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Ideally no. However, not for nothing was Robespierre's role in the French Revolution called 'The Terror'...., whereby all avenues for the accused to defend themselves were removed. He himself was executed because , in the end, he scared everyone, and had lost the support of the public.

Coming soon, on Kindle, and a bookshop near you..... 'Robespierre - A Man Misunderstood' by V I Kington

The difference being.... that day in day out loads of people buy stuff that they need from Tesco, the company makes big profits, and Netflix has zillions of paying subscribers for the service they provide. All that's happened is that Netflix have got complacent..., their rate of increase in subscribers has plateaued, and they're going to have to review some aspects of their subscribing/charging structures. Crypto..... ??? Duh. Nil, nothing, zilch.

I'm not a "Trader", I'm a "Risk Manager". Your words, make up your mind, and yes I have learned to read. By the way, I was a software engineer too, in a previous life. You don't need to be a software engineer, or any other kind of engineer, to learn how to do trading, and put it into practice. As it happens, my interest in cryptocurrencies is almost zero, similar to V'ton, but from a slightly different viewpoint. I invest in a particular direction because I prefer to feel that in doing so, I'm contributing to making a better world through soundly run companies that make things or provide a service. Crypto is not a productive asset in that way, ... the only reason to own it is to sell it to someone else at a higher price. As in, it's socially useless.

You're playing with words here. You're a trader. What you're trying to convey is that you're not a 'day trader', sitting at home with their laptop, congratulating yourself on coming out on top, and having made £10 that day, and completely 'forgetting' about the £xxx amount they've lost on many other days. Professional trading is all about the management of risk. So fair enough, that's what you're doing, but you're still a trader. Suggest you just be honest about it, rather than trying to cover yourself in some veneer of 'sophistication'.

Yawn.

Probably best.

living room carpet doesn't count.

I had a quick look at that Youtube video, bearing in mind that Chomsky's previous expressed views are along the lines of Trump being only a few steps up from pondlife. If Chomsky really did make the 'statesman' comment about Trump, I would have expected more than a few dissenting utterances in the comments. Instead, in an admittedly short peruse , I could see none. Rather begs the question as to whether Chomsky did say it, and/or, the exact context within the video. The video is, however, 57 minutes long, and I just couldn't be a*sed to trawl all the way through to find out. Who is @Glenn Greenwald when he's at home, anyway ?

Part of the intent/side effect of all the sanctions has crashed the value of the rouble on currency markets. ( Which causes massive price inflation of any imports getting into Russia ) The usual currency that European countries pay for Russian oil/gas is, I think Euros. And that is written into the contracts. If they have to pay for the oil/gas in roubles, then, as their native currency(s) is not roubles, then to be able to pay Russia in roubles, first they must buy roubles from Russia, with presumably Euros, Dollars, etc. This currency market demand for roubles will have the effect of stabilising/increasing the exchange rate of roubles against other currencies, and also brings Euros, Dollars etc into Russia, which they can use in purchases from, say, other countries which are not sanctioning Russia. Think I've got it right.

If you'd bother reading the original link, you'd see that the case was about the willy nilly exiting of people to care homes, whether they were or were not carriers of Covid, into environments not set up for protection against it. Sorry..., more whataboutery, and diversion from you by the looks of it.

Your general attitude looks like .... Yeah, bung em in a care home, and after that, who gives a sh*t..?.."

Nowadays, my definition of a tank is a tracked vehicle, plus a turret lying several yards away.

New 'sister' on the cards... ?

The figure that I recall being mentioned by an unidentified person, mayor of somewhere in Donbas I think, was that about 30% of people in that area were in favour of alignment with/takeover by Russia. This was just prior to the 24th February, as I recall.

Agreed, totally. I do, though, consider it important to call out attempts, or apparent attempts, whether through ignorance or design, to gloss over the sundry behaviours of Britain. You hardly need to search too far on the internet to find the stories of massacres carried out by the British Army in Malaya in the 1950's. Little reference, is said about the fact that the officer/commanding officer ranks of outfits like 3 Para murdering 13 innocent civilians in Ireland in 1972...., were people who'd cut their killing teeth in Malaya years before. Nor much reference to the fact that for 10+ years before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the place had been sanctioned and bombed near enough back to the Stone Age, before the 'weapons of mass destuction' thing was fabricated. Putin is absolutely the villain of this piece. But let's not sit back and bask in some kind of "We don't do that kind of thing...." crap. Because, yes we do.

Funny how the 'rotten apples' things always appears when a government, or police etc want to distance themselves... Long ago, the mid 70's, I worked at an RAF base. My colleagues were various.... civilians, senior NCO's, officers through to mid rank, flight lieutenants. One day, in conversation with a flight lieutenant, then in his 40's, he described working in the Colonial Service in Kenya in the 50's. He described a charge sheet against a detained individual. It comprised one A4 page, from the initial detention. The charge was that the person had one bullet in his possesion. The man was adjudged to be guilty. The sheet finished, that one page, with an officer signing the case off after the execution had been carried out. Rotten apples ? Aye, right. This was policy.

The indignity........

Putin is a poker player, rather than a 'strategic genius. And the Russian attitude to sanctions , or at least the attitude of powerful and wealthy Russians, is/has been.... "..... We know sanctions. We just sit them out, and eventually the foreign businesses come creeping back..."

Rather depends on what you call a subsidy. The £150 is a rebate. The £200 due to also come in is neither a subsidy, a gift or a grant. It's a loan, pure and simple, and will be paid back to the government whether you or I like it or not. On the basis that prior to beginning of April, the rise in the Ofgen cap was, I think , £693..., and the £350 has addressed that by about 50% ish........ I can see come October, the government doing another loan exercise of around £300. That's Tories for you.

Boris Johnson absolutely loving this. Big diversion from all his problems at home.

Looks like there's about 4,000 calories there. About double the recommended. So if you starve through Friday, and grow an extra a*sehole by Sunday, you should be OK.

It's when you have to squint to read the words on P & B.

From your original post, it's fairly obvious that you've 'read the book', and are viewing the subject from an intellectual standpoint.

Not sure that the attention seeking so-called lives of celebs, Hollywood or oherwise, are examples I wish to follow. Ditto just about anything on Channel 4 concerning sex/relationships..., eg, Naked Attraction. In terms of Western societies, polyamory is really just a glossed over version of "... we're not really that committed.... "