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I doubt any US official fears anything regarding Russia. Their children are not in Ukraine, would certainly not be asked to fight, so there is nothing to fear. Fear is being used here in place of the real meaning, which is one of: lie; imagine; dreamt; plucked out their group a**; hope is happening; will use as an excuse to escalate; will use to increase their budget. So many possibilities for what this means, but “fear” is not one of them.
Rich people make their money within the system, they know that what they earn depends on them being seen to support the system, that is how they get promoted, that is how they win contracts. If they start voicing concerns about the system then they will quickly fall out of favour and will lose that pay rise or bonus. They have made the decision to swim in bullshit but earn a good living than voice their own opinions and live a poor life.
Look at Djokovic: as soon as he comes out against vaccinations he is removed from all open championships and will probably not play another professional game. That is what rich people are afrad of, so they go along with the system.
Look at hos they treated Sir Russell Coutts who turned up to and supported the Wellington protestors https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/03/11/am-cup-yacht-skippered-by-sir-russell-coutts-to-get-heave-ho/
@oxymoron said …
I’m not racist but I most certainly admit to being classist.
I have had so many of those experiences I cannot recount them all, people confident that they can tell you what they think and be equally confident that what you think is wrong. No room for discussion, no room for listening to you past the first sin “unvaxxed” or “pro Russia” and certainly no working out where there is common ground. These people do not think for themselves, they make money by being obedient to the system and as such they must be seen to attack anyone who questions the system: that way their career is secure as is their end of year bonus.
I now just take the piss out of them as they are basically very stupid and nothing annoys them more than having a gut feeling that you are taking the piss out of them but they cannot quite work out how you are taking the piss.
She was responsible, but really someone else was. “No one could have known,” she exclaims, except, of course, the hundreds of thousands of us amateurs who did, in fact, know, and were censored and called science-hating anti-vaxxers for our troubles.
Taking responsibility is a measure of character, which makes me question why this person was ever promoted into this position in the first place. Weak people like Scott Adams and this CDC person are just a reflection of society as a whole, but once the famous and leaders of society do not have sufficient character to operate as a member of a society then what happens? Society disintegrates into what?
@Dr D said …
The key to inflation is PERCEPTION, which cannot be predicted. This is true of gold and dollar replacements.
Gold as a currency is deflationary and is not in the slightest dependent on perception. That is why fiat was introduced in the first place, so that the rich can get richer and continuously fleece the poor who’s wealth is mostly in currency. The problem with gold as a currency is that growth that out-performs the supply of new gold will result in your gold coin being worth more next year than it is this year: so stuffing gold under the bed is a good way to save for your pension as is saving rather than investing – growth is therefore limited to only very profitable enterprises and debt is almost unaffordable for most of us. Banks don’t like people who stuff gold under their beds, not only does it increase deflationary pressure but it also means that poor people get to keep their money. Not good. Mining, of course, compensates and so there is a balance of sorts. Growth and debt service are today’s goals, gold as currency is way too egalitarian.
@ teri said …
They are out of their minds.
No they are not, they appear to be out of their minds because their actions are not to the benefit of the nation to which they swear loyalty. They are in fact traitors assisting external, non-democratic forces to persue their own agenda at massive cost to the people of their home nation. They should be tried for treason, not forgiven as being out of their minds.
On Wednesday, the White House claimed without evidence that Russia might use chemical or biological weapons to create a false flag operation in Ukraine.
A bit like the USA’s Covid bioweapon?
@willem said …
I don’t understand why the public hasn’t just accepted the reality that Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube are not platforms where meaningful discussion or analysis of anything even remotely political or otherwise controversial can take place.
People on these platforms just want their egos polished via your attention and your agreement, they are not looking for discussion, they are looking to be liked, to be thought of as wise, important etc. It does not take much for them to turn agressive if you go against the original post, even if you have a valid point. In the end, people prefer this form of “faux discussion” because they have already made up their minds and the discussion is with people they generally already agree with. Discussion to determine the truth means that you have to enter the discussion with an open mind and “open mind mode” is not encouraged by Twitter.
Either Russia surrenders and is taken under US control, or this goes nuclear. The USA elites are so greedy and insane that they would rather destroy the world than be average citizens in the world.
