then world peace and sanity. Better than abject subjection to terms.
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  1534. So the moustache man changed sides and now fights for the good guys?
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  1535. The non-taxpaying Eton cult, wicked elitists, are tempting fate. Flying too close to the sun. Pride before a fall. Living on borrowed time. Trying it on. As soon as an anti-corruption body is set up they will be brought low. Give it time. We need a non-EU replacement for the Supreme Court. The Peers were meant to be the answer to this but the salt lost its saltiness and needs throwing out. There will be some kind of new power system. Yes we need a Putin. Perhaps Putin will get influence himself. First things need to get desperate enough for people to cry out for help.
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  1536. Signs Musk is running Tesla like a cult? Group-think?
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  1537. Are these Democrats the first people in modern history to be at war with everybody, at once, even their allies (pipelines allegedly) and now even their own country, its former leader. So that is really and truly world war, but everyone attacked at once by one group.
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  1538. Article 5 not triggered if Russia attacks NATO within conflict area. So the obvious strategy for Russia, if NATO sends troops, would be to widen the conflict area westwards, west of current NATO borders: Not to gain territory but to create a buffer zone in which triggering Article 5 can be avoided.
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  1539.  @Theyellowchild  yes, the Wikipedia article about it is where I found the quote. Police cars had a nickname of Z-Cars among the MSM
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  1540.  @alkazeicer9616  I know things done in the eighties were atrocious. Things done today that are atrocious are getting West support making it hard to see how they can be stopped.
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  1541. Thanks for getting this news out so fast. Horrible news of course, but we need to be aware of it. Maybe someone will speak sanity to Starmer in time.
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  1542. I just got rid of my only TV. My family at home watches iPlayer but never live programmes, only on demand. I pay the licence, but only because of fear that I or my family might watch things needing the licence unknowingly, unwittingly, or accidentally, plus not wanting the threats, the visits and the possibility of prosecution even if we don’t deserve it. I do not deserve this oppression. If it was Russia doing this to us, we would threaten them with war.
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  1543.  @M2Ys4U  Why oppression? Because of the way it is prosecuted and criminalised. The way you cannot reasonably know whether you are due to pay it. Nothing tells you that you have crossed into watching something payable. It is like a toll road without a toll booth. Like a trap. It is oppressive if you do not have a licence - in so many ways. So you are humiliated into paying for what you do not use.
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  1544.  @M2Ys4U  My family probably only watches S4C when using iPlayer.
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  1545.  @M2Ys4U  If indeed my family only watches S4C when using iPlayer and if I never watch live Sky News or live GB News on YouTube, then probably I am being robbed because force of prosecution power is used to get money from me which is not due. Therefore BBC people ought to know their salaries are paid with proceeds of such actions. Proceeds of crime perhaps?
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  1546. The real problem will shift from overreaction by USA and Israel against Hamas, against the original Hamas attacks, to one of an excessiveness of overreaction against Israel and USA and Jewish Diaspora.
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  1547.  @rene230464  less public money available to spend on WMD
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  1548. If elected MPs in UK will not do their moral duty and Musk gains the moral initiative, we need to start monitoring right now to record the changes in justice metering out against the historic groomers and ongoing grooming activities when unelected Musk gets his way and the elected establishment is removed in the ballot boxes, so we can see if letting go of democracy a little is effective.
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  1549. Isn’t Transnistria the ancestral home of Nuland?
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  1550. If a piece of territory gets taken solely by ground drones and is controlled by these drones and marked as under Russian control, presumably if those drones get hacked, the territory becomes Ukraine territory immediately as soon as the Ukrainian hackers get control of those drones.
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  1551. Starmer has a unique secret weapon against mass protests. He makes potential protesters too bored to bother.
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  1552. IMF figures prove Russophobia depresses an economy
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  1553. When Rutte raises moral objections, it shows he knows the similar actions of NATO are morally wrong.
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  1554. When hyped predictions like this blow up and find acceptance, it just creates a bubble which bursts. My guess, people might realise the potential outcome would be short term disasters like nuclear power station software having such skill shortages—all the developers switch profession and students stop taking software-related training—that it puts safety at risk. Then there would be refusal to adopt the AI.
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  1555. Annalena took the Persian Bear by the Bock.
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  1556. Russia would really be losing if ever it started destroying innocent forces who had done Donbas no harm. It would lose its moral authority. So far it has only destroyed those who were trying to destroy Russians or Russia.
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  1557. Final Destination in real life. Flattening the curve prolongs the curve.
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  1558. So Russia won by saying “I’m not playing anymore!”
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  1559.  @kennztube  But as Gonzalo said better than I can yesterday - if you abandon truth it has a habit of coming back and slapping you in the face eventually. The UK might love the fiction that it is not part of this and its own land is unaffected but truth will catch up and slap it in the face soon enough.
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  1560. A revenge attack on Wagner by Ukraine seems the Ocham’s Razor solution. Why so? Ukraine Independence Day. If so, they will soon be boasting about doing it and how they did it, as they did with previous high profile killings, and we will know the truth. Incidentally, by that logic we can have confidence that Ukraine did not blow up Nordstream. If they did blow it up they would be boasting about it by now.
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  1561. There is a reason why surveillance is necessary.
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  1562. A company called CrowdStrike? The clue is in the name. Or is it a conspiracy theory that the name of a company might say something about a company? People worldwide trust a company which names itself with a name almost like it is saying it will strike the crowd.
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  1563. Like who would be so reckless as to make a nuclear power station that cannot be controlled by a human. Who makes an LLM too big for humans to control. If anything we need to keep LLMs small enough to control them or they are useless and reckless. Just like robots work best if they have human proportions and properties to interact with a human world. At some point that becomes obsolete as no human interaction or human world interaction becomes necessary. Then we are doomed.
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  1564. Highly likely, it seems, Elensky wants to destroy those reserves.
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  1565. No Taurus in Ukraine. Just like when the SS could not really trust the Galician SS.
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  1566. Are you still Dima? Your voice sounds different.
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  1567. Another one of those eagle eye in the sky signs. More a way to tell us how wrong we have been. A moral inditement, as it were. Like Biden’s dreaded balloons to shoot down in defiance. In the UK, most surveilled nation in the world. Probably Ukraine overtaking is now though. The eagle signifies war too, not just surveillance and crime. There’s a prophecy for our sins.
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  1568. Boris proved to be as blind a leader as any through lockdown but the people bringing him back are worse than blind because they know what it will do and do it anyway.
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  1569.  @Tamara-nn1wr  It is, I think they are saying, Ukraine who is going after Putin, filing charges, allegations with the ICC and Ukraine only signed, did not ratify ICC
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  1570. USA could be betraying its own people by attacking Russia since 20 percent of Americans agree with or approve of Putin’s actions.
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  1571. So invasion warrants sanctions, presumably UN will authorise sanctions against itself and its member states.
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  1572.  @nitromuze8645  but Europe has nothing to offer them but death
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  1573. Under Trump, on relatively good terms with Putin, there was no awareness of threat from Russia and people were widely thinking NATO was redundant. Then came Biden. So yes, maybe Trump betrayed Putin and secretly initiated the antagonising behaviour against Putin seen under Biden, good cop bad cop strategy, just to try behind the scenes to try to bring in a strategy to save NATO and the MIC from redundancy.
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  1574.  @janetbaker7848  We can all be grateful we don’t have to decide what is true. Perhaps this fact checking service can be extended to provide services to jurors so they can rest assured they did not have to try deciding whether someone was guilty on their own without help from the ones who lead the blind with such a reliable position of farsightedness.
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  1575. The only hard evidence apparent to me is the long term shelling and missile attacks of the dam and the possibly seasonal high water level increasing pressure on the dam. Maybe there is evidence for man-caused water level increases too. So accusing Ukraine is not a slander because it is evidence-based. Baseless accusations are akin to false accusations and slander.
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  1576. The West has learned from experience. It must sanction dual use items. Washing machine chips are a typical case in point.
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  1577. If UK can be shown to have helped Ukraine with a dirty bomb and UK gov was involved then the USA would want to suppress that heavily lest it make UK a state sponsor of terrorism in USA law which USA would find unmanageable.
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  1578. It is awful when people get rich from something dubious and then fess up when that gold seem is all dug up
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  1579.  @soniavadnjal7553  turning a blind eye to truth when paid to do so, can be very lucrative. The devil pays well, and you can always fess up once that revenue stream dries up, but keep all that gold
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  1580.  @soniavadnjal7553  the answer the greatest most famous truth teller in history taught when faced with penitence from the rich: “Sell all your possessions and give to the poor, then come follow me.” Like Zaccheaus giving half of his ill-gotten gains to the poor. That is the true way to finish off life on a high note.
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  1581. There is a civil war, but not Ukraine v Russia but rather West peace-seekers v NATO warmongers. This is the civil war that might develop into WW3.
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  1582. Trump being arrested? Giuliani? And this is not Mafia? This is not Rome? This is not 666? DCLXVI?
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  1583. Ursula leading the ‘free’, who are not aloud to attend in Moscow, whereas many actually free to attend will do so—leaders over most of the world population.
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  1584. @ These EU and UK ‘government’ offices tend to be run like scams. Exploiting their citizens.
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  1585. Maybe after some sort of peace deal, these tanks will go to guard border, not front lines. Border control request was made several weeks ago for, was it, 200 tanks.
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  1586. Trump unable to go after NATO, so to salvage face, goes after WHO, ICC, USAID. There is still a big elephant in the room.
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  1587. So Ukraine found their Russian moles?
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  1588. Putin drew attention, if I understood the translation correctly, to the necessity of being thorough in defending breakaway Russians from barbaric mistreatment and persecution. It leaves him no choice but to fight on, increase numbers of troops and put all weapons at military disposal rather than betray the DR and LR civilians. The leaders in West who deny this necessity are blind, or just plain immoral.
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  1589. Plausible that Routh might have been using the purchase to do a walk in knowing it might put him in the sights of the FBI.
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  1590. Pirates and parrots. The garden is a pirate ship.
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  1591. We all are not surprised because we foresaw that flattening the curve would prolong the curve. We all know the expression “you cannot cheat death”.
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  1592. Russia versus USA in Syria will really stir things up. Iran could come out of it stronger. Iraq too. Prophetic times like rise of Babylon in troubled Assyrian times, the prophetic tossing of the sea, out of which came Babylon and Persia and Macedonia.
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  1593. The French enjoying the company of the Germans is a bit difficult. Having a distraction of focussing on Russia as someone they enjoy NOT inviting must make having to endure each others' company easier to swallow.
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  1594. EU 50,000 rounds a month, surely.
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  1595. Any territory they gain now, they will need to try to keep through the winter.
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  1596. The KJB biblicists in USA and UK should admit the wars have been fought enough to put them on side of God, and now be on side of the Son too by “putting away the sword”.
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  1597. The O cannot go against The P, so the universe itself has to change, to allow the EU and the P to coexist and for the O to not be pulled apart by the gravity waves.
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  1598.  @arthurtane6505  “In terms of economic output, China's economy is currently larger than France's, with a GDP of approximately $15 trillion compared to France's GDP of around $2.8 trillion.” (Source: Chat GPT3 Sept 2021)
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  1599.  @arthurtane6505  France grew its economy on the backs of others through its colonies and enslavements and imperialistic conquests. China has not been a conquering country and was robbed of much during colonial impositions and humiliating times. France is at the end of its dominance and Empire. China is at the beginning of its dominance.
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  1600. Whether China becomes an empire remains to be seen.
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  1601.  @arthurtane6505  if China does become an empire, it will probably be the first truly global one
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  1602. I imagine if China becomes history’s first truly global empire, it will be by 2050/2055.
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  1603. Probably sharing world power with Iran and its allies.
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  1604. I imagine Europe will be full of failed states by then, the EU a failed system.
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  1605. To survive, the USA will need to have extricated itself from Europe completely by then, or it too may well fail
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  1606. I’m feeling prophetic today. Must be the season for it.
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  1607. The backdrop for the return of the man who died and lives
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  1608.  @arthurtane6505  Ah another one listening to the guy Gonzales mentioned today
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  1609.  @arthurtane6505  Peter Zeihan?
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  1610.  @arthurtane6505  if it had not been for PEPPOL, EU nations will probably not have survived the pandemic. It is living on grace. Not natural resources. Miracles. Five loaves and two fishes.
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  1611.  @arthurtane6505  follow the money. Who pays him, as Gonzalo said today. There is this thing they call propaganda. It includes things like statistics and facts. It is what they do with them that makes it propaganda. You can say anything and in some context it is true. But misdirection causes people to believe something that is not true and is not in their best interest to believe. It is called misleading. It is not false information necessarily, but is presented in such a way that it leads people up a path that will not end well for them. Like when they ask people to donate to the corrupt.
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  1612.  @arthurtane6505  why am I hearing about this Zeihan twice within a few hours when I never heard of him before today? Has he just published a new book? Or maybe the CIA thinks now would be a good time to spring him on us all. And how was it so easy for me to recognise you were pushing his propaganda? It is so stereotypical, obviously.
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  1613.  @arthurtane6505  one word for it, contrivance
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  1614.  @arthurtane6505  If he is Australian, I’m guessing NATO funds him, yes?
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  1615.  @arthurtane6505  or Five Eyes perhaps
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  1616.  @arthurtane6505  do you get the same funding?
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  1617.  @arthurtane6505  there was a time when the Five Eye countries seemed like friends and decent. Now they seem like enemies of those wanting truth. Returning evil for good. Misleading those who rightly lead them to truth.
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  1618. How have mighty fallen. And how far.
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  1619.  @arthurtane6505  why would it be called Shadow CIA?
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  1620.  @arthurtane6505  I used to work with intelligence kind of people, helping with IT projects, but completely freelance and self-funded, so I had nobody to answer to. No non-disclosure agreements or secrets acts to sign. I know the tricks. I know the tactics. It is never in people’s interests. It is just to undermine their confidence and take them for a ride so they hate themselves for being so easily mislead.
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  1621.  @arthurtane6505  It is sad when the people I helped try to pull the wool over my eyes.
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  1622.  @arthurtane6505  CIA (or ‘Shadow CIA’) people only ever tell facts that support the collective West narrative and neocon agenda.
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  1623.  @arthurtane6505  FBI maybe
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  1624.  @arthurtane6505  My own grandchildren might be ashamed of the way my generation helps modern day nasties. That is more my concern. How can we distance ourselves genuinely from these influences that threaten to make us guilty by association. We have to work together on it, so I don’t mind associating with those with grandparents in that ilk as long as our collective goal is to get cleaned up. My own family history had links to apartheid so I too have ghosts. We need to exorcise the ghosts and work together to ensure they don’t come back into our lives. My current family is of African Caribbean heritage so it helps keep me on an even keel. How do those of us want to exorcise the demons of hatred deal with our governments who want to join forces with demons. Democracy might do it. Hence the chance of democracy in UK is dwindling.
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  1625.  @arthurtane6505  I know something worse than the Holocaust might be brewing. If that happens we are in danger of being turned into monsters. How do we avoid it? How do we avert it without becoming monsters the other way. Putin is facing this dilemma head on and doing as well as anyone could do. We might all be facing the same monstrous problem worldwide soon. Are governments going to be ready or will they join the demons instead of exorcising them? Those with nasties in their family history might have good ideas how to deal with all this and know how to identify and avert the ideology.
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  1626.  @arthurtane6505  I watch Duke in Belarus channel too and he has a similar family history and is open about it and about addressing it and about trying to expose the evils that persist from this ideology.
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  1627.  @arthurtane6505  Let’s face it, most of us over 50 in Europe have grandparents who were racist in some way, either right wing or even left wing, ideological or merely for economical reasons such as business interests in former colonies. Growing up faced with alarming attitudes we had to decide how to respond to it. As Christians many of us were cut to the heart and rejected it and sought to keep it out of our lives. But a post-Christian Europe is apparently either ignorant or embraces it even in its most extreme and ideological form, in governments at least, perhaps out of political reasons of pragmatism, but I am compelled to find out why this is, considering how my teachers in UK drummed into us how we must not go down that path.
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  1628.  @arthurtane6505  none of that resonates with anything I have ever come across
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  1629.  @arthurtane6505  it seems you are looking through tinted spectacles
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  1630.  @arthurtane6505  I personally feel drawn to those who are personally Christianised while I feel repulsion from those who hate their brothers. I do not feel drawn to Western Russophobia and I feel repulsion when people ignore the hateful evildoing of those they support.
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  1631.  @arthurtane6505  as scripture says “Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil. Cling to what is good.” Obedience to this these days gets us potentially in big trouble, as does my love of people in Russian leadership who speak well, and love the truth. But the angel of the LORD surrounds them that fear Him. Fear Him who can destroy a person even after they have died.
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  1632.  @arthurtane6505  I would also say, I’ve been listening every day to this channel for a long time now, perhaps more than a year, and never seen any Russophobia or ideological cause for concern. On the contrary, which is why I watch it devotedly.
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  1633.  @arthurtane6505  how do you reconcile our allies response in WW2 with current support for Kiev’s ideological independence stance?
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  1634. Probably if Israel started to show some principles, start to have good principles in how it manages people living nearby, these attacks would not happen in this way. Palestinian state or not, it needs to be a result of application of sound principles, continuing over time, not an Oslo Accord, nor a Middle East equivalent of Minsk 2. It needs to be a change of attitude of Israel towards all who live trustingly near by. A good samaritan stance. Otherwise that eagle overhead will just keep on circling, more and more like a vulture as the bodies pile up. Call that a prophecy if you will.
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  1635. If you were leader of UK there is no way to rollback sanctions. They cannot even rollback the last election and declare a general election. The whole system needs replacing.
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  1636. Elensky and West might really still think of Donbas as being Ukraine but it gets help from Russia and protection - so he might think of evacuating everyone to Donbas! :) Perhaps they had best stop bombing it first.
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  1637. Liz's main qualification. Not being Etonian. Hardly even elitist. The Crown is disgraced by the appointment of someone as PM who could sanction a UK citizen for disagreeing with her.
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  1638. Wouldn’t the French long range missiles have had to be planned long before the events in Niger? Probably coincidence if it looks like revenge. No doubt civilians in Donetsk will be experiencing their evils. French leaders associated with it like Biden associations with Donetsk civilians being bombed with clusters - all evils that elicit a response from conscientious believers of handing these leaders over to the really evil one to get their desserts. It is disgusting what they do. These guys are supposed to be Catholic brothers.
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  1639. When they say generally “kill Russians” presumably they mean Ellenskyy and Charles III too
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  1640.  @Katherine-vz6ov  but you could look at it the way you are saying, yes. I’m fairly sure Philip saw himself as Russian rather than German. All in all they are all Vikings of course.
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  1641.  @Katherine-vz6ov  Romanov Grand Duchess Olga Constantinovna of Russia was related to Charles in two lines, both grandfather and grandmother were related to Grand Duchess Olga Constantinovna of Russia
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  1642.  @Katherine-vz6ov  Prince Philip's great-aunt was Alexandra Romanovna, the younger sister of Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia
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  1643.  @Katherine-vz6ov  Princess Alice of the United Kingdom was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria, and Queen Victoria was the aunt of Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna (Alexandra Romanovna), the wife of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Prince Philip was a great-nephew of Alexandra Feodorovna, the last Tsarina of Russia. Prince Philip's ties to the Romanovs were through his mother's side of the family, as well as his father's. Even more-so than his father’s.
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  1644.  @jellyfishi_  I don't see China bombing innocent people around the world nor do I find them at enmity with me personally (and I have worked with a lot of tech and gov people from many different countries)
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  1645.  @iseeyou2810  The one who attacks with force when there is no real threat to their own territory and people. Right now it is the USA who attacks countries but never gets attacked (apart from 9/11). I could include UK too I suppose even thought it is my country, but I rarely get hostile attacks from UK people in my day-to-day life, except when the USA is behind it.
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  1646. Lovely video. One of the best.
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  1647. Yeah, UK should buy Greenland if the chance comes. The fact my name is Green might influence my enthusiasm. Green is such a common surname in UK, that might be enough make it a matter of national interest. Seriously, the risk of having to defend it from any future Russian attacks on USA East Coast might make it a liability. We barely have any navy left, and Falkland Islands defence cost us dearly and might be hard to do again these days, so owning Greenland might force us to have to beef up military spending. Those are costs. Are benefits worth it?
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  1648.  @user-lw7om1sg1m  Yes, Iceland. My bad. Was a long time ago. I guess I was remembering how Norway supported Iceland’s position subsequently.
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  1649. Boris is ideal to run alongside the other candidates. At least he is not a macho man like Putin. Much less likely to lead anyone into war. 😊
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  1650. How about we get AI to improve the OO compilers so OOP actually is easier and needs less design patterns? But then it might be we do away with compilers and let AI write direct to compiled code.
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  1651. If Ukraine engages in terrorism it might mean EU and US states are sponsoring it in doing so.
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  1652. Lammy notoriously implied he and Starmer and Ukraine must be obeyed by Russia. I bet even Ukraine troops will not obey them.
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  1653. It will p*** off many but catch very few. Any element of malice in this? It must cost a fair bit. It won’t deter many, cos it is easy to avoid its line of sight. So is it maybe payback and PR?
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  1654. Excellent reporting. First to the post. Israel has sinned. The eagle is the sign.
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  1655. Constantine, forcing the bishops to ‘agree’ and debate this, maybe was an attempt to show them up like Nebuchadnezzar demanding the soothsayers and prophets tell him what he dreamed. If the goal was subtly to divide, and conquer, he succeeded.
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  1656. Art of War dictates that eventually your enemy will learn your war techniques. Ukraine was learning from Russian insurgencies and now is putting into practice what they learned. Russia, again by Art of War learning, just needs to learn how to manage this. Everyone is learning.
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  1657. No point playing down the obvious. Something in his behaviour must be making the King find justification in shunning him still. Disgrace is not enough. Only ongoing indications of being liable to cause further disgrace would account for this. No use whitewashing it with talk of his royal role being the reason. He only has a lessened role because his behaviour is deemed unfit for anything greater and this is a further move in the same direction. The King wants to keep his own integrity. The Nation needs integrity more than anything right now, and leaders who will not lead us all into disgrace.
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  1658.  @DavidAtTokyo  I think it helps to have some traditional AI, ontology, semantics experience and description logic skill so as to know how best to structure a prompt in line with fundamentals of AI reasoning and inferencing. In other words to ‘think’ like the LLM.
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  1659. Dec 8th 2024 Beginnings of a new Achaemenid empire, maybe…
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  1660. Sounds like Putin just facilitated the end of the Korean War
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  1661.  @MikeMW87  the billion dollar question
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  1662.  @MikeMW87  not sure how that affects attacks on West targets, like London or training bases like Kent
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  1663.  @MikeMW87  I was thinking hypersonic weapons
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  1664.  @MikeMW87  if they use hypersonics against the West targets they can use the news of it to help them sell these weapons to their customers
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  1665. If Scotland was lucky enough to get Putin ruling it, they would still have King Charles too, so they would have both Putin and the Romanov family in charge. So cool! Like England when Cnut conquered and Edmund Ironside ruled alongside him for a while. Putin might let Charles carry on for a while as king of Scotland. 😂
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  1666. They will not bow down to the P. Now the El. That is another matter.
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  1667. Powder like that can mean great new ideas are possible for the secret winter strategy.
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  1668. So Blair and the Pirate got the same prize. Charlemagne would be rubbing his drenched hands in glee.
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  1669. Ukraine just needs Blinken’s words to be true, then they can start offending us all.
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  1670.  @ContinuousDelivery  OK. So yes, there are two types of automated test or two particular purposes. Regression testing and acceptance testing.
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  1671.  @ContinuousDelivery  Mmm. Interesting that the solution might be to combine all testing, including automated testing, with development. From what I have seen in better software companies, that could work very well. I suppose it need not be a threat to testers if it is organised well. I wonder how well tools would support it. I can imagine developers writing the automated tests for their own code or for automation testers to work alongside them to do it, but it would be great if it became so commonplace that tooling would support it. Is it a realistic prospect for pipelines to run such automated tests? I suppose so. You get it like that with some technologies such as Angular (although I imagine you hate it that they use e2e to do it). OK if the stack is conducive to automated tests but might be a challenge if there are many different kinds of interfaces such as message handlers, command line, API and the like all needing different ways of testing.
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  1672. The fragmented plan and purpose of an empire of iron mixed with clay (Daniel 2)
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  1673. I guess the EU would find it awkward to designate Ukraine a state sponsor of terrorism
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  1674. Canada v Russia could be first war carried out over the North Pole. Perhaps winter not ideal time to consider it.
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  1675.  @TalkTalk44  Alaska too. Aleutian Islands even more easily. Why not two fronts like USA boasts.
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  1676. too upwardly mobile for the Queen
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  1677. With all these terror attacks and if the terror leader takes overall official office, how long can the UK, and US backers and MICs hold off being labelled officially as state sponsors of it all? That is why they say Russia cannot win. Because the victor tells the history and gets to write the official labels. USA and UK leaders need to start winning so they can officially avoid that terror label they themselves so dread.
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  1678. So is NATO now at war with Ukraine? If the story implicates the Ukraine officially. Can Germany invoke article 5 against Ukraine?
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  1679. Yes, pull request code reviews are a recipe for deadlock. Or for blocking by anyone who wants to sabotage or undermine colleagues (Why yes! It happens!)
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  1680. If anyone hid the documents, Ukrainian blood would be on their hands. Somebody had a conscience.
