Ali the Swiss farmers used Brown Swiss to plough there fields. I brushed all 27 cows each cow in a barn every day, removed the poo, fed and milked Brown Swiss cows in Switzerland while i was traveling around the world. I do have one photo someone gave took for me of the barn and the same cow herd.
At another location up in the Swiss Alps i stayed in a village called Bivio, there the farmers took there cows up into the high peaks during warmer weathe,r and brought them back down to spend the winter in the village. A few farmers i knew in the Swiss during the winter housed there cows under their house, they fed them hay and still milked them, the farmer carried the milk on his back to the local cheese man who made yogurt and cheese with it. The cows helped to keep the house warm I found it a very fascinating country.
First two images of the countryside in Switzerland taken during a warmer time than the time i visited. Then image of cows been let out of the barn to enjoy bit of outside time during winters day. Then image of what was my orchard and place i had 27 Brown Swiss in NSW Australia. Last image is photo of a show winning Brown Swiss cow in Wales in the UK' enjoy
President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia is militarily ready for a Cuban Missile-style crisis if the United States is foolish enough to want one and that his country currently has the edge when it comes to a first nuclear strike.
The Cuban Missile crisis erupted in 1962 when Moscow responded to a US missile deployment in Turkey by sending ballistic missiles to Cuba, sparking a standoff that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.
More than five decades on, tensions are rising again over Russian fears that the United States might deploy intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe as a landmark cold war-era arms control treaty unravels.
President Nixon unexpectedly closed the Bretton Woods agreement and the US dollar’s final ties to gold on August 15, 1971. It was Nixon's full fiat US dollar action and the prior many decade’s US deficit spending which helped spring price inflationary episodes that brought all 4-major precious metals and other commodity prices to their then respective ‘all-time highs’ by the first half of 1980.
In the early 1970s, the USA also had two various somewhat severe overnight US dollar devaluations. The first quickly followed the Nixon Shock and whereby December 1971 we had agreed to a resultant 11% US dollar devaluation.
From 1978 into 1980 the world witnessed a US dollar quadrupling of crude oil prices, a quintupling of platinum prices, a six-folding of palladium prices, and a gold price spike from $200 USD oz in early 1978 to a then-record high of $850 oz by January 21, 1980.
During this same timeframe, silver went from about $5 USD oz to as high as $50 oz on January 21, 1980. The ongoing confusion as to what contributed most to this silver price increase is what we will examine next. It was not the Hunt Brothers who almost imploded the US dollar’s value.
In September 19, 1931, speculative attacks on the pound forced Britain to abandon the gold standard. Britain, Germany, Austria and other European countries went off the gold standard in 1931 and weakened confidence in the dollar. Recovery in the United States was slower than in Britain, in part due to Congressional reluctance to abandon the gold standard and float the U.S. currency as Britain had done. Congress passed the Gold Reserve Act on 30 January 1934; the measure nationalized all gold by ordering Federal Reserve banks to turn over their supply to the U.S. Treasury. In return the banks received gold certificates to be used as reserves against deposits and Federal Reserve notes. The act also authorized the president to devalue the gold dollar. Under this authority the president, on 31 January 1934, changed the value of the dollar from $20.67 to the troy ounce to $35 to the troy ounce, a devaluation of over 40%. Under the Bretton Woods international monetary agreement of 1944, the gold standard was kept without domestic convertibility. The role of gold was severely constrained, as other countries’ currencies were fixed in terms of the dollar. Many countries kept reserves in gold and settled accounts in gold. Still they preferred to settle balances with other currencies, with the American dollar becoming the favorite. The International Monetary Fund was established to help with the exchange process and assist nations in maintaining fixed rates. Within Bretton Woods adjustment was cushioned through credits that helped countries avoid deflation. Under the old standard, a country with an overvalued currency would lose gold and experience deflation until the currency was again valued correctly. Most countries defined their currencies in terms of dollars, but some countries imposed trading restrictions to protect reserves and exchange rates. Therefore, most countries' currencies were still basically inconvertible. In the late 1950s, the exchange restrictions were dropped and gold became an important element in international financial settlements.
