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Apr 11, 2024 12:34:17 GMT
Post by captainconfident on Apr 11, 2024 12:34:17 GMT
Just wait, there are reportedly buyers in the market, waiting for the price to jump when the foreign government front companies come into the market.
Narcissists like Trump can't bear to look like a loser with a penny share company. What's the betting that the money is pumped in in time for him to cash his shares and fill his pockets? Influence never came so cheap for the oil giants.
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Post by captainconfident on Apr 11, 2024 11:16:17 GMT
"There is nothing that exists so great or marvellous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less" wrote Lucretius in about 75bc. And this is certainly true of Truth Social shares. It is a new daily pleasure to check how much they have sunk.
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Post by captainconfident on Apr 8, 2024 23:41:19 GMT
Just 7% fossil (CCGT) right now. Remember, 69% renewable doesn't mean 31% fossil... Nuclear is not renewable. Likewise, biomass is not carbon neutral. This week ... 20, 40, 20, rest imported, so it's 25% of UK generation, so yeah slight misreading ... but point remains ... renewable doesn't address it or isn't the solution currently or in the near future I’m a glass 3/4 full type of guy.
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Post by captainconfident on Apr 6, 2024 12:02:15 GMT
Britain has used very little fossil for electricity generation this week. gridwatch.co.uk/
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Post by captainconfident on Apr 5, 2024 17:53:34 GMT
I keep getting called by London numbers and the caller begins "I am calling from O2...". I just shut these off and block the number. But they are right, I'm with O2.
Yesterday this was covered on You and Yours. Its a company called plan.com who will switch you out of 02 and on to a more expensive plan if you let them. And the reason you might let them is that they have an awful lot of details about you, and give the impression that you are being moved to a cheaper plan with O2. But where they got your name, home address and knowledge of your call and data usage remains a mystery. O2 deny any involvement.
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Post by captainconfident on Apr 5, 2024 17:22:03 GMT
I have had comrade Michaelc under observation for some years now, and he has never said anything pro-Russian. Anti Ukrainian mother-in-law certainly but not pro Russian.
If you take some time to read some of the last 300 plus pages, you will see far more mysterious contributors, the direction of whose suggestions would certainly result in benefit to Russia. But michaelc is not your Manchurian Candidate.
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Post by captainconfident on Apr 5, 2024 11:09:36 GMT
Agreed, he is an old man with unlimited power who has gone all in on a megalomaniac fantasy. "unlimited power" might be stretching it. He's busily bankrupting his country to try and keep a faded-glory military running on a shoestring. If NATO and especially the US got fully behind Ukraine, Putin's backside would be handed to him by lunchtime. But, of course, that would then raise other issues. Ukraine are also having to fight a war on a shoestring. But this war has demonstrated that the kit costing tens of millions, the sort of shiny things Nato generals love, can be worthless scrap when a shoestring army uses the latest techniques on it. Ukraine has the only other army with modern war experience. In fact as events have shown it is Ukrainians who should be training Nato armies and not vice versa.
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Post by captainconfident on Apr 5, 2024 10:56:38 GMT
Well if he does that I loose a good 6 figure sum in property I own in Kyiv. So no I don't propose that. Why don't you answer my question? I think I did answer your question "....stopped now by any means !" Now you answer mine, "What do you propose" ?
The little man has greater plans than just Ukraine. Moldova (and Transnistria) can be brought back into the fold and then he's eying Georgia. Re-instaing the USSR is his pet project. His words "‘The breakup of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical tragedy of the 20th century.’
I'm also pretty sure at some point he WILL test NATO's resolve at the Suwalki Gap to try and link Kaliningrad. Mark my words !
Agreed, he is an old man with unlimited power who has gone all in on a megalomaniac fantasy. What i fear in this scenario is that our peacetime peacekeeping generals fail to adapt the Nato armies fast enough to the new realities, while the Russian army would turn up with fresh experience of modern warfare. What I mean by this is that for instance all squaddies in the British army should right now be retraining as FPV drone operators.
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Post by captainconfident on Apr 4, 2024 19:51:22 GMT
I think the fact that a committed remainer finds this article reasonable and devoid of any remain/leave bias speaks more than I ever could about the fact it is truly biased. I do agree with your points of substances though. It is absurd and somewhat tragic. where is the bias ? Nothing that you have shown in your post evidences that, and the inferences that you drew and cited as evidence of bias simply don't stand up. What it seems to me is that you may have initially read it as if it was about tariffs, which it is not. They are in effect importation/border checking charges. I may have voted to remain, but that doesn't prevent me from doing unbiased critical analysis of an article. Good that we agree about the utter absurdity and economic self harm of the whole s**w up. This article misses the main new red tape that will drive prices up, the need for the exporter in the EU to find "An Official Veterinarian (OV) or other Certifying Officer, authorised by the Competent Authority [4]
(CA) in the country of origin, may need to examine the consignment and/or inspect any appropriate
records or documents. They need to confirm that the consignment meets Great Britain’s animal and
public health requirements as appropriate, for example that it or the region is free from contamination
or disease."assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6585b33723b70a000d234ea5/Defra-Health-Certificates-Leaflet.pdf
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Post by captainconfident on Apr 4, 2024 19:40:23 GMT
Scaremongering would be to say they are capable of destroying the entire world many times over. Oh wait, its not scaremongering as its true. I'm truly shocked that someone has sucked up the propaganda so much that they believe Russia would be incapable of bombing the UK. Tell me its not true ? I hope you are at least well paid spreading this disinfo . Nice try . There is no point to tell someone like you anything cos you have a job to do here michaelc is not a Russian agent and his contributions and those of some others currently dormant give this thread a welcome dynamic. Otherwise we'd just be an echo chamber and it would fizzle and die.
