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So just to be clear, when you say the " the US is stealing oil " do you mean the US government or specific oil US companies ? I am glad you can confirm this because this is an important story that we should discuss. Can you also provide the links that corroborate this?

I must say that volo and hurlshot do have similar views so that is no surprise, thanks for confirming my suspicions Shady

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-riot-hugging-and-kissing_n_605d4982c5b67593e057266d I know posting Trumps outrageous comments are outdated and hackneyed but this one I couldnt resist So according to Trump the rioters on 6 January were actually " hugging and kissing cops " To quote from the link above " It was zero threat, right from the start... Some of them went in, and they are hugging and kissing the police and the guards... a lot of the people were waved in, and then they walked in and they walked out" Hugging and kissing the police in an event that people died, its hard to think this was the former US president

Apparently our next wave is imminent and since we basically have no vaccines its advisable to not go out soooooo....its the weekend and I am treating myself to a mini-pork belly with mash for dinner During this invidious lockdown I get by on the small pleasures in life....thank goodness for mini-pork belly !!!

Well I am not sure the Biden interview was that bad. We all know he is at an older age and comes across in a more " reserved " way so I didnt see anything out of the ordinary But his age doesnt seem to concern most of the media that much ... why are people like the beautiful Kaitlan Collins (CNN WH Correspondant ) asking him " are you going to run in the next election" !!! WTF.....what kind of question is that, I am just worried he will last to the end of this term and I mean that in empathetic way. I would be very concerned if he has another 4 years

I thought I was Oby?

What happened to Oby? I miss him, didnt you say you knew him from some online game or something similar ?

Bartie I never would have thought you would be involved in such an act of depraved criminality....I imagine the Mexican Cartels will be recruiting you soon!! But I think you will be fine. Short of trespassing, if it can be considered that , I cannot see how you broke the law ?

Their is a massive difference in the definition of the words " looting " and "modernize " But saying all that if a USA oil company decides to invest in the Syrian oil resources thats their choice. I cant see that happening considering the fact Syria is a complete economic disaster with most of the country destroyed by Assads refusal to give all his citizens equal economic rights and opportunities So why would any private sector company want to invest now in Syria ? But good luck to them if they want to

The USA is the worlds biggest producer of oil nowadays due to fracking and has been for several years, so it doesnt need to bomb any country because of oil. Back to the drawing board my friend because this is no longer a valid reason for the USA to intervene militarily in any country https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2020/09/29/did-the-us-become-the-worlds-top-oil-producer-under-president-trump/?sh=2d38a82320dd

Pidesco you have raised an interesting point and one that has often confused me. I know you Portuguese so maybe you cant answer this but why do Nordic people hate dolphins and whales and like killing them in barbaric ways ? http://greenplanetethics.com/dolphin-killing-in-denmark-faroe-islands/#:~:text=Dolphin killing in Denmark is a ritual requirement,watch the ritual slaughter of the Calderon Dolphins. https://us.whales.org/our-4-goals/stop-whaling/whaling-in-norway/ I consider the Nordic countries bastions of human rights and fairness so this behavior surprises me ? I support hunting in SA but its only done during hunting season and when their is going to be culling of animals like buck and elephant anyway . Also you pay big money to hunt in SA so international hunters help pay for the upkeep and sustainability of our game reserves

Gorthfuscious I wonder what that Wizards of the Coast game that studio is working on? It must be D&D based ?

