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| #Post#: 30207-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Europe Spring just Began | |
| By: paralambano Date: March 15, 2022, 9:43 am | |
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| Kerry - ^ | |
| Putin? So it's said. I wonder why it took two decades to virtue | |
| signal by the Brits since this is all I see of it. I have no | |
| idea as to what Abramovich thinks of this war. It would be good | |
| if we knew. All I know is that he has denied close links to | |
| Putin but does he mean now? Did Abramovich approve of Putin's | |
| annexation of Crimea? I'm not sure silence means complicity if | |
| he figures death as a response to condemning Putin in the west. | |
| If he's for Putin's war, it ought to be that he doesn't aid in | |
| that effort. | |
| Why is Evraz still operating in Canada and the UK? Jobs, yes? | |
| But what about Chelsea jobs? | |
| I wonder if Abramovich said like Biden did about having Putin | |
| invade a little and then see what happens. Maybe Biden ought to | |
| be sanctioned? I mean wouldn't that be something Putin might | |
| say? Why, thanks for the green light, Joe! But nothing this way | |
| from Abramovich, yes? | |
| Thank you Mr. Abramovich for bringing all of us some very nice | |
| soccer. You're the best kind of football club owner to have. You | |
| not only know the game but also the beautiful kind and were most | |
| successful at it in England. You love your club and helped many | |
| during the pandemic by it. | |
| If you can't continue this in England and are innocent of | |
| allegations, please try in Israel. All clubs should have | |
| knowledgeable soccer owners like you. | |
| soccer fan para . . . . | |
| #Post#: 30211-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Europe Spring just Began | |
| By: Kerry Date: March 16, 2022, 5:35 am | |
| --------------------------------------------------------- | |
| [quote author=paralambano link=topic=1518.msg30207#msg30207 | |
| date=1647355407] | |
| Kerry - ^ | |
| Putin? So it's said. I wonder why it took two decades to virtue | |
| signal by the Brits since this is all I see of it.[/quote]As | |
| long as there was money in it for the British and the public | |
| wasn't outraged, they winked at things. | |
| [quote]I have no idea as to what Abramovich thinks of this war. | |
| It would be good if we knew. All I know is that he has denied | |
| close links to Putin but does he mean now? Did Abramovich | |
| approve of Putin's annexation of Crimea? I'm not sure silence | |
| means complicity if he figures death as a response to condemning | |
| Putin in the west.[/quote]What I know is that Abramovich and | |
| several others like him helped Putin rise to power and stay in | |
| power and to help him get rich. Surely they could see Putin was | |
| spending lots of money on the military while the living standard | |
| in Russia stagnated. Surely men like Abramovich knew their | |
| billions wouldn't exist for them without Putin's approval and | |
| without using the government to favor the rich and elite while | |
| doing little to help the average Russian. | |
| Why was Abramovich flying back and forth to Moscow? First I | |
| read his yacht was spotted somewhere -- then I read he flew to | |
| Moscow via Turkey, back to Israel and then back to Moscow. I | |
| think he has some explaining to do. | |
| https://news.yahoo.com/abramovich-flies-moscow-more-oligarch-163323031.html | |
| https://www.timesofisrael.com/abramovichs-plane-lands-in-moscow-hours-after-he-… | |
| [quote]If he's for Putin's war, it ought to be that he doesn't | |
| aid in that effort.[/quote]He has already aided Putin quite | |
| enough in the past. He was a key player getting Putin into | |
| office. | |
| [quote]Why is Evraz still operating in Canada and the UK? Jobs, | |
| yes? [/quote] | |
| Evraz was delisted on the FTSE. Its board members resigned. | |
| [quote]But what about Chelsea jobs?[/quote]I find it hard to | |
| feel too bad for anyone associated with Chelsea. I have always | |
| looked at the club as elitist, with the idea that money can buy | |
| anything and that they "deserve" to win everything. Oh, how the | |
| mighty have fallen. I realize Chelsea is not Our Lady of | |
| Babylon written about in Revelation 18; but the principle is | |
| similar. | |
| If Putin didn't feel too grandiose to have a job driving a taxi, | |
