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I saw the bit where it said it shut down for maintenance in late August, then never restarted before the explosion.

Check out the Youtube video starting at 4 minutes 52 seconds. Then post a link to the post I made where you say I am claiming to be an award winning journalist.

You don't seem to understand Putin gets told what he wants to hear. Giving bad news to a despot results in poisoning, defenestration or incarceration in a gulag. Sorry, I forgot. Words of more than one syllable are difficult for you.

I have read the link, which supports my assertion you are a liar. I have yet to see you post a link to anything.

If it's not big hooters, it's big bums. Nicky Minaj or Kim Kardashian size. I prefer petite women. With the big ones, I feel like a tube of toothpaste being squashed in the middle.

Fibber. You are really going there in the hope of hooking up with one of the well-endowed ladies in the video. Why do Americans have an obsession with large mammaries?

Perhaps you lack the comprehension skills to understand it is Trump himself on Youtube at one of his rallies, making the statement " I don't care about you, I just want your vote". Perhaps you are being deliberately thick. Perhaps you think Trump making said statement is an AI artifact designed by pinko Commie lefties. It's hard to detect rational thought in conspiracy theorists. I don't know how you get your jollies out of describing me as an award winning journalist. As a personal attack, it's pretty lame and repetitive.

I have not had general anaesthesia in Thailand. In Australia, the anaesthetist fee is about 15% of the total fee for a cystoscopy. At Bangkok Hospital in Chiang Mai, the fee for a cystoscopy under local anaesthesia is 18,000 baht. With general anaesthesia, it is 55,000 baht.

Liar. Supply was suspended in early September, the last of a series of suspensions dragged out over preceding months. The pipeline was destroyed on September 26, 2022. LIAR.

Obviously, evasion and deflection are part of your posting paraphernalia. Put up or shut up.

As another poster has said, Putin shut off the gas to Europe well before the destruction of the pipeline. And Gazprom was facing huge penalties for breach of contract as a result. Perhaps you have not heard, Putin owns half of Gazprom. The "cancer of the planet" enables world trade, both in a reserve currency and ocean security. Please tell me who the hell wants yuan, rubles, reals or rands. Do you realize China would be stuffed if the US withdrew its navy, abandoned Diego Garcia,and allowed unchecked piracy in the Indian Ocean? Be careful what you wish for.

Can you post any media which states "so many" nations want to join BRICS. I suspect this is another product of your fervid imagination.

Not really, it is more accurate to describe it as self - sufficient. Its production cost is also higher with shale oil and gas than conventional wells. Venezuala has by far the most oil reserves of any country. However, its only big customer is China, due to sanctions by the US and EU.

I suggest you post proof of that assertion. A more likely scenario is Gazprom itself blew up the pipeline after Putin banned exports of gas to so-called unfriendly countries. Gazprom was facing billions of dollars of penalties in breach of contract. With the pipeline gone, it became force majeure, under which no penalties applied. Most contracts are written in US dollars, how many do you think Russia has after being shut out of the world financial system?

Putin can hardly be called a statesman after being designated a war criminal, rightly so. IIRC America elected an actor too, Ronald Reagan ring any bells? He sowed the seeds of the downfall of the Soviet Union, Zelensky could cause the collapse of the Russian Federation. You seem to think the Russian Federation is one big happy family. Georgia, Dagestan, North Caucasus and Chechnya prove otherwise.

True, Russia is richly endowed with natural resources. The problem is getting them out of the ground, transporting them, then selling them. The Soviet education system collapsed back in 1985. The trained scientists and engineers it has are all in their mid-sixties. That's not helped by the average Russian life expectancy being less than 70. The Russian demographic is shrinking, badly. The European gas market is gone. It won't come back unless there is a revolution in Russia. Meantime, building pipelines to India and China will take 7-10 years, with capital Russia does not have. If it was to switch to LNG, it would have to build from scratch, with engineers and expertise Russia does not have. The same thing with oil. Russia can only ship oil in small ageing vessels which the Western insurers refuse to cover. At a price $20 under the world price. I've already explained how dependent the oil wells are on Western technology. Any student of history understands the economy of the United States was nearly broken by the war in Vietnam, and that's a country with 11 times the GDP of Russia. Russia MAY win the war in Ukraine, but at what cost? To borrow Bill Hayden's quote, a drover's dog could win against Trump. He's a convicted felon.

Russia is winning? It has failed to achieve air supremacy over Ukraine. The Black Sea navy has been forced to retreat from Sevastapol to Novorossiysk to stay out of reach of precision missiles. In other words, it has lost control of the Black Sea to a nation with no navy. Due to widespread corruption in the military, soldiers in the frontline are getting North Korean ammunition well past its use by date, flak jackets made from cardboard, and out-of-date food rations. Plus about two days of training before they are thrown into the meat grinder. Russia is drawing its troops from prisoners and ethnic minorities, and it is running out of both. The sh!t will really hit the fan when Putin has to draft people from Moscow and St. Petersburg, which he has been studiously avoiding. Its economy is in tatters. Half of its passenger aircraft are being cannibalized to service the other half. Buy a plane ticket from Moscow to Vladivostok if you want to play the new version of Russian Roulette. The European gas market is gone forever. An interest rate of 15% says everything about the valuation of the ruble. Russian oil wells in the permafrost are freezing up because the Western technologists who maintained them are gone. As is all Western capital normally used to fund new development. I don't believe I have said "Ukraine is winning". I have said I support Ukraine against illegal aggression. Along with other economic problems too extensive to mention, all these facts indicate Russia is heading towards being a failed state, or a vassal of China. I take it you have heard the term "Pyrrhic victory". Whatever happens in Ukraine, Russia is rooted.

Gemini is an artificial intelligence program which can be asked medical questions. Access it by typing Gemini into the Google search bar. Once in, you can type in a question such as "What are the risks of Urolift surgery" and it will answer, usually less than 10 seconds to respond. It won't get involved in political questions, which is probably not such a bad thing.

My guess is the closest you have got to understanding statistics is your losing bet on a roulette wheel. IIRC the sound bite is on YouTube.

Google is your friend,

Agree. I fixed my high blood pressure and gastric reflux with diet and exercise changes, and weaned myself off anti-inflammatories and anti-depressants. Having said that, I can't do much to reverse BPH, or bulging spinal discs and chronic osteo-arthritis of the lower spine. For those ailments, I am grateful for modern medicine.

There are other risks with Urolift. Ask Gemini.

Male and female Thais do very well for themselves on the world golf circuits. Ariya Jutanagarn was ranked the world's #1 female golfer in 2017. While there is some argument over who is the GOAT in golf, Tiger Woods is up there with Nicklaus and Hogan in any discussion. Tiger Woods is half Thai.

What did you think you saw?

IME Mitsubishi is the most reliable and durable brand.