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  1681. Nations so much want a slice of American pie that they risk the wrath of Russia by allowing USA to put its military bases on their turf. That is a major root of global unrest.
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  1682. Washington ought to know, they might be called ‘sanctions’ but if they have no sanction, only traction, they will backfire.
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  1683. Ok to recreate a 700 year old empire because they didn’t have nukes 700 years ago 😊
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  1684. I think Elenskyy is really aiming to force Russia to cancel Moscow May 9th. Then he can call it a victory.
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  1685. Arguably the UK has a Russian (partly, by maternal and paternal lines) as supreme head of military too.
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  1686.  @LeadLeftLeon  in the case of royal lines it is intentional of course
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  1687. Trump being arrested? Giuliani? And this is not Mafia? This is not Rome? This is not 666? DCLXVI?
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  1688.  @EOJ111  LiteralContent = G IntendedMeaning = ¬G Asserts(a, LiteralContent) ∧ Means(a, IntendedMeaning) ∧ B(a, IntendedMeaning) ∧ B(a, B(b, IntendedMeaning))
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  1689.  @EOJ111  Using SWRL: Says(?a, ?x) ∧ Believes(?a, not(?x)) ∧ Believes(?a, Believes(?b, not(?x))) → Ironic(?a, ?x)
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  1690. A mother can claim benefits or live off her husband. The government rewards mothers for being mothers only if they avoid benefits. The irony: the reward is similar to benefits, but disqualified by benefits. In simplified first order logic: ∀x (Mother(x) → (∃y Benefit(y) ∧ receivesBenefit(x, y)) ∨ (∃h Husband(h) ∧ livesOff(x, h))) ∀x (Mother(x) ∧ ¬∃y receivesBenefit(x, y) → isEligibleForReward(x)) ∀x (isEligibleForReward(x) → ∃r (Reward(r) ∧ receivesReward(x, r) ∧ rewards(Government, x))) ∀r ∀b (Reward(r) ∧ Benefit(b) ∧ similarTo(r, b) → isIronic(r)) In description logic model of the irony using SWRL: receivesReward(?m, ?r) ^ similarTo(?r, ?b) ^ not(receivesBenefit(?m, ?b)) → ironicPolicy(Government) Explanation: This logic captures a policy irony in which mothers are either supported by government benefits or by their husbands. However, the government only rewards mothers who do not receive benefits—effectively favoring dependency on a husband over state support. Paradoxically, the reward granted to these mothers is functionally similar to the very benefits they are denied. The formal logic expresses that while a mother may be eligible for a government reward if she avoids benefits, this reward is disqualified by the presence of those same benefits. Since the reward resembles what it excludes, the situation becomes ironic—highlighted in both first-order logic and a description logic rule that infers the government’s policy itself is ironic when it withholds a benefit-like reward due to the receipt of actual benefits.
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  1691. There is a policy paradox: A mother can either: Receive benefits directly, or Be supported by her husband (not receive benefits). The government rewards mothers only if they don’t receive benefits. However, the reward is functionally similar to benefits. This creates irony, since a benefit-like reward is disqualified by receiving benefits.
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  1692. Stress is a threat to asthma sufferers. Maybe ban stress too.
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  1693. The 'gardeners' are not just wanting to tidy the 'jungle' with regime change in Russia. They probably want to remove the 'weeds'. They may well have been so affected by the wave of what is driving Ukraine ferocity, an attempt to revive past evil, that they want a surge of it that can pick up where Ukraine left off in the fifties and the rest of Eastern Europe and Germany stopped short in the forties. They think the 'jungle' needs 'weeding' to create a garden. This is quite likely their 'solution'. Big mistake of USSR to free the gulag prisoners. Some 'weeds' stay alive by helping against other 'weeds' but for how long?
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  1694. Sometimes it is the law itself which is vexatious,
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  1695. The service USA provides to the rest of the world is its occupation of all that public land, keeping it public. The cost, though, to the world of the USA providing any service, seems less and less affordable as the dollar printing cost of inflation hits everyone using the dollar. Not to mention warmongering woes and detrimental effects of USA pharma.
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  1696. Let’s face it. USSR probably rejoiced to think Ukraine might one day join NATO. Ukraine is the gift from Russia. A Trojan horse gift. We drag it into NATO not realising it holds the fiercest hounds the Russians themselves had to fear and try to control, the Banderites. A victory of Russia over the over-ambitious, overconfident imperialistic West. Just like the ISIS victory Saddam foresaw for his Iraq. Vengeance against thinly veiled, cynical aggression. Now the West is stuck with these Trojan horses, Banderite Ukraine and the remnants of IS. Let us learn the lesson and put away our swords and take up diplomacy and honesty instead. We will have to learn it the willing way or the hard and deadly way. NATO, HATO has had its day. USSR aggression is over. No need for swords. Except we are dead set, hellbent, proud and a ring is in our blind leaders’ noses as Ukraine drags them on and on towards Armageddon.
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  1697. The cinematics sound like the story told us in UK of Cnut turning back the tide of the sea. Or rather NOT turning back the tide. With a load of spectators. He was doing it to make a point, they say. What point is Zelenskyy making? If it is ostensibly a fear tactic, like Cnut, it might actually be to demonstrate Ukraine weakness in the face of a greater power.
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  1698. All that weaponry going to Ukraine from USA, a bit like all the weaponry UK provided to Confederates during US civil war, resulting in special relationship. Does West want a special relationship down the line with Russia or with Ukraine?
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  1699. The West is like a neighbour opening the door to the next door neighbour’s unhappy wife. They favourably regard themselves in doing this as bring neighbourly and noble but still there is an air of something sinister and fishy about it, adulterous even. Easily distrusted.
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  1700. @ Supposed is indeed a big word, but with Christianity, discipline, correction, responsibility, and submission to church or divine judgment all comes with profession of faith.
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  1701. @ Trump says he is a Christian. Therefore he is subject to being judged by other Christians if he seriously transgresses.
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  1702. @ Someone, at an status, who says they are a Christian brother, is thereby subject to judgment by real Christians if they badly sin.
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  1703. Can we ask first whether they have signed the OSA?
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  1704.  @TheRealPureBlood  We trust our postal workers, don’t we. We impute trustworthiness to them. This gives them sanction to convey our post. Police used to have similar sanction and trust. Before 1984, at least.
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  1705.  @donnaleist698  lithium too maybe
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  1706. Weren’t relatives of the King, the Romanovs, infamously resistant to the introduction of democracy?
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  1707. I don’t see how Rutte can hold off for long drawing NATO into joining USA in some kind of aggression, whether Greenland annexation or some other misadventure. You stay in NATO you end up like this. Between rock and hard place.
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  1708. Some Dutch Shepherds eat Chihuahuas for breakfast
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  1709. I’m a big fan of Putin. Sanction me EU! But it will be fairly reciprocal, so no more EU sending and receiving of electronic invoices using my tech.
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  1710. Places of my choosing says Biden, copying The P. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. USA and UK have been making lots of notes during the SMO.
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  1711. If Elenskyy and Putin have to sit down for talks, please, please, make sure Putin does not shake his hand. The curse.
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  1712. If Ukraine doesn’t use its Western-supplied weapons on an offensive it might hoard them and eventually use them against Europe.
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  1713. Let’s face it: even if this time it was not UK, USA, Ukraine the three U’s, the fact is they do want to attack Moscow in this way, hence making Budanov their hero. Next time it is likely to be one of the U’s or all of them.
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  1714. A big problem is when software developers never educate themselves as engineers. Then if a software system has any of these developers working on it, it will never be possible to sustain good engineering practices in it: these developers will fail to know how to maintain those practices.
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  1715. So is Cloud the new mainframe?
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  1716. US Intel maybe ought to make chess prowess a job requirement. At least they were correct about no n’lear response, though. They might not use rooks or bishops, but oops, who put that queen there?! Ah it was a converted pawn!
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  1717. The Ukraine problem goes back to the nineties. According to Chat GPT 3, trained only up until September 2021.”… the NATO-Ukraine Commission, which was established in 1997, has not increased the need for surveillance in the West, destabilized the region, or made nuclear war more likely. The commission was established to strengthen cooperation and dialogue between NATO and Ukraine, and to support Ukraine's efforts to reform and modernize its defense and security sector. The NATO-Ukraine Commission has focused primarily on non-military cooperation, such as promoting democratic reforms, supporting economic development, and strengthening civil society in Ukraine. While the commission has also provided military support to Ukraine, this support has been focused on defensive capabilities and has not been intended to escalate the conflict or increase the risk of nuclear war. In addition, the NATO alliance has a defensive posture and is not seeking to provoke or threaten Russia. NATO's goal is to deter potential adversaries from aggression against its member states and to promote stability and security in the Euro-Atlantic region through dialogue, cooperation, and partnership. Overall, while the conflict in Ukraine has heightened tensions between Russia and the West, the NATO-Ukraine Commission has not been a primary driver of these tensions and has not contributed to destabilizing the region or making nuclear war more likely.”
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  1718.  @jeffsartadventure3634  It was what was available in 2021 to train the AI, but probably it shows how prevalent lies were then, and by extension now too (but different lies)
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  1719.  @view1st  it is a great tool for giving a kind of consensus of a major body of content, if that is what you need, but it is very polarised in some ways, probably due to efforts by its developers and trainers to keep it diplomatic - definitely ‘group think’ on some topics
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  1720.  @view1st  I find sometimes there is a topic on which I do not trust any human completely, and here it works nicely, not having any axe to grind or position to defend - when you press it and press it so it goes beyond its initial default politically correct position - you can force it to give a better answer if you persist
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  1721. So now humans will not get trained to code. The end.
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  1722.  @adelaidesafoa3850  But it is either that or WW3
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  1723.  @NN-bk5bb  Nice news-bite but probably not actually significant. Most of Charles' opinions we have known very well for the past fifty years. I doubt globalisation is high on his real agenda. He would never have stayed in the UK if it was.
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  1724.  @adelaidesafoa3850  Dream on. He has spent his entire lifetime staying ready for this moment, staying loyal to his calling and kingdom. If he was self-serving he would have gone to live in Monaco or Orange County long ago.
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  1725.  @adelaidesafoa3850  If he does nothing, that will be the end of the monarchy anyway. The only reason people consent to it is for times like this - for someone to be able to step in when things go awry. And things are truly awry right now. UK never has revolutions. Not modern UK. We are too lazy and complacent and we do not even complain or protest, let alone revolt. It is un-British. But with Brexit behind us who knows whether we will tolerate having a monarchy if all it does is, like it said in the Crown series, sit on its hands and do nothing and say nothing. There is a time to act. It is a matter of duty. The Crown must be protected, yes, but only so that it can do what is necessary in times like this with war just ahead of us. Otherwise WW3 blood will be on its hands.
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  1726.  @adelaidesafoa3850  Anyway, I pray God gives King Charles courage to do what is necessary and in the will of God. I believe God guides him and blesses him and loves him and we all need a King like that right now. We in UK are forsakers of God so we deserve this trouble but I do hope there is no nuclear global war to destroy God's creation.
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  1727.  @adelaidesafoa3850  Think how many super-powerful countries and huge populations would have wanted to do that through history. None could do it. If the UK population wanted to do it, they just had a big opportunity and did nothing to take it. Only once in British 1000 year history of monarchy did it ever happen and it required a massive civil war. Arguably Russia and Germany and France managed to end their respective Charlemagne monarchies at the cost of peace for centuries - a reign of terror for France, WW1 and Russian Revolution and WW2 for the rest of Europe and the world. It is not a likely prospect to end a thousand year monarchy going back to Charlemagne. India would have loved to end the British monarchy and barely managed to end the Raj (arguably they did not end it but UK ended it). Germany would have loved to end it during WW2. Even China might have dreamed of ending it during the Opium Wars. It is a huge inertia possibly the strongest inertia in the world in world history. Yes, Brexit succeeded getting UK out of EU but getting Charlemagne out of UK would destroy UK I imagine. Having said that, yes, Barbados did recently manage: A tiny country whose history is stained indelibly with British abuses such as industrialising slavery there, so Britain owed it the honour of being allowed to lose the monarchy but Barbados might have to go the USA for some aspects of governance and defence now, instead, which could be arguably a greater predicament. I am not a monarchist, slightly a republican really deep down, and I feel like Charlemagne is a nasty system to be a part of, neo-Roman Empire stuff, stuff we tried to get out of with Brexit (in my opinion) but while we have a monarchy I know I have a deep sense of loyalty to it which could even cost me life as it has cost me much of my career. Many in UK and Commonwealth must feel the same, I expect.
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  1728. Is Biden admitting it has nothing to do with Israel or is he denying it has anything to do with Israel? My bet is on the latter.
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  1729. If it can’t sell its bonds, no problem, it can print more money and use it to buy its own bonds. Gold Finger. James Bonds. The Midas Touch means they can just touch their bonds and turn them into gold. Then sell the gold to … itself.
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  1730. If I throw away my never used terrestrial TV, now that I just watch YT, NF, etc., and never use catchup or iPlayer, etc., but if I carry on paying licence to protect myself from unfair prosecution, etc., will I be a victim of crime?
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  1731. Maybe they knew Donbas was not going to hold out much longer and went into Kursk to try to get a positive vibe going to cover up the Donbas collapse.
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  1732. Ukraine has been creating narratives to justify its national borders simultaneously with maintaining an identity. Now Putin is trying to bring things back to actual history and represent it accurately and knowledgeably, yet of course he gets a bit of latitude to introduce some views of the history which favour his agenda and Russia’s interests. In the end the victor has the spoils and tells the history. But he wants to show he will be as fair as he can if and when he gets to be the victor.
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  1733. Maybe instead of going O4 to O5 they use the same money and throw away O5, O6,… and just release O50 and charge the same as before.
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  1734. Aren’t other UK former leaders and also some present leaders out there recruiting russophobes? Perhaps, unlike the B, they might actually be draftable and more reticent to throw others under the bus. The B loves buses. The B was one of those who nearly got killed fighting his enemy the coof so maybe he should think twice declaring war on the P. It is likely history might repeat itself and The B be an early casualty of The P, as well as of the C.
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  1735. So if Russia might invade Europe, might not Ukraine do the same since they are almost the same ethnically as Russians and have a history of actually being party to those who did invade Europe in the 1940s? Yet NATO arms them.
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  1736. Those yellow areas on the map now need defending through harsh winter. They probably won’t still be yellow five months from now. Even double the money won’t stop that. Defending the yellow will be lethal to many. Next year it will be too embarrassing to show the map. At what point does the word ‘culpability’ start to apply?
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  1737. Johnson? If ever anyone perverted the course of justice. ICC must be punished? Johnson is meant to be a devout Christian, he must be punished.
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  1738. Is Prigozhin any more criminal than the politicians and business people who cause deaths of innocents by their lies and policies?
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  1739. Even before rolling back sanctions the leader must renounce the racist Russophobia.
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  1740. Does USA have any equivalent of Subject Access Requests, Scott might use to request YT info like Farage did with Coutts.
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  1741.  @MrDirkles  For some it is different. It is others who notice you know f all 😊
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  1742. So it really is Olodymyr Elenskyy, initials O.E. Azov is a bit awkward in latin alphabet. AO.
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  1743. Stunning. Tried it today in free ChatGPT and it works very well indeed.
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  1744. Elenskyy out of the loop. Biden in the loop. European intelligence agency in the loop. Biden more in loop than Elenskyy. So re pipeline: Who told who about having agents report to army chief and keep Elenskyy out of loop? Presumably another stakeholder, master. In other words Biden or Boris or UvdL had idea of keeping Elenskyy out of loop because evidently Biden NOT out of loop. Really it points back to whoever is top out of all those who knew. Sounds like Biden.
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  1745. The menace comes when crucial bills cannot be paid except by using websites which only work on the latest devices.
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  1746. USA to do this would benefit from collaborating with Britain, Norway and Netherlands (perhaps with knowledge of Sweden and Denmark or perhaps Sweden and Denmark were deliberately left out of the loop so they would be able to investigate genuinely or at least convincingly). Need to know. But Britain, Norway and Netherlands all would benefit from less competition from Russian natural gas so they could get all of the market share. All have good access to Baltics. All are friendly with Denmark and Sweden who could turn a blind eye and not mind being left out of the loop (and likely to turn blind eye even during investigations). Notice how the only countries to report it and investigate it are two Baltic countries who do not produce and sell natural gas themselves. Perhaps USA didn't even get involved, not directly, just pulling strings somehow, like Biden's allusion. Another gas competitor is Canada. If Canada starts trying to sell its gas to Europe now it would look suspicious.
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  1747. So will Biden force the border to stay open while a ballot paper is handed to everyone entering? (I guess paper is now electronic equivalent)
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  1748. Cost-Benefit analysis. Benefit: ‘freedom’. Cost: ‘blackouts, oh and loss of freedom’
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  1749. Maybe Victoria Nuland’s real boss is Russia. Russia via Soviets actually did what was needed to punish the Holocaust perpetrators. The other Allies did not. Victoria Nuland’s grandparents must have lived through that Holocaust in Ukraine in the forties as Jews. Nuland might be acutely aware of the USA and Western Europe having tolerated the perpetrators and integrated them into its intelligence and police and rocket projects. This example Russia set is maybe the task master driving Nuland to the last Ukrainian far right fighter. Indeed she might hate her task master but be driven by Russia’s example nonetheless. Yet that hatred of Russia could destroy mankind if it goes too far, and it does inch towards going too far.
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  1750. Having somewhere to live means doing something on a par, exchangeable in value, with those who climb ladders on high cranes each day and stand on scaffolding in high wind laying blocks and pouring reinforced concrete. Will ten years at a computer equate to dozens working for one or two years on the building projects? Gen Z is doing the math.
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  1751. Could the POW attack be the false flag the Kremlin has been expecting? On the other hand, could the Russians have used their purchased HIMAR? Did they purchase any missiles too? Would a false flag attack be beyond Russia? Or too uncharacteristic of Russia?
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  1752. If USA claims they cannot restrain the evil actions of Ukraine, why are they helping them, aiding and abetting them, colluding with them, praising them and trying to ensure their success?
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  1753. Sadly it must be that false claims are finding receptive, eager ears.
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  1754. Can we have a scheme to sponsor a tank? I want a cuddly tank.
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  1755. I expect any real official concern over DU might be some of the kinds of weapons that use it, gravity bombs in particular such as ‘bunker busters’, on a par almost with the large gravity bombs Russia is already using extensively in towns of Ukraine perhaps to deal with underground salt mine and gypsum mine places for hiding troops and equipment.
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  1756. Chat GPT tells me “DU is used in armor-piercing bullets, tank shells, and other types of ammunition designed to penetrate heavily armored targets. The high density of depleted uranium makes it ideal for use in these types of weapons, as it can penetrate thick steel and concrete barriers.”
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  1757.  @kevinwaalker  indeed. That conflict escalated into a full-scale war in the mid-1960s when the United States began sending large numbers of troops to fight in Vietnam. I doubt this proxy war now can last five years before escalating, especially if this counteroffensive is launched and attacks Crimea.
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  1758. Norway gets to open its pipeline along with Poland, just at the time the competition gets sabotaged. Very fishy indeed.
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  1759. The UK should never have scrapped the Audit Commission
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  1760. I am guessing there is no law against cursing something down.
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  1761. They know the Russian tanks need toilets. This will be major blow to Russian tank crews who might need to eat even less now.
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  1762. More revolutions with financial crisis going on at same time. Surely no coincidence.
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  1763. There are 'gardeners' who are not just wanting to tidy their 'jungle' with regime change in Russia. They probably want to remove the 'weeds'. They may well have been so affected by the wave of what is driving Ukraine ferocity, an attempt to revive past evil, that they want a surge of it that can pick up where Ukraine left off in the fifties and the rest of Eastern Europe and Germany stopped short in the forties. They probably think first the 'garden' then the whole 'jungle' needs 'weeding'. This is quite likely their 'solution'. Big mistake of USSR to free the gulag prisoners. Some 'weeds' stay alive by helping against other 'weeds' but for how long? The gardeners have claimed previously that they only rooted out 'weeds' which stood in the way of rooting out Soviets.
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  1764. No point UK staying in NATO. NATO is all about the collective West’s EU, propping it up. Britain left the EU. Time to quit NATO too. It offers no real value compared to the cost of staying tied to propping up a failed project.
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  1765. American Revolver game rules. America can lend 61bn to Ukraine and borrow money to do it. Then when Ukraine pays it back, USA can use that to pay high interest on its loans, and so be lent even more money to add to its 31tn debt.
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  1766. Hey Trump: We’ve got a social media company to sell you.
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  1767. So the privacy allows Schultz to whisper gently in Biden’s ear while leaning over him closely. Gently whispering “Nordstream, Nordstream, Nordstream” to make sure Biden is still human and connected. Things they don’t teach you in Diplomacy school.
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  1768. Calling a bill the BBB gives away who is driving things: B. Bibi
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  1769. Russia will probably pause … pause listening to the Z.
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  1770. Superb video.
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  1771. dependent on USAID to stay independent
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  1772. Perhaps the US is today tipping off Ukraine that Russia is likely to attack Bakhmut tomorrow. 😊
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  1773. Will we see the EU press-ganging youngsters off the streets of Europe EU member states? I hope not Britain.
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  1774. It looks like protection racket.
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  1775. Boris’ charity Elens Key was looking forward to the 1m.
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  1776. When the West warns of devastating consequences for Russia we know what tends to happen :)
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  1777. Cutting off Crimea's water, destroying the only land connection to Russia, these are so clearly things for which Ukraine found praise, support, perhaps training, from the West, from US, UK, EU. Now Putin is effectively laying any possible future destructive outcome at both the West's feet and Ukraine's.
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  1778. Thank God for non-alcoholic beer.
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  1779. I bet Aristovic been told by God he is protected. God does that. Cool.
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  1780. Prigozhin didn’t get to have his ‘triumphus’ in Moscow but he and Wagner got one in Rostov. God knows they deserved it.
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  1781. USA sanctioning itself. Perhaps for having imperialist ambitions.
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  1782. Oscar to Mr E. A way of calling E a hypocrite? An actor when he isn’t supposed to be acting?
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  1783. Perhaps El Pirate really went to discuss inevitable migrations as winter approaches.
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  1784. Looks like we should be wary of Rubio. I reckon he will cause escalation. Like Boris J would do.
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  1785. Blinken the rockstar looks just like Blair the rockstar. They obviously both went for a similar style. Popularism style.
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  1786. Is it unthinkable that in some roundabout way Ukraine might get funded by Putin. It seems it would be in his interests to do so: Paying Ukraine leaders to feed the nasties into the meat grinders. Of course this is sardonic satire but not entirely unthinkable: Given that the Russians are at some point going to put together the terms of peace. But it will be terms of peace overruling USA too, perhaps the awareness of which was behind Lloyd Austin’s bizarre words.
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  1787. Time for Vikings of Kiev and Vikings of Greenland to unite.
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  1788. Lots of the Kiev Vikings are in EU right now.
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  1789. Perhaps the EU must sanction its invoices since one of the key designers was very pro-Russian and pro-Putin.
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  1790. What if Russia destroys all of Ukraine's infrastructure and then this new Uganda Ebola outbreak goes international and reaches Ukraine? Russia would have created a superspreading hotspot.
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  1791. So according to Graham, should UK stop trading with USA because USA trades with Russia?
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  1792. God is such a frightening concept when you grasp the implications and enormity. Able to bring down a huge system like the Soviet Union, just because He hears prayer and carries through to answering it. That is why church leaders can warn against destroying the unity of those He loves for the name of His Son. If God destroys someone, that destruction goes even beyond their death, following them into the hereafter.
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  1793. There are some of those who are dead who wish they could warn us not to be an enemy of God, those who know now that God can carry on destroying a person even after they have died.
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  1794.  @haxi52  but when they give a steer, HR are there to say you must follow it, although it is likely wrong
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  1795.  @haxi52  not uncommon though - it happened in two of my last three jobs
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  1796. Liars are slaves to lying. If Merkel and Hollande were lying before, we should assume they are still lying now. But then we get the Epimenides paradox. 😊
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  1797. Putin might not have been bluffing but his ambiguity leaves room for a bit of bluff. He used the word “all” in a context of which weapons they would use, but ambiguity leaves room for having either meant “all” in a context of which weapons to use or meant “all” in a context of which weapons to choose from.
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  1798. Regime change nuked
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  1799. Elenskyy a great salesman. He sold Rutte a street.
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  1800. It wasn’t just that they couldn’t win. They shouldn’t win. They were like miscreants caught in the act with their oppression and persecution of a smaller region who wanted their own language and identity rather than what Lvov persuaded Kiev to impose on them after a coup.
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  1801. ROC = total war = N***ism ideology - so now the historic N**i-problem countries of Eastern Europe are getting coached in the practical out-workings of that ideology by new N**i godfather country USA. Confirms my suspicions. Even n the Wikipedia article on Na**sm there is a section "Use of the American racist model" explaining that most of AH's ideas for N**ism came from his admiration and observations of the USA. The godfather nation of the N**s. These colours are showing today.
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  1802. What an asset is Chat GPT. Concerning depleted uranium it explains how an alpha emitter like DA can cause a gamma spike. “Yes, under certain circumstances, an alpha emitter can cause the emission of gamma radiation. Alpha particles are composed of two protons and two neutrons and have a positive charge. They are relatively large and do not penetrate matter very far. However, when an alpha particle interacts with certain materials, such as heavy elements or dense mediums, it can undergo a process called alpha capture, where it is absorbed and forms a new, unstable nucleus. This new nucleus may be in an excited state, and as it transitions to a more stable state, it can release excess energy in the form of gamma radiation. Gamma radiation consists of high-energy photons and is the most energetic type of electromagnetic radiation. So, in the context of an explosion involving an alpha-emitting material, if the alpha particles interact with other elements and undergo alpha capture, it is possible for gamma radiation to be emitted as a result of the subsequent nuclear processes.”