Im disappointed Hoonding, all these years I have been on this forum and debating and you think I am racist ? You very naughty but its okay I forgive you because you make me laugh

Yes but some of these ass twerking ladies are really hot....like Cardi B and Nicki Minaj So lets make sure we keep funding these initiatives as part of arts and culture spending, they very important and if they need socialist funding I support it. Just stay away from unreasonable interference in the private sector and more important governments over regulation in the financial sector

Interesting questions, I have no idea how valid they are so it will be interesting to get comments from our Nordic members But do you have an issue with any country restricting immigration? I dont because I live in a country where illegal immigration has reach a crisis and our government has failed to do anything meaningful about it and it is has hurt our economy and created unnecessary tension on the ground between SA citizens and illegal foreigners. SA is now seen as a " Xenophobic and Afriphobic " country by certain other African countries and its not Also I have no issue with the banning of foreign funding for mosques, I support the domestic funding of mosques but the issue with foreign funding is that it can lead to ideological influence that is not aligned to the culture and value system of the country where the actual funding is directed

Fair enough, I had started my 10 year break from gaming during that time till 2006 so I didnt play games like BG until much later so I have no real institutional memory of the state of gaming when BG was released

These types of stories really annoy me. When people decide to be selective about things like poverty and offensive comments and decide " if you white you automatically come from privlidege and cant say you understand poverty or say you live in poverty " or how " only white people can say racist things " I hope this story is somehow wrong because all relief should be allocated based on your actual income reality and not your race The good news is the 2 Trillion dollar stimulus is not based on race but on peoples economic reality. So this may be something specific to Oakland ?

You nitpicking now, you know very well that Serbia wants to join the EU and is basically in negotiations and has been for years. The point being its not part of the failed Russian block that the likes of Belarus are part of and it could join the Russian block anytime it wants

I watched the entire video because I wanted to see if it was another example of more " Bioware Bashing " or a genuine critique based on objective facts and the reality of their games. It was both but overall interesting Things I found questionable were in the beginning he says " BG credited for saving the RPG genre", really ? I was always under the impression that the 1999's was the heyday of RPG and BG was just another example of an excellent RPG. But I dont want to be fastidious over 1 point he made He did keep repeating how many people left Bioware which I found tiresome and he did put some blame on EA for this. But I am glad that most ex-Bioware employees are now part of 3 companies, I am excited about the Wizards of the Coast company And finally its only fair if you want to critique games like ME Andromeda you play the latest updated version and not base your final assessment on its problematic release. I played Andromeda last year and it was rock solid, I dont think had 1 bug or crash....seriously not 1 and I used several Mods But not a bad video and I learnt some exciting new things like the 3 new development studios

I always get surprised when I hear how companies respond to Corona and how despite the virus being with us for over 1 year it seems many companies still dont understand how the virus spreads Its the same in SA, we use to implement these deep cleans at every school or company if their was 1 case of the virus and everyone would go home for 2 weeks and then you can go back to school or the office if you have no symptoms This approach ignores how the virus is primarily spread by people and through droplets that float in the air. Asymptomatic people dont have symptoms so the only effective way to let people go back to work after exposure is wait for your incubation period to pass, 2-10 days, and then test anyone going back to work with quick test methods where you get the result back in 1 day

You making lots of assumptions and speculating Zora, I understand you dont like the EU but you have to move on from the days of Serbia being bombed for its belligerence ....and anyway that was the USA that was involved in those punitive military strikes Remember Serbia is part of the EU now, even they didnt decide to join Mother Russia despite the unfortunate time after the collapse of the USSR with the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo Dont be a hater. The EU is your friend and despite all your predictions of its imminent collapse( and you keep bringing up Gromnirs mispredictions around the 6 month collapse of Russia) the EU is still here and will continue to be here tomorrow

What??? You should have told me? Churchill is one of my heroes, I cant say I am expert on his quotes but I can always pretend to know them ...next time just PM me before

But Gfted1 despite all these so called benefits you dont want to be associated with problematic socialist and Communist policies "Better dead than red " ....never forget that Remember people want the USA to go socialist so when its fails they can gloat because somehow this will make them feel better about inequality but that will just become worse ...not better Dont fall for it and allow yourself to be manipulated !!!!!!

In South Africa the Halaal Consumer Council has been given the legal right to change how Hot Cross Buns are produced within specific communities, they removing the cross and using a moon and star instead. They will be called "Talibuns "

This is good news for Serbia and the world as we have shortage of vaccines, I assume you just producing them but you dont have the IP for how they are created? Like India at the moment