From today's WaPo:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/14/commonwealth-realm-republic-canada-jamaica-australia/

"But many of those countries, former outposts of the empire, have also been engaged in a public reckoning over the legacies of colonialism, including calls for atonement, reparations and independence."

also:

"Prince William and his wife, Catherine, visiting the Caribbean on behalf of Elizabeth on her Platinum Jubilee, were met with protests and calls for an apology and reparations for slavery."

I hope Graham keeps at it. This proposed nationwide abortion ban is one of the Democrats' best friends. Let's see the Republicans attract educated, young, suburban women with that bill.

Seeing that picture & article about Porky Pig, put me off my breakfast, hard to keep food down thinking about Miss Linds.

I've been lately trying to get my hands on Paul Fischer's book, "A Kim Jong-Il Production"

And you're thrilled about it, too, right? Any failure of American ambition during the Biden Presidency is a desired outcome, right, comrade?

Just wait until Texas gets the busloads of convicted violent felons that DC sends in order to make room in its jails for those killer, drug dealing, immigrant mothers and their children.

That's the thing, Trump is beloved for inexplicable reasons (White Nationalism?) and will attract a large and loud crowd of mourners when he keels over from heart disease due to morbid obesity. And many of his devotees would certainly then claim that he's not really dead. Or that he was murdered by Deep State actors who were on a break from indoctrinating school age children into the trans lifestyle.

I admit that I don't get the attraction, the love, people have for certain royal figures. Which doesn't make the displays of mourning less real, I just don't get it. On the other hand, think of the level of decibels of wailing that will accompany the hearse of Kim Jong-un so what does it all actually mean?

Honestly, I also don't understand the love that people have, say, for the Kardashians or Joel Osteen, either, for that matter . I guess, after all, the love is actually, maybe, better directed instead at an aged, passive aggressive inheritor of colonial era plunder, who was probably not thrilled that her Grandson married a schvartze. Long live the King!

And that's on the small side of some of the new mansions being built.

I took the New London ferry last week and drove up to VT. Went through your neck of the woods, I believe.

And my position is that they employ the best p.r. firms, as I posted, and that outpourings of emotion are often manufactured.

That, and this, about the charities that the new King created:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/13/world/europe/king-charles-wealth.html

Ain't no charitable giving like tax break charitable giving. By that standard the Koch Brothers are paradigms of ethical generosity.

Romney lies, and not particularly well.

He claimed to have "inherited nothing", even though his father was CEO of AMC and a Governor and Cabinet Secretary. I'll take that nothing any time.

I still remember when he was running against Obama and it was during the Summer Olympics. His wife, Anne, had a horse competing in the dressage events and to seem like more of a regular guy, I guess, he claimed not to know when her events were scheduled.

He was a vulture capitalist, running Bain Capital, who destroyed companies and jobs:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnmcquaid/2012/01/12/romneys-vulture-capitalist-problem/?sh=7ba3747f6014

Maybe most egregiously, the ACA was based on his program in MA and he disavowed it completely. A true lack of an ethical compass.

And he was the best candidate the Republicans have come up with in decades!

Thank you. No one is born to a "higher station" than anyone else.

p.s.

https://faq-ans.com/en/Q%26A/page=3538fd55d677d7527602c445d6ec759f

"Queen Elizabeth II owns 1/6 of the entire land surface on earth (nearly 3 times the size of the U.S.)."

https://www.veranda.com/luxury-lifestyle/g27044934/royal-family-homes/

https://malaysiandigest.com/how-much-land-does-the-queen-own-in-usa/

https://www.businessinsider.com/worlds-biggest-landowners-2011-3#1-queen-elizabeth-ii-15 scroll down to #1

You can adore her all you want, but she was never some harmless old lady

https://www.quora.com/Does-the-British-royal-family-have-a-PR-firm-actively-promoting-a-positive-spin-for-the-royal-institution-on-media-and-online

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not:

"The Queen though i'd say didn't have a finger in it."

How does she afford to live in all of those castles, if that's the case?

