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alexro··on Russian whistleblower was assassinated after uncovering $200B scandal (2018)
How this proves that the money

1) has been moved 'illegally' (which authority is responsible)

2) linked to Putin's family personally

3) linked to the 'uncovered' scheme

This is what I call jumping between the facts

alexro··on Russian whistleblower was assassinated after uncovering $200B scandal (2018)
So, how this is considered to be corruption if money are moved to somewhere? Isn't it what every government is doing, including various US funds helping all kinds of crooks abroad?
alexro··on Russian whistleblower was assassinated after uncovering $200B scandal (2018)
Your source is jumping big between the facts too
alexro··on Russian whistleblower was assassinated after uncovering $200B scandal (2018)
Is anyone able to explain how they have jumped from this

"Andrei Kozlov was gunned down in 2006, weeks after trying to shutter the world’s biggest money-laundering scam"

to this

"—one reportedly used by Putin’s family and the FSB." ?

alexro··on What Is a Nation? (2015)
There are different kinds of elite: nationalists or globalists/cosmopolitans
alexro··on What Is a Nation? (2015)
Kurds aren't a nation, they're different tribes. Have different views, speak different languages/dialects
alexro··on Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram Restricted in Southern Turkey
Through the whole history we don't know and will never know what's really happened/happening. Have you got an idea of how badly native population of America have been dealt with back then? DO you know what's happening in Kashmiri, Yemen, Africa, etc?
alexro··on Ivan Golunov, an investigative reporter at Meduza, has been arrested in Moscow
Is his question not valid?
alexro··on Huawei’s Yearslong Rise Is Littered with Accusations of Theft and Dubious Ethics
If we follow this logic rigorously, how then to explain that Huawei is actually got some of the best smartphones and other products not found across the competitors?
alexro··on Bitcoin Takes Bigger Wall Street Stage with Smooth CME Debut
Fundamentals are same as in social networks. But we don't know yet how to formalize them clearly.
alexro··on American companies should say No to Saudi demands to geoblock content
== quality of life ==

by who's standards?

alexro··on North Korea nuclear test: Hydrogen bomb 'missile-ready'
The rules are those that the US or "combined west" sets up.
alexro··on Why we moved from Angular 2 to Vue.js and why we didn’t choose React
Wait, but TypeScript makes inheritance a joy. So, how you do it - unless you don'r really reuse the implementation?
alexro··on All 50 startups from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Demo Day 1
How can all the people passing before the camera to opt in?
alexro··on French election: Macron defeats Le Pen
Did she set up concentration camps or plans to?
alexro··on Hull teacher held in Chinese jail for 'not being a friend of the country'
China, Russia, Turkey, Saudis do horrible things with their own hands, whereas the West has found a cleaner way to employ a middle man for that.
alexro··on Blockchain: A Better Way to Track Pork Chops, Bonds, Bad Peanut Butter?
Isn't it so difficult to grasp that you need a blockchain only and only if you want to avoid trusting someone in a (meaningful) transactional system? And you're ready to pay the price.
alexro··on Bitcoin Miners Signal Revolt Amid Sluggish Blockchain
"38%" is still a minority, isn't it? Besides, this is counting miners, but what about businesses - almost none are interested.
alexro··on Bitcoin Miners Signal Revolt Amid Sluggish Blockchain
"Economic majority" of bitcoin space have already agreed not to follow BU, that's why not many talk about it.
alexro··on Bitcoin Miners Signal Revolt Amid Sluggish Blockchain
Crypto-currency runs not on faith but on greed, which is the same motivator banksters run on, but put under control.
alexro··on Maersk and IBM aim to get 10M shipping containers onto blockchain
>> is it just marketing hype?

It is now moving in the direction of becoming a politically only acceptable solution, when no one can impose any negative judgment making the solution provider look malicious even before anything bad happens.

So kind of a measure to eliminate potential risk

alexro··on A $10K tiny house 3D-printed in 24 hours
Print the walls and let this guy to do the rest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_Uoq6JYKbw
alexro··on Tesla Tanks After Goldman Downgrades to Sell
If you like to risk buy Bitcoin instead. None of the Bitcoin buyers who held on the investment ever lost money.
alexro··on Elon Musk: Humans must merge with machines or become irrelevant in AI age
Humans must unmerge with machines and make AI irrelevant
alexro··on Living on the Edge – Story of an Iranian Student in US
Somehow its becoming just that: 51/49 split everywhere
alexro··on Living on the Edge – Story of an Iranian Student in US
What'd you say if a chap you knew at school then turned up on the ISIS reports? This isn't a fantastic scenario isn't it?
alexro··on The UK Is About to Legalize Mass Surveillance
Petition against these laws https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/173199
alexro··on Uganda is shutting down schools funded by Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates
>> The key point here is "lincensed": totalitarian (or banana republics) and corrupt regimes have this convenient way of "licensing" to throw away anyone they don't like. <<

Isn't it something they learnt from the developed countries? Never mind patent trolls

alexro··on Fidel Castro has died
US is not part of International Criminal Court either. So what's the point?
alexro··on .NET Framework – What's New in C# 7.0
Are we back to the 90-ties with no code highlights in text?
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