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  England v Ukraine

  by BoogerMan in

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  so nice to see thousands upon thousands of fighting-age ukrainian men managed to escape the war and reach wembley to support their national football team yesterday.

  things must be improving, eh?.

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  Simon - Am I an idiot and fool because I hold a different view of the cost/benefit of opposing Putin?
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  England v Ukraine

  by BoogerMan in

  1. social
  2. current

  so nice to see thousands upon thousands of fighting-age ukrainian men managed to escape the war and reach wembley to support their national football team yesterday.

  things must be improving, eh?.

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  cofty

  What does the West get out of it?

  Putin is hurting by his abject failure to sweep through Ukraine as he believed he would. His military weakness has been exposed. Thousands of Russian military personnel - including senior officers - are dead and billions of dollars worth of his hardware is destroyed. Not one American or British soldier has died. Bargain of the century.

  I understand what Ukraine gets out of it - lots of free military hardware costing billions of pounds/dollars.

  It's not like they are putting the weapons in a cupboard and counting them every night like they were gold coins. They are using them to hurt Putin at the cost of Ukrainian lives. Many of them knew as much about combat a year ago as you and I do.

  Let's imagine that in 5 years time, Argentina invades the Falklands. Would Ukraine give us some military hardware and equipment, or help us in some other way?

  Unless Argentina posed a threat to the security of Ukraine probably not.

  Putin and Xi are the main enemies of liberal democracy and freedom. Ukraine is Putin's biggest problem.
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  England v Ukraine

  by BoogerMan in

  1. social
  2. current

  so nice to see thousands upon thousands of fighting-age ukrainian men managed to escape the war and reach wembley to support their national football team yesterday.

  things must be improving, eh?.

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  cofty

  Have a read at the following article by Dr Neil Melvin, Director International Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute, former senior adviser at the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Energy Charter, the European Union and the United Nations.

  Nationalist and Imperial Thinking Define Putin's Vision for Russia..

  "Putin has become convinced that his historic role is not just to overcome the end of the Soviet Union, but to undo the Bolshevik nationalities policies that laid the foundations for the contemporary state system of Eurasia."
  
  
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  England v Ukraine

  by BoogerMan in

  1. social
  2. current

  so nice to see thousands upon thousands of fighting-age ukrainian men managed to escape the war and reach wembley to support their national football team yesterday.

  things must be improving, eh?.

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  cofty

  Putin is a Eurasian nationalist - see 'Black Wind, White Snow - The Rise of Russia's New Nationalism' by Charles Clover.
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  Scotland's New First Minister is Racist

  by cofty in

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  here he is in holyrood ranting about how scotland is too white.

  he is the 'continuity candidate' who will carry on sturgeon's woke agenda.

  this does not represent the people of scotland.

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  The good news is that the project of breaking up the UK has suffered a serious setback.
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  England v Ukraine

  by BoogerMan in

  1. social
  2. current

  so nice to see thousands upon thousands of fighting-age ukrainian men managed to escape the war and reach wembley to support their national football team yesterday.

  things must be improving, eh?.

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  cofty

  Putin wants all of Ukraine and if he gets that the Balkans are next.

  The spirit of Neville Chamberlain has risen.
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  Scotland's New First Minister is Racist

  by cofty in

  1. social
  2. current

  here he is in holyrood ranting about how scotland is too white.

  he is the 'continuity candidate' who will carry on sturgeon's woke agenda.

  this does not represent the people of scotland.

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  cofty

  Here he is falling over inside Holyrood - the ugliest building in Edinburgh estimated to cost £40m and ended up costing £439m

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  Scotland's New First Minister is Racist

  by cofty in

  1. social
  2. current

  here he is in holyrood ranting about how scotland is too white.

  he is the 'continuity candidate' who will carry on sturgeon's woke agenda.

  this does not represent the people of scotland.

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  cofty

  Here he is in Holyrood ranting about how Scotland is too white. He is the 'continuity candidate' who will carry on Sturgeon's woke agenda. This does not represent the people of Scotland. The SNP movement is in crisis.

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  Article in Los Angeles Times from 1995 about change generation teaching.

  by Hellothere in

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  https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-11-04-me-64883-story.html.

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  cofty

  Thanks
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  Shaking hundreds of hands every week: are JWs the only ones?

  by psyco in

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  we know that with our hands we touch what everybody else does: money, handles, buttons, etc.. we also know for sure, since the xix century, that our hands carry bacteria and germs causing serious illnesses because of that.. despite more than 25,000 jws dying because of the covid, showing they are not immune, they were proudly declaring how good they were in handling this pandemic.. now, jws have started to shake hundreds of hands per week at their meetings, like before, even if covid is not over yet demonstrating hygiene knowledge back to medieval times.. i am wondering: are they the only religion/community/group still doing this or others are doing the same?.

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  Keep your hands out of your mouth and shaking hands is no problem. 99.9999% of covid infection was through aerosol inhalation. Masks, anti-bac, cleaning surfaces, avoiding touching family and friends made almost no difference.