Her grandson and wife bought a house in very pricey Montecito, CA:
"the Sussexes' home was purchased for $14.6 million in June 2020"

https://nypost.com/article/inside-prince-harry-meghan-markle-house-montecito/

Where did that money come from? Did Harry save up from his lucrative career of doing nothing, or maybe his wife, who hasn't made that much in her entire career paid for it?

She was a likable royal, sure, but a royal nonetheless. This situation has zero to do with any criminal American president, your analogy is inapt, no one in any of their families has conquered lands and expropriated natural resources (ok, maybe W. Bush in Iraq) and enslaved native populations. And passed on untold wealth for generations.

You don't have to be a major cynic to realize that a portion of the adulation she's getting is manufactured by p.r. firms. Did you really believe that Rock Hudson was dating all of those glamorous and beautiful women?

Fully deserving, really? Right, because who doesn't love people benefitting from the wealth created by the enslavement of people and the theft of their natural resources over the course of centuries?

A great Queen would have given away that family's very ill gotten gains and abolished the absurdity that is royalty.

What about what the Brits did to India and various island nations in the Caribbean. Why is English spoken in Nigeria? Also gotta love how they stole most of the most productive farm land in "Rhodesia" and S. Africa.

Did QE 2 actually repudiate any of these things done in the name of her parents and grandparents?

It's slightly nauseating that these murderous thieves are lauded as something positive and good. Oh, the Queen was funny in private! Big effing deal.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/07/british-royal-family-slavery-reparations.html

"Elizabeth’s reign was marked by rocky periods of intermittent violence abroad, including Britain’s botched attempt to gain control of the Suez Canal in 1956 and the Falklands War, a ten-week-long battle with Argentina in 1982".

You actually seen to have no idea what the midterm elections will be about.

Reproductive health care rights - good luck attracting young and educated and suburban women on this one. Gee, maybe the Supremes will outlaw contraception or gay marriage, too, just in time for the election.

Trump's theft of highly classified documents, the damage it's done, and the candidates who aren't condemning it as a threat to national security.

Gas prices at the pump are down well over a dollar a gallon from a few months ago, and with the price of oil dropping that trend should continue. Also, record job creation, due, no doubt to the failing economy.

The lousy candidates the GOP has running in PA, GA, FL, NY, and elsewhere.

The fact that Rick Scott has already broken the GOP piggy bank and there is very little left to support candidates' media buys now that the real election season has begun.

Honestly, you are on the losing side of every single one of these issues. Even though you MAGA dead enders root for the US to fail under Biden, there are enough people who are rooting for it to succeed to keep you idiots at bay.

While I agree with a lot of what you've posted about investing, the stronger dollar is a mixed blessing. While it, obviously, makes things cheaper to import (and travel in Europe!), it makes exports that much more expensive, too, hurting those American companies that must do so.

And now with interest rates rising (no fault of Biden's), and free money no longer available, companies are going to have to cut back on investments, it's now that much more expensive to borrow or sell corporate bonds or whatever.

The main thing, though, is that markets are irrational. How to explain a rising stock market during the time of a pandemic? Predicting the future in the stock market is, largely, a fool's game, and thinking a sitting President has the power to maneuver the economy, like some here believe, is an idiot's game.

As I wrote, I feel that fact checking a rebuttal but not an obviously incorrect assertion is illogical.

I concede I was wrong about a pipeline to Asia, but within the context of a situation that you're ignoring it makes no difference. The point about the diversion, obvious to almost everyone, was that the European embargo of Russian fuel would be no big deal. Which is incorrect.

If you ever visited me at home with my family you could not fail to notice that I"m apologizing 24 / 7, I have no problem with apologizing, but, on the other hand, fair's, fair, eh?

I don't have private messaging privileges (even though your belief is that everyone on this board does) or I would send this message that way.

It irks me that you fact checked me about the existence and number of Russian pipelines to Asia (although you were incorrect about a second one), yet did not extend that courtesy to the person who made the insupportable claim about Russian fuel revenues.

