Some fun up at G’ma and Pappap coldwarrior’s house today
and then there were steaks. and beer. and cigars. no karens or those easily offended were hurt in the production of this video or the feeding of the crew thereafter.
yep.
Fun with chain saws, winches, ropes, wedges….open.
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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
timber. bitches.
why did they have to take the tree down?
@ eaglesoars:
look at it.
its been hit by lightning 3 times, limbs blown off in tstorms. it did become a liability
it was frankentree.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/science-two-female-prisoners-womens-prison-become-pregnant-sex-transgender-inmates/
immaculate….n’at
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/facing-global-coup-involves-civil-society-church-archbishop-carlo-maria-vigano/
hey, aussie…
coldwarrior wrote:
poor tree. I’ve had to take out 2 and I hated it.
@ eaglesoars:
the large trunk goes to the amish and comes back as outside furniture.
the rest is mulch for the hillside and flower beds.
no waste.
Another great podcast. Jack Carr sits down with Jason Kasper, another former SOF operator-turned-author. Kasper is the author of three different thriller series (so far): American Mercenary, Enemies of My Country and Spider Heist. Along with the usual discussion of his military career, Kasper also spends a good bit of time talking about his experiences with PTSD and cutting edge treatments for it:
coldwarrior wrote:
That’s not how it works folks. That’s not how any of this works.
/Good grief our society has just gone brain-dead stupid. That meme, “I don’t know when the UFO stopped and dropped off all the stupid people, but it’s clear they aren’t coming back for them” applies here.
Wow
coldwarrior wrote:
That comment about leadership being in position to destroy the institutions (both secular and religious) rings absolutely true. If you were the Biden handlers, what would you do differently than what they are doing and have done to try to destroy the United States?
eaglesoars wrote:
… and you live in a place with lots of trees. Imagine how traumatizing that is to those of us who live in places like AZ
@ eaglesoars:
Hey Eagles. Anything further on whether the Moskva is still afloat, or a new reef off the Black Sea North Coast?
@ lobo91:
Will listen to it tonight. SoF junkie.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
There was a twitter thread that the Russians were getting too close to the coastlines with their ships. And a video of the defenders launching missiles at them.
coldwarrior wrote:
I am always ordering Amish baskets (they make great gifts) and the buffet I ordered for the kitchen is from a place here called Amish Elegance. Everything Amish made. The best quality and really beautiful
AZfederalist wrote:
I believe Obama wants this and initiated it. And placed his flunkies in power under Biden. IF there is a GOP sweep in 2024 then the gloves have to come off. The weeds need to be pulled by the root.
coldwarrior wrote:
Thanks mate. I always enjoy Vigano in full flight!
Will read it later. The lawns await as son, daughter in law and treasured grandson arrive tomorrow. Mrs. AI is still visiting in Melbourne. Have to get in some fresh food and make some bread, wash the sheet, vacuum the floors and take the daughter’s pup for a walk on the beach. The pooch and I have been keeping each other company down at the beach, these last few weeks. 🙂
Project Veritas on the Megyn Kelly show today. She lays out the corrupt issues pretty well. He still is a little focused on hyperbolic sizzle in his words. She brought some substance to the crimes against him.
@ darkwords:
The only known ‘thing’ is that the ship is damaged. Whether it hit a mine, a missile got it or there was an explosion on the ship, no one knows for sure. All reports conflict, whether the crew was evac’d, blah blah blah. Some reports say it sank. At any rate, it is the flag ship of the Black Sea fleet, so not good news for Putin.
darkwords wrote:
You guys are living through Obama’s THIRD term!
… and it shows!
I’m tired. Off to read. nite.
darkwords wrote:
He had an interesting career. Enlisted on a Ranger contract at 17, the summer before 9/11. Went to 3rd Ranger Battalion and did two deployments with them, then went to West Point Prep, followed by the academy. Graduated, got his commission, and was a platoon leader in the 82nd, where he did his third deployment. Then SF selection and training, followed by two deployments as an ODA team leader.
He left the military in late 2016, and has since published 14 novels in three different series (and one stand alone), and has two more set for release this year.
@ AZfederalist:
that’s ‘up north’ at g’ma and papap coldwarriors.
it smells great now tho, pine…
darkwords wrote:
Well I was wondering where the Ukraine’s Heavy Anti-Ship Neptune Cruise Missile Division was hiding? There was a ‘Division’ of Neptunes located near Odessa. There were reports that the 6 launchers had ‘one ready missile’ each on the launch rail with 5 reloads each. Nominally the ORBAT calls for 6x launchers per ‘Division’ with a total of 72 cruise missiles. It appeared that this particular unit had a half supply of reloads.
I wondered where they have been hiding as the Black Sea Fleet was immediately ‘in range’ as soon as the Moskva and the 6x Logistics and assault carriers from the Northern Fleet steamed West of the Crimea. There were reports that at least of two of these LSH carriers were within 2-7 miles (Km?) offshore. at anchor/ Amazing??
