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It's not my thread...I did not make it, you mean my post. For the record I lol'ed at how the Sevastapol Parade got rained on. Same as when the Muskva went under, like how do you let that happen comrade... You however casually invited random holidaymakers to the fray and I merely pointed out the hypocrisy along national lines of which I suspect many person would fall foul of.
Now believe it or not, I was extensively bullied as a child growing up, so was my brother. Thing is though, I was just weird and made myself a target I could however walk the walk if pushed far enough so the bullies learnt to only push me so far. My older bro tho? Right mouthy so and so and he could not walk the walk to save his life. Amount of times he got a beat down that he entirely deserved. My Bro is Zelensky, forcing his body through things his mouth can't write checks for.
So you can shove your playground level rhetoric. This is grand chessboard stuff, like it or loath it.
What is the average earnings of a Donbass resident Vs Kiev? How many billions of USD worth of commodities are focused in the Donbass region? Why was Donetsk City shelled for 8 years? Why was Russian language banned in Ukrainian schools? Why do sitting members of Congress/Senate have siblings on various Energy focused Ukrainian boards? Why does this video exist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXA--dj2-CY (Joe Biden bragging about getting a prosecutor fired). Why did John McCain visit Azoz on more than one occasion? Why is so much money being thrown at Ukraine? How much of it is accounted for? Why did CBS pull this youtube documentary about 30% of all arms disappearing into a Ukrainian weapons black market? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWzxbS8eUKc) Why are foreigners freely being allowed to fight another countries war? Why is my cost of living sky rocketing? Why was I never allowed to vote on any of this if democracy is so important? Why did I have to talk my older bro out of going to die in a foxhole somewhere in Ukraine? Why is Ukraine being allowed to bleed itself of it's most productive generations so an a war that can only be continued via outside support can be sustained?
But shhhhh, go to sleeeep. Stop asking questions, just blindly follow, support current thing and feel good.
PS. I thrive on politics/philosophy/history, have done since a small kid cos I was weird like that. But boy oh boy even I can't wait for EUA to go back to mundane financial/mining focused talk that I personally struggle with cos I suck at maths. This carp is getting old and I largely keep quite RE the SMO/invasion but sometimes I can't help myself. We all know we have being spoon fed bovine fecal matter over pretty much any given subject in our lifetime. So why blindly accept the official narrative and allow yourself to be lowered to playground thinking? Especially when one side is clearly hellbent on dragging the conflict on no matter the cost. Remind me who was shelling the ZNPP again? Sure was not the
You just put words in my mouth. I said nothing of the recent bombing of a military base in the Crimea but the historic allegation that Ukraine stopped supplying fresh water to Ukraine after the Crimea declared themselves independent of Kiev in 2014. Now do I need to start talking about the 1993 referendum that was also ignored? How about how when the USSR was disbanded but no one asked the Crimeans if they wanted to be part of Ukraine, Russia or their own autonomous region? How about 2003 gas wars of which and to my knowledge Ukraine has maintained it's payments due under a UN court judgment even during the invasion? Bit weird that if you ask me.
But all people can do is either focus on 2014 or 2022 and then start moral pearl clutching based upon their perception. Yeah well Stepan Bandera is a modern day national hero of Ukraine. Stepan Bandera genocided 1.6 million Polish and a few 100k Ukrainian and Russian peoples in 1952. He also idolised the Waffen SS and their rear guard activities in ww2.
Yeah. Russia is dangerously close to moral high ground given it's limited SMO Vs shock and awe doctrine.
Now. That hospital strike in Mariupol which I assume is the basis for the claim of bombing hospitals by RF forces. Why is there a little known after the fact interview with the mother who was splashed across newspapers as having died; due to heartless Russian bombing of a Mariupol hospital and in that interview she espouses the notion it was a PR stunt as that hospital had a section that was closed for maintenance (google docs back this up) before the invasion and military elements had garrisoned it days before it was shelled.
Claims of schools being shelled are the same thing. They had become military targets by virtue of having being garrisoned. Contentious claim maybe but it is a claim made by residents of Mariupol many times over.