Putin said “There is no need for the planet without Russia” but the USA elites are saying “There is no need for the planet if we are not the wealthiest and most powerful people in the planet”.
China and India know they are next in the USA’s list of targets, so they cannot do anything other than support Russia or surrender to the USA. Impossible to see this being sorted out by diplomacy.
Only a tragic shock has the potential to stop this escalation, but I doubt even if Putin were to order a nuclear strike on the US homeland – LA, San Fran, Boston – I still doubt the US elites would stop.
All we can hope is that this war cools down for a while – it will never stop – so that we have the time to live the rest of our lives before the rampant, insane, finished Americans destroy the planet.
@chooch said …
A few kids in Dara’a sprayed anti-Assad graffiti on a high school wall. 15 kids were arrested, beaten, tortured, had their fingernails ripped out.
I consider this story to be extremely unlikely. Do you have a source for this alegation?
“The ability to restrict travel within the country to unvaccinated or insufficiently vaccinated”
NZ is turning into a fascist dictatorship, despite the end of Covid … the real purpose of the plandemic revealed.
Great article. The description of how Covid works was very enlightening as was the bit on military use of nanotechnology.
I know that the military is often ten years ahead of civilian development, but I am still so-far uimpressed by their nanotech and suspect that any real mind control is a long way off. Disruption of brain signals – as demonstrated in fruit flies – is fairly undestandable and used to be done with electric shock treatments.
Fine tuned control over a person’s brain is a completely different thing altogether and seems to me to be a long, long way off. For a start, consider how many nodes you would need to have in the brain to improve a person’s control over movement – I am sure it would be a very high number – in which case you need to be able to address each one or at least small groups. How would you identify all of those nodes? The device would require a basic processor that could act as a basic state machine. There is no indication of how this could work.
The fruit flies are using analogue signalling, so you you cannot specify which transducer to activate and which to not activate – all or nothing. This is the equivalent of connecting an electical cable to the fly – electric shock therapy. The transducer is converting a magnetic signal into a current, so very basic, no processing, no transducer specific signalling etc.
My guess is that the next generation of semi-conductors, the technology that takes us to sub-nanometer size can probably do this, they can probably put a processor on 10nm device and will require so little energy that they can be driven remotely but still, the problem of signalling is not an easy one to overcome given that the lower power the device, the lower power the radio signal, the shorter the range. For this reason I suspect that they will initially require a helmet to drive and read the system.
Of course, people in all militaries will be looking for ways to eradicate such nano-devices from their staff, you do not want a nanodevice in somebody attending a top secret meeting, so there has to be a war of counter measures, methods to clean out such devices from your system. In my opinion this is all a long way away.
If it was possible now, wouldn’t they have instructed Putin to surrender?
Deputy Prime Minister and former Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland was photographed on Sunday with a scarf promoting a far-right Ukrainian Nationalist movement linked to Neo-Nazis and extremism.
Finance minister of Canada and WEF board member: you cannot make this shit up.
Toppling Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is the goal of the new wave of international sanctions introduced in response to Moscow’s offensive in Ukraine, a spokesman for Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson told reporters on Monday.
WEF can’t have global government without controlling Russia: it is as simple as that. If WEF is to do its great reset, then it needs to get rid of Putin so that it stays on target to have global government by 2030. Putin is not obedient to WEF’s aims and the more I hear NATO, the more obvious it becomes that Putin would not have started this war unless he knew Russia was in existential danger: WEF’s backers are an existential threat to Russa.
If WEF win this then Russia will be turned into another WEF controlled state with all that comes with: woke, globalism, anti-nationalism, anti-religion, anti-democracy etc. Russian culture would be removed and replaced with globalisation culture, as it has in most of Europe and UK.
Yanev argued that he was being targeted for removal so the government could install a defense minister who will be more willing to serve foreign interests, in some cases at the expense of Bulgaria’s security.
WEF marches on: Bulgaria is just joining the rest of the EU in now having yet more politicians persuing the agenda of WEF to the detriment of their own countries. WEF or Russia, who will win this war?
Putin may have ended the Covid-19 pandemic in the west, but here in Hong Kong we are a few months behind, hitting new spikes of Omicron. The amusing part is the totally inept response of the government. Initially it was the Hong Kong government but now the Beijing government has taken over.
