The Rebels meet the legal definition of soldiers. And many of them are ex Russian army so they likely had people with the training to use the anti-aircraft launcher without needing training from Russia. It's also possible that supporters in Russia (family and friends) could have sent the tanks and APC's, but not without the Russian government knowing about it. In political circles allowing others to move heavy weapons through your country to a war zone counts as military support.

Russians clearly "like" the separatists in Ukraine, and there are clearly Russians with military training/experience pouring into the region to help with the fight- but if the Russian military was directly involved the war would have ended by now instead of Ukraine pushing them back.

They have a defined country, wear military uniforms, and have a chain of command. That makes them soldiers just as clearly as Union soldiers in the American civil war were soldiers.

There have been Ukrainian military aircraft overflying the Russian separatists. Even if all those flights are for is mapping rebel positions for attack, those aircraft are still a valid military target. I doubt the rebels have IFF systems (means to avoid shooting at civilian aircraft) and they probably expected civilian aircraft to avoid their airspace (a reasonable airliner would have avoided overflying them) so their accidental shooting down of a civilian airliner is perfectly reasonable. The Russians and the Ukrainians taking turns slandering each other on Wikipedia is just damage control, and expected.

Traffic cameras should only be used in high accident intersections, assuming your goal is safety.

There is no (proven) scientific correlation between speeding and accidents. There is a correlation between reckless driving and accidents. There are numerous peer reviewed scientific studies that prove raising speed limits (selectively) would reduce accidents.

If the company publicly states that the data is private and only disclosed via warrant then that court ruling applies. If the ISP declares the data accessible to the police at will, then the client loses their expectation of privacy and the court ruling doesn't apply.

The news here is Google has found they don't need you to give your real name anymore, that they have found other ways to get that without actually asking.

Look at prices, we're getting double digit inflation right now only you can't see it because the government is hiding it.

Avoid the medical profession, as the 1st world governments and hospitals are trying to squeeze them to lower costs.

Construction, electrician, plumber, welder. You can't offshore these jobs, they must be done here. There are jobs everywhere because everyone wants a house. People will always want a house so the jobs are safe. It's not glamorous like a rock star, but it pays well and there are plenty of jobs.

The headquarters (guys in charge of everything) is in the USA, so they can just order that undone in response to a judicial demand. The only way to stop this now is for the clients in Europe to get a court order to prevent it.

Most of Microsoft is outside the USA, but the headquarters is in the USA and they call themselves an American company. If they want to continue doing so they will turn over the data.

Technical fix: have the American branch of the company a separate corporation. It can't give orders to the server admins outside the country that way.

Cash isn't anonymous. Every time you spend cash it eventually gets scanned and the numbers sent to the government. You take cash from the bank, scan. The gas station deposits that money, scan. You might have paid a hooker with it, and then she bought cash- but if they can trace all the other money from the gas station to tourists then it's more likely it was you buying gas.