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Ben Affleck really was terrible in The Sm of All Fears. The book wasn't much crop either. Not sure why the CIA tasked someone to follow this man: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00787R000700110020-3.pdf

A former RUC officer once told me that, in the UK, the counterfeit DVD industry was largely driven by the IRA as a way to launder drug money, to enable them to purchase American weapons. NORAID were preparing the seed money for the drug purchases. So American money was financing drug cartels which were funding terrorism which were funding Colt and Browning. And people post on this forum about where to buy counterfeit Chinese vapes in Thailand, and consider smuggling to be a victimless crime.

He's probably not an American. Just a persona he's created while living out his final days.

Now he wants reparations.

He seems to be a mouthpiece and apologist for Moscow.

And Putin doesn't know what is in the Letters of Last Resort on the Vanguard subs state. They might read: 1. The balloons gone up lads, head to Australia, wait it out 2. Head to Norfolk, Virginia, place yourself under US Navy command for the expected fight back. 3. Here are the coordinates for Vlad's homes. Hit 'em all. 4. Eff them all, burn the world with what you got. Here are the coordinates for the Kremlin, Whitehouse etc. 5. Your wives and kids are all dead. The late Prime Minister and his similarly deceased Sovereign posthumously leave it to your judgement how to react. Si vis pacem, para bellum. We Come Unseen.

They could do the same in Alaska if they wanted. Russia wants Alaska back., Supporters of Russian Nazis ought to watch their big mouths.

Voters, and politicians, have demanded for years that univerisities only conduct research that is relevant. Pretty much all grant application in the life sciences, for instance, are now required to provide a business plan, or similar, showing how that research will benefit society. Successive cuts in government funding because of things like tax cuts, have caused governments, generally of a conservative nature but not always, to create "in kind" schemes, typically a company funds 50%, government/taxpapyer funds the other half. But mostly your paragraph is tosh. Don't worry, I won't come back to read your retort.

Howmet Aerospace (Pittsburgh) declares force majeure https://seekingalpha.com/news/4428985-howmet-aerospace-may-pause-some-shipments-amid-tariff-disruptions Making kids cry. Nintendos not shipping. https://www.newsweek.com/nintendo-switch-2-pre-orders-paused-due-trump-tariffs-2055462 Americans will get stupider by not reading. Waterstones halting deliveries of books. Most here don't read books though. https://www.retailgazette.co.uk/blog/2025/04/waterstones-trump-tariffs/ Farmers in America will be watching their crops rot now, after CNH Industrial halted shipments from North American and imports from Europe. And they are laying off people at their Wisconsin plant. https://www.farmprogress.com/farming-equipment/cnh-pauses-farm-machinery-shipments-amid-looming-trump-tariffs-industry-on-edge Cue some MAGA Know-it-All Cult member to spin made up some anecdote about a brother/sister/cousin, and declare them to a be a POS companies, so won't be missed. Some other eejit will be furiously fact checking with Chat GPT etc. The incompetant Whitehouse has some members declaring the tariffs are permanent. Others saying they are up for negotiation. Meanwhile as a result, business doesn't know what tariffs they will be paying in 1 week/1 month. 6 months /12 months. Do these eejits seriously think companies are going to take serious investment decisions to relocate plants, somehow recruit a workforce for a competitive rate when US unemployment is 4%, when they don't know what's happening from one week to the next. For cars, tariffs are not a sales tax; they are paid for when the product is imported. Customers like short lead times, getting a car from stock, rather than waiting for it to be built for the. Distributors pay the tariffs, and they employ thousands of Americans. Importers will hold 3 months stock typically. For a I-pace, they'll pay the 10% tariff. For a Defender, they'll pay 20% now. But next week the 47th President might suddenly declare a deal to lower tariffs. He won't be giving that 10%, 20% etc whatever paid back. Or worse, he/she might double tariffs again, because he's a dozy sod or advised by idiots. Aircraft parts makers source stock aluminium, stainless steel, titanium and specific alloys from supplier based on grade and specification, not based on where they are. Now they can't provide an accurate quote to customers because they are buying the material, they are paying the tariff. https://www.stevens-bolton.com/site/insights/articles/-safeguarding-uk-businesses-amidst-us-tariff-introductions https://www.thompsonhine.com/insights/preparing-for-tariffs-impact-on-construction-contracts/

