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"This is really a decision that will cause a lot of pain, not just because of the number, but because of the way in which the company is restricted going forward," says @AWeissmann_ on Judge Engoron's $355M ruling against Trump. pic.twitter.com/biLMoxyKjV
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Surely that's going to be decisive unless India bat like they've all been smoking weed?
"BREAKING: Ukrainian forces are withdrawing from Avdiivka, Donetsk oblast, Commander in chief of Ukraine's armed forces say"
https://x.com/Faytuks/status/1758646704423715166?s=20
It is attrition. Trouble is, on the most basic level, Russia can afford to be attrited more
"From a soldier with Ukraine's 110th Brigade. He talks about problems with a lack of rotation, heavy attrition, shortage of soldiers, difficulty moving at night, chronic health issues + 40-45 average of age of soldiers, and few remaining fortifications."
https://x.com/RALee85/status/1758708142601273412?s=20
This TwiX source is often pro-Ukraine, and now he tweets this?
If you read the text, it sounds like Ukrainian morale is collapsing on the front. Not good
As we all know, wars of attrition keep attriting until suddenly they don't, and one side overwhelms the other. Allies v Germany in 1918
At the moment, if you were sad enough to wager bets on the war, you'd wager that Russia would be doing the 'overwhelming'
Some possible theories;
1) They knew, but didn't care because they didn't think it mattered;
2) They knew, but didn't care because they wanted the business anyway;
3) They knew, but didn't care because they were all bezzy mates with Trump;
4) They didn't know, because they were stupid.
None of them exactly inspire confidence in the banks he was working with...
And he was.
That was in 1942.
The Christmas in question was 1945.
They could have held the ruins of the town much longer if the Republican Representatives had not been shilling for Putin - and holding up supplies of weaponry. Reagan must be spinning in his grave.
I really think you need another break from the site for a few days. It really isn't doing you any good is it? You are now just talking drivel. Let's do a little breakdown:
a) Accusation of being immature. This coming from someone who has twice challenged PBs to fist fights
b) You can't remember anything I have posted and then wrote reams on what I posted in the past
c) You say I tagged all 'my mates', the people you accuse of being Labour supporters namely: @hyufd, @BartholomewRoberts, @DavidL, @Richard_Tyndall, @Sean_F, @Selebian, @Nigelb (I've done it again). I'm sure they will all appreciate being called socialists.
d) 10 likes to my post and only 1 from that list and the likes included yet another well known lefty @Big_G_NorthWales. Do you think maybe you have got me wrong in calling me a Labour supporter and that maybe people do think you are partisan. Just maybe? Just a little bit?
e) You accuse me of making personal posts (even though you can't remember any of my posts) and I agree I do. Yesterday I made a post wishing OGH my good wishes and also a post on some polite children I met when walking at a NT site and before that wishing @MarqueeMark good luck in his presentation. So yes I do post really personal stuff.
You need a break Casino. You really do. This site is getting to you.
Will it damage his campaign?
I'm not so sure. I think independents know the score with him, and his base will just think it's all part of the conspiracy.
It does make it that little bit more likely, though, that he seeks vengeance and recompense once in office.
Apologies everyone. Zelensky shall march down Nevsky Prospekt in April!
PS At no point was I going to buy a Panther Lima, it was a Panther J72. Does that mean you have been buying up and burning the wrong Panthers as you promised
Perhaps none of this - Biden's senility, Trump's venality - makes any actual difference. The voters have decided, and they have decided it is going to be extremely close
It's the flip side of the left wing habit of thinking that only their own politics has any intrinsic virtue.
a) You are a nasty and deeply personal poster. You know I've had issues with depression. You bringing up some of the examples of that at my worst moments are very low - even for you. You should be ashamed of yourself.
b) I can't remember anything you've posted of value. All I can recall is you creeping out of the woodwork occasionally to launch snide and personal attacks. That should tell you something.
c) Don't you dare try and besmirch my reputation with esteemed posters, who I admire and respect; my point was you were trying to encourage a pile-on - you are a cyber-bully.
d) Almost all of those "likes" are from the herd. Yes, there were one or two names that surprised me on that list and I will take it up with them.
e) I also posted wishing OGH my good wishes - although I don't think it's appropriate to bring him into this, in any way - and also to give @AndyJS my best wishes following his robbery, and @BlancheLivermore - I applaud and encourage any pb'er - but I don't launch nasty personal assaults unless they are deserved.
If you launch nasty and personal attacks at me expect that you can expect that back ten-fold, in ways that damage your morale and mental health in turn just as you damage mine.
I'm not standing for it in silence. You deeply unpleasant man.
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TRANSPORT for London (TfL) has confirmed a shortlist of four bidders to become the next operator of the Elizabeth Line from May 2025.
The shortlisted bidders are:
- Arriva UK Trains
- First Keolis Elizabeth Line, a joint venture between FirstGroup and Keolis
- GTS Rail Operations
- MTR Corporation UK, the line’s existing operator
https://www.railjournal.com/financial/four-bidders-for-londons-elizabeth-line-operator-contract/Which is your favourite? Or put another way, should that nice Mr Khan send the Elizabeth Line Line subsidy cheques to Germany, France, Japan or China respectively?