| maybe the overpaid players at Chelsea could go imitate him. It | |
| might not be hundreds of thousands of pounds a week to hit a | |
| ball, but they could survive. | |
| I hope the solution found isn't finding another ultra-wealthy | |
| person to buy Chelsea. Money has been corrupted soccer for a | |
| long time. | |
| [quote]I wonder if Abramovich said like Biden did about having | |
| Putin invade a little and then see what happens. Maybe Biden | |
| ought to be sanctioned? I mean wouldn't that be something Putin | |
| might say? Why, thanks for the green light, Joe! But nothing | |
| this way from Abramovich, yes? | |
| Thank you Mr. Abramovich for bringing all of us some very nice | |
| soccer. You're the best kind of football club owner to have. You | |
| not only know the game but also the beautiful kind and were most | |
| successful at it in England. You love your club and helped many | |
| during the pandemic by it. | |
| If you can't continue this in England and are innocent of | |
| allegations, please try in Israel. All clubs should have | |
| knowledgeable soccer owners like you.[/quote]Don't get so | |
| carried away by the titles Chelsea won that you want to fall | |
| down and worship Roman Abramovich. | |
| Quite interesting too that he got his Israeli passport by making | |
| big charity contributions and by agreeing to put a lot of money | |
| in an Israeli bank. | |
| #Post#: 30213-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Europe Spring just Began | |
| By: paralambano Date: March 16, 2022, 8:38 am | |
| --------------------------------------------------------- | |
| Kerry - ^ | |
| [quote]As long as there was money in it for the British and the | |
| public wasn't outraged, they winked at things.[/quote] | |
| Who exactly? How did the government profit more from Abramovich | |
| than another buyer? | |
| [quote]What I know is that Abramovich and several others like | |
| him helped Putin rise to power and stay in power and to help him | |
| get rich. Surely they could see Putin was spending lots of | |
| money on the military while the living standard in Russia | |
| stagnated. Surely men like Abramovich knew their billions | |
| wouldn't exist for them without Putin's approval and without | |
| using the government to favor the rich and elite while doing | |
| little to help the average Russian.[/quote] | |
| Always facile to tell others what they ought to do with their | |
| money. Who spends the most globally on their military, Kerry? | |
| And how does that help the average American? | |
| [quote]Why was Abramovich flying back and forth to Moscow? | |
| First I read his yacht was spotted somewhere -- then I read he | |
| flew to Moscow via Turkey, back to Israel and then back to | |
| Moscow. I think he has some explaining to do.[/quote] | |
| How is it he's able to fly to Moscow? | |
| [quote]He has already aided Putin quite enough in the past. He | |
| was a key player getting Putin into office.[/quote] | |
| Over twenty years ago? I wonder how heavily Putin relied on his | |
| advice if at all in those years. Can you give probable examples? | |
| [quote]Evraz was delisted on the FTSE. Its board members | |
| resigned.[/quote] | |
| Still working. | |
| [quote]I find it hard to feel too bad for anyone associated with | |
| Chelsea. I have always looked at the club as elitist, with the | |
| idea that money can buy anything and that they "deserve" to win | |
| everything. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. I realize Chelsea | |
| is not Our Lady of Babylon written about in Revelation 18; but | |
| the principle is similar. [/quote] | |
| You might know that Chelsea is hardly a big money-making venture | |
| as most clubs are. You don't go into soccer to get rich when | |
| there are other much greater payoffs so all this Babylon talk is | |
| nonsense. | |
| Fallen? How so? They're being unfairly restricted. | |
| [quote]If Putin didn't feel too grandiose to have a job driving | |
| a taxi, maybe the overpaid players at Chelsea could go imitate | |
| him. It might not be hundreds of thousands of pounds a week to | |
| hit a ball, but they could survive. [/quote] | |
| Nonsense. There are non-soccer athletes all over Europe, South | |
| and North America making extraordinary amounts of money, not | |
| just at Chelsea. Rich owners everywhere. Soccer is a very | |
