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How Ricky Gervais Feels About The Ukraine Invasion
44,038 views17 Apr 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db_OPVvtaX8
Hi Nick
My proof is what I see with my own eyes, I prefer to rely on that rather than accepting the spoon-fed opinions of any media organisation - they are all biased and one-eyed no matter which end of the spectrum they toady to.
The US expansionary policy has been in place since WW2 - think of Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, Chile, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and so and so on - anyone who dares to not tug the forelock to US supremacy pays the price!
Is the US ever condemned for its illegal & attrocious acts, does the world come out & impose sanctions? The answer is no because the major international bodies such as the UN, Nato, IMF, World Bank etc. are all controlled or heavily influenced by the US through economic or other forms of coercion and/or blackmail.
Recently there has been great consternation over China executing a co-operative agreement with Solomon Islands as the Western world fears this will lead to potential military bases - why is there no concern that the US has around 750 military bases spread throughout the world?
As long as the US continues to receive support for its abject hypocrisy we will be pushed forever closer to a nuclear conflict which will screw us all - we got close with the Cuban missile crisis, the US saw it as all OK to stick their nuclear missiles in Turkey right next to Soviet territory but when the Soviet Union responded in kind & put missiles in Cuba they crossed a red line!
I could continue on ad-infinitum about the injustices the US has inflicted on the rest of the world militarily, economically & socially in order to benefit themselves & their vested interests but fear my rant does not really belong on this forum - it is just a response to your valid question.
I do not support Russia's invasion of Ukraine in any way, shape or form but by the same token I believe that the US should accept responsibility for creating the situation. There was no sensible reason for Ukraine joining Nato, it was a foolish & provocative act backed primarily by economic interests which, unfortunately, is par for the course when it comes to the US.
Thank you very much for your reply Mr Tibs there are lots of interesting and thoughtful comments.
They remind me of the 2 hr chats I used to have with a close friend who was 20+ yrs my senior, note I’m not saying you are that old. We’d enjoy our tea/coffee and go round in circles with Politics, Religion and world events. In the end, we’d come up with the conclusion that ‘there’s nothing as strange as folk!’ Even factual(?) written history has to be taken with a pinch of salt as it depends on who’s written it and WHY! Enjoyable debates are the best way to try and find some sort of answer and there never really is just one. Also, you have to have LOTS of free time and that's something I find difficult to find.
All the committees, charities, etc I belong to are all wary of me as I shake the cage by asking difficult questions because my views are different with me giving my time freely and they’re getting paid. However, I do realise I could not do what I wanted to do without the paid person so I HAVE to compromise.
I live with an Icelandic family for a bit, in the middle of nowhere. His job was to breed salmon fry and restock the rivers for the USA fishermen, (big money). They are very interesting/different people to the UK lot, (another country I’d loved to live in) so I’m not surprised at the interesting articles you brought up.
Thank you for your thoughts and for reminding me of my younger day.
Hi Nick,
Thank you for the reply, we can always learn something from other people we meet in our journey through life, the vast majority of people I have ever met were friendly, welcoming and share the same ambitions and concerns about life and our planet, Unfortunately its when the professional career politicians get involved that things start to go wrong!
Wealth for its own ends doesn't impress me in the least, its what is done with that wealth that matters, and in my experiences the people who have the least are usually the most generous the world over!
As very young lad I spent a great deal of time with my retired grandfather, still a poor man living in a two up, two down rented terraced house with only a cold water tap, an outside water closet, electricity by two light fittings, only gas supply downstairs, despite him being a former highly skilled clicker, shoemaker and decorated WWI veteran
His accounts to me of his life's experiences still continue to be a major influence in my attitude to life and my passion for the truth and fairness, respect and compassion to be shown to all of our world and all of its inhabitants!
I hope that you mange to have a listen to the broadcast below, it certainly reminded me of sitting with my "Pap" by the fire, or on the"Form" (park bench) by the "Crying Horse"WW1 war memorial in the local crematory where we would share the boiled sweets (Stripes)out of the little paper bag bought on the slate (credit settled on Fridays) from Mini Cauldwells corner shop!