That's enough for many people. If you have a happy echo chamber of groupthink and someone upsets the applecart it's very easy to confuse that with being "partisan". It's simple social dynamics, and it can happen in things like, for example, WhatsApp too. And Twitter is much worse. My posts are filled with views that are at odds with traditional Conservative thinking, and new ways of thinking, but people pretend not to notice and just prefer simple labels.
Just as you prefer to flag any post that you disagree with.
But not $700 million. That was so far out it should have been an immediate red flag.
Either way it doesn’t matter, every approach is valid. The unique, good thing about this website is that whatever your perspective we can all cohabit.
The one who needs help is you: your clearly a deeply unpleasant individual, and that only just lurks beneath the surface, and it's something you're in denial about; you need to come to terms with it and seek treatment.
It is still, of course, an absolute embarrassment of an operator, as anyone with the misfortune to travel on CrossCountry or the late unlamented Arriva Trains Wales can testify.
"It’s possible that NY State were conned out of some taxes in which case they should sue. The current proceedings do seem to me to be partisan, politically motivated and ill judged. I can’t see this nonsense surviving appeal."
That summarises my feelings, the case reeks. There are better ways to squash Trump than really dodgy court cases which bring the whole NY legal system into disrepute. One of them is: beat him in an election. He's a terrible candidate. He's easily beatable, so beat him and see him gone
Find me the example of me being unobjective if you're so convinced they exist.
We were in Barcelona and my wife wondered why I started laughing. A guy had lost his card in a Douche Bank cash machine. It was the idea that anything to do with Douche might actually work…
Did a few contracts there - investment bank side. Disorganised chaos. Due to a bizarre management structure, some people have multiple bosses they report to. Which means people will often not obey instructions from a boss if they don’t feel like it… never seen so much childish insubordination. Lots of private fiefdoms.
I have name for all of them.
Then, perhaps we can all talk in a more civilised manner going forwards - and you can show us all your ability to add objective, insightful posts from an orange-book perspective that add to the richness of the discussion on here.
The criticism is that the crime was 'victimless' since everybody got their money. But it included tax evasion. Good luck arguing that is victimless if HMRC should ever pursue you for it.
He started off with a fairly small loan, kept rolling over. Bigger and biggger. No one cared in the boom times. Some idiots got a percentage as a commission, so it was all good. And in banking a big loan book is awesome. Quality be damned, I guess.
By the time someone woke up (ha) it was a problem so big, that the only option was to declare it a genius strategy and continue rolling over.
There are no longer night buses to Newent.
Hahahahaha
I think some people's definition of being "unobjective" is simply having anything good to say at any time about the current PM or administration, or the underlying party itself. They simply see that anyone sane must agree that the whole lot is fundamentally damned and awful, and if not, you are deluded.
Do you see any irony in that, per chance?
The judge didn't say that. He said it had been valued at four times the next most expensive property.
And even if you are right, there remain two serious problems:
1) Falsely claiming it was a social club to benefit from a tax exemption;
2) Valuing it at $18 million for tax purposes.
It is not just about fraudulent valuations. It's about using different valuations for different purposes to obtain a financial advantage.
Which is a crime.
Which is why he's had such a colossal fine imposed..
I rather think that it’s the number of people who say of a problem - “I’m not sure. What does the data say?” - which is the tiny, tiny number.
The other day, someone suggested making policy based on evidenced. And was roundly condemned by a few here. As soulless, without a compass etc…
As for the rest - Says a flint dildo knapper who no longer knaps flint dildos but writes bad travel articles for a seedy magazine...
I await the apology of @kjh when I log-on later with interest.
Sorry to have confused you with the constant name changes in your desire to destroy them all to prevent me from buying one.
Also, not just Bairstow, Root's had a pretty poor series with the bat.
Not a tremendously high bar, but still.
The thinking of a third rate car dealership owner.
Ministers plan to scrap exam required to allow dentists from countries outside of Europe to work here, in a bid to solve dentistry crisis
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/16/foreign-dentists-allowed-work-uk-without-qualifications/ (£££)
What could possibly go wrong? (Besides the incoming dentists also not taking on NHS patients.)
Want another objective view? I've said on here for a long time that the state education sector is underfunded and I would cut back on funding of pensions to pay for it.
How do you think such views go down with the Tory base atm?
I have just discovered the most amazing perceptual illusion. I can't believe I haven't seen it before, perhaps I have but forgot about it in my dotage. Perhaps we all discussed it last week. Anyway here it is
Watch this video, but before you watch it, read the line
GREEN NEEDLE
Then watch it again, but this time read the words
BRAIN STORM
https://x.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1749901393828495824?s=20
WTAF is going on? The guy who made this is adamant it is exactly the same sound. And he is queried below by skeptics, but seems to persuade them. A genuine illusion?
It’s also at least four times the size of the next property, look at a map and you can see it’s huge.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/gnUujVuRtjHqYJnZA?g_st=ic
I don’t know where the $18m came from, but if it were a crime he’d have been prosecuted though, rather than a civil case.