If you're going to be a fact checker, fact check everyone. Otherwise, even though I'm sure you're not, it comes across that you're playing favorites, some people need to bring the facts, with links or other supporting evidence, and some people don't.

Sorry, but that's a bit of noncontextual nit picking.. The context was that whomever stated, here, that Russia was compensating for its lost business shipping fuel to Europe by shipping fuel to Asia.

My point is that they aren't and they're not. Your point is irrelevant to the discussion, at large, Russia is not shipping enough fuel to Asia to make up for lost revenues from Europe..

Like I said, read Browder's book, he gave a Ted talk and had a previous best selling non fiction book about activities in Russia, Red Notice.

https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/checking-facts-there-evidence-fusion-gps-was-paid-russia-while-compiling-trump

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/book-ties-russian-intel-linked-lawyer-fusion-gps

In the end, as we've seen with the Trumpistas, facts don't get in the way of opinion, so, please, believe whatever you'd like about them and I can believe whatever I want.

At best, it's a murky situation.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-heffernan-simpson-russia-testimony-20180114-story.html

The point was, that whomever claimed that the Russia's business lost to Europe was recompensed by its business in Asia. Which isn't true (yet):

https://www.csis.org/analysis/can-russia-execute-gas-pivot-asia

As far as that second pipeline to China goes:

"The middle phase started operations in December 2020, and the final southern section is set to begin gas deliveries in 2025, state media said"

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/27/map-of-power-of-siberia-gas-pipeline-that-china-russia-are-working-on.html#:~:text=The%20middle%20phase%20started%20operations,pipeline%20for%20about%20eight%20years.

Sorry, Fusion GPS is a completely discredited organization, sleaze balls for hire to do opposition research.

I refer you to the recent book, Freezing Order, by Bill Browder, for a deeper dive.

If you had bothered to actually open those links, you would have seen that only 3 of them were about the Putin / intelligence agencies situation. As it is, you obviously couldn't be bothered to read those three. Or, you might have seen this:

"Mr Trump contradicted US intelligence agencies and said there had been no reason for Russia to meddle in the vote."

About which Senator McCain said it (Helsinki) was:

"one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory". and that

"The damage inflicted by President Trump's naivete, egotism, false equivalence, and sympathy for autocrats is difficult to calculate,".

All 3 have similar quotes, but I'm not going to bother any more with you, at least make an effort next time

Again, how exactly does Russia divert its gas to Asia when there are literally no pipe lines from it to anywhere in Asia?

There are also other "fact" things, but don't worry your pretty head about such inconvenient things.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-30/russian-crude-shipments-to-asia-slump-to-lowest-since-march

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/commodities/russian-oil-exports-china-india-wartime-ukraine-europe-cargoes-crude-2022-7

Right, I'm just making shit up like you do:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44852812

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-sides-with-putin-over-u-s-intelligence-in-remarkable-helsinki-press-conference/

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/16/politics/donald-trump-putin-helsinki-summit

Turn off Fox and read a bit, whydoncha. Trump sent to Ukraine only what was mandated by Congress and that not until he tried to extort Zelinskyy.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2022/08/24/biden-announces-3-billion-ukraine-arms-package-as-war-reaches-six-month-mark/?sh=1ab15e491179

https://www.reuters.com/world/spain-pushes-nato-leaders-agree-bigger-role-north-africa-sahel-2022-06-30/

You are one ignorant cluck.

It's just not true that Russia is diverting supplies to Asia. Hello, there aren't any pipelines to Asia in which to move gas. As for oil, yes, but they are competing against oil coming from other countries which are closer to Asia and can deliver it more cheaply.

If Trump was now in office, Russia would be in Finland and most likely, a bunch of other countries formerly in the USSR. In Trump's eyes, Putin could do nothing wrong.

Imagine a sitting President of the United States publicly stating the he trusts Putin's version of events over that of all of his own intelligence agencies. It truly boggles the mind.

One of Vlad's long standing goals has been to destabilize western alliances and he found a willing puppet in Trump.

