USA News and Poland - Part 1

Of course the fact that he pays you does not affect your opinion of him ?

Not to mention his superhuman feats - wrestling bears, flying fighter jets and scoring a double hatrick in a hockey game - what's not to love ?

I pay the taxes, that's all my financial relationship with government. If I missed something and can get more income - let me know. Offers to participate in any NGO is declined at once.


Have no time right now to take into details, but moving Crimea to Ukraine by Khruschev was more than questionable (in fact, against of USSR constitution that was active at the moment), and city of Sevastopol (separate entity) with navy base was never legally handed to Ukraine at all.

I can write some more details later.

Ask Rich and he will give you the low down on the attractive remuneration. He is already 177th on the list for getting a two stroke Lada and this summer at the sanatorium he has some special coupons so he can have dessert on a Friday and Saturday.

I would love to get one of those convertible ZIM's they just retired. Spare parts could be a problem, though.
I have to hand it to you that you are creative and persistent. A rare combination for a one-string banjo. OK, two.

I am a bad Russian imposter. It's ZIL, not ZIM.

Trump is bad. Real bad. Because of his crazy ideas with tariffs, 9000 people who were happily rocking on their front porches were forced to go to work!

A quote from CNN, that unashamedly pro-Trump outlet:

The price spike early last year prompted steelmakers to increase output. Steel mills reopened, adding about 9,000 jobs to the industry. Existing mills also increased their output.

Out with him! Go, Joe, go!

Wow, 9000 jobs created in a dirty, 19th century industry. How exciting. In the meantime, 2400 jobs will be cut at Ford and 4000 jobs at GM. Coal mines to the rescue...

Similar thing with Putin crazy "counter-sanctions" (fierely blamed by "progressive democratic opposition") and agricultural sector of Russia. ;)

Like I said, they were forced. You know, SWAT guys can be very persistent.

Yay, bring back the stagnant days of yesteryear!

He's already a 3 time loser, perhaps the 4th time will be a charm...lol

Crooked Hillary can be his running mate. The Dems are only about identity politics and there MUST be a woman V.P otherwise the snowflakes wont vote, but hey, he's No Bernie! Haha

Im laughing at the lame Dumbocrats, this is the best they can come up with??Biden or is it Hasbeen, beaten so many times, had to grip onto Obamas coat tails to become VP and Obama won't endorse him either,Hahahaha, too funny, Good Luck!

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Do your homework. Write down your "everyday life" monthly purchases and write estimated century of tech to the right of each entry in the list. Then publish results.

I think at least half will be pre-Christ time tech.

That is what really need, for life, and not to assure bankers estimated profits.

In Russia maybe. You guys still wear those shoes made from tree bark ?

In the West then aside from housing expenses the only pre Christ spending is food and drink.

Everything else - cigarettes, petrol, electric, phone, car, books, consumer goods, transport to work, underwear, etc is firmly from the Industrial Age.

Prefer leather. Same age.

Cigarettes - I was lucky to quit smoking after 30 yrs of feeding tobacco industry.

And if I'll put all my monthly purchases to same list, there is less than 20% really latest industrial age goods. maybe I purchase too many varieties of food and drinks to suit family taste? ;)

The Russians must get a kick out of Putin when he tests the U.S. airspace.
Today four Russian strategic bombers escorted by Russian fighter jets skirted the Alaskan coast line just outside of U.S. airspace.
I think Putin does this not only to see what the U.S. response time is to intercept but to show Trump that he can play the same games the U.S. plays with Russia.

The scary part is that one of these days a slight miscalculation could set off a major conflict between the two countries.
What do the Russian citizens think about such tactics ?

Do you really think they tell their citizens about their tactics, I don't.


What about Iran?


Have you ever seen the Mexican tire sandals? You can walk 50Kmiles before they wear out!

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You missed the point. Steel production and coal mining are dirty, outdated industries. That's why they were outsourced to developing countries which can deliver for a fraction of the cost.