The most likely situation is that a) DJT has done loads of heinous prosecutable shit AND b) some of the cases are politically motivated.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/formulaone/article-13092275/Christian-Horner-sexual-misconduct-female-Red-Bull-reveals-sexual-messages-Geri-Halliwell-hush-money.html
It’s an important, visceral issue for you. And I respect that all the more.
You have imagined all of this and are getting very very very angry. So please get help for your own well being.
I am not going to respond anymore because it isn't doing you any good.
There are multiple different scientific explanations below, and no consensus as to what is going on
The murder of Navalny has shaken people, both Estonian and Russian, in a way I have not seen since Putin´s speech on the eve of the invasion of Ukraine, which made it clear that the invasion was inevitable.
The point is that even the USSR kept dissidents like Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov alive, even when they imprisoned them. It was an acceptance that the West would do something if such people were to be murdered.
Putin murders his opponents with impunity because he believes that it does not matter what the West says or does. The fact is that the West has lost all ability to deter Putin. We could not deter the invasion, we could not deter him from outright murder.
The collapse of deterrence means that we will not be able to deter the coming attack directly against NATO targets, whether that attack is another against the undersea cables and pipelines in the Baltic or the North Sea, or a direct military incursion against Finland, Estonia or any other NATO state.
The weakness of the Americans response and the unhinged comments from Trump have given Putin hope that the West is decadent and that he can seize unlimited territory without the West offering meaningful resistance.
The failure to bolster Ukraine until it could be too late guarantees the expansion of the war. Estonia, Denmark, Poland, even Germany and the UK are not the only voices that now expect that Russia will expand the war with a direct attack on NATO member states within a maximum of 3-5 years.
So what does the murder of Navalny mean?
A Russian speaking friend of mine who had stood in the crowd said it very clearly; It means war. It means Russia will not be deterred from attacking the West.
I think the West will win, but having seen Coventry for the first time a couple of months ago, I think what cost with the war involve? It would be a shame to lose Paris or London, Rome or Istanbul as Coventry was lost.
It is inevitable that Putin will ultimately use nuclear weapons, and though we may have some defence, it will not be complete. Moscow will burn, but millions elsewhere will be also be dead.
Future generations will ask, as they ask of the 1930s, "could we not have stopped this sooner?"
Objectivity rests on evidence and provable facts and is usually heavy on qualifications and uncertainty, since objectively there are relatively few things that can be known for certain. Particularly in politics.
Subjectivity rests upon assertion and opinion and prejudice, in the literal sense of having pre judged the outcome in the absence of firm facts. All of us are subjective to a greater or lesser extent; it's human nature. None of us is Spock.
One form of subjectivity is attaching yourself to a particular political party and arguing their corner regardless of the facts - HY would have been a good example in times past, although events are driving even him toward being more questioning of late. That's the form of subjectiviy that you seem to be railing against.
But there are other ways to be subjective, and when it comes to argument based on solely on evidence rather than personal opinion, bias or prejudice, I'd say you're well in the pack, as am I, and certainly not way out in front as you seem to think.
Consider the enthusiasm for Starmers judgements as DPP. Or the enthusiasm to try and link various scandals to the politicians in power - PPE, Grenfell, Post Office etc.
What is unusual, is finding so much crime at the end of the search.
Trump is the classic 70s/80s style property “Billionaire” - an empire of debt built by making dodgy deals all the way. Then you have his side hobby of sexual… misbehaviour, complete with payoffs.
Then he went for semi-demi-fascist politics. Complete with the worst remake of The March On Rome, ever.
And he seems to have been especially stupid in creating an obvious trail of his behaviour.
https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/egpbajldovq/Trump-order-20240216.pdf
What Trump did with Mar-a-lago was to sign away the right for it to be used as anything except a social club, so that he could pay lower property taxes on it. After that when they tried to tax him on the basis that it was worth $25 million, he filed an appeal on the grounds that $25 million was too high (although he later withdrew it). Then he reported it to the bank as if he hadn't done that, which resulted in a vastly higher valuation.
This is one of the harder thing for us to interpret because the stuff about what you can use it for is a bit obscure, but a lot of the other cases where he's pulling the same moves in ways that are much more blatant, for example lying about how big a penthouse was or how many floors a building had.
Look on the bright side, they might level Coventry AGAIN, then we can start over
You are a weak man of weak character. Others on here will note your lack of integrity with interest and judge you accordingly.
As for you and myself I suggest we never engage with each other on this site again.
Good day.
Good day, Ian. I hope you enjoy walking your dog.
A combination of not paying, aggression against his lawyers for not winning unwinnable cases and that good lawyers have some kind of respect for rules of conduct.
The ones prepared to take him on now are the bottom of the barrel.
I think it's worth everyone remembering that there are humans behind these avatars. Some of whom emerge from the pile-on a bit sticky from the Tizer that has been thrown at them, but otherwise energised and ready to spend the day knapping flints or suchlike. Others, though, having just fished out the midget gems that have been forcibly stuffed in their every orifice during the coordinated final assault on the messy mat, then take the stress and rancour out on real-life innocents such as recently awoken young kids.