Companies are putting a hold on any investments. The US government with one hand says the tariffs are permanent, and then says thy are up for negotiation. Meanwhile, to establish a new car factory takes 7 years. In the case of JLR, they have 3 months of inventory inside of the US.. 400,000 Americans love them, and buy them. And even with a price rise, hundreds of thousands will continue to buy them. They've not pulled out of the US market, just reconsidering how they will be sold, liely moving ore to ordering on demand, rather than tying up so much inventory. Its highly likely the tariffs will be dopped. The supply chain is complex, with some of the cars originating in the UK, others in the EU. The suspension will cause slow downs and stoppages among JLR's US supply chain (Americans will lose their jobs), and will likely impact Waymo. You muppets don't understand how these tariffs will be applied, given the variation in rates that also apply to spare parts and assemblies. Its not just 10% added to a Range Rover. But it might be 20% added to the windshield. 0%. If you are looking at the I-Pace, the battery is zero rated because its American. etc The Range Rover has no serious US branded competitor. American SUVs like Suburbans are truely POS; its competing against other imports and that transplant import. <deleted> luxury cars are generally vile things designed for old people with bad hips. The Vice President's Indian wife is probably disappointed. My Jaguar XJ8 has been impeccible in its service with me, as was the XJS I had previously. It depends on the competance of the technicians who look after it. Your brother was probably an idiot who brought a lemon and then paid Cleetus the pool boy to service it. French wine also on hold, because the 47th President wants French wine to be made in the US https://www.gamberorossointernational.com/news/european-wine-orders-to-the-usa-suspended-importers-take-action-following-trumps-tariff-announcement/ No Infiniti QX50 for the Gringos. They'll whine like babies over that. https://www.carscoops.com/2025/04/infiniti-stops-new-orders-of-mexican-made-qx50-and-qx55/

Good, so you are supporting rounding up members of The Bolt. https://kyivindependent.com/neo-nazi-terrorist-group-offering-locals-payment-to-carry-out-attacks-guardian-reports/

Given the murkiness of who owns "Stickman", I'm not sure the source is British.

If they name their sources, your lot will murder them. Your side has form in that regard.

The portrait was by Nikas Safronov, the Russian People's Artist, who has previously painted Putin, and in 2017, did a portrait of the then 45th President. He did another one in 2020;

https://www.yahoo.com/news/rachel-maddow-explains-ridiculous-true-175426436.html So, an imaginary friend is behind this.

Or non-US companies move to the US, and set up transplant factories, much like the Japanese and German car companies did. selecting states with little or no car manufacture history, but willing local governments willing to bend over backwards for the sake of jobs. Hence Billybob is making Mercs in Alabama. I predict within a generation, US domestic car brands will be gone. Yes, you can buy American made cars, but not American designed. Britain tried protectionism to limit Japanese car sales, which removed competition, allowing BL to churn out dross, and largely get away with it. China also uses robotics. Their production lines are not small children polishing pipes. Only fools believe that trope. A similar trope is that the American factory worker is lazy, obese, a wife beater and smokes weed during his lunch break. We selected Chinese suppliers who used precision German tooling. The main attraction; they were more willing that other suppliers to meet the customer's specs. Some things you literally can't make in the US. If you have a diagnostic test based around a carefully curated mouse cell line owned by a Belgium company, no, you cannot go and simply make that antibody in America. It is literaly impossible to replicate the Ab, which is protected by IP anyhow. https://www.carscoops.com/2025/04/us-made-cars-and-trucks-are-not-really-safe-from-trumps-tariffs/ The F150 uses parts fro 24 different countries. The supply chain could be reshored, eventually. By that time, Ford will have lost market share for its now over priced truck, once the Ting Tong Truck Company sets up shop with its cheap truck made from CKD kits.

