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India does not want to play the toppling game... They wanted to play nice with Russia to buy their weapons and then saw just how shabby those weapons were when used against obsolete NATO weapons. Now they want to play nice with the US.

'BRICS’s plan to float a common currency & India’s reaction to it... India’s External Affairs Minister, S. Jaishankar in a press conference held on Monday, 3rd July, 2023 said that India has no plans for a BRICS currency. He declared a month before the summit that India might back out from creating the new currency. Instead, India is focused on strengthening its national currency, the Rupee, and making Rupee stronger will be the top priority of the Indian government, Jaishankar had stated.'

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/truth-lies-and-politics/bricss-plan-to-float-a-common-currency-indias-reaction-to-it/

Skwizz,

It appears that experts have been gifted yet another opportunity to average down at 6 month, 12 month and 5 year lows. The benevolence of The Dear Leader shows no bounds. As I just posted, he clearly deserves more than the paltry $20 a barrel he currently seems to average in remuneration; I urge shareholders to implore the BOD to increase his tithe share by at least £2 a barrel for every $1 increase in the price of oil.

His Supreme Guidance cannot be lost.

⛪️ 🙏

All those barrels of oil; so much more money. '50 to 100 billion barrels of oil in place in the ground' said The Dear Leader (praise be his name).

I sincerely hope that He is granted an extraordinarily large bonus to reward him for generating such wonderful wealth for shareholders.He is only receiving around $20 for each barrel produced at the moment; this is clearly insufficient.

And people wonder why Starmer has no policies / keeps changing them. THERE IS NO MONEY!

But, he is missing a beat. Every time he gets criticism, he should be pointing out that the longer the CONservatives remain in power, the worse the public finances are getting. This weekend, the media praised Sunak for suggesting the end of inheritance tax and then panned Starmer for not promising to end the 2 child benefits limit.

THERE IS NO MONEY... You cannot cut taxes or increase benefits until the situation improves. And it can only improve by removing the obstacles to growth and sound economics that the CONservatives have introduced and still intend on doubling down on.

Starmer seems too worried about pointing out just how stark things currently are.

Advertising for the French ladies team for the World Cup; excellent AI manipulation. All young women should watch it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_HPiaAx_QA

Kenny will appreciate this: "Human Powered Air Compressor and Energy Storage System"

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2023/07/human-powered-air-compressor-and-energy-storage-system/

Yes:

https://claude.ai/chats

Q: write me a humorous poem from this prompt: "a fellow busker,pennyless and dopey,like the rest of us buskers,up norf"

A:

Ode to a Fellow Busker

On the streets of the north,

A busker I met,

With a goofy grin,

And pockets of debt.

His guitar was battered,

His voice was quite flat,

He sang tone deaf ditties,

While holding his hat.

The coins he collected,

Were pitifully few,

But still he persisted,

Like the rest of us do.

His songs may be silly,

His talent no star,

But for grit and good humor,

He's set the bar.

So here's to you busker,

You penniless clown,

You brighten the sidewalks,

Of this old northern town.

A poem from Claude; prompt = "write me a funny poem about a retired steelworker called Troajan who is now a respected poster on investor bulletin boards; he specialises in sharing knowledge about junior miners"

Old Troajan the steel man, now an online sensation

Sharing his wisdom on junior miners across the nation

Though once working the mills, now he's glued to his screens

Scouring for scoops on the next big find it seems

Armed with a keyboard, he's a force to be reckoned

Schooling the newbies on pits, shafts and breccia

His words hold clout, garnering many a like

As he opines on assays and market hype

Rookies take heed of this message board master

His picks may just help line your wallet faster

So hats off to Troajan, how his online fame has spread

From steel to stocks, his knowledge leaves novices awed and red

'Russian family ordered Beef Stroganoff at Swedish restaurant and got this.🤣'

https://twitter.com/Margageek/status/1680541449853517824

Certainly does not look appetising...

Skier1,

'bitter Remainer lobby'

Official GOV forecast; clearly a change of GOV is needed.

Taverham,

0.8%? Ramping? The figure the media are using is 0.08% of GDP [not 0.8%]. It comes from this sentence in the document linked below:

'This is less than the estimated percentage increase in GDP, which is 0.08%.'

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1027860/dit-cptpp-uk-accession-strategic-approach.pdf

It was such 'good' news that Kemi Badenoch needed 2 flags as window dressing when she was doing interviews to explain what a wonderful Brexit Benefit it was.

Dashboard showing where investment from the IRA and CHIPS Acts have gone so far:

https://www.jackconness.com/ira-chips-investments

$227 billion has so far created 83k jobs; so nearly $3 million per job.

‘Sad day for Zimbabwe’ as Mnangagwa passes ‘draconian’ law to silence critics ahead of August poll

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-07-14-mnangagwa-passes-draconian-law-to-silence-critics-ahead-of-august-poll/

The elections next month just got a bit messier; criticising the GOV becomes illegal, so how do you campaign against the sitting GOV?

Some might say that I am a plague on both those boards...

Long live The Dear Leader (praise be his name)

Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rnpl0Ht9EQ

QOP gathering; crazy inbreds

“Logo For Ukraine”: An Artist Replaced Famous Brand Names With Ukrainian Cities

https://designyoutrust.com/2023/07/logo-for-ukraine-an-artist-replaced-famous-brand-names-with-ukrainian-cities/

Why were the IRA bombers he caught red-handed not prosecuted? If they were innocent, why did he get a bravery award?

Is this the real reason he was turned down for the NATO job?

https://declassifieduk.org/exclusive-i-r-a-bombers-captured-by-ben-wallace-were-innocent/

Wind is providing nearly 60% of the Grids power at the moment

https://grid.iamkate.com/

Thoughtful article from Adam Tooze, summarised by Claude.AI 'from the investor's perspective' [my prompt]:

Here is a summary of the key points from the investor's perspective:

- The emerging green hydrogen industry represents a massive investment opportunity as governments push to decarbonize economies. But it also carries significant risks due to the early stage of technology development.

- Green hydrogen has the potential to be a hugely disruptive clean energy source for hard-to-decarbonize sectors like steel, chemicals, heavy transport if costs can fall dramatically. This creates big potential upside for investors.

- However, the current extremely high costs of green hydrogen production means its viability is still unproven. More technological advancement and scaling up is needed to drive down costs.

- Government policy support through grants, tax credits, procurement mandates, etc. will be essential in accelerating green hydrogen's adoption and viability. Changes in policy priorities carry investment risks.

- Picking winning technologies is difficult given the immaturity of the industry. Investors must conduct thorough due diligence and consider portfolio approaches to manage risks.

- Opportunities exist across the value chain in electrolyzer manufacturing, renewable energy generation, transportation and storage infrastructure, end-use applications. But competitive dynamics and consolidation remain uncertain.

- How the hydrogen economy evolves will serve as an important test case of governments' ability to successfully manage and incentivize the net zero transition. Policy failures would dim its investment prospects.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/07/14/hydrogen-is-the-future-or-a-complete-mirage/

Heavy rain on the Korean Peninsula and communication between the North and the South has broken down. Kim Wrong One will need to open dams soon; will he give flood warnings to the South so that people can move out of the way of the released waters, or just open the dams and damn those in the path to death? Currently, heavy rain there...

https://www.nknews.org/2023/06/seoul-asks-north-korea-to-give-notice-before-releasing-water-from-border-dam/