Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: maceng2 who wrote (177895)	9/8/2021 3:01:29 AM
From: maceng2	1 Recommendation Recommended By ggersh Respond to of 217638

UK HGV Driver story .... tells a story. August 26 News/ ONS: 18% of transport/storage firms are not operating - Gold News \| BullionByPost "At the start of the pandemic last year there was a shortage of delivery drivers for supermarkets, but this time the current HGV driver shortage is believed to be additionally a combination of Covid – forcing isolation of drivers and instructors – as well as Brexit limiting how many EU nationals can work as drivers in Britain. The ONS data breaks down that 8.5% of these firms have paused operations but a staggering 9.1% of these firms have actually ceased trading altogether." while bush telegraph informs on 23rd August... Message 33454334 and nobody seems bothered? Either demand will go down, and transport situation remains constant for now, or shipping costs go up. Can't see what else happens as the incentives for people to train as truck drivers remains exceptionally low. The driver is also expected to load/unload in many circumstances these days, this is definitely a skilled job, and the pay is below minimum wage? It spells major screw up in markets at some point in the road ahead... as masks, social distancing, lockdowns, and especially pointless Covid testing/regulation have created a massive log jam in the flow of things. and there are protests everywhere, that are not reported in the news. What is there to be concerned about ? Situation normal. There was no "Gain of Function" Research btw. Why are people saying that Dr. Anthony Fauci lied? (thesun.co.uk)

To: maceng2 who wrote (177895)	9/8/2021 6:00:34 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217638

