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To: maceng2 who wrote (198879)	5/19/2023 3:44:02 AM
From: TobagoJack	1 Recommendation Recommended By maceng2 Respond to of 218344

Consider NEM, PAAS, GDX, GDXJ, FNV, BHP, RIO, 0941.HK finance.yahoo.com , 0883.HK finance.yahoo.com , XOM, ET finance.yahoo.com , and EPD finance.yahoo.com , and anything governmental and yielding 4.5% in your spending currency, march in 10 steps, one step per month, is what I told my wife I feel we are in the front edge of the commodities era Residual goes 50/50 gold and Casper

To: maceng2 who wrote (198879)	5/19/2023 7:35:25 AM
From: TobagoJack	2 Recommendations Recommended By fred woodall marcher Respond to of 218344

Gold bullish, 45:00 mark … and I think the professor is correct, that China will not allow Russia to lose, even if have to send in volunteers ala Korea 1950s, the earlier version of Little Green Men But the good news is that China intervention likely not necessary because the Russians would use nukes, not on Ukraine now only having two residual cities, but on Poland, for starters. A guess based on the content of the interview

To: maceng2 who wrote (198879)	5/19/2023 7:49:43 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 218344

Re <<tech>> I see a developing problem of dawning realisation all around the world where all had be indoctrinated on 100% kill-score capability of anti-ballistic-missile(s, 10s, 100s, 1000s) defence system, but now awoken, or woke, to the possibility that capabilities, undoubtedly entirely questionable, and capacities, and strategic / tactical intervention as counter-counter ABMs indubitably leave the matter of bombing efficacy entirely open. IOW, war is again, in the old fashioned sense, war, when it is not between pyjama / flipflop bedsheet / sneakers against boots on the ground, in the air, under and above water, etc etc very interesting situation, where gradually but surely folks come to realise nothing works as projected, army, navy, airforce, marines, space force and at this juncture, just as UK sold gold at 290, now see force numbers down to 72k, with one new aircraft carrier scrapped for parts to be used on its older sister ship (btw, is there a parliamentary investigation on the matter of 'spare' that is not harry, ex-prince, but prince, of Wales, the ex-boat?) Also noted the sabotage of the new new warship having its electrical rudely severed theguardian.com. What is going on?! this new shipbuilding protocol probably requires correction inflation coming zerohedge.com US Hawks Want Iron Dome For Ukraine, But It Would Be Ineffective Israel has long rejected the idea of sending its Iron Dome missile defense systems to Ukraine, despite the pleadings of Zelensky and his officials. After all, the Iron Dome has been busy of late given recent missile barrages out of Gaza amid the flare-up in fighting. But the Pentagon has signaled it could be prepared to ship its own Israeli-made Iron Dome systems, after earlier sending Patriot missile systems, the latter which may or may not be effective given Russia is now seeking to overwhelm Ukraine's defenses. picture alliance via Getty Images On Thursday a US general informed a Senate hearing that one of two Iron Dome batteries owned by the United States is ready for deployment to Ukraine. Senator Angus King pressed Army Space and Missile Defense Command chief General Daniel Karbler on why Ukraine has not yet received the Iron Dome: “We sent something like $3 billion to Israel to develop it… Wouldn’t this be a very important resource for the Ukrainians since their principal problem right now is missile defense?” the lawmaker asked. Gen. Karbler said that among two Iron Dome batteries in US inventories, one is ready to go if needed: “One completed new equipment training, new equipment fielding. It is prepared for deployment. The other one is wrapping up its new equipment training right now. So the army does have one available for deployment if we get a request,” he said. Sen. King's argument is that given the US had a role in developing the system for the Israelis, Washington should have a say in whether Ukraine gets it. But the battlefield reality of the Ukraine situation means there are some significant complexities when it comes to deploying the Iron Dome. The system is effective for Israel given it is for Israel a 'total coverage' system over specific cities and towns within limited space. But Ukraine's own wartime situation is very different. Ukraine is a vast territory being attacked by Russian aerial bombardments from multiple sides, and even from the Black Sea. The Jerusalem Post also noted analysis this week-- “If Israel needs 10 or more Iron Domes to properly defend itself, Ukraine would need dozens or more, which simply do not exist.” Iron Dome at work over Israel The Israeli publication also emphasized in the analysis: “One or two Iron Domes from the US would make no difference tactically, and at this point, probably would not even make much of a symbolic difference. And even then, the Iron Dome might fail to shoot down Putin’s more sophisticated missiles.” The Ukrainians have meanwhile been claiming (dubiously) to have shot down Russia's hypersonic missiles with the US-supplied Patriots. Russia has called this claim "laughable".

To: maceng2 who wrote (198879)	5/19/2023 8:07:37 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 218344

Re <<Rocky inflation>> UK, as I contended before, can consider outsourcing shipbuilding to either America or China and stop the buy-two-get-one approach :0) yeup, because the cause of inflation is shrouded to hide incompetence, would be one suspicion, and therefore no cure possible until and unless incompetence excised edition.cnn.com US can’t keep up with China’s warship building, Navy Secretary says ... “They use slave labor in building their ships, right – that’s not the way we should do business ever, but that’s what we’re up against so it does present a significant advantage,” he claimed. ... Del Toro did not supply specifics to support the slave labor allegation, and analysts expressed doubt that Beijing would resort to such a tactic. ... “China has a very large pool of available manpower and it wouldn’t really make sense to use slave labor in a high-tech sector vital to their national security,” said Blake Herzinger, a nonresident fellow and Indo-Pacific defense policy expert at the American Enterprise Institute. Herzinger said comments like that from the Navy chief are indicative of a pattern where US attention is put in the wrong place – to the detriment of US abilities. “This seems unfortunately common, that Navy leadership throws stones at real or imagined faults in Chinese shipbuilding rather than reckoning with US failures over two decades to conceptualize, design and build ships for its own navy,” Herzinger said. ... And Del Toro said Tuesday that the US retains one big advantage over China – “our people.” “In many ways our shipbuilders are better shipbuilders, that’s why we have a more modern, more capable, more lethal Navy than they do,” he said. US military personnel are better on their feet, too, Del Toro contended. “They script their people to fight, we actually train our people to think,” he said. “There’s a fundamental difference in how we train our Marines and our sailors and our soldiers and our airmen and our Space Force in this country that gives us an inherent advantage over anything the Chinese can put up.”

To: maceng2 who wrote (198879)	5/19/2023 8:22:45 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 218344

According to De Toro, the Chinese cannot think, to which the response must logically be, 'nothing to worry about' but for the inconvenient possibility that whilst the Chinese might not be able to think, Chinese AI thinks well enough but, if China can build ships for Taiwan, surely can do same for Britain :0) as China does for Team France But first, some experts must be shut down so that the tax payers do not get to know that their contributions went into F35s with small stick and short range, Littoral Combat floaters, and submarines that hit mountain tops etc etc a quiet note, that perhaps Elon ought to run for it 2024, and serious, that would be much more alarming than Trump running but to be seriously alarming, the two might perhaps run as a single ticket and share the job to de-swamp the swampy places, even as neither personality particularly appetising, but suspect half the nation would go mad scmp.com In China, AI warship designer did nearly a year’s work in a day - It took humans 300 times longer to complete the same tasks, according to study funded by Chinese military - Team says AI designer had ‘100 per cent accuracy’ and is ‘ready for engineering applications’ reuters.com China shipbuilding for Taiwan firm likely aiding Chinese navy build-up - U.S. think tank news.cgtn.com China and France sign record container ship order edition.cnn.com Expert’s warning to US Navy on China: Bigger fleet almost always wins