A while ago, I had a tremendous idea to put Lamptey up front, assuming that at least he would get us a few penalties.
This is why I'm not a football manager.
Don't say that - you'll give them ideas. Or maybe it's already too late.
I saw a clip of the lovely Margarita Simonyan, head of RT, claiming that most of the propagandists don't exist and were the product of AI.
I presume the editorial decision to say that, was designed to mislead, confuse...
I'm not sure whether I'm fortunate or not here, but in my naivety/innocence, even after having been on this thread almost since the beginning, I still find this
example of Russian disinformation, really quite disturbing.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g2x3kr6lgo
I'm not an economist, but I still enjoy googling 'ruble to usd'. I find that graph compelling. The link is too long to post, but here's another inverse (USD to ruble) version...
Indeed. Also note in the video in post 17283, suggestions of a rise in organised crime with local gangsters and warlords fighting each other. Also people bartering for essentials. Mark Galeotti talks of shoot-outs on the streets of Moscow.
I meant to say that predictions are for a further increase to 23% by year- end.
Mortgage pay rates of 25% anyone?
Then there's inflation. The official rate is 9.4%. Yeah, right. Estimates of the real rate I have read are in the 20s. 22%, 24% and 27%.