Comments by "Keit Hammleter" (@keithammleter3824) on "Forbes Breaking News" channel.

@garyszewc3339 This is what i have a problem with. I'm in my late 70's. For most of my life the boffins have been telling us the earth has been coming out of the Little Ice Age (16th to 18th centuries). And that when doing that, global temperatures are unstable. Now they never mention the Little Ice Age. But does it much matter whether temperatures are increasing due to man's activities, or increasing due to entirely natural causes? If temperatures increase too much we are in trouble anyway, so we better do something. But not electric vehicles - they are stupid.
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@sgttau977 In this video he said its a committee. His actual words were essentially its a room where people meet. Do you have the YouTube video or other source where he said it is not a committee (which would mean it is one person)?
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Gee, that was a sincere heartfelt apology, wasn't it? Well, no.
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I have been wondering about that myself. Maybe they are all told "if Kennedy looks at you, you are in for it whatever you do. Just tough it out, it only lasts 5 minutes."
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She is clearly not very bright as evidenced by the answers she gave. Things like "the information we had was known", things like stating that she used her personal phone for secure work purposes, then when told that is illegal, she just boldly said she didn't. She is indeed incompetent, as evidenced by a whole lot of strife with the Secret Service since she was appointed director, including a large fraction of staff quitting.
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What has refrigerators got to do with it? The electricity consumed by a fridge, averaged over 24 hours, is very small. Other things such as ovens and airconditioners use far more. But this turkey is in fantasy land if he thinks electric vehicles are more energy efficient. It doesn't matter whether you burn a fossil fuel in your self in your car, or it has to be burnt in a power station to supply you with electricity for charging a vehicle, the result is the same. Sure electric motors are very efficient, but you still have the conversion of fossil fuel into electricity and that is not an efficient process, regardless of whether you do it or the power company does it.
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Did any computer chip makers or personal computer makers get a government subsidy? The answer is NO. Yet in the 1970's personal computers were only in use in a few research labs. Yet by year 2000 pretty much every person in western countries has one. Because until EV's PC's fill a real personal need. Not a theoretical community need, a real personal need.
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@aydenpeele747 There are some important points obscured or overlooked in your simple statement:- 1. Most of us believe in democracy, but democracy is an imperfect thing. A vital part of democracy is to have two parties, one in government, and one in opposition. The oppositions' job is to oppose. Continually oppose. Not to obstruct government at every turn, but to keep them on their toes and make them clearly explain their policies. It is true 99.999% of the time that if you can't clearly explain something, its because you don't understand it. If you don't understand it, at best you are acting on faith and that's dangerous. It is quite clear from watching these videos that, actually at this time neither the politicians nor the witnesses understand it. 2. EV's will not do anything much for the environment. All they mean is that instead of pumping out CO2 at every vehicles tailpipe, CO2 is pumped out in about the same aggregate quantity at the power stations - because EV's have to be charged. Think we can eventually have all electricity coming from solar panels? Nope, unless you think covering entire countries with solar panels is a good thing to do. 3. EV''s depend on batteries, and nobody has come up with a safe battery that can be charged quickly and energy efficiently. Owners of high rise buildings are starting to ban EV's from basement carparks, because if a basement carpark is full of EV's and one catches fire, it will spread to all of them, and the result is as bad as a big Russian glide bomb. 4. Lots of city people have to leave their cars parked on the street. How are these to be charged? Cables across the footpath? I personally think that EV's are a silly interim step that won't last long. Similar to when governments in many countries banned incandescent light globes, forcing the people to buy compact fluorescent globes that were more efficient but were expensive and had a short service life. Then a few years later LED lighting arrived and made compact fluorescent lighting look stupid - LED lighting is even more efficient and has a much longer service life, and contains no hazardous materials. Something will come along that makes EV's look pretty stupid, which will make subsidising them a complete waste of money. Possibly it will be a hydrogen economy - using the deserts of the world to utilize solar energy to spilt water into hydrogen and oxygen, and shipping and distributing the hydrogen like we do now with gasoline. Possibly not, we'll see.
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I'm not familiar with American law, so I looked up the meaning of cause-in-fact and proximate-cause. She got cause in fact correct but proximate cause wrong, and it seems that it is a fundamental thing for a judge to know. Sen Kennnedy has thus established she is not competent. Cause in fact: the thing or event that literally caused a physical injury or death. Proximate cause: the thing or event that is the primary cause that led, through a chain of events, to physical injury or death. I've watched a number of these videos featuring Sen Kennedy. His style is intimidatory, but if they knew their job and gave honest answers, they wouldn't have a problem. Consistently, women appearing are hopeless, generally the men have some ability. Are they choosing women because they are women, and not choosing on ability?
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In the English language, "Master" is the valid and correct honorific for a male person aged less than 21.
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Why does Blue Suit talk like a horse's hoof? He doesn't sound American. Is he a token divergent hire?
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@JohnM-sw4sc Yes, but they are just allocated a desk somewhere in that different office. If you have to work surrounded by people you don't know and working on completely different things, you might as well stay working from home as they were doing. Having been a boss myself, I know that the benefit of having you team around you is that you can keep abreast of what they are doing without effort, and without requiring them to write weekly reports of what they have done - such reports being a big waste of time of both workers and boss.
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@anasmaaz5731 Some politician are corrupt. Some are dumb. Some do try to do their best. But almost all are grounded in reality. Trump has no idea what reality is. But he IS a politician, and he IS as corrupt as any.
