Americans and others Who Died

[marika]

viz the ruble. Putin promised (in his state of the union speech in 2014) to arrest anyone caught speculating on currency. He has to arrest the entire country but really he has done nothing since then other than kill more ukrainians, syrians, political opponents and journalists. Not only has the average Josif withdrawn rubles from their banks, but they have traded what they have for nearly any currency they can get their hands on. Including crap like Kazakhstan money. In fact, the Crimeans ironically have traded their rubles for Uki hryvnia. For real.

Those who could not get their hands on "other" currency went out and purchased every consumer good they could before the price multiplied by huge factors.

One tweet hilariously pointed out that while Lavrov (Kerry counterpart) threatened that USA would "fall" if the ruble fell, that in fact, a huge percentage of those consumer goods were USA made products and the rash purchasing only helped USA GDP.

In the meantime, there were rumors in 2014 (per Michael McFaul) that the Russian elite are calling for the resignation of Medvedev. He'd have ot wake up first to realize anyone was calling for him to resign. In 2014 i said If he did resign I wait in horror who would take his place. Well that happened. He was unexpectedly resigned against his will and his replacement is a horror. and how about that vote on the constitution giving putin 12 more years/ Steven Seagal helped him rewrite it

mk5000

Voters, who get only a yes-or-no vote on the entire package, are being peppered with propaganda of all types urging a yes vote..There is a video playing to homophobic sentiment, and comical TV ads with a family arguing over whether to have a vote on the borscht.
Robyn Dixon,wapo

[marika]

viz the ruble. Putin promised (in his state of the union speech in 2014) to arrest anyone caught speculating on currency. He has to arrest the entire country but really he has done nothing since then other than kill more ukrainians, syrians, political opponents and journalists. Not only has the average Josif withdrawn rubles from their banks, but they have traded what they have for nearly any currency they can get their hands on. Including crap like Kazakhstan money. In fact, the Crimeans ironically have traded their rubles for Uki hryvnia. For real.
Those who could not get their hands on "other" currency went out and purchased every consumer good they could before the price multiplied by huge factors.
One tweet hilariously pointed out that while Lavrov (Kerry counterpart) threatened that USA would "fall" if the ruble fell, that in fact, a huge percentage of those consumer goods were USA made products and the rash purchasing only helped USA GDP.
In the meantime, there were rumors in 2014 (per Michael McFaul) that the Russian elite are calling for the resignation of Medvedev. He'd have ot wake up first to realize anyone was calling for him to resign. In 2014 i said If he did resign I wait in horror who would take his place. Well that happened. He was unexpectedly resigned against his will and his replacement is a horror. and how about that vote on the constitution giving putin 12 more years/ Steven Seagal helped him rewrite it
mk5000
Voters, who get only a yes-or-no vote on the entire package, are being peppered with propaganda of all types urging a yes vote..There is a video playing to homophobic sentiment, and comical TV ads with a family arguing over whether to have a vote on the borscht.
Robyn Dixon,wapo

not that I think osce is all that legit, as it has been shown that much pf their staff are pro putin or at least sympathizers


the lunatic fringe in DNR won't let the investigators in, or give them much trouble since at least 2014

osce keeps getting rebuffed

also, australia and holland were trying to send police force to secure mh17 and the lunatics won't let them do that either

over and over you see osce acing favorably to putin in conflicts

mk5000

In recent years half a dozen of OSCE personnel led by Polish diplomat Andrzej Kasprzyk would monitor the Armenian-Azerbaijani Line of Contact twice a month. The latest such mission was reported almost a month ago, on September 18, held in the south-east of Artsakh’s Martuni district.

No explanation has been made public for the current delay, but a source familiar with the issue told the Focus on Karabakh that the monitoring was expected to resume this month. --https://armenian.usc.edu/osce-mediators-stress-importance-of-karabakh-monitoring/

[marika]

Post by marika

viz the ruble. Putin promised (in his state of the union speech in 2014) to arrest anyone caught speculating on currency. He has to arrest the entire country but really he has done nothing since then other than kill more ukrainians, syrians, political opponents and journalists. Not only has the average Josif withdrawn rubles from their banks, but they have traded what they have for nearly any currency they can get their hands on. Including crap like Kazakhstan money. In fact, the Crimeans ironically have traded their rubles for Uki hryvnia. For real.
Those who could not get their hands on "other" currency went out and purchased every consumer good they could before the price multiplied by huge factors.
One tweet hilariously pointed out that while Lavrov (Kerry counterpart) threatened that USA would "fall" if the ruble fell, that in fact, a huge percentage of those consumer goods were USA made products and the rash purchasing only helped USA GDP.
In the meantime, there were rumors in 2014 (per Michael McFaul) that the Russian elite are calling for the resignation of Medvedev. He'd have ot wake up first to realize anyone was calling for him to resign. In 2014 i said If he did resign I wait in horror who would take his place. Well that happened. He was unexpectedly resigned against his will and his replacement is a horror. and how about that vote on the constitution giving putin 12 more years/ Steven Seagal helped him rewrite it
mk5000
Voters, who get only a yes-or-no vote on the entire package, are being peppered with propaganda of all types urging a yes vote..There is a video playing to homophobic sentiment, and comical TV ads with a family arguing over whether to have a vote on the borscht.
Robyn Dixon,wapo

not that I think osce is all that legit, as it has been shown that much pf their staff are pro putin or at least sympathizers
the lunatic fringe in DNR won't let the investigators in, or give them much trouble since at least 2014
osce keeps getting rebuffed
also, australia and holland were trying to send police force to secure mh17 and the lunatics won't let them do that either
over and over you see osce acing favorably to putin in conflicts
mk5000
In recent years half a dozen of OSCE personnel led by Polish diplomat Andrzej Kasprzyk would monitor the Armenian-Azerbaijani Line of Contact twice a month. The latest such mission was reported almost a month ago, on September 18, held in the south-east of Artsakh’s Martuni district.
No explanation has been made public for the current delay, but a source familiar with the issue told the Focus on Karabakh that the monitoring was expected to resume this month. --https://armenian.usc.edu/osce-mediators-stress-importance-of-karabakh-monitoring/

Poles have been through the Nazi/Commie wringer and are quite realistic about what threatens them.....

mk5000

How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself originated; but I may remark that, as some of the lowest organisms, in which nerves cannot be detected, are capable of perceiving light, it does not seem impossible that certain sensitive elements in their sarcode should become aggregated and developed into nerves, endowed with this special sensibilites."
Vox populi, vox Dei is Latin for "The voice of the people is the voice of God". "Sarcode" is an archaic term for protoplasm.