If Mr. Xi wants to send a clear message to Mr. Trump, he’ll politely decline any suggestions that China’s airlines should buy Boeing products and instead suggest China’s airlines might buy the Yakolev MC-21.
China has invested a lot of money in its new airliner. In the past, they have built aircraft with imported components, then gradually re-engineered them with their own technologies.
I hope so too. But I know the difficulties since no one will rent to me because of my age -- which is more of a problem than even the cats. So I will have to fight it out and hope to get a settlement of some kind. The developer is planning a multi million dollar project and has deep pockets. However, like all developers that are unscrupulous.
so good to see, while in Toulouse the production goes down because these nationalistic French testosterone dwarfs want to control everything with their childish top-down fantasies…
My previous landlord was...LOL...'accommodating". The new one is a huge developer, They have just evicted all tenants with "term contracts", which they can do summarily. However, my contract was negotiated 30 years ago and they can't do that with me. It has to be "negotiated" which in Japan is a long, and usually costly process.
If someone buys a property with the intention of redeveloping the site the rental occupiers are always in this jam. It's a normal hassle for developers but not something tenants have much say in. Same thing all over the world.
You're correct. As a renter I've dealt with it myself. My situation is different because I'm a RV Guy. I have mobility and it saves me money.
I don't want to leave where I am. My landlord has lowered my rent several times! It's a beautiful place. There are three types of RV People in our park. We have permanent occupants in mobile homes, long term retirees in RV's (That's me.) and contract tradesmen temporarily here working contracts.
I feel so bad for Julian. It's not only the fix with his housing, it's the suppression and having his life's savings stolen from him.
I always dreamed of living in an RV! But no way I could do that in Tokyo-- nor it seems in Canada, whose solution is MAID (Medical Assistance In Dying).
I consider myself blessed. I never dreamed of the life I'm living now. I'm living beyond my wildest dreams.
Like you I had my life's savings stolen from me by my investment advisor. How he got the best of me was he impersonated Larry Johnson. It didn't destroy me because I only invested what I could spare.
Since I have some financial flexibility I donate to worthy causes when I can. I do so to make ammends for past misdeeds.
I've bought you coffee in the past but now my bank prevents me from doing so. I hope to rectify that.
You're a total fan of Putin and Russia, you only see the positive side of things, and you always claim that Ukraine doesn't stand a chance against Putin—so what do you say to the fact that the Russians suffer daily attacks on their oil industry, arms industry, and other vital infrastructure, without the "strong" Putin doing anything about it (except asking for peace)? That's a complete failure, and it's not even registered by all the Putin fans. Isn't that the result of the lack of red lines, which leads to even the smallest player giving the Russians the finger and taking advantage of them? Where are the Russians' amazing weapons? Where is Putin's answer?
I understand your point of view-- which, by the way, is the opinion of many Russians.
However:
Ukrainian attacks DO do some damage.But the interception rate is rarely 100% with the exception of the attacks on Putin's residence.. So, one or two drones will often get through and debris from exploded drones causes fires. Infrastructure is well-protected so the Ukrainians also attack homes and apartment buildings to kill civilians. The Ukrainians claim to have damaged Russian refining by 40%, other observers in the West say 20% -- but there is no evidence for this. The Russians say probably not at all and the damage never appear to be critical to their industry. The West relies on OSINT groups which tend to be dominated by CIA and MI6 interests.
Putin is NOT 'asking for peace". That's just diplomacy for the sake of China and allies in the Global South. He says he WANTS peace. (Who doesn't'?) But this war, like FDR's war serves him well in rebuilding Russia while bankrupting Europe and the US militarily, economically and politically.
The Russians DO have amazing weapons that they deploy and against which the Ukrainians have no defense. Ukraine is one huge testground for Russian military technology.
O f course they suffer these attacks; it is war, what else would you expect? The important thing to understand is that they have no meaningful strategic impact, just minor, temporary disruptions. Far from doing long term damage Russia is actually increasing its oil and gas exports and has already assured its reliable partners that it can make up for shortages from the Persian Gulf.
Russia is NOT asking for peace but offering it. Very different. The fact the West refuses to entertain such an outlandish notion is one of the primary causes, in fact THE primary cause, for the conflict.
Russia's answer, repeated many times, is that the SMO continues until its strategic objectives are met.
Apropos to nothing, was reading Bonners latest and I mad ehte following comments:
"This leverage will allow the leaders in Tehran to force nations to lift sanctions and normalize relations..."
