Bob crushing on me as a dead name man now your real female Trans identity. So cute. You should not denigrate the Irish by claiming you are bombed out. Enough of the stereotyping.
Except they spend all their time posting to just MY threads which are in current events mostly. Logic dictates you are Bob establishing his Trans identity.
Why? They are competition. Say that the next time you go bar hopping. I suppose because you refused to read the question was about women reading men's profiles. Bob is that you? Have the surgery yet or still on the hormones?
I noticed very few below 30 obviously fake profiles. Now they are going 35+ all the way to at least 55+. Is it because this has an older demographic and they think men can relate more to women of the same age? Or do they know old men have all the money and are targeting the age once again due to similar interests? I find it funny myself. Women what do you see? Thanks
The India-Canada row has continued escalating, with India having suspended visa services for all Canadian nationals on Thursday.
A statement said the temporary move is the result of "security threats" against Indian consuls in India, while denouncing Canada as a terrorist "safe haven".
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had on Monday alleged that Indian intelligence assassinated Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar at a temple outside Vancouver in June. New Delhi angrily rejected the accusation as "absurd". Canada's Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc has emphasized that "Canada is a safe country" after India initially issued a travel advisory telling the tens of thousands of Indians inside Canada to exercise caution.
According to the full Indian government statement:
"There have been threats made to our high commission and consulates in Canada," a foreign affairs ministry spokesman in Delhi said. "This has disrupted their normal functioning. Accordingly are temporarily unable to process visa applications."
He said: "India is looking for parity in rank and diplomatic strength between the diplomatic missions of the two countries. This is being sought because of Canadian diplomatic interference in our internal affairs."
Hours earlier Canada had announced it was reducing its personnel in India, saying some diplomats had received threats on social media.
"In light of the current environment where tensions have heightened, we are taking action to ensure the safety of our diplomats," a statement said.
India has further charged that that Canadian government is trying to "shift the focus from Khalistani terrorists and extremists" who were given shelter there.
The slain Sikh leader Nijjar had long been a "wanted terrorist" - and has complained these terror and separatist activities have been enabled on Canadian soil.
Trudeau at the G20 summit in India earlier this month tried to rally Western allies to pile the pressure on PM Modi, but reportedly to no avail, as many countries including the US are wary of harming relations with India and its large economy.
How Will The Biden Administration Cope With Its Loss In Ukraine?
While this piece will touch on the war in Ukraine it is more about the U.S., and the Biden administration, and how they will cope with their defeat in their war on Russia. Please keep that in mind when commentating.
Washington's moment of recognizing the defeat in Ukraine, and its consequences, has yet to arrive.
In his latest piece (archived) Seymour Hersh reports on the state of the war and of significant differences of opinion between the U.S. intelligence services:
There are significant elements in the American intelligence community, relying on field reports and technical intelligence, who believe that the demoralized Ukraine army has given up on the possibility of overcoming the heavily mined three-tier Russian defense lines and taking the war to Crimea and the four oblasts seized and annexed by Russia. The reality is that Volodymyr Zelensky’s battered army no longer has any chance of a victory.
The war continues, I have been told by an official with access to current intelligence, because Zelensky insists that it must. There is no discussion in his headquarters or in the Biden White House of a ceasefire and no interest in talks that could lead to an end to the slaughter. “It’s all lies,” the official said, speaking of the Ukrainian claims of incremental progress in the offensive that has suffered staggering losses, while gaining ground in a few scattered areas that the Ukrainian military measures in meters per week. ... The American intelligence official I spoke with spent the early years of his career working against Soviet aggression and spying has respect for Putin’s intellect but contempt for his decision to go to war with Ukraine and to initiate the death and destruction that war brings. But, as he told me, “The war is over. Russia has won. There is no Ukrainian offensive anymore, but the White House and the American media have to keep the lie going.
“The truth is if the Ukrainian army is ordered to continue the offensive, the army would mutiny. The soldiers aren’t willing to die any more, but this doesn’t fit the B.S. that is being authored by the Biden White House.”
