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Alas, poor Europe. I knew it well, Horatio.
Tuesday, September 6, 2022 11:35 PM
SECOND
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Tuesday, September 6, 2022 11:55 PM
6IXSTRINGJACK
Quote:Originally posted by second: The price of natural gas in the US and Europe Author Kevin Drum Published on September 6, 2022 – 7:30 pm Until February, the US and European prices of natural gas were generally within a few dollars of each other. Today, the US price is $9 and the average price in Europe is about $70. Much of this is because Europe is trying to replace Russian gas with LNG from other countries. However, Europe doesn't have enough capacity at its LNG ports to come even close to making up the loss from Russia. This supply constraint has produced bidding wars with Japan and South Korea that have caused natural gas prices to skyrocket around the world. In the US, by contrast, we have plenty of domestic supply and prices are low and fairly stable. This is why Europe is way more panicked about energy prices this winter than we are. https://jabberwocking.com/raw-data-the-price-of-natural-gas-in-the-us-and-europe/ The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Wednesday, September 7, 2022 6:11 AM
JAYNEZTOWN
Wednesday, September 7, 2022 7:07 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Uh huh. We'll see what happens this winter, Kevin. It's really nice for you that you get to work at an outfit that allows you to be wrong in every one of your predictions and opinions and still maintain employment. You make the weathermen jealous.
Wednesday, September 7, 2022 10:12 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Uh huh. We'll see what happens this winter, Kevin. It's really nice for you that you get to work at an outfit that allows you to be wrong in every one of your predictions and opinions and still maintain employment. You make the weathermen jealous.It is worth saying that natural gas production companies who were making a profit in Europe at $7 per million BTU will be making a huge killing at $70. Be happy for the gas production companies, 6ix. Celebrate their windfall profits, all thanks to Putin.
Friday, September 9, 2022 5:31 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: At least we're not blaming Trump today. Get fucked, idiot. You've got a five year old's grasp of the economy. You aren't worth the time.
Sunday, September 11, 2022 3:42 PM
SIGNYM
I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.
Thursday, September 15, 2022 8:38 PM
Friday, September 16, 2022 5:29 AM
MAGONSDAUGHTER
Friday, September 16, 2022 10:24 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Magonsdaughter: What a terribly written article - so trashy
Saturday, September 17, 2022 1:42 PM
Quote:Angry Customers Demand Explanation As German Energy Bills Soar
Saturday, September 17, 2022 1:43 PM
Monday, September 26, 2022 1:01 PM
Quote: Meloni's Right-Wing Alliance Wins Clear Majority In Italian Elections Monday, Sep 26, 2022 - 09:44 AM First Sweden, now Italy.
Quote: Europe's unelected authoritarian ruler, Ursula von der Leyen, is not going to be happy: according to early exit polls out of Italy's national election, the right-wing bloc of Giorgia Meloni - which the ultra-left wing press just can't stop comparing to Mussolini - is set for a historic, if largely expected, victory and a clear majority (if, however, not a super-majority) which will propel Meloni to the top of the Italian government as the country's next prime minister, ushering in a historic right-wing shift for a country that - like Sweden until two weeks ago - has traditionally been very left-wing. Meloni's Brothers of Italy party, which won just 4% of the vote during the last national election in 2018, won the biggest share of the vote in Sunday’s parliamentary elections with around 22.5%-26.5% of the vote according to an exit poll released by Italian national broadcaster Rai. She is now set to become prime minister but would require approval from junior partners in her coalition to assume the role. * Italy election exit poll: right-wing block (Meloni's Fratelli d'Italia + Lega + Forza Italia) on track for clear majority in both upper and lower houses of Italian parliament. https://t.co/3ha7oz6tgX — Jeremy Cliffe (@JeremyCliffe) September 25, 2022 According to an exit poll from Rai, Meloni's alliance which includes Salvini's League and Berlusconi's Forza Italia will win around 43% of the vote. The Center-Left alliance will have just 25.5%-29.5% of the vote, while the 5 Star movement has 13.5%-17.5% of the final vote. Italy’s electoral system, which strongly favors parties that run as part of a coalition, is expected to help the right to an ample majority in both houses of Parliament: with 228 votes in the Lower House and 115 seats in the Senate (according to SkyTG24), Meloni will have a majority as just 104 votes are required. As the WSJ notes, the Italian election is "the first big test of the European Union’s political cohesion as it confronts Russia’s attempt to redraw the continent’s post-Cold War order. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s restriction of natural-gas deliveries has sparked an energy-price crunch that, combined with other inflationary pressures, is expected to push much of Europe into a recession this winter." Meloni replaces former Goldman Sachs partner and ECB technocrat and globalist, Mario Draghi, and will be the country’s first female prime minister. The likely right-wing government will face difficult decisions over how to protect Italian households and businesses from sky-high prices for natural gas and electricity. While Italy’s parlous public finances allow limited scope for fiscal largess, if the UK is any example - and it is - Italy will engage in a similar strategy of targeted and debt-funded fiscal stimulus which will lead to a blowout in Italian debt, a further plunge in the euro and much chaos everywhere. Italy's massive debt of roughly 150% of GDP, combined with Italy’s weak long-term growth record, makes the country vulnerable to bond-market selloffs if investors lose confidence in the soundness of Rome’s fiscal policies, and dependent on the European Central Bank to keep its bond yields stable. ECB support has typically been conditional on Rome following cautious budget policies and enacting economic overhauls aimed at improving growth. In other words, the Berlusconi example of 2011 is still vivid - if Meloni's policies displease the ECB, Christine Lagarde will simply refuse (or forget) to buy Italian bonds, sparking Europe's next sovereign debt crisis at the worst possible moment.