The fact remains there are objective rationals for the invasion of Ukraine that go well beyond muh WMDs (that we never found) or the notion we have to fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here (that worked out well Bush) let alone it being the whim of an alleged dictator(Putin can be ousted, Kim can't there's a difference between autocrat and dictator and it boils down to consent of the governed). How many times has Putin tried to implement Minsk? At least 2 prior to a "whim."
Oh and that shopping center had GRADs launchers in it and had being firing in the direction of Bucha before it got blown up. Now remind me why the British blocked an investigation into Bucha when it was still fresh and full of forensic evidence? Or are you on about the one in Odessa? That showed many secondary explosions, almost as if it was munitions stockpile or something. But hey, I'll just go back to sleep and accept whatever Reuters is saying eh...
I appreciate the point raised Dietch666 but history begs to differ yet we are still here as a species and history is wrote by the victor as they say. I am no doomer, I reckon Humanity will be around in some form or another until the heat death of the universe. Although even then I don't think it's the end. There'll be a gravitational focal point that pulls in a cold space time continuum which births a new singularity and low the cycle continues. A cycle we could escape via quantum information and closed time like loop curves. But that is really off topic lol.
I am of the contentious opinion that this conflict could have being avoided if we in the west actually engaged in some diplomacy RE the Minsk Agreement. So culpability lies as much at our (collective west) feet as the Russian Federation. I am a big critic of Zelensky but to his credit he went to the Azoz battalion and told them to disarm in 2015(there's video of this easily found) so Minsk could be implemented, they basically told him to F off and too watch his back. Funnily enough given John McCains trips and speeches to said battalion It has me wondering just how in charge Zelensky has being during his time as leader of Ukraine.
So, combine that with the results of Shock and Awe doctrines (which include bombing schools and hospitals, 1 million dead civvies in Iraq, the destruction of Libya, the proxy war in Syria etc) as seen in numerous places NATO has operated in then I will state we in the west do not get moral high ground by simply supporting Ukraine. Russia meanwhile is dangerously close to a perceived moral high ground globally (one must bear in mind we in west are a global minority). Why do you think the Asia's are not so keen to follow western sanctions? Is it just pragmatism or is it also sympathy?
I myself just want this Slavic bro war to stop. I have a lot of time for the 3 sister nations (Belarus, Ukraine and Russia) ever since I watched a documentary on the Chernobyl disaster. Za vas paschim liquidakor Chernobyl N Pripyat! (To the fallen liquidators of Chernobyl and Pripyat.) That is a toast will open doors to you as a westerner, A little bit of respect for big events goes a long way in Slavic culture. Either way I find it ironic that if not for the efforts of, depending on who you ask, 300k to 1.5 million, Europe would be an irradiated mess no one would be fighting over and we would all be radioactive refugees in third world nations.
Za vashee (to your health).
And this has to be pointed out. "hitting the Crimea .panicking Russian holiday makers" You'd be calling that terrorism if it was British holiday makers. Have some consistency people. Also what did Ukraine do in response to the Crimean referendum that was signed off on by the UN as legit until a couple days later it was not (totally no phone call made there). Ukraine cut off the water. And people support that government and wonder why it got invaded eventually? It truly baffles me.
Zelensky has suspended all opposition parties and he himself is thoroughly corrupt, much like Putin. Zelensky has a lot of off shore activity and foreign property ownership for someone on his wage. Like many western politicians it's an apparent mystery how he went from nobody to multi billionaire. "fantastic news for democrats". Ermmmm, ya sure about that? You are aware of the historic allegations (Guardian Documentary, among others) levied against elements of the Ukrainian military? Further have you ever heard of the Ukrainian national hero Stepan Bandera? If not I invite everyone to research why that should be problematic for continued western support of Ukraine in the here and now. Kinda pertinent if one claims to stand for western values. Also DPR and LPR militia have done most of the heavy lifting in Donetsk. The degree to which the RF has allowed such militias to call the shots is arguably a military failing but in allowing a sense of ownership over liberation it could be a good idea long term. Regardless. Wagner and RF elements are not doing the heavy lifting, the militia have being. That may change going forward given internal criticisms of the SMO in Russia. Which I will stress amount to, Putin. Stop messing around and win this. There is next to no internal support for suing for peace/capitulation despite what some think in the west.
Further as to perceived moral high grounds by some what was the conclusion of that OCSE report highlighting the treatment of POWs at the hands of Ukrainian forces these past 8 years? Then one must muse upon the anecdotal reports of hospitals overflying in recent days. Does that sound like a cost free advance to you Ricardo? Where's the POW parades as well? Just equipment innit. Almost as if it was a hasty but ordered retreat that prioritized personnel over equipment cos Russian hospitals are not overflying. Ukie ones are.
Blind support is never good and that is what Ukraine has being afforded to the detriment of working people the world over. On the claims surrounding Kharkiv; given stated losses of personnel Vs territorial gains/losses the term Pyrrhic victory springs to mind re Kharkiv. Oh and this bit. "they still need to crush the best Russian units. That has not yet happened en mass."
Well it sure has happened the other way round for many months now. Conscription age up to 70(evil if you ask me, Hitler in the bunker levels of denial) and women will soon be conscripted as well. Zelensky tried that earlier in the conflict but unpopular)Yeah, cos Ukie reserves are just brimming with well trained fighting age combatants and the path to victory is assured because of this one successful gambit on a badly defended front.
Much ado about nothing if you ask me. We shall see how things lay in a weeks time. I'd wager there will be no disintegration of RF fronts or forces. If anything they are due to be bolstered. Some 15k-17k 6 month trained Ruskies set to enter the fray in the coming weeks.
GLA.
Afternoon Les, the butt orange is now a deflated sac. I don't need painkillers no more but still got to be real careful how I go to sit down. Damn thing was that big it's pushed muscles and tendons around and they need to settle back into place. 1 more week and the hole down there should close up and that's that. Fingers crossed no Fistula develops. (A tunnel that forms between the infected mucal anal gland and the surface of the skin which becomes prone to abscess formation.)
Now you may be surprised to hear I once thought myself quite a boring person who reads a lot, I have being forced to accept that is not the case as I get older lol. As for work. I have told management I'm looking for new work after the "miscommunication" around the head chef role but then this butt orange saga happened.
Going to redouble my efforts once I am fully hail again, chefs are in demand everywhere so fingers crossed I can just walk into another job, even shelf stacking for Tesco would mean a higher wage than I am currently on and far less stress.
Unfortunately I am very much looking at having to sell the UFO and EUA trading positions to keep my head above water in the mean time. It's that or credit card debt to pay my rent the next 2 months. I have my fingers crossed that BOIL may bail me out of that scenario given the current domestic political noise over North Sea gas and oil exploitation being back on the cards. Hope you and the Mrs are as well as can be.
Chrisatbirdies. Friends and family have suggested I do that if only so I'd stop chewing their ears off about politics/global news lmao. And yes, it's noteworthy how the emphasis on a free press amounts to a corporate press pushing an agenda and it is terrified of competition. Hence all this noise around alternative news sources being dangerous. They don't want the competition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quU_Tbv96Wk&t=7s 45 second clip of a media talking head saying the quiet part out loud. "It's our job to tell people what to think." Long gone are the days of reporting facts and leaving people to make their own mind up.
GLA and enjoy your weekend ladies and gents, I'm having the lads round for a BBQ tonight. I'm banned from cooking cos I'm still recovering, going to take all my self control not to look over my mates shoulder while he's on the grill tehe.
Right, is Trump the best speaker? Hell no. Is "disinfectant" (air quotes cos wide ranging term that includes formaldehyde) a listed ingredient in many modern pharma solutions. Yes. 5x5 I expect better if one is to seriously criticise Teflon Don. Eg, Syrian missile strikes and Operation Warp Speed or declaring a state of emergency that allowed some states to not do what Florida did.