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  1803. Presumably, preventative measures will now be taken by Russia, a new phase.
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  1804. Maybe UK can send the Kiev/Ukraine refugees to USA since USA behind it too. The cause is the bombing of Crimea bridge of course, as encouraged (probably aided) by UK - perhaps on orders of Boris and Truss and behind the scenes with Sunak an accessory. So all onus will be on UK, especially as far as EU is concerned.
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  1805. Sanctioned by me anyway. That could cost them 1Tn
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  1806.  @vumba1331  I think people overestimate the dangers of depleted uranium. It is radioactive, but quite low radioactive. The troops using it were afraid of its affects but no proof of it being dangerous was publicised. If you think about it, Ukraine has plenty of natural uranium deposits and radium is a naturally occurring radioactive mineral found widely in all sorts of countries too and few worry about this.
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  1807.  @DLWELD  you ingest natural radiation from the ore and radon on the like daily and breathe it in constantly, more than most of us if you live in heavy metal rich areas, but we all do a little
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  1808. Andriivka report probably projection as they have it in mind that the cauldron they are creating for themselves in the South will likely suffer such a fate.
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  1809. In their defence: a silly loophole, maybe it still hasn’t been corrected, makes it impossible or very difficult to stop payments if you authorise recurring payments on a debit card. Maybe this is the only way they could do it apart from closing their bank account. Weak law, in my opinion, not fit for purpose.
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  1810. Biden wanting to hire the Chinese protesters as voters is having to keep the border open for them. When Putin has finished with them of course.
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  1811. 83 year olds tend to disappear before 71 year olds. That old curse, eh.
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  1812. A Christmas Carol worded by ChatGPT In December's embrace, with red blotches we grace, On plates and on trees, a tale we embrace. Centuries ago, a different scene was displayed, Sacrifices to idols, in blood, were arrayed. But apostles proclaimed a message divine, Abandon the feasts, to the One God incline. Jesus, the sacrifice, on the cross was laid, Purification achieved, in His resurrection displayed. Gone are the idols, to obedience we yield, The Father in heaven, our only true shield. No more flickering blood on household domain, Now red berries and lights, a festive refrain. The message of gospel, spreading its wings, Abandon the gods, let the joyful choir sing. Believers now gather, with wine red as wine, Broken bread, a symbol, of a love so divine. The household of God, a sanctuary so grand, A jealous God's love, throughout the land. Misdeeds forgiven, by the cross' sacrifice, Teaching Christ's law, leading to eternal life. No more feasts for gods, a new era we see, The sacrifice of Christ, sets our spirits free. Red wine, broken bread, symbols profound, In the household of God, eternal life is found. Resurrection's promise, for those who believe, Eternal fellowship, with God we achieve. The One True God, the Father above, Guiding us with principles, rooted in love.
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  1813. So UK can ditch its Russophobe politicians and apply to join BRICS for its new deal, after ditching the immoral, vain and futile sanctions. Brexit might pay off.
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  1814. We need sanctions on anyone selling Andromeda class yachts to Ukraine. Germany should make sure they bring this up with the EU. Andromeda class yachts are clearly munitions grade advanced weapons which threaten to start an arms race.
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  1815. Cameron maybe knows ICC might be watching him. Sanctifying terrorism? Sanctifying use of weapons inside Russia without qualifying that they must be military targets?
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  1816. USA sanctioning financial institutions that help Russia? EU going down same or similar path? It is time to pull support like pulling the rug from under the feet of thieving states. It is immoral to financially support thieves. They, USA and EU, start to go the way of thieves? The support is going to be pulled. People who are guided by morals will be guided to pull out from supporting thievery. It is cause and effect. The USA and EU gets free help in form of royalty free standards of their digital infrastructure guided in their favour by the moral principles of helping uprightness in West democratic rule of law, but as thievery takes over, the moral reason guiding that free help has gone. Things might get difficult as they plunder Russia.
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  1817.  @kathylarson8876  God knows. I mean God does know.
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  1818.  @kathylarson8876  If they can steal from Russia (I think Russia does mind, is offended), they will steal from others and from me too. That changes things.
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  1819.  @kathylarson8876  If one sees a thief, one should not help them. It affects how good will is shown when you realise the one to whom you are showing it is a thief.
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  1820.  @kathylarson8876  People often overemphasise the legality or illegality of a matter but it is the morality or immorality which has affect too.
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  1821. 100 billion. Nobody wants the mistress around during wedding preparations do they. Give them a nice big gift so they stay out of the way.
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  1822.  @funbarsolaris2822  indeed, the claim that realism rejecting theology may lead to a more peaceful outcome than evangelicalism and Judaism, while strengthening Western hegemony, requires supporting evidence.
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  1823. Latest pitfall dangers from following blind leaders are financial ruin and in October 2022 onwards support for terrorism too. We should leave the blind guides of the West.
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  1824. One consideration is it might truly be false flag by ISIS intended to achieve what it is indeed achieving, a finger being pointed at USA, and thus an attack likely to result against main supporter of Israel. Or maybe USA did this to itself, hoping people would think it was a false flag - a double false flag not well thought through. USA is probably the one surprised, not Moscow. Eventually.
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  1825. The pirate mulled over Moldova joining EU for at least five minutes and decided, OK. Moldova the one country which only years ago voted in communism democratically.
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  1826. If BBC licence was personal protection insurance, as distinct from a government funding mechanism, you would get compensation for all the years it was miss-sold if you were not given proper ability to avoid paying it. Maybe, if it is nit government funding, they should be told to refund it for the years it was miss-sold.
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  1827.  @monaliza3334  When America ‘loses’ it is used to simply walking away. But this time?
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  1828.  @monaliza3334  People such as Blaire, Bush, Biden, Boris, (besides being leaders beginning with B) are like someone who walks into an office building, opens the door of a crowded elevator, rolls a grenade in along the floor, walks away, gives high five to the police on the way out.
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  1829. Never elect a leader beginning with B. Blaire, Bush, Biden, Boris, Blinken, Borrell. They all think they can start wars then walk away, even if the war is lost.
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  1830. Bandera. Begins with B.
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  1831. Where I live the door opener and fire alarm are constantly being confused and alarms set off.
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  1832. Neocons being some of them extremely powerful US former Eastern European Jews, it is understandable that they would be punishing Ukrainians for the sins of their fathers in the holocaust 1940s, but to do so they seem to be complicit in mass killing of Donbas civilians. That sin could cause WW3 nuclear holocaust.
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  1833. How does Biden say the US is leading when it is Ukrainians who are doing the fighting and dying? The US is leading from the sofa.
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  1834. Now Russia gets to try out much more of the full range of its arsenal. Putin might have been hoping for this development all along.
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  1835. This is already embassy for embassy. London 1994. 26th July.
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  1836. Flattening the curve prolongs the curve
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  1837. Everyone assumes Prigozhin was the target. More likely Wagner was the target, by an assassination of many its top leaders together, not just Prigozhin. Odd though that the leaders broke protocol by flying together. Almost a gift to Wagner’s enemies. Other possibilities it was someone else on the plane who was the main target. But the fact it involved so many top Wagner people implies it was an attack on Wagner itself, to demoralise Wagner at a time when Wagner was becoming a threat to various countries and governments. So I agree that enemies of Wagner in Africa, either ECOWAS or France, might be involved. This might have been intending to achieve what might actually be the outcome, an unsettling of Wagner and deterrent to hinder Wagner recruiting and being recruited.
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  1838. A major world event that happened two days ago I witnessed myself: a little girl in a park let go of a party balloon and it slowly went up and up into the sky. This is clearly a new tactic China is using and we must be aware and vigilant. Hopefully a jet will have been scrambled to intercept it this time but you can never be too careful.
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  1839. EU should freeze its tariff payment money and then use it as collateral.
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  1840. China does love to copy things. China would love for OpenAI to be forced to go open-source.
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  1841. Friday 13th. Sept 2024. Starmer on point of Russia construing his government’s actions as start of war, yet almost nobody in Britain knows. Astounding. What triggers this state? Is it already triggered? Is it just up to Russia to recognise it as having now been triggered? (If so, Putin suggests he is waiting for confirmation whether Britain has made a decision regarding the missiles.) Is it USA which triggers it? (If UK word is not enough but needs USA confirmation.) Would first missile attack trigger it? Has Britain actually made the decision? Is there a cooling off period arbitrarily determined by Russia?
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  1842.  @T5Zplayer  if only it was
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  1843.  @T5Zplayer  As a pensioner, I will probably not be called up
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  1844. Black habits and an emblem which commonly symbolises erotic love???
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  1845. Two individuals should stay away: Putin and Boris.
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  1846. Excellent objectivity in the video. It was such a sad debate given the time of persecution. Worldliness like this would have driven Paul berserk. They went beyond scripture and beyond Christ, in the error of 2 John 9, running ahead of the teachings of Christ, losing the Son and Father.
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  1847. Maybe Biden wanted to prod Z’s conscience by mentioning civilians being attacked (attacked merely to scare them), even though his explicit reference alluded to Russia doing it.
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  1848.  @RM-vv9eh  Do you not fear that Ukraine could invade Europe?
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  1849.  @RM-vv9eh  the problem is the way the West, especially the USA, deals with perceived Russian threats on its allies. Look at Pakistan's fears about Soviets and Communism, what, in the 80s? It begged the USA for help and what did USA do? It created local extremists and what became eventually the Taliban. Likewise it helped Ukraine foster its extremists such as Azov. The USA has a tendency to create extremism in order to resist Russia. This is a dangerous strategy so we have to question it. In the end it might be that far right extremism in Ukraine fostered by USA becomes the regional problem as much as Islamic extremism fostered by USA became the regional problem in Afghanistan and Pakistan. All to fend off Russia. Perhaps we need to fend off the USA, if it keeps playing God.
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  1850.  @RM-vv9eh  why? Who tells you to ignore threats unless they are from Russia?
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  1851.  @RM-vv9eh  Perhaps you and those like yourself are the real threat
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  1852.  @AsterixYZ  If Russia fails in its denazification, what next? Ukraine could come out of it stronger than it was a year ago, so it would be strongest army in Europe and fully nazified. You really think it will not pose a threat to Europe? Its leader has constantly promoted a narrative that it was failed by Europe. Many Europeans are on its black lists. Only 60 years ago it had tried to wipe out the Poles. It hates Russians but these are not the only group it ideologically hates. Its radical groups were randomly torturing and killing any kind of foreigner they could randomly find. Only blind Western leaders would not recognise this threat. Unfortunately blindness is the Western hobby.
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  1853.  @AsterixYZ  If they lead you into a pit, they either meant to kill you as your enemy, or they were blind and you were blindly following. Truss told people in UK to go to Ukraine to fight. Some of those who went found they had no rights because they were blind to the fact the rest of the world has a different definition of 'mercenary' and some were executed. That is a blind leader at work. Maybe they were not showing blindness when they supported the Na*is and maybe they were merely malevolent but either way they are dealy dangerous to those who follow them. And the blind blindly voted in Truss as 'PM'. That might have been what it took to finish off her boss.
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  1854.  @AsterixYZ  If they say they are not blind, then I would agree with you that it is deliberate targeted action
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  1855.  @AsterixYZ  with Truss, not following her can be damaging, as Graham Phillips is finding, but following her can be fatal, as some mercenaries found.
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  1856.  @AsterixYZ  To the West, to UK and USA, Russia is like the prodigal which the other son will not accept. It seemed the Christendom side of Russia was lost under Communism and then started to emerge and is now restored under Putin but the West will not go along with it and is going a bit prodigal itself. Boris, Cameron, the Queen, Bush, Trump all claimed some Christian faith. Truss and Biden seem at odds with theirs. They seem more resentful of those who have some faith which is enough to practice. Then Putin shows more faith than any, and resentment, envy and provocation take over. Thankfully, there is a Father who can calm things down.
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  1857.  @AsterixYZ  Yes, we in West THOUGHT Russia had gone prodigal. In the 80s I was delighted to hear some teachings from Metropolitan Anthony which were so blessed and started to revise my thoughts about Russian Orthodox, thoughts which had been influenced by what was probably too much propaganda. The West probably believed its own propaganda too much and got proud. Christianity in West got too self-righteous with that propaganda. We did not know what was going on "behind the Iron Curtain". Stories of tortures of underground church leaders I heard later in the 80s about Ukraine might have been more about actions by Ukrainian authorities than Russian/Soviet. We never understood enough about the background. Then it all started going bad in the late 90s in the West with authorities going all LGBTxx and turning from God. This is where things started to get a bit more real in some churches here with a kind of revival. Now we find it is us who are the prodigals. But the good news is some of us notice how Russia is the redeeming teacher of truth we need. Your account fills in the gaps. Like you say, we all need each other. We are one sacred body.
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  1858.  @AsterixYZ  "How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity!" Psalm 133:1
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  1859.  @AsterixYZ  We all eat one body/bread and drink one sacred blood/wine in memory of Christ but keeping the unity requires effort of maintaining peace.
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  1860.  @AsterixYZ  I understand that Putin is a ruler and this brings certain requirements. I appreciate his wisdom. I do not doubt there is a deeper sense of devotion to the Father within the churches and it shows brightly even in the West when we glimpse it now and then. Our media suppresses it somewhat. I am certain that as a ruler responsible for governing the godly and the godless Putin has to use a certain high degree of both smart cunning and innocent morality despite being a human being with weaknesses, but for me, he speaks what I need to hear to help uphold true moral right and wrong discernment, because the West is now SO ungodly that a man like Putin is needed to correct our misjudgements. He speaks without the modern immorality we hear from our media. I'm sure this is to a great extent because Russian churches are holding out strongly against ungodly culture we have in the West. Our leaders are ruined by it. We joke about their inability to define 'woman' but it is serious under all that joking. Putin is a bit of a moral compass against this culture. Of course, you would look for more in a Christian, but that is like how Solomon was a poor moral example compared to David. Yet both were sons of the Father.
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  1861. ​ @AsterixYZ  I personally believe in a scripture discounted by the West called the Book of Enoch. In there it foretells of a billy-goat ('dabela' in Ge'ez) - prophetic description of a leader not as mild as a sheep but not a predator - who will support the oppressed sheep and lead them against oppressors and all the world will try to stop him and fail. It also says a sword will be given him, which the predators will try to take away and fail. It elsewhere foretells a sword being given to the righteous. It is right for Russia and Putin to receive a stronger military weaponry arsenal in order to defend righteous from the hawks. There is so much hawkish oppression.
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  1862.  @AsterixYZ  Prophecy from 3000 BC tells us, with help of confirmation from Christ two thousand years later, that nations will be hawkish in the last days and attack sheep righteous from all sides and above until those sheep cry out and their lambs cry out in anguish but older sheep will not hear them. The wolves and lions and hyenas attack them and the eagles and hawks and ravens bomb them from above, pecking the lambs until they cry out. Only a he-goat, a billy-goat, a dabela, will heed them and stand up to save them. The billy-goat will be given a sword for protection of them. All those predators will turn on him all at once. He will defend some sheep and the sheep will start turning to him. They will get courage and strength from him. Yet the predators will come against him but fail to stop him. At last he will lift his voice to heaven for help and the Lord of the sheep will come down to help him in front of the frustrated predators. Sounds like someone today. Sounds like the predators are those we were told by propaganda were the sheep. No they are the predators.
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  1863. What happens to poor people who are not alcoholics and/or drug users? Do they get help? Do they get a chance to enjoy the beach?
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  1864. When Greenlanders start getting caught fighting in the war, that is when Trump will have to reach for his wallet.
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  1865. We are probably entering a fourth phase of the Holocaust right now. Phase 1: Nazis conducted a mass genocide in Eastern Europe largely unknown to the West, on a huge scale of killings of Jews and Soviets led by Nazis, carried out by Eastern Europeans in 1942 then 1943. Phase 2: Nazis found a way to mass exterminate Jews in Western Europe under the noses of the West using gas chambers in 1943 until the end of the war in 1945. Phase 3: “ The widespread killings of Poles by Nazis primarily occurred during World War II, but there were instances of violence and persecution after 1945 as well. While organized mass killings had largely ceased, there were isolated incidents of violence against Poles, including anti-partisan operations and reprisals. Additionally, the post-war period saw the displacement and mistreatment of many Poles by various occupying forces and shifting political dynamics. It's essential to remember that the aftermath of World War II was a complex and tumultuous time in Europe.” — Chat GPT 3 Phase 4: Surviving Nazis educated their neighbours to hate Russians and Jews and other groups seen as foreign, among Ukrainians in Ukraine and the Ukrainian diaspora in UK and Canada. This is now becoming publicly known and no longer hidden as the war in Ukraine triggered a zealous revival of anti-Russian ideology and sentiments throughout the West, especially in countries where the Ukrainian diaspora settled and among their children and grandchildren. This might spread beyond Russophobia to Antisemitism as the roots of the ideology are laid bare and emboldened.
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  1866. It is plain wrong that we all, every person in UK who is of age, have to know all this. They should just charge us if we choose to watch something chargeable (while we do so knowing it is chargeable) and if we watch nothing chargeable then they know this and do not charge us. Like the rest of the world. If they can do TV ‘on demand’ then they can with equal sophistication do charging us ‘on demand’ like Now, Pay-as-you-go mobiles, Netflix, whatever. Everyone else does this sensibly without oppressive draconian legal prosecutions. Why can’t TV old-fashioned services and their successors? It is dystopian. It is where the laws should be illegal. It is immoral, it is wrong, it is like the countries we wage war on for violating rights.
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  1867. Dear Putin treading the fine line between highlighting the truth about who he is fighting with the links to previous anti-Russian genocidal efforts, and avoidance of actually recommending those very kinds of genocidal design to defeat this dark force. Oh what a fine line that is. Soon history will be repeated or echoed and some might wish the genocide was reversed, but on no account can that line be pursued.
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  1868. Putin’s explanation of troops outside Kiev being a ruse and that it unexpectedly worked with Ukraine, it could explain Boris’ response. It would make sense if Boris was advised that Kiev made a mistake falling for a ruse. (Russian ruse, forgive the pun.) Boris might have been sent to Kiev to quickly tell them it was a mistake to fall for it.
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  1869. Britain has become a nation of childish fantasists. It started as common arrogance a decade ago. Is anyone running Britain? It is getting as surreal as a zombie apocalypse.
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  1870. How long before Putin starts supplying weapons to Maduro
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  1871. It might have been the West media and more so the Ukraine people rejoicing in the Crimea bridge attack which triggered the gloves-off waves of missile attacks by Russia on Ukraine. Could the way the West is so elated about this latest long range attack perhaps trigger an increase in missile attacks by Russia against Ukraine targets?
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  1872.  @AsterixYZ  anyone who gets involved in someone else’s war is like someone grabbing a fighting dog - you get bitten
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  1873.  @AsterixYZ  personally I think the Russian gov was hard to criticise about leaving Donbas areas. It is inevitable that you have to sometimes leave an area even though the civilians will pay a heavy price. It is grievous but unavoidable. Remember the militia also are souls with loved ones.
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  1874. No choice then but for D/L to become part of Russia so it can be defended by regular Russian army.
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  1875. The emperor has no clothes.
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  1876. I think Zelenskyy is feeling his way towards opposing everyone, serving nobody except Ukraine, being very nationalist, and exerting Ukraine rights to do anything the nuclear states can do — Now that he feels he has a top army. He will not back down and will not be put into subjection, not even to his allies. He will oppose his allies just to exert Ukraine sovereignty. That is probably what his nationalist country wants. The West must stop assuming Ukraine is a subservient ally.
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  1877. Meltdown of LLM reminds me of Marvin the paranoid android in Douglas Adams’ Hitchhikers Guide
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  1878. Fortunately for a seasoned dev or experienced lead dev, AI does not replace experience, your most valued asset. It tends to not offer solutions to a broad understanding of the codebase and tech stack or platform. It offers a solution to a prompt or a narrowly scoped immediate problem.
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  1879. That was blatantly false comfort by Biden - a kind of attempt at “I am with you always” with full knowledge that he Biden is not only close to the end of presidency but barely hanging on to health and mental faculty, while the Elenskyy curse is bringing down one NATO member premier after another with no certainty of being able to “always be there”. If it were a real assurance, then it would defy democracy, since the voters might ultimately in a real democracy vote in anti-Ukraine party representatives. Only the lack of choice and thence lack of democracy allows assurances to be tentatively posited to Elenskyy by NATO member state premiers.
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  1880. Were it ever in future legally proven that this has all included an element of gain by force, or robbery, or the like, and therefore if it were ever identified as crime, perhaps historic crime, then even if money were all refunded like was done with PPI, it would still exist as crime and all the salaries paid would be proceeds of crime, yes? Not nice if you are a broadcasting worker paid from licence fees, even if only ten percent were one day regarded this way.
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  1881.  @Cp6uja  every nation has its unwashed masses
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  1882. Just like biblical Israelites kept back under a tent some treasures of Ai, artefacts which they should have destroyed, so Germany hid away too much 40s regime enthusiasts and artefacts. That was still the case in 90s. It all slipped through from that generation until now. Now a generation will be lost as a result.
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  1883. The main objective of the offensive might have always been for the West and Ukraine to save face. Maybe it has already succeeded and therefore need never actually happen.
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  1884. Yes, Trump blew it, his memory letting him down, that Russian threat only started when USA under Biden started “poking the bear” as we were calling it. Trump was out of the picture by then. Good catch. He probably imagined it as a hypothetical scenario back when he was thinking how to get money for NATO or find excuses to leave it, and projected it as a reality or misremembered it in a ‘senior moment’ (forgive the expression).
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  1885. There is always a queue for media attention. One leader waiting for the previous emergency to die down before launching their own offensive. No point doing an offensive if someone else has media attention, so you wait in line, then get in there quick. So it seems. Who is next in line after Georgia and Syria? Someone will be lining something up.
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  1886. Prigozhin didn’t get to have his ‘triumphus’ in Moscow but he and Wagner got one in Rostov. God knows they deserved it.
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  1887. Who would fall for this? Anyone could tell that it is far too professional. 😊
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  1888. Back in days before TDD, we longed for software development to be more professional and respected. After earnest endeavours towards this goal we started to see it taught as a respected discipline in universities. TDD helped raise the bar in promoting it as a sophisticated engineering practice. Now two decades later the university graduates don’t even want to touch the likes of TDD. Are we seeing the end of a rise and fall of software engineering and with it the demise of professional quality software development?
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  1889.  @vanivari359  😭😔😕
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  1890. If you found reason to believe that some of the council tax would be used to fund terrorism, you might have good reason not to pay it, or you might reasonably believe that paying it would be criminal.
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  1891.  @BlackBeltBarrister  Now that really does beg elaboration, especially in the current climate
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  1892.  @BlackBeltBarrister  In my career in software and especially in insurance software, in this work there is a regulatory legal requirement to consider constantly the compliance and sanctions and legal regulation requirements about funding of terrorism, bribery, criminal activities, money laundering. These requirements are all unquestionable. What reasonable person would not feel they must equally apply such scrutiny and diligence in domestic life and think where our money goes in the same way?
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  1893.  @BlackBeltBarrister  which part is mythical?
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  1894.  @BlackBeltBarrister  Which is exactly what the law tells us to do, expects us to do, as reasonable, reasoning adults.
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  1895.  @BlackBeltBarrister  Of course, in future AI will do that for us. Well now, not only future.
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  1896.  @BlackBeltBarrister  Two words for it: inference and reasoning.
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  1897.  @BlackBeltBarrister  often by definition a non-erroneous conclusion means, in law, what a reasonable person would infer and reason - which means the law must decide what is a reasonable person - and a reasonable person is a person capable of reasonable reasoning 😊
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  1898.  @BlackBeltBarrister  if a conclusion is to be considered erroneous it must be one which only unreasonable people would conclude - so we all need to reason and conclude then pick who is doing it reasonably and call everything else erroneous - luckily AI can speed this up and determine a consensus - but still we need to do it ourselves so we can tell if the AI is erroneous or not
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  1899.  @BlackBeltBarrister  the law often invokes ‘a reasonable person’ - not a well-versed professionally qualified lawyer who has paying clients - therefore ordinary reasonable people have to exercise their reasoning capabilities in bringing together various laws and making reasoned inferences and conclusions, or else the law would fail
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  1900.  @50somethinglawyer  I did not say it is. I said that a reasonable person might exercise discretion to consider whether it is and in so doing might believe in their case that it is. This is about the discretion to determine when compliance is broken (compliance with legal requirement to not fund terrorism). It is reasonable that just as in corporate working life we must exercise due diligence on such compliance matters, so too in domestic daily life with payments we make.
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  1901.  @50somethinglawyer  We get public access to information, budgets, spending, investments, contributions legally imposed, etc..
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  1902.  @50somethinglawyer  Even invoices can be perused by anyone in public.
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  1903.  @50somethinglawyer  I’m sure lots of questions will arise and need answering. I’m not the one to answer. This is for open discussion. Many voices should be raised. Maybe I am a reasonable person. I hope so. But without lots of reasonable people giving voice to this, it is just one voice, and perhaps the law needs consensus of what is a reasonable person to decide what is a reasonable person.