Quote: During the election campaign, Meloni tried to reassure voters and investors that she will keep Italy’s mammoth debt under control and won’t question the country’s foreign alliances or support for Ukraine. Expect all of that to change tomorrow. * History is written! Despite Ursula von der Leyen's unworthy and dirty threats, Italians vote en masse for the far right. Giorgia Meloni first female premier in the history of Italy. pic.twitter.com/azjKug2xVm — RadioGenova (@RadioGenova) September 25, 2022 Looking ahead, Europe's crumbling and unelected oligarchy will be terribly vexed by the result... * If the exit poll is right and Meloni becomes PM in Italy, what 'tools' will the awful @vonderleyen use? Thank god we have left. https://t.co/OEPeMLyAhA — Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) September 25, 2022 ... as for markets, the spin will be that the lack of a super-majority is actually bullish for for the EUR and BTPs, while focus will quickly turn to coalition stability and who Italy's next finmin will be.
Tuesday, September 27, 2022 10:03 AM
Quote: Blasts Detected Near Nord Stream As Images Reveal "Huge Leak" Remember what President Biden said weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine: *"If Russia invades...then there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it."
Tuesday, September 27, 2022 9:41 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Looks like Greens may have committed an act of terror/ sabotage Quote: Blasts Detected Near Nord Stream As Images Reveal "Huge Leak" Remember what President Biden said weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine: *"If Russia invades...then there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it." Europe can say goodbye to its gas supply this winter. (Of course, they'll blame Russia.)
Saturday, October 1, 2022 4:49 PM
JEWELSTAITEFAN
Monday, October 3, 2022 9:47 PM
Monday, October 3, 2022 9:51 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SECOND: How Liz Truss (new UK Prime Minister) Did So Much Damage in So Few Days
Monday, October 3, 2022 10:27 PM
THG
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: The end of the "age of abundance", where abundance means hot showers, street lights at night, eating meat, warmth in the winter... Multiple EU "leaders" tell their people to suck it up.
