Stevenski Hallard Sr Esq OBE
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Stevenski Hallard Sr Esq OBE
@SteveHallSEO
Distracted by sports, science, and newss
Right coast USA Katılım Temmuz 2014
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@konstructivizm Is anyone here like really knowledgeable in the telescopes used to take these photos?
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@result_race Two separate incidents at the same corner at the same time.
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Colapinto on lap 17, 18, 19, 20, 21: Racing line it is!
Colapinto on lap 22: Why follow the racing line when you've got someone closing in much faster? Let's go wide!

Arnout de Ruyter 🏴☠️@ArnoutdeRuyter
Colapinto forced Ollie off the track by going off the racing line… Not cool. Hope Ollie is fine.
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@TheOfficialMyk @RBR_Daily If he's that down on power, he has even less reason to move. Not close to the edge of adhesion, not the straightest line to the next corner. It was a misjudged defensive move.
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@SteveHallSEO @RBR_Daily But thats how Spoon is driven after the "straight". You go right and before spoon you go just a little left-right to get the car into a better exit from Spoon. The problem here is that the other car was 45kmh faster than the Alpine you get no reaction to that
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@TheOfficialMyk @RBR_Daily Diving to the inside 150m from the corner is the opposite of the racing line.
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@SteveHallSEO @RBR_Daily That's the racing line there, they go abit to the middle-right then back to the kerb before the turn. It looks like a massive superclipping speed difference out of nowhere. These regs are gonna get someone really hurt. Hope Ollie is fine
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@ontreylie Yep, they're blaming harvesting, which has nothing to do with sweeping across the track the wrong direction to block.
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@scdlcaramia @shanaka86 @pensiveamerican Turn on Terrain in Google Maps here and there's a natural little spot a tiny bit South of your line which could connect two bays from each side with just a little excavation, plus whatever dredging is required for such large vessles.
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Buried in Iran’s five-point counterproposal to Trump’s 15-point peace plan is the single most consequential sentence of the entire war.
Iran’s fifth ceasefire condition, via Press TV citing a senior political-security official:
“Iran’s exercise of sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz is and will remain Iran’s natural and legal right, and it constitutes a guarantee for the implementation of the other party’s commitments, and must be recognized.”
Read that again slowly.
Iran is not asking for sanctions relief. It is not asking for reconstruction funds. It is demanding that the international community formally recognize Iranian sovereignty over the waterway through which one-fifth of the world’s oil, one-fifth of its LNG, and one-third of its helium must transit.
If any version of this condition survives into a ceasefire, the IRGC toll regime at Hormuz becomes permanent. Not as an ad hoc wartime measure. As an internationally recognized sovereign right.
Iran’s parliament is already drafting the legislation. MP Mohammadreza Rezaei Kouchi told Iranian media: “We provide its security, and it is natural that ships and oil tankers should pay such fees.” The bill is in the Civil Affairs Committee. Bloomberg reported it could be finalized within a week.
Iran has signed but never ratified UNCLOS. Its 1993 domestic law requires prior authorization for warships and hazardous cargo transiting the strait. Some legal scholars characterize Iran as a “persistent objector” to the transit passage regime. The US maintains transit passage is customary international law. The legal question is unresolved. The physical question is not: Iran controls the northern shore and is enforcing a selective corridor at the point of a gun.
GCC Secretary General al-Budaiwi called it “an aggression and a violation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea” on March 26.
He is correct on the law. He may be irrelevant on the outcome.
The Suez precedent: Nasser nationalized in 1956. Reopened under Egyptian control in 1957. Excluded British pounds and French francs from the toll. The Suez Canal Authority has collected tolls in its chosen currencies for nearly seven decades. Crisis lasted months. Architecture lasted forever.
Trump’s energy strike deadline is April 6. If the toll survives the war, the dollar loses its first chokepoint.
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

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@sharilynk @SaveStandard @GASenatePress In a nutshell…Dick & Jane will go to school in the dark so Dad can play golf after work
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We consider NASCAR's crown jewels the Daytona 500, Coca-Cola 600, Brickyard 400, & Southern 500. What would be the 5th?
866-PIT-LANE
@SiriusXMNASCAR
#TMDNASCAR
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@HQNewsNow Interesting. Let's ask the people who debated, wrote and signed it what they meant by "declare war", shall we? 🕵️♂️