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@IIIuxep You read too much Putin propaganda and extrapolate for that. The Crimea was by treaty part of Ukraine. In 2014 Russia seized possession of it with troops. In order to support Putin's nonsense that it was a local uprising the troops did not wear Russian army uniforms but they were Putin's troops none the less. There was no actual war because unlike Zelensky, the Ukraine government at the time did not feel up to resisting the Russians. The election in the Crimea was a sham, with an outcome determined by Moscow's force. There was no peace for Zelensky to tear up in 2022 - because the Russians had invaded Ukraine. It was the Russians who tore up the peace treaty. They acted first. Of course Zelensky opened fire - he was shooting at the Russian occupying forces. No different to Britain bombing German troops occupying France in WW2. Putin's propaganda changes over time. He's now claiming its all Zelensky's fault, but back in 2022 Putin stated that he (Putin) started it because he wanted to get rid of "Nazis". Trump took it further and claimed Zelensky started the war - something that not even Putin claimed.
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I think she is now unemployable in any capacity that has oversight of other people. She can wash dishes at some hotel.
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She's honest but not very bright. How did she get to be a professor?
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You can never write a policy or protocol that covers every situation. Sooner or later there will arise situations the policy/protocol author(s) hadn't thought of. A wise manager keeps the written out stuff to an absolute minimum. A wise manager or leader creates a situation/work environment where subordinate feel that if they have to make a decision on the spot outside of policy, their supervisor will support that decision, but if they make a wrong call, they better have good excuse. This is easier said than done, and is why organisations pay a lot of money to managers that can create such an environment. Not everyone can do it. Clearly Cheatle could not. It can't be done by having extra words in written policies and protocols. It is done by personal interaction and demonstrated behavior. In commercial business, we say that at every level, authority must match accountability. It seems to be a thing world wide that government organisations write lots and lots of policy and procedure documents to cover everything they can think of, so that nobody is truely accountable for anything and nobody gets fired. It seems to be the case world-wide that in private industry, very little policy and procedure stuff gets written. Instead, managers get to know their staff, and if someone turns out get things right as often as can be expected, their job is safe, but if they get things wrong too often or too seriously, they get fired.
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Its ratings winning stupidity, but as for conducting themselves professionally, it is a disgrace. Zelensky, who has right on his side, allowed himself to be outmaneuvered and bullied by Trump and did not get his points home. Trump just showed how to be a bully and made reaching an end to the war in an equitable what harder. Presidents should allow their professional negotiators to thrash thing out behind closed doors and only meet to sign whatever has already been settled.
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Sen Kennedy had probably done his pre-hearing digging and decided they had never said or done anything bad, and had done good work, except the one who got grilled.
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"hormonally entirely a female". All that means is that his androgen levels were a bit low. After 30 years in prison they probably would be, even without hormonal sex conversion therapy. It's not relevant anyway, because he has a record of violence, is physically imposing, and likes sex with anything that is alive, regardless of his victim's gender.
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@TheGuzeinbuick The thing is, Putin won't stop with just the eastern part of Ukraine. Sooner or later he will launch an armed invasion of another territory, in Ukraine or in another Eastern European country. So just letting him have what he has seized is not a good idea. He has to be shown forcibly that if he seizes territory, he just won't be allowed to keep it.
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@themagiclamp7208 Ah, but unlike Finland, Ukraine has something worth having:- 1. Good food growing area; 2. Valuable scarce minerals; 3. An educated workforce that has a better record of successful industrial innovation than Russia; 4. A useful area as a buffer state. Something that the USSR/Russia has understood ever since they learnt it the had way in WW2 is that a state should endevour to create a situation where if you have etc fight a war, the fighting occurs in tehe buffer state and not your own territory. It is something that the USA understood too. - it suited both the USA and the USSR that their military posturing & troop deplyment happend in Europe with a clear dividing line between buffer states. Neither of the two could attack the other with bombers without first flying over a buffer state, where they could be shot down.
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@yanikashanty7436 You must be kin to Trump with his ridiculous claim that the war is Ukraine's fault. NATO not directed at Russia? That is the whole reason for NATO. Words mean nothing. Actions do. Of course Ukraine is being as aggressive as it can - Donbas is their territory and they are fighting back in a war that Russia started by invading Ukraine. No different to you defending your home against some punk who broke in to steal off you. Perhaps you would think that the punk is in the right. You appear to be ignorant about Cuba. The USSR set up a missile base on Cuba because the US set up a missile base in Turkey, right on the border with the USSR. After some diplomatic squawking, the USRR said if you Americans remove your missiles on our border, we will remove our missiles from Cuba - and it was done. The Cuba missile thing confirms what I said - that both the USSR/Russi and the USA each need buffer states to guard against bomber aircraft, and as places where if push comes to shove, there is somewhere for fighting to occur without risk to own territory.
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@JD-xd4sy Who is "they"? If the US or Europe was to send troops to Ukraine to fight on Ukraine's side, that would bee considered by Russia as a multi-country threat to its existence and thus lead to a world war. That's why the US and every other country has ben careful to not send any troops - Ukraine has to fight it out itself. The US and other countries have been sending weapons for Ukraine to fight back with, but not long range weapons, so that Russia has no excuse to escalate to attack other countries. However, Ukrain has developed its own long range weapons and likely will develop more. This takes the fight to the Russians in their own territory but Russia has no excuse to attack another country, thus there is no risk of world war. If Russia was to attack another oountry, it would trigger a full on NATO response - Putin knows that, and he is not stupid. Putin's underlings have made various threats, but their bluff has been called. Allowing Russia to win against Ukraine is not a realistic thing either. Putin will just wait until he has firm control, his military strength is built up again, and start another local war against another east European country. He already seized Moldovia, Georgia, and Chechnia. Ukraine is the fourth. The West has woken up and drawn a line in the sand.
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