What nobody is recognising is that if sanctions(pressure) are gone Iran may have much less need for proxies and might de-escalate pressure in those areas where its proxies are operating.
You appear to be putting the cart before the horse.
Iran's support for its so-called "proxies" - I assume you refer to Hamas, Hezbollah, Ansarallah, etc. - has nothing to do with fighting sanctions but resisting the illegal occupation of Palestinian lands and the expansionist policies of the West's genocidal proxy in the region. It is not something they do out of necessity but as a moral duty (as alien as that concept is to western political thought). The support will continue irrespective of Iran's own circumstances.
The sanctions against Iran are there primarily because the USA is a spiteful, vengeful, vindictive nation when things do not go their way. The same-old cracked record throughout modern history.
You should note that Iran's peace proposals put the ending of Israeli hostilities ahead of any sanctions relief.
I'm not sure about the 'principled support for Palestinians' argument. Most of the Arab countries went from 'Israel is an illegal occupier' to supporting the right of Israel to exist. I'm thinking that if conditions in Iran were better there would be no need to look for enemies? Cheers.
Agree with pretty much evrything but I think Putin has criticised the economic performance of the first two or three months of the year. Like every government Russia has to prioritise and regarding the amount spent on the North South Corridor, according to Pepe Escobar, who has been there, a lot remains to be done. An interesting side effect to the war has been to cause delays in production of small warships Corvettes(?) from a planned 40 to 16 which of course has relevance in the harrassement of Russian and Russian related cargo ships. But considering the burden of running a 1500/2000km war front, the Russian performance has been good verging on amazing.
Putin has been re-organizing the bureaucracy as we can see with a slew of prosecutions of high level officials for corruption but he is careful to encourage a diversity of opinion, as long as people all agree on long term goals. A kind of Marxist centralism.
A very massive update for me Julian...
Bookkeeping... I hated that at school. When I had a limited liability company, I hired a bookkeeper.
And now i have you...
Just saying.
Cassandra
I hate bookkeeping!
I took Economics in high school, figured out ways to skip the classes.
If Mr. Xi wants to send a clear message to Mr. Trump, he’ll politely decline any suggestions that China’s airlines should buy Boeing products and instead suggest China’s airlines might buy the Yakolev MC-21.
China has invested a lot of money in its new airliner. In the past, they have built aircraft with imported components, then gradually re-engineered them with their own technologies.
Hopefully you find a nice place to stay in the near future. And have enough energie to keep me informed with your bright mind.
I hope so too. But I know the difficulties since no one will rent to me because of my age -- which is more of a problem than even the cats. So I will have to fight it out and hope to get a settlement of some kind. The developer is planning a multi million dollar project and has deep pockets. However, like all developers that are unscrupulous.
so good to see, while in Toulouse the production goes down because these nationalistic French testosterone dwarfs want to control everything with their childish top-down fantasies…
WTF is it with your landlord? Did your building get sold to some asshole?
My previous landlord was...LOL...'accommodating". The new one is a huge developer, They have just evicted all tenants with "term contracts", which they can do summarily. However, my contract was negotiated 30 years ago and they can't do that with me. It has to be "negotiated" which in Japan is a long, and usually costly process.
I hope it's costly for the developer. Big real estate developerment Oligarchs are assholes.
If someone buys a property with the intention of redeveloping the site the rental occupiers are always in this jam. It's a normal hassle for developers but not something tenants have much say in. Same thing all over the world.
Quite right. Fortunately, I have some bargaining power, say the lawyers. But I gotta pay them , too.
You're correct. As a renter I've dealt with it myself. My situation is different because I'm a RV Guy. I have mobility and it saves me money.
I don't want to leave where I am. My landlord has lowered my rent several times! It's a beautiful place. There are three types of RV People in our park. We have permanent occupants in mobile homes, long term retirees in RV's (That's me.) and contract tradesmen temporarily here working contracts.
I feel so bad for Julian. It's not only the fix with his housing, it's the suppression and having his life's savings stolen from him.
I always dreamed of living in an RV! But no way I could do that in Tokyo-- nor it seems in Canada, whose solution is MAID (Medical Assistance In Dying).
I consider myself blessed. I never dreamed of the life I'm living now. I'm living beyond my wildest dreams.
Like you I had my life's savings stolen from me by my investment advisor. How he got the best of me was he impersonated Larry Johnson. It didn't destroy me because I only invested what I could spare.
Since I have some financial flexibility I donate to worthy causes when I can. I do so to make ammends for past misdeeds.