You're nuts.
The steel workers and coal miners are elated that Trump is bringing their jobs back from China and Canada.
M.A.G.A.

An almost perfect metaphor for the US as a whole.

Industries that poison our air, destroy our mountain tops and pollute our rivers represent the past of the USA, not the future. We are talking about lousy 200,000 jobs altogether (140,000 steel workers and 60,000 coal miners). Not worth destroying the land and the future of our children for that.

Can't speak for everyone, but most of my friends we discussed this with is sure that no hostile actions should be left unanswered. Symmetric or asymmetric responce - it's up to MoD experts.


So, start teaching your children to live without products made of steel or coal. As nobody is obligated to destroy their land and future of their children to supply US with this.

He doesn't see it that way as he only looks as far as his self righteous nose.

Would you mind using your head, please? Steel is imported at much lower prices than the US steel mills will ever be able to deliver. It's imported and then turned into other products. Coal is mostly used for energy production here. Dirty power plants that pollute hundreds of square miles around them, and the ashes kill our rivers and lakes. Why not use something more sophisticated like solar, wind or nuclear power?


Of course not, but they all want to sell.

We do that too.


Do some research and see where the great majority of acid rain originates from that pollutes America.


So do we and the steel industry supports a lot of people in the U.S. from mining the ore, to shipping it, to processing it, to delivering it, manufacturing jobs that build the equipment to do this, all creating jobs and a huge tax base not to mentioning pumping up our own economy.

We have the natural resources to do all this and not to use them because of some tree huggers is just plain dumb.

nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/02/coal-other-dark-side-toxic-ash/


You want to sell regular steel and compete against second and third world countries? Good luck with that. Just watch what's going on in the UK at the moment, and you'll see the future of our steel industry.:

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7057455/British-Steel-set-insolvency-process-today.html

Tariff's !
M.A.G.A. !

Rare earths was also sold by China at prices nobody else was able to compete (and China have majority of all known resources). But once major competitors went bankrupt and equipment was sold out (so that fast restarting of production became very costly), China made logical move, and impose export tariff for unprocessed R.E. metals. You still can purchase finished products, though.

Steel is much simpler product, but once you have mass production of plain carbon (construction) steel, you can afford to relatively economically produce most other varieties that may be necessary by current tech. Once you do not have mass production, your special steel may come close to silver by its price to be produced locally, and there is no guarantees that you'll be able to buy it anywhere else in a reasonable time.

And yes, coal (mostly coke that is produced from coal) is absolutely necessary to produce steel.

Solar batteries is another way to move pollution to China - learn how much energy is necessary to produce solar grade silicon from ores. And most of that energy is taken from coal plants in China. Also learn about energy density in sunlight at Earth sea level, real efficiency of currently produced commercial panels (not cutting edge prototypes priced at gold price by weight) and try to figure out which area you need to cover by panels (and exclude from agriculture) to replace one typical nuclear plant.

Exactly. Why should highly industrialized countries manufacture products that second and third world nations do at a fraction of the cost? That's the reason why the US as well as western Europe stopped producing basic steel and concentrated on specialty steels that require certain technological skills. High tech for the industrialized countries, medium to low level technologies for countries that are still developing. Make sense, doesn't it?


Can't cure stupid. You pay for them.

While you support China

LOL. With same result you can concentrate on masturbation, looking to chinese steel products catalog. ;) This require some skills as well. ;) Especially if China will impose export tariffs for anything that US stopped to produce locally. ;)

There is almost no steel varieties that require "skills". Except, maybe, some sort of magnetic alloys, that manufactured in tens of tons per year and really comparable to copper if not silver by cost of finished tape for transformers cores. Plus, maybe, some high grade HSS for cutting tools - again very very limited manufacture. Stainless alloys - separate story, formally it is not a steel at all.

Why is this thread being blocked from view of the unregistered members/public ?
Is it that unworthy ?