Re <<Those military forces shown are for display purposes only>> I suspect as much. Team China seems to be in agreement with your take, as reported below by CNN, and puzzling to think Team Britain is raising taxes so soon after mission accomplished in Afghanistan. Let's see what happens in Canada, Australia, and England, not bother w/ New Zealand, and then watch 2024 America. Team China seems to be reckoning that the like-minded shall be thrown out by ears via domestic people power, because the like-minded cannot deliver, but at the same time there is little need to be careless, so best to prepare for action, and ensure back-to-back interoperability / mutual assist with with the Russians. Speaking of Afghanistan, Teams Russia and China are indubitably not going to go boots-on-the-ground, and shall instead wait for the like-minded to make reappearance so that Team Turkey does not act uncharacteristically in concert with Team Iran to leverage Afghanis refugees against like-minded EU. Teams Russia and China apparently content to practice-makes-perfect, bilaterally and as part of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, to get ready to defend selves against like-minded. The scuttlebutt in China is that the Team has much to learn from Russian comrades who are way more practiced in actual combat, especially recently, not only in the Ukraines but in Syria. Makes sense. In the current iteration of exercises over the past few days, again, second time within 60 days, getting familiar with each other's gears, and better, letting the trainers from each blue / red armies train the troops from the other side's red / blue armies as if own, as a sort of heightened cultural exchange for more stable world peace, so we are told. All very interesting and fresh on Youtube. Team China self admitted that much to learn, and absorb. Reporting by Russians about competitive tanker games with Shanghai Coop comrades. The Russians seem very good. China a laggard. Reporting by China re cooperative training and exercising with soldiers who had seen action Showing commanders and trainers from each side instruction grunts of the other side For whatever reason China is practicing on own in Tibet, unclear what kind of terrorists being targeted as well as in Xinjiang, both adjacent to Afghanistan but given the gears not exactly meant for Afghanistan, and shows girl soldiers launching big rockets. I think the reason generally girls are not allowed on battle field is that they tend to be meaner and nastier than boyz Below CNN reporting on how Britain intending to attack its largest trading partner. Very strange to the point of inexplicable. On Wednesday, Hu Xijin, editor of the state-run tabloid the Global Times, brushed off the significance of the pride of the UK fleet in Pacific waters. "The British aircraft carrier's visit to Japan was regarded by Chinese netizens as a hug of two hired thugs of the US. In the eyes of Chinese netizens, Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier is useless as a dredger," Hu said on Twitter. edition.cnn.com Royal Navy warships leave Britain for landmark Pacific deployment HMS Spey and HMS Tamar depart for their forward deployment to the Indo-Pacific Hong Kong (CNN) — Two Royal Navy patrol ships left the United Kingdom on Tuesday for a five-year deployment that will see them act as "the eyes and ears" of Britain from the west coast of Africa, to the west coast of the United States, according to a British Defense Ministry statement. "Two-thirds of the world is our playground," said Lt. Cmdr. Ben Evans, commanding officer of HMS Spey, a 2,000-ton, 300-foot-long offshore patrol vessel that will team with HMS Tamar for a mission that is not expected to see them return to their Portsmouth home port until 2026. While patrolling the waters of the Pacific and Indian oceans, the warships will venture as far north as the Bering Sea and as far south as New Zealand and the Australian state of Tasmania. In the center of that region is China, with whom tensions have been heating up with Britain's top ally, the United States. "They will act as the eyes and ears of the Navy -- and nation -- in the region, working alongside Britain's allies, carrying out security patrols to deal with drug-running, smuggling, terrorism and other illegal activities, joining in exercises with other navies and armed forces, and flying the flag for Global Britain," the Defense Ministry statement said. Global Britain is the country's post-Brexit blueprint to exert British influence around the world in a number of areas, including in the case of the two warships, military security. Britain in March released a sweeping review of its military and foreign policy, in which it recognized a tilt toward the Indo-Pacific in the coming decade and warned of the challenges coming from China. HMS Spey and HMS Tamar each carry a crew of 46, members of which the Royal Navy says will be swapped out as frequently as every few weeks as the service tries to get regional experience to its crews, while not burning them out on the far-flung mission. That will also allow the ships to spend up to nine months at a time at sea, the navy said. '2,000-ton Swiss Army knives' The ships will not have a permanent base in the Pacific. Instead, they'll call in bases and ports of allies and partners as best suits their mission, the navy said. Along with their normal crews, the ships will host up to 52 Royal Marines or other troops, who can help with specific missions, "a versatility which makes the vessels '2,000-ton Swiss Army knives,'" according to the navy statement. The ships headed west into the Atlantic from Portsmouth to begin their deployment Tuesday. They will go through the Panama Canal to make their way to their new Pacific patrol area. The British warships have been painted in the World War I-style "dazzle" manner, which was meant to make the ships harder to track at the time. Spey and Tamar have gotten World War I-era "dazzle paint" for their Pacific mission. The paint scheme was meant to make warships harder to track a hundred years ago, at time when the British fleet was regarded as the best in the world. "With our paint schemes, we stand out -- we look different. We'll be flying the White Ensign together in the Indo-Pacific region. People will know that the Royal Navy is back," said Evans, Spey's commander. UK allies and partners around the region have already gotten a taste of the modern Royal Navy this summer with the deployment of Britain's largest warship, the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, to the region. The UK's Carrier Strike Group 21, which also includes American and Dutch warships, left Britain in May on a seven-month deployment that has seen it go as far as South Korea, where it completed three days of exercises with the South Korean Navy last week. That followed the first-ever exercises between US and British carrier strike groups as the carrier USS Carl Vinson and its escorts held combined exercises with the Queen Elizabeth in the Pacific. F-35 stealth fighter jets from both carriers conducted training operations during those exercises. UK-Japan defense cooperation The Queen Elizabeth visited the Yokosuka Naval Base in Japan this week, with senior Japanese defense officials and military officers visiting the carrier on Monday. "The visit of the British carrier strike group holds great significance, to maintain and strengthen a free and open Indo-Pacific," Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said after his visit to the Queen Elizabeth, according to a Reuters report. The British Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth is docked at Yokosuka Naval Base in Japan on September 5, 2021. Yokosuka is also the homeport of the American carrier USS Ronald Reagan, the only one of the US Navy's 11 aircraft carriers that is based outside the United States. That is seen as a symbol of the strong US defense commitment to Japan, the kind of ties Britain wants to promote in the Pacific with the Queen Elizabeth and its other warships. "The visit to Japan of HMS Queen Elizabeth and other UK vessels of the Carrier Strike Group is a confident embodiment of the close and deepening relationship between the UK and Japan," British Ambassador to Japan Julia Longbottom said in a statement. "The UK-Japan relationship has a long history. We believe this visit marks the elevation of our defense and security relationship to a new level," she said. All three partners, Japan, the UK and the US, have been vocal about what they term the increasing Chinese threat to security around the Asia-Pacific. In its defense white paper released this summer, Tokyo took a strong stance against what it called China's "unilateral attempts to change the status quo in the East and South China Seas," and it mentioned Britain as a key partner in sharing its vision of a "free and open Indo-Pacific." For its part, China has scoffed at the presence of the UK carrier and other warships in the region. From left, the UK's HMS Queen Elizabeth, Netherlands' HNLMS Evertsen, the US Navy's USS The Sullivans, and HMS Kent steam on July 26 in Singapore waters. Writing in Chinese state media when the Queen Elizabeth transited the South China Sea in late July, Wu Shicun, president of China's National Institute for South China Sea Studies, described the UK carrier deployment as an attempt to "relive the glory days of the British Empire." "The South China Sea was a symbol of Britain's glorious colonial past, through which the old-time empire that prided itself on its worldwide colonies shipped back the fortune and treasures it plundered in Asia," Wu wrote. On Wednesday, Hu Xijin, editor of the state-run tabloid the Global Times, brushed off the significance of the pride of the UK fleet in Pacific waters. "The British aircraft carrier's visit to Japan was regarded by Chinese netizens as a hug of two hired thugs of the US. In the eyes of Chinese netizens, Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier is useless as a dredger," Hu said on Twitter.