I notice the ethnically Russian Bloomberg reporter Misyriena Egkolfopoulou says that more than 17 million Russians or 12% of the population are cryptocurrency owners
https://www.bloomberglinea.com/2022/...oid-sanctions/
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I notice the ethnically Russian Bloomberg reporter Misyriena Egkolfopoulou says that more than 17 million Russians or 12% of the population are cryptocurrency owners
https://www.bloomberglinea.com/2022/...oid-sanctions/
The government of Thailand has focussed on the most important potential outcome of the conflict - the potential fall in Russian and Ukraine tourists
33% drop in the Russian stocket market before they halted trading, 10.5% drop in Rubles, dozens of anti-war protests across Russia with over 1700 arrests, massive international condemnation and sanctions, et al.
Possibly even more impacting is the fact that Putin's actions have just given the "Green Light" to every free nation on Earth to impose whatever sanctions they want on Russia without having to justify their actions to anyone. It appears that the Russian people are already aware of this, and not too happy.
If you scroll through https://reddit.com/r/ukraine apparently there's loads of photos of soliders there, and from the responses I guess they just look like kids on both sides.
Kids going off to kill each other for some delusional old man's nostalgic memory of grandeur. Lovely.
I'm just curious as to what the upcoming civil war in Ukraine will look like. Iraq didn't exactly have the backing of the West in this manner, so this should be interesting.
With Dodgems so keen to talk about "free nations", perhaps he should put that in the context of the latest Freedom House assessment of Thailand - the country where our Dodgems (founder member of the Forum bookburners) has chosen to live is not a free country and is falling down the rankings. https://freedomhouse.org/country/tha...dom-world/2021
...no one cares about Ukraine...sorry...thats the truth...without Russian gas/oil Europe will freeze to death within a week...
33% of market - western investors run from western sanctions and withdrew investments... they will be substituted by middle easterns and Chinese
-10,5% drop in rubles are today +5% and will continue... speculations
protesters - yes, like protests during Vietnam war in USA they will demonstrate presence of democracy here... and like in USA there will be a lot of police...
by the way: Ukrainian state bonds yesterday was 37-55% from nominal price, and for to serve state debt Ukraine now pays 186% of interest...
Hacker collective Anonymous has disabled several Russian government websites including the state-controlled "Russia Today" news service.
- RT has been described as a major propaganda outlet for the Russian government
- The DDoS attack flooded the news website with malicious traffic, blocking access for at least several hours
- It is the first attack in an expected wave of "cyber activism" against the Russian government
- Hackers identifying with the Anonymous collective announced they had launched cyber operations that briefly took down RT.com, as well as the websites of the Kremlin, the Russian government and the Russian defence ministry websites.
RT.com confirmed the attack took place, saying it slowed some websites down while taking others offline for "extended periods of time".
I love how people like to call that hacking.
That's not hacking. That's firing up a botnet.
In 2012 they hacked FBI
in 2015 Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, The New York Times, and BBC New
in 2020 UN
they are quite skilled https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_(hacker_group)
RT case isn't real hacking - hackers hacks few tens of thousands of ordinary computers in homes and small companies that are without any protection and then just send requests to attacked website. Server can't answer to such amount of requests and going down. SGT also is under such attack from time to time.
By the way: now you see how "correct" were Western mass-media and govts in accusation of Russia in attacks of Anonymous Group and their links to FSB and Kremlin.
While we are watching news from Ukraine, I want to show to you some photos.
This place in Donetsk named Volley of Angels. It is located in the "capital" of so named Donetsk Republic - region of so named separatists, where Russians are majority.
Volley of Angels is child cemetery and memorial place for kids who were killed by Ukrainian nationalists at past 8 years. Numbers on right side - age.
https://cont.ws/uploads/pic/2018/11/ангелы.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FHq0cWeXoAU2O6U.jpg
https://stihi.ru/pics/2021/04/05/1702.jpg
https://cont.ws/uploads/pic/2017/6/photo__900.jpg
All this news from Ukraine is too depressing. I think I'll watch something uplifting about Catherine the Great. Perhaps I'll watch the second series of The Great, where her husband the Czar boasts a lot about the size of his cock. A far more fitting topic for SGT
I wonder how clear eyed Putin is about all this? We all know Putin's subordinates are scared of him, so is he getting accurate and truthful information or is he getting the information that pleases him?
Kinda like how Trump was. Trump doesn't like the forecast of a hurricane? No problem, one of his staff will just grab a marker and draw the forecast Trump likes on the map.
It’s disappointing that goji hasn’t given us the thoughts of the Daily Mail in the past 48 hours
Georgia just announced what country will not support sanctions against Russia. Nobody likes nationalists besides nationalists.
Meh, kind of mundane. However, here's one where Stalin shoved 6000 political prisoners on what was dubbed "Cannibal Island" to farm for the Soviet Union though. It has a little more ooommpfff to it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaOwcYLGTMo
Speaking of Dodger and “free” countries, I see the loopy UK politician Nadine Dorries has called on the UK regulator to monitor the propaganda RT is broadcasting about Ukraine. What a wonderful way to show Russia that we in the West believe in freedom of speech - by threatening to censor a broadcaster we don’t like. That is exactly the position of goji and Dodger who want every member here whose posts they don’t like banned whereas Moses who belongs to (in their view to an “unfree nation) has dismissed their demands. I suppose the Mods will allow me to keep the words “loopy” and “Dodger” in the same sentence
The real surprise is watching the protests that are occurring around the World also being staged in Russia.
We've passed the brink...all the pieces on the board are frantically being moved...and one day, after we're all gone, the history books will show the end results. I hate missing the end of a suspenseful movie, but unfortunately the final chapter will take forever to write, and by the time it's complete, we'll all be dust.