Is it pouring gasoline, or NAPHTHA, on the fire to nationalize Google at this point?John wrote:... Without Google's operating system, Google mail and Google
maps, Huawei would be out of business.
..<chuckle!>,.. yeah,.. I dare say it would be.
Is it pouring gasoline, or NAPHTHA, on the fire to nationalize Google at this point?John wrote:... Without Google's operating system, Google mail and Google
maps, Huawei would be out of business.
If the scenario follows what you have proposed, then a Tiananmen Square style massacre is just days or at the most, weeks away. That would lead to pell mell capital flight out of HK and mainland China. And that would lead to the complete collapse, of the Chinese economy.Did China set a trap for the protesters?
Gibraltar is a British territory on Spain's southern tip that"Gibraltar didn’t say where the crude came from, but
shipping tracking data compiled by Bloomberg suggest the vessel
loaded at Iran’s Kharg Island oil terminal in mid-April. After
anchoring off the United Arab Emirates for several weeks, the ship
began a journey around the southern tip of Africa, passing Cape
Town in early June, rather than taking the more direct route
through the Suez Canal.
That route from Iran to Syria is about 23,300 km (14,500 mi),
compared with just 6,600 km via the Red Sea and Suez Canal. A ship
the size of the Grace 1, known as a Very Large Crude Carrier, or
VLCC, can’t pass through the canal fully loaded. The shorter route
would require it to discharge half its cargo, load it on to a
smaller ship or send the oil through the Sumed Pipeline, and pick
it up again in the Mediterranean.
Iran can’t pump oil through the pipeline, which spans Egypt from
the Red Sea to the Mediterranean, because the link is owned by
companies from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates,
Kuwait and Qatar. The pipeline’s owners have not permitted the
transit of Iranian crude since August 2012."
By contrast, here are four stanzas of the Star SpangledArise children of the fatherland
The day of glory has arrived
Against us tyranny's
Bloody standard is raised
Listen to the sound in the fields
The howling of these fearsome soldiers
They are coming into our midst
To cut the throats of your sons and wives
To arms citizens
Form your battalions
March, march
Let impure blood
Water our furrows
Many people consider the third stanza to be racist because FrancisO say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
O'er the ramparts we watch'd were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bomb bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there,
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream,
'Tis the star-spangled banner - O long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a Country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash'd out their foul footstep's pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand
Between their lov'd home and the war's desolation!
Blest with vict'ry and peace may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the power that hath made and preserv'd us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto - "In God is our trust,"
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
The American patriotic song My Country Tis of Them was writtenGod save our gracious Queen,
Long live our noble Queen,
God save the Queen!
Send her victorious,
Happy and glorious,
Long to reign over us;
God save the Queen!
O Lord our God arise,
Scatter her enemies
And make them fall;
Confound their politics,
Frustrate their knavish tricks,
On Thee our hopes we fix,
God save us all!
Thy choicest gifts in store
On her be pleased to pour;
Long may she reign;
May she defend our laws,
And ever give us cause
To sing with heart and voice,
God save the Queen!
Not in this land alone,
But be God's mercies known,
From shore to shore!
Lord make the nations see,
That men should brothers be,
And form one family,
The wide world over.
From every latent foe,
From the assassins blow,
God save the Queen!
O'er her thine arm extend,
For Britain's sake defend,
Our mother, prince, and friend,
God save the Queen!
Lord grant that Marshal Wade
May by thy mighty aid
Victory bring.
May he sedition hush,
And like a torrent rush,
Rebellious Scots to crush.
God save the King!
My country tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died!
Land of the Pilgrim's pride!
From every mountain side,
Let freedom ring!
My native country, thee,
Land of the noble free,
Thy name I love.
I love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and templed hills;
My heart with rapture fills
Like that above.
Let music swell the breeze,
And ring from all the trees
Sweet freedom's song.
Let mortal tongues awake;
Let all that breathe partake;
Let rocks their silence break,
The sound prolong.
Our father's God to, Thee,
Author of liberty,
To Thee we sing.
Long may our land be bright
With freedom's holy light;
Protect us by Thy might,
Great God, our King!
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