Lawns, bake bread, vacuum floors wash sheets…. It’s all go here! Later!
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
You are not wrong there. Valerie Jarrett’s paw prints are all over this
I haven’t watched but thought it might be worth posting
Global Research – who owns the world?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-monopoly-who-owns-world/5765622
lashing rain – I love it. Windows open. Had all the carpet/rugs cleaned today, the house smells wonderful. The heathen beagles spent hours running in the yard, they’re blissfully trashed.
Whatever happened to The Moskva, Putin ain’t happy.
back to my spy novel and a deep sleep
coldwarrior wrote:
Woodland wenches.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
https://news.usni.org/2022/04/13/russian-navy-confirms-severe-damage-to-black-sea-cruiser-moskva-crew-abandoned-ship
Looks like Elon is actually going for the hostile takeover.
https://hotair.com/headlines/2022/04/14/auto-draft-520-n462273
@ eaglesoars:
Woot
@ coldwarrior:
Yeah, this isn’t about JUST free speech either. Elon is pissed and I don’t know if he understands what he’s up against. ‘The Regime’ can’t tolerate free speech. I expect Tesla, SpaceX, all of it to be threatened somehow.
And where is he getting this cash?
Can twitter be fixed? It’s corrupt right down to the security guard at the fire exit. Is he willing to burn it to the ground and rebuild?
@ eaglesoars:
This will be fun to watch
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/best-and-final-offer-elon-musk-offers-buy-twitter-5420-share
Interesting nuts n bolts read
coldwarrior wrote:
The narrative begins to take shape
The world’s richest man — someone who used to be compared to Marvel’s Iron Man — is increasingly behaving like a movie supervillain, commanding seemingly unlimited resources with which to finance his mischief-making.
https://twitter.com/axios/status/1514610430194315274
Trump must never be allowed back on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1514612592026681347
Today on Twitter feels like the last evening in a Berlin nightclub at the twilight of Weimar Germany.
https://twitter.com/jeffjarvis/status/1514578609754812419
Elon, get food taster
The totalitarian punk passing as a foreign relations expert
I am frightened by the impact on society and politics if Elon Musk acquires Twitter. He seems to believe that on social media anything goes. For democracy to survive, we need more content moderation, not less.
https://twitter.com/MaxBoot/status/1514570168730636290
@ eaglesoars:
@ eaglesoars:
He’s over the target!
@ eaglesoars:
I think that was a typo. He clearly meant “Democrats,” not “democracy.”
Elon posted his SEC filing.
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001418091/000110465922045641/tm2212748d1_sc13da.htm
On April 13, 2022, the Reporting Person delivered a letter to the Issuer (the “Letter”) which contained a non-binding proposal (the “Proposal”) to acquire all of the outstanding Common Stock of the Issuer not owned by the Reporting Person for all cash consideration valuing the Common Stock at $54.20 per share (the “Proposed Transaction”). This represents a 54% premium over the closing price of the Common Stock on January 28, 2022, the trading day before the Reporting Person began investing in the Issuer, and a 38% premium over the closing price of the Common Stock on April 1, 2022, the trading day before the Reporting Person’s investment in the Issuer was publicly announced.
$54.20!!!
WHOA!
It closed at $45.85 yesterday which is slightly above the median target price as reported by marketwatch. (The high is $70)
eaglesoars wrote:
linky sorry
https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/twtr/analystestimates
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Well this is awkward: TWTR board hired Goldman to “advise” it that the
@elonmusk $54.20 offer is too low. Only problem: Goldman has a SELL rating with a $30 price target. Oops.
https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1514612329031233547
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
That’s gotta be embarrassing.
I need a nap. Had a big breakfast.
Well, they already did the Weimar Germany thing so I guess this is all that’s left
If Elon Musk successfully purchases Twitter, it could result in World War 3 and the destruction of our planet
https://twitter.com/David_Leavitt/status/1514641263009669134
eaglesoars wrote:
He’s not an idiot, so he must have a plan that he thinks is workable and can keep his businesses viable.
eaglesoars wrote:
Yipe! The tolerant and free-speech left have spoken! Aren’t they just the sweetest little fascists you’ve ever seen? “Trump must never be allowed back on Twitter!” Heaven forbid that there be a free exchange of ideas and discussion! This is out and out Bolshevik.
eaglesoars wrote:
What in the ever loving Wide World of Sports! This is out and out 1984. “For there to be more freedom, there must be more repression of ideas”. That’s what he just said.
AZfederalist wrote:
In the marxist world, democracy = communism
It was a beautifully crafted tweet. The nomenkultura know exactly what he means. The useful idiots think he’s calling for protection against the insane, right wing hoardes
@ eaglesoars:
Insanity is growing
Jack Posobiec, who has a copy of the Harddrive from Hell, has just publicly offered it to Musk as
1. He will need collateral to protect himself from the vengeance of the regime
and
2. it will give him invaluable insight to how the regime works
hey y’all
@ rain of lead:
Hi ya!