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  1904.  @50somethinglawyer  depends what council, depends when, depends on definition of terrorism, depends on definition of funding. I do not want to make any serious allegations about my own council. Suffice it to say, it is possible and I hardly dare look too closely.
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  1905.  @50somethinglawyer  But I ask you a question: Have you understood that my comment is not saying there is terrorism funding happening by any council right now, nor am I saying there isn’t. You understand this? My comment is that there might be and that this has implications on how tax liabilities are levied. You understand this?
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  1906.  @50somethinglawyer  I rest my case.
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  1907.  @50somethinglawyer  I like paying my council tax. I have always paid it. But I would like to know what happens if suddenly there is a good reason not to pay it. Not hypothetical. It might happen that it gets perverted by future councils or by what future governments might impose of councils. Given our nearness to war and maybe genocidal collusion. Now I rest my case for real.
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  1908. Droves killed by drones and somehow it isn’t Ukraine
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  1909. Is there some kind of statutory limitation on attacks? It seems interesting that the bombing of Iran embassy is just three months short of 30 years since allegedly Iran-backed attack on Israeli embassy in London.
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  1910. I think Tucker said the weapons had gone to Mexican cartels. That would reciprocate nicely. Maybe Elenskyy can invite the cartel heads to Kiev and make sure they get a hug. That might fix a few things.
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  1911. EU hoping it gets sanctioned by everyone to give the incentive to produce their own credit card system?
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  1912. Justice League Antarctica captured the essence of DC.
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  1913. With the end of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Russia turned away from communism. The Jews had always sided with communism, helping create it, run it. Effectively Russia broke step with the Jews. The West had aligned with the Jews after WW2, creating Israel, running it, supporting it. The pandemic of the early 2020s led to a revival of progressivism almost akin to communism in the West. This accentuated the relationship with the Jews and Israel. It also accentuated the differences with Russia. Israel grows in strength. Progressivism and flirtations with communism gain popularity in the West as it gets closer ideologically and militarily to Israel. Paradoxically the far right actually start to align with this as the battle escalates in Ukraine. Is this a new Cold War developing between new Russia and the new US-Ukraine-based Jews? One likely symptom might be an emergence of hostilities between Russia and Israel.
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  1914. If only it were as simple as Prof Sachs believes. The reality is that nations exist. They have a degree of independence and sovereignty. As a realist, Prof Sachs is taking a rather unrealistic stance.
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  1915. Ben Wallace must be getting his intel from Gromit. Or his mum.
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  1916. The excellent Chinese comments about US paint US like a naughty toddler, endangering itself and those nearby by its mischief. But we should remember this toddler has its hands on a nuclear red button. Maybe we need to confiscate the button if we cannot tame the toddler. China can help with this.
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  1917. It is so nice that in UK we no longer need to pay taxes, now that Navalny Law lets us seize the taxes back, claw them back, in name of people persecuted in prison for opposing tyranny, like Assange.
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  1918. Putin highlighted that denastification for him means not necessarily a war on them as people but a prohibition of their organisations. That was a key message to come out of this. It is what the Istanbul agreement provided for. He is not at all suggesting genocide against nasties.
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  1919. Saying it is not going to end well is different from saying Russia will pay dearly but get the results it wants, at the price it wants.
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  1920. Davos needs to develop a virus that only infects owners of private jets and other WEF members
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  1921. Mixing left and right, best of both, is whole reason left and right existed - to provide two separate testing grounds for ideas - so that eventually we could pick best of both. Silly not to do it. We now have plenty of ideas to pick from. About time we settled on what works well.
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  1922. Is siding with a foreign government against ones own citizens an act of treason? Sanctioning UK citizens to further the goal of a foreign government? Perhaps not if a private action but what about when public office is involved? If that citizen finds their government is using public office power to support a foreign power against you? Maybe UK law is Ok with all this.
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  1923. A historic video
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  1924.  @steve5772  Not mobile? So disappointing. So easy then to keep out of line of sight. A gimmick.
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  1925. Did Biden come up with the Andromeda idea or did he have to delegate the imaginative stuff? They should have asked Alex. His imagination is more surreal. Mary Anne most definitely the love interest. Someone to make the story worth listening to. Obviously the real culprits were the Stingray crew. Collaborating with Thunderbirds.
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  1926. Surely only USA has what it would really take to turn the tide. God forbid, but large numbers of battle-ready troops.
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  1927. Of course USA would need a lot of troops held back to defend US soil from counterattack. Only USA has the forces needed to turn the tide.
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  1928.  @frankmartin3600  It was the US citizen (former?) Boris Johnson who brought about this continuation of war. Maybe this is further proof this war belongs only to US troops, that it is a USA war and nobody else’s.
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  1929. Re Danilov comments, he must mean that a million Ukrainians have gained some experience of how to be involved in war militarily as civilians. That is no bad thing for Ukraine or any country to get a bit of exposure to what war MIGHT involve for civilians. What will follow, though? More mobilisation? Not necessarily. Few countries experience total war, but readiness for total war is the benefit Ukraine is seeking and Danilov is espousing.
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  1930. When Pontius Pilate put it to a democratic vote what to do with the Christ, he thought the people would just say to release him. It didn’t work out as he expected. If the West puts what to do with nukes to a democratic vote, it might be the worst outcome ensues, even if we tell ourselves that sanity will prevail.
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  1931. It does seem likely that the USA has WMDs. Britain too. Will the UN allow USA and UK to be invaded?
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  1932.  @bogdanmeleszczenko1271  I meant it in an (obviously) more general sense just like you meant idiot in a colloquial sense. When we need more precise language we can hand that over to international lawyers.
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  1933.  @josephslawson3369  it is winning against woke immorality and laws in the West. That is the fight which really counts.
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  1934.  @dnickaroo3574  will be interesting to see if it ever has any evidence on Ellensky
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  1935.  @josephslawson3369  It originally symbolised a desire to break with racism of the past and adopt racial equality and social justice not weighted towards white superiority. It evolves constantly and includes more and more radical leftist, progressive ideas such as tolerance of just about everything in the cause of breaking away from intolerance. Of late it is embracing ideas such as critical race theory. Once a vacuum is created by removal of something offensive, all kinds of other offensive ideas can fill that vacuum. Most dangerously, by requiring a break with tradition it seeks to nullify the very existence of tradition. It is like that second psalm of scripture “Let us break their chains and throw off their shackles”. Traditional values are mostly devoid of racism. To throw off tradition under a pretence of opposing racism is only doomed to ultimate failure. Many will get hurt in the process.
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  1936.  @josephslawson3369  I was actually present at the scene just after people tore down the Colston statue in Bristol and, side-by-side with my Afro-Caribbean wife, I rejoiced at the whole thing, having loathed the hold that racism had had in previous years on the narrative. But when they throw out the baby with the bathwater in the name of wokeism and try to pull down morality itself I say No!
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  1937.  @jasperchance3382  Look at Nature. Look at social higher animals. If a monkey steals a mate from another monkey, if a member of the group eats more food than their share, if one of them supposed to be on guard gives an alert signal just so they can distract the others in the group and grab their food when they are distracted, or any other unfair action like this, they are punished by the group, perhaps even excommunicated which could lead to their death. They do not change this over time. They do not start to think differently and start to allow anyone to eat all the food or take the chief's mate without challenge or give false signals and then reward it. The morals do not change. The traditions do not get 'old'. Humans are social higher animals too.
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  1938. It does work a little bit in favour of Putin to be just a little bit the victim and loser, because it diffuses the bitter envy of Western leaders who were probably envious of Putin's constant victories and the way the territory Putin took and the D/L and Russian troops took was always being kept. If the envy of the West is taken off the boil, they may lose interest in this waging of war on Putin. Maybe. But Izyum pays the price.
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  1939. The Russian fighter jets should stick to shooting balloons, like Biden. Shoot it like Biden.
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  1940. I don’t the men in the BBC want to fight either.
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  1941. Got hounded out of automotive software company because being risk-aware was seen as too negative. I took early retirement. Not my concern anymore. But yes, that is how corporate thinking has developed.
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  1942. Boris no longer PM. (ZNPP?)
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  1943. If it turns out Russia isn’t getting whipped the USA will change the meaning of whipped so it is getting whatever whipped now means.
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  1944. I remember towards end of Gulf wars there were the insurgencies into Iraq against US occupiers. Never thought within a few decades it would be the other way around and there would be USA insurgencies there.
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  1945. The unwitting threat of China seems to be to the racist West ruling class narrative against Russia dehumanising ‘Asia’. China has proven this wrong by its rise.
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  1946. Putin clearly expects UK to back down, or he would simply declare that he now regards UK to be at war with Russia. He must be giving some time for the UK to repent. Either that or he wants to break the news gradually, drip feeding it.
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  1947. The real act of war here is Biden attack on UK. He is goading Starmer into copying him. Rumours say it worked. That would make UK a legitimate target for Russia too.
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  1948. The four people in a boat. The boat is also well known. Andromeda.
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  1949. Isn't the real Lyman horror the possibility of what Ukrainians will do to civilians there over first few days and weeks of a takeover? Not so much a distraction as a humanitarian disaster and possibility of development of crimes against humanity with West support.
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  1950. If EU is suppressing the results and the extent to which winners of elections actually govern, that could be creating this phenomenon as a side-effect, because people can vote for their ideals, without worry that those parties will have to govern. It becomes a playground, a sandbox.
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  1951. Macron might be forced to cosy up to the P if he wants to replace Niger uranium
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  1952.  @grahamjackson6589  or Kazakhstan or Uzbekistan, or maybe not.
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  1953.  @grahamjackson6589  But Canada and Australia might price it high. Kazakhstan is low price but again might require cosier relations with the P, if Kazakhstan and Russia stay close.
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  1954. Some think it was to damage Putin's image but now that the smoke is clearing from the bridge and we see the real nature of what happened and realise this was a botched attack and yet it brought out of people their true nature when they got elated, we will look back at this and think how feeble an attempt it was to do serious damage and that all those who did it and who watched with glee were just losers and sad, in the end. They are the ones whose image has been damaged. Another backfired attack on Putin. if that was part of the goal.
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  1955.  @genes.3285  A year from now it will start to become history that emboldens Russia and embarrasses Russia's enemies.
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  1956.  @genes.3285  Is Zelensky's image damaged now, or Putin's?
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  1957. To keep flow of grain going out of Ukraine, Russia was morally obligated (yes, Russia is one country that still has regard for being moral) to allow Ukraine to keep its port, Odessa, and did not attack Odessa or try to take it. But if there is no grain deal and attacks on Crimea mean it is unlikely to be recommenced, then Odessa is more of a moral target.
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  1958. Those he cannot execute, he fines. Fines with a blank check and no audit checks.
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  1959. If a country has values like EU we should be so afraid of that country that we quarantine it.
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  1960. The FBI hallmark signs are all over the Trump-Iran story. Clearly a plot by the FBI to make themselves sound foolish, just so people will underestimate them. Clever.
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  1961.  @Papawcanner  but we all grew up believing USA were only ever the good guys
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  1962. I think this kind of situation is only happening as side effect of councils only allowing residents to park in their own streets, so if someone blocks their space they have nowhere else to park. It is caused by council rules and policies so they should solve it. After all we pay them to do so. We do not get paid to solve parking problems. They do.
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  1963. If Britain takes its objective further, it will be morally guilty of perverting the course of justice by its obstruction of the Russian operations to stop the immoral killing of civilians in Donbas. The gracious benefits Britain has received to help through lockdowns, it seems to be taking as licence to engage in immoral opposition to these moral interventions by Russia in Donbas. This will all come back to haunt the UK later and future history will surely not speak kindly of Britain for doing this.
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  1964. So they want UK to harbour, aid and abet the head of the nasties.
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  1965. Thanks!
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  1966. Before Russia puts Challenger tanks on display in Moscow they will want to remove the depleted uranium outer armour.
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  1967. USA might have to abandon modern monetary policy and repay its debts. “A loss of reserve currency status could create a major shift in the U.S. economy, turning the federal debt into a substantial liability and undermining the flexibility of modern monetary policy. This would likely lead to higher interest rates, inflationary pressures, limited fiscal space, and a diminished ability to influence global financial standards.” ChatGPT
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  1968. Rules for the Rules Based Order are easy to get hold of. Buy the Monopoly game and it usually comes with a copy. Of course you would need to change all the Rubles into the Monopoly money for it to work.
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  1969. By engaging in peace talks with Palestinians since the 1980s, Israel got itself a reputation for democracy and decency on the world stage and benefitted in its trade, but its democracy led to it violating the agreements from which it benefitted. It changed leaders and these leaders did not all keep its agreements.
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  1970. Trump is being far too naive. He would set precedents of which he himself would abhor the outcomes. Mexicans in Southern USA states could propose moving out all the other Americans there.
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  1971. Elon Musk's influence in critical sectors like space and defense, combined with his potential alliance with Trump, poses significant leverage exposure risks for the U.S., potentially undermining regulatory oversight and national security while concentrating too much power in one individual. (ChatGPT)
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  1972.  @pong9000  You mean like Boris with a gun?
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  1973.  @pong9000  Look how successful some military men have been as statesmen holding their own on the world stage like Harry S. Truman.
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  1974. Nigel Farage and Reform UK for a year now have been trying to strike an interesting balance between their opposition to cashless society central bank digital currency (hence their cash is king slogan) and opposition to criminal immigrant-led money laundering via, as they put it, cash-only barber shops and the like. It seems there is a story to be had here in how they can fight two seemingly mutually exclusive battles at once.
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  1975. Two consecutive leaders appointed by the Conservative MPs and members have proven to be blind guides. Now we must start to realise that they are a blind party and cannot appoint anyone except a blind guide and we must get the UK out of their grasp. Yet it is not necessarily just the Conservatives who are any worse than others. We must realise that all the others are of much the same ilk and we desperately need to snatch ourselves away from them all.
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  1976. I bet the Russian jet pilot never knew he hit the propeller as he dowsed the drone in fuel. I bet mow he’s seen the video he is boasting “Yeah I did that on purpose!”
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  1977. Boris F. Sc. Follower of Science
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  1978. Countries outside of the Collective West have a huge advantage when they do not have to be governed by clowns.
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  1979. The pirate dabbled with them turbines.
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  1980. More tariffs if EU and UK does not lift sanctions?
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  1981. A US attack on Iran? US inflation would be unaffordable. Oil prices would rocket.
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  1982. Can correlation be made somehow between excess deaths and how many (what percentage) who died were vaccinated?
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  1983.  @christopherrobinson7541  Do kids still have AS level maths exams with real world tricky questions. Just include this one and review the answers. If X is excess deaths and Y is percentage of deaths overall where there was vaccine taken, what would be expected X if all excess deaths were due to taking vaccine? As extra hard optional question, if 90% of deaths were due to vaccine, how would it affect X. Extra hard for top marks or for degree level maths: devise a calculus partial differential field equation for infinitesimal deviations from 100% correlation with vaccine, expressed in terms of X and Y.
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  1984.  @christopherrobinson7541 
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  1985.  @christopherrobinson7541  My AS level answer. Say: Overall 70 % took vaccine. Excess deaths was 20%. How many of those dying overall would be expected to have taken vaccine? If say 100% excess deaths were due to vaccine: normal deaths with vaccine would be 70%. If say there are 120 overall deaths, 20 of which are excess. That means the normal 70 of the deaths would be with vaccine. 30 no vaccine. Now there are 20 more. Of those 100% took vaccine. So overall number of deaths with vaccine equals 70 plus 20. That means 90% deaths overall would be expected to have had vaccine. Now if the percentage correlation decreases by 5. So 95 percent correlation. 95% of the excess deaths relates to vaccine and 5% unknown factor. Now 70 still have vaccine among normal deaths but now only 19 of excess die having had vaccine. 1 dies of unknown cause. Overall 89 percent of those dying expected to have been vaccinated. Draw it as a chart or model it with, say, partial differential equations. If the latter it might feed a computer modelling system like that used for the pandemic by Imperial College. Then compare with actuals to see possible correlation with vaccine.
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  1986.  @christopherrobinson7541  I can do it. I only have BSc level advanced maths. University College London.
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  1987. Say: Overall 70 % took vaccine. Excess deaths was 20%. How many of those dying overall would be expected to have taken vaccine? If say 100% excess deaths were due to vaccine: normal deaths with vaccine would be 70%. If say there are 120 overall deaths, 20 of which are excess. That means the normal 70 of the deaths would be with vaccine. 30 no vaccine. Now there are 20 more. Of those 100% took vaccine. So overall number of deaths with vaccine equals 70 plus 20. That means 90 out of 120 deaths overall would be expected to have had vaccine. Now if the percentage correlation decreases by 5. So 95 percent correlation. 95% of the excess deaths relates to vaccine and 5% unknown factor. Now 70 still have vaccine among normal deaths but now only 19 of excess die having had vaccine. 1 dies of unknown cause. Overall 89 out of 120 of those dying expected to have been vaccinated. Draw it as a chart or model it with, say, partial differential equations. If the latter it might feed a computer modelling system like that used for the pandemic by Imperial College. Then compare with actuals to see possible correlation with vaccine. Can the professionals not do this and do it better than my undergraduate maths can do?
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  1988. Wondering what triggered the patriot launches, given the hypersonics are so fast. Maybe there is some way to force the patriots to launch, like a precursive missile or computer hack. Then the launch might give a signal to hypersonics of where to hit. This might explain the third launcher not launching and not getting hit. Maybe being hidden away stopped it being triggered by Russia, if that is how this attack happens. If this is what transpired it is all at Russia’s initiative and control and none by patriot, which would barely know what was happening before it happened. Maybe.
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  1989.  @RichardPhillips1066  Probably it is about time the Marshall Plan and NATO were abandoned, now that Communism is no longer a threat to Europe.
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  1990. Ukrainians do know ways to live in other countries despite laws against those ways. I was watching a pre-war documentary about it even from before these desperate times.
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  1991. Crimea is Ukraine. Or was that a typo?
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  1992. Kate has very distinctive eyebrow shape
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  1993. So UN breaks sanctions with Russia by trading SWIFT for grain
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  1994.  @hughmanetti1908  That is fake news. 2000 at least. Remember 900 died. So there must have been double that number including survivors. And never forget the parking attendants. There might have been a lot of those and some might have been hit by the car.
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  1995. So if all democratic efforts to keep Trump from winning look doomed to fail, like the struggles in Ukraine against Putin success seem to be failing, will the Biden administration put in similar resources as they put into Ukraine?
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  1996. Just think if the Romanian election change was normal, how that would affect election political science.
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  1997. Maybe they’ll block Olympic torch event
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  1998. I suspect loud motorcycles are a problem everywhere now they are a kind of unwanted hangover from the days many needed food deliveries - a long couf scourge we still have lingering. These food deliveries saved more lives than medics in those terrible months but now they have become a menace.
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  1999. It could all be a clever ploy to spy on NATO. Russia and Ukraine might join up later against NATO.
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  2000. The times they are a-changing. ChatGPT and o1 were DeepSeek’s Sputnik moment. The next big thing might be an ISS-moment. Cooperation. Followed closely by a Tower of Babel moment, when it all gets abandoned. But not without first giving us a terrible dystopia.
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  2001. A phoenix will rise out of the British fire and ashes - something good will come of it. Adjustment is happening to the Europe-based systems and processes. A British version will emerge. Might not even be democracy.
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  2002. Probably all short-lived victories under this curse.
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  2003. Can the patriots be usefully patched into the s300 system, or do you need an s400 system for that?
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  2004. So here at last is the false flag.
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  2005. USA trying not to tell Ukraine it is not interested in following the plan? Hopefully they do not read the media.
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  2006. Ukraine under Lvov and Kiev got caught grievously suppressing DPR and LPR and knew that USA were equally to blame for encouraging them down that evil road, but USA tries to shrug off the moral wrongdoing side of it with bravado that tells itself if it can come out of this with some kind of victory in any way it can get away with the wrongs and smokescreen them with their military prowess. But the gods don’t reward such hubris.
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  2007. So the pirate has been told to stop sleeping weekends at the office and go home to her van der family
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  2008.  @elenataylor4611  IIRC, the deal with USA was that only Ukraine and Russia should join at same time, not one without the other
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  2009. It might be a UK ploy to force China’s hand into supplying weapons to Russia in response to the negative public relations of the message UK is sending about its own weapon supply. But I suspect it is propaganda, in that probably already the weapon and armour supply has probably included some depleted uranium, since the NATO forces use it so much (as does Russia, and maybe Ukraine too in its Soviet munitions).
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  2010. Not good news that Pierce so easily blinded by propaganda.
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  2011. Could it be Charles III ordered Boorish?
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  2012. EU values, eh? A bit of weeding is needed in the garden. The garden is getting more like the jungle every day.
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  2013. King Charles about to shake the hand again. Don’t anyone let on that he has a huge private army with combat readiness and battle experience. Bad enough just to get that hand shake out of the way or find a way to avoid it.
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  2014. Netanyahu seems to be trying to extremely dubiously justify genocide from scripture by saying God expected Israelites to kill those who extremely grievously attacked them, those who had been attacking the weakest Israelites from behind during their great migration through the desert. God had previously declared war against the Canaanites because of their extremely bad behaviour increasingly over many generations. It was very different circumstances to those today. Trying to justify genocide from such comparisons is despicable and evil. It is like King Ahab deciding to kill just to get land he wanted.
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  2015. Iran hibernates like a bear. Do not think it is not going to act. And do not wake it up.
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  2016. Couldn't the EU have told farmers to produce combustible crops people can burn in a heating crisis? Ukraine too could have been doing this in time for winter. Maybe fast-growing tree crops such as willow. I'm no expert but it ought to be easy for the scientific agriculture experts to give the right advice to farmers so we can all buy something to burn if we have wood-burning stoves. By now Ukraine could have produced a fast-growing crop that could be burned in winter perhaps.
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  2017. No LLM is greater than its masters. If the masters are liars, the LLMs will always be liars too.
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  2018. Maybe Russia hopes to use the Dnipro bridges in future.
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  2019. Implication of the speech is that a certain group of people ranged throughout Europe, especially in Kiev, wanted military real action experience so they provoked Russia to get it. Most people in Europe do not need it the same way this vulnerable group might need it like in the 30s and 40s in Europe.
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  2020. The closeness SA now has with BRICS and Russia, and Elon Musk being still an SA citizen, this must give Musk immense leverage in USA since he could move his business to SA. That plus his alliance with Trump, if Trump wins, plus X. He basically can override USA democracy, yes? Especially if Trump wins.
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  2021.  @Robert-z8z1z  chatGPT says “South Africa could present unique business opportunities, especially in sectors like renewable energy, mining (particularly lithium for batteries), and technology. Musk’s companies, particularly Tesla, have interests in these areas, and establishing a presence in South Africa could be strategically beneficial.”
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  2022. I strongly remember discussions among politically minded people about UK leaving what is now the EU way back in the late seventies, early eighties. This is a long term evolution of Britain, not a quick fix.
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  2023. Again back to the TV licence thing - if judicial force is combined with permanent depriving of licence fee, is it robbery, if no TV is owned or watched?
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  2024. Europe can send Ukraine trainee troops to train in Greenland
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  2025.  @meresenal9472  😗😝🤓😕😕😫😳😨🤔🤔🤫😐😯🥱
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  2026. Looks like West truly has a news blackout, to exclusively make way for pro-West propaganda.
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  2027. Putin kindly advised the Collective West on how to survive: How to save the dollar. How to be more approachable for diplomacy. How to steer away from unthinkable war. How to stop making such a mess of things. He is not trying to destroy the Collective West. He knows that would destroy the whole world too. He is trying sincerely to save the West, to save the World.
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  2028. Presumably The B has children who might eventually be sent off to actually do some fighting.
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  2029. It reminds me of how I used to fake a temperature to get off school. Mum would put a thermometer in my mouth. I would put it next to a light bulb when she was out of the room or dunk it in some tea. Nowadays we have AI. My mother should have stood and watched me till the temp was taken. Nowadays we must even police our royals and their commissioned institutions like BBC for possible abuses of AI. Naivety is irresponsibility.
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  2030. So if they search Biden’s garage for files, maybe they can put more heat on him if they find some.
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  2031. Are oligarchs with links to Ukraine now running Washington and London MSM? Maybe they were all along. Perhaps also oligarchs with links to Russia, perhaps Russian expats who oppose Putin.
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  2032.  @ArthurTane-e5b  he might just send an ICBM collection drone.
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  2033. That really is bizarre. To hate on a Presidential candidate because they were once a prosecutor? Really? Like a President isn’t a prosecutor?
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  2034. If West says Ukraine and West were not behind the attacks and confidently asserts, I immediately question their honesty, because it would be impossible for the West and Ukraine to be certain of this, given lack of visibility they already claimed the intelligence there has of events in Ukraine, and far more so with events in Central Asia and Russia. It is just a line. But with this line they betray their lie.
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  2035. It could also be that Biden did this to disincentivise the VP or Obama camp from trying to remove him before his time is up.
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  2036. Only if Hersh’s investigation result is plausible enough and truthful enough to actually threaten POTUS and deep state, does it warrant the backfire risk of countering it with what might prove to be very implausible contrivances. Desperate times call for desperate measures.
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  2037. Like many of your videos, it also helps with understanding of Christianity and its scriptures. Here you explain the practice of blōt. The scriptural command to new Christians to forsake ‘blood’ is clearly a reference to use of sprinkled blood from sacrifices to associate the guest of the feast with the sacrifice made to a god or spirit. Maybe the JWs merely misunderstood it to somehow refer to use of blood in blood transfusions, or maybe blood transfusions are a modern hidden syncretism between medicine and sacrifices, cloaked in science. All useful for understanding our world today.