The Ballad of Johnny Longstaff
Released On: 01 May 2022
Available for over a year
Award-winning north east folk band The Young'uns - Sean Cooney and David Eagle with Jack Rutter (for Michael Hughes) present their production of The Ballad of Johnny Longstaff, recorded in front of a live audience in their hometown of Stockton-on-Tees. It's the true story of one man's journey from unemployment, through the Hunger Marches of the 1930s, the mass trespass movement and the Battle of Cable Street, to fighting fascism in the Spanish Civil War. A touching and often hilarious musical adventure, its themes of war, hunger, poverty and displacement have a powerful resonance almost a hundred years on.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0016rh2
Hopefully the experiences of hardship that the UK people are now forced to endure under the present government will inspire them to question what they are told in the future by party political candidates and what they choose to believe before they vote for next time!
Hi Spoonington – ‘My proof is what I see with my own eyes.’ Did you know that your eyes only see 20% of what your brain processes the other 80% is from your semi-conscious mind? So unfortunately that says nothing to me or answers the question totally depending on how it’s presented.
I’m NO huge fan of the USA and don’t trust them as I believe they don’t trust us. (We’re the only country who’ve walked in and set alight the Whitehouse). This is why it is such a stupid comment about the USA letting Ukr mess around with biological and chemical weapons. Would they trust a country where there are hundreds of RUs running around in the country? NO!!
I could talk/argue/discuss with you for hours but I don’t have the time in my life. You forget to mention why everyone fell out after the WWII because USSR would not give the countries back to their inhabitants and there were fears USSR was going to keep going forward and take more. If it was TRUE companionate communism, people may have had other opinions BUT in 1932 RU made ‘Holodomor’, 3-5 million deaths & many millions more suffering starvation. Ru treats the Ukrainians as second-class citizens which is why today the rape/pillaging’s etc by their soldiers. It is saying one thing and doing another in the RU hierarchy that people like myself/a lot of the world have problems with. I know in the RU people think the streets of the UK are paved in gold as some people think in the RU people still queue for bread and wear grey clothing. Both are TOTALLY incorrect.
Why have Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia joined NATO – talk to the people from these countries. Yes, they miss USSR but they are in the same position as Ukraine they have a large portion of RUs in their country. Fine but they don’t want an excuse from RU to take them back to the 1950s. They want freedom through hard work to control themselves, maybe even make mistakes but by hard work, they’ll try to make their lives better. Something they could not do is the USSR except when sleeping with the hierarchy.
As the people of RU have to do today and if you want another story of what I’ve seen, I’ll tell you about that.
I’ve been to Cuba and talked with the people there, another great country. How they look forward to being able to develop themselves as communism is relaxed and by hard work, they can make their lives better.
Let us hope gold raises and CEY moves up. Thank you for all the people working so hard here giving us information to help us ALL.
AIMHO and DYOR
Hi, Tibbs thank you for your wonderful words. I have great enjoyment reading them. How your words remind me of my youth, the park near our house, the loneliness after my mother died from cancer at 35 leaving 3 small children and someone who had issues raising them. He was a someone who had lost all his relations and dad who lost his soul in the war but he couldn’t complain as the whole town had gone through that.
IMHO life is all about mental fighting and education to give you the freedom to live the best life you can get. Some people have millions and others don't but if you can do your best then you can be proud of who you are.
GLA. Off to the garden again and all I wish for is rain now. lol.
Hi Spoonington
You may find this interesting it explains some misconceptions about NATO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luzAoQUM8Kg
Although I Putin's real reason for invading Ukraine is his need to divert the Russian peoples attention away fro his corrupt business empire and to try and convince them that they are better off under Putin's style of oppressive dictatorial government
"Putin needs a victory," said Andrei Kortunov, head of the Russian International Affairs Council. "At least he needs something he can present to his constituency at home as a victory."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56720589
Unfortunately the UK UK is really under occupation of the US air force disguised as RAF bases
https://cnduk.org/resources/military-bases-us-bases-in-the-uk-and-uk-bases-overseas-what-they-are-and-what-they-do/
Plans to close a US Air Force (USAF) base have been scrapped.
RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk had been due to shut in 2027, but has now been deemed "crucial to operational efficiency" of US forces in Europe.
The decision follows President Donald Trump's announcement of the withdrawal of almost 12,000 troops from Germany
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-53606937
IFAW sends help to the Ukrainian peoples pets!
