John Hjorth

To get this calculation right pre tax, you have to include withheld dividend taxes as withdrawals to the calculation. Counterintutitive, but so it is.

Great one, @Xerxes!, What do you do to take down a man who takes him self too seriously? You troll him and pull pranks on him, so he looses face. Twitter : Phillips O'Brien : Ukrainians openly trolling Russian navy . Twitter : How to pull a prank, saying "Who owns whose a**" [Normally, this phenomen is about cats, not dogs.]

Two weeks today since what I have called the coup d'état. Still no *real* [tangible / solid] information about what's going on inside Russia. I'm puzzled.

It would be nice to getting back to sharing facts.

Bloomberg [July 6th 2023] : Russia Gas Giant Warns of Sanctions Risk for Ukraine Energy Firm. This has the potential to turn really bad - for both Europe and Russia. I have mentioned the gas pipelines in Ukraine before upstream in this topic and their importance, everyone seem to skip or disregard this matter / issue. Gazprom PJSC CEO Alexei Miller has for long now looked like something dragged inside the house by the cat, when he has been seen in videos. I think nobody envies him his job. Really bad, when international trade gets messed up with geopolitics. Personally I speculate that this could evolve and escalate into something worse than last autumn and winter in the European gas markets.

ICPA - Eurojust. Now, just wait patiently and see how this initiative is going to play out.

Has anybody seen any tangible / solid information about the whereabouts of Yevgeny Prigozhin recently [in the last week]?

Ian Fleming did not know, that what he was "inventing" - making up and thinking up with the use of his imagination and fantasy in 1961 while finishing the manus to Thunderball introducing SPECTRE would end up later to become quite similar to the playbook of Wagner PMC. All, from Russia with love. A tapeworm, but the logo is clearly an Octopus. It's deeply concerning.

Awesome, thank you for sharing, @Spekulatius, Purpose plausible deniability, and in this week we've got videos on Twitter, where Putin is putting numbers on the "chef" activities, and PMC activities, drowned somewhere in the Russian state budget. I only find it a bit amusing, because I've not been contributing to it. The man is simply loosing it.

@gfp, Damn good humor! If I had a like button to press, I'd press on it!

@Saluki, I have to say, you're just my kind guy! Yes, it could be a lot worse, including "Wein, weib und gesang", also ref. Charles Mungers comments about leverage, liquor and ladies. I think it's called being a bookworm.

@Xerxes, I curse you [J/K], now I need to buy that book, too! - - - o 0 o - - - Since the war started last year I have been wondering what has happened to that enormous combination of a gas station and construction work in progress called Gazprom and its financing, because there is a lot [many billions of USD] of western financing on the ongoing pipeline constructions. Are these debt obligations being served or what?

There is already a strong reaction from the Baltic states related to the presence of Russian nuclear warheads in Belarus, combined with information of the presence of Jevgenij Prigozjin in Belarus, too. It's for sure concerning.

I ordered the 7th Edition a few days ago, based on what I have read about it on Twitter and Substack.

Thank you, @gfp, I looked it up after your post confimed the connection : Wikipedia : J. B. Pritzker & Wikipedia : Pritzker family. I personally think there's a lot of truth to that speech. It seems impossible to build a civilized society based on law and order by the use of simple and primitive cruelty, suppressing basic human rights, especially if the population does not care about it, and let everything pass, ref. above. Christ, what a Hellhole Russia has become.

Is this Prizker a member of the family that sold Marmon to Berkshire? Anyways : Here about how to spot an idiot, the relation between idiocy and cruelty, vs. idiocy and kindness, idiots ability even to become elected President etc. Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker’s “How To Spot An Idiot” at a Northwestern’s graduation.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lars-christensen-422793_i-går-talte-jeg-med-god-russisk-ven-han-activity-7079346670341091328-Y6ka?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop Translation from Danish to English : "Yesterday I spoke with good Russian friend. He said something very important to me about the situation in Russia: "Never underestimate the Russians' willingness to deceive themselves". The words fell as we talked about the events of the weekend and how the Russian people would react to them. We agreed that the events have weakened Putin's reputation among the Russian population and my Russian friend was articularly surprised by how many people had spontaneously taken to the streets of Rostov and cheered Wagner's entry into the city. But when we talked about what happens next and how the population would react, we agreed on what I have often said - namely that the Russians will not take to the streets against Putin, but they will not take to the streets for Putin either . Russia is NOT headed for a civil war in the sense that large parts of the population will join a rebellion. What Russia may be heading for is repeated coup attempts, where different parts of the power structure will go to war with each other. But the population will continue to tell themselves that everything is "normal". "Never underestimate the Russians' willingness to deceive themselves" - tells everything about what decades - or rather centuries of dictatorship do to a population's ability to think independently. In totalitarian regimes, not thinking about politics becomes a way of survival. PS for natural reasons I can't share my friend's name. But he is not in Russia anymore. In fact, virtually none of my Russian friends or acquaintances are. Those who can still think are long gone. They will not give up thinking independently, and then they cannot live in Russia." - - - o 0 o - - - I personally think there is lot to the above. And thinking about it in that way is really depressing.

Todays daily dose - naturally : "DAY TRADER : n., See IDIOT." Warning! : This book is straight out dangerous!

I don't know, @Dinar, I still have a feeling that we are only observing the top of the iceberg. Would I trust any of those two men who were primary actors over the weekend? No, certainly not. I consider them both thugs and criminals. They both have blood not only on their hands, but all over themselves, they both don't give a damn how many lives of young Russian or Ukrainian men are lost in this madness. Remember the sledgehammer video? I did not read an amnesty to Yevgeny Prigozhin in the subtitles, more the opposite, I think [, but does that even matter anything?]. - - - o 0 o - - - Do you consider the translation OK here, @Dinar? Thank you. - - - o 0 o - - - Aleksandr Lukasjenko has postponed his speech to tomorrow.

For entertaiment, the video clip from the episode in the weekend with English text translation.

The book arrived today. What @HubbadaPow described above about how one relates to this book is quite precise. It's a gem. Here is just one short example : "IDIOT : n., See DAY TRADER."

Personally, I think it's fair to say, that what @Viking has posted just above related to the similar last post by @Gregmal has - not only some - but a lot of merit. It is about North America not in any way being dependent on energy sourcing from Russia, while it in the past [long term and short term] has been totally different for Europe. Please feel free here to send your rotten tomatoes and eggs my way. So much for being - in the first place - naive - later - naive and dumb. The change to get this right for the long haul going forward for Europe - is - by its inherent logic and its nature - quite brutal for about every European citizen, exactly as brutal as it is for Russia.

@Xerxes, I think we should stay careful not to oversimplify things here. The below explanation compared to yours above seems to me to be just a bit more granular here, and with shades and nuances :