Gab.com’s Offer To Elon Musk
This morning Elon Musk sent Twitter’s Board an offer to buy the entire company for $40B+. As I wrote last week, anything that explicitly has the aim of bringing more free speech to the internet for more people is a good thing.
Twitter has legacy problems that Gab doesn’t. They are fully dependent on third-party infrastructure. We are not. We “built our own,” everything. Hosting, email services, analytics tools, ecommerce, payment processing, all of it. We built it all.
You also have to consider that bringing free speech to Twitter isn’t as simple as buying it. Apple and Google do not allow free speech, so if you stop the censorship they will kick Twitter from both app stores. We already solved that problem and overcame it.
Twitter operates in countries where mass censorship is required by law. They have offices in these countries. They have no choice but to comply with the censorship demands of those countries or risk being shut down, fines, etc.
We understand this very well and have dealt with it, telling those countries to get lost.
Then there is the problem of Twitter’s community itself. It skews massively left and thus anti-free speech. If you allow free speech on Twitter again, those people are absolutely going to leave because their fragile worldview can’t handle the reality that free speech brings.
Another problem Twitter has that we don’t: total dependency on ad dollars. Gab’s business model is not 100% dependent on advertising. We have several other revenue streams including GabPRO, the Gab Shop, and GabPay our payment processor.
As a good friend pointed out rightfully to me this morning: “I highly doubt they will accept his offer. They would rather shares go to zero than hand over narrative control. If they do accept they will sabotage internally and to whatever degree he makes good changes Twitter will get the Gab treatment from the globohomo.”
In light of these truths, I’d like to offer Elon a counter offer to his very expensive and overpriced Twitter deal.
Elon,
I founded Gab in 2016 because I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe and I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning constitutional federal republic.
However, since founding Gab I realized that in order to provide a free speech platform you must also have free speech internet infrastructure. Gab has since transformed from merely a social network into a free speech internet infrastructure company. We built our own servers, our own email services, our own payment processor, and so much more not because we wanted to, but because we had no choice if we were going to continue to exist.
What we are missing at the moment is an ISP. I fear that the next big leap of censorship is at the ISP level, with ISP’s blocking access to Gab.com. You solve that problem with Starlink. Together we can build infrastructure for a free speech internet.
I am willing to offer you a Board seat along with equity in the company in exchange for you selling your Twitter position and investing $2B into Gab. My offer is my best and final offer.
Gab has extraordinary potential. Let’s unlock it together.
Andrew Torba
CEO, Gab.com
Jesus Christ is King
https://news.gab.com/2022/04/14/gab-coms-offer-to-elon-musk/
eaglesoars wrote:
While I agree with this sentiment. This is why GAB is more of an evangelical effort than an effort to maintain free speech. Gab has a religious blind spot that inclines them to also ban free speech. Torba did build his own stuff. But Elon built paypal.
Starlink give Musk the ability to build his own stuff and skip the hurdles. Musk can make his own phone. Make his own app store.
IMO Elon buying Twitter probably puts GAB, Gettr, Truth Social, and Parler out of business.
rain of lead wrote:
Hey Rain welcome back.
eaglesoars wrote:
I wonder who China prefers? Musk or Biden? Business dollars or corruption dollars?
darkwords wrote:
Oh I think they’ll take a copy of the hard drive. If they don’t already have it
@ AZfederalist:
From that Eaglesoars link I think Musk has been talking to Carl Icahn on how to do a corporate takeover. He sought out money and consultants?
eaglesoars wrote:
AS long as its not an emotional thing then the price is closer to $30. There was an internet NFT of Jack Dorseys first tweet that sold for $2.8 million. Buyer put it back on the market and the offers ranged from $7 to $300.
Musk would add value to twitter as CEO. I think Jack Dorsey and friends back him in this effort.
Musk is good friends with Joe Rogan. He can move the JRE podcast to a twitter friendly platform. He can also integrate Rumble and give them a technical preference.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
What I read is Ukraine sent up a Turkish drone as a decoy to get the ships attention. Then fired two of those Neptune missiles at the ship. And ammo caught fire and did the rest. Since Aussie Infidel knew this long ago and wondered where these Neptunes were. It suggests a deeper war patience and war planning than was evident through social media.
Posobiec says Russia is going to amp up the force now. This was their workhorse flagship and a huge blow to the Russian military.
eaglesoars wrote:
Beware of the Poisoned Pill Elon
🙂
There is a square rigger sailing ship off my beach. It’s moored in the lee of Waiheke Island. I’m guessing that it’s the sailing ship Spirit of New Zealand? It’s too large to be the Spirit of Adventure.
Probably an Easter training cruise for the crew of 32 never been to sea before adventurous training Foundation. My daughter sail aboard the Spirit of Adventure and was so violently sea sick for 3 days straight that she was put ashore in the Bay of Islands.
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
All he has to do is walk away. The stock crashes and they get a kick in the nuts for their games.