GREED Hardliners within the Trump administration are trying desperately to avoid reducing tariffs on imported medical supplies from China, hoping to stave off mounting pressure from health care workers and a panicked public as the coronavirus death total mounts.
Before the US-China trade war, American tariffs on some US$22 billion in imported medical imports – including hospital gowns, thermometers, ultrasound systems and patient monitors – mostly ranged from zero to under 8 per cent.
Starting in 2018, Trump imposed duties of 15 to 25 per cent on some US$360 billion of Chinese goods, including US$5 billion in medical products, causing Chinese imports to fall sharply.“
I already posted reference to this matter in our threads. Best as i can recall the military games that included American personal were held at the end of October 2019 while the first detection of whatever verity of flu that's now (merely labelled) labelled as covid-19 first appeared in Wuhan was at the beginning 2020. This is another reference link to subject matter :
It is worth noting there are many variants of common flu, the flu injections people have been paying money for both here and in the USA have more than one variation of flu within the one jab. Many people in our countries die after allowing the simplistically minded christian medical schools of thought to injection flu into their bodies. I repeat 60,000,100 Americans died from the flu in your 2018 / 2019 flu season. Schools of thought that reject the notion of interdependent arising's, karma etc etc, who promote crystal ball grassing crap shouldn't be trusted. e.g. Definitely five people held a meeting in San Fransisco, were then given access to international news media and daily, hourly (just like the clowns today) hourly, daily over long period of time spread you gunner die, you gunner die aids story. Took infected minds over one and half years before manifesting physical symptoms arising from that story line and world-wide they killed 24 million.
The Chinese alleged the American Military deliberately infected people in Wuhan. I saw mention the covid-19 variant of flu can incubate over 37 days so perhaps your country really did (i dunno) attack China over the poor outcome Trump received from discussions with China over the sanctions he (Trump) imposed on China.
What I believe is we shouldn't hold solid what is not solid, guard your minds, causes arising from negativity that humans across the glob have been engaging (wars etc) sow the seeds of suffering both individually and collectedly, the very political bodies who created the war karma's are blaming others for there stupidity they are knee jerking blaming outside themselves for the constant hourly, daily, weekly, monthly and yearly harmful war like activities since before ww2 and certainly unrelentingly since George Bush 1991/92 (and others here as well) constant hourly, daily, weekly, monthly and yearly blaming and raining bombs upon innocent folks all over the place...
Of course the UK, but there are quite a few aspects to the current trade war, including the call to arms by clown number one in the straits of Humus, then there is French nationalism e.g. Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier docks at Limassol port 21 February 2020 THE COMPOSITION OF THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER GROUP
On departure from Toulon, the air and naval group was composed of the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, the on-board air group, the multi-mission frigate (FREMM) Auvergne, the air defense frigate (FDA) Chevalier Paul, the command and supply ship (BCR) Var, the Greek frigate HS Spetsai and a nuclear attack submarine. Throughout the deployment, various French* and foreign ships (German, American, Belgian, Spanish, Dutch and Portuguese) as well as a maritime patrol aircraft Atlantique 2 will accompany or interact with the naval air group. First, global competition between the United States and China is an established strategic fact nowadays, which structures, and from now on will structure, all international relations. The very idea of a multilateral order based on law, whereby the use of force is regulated, commitments are fulfilled and laws create obligations that apply to everyone, is being challenged greatly today.
This dismantling of international norms is part of an assumed competition-based approach whereby only the law of the strongest and power balances count. The most cynical go so far as to hide behind a legal premise and a superficial attachment to the world order to better violate it with total impunity.
These attitudes obviously raise fundamental questions to our democracies. Can we be the only ones to respect the rules of the game, the only ones whose signature on international commitments still has value? Has this become a guilty naivety?
But this European freedom of action, Europe’s defence and security, cannot be based solely on a military approach.
To build the Europe of tomorrow, our norms cannot be controlled by the United States, our infrastructure, our ports and airports owned by Chinese capital, and our computer networks under Russian pressure.
At European level, we need to control our maritime, energy and digital infrastructure.