1. Putin is drawing a line at slaughtering his own citizens; he hasn't the guts to send Muscovites into battle, preferring to take a chance with mutinous convicts, press-ganged Somali students and suspect DPRK troops. 2. Read statements put out by General Chris Cavoli regarding Kyiv's recruitment policies. 3. US carrier from before WW2 were wooden deck carriers for speed of manouevre. Your history books are defective. The single thing that turned the war was the A-Bomb. Until the 6 and 9th August, to the average marine, they didn't feel like they were winning. Operation Olympic was the planned invasion of the Japanese Home Islands, for November 1945. This involved the UK supplying 18 carriers (25% of strength) following release from Atlantic duties. The planning was tossed when it was determined that the Japanese had 4 times as many combat aircraft as originally envisaged, thanks to kamikaze tactics, and possessed a much larger standing army than envisaged. There were considerable untouched reserves in Malaya, Indonesia, Indo-China, Formosa and the Phillippines. Planning had assumed the Japanese could put up a resistance until 1947, with the Allies prepared for losses of over 800,000 men. Hoover went so far as to suggest 1 million dead Americans were needed to finish Japan. I wouldn't suggest without the A-Bomb, the end of the war would have been very different, with the US losing its stomach for a fight (memoranda suggested the US was facing domestic difficulties in sustaining the draft, and might not have been able to make the additional necessay mobilisations). Obviously history makes it obvious to us when a war was lost, or won. Britain had won WW2 by surviving the Battle of Britain (without that, there would have been no US support). Japan had lost WW2 by losing at Midway etc. When my grandfather raised his hands at Singapore, he probably wasn't thinking that the Japanese had bitten off more than they could chew. For all of Russia's powers that you are a fanboi of, they aren't doing all that well against an opposition that started off numerically inferior, ill equipped. The RuAF is nowhere to be seen (thats the biggest mystery; a Western operation would have ensured complete control of the airspace). The UkrAF now appears to be conducting high altitude bombing runs against Russian forward positions with near impunity (either they have run out of SAMs because they used them all up blowing up supermarkets, or the addition of new systems, such as the F16s from European allies, have contributed towards their neutralisation (the use of AARGM such as AGM-88s retrofitted to Soviet era aircraft, means SAM crews are now afraid to switch on their radars. Or the systems that are now jamming Russia's ace, the glide bomb). Or, that might not be the case.

You mean Delores Cahill, former leader of the Irish Freedom Party, who also stated that wearing a face mask causes brain damage, who claimed the COVID PCR tests contained Ebola fragments, who said there was a plan to bomb Rotterdam to disrupt the European food supply. She had founded Protagen, which was sold to Oncimmune for $5.5m. Anyhow, 90% of Brits alive in the 80s should be dead by now with nvCJD.

You deliberately withold the fact the lab is also a reference lab, though I doubt you understand what that means. You deliberately overstate the virulance of this novel virus (it was never a mysterious virus, it was of a type signposted since SARS and MERS). The most likely explanation is still zoonitic transmission, as its the case for over 60% of EIDs in human history. The next, though rather more distant explanation is accidental release from the BSL2 reference lab. The next explanation, very unlikely, is accidental release of a modified virus from the French built BSL4 research lab. Of course, you can never rule out the possibility of a deranged scientist wafting an open test tube in the market. You could also not rule out the Hollywood fantasy of the escaped lab monkey making friends with a little girl (Outbreak). I do though. If they ever figure it out, you and I will be long dead. 107 years after Spanish Flu, we still don't really know where it came from. We are closer to knowing, but its not definitive, and the evidence is purely circumstantial. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/29/pentagon-anthrax-australia-2008 This article is missing a few details, notably the number of labs affected. It was hundreds of labs. I know most of the labs took few precautions, because they were assured the material was inert. The incident demonstrated its actually very difficult to initiate a consequential lab release. A Lancet study identified 16 lab incidents over a 20 year period leading to the accidental release of infectious material. 75% of releases involved bacteria.. That's an extremely low accident rate. Every single hospital will have at least one path lab where they are deliberately culturing infectious material from patient samples. Every single university will have research and teaching labs where they are deliberately and accidently cultivating infectious material. There are about 50,000 medical device companies, about half of thoses are developing diagnostic tests, which involves cultivating infectious material. There are about 25,000 pharmaceutical companies, wth probably 10,000 of those working on anti-microbials, which, you guessed it, involves working with disease causting organisms, including those with antibiotic resistance. Every sewage works will employ pumps and an activated sludge method that does a pretty good job of generating Hep-C laden foam that gets blown around on the wind. All this theoretically hazardouz activity, and we've not been wiped out. When Amerithrax happened (deliberate release of weaponised Anthrax through the US mail), two people died; one a woman in her 90s, and another an obese older man with a history of heart disease.