| demanding sport with a fair amount of injuries as a result. I | |
| suppose bad things happen to overpaid actors and directors as | |
| well like guns going off unexpectedly. | |
| Let's get Bernie in. He'll sort out the "equity" problem, eh? | |
| [quote]I hope the solution found isn't finding another | |
| ultra-wealthy person to buy Chelsea. Money has been corrupted | |
| soccer for a long time. [/quote] | |
| You need good money to run any pro sporting enterprise. Clubs | |
| fold due to bankruptcy, not enough revenue. I'd prefer another | |
| "candyman" for Chelsea, a Brit, Nick Candy to buy the club. A | |
| Chelsea fan all his life. | |
| [quote]Don't get so carried away by the titles Chelsea won that | |
| you want to fall down and worship Roman Abramovich. [/quote] | |
| Worship? Straw-man. I give sporting honour where sporting | |
| honour's due. There are poor losers who can't do it. Green with | |
| envy over someone else's success instead of having the smarts to | |
| find a way to compete and win. They just can't bring themselves | |
| to give the " honour guard" due to their bile. | |
| You see, a club can have very rich owners indeed and not win | |
| trophies. Why? Because it takes more than just money to win | |
| them. It takes sporting smarts, especially when there's | |
| relegation. There's me honouring Abramovich's sporting smarts. | |
| There's some finding truth if you want to get all Biblical about | |
| it, LOL. There's the real record, no? 19 trophies, 19 years. Why | |
| shouldn't fans celebrate that? What, they pay to be losers, | |
| season in, season out? You play the stock-market to lose? | |
| Please. You find your stock-market smarts playing the "game", | |
| yes? And hopefully, you have some wins, yes? | |
| You see how it is in North America. One buys their way into a | |
| league and then well, no matter how poorly performed you're in | |
| for life. Thus ingrained mediocrity. Nothing like relegation to | |
| wake one out of the sleepwalk. | |
| The big complaint at Man U? The Glazers don't put money in; they | |
| just take it out. | |
| [quote]Quite interesting too that he got his Israeli passport by | |
| making big charity contributions and by agreeing to put a lot of | |
| money in an Israeli bank.[/quote] | |
| Well, good on the charities, yes? | |
| para . . . . | |
| #Post#: 30216-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Europe Spring just Began | |
| By: Kerry Date: March 16, 2022, 10:48 am | |
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| [quote author=paralambano link=topic=1518.msg30213#msg30213 | |
| date=1647437887] | |
| Kerry - ^ | |
| Who exactly? How did the government profit more from Abramovich | |
| than another buyer?[/quote]The British government was lax with | |
| several rich foreigners if they promised to invest money that | |
| would create jobs. Abramovich promised and didn't deliver on | |
| it. As I said before, London is known as the money laundring | |
| capitol of the world. | |
| [quote]Always facile to tell others what they ought to do with | |
| their money. Who spends the most globally on their military, | |
| Kerry? And how does that help the average American? [/quote]I | |
| like to believe it protects us from potential invasion at home | |
| and attacks abroad. I agreed with Reagan's "Peace through | |
| Strength." We are not spending all that money with an eye of | |
| invading Canada or Mexico. The days of that kind of miltary | |
| adventurism and aggression is over, I hope. I hope too that | |
| our military spending deters Russian using miltary force against | |
| Canada in its dispute over the Arctic. Canada is in NATO. It | |
| should. That long peaceful border we have is worth spending | |
| biliions, I think. If some foreign power invaded Canada and | |
| took over, it could mean war and even more money. | |
| Reagan outspent the Soviets in the military; yet we didn't | |
| invade them when the USSR collapsed. Our goal was never to | |
| invade Russia. It was to deter aggression from them. | |
| [quote]How is it he's able to fly to Moscow?[/quote]I guess you | |
| can stllll fly from Instanbul to Moscow. Turkey is trying to | |
| walk a tight rope too. They did refuse to allow a few Russian | |
| ships to go through the Bosphorus; but they are trying not to | |
| create more tension with Russia. | |