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  2038. These guys should co-ordinate their lies and dubious narratives. Better still, just stop lying.
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  2039. Death cult will kill more on front lines and maybe gain something or maybe just gain Valhalla or maybe gain nothing but do it for sake of a kind of Viking death cult, far right ideal.
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  2040. Choice: Reform UK or Labour
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  2041.  @SmartCookie2022  I don't get the impression Reform UK favour Net Zero. But there are lots of other policies to weigh up and a policy does not always result in action of course. We cannot afford to get our votes wrong. It could go nuclear.
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  2042. The curse is from friendliness with Elenskyy’s ultra far right associates.
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  2043. Leaks? Diplomats with immunity? One of the actual generals having been guaranteed immunity? For international allied interests? To placate UK? To spread the blame and diffuse diplomatic tension? To prevent just UK being seen as participants and becoming highest profile/priority target for Russia? Thus diffusing nuclear escalation by drawing attention from UK?
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  2044. Everyone who is not academically inclined could watch the Crown episode about Philip, the Queen, the Romanov remains and Yeltsin. One person alive might feel they have a divine right and duty to punish Russia to avenge the Romanovs. Just saying.
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  2045. Democrats and Conservatives, but also all other parties with them, have Ukraine demise on their hands.
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  2046. USA: More and more like the drugs cartels every day. Slippery. Untouchable. Always ending up on top.
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  2047. “The idea of AI autonomously designing and building autonomous AI robots is a fascinating concept. While AI has made significant progress in various domains, including materials science and engineering, the creation of truly autonomous AI robots that can design and build other AI robots is still a complex and futuristic challenge. It's difficult to predict with certainty when or if this level of autonomy will be achieved, but it's an area of ongoing research and development in the field of AI. Ethical and safety considerations would also play a crucial role in shaping the future of such technology.” Chat GPT 3.5
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  2048. Can’t the Biden oligarchy freeze Biden’s campaign assets and seize them and give them to Harris? Or would that look too much like theft?
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  2049. Some have a romantic view of the EU where it is like a single country with a standing army defended from Russia by military means and using any Eastward facing friend as a proxy to throw at Russia. It is a notion contrived during the Cold War when Brits and others saw the EU as becoming like the USA, United States of Europe, to counter the Soviet Union or later Russia and China. These are probably controlling this war. Their notion they find so appealing, almost like a fantasy or comic fest, worshipping their notion of the EU and NATO like a comicon cosplayer worships superheroes, that they could never accept Putin’s assertions that he is not trying to recreate the Soviet Union and spread Westwards. They find close allies in the neocons. A deadly combination. They are the kinds who are drawn to the Israel Lobby groups. It is all a romantic glamorisation of the EU. Now it has gone too far and is destroying the West and potentially the whole world. Innocent people especially in Britain and now its Eastward friend Poland are tempted to think this way, drawn in naively thinking it is sensible statesmanship. They like the simplicity of it. Good guys and bad guys. They never paint themselves as bad guys. Narcissism that leads to projection. Locking themselves into this deadly game of cat and mouse, cops and robbers.
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  2050. Oh Trump and his tariffs. “The players all played at once without waiting for turns, quarrelling all the while, and fighting for the hedgehogs; and in a very short time the Queen was in a furious passion, and went stamping about, and shouting’ Off with his head!’ or ‘Off with her head!’ about once in a minute.” Lewis Carroll.
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  2051.  @KassandraFuria13  Imagine if UK, USA and Poland all went to war fighting or fiercely negotiating in Ukraine over who controls it. Could result in a Kiev partitioned like Berlin was after the War and in the Cold War.
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  2052. Good catch with the lithium.
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  2053. I doubt the West has any protection against Ukraine turning its weapons against the West, after a change of regime or other conditions.
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  2054. The pin, the tie and the Eau de Elle’
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  2055. We in the West were hoodwinked into letting the USA perpetrate regime change after regime change, presumably primarily in countries hostile to the existence of the State of Israel, the main propaganda theme of the time. Yet we always knew that if they were doing wrong, they would pay for it eventually. Their responsibility to take the punishment for any wrongdoing was always implicit so we let them get on with it. Now they need to be pressed to fess up and pay the price and the world needs to be pressed to hold the USA accountable. Nothing out of order there. But blood might be on our hands. Not good.
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  2056. If it is true that the target was the LPR minister who was killed, what this says is that USA is ideologically similar to those it labels as terrorists because it seems it promotes a mixture of insurgency killing of government ministers with terrorist killing of civilians.
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  2057. Perhaps a teaching tool for helping allay concerns among potential tank recruits. The Ukrainians seem to have tried to find answers to known weaknesses of modern tanks, perhaps the main ones circulating among young people. The kind of things chatted about in tank warfare gaming chat rooms. The snipers being able to aim at observation holes. The single turret. The thin armour. The cramped space. The foreign manufacturing. The foreign glory. The vulnerabilities. These are likely factors known widely as weaknesses of modern tanks and transportation vehicles. They tried to do something homegrown to address it all, as if they threw up post-its on a board and did a few sessions to address the top fifteen items. Then took their proposals, without any testing, out to local Ukrainians for donations to produce it. Trying to do it all homegrown. Trying to be truly national.
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  2058. Maybe in NATO. Maybe not in NATO. Maybe not at all. Maybe gone.
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  2059. Idiocy to suggest Ukraine being added to NATO. Bang goes Article 5. Double jeopardy. No more barrier to Russia attacking any NATO country.
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  2060. The tool from the Europe side for Freedom across the borders: Arbeit.
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  2061.  @Phoenix2312  Or do the lawmakers carefully define fraud so as not to criminalise the TV licensing?
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  2062. There sure has been a lot of succumbing to fear of death recently, worldwide. A huge percentage giving in to it, such that it is number one factor in eventualities. There are a lot of good explanations in this video. Thanks. Some careful thinking and weighing up. Only way out of this mess, this fear, this dread-driven control, is to have access to the kindness of extreme power, unimaginable power, but wise, good and gracious power.
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  2063. One administration in USA trying to impose their will on the next administration is surely the end of Democracy in USA.
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  2064. Awful thinking by West leaders. With Sukkot over and the year ahead in which to gain a greater yield on the harvest, will Jews and Israel now help to oppose the kind of thinking which was foremost in causing the Holocaust and will Israel and the faithful Jews try to bring a better understanding to the fore in the leadership of USA and Canada and UK? Time to share the harvest by investing in better understanding of the past to fortify the West against its internal enemies who want it to go back to hating and killing? Invest some of the harvest in the future. Turn the West against the ideology which might again cause a Holocaust. Help to rid the West of its propaganda lies. Educate the West to filter out that ideology from among its leaders. It might be too late, but an investment might greatly improve the future against another Holocaust.
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  2065.  @annebritraaen2237  then they can reign it all in, see sense, open their eyes, stop being so blind
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  2066.  @annebritraaen2237  I realise not all Jews are inwardly Jews. Some like Elenskyy are able to compartmentalise their outward genetic-only Jewishness and devise diplomatic schemes that could destroy the diaspora Jews horrifically, such as siding with those who want such destruction to happen. But I appeal to inwardly Jewish people worldwide to open their eyes and try to take action to stop this revival among Western leaders of the ideology which will cause such destruction again. Seriously. People open your eyes. It is happening around us.
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  2067. Maybe the EU will now need to go through all the globalising free IT tech it uses and stop using anything where state sponsors of terrorism have contributed to it. That might be a bit expensive but hey, heck of a virtue signal and added bonus of deindustrialisation.
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  2068. Boris might have spawned the ZNPP strategy. If I remember correctly.
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  2069. Looks like rather than fungus or bacterial colony, a better metaphor is a pandemic.
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  2070. Interesting that Clinton pushes such a story to justify supporting Ukraine because it shows there is no acceptable viable and actual justification. There is a gaping hole he is trying to fill. He just proved it.
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  2071.  @ARONHALLAM  No, they were all unanimously, fervently against Trump. They refused to meet him when he visited the Queen. They turned the media against him. They called him a friend of Russia. They openly loved the Democrats and hated Trump.
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  2072. Boris behind the ZNPP attack? If we were playing it Boris' way we would be asking whether Her Majesty was made aware by Boris it was happening and ask whether she approved it. But as her subject I cannot really ask that question. So I won't :) Maybe that is why so much UK silence: to speak could implicate the Queen in wrongdoing. Surely Her Majesty was told by Boris in advance of his trip to advise Elensky not to seek peace. Surely Her Majesty's approval would have been sought. One of our most famous monarchs in history might have been behind all of this. If not then Boris surely owes it to her to clear her royal name. And owes it to the UK Crown.
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  2073. AI might lead to resurrection of OOP if in the future all the well-written and little remaining human-written open source code to train it on happens to mostly be OO.
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  2074. When reporting a scam channel in YouTube it seems YouTube only allows scam as a reason when you report the channel as a whole. If you report a video, the only relevant option seems to be spam and then the reasons below that are ambiguous, and no facility is provided for writing a reason out yourself. When reporting the channel itself they let you write out a reason yourself unambiguously.
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  2075. It was the seven most anti-Israel outspoken countries which USA listed to attack in five years. However there it stops. Russia is not like those seven. USA is crossing a line.
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  2076. Joining NATO and the EU is like joining a street gang; first you might have to beat up and rob your granny. But extra kudos with the gang if you get arrested and punished for it.
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  2077. Terrible things have yet to happen in Ukraine, including in Kherson, all with UK official backing, by UK official inaction or worse. The UK must pay a price for it. USA maybe too. The moral authority of all of the UK governmental, parliamentary and peer ruling class must all be regarded as in dire demise and we must factor into our expectations the dire consequences of this. We might then pull together as people with moral authority and sovereignty which is irrespective of the leadership moral decline. But Ukraine will suffer consequences of UK moral leadership demise too. Sovereignty might be what the UK people can salvage: the fruit of Brexit. The people were not respected by any of the ruling people. Now it might be all we have left.
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  2078.  @nickupton2123  more and more I come across people tired of mainstream media lies, of fake news from all the mainstream media. Eventually it will reach critical mass and nobody will buy papers and pay paywall fees and the media will dry up. Perhaps that is the problem: fewer and fewer willing to pay when they can get stories for free, so no reporters willing to be honest with integrity if nobody will pay for their work. Presumably the honest ones get no pay and find other jobs. What will happen to dishonest politics if dishonest reporters get no pay? It will all dry up. It will all wither on the vine. Maybe.
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  2079. The real possibility this whole thing was all a clever play to part the West from its money, that Ukraine gets the sympathy by making believe it will join the West, then Russia wins and takes everything on the table, including the sequestered West money, this meant Ukraine pressure to persuade the West it would win, before the West would part with money etc.. Now this is all under review by Trump, obviously.
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  2080. I guess if Ukraine/NATO took Crimea, Russia could respond by retaking Crimea then taking Odessa and moving into Transnistria and combining them. Ukraine and its West partners in agriculture business would have no route to the sea for its crops and would fail economically. Russia has been wisely restrained so far by not landlocking Ukraine and by allowing it to export grain. It could change its mind. Then who would repay the Ukraine debt to EU? Russia does well to leave Ukraine with a lifeline so someone can pay those debts, otherwise Russia could end up having to underwrite Ukraine while rebuilding it once this is over. The most successful parasites do not destroy their hosts. Not to say Russia is a parasite but it can learn well from them and leave something of Ukraine rather than destroying it completely.
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  2081.  @markusberzborn6346  Russia has to leave Ukraine as a viable country. It is on the borders of Russia. A failed state on your border is very risky. Russia is also aware it has to rebuild everything it is destroying. It needs to either take all of Ukraine including Kiev or leave Ukraine as a viable provider of grain to the world. It needs to keep on board its friendly countries in Africa and Asia who depend to some extent on Ukraine grain and other supplies, even if indirectly (indirectly keeping prices down). Ukraine produces grain and other supplies of natural resources such as minerals and the world outside of the Collective West needs this. Therefore Russia's friends need Ukraine to have a port and a way to get its produce to that port.
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  2082.  @markusberzborn6346  very risky - arms could be moved in as grain is moved out
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  2083.  @markusberzborn6346  The Collective West was able to use the blockade of shipping against Russia as propaganda even though the sea mine blockade was done by Ukraine outside Odessa. The mere threat of Russian attacks on Odessa was enough to cause the West to have propaganda it could use to blame Russia for grain shortages. Russia has learned from this that the whole world needs it to keep that port open and truly available to Ukraine grain farmers. If it takes Odessa it will be even more vulnerable to blame and will actually be genuinely causing grain shortages and rising grain prices in countries such as those in Africa which will not be able to afford grain. Putin had to play down Odessa to the Russian people (calling it old and neglected) so they would not overly object to it not being taken. This might not be what Russians want to hear, but Putin knows Odessa is best left in Ukrainian hands. If Ukraine has no port and is landlocked its grain and mineral supplies (fertilizers too?) might fail and cause problems for Russia's friends and Russia would have to take all of Ukraine including Kiev so that the grain industry could all be intact. Russia probably does not want Kiev because controlling a hostile population would be very risky, expensive and lead to propaganda wins for the West. So ideally Odessa should stay in Ukraine hands and Ukraine remain a viable country separate from Russia. That is probably Plan A. But attacks on Crimea might change all this.
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  2084.  @ms-jl6dl  Companies run on bank loans and shares, and shareholders get bank loans and invest in companies which .. and so on. The economy. Governments entrust powers to the Bank of England and sometimes oversee quantitative easing. The Bank of England lends to other banks … The economy. I’m no economist but pick up the media crumbs from the table.
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  2085.  @naradaian  I don’t think it works like that. It is not mere democracy at work. You get a kind of promise as Mayor of London that if your party is in power you eventually get rewarded by promotion to PM. That is surely the only reason Boris became PM. Cameron stood aside for him. Democracy? Hardly. A PM doesn’t even need to be an elected MP.
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  2086. Not all good for N Korea. Russia will need neighbouring allies up to the sea in multiple directions in case of full war.
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  2087. Trump will get the money back, I bet.
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  2088. Jireček Line?
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  2089. Now a few months later no need to worry too much about quitting. The AI will destroy software development skills and careers. Just let it happen. And then no dystopian software apps to be complicit in.
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  2090.  @bigbob3772  So how would you rate Bandera?
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  2091. Hey, Orban’s statements about the grain make perfect sense now. Why the West was suddenly so interested in grain and farmers. I bet Big Pharma makes good use of it too and further lines the Western pockets. No wonder USA is so embroiled in this and so vocal about it.
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  2092. Surely only actual US troops can turn the tide. Heaven forbid, but the maths is the maths.
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  2093.  @timber750  then the tide cannot be turned
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  2094. Get well soon. Thanks indeed for still struggling and getting video out. Wonderful to hear the news of Austin blocking global catastrophe that Starmer was pushing for.
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  2095. Like when you order something online and it never arrives, then you find the company has disappeared. But hey, nobody in governments of West could have foreseen such corruption. Not.
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  2096. If Trump asked Putin not to escalate, it seems like projection. That might mean that at least Trump is thinking to himself he himself must not escalate. But then reversing it by projecting it so it deflects from USA by giving the impression Russia is the one prone to escalate. If WaPo made it all up, at least it shows they are thinking nobody should escalate.
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  2097. Hungary must know Habsburg monarchy and how monarchies of Europe work. Do they not think monarchies might be in all this. They would be rivals to Putin wrt Russia.
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  2098.  @GeoPoliticsCommentry  Wikipedia says “Khmelnytskyi was home to the 19th Division of the 43rd Rocket Army of the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces during the Cold War.[15] The intercontinental ballistic missile silos of the division that were housed there were removed and destroyed, partially with U.S. Cooperative Threat Reduction funding, during the 1990s.”
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  2099. Chat GPT: It appears that Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine, was indeed home to the 19th Division of the 43rd Rocket Army of the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces during the Cold War. The intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) silos housed in the division were subsequently removed and destroyed, partially with funding from the U.S. Cooperative Threat Reduction program, which aimed to assist in the disarmament and reduction of weapons of mass destruction following the end of the Cold War.
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  2100. Sorry, one more quote of Chat GPT: “If a huge explosion were to occur in an area where there were previously missile silos or other facilities associated with nuclear weapons, there could potentially be radioactive hazards depending on the circumstances. Here are a few factors to consider: Contamination from previous operations: If the area had been used for the storage, handling, or maintenance of nuclear weapons or radioactive materials in the past, there might be residual contamination in the environment. This contamination could include radioactive particles or substances. Destruction of radioactive materials: If the explosion directly affected or damaged nuclear weapons, warheads, or other radioactive materials that were present in the area, there is a possibility that these materials could be released into the environment. This could lead to the dispersal of radioactive particles and contamination of the surrounding area. Dispersion of radioactive materials: The nature and extent of the dispersion of radioactive materials would depend on various factors, such as the type and quantity of radioactive substances involved, the proximity to the explosion, the weather conditions, and the structural integrity of the facilities. If radioactive materials were released and dispersed, they could pose a potential hazard. In the event of such an explosion, it would be crucial to conduct a thorough assessment of the situation, including monitoring for radiation levels and contamination. Specialized teams equipped with radiation detectors and monitoring equipment would be deployed to assess the potential radioactive hazards and implement appropriate measures to protect the public and mitigate further risks. It is important to note that without specific details about the explosion, the specific materials involved, and the conditions of the site, it is challenging to provide a definitive assessment of the radioactive hazards. It would be advisable to rely on official sources, local authorities, and experts with access to real-time information for accurate and up-to-date assessments in such situations.”
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  2101. @Thomas Linquist It takes it’s input from our comments, and other content
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  2102.  @litlnote-wu6yv  There was a question to the government spokesperson raised in the UK house of lords as to whether UK was sending DU to Ukraine and the answer was yes
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  2103.  @litlnote-wu6yv  the question was raised before the tanks were sent so it does not unequivocally say the DU is there but if it isn’t there the gov website would say so by now since Russia has complained so much about it. “Alongside our granting of a squadron of Challenger 2 main battle tanks to Ukraine, we will be providing ammunition including armour piercing rounds which contain depleted uranium. Such rounds are highly effective in defeating modern tanks and armoured vehicles.” — Conservative Baroness Goldie
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  2104.  @TNord.  I’m not sure I understand your question
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  2105.  @TNord.  The alpha particles (having done this stuff since college) are smashed together by the explosion and occasionally one acquires (captures) another to form a new kind of particle that is not stable. It changes in some way (probably different kinds of ways depending on its energy and mass) and some changes, transitions, are to a lower energy state, resulting in energy being released in the form of a photon. Sometimes the energy is large enough for the photon to be a gamma photon, high energy. In a huge explosion it is all happening enough for the photons to be measured as gamma radiation. That is my educated guess (I have a biochemistry degree but never used it so I am very rusty with all this kind of thing, no expert).
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  2106.  @Karg537  I guess I am influenced by so-called clean principles as taught by ‘Uncle Bob’ Martin and he tends to regard frontend and database as peripherals (like I/O in the driver world) and very changeable, but he teaches that the business logic should be less prone to frequent change.
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  2107. I do not know the name. I am not even sure I heard correctly. I’ve been looking out for more news but none so far. I expect news will come soon.
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  2108.  @bratislavcvetkovic6093  thanks, that will be it
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  2109. Clownworld: I propose UK Home Office introduce three modes of sirens on emergency vehicles: a more feminine one, the current masculine one, plus a new gender neutral siren tone, so that the ambulance, police car, and fire-engine drivers can express themselves in their work.
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  2110. Unelected Sunak told the pirate “I’ve got a Britain to sell you” and she bought it. Like Harold to William the Conqueror.
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  2111. If Budanov did take over the military, how long before their realised he was AI?
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  2112.  @stephenwabaxter  Germany
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  2113.  @stephenwabaxter  “January 2022, around 40% of the UK's electricity was generated from fossil fuels”
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  2114.  @stephenwabaxter  “UK imports a small but significant portion of its electricity from neighboring countries through interconnectors, which are links between the UK's electricity grid and those of other countries. However, the exact percentage can fluctuate over time.”
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  2115.  @stephenwabaxter  “coal still contributes a small percentage to the UK's electricity generation”
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  2116.  @stephenwabaxter  “coal accounted for a significant portion of Germany's electricity generation, but the country has been actively transitioning away from coal in favor of renewable energy sources to meet its climate goals. Germany does export electricity to neighboring countries, including the UK, through interconnectors”
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  2117.  @stephenwabaxter  Of course now that Nordstream is gone and LNG is expensive, and Russian oil is sanctioned, with domestic rejection of nuclear too, Germany is forced to use more coal, and there are interconnectors bringing German electricity to UK.
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  2118. Once we switch fully to electric, I would expect more of our electricity to come from Europe via interconnectors. Much of this will be from fossil fuel.
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  2119. Perhaps we should ask Charles III what taxes his subjects should be paying.
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  2120. Only garden protests need weeding, not jungle protests. Duh! Jungles have good protests.
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  2121. Excellent. All this friendship with Ukraine is touching, like the Messiah’s friendship with tax collectors and the like. Except the Messiah’s aim was that they repent and pay back their dishonest gain, not to find ways to steal more money off Russia. More a contrast than a comparison.
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  2122. Instead of talking about Ukraine without Ukraine, the West should indeed be talking - and talking not just with each other but with Putin too - about NATO. At the moment NATO's continuation is being perpetuated by the SMO. NATO with all its expansionism and imperialism, like its predecessor the Roman Army. Now it needs to find an off ramp to all that. Putin needs to be involved. If NATO wound down and accepted it is creating an increasingly dystopian future, the Ukraine SMO would force it to keep doing as it is doing because it sees a need to exist as protection for Europe and the West. If we all saw the SMO for what it really is, what it was always supposed to be, a forceful intervention by Russia to end the assaults on Donbass, like a police raid on a big scale, we would all need to get real, get sane, and say, let Russia do what it needs to do to end the oppression of Russians living in Donbass. This means NATO should pull back and be allowed to do so by Russia with some kind of MOU that Russia will not go beyond that mission. Putin would need to be party to such a change of approach by the West. But this is a way alien to the West, a peace-focussed way. NATO does not have this in its runbook. Maybe. If it goes towards peace it might lose its mandate to exist. As as Brexiteer, though, I would say 'Amen' to that.
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  2123. With many of these people and their leaders from circles believing in Dispensationalism, it is no surprise if they let wars escalate, perpetually, even globally. They think if all goes to all out Armageddon, the Dispensationalists get raptured. So the leaders get raptured too. So no need to avert apocalyptic outcomes. It just speeds up their exit, while those left behind simply deserve to have wars. If they are wrong? … unthinkable, lack of faith. They want to bring near the end as a devotion to God, which might mean they start perpetual wars and wait to be raptured before it turns nasty. When they aren’t raptured? Then a lot of angry people will be after them, when they realise what was done.
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  2124. Farage is so much a politically exposed person, the epitome of the category. No shame in that. I was once told by my bank that I was one and they had to do extra checks on my mortgage application. The global tech standards work I was doing on behalf of the public sector perhaps caused this categorisation. I stopped that work around a year later and the categorisation disappeared and I have had no bank problems since. If Farage lies low a few years it will all go away. Apparently PEP, politically exposed person, status is dropped a few years after you cease the political or diplomatic or high ranking justice roles which account for it. Take a few years sabbatical. If he leaves UK and stays out of high level diplomatic or political involvement a few years he will be able to get a UK bank account again.
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  2125. If an individual owning some copyright, then implicitly allowing licence to others to use the material copyrighted, can they have any way to gain personally from the copyright, or is it just a valueless bit of ‘property’? Does copyright ownership for an individual have any real value for them? Is there any value, say, that can be left in a will?
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  2126.  @praetorian65  So the value of copyright is its power to potentially increase the price when you sell, by increasing the likelihood you are the only seller. I suppose shared copyright does the same when any copyright owner sells what is copyrighted.
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  2127.  @praetorian65  Maybe the copyright has very little value if your are otherwise constrained from selling, such as by some kind of agreement.
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  2128. These leaders mislead us by wanting us to think NATO missile weapons used long range are merely a matter of freedom to act by Ukraine forces, wanting us to miss the need for NATO to fire them.
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  2129.  @eadweard.  “I would be breaking the law, officer, if I let you have access, and probably even if I told you why that is”
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  2130.  @joeds3775  A lot of office workers use devices for MFA. Many such office workers might not even know how the OSA applies to them. And no. OSA-related devices do not have SECRET stickers on them. And there are lots of levels of ‘secrecy’. So most OSA-affected devices nobody really knows how the OSA applies to them. Probably lawyers do not even know. OSA-affected workers probably have tips to remember their passwords held on their MFA devices and do not know whether the tips are giving anything away or not to say a police officer prying.
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  2131.  @joeds3775  You cannot have both an OSA and intrusive rights for the police. It is like wanting ham and eggs when you need some eggs, but then you have not got the ham.
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  2132.  @joeds3775  If an immovable object is met by an irresistible force, no, you cannot have an immovable object and an irresistible force.
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  2133.  @nothereandthereanywhere  How would I know? But nobody can tell them never to use other devices, nor can anyone control what they naively put on those devices. I bet they would not even know if it was OK to show their personal devices to police.
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  2134.  @nothereandthereanywhere  They are covered by the OSA but like I say, there cannot be both an OSA and a right for police to search any device, just by arresting someone for something. The two legal concepts are mutually exclusive.