We had four suicide attempts within 27 hours at the main quarantine facility, where people who are supposed to be locked up for 14 days have ended up staying locked up for over 28 days! They have expanded the quarantine facilities into residential apartment blocks, but today it is revealed that the “isolated” people in these blocks have one bathroom to share among 24 people: so they will be spreading Omicron faster than if they were at home.
Their contact tracing app required people to get tested within 24 hours or a fine of 5000 HKD if they were in the same location as a case. There were so many people waiting to get tested that the queues were literally miles long and took over 8 hours. Again, a great way to catch Omicron. In the end they stopped notifying people as the whole system came to a grinding halt.
Now they are planing on testing everybody in Hong Kong three times during March. When they announced that idea they did not have enough testing facilities, so the mainland has stepped in to provide more personnel. None of us know exactly why they want to test everybody, that bit is still a mystery.
The police have been instructed to follow a “No Mercy” policy, so no warnings if not wearing your mask properly (5000 HKD fine) or if you are less than 1.5 meters away from more than one other person (5000 HKD fine). Yet at the same time the public transport systems are open where people sit next to each other, much less than 1.5 meters, and the restaurants are open where people eat without their masks and less than 1.5 meters apart.
Nothing like watching incompetent bureaucrats put under pressure to perform but having no idea what to do. The people are getting quite pissed off with the government, mainly because they had time to plan for this but were obviously doing nothing. It will be interesting to see what happens.
Diana Bathing with her Nymphs with Actaeon and Callisto 1634
Soft porn before the internet: happy days.
@ctbarnum said:
Just when you think Clown World can’t get any more clownish.
In case of a nuclear explosion, FEMA warns to try to keep 6 ft social distance and wear a mask for covid. You can’t make this up pic.twitter.com/LfxFX1dZoS
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) February 27, 2022
Thanks for this, it gave me many a laugh especially, and I quote “Take care of your body and talk to someone if you are feeling upset. Many people may already feel fear and anxiety about the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19). The threat of a nuclear explosion can add additional stress.”
My first reasction was “just who writes this shit?”, but then when I asked myself “who would think that Covid is more stressful or upsetting than a nuclear explosion” I realised that they must be targetting the Karens, so this totally makes sense: Any advisor on nuclear fallout would lose their job – fired by a Karen – if they didn’t insist on masks and social distancing while trying to brush the highly radioactive nuclear fallout off your skin!
“talk to someone if you are feeling upset” … a nuclear bomb is on its way and I am worrying about Covid and the bureaucrat who wrote the instructions was not quite sure whether I would be upset? Jesus, these people.
@anticlimactic said:
UK : RT.COM now shows as ‘forbidden’. SPUTNIKNEWS. COM still available. RT TV channel still there, but suspect not for much longer.
Same here in Hong Kong. As the RT IP address is in Moscow, I am guessing that the connection to Hong Kong goes through a west-controlled communications system. I tried various network routes and some transmit the site, others do not, so RT is definitely running. I found the best VPN location is Japan.
@kultsommer said:
Unless you have comfortable understanding:
Do you argue with an expert of economy of Bosnia between 1918 an 1945, and have your opinion?
Or with quantum physicist who is telling you that you’re nothing but vibrating particles?
Or….?National gallery tours, by art experts, are fascinating and definitely add some more understanding to a work of art, but they are not essential to voice an opinion.
@kultsommer said:
Unless you have comfortable understanding:
Do you argue with an expert of economy of Bosnia between 1918 an 1945, and have your opinion?
Or with quantum physicist who is telling you that you’re nothing but vibrating particles?
Or….?No, but that is science in pursuit of truth, not art, and you understand the enlightenment and modernism? Well, art is not in pursuit of truth, art can pursue many variations of truth, fantasy, ourselves. Some art I like and some art I don’t like and, because it is art, I am entitled to my opinion because there is no right or wrong …. a variety of opinion is the core element of art. If everybody had to like all art, there would be no art, so the fact that some don’t like it can make it all the more appealing.
What you are saying is: do not announce your opinion unless you are an art snob in which case we expect you to be able to pontificate on how the artist masturbating at age 12 resulted in that extra whisker on the cat in the top left corner. Sorry, not interested in snobs.