| [quote]Over twenty years ago? I wonder how heavily Putin relied | |
| on his advice if at all in those years. Can you give probable | |
| examples?[/quote]I don't have access to that kind of | |
| information. | |
| [quote]Still working.[/quote]The sanctions by the EU are on the | |
| parent company. Evraz North America is operating as a | |
| subsidiary. I think that would mean no money is allowed to flow | |
| between the two; and control of Evraz NA must be independently | |
| exercised. | |
| https://leaderpost.com/news/saskatchewan/minister-says-sask-doesnt-want-to-nati… | |
| Some have expressed concerns over the future of operations at | |
| Evraz after the federal government announced sanctions on key | |
| Russian shareholder Roman Abramovich, who has been characterized | |
| as bankrolling Vladimir Putin�s war in Ukraine. | |
| While Evraz North America has said it operates independently as | |
| a subsidiary of Evraz PLC, some industry watchers have said the | |
| ongoing uncertainty with the sanctions could cause skittishness | |
| among customers and suppliers. | |
| Last week, NDP Opposition Leader Ryan Meili asked the province | |
| to look at possibly facilitating a change in ownership of the | |
| company. | |
| Meili has argued Russian oligarchs are still tied to Evraz even | |
| if the North American subsidiary operates independently, adding | |
| that these funders needs to be cut off. | |
| Who owns the company and how that transfer should happen should | |
| be under discussion, Meili said. | |
| However, Harrison said the province doesn�t want to nationalize | |
| Evraz for many reasons. | |
| [quote]You might know that Chelsea is hardly a big money-making | |
| venture as most clubs are. You don't go into soccer to get rich | |
| when there are other much greater payoffs so all this Babylon | |
| talk is nonsense.[/quote]The Roman Emperors did not put on | |
| circuses as money-making ventures. They did it to curry favor | |
| with the masses. | |
| Chelsea fans liked Abramovich. They didn't know or care if the | |
| money he spent was ill-gotten. Chelsea fans were like the | |
| British government. | |
| Solomon said pride goes before a fall. Yes, we just saw it, | |
| didn't we? | |
| Revelation 18:7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived | |
| deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith | |
| in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no | |
| sorrow. | |
| 8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and | |
| mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: | |
| for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her. | |
| 9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and | |
| lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for | |
| her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, | |
| [quote]Fallen? How so? They're being unfairly | |
| restricted.[/quote]You could also say they unfairly benefitted | |
| in the past from the infusion of Russian money. | |
| [quote]Nonsense. There are non-soccer athletes all over Europe, | |
| South and North America making extraordinary amounts of money, | |
| not just at Chelsea. Rich owners everywhere. Soccer is a very | |
| demanding sport with a fair amount of injuries as a result. I | |
| suppose bad things happen to overpaid actors and directors as | |
| well like guns going off unexpectedly. | |
| Let's get Bernie in. He'll sort out the "equity" problem, eh? | |
| You need good money to run any pro sporting enterprise. Clubs | |
| fold due to bankruptcy, not enough revenue. I'd prefer another | |
| "candyman" for Chelsea, a Brit, Nick Candy to buy the club. A | |
| Chelsea fan all his life.[/quote]There is a saying, "Bad money | |
| drives out good." When corruption runs rampant, honest owners | |
| are a great disadvantage. | |
| [quote]Worship? Straw-man. I give sporting honour where sporting | |
| honour's due. There are poor losers who can't do it. Green with | |
| envy over someone else's success instead of having the smarts to | |
| find a way to compete and win. They just can't bring themselves | |
| to give the " honour guard" due to their bile. [/quote] | |
| Mark 10:25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a | |
| needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. | |
| [quote]You see, a club can have very rich owners indeed and not | |
| win trophies. Why? Because it takes more than just money to win | |
