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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TobagoJack who wrote (144752)	12/15/2018 4:54:56 PM
From: Joseph Silent	Respond to of 217574

Five-eyes ...... Is this club so terribly dull in the noggin that it cannot see that USA + CANADA + UK + NZ + AUSTRALIA amounts to a big flag with the words "Anglo White Boy" club written all over it? I am surprised they did not drag in Burma, just to try and not be so obvious. Or do they, like Trump, feel so powerful that they do not care? Thanks to Newton, there ought to be some responses. How about the "Smart Noses" (say Israel, Greece, Southern Italy), "We don likem dem dat five eyes" (Black America, all of Africa, parts of S.India, Sri Lanka), "The Rice Club" (China, India, Japan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Phillipines), and "We just want more vacation time" (Italy, France, Germany,Belgium), and "Dang, it's cold"( Norway, Russia) etc etc. I'd be surprised if it does not come to something like this. :)

To: TobagoJack who wrote (144752)	12/15/2018 5:56:12 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217574

Or, as the evil and crooked Hillary Clinton said, "Can't we just drone this guy?" regarding Julian Assange. Kim Dotcom is not detained in NZ. He likes it here and credit to some in the judiciary they have NOT gone along with the criminal attack on Kim and his family including his very pregnant wife and a few small children at their house. The totally absurd over the top SWAT attack which terrified the family is an insult to the Kiwi way of life. The government committed crimes during their blundering. Constable Plod could have driven up in the morning, asked to have a word with Kim and maybe present him with a summons to court if they had enough evidence. Kim did not commit any crime. He didn't even do copyright infringement. Dropbox and others also provide storage for data including movies and anything you like. YouTube used to provide copyrighted movies without approval. Governments provide roads for burglars to drive on. Rental companies provide trucks. Storage companies provide storage space. It's only the burglars who commit a crime. I owned and ran Zenbu wifi in NZ Oz and Cook Islands. I know a lot of copyright infringement was done. So I could be SWATted too for the same reason as Kim. The Yanks are going mad. They are threatening Russia with invasion in a Yank tanks to Murmansk manoeuvre. As well as a Charge of the Light Brigade into Crimea. Russians are preparing responses including megatonnage test flights to Venezuela. We got past 11th hour of 11th day of 11th month. That's good but getting past 2019 is less than a good bet. Amusingly, people claim to be worried by CO2 and a 20cm sea level rise over 100 years. Cheeringly, Americans expend most energy fighting themselves so we needn't be paranoid that they've got it in for us. They have it in for everyone. And let's face it, they are less bad than most. Imagine the horror of the emperors in China having total power which they want. Or Putin. Or Merkel. It's funny that Bolton and Trudeau act surprised that China arrested a couple of ham sandwiches. Mqurice

To: TobagoJack who wrote (144752)	12/15/2018 6:33:01 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217574

The contract that Huawei broke was agreement with USA suppliers to not supply Iranian people (in Iran). The USA suppliers had to comply with USA law. If executives in Huawei supply Iran then there's breach of contract. If the USA company's executives knowingly broke the USA law by supplying Iran or a foreign company who supplied Iran, then those executives and the company would be liable. The foreign company and its executives would be liable for breach of contract with the USA company and remedy would apply. It's a reach for the Huawei CFO to be liable. I'm surprised a CFO would be deciding to supply Iran but a good company is not simplistic in organization charts and who does what and decides what. The remedy should also be USA bans USA companies from supplying Huawei unless Huawei agrees to pay a penalty and refrains from supplying Iran. Gaoling the Huawei CFO seems a bad idea. I used to visit USA every couple of years. It's now 13 years since Ive been. Partly that's because I'm scared of them ham sandwiching me. Our beloved son Tarken gave up visiting or transiting a few years before me. Once at LAX I was threatened with arrest by a TSA man because I had walked over to them to ask where I should go for security checking. He pointed to some tape on the floor which apparently defined a non public area and issued his warning. No assistance. I dislike gratuitous threats. USA now doesn't have me to bother with, or spend the $thousands I spent there. They can make up for my unwelcome presence with another caravan of third worlders. It's very pleasant going through Singapore or Hong Kong. I have not risked China yet = a special hazard of its own. Dubai is tolerable but unpleasant. They could offer better toilets for example. And wifi. And they have jihad laws one better watch out for as many foreigners learn to their dismay. Mqurice