I've bought you coffee in the past but now my bank prevents me from doing so. I hope to rectify that.
You're a total fan of Putin and Russia, you only see the positive side of things, and you always claim that Ukraine doesn't stand a chance against Putin—so what do you say to the fact that the Russians suffer daily attacks on their oil industry, arms industry, and other vital infrastructure, without the "strong" Putin doing anything about it (except asking for peace)? That's a complete failure, and it's not even registered by all the Putin fans. Isn't that the result of the lack of red lines, which leads to even the smallest player giving the Russians the finger and taking advantage of them? Where are the Russians' amazing weapons? Where is Putin's answer?
I understand your point of view-- which, by the way, is the opinion of many Russians.
However:
Ukrainian attacks DO do some damage.But the interception rate is rarely 100% with the exception of the attacks on Putin's residence.. So, one or two drones will often get through and debris from exploded drones causes fires. Infrastructure is well-protected so the Ukrainians also attack homes and apartment buildings to kill civilians. The Ukrainians claim to have damaged Russian refining by 40%, other observers in the West say 20% -- but there is no evidence for this. The Russians say probably not at all and the damage never appear to be critical to their industry. The West relies on OSINT groups which tend to be dominated by CIA and MI6 interests.
Putin is NOT 'asking for peace". That's just diplomacy for the sake of China and allies in the Global South. He says he WANTS peace. (Who doesn't'?) But this war, like FDR's war serves him well in rebuilding Russia while bankrupting Europe and the US militarily, economically and politically.
The Russians DO have amazing weapons that they deploy and against which the Ukrainians have no defense. Ukraine is one huge testground for Russian military technology.
But the consensus view is different.
O f course they suffer these attacks; it is war, what else would you expect? The important thing to understand is that they have no meaningful strategic impact, just minor, temporary disruptions. Far from doing long term damage Russia is actually increasing its oil and gas exports and has already assured its reliable partners that it can make up for shortages from the Persian Gulf.
Russia is NOT asking for peace but offering it. Very different. The fact the West refuses to entertain such an outlandish notion is one of the primary causes, in fact THE primary cause, for the conflict.
Russia's answer, repeated many times, is that the SMO continues until its strategic objectives are met.
Apropos to nothing, was reading Bonners latest and I mad ehte following comments:
"This leverage will allow the leaders in Tehran to force nations to lift sanctions and normalize relations..."
What nobody is recognising is that if sanctions(pressure) are gone Iran may have much less need for proxies and might de-escalate pressure in those areas where its proxies are operating.
https://www.bonnerprivateresearch.com/p/checkmate?r=z3bgb
You appear to be putting the cart before the horse.
Iran's support for its so-called "proxies" - I assume you refer to Hamas, Hezbollah, Ansarallah, etc. - has nothing to do with fighting sanctions but resisting the illegal occupation of Palestinian lands and the expansionist policies of the West's genocidal proxy in the region. It is not something they do out of necessity but as a moral duty (as alien as that concept is to western political thought). The support will continue irrespective of Iran's own circumstances.
The sanctions against Iran are there primarily because the USA is a spiteful, vengeful, vindictive nation when things do not go their way. The same-old cracked record throughout modern history.
You should note that Iran's peace proposals put the ending of Israeli hostilities ahead of any sanctions relief.
I'm not sure about the 'principled support for Palestinians' argument. Most of the Arab countries went from 'Israel is an illegal occupier' to supporting the right of Israel to exist. I'm thinking that if conditions in Iran were better there would be no need to look for enemies? Cheers.
Is MSM still alive ?
Must be its ghost speaking from the grave as social media dominates easily with the truth .
Oh you mean NSAM. Not So Alternate Media....LOL
thot that jet had a mag lev sled for takeoff.
Sorry???
Agree with pretty much evrything but I think Putin has criticised the economic performance of the first two or three months of the year. Like every government Russia has to prioritise and regarding the amount spent on the North South Corridor, according to Pepe Escobar, who has been there, a lot remains to be done. An interesting side effect to the war has been to cause delays in production of small warships Corvettes(?) from a planned 40 to 16 which of course has relevance in the harrassement of Russian and Russian related cargo ships. But considering the burden of running a 1500/2000km war front, the Russian performance has been good verging on amazing.
Putin has been re-organizing the bureaucracy as we can see with a slew of prosecutions of high level officials for corruption but he is careful to encourage a diversity of opinion, as long as people all agree on long term goals. A kind of Marxist centralism.