| them. It takes sporting smarts, especially when there's | |
| relegation. There's me honouring Abramovich's sporting smarts. | |
| There's some finding truth if you want to get all Biblical about | |
| it, LOL. There's the real record, no? 19 trophies, 19 years. Why | |
| shouldn't fans celebrate that? What, they pay to be losers, | |
| season in, season out? You play the stock-market to lose? | |
| Please. You find your stock-market smarts playing the "game", | |
| yes? And hopefully, you have some wins, yes? | |
| You see how it is in North America. One buys their way into a | |
| league and then well, no matter how poorly performed you're in | |
| for life. Thus ingrained mediocrity. Nothing like relegation to | |
| wake one out of the sleepwalk.[/quote] | |
| When you have major clubs owned by billionaires, I assume one | |
| will rise to the top and look the best. I do not assume that's | |
| because he's so smart. Most people will not win trophies. Only | |
| one club will win a trophy in a competition. | |
| Oh yes, what about relegation? Chelsea was in the Europa | |
| League. Who was bragging about how clever Abramovich was when | |
| that happened? Sarri got them out of the Europa League -- and | |
| the genius Abramovich fired him. | |
| [quote]The big complaint at Man U? The Glazers don't put money | |
| in; they just take it out. [/quote] | |
| Sounds to me as if fans were trying to tell the Glazers how to | |
| spend their money. I wonder why the fans don't feel the same | |
| way about Ronaldo? If he wants the club to win trophies, why | |
| doesn't he put some of his own money into it? | |
| [quote]Well, good on the charities, yes? | |
| para . . . . | |
| [/quote]I'm not impressed. Giving money in order to get | |
| something back isn't really giving to charity. | |
| #Post#: 30218-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Europe Spring just Began | |
| By: KerimF Date: March 16, 2022, 1:38 pm | |
| --------------------------------------------------------- | |
| [quote author=Kerry link=topic=1518.msg30216#msg30216 | |
| date=1647445715] | |
| I like to believe it protects us from potential invasion at home | |
| and attacks abroad. I agreed with Reagan's "Peace through | |
| Strength." We are not spending all that money with an eye of | |
| invading Canada or Mexico. The days of that kind of military | |
| adventurism and aggression is over, I hope. | |
| [/quote] | |
| Thank you Kerry for presenting what an American is supposed to | |
| believe about America's strength and invasions. | |
| What about Iraq? It was a real invasion and the Iraqi people | |
| (not their high classes) had to live, by a mere coincidence, the | |
| 9/11 Terror soon after it... till now; besides too many new | |
| serious problems also created since then, under one pretext | |
| after another. | |
| What about Syria? The American troops still protect those who | |
| steal the Syrian oil on the north and still occupy with their | |
| Islamist mercenaries (holding their Allah's flags) the main | |
| trading door/road to the east, Tanaf. (The Russian forces are | |
| not better. They have to play the allies while their system also | |
| keeps getting its share from Syria as planned). | |
| I am not complaining, at all, because what is happening is | |
| normal. | |
| For a country to be the greatest one, in any period of time, it | |
| has to be ruled by powerful rich families. And Jesus whose Will | |
| created the world opened my eyes, in a clever simple way, about | |
| the rich man; so that I won't be surprised anytime I hear a tale | |
| made for adults by those who run a ruling system, mainly if | |
| their system became among the strongest ones in the world. For | |
| example, one may believe now Putin or Biden (the actual top | |
| official speakers of the World's Elite) while I know for sure | |
| that both of them have no choice but telling certain given fairy | |
| tales made for adults to address the powerless world's peoples; | |
| starting from theirs in Russia and America. | |
| I repeat; the main target of the actual war is supposed to be | |
| Europe not Ukraine, as it was planned for this decade. But, the | |
| end of the Russian Elite will be of the Nazis ones if they have | |
| no idea yet that the very smart Nazis were cleverly fooled and | |
| used to be a solid pretext for the destruction of Europe in WW2 | |