At IFAW's "blue tent" we recently met a refugee named Viktoria who was touched by the care she received from our team. After fleeing from the Kharkiv region with her daughter Sofia and their three dogs, she arrived at the IFAW tent after a day of traveling. To our surprise, one of her dogs, two-year-old Jessie, was pregnant with her first litter of puppies—and just 10 days away from giving birth. After Jessie was examined and found in good condition, we provided the family with carriers to comfortably transport Jessie, along with new leashes, harnesses and water for the journey ahead.
https://www.ifaw.org/uk/news/support-animals-ukraine?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&ms=KONDN220440002&cid=7013k000001aBVv
IFAW has provided an emergency grant to the Ukrainian Independent Ecology Institute to support food, veterinary and staff costs. For over 20 years, the institute’s bat rehabilitation center has surveyed and protected bats in Ukraine. Despite the ongoing war, brave rescuers continue to rescue, rehabilitate and release bats. Many of their bats were in hibernation when the war started and, amazingly, undisturbed by shelling and heavy artillery. The team said nearly all the bats hibernated perfectly and woke up ready to be released.
Nick
We have such an extreme level of misinformation in the world at our finger tips it is bewildering to know what to believe. I certainly do not believe anything from US media Giants and am very guarded against any news from government sources. Just recall the rubbish we were fed about the weapons of mass destruction, the continuing tragedy of regimes we had to change of which the changes produced significantly worse effects than the regime (Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan and so on........Which leaves .......me to thank goodness I live at the bus stop back from the end of the world in the Colonial Outpost of Ozstralia. It used to be that the news took about 3 months to come from the good Ol mother land, and now I wish those days would return?
It does seem we are flying into a perfect storm, with Europe, China and the United States all entering downturns at the same time later this year. A recession in Europe is almost inevitable if the war in Ukraine escalates or even continues for that matter, and Germany, which has been fiercely resisting calls to pull the plug on Russian oil and gas, finally relents. I hate to think what will happen in the UK, and I am not at all sure that we won't see a civil war of sorts in the USA, as we are just about there now. In Oz we have the usual vacuous and vicious set of spruiking which passes (only just?) for a democratic election, as we pile on mountains of empty promises on burgeoning debt intermixed with social obligations on an aging crippled society. Such is life.
Great time for gold and a solid mining company. Best not to be like the rest of the world and try and walk forward and plot a future when everyone keeps looking (and acting) backwards.
the gnome
Goldgnome, spot on .
But is CEY a solid mining company?
Gnome, thank you for those words of wisdom.
I've accepted some time ago that things are not going to be better in the future even without the war. The war will make a terrible mess for many years.
IMHO The golden working days were in the 60s - 90s. They generally came out with better pensions, had cheaper houses and had fewer things they needed to buy. Often wives didn't need to work so it helped everyone at home to relax more. My children have far better qualifications than we had but I'm not sure they’re happier than we were.
I'm happier with far fewer things and I'd rather put my money into CEY than a new car. I can get above 50 mpg, 75% of the time, from my car so trying to save the world and I feel, win or lose with CEY things are more positive as cars are always loose.
I’ve read so much about gold and so many expecting it to rise, I’m not sure what to expect now but I’ve invested in CEY as I believe in it after reading and listening to people’s opinions.
Stockopidia’s opinion - 21st April.
• Quality 62/100
• Value 79/100
• Momentum 75/100
• StockRank™ 86/100
Centamin. Shares in the company have risen by 2.77% over the past month and they are currently trading at 92.0p. But what do the analysts that cover the company think?
Based on the broker 'consensus', there could be reasons to believe that the positive recent trend will continue. In terms of trading recommendations, CEY currently has:
• 4 Buy recommendations
• 1 Hold recommendations
• 0 Sell recommendations
This suggests that analysts are generally upbeat about the outlook.
At its current price of 92.0p, shares in Centamin are trading at a discount of -25.6% to its 52-week high price. The 1-year performance of the shares has been -19.7%.
GLA and DYOR
Hi Mr Gnome & Nick,
I agree with much of your post's, as you may recall in the past the majority of people got their news two or three times a day on TV (rather than the same headlines rehashed continuously over each a 24 hrs or via printed newspapers, certainly the latter were better in some respects because it made market manipulation much slower than it is now and it was easier to consider/research a much broader/varied varied political view coverage of events than today.
In many way the masses have far easier access to more information nowadays, although that said few of them take the trouble to research from varied sources what their search comes up with, so many just assume that whatever comes up on their social media platform it must be true!
Unfortunately this unquestioning reliance/dependence of the majority of people upon smart phone apps and social media platforms is fully realised by the governments and big business and exploited to the full so to manipulate the people thoughts and actions to the full in just about every part of their everyday lives.
The majority of people are now just like other junkie,s desperate for the next App or piece of must have stuff assuming of course that they can get a good enough rating on "Clearscore" so they can increase their burden of serviceable debt!