The differences between the current CIA and the more neoconned Defense Intelligence Agency extend to their view on China:
I disagree with the crush all resistance. The conflict will end when the US and EU fragment due to poverty. Russia is draining every last cent from both and making new friends with lots of resources world wide. Friends that hate the US and EU colonizers. What happens in the EU when winter comes? Part of this from the US standpoint is to make the EU more of a vassal then it already is. Something literally half of the Ukraine populace has fled and the other half are being conscripted. Plus you have a vast amount who have lost limbs. One of my favorite bits of History . "Oct 6 1014 Czar Samuil of Bulgaria dies after an army of 15,000 of his men is returned, blinded by his enemy Emperor Basil of the Byzantine Empire. One out of every hundred of his men was permitted to keep one eye, such that they were able to return home. For this victory Basil earned the title Bulgaroctonus, slayer of Bulgars." The genius was in crippling the workers and future conscripts putting more of a burden on the state than the physical damage would suggest. You lose at least a generation of potential soldiers and farmers. All a burden.
That is the essence of the Russian meat grinder. Sun Tzu had a similar observation where each village section was divided into ten families. Taking a thousand troops affected ten thousand people. The war is an inexpensive way to remove old weaponry and the US and EU will not have to pay to decommission. Plus they can now launder new money via the MIC in rebuilding the arsenals. What the US is doing brilliantly and no one pays attention to this, is putting national rescources out of use by making them public lands. Everyone else eats up there oil and other materials and we keep ours for after the bombs drop. Who ever first thought of that was a genius that looked way down the road, further than damn near everyone else.
Sure they did. Stinky Blob is obsessed with me. he might be, um you know. I'm straight though. You never had a stalker before? I post to Politics and current events. All original posts are there. He stalked me from those to here.
Lawyers representing jet engine maker CFM International and its co-owners General Electric and Safran said "documentary evidence" shows thousands of jet engine parts with falsified documents were sold to global aircraft fleets by London-based AOG Technics, according to Bloomberg.
On Wednesday, in a London court, lawyers for CFM requested the judge force AOG to hand over documentation of "every product sale" since the company was set up in 2015.
Since late August, AOG has been at the center of a counterfeit components controversy, supplying third-party repair shops with "unapproved parts" for CFM56 engines used on older Airbus SE A320s and Boeing Co. 737s.
"The apparent large-scale falsification of documentation uncovered by the claimants gives rise to the risk that evidence relevant to these proceedings will be destroyed by the defendants," lawyers for CFM wrote in a court filing.
CFM lawyers noted there is documentary evidence that thousands of these jet engine parts were flooded into global aircraft fleets over the years.
Matthew Reeve, a CFM lawyer, said 86 "falsified release certificates" have been found, and the number of engines suspected to have parts with falsified documents has jumped to 96.
"Potentially, that means between 48 and 96 aircraft being taken out of service whilst airlines arrange for the parts to be removed," Reeve added.
According to aviation news website Simple Flying, "United Airlines, Southwest Airlines, and Virgin Airlines have all discovered faulty engine parts supplied by fraudulent manufacturer AOG Technics."
CFM warned the court: "The apparent large-scale falsification of documentation uncovered by the claimants gives rise to the risk that evidence relevant to these proceedings will be destroyed by the defendants."
Although the findings affect only a tiny portion of the 23,000 CFM56 engines in operation, the presence of unauthorized parts in such a tightly regulated aviation industry raises significant alarms.
The deepest thought you can express is in emoji? Return to cave painting time.
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance” ? Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Rupert Murdoch, 92, is stepping down as chair of Fox and News Corp, following a seven-decade career building a media empire. He will assume the title of Chairman Emeritus for both entities. His eldest son, Lachlan - who fired Tucker Carlson after a discussion with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, will become sole chair of News Corp, and will continue as Executive Chair and CEO of Fox Corp.
"For my entire professional life, I have been engaged daily with news and ideas, and that will not change. But the time is right for me to take on different roles," Rupert Murdoch wrote in a letter to staff, according to the Wall Street Journal.
"Our companies are in robust health, as am I," the memo continues. "Our opportunities far exceed our commercial challenges. We have every reason to be optimistic about the coming years." Lachlan faces the task of steering two giant brands through arguably the most transformative period in media history. In an age dominated by streaming giants and digital transformation, traditional media houses like Fox and News Corp face the dual task of staying relevant while monetizing their vast content libraries.
Murdoch inherited a small Australian newspaper business and built it into a colossus, acquiring or creating iconic brands across publishing, television and film. He snapped up newspapers including the Times of London, the New York Post and the Journal; launched the Fox network on the back of franchises like “The Simpsons” and NFL football; presided over the Hollywood studio behind “Avatar” and “Titanic”; built up pay-TV giant Sky in the U.K.; and reshaped U.S. cable news with Fox News, whose conservative commentary drew loyal viewers and fierce critics and became one of his most successful bets.
Even as his stature grew, Murdoch viewed himself as an outsider, a maverick bucking the establishment on both sides of the Atlantic who had to challenge the incumbents—whether in broadcasting, news or pay-TV distribution—to break into new businesses. -WSJ
Murdoch's memo also mentions what he views as a continuing battle over freedom of speech or thought (months after his son fired Tucker Carlson for expressing freedom of speech and thought).
"Elites have open contempt for those who are not members of their rarefied class," wrote Rupert, adding "Most of the media is in cahoots with those elites, peddling political narratives rather than pursuing the truth."
Oh?
Rupert Murdoch will continue to be a major shareholder in the two companies - with he and his family owning a roughly 40% voting stake in News Corp and a 44% voting stake in Fox Corp.
Was Volodymyr Zelensky in the Panama Papers? Offshore Companies Revealed Ukrainian "anti-oligarch" President Volodymyr Zelensky and his inner circle's network of offshore companies were not exposed in Panama Papers but can be found in the Pandora Papers, another tranche of files leaked by journalists that revealed the clandestine financial affairs of the elite and super rich.
The huge leak of tax haven files by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) revealed the secret offshore holdings of 336 politicians from more than 90 countries, Zelensky among them.
The former comedian was elected Ukraine's president in April 2019 to help fight corruption and the influence of oligarchs on the ex-Soviet country. He rode into the presidency on a wave of public anger over the corruption of the country's political class, including some who used shell companies to hide their wealth overseas.
The Pandora Papers, published in October 2021, showed that Zelensky and his inner circle established a web of offshore companies in 2012. They show that the president and the partners in his television company, Kvartal 95, had offshore firms when they were making regular content for TV stations owned by Ihor Kolomoisky, an oligarch accused of multibillion-dollar fraud. Perhaps the most famous show Zelensky was in was Servant of the People. Zelensky plays a history teacher whose anti-corruption rant in class is filmed by a student, goes viral online, and wins him the presidency.
The Pandora Papers showed that two offshore companies belonging to Zelensky's partners were used to buy three upmarket properties in central London.
The papers showed that weeks before he won the presidential vote, Zelensky gave his stake in the British Virgin Islands-registered Maltex Multicapital Corp. to his business partner, Serhiy Shefir, who would later become a top presidential aide.
However, the document shows that an arrangement would soon be made to allow the company to continue paying dividends to a company that belongs to Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska. The Pandora Papers did not indicate whether the dividends were ever paid or their size. The documents also don't say how many dividends were paid. Shefir produced Zelensky's hit TV shows. Shefir's brother, Borys, who wrote the scripts, is also listed as an owner in Zelensky's network of offshore companies. Ivan Bakanov, a general director of Kvartal 95 and a longtime friend of the president, also has ownership in the companies. Bakanov was head of Ukraine's powerful SBU security agency between 2019 and 2022.
A Zelensky adviser at the time claimed that the companies were formed to "protect" the group's income against the "aggressive actions" of the "corrupt" government of then pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych.