| and its total submission to its saviors afterwards. | |
| While writing in a very cold room, anything could be said :D | |
| #Post#: 30222-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Europe Spring just Began | |
| By: Kerry Date: March 17, 2022, 5:22 am | |
| --------------------------------------------------------- | |
| [quote author=KerimF link=topic=1518.msg30218#msg30218 | |
| date=1647455915] | |
| Thank you Kerry for presenting what an American is supposed to | |
| believe about America's strength and invasions. | |
| What about Iraq? It was a real invasion and the Iraqi people | |
| (not their high classes) had to live, by a mere coincidence, the | |
| 9/11 Terror soon after it... till now; besides too many new | |
| serious problems also created since then, under one pretext | |
| after another.[/quote]Let's recall how the first phase began | |
| with the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq with Saddam Hussein | |
| installing Ali Hassan al-Majid. | |
| Iraq also launched aerial attacks on Israel and Saudi Arabia; | |
| and it was feared Saddam might try to seize Saudi oil wells. | |
| Indeed there was a brief incursion by the Iraqi army into the | |
| Saudi city of Khafji which was driven out two days later by | |
| Saudi, Qatari and American forces. | |
| The United States did not take action against Saddam | |
| unilaterally. The UN voted for it. Iraq agreed to certain | |
| terms when the war ended. | |
| It then broke that agreement, and the 2003 invasion of Iraq took | |
| place. | |
| #Post#: 30224-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Europe Spring just Began | |
| By: paralambano Date: March 17, 2022, 9:19 am | |
| --------------------------------------------------------- | |
| Kerry - ^ | |
| How was that promise made exactly by Abramovich when he bought | |
| Chelsea and how many jobs has the British government been | |
| complaining that Abramovich hasn't created? | |
| Okay, so Americans can spend the most amount globally on their | |
| military but other nations can't to deter perceived threats? You | |
| said that Russian oligarch money went into their military | |
| instead of benefitting the average Russian. Well, if American | |
| military spending is believed to protect the average American, | |
| how is it that Rusian military can't go to protecting the | |
| average Russian? It seems to me you are holding to a | |
| double-standard. Try convincing a paranoid regime that the US | |
| isn't interested in invading their nation culturally or | |
| otherwise. You know how things have to change there first. | |
| Oh, please with the Babylon nonsense. Who owns North American | |
| sports teams. All rich entities. You need money to have a | |
| pro-sports team. So, Boris might sell Chelsea to an even richer | |
| entity, trillionaires like Saudis. Look at Newcastle. And Boris | |
| gone a-begging in the UAE. | |
| Liverpool owned by Americans. What would they sell that club for | |
| with its pedigree? These are all rich people who have soccer | |
| smarts or they don't. Look at American Man U. Look at PSG. | |
| Messi, Neymar, Mbappe, Ramos, Donnarumma, etc., etc. all gone | |
| from the UCL. Why? PSG has no model. A cobbled together squad. | |
| Tottenham, spanking new stadium, rich Americans. Won nothing of | |
| note the last 50 years. I could go on. You need to know what | |
| you're doing from the top down to win in sport. All decisions | |
| matter. And who was toughest this way in England? Why, it's | |
| Roman Abramovich. There was no guarantee when he bought the club | |
| that he'd win anything. He could have flipped it during those | |
| years. But he kept it and showed everyone how to properly run an | |
| Academy and club at a loss. | |
| I don't see Abramovich as being proud in any inordinate way. You | |
| don't see him bragging about his club. He had to be dragged onto | |
| the pitch by Azpilicueta for a group photo in the UCL Final | |
| last. He was shown at home matches enjoying the game in the | |
| stands in jeans and jacket. Watch PSG, Barcelona, Real home | |
| matches and the suits that sit there. | |
| By the way, Chelsea won the Europa trophy, not just play in that | |
| league. If it were so easy, why hasn't Tottenham won it? Why | |
| with all that American money, hasn't that club with its parade | |
| of managers won anything? | |
