John Hjorth

Thank you for sharing, @Pelagic, That story reads to me personallly somewhat tragic [for the crew on that carrier] and pathetic. It seems those ships now just lay there on the waters outside the harbour of Tartous like some lame ducks, or rubber ducks. Mind provoking to me personally.

Yes, @Xerxes, And : Reuters [December 10th 2024] : Satellite imagery shows Russian navy ships anchored off Syrian coast. The least we should and would expect of the Russian navy to do, so there is no risk they end up on the wrong hands. What else do with those ships to make them useful and beneficial in the war with Ukraine?

His qualms should likely be directed at what he has already imposed of pain on his nearest family, combined with the pain, sorrow and hardship, he already has imposed on the nearest family of the victim of his doings, Brian Thompson. All, subject to, that he's indeed the culprit here.

It's a great analysis, @Xerxes, A near total disaster from the perspective of imperialistic Russia and Putin, a situation evolving quickly, and spinning totally out of his control, which he has been uanable to contain, isolate, handle and steer, because he is already in up to his gills on executing on his imperialistic thoughts, ambitions and dreams elsewhere [Ukraine], caused by he is by now and already maxed out on his warfare capacity. So much for the Russian 'superpower'. Pretty much everything he has done within the last almost three years now has been back-firing at him - dearly - with unintended and unforeseen consequences, negative ripple-effects etc. He will certainly end up in the history books not written yet, but not for what he would like, i.e. beeing a great war lord. Grandpa in his bunker has been a failure beyond repair. - - - o 0 o - - - Edit : Bloomberg - Politics [December 9th 2024] : Putin’s Syria Setback Threatens Key Russian Military Bases. Putin, <a few days ago> : 'Let's just bomb the crap out of these terrorists! ...' Putin, <during the weekend> : 'What??!!' Putin, <this monday> : [adressed at the socalled 'terrorists', called that just a few days ago] : 'We need to have some serious talks!'. - - - o 0 o - - - The entertainment value is pretty hard to match!

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I agree, @Dinar, Reuters [December 7th 2024] : Syrian rebels topple President Assad, prime minister calls for free elections. Likely he would go with his family to Iran or Russia, I don't think he is welcome elsewhere. He has three kids, likely must be youngsters by now. His wife Asma al-Assad is sick with leukemia diagnosed in May 2024. My guess would be Russia. Please note the information about the maneuvers of the plane after take off, which really don't exclude a plane crash, otherwise indicates a transponder shut-down.

Among scumbags certain very special rules rule. The first of the unwritten rules among such friends is that there aren't any. The second and secondary is that you never let a good friend left behind hanging. It's all about logic.

It's true, the one third of ones life, that nobody invests in, or think about, or care about!

I personally think the return of investing in MKL by now for some here on CoBF has to do with buying it at a price, that has turned out to be too steep, to get a satisfactory return. I consider it a 'special CoBF bias' here on CoBF.

Lars [ @Viking ], This is just so exceptional and outstanding!, - thank you for sharing it! Most of the prior years, for now a long time, I've at this time of the year started stressing and thinking about what to do that particular year for the income / calendar year, with regard to tax planning for the year. This year, I made the decisions and carried out the actions needed for 2024 in that respect in august 2024. So, more time available for reading at this time of the year than earlier years. This post by Crip [ @Crip1 ] hit me like a cub over my head with it's time for me personally to allocate more time and energy to Fairfax Financial Holdings now [, because it's likely a better fit to me personally now, than earlier - I really suck at trading around a stock] : I'll take notes and share them with you.

Blake [ @Blake Hampton ], Please don't forget to post again about your thoughts, when you have figured out how to execute on them, 5, 10, 15 and 20 years out into the future.

@gfp, I personally speculate perhaps @LC here is alluding to tax deferred funds of his related to employment, or historical employment, subject to investment limitations. I may be totally wrong here, and @LC can naturally respond for himself, btw.

Yes, @changegonnacome & Luke [ @Luke ], Listening to people trying to guess or to 'forecast' what the S&P500 will do in 2025 is a fool's errand and waste of time, because nobody knows.

