To: Maurice Winn who wrote (134730 ) 8/16/2017 6:00:28 PM From: TobagoJack Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217752 typical, the day after i sell my apparently range-bound paper gold to recognise profit that went into accumulation of similarly range-bound physical gold, in what ought to be a sustainable game that increases competitive advantage in the form of capability / capacity to withstand future losses, gold goes up some more in the mean time i observe that it seems everyone who is anyone is tweeting, to get their views out w/o the distortion lens of the media, any media and now the military commanders are getting involved w/ what ostensibly could be characterised as politic, but perhaps they do not see it that way edition.cnn.com all the happenings in the usa seems to demonstrate that democracy is alive and well and active, as long as we put aside the issue of whether the current protocol is a way to make progress on imperatives whilst n.korea kim got what he always wanted, a direct dialogue w/ potus trump and getting praised scmp.com the previous policy of usa had always been no direct one-on-one dialogue w/ n.korea, and insisted on participations of s.korea (of course), japan (naturally), china (cannot understand why) and russia (got me) through such usa-n.korea direct dialogue, and the kibitzing on the sides by the others, the parties respective stands are now crystal clear, for all to view s.korea indicates it doesn't have the balls to engage in war against the north n.korea states it would hit usa if attacked usa states it is game-over should usa be attacked russia and japan keeps very quiet china states if n.korea strikes first, china neutral, and if usa strikes first, china stops usa looks like we have little to worry about w/r to the korean situation, for it is under control, and the financial markets believes so i continue to recommend gold