Then he buys the place for $20/share. If that
eaglesoars wrote:
I would think there would be some nervousness about the stock now? Price being pulled down by gravity and time? @cryptowhale on Twitter says this is such low hanging fruit he was forced to short TWTR for millions.
eaglesoars wrote:
Alternatively he could sue the management for squillions for not taking care of their shareholders’ interests… including his interests as the major share holder!
Gotta luv the irony
🙂
…. and these Twitter so called Einsteins fell into Eion’s trap hook-line-and-sinker.
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
not any more. Vangaard bought about 10% earlier today I think
Elon responding to a tweet about if the board refuses his offer
f the current Twitter board takes actions contrary to shareholder interests, they would be breaching their fiduciary duty.
The liability they would thereby assume would be titanic in scale.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1514718700674306052
eaglesoars wrote:
… on behalf of Vanguard’s investors…… Blackrock may also get involved. Perhaps Eion is using this as a ploy to shake the ‘money tree’ and to see which ‘swampish, Marxist moneymen’ drop out. Followed by Eion bypassing the BIG Money principles and appealing to investors directly, questioning why investors would give their money to these BIG Money Swamp managers.
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
YUP!
I love this fiscal theatre!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Do you know whether Vangaard has taken a seat on the Twitter Board.
Please do it… please… Then it’d be …heads… Eion wins, …tails… Vangaard loses!
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Blackrock already owns twitter stock, what the percentage is now I don’t know but it used to be around 6%
Aussie Infidel wrote:
This all gets kind of heady. The thinking these people are doing and understanding the money is beyond me. What I think goes up they think goes down.
IF you want to be skeptical of crypto the twitter account @cryptowhale is one to follow. The Plan B account is one to follow if watching the potential of Bitcoin. The two main coins Bitcoin and Ethereum are suffering scaling and growth problems. And the alt coin markets are generating a lot of ponzi schemes, pump and dump coins, and a lot of phishing attempts.
Pretty hard to guess where this goes except that Bitcoin has the most mass and the most momnetum.
darkwords wrote:
The Central Banks are all looking to regulate crypto and bring them into their own nat’l currency schemes. That will put the kabosh on all this
I knew about the SEC. Didn’t know about DOJ
BREAKING: As @elonmusk offers to buy the rest of @Twitter a legal source tells @FoxBusiness @SECGov and @TheJusticeDept have launched what he described as a “joint investigation” into a myriad of Musk regulatory issues primarily involving @Tesla
https://twitter.com/CGasparino/status/1514560918000185347
Been in an RV at the rainforest edge for 3 years now. Time flies. Have to periodically clean and air it out else mold builds up quickly. Didn’t realize I had so much old life crap still. Tossing.
j/k
I’ll order a whisky please.
Sir, this is a McDonalds.
OK, One McWhiskey please.
eaglesoars wrote:
Obama corruption. Same people that are after Trump. Someone needs to start firing a few warning shots over their bow.
There is a whole class of this deep state that needs to be moved to minimum wage or jail. I suspect a bunch of them are part of the Epstein groomer group. The ones that got away with it.
eaglesoars wrote:
The exchanges need to be better regulated. I was on this one called gate.io and they closed themselves to all western consumers. I was forced to lose 10 percent of my investment there to move it someplace else. It was a chinese language based exchange.
Martin Armstrong:
“The West Needs WWIII” – Martin Armstrong Warns “There’s No Return To Normal Here”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/west-needs-wwiii-martin-armstrong-warns-theres-no-return-normal-here
Legendary financial and geopolitical cycle analyst Martin Armstrong thinks the New World Order’s so-called “Great Reset” plan for humanity now needs war to try and make it work.
“They are increasing the pressure on just about everything under the sun. The West needs World War III. They just need it. The real problem here is they went to negative interest rates in 2014 in Europe. They have been unable to stimulate the economy, and Keynesian economics have completely failed…
I would say this is mismanagement of government on a global scale. The problem is that central banks have no control over the economy.
Add to this, this type of inflation is substantially different than a speculative boom. This inflation is based upon shortages. These morons with covid… with lockdowns, ended up destroying the supply chains…
Things that are there, I buy extra of because next time it might be gone. So, everybody is increasing their hoarding…
So, what we have with Europe, with its negative interest rates, they have wiped out all the pension funds. They need 8% to break even, not negative rates. There is not a pension fund in Europe that is solvent at this stage of the game. . . . The European government is collapsing. If they end up defaulting, you are going to have millions of people down there with pitch forks storming the parliament. So, to avoid that, they need war…
The Biden Administration has deliberately destroyed the world economy.”
much more at the link
eaglesoars wrote:
Yes Deliberate. The percentage of democrats in denial of this is close to 100 percent. BLM has been a tool for then to achieve this yet most progressives think the BLM is fighting racism.
@ eaglesoars:
Armstrong recommends that people “stockpile two years of food.
** The people doing this are megalomaniacs and need to be purged from society.
The Bannon National Populists need to take the election.
Two years of food is hard to save up. I can do 6 months I think. That’s about 1000 cans of chili…….. I have 20 right now. Maybe I should go ramen. It looks like it will last forever and is cheap.