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  2135.  @nothereandthereanywhere  Look even at someone like Hillary Clinton. She may have gone years without realising her personal email server might be a security problem. If someone like that did not know, how can the rest of us know whether we might be breaking a law by giving access to a device to the police. You can work under OSA obligations just by having a civil service job or local gov job or even a voluntary job with no contract and never know the OSA applies you. So how does anyone know they can give their pin number to police without breaking a law.
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  2136. There is a trend I am coming across of employers specialising in employing obsessive compulsive software developers, to try to exploit their attention to detail and persistence on solving a problem. I find this the most challenging kind of employer to work for as a software developer. The upside might work for the employer but the downsides are tough for colleagues: Deadlines, reaching consensus, communications. A worrying trend, like putting magnetic monopoles all together in a box (if they existed, that is).
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  2137. Bombing the dam (Ukraine doing it) would take most of the water away from Crimea.
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  2138.  @KirkFickert  If you knew this you should have volunteered to accompany the IAEA on their trip to ZNPP. Boris would have funded you. (He is still around and probably loaded financially.) :)
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  2139.  @KirkFickert  I admit the shelling came from the direction it came from. I have never been to see. The IAEA did go there to see and were blinded from seeing by something - probably the dreaded death lists. One thing is certain. If they had proof the shelling came from the south they would have said so.
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  2140.  @KirkFickert  It is nice to know that you find the idea of the West doing the shelling of the ZNPP such a bad thought that you want it to be Russia that did it. Some excessively notorious people might feel like boasting of doing such a thing. Nice to know that some find such a thought too uncomfortable to tolerate and want assurance it must have been the other guys.
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  2141.  @KirkFickert  do you actually base that on any evidence?
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  2142.  @KirkFickert  I assume you have a channel on YouTube and have covered some evidence maybe not covered by other channels
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  2143.  @KirkFickert  Maybe other channels do not cover the evidence you covered because it is not in Russia's favour. Or maybe some confirmation bias makes that evidence look more reliable to you than it looks to others.
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  2144.  @KirkFickert  You could just point to the evidence or outline it here. It is odd if you know evidence exists but the pro-Ukraine media has not covered it.
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  2145.  @KirkFickert  Your channel is Russian Dude?
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  2146.  @KirkFickert  It occurs to me there was a vague report, not well documented, of inspectors finding a missile or shell body oriented such that it could have come from the south. I thought at the time if there was much substance to the evidence the West media would have picked up on it and IAEA would have drawn a firm conclusion from it. Nothing came of it though. Is that what you meant?
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  2147. Not sure Brits are fully bought in to the antiRussia rhetoric to be willing to be conscripted against Russia. Might end up turning on the ultra far right like their ancestors did eighty years ago.
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  2148. Won’t subjecting the dark ones to Trump just give them more influence on lawmaking? Effectively giving them lawmaking powers?
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  2149. Democrats must be buying the video off a Bangladesh factory, making a video and branding it for different senators.
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  2150.  @ModernSoftwareEngineeringYT  Did Martin even consider ACID and databases? Or is it a distributed implementation of pure function thinking, devoid of state, persistence, time, ‘side effects’ like that.
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  2151. "A total and unmitigated defeat"
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  2152. end of appeasement with Ellensky on the horizon?
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  2153. All criminals have to do with gov and police workers to get access to gov and police secrets on devices is impersonate a police officer and demand the pin.
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  2154. Maybe Jo was trying to say people should appreciate children, (as if they don’t).
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  2155. Israeli zealots invoking book of Joshua should take note of the message of Joshua 7. (And Hosea 8: The eagle overhead is the sign.)
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  2156. Netanyahu invoked the scriptures to justify genocide. Nothing original there. But if he took seriously the scripture he invoked and applied it without bias, nobody would survive his genocide, not even his own soldiers.
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  2157. "If a country freezes or seizes another country’s assets and subsequently attempts to convert those actions into what is presented as a legitimate loan—particularly by leveraging the interest accrued on the seized assets—especially with the foreknowledge that the initial act may be deemed illegal, it could be perceived as money laundering. The characterization of such actions would ultimately depend on specific legal definitions, international law, and the context in which they occur." — ChatGPT 4o, 23/10/2024
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  2158. Refreshing to have naivety coming from Ukraine officials. They might come out with things that are untainted by global diplomatic dogmas about rights and wrongs which might lead to some beneficial improvements to international laws and conventions regarding wartime activities. But of course it won’t go well in the meantime for the officials. They are canaries in a coal mine right now.
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  2159. I bet these guys end up in front of ICC long before the P does. But at least they are single-minded in their resolve, compared to some politicians. Living by sword, dying by sword. I reckon they should put away the sword. No objecting if UK winds down Navy and Air Force if we want them to put away sword and not be bozos.
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  2160. Poor Israel surrounded by BRICS. A bit of a foreboding ring to that. G7 unlikely to be much consolation.
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  2161.  @JosephBisio  Good point. Does not make it moral though.
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  2162.  @JosephBisio  The royals have major influence. We do not know what they tell the prime ministers.
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  2163. Another Agent Smith but with more of a smile
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  2164. Will we sanction EU when they annex Lvyv?
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  2165. Trump does not want USA money on the Ukraine table when Russia takes complete Ukraine through a deal or ongoing war. That pot must be emptied imminently. Russia likely to take the pot.
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  2166. Is the timing of the audio to draw away heat from UK? Germany got UK’s back to diffuse Scholtz’s explosive diplomatic position with UK? Could it be a German leak to patch things up with UK?
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  2167. Yes, winter energy destruction might mean not collapse of Project Ukraine but knock-on destruction of Project EU. But if Project Ukraine does collapse, the migrants might start to include very high proportions of battle-hardened, traumatized, radical, desensitized, war-hungry, veterans. Like those who led European gangs after WWI.
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  2168. Krasukha-4 use has probably been going on since near the start of the SMO. It does not well account for the sudden disruptions now. Elon or SpaceX admitted the disruptions. The FT article was rebutted by Elon but Elon was rebutting the report of SpaceX not giving freely to Ukraine. That is all he rebutted. So it is notable that he did not deny the possibility of technicians withholding maintenance on fear of violating sanctions i.e. fear of allowing Russia access to StarLink.
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  2169. So AI can function as a virus.
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  2170. What?! Something even smarter? How can that be?! 😊
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  2171. Mmm. I could/should ban (perhaps) Germany from using my IP in Digital standards they need for public sector trade.
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  2172. With possibility high of USA waning influence, Israel may now have to find its own feet or find a new champion. Isaiah prophecy in ascension?
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  2173. Starmer has distinctly lacked truly democratic mandate for funding wars. But soon the UK local elections might punish him sorely.
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  2174. Among the best videos, I think
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  2175. Translation of Malyuk? The evil of the UK.
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  2176. My opinion is UK leaders will want to send troops on ground somehow just to get people out of the overflowing prison system. If they have to call them peacekeepers they will do it.
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  2177. I asked Chat GPT 3, “Is the BBC government-funded?” Answer: “Yes, the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) is government-funded, but it operates independently of government control. …”
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  2178. I imagine there will be no sanctions on Israel and its supporters for the invasion. If Russia invades, well that is different, even if it is more justified.
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  2179. Macron, Starmer, you can make it happen. You can turn those stones into bread.
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  2180. Say: Overall 70 % took vaccine. Excess deaths was 20%. How many of those dying overall would be expected to have taken vaccine? If say 100% excess deaths were due to vaccine: normal deaths with vaccine would be 70%. If say there are 120 overall deaths, 20 of which are excess. That means the normal 70 of the deaths would be with vaccine. 30 no vaccine. Now there are 20 more. Of those 100% took vaccine. So overall number of deaths with vaccine equals 70 plus 20. That means 90 out of 120 deaths overall would be expected to have had vaccine. Now if the percentage correlation decreases by 5. So 95 percent correlation. 95% of the excess deaths relates to vaccine and 5% unknown factor. Now 70 still have vaccine among normal deaths but now only 19 of excess die having had vaccine. 1 dies of unknown cause. Overall 89 out of 120 of those dying expected to have been vaccinated. Draw it as a chart or model it with, say, partial differential equations. If the latter it might feed a computer modelling system like that used for the pandemic by Imperial College. Then compare with actuals to see possible correlation with vaccine. Can the professionals not do this and do it better than my undergraduate maths can do?
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  2181.  @christopherrobinson7541  My calculation using four numbers, total deaths, expected deaths, percentage of population vaccinated, percentage of deaths vaccinated, is not intended to be a viable working solution but an illustration of how it is feasible. A proper model would potentially include inputs about the existence of which I am not privy. Stochastic models, deterministic models or a simple calculation along the lines I have illustrated could all be used.
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  2182.  @christopherrobinson7541  “so few unvaccinated still alive” you say. Lol.
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  2183.  @christopherrobinson7541  Since the start of this, the only people I knew who died were 1) vaccinated and 2) admitted to hospital for unrelated things and caught it there and died, despite being vaccinated. I know lots who did not get vaccinated and only one of those got ill (me). My only close associates who got vaccinated took risks by travelling, etc. and ended up catching it, some of them catching it twice. All the unvaccinated people close to me are fine and I’m the only one I know unvaccinated who definitely caught it and I never went to hospital and am now as immune as anyone. So I do not buy your analysis at all.
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  2184.  @christopherrobinson7541  data is not fact
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  2185. Maybe Trump will negotiate purchase of USA sovereignty if he has a senior moment.
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  2186. When the famous media outlets get perverted, presumably by the powers that be, how does it happen? You start to see key, high profile people quitting in a high profile way. Maybe that is tip of iceberg stuff, while the whole internal staffing undergoes a multi-organ transplant operation. What is left? The dodgy staff who stayed plus the name, logo, etc. and, they hope, the followers, until they get wise to it.
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  2187. If only we were all more intelligent, so we could then realise the greater intelligence of one particular nation.
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  2188. Sadly this is probably the end of a peace. HM Elizabeth II was probably the reason for many to stay relatively peaceful. This will probably change. Those holding back violent tendencies and dispositions are probably no longer feeling the pacifying, restraining influence of HM Elizabeth II. We have had seventy years of relative peace in Europe itself and the West, probably associated strongly with her reign.
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  2189. Regarding Starmer’s disrespectful comment, what is remarkable is that nobody has ever asked everyone in UK whether they feel supportive of Ukraine in this. So he spoke supposedly on our behalf extremely disrespectfully and presumptuously.
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  2190. Yes, I think the Vatican was supposed to be this. A temple cannot be built with hands full of blood shed and needs much peace for it to be established. The Thirty Years War kinda blew such a profile out of the water. Now UN has taken the mantle.
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  2191. Both Russia and Ukraine have among largest natural deposits of uranium so in some regions the natural background radiation from this might even exceed any effect of DU use.
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  2192. Are these Tesla vandals public sector workers in gravy train jobs? No accountability.
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  2193. China looking like the Nemesis for USA hubris.
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  2194. The silence of Germany over the pipeline sabotage implies one of two things: Either the Germans are righteous lambs being led to slaughter, or Germany was complicit in the sabotage, again like the sacrificial lamb consenting submissively to its fate in the name of climate change contingency and the avenging of Soviet and Jewish Holocaust victims to rightly atone the sins of Germany’s fathers.
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  2195. Good not to be in London right now. Probably.
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  2196. Oh now. You spoiled Boris’ book. Now there is no point buying it 😊
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  2197. ICC provocation warrants a war response from Russia. Quarantine it quickly.
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  2198.  @altergreenhorn  Didn’t Russia get its name from Kievan Rus, rather than the other way around. And Kievan Rus was characterised by taxation system in the area, perhaps even since Ancient Greek times, (possibly a system called Rus) later, as it happened, enforced by Jews in times leading up until the Middle Ages. Also, Jewish communities in Kievan Rus were well-established long before the modern Russian state came into existence. So it is complex. Jewish claims to land of Israel are quite simple in comparison.
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  2199. Sabotage by environmentalists?
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  2200. Presumably the pipeline story coming out now from mainstream media is an attempt to pin the blame on a party not subject to POTUS approval. That narrows down the options a lot, to someone capable of the attack but not official enough to need US President approval. President might actually be very worried by the Hersh version.
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  2201. What next? Laws for duelling?
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  2202. Maybe Macron is worried that UK and EU members will start arming themselves against France if USA goes. France is the most powerful with a nuclear option.
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  2203. Instilling fear. That is instilling terror? Terrorism? Therefore West governments are now well and truly funding terrorism? Anyone paying taxes towards this?
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  2204. Superpowers have probably either been playing good cop bad cop with us, where USSR was ‘bad cop’ role player to drive us into arms of USA ‘good cop’ role player, or more simply USA used fear of USSR to lure us into its own sphere of influence.
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  2205. I think Trump always wanted some hidden cards to play in official talks with Putin. He tried not to show them. His citizens demanded he show something, but knowing he would want to play cards close to chest, they offered him a dummy card, sanctions. He added another dummy card of oil price. But has he hidden some real cards? I would hope so, or what is left to discuss with Putin except cards already shown. Putin would not respect a casino owner with no covered cards to play.
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  2206. Now that Macron knows the winner of the US Elections 2024 there is no need for them to hold an election.
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  2207.  @personnenestici  Interesting timing in that regard
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  2208. Trump’s version of Germany’s 1930s Autarky. No need to worry about Russia since it is cut off from USA mostly already. Everyone else gets cut off too like Autarky. Readiness for war, unfortunately. Europe might like to copy it, given its belligerent rhetoric. If the dogs are not just yapping. Only countries already quite Autark’d are Russia, Iran, potential adversaries. Will they all team up to preemptively strike the B2s?
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  2209. How would investigators even know whether any Brits or Americans were involved? Makes that story look contrived, fabricated. A yacht lying around with explosives evidence on board. How would investigators know it wasn’t planted to detract from the real event? But piracy-like actions, now who might know about that kind of thing?
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  2210. Hope Alex found a coffee shop that wasn’t shut down
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  2211. Macron maybe needs a Russia regime change so he can buy uranium from Russia now he is non-grata in Niger.
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  2212. MMT: A snake oil salesman trying to convince potential customers that amorality is a tremendous asset because there are so many more things you can do if you say nothing is right and nothing is wrong, but this lets the salesman sell more worthless snake oil.
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  2213. A century on, and Europe needs to be ready in the thirties again.
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  2214. Has Pelosi lost self-awareness?
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  2215. As Israel talking of ending Hamas and Gaza, Elle’ talks of ending the P. At last the curse turns on its namesake? If The P was wanting to invade anyone, why not do it ages ago. He could go any direction any time, even Up, towards the satellites, or East towards Alaska, or North invading North Pole. Norway isn’t even in EU but not targeted. Why target yapping ankle biters, when there are some real consequential targets like SkyNet and StarLink to go after.
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  2216. There is surely time before next pageant, for contestants not happy with not winning to go round the West demanding funds to bribe the next contest’s judges, since Russia winning again just cannot be allowed to happen.
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  2217. Membership of NATO is made scapegoat. Real issue was membership of EU and damage it would do to trade between Russia and Ukraine. That was the real threat which led to coup and ultimately led to military action, first Crimea, then Donbas, then the SMO. The EU by offering membership to Ukraine has led to what might escalate into the unimaginable. If EU provoked it once, they will try again and again and this needs to be dealt with more than anything else, especially since Ukraine and Russia will eventually heal their divides.
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  2218. What it will take to undo the fascism exploitation of the WEF, at the simplest level, is for the software developers of the apps to say “No” and no participate. There used to be this resistance in the opensource movement hay day, but for a decade the developers played along, probably waiting to see what the funders were intending to do with it all. I could imagine a reboot of the resistance, like the old days antiwar movement.
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  2219.  @LaMach420  I meant opensource like Linux, not open source media outlets
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  2220. People call it a threat when Putin told the West about his willingness to use any kind of weapon if he had to do so, implying nuclear too. That is not a threat. If he had not given due warning and had used them it could amount to murderous behaviour since it is only fair to warn about your ability to use such weapons before doing so. Failure to give warning could amount to murderous wrongdoing in some circumstances.
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  2221. Maybe the Elenskyy regime shot it down to appear scary and tough. Tough bad guys. Sadism. Watching too many bad-guy movies. It gives that impression. Not nice to live in UK under gov which aligns with these kinds of people, or people who appear to be these kinds of people.
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  2222. One of the best videos.
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  2223. I live in a city and the only people around here likely to have guns are not likely to care if it is illegal to shoot something down if it annoys them badly enough.
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  2224. You have to look at the English Civil War fuelled by Puritan biblicism. It is basis of first founding of American colonies. City on a Hill thinking. Literal reading of apocalyptic prophecies including Armageddon in Ezekiel. This is the driving factor. The belief that the seven wars will put USA and UK on God’s side. Literal reading of it includes Rus, and they think Rus is Russia. (Ironically it is more accurate to read it as Kiev, but the Bible KJV is meant to be only source for these biblicists so they do not look beyond the surface of the KJV text.)
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  2225. Another possibility, dare anyone say it: the Pentagon was wrong about Russia running out of missiles. Projecting. They only know about USA production capabilities and apply an assumption that Russia only has similar or inferior capabilities. Their narcissism projecting is making them tell themselves Russia must be inferior.
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  2226. I like paying my council tax. I have always paid it. But I would like to know what happens if suddenly there is a good reason not to pay it. Not hypothetical. It might happen that it gets perverted by future councils or by what future governments might impose of councils. Given our nearness to war and maybe genocidal collusion.
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  2227. How soon will sanctions start against the West for association with these invaders of Russia?
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  2228. Cameron not at all elected. Even Sunak was elected by Conservative members and MPs. Not Lord C.
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  2229. Is there an email address where we can send our victory plans? We can scan them and attach them to emails.
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  2230. Thinking this is politicians blindly leading the blind. Then I remember the biblical passages about how evil spirits led kings into fighting wars these kings would only lose - as punishment from God. They might seem to be mad, our leaders, but the reality is that it is not just the mind that gets unhealthy but our spirit can get cranky too and we can be given badness at a spirit level as punishment by God, and this bad spirited state of unhealthiness can indeed lead leaders into losing battles. Oh dear, oh dear. It could be worse than madness and inner blindness.
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  2231. Sanity check: If you are filling in a tax return form you can go step by step, trying and correcting mistakes as you go, being careful with each key press, as it were, to not make mistakes. That won’t be a good way to write a novel.
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  2232.  @ulrichborchers5632  If I was writing a draft of a novel, just as when I need to write a lot of code, I turn off spell checking. I turn it on when I have the substance of the draft, or the majority of the code. Then refactor.
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  2233. USA maybe ought to be sending a different kind of weapon to Ukraine, all those handguns they seem to have lying around in people’s houses.
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  2234. Too much need to keep changing is what broke it. It needs to be frozen and then pruned clean so little change is needed. Pruning out whatever forces further change.
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  2235. Clearly Ukraine is quite likely to turn of citizens of its supporters. I guessed it would be likely as exactly one hundred years ago should tell us. The weapons supplied might very likely be turned on the suppliers. So much for Lord of War.
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  2236.  @VladK-1  Chat GPT also said: Total mobilization is a state in which a country's entire population and resources are dedicated to the war effort. However, not everyone in a country's population would necessarily become a combatant in the event of total mobilization. Combatants are defined as individuals who directly participate in hostilities, such as soldiers and guerrilla fighters. Civilians, on the other hand, are defined as individuals who are not taking direct part in hostilities. Therefore, even in the event of total mobilization, civilians who are not actively participating in the war effort, such as children, the elderly, and non-combatant personnel, would still be considered non-combatants and would be protected under international humanitarian law.
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  2237. The question of affirming or not affirming the Trinity can be the subject of theological debate. However, the truly serious error — and what crosses into heresy — is to deny that a person who sincerely believes and follows the teachings of Christ and His apostles can be saved without making a formal Trinitarian confession. Such a denial falls under the strong warning in Galatians 1, where Paul declares a curse on anyone who proclaims a gospel contrary to the one originally preached. A deeply troubling situation arises when churches will not receive such believers unless they adopt specific Trinitarian terminology. This imposes a barrier where Scripture has not placed one, creating confusion and acting as a stumbling block to the believer’s full inclusion in the body of Christ. Such exclusion not only distorts the nature of the gospel but also underscores the relevance and severity of Paul’s warning in Galatians 1.
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  2238.  @Luke1959  apparently the term is from black jack.
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  2239.  @Luke1959  there is a kind of arrogance, I suppose, where you fail to recognise that even if your hand looks strong, time and chance have a role in the outcome
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  2240. The US spokesperson has got the US people well trained. Must be something in the water. Depleted thinking.
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  2241. Every year of the conflict Putin asks for an Easter ceasefire. But he only does it to honor Jesus. So blame Jesus.
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  2242. Canada state piracy and Ukraine state receiving stolen goods. The twenty-first century is here.
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  2243. How about the next main seller of gas to Europe: Norway. Next door to Sweden and Denmark. Second producer of gas for Europe after Russia. Would surely benefit if gas could no longer be bought from Russia. Member of NATO and rather belligerent of late. Next main sellers of gas to Europe after Norway are Netherlands and... yes Britain. Perhaps Boris is at it again :)
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  2244. So now we hear a Norway pipeline being opened up. Hmmm. Very fishy indeed. Norway gets to open its pipeline along with Poland, just at the time the competition gets sabotaged.
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  2245. Misdirection yes. Real aim (in my opinion) get Iran to play its AI hypersonic card. Get it to launch enough of their latest missile to let its secrets get into Israel/USA hands. My guess. Nuclear topic just misdirection.
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  2246. Trump looking desperate for negotiating points, might make very serious mistakes, making lastditch moves that could badly backfire
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  2247. God avenge him. God’s prerogative.
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  2248. If only the UK secret services and Canada likewise had not taken in the kind of Galician SS people applauded by Trudeau, the colluding heads of these countries included somehow, befriending these Galician SS, this whole war might never be happening and future escalations not looming.
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  2249.  @TeunisMaranus  he is merely perpetuating a wrongdoing of his forbears: An extremely grievous sin. Reinforcing failures. Perhaps helplessly blowing the whistle on them too.
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  2250.  @TeunisMaranus  I would like to know if he was obeying orders, perhaps from UK head of state
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  2251. We should stand back and leave them to where it takes them, having nothing to do with this shameful thing.
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  2252. If ever there is a need for cancelation it is here
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  2253. AI was probably mainly invented by Ramon Llull in the Middle Ages. Interestingly he invented his prototype of it called the Ars Magna as a device to help Christian missionaries debate with Muslims, being something of a missionary himself. Can it ever live up to this goal? It seems to be already. As such it probably adds credibility for this goal in it being produced mainly by atheists, supposedly less biased one way or the other regarding theological and religious positions such as Christian, Muslim, or such like.
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  2254. Now that the smoke is clearing from the bridge and we see the real nature of what happened and realise this was a botched attack and yet it brought out of people their true nature when they got elated, we will look back at this and think how feeble an attempt it was to do serious damage and that all those who did it and who watched with glee were just losers and sad, in the end. They are the ones whose image has been damaged. Another backfired attack on Putin.
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  2255. UK knows there is no neutral party to contradict them or criticise their response. Pure cynicism.
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  2256.  @AnOKView  Trudeau proud it seems to be an apologist for the mystical German knights
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  2257. So it’s now an elephant-leopard tank.
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  2258. Ukraine is not fighting for the West but for an ideology. That is why the ammo is not simply given it.
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  2259. I bet these agents around 2016 onwards were behind the Skripals too in 2018
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  2260. So Boris to resign as leader of party. Whose mandate will we want the next leader to have? Zellensky’s? God’s? The country’s? The Queen’s? Prince Charles’? Van der Leyen’s? Time for UK to pray. Time to involve God. The recess is near. If anything happens during recess, what mandate will anyone have? (None for WW III, I hope.) God have mercy. People: Time to love God with all our hearts, all our minds, all our voices.
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  2261. It should be a reminder to the West of what Ukraine might do later on a larger scale. You create a beast and it might turn on you.
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  2262. Next sanction package might go too far - toothpicks.
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  2263. Alex must fess up to all the bridges he has sold to Ellensky. That must be where most of the money went. And the BBC bought lots of bridges, which is where our UK licence fees are going.
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  2264. Can’t NATO members outside USA see through Trump’s spending challenge. USA of course gives their own NATO spending money to themselves via lots of it going to their own MIC.
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  2265. Russia is unlikely to run out of much - being the largest source of natural resources in the world. What is dwindling? The resolve of the West to hold onto facts and tell the truth.
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  2266. Advocacy plays a vital role in promoting fair treatment and recognition for open standards contributors. By open standards, I mean things like HTML itself, formats of documents such as invoices, things like Word format and the open source alternatives like ODF. By raising awareness of their contributions and advocating for policies and practices that support their work, we can help ensure that their efforts are valued, respected, and duly compensated within the digital ecosystem. We continue to rely on open standards to drive innovation and progress in the digital era, it's imperative that we recognize and protect the contributions of those who dedicate their time and expertise to shaping the standards that govern our digital infrastructure. By affording similar protections to open standards contributors as those enjoyed by artists in the music industry, we can foster a culture of appreciation, support, and respect that benefits the entire digital ecosystem. People should work together to ensure that the contributions of open standards contributors are valued, protected, and celebrated now and in the future. Looking at the support photographers and music artists get, the same should apply to technology designers behind things like the Web itself.