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Post by captainconfident on Apr 2, 2024 16:25:01 GMT
Its a clone of Twitter with practically 1 member. Its got to scale up rapidly or the burn rate if the new capital is going to spook the investors more. Problem for a clone of twitter is everyone is on Twitter. Why post somewhere where nobody reads it?I guess only if you have been banned from Twitter (which appears to be difficult recently). Well you have to say that Elon Musk has played a blinder by allowing all the alt-right and conspiracy nutjobs and indeed Katie Hopkins back on Twitter. Thats undermined Trump Social's one selling point.
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Post by captainconfident on Apr 2, 2024 15:31:36 GMT
Shares of Donald Trump's social media company fell by more than 20% on Monday, less than a week after it began publicly trading under the DJT ticker. The drop comes after Trump Media & Technology Group reported it had lost nearly $60m (£48m) last year while only bringing in around $4m in revenue.
I wonder what Mr Micawbe would have made of that.
Its a clone of Twitter with practically 1 member. Its got to scale up rapidly or the burn rate if the new capital is going to spook the investors more. Problem for a clone of twitter is everyone is on Twitter. Why post somewhere where nobody reads it?
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Post by captainconfident on Apr 2, 2024 10:05:43 GMT
Another excellent essay on Russia by Lawrence Freedman. open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/putin-the-fanaticAs far as the idea that Putin would accept a treaty that Ukraine should cede its four provinces and go its own way:- All those aspects of the Western way of life that Putin despises must now be banished from Russia. This goes beyond crushing political dissent and the propagation of patriotic and militaristic themes, but also an assertion of the superiority of Russian civilisation. Those wanting to see where this has led might consult a document released by the Russian Orthodox Church Moscow Patriarchate, for approval by the World Russian People’s Council in Moscow on 27/28 March. This affirmed that Russia is fighting a ‘holy war.’ This is presented as an imperialist project, to create an expanded homeland for all Russian people, including the sub-groups of Belarussians and Ukrainians, where their culture and spirituality will be honoured, and also as a defensive struggle against the ‘globalism’ and ‘satanism’ that has gripped the West.
Putin goes along with this. He appears to be at one with the Church in its determination to resist what is described as the ‘international LGBT movement,’ and has now been designated as ‘terroristic’. Crackdowns have begun. This is not a new theme for Putin. As early as 2013 the Kremlin banned the propaganda of ‘non-traditional sexual relations among minors.’ After the full-scale invasion any public reference to LGBT lifestyles became illegal. The sinister Patriarch Kirill, head of the Orthodox Church and reportedly a former KGB Man, has identified gay pride parades in Kyiv as one reason why the invasion was vital. Additional items on the list of extremists and terrorists are followers of the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Jehovah’s Witnesses and the tech company Meta.
It is easy to dismiss this as deranged nonsense but that would be a mistake. It illuminates the ideological underpinnings of Putinism. It takes us far away from attempts to understand this war as the result of NATO enlargement and the West’s supposedly unreasonable policies which allegedly goaded Russia into otherwise unnaturally aggressive behaviour. The inability to grasp Putin’s deeply reactionary and obsessive views, with his idiosyncratic view of history, could be seen in Tucker Carlton’s increasing bewilderment as he attempted to interview Putin in early February.
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Post by captainconfident on Mar 31, 2024 10:27:38 GMT
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Post by captainconfident on Mar 30, 2024 15:43:50 GMT
None, as no libel has been committed. The press is simply reporting the facts, namely that the police have made a statement saying that he has been charged. Actually, the Police initial statement didn't name him, as I understand it. They just said that "...a man aged .... has been charged with". It was his own letter to the party that 'outed' him - along with the prior deletion of this social media accounts etc. - and hence the press are reporting that. If he is found not guilty, it will create as big headlines as the initial charges. That will be his vindication. Not sure what else one might or could expect. The press can't apologies or repay him for reporting that he announced his resignation due to charges of rape brought by the PSNI. Perhaps the law should be changed so that presumed innocent people are not paraded around the media unless and until they are found guilty. Not being named before being found guilty is the system in NL and Belgium. As suggested, it does stop speculation in the press about individuals who might be innocent. One thinks of the guy in Bristol, Christopher Someone, whom the gutter press tried and found guilty before the police found the actual culprit. In the Jill Dando case, having arrested the local weirdo, the press baying for blood, the police concentrated on constructing a flimsy case where had they been under less pressure they might gave spent time finding the murderer.
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