| I think that the West is feeling pretty helpless in this war so | |
| far. Putin has been calling the shots on the ground and it's all | |
| been criminal. So the West goes after some prominent Russians | |
| who may or may not be in favour of what Putin is doing to hit | |
| back but this hasn't stopped his warring. He's even promised to | |
| be going after "traitors" and "scum". If these oligarchs are as | |
| guilty as governments say they are, then I'd say that these | |
| governments have some complicity in this guilt by "winking" at | |
| their investments. | |
| If you don't have access to information, how can you expect | |
| Chelsea fans to know about alleged ill-gotten gains? The | |
| government gave these oligarchs access so what is the fan to | |
| believe? If they weren't told the "truth" then, how can they be | |
| expected to believe it now? I say question everything. Even more | |
| so in the fog of war. | |
| It takes more than honesty to be good at something. One needs | |
| skill. One can be a "saint" in their football doings but make | |
| idiotic sporting decisions and go bankrupt, yes? Moralizing | |
| alone won't cut it. Neither does virtue-signaling from without. | |
| So you don't have access as to how Putin confided in Abramovich | |
| in those two decades. Do you have any information as to how | |
| Abramovich advised Putin about invading Ukraine? Tactics? Of | |
| course you don't. Neither do I at the moment. So I'll wait. Why? | |
| Because I'd like the unvarnished truth about stuff I can't see. | |
| I can see a lot of what's going on in Ukraine. I don't want to | |
| jump to conclusions. I have no idea what Abramovich thinks about | |
| this war. I can only hope he opposes it. I hope that he's some | |
| kind of emissary for peace as was claimed in the early days. | |
| Evraz. Jobs, Kerry. Bottom line. | |
| Biblical. Rom 13. Honour where it's due. I honour Abramovich's | |
| soccer sporting smarts and success as a club owner. I honour | |
| Mozart's talent because I can separate that from his alleged | |
| fooling around. I can honour an excellent house-painter by a tip | |
| for their house painting even if it's alleged they're an | |
| adulterer. I honour Jesus of Nazareth even though I know he | |
| allowed to be destroyed an entire herd of swine. Why? Because of | |
| what he knew. I honour that. | |
| Well, when I give to charity, I get a good feeling in return. | |
| That's a kind of reward, yes? There's always something in return | |
| if the intent is right. I don't know that you know how | |
| Abramovich feels about that, do you? His giving to charity. | |
| We're not God. Too, I don't know all the veritable details aboit | |
| the passport. | |
| Why not deal with the real source of the problem. Putin and what | |
| he's doing. It's like if some Democrats were blaming Trump for | |
| high gas prices. Trump, Trump, Trump on some minds. | |
| Ya, western oligarch sanctioned. That's stopped the bombing. | |
| ADD: Fired Sarri and went on to win the Champions League and | |
| Club World Cup. Failed upwards by soccer, LOL? | |
| In order to advance one needs to say yes, yes, and no, no. I say | |
| yes to Abramovich's soccer smarts by Chelsea FC. I say no if he | |
| doesn't oppose this war. But some can't say yes to what's good | |
| for some reason. Honour where it's due as Paul says. That has to | |
| be part of the way. Jesus said honour what the priests say but | |
| don't do as they do. Yes to their words, no to their actions. | |
| Yes to Abramovich's soccer acuity, no to any alleged complicity. | |
| Yes to Cristiano's skills, accomplishments, no to bloviating. | |
| Nihilism attempts to erase any good at all since it is envious | |
| of it all. | |
| para . . . . | |
| #Post#: 30228-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Europe Spring just Began | |
| By: Kerry Date: March 17, 2022, 4:44 pm | |
| --------------------------------------------------------- | |
| [quote author=paralambano link=topic=1518.msg30224#msg30224 | |
| date=1647526744] | |
| Kerry - ^ | |
| How was that promise made exactly by Abramovich when he bought | |
| Chelsea and how many jobs has the British government been | |
| complaining that Abramovich hasn't created?[/quote]He was flying | |
| in and out of the UK on a Tier 1 Investment visa. | |
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_policy_of_the_United_Kingdom#Tier_1_(… | |
