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  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,823 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 3, 2017 7:03PM

    @rawteam1 said:

    Who can we sell insurance to???...

    Houston

    "Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey

  • bronco2078bronco2078 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ChrisRx said:

    @cohodk said:

    @derryb said:
    all countries we were told to worry about. I'm with you, no worry warranted.

    Scared and worried people are controlled and manipulated people.

    Absolutely true. In fact, there is a "news" channel dedicated to it.

    2 of them CNN and MSNBC although only 7 people watch the second one

  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,823 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I like the new news channel, "One America News," channel 347 of DirecTV.

    "Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey

  • ChrisRxChrisRx Posts: 5,619 ✭✭✭✭

    @bronco2078 said:

    @ChrisRx said:

    @cohodk said:

    @derryb said:
    all countries we were told to worry about. I'm with you, no worry warranted.

    Scared and worried people are controlled and manipulated people.

    Absolutely true. In fact, there is a "news" channel dedicated to it.

    2 of them CNN and MSNBC although only 7 people watch the second one

    Looks like the reputation made it self-evident ;)

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  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭✭

    We would be idiots to start anything with North Korea. Unfortunately we got just the man for the job. Unless of course you don't care about Seoul going up in smoke. All of it.

    mark

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  • musstangrmusstangr Posts: 61 ✭✭✭

    Never mind the previous "idiots" who allowed it to get to this point, or the other "idiot" hell bent on trying to provoke this into happening for whatever reason.....

  • Dave99BDave99B Posts: 8,533 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Crazy-man saber rattled is WAY worse than regular saber rattling.

    Dave

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  • CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Justacommeman said:
    We would be idiots to start anything with North Korea. Unfortunately we got just the man for the job. Unless of course you don't care about Seoul going up in smoke. All of it.

    mark

    We should send Colin Kaepernick in as a peace maker.

  • USASoccerUSASoccer Posts: 445 ✭✭✭

    @Coinstartled said:

    @Justacommeman said:
    We would be idiots to start anything with North Korea. Unfortunately we got just the man for the job. Unless of course you don't care about Seoul going up in smoke. All of it.

    mark

    We should send Colin Kaepernick in as a peace maker.

    Dennis Rodman; no one else...

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It is unlikely that Kim will be taken down internally... he kills anyone - even family - if the slightest indication of disagreement becomes known. And his system of information gathering - spurred by fear and greed - is throughout the military. We will not move first.... My belief is China may have people in place and will make a move for regime change. Cheers, RickO

  • CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    China should gift him with a 400 foot luