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As I implied: EVERY likely or possible scenario would have been worked through. There would have no doubt been several variations left to select from

All great examples of how we practice and value sick care - because it makes a lot of money for sick care employees, big pharma and big food. Learn to have a system and culture of health care and our ERs could be available for actual emergencies.

First of all, you have no idea how military planning is done - but as a civvy not your fault. The only thing the Orange reality TV character could plan is his next golf game. ANYTHING that is a military campaign has been planned in extreme detail for a number of possible scenarios for months or more likely years in advance. You might remember in my last post I pointed out someone had to provide boots on the ground as the population is unarmed and unorganized. Today you also might have noticed that armed and I believe uniformed ex Iranian Kurds have entered Iran from the North. No vacuums. No extremists. You can bet some serious green that Kurdish commanders were at the table a very long time ago. After the Yanks hung the Kurds out to dry at the hands of the Republican Guard they owe them a big one.

Considering the militant military has all of the weapons and just got warmed up by killing 32,000 protesters, and the remaining population is unarmed there is no way a successful regime change is going to happen without boots....ARMED boots on the ground

I am glad to see some of the theocrats get their 72 virgins, but the problem I see is the IRGC will remain mostly in tact and armed vs. the civilian population with nothing but prayer beads to throw at them.

I thought we were going to talk about the Catholic Church??

There we have it: Randy Andy can be arrested for speaking out of turn about trade but just has to move from one palace to another for decades of child sexual abuse.

Hardly OK with it, but at least I can understand. He was from a time when people looked up to those who accomplished genuinely important and useful things, not just because they are declared to be celebrities by the media. He was a complicated and controversial personality, but his contributions to aviation were considerable.

Since that co-incided with the first V8-60 from old Henry I can't possibly remember the event, but being around aviation for the last decade of his life I am vaguely familiar with the kidnapping. IMHO what differentiated him from some media family is he actually accomplished many things to earn his fame.

It is starting to bother me that a media celebrity's family member manages to get the full might of state and federal law enforcement for weeks on end. I feel for her and her family, but I can't help but wonder at why she should get the benefit of such efforts when a missing housewife in TN or school kid in CA would never be deemed worthy of such support. Have we lost of sense of value completely? Makes me think of what the police leaders who have to call a practical end to unsolved missing persons investigations - ESPECIALLY for children.

This is why government should never be allowed to prop up business. Not only does nobody in government have a clue what business is and how it works, it gets played by the Wall/Bay street players and their henchmen to cough up billions from our grandchildren's taxes to prop up non-competitive US companies (there are no actual Canadian car companies outside of Stronach) and pour more billions into dead end, obsolete and environmentally unsustainable technology (i.e. Li Ion batteries). The OP or some other post is right: execs in this game have no reason to be taking home million dollar a month paycheques for running and entire industry into the ground. That is not capitalism, it is the result of converting to Casino Capitalism.

I have to agree with this position. Religion is pretty much the most divisive force I can think of, but being raised in a Judeo-Christian environment one does have to recognize the "ideals" are reasonable, even if the reality falls very much short. We need to think of law in terms of what is fair, what is right (not necessarily what is "Right"). I can't forget the stories of David Milgaard, Donald Marshall, Guy Morin and Thomas Sophonow - all falsely accused of murder, convicted, found guilty and jailed by a "justice" system that doesn't come close to "working". I have had the unusual experience of watching a murder investigation of a crime that occurred 3 doors West of our home. My friend and neighbour was a recently retired RCMP officer who worked for another friend. He followed and explained to my friend (a government Minister) in meetings I attended as this investigation unfolded. What happened - and I have since seen happen regularly - is the investigators (at least the majority of them) kick around several theories then hone in on one - right or wrong - and from that point forward anything supporting that theory is promoted and any evidence to the contrary is pretty much ignored. It took a downgraded POI to stab a second girl in our back alley for the lead investigators to realize the small cadre who favoured him for the crime switched to looking the right way. The second victim should never have BEEN a victim if the investigative process did what the fairy-tale TV shows always claim and followed the actual evidence and worshipped the truth. Then we have the courts: We must first remember that 1/2 of everyone there is lying - maybe even everyone, Lawyers are generally those who have chosen to make their living by exploiting or causing the misfortune of others. They are liars-for-hire and they sit before a judge who is also a lawyer. The sea of total bull crap is so deep, an innocent person can easily be drowned in it. Ask the 4 people I cited (or read the accounts and books written about them). When I get off of the plane in Riyadh and see the signed warning that the penalty for dealing drugs is death - I feel a bit of comfort. When I think about how bad the criminal justice system malfunctions at home and I think of how things might go in KSA I start shaking in my boots. I have no sympathy for the criminal who dies in the commission of a crime, but I can't help but note that once the investigative, prosecution and judgemental processes are involved, things often don't play out the way they should. I can't support a return to capital punishment - but I sure can't support the current "catch and release" extreme either.