Thank you, Luke [ @Luke ]!, This is certainly an interesting interview of Sergey Lavrov, to chew on, meticously in bites, over some days. I did not know he was able to speak English, his English is actually quite good. To me, it's a totally different experience - more 'direct', I would say, than experiencing him speaking Russian, combined with a translation. - - - o 0 o - - - YouTube : Anders Puck Nielsen [November 26th 2024] : What is a long-range missile? – The hysteria about ATACMS and Storm Shadow.

Thanks, Luke [ @Luke ], Much appreciated!

UNH - Press Release [December 4th 2024] : UnitedHealth Group Statement on Today’s Events. So much giving your life to the job?

That stat posted above by Luke [ @Luke ] is actually shocking and appalling. Luke [ @Luke ], what's the source?

Crazy stuff. Pure euthanasia. This will likely hit about every boardroom for any major US company, management security up for discussion.

Bloomberg - CityLab [December 3rd 2024] : Notre-Dame Reopens ‘More Beautiful Than Before’. There are some really stunning and beautiful photos included in this article, especially the first one of the nave, and those two photos taken from the same location and in same direction, one just post fire, the next after finished repair and renovation. Of the 840 million EUR donated, 500 million EUR came from the luxury sector, Pinault & Kering EUR 100 million, Arnualt & LVMH EUR 200 million, and Bettencourt family & L'Oreal EUR 200 million. CNN [April 16th 2019] : France’s 3 richest families lead $700 million fundraising effort for Notre Dame. According to this article French O&G company Total also donated EUR 100 million.

Interfax - Economy [December 2nd 2024] : The former assets of Carlsberg in the Russian Federation were withdrawn from the temporary government. I wonder what this really means. It's all over the place in Danish News Media now. No Press Release from Carlsberg about it, Somehow someone from Carlsberg has informed, that it's aware of the decree, too, and is chewing on it. First simply just stealing a beer brewery, and then delivering it back? Has somebody been drinking from the night pot? - Or too much vodka?

Thank you for sharing, @UK, At least for for LVMH, Babin is right and has a point, so far. And trees do not just continue to grow into the sky , -there are limits for growth in any sector. The growth in this sector the last decade or so has been quite high, on average. First time I recall having been listening to an interview with Jean-Christophe Babin. He appers basically optimistic, but still realistic, in the meaning, with a global brand, there is always something to do.

Reply - quite quick - by Oddbjørn : So, Stuart [ @Stuart D ] and @Grafter, All you have to do is what we always do : Wait, wait, wait ... , but then : Soon! Not so long time to Q1 2025. [The way Oddbjørn phrased himself made me look again in my records, and this time I found it : I ordered the book at amazon.com on 6th April 2022. So, the trick is to follow Oddbjørn on amazon, and you'll get notifications about what he is releasing when going forward.] Btw : He reads as a very pleasant and forthcoming person to me. I may hold him up on the invite one day - Oslo is a lovely city, in the opinion of both the Lady of the House and I.

Stuart [ @Stuart D ] & @Grafter , I have contacted Oddbjørn Dybvad today this morning by e-mail, asking where to get the book by now, because I haven't immedially been able to find the channel by which I received my copy, thinking it perhaps must have been in 2020. I don't remember it. It was not by one of my ordinary and normal channels, where I have access to historical records.

@Xerxes, I just read this topic for the first time. Your posting style in this forum is very meticulous, thank you very much for that. This topic now provides valuable links to three books on the overall and general matter at hand in this topic. May be worth ones time in the months a head, where days and nights are mainly darkness here up in the Northern part of Europe, without fully entering hypernation. Perhaps I should also here mention, that I personally does not find this stuff interesting with any particular purpose to maintain and nurse a personal grudge against any nationality or group of persons, perhaps some of them even still a live, about anything of what earlier generations may have made of mistakes, perhaps even major and serious mistakes, when so long time has passed sice those events occured. I doesen't make any sense - at all - to me, to judge anyone by what their parents, or even grand parents did, if one want to live and exist in peace with your neighbours, to get forward in the best way possible by cooperation, together. To me, this is about business history. In the Western World we have priciples for statutory limits of claims in the civil law and the criminal law. We also live by a priciple of responsibility and accountability, which means noboby can with justice blaim onyone else for anything, they haven't participated in or done.

@Grafter, What is your nationality? - Also Australian?