"Journalists have de facto confirmed the president's absolute respect for the standards of anti-corruption legislation," Zelensky adviser Mykhailo Podoliak told the AFP news agency at the time.
Newsweek reached out to Zelensky's office for comment. He has not publicly commented on the claim so far.
Other global names mentioned include Shakira, who was incorporating new offshore entities while going on trial for tax evasion; model Claudia Schiffer; Indian cricket player Sachin Tendulkar; Indian billionaire Anil Ambani; fugitive diamantaire Nirav Modi’s sister Purvi Modi; Alexandre Cazes, the founder of the dark web site AlphaBay, used to deal in illegal drugs; Pakistani finance minister, Shaukat Fayaz Ahmed Tarin, and several of family members of Pakistan's top generals; and the CEO of Channel One Russia, Konstantin Ernst. Miguel Bosé, Pep Guardiola and Julio Iglesias are also named.[3
In total, 35 current and former national leaders appear in the leak, alongside 400 public officials from nearly 100 countries and more than 100 billionaires. As per laws of tax, some of the activities were legal but could not be justified. Some files were showing the date of 1970, but they were actually created between the years 1996 to 2020. The data included 130 billionaires listed by Forbes, over 330 politicians, celebrities, members of royal families and religious leaders. Among those names are former British prime minister Tony Blair, Chilean president Sebastián Piñera, former Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta, Montenegrin president Milo Ðukanovic, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Qatari emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, United Arab Emirates prime minister and Dubai ruler Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Gabonese president Ali Bongo Ondimba, Lebanese prime minister Najib Mikati, Ecuadorian president Guillermo Lasso, family members of former Argentine president Mauricio Macri and his spin-doctor, Ecuadorian Jaime Durán Barba, and Cypriot president Nicos Anastasiades.
More than 100 billionaires, 29,000 offshore accounts, 30 current and former leaders, and 336 politicians were named in the first leaks on 3 October 2021. King Abdullah II of Jordan is one of the main figures named in the papers, with documents showing he had invested over US$100 million in property across the UK and the US; they included houses in Malibu, California, Washington, D.C., London and Ascot. A UK company controlled by Cherie Blair was shown to have acquired a £6.45 million property in London by purchasing Romanstone International Limited, a British Virgin Islands company; had the property been acquired directly, £312,000 would have been payable in stamp duty. Tony Blair's name appears in a statement of joint income for the associated mortgage.
The papers also reveal how an office block owned by Azerbaijan's ruling Aliyev family was sold to the Crown Estate, the sovereign's public estate, for £66 million in 2018, netting the Aliyevs a £31 million profit. Another office block worth £33 million was sold to the family in 2009, and was gifted to the son of Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev, Heydar. According to Las Vegas Sun, "Members of the inner circle of Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan are accused of hiding millions of dollars in wealth in secret companies or trusts". Supporters of former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko accused his successor Zelensky, who came to power on an anti-corruption campaign, of tax evasion. Elsewhere, close associates of Russian president Vladimir Putin, like Svetlana Krivonogikh and Gennady Timchenko, were revealed to have secret assets in Monaco, and Czech prime minister Andrej Babiš, who had campaigned on promising to crack down on corruption and tax evasion, did not declare the use of an offshore investment company in the purchase of eight properties, including two villas, in Mougins on the French Riviera for £12 million. As a result of the Pandora Papers, more information emerged about Russia-linked, allegedly Kremlin-linked, donations to the Tories. Uhuru Kenyatta was also mentioned, despite being quoted in 2018 as stating, "Every public servant's assets must be declared publicly so that people can question and ask – what is legitimate?" Kenyatta and six members of his family have been linked to 13 offshore companies. The leaked list also includes transnational criminal organization leaders, such as Raffaele Amato, boss of the Amato-Pagano clan, a clan within the Camorra, dedicated to international drug trafficking. Amato used a shell company in the UK to buy land and real estate in Spain.
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Bob jumping on the Trans coming out with both feet running. Good on you mate.