In the pub yesterday one of the chaps was complaining that the new Range Rover he had just looked at cost £20k more, but was a lower spec than his present 3 years old model due to a shortage the south Korean semi conductors, so Land Rover were now using much lower capacity and cheaper Indian spec semi conductors!
I said to him well keep your present car, he replied, "But its thee years old and I want an upgraded music system and seat adjustment", I told him he had more money than sense, "Oh he replied I'm only leasing it!"
Amazing when I helped my friend run his Bosch franchise we had people with low mileage Golf's, Ford's and other makes with many more years of life left in them desperate to part exchange under the government scrappage scheme for "New" cars that had been standing in open fields for two years with a total dependence on ECU's and semi conductors making them impossible to service properly without dealer grade diagnostics which cost £70-£90 just to plug in!
Now the "Sheeple" are being brainwashed again into changing to so claimed "Greener" electric cars which will be leased or on some other glorified pay now never own it!!
(True houses were cheaper in the 80's )The "Sheeple" have also been conned over house buying, in the eighties mortgages were in short supply and they would.nt consider the wife's salary in the mortgage application(Women had babies you see) we had to take out a bridging loan at nearly 20% interest for month till the mortgage came though at !4%.
When mortgage rate dropped estate agents just put up house prices!
https://www.mortgagestrategy.co.uk/analysis/historical-interest-rates-uk/
Hi Mr TIbbs, I do agree with everything you've just said. How people can waste money by buying into the idea they have to impress their friends. I've dramatically downsized, apart from the garden but it is generally grass, 15 fruit trees and strawberry beds so it not too hard to look after. I'm not sure my fruit is cheaper but I know it's greener, has No chemicals and will last me 365 days a year on my porridge in the morning. YUM YUM :-)
Come on CEY stop being red and let's be a nice green all day.
Older
I have always thought the CEY assets in the ground were superb, unfortunately the 2 legged assets have been appalling.
I think we are seeing a turnaround, albeit longer than I would like. If the talk to shareholders is the same as the talk to staff, then this will permeate, and lead to improvement in behaviors and mine and exploration performance.
Not sure who posted the value of West African Assets as $50m, but seriously if you could by these for $50m go for it, mortgage the house. Try $250-350m..and good luck. Have a look at Perseus, 3 operating mines in 2 jurisdictions 1 French 1 anglophone, total resource of 4.9 m ozs. CEY resource at Doropo is 5.3 M ozs and growing ABC s 1.15m ozs and still growing...1 jurisdiction....etc etc
best
the gnome
Perseus enterprise value us$1.4b and they are off to the WILDS of Sudan...good luck and good night....
hope they did their DD
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt1f89rph
the gnome
Hi Older&Wiser,
Re But is CEY a solid mining company?
Well after holding the share for over decade I am sure that I am not alone in saying after what the management board told share holders I believed it to be a solid mining mining , although after the past two years revelations, forced disclosures and admitted mismanagement of the past five years or so,and in the absence or delivery of any actual proof to the contrary I would say that it is in a precarious state,on it's ar(se, or on the last seat in the "Last chance saloon!"
How can anyone trust what the analyst write in their notes considering those who were were shown around Sukari in the past I don't recall any of them ever questioning the "High grading" ,the failure to clear spoil, or indeed the angle/incline of the open pit walls!
Experience most analysts opinions are as reliable as a chocolate tea pot
I fail to see why any share holder should be scatting around trying to justify any investment in Centamin, after a decade the state of the company or the investment case should be clearly apparent, it isn't as yet!
I am no longer prepared to make excuses for those that have either knowingly or through complacency, laziness or self interest condoned or been complicit in the near ruination of the company and the disregard of the best interests of their shareholders!
I am afraid we have been fed lies and scraps of baloney for so long whilst the BOD & NED's filled their boots to the brim, I have lost faith in the Centamin BOD & NED's at present, so I await to see some proof to the contrary,as yet that isn't apparent!
If its any consolation most company boards lie, cheat and scam their share holders , its the accepted way of the markets , indeed as we are all aware the world today, tuck them up and move on to the next nice little earner!
Hi Gnome,
"A nice little earner" for those running it , shame about the "sheeple" that get tucked up!
hi Nick,
Thank you for trying to cheer me up, I got angry this morning when BP announces a record profit and a write off of £20 billion Russian assets, Putin never wanted BP involved inn Rosneft from the outset!