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@JoshuaBarzon DST is for rich lazy people who don't have to get up early or work outside.
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@TripleNetTyler DST is for rich people who don't have to work early or outside.
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@nothyphenated @NAFORaccoon Says an account in India.
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@NAFORaccoon I don’t think this is true
Retired American fighter pilots are expressly forbidden to fly/teach any foreign air force without case-by-case special dispensation. This is rarely given. Penalties are heavy
Same would be true for NATO countries, I think
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The increased number of F-16 sightings over Ukraine is explained below 👇
“New international F-16 fighter jet squadron staffed by Ukrainian, US and Dutch pilots has been assembled in Ukraine” — Intelligence Online
Western pilots, working under temporary contracts, are helping Ukrainian pilots master the aircraft's technical advantages
Under the umbrella of the Ukrainian Air Force, the international F-16 squadron was assembled in recent weeks for rapid deployment and is now playing a central role in Kyiv Oblast air defence during russian drone and missile attacks
Western veterans serve on renewable six-month contracts & rotations
They focus on night patrols, rapid interception, and advanced sensor use, especially the Lockheed Martin Sniper targeting pod, bringing expertise Ukraine previously lacked due to limited long-term training
The unit helps repel near-daily attacks, intercepting Kalibr and Kh-101 missiles, Geran-5 drones, and other aerial threats.

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Here's my preliminary analysis for this weekend's snowstorm over North Carolina.
This storm will be one for the record books in a lot of NC.
Hopefully, I'll be able to find some time later this week to look at South Carolina.
Thanks for all the reports everyone
#ncwx

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My eyes are very bad, I can't drive due to it. Taking Uber/cabs to work, I've noticed something. Over time, Uber will raise the price if they reason that you *must* go to a place. That you rely on them. From $9.50avg to $23avg within 6 months.
I wrote a small program to
- Create new uber account
- Create new proxy credit card
- Request ride to given destination from current
Back down to $9.50 avg. Tech companies are so comically evil that it's transcended unfunny.
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@music2hxx -99 because the order of operations dictates multiplication first, followed by left-to-right.
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My Venezuela experience as head of trading in the region for Cargill.
Cargill was/is the leading producer of critical staple ingredients such as flour, pasta, vegetable oil, and rice in VZ. I am not saying I agree with grabbing the dictator, but I did have a front row seat to the damage a kleptocracy did to innocent people.
1. The government took over our "minute rice" facility at gunpoint because we were "gouging" the nation's poor. The government was never able to run the plant. It never ran again. It was returned years later with no equipment inside
2. There are 1000's of generals in the army. They are each given a slice of the economy to loot. The large number of generals made it difficult to organize a coup against the regime.
3. The government opened grocery stores and sold staples below the cost we sold them to the government. In theory they used petro oil money to lower grocery prices. Our regular grocery outlets were forced out of business. When the government demanded we sell them products below cost we simply had to shut down. The populous became ever more dependent on the government handouts. (PS this is the mayor of New York City's proposal.
4. Dollars- We needed dollars to go buy raw materials like wheat from places like the US and Canada. The government would periodically allocate us some dollars that could only be spent for raw materials and freight. Eventually only the local companies that can and would pay bribes got dollar allocations. We had several facilities closed for lack of raw material
5. My employees liked working for Cargill. The office was an armed compound with access to a gym, high speed internet, global communications, and a weekly box of basic staples. Cargill provided a safe and secure environment if only for the working hours.
6. Employees became very close to others inside the apartment building. Going out on the street with a desperate population was not advisable.
7. I needed wood pallets for feed. We tried to export wood pallets to swap for grain. We refused to pay the bribes it would take to export the pallets
8. I once tried to set up a closed loop wheat planting to flour mill supply chain. A. They came and stole all the seed wheat for food. When we tried to ship in seed wheat in containers via US donors there was no way to get it out of the port without it being stolen
9. Livestock- Our feed business completely collapsed. Even if you could raise a pig, you couldn't defend it from being stolen. People with guns were hungry.
10. Employees- In the end my highly skilled team alone with other highly educated people chose to leave. Cargill often found jobs for them in other Latin countries. The regime was more than happy to see the well-educated leave the country. Setting these employees up with high quality stable jobs after fleeing remains one of the best things I ever did in my career. No one remembers millions in trading earnings.
This is a short list. In my opinion the first money spent needs to happen now and it needs to be food. The US is already on the clock. The current regime does not care if it starves the population. The orgy of theft will actually accelerate if they believe their days are numbered. VZ should be an outstanding customer of US grown ag products. Rice, bread wheat, veg oil ect. Feed the people first.
Jeff Kazin
Former head trading Cargill
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