The Steele Dossier has been rightfully discredited, it's backer, Fusion GPS, is truly despicable. That being said, there's a theory going around that a few obvious falsehoods were thrown in so that it could be, as a whole, discredited. But, apparently, there's' enough in it that's true enough to have enabled Putin to make Trump dance to his piper.

Surely one of the 5 worst American Presidents of all time. Incredibly, he was able to make his father's term seem not completely terrible in retrospect.

A bona fide idiot, W's rosy path through life was paved by family connections and inherited wealth. His attempt to forge the model of President as CEO left us with Cheney and Rumsfeld running the country, and doing it very poorly.

Bush's legacy is a major terrorist attack on the country, which had been, most likely, preventable, the Great Recession, and the grotesque invasion of Iraq.

And at the same time, an uptick in the number of American assets being killed around the world.

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/575384-cia-admits-to-losing-dozens-of-informants-around-the-world-nyt/

Putin isn't letting Gorbachev have a state funeral, but I'll bet he'd give Trump one.

Few people on the planet have done as much to advance Vlad's agenda for breaking up western alliances as Dear Leader has done. It's possibly the one area in which he showed real skill during his time in office.

Weakening NATO, believing Putin over his own intelligence agencies, tariffs on products from allies like Canada, insulting leaders of other western countries, stealing classified documents, the man was outstanding in his subservience to Putin.

It's possible that Republican love for Putin actually started with W, though.
“I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy,” Bush said. “I was able to get a sense of his soul.”

Where's McCarthy when you need him?

Maybe, but I clearly understand what a history of terrible investments means as far as a person's analytical skills are concerned. LOL. And you seem to be batting 100% in that category.

It's a bit ironic that you have this at the bottom of all your posts:

"Successful Trading is the art of minimizing long term risk and maximizing capital allocation."

You moderate the board, and presumably own shares in MARA, which is at about 1/8 of its 52 week high.

Ditto for CORZ, which is at 1/7 of its 52 week high.

BPTS is at 1/10 of its 52 week high. BTOG also at about 1/10, and BITF at 1/8/

It seems like your inability to analyze situations runs the gamut of your experience. Remind us why you think you are so right about political stuff when you're so wrong about investing stuff.

Exactly. There are a lot of really stupid people living in America, but no way there's that many.

By illegal immigration you mean my grandparents, 2 of whom came here on
someone else's passports to flee the Nazis? Do you mean the Irish who were fleeing the Brits and jumped into NY harbor and swam ashore - there were a lot of them by the way, there were bars and furniture moving companies in NYC that only employed illegal Irish and I mean in the 1970's. Or maybe you mean the English and the Spanish who came here and took the Indian's properties.

Or maybe you mean Italians who came up through Mexico in the 1920's? Maybe you think the French were invited into the Louisiana Territory by the natives? See, if you only mean the black and brown people, that's the definition of being racist. It was ok when whitey did it, but not so much any more. I'm not sure where you live, but if you look around maybe you can find somewhere to buy a clue.

The problem with people who refuse to be educated, like yourself, is that they don't understand that when a colonial power goes into another country and steals their resources, that will ultimately come home to roost. Like we did in Guatemala and Honduras and Mexico. We owe these people, bigly, and your plan is to lay on the carpet and kick your feet up and down and make meaningless noises about it.

"I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916."

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/253269-i-spent-33-years-and-four-months-in-active-military

Yup, but you're probably ok with subsidies to agribusiness, the military industrial complex, the fossil fuel industry, ports, airports, PPP loan forgiveness, saving the auto industry, etc.

It's just them damn poors, how dare we give them any money. It's been shown that housing the homeless is less expensive than letting them remain on the street:

https://www.usich.gov/resources/uploads/asset_library/Ending_Chronic_Homelessness_in_2017.pdf

https://endhomelessness.org/resource/ending-chronic-homelessness-saves-taxpayers-money-2/

So, you're good with this, right?

And what's with your obsession with white / non white stuff? I'm guessing you're a suffering member of the oppressed white majority?

If this is the only board they post on. I'll go with "poor ignorant rubes", too, but might add "stupid" as well.