@V Arnold said:
I knew a university art professor: we were at an art showing (at his university) and I asked him, what is art?
His reply was: Art is whatever I say it is…
I thought that pretty well summed it up…“Art is whatever I say it is” is absolutely true. For example, I find the many trivial hand made things peasureable and I consider many to be art. I suspect most others would not agree, but that is the point: it’s personal: from musical instruments to toys to vases …
Consider the possibility that WEF wants to impose regime change on Russia. Without Russia the WEF’s new global government cannot control the world. With Russia they will control resources to the west and can also control China by controlling resources and food to China.
Putin has been hated in the west for some time and I suspect that a part of this is because he decided not to go along with the WEF agenda, did not go globalist, anti-nationalist, pro-woke etc. He is probably the one factor that has prevented all the other WEF politicians from setting up their global government.
Russia is the key and Putin is not playing along with the WEF agenda. In order to force regime change, the WEF needs to organise its own people within the Russian power structure, but also get their own people onto the streets protesting against war. Putin would be crazy not to lock those people up.
WEF needs Putin to go and I suspect that Putin knows it: this is about the survival of both Russia and Putin: he has skin in the game.
@kultsommer said:
Right of anybody to have an (uneducated) opinion about anything cheapens that field of human endeavour
You imply an uneducated opinion but retain the primary meaning of any opinion cheapens a field of endeavour. How can a positive (uneducated) opinion cheapen a field of endeavour? As with many art critics, much of what you say comes out the wrong end.
@Raul said:
Art is a journey, for both the artist and for their viewers. In the end, though, art is about the heart, not the brain.
It enriches our lives, how we receive those riches will differ, and some of those riches will not be appreciated as riches at all but as junk … such as Tracey Emin’s Bed. The great thing about art is that we are all entitled to appreciate it, or not appreciate it, in our own way, there is no right or wrong or way it should be done or any necessity to educate yourself with respect to art.
When I look at a Rembrandt portrait I very rarely get any emotional reward but I am in awe of his talent and often wonder about the painting process, such as how much time was spent on painting the clothing versus the face. His technical ability was incredible and his physical painting talent is a revelation of the craftsmanship of which humans are capable. It doesn’t do much for my heart.
@Oroboros said:
What upsets me about Ed Down and his follow hedge fund buddies is that his ‘revelation’ about the vaccines causing injury and death comes a year or so after anyone paying attention with the slightest curiosity figured it out.
They are only doing it now because their clients have given the all clear …. they have sold their Pfizer shares, have taken their profits and will not pay any of the injury costs … classic reason why modern markets will always encourage corporate corruption.
Of course, the system could be easily changed so that the share holders at the time of the offence were also liable, but then the elite criminal billionaires would not get so much corporate profit based on crime … nobody is interested in that.
@Red said:
“A planet ever more battered by climate change, one in which neither an American nor a Chinese “century” will have any meaning, will certainly need a newly empowered world order that can supersede national sovereignty to protect the most fundamental and transcendent of all human rights: survival.
Not the WEF global cooling/global warming/climate change fairy tale again. Was it the Davos crowd’s cut back on private jet/yacht/cars/jet skis etc carbon emissions that persuaded you? Maybe the Davos crowd selling off all their seaside properties persuaded you? The massive rise in seaside property insurance that persuaded you? Maybe it was the Davos crowd’s fleecing of the tax payer to fund new sources of energy provided by the Davos crowd that persuaded you?
The aversion to critical thinking is the problem, not climate.
@boscohorowitz said:
So, getting Huffy and all about it, thanx for all the fish but I’m very much done here.
Not another nappy change? You need to work on your oversensitivity, maybe some baby powder will do the trick.
@DBS Appologies for appearing disrespectful, I had no intention to do so. My point is that I read alot of similar claims in CEO literature, where the CEO is desperate to show that their company is on top of all the latest technological innovations. These CEO people will never understand anything about the technology even if you educate them for 100 years. Their goal is to appear to be ahead of the tech curve. I see the same talk in the WEF document and as a result it does not bother me because my experience is that most of this talk produces nothing and is discarded and forgotten when the trend moves onto the next big thing. I am more concerned about WEF taking existing Chinese populaiton control tech and applying it to the western ex-democracies.