Judging from his woe-is-me speeches, apparently he does. He believes Russia still wields a global big stick, but in reality, his crumbling feudal empire is increasingly in hock to China who has already seized Russian territory without a murmur from Moscow (Bolshoi Ussuriysky Island). In December 1944, for the Western Allies, things didn't look all that rosey. In September 1944, the British suffered a significant defeat and loss of elite troops ar Arnhem. In Belgium, the American Army was on the verge of collapse, with the German army, apparently with superior equipment, powering towards Antwerp. If Antwerp fell, if all likelihood, the Western campaigh would have been over, with US forces stuggling to resupply. The Blitz on London had restarted, with the RAF having little power to do anything against V1 and V2 weapons. Worrying intelligence would have been reaching the Allies about Heisenberg's A-bomb work. Defeat is hard to gauge until it actually happens. Stalin at one point was on the verge of losing Moscow and being strung up from the nearest lamp post. In the Pacific, by summer 1945, the US was utterly exhausted, and suffering unsustainable losses of carriers to Kamikaze attacks (hence relived by the British armoured carriers). History tells us the tide of the war turned, but at the time, to those involved, on both sides, things were less certain. Russia doesn't have much left in the reserve. China is focussed on its own territorial disputes and destiny. Chechenya is now threatening a 3rd Chechen War, with Kaydriv reaching out to the Saudis for a possible bolt hole, and putting his 17 year old son, Adam, in charge of internal security. We don't hear much about Iran's IRGC anymore, following the collapse of Hezbollah. US Generals have reported that Ukraine has fixed its manning issues. Over half of Ukraine's ammunition comes from the EU/Putin's , and Czechia has received fresh funding for more shells. The US is not running out of weapons, and arguably, has hardly started. Putin's stated objectives were: 1. Protect the Russian people. Even a limited incursion into the Russian hinterland demonstrates he has not protected the Russian people. Its worsened. 2. "Denazify Ukraine"; most assume he means change the government in Kyiv. he has not achieved that, and Zelensky's position looks reasonably secure, with little evidence of dissent among the Ukrainian general staff. 3. Demililiterize Ukraine, ie reduce Ukraine's offensive capacity. The Ukrainian miitary is now the biggest in Europe. It is substantially better equipped than it was from just a few years ago, and it well on its way to transitioning to Western combined arms. 4. Putin has also not achieved territorial objectives, having lost most of Kherson, and failing to take Odessa and Kharkiv. Russias control of the Donbass is tenuous, and only possible through massive military reinforcement, to the extent the Russian military has had to denude other frontiers, including those with disputed borders (Russian-Finland). The War has lead to Russia being unable to defend its overseas strategic assets, such as losing its vital Mediterranean Naval base in Syria. Damascus was winning the civil war until suddenly, it wasn't. Russia is certainly not winning. But wars aren't like a football game

It was "stollen".

You are deliberately misrepresenting the history of Coca Cola and Ford in Germany. Coca Cola USA did not do business with the Nazis during WW2, neither did Ford USA. The German entities were not under the control of their American owners. Companies in Germany had little choice but to collaborate. Fanta came about because Coca Cola ceased shipping their syrup to their German subsidiary, who had to come up with something for a German army contract to keep the proverbial lights on (so they came up with an Apple-based soft drink). To boycott does not mean not to buy. Perhaps English is not your mother tongue. I don't buy a car from General Motors, but it doesn't mean I am boycotting the brand. I'm not buying a Model S because even 5 years ago, it didn't look all that, with styling that looked strangely dated even at the time, and an interior that felt cheap in places. Some might boycott Tesla due to links with the US government. Some might boycott Tesla because of links to the Chinese government. Some might boycott Tesla because they perceive the brand as being a particularly egregious sucker of the Taxpayer teat. Some might boycott Tesla because they perceive Musk as an illegal immigrant who became rich through misrepresentation of his citizenship. Anyone using the term "woke" in 2025 comes over as a middle aged snow flakey gammon Karen trying to be hip with the kids. In 2025, you're supposed to be sending it, and saying cry all you like.

It doesn't exist, unless Tesla is licensing the brand to some Alibaba junk with flashing lights. You, know, in the same way you can buy Timberland watches or Jeep sunglasses. Made for brand suckers.

If you want to copy paste conspiracy theories, learn to spell. Still, my experience with Fort Detrick is they couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery at times. I was among many exposed in 2008 due to their mistake. And GoF certainly didn't originate with those muppets. Its just a term to describe what us microbiologists and virologists had been doing for decades, but just called it something else.