Monday, October 3, 2022 10:32 PM
Quote:Originally posted by THG: Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: The end of the "age of abundance", where abundance means hot showers, street lights at night, eating meat, warmth in the winter... Multiple EU "leaders" tell their people to suck it up. It's the Russian people who have to suck it up comrade. T "The Pressure On Putin Grows," As Ukrainian Fighters Push Deeper Into Russian-Controlled Areas
Tuesday, October 4, 2022 6:27 AM
Tuesday, October 4, 2022 9:14 AM
Wednesday, October 5, 2022 7:26 AM
Wednesday, October 5, 2022 9:21 AM
Wednesday, October 5, 2022 10:25 AM
Wednesday, October 5, 2022 9:45 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Yup. It wasn't enough that Biden* made it a first day priority to shot down the Keystone XL pipeline, but now he blew up the Nord Stream pipeline. Energy prices were just fine while Trump was in office. Gas prices by me are up $0.50 a gallon in the last two weeks. Heating your house is going to cost even more than it did last year when it doubled from the previous year. As an aside... Elon is buying Twitter by the end of the week. Just in time for midterms. Democrats are toast. -------------------------------------------------- Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus
Wednesday, October 5, 2022 10:24 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Gas prices just shot up another $0.35 by me in one day. Now it's $0.85 more than it was a week ago. Good. Election day is a month away. -------------------------------------------------- Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus
Wednesday, October 5, 2022 10:29 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Gas prices just shot up another $0.35 by me in one day. Now it's $0.85 more than it was a week ago. Good. Election day is a month away. -------------------------------------------------- Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibusExxon depends on people believing the U.S. President sets gasoline prices because if the people knew it was Exxon the corporate headquarters would be burned down and the CEO hanged. For example, see:
Thursday, October 6, 2022 6:32 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: How many times are you going to repeat this stupid line, dipshit? Joe fucking Biden* didn't directly set the gas prices. NOBODY IS SAYING HE DID. But two years of bad policy created the clusterfuck we're all living through now. Not just the gas prices. EVERYTHING. DEMOCRATS ARE FUCKING DONE. DONE. -------------------------------------------------- Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus
Thursday, October 6, 2022 6:35 AM
Thursday, October 6, 2022 9:03 AM
Quote:Originally posted by SECOND: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: How many times are you going to repeat this stupid line, dipshit? Joe fucking Biden* didn't directly set the gas prices. NOBODY IS SAYING HE DID. But two years of bad policy created the clusterfuck we're all living through now. Not just the gas prices. EVERYTHING. DEMOCRATS ARE FUCKING DONE. DONE. -------------------------------------------------- Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibusIt is NOT two years. It is two centuries that companies like Exxon have been able to set prices as high as the buyers have money in their wallets and take the maximum profit. There are inflation adjustments going back 200 years and we are paying 200 times more today than way-back when. That isn't the way America would run, except if Exxon and like companies had complete control of America and were squeezing all the money they can from Americans. CPI Inflation Calculator https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Thursday, October 6, 2022 10:13 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Quote:Originally posted by SECOND: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: How many times are you going to repeat this stupid line, dipshit? Joe fucking Biden* didn't directly set the gas prices. NOBODY IS SAYING HE DID. But two years of bad policy created the clusterfuck we're all living through now. Not just the gas prices. EVERYTHING. DEMOCRATS ARE FUCKING DONE. DONE. -------------------------------------------------- Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibusIt is NOT two years. It is two centuries that companies like Exxon have been able to set prices as high as the buyers have money in their wallets and take the maximum profit. There are inflation adjustments going back 200 years and we are paying 200 times more today than way-back when. That isn't the way America would run, except if Exxon and like companies had complete control of America and were squeezing all the money they can from Americans. CPI Inflation Calculator https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two Tell that to the poor people. SPOILER ALERT 1: They don't care. SPOILER ALERT 2: Most of them are former Democrats. -------------------------------------------------- Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus
Thursday, October 6, 2022 5:45 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SECOND: I know plenty of poor people.
Friday, October 7, 2022 8:39 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Quote:Originally posted by SECOND: I know plenty of poor people. You're one of them. Get fucked. -------------------------------------------------- Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus
Friday, October 7, 2022 9:02 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Quote:Originally posted by SECOND: I know plenty of poor people. You're one of them. Get fucked. -------------------------------------------------- Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibusThe Russians are poor compared to Finns. How did that happen?
Friday, October 7, 2022 10:02 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: I don't see what your point is.
Friday, October 7, 2022 10:14 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: I don't see what your point is.Russians have always bitched about Europe not treating Russia with the respect Russians demand. Meanwhile, Finns never had the over-inflated sense of self-worth that the Russians have, which is why Finns went about their daily jobs improving their lives while Russians have schemed to get respect from Europeans. All that scheming and H-bomb building and controlling the Warsaw Pact countries has done the Russians no good, whatsoever. Neither will controlling Ukraine do Russians any good. On the other side of the border, Finland never had Russian delusions of grandeur, and avoided all the emotional energy Russians have wasted on tomfoolery and nonsense. The results? Finns are richer and happier than Russians. To explain the difference in prosperity, Russians think the Finns cheated somehow. I guess Russians cannot understand what they have done wrong, no more than my East Texas relatives can understand what they are doing wrong and how their prosperity is harmed by how wastefully they spend their lives.