Also does anyone remember the MSM claim that someone died due to them injecting/ingesting fish tank cleaner? Apparently off the back of Trumps dangerous rhetoric (that included light therapy which, again, is a thing).
Yeah, that dude was straight up murdered by his wife but that part of the story went largely unreported by the titans of journalism who tell you Mr You're Fired is the epitome of all that is wrong with the world.
As they cut a check for telling us little people what to think and read from a script wrote by people with interests that go well beyond money. What a world. And some people wonder why little people like me support The Don. Dude may be so rich he never has to concern himself with my way of life but, well, he seems to care more about lil people and the rule of law in a way I have not known any politician in my life time.
Plus he's arguably the most investigated politician/person in recent memory and all any one objectively has is Trump University. Meh. And don't get me started on the cynically transparent weaponising of state apparatus that is the FBI raid of Mar El Lago.
Did you know some of the agents involved in that nonsense are being investigated by The Durham Committee re the debunked Russiagate? Did you know that the FBI raid went so far outside of the warrant that Melania Trump's evening ware was confiscated? Among many other utterly pointless things that will ruin the DOJs standing in a court of law if they are dumb enough to push it that far. Totally legit that and pertinent to national security and absolutely not a witch hunt to dangle over undecided voters/split the republican base as the midterms loom....
Now for something really contentious that I agree with. It's time the FBI was disbanded. Did you know it was only ever meant to exist to fight Prohibition mobsters? Have you ever heard of the spouse spying scandal known as Love Inc? Have you ever heard of Operation Mockingbird? (Although that overlaps with CIA) I could go on and on. But I'll shut up now and go to sleep.
GLA.
Bit of a weird trade here.
09-Sep-22 12:40:45 0.55 2,800,000 Unknown* 0.52 0.57 15.40k O
09-Sep-22 12:40:45 0.55 -2,800,000 Unknown* 0.52 0.57 -15.40k O
09-Sep-22 12:40:45 0.55 2,800,000 Buy* 0.52 0.57 15.40k O
Does that mean it was cancelled? Not like it's megabucks just seems bizarre.
Well said HH. I reckon King Charles will do fine. It's when we get to Monarchs who have only ever known the internet age that I'll be thinking of becoming a republican lol. It's certainly the end of an era, I remember being a kid researching ww1 and 2 and it was strange hearing/reading people say God save the King and now here we all are with a new King. Well.
God save the King and may her Majesty rest in peace beside her beloved Prince.
Yep, gotta go back to jan 28th for higher volume at circa 300 million and SP reached 0.9p. And there was this amazing RNS on the 27th.
https://www.lse.co.uk/rns/UFO/alien-intersects-bonanza-silver-at-elizabeth-hill-vqo84zdkxwoehn7.html
Wonder what will come with the financial model and if that is blocking normal release of newsflow until it is done due to interactions with AA? Thoughts anyone.
Hey nothing wrong with a bit of passion in life. Frankly I'm just feeling a bit assaulted on all fronts lately so apologies to those who were caught out by angry Ohmni. I mean, it was just the other week that my neighbour filled my blue bin with garden waste. Gee, thanks. I'd have tipped it out in their back garden but I'm hardly in a fit state to do so lol. And in all seriousness it was just a few weeks ago there was credible talk of small divis in 2023-24 and with the RNSs prior to the last 2 it felt like an exciting new chapter with a new character in the UFO story. Bit of a damp squib
FML with a side of GLA.
PS. Had to liquidate another position to cover bills for this month given unexpected medical costs. It did mean I grabbed another 200 quid here however so the 100k trading remains intact and I am, annoyingly, 378 shares short of 350k in ISA. Bit better than the 250k I held in trading through the last spike. So. Come on BOD. Let's gently get that SP up to more respectable >1p levels and keep that q1/2023 shovel ready timeline in mind.
Volume 152,741,241
Vol. Sold 16,714,936
Vol. Bought 66,903,617
MIA = 69122688
Yesterday was what, 5.5 million and only 50% there about more volume so far. As per that is just delayed LSE data. Going to be lots of trades appearing after COP at this rate.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/forward-selling