A strange strange business, and it does make one wonder about Putin's hold on power. The Wagner thing has always been head-scratchingly strange, and Prigozhin still breathes. So does Navalny for that matter, but then he never had power to be of real concern to Putin.
Augustus de Morgan (he of de Morgan's law) paraphrasing Swift: Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum. And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on; While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on. (from: A Budget of Paradoxes.)
The contracts would almost certainly have included clauses indemnifying them... and acknowledging knowledge of the risks. Space tourism is understandable (bearly), but Wreck tourism is pretty hard to grasp.
Without a skerrick of knowledge about how the techniques and technology and knowledge employed may be applied in the future you label this useless? I equally wonder about those who blurt and parade ignorance and thoughtlessness.
In the case of brushing, they have just bought email and postal address data from some online source, and I guess they don't (but they just might) follow the tracking data, if they do indeed pay for the tracking.
Glutinous rice, not sure if that is what you mean by sticky rice, is quite a different category, used in rice cakes and zongzi, you'd never mistake it for the ordinary rice we usually eat with meals. Basmati rice is low on the glycemic scale, aromatic, and not at all clumpy, long-grained but still easy to eat with chopsticks. Australian rice comes in short, medium and long-grain varieties, of which the long is on the dry side for me, medium is fine, and a rice cooker does a perfect job. None present a problem for chopsticks. The HK woman had her head up her you know what! Fussy twit!
@butch Russia has not made any serious offer of peace talks - none that they believed for an instant would be acceptable, This war looks certain to roll on into 24 and 25. BRICS does not have the will or muscle to impose sanctions, but they may succeed in reducing the power and strength of the USD, the so-called reserve currency. Trade in CNY will surely increase, a welcome trend.
@draego: There! I knew you had a demonrat in you just dying to come out! And so it did. Yet we are still waiting for 'Reds under the bed' and 'China-lover', come on now! You perhaps longing for the return of the McCarthy era? You must have just missed out on that...
@ten Humour is not your strong suit, is it! Dour as they come it seems. Mind you, copy-paste-delete is far more effort that it's worth, and you can be sure the perp will pay no attention and learn nichts
@ten in this particular case, and others, I do precisely that. I perfectly understand why @op has sequestered (haven't had the opp to use that word in a while!) the subject of this blog. I am not so reluctant to delete as the @OP however.
@frand of course. But do not imagine for an instant that Saudi investment came without strings attached. If 1.25% is 'earned' as reported by the firm or taken as fees or commission that's $25m pocket-money per annum, there will surely be a 'quid pro quo' - no free lunches, but perhaps another Khashoggi butchery! So $10m is a fee for influence...
That's gross and deliberate distortion and dishonesty. The Kushner private investment company are managing the Saudi money, it was not given to Jared and Ivanka.
@ten short shrift is given where it is due. I won't linger on the irrelevant or the excessively bloated verbose and overblown. Pithy is good. Short sweet and to the point is admirable.
@ten or more relevant either. Puzzling over irrelevant comments (which abound in this case) does not help. Although the @OP says mindless, I'm not sure that is so. They are perhaps mindful, but in a parallel universe.
@CELTIC it might surprise you to know that Copy-paste-delete has a different effect from Delete-copy-paste-fail. Order of operation is significant. Capiche?
May 5th ... but scarcely '10 nights ago'. What percent of the surface was occluded? Was it a tiny fraction? Could it have been yet another 'Chinese spy balloon'
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... but on the other hand, you'd have to think the prognosis for Prigozhin is pretty poor