u/alloutofchewingum

I just found this. Ship lease company. 6%+ dividend, PE <4, growing revenue and earnings, debt: EBITDA about 1.5, seems like reasonable plans for the future. Any thoughts?

I will be in Kittery visiting family July 18 - 25. Just had a business windfall so thinking of splurging on a trip for bluefin. Anyone have an outfitter in striking distance to recommend?

We sold our penzion in June. Booking cut off access one day with zero warning. When we try to get our last months invoices for tax purposes (VAT etc) they refuse to give us anything since they can't give us a callback since logically they have the new owners details. They tell us we need to solve it with them which seems insane to me. New owners have no reason to participate in this, its not their problem after all. They also sent the last four days of payments to the new owners (almost 3000 EUR) which seems like wire fraud to me. Anyone have experience with this? Thousands of properties must get bought and sold every year I can't understand why they have this dysfunctional process. Anyone have a contact to their general counsel or smth? I am in Europe I think this also violates GDPR here as a third party gets my info.

Just wanted to comment how good it feels to be debt free after so many years (52M, US citizen, resident Czech Republic).

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Sold our business for $1.5m, just cleared off the last $100k on the mortgage for our house.

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Got my 5 bedroom house up against a national forest in the Czech mountains, 10 rental units, $500K in equities, each of the four kids has college funded plus $100K investment funds. Now we just gotta figure out where to park the rest of the cash lol. Just wish the stock market weren't so overheated right now. Might buy another apartment building in Germany. There are 8-plexes for sale in Meißen for $500K.

I have been investing in Czech for a long time but the market is stupid. I started looking across the border from where I am. Seems like there is tons of decent multi-family for sale in Görlitz. Anyone have experience with that part of the world? Just wondering about practicalities like mgmt agencies, energy efficiency mandates etc.

As an old fishing hand these grotesque attacks on Venezuelan fishing boats by US military assets strikes me as completely beyond the pale. There have been 58 attacks resulting in 200 deaths with zero evidence provided for a single one. Given the track record of the Administration in terms of willful and reckless disregard for fact and law, I think we can safely assume there is no evidence to be had.

Now, while I'm not a lawyer, I can read. And I have read the Geneva Conventions, the Treaty of Rome, and the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.

In January, US regular military forces entered Caracas after an aerial bombing campaign, overcame armed resistance, and kidnapped the head of state. While no war was declared as such, any reasonable person would consider this initiation of an armed conflict. As such, the Geneva Conventions are applicable in all their provisions. Article 48 establishes the principle of distinction between armed combatants and civilians, and the need to avoid targeting the latter (art 51). While some civilian casualties are inevitable, Article 51(5) asserts these must be in proportion to likely military advantage. The US boat strikes pass none of these tests. Instead we are confronted with what the Treaty of Rome labels a war crime in Article 8(2)(b)(i and ii): "intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population and...objects". In this scope and scale they clearly constitute grave breaches of the Geneva Convention IV, article 147.

UNCLOS article 87 establishes freedom of the high seas, article 110 establishes lawful reasons for interdiction or boarding, none of which have been met in this case or even seen a cursory attempt at justification. The San Remo Manual of Naval Warfare, often cited in cases of maritime law, establishes similar rules of distinguishing ordinary civilian vessels from privateers, merchant marine, seized cargo ships by a hostile power, etc. Again, the US regime has made no effort to justify these attacks in terms of civilian distinction, military necessity, proportionality and reasonable attempts to avoid needless loss of life by non-combatants.

There is a clear prima facie case emerging from the public record and the statements by the involved perpetrators of gross violations of all three charters - the Geneva Conventions, UNCLOS and the Treaty of Rome. It also bears mentioning that responsible individuals can be indicted by *any* signatory to these treaties - meaning virtually any nation on the planet. The Geneva Convention explicitly sets out not just the possibility of universal jurisdiction but the *obligation* of signatory states to search for persons alleged to commit grave breaches and prosecute them, regardless of nationality of where the acts occurred.

So basically one brave prosecutor anywhere in the world could indict Trump and Hesgeth today for gross breaches of the Geneva Conventions and UNCLOS. While it's unlikely the current US regime would extradite Hesgeth to Brussels or wherever to face a war crimes tribunal, it could at least make travel and so forth more difficult for them. Worth a shot in my opinion.

Just throwing that out there.