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Richard Seager's avatar

One theory that I saw in the comments somewhere was that Ukrainians were 70% holdouts on the vaccines.

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Geez, that comment went up immediately. I guess the delay for my comments to your blog has been removed.

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Stegiel's avatar

As cases, deaths soar in Russia, why are vaccination rates low ...

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A staggering 62 percent of Russians do not want to get vaccinated, and 56 percent are not afraid of getting the virus, according to a survey by the Levada Center pollster conducted in April. This...

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Richard Seager's avatar

“It is just as reliable as Kalashnikov assault rifles,”

Russian President Vladimir Putin boasted in May.

Is it just, Vlad.

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Stegiel's avatar

Actually my supposition is Vlad is the front man/Obama if you will for the Oligarchs. Vlad is very popular. His government not so much. Secondly let us not forget Russia is dependent on China. China would be very unhappy if Russia contradicted their zero Covid policy by breaking ranks. I am increasingly convinced or maybe convincing myself that Russia and China are joined at the hip and China is senior partner. And in light of the information of Golitsyn the reason is the Chinese Communist Party had the Soviet baton passed to them. https://fitzinfo.net/perestroika-deception/

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Richard Seager's avatar

A friend in Warsaw posited that to me about a month ago. That Russia and China had reached some sort of agreement ala Ribbentrop / Molotov for a carve up of the world at the Winter Olympics.

Last time I was in Russia (about 6 years ago) Putin didn't seem too popular.

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Stegiel's avatar

Opinion polls show him doing very well being tough on the Ukraine. Again his personality but not his government.

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Rob (c137)'s avatar

I'm pro union, as they help raise wages and working conditions of everybody.

One example where they are needed, is at Amazon.

If only the government enforced labor laws effectively, there wouldn't be a need for unions. But they don't... They serve corporations.

but these days unions are owned.. Especially the teacher unions.

Even the Amazon unionization drives have been ignored by established unions.

I think this will wake people up to the good of unions and the bad of establishment unions.

It's about time we de-corporatize unions.

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Stegiel's avatar

Unions were bought long ago in usual fashion of haves (leaders) and labor. For instance Jimmy Hoffa and his mob ties. Or Daniel Coia of the Carpenter's Union donating golf equipment worth $100,000 to Clinton. Labor got where it was due to being militant. Molly McGuires come to mind. In a sense however we can speak of the Bourgeois mind of labor. Labor is reluctant to press ownership hard due to mis-leadership.

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Rob (c137)'s avatar

Yeah, and the police were originally hired goons from the mob.

Does that mean the police are the mob now?

Actually, yes. During the strikes in Detroit, president sent in the national guard to protect striking workers from the police which were bashing heads in.

So yes histories are peppered... But judge by what they do now.

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Stegiel's avatar

Once soldiers were police. Then we modernized. https://time.com/4779112/police-history-origins/

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