But BP didn't know how to get out, the Ukraine war/conflict has presented them with the ideal way to bail out and hide the mistake they made getting involved in the first place from share holders and even better get the ordinary people to pay for it on the pump and trying to keep warm!
What is even more despicable the BP board has taken advantage of the Ukraine war and the pain and differing of the Ukrainian people to the benefit of BP!
BP now states it is to invest £18billion into the UK economy by 2030, although in reality it is the UK people who will be paying for this investment through unjustifiably high pump and energy prices!
The opposition parties are corrected their should be a "Windfall Tax " on the excessive profits being made by such companies!
Enjoy you garden, my blackbirds have a family, I shall go and put some food out for them now!
Tibbs
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/britains-bp-says-exit-stake-russian-oil-giant-rosneft-2022-02-27/
I assume that you're holding CEY shares in the belief / hope that they will both increase in value and continue to pay a good rate of dividend. To do that CEY needs to make a profit and, if the dividend is to increase (again I assume that would be something you would applaud) then the profit will also need to increase. Not entirely dissimilar to the hope and expectations of BP shareholders. BP didn't appear to get much help when the price of oil went negative when Covid restrictions were at their peak, the outcry only starts when they start to do well again.
I once held BP at £7, although sold at £3 after they were were responsible with the contractors Halliburton and Transocean for poisoning and virtually destroying al the sea life in the gulf of Mexico , shameful and inexcusable event caused by corporate greed!
Despite what is claimed in the company press release in reality the partnership was never an easy one because President Putin never wanted BP involved in Rosneft!
This huge BP profit is a consequence of the City futures trading desks taking advantage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent UK and other western administrations sanctions to pump up the oil spot price to the max and some!
That said this hike in the oil spot price has proven to be a nice little earner for BP & Rosneft, albeit by a relationship with the downside of an increasingly unpredictable Despot Putin breathing heavily down their necks and likely the need for BP not to be seen to be doing business with oppressive, aggressive dictatorship.
When the people are increasingly being forced decide whether to put fuel in their car to get to work, choose between heating or eating at home then it shows that the government out of touch with the ordinary people or only cares about the best interests of the elite
However one can’t help questioning if BP has used the Ukraine conflict as PR opportunity to exit their unsavoury relationship with Roseneft and also to justify the huge profit and sustained the shareholders dividend , despite a £20 billion write down, and it seems to get the ordinary people to pay for it at the pump and by trying to keep their homes warm!
BP now states it is to invest £18billion into the UK economy by 2030, although in reality it seems it is the UK people who will be paying for this investment through unjustifiably high pump and energy prices.
Whilst undoubtedly supporting Ukraine is the right thing to do the present government has either chosen to,or failed to recognise that the cost and effects of most of its sanctions and actions are being felt in the main and paid for by the ordinary people, it is time that this burden is also shared with those that are not bearing their fair share at present, so it seems only right and fair to impose a "Windfall Tax " on the excessive profits being made by such companies and the funds then used to help people cope with the unprecedented and sudden spike in energy prices.
bp page 5 Q1 results
On average, based on bp’s current forecasts, at around $60 per barrel Brent and subject to the board’s discretion each quarter,
bp continues to expect to be able to deliver share buybacks of around $4.0 billion per annum and have capacity for an annualincrease in the dividend per ordinary share of around 4% through 2025.
So no need to be exploiting the public at the pump,
I am hoping that Centamin eventually improves, it may well do now Martin Horgan and his team of professionals are running operations.
However should Martiin throw in the towel before the recovery plan is completed then abandon hope all who invest here because the rest of BOD are pretty hopeless when it comes to mining!
Thanks Mr T
As I said before it is the poor people who get it in the neck in these conflicts/wars, and they get it in the pocket as well.
the gnome
Tibbs hopefully if and when Martin Horgan walks away the structure of the company will cope and the people who make the company work being the hands on mine management and personnel will carry on and bring in the results.
Hi Dasut,
Yes your most likely right, if Martin has brought them in then they should know what they are doing, assuming they stay of course!
Lets hope it all works out, not much more we can do really in the circumstances.
Although we are being ripped of at the pump and for our energy considering the detail in the page 5 BP first quarter report regarding the hedged price of oil for the next two or three years.
Still at least we aren't suffering like those poor people being bombed by Despot Putin!
The world would be a better place if Putin took some of his own poison, unfortunately he is surrounded by toadies who fear for their own self interests and survival!
How many years ,decades of suffering and hatred will this conflict have caused, and considering we are in the 21st century!