Actually, upon further reflection, I've come to believe that it's highly likely there was massive voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

It's obvious that 74 million people could not have possibly voted for the lying moron, Trump - I'd like to examine those voting machines myself to determine how votes were flipped from Biden to Trump.

Indeed, it was more of a rhetorical question. These guys are shameless thieves of shareholder value. They borrow the money, pay themselves, and we pay off the debt.

The actual issue is to create dissension amongst different America groups and, hence weakness in America's resolve. This is Vlad's goal and he's being actively assisted by Trump and his followers. We know he has stuff on Trump and sycophants like Lindsay Graham, and a large number of them, otherwise, are paid.
It's said that Russia has 3 things it exports: grain, military equipment, and cyber terrorists.

They discount democratic norms and are overjoyed at any sign of economic distress in the country. I believe most of them are being paid by clicks accumulated, so my advice, not that anyone asked, is to ignore them.

You won't change their minds or convince them on the facts, and your responses actually empower them. My guess would be that these guys posting here are most likely teenagers or very young adults, in somewhere like Mumbai, making a few bucks for their families by trying to create doubt about the American process.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair

Wow, they signed on to repaying $7.5M, plus future royalties, as repayment for a $1.5M loan?

ZRFY has no incentive to actually litigate this, other than giving it lip service, since the money is repaid "only in the event that the company achieves recoveries.....". I seem to remember another $1M loan to pursue patent litigation a few years ago, but maybe it was this one and I misremember the amount.

Regardless, having to repay 5X + on a loan is sheer desperation and the terms indicate an implicit unwillingness to act in good faith by the company. Which should surprise no one who follows this company and makes one wonder how the lenders could possibly have made the loan.

Back then, in 2017, BlankRome was representing SFOR on contingency. Ropes & Gray did charge for the miserable job they did at Appeals Court, but there's no way it came to $1.5M. Where did the money actually go? Again.

All these orthodoxies, indeed. I never watch Maher, he seems a bit full of himself and played out.

Dreams, huh? I have one that the entire MAGA management team will be in jail and sooner rather than later.

It is interesting that the same word to describe sleeping fantasies is also used for real world aspirations. I guess that 13th century, Middle English cohort didn't have much hope for upward mobility.

I was led to believe some years ago that Libertarians are mostly conservatives who like to smoke pot.

More recently, though, I've read that the Libertarian Party receives funding from the Koch(s) and maybe Thiel, so, not the harmless dingbats I previously had imagined.

SS Trump just hit an iceberg, 3 icebergs:

1) Election interference in Georgia, duh
2) Tax fraud in NY State - inflating assets values for bank loans, deflating their value for tax filings - Wesselberg will be testifying soon and the judge has threatened him with 15 years if he plays it too cute
3) Treason - boxes of highly classified files on American spies, among other things, lying around in unlocked rooms and access to them unguarded.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/26/us/politics/trump-affidavit-intelligence-spies.html?unlocked_article_code=4ueIVXNx9ivC84qkIPHiPWf8Un3VIaPSGoutbXuss14q05P-gyG_JpquW_-rcWjIOazmIbBKMMdmfhfzflaBajus7LGluIhhUyhYEW_436DajU1esl6JyBLaO7rttbbxRJixNl0LfK62q49FF_8vLIuighRXJZEPonkUb0pwgB9ZQpS1Rwxj5UctQMBF9anovFLIzmwmERiq_yL_lHL150PEvt7H1OX7TokYYWkTB5Tc8z-57ZmRicTS5dBem_SXZJyBK4xf82jiTiFe1oXunvJ1tBz3U2Q0RFUCkg6eoFr4fYdAfTSHL15sYjOTOtxObPWsuGTsU2dx5SzHBmvnl42dFzcvTfuiww3H6dhX4NI&smid=tw-share

None of this even includes the J6 activities, his was a criminal conspiracy masquerading as an administration. But, oh oh, the Fat Boys are getting together with the Dumb Boys to violently resist this Deep State overreach. Wake me up when they're all in jail.