| The Investor subcategory is for those who wish to invest | |
| capital in the United Kingdom. In November 2014 the investment | |
| thresholds were increased to; �2,000,000, �5,000,000 or | |
| �10,000,000. The difference between the thresholds is the amount | |
| of time it takes a migrant to be eligible for Indefinite Leave | |
| to Remain. With the �2,000,000 threshold it is 5 years, with the | |
| �5,000,000 threshold it is 3 years and with the �10,000,000 | |
| threshold it is 2 years. The funds must be invested in either | |
| share capital in British companies or in British bonds. | |
| The measure of compliance does not depend on the number of jobs | |
| created since an investor could put money into a venture and | |
| fail. The goal was to attract capital with the expectation that | |
| jobs and prosperity would follow. Abramovich never invested the | |
| way he promised. If he had invested enough, he would have had a | |
| permanent visa. | |
| More later. | |
| #Post#: 30229-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Europe Spring just Began | |
| By: KerimF Date: March 18, 2022, 5:03 am | |
| --------------------------------------------------------- | |
| [quote author=Kerry link=topic=1518.msg30222#msg30222 | |
| date=1647512566] | |
| Let's recall how the first phase began with the invasion of | |
| Kuwait by Iraq with Saddam Hussein installing Ali Hassan | |
| al-Majid. | |
| Iraq also launched aerial attacks on Israel and Saudi Arabia; | |
| and it was feared Saddam might try to seize Saudi oil wells. | |
| Indeed there was a brief incursion by the Iraqi army into the | |
| Saudi city of Khafji which was driven out two days later by | |
| Saudi, Qatari and American forces. | |
| The United States did not take action against Saddam | |
| unilaterally. The UN voted for it. Iraq agreed to certain | |
| terms when the war ended. | |
| It then broke that agreement, and the 2003 invasion of Iraq took | |
| place. | |
| [/quote] | |
| Thank you again for presenting more of what the American people | |
| are supposed to believe. | |
| And since your feelings (and of every one here) are more | |
| important to me than whatever is happening in reality on the | |
| world's ground (or will happen), I try my best not to disturb | |
| any other's views mainly of those who were born and live in a | |
| country, called free. | |
| By the way, does anyone here know a source of information which | |
| is not cleverly biased to a certain powerful rich group? | |
| Once, I tried to write on a talk-page (of a well-known site that | |
| claims being civilized and free) some general natural truths | |
| (not related to any specific side) with the hope to hear other's | |
| views on them. Soon after this talk-page was read by a moderator | |
| and 2 persons at most (among the 10 billion humans in the | |
| world), it was removed without being discussed in any way by | |
| anyone. I mean; I personally don't believe, at all, in the | |
| existence of a free world unless my spoiled pets see themselves | |
| as free beings for eating their favorite food and having their | |
| favorite shelters while they are allowed to live their favorite | |
| activities... as long they follow whatever I tell them :D After | |
| all, Jesus was crucified just for revealing natural truths | |
| (well, and to also prove He was the promised Messiah which was | |
| very important to happen for His first Apostles and Disciples). | |
| #Post#: 30233-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Europe Spring just Began | |
| By: paralambano Date: March 18, 2022, 8:05 am | |
| --------------------------------------------------------- | |
| Kerry - ^ | |
| I don't know why Germany, Italy, and France aren't sanctioned. | |
| They were selling arms and other equipment according to | |
| Investigate Europe to Russia up to at least 2020 despite a ban | |
| on doing so using the loophole of deals made before Crimea. So, | |
| as to their reporting, this is why you see Italian military | |
| vehicles with a Z on them used by Russia in Ukraine: | |
| https://www.investigate-europe.eu/en/2022/eu-states-exported-weapons-to-russia/ | |
| How much has Abramovich loaned Chelsea FC? | |
| EVRAZ Pueblo, Colorado. EVRAZ Portland, Oregon. | |
| http://www.evrazna.com/company/overview/tabid/57/default.asp | |
| para . . . . | |
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