I would have thought Russian and Chinese troops deployed to assist collection of all the dead bodies the crematoriums are unable to deal with would bring great joy to members of N.A.T.O alliance given that France, Italy and Germany fully intend to continue to purchase Russian gas and are not inclined to support purchase facilitating introduction of gas via pipeline carrying stolen gas from Syria that the UK would feel secure knowing that Russia and China are so willing to assist countries in your region !!
The Russian ships were actually in international waters. They had every right to be where they were. The Straits of Dover, the narrowest part of the Channel does, it’s true, lie wholly within the territorial waters of Britain and France, but there is a right of transit passage under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. It is of course a great pity that ships passing the Straits no longer have to dip their flag and lower their topsails in salute to the English, but times move on.
The truth of the matter is that the Russians, whether or not seven ships is ‘usual’ or ‘unusual’, weren’t doing anything wrong. If they had suddenly changed direction and started heading up the Thames, then of course it would be different, but they didn’t. So what’s the fuss?
Kosovo lawmakers voted to remove Prime Minister Albin Kurti, becoming the first nation in Europe to vote out a government over the way it handled the coronavirus outbreak.
Australia has reversed a decision to limit hairdressing appointments to just 30 minutes following a backlash.
The government in Ottawa confirmed rumors that Washington is considering troop deployments along the US-Canada border for coronavirus enforcement, calling the proposal “unnecessary” and “damaging” to neighborly relations.
China has decided to temporarily suspend entry to almost all foreign nationals holding valid visas or residence permits, the foreign ministry in Beijing has announced.
Mexican protesters have shut a US southern border crossing amid fears that untested American travellers will spread coronavirus.
Residents in Sonora, south of the US state of Arizona, have promised to block traffic into Mexico for a second day after closing a checkpoint for hours on Wednesday.
because no one nation is every again going to be allowed to control international trade settlements...>>> Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) (????) is an ambitious programme to connect Asia with Africa and Europe via land and maritime networks along six corridors with the aim of improving regional integration, increasing trade and stimulating economic growth. One belt one road, also known as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a project initiated by the Chinese President Xi Jinping. Its objective is to build trade routes between China and the countries in Central Asia, Europe and Indo-Pacific littoral countries.
The current common flu (my inclusion) season does not appear to be as severe as 2017-2018, when the flu reached epidemic proportions and as many as 95,000 people died, according to CDC estimates.Feb 1, 2020 Between October 1, 2019, and December 7, 2019, there have been up to 3.7 million cases of the flu, between 23,000 to 41,000 hospitalizations, and approximately 1,300 to 3,300 flu-related deaths, according to the CDC . ... Health experts predict that flu activity may peak earlier than usual.Dec 13, 2019
While the impact of flu varies, it places a substantial burden on the health of people in the United States each year. CDC estimates that influenza has resulted in between 9 million – 45 million illnesses, between 140,000 – 810,000 hospitalizations and between 12,000 – 61,000 deaths annually since 2010.
Flu deaths are up more than 65% so far in 2020, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reporting that 4,800 people had died and 87,000 people had been hospitalized.
So far, 16,000 people have died and 280,000 people have been hospitalized during the 2019-2020 flu season, according to preliminary estimates from the CDC.
The majority of states, as well as New York City and Puerto Rico, are seeing high flu activity.
In total, the CDC estimates that 29 million people have gotten the flu so far this season.
probably none of the above will worry anyone here, sooner the better
America has just announced it's pulling US$1 billion and another next year from Afghan government support in its support of its Taliban mates: USA gunner turncoat and run just like it did in Vietnam
Bother Russia and China have troops in Italy helping there mates their.
Sooner America understands the US$ is no longer world controlling currency, in fact it is illegal inconsistent with Regans new world order of 1984.
“I heard on the news that China will release water from its dams for the Mekong Delta, but I’ve been waiting and seen nothing happening.” China said in February it would release water from its upstream Mekong River dams to save downstream countries Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia, and Vietnam, but experts said the 850 cubic meters per second it promised would never be enough to even reach the Mekong Delta.
