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

To: TobagoJack who wrote (217792)	11/16/2025 10:38:54 AM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218641

Evacuation preparation? For upcoming kinetic action between China and Japan, bringing US, Philippines, Australia, etc., into play? Lol! At a time when top commands are unfilled thanks to the heavy duty laxatives Xi has been feeding the PLA? Kinetic action over piles of rocks under the circumstances violates the most basic risk/reward calculation imaginable. What in the Celestial Heavens have you been feeding your AI tool? Oh, right, Asimovian sci-fi. Is your AI tool also addicted to video games? Perhaps your AI tool is right, if and only if you have asked it to take Xi’s lack of smarts and bad judgment into account.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (217792)	11/16/2025 6:24:49 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218641

Daily workflow 2025 11 17 Good morning Manus co-pilot, please (1) review relevant news of the past 24 hours resulting from your searches on-line (1-a) latest on US - China wars w/r to trade, tariff, technology, whatever (1-b) Russia - Ukraine / Nato hot war, (1-c) Middle East conflict(s), and w/r to the hereunder VLOGs and articles appended / attached by me, (2) fact-check, (3) supplement with other local languages material searched on-line when advisable, (4) critique, and (5) recalibrate our Asimovian Universe Empire / Foundation 2026 TeoTwawKi / 2032 Darkest Interregnum / 2042 Demographic-flip thematic narrative waypoints, (6) deliberate pro / con as appropriate so I am less likely to be blindsided, and you do not go hallucinatory / sycophantic (7) update me on important latest pricing matter to us - i.e. share indices of USA, HKG, Japan, China, and Gold, Silver, Platinum, Copper, and DXY (value of USD). then (8) give me a report in text and in female voice file. Now I shall do walk, ice coffee, then get on with the rest of my day deliberating, shuffling, keep eyes on markets. I shall upload to you some articles, and some VLOGs ... so wait and hold off analysis / synthesis / integration / text+voice files until I do so ... ARTICLES (1) bloomberg.com <<Bitcoin Erases Year’s Gain as Crypto Bear Market Deepens>> - easy come easy go, must be risk-off time. How deep for how long ? Need FED chair swapped out May, and if so, then March bottom but what's the price at that time ? (2) bloomberg.com <<Popular Zero-Day Options Strategies Keep a Lid on Stock Rallies>> - this smacktion tend to keep premium higher for longer, and closer to expiration day ? (3) bloomberg.com <<Nexperia Conflict Shows Dialog Key in Chip Sector, ASML CEO Says>> - wonder when ASML might have to stop production ? Does ASML buy from Nexperia ? or use rare earths ? or tail in China supply chain door jamb ? (4) bloomberg.com <<US Sanctions Propel Chinese AI Prodigy to $23 Billion Fortune>> - wonderful when the planets line up correctly and one is a genius. What's next ? (5) bloomberg.com <<China’s AI Bets Pivot to Power, Metals as Tech Bubble Fears Grow>> - any scraps left on the table ? (6) bloomberg.com <<Howard Lutnick’s Sons Score Record Year as Cantor Denies Trump Conflicts>> - sometimes only the planets need to line up, and no one needs to be a rocket-science-level genius (7) bloomberg.com <<How the Rest of the World Is Moving on From Trump’s ‘America First’>> - nothing about Foundation here (8) bloomberg.com <<Africa Will Need One Billion Jobs by the End of the Century>> - Foundation anywhere ? (9) bloomberg.com <<The Offshoring of America’s Retirement Savings>> - dunno, but thinking complexity is sometimes an ingredient for grifting (10) zerohedge.com <<Morgan Stanley's 2026 Outlook: "The Year Of Risk Reboot">> - 2025 is very good up to now. How to set up for good 2026 ? (11) zerohedge.com <<US 'In Trouble' - Ford CEO Can't Find 5,000 Mechanics For $120k Jobs>> - I know where one can fine mechanics for 1/10 - 1/5 the $120k (12) zerohedge.com <<Despite Friday's Buying Spree, Goldman Sees Client Sentiment As "Guarded...", Warns "Tails Are Getting Fatter">> - 'guarded' is un-good ? (13) zerohedge.com <<A US Think-Tank Considers Armenia & Kazakhstan To Be Key Players For Containing Russia>> - more South Koreas, and Ukraines and Philippines needed, am guessing (14) zerohedge.com <<US Tests Thermonuclear Bomb Without Warhead In Nevada Desert>> - am guessing old rockets with cracks in solid fuel matrix, and old warheads with cracks in circuit boards are less-good ? If some of each are no-good, then the whole pile cannot really be counted on ? What is the useful longevity of rockets and warheads ? My sneakers soles turn into powder after about 7 years even if never worn or am I imagining ? (15) scmp.com <<How China’s Fujian aircraft carrier deceived US military experts at launch>> - clever, that (16) economist.com <<Beware the scorching gold rally>> - Economist is akin to Bloomberg on many issues, but especially on gold VLOGs (17) youtu.be <<OpenAI Losing Money While Anthropic Becomes Profitable - Sam Altman Has No path to Success>> (18) youtube.com <<BREAKING: Fed Holds Secret, Unscheduled Meeting on Repo Market Stress- Liquidity Crisis?>> (19) youtube.com <<Markets Weekly November 15, 2025>> (20) youtube.com <<US Punishments On Russia Backfiring, Desperate Swiss Deal, Food Prices Grossly Unaffordable>> (21) youtube.com <<Japan PM’s sleep schedule prompts concern>> - explains a lot, and cannot un-hear it (22) youtube.com <<All Is Not Well With the Financial System's Plumbing. Fed Officials Meet with Primary Dealers>> ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS Am wondering if the China - Japan war of words so far might speed up the Mainland - Taiwan resolution timetable before the stack of issues gets more complicated ? and before more getting more ready ?

To: TobagoJack who wrote (217792)	11/17/2025 2:47:17 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Recommended By carranza2 Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 218641

TJ, DON'T LET IT DO YOUR THINKING FOR YOU. We're in a dilemma. Our tiny little 1 kg brains can't possibly do all the thinking we need to do. Even Trump's mighty brain depends on input from many others. We hope to synthesize a good idea from everything. But we see from past decisions that it's fraught with problems. We need It. But can't depend on It. Yet have to decide anyway. My supersonic brain has deduced that the Made in China problem is that it's chimpanzee-based. Albeit with excellent marching, martial music and emperor worship, or total obedience if not worship. Anyone who doesn't sit up straight and shut up will be frog-marched off stage like Hu Jintao. Saddam ran things similarly though those marched off would be summarily shot. Judging by the hysterical applause for Kim the Fatter at public events, he's even more brutal than Saddam. Rather than get all belligerent over Taiwan and islands and stuff, just leave the status quo and keep doing a good job. Just as England did a couple of centuries ago, China when wealthy enough can simply buy places and cooperation. It's not true that England conquered so much. Civilisation did the job. Maoris for example found ponga huts and eating pipis less pleasant than microwave ovens and waterproof houses with insulation, supermarkets, roads, cars and A380s. Sailing canoes across oceans is horrible compared with 10km high, going 10,000 km at 1000 km per hour. Mqurice