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  1. 13 minutes ago, Bill said:

    There’s considerably more chance the atrocity was orchestrated by Moscow than Kiev. The long-established policy is the pretence that passes for an election in Russia is always accompanied by a tragedy and external threats. 

    Some odd things going on for sure.

     

    Moscow is one of the most highly surveilled cities on the planet, yet despite there being a police department within the Crocus City Hall buildings, and that the RosGvardia military base for the city is located 4.4km away... it took 90 minutes for the authorities to show up.

     

    I'm sure its nothing.

  2. 24 minutes ago, ChelseaBoy said:

    Oh they will not like that. 

    So nice not to see dBs incoherent trolling. 

     

     

    Meh.  Its something like day 8 or 9 of reports showing these "Banderite" sympathising Russians shelling Belgorod.  Impossible to say how this will end up, but it seems the strategy is to take the fight onto Russian soil.

  3. I think at Lundstram's age we would surely just be looking at a one or two year extension only?  That seemed to be the model for Arfield, Jack, McGregor and one or two others in recent years.  Saying that, I could well see that he wants to secure a long term deal and that might mean him moving on.

     

  4. Hibs have a cheek to complain with the way the kettle away supporters and delay entrance to Easter road.   There’s a serious accident waiting to happen there.   I’m only surprised it hasn’t already happened. 

  5. 3 hours ago, CammyF said:

    Nah, home school the kids and DIY dentistry ala Bob Mortimer 😀

    Don’t worry. He’s working with Jeff Linton on that project. I’ve heard good things. 

  6. Agree - 3 x tough fixtures.  Going to need a player or two to show up with some extra quality in the final third of the pitch.

     

    I fancy Dessers and Fabio to show up well though, and its about time we had a few cameo goals from Roofe.

  7. 53 minutes ago, Sutton_blows_goats said:

    Many employers will only allow EV's through their car scheme. And that has filtered down from investors and shareholders. My wife and I's included. Its an EV cartel essentially. A small EV as a second car would be fine but we need a good size estate / SUV for our bigger family car and an EV doesn't have the range or recharge times to suit a family with younger kids. A larger hybrid would be ideal for us as well as the tax relief on using these schemes. Bering forced down the EV route is a frustration and the company car situation explains the increasing volumes of EV's on the road. I would be very surprised if EV's were a popular choice for private ownership.

    It does strike me that the industry and battery capacity are on the verge of changing the dynamics of buying patterns.  Once you get cars that will have a real-life range of 300-350 miles, the case for electric becomes a lot more attractive.  As a for example, you could make it to the south coast of england from central belt Scotland with just one re-charge.  The main limitations are price, electric is pricing comes at a premium; and charging infrastructure - particularly in more remote areas, but also capacity on main road arteries.

     

    I expect that the tax collected from company cars must be diminishing significantly, to the point were a near-future Chancellor will look to equalise the benefit in kind calculations.  

     

  8. On 01/03/2024 at 16:03, Bill said:

    The way things are going, anyone with an EV is going to find it almost unsellable. Huge losses on the horizon. 

    Whilst company car tax incentives are structured as they are, a chunk of the market will continue through fleet purchases.  The car market is taking a downturn generally though.  The uptick in the second hand market saved them and gave them a boom period post-Covid whilst interest rates were still low... 

  9. 2 minutes ago, Sutton_blows_goats said:

    Interesting looking at the GPL threads many posters have him down as FGS often. Supporters believe in him now and its deserved.

    The difference in him since those first few games of the season is incredible.  He was lumbering, lacked sharpness and confidence.  Now he's the complete opposite, albeit he has a bit of the Kenny Millers about him when he is 1v1 with the keeper and has time to think.

  10. Was always the fear in advance that we concede the first goal as it plays into the hands of Killie's game plan perfectly.  Thankfully it happened early enough in the game that we were able to turn it around.  Credit has to go to the players for adapting, albeit some better than others.


    For me the swap of Dessers for Silva was key.  Too many balls in the first half were going long into Silva who either wasn't getting on the end at all, or was outmuscled.

     

    But it was the 3 bits of quality in relatively short order that won the game.  Butland's save, then then two goals.  Clement earning his stripes yet again by making the changes necessary.  

  11. 16 hours ago, ranger_syntax said:

    No point in discussing it.

     

    He just waits to be told what the approved opinion is.

     

    It would take you about twenty seconds to learn that elsewhere.

    That makes no sense whatsoever.  But you crack on too 

  12. 2 hours ago, Idisi said:

    He works for a Canadian university. That means, in one of the most hardcore supporters of Ukraine. Remember the SS guy at their parlament? How likely is it that he would keep his job if he was a "falsifier"?

     

    Who wrote that report then. Since you like to look at persons first, information second, it seems.