The Mekong River flows 4,880 km through six countries, 2,130 km in China. Of the 19 hydropower projects China plans along the river, it has built 11 so far.
sad to see water from Tibetan Himalayan region dammed by China is still impacting on the Mekong, likely will kill millions, one wonders what comes next
When it is completed next year, the first phase of the US$3.4 billion complex will have the capacity to refine 175,000 barrels of crude oil per day. It is Brunei's largest-ever foreign investment project and the biggest single overseas investment by a Chinese private company.
It’s like a cultural melting pot here. Despite the differences in language, culture and dietary habits, teamwork keeps us together
Ahiraj Tyagi, project coordinator
The complex, listed by China as a key project for the Belt and Road Initiative, also represents efforts by Brunei, a member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, to partner with Chinese businesses to diversify its sources of income and further improve infrastructure.
Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Lijian Zhao has demanded US authorities reveal what they’re hiding about the origins of Covid-19, going as far as to suggest the coronavirus may have been brought to China by the US military.
Pointing to a video of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Robert Redfield apparently admitting the US had several deaths from Covid-19 before they were able to test for it, Zhao called on the American watchdog to come clean in a tweet posted on Thursday.
US military attended games in Wuhan in October and China is asking America to come clean and admit whats done
I think its common flu dressed in trade war cloth, its a load of bull dust. Number of Chinese university students here in Australia are trapped in China as this country shut the door.
The flu lies are harmful, a load of crap. Between October 1, 2019, and December 7, 2019, there have been up to 3.7 million cases of the flu, between 23,000 to 41,000 hospitalizations, and approximately 1,300 to 3,300 flu-related deaths, according to the CDC . ... Health experts predict that flu activity may peak earlier than usual.Dec 13, 2019
While the impact of flu varies, it places a substantial burden on the health of people in the United States each year. CDC estimates that influenza has resulted in between 9 million – 45 million illnesses, between 140,000 – 810,000 hospitalizations and between 12,000 – 61,000 deaths annually since 2010.
Flu deaths are up more than 65% so far in 2020, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reporting that 4,800 people had died and 87,000 people had been hospitalized.
So far, 16,000 people have died and 280,000 people have been hospitalized during the 2019-2020 flu season, according to preliminary estimates from the CDC.
The majority of states, as well as New York City and Puerto Rico, are seeing high flu activity.
In total, the CDC estimates that 29 million people have gotten the flu so far this season.
my response above has error one teat was fitted to one end and mother placed her thumb over other end and thus was able to control the flow of smoke to your oh
it is very old, and has a crack perhaps it was used for feeding twins (I dunno) however it is a baby feeding bottle, that two teats fitted to, one each end. no its not a bong, but might be worth a try... A mate re-pilling a house and dug it up, it is certainly a very very old bottle and a work of art (do I hear ten?)
its not a very nice event. it is quite troubling that so many like outcomes are result of family court disputes women being killed and children to is far to common here in Australia
There is at least one wife a week been murdered by her partner here in Australia. In my own family affairs I watched for a year and a half before acting, so no not here in Australia you don't have a choice once the family court ball starts rolling, particularly when kids are involved. The politicians support feminist movements encouragement for wives to stand over husbands (yellow ribbon mother mary crap) Once lawyers become involved the thousand dollar lawyer to lawyer phone call bills turn up
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RE: Farming
Ali the Swiss farmers used Brown Swiss to plough there fields. I brushed all 27 cows each cow in a barn every day, removed the poo, fed and milked Brown Swiss cows in Switzerland while i was traveling around the world.I do have one photo someone gave took for me of the barn and the same cow herd.
At another location up in the Swiss Alps i stayed in a village called Bivio, there the farmers took there cows up into the high peaks during warmer weathe,r and brought them back down to spend the winter in the village. A few farmers i knew in the Swiss during the winter housed there cows under their house, they fed them hay and still milked them, the farmer carried the milk on his back to the local cheese man who made yogurt and cheese with it. The cows helped to keep the house warm I found it a very fascinating country.
First two images of the countryside in Switzerland taken during a warmer time than the time i visited.
Then image of cows been let out of the barn to enjoy bit of outside time during winters day.
Then image of what was my orchard and place i had 27 Brown Swiss in NSW Australia.
Last image is photo of a show winning Brown Swiss cow in Wales in the UK' enjoy