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Russia impounds Goldman Sachs assets worth 36 million dollars

Estro Felino

Believer in free will
Premium Member
Goldman Sachs has done everything it could to get out of involvement in Russia. They tried to sell this 5% share of the children's book store. But Putin had blocked all foreign companies, such as Goldman Sachs, from completing any sales of assets in Russia without his personal approval in response to Western sanctions. Goldman Sachs couldn't sell this even though it wanted to and tried to do so. In addition it wrote off these assets in its 2022 financial reports as worth $0. Tacit recognition that these assets were out of their control.
Evidently Putin believes that Goldman Sachs is one of the élites who pushed the West to implement the sanctions.
Putin doesn't target anyone without reason.
I have learned to know him.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Again: not all Catholics are against abortion, so I don't see why I should feel offended, since I am not for abolishing abortion.
To say "not all" ignores the reality of their
tendency....& the elimination of abortion
rights by Catholic dominated SCOTUS.
Godless people, as well, harm economy because of their greed.
And because they have no fear of God.
Are you claiming that because of fear,
Christians don't exhibit greed, or only
that they're less so than godless folk?
So believers undergo the consequences of their decisions too. :)


I have answered.
See above for more questions that
try to pin down your meaning
(which seems evasive so far).
 

Estro Felino

Believer in free will
Premium Member
Fascinating.
Whenever I speak English, I speak a sort of italianized English, so I always focus on the meaning in my own language.
 

Estro Felino

Believer in free will
Premium Member
Most Russians including Putin are Orthodox Christians, yet the "fear of god" did not prevent them from facilitating or engaging in the rape, torture, murder, and trafficking of Ukrainian children.
I would appreciate that if my thread is about banks and banking system, the topic remains banks and banking system. :)
 
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Estro Felino

Believer in free will
Premium Member
You're wrong.
I use "godless" regularly.
It's a useful word.
But you have difficulty in addressing HOW you use it.
If you use the term Catholic to diss some people, I will not care.
Why do you care if I use the term godless?

I was not referring to you.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
If you use the term Catholic to diss some people, I will not care.
Why do you care if I use the term godless?

I was not referring to you.
It seems that my criticizing stacking SCOTUS
with Catholics has touched a nerve. So making
the evil elites "godless" is retaliation....and the
derailing of your own thread. @Father Heathen
just followed your lead to make it about atheism
vs Catholicism & Christianity.
 

Estro Felino

Believer in free will
Premium Member
It seems that my criticizing stacking SCOTUS
with Catholics has touched a nerve. So making
the evil elites "godless" is retaliation....and the
derailing of your own thread. @Father Heathen
just followed your lead to make it about atheism
vs Catholicism & Christianity.
I used to call those élites godless many years ago, already.
It has nothing to do with you talking about the Catholics taking over the SCOTUS.

Back to the topic...
those élites have no fear of God because they are without God. Period.

:)
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member

Father Heathen

Veteran Member
It seems that my criticizing stacking SCOTUS
with Catholics has touched a nerve. So making
the evil elites "godless" is retaliation....and the
derailing of your own thread. @Father Heathen
just followed your lead to make it about atheism
vs Catholicism & Christianity.
an aside; your @ mention never made it to my alerts. Makes me wonder if other mentions/replies have fallen through the cracks.
 
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