Friday, October 7, 2022 12:43 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: And how the fuck do you know any of this? Don't bother answering that question. It's rhetorical. You don't know shit. You want to see over-inflated self worth. You don't have to go far. Even poor people have mirrors in their bathroom. Get fucked, worm. -------------------------------------------------- Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus
Friday, October 7, 2022 2:59 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SECOND: I know plenty of poor people. But unlike Signym, who has declared poor people were made poor by rich people, I know for certain that poor people in America are self-taught ignoramuses about money, inflation, business, everything about American industry. Both sides of my family, father and mother, are from East Texas and they were poor before I was born. About 60 years ago, when I was 10 years old, a woman by the name of Mrs. Kesseler converted my parents to being Jehovah's Witnesses. My parents moved to Pasadena Texas to get away from their angry poor white trash relatives, who were not at all Christian, although my white trash relatives believe they are the true Christians. I am not sure how people who don't follow the Bible can convince themselves they are followers of Jesus, but my relatives have proved it is possible. Along with not being Christians, despite claiming they are, my relatives are all Trumptards and their actual religion is that their problems: financial/work/family/health insurance/Social Security/Medicare hardships are caused by Democrats. This belief that you know something you do not also includes the knowledge of how money, finance, and investment work. My mother and father worked at Burger King, my father as a manager. When my mother died, she was a multi-millionaire. Actually following the Bible will make you rich.
Quote: Indeed, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."
Quote:Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. 13 “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’[a] but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”
Friday, October 7, 2022 3:19 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Or maybe the part that says . . .
Friday, October 7, 2022 5:21 PM
Friday, October 7, 2022 7:23 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Or maybe the part that says . . . See the "Parable of the talents or minas" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_talents_or_minas#Interpretations The angry poor white trash living in East Texas (Trumptards) have little understanding of the biblical laws forbidding adultery, stealing, giving false witness,
Quote: coveting their neighbor's possessions, drunkenness, gluttony, etc. As Trumptards go through life, they think following rules is an abridgement of their Constitutional freedoms, but breaking those biblical laws, even one time, can throw a Trumptard into poverty. That never stopped the Trumptards I'm familiar with from breaking all the laws all the time. They handle the inconsistency between what the bible says and what the Trumptard does by lying about what the Trumptards have done. That strategy doesn't work well in real life for Trumptards or for Russians torturing prisoners. The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Friday, October 7, 2022 8:12 PM
Friday, October 7, 2022 8:20 PM
Friday, October 7, 2022 9:01 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Also, you- in your righteousness- are ok with being cruel and vindictive to people who disagree with you. But, as the Bible says " 'Vengeance is mine' says the Lord' ". It's not up to you to "punish" people for the "sin" of disagreeing with you.
Friday, October 7, 2022 9:21 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Also, you- in your righteousness- are ok with being cruel and vindictive to people who disagree with you. But, as the Bible says " 'Vengeance is mine' says the Lord' ". It's not up to you to "punish" people for the "sin" of disagreeing with you.I thought you knew that I am not a Christian. I am Atheist, which horrifies the Jehovah's Witnesses in the family, so I don't mention that fact. By the way, my two sisters, who worked at Burger King along with me, same as my parents, are both members of https://www.jw.org/en/ . One is a nurse and a multi-millionaire. The other is a school teacher for the blind and she is also a multi-millionaire. Then there is me, the engineer and the merciless barbarian in the family. The Joss
Friday, October 7, 2022 10:36 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Also, you- in your righteousness- are ok with being cruel and vindictive to people who disagree with you. But, as the Bible says " 'Vengeance is mine' says the Lord' ". It's not up to you to "punish" people for the "sin" of disagreeing with you.I thought you knew that I am not a Christian. I am Atheist, which horrifies the Jehovah's Witnesses in the family, so I don't mention that fact. By the way, my two sisters, who worked at Burger King along with me, same as my parents, are both members of https://www.jw.org/en/ . One is a nurse and a multi-millionaire. The other is a school teacher for the blind and she is also a multi-millionaire. Then there is me, the engineer and the merciless barbarian in the family. The Joss Then WTF are you even referring to the Bible, and saying that following the Bible will make you rich? You may as well be quoting the Boy Scout motto. You're splattering the board with your usual self-contradictory BS. Time to put you on"ignore", again. ----------- Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
Saturday, October 8, 2022 7:13 AM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Then WTF are you even referring to the Bible, and saying that following the Bible will make you rich? You may as well be quoting the Boy Scout motto. You're splattering the board with your usual self-contradictory BS. Time to put you on"ignore", again.
Saturday, October 8, 2022 8:14 AM
Wednesday, October 12, 2022 10:30 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: More wasted bandwidth... -------------------------------------------------- Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus
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