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Ukraine scored relatively poorly per third party standards for democracy.  At the last link below, the US is ranked as the 36th most democratic country, Ukraine is the 92nd, and Russia is the 144th. Since the half-way point between the US and Russia would be 90, that puts Ukraine slightly closer to Russia in the ranking than it is to the US.

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Thanks for the laughs!

@jimlane!

@jimlane, the “floor” of 5,000 rubles per gram would become relevant if others were selling gold for less than 5,000 rubles – that’s why it’s a floor.

But I don’t see is how, in an environment in which the value of the ruble is threatened by sanctions and the the value of gold is likely to increase because of inflation, putting a floor on the g…[Read more]

to give he climbers a hand up.

some kind of balanced, international group to visit and investigate some of these sites.

My understanding from Scott Ritter is that so far, not only has that not happened, but the bodies are being buried before investigators can examine them to confirm cause of death, whether the bodies were moved after death, etc.

If they’re under oath, the could be convicted of perjury, and if they’re not, they still risk being called to account in other ways.  So they either avoid saying anything at all, or use weasel words that leave them room to backtrack, e.g., by quoting someone else, or saying “we have reason to believe” or “it has all the earmarks of,” etc.  And w…[Read more]

awaiting further confirmation – or alternative explanations for why he’s missing (truthful or not).

but who has 2:16 hours to watch this?  Summaries welcome!

the quality of the video is poor.  The poor quality could be masking some of the flaws in the greenscreening.  Surely if we can get arms and other aid to Ukraine, and if they’ve got teams of US p.r. people there, they can get a better camera and videographer in there.

I note too that they’ve got him wearing outfits that are similar enough in c…[Read more]

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the risks from the disease still look about ten times than the risks from the vaccines, so I expect to get it at some point.

it works just fine if your goal is to wreck the place.

@averagegazoo; Triumph always cracks me up!

and should be frightening. Suggestions re- how to push back?

@mrmickeysmom!

Can you share the source?

So glad for your efforts!