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I'm glad you asked. As you may, or may not recall after the USSR ended Russia was in a particularly vulnerable and difficult economic position. They had no experience of a free market economy. What happened is that the strangest people almost overnight became fabulously wealthy, because they managed by various methods to obtain the shares in new companies, and thus to claim ownership of gigantic state companies. In essence they played the system against people who had no idea how to play the system, the Russians. Abramovich is a particularly interesting case though. He started out as a street vendor. I kid you not. Then as a mechanic. Eventually he and his wife set up a company to make dolls, I think ruber ducks if I remenber correctly. Anyway, almost overnight Abramovich ended up with ownership of oil conglomerates, timber companies, pig farms, sugar manufacturers, and many others. The wonders of privatisation Russian style. There can be absolutely no doubt that Abramovich is a criminal. "In 1992, Roman Abramovich was arrested and briefly imprisoned on charges of theft of government property. The case centered on the alleged theft of a trainload-specifically, 55 tankers-of diesel fuel from the Ukhta Oil Refinery. According to multiple investigative reports, Abramovich used forged documents to intercept the train in Moscow and redirect the shipment to a military base, where the diesel was then sold off. The value of the stolen fuel was estimated at 3.8 million rubles. Despite the seriousness of the charges, Abramovich was not ultimately prosecuted." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Abramovich He's also financed Jewish settlers to the tune of 100 million USD plus.

It has been a while since I read that book on Russian oligarchs, but here is an article about those 40 Jewish Russian oligarchs in Israel. "Alex Kogan, a journalist who has covered the Russian oligarch phenomenon in Israel for the local Russian-language press, said that 30 to 40 tycoons have taken Israeli citizenship or residency, with most staying only part time or temporarily because of scrutiny over their affairs. He said the oligarchs – businessmen who accumulated massive wealth in the privatisation process which followed the collapse of the Soviet Union – were motivated by various interests." https://www.sajr.co.za/abramovich-joins-more-than-30-russian-jewish-tycoons-in-israel/ I did not claim that Jews like to have their feet licked. I told you about a black Jamaican masseuse who told me this, who did not literally mean that but that the people in question were extremely demanding. That is a real event, not hearsay. It actually happened.

Yes, Chiang Mai.

Of course not. There are delightful jews. I mean Norman Finkelstein, he's basically the most fearless, rigorous and intelligent man on earth and he would never engage in any criminal activity that was not justified. I worked a lot with jews. I went to the sanctum of some major US investment banks, their jewish dininig room. And yes, they have specific jewish diniing rooms where they serve delicious pea soup. Kosher of course. Some of my best clients were jews, who are actually more often than not on a personal level very likeable, more so than others. However, one cannot wipe away this evidence that exists, for instance if you look at Russia, the vast majority of criminal oligarchs are jewish, indeed many of them found refuge in Israel. Epstein, Madoff, Bankman-Fried, the list is endless, the people banned from the CM excursion company, the complaints by the Jamaican masseuse in the Westin, what's happening in Gaza....there is too much evidence for a certain kind of behaviour. It does not mean we hate all jews, but neither do we have to close our eyes to real evidence. We still have to call the world as it is.

That's exactly what happens. When a Muslim in France attacks some people all Islam is painted with the terrorist brush. Same when a Muslim attacks someone in England, Germany or Russia, no matter if he's Saudi, Nigerian or Uzbek.

Quite right. Hitler of course made the decision based on fantastically false force estimates by Fremde Heere Ost, the German intelligence service. Hitler said on record after the fighting was in full flow, if he had known the true extent of Russian forces he never would have started the war with Russia. So it was the German intelligence service that caused the disaster, by providing totally false figures. The Germans were always terrible at secret service work.

Thanks guys, so a bit of domestic and various other nations like US, Canada, and Australia. Just like them, Germany would have to source uranium from third parties. I don't think East Germany has enough either.

It did. For years Uncle Joe pleaded for the US and the UK to open a second front to assist Russia's fight with Germany. But only when they were absolutely sure that Germany was close to defeat in 1944 did the Americans and British help the Russians out and open a second front. Shameful cowardice really. They should hold an easter egg parade, because like easter eggs, the Americans and British were hiding from the German homeland for most of the war.

I see the UK got US uranium, France from Madagascar and their nuclear power residue. Merz selling a strong army to the people of Germany as sufficient protection is a joke surely. How would Germany prevail against nuclear power being nuclear naked herself?

It's a complete ostrich head in the sand tactic by Merz, they are just ruling out nuclear weapons. Germany of course has renounced nuclear weapons Japan style, but even if that is reversed, the small amounts of Uranium in the former East Germany would probably not suffice. Despite having ample technical expertise to build nuclear weapons Germany would still need outside support to build a nuclear arsenal. How do the UK and France do it, where do they get their uranium?

No the question was comparing American Buddhists and Thai Buddhists, who are not an ethno-religious group, they are too diverse. However, Jews in New York and Israelis are an ethno-religious group, indeed often New York Jews also have Israeli passports, and the diversity within this ethno-religious group, Judaism already being made up of a mish mash of different ethnic groups, does not negate Jews from outside Israel and Israelis being an ethno-religious group, which while diverse ethnically still sees itself as one unit.