@ darkwords:
You need to do the dehydrated stuff. It doesn’t take up space and lasts forever. I’m full up on all the ‘normal’ food, I have no more storage for that. My next challenge is water and the dehydrated stuff.
Might want to look into collecting rain water.
eaglesoars wrote:
I have 4 small boxes of the dehydrated. Need to get more it looks like. Plus ammo. lol. Amazon sells some UV water purifiers.
It galls me to no end that OBama, Biden and cronies are creating these circumstances on purpose. They need to be moved on.
I guess I better stock up on vodka now also so I can trade.
I’ve seen some good videos online of backyard chicken coups. Also, people getting together and buying a whole cow, getting it butchered, and stored at a meat locker. Not sure where one finds a meat locker these days. I suppose that is the garage freezer.
Alexa play groups like the doobie brothers was a good choice for me. All the nostalgic college music.
@ darkwords:
ixnay on the chicken coops. There is a lot of hygiene stuff that goes along with keeping chickens, disposing of their ‘litter’ [the industry term for their shit] and a whole bunch of other stuff. There are considerable cautions associated with chickens, not the least of which are the predators they attract.
Our neighbors keep chickens. They also have a Great Pyrenees dog named Thor. He’s very gentle if you respect his boundaries. He doesn’t give a rat’s ass about yours.
Peter Schiff on the Megyn Kelly podcast today. He paints a pretty dim picture of inflation. Says limited government is the only way to move forward.
Nearly 100 people at this NJ school got brain tumors — a survivor demands answers
https://nypost.com/2022/04/14/why-nearly-100-people-at-nj-school-got-brain-tumors/
In Virginia, one of our first neighbors – he was on his third wife. His first two had died of the same brain cancer. They all served at a military base in Florida. When our neighbors retired they moved back to Florida.
His third wife died of the same cancer. Then HE died of the same brain cancer.
Speechless. Is it contagious?
darkwords wrote:
Same thing happened with Liquid.
video of Joe trying to shake hands with his imaginary friend
https://twitter.com/JMichaelWaller/status/1514758674006298630
The Turd Reich has feerz…
Call me a radical Lefty, but I don’t want any oligarch to control the internet.
https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1514635025492307970
“Anyone who is saying Twitter’s ban violates the First Amendment doesn’t know Twitter is a private company and the First Amendment protects individuals against government”
https://twitter.com/itsfernandoo/status/1514635657003511812/photo/1
bed. nite.
@ eaglesoars:
That’s about as self-aware as when a WaPo editorial said pretty much the same thing the other day.
I guess they forgot who owns their useless rag…
Ok, this is fine. You know those salad kits in the produce dept at the grocery store? Say guh-bye!!
Taylor Farms is a major agriculture company that brings many of the salad kits seen in grocery stores and is a major employer.
SALINAS, Calif. (KGO) — A massive fire at the Taylor Farms Processing Facility in Salinas that began late Wednesday night and prompted evacuations continued to smolder into Thursday afternoon.
Evacuation orders and shelter-in-place orders were lifted just after 1 p.m. Thursday, nearly 17 hours later.
The Salinas Fire Department says that 85 to 90 percent of the 225,000 square foot building is a total loss.
https://abc7news.com/taylor-farms-fire-salinas-evacuation-shelter-in-place-california-ammonia-explosion-risk/11747214/
@ eaglesoars:
About a month ago there was a fire at a Walmart distribution center in Indiana I think. It stored food.
@ lobo91:
Yep.
@ lobo91:
Given that the only reason the Twitter Board adopted this resolution is ideological and not fiscal; i.e., Elon Musk does not pose a financial threat to Twitter and very likely would enhance it’s financial position, it seems that this is evidence of the Twitter Board abrogating its fiduciary responsibility to the Twitter stockholders. Seems like this is ripe for a class action lawsuit and potential charges against the Twitter board. Preventing hostile takeovers in the past was to keep the company from being pillaged or broken up. That’s not what is happening here.
AZfederalist wrote:
I’m seeing the stock values from $20 a share to $75 in peoples minds. The current 54.20 seems more than fair. Lot of owners trying to sell an unknown future value to Elon. Rather than suing Elon the SEC should be suing the Twitter board.
Was talking with my brother today and things got into politics. He called me an anarchist. Coming from a self declared socialist, I will take it.
the monday selloff of twitter stock should be epic
@ lobo91:
ummmm…back in the day, a hostile take over was du jour.
i need a 1985 bmw 325 convertible! and a brick phone!
darkwords wrote:
they may have made a large fiduciary error in judgement.