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  2267. The West has lots of irresponsible people who have no clue what advice to give people but they say what will please their hearers and then pretend it was good advice and go on doubling down because they have trapped themselves into doubling down for fear of admitting their irresponsibility. They are blind leaders who pretend they can see.
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  2268. The protection it is afforded, where were it totally privately run it might be considered a scam or racket or robbery or extortion or trickery, that protection is reminiscent of old English letters of marque to legalise piracy where it helped the government’s cause.
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  2269. On a lighter note, Lord Dave conspicuous absence anything to do with it? Kate being kept in a bunker too?
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  2270. Maybe Kissinger’s proposal shows a loss of US interest in the Ukraine situation, that Kissinger has to spice it up in US’s interest to rekindle US enthusiasm.
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  2271. Grant Schnapps is doing daily visits to washing machine factories.
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  2272.  @annilanta9054  The Collective West media (and leaders) are doing things against Putin which if they are Christians (many of them signal being believers) I can only condemn most strongly in my prayers. The devil take them. As for the rest, well, God judge them.
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  2273. The Sir Kier Circus
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  2274. Various countries have normalised insects food. Theory is that allergies come from lack of exposure during infancy. Presumably in those countries the kids are exposed to chitins as food early in life and get no problem later.
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  2275.  @normankennith7919  Ah yes, they have those in school when the kitchen staff want an extra day off. I guess the teachers have to do the cooking of them, to get training with no kids around to eat the delicacies.
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  2276.  @normankennith7919  better explain the pun - INSET days (IN SErvice Training days) - but in future it might be simply insect days
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  2277. If AI is fast going towards being independent of humans, and yet too slow to replace the human made software for critical facilities, we might have only one option for civilisation - just shun it. Refuse en masse to use it. Cancel it. Unless control can be centralised. But centralised control of it could become a dystopian system in conjunction with the AI. God help us.
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  2278. “There are no well-documented cases of direct royal marriages between England and Kiev after 1147.” (ChatGPT) Moscow did not exist before 1147.
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  2279. Victoria Nuland: Who is she? What drives her? Grandparents survived Holocaust in Ukraine? Axes to grind. Was trying to be anti-Soviet the only way for Ukrainian Jews to survive it?
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  2280. Putin will do well to be fair to all and consistent with history if he dictates terms. Versailles tells us what happens if a settlement treaty is grievously unfair to a party.
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  2281. If she wins will she distribute the winnings to all the other customers who bought it, not just the 100 clients?
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  2282. Safe to be SMURFed by the EU.
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  2283. If any anti-Urkaine side did it, why do it on Ukraine Independence Day? Even a false flag would not feed into Ukraine hands like that.
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  2284. The attack maybe achieved a major negative result, correct me someone if I’m wrong. It nullified Article 5. The doctrine now kicks in making this an attack by the whole of NATO, allowing Russia to retaliate against any NATO country and it not be unprovoked, thus not triggering Article 5. Nice one Biden.
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  2285.  @ragabara1031  I would not say this is the UK equivalent of deep state at work. I was proud to be an active leading participant in UK (and EU and US) deep state for a decade from 2002 to 2012 and this was not on the radar at all. This something else. We used to note the existence of what we all called opposing 'dark forces' back then, which always seemed to be hindering progress and perverting things for unreasonable corporate ends. Possibly this is those, coming to the fore.
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  2286. I would call what is happening today the operation of the 'UK dark forces'. Unfortunately it now includes the UK government. So 'we' is definitely off the table for me.
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  2287. Dark forces run the West, including now the UK too, it seems. The Daniel 2 statue has feet of iron (fascism) mixed with clay. These dark forces hate the stone which rolls from the mountain and smashes those feet. They think that stone is Putin but it is a greater more permanent power they cannot see so they oppose it because it is strange to them and looks like their Nemesis (which it therefore is). If they would only join the stone instead of opposing it darkly.
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  2288. USA bought itself a seat at the table by funding death.
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  2289. Presumably it was no coincidence that Alex followed the Ukraine/Poland merger possibility with mention of Hanover. It was by arguably by merging (personal union) with Hanover that Britain escaped invasion by Louise XIV when it became the Kingdom of Great Britain in personal union with Hanover under George I leading to the huge British Empire.
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  2290. Historically the English worked out an effective solution for Kallas’ problem. It might even work for Europe. Danelaw.
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  2291. Probably by putting everything, exaggeratedly, in support of Israel to robustly respond to anyone thinking of attacking Israel, Biden/USA might feel this could bring redemption and fulfil its only holy, worthy purpose. It elevates them. Biden can show dutiful love to God this way. It justifies or offsets the failings. They can set this on one side of their successes/failings marketing report, with failings in Ukraine on the other side of it, like a balance sheet. They can tip the Anubis scale in their favour before Biden has to face him.
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  2292. Blinken did dress as Blinken
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  2293. I imagine the new kind of ‘robot wars’ games will be trained agent wars
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  2294.  @leynagh  I think there are rules against them publishing anything of Russian origin. If so, the West system is utterly broken and doomed.
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  2295.  @Damn3dYank33  So now UK will fight China to the last American
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  2296. These Neo-Cons have made USA fair game. Lindsey Graham crossed the line.
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  2297. The times they are a-changin’. Something does seem to have changed. Wisdom seems to have left the building and Folly is running the West offensives. Aggressor coming from the West openly all of a sudden. Last ditch effort? Dropping all the narratives and just going for bust?
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  2298. A huge impact will be the move away from diesel and petrol cars by 2030 in UK, other deadlines elsewhere. The impact this might have on demand for electricity. The impact this will have on businesses who have to pay so much more for electric cars and vans, and then for increasingly expensive electricity. The irony of the electricity being produced from LNG and oil.
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  2299. False prophet of Kiev cosy with false teacher of Rome. No surprises there.
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  2300. The friends of nasties don’t fare well. Even if they are royalty, at the top.
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  2301. What an asset is Chat GPT. Concerning depleted uranium it explains how an alpha emitter like DA can cause a gamma spike. “Yes, under certain circumstances, an alpha emitter can cause the emission of gamma radiation. Alpha particles are composed of two protons and two neutrons and have a positive charge. They are relatively large and do not penetrate matter very far. However, when an alpha particle interacts with certain materials, such as heavy elements or dense mediums, it can undergo a process called alpha capture, where it is absorbed and forms a new, unstable nucleus. This new nucleus may be in an excited state, and as it transitions to a more stable state, it can release excess energy in the form of gamma radiation. Gamma radiation consists of high-energy photons and is the most energetic type of electromagnetic radiation. So, in the context of an explosion involving an alpha-emitting material, if the alpha particles interact with other elements and undergo alpha capture, it is possible for gamma radiation to be emitted as a result of the subsequent nuclear processes.”
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  2302. Maybe Tucker could run
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  2303. If Uganda Ebola spreads to other African countries or even if it doesn't there might have to be tough decisions to shut airports at some point. Maybe Starmer could do that.
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  2304. It does look to me too like mass-manslaughter. I would compare how USA and NATO did against Mujahideen and later Taliban in Afghanistan with how Soviets did against the Mujahideen. The Mujahideen fared far worse against Russian Soviets up until 1989 than against USA and NATO twelve years later. I remember at the time thinking how Russia and Soviets had looked so much more successful than USA and NATO. It was closest we have seen to a direct comparison.
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  2305. How fortunate for Ukraine that USA is so unlikely to sell it out
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  2306. The Brits just have to put a bit of protesting together just to prevent too much general election victory elation. It is typical British understatement culture. Stiff upper lip. “So you won! Well let’s just not get too ahead of ourselves about it! We are Brits after all. Keep calm and have a cuppa.” A bit of venting clears the air. It untangles those election tensions. Then we carry on. Protestors go back to work. Looking forward to the football.”
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  2307. EU building an army would invite invasion
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  2308.  @rmerick6908 yet they invented a new gospel not found in the gospel and brought upon themselves what they should have known was a terrible curse in Galatians 1, and upon so many since then who follow their new gospel
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  2309.  @rmerick6908 if you had just let the word in, you might have been able to claim ignorance, but now you insist in being anathema
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  2310. So if the planning of the war is solely owned by Pentagon, with UK privy to it, are Ukraine military all actually foreign forces in this war?
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  2311. State-sponsored bullying
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  2312.  @louise_rose  Since the nineties there has been a US/UK plan to attack in series each of the main nations standing against US backing of Israel, namely Iraq, Syria, Libya, Iran, and possibly Russia who have been friends of Syria and Iran. The reporting back then focussed on the difficulty of US/UK attacking Iran because it is so powerful. Russia just looked too big to contemplate. Since then the first three have been attacked but Iran looks still too powerful to take on, and thinking about how maybe Iran and Russia might be attacked has been a challenge to US and UK thinking. It seems Iran could be fought if it were fought before gaining nuclear weapons but then the big challenge would be how to take on Russia a nuclear power. Supposedly all with a view of whether Israel could be protected if these countries joined together to fight it in some kind of Armageddon scenario. But there must be no nuclear war. So firstly how to fight Iran conventionally and then how to keep a fight with Russia from going nuclear if Russia, say, came to aid of Iran. Syria was easier target and US/UK tried it out. Now all that is left from that original concept of the nineties is Iran and Russia. So Neocon think tanks try to work out alternatives to nuclear attacks on Russia and they tried sanctions and proxy conventional attacks via a non-nuclear proxy. It has probably failed. So what next? They outcome must be that US/UK cannot protect Israel from an alliance of Russia with antiIsrael countries without going nuclear. So it proves US/UK can only go so far with security guarantees for Israel.
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  2313. UK and US have taken on, one by one, since the nineties, the key nations antagonistic to Israel: Iraq, Libya, Syria. Stopping short of Iran because that is not feasible and Russia siding with Iran would bring in a nuclear dimension. The thinking has been apparent that this is part of giving security guarantees to Israel. Oil has been important but only as the spoils needed to fund these wars. Lies were used, with the thinking that the need justified them. Iran could gain nuclear weapons soon so the clock has been ticking. Now Ukraine ebbing counteroffensives must be indicating to the West, to NATO, that all its attempts to go up against Russia with sanctions and proxy conventional war are ineffective. Now Neocons, their think tanks and the UK and US leaders need to now take it on board that they cannot give security guarantees to Israel without reconciling with Russia. Russophobia means an attack on Israel with Russia’s help would mean protective action by UK and US and NATO would only be viable if it were nuclear because the evidence now suggests that it is ineffective if conventional and sanctions methods are used. So if Russia cannot be effectively defended against by UK and US in protection of Israel without it going nuclear then Russia has to be on board with protecting Israel if Iran and Syria and Libya and Iraq and any anti-Israel Balkans joined forces to attack Israel.
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  2314. Maybe negotiations could be achieved if someone with power and support to replace Zelenskyy were to have some negotiations behind the scenes and then that person proceed to force out and replace Zelenskyy. But extremely risky and treacherous to do so. Despicable in any other situation.
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  2315.  @GotMoxy  It needs to be someone who most Ukrainians would support.
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  2316. Suggesting anyone could be to hand them their death sentence
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  2317. Biblical example for this religious season: Nabal had his wife Abigail who negotiated for his life with David behind his back and then was able to stand in his place perhaps when God took Nabal’s life. David married her. And they all lived happily ever after.
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  2318. Perhaps implying Ukraine has suffered theft of an election is something Trump abhors. Who even says that kind of thing?!
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  2319. An ace move by Putin would be impressing Musk enough by this medium range missile to win Musk over, or intrigue him technically. If Musk moved back to South Africa he could work with BRICS. Dooming USA by pulling the rug from under the US Defence, if he took his tech with him. Did Putin have this in mind when announcing the ‘Hazel’ technology?
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  2320. A statue of the only man in history responsible for dropping atomic bombs on civilians? Where I live we used to have one of a local slaver, Colston.
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  2321. Nice that Boris did visit the Queen first, not Ellensky
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  2322. Flying taxi seen crossing the Pacific heading towards West Coast, out of control. 😊
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  2323. UK/USA are probably playing good cop, bad cop. Britain plays bad cop, threatening with tough talk, knowing that USA will interject with a more cautious, less hostile rhetoric. Could easily go wrong, given Biden’s personality.
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  2324. If John Kirby knows enough to know that no US proxy was involved in the pipeline sabotage, which surely takes knowledge of a high degree, how is it he does not know who actually did it? If you are so ignorant of it that you do not know who did it, that surely means you cannot be sure who didn’t do it and who had no involvement.
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  2325.  @cerenaseawell5753  I suppose if from childhood you hear the word genocide, genocide, human weakness makes you think “what would it be like to do it, to be on the other side of it, better than being victim living in fear” but of course, once you go that way you become a legitimate target, there is no coming back from it. Live by the sword and you die by the sword. We should all get rid of the sword. But giving them to Ukraine is a dirty solution. Those who do it will just make more swords. We have to renounce violence as much as possible and live in peace and trust in God. Trust in God and keep you powder scattered to the wind. There are times the sword is necessary though. Just be careful it really is necessary and is put away as soon as possible afterwards.
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  2326. Just a few months less than thirty years ago, July 1994, a car bomb attack was made on Israeli embassy in London. The blame was placed on Hezbollah, allegedly with Iranian backing. I would think it might be that the Israelis are using that to justify this attack now.
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  2327. How do the top leaders save the world? By loving God enough to pass on what God says. There are top leaders doing this today on both sides of the ominous line. This is a tremendous relief, given how high the stakes are.
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  2328. If Russia simply holds on until the end of May, Zelenskyy’s legitimacy will end by then.
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  2329. It must somehow be UK behind all this. It had military in Georgia in 1918. It is first to escalate with Russia. It is very invested in terms of honour in Israel and probably feels entitled there and nose put out by ceasefire. It all smells of British elite and historical ruling class.
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  2330. What might they try doing to accelerate their rapture?
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  2331.  @arthurtane6505  and vice versa, but NATO attacked Crimea when that bridge was hit
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  2332. Mostly such named hotels are named after Lord Bristol, Earl of Bristol.
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  2333. Will Harris or Trump side with an atheist against a Christian?
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  2334. The Trident test was really to secretly test out the latest washing machine chip upgrade. Now the secret will be out.
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  2335. Russia mediation might be a little bit undermined by the fact it was USSR along with UK and USA via UN which imposed a two state plan which created Israel but not a state of Palestine (too unrealistic for a state of Palestine since it was clear no Arab states wanted it on the terms, the proposed borders put on the table). All along Russia like the West has been pushing Arab states into accepting a two state solution which mainly favoured Israel over Palestinians. This probably does not bode well for a mediatorial role.
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  2336. You can be criminal-prosecuted for not paying BBC licence, even if you never watch it, but have means to watch it. If you buy the means to watch it, you are asked to provide name an address so the licence people can check if you paid. It used to be, not sure whether still today, you could go to prison if you refused to pay. Chat GPT says “…imprisonment is a rare punishment for non-payment of a TV Licence fee, and it is usually reserved for those who repeatedly fail to pay the fine or who refuse to cooperate with the authorities.” They used to have threatening, scary public information announcements on TV, warning you that vans were going around looking for those with TV arial who were not paying.
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  2337. There is no genuine going back to Norse paganism because that would be selective ignorance - somehow unknowing the Christian God the Father but still knowing the Norse gods. Choosing to shun belief in his God while somehow not shunning belief in the Norse gods is too selective and arbitrary. The ancient Vikings had no choice. Having a choice to be ignorant is very different from what they had.
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  2338.  @aukeykema9689  and psychologically they are sure it is Russia whose economy is in tatters, and that makes it a psychological victory for Germany and Ukraine over Russia
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  2339.  @tommyboss4067  Maybe falsely accusing the other side, etcetera, should be classed as war crimes and the MSM be held accountable.
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  2340. He ought to give in to truth and accept that technology is often not the answer because it is often in the hands of deceptive evil people. He has the premise that technology is too good to criticise but like his own tech, it can be used to squeeze profits out of cash-strapped people. I did a lot of tech work led by his ideas over the better part of my career and it was fulfilling but to avoid his monopolistic (good word for it) ploys I had to do it all for free - very virtuous but no good for my family - but otherwise it would have all been perverted to evil profiteering ways.
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  2341.  @1DrBar  It was nice in WW2 when we all worked together. Perhaps that would make a creature too scary for the world right now.
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  2342.  @1DrBar  The other day the Chihuahua seemed to be boastfully yapping that it fought against both of us in WW2 or thereafter, perhaps in its sentiments if not literally. Must be they were fighting the nasty enemies of both Bulldogs and Bears at the time.
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  2343. Presumably the USA, like UK, had welcomed far right Ukrainian Galicians into their secret services and maybe these were behind the scenes repelling the approaches by first Yeltsin then Putin. This led to where we are, surely.
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  2344. The sanctions were like a dentist using water as an anaesthetic. Call them a placebo.
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  2345. If they can stop the value of money from falling, the billionaires would be all clubbing together to do so all the time and would make sure they never fail but that they push up their money's value all the time. Some things are only worth anything if the control of it is not in human hands.
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  2346.  @RaulMoreno-j8v  Taking all of Ukraine would require an entirely different strategy.
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  2347. Today and tomorrow they target churches. How long before synagogues.
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  2348. Excellent analysis. Teleprompting sucks. If it were China doing this, the West propaganda machine would milk it - “look how their democracy is a sham,” they would say, “all scripted, nothing genuine”. I actually propose that secretly Biden hates this scripted teleprompt “laugh now” stereotype too. I bet his brain, what remains of it, is deliberately messing up just to hit back at it. I bet, like wily elders often do, he is using his perceived weakness as a cover to exert his suppressed free will. Put him in a nursing home and he’ll feign immobility just so he can sneak off to the refrigerator in the night.
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  2349. Wagner Israel? Now USA is entering a proxy war with Israel via double proxy? USA versus Wagner via Ukraine proxy. Double-proxy where Wagner is at war with Hamas too, drawing USA into a double-hop proxy war against Israel?
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  2350. The madness is that they do not think it follows through to a conclusion that if they are right then Paul was not saved and the epistles were not truly Christian, and this is a paradox because then the church councils were unfounded.
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  2351. There are ways of coping with the cold. As long as there is a steady supply of white powdery snow.
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  2352. Time is here for big tech companies to impose sanctions on EU. Musk will perhaps lead the way.
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  2353. To not move forward would, it seems to me, amount to fraud, considering how much funding is being requisitioned to support progress.
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  2354. Time for the EU to put sanctions on passenger boarding steps. For Biden’s sake. Look how they only seem to support Putin.
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  2355. The idea is like a horror movie (Saw and the like) or Indiana Jones movie where as you walk through the paving slabs, if you step on certain slabs unknowingly, out shoots an arrow. How can anyone live without a licence safe from fear of prosecution? It is for a less then 120 IQ person impossible and even your average barrister does not know every caveat of how to not get prosecuted or how to not need fear of prosecution. We are not barristers. This is our national laws and customs taking the peas. It is a torture device. It is trial by ordeal.
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  2356. To escape dying in his sins he needed to believe that Jesus of Nazareth is the saving Christ. I though he did, but God knows.
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  2357. Have the EU sanctioned uranium yet?
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  2358. Chihuahua states might get rich from seizing assets but at cost of being next in crosshairs.
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  2359. Perhaps UK goading USA into rash wars is a ploy to force an admission that USA is incapable of winning a war, thus giving UK an excuse to pay less into the leaky NATO coffers.
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  2360. Interesting that V Nuland is actually Ukrainian. Grandfather Ber Nudelman a Jewish Ukrainian.
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  2361. Excellent video.
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  2362. How does it scale up? Does the principle apply to NATO intervening in the Ukraine-Russia situation? Is there any duty of care? Or is it meddling that warrants the backlash received from outside of the West?
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  2363. A Zillusiony Illusion maybe.
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  2364.  @maigepresents5840  They expect everyone to follow their rules, but have no intention of following them too. Like we saw with lockdowns.
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  2365. Three men in a boat, just as plausible.
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  2366. Does Russia have a kill-list? NOT a high profile one on the Internet anyway it seems.
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  2367. Israel lobbying must be considered too, along with the Ukraine and UK lobbying of USA and West. Israel is major eagle, watching what it will eventually attack. One presumes Ukraine will go this way too, if it survives.
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  2368. Can detention by the store, if citizen’s arrest, be dealt with as false arrest?
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  2369.  @stevenhodgson834  ? PACE may come into play during the subsequent police investigation
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  2370. Probably no actual single widely agreed and accepted Collective West plan or purpose. There might be many plans and purposes, one from every senior civil servant, general, politician, think tank influencer, and so on. Too many plans. Too many purposes. No one main leader. Compare with Putin.
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  2371. USA/NATO cannot really match Russian military equipment because it has a major constraint of trying to supply what will not look like actual participation that would cause escalation. They have to only do what looks fairly inane to an observer like the UN. Otherwise Russia could call it a provocation and use it as reason to turn against NATO countries directly. USA and NATO members have their hands tied behind their backs by themselves lest they cause a real WW3, lest the war extend outside Ukraine. They MUST contain it.
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  2372. Nuland is likely projecting, we can safely assume. So she betrays that she is thinking that US citizens will overthrow the US government in favour of a better government which Russia can provide. Wow!
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  2373. Is any developer going to be able to survive ignoring AI for a few years???
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  2374. UK cannot agree to do anything right now. Not until after a general election when mandate is given to a manifesto. We are currently in non-democratic mode.
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  2375.  @avae5343  arguably not a democratic system either
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  2376.  @avae5343  I wonder if Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris would call it a democracy by Athenian Greek standards.
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  2377. Ukraine is not a misspelling of UK. Ukraine cannot tell us who to have as PM, but sure they are being made by the idiocrasy to think they can.
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  2378. Maybe USA banking system will have to change if all the bank mainframe programmers retire.
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  2379. Shiver Me Timbers! We are in TATTERS I tell you. TATTERS!
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  2380. That Freudian slip of Biden. Maybe Biden is really thinking he would like to trade places with Xi Jinping.
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  2381. The guy in background looking like imitating a cockerel only makes the girl look like that too.
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  2382. His timely message: Ball is in West’s court now. Rishi Sunak the UK PM must find a way to undo the advice Boris Johnson gave to Zelenskyy. Go back to where it went wrong and fix it from there. Or there might be unthinkable war.
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  2383.  @louisvandermerwe8080  Indeed. But Elon Musk is the most inventive man on the planet. Legalities are probably no blocker, even though he has a Christian law-abiding conscience. I have some tech government contributions too and I often feel compelled to try withdrawing them, not least because the West military uses them, and yes, legalities get in the way, but for Elon it might be less challenging given his wealth and intellect - and contacts.
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  2384.  @gtengineer1967  He would not have to give an order if there was something he knew was going to go wrong without his intervention and he timed the Twitter battle to just before that time, in case the battel went nasty. Or one of the engineers fixing a problem just after that battle might have delayed the fix out of deference to Elon without any order being given, but with the engineers knowing Elon enough to know he would not mind. It does not take much to imagine further scenarios.
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  2385.  @gtengineer1967  give it time
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  2386.  @aidanmacdougall9250  It is entertaining when you get high profile rivalries of strong personalities in politics. David and Goliath. Disraeli and Gladstone. Adams and Paisley. Farage and Verhofstadt.
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  2387. It reminds me how Brexit in UK could be warped into something ethnic. UK can leave the moral lure of the EU and its influences and UK can seek to root out from its institutions the influences it rejects which the EU instilled. Yet it must be so careful to not turn this into something ethnic. Sure UK has a far right problem too and it could leverage the Brexit and political shift to bring in ethnic hatred and intolerance (we see it happening with Albanians and others arriving on the UK shores in large numbers and the outrage this produces) but we need to distinguish moral indignation from ethnic hatred. Or we could end up with warring like we see in Ukraine. And the ethnic hatred is finding fertile ground in the support UK gives to Ukraine in its fighting. It is a thin red line.
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  2388. USA the world’s LARPing capital
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  2389. And now Wall Street’s First Republic. 50bn injection.
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  2390. At 100, dear old Kissinger won’t need to see the outcome of his new advice. Not really a good recommendation to heed it.
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  2391. He wants to go to war but needs it to be more legal, hence a two week which could be construed as the legally required ultimatum.
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  2392. How about we all give American Indians the capability of dislodging Americans from their country.
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  2393. Some say BBC is funded by licence fees which is private funding but if so it is armed robbery since you have to face imprisonment for not paying even if you never watch the BBC but own a means to watch it.
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  2394.  @WhiteDieselShed  Not sure. I was told about it but I am not going to try installing it just to find out. Looks like you register and during that process it asks if you have a licence. I expect it does not let you use it if you say No, but I would have to lie in order to find that out, and given these guys prosecute, it could leave me with a criminal record! So maybe I’ll just stay ignorant.
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  2395. Probably Yemen will get equipped too.
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  2396. Prigozhin didn’t get to have his ‘triumphus’ in Moscow but he and Wagner got one in Rostov. God knows they deserved it. Maybe they should be given a triumphus, a triumphal procession in Moscow like the Romans gave they victorious commanders in Rome. And Belarus might get to set the precedent taking initiative in this.
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  2397. If we are back to balance of power, EU plus China might quite well balance USA plus Russia.
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  2398. Is all this actually an obtuse way for Canada to signal to King Charles their not-so-secret approval of the Nasties, maybe hoping for some approval for themselves, while ostensibly whitewashing themselves in the eyes of others by claiming they are embarrassed by it all?
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  2399. Trump back-footed. Overextended.
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  2400. Glorious! Wit at its best!
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  2401. Has JP Morgan got any F-16s?
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  2402. If Putin kills enemies, it is not his own people who should worry.
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  2403. With respect @BlackbeltBarrister you cannot protect me from wrongful prosecution if I stop paying licence I do not legally have to pay. I am being robbed and the government is behind it.
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  2404.  @terike9738  So if you find someone has locked your bicycle to theirs it is OK?
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  2405. “A shift to a non-USD system could challenge existing USD-linked infrastructure like SWIFT, weaken U.S. geopolitical influence, and lead to a more fragmented, multi-currency global economy.” ChatGPT
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  2406. These kinds of things are so very common, perhaps increasingly so, can courts afford time and expense to deal with such things?
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  2407. Carry a fairly hefty umbrella pointing backwards horizontally and it might make them think twice.
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  2408. Poland reconciling with Russia would show it was the remnant of Soviet oppression it was resisting and eventually leaving with Solidarność in the eighties, not a mere ignoble racist Russophobic antagonism.
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  2409.  @harryflashman4542  A lot of those flags eighty years old might not still look so good with the red and black faded and the white looking dirty, plus washing them might ruin them. Most were destroyed over the years. Yellow and blue flags are still made so are easier to use as banners.
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  2410.  @harryflashman4542  far left converging with far right to salvage votes
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  2411. This war and the neocon experiment was never going to work. It was just an experiment. Doubling down is what will produce the nightmare outcome because the West does NOT have a strong hand.
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  2412. Putin knows secret things and might know where there are secret problems to put right. Yet he totally focussed on things publicly known and spoken of in social and mainstream media and seemed to be suggesting that there is no need for public to know more and that special services can fix the secret things behind the scenes if the public figures focus on fixing the publicly known things in accordance to the public narratives and on-the-surface understanding.
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  2413. The real sanctioning of a world war could come from issuing an arrest warrant against Putin. An arrest warrant against a head of state leader while they are in power surely constitutes an existential threat to that state and therefore justifies the people of that state declaring war. Even Jesus Christ stated when under arrest that “If I were an earthly king my people would fight for me”, effectively justifying such action.
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  2414. President Putin must remember the hidden influences of the Bandera far right within the secret services of the Collective West. The very things which surfaced in Canada are there beneath the surface still. Denazification must try to seek cooperation of Collective West in stamping out this hidden problem too.
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  2415. I seem to remember a time when leaders in the West would have been ashamed to follow legal advice like that, so biased to pleasing their ears. Something about Queen Elizabeth instilling a sense of honour among world leaders, especially in the West, maybe. Those days - are they gone? Have we turned a corner here?
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  2416. Queen Elizabeth in particular got angry with Gaddafi. That might have played a big part.
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  2417. Maybe Elenskyy will actually drop the Z.😊
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  2418. No worries about Boris. He’ll have to stay on until Ellenski is ready to appoint Boris’ successor.
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  2419. He talks of his mandate but no mandate on Ukraine and Russia has ever been given to any of them and so much of their works is revolving around Ukraine. So nobody in UK parliament has a mandate for this war.
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  2420.  @manilajohn0182  good cop, bad cop. USA favourite game. Fear of Russia to make people rush into arms of USA. But it is a trap. The devil you know is better than the devil in sheep’s clothing.
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  2421.  @chrisoconnor6187  I would take with me the rights I gave the West to do ISO electronic invoices
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  2422.  @chrisoconnor6187  Me moving to Russia would probably cost the West trillions in loss of efficiencies from using my copyright, intellectual property licence to do ISO electronic trade. Like the sanctions on SWIFT but the other way around. It is called reciprocal terms.
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  2423. If I buy a waterproof coat, I wear it in the rain. What use is independence to Ukraine if it only gives it away to USA and UK. If it depends on USA where is its independence? Where is the nationalism in that? Might as well depend on Russia. USA leads countries astray. So does UK.
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  2424.  @louise_rose  Violence and reliance on weaponry are no sensible strategy for nation building
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  2425. Good point - can we learn to content ourselves and moderate our expectations to keep to the areas the LLM has been trained in? If we can work in that area ten times more effectively than areas outside the training, what does that do to our work strategy?
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  2426. Wooley carbon neutral thinking seems first behind Heathrow blackout then Spain blackout. But no worries. We have fools with tools in charge.
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  2427.  @flamintasty  He makes excellent breaks. Worth waiting for.
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  2428.  @flamintasty  Best channel on YouTube by far
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  2429. These tech and security groups face a big problem, inhibiting progress. Thankfully. They find cooperation difficult, between these groups and between different nations. They need private individuals, not part of this ‘deep state’, to catalyse and facilitate the cooperation, bridging the big gaps. Left to their own devices, starved of this oxygen, they tend to often flounder.
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  2430. The next hypersonic strike will be very telling. Any patriots? Not much else has a chance of hitting the hypersonics so it will be very telling.
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  2431. So here’s the plan 😊 US goes to N Korea and promises to sell them long range missiles if they promise to stop selling arms to Russia. 😊 Maybe Trump will consider it.
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  2432. Russia hit a big problem in Ukraine generally when the West pointed out that food flow to many countries had to continue or blame could fall on Russia. Oops. That made it awkward to take Odessa. Indeed, for humanitarian reasons and to maintain support for its operation, Russia had to ensure food could still be transported from Odessa, especially during harvest period. How can Russia possibly take Odessa without interrupting much needed food supply from Ukraine? This argument was a big win for the West to throw a spanner in the works for Russian ambitions to take back Odessa. Well, as a diplomatic and humanitarian concession Russia can avoid taking Odessa during the summer period when there is the great Ukrainian harvest. Once harvest shipments are over, things could change in Russia's plans. It can show the world it did not prevent summer and autumn food shipments, but then take Odessa after that, in winter or more likely in spring next year. Then it needs to do it quickly so next year's shipments are not stopped but this means it has to take all of Ukraine by next year's harvest so it can control the food shipments when Odessa is in its control. Or make some clever mechanism to ensure Ukraine can ship food from a Russian-controlled Odessa. This all makes it a bit tricky for Russia but Odessa is a pearl worth the big cost. I think.
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  2433. Is it true Internet infrastructure attacks are being conducted as the retaliation?
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  2434. Let’s celebrate if Kamala wins - with a red button day, where all sorts of funny things happen when a red button is pressed.
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  2435. Perhaps retaliation from Russia is no less expected, but Russia said they would target decision making centres if strikes are made inside Russia, so the attacks will come but only against decision makers responsible for such strikes. So if the decisions are from Ukraine, not involving NATO, NATO will not be target of retaliatory attacks, so NATO will not be concerned about them. Perhaps NATO is sure these strikes into Russia are only on decisions by Ukraine.
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  2436. Friday 13th. Sept 2024. Starmer on point of Russia construing his government’s actions as start of war, yet almost nobody in Britain knows. Astounding.
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  2437. Security Council. Maybe like how some countries have long been governed over the years by a Privy Council. Even UK with a constitutional monarchy was governing its former colonies via its Privy Council.
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  2438.  @Unit8200-rl8ev  Ha. Very droll. Privy Councils are not just a UK thing, apparently. Lots of monarchies have them.
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  2439. Psychological conquest? It is the West that are psychologically conquered by Ukraine if it is spending 700bn to ‘help’ Ukraine. That is the taxation level levied against a conquered region.
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  2440. It might be that Germany under Green influence genuinely believes German industry and Russian energy is destroying the planet. They might feel it justifies hating on Russia and self-hatred. But it could actually accelerate destruction of the planet by plunging us all towards that red button.
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  2441. Did Starmer add a clause to ensure the frozen assets get laundered before they get used to replace unpaid Ukraine debt?
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  2442. Negarious need not necessarily equal warfare. It could be for profit in a context of peace. If you can call a context ‘peace’ which allows such nefarious conduct.
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  2443. Sunak is so Hindu
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  2444. Like a victimless crime, nobody involved personally loses much by failure.
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  2445. Any chance of it being Ukraine officially attacking a NATO infrastructure maybe could be an act of war putting Ukraine at war with NATO! Wow.
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  2446. When we get symbolic models to do the math too - then it takes off
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  2447.  @brianmulvihill7066  on military targets. I guess for some people the distinction is a gray area. I tend to see the deliberate and persistent use of them against solely civilian targets as akin to mass murder
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  2448.  @brianmulvihill7066  link?
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  2449.  @brianmulvihill7066  UN OSCE documented how Ukraine deliberately launches military attacks by basing military units inside school car parks, playgrounds, and hospitals, as they have been doing for nine years, forcing legitimate attacks on those places by Russians.
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  2450. EU’s exposure to BRICS shift could bring it down. Brexit might have saved UK after all.
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  2451. Despite all the silly Churchill claims, there is no Churchill in the UK anymore. No more heroes.
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  2452. Seems like a big change if Israel is now associating with and using the lobby. Desperate times call for desperate measures.
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  2453. Eagles overhead, drones everywhere, all signs of ethical failings of those who should do better, who are supposed to be faithful believers.
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  2454. Whatever we say, Britain is great. Despite any corruption in gov, people in need here have their needs met. There might be dwindling numbers calling themselves Christian but despite this, because of Christianity here, in various flavours of tradition, there is a river of life running through the UK as with other countries where the UK believers go. And despite USA being main source of info tech, it was UK which gave us the Web and we have social media with which to spread free speech.
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  2455. I do not know International Law, but a two week warning looks like it is a lead-up to war. If tactical nukes are on the table, as only way to penetrate deep bunkers, that implies to me that preemptive attacks on USA would be morally acceptable. I think it is an attempt to force Iran’s hand into revealing its latest missile tech, because USA needs its secrets on hypersonic and their use of AI.
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  2456. I think it is following OpenAI riding its coat tails, so it can afford to be opensource and lower cost. I think it probably needs OpenAI to do the heavy lifting going forward too. It might be helpful to it if OpenAI became open source too. Being open source helps by putting pressure on OpenAI to become opensource, forced into this to maintain leading edge, state of the art.
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  2457. Sad to see UK Gov losing its saltiness.
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  2458. Maybe EU did good to legislate against member states bailing out banks. Did post-Brexit UK keep those laws? Would HSBC be too big to fail?
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  2459. Hiding 400 kg uranium - that is only 21 liters.
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  2460. Which part of collective deceptive West actually invaded Russia by seeking regime change of the Putin? Media were wing fighters but who led the charge and who ordered it? Maybe we will never know who is truly Russia’s enemy and instigator of the West’s demise. Dark forces.
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  2461. Army surplus stores will make a roaring trade selling military grade escooters.
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  2462. Bakhmut: Whom Jupiter would destroy, he first makes mad. - Classical version. Scripture version: For this cause God sends them a powerful delusion so they may believe the lie and perish with those who don't believe.
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  2463. No worries, Dave is back in the UK saddle now. No need for Ukraine to keep fighting, Dave will do it all with diplomacy, once he eventually gets back into office as PM again. No need for Zaluzhny to get to top in Ukraine if Dave C can get back to top in UK.
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  2464. There should be extreme care that Chervinsky does not rent from his prison cell a kitchen trolley to force a hole through the canteen walls so he can escape with six other prisoners.
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  2465.  @Extra-Celestial7  True. India knows which side its bread is buttered. But it has to remember how populous it is and the challenge of feeding so many. Likewise China. Between them, China and India amount to almost half the planet. This requires compromises, as Mao realised. Yet there is a need for its governors to show self-respect for their national sovereignty. They cannot afford to let USA govern them and feed their people. US leaders only have to watch over the feeding of a few hundred millions.
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  2466.  @jeanniecorn2632  But they do use the West dollar
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  2467. The Nicaea/Arius controversy was all about a secret thing (whether before time the Son-Spirit, the Word, was created or always existed). It belongs to God. It is not a revealed thing belonging to God’s people. Deut 29 v 29 “The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.”
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  2468. I suspect reminding USA of their Sussex name gives them kudos among US citizens because one of their children is USA born which gives USA a foot in door with UK royal family.
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  2469. Rubbish UK railways have been sabotaged for a decade or two. Clearly someone is doing it. Someone evil. But we blamed it on the Transport Secretary. We never knew the P might be doing it.
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  2470. Well right now ChatGPT is down for me. Lucky it is not doing anything crucial for me.
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  2471. So presumably Fujitsu, its owners, perhaps some stakeholders, had and perhaps still has, vast key logging data gained over maybe a decade. Presumably it might include passwords, incorrectly keyed data (such as favourite passwords for other systems entered by mistake), sensitive data held in those passwords in belief there was no key logging. No wonder this valuable personal data is kept secret. Who knows what actors might have made use of it. Could even be used for blackmail maybe. All allowed to happen by UK Gov, perhaps in cahoots with you know who two eyes.
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  2472.  @mousiebrown943  When people despairingly can only think of voting for lesser evil, something seems to happen resulting in a 50 50 split. My guess anyway. I guess they look at polls and if one side is winning then somehow a move of vote happens to support the other side, to keep a balance. It seems to result from nobody wanting either side to win. A scientific social phenomenon.
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  2473. Alex carefully avoiding suggesting Greece and Cyprus might join BRICS after an EU breakup?
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  2474. Cold temperature is a threat to asthma sufferers. Can lack of heating and energy sanctions be banned? And everything which puts up domestic heating costs?
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  2475. If he is the fall guy, he was employed for this purpose and it might even be in his contract that he has to take the fall to protect his employers. Who are/were those employers? That is where we need to see justice happening.
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  2476. Not the Wrong Trousers. The Wrong Contact.
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  2477. When EU banks get hit, the laws are there to prevent government bailouts. What will happen?
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  2478.  @UFO_computers  Eurozone, covered by EU directives, etc
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  2479. Watch USA having to team up with Russia to get the diplomatic skills it needs. Then when you count in these two with China, the world gets a dystopian monster.
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  2480. Lots of attacking going on by the real armies. Lots of offensive happening in Backmut and elsewhere. If either could do more they would be doing it. Indeed it applies to both sides, except one is more vocal about offensives than the other. Or maybe it depends which news sources you watch.
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  2481.  @christophersmith8316  Agreed but I suspect the real reason (the Spring has been here a while before this recent snowy spell) is that the amassed tens of thousands are relatively untrained, without much battle experience. Not likely to make much difference to outcome. Not ready but commanded to advance anyway.
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  2482. Snow didn’t delay the offensive in Backmut. Maybe it hid the mines under a protective layer making advance safer. It would have made trenches less effective too. Snow was taken advantage of by ready troops who saw their opportunity.
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  2483. With it being religious season for Christians and Jews when we remember words of scripture, teachings of God, remember that Solomon was wisest of kings and lived in relative peace all through his reign, untainted by blood of war on his hands and therefore considered fit by God to build the Temple.
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  2484.  @ahmedvawda1282  they did not like him at all did they. Not sure he likes then either. Like the second thief on the cross who only mocked Jesus. No promise of paradise for him, only for the one who changed his mind and asked forgiveness.
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  2485. They’ll be taking on Trump too.
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  2486. Presumably the oligarchs he does bow to are not the friends of the P.
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  2487. Wasn’t BoJo a citizen of USA while PM of UK?
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  2488.  @inwardstream Only in the West. Is God Catholic?
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  2489.  @inwardstream It is not the one who commends himself who is commended, but the one the Lord commends.
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  2490.  @inwardstream  Augustine's writings, especially on original sin, predestination, and grace, are often seen as problematic or overly rigid by many Eastern theologians. To my mind he went beyond the teachings of Christ. Running ahead like this, you lose the fellowship of the Father and the Son. So I personally find it a danger to faith to follow his teachings. As baptised into Christ, we must hold to and prefer the teachings of Christ, which to my mind he contradicted. If Orthodox, Catholics, and Protestants want to venerate him, it is up to them. I find him problematic.
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  2491.  @noahtylerpritchett2682 Yet one of Augustine’s sons is Pope. Catholics have appropriated him as core teacher. Protestants too. More core than Christ, I would say.
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  2492.  @noahtylerpritchett2682  Except a major early division happened after the Council of Chalcedon in 451, when the Oriental Orthodox Churches (such as the Coptic and Armenian Churches) split off. Also the Ethiopian Orthodox was not even Trinitarian for the early part of its history, partly due to limited engagement with the ecumenical councils.
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  2493. When ten pins get taken down by two bowls, they call that a strike. The crowd of the hospitals and stock exchange and 911 and TV stations all gets taken down by one bowling ball, after the previous bowl tried to take down a President in Russiagate. Coincidence it is called CrowdStrike?
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  2494. I pray to God that Britain can stay out of this
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  2495.  @meowkaiser6024  look at UK’s history of honouring contracts, not great, look at NI Protocol, look at Minsk 2, look how most MPs treated the Brexit referendum - dishonouring the agreement of democracy - Japan must realise this - and Japan is more modern than UK - so they might be leading UK along a bit - UK deep state follows USA deep state and USA Democrats - and all these hate and despise Japan intensely - so if I were Japan I would not trust such an agreement with UK at all right now - I used (ten to twenty years ago) to be part of UK deep state and by proxy the US deep state (globalisation projects) and there was no country they despised more than Japan - but personally I found Japan deep state a joy to work with - the best - so Japan is a bit silly making such an agreement (I say it even though this is ten years later than my experience)- they must have been edging towards it for ten twenty years though, having aligned tech stacks. @Japan: Do not trust these guys who despise you. Do not go to war relying on them.
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  2496. If the real Armageddon is much different to this, it would surprise me. All these countries pulled in. Israel pulled in. Then it could shift from Ukraine to the Megiddo Valley. Et voila.
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  2497. If a boat that size can bring down the bridge by merely knocking into it, why do they let such ships go underneath it or anywhere near it? I guess they think because nothing went wrong earlier, it could not go wrong, yes, that is a black swan fallacy. But what kind of setup allows such fallacies to rule policies? Is this happening across USA?
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  2498. Their hatred makes them the equivalent of those they welcome and honour. No difference. The ones they honour were also saying they did not know, they obeyed orders. Their hatred and group think was all the same then as it is today.
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  2499.  @kenrik2105  Shotgun effect. Presumably principle behind cluster bombs too. So the scatter has advantages. What is the advantage, if any, of combining into one bomb? Merely psychological shock and awe?
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  2500.  @kenrik2105  If a plane can be modified to carry one 3000, can a plane not be modified to carry two 1500s? Sounds like a science they would have worked out in WW2.
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  2501.  @kenrik2105  There must be a plan for bigger FABs. The modifications must have a development roadmap.
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  2502.  @kenrik2105  Quoting Wikipedia “By 1942, the State Defense Committee of the Soviet Union perceived the need for weapons that could hit hard industrial and military facilities, marshaling yards and fortifications, without the usual scattering of medium-weight bombs.”
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  2503.  @kenrik2105  maybe the advantage needed is to focus the charge to break into very tough buildings or bunkers (bunker busters). The need for FAB 5000 and even 9000 was long ago recognised. To make these glidable must be one challenge, mass producable another, then a way to carry them.
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  2504. Perhaps Biden should marry her. I expect some legal experts could be found to endorse it.
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  2505. Could it be the Donetsk bombings and the fortifications like a siege were part of an attempt since 2014 to drive out and kill those ethnic Russians with allegiance to Russia so that the percentage of pro-EU Ukrainians was higher so they might have more chance of joining the EU?
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  2506.  @yfelwulf  I was thinking more the Assumption of Moses
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  2507. Even if you believe that these particular US intelligence agents and officials had no direct involvement, the admission does kind of put them in the frame for accessory to the killing, and they sound dishonest if they claim nobody in US intelligence was involved because who in US intelligence knows what everybody else in US intelligence is doing and not doing. Insisting they know kind of makes them look like liars. So they incriminate themselves as likely liars and likely accessories to 'murder'. No surprises there, but it makes the USA look like a state sponsor of who-knows-what. Sanctions time for USA? Not likely.
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  2508. USA and UK Protestant biblicism is behind these wars. Warring against Russia was bound to be the next step too.
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  2509. Is Harry depending on US to keep him independent too?
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  2510. So is it Boris “bad cop” Witkoff “good cop”?
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  2511. DeepSeek seems to be built on ChatGPT, letting OpenAI do the hard work, and importing it into DeepSeek.
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  2512. No way Ukraine can maintain a ceasefire on its side for a whole month. But that will underline the need for limiting assumptions during negotiations. They all need to keep it real.
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  2513. So whatever religious persuasion Mike Johnson had before he changed his mind, he no longer has, yes?
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  2514. Boris in capacity as US agent, since not now a PM. Maybe this was always the case all along. US/NATO.
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  2515. War in Israel, where it is leading. Revelation 11: It is all there. In future, maybe twenty years from now. Temple Project completed. Beast of combined Iran and Iraq and Macedonia acting with impunity in Jerusalem. Events are clearly leading up to it. “Israel has sinned, says God, and the sign is the eagle over the house”
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  2516.  @lovethyneighbour4968 or true
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  2517. Man United’s win against Leicester last week was annulled because Russia is found to have scored the winning goal. MI6 has declined to comment.
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  2518. I wonder what role Common Alerting Protocol has had. Alerting automatically means alerts can be raised but without readiness of correct responses. Suddenly hospitals get alerted about possible pandemic-related incidents far sooner than they were used to. Suddenly they do not know how to respond appropriately because alerts happen so soon after incidents, before thinking has caught up. It might contribute to excess fear, panic, crying wolf syndrome.
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  2519.  @philc1773  So tell me, did you take a dose of it? Did you act on what you believed? Do you follow the Science? Did you want it mandated? In the end we were all tested severely. Even if we passed the test, we each of us lost somebody near. Now the test is reversed. Some who survived by following the Science are now suffering for it.
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  2520.  @philc1773  As for whether I back any MP. In my view they all hate Russia for no reason and subscribe to policies that lead to evils like genocide and mass-deaths. I do not stand behind any of them. I would rather save my soul than throw it away hoping in these folk.
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  2521. So Germany has a year left? Or we all have a year left.
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  2522. We ought to mention how effective it is for social rating boosting and virtue signalling. Lying is very unhealthy and damning though, so do not try it at home, unless you are a billionaire. The edifice of lies they build civilisation on these days will bring it all down eventually.
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  2523. Don’t tell Zakharova or Medvedev about these laws of ours. They will have a field day. They will offer to liberate us.
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  2524. Dec 8th 2024 Beginnings of a new Achaemenid empire, maybe…
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  2525. Not sure Jesus is ever quoted in gospels saying there is "none so blind as will not see". I think someone else said it (Jonathan Swift maybe). But the gist of it aligns with what Jesus is recorded as saying about blind leading the blind - that they both fall into a pit - and that those who are blind are not the guilty ones so much as those who claim to see.
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  2526. No country is untouchable. No country is immune from opposition or even invasion, if warranted. IF WARRANTED. If not warranted, well… then in this case… I guess USA and UK just nullified Article 5. (Meaning, any attack by Russia on any NATO country, like USA, like UK, is no longer an unprovoked attack, and Article 5 maybe is no protection.)
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  2527. French roid rage might explain a few things.
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  2528. Just like 1930s Austrian Germans wanted to be part of Germany. It might be heading the same doomed way.
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  2529. Are we really starting to see evidence of delusion of US thinking it owns rights to international waters? It gets worse and worse.
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  2530. Canada should force Trump into selling them the USA. That would fix it. Or try buying the USA from China.
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  2531. So now there is really no alternative but for Rishi Sunak the UK PM or whoever takes his place to find a way to undo the advice former PM Boris Johnson gave to President Zelenskyy. And for Biden or whoever takes his place to endorse it or order it.
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  2532. If it was purely ISIS and ISIS alone, then there would, I would think, have been elevation of security alerts in pro-Israel countries, once UK/USA intelligence got wind of it. The silence in this regard implies US/UK are assured they are not targets, with further implications not hard to guess - some kind of involvement at highest level, at level in ISIS which could assure that Russia is only target, implying some cooperation from US/UK. How horrific.
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  2533. Tell the Speaker: liars are not Christians
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  2534. Flooding to prevent crossings in south merely aid crossings north of the dam.
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  2535. Don’t you just miss Boris and Truss though.
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  2536. Will AI now kill coding? And what will kill AI?
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  2537.  @Luva_-_  we just need a general election, and prayer
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  2538. First US President who could change meanings of words to allow him to be able to report success. He could change ‘war’ to allow him to report that USA is not in any war. He could change ‘recession’ to allow him to report that USA is not in recession. Why did nobody else before him think of doing this?
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  2539. Surely the goddam BBC is showing they are precisely the reason this war is here and the eagle is over the house. God knows. I must ditch my disused old TV and stop paying the licence piratage.
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  2540. Thanks
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  2541. listening speaks volumes - if they view my viewing, it actually amplifies the view count behind the scenes of what I am viewing - those who monitor your viewing habits could be considered as additional "views" because they are actively engaging with the content you consume, albeit in a different capacity.
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  2542.  @goldeneddie  But the info about me disseminated to them is like me doing an autobiographical blog and government people viewing it. How cool is that.
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  2543.  @goldeneddie  I just watched the Netflix movie Glass. It is a similar concept. The antihero wanted to publicise his life and the lives of his associates, so he made use of the monitoring the gov people were doing of him. Kinda similar.
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  2544.  @goldeneddie  I think they like me 😊 But yes, we are all too boring and too many of us. What they do, I think, is look at our patterns and then look for whether anything changes and looks out of character or if certain patterns emerge. I don’t think “them” is people, just computers and algorithms.
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  2545. Makes me wonder whether long covid might have contributed to death of EIIR. If covid was deliberate, could that have been the intent?
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  2546. Can the goblin go to 26 hours?
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