We are sure as heck that human created factors CONTRIBUTE to what has always happened and will always continue to happen. Those without the intellectual discipline to learn the science and at least be able to question the blurry status quo will get with the script and claim that our CO2 emissions are the major problem when it is IIRC a distant 3rd ranking on the greenhouse gas list and we can actually accommodate those emissions IF WE STOP KILLING THE PHYTOPLANKTON - that absorb the carbon and release the oxygen. I believe you will remember my reasoning for pointing this out when any occasion is presented. We need to stop listening to the simplistic anti-carbon lobby and get dead serious (before we are dead) about total elimination of plastic waste - and essentially total elimination of plastics. The takeaway from this is simply that demonizing carbon at the expense of fixing the real problem is exactly the kind of institutional lies that could be dangerous to our very survival.

To begin with: Carney is FROM the big bux world - sent out from Wall Street by his mentors at Goldman Sucks to perpetuate Casino Capitalism globally. Going down the EV road is full of potholes. The Little Turd threw mega billions of our grandchildrens' tax dollars into propping up the EV business based on nothing but political greenwashing and obsolete and ecologically unsustainable battery technology. The Chinese simply took advantage of our tiny pea brains and learned to be able to out-compete our backwards economies and industries. Let's never forget the multi billions spent on bribing the press....oh....INDEPENDENCE of the media from the last government. The only upside is that the Carnival sideshow is far less embarrassing to Canada when he opens his mouth than the Little Turd was.

It would also become illegal to claim the climate changes we have seen over the last few million years are caused by the energy industry. Now cow farts I will grant you - as we should all be on a plant based diet. Of course this brings up the real problem with an anti-lie law: who is going to determine what version of our world based on total BS is "the truth"?

When you are responsible for your money and shareholders money you have to be exceedingly rational, not driven by partisan bullcrap. BTW - I am still deeply involved in three US companies, just not going into any new ones until the mess gets straightened out.

Some how I really don't give a flying purple frick WHAT you believe.

To be specific these days? ANYWHERE outside of USA - at least until the Orange Man either grows a brain, gets recalled or drops dead. Even then it might take longer than I have left for end the LLL (Legal Liability Lottery) that is the #1 impediment to manufacturing in USA.

quite correct - and it is the endless printing of "money for nothing" to balance the money supply to what finance skims off the to fill their pockets with speculative gains WITHOUT the bother of creating any wealth. Happens in USA only because it's central bank is 100% controlled by the member banks and it's financial, fiscal and monetary policy dictated and administered by Goldman Sucks.

Opened our first office in China mid '90s, so we always have great options. China also under severe debt load (official numbers about 40% of reality) but we know exactly the rules of business as they haven't changed in 30 years. Biggest problem is Wall Street spreading the evils of corporatism around the globe.

In the cold hard world of reality: looking back over the last 20 years our newest business ventures come up 1 USA but the other two Ireland and England. USA might be a market but no where near stable enough. $31 Tn in federal debt alone and Casino Capitalism replacing real capitalist entrepreneurialism pretty much means no longer a place to do business.

And when you elect ( aw shucks, I had to edit appropriate words out.....let's just say the last few presidents and the people who pull those puppet strings you move that possibility ever further away.

The media gets so much completely wrong when it attempts to "report" on things related to oil. No question that the "ghost fleet(s)" have been shipping oil from Russia (BIG time), Iran (still pretty significant and directly funds ISIS and all other Iranian proxies) and Venezuela - but with about 800k bbls/day of extra heavy asphaltics they are not putting a dent in any market today. Consider that domestic refineries have more capacity than what they are producing (not sure how much output they have as all competent PDVSA staff was fired 23 years ago and replaced with party faithfuls who didn't have a clue so production is no where near capacity. Even so, the difference is not a really big number available for export. Some of the crude and refined product has been flowing either at very low cost or often no cost at all to prop up the Bolivarians of Cuba. What is going to China and Russia is not "stolen" as often reported, it is repayment for the hundreds of billions Russia and China have poured into Venezuela to prop up PDVSA and Chavez/Maduro over the years and stake their claim on it's oil sector. Every time they report on a seizure under sanctions they calculate the value as WTI or North Sea - but the crap coming out of the ground is worth no where near that. Nor is it coming from upgraders where it IS even more valuable - it is "dilbit" - i.e. extra heavy crude diluted with mostly NGLs (natural gas liquids) to be able to move it. I don't think PDVSA even has the capacity to produce diluent from oil feedstock.

It doesn't matter if you have continuous flow or batch (from storage), I just told you how the oil industry worldwide handles each situation. I will give you another absolute guarantee: EVERY major pipeline has storage capacity since you need that at pumping stations so you can do maintenance or repair without stopping flow. I will give you yet another hint: one of the two of us has actually been IN the energy business upstream and downstream for several decades.

the wellheads in a field are pumped into a central collection point where it is prepared tor injection into a pipeline. To do so, you have to meet pipeline specs and if wells are producing water usually means decanting in tanks to separate out water. It just flowing through it will be fed into a "knockout" that removes water online in continuous flow. It might surprise you to learn that after 175 years of drilling modern oil wells we have learned how to run our business.