the word fiduciary is of critical meaning here
A hostile takeover allows a bidder to take over a target company whose management is unwilling to agree to a merger or takeover. A takeover is considered hostile if the target company’s board rejects the offer, and if the bidder continues to pursue it, or the bidder makes the offer directly after having announced its firm intention to make an offer. Development of the hostile tender is attributed to Louis Wolfson.[1]
A hostile takeover can be conducted in several ways. A tender offer can be made where the acquiring company makes a public offer at a fixed price above the current market price.[2] An acquiring company can also engage in a proxy fight, whereby it tries to persuade enough shareholders, usually a simple majority, to replace the management with a new one which will approve the takeover.[2] Another method involves quietly purchasing enough stock on the open market, known as a creeping tender offer, to effect a change in management. In all of these ways, management resists the acquisition, but it is carried out anyway.[2]
In the United States, a common defense tactic against hostile takeovers is to use section 16 of the Clayton Act to seek an injunction, arguing that section 7 of the act, which prohibits acquisitions where the effect may be substantially to lessen competition or to tend to create a monopoly, would be violated if the offeror acquired the target’s stock.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeover
eaglesoars wrote:
I was driving through “downtown” Salinas one night and suddenly there was a traffic backup. Turned out it was a queue line for pavement princesses.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
gives new meaning to ‘tossed salad’
yer welcome
coldwarrior wrote:
How does the ‘poison pill’ gambit affect the company’s requirement for ‘fiduciary’ responsibility?
She said the quiet part out loud, but I don’t think she understood what she said
MSNBC’s @KatyTurNBC : “There are real and devastating consequences for using [Twitter] to lie … @elonmusk wants to buy it, but there are — massive, life and globe-altering consequences for just letting people run wild on the thing.”
https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1514683705658384393
The first part is about ‘using twitter to lie”. But when twitter booted the NY Post’s story on Hunter’s laptop, twitter mgmt straight up lied by omission and the consequences were indeed devastating. But Tur doesn’t see that part. As for letting people run wild…
This is not about truth. This is about narrative and its control. Mika said it best a year or so ago when she blurted out “It’s our job to tell people what to think”
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
a farmer out there in salinas helped me and my roomie at dli monterey.
my genius roommate decided to rent a car up to SF and buy a 54 metro sight unseen, but ‘it ran’.
he was a national guard, already had two years in school adn was making tons of money. he started a business @ madison WI at UW. it was deliveing take out, the running badger.
drive the metro back from SF to monterey and he took the valley route.
the car died in front of some yuge farm. I think it was martinellis. the foreman helped us out. we ate and slept there while he got a tow truck and rental car.
that’s my favorite CA story. good folks. they didnt have to treat us that well.
eaglesoars wrote:
kamikaze.
the pill is to allow shareholders to purchase stocks at a deep discount.
this can crush the stock price if it fails.
musk has them cornered if they even mentioned this
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
musk hired icahn to show him how to do this.
icahn wrote the book on hostile take over
coldwarrior wrote:
musk has them cornered if they even mentioned this
I think they did in the all hands meeting or something (sorry, I’m not completely current I’ve been doing contractor stuff all day)
So a poison pill is an overt act undermining fiduciary responsibility
I’m not sure Elon hired Icahn, but I know I posted a vid of Icahn talking about this.
@ eaglesoars:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/twitter-board-adopts-poison-pill-thwart-musk-takeover-exposing-itself-titanic-legal
nuts n bolts.
it’s game on, 80’s style
@ eaglesoars:
the board is screwed. they violated fiduciary duty. law suits en masse
there is rumor of peter theil getting in with musk
coldwarrior wrote:
‘Twill be interesting when the board is held individually liable. Their comments in the past for woke stupidity like Gillette was that “it was all worth it for the social responsibility we exhibited”. Wonder if the board members are going to say the same thing when they are held personally accountable.
@ AZfederalist:
a corporation exists for one reason.
maximize roi for the investors.
that is all
eaglesoars wrote:
The video
https://twitter.com/Fibci2/status/1515003682051530760
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/15/twitter-board-adopts-poison-pill-after-musks-43-billion-offer-to-buy-company.html
more nuts n bolts
ok, i’m done reading all the financials.
if musk wants FB, it’s his
A few interesting pieces hoovered up from Free Republic in my so-called spare time.
Meet Joe Tsai, owner of the Brooklyn Nets and propagandist for the Chinese Communist Party
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/meet-joe-tsai-owner-of-the-brooklyn-nets-and-propagandist-for-the-chinese-communist-party
Tsai, the executive vice chairman of the Chinese tech company Alibaba, bought the Nets in 2019. According to ESPN, Tsai “personifies the compromises embedded in the NBA-China relationship, which brings in billions of dollars but requires the league to do business with an authoritarian government and look past the kind of social justice issues it is fighting at home.”
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That is, of course, not quite accurate. For example, there is no genocide currently going on in the United States. No one’s democracy has been crushed. (And no, don’t even try to trot out some lame comparison between Hong Kong and Georgia or Texas — it doesn’t even pass the laugh test.) Still, it’s a positive sign that ESPN at least recognizes there is a tension between NBA’s political activism at home and its support for a brutal, repressive regime.
ESPN runs through the highlights of Chinese propaganda that Tsai has pushed since becoming an owner just a few years ago. He accused then-Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey of supporting a separatist movement when Morey tweeted his support of pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong. ESPN also dropped the news that Morey’s supporters believe Tsai was the one pushing the league to fire Morey.