Well, American Buddhists in Jamaica and Thais are not a single ethno-religious group the way Jews and Israelis are, so obviously not.

Even in Thailand I would consider 550 baht for a meal for two and a two drinks a cheap price. That's 6 GBP per person, so 2 for the beer and 4 for the meal. That's a fairly cheap price for meal and drinks. You can easily bring the dinner cost for two to 1000 or 2000 baht for a quality meal in Thailand. 240 Baht for a short trip is about right, which is of course incredibly cheap by UK, German or US taxi prices.

550 baht for a meal for two and two drinks is too expensive?

That's my experience how they die in the West too. My grandmother just died aged 94. The hospital divesteritself off of her, and just sent her home, as my mother was willing to take care of her and give her morphine. It was still a horrendous death in agony according to my mother's eye witness account. Even with fantastic health insurance and additional money hospitals eventually give up on those who cannot be saved.

Good point. Whilst Rommel greatly admired Australian soldiers it should also be noted that Australia lost 40,000 men roughly, almost four times Belgian military losses. That's still a very small number even compared with the UK and US, which was too small to be considered by the makers of that data.

I don't thnk so. The oil embargo on Japan was a calculated blow to Japan aimed to provoke it to go to war. The US must have known that a Japan starved off oil would have to resort to war.

No, actually the boom period that followed 1945 benefitted all Western countries greatly, not just the US. The UK, Germany, France, Japan, all benefitted from the post war boom tremendously. It lasted for over two decades. Everybody got richer after WWII. It's just the UK was spending the riches of India for pomp and ceremony, but it was never that rich. As was evident after it gave up India.

I know, I know, I was just responding to that poster who reported how Israelis were banned in CM from an excursion company due to their obnoxious behaviour. That reminded me of that petite black girl at the Westin giving massages who bitterly complained about the behaviour of jews with her. It seems to be a common thread.

Yah, even if that market value is exaggerated it's still at least around 3.5 trillion which is still a "weapon of financial mass destruction" as Warren Buffet called Derivatives. I actually worked on repackaged Derivatives, CDOs, as a securitization lawyer and none of us understood what underpinned the deals. I vividly remember the lead lawyer on the deal at a major law firm, screaming down the phone at the investment bank client "No I don't understand it! Explain it to me again!". Obviously he never understood it, since those epxlaining it to him clearly didn't understand it.

Quite so, and it was the Russians who were on the ground and won the war. For several years Russia begged the US, and the UK, to open a second front to help defeat Germany. For years the US and UK cowardly refused, letting Russia bleed herself out and losing 20 million men. Only when Germany was clearly on the road to certain defeat did the Americans and British dare to open that second front in Normandy. Years after Russia asked them to. If you want to know who contributed the most to win WWII you just have to look at the casualty figures.

Thanks, I used the term sub-prime, because the 2008 crisis is generally called the "Sub-prime mortgage crisis" It's important not to confuse the AAA ratings by the credit agencies with the Alt-A and other credit score ratings by FICO. A-minus is traditionally defined as mortgage borrowers with a FICO score of below 660 while Alt-A is traditionally defined as loans lacking full documentation or with alternative documentation of ability to repay . This not the same as a A rating by the credit agencies. it may well have been the case that the probability of mortgages going into default was high, even among non-sub-prime, however, what happened was that there were innumerable securitisations by banks which packaged these assets, including sub-prime loans into Cayman Islands vehicles that had no liabilities. By virtue of these vehicles having no liabilities at all the rating agencies gave them stellar credit ratings, usually AAA, because they only had assets. This was very clearly a grave mistake. Because eventually when sub-prime borrowers defaulted the market started to lose confidence in these securities, issued by the Cayman vehicles, because they were backed solely by these assets, ie mortgages and also sub-prime mortgages, which potentially would be worthless when people stopped repaying them. This was never factored into the risk analysis by Moody's, Fitch and S&P, who gave out AAA ratings like confetti solely based on the fact that these Cayman vehicles had no liabilities. The rating agencies did not do their job and analyze what would happen if the mortgages don't get repaid. Of course banks were to blame too because they gave mortgages to people who shouldn't have gotten one as they had no means to repay. Politicians like Bill Clinton were to blame too, because he pushed legislation that forced banks to give mortgages to people who cannot repay them, due to ideological reasons.

Casandra Ventura has not spared the most graphic detail in her testimony, talking about the Freak Offs: "Combs, she continued, or one of the male escorts hired to have sex with her, sometimes "would urinate on me" during these Freak Offs. Ventura testified she was “choking” because there was “too much urine in my mouth,” sometimes from both Combs and the escort participating at the same time. https://people.com/cassie-claims-diddy-forced-sex-period-11734172 Imagine her husband Alex Fine seeing his baby mama on the stand testifying how she was drinking urine from Combs and other men. I guess he won't mind that much, since Ventura brings in 30 million USD. Hard work though, clearly.

So Merz has expressly ruled out Germany obtaining nuclear weapons. https://www.dw.com/en/germany-debates-issue-of-nuclear-weapons/a-71924424 If Germans win on the battlefield against Russian conventional forces, then Germany will be nuked. How is this a sensible policy?

How odd that an older female judge goes this much out of her way to save a violent wife beater. Sexual attraction?