     

    A journalist writing mainly "independent" articles like these?

     

    https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/russians-and-tucker-carlson-putin-interview

     

    I will read the article by Ivan later and see, If it holds up to supposed facts. :tu:

    Crack on 👍

  13. 23 minutes ago, Idisi said:

    He works for a Canadian university. That means, in one of the most hardcore supporters of Ukraine. Remember the SS guy at their parlament? How likely is it that he would keep his job if he was a "falsifier"?

     

    Who wrote that report then. Since you like to look at persons first, information second, it seems.

     

    A journalist writing mainly "independent" articles like these?

     

    https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/russians-and-tucker-carlson-putin-interview

     

    I will read the article by Ivan later and see, If it holds up to supposed facts. :tu:

    Crack on and make up your own mind.  🤜

  14. 3 hours ago, der Berliner said:

    Not that it was ever in doubt, or those in the know did ever suspect otherwise ...

     

    The Ukrainians themselves had a trial with regard to the Maidan massacre and issued a verdict on October 18th, 2023.

    Buried trial verdict confirms false-flag Maidan massacre in Ukraine

    Ukrainian-Canadian political scientist and professor Ivan Katchanovski on the hidden origins of the Russia-Ukraine war

    A nearly one-million-word verdict from Ukraine’s Maidan massacre trial has recently confirmed that many Maidan activists were shot not by members of Ukraine’s Berkut special police force or other law enforcement personnel but by snipers in the far-right-controlled Hotel Ukraina and other Maidan-controlled locations a decade ago today. The verdict, handed down on October 18, 2023, states specifically that this hotel was controlled by Maidan activists and that an armed, far-right-linked Maidan group was in the hotel and fired from it. It also confirms that there was no Russian involvement in the massacre and that no massacre orders were issued by then President Viktor Yanukovych or his ministers. The verdict concludes that the Euromaidan was at the time of this massacre not a peaceful protest but a “rebellion” that involved the killing of Berkut and other police personnel.

    This is an important official acknowledgement, not only because the violence represented the most significant case of mass murder, violent crime, and human rights violations in independent Ukraine to that point, but also because of the subsequent conflicts to which it has led or contributed. Notably, the massacre precipitated the violent overthrow of Yanukovych and his government, who were falsely blamed for carrying it out. It then spiralled into the Russian annexation of Crimea, the subsequent civil war and Russian interventions in the Donbas, and the conflicts between Ukraine and Russia, and between Russia and the Western powers, which Russia dramatically escalated with its illegal invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. ...

    https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/buried-trial-verdict-confirms-false-flag-maidan-massacre-in-ukraine-2024 

     

    As the saying goes: the only reason why there has been no coup in the US is that there is no US consulate (including CIA agents) in the country.

     

    And, as it happens, the NYT "exclusively finds out that the there are 12 CIA holes in Ukraine ...

     

     

     

    “Ivan Katchanovski is a falsifier of the contemporary history of Ukraine”


    https://ivan-katchanovski.blogspot.com/?m=1

     

    wot mean?

     

  15. 7 minutes ago, Sutton_blows_goats said:

    It would be extremely cynical of me to suggest this war has been a good excuse to use up antiquated military equipment and leave Ukraine in a debt they might ever struggle to pay back. Easy to leave billions of dollars worth of stuff during the quick retreat in Afgan when its going to be recouped and then some elsewhere.

     

    Tanks are expensive, don't traverse terrain well, are fuel thirsty, require a large amount of man hours in training and operations. Meanwhile the technology used in the mitigation to tanks cost a fraction of the price, are automated and can be made in abundance by the main players in arms. 

     

    At a guess we wont see many of the main military powers investing in Tanks moving forward. War has moved on. 

     

     

    Very cynical, but given their ongoing use and adaptions (i just read about the Russians creating cope cages), it would seem they've a way to go yet before they are obsolete.

     

     

  16. 1 hour ago, Idisi said:

    The Leopards were send only after the US agreed to sent Abrams. Then the US took a step back, leaving the Leopards in the first line. The Abrams are somewhere in Ukraine, why they are or were not used, who knows?!

    Game changer is neither tank, nor Himars, nor Storm Shadow, nor Taurus, nor F-16. Unless they send hundreds of them and conduct hybrid warfare.

    The one "game-changer" that was visible on the battlefields is glide-bombs. They used a few hundred of them against Avdeevka, so there was no second Bakhmut.

    There are reports of Abrams now being used.  I can only assume that the Ukraine forces needed some training to adapt to them, or that there was some other hold up in terms of spare parts/weaponry needed for them to function that was delayed by the (so far successful) attempts to thwart the Ukraine bill in Congress by the Maga cohort of the Republican party.

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