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Biden resumes oil and gas leases on federal land at dramatically lessened scale
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/biden-resumes-oil-and-gas-leases-on-federal-land-at-dramatically-lessened-scale
The Biden administration announced Friday that it would resume lease sales for oil and gas drilling on federal land, though it plans to reduce the amount of land available significantly and will increase the royalty it charges companies for the oil and gas produced on the land.
The Interior Department said in a news release that it will make available 144,000 acres, an 80% reduction from the acreage originally nominated. It will also begin charging companies royalties of 18.75%, up from 12.5%.
Where does the money go, she asked?
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Marco Rubio Preparing to Join Biden in Destroying The World Economy
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/china/marco-rubio-preparing-to-join-biden-in-destroying-the-world-economy/
The world has gone completely nuts and now even Republican Marco Rubio is drafting legislation to sanction China. Biden’s sanctions have totally destroyed the world economy, bringing globalization and world peace to an abrupt end. I have written to Marco Rubio in response to his Tweet, but I seriously doubt he will ever respond.
Now SWIFT has committed suicide and Biden has divided the world economy. This will never return to normal and your proposal to sanction China is insane. In fact, the arrogance of the United States as the policeman of the world has only led to our inevitable demise. SWIFT is no longer the foundation of the world economy and this is ending the economic status of the dollar and the United States.
mrs coldwarrior just arrived at chez g’ma papap coldwarrior.
she brought the package. the sad package.
new Birkenstoks.
…my shoe maker sez my pair from 91 have been resoled and rebuilt too may times. they are doa. he cant do anything with them now. the leather is now shot.
i will recover them and give them a proper burial. cork, leather, rubber, and jute. that pair has seen the grateful dead about 30 times, allman brothers 20 or so, phish and dave Matthews too many times to count. i picked out phoebe the blog dog in them and carried home the twins wearing them.
for those of yinz who dont wear birks. well, i feel sorry for your feet.
the new pair are solid and feel good.
i can’t wait to see the next 30 years.
@ coldwarrior:
but do you wear them with socks?
eaglesoars wrote:
never in public.
i have some standards.
https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2022/04/15/pope-francis-we-are-racists-we-are-racists/
glad i converted to orthox.
i’ll pray for the catholic church
coldwarrior wrote:
There was a very interesting guy on Bannon today that I have to go back and find. Talked about the different interpretations based on greek/hebrew, et. al. I was so busy I didn’t get to focus, I’ll have to go back to the recordings.
If there is a religious institution that isn’t corrupt I’m unaware.
bed.
nite.
When I was just a few months old my parents took me to a really creepy old building and some strange man wearing a dress threw water on my face.
That was me done with the religion shit.
Since that traumatic event I have entered a church of any kind for a service just a few times. Important events.
Having said that I have entered many places of worship in Europe as a tourist and wondered in amazement how such magnificent structures were built when the population at the time were living in mud huts and eating dirt.
Possum wrote:
Read Ken Follet’s Pillars of the Earth series
Tweet of the day
https://twitter.com/William_E_Wolfe/status/1515339493817073667
If you’re tempted to feel useless today, remember this:
2,000 years ago a couple of Roman soldiers spent their entire day guarding Jesus Christ’s tomb.
Talk about a waste of time.
Happy Easter.
eaglesoars wrote:
Look for commonalities in their backgrounds. The question to ask is … what were they all exposed to
and it gets worse
OMAHA, Neb. — A major fertilizer company says the limits Union Pacific is putting on rail traffic to clear up congestion will delay shipments that farmers need during the spring planting season.
CF Industries said Thursday that the railroad ordered it to cut its shipments nearly 20%. Union Pacific has said it is limiting rail traffic and hiring aggressively as part of a plan to improve service after grain and ethanol shippers complained about shortcomings.
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/fertilizer-company-complains-railroad-shipment-limits-84091378
eaglesoars wrote:
That is railroad BS. We need a Trump in charge. A delay to summer is a delay to next year. These are leaders tied down by rules and afraid to get stuff done. A governor should step in and redirect resources.
@ darkwords:
I don’t know if it’s BS or not. Sounds like there’s a worker shortage factoring in all this
eaglesoars wrote:
I hear a lot of small businesses have gone under. Restaurants have a worker shortage. There is a shortage of truckers? Where are all these people at? Staying at mom’s house on welfare?
darkwords wrote:
Keith, the guy who is my plumber is beside himself. Needs an assistant. Went up on social media, advertised the position. Got 12 responses. Scheduled back-to-back interviews at Starbucks.
No one showed up. Not. One.
@ eaglesoars:
Meanwhile, I had about a dozen interviews and never got a single offer.
@ lobo91:
Everybody seems to be sensing that something is just ‘off’
encountered in the comments at Instapundit
Well, family farms are dying. The kids just don’t want to stay and work that hard. Even some of the huge, wealthy Mormon farms in our area are breaking up, or being sold off. we just had a huge Mormon farm operation that got caught bilking Tyson foods out of 220 million bucks for raising cattle that didn’t exist, As the assets were being sold off, guess who showed up with a bid? You guessed, Epstein’s favorite chum, Bill Stripper party” gates. Fortunately the mormons beat him out for the property.
