Toepoke Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 Reading that Times article yesterday it appears the UK's preparation for a pandemic included plans to bulk buy PPE from China. Which is fine as long as China doesn't suffer an outbreak first. D'oh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thplinth Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 (edited) Have a look for yourself. Link I can (theoretically) buy a barrel of oil right now and someone will pay me just shy of $37 to 'buy' it. This is bullshit folks. Be interesting to see how the petrol stations find a reason not to give you 50 quid every time you go for a fill up. Edited April 20, 2020 by thplinth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thplinth Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 19 minutes ago, Dave78 said: There's a brilliant documentary called 'American Factory' on Netflix. It follows the takeover of an American car windshield factory by Chinese owners, over a period of about 10 years. You should have a look. That was my thoughts after watching it. Can't even begin to compete with the Chinese. Cheers man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phart Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 29 minutes ago, thplinth said: Fuck things are really going to go mental now. This is really, really bad. lol. (what can you do! this is insanity stuff, negative interest rates, negative price for a barrel of oil.) It is like we are approaching a singularity type event of false machinations. At this point I think this whole shit storm has been totally orchestrated. I think we are maybe seeing the Sampson Option being enacted. Israel using nukes to get what they want? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thplinth Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 2 minutes ago, phart said: Israel using nukes to get what they want? Israel Nukes? I understand the confusion but I was thinking the strategy of bringing the house down on top of your heads as a relative victory. Thought that was clear from context. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phart Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 Just now, thplinth said: Israel Nukes? I understand the confusion but I was thinking the strategy of bringing the house down on top of your heads as a relative victory. Thought that was clear from context. I didn't realise it had a general meaning, I thought it was a specific reference to the book of the same name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thplinth Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 Why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phart Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 (edited) 14 minutes ago, thplinth said: Why? Cause the Samson Option is a name of a specific military tactic and isn't used anywhere else for the name of something else.(to my knowledge). I didn't realise that it is also used as "the strategy of bringing the house down on top of your heads as a relative victory" and even when i try and google that meaning it's not coming up. EDIT: Just read the biblical Samson biography and he pushed over pillars to kill everyone and himself. Never heard of that before. Edited April 20, 2020 by phart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phart Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 So who's enabling this strategy and why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thplinth Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 Sampson? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally Bongo Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 (edited) 13 minutes ago, phart said: EDIT: Just read the biblical Samson biography and he pushed over pillars to kill everyone and himself. Never heard of that before. Seriously ? Samson and Delilah film with Victor Mature ? Edited April 20, 2020 by Ally Bongo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thplinth Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 16 minutes ago, phart said: Cause the Samson Option is a name of a specific military tactic and isn't used anywhere else for the name of something else.(to my knowledge). I didn't realise that it is also used as "the strategy of bringing the house down on top of your heads as a relative victory" and even when i try and google that meaning it's not coming up. EDIT: Just read the biblical Samson biography and he pushed over pillars to kill everyone and himself. Never heard of that before. I am pretty sure they stole that whole sampson strategy from him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slasher Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 1 minute ago, thplinth said: I am pretty sure they stole that whole sampson strategy from him. I thought u were talking about the Israeli nuclear strategy as well 🤷♂️ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phart Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 I had heard of the cutting the hair with Delilah never heard how he got tortured so brought a building down on him and his captors. You guys are older than me though so maybe the old testament was taught in modern studies back then 😛 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaid Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 2 minutes ago, phart said: I had heard of the cutting the hair with Delilah never heard how he got tortured so brought a building down on him and his captors. You guys are older than me though so maybe the old testament was taught in modern studies back then 😛 Sunday school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phart Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 Just now, aaid said: Sunday school. I went to something called the good news club when i was a child but I can only remember New Testament stuff, it ran during the summer I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macy37 Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 Something smells about Boris’s vanishing act. Drink problem, all too much for him and he’s been hidden away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ger intae them Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 Fair play Macy....... you’ve been on it from the start and I thought it was more how you wanted it to be..... but now I’m thinking you might be onto something. He was apparently running the country from his bed when he initially had it.... now he’s ‘recovering’ you don’t hear a peep from him. Suss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lobey Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 (edited) Here's a turn up for the books that I don't see getting much air time on the news here - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-19/oil-drops-to-18-year-low-on-global-demand-crunch-storage-woes Oil is in theory now worth negative amounts of money - that has far more economic consequences than Gov's printing money . Makes US behaviour in the near future very unpredictable I think. Edit - BBC picking up on it now - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52350082 d'oh and I see Hampden Loon picked up on it a page ago as well.... Edited April 20, 2020 by Lobey added link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beardy Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 https://mobile.twitter.com/jdpoc/status/1251185888434028545 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lobey Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 Rich eejit forgets code for his "Pandemic" bunker in New Zealand - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-19/-we-needed-to-go-rich-americans-activate-pandemic-escape-plans Douglas Adams wasn't writing fiction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty CTA Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 6 hours ago, thplinth said: At this point I think this whole shit storm has been totally orchestrated. All crises are manufactured and controlled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macy37 Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 https://off-guardian.org/2020/04/20/coronavirus-lockdown-and-what-you-are-not-being-told-part-2/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phart Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 (edited) 9 hours ago, beardy said: https://mobile.twitter.com/jdpoc/status/1251185888434028545 That's crazy the same dude linked the stuff later i linked earlier on about the astroturfing. A total propaganda campaign being ran in the background. The good and the bad of the net all in one shitshow. https://mobile.twitter.com/DHSCgovuk/status/1252342364644929536 Edited April 21, 2020 by phart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaid Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 53 minutes ago, phart said: That's crazy the same dude linked the stuff later i linked earlier on about the astroturfing. A total propaganda campaign being ran in the background. The good and the bad of the net all in one shitshow. https://mobile.twitter.com/DHSCgovuk/status/1252342364644929536 All governments get up to questionable things, usually policies based on their own ideology. This government does seem Tom RB particularly venal though, particularly in how they go about things. I see Dominic Cummings an unnamed Downing Street source has been knifing Matt Hancock in the back this morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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