I acknowledge that as technology constantly advances it becomes more and more scary. As biotech moves on we will probably end up killing ourselves through some incompetent biologist thinking he knows it all and releasing something accidentally infectious and dangerous. After all, in 10 years time every biologist will probably be able to create viruses in a lab in their home.
@DBS said:
https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF__Shaping_the_Future_of_Health_Council_Report.pdf
No disrespect but I am an engineer, the number of bullshit documents I have to put up with, such as the WEF documents, is the bain of my life. There is nothing frightening in that document, it is hopeless rhetoric, the sort of shit that CEOs eat up then spew out. The sort of document aimed at investors who pile into stocks that say they are into AI. It is pathetic. The WEF documents are standard cheap shite, only an amateur investor would take any notice.
Web services, blockchain, AI …. the number of technologies adopted by CEOs to promote their businesses because the market has jumped onto that bandwagon is endless. How many businesses have an AI project but know nothing about AI, or a blockchain project but actually know nothing about blockchain. It is pathetic.
CEOs are like chimpanzees peeling bananas: they know nothing, they operate on instinct. Marketing is everything and WEF is 99% marketing – just look at their people like Trudeau, Ardern etc, you are not looking at intellect, the future of intelligence. The WEF documents you linked are pathetic, sorry, just plain “Annual General Meeting” speak, so mean nothing.
@tony smyth said:
Nanotech found in Pfizer jab.
I find this fascinating, especially the idea of networking devices together throughout the human body. I have read some of the supposedly scientific papers and they seem like total bollocks to me, my training being in embedded systems engineering, so I feel I should be able to understand this concept, given that this is a form of embedded system. Maybe it is just too scientific for an engineer.
Power supply is what makes me doubtful. Passive devices, such as an RFID tag, have to be powered up by the reader which sends radio waves to the device’s antenna and then uses the received energy to transmit the ID signal back to the reader. The greater the distance, the more power is needed and the bigger the antenna. One foot max is typical in clear air, it will be much less through the body.
I have also read reports of vaccinated people transmitting ethernet MAC addresses as if on a network. MAC is the link layer protocol (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model#Layer_2:_Data_link_layer) which means that the nano devices would have to already e very sophisticated and the physical layer technology able to transmit using a considerable amount of energy. This I find very difficult to believe as the entire energy technology would have been hidden from the rest of us, despite it being a technology that would have made billions for the billionaires. If it can run a wifi network card it can basically run your mobile.
I have also read that graphene matrix (as shown in the images) is used to reinforce a basic material such as metal or ceramic to increase the strength of small devices – same as fibre reinforced concrete or glass fibre – and I have read that the matrix appears to be referred to as a network. I wonder if this is where this story came from?
I am keeping an open mind on this as I have had no exposure to nano devices so cannot be sure and maybe technology really has moved this far in the military sector without the rest of us being aware of it.
@boscohorowitz said:
As for mRna vakzines and saving lives: the one thing that they do of benefit is their short term ability to prevent covid from going ballistic in a person’s body. One pays considerable risk-price for this benefit, but that much about the vakzine is real.
Rubbish. All the other promises that came with the vaccines have proven to be lies, why believe this? Given their track record, you have to assume that this is also a lie. Why do they keep this claim? It looks like this is their desperate attempt to not have to admit that the vaccines do absolutely nothing for anyone. They would then have to explain why they paid so much money for something that doesn’t work and excluded all other solutions, again for something that does not work.
The “it reduces your suffering” line is the bulshit they need to not make themselves look like totally hopeless crooks. Australia paid for 10 shots per person, when do you think they are going to admit that that they signed such a stupid contract because the owners of big pharma promised to ensure that they will regain their seats at the next election?
Their track record and ease with which they lie and fiddle the numbers means that I would need rock solid proof of this claim before believing it: and not proof from the government health departments. Unless multiple independent studies are done by independent contrarian doctors across multiple continents which prove this to be the case, I will assume that this is yet another pick out of their bag of lies, like all the other nonsense we have been told about the vaccines which then turned out to be lies.
A minimum level of response needs to be maintained so that we have the ability to rapidly scale up and deal with future waves through pharmaceutical interventions rather than restrictions – as we did with Omicron.
Their answer is digital ID and “emergency” laws. They could just monitor the sewers to see when the next variant arrives, it would be incredibly more reliable and cheaper but no, they want to be able to control you and this is their excuse – “readiness for disaster” is their lie. The justification for genome sequencing will be the next thing to appear – a paper from Joe Bloggs saying that your risk is to different harmless variants depends on your genome – which will enable them to judge your faux risk (this zero versus that zero) and tell you to get another injection. Science is the new prison torturer.
We all know they are putting us in chains, but nobody seems to be working against this enslavement. Of course, it does not look so bad at the moment, but it will get very bad, believe me. The answer is to use technology to circumvent or corrupt their systems.
My very slim hope is that given the number of computer programmers on this earth, and that more and more are being driven to the dark web, those solutions will not be far away, but who knows. But the reality is that these countries need to be fixed by their military forces, the third world solution to the west’s third world problem – hyper-corruption expressing as political dictatorship.
@deflationista said:
This website is run by a bunch of lawyers, why do you believe lawyers more than a government? We all know how you hang on every word of the government as if they were Jesus himself. Is it because this is the Indian government and darkie governments are not as trustworthy as lawyers?
@deflationista said:
No shame is using a 6 year old disabled boy as a tool for your own anti-vax propaganda campaign.
Says the supporter of child vaccinations, a person who supports increasing of 40% in the rate of death amongst the pre-lifespan population, a person who cannot comprehend that people can be bad, that the west is in full-spectrum collapse. My suggestion is that you change your name to virtue delusionista.
@deflationista said:
Maybe you don’t realize how stupid you sound?
Ironic that such a contrarian should appeal to status to insult others.
What will be interesting to see is whether the Canadian system has any way of containing a runaway government, one determined to destroy the country and its constitution. Is Canada like the USA, totally at the mercy of the billionaires?
I am now starting to see the advantage of true nationalism that exists in third world countries where the military would step in, overthrow the government to defend the nation against external interests. Of course, the military soon gets bogged down in its own corruption, it is impossible to turn down the power of cash.
I do not expect such an event in Canada where the military are probably too busy playing video games and would not want to risk their pensions for their country.
Re: Rogan Maajid Nawaz and Rogan
The salient point missed by that clip is that these are “digital” IDs. A digital ID is very different to an ID: most countries give people IDs, whether social security number, national insurance number etc.
The difference between an ID and a digital ID is that the digital ID will be combined with millions of digital ID readers which can be used to control your every move. For example, to enter a restaurant you have to swipe your digital ID which will let the restauranteur know whether you are allowed to enter the restaurant.
How does it do this? The system keeps thousands of lines of data on each person and thousands of rules in a central database. It decides whether you can enter the restaurant by feeding your data (as identified by the number in your digital ID) into a few of the rules used for this type of restaurant. The rules make a decision based on your data and the result will be either yes or no. This is done in less than a millisecond. The rules can be expanded and changed as required: for example, one of the rules will force a YES for people with VIP=yes in their data so that they can get anything they want. But if your data contains VIP=no, then you do not get the assumed yes and the other rules will decide your fate.
The next stage is to implant your Digital ID chip into your hand. As you enter a restaurant a detector reads your chip and determines whether you can enter. If the answer is no then a your ID picture is flashed up to the patron who throws you out. Alternatively, the local police are informed and you are removed from the restaurant and thrown into the gulag.
I was part of the development team for a similar sort of system for airport baggage handling. The chips were in the baggage labels and the bags were routed to their destination by readers and actuators along the converyors. The readers could read the chips from the edge of the belt so there was no need to get too close to the baggage. The system could even identify which user owned which bag as well as where the bag should go. This was 30 years ago so I am sure the remote chip reading technology is now far superior.
@phoenixvoice said:
He is a narcissist and she had to conform to his image of who he expected her to be.
I believe that to be true, but what scares me most about billionaires is that they must be incredibly driven and driven for a reason: there must be something in their brains that makes them want to win at all costs, all costs meaning no compromise. To me that is scary, being with someone who would destroy you if you stood in his way, having no consideration for the joy of life, the features of humanity that make life worth living. Instead their only goal is success, whatever that means to them and why does it mean so much to them? What went wrong?
@Boscohorowitz I should be thanking you. I appreciate your commentary and dialogue which I read over breakfast here in Hong Kong.