Bird’s hungry but can’t crack the eggs.
https://twitter.com/Yoda4ever/status/1515393658467495937
@ eaglesoars:
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Over excavation with “clean” fill brought in that wasn’t so clean?
Yeah things are weird. There is a combination of not enough people willing to work combined with companies not calling back those who are willing. I don’t really understand what is happening, except that some of these companies are willing to “fall on their sword” for the agenda.
Looks like I’m going to have to take the pre-school job. I’ve held them off since I can’t find my shot records but I can only do that for a few more days. Walgreens hasn’t called me back so it’s not looking good on that front. I’ve got a really bad feeling about the pre-school. They are unfortunately receiving state funding so they have a bunch of extra rules and regulations including required classes that I will have to take and I don’t know if they are paying or if it will be out of pocket. It all depends on the owners. They are under no requirement to pay for the classes but we are required to take them at 70 – 200 a class.
eaglesoars wrote:
Sounds as if the system is being ‘rigged’ against small business.
That’d tie into an Agenda 2030 scenario.
I know … I know … sounds all conspiratorial but sometimes conspiracies actually pan out as true. Normally when co-incidences begin to pile up I tend to get ‘twitchy’ and look behind the obvious for hidden agendas.
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
If these farms can just hold on for 5 more years then tech will come to their rescue with automated machinery, that will help with productivity. How small farms will be able to afford the tech is another matter however. Pack house and picking tech here is getting to the stage where medium sized farms will not need the former seasonal workers anymore and productivity gains will allow for tech purchases.
It’s all a matter of timing however and bank rates. I don’t trust the banks either. …. as far as I could kick them!
🙂
lobo91 wrote:
Are company subsidies from State or Federal government linked to requirements of companies ‘Actively seeking workers’?
Have you ever wondered if these was ever an actual job or was it just jumping through corporate hoops for them to qualify for subsidies?
eaglesoars wrote:
Happy Easter Eagles
🙂
Normally there would be 4 Roman soldiers on guard duty 4 hours at a time under an officer who would command 12 to 24 soldiers stationed on site with a few support workers. Probably 3 total in a few tents on site. Roman soldiers who slept whilst in guard duty were sentenced to death, so they would tend to be fairly ‘awake’. There could have been the odd Jewish Temple Guard floating about as well, as the eyes and ears of the Sanhedrin. Those guys would be aware that followers of Jesus may have attempted to steal his body. Matthew makes mention of that fear in his gospel. The soldiers mentioned were Romans . If they were Jewish Temple Guards then they would have been identified as such clearly as they were in their arrest of Jesus on the Thursday evening in the Garden of Gethsemane.
Some of the soldiers reported to the Temple elders and got paid for their trouble but with a death sentence hanging over ALL of their heads even those soldiers who were off duty and legally asleep must have been terrified of potential punishments . No wonder the 4 soldiers who were on duty at the time of the rolling away of the stone and arrival of the two guys dressed in shining white garments, fell over as if dead. Either way it was a death sentence for them to allow what they were guarding to be turned over. If indeed there were the odd Temple Guard about and they reported the facts to the Sanhedrin, then to even attempt to buy off silence of some of the soldiers as was reported, was an act of total perfidy. Either you buy ALL of them off or you don’t bother.
@ eaglesoars:
He’s not paying $40/hr plus bennies. To start.
right_wing2 wrote:
Who is? The son of a friend just moved here – has his certification in HVAC – and got a job immediately but he’s getting around $30 I think. And that’s with a ‘company’, not a self-employed guy looking for help
I’ve hit my stupid quota for the day!!
Medieval peasants had no student loan debt, no medical bankruptcies, and never had to worry about high gas prices. What went wrong? Capitalism.
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1515702406675415051
@ eaglesoars:
best reply
Finally someone said it. bubonic plague > federal loan at 7.5% interest.
https://twitter.com/Wisco_Livin/status/1515702845387030535
Best meme for Easter
https://twitter.com/LPofCT/status/1515670607156940805
@ eaglesoars:
Worst reply
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Besides doubling down on ignintz, she sourced this brilliance:
https://tudorscribe.medium.com/do-you-work-longer-hours-than-a-medieval-peasant-17a9efe92a20
FYI – Easter thread is up, because.
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2022/04/17/the-resurrection/
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
That seems most likely. I seem to remember a miliatry housing addition being built over a toxic dump. In Seattle one of the most popular parks with a view is Gas Works Park. For decades it was toxic to anyone who visited. And when it was exposed the local government said no big deal.
eaglesoars wrote:
The comments in that tweet are appallingly full of stupid. According to many, all of us but the few wealthy are serfs and slaves to the wealthy and living in poverty. I don’t think these people realize what no-kidding, don’t know where your next meal is coming from because the crops failed poverty really is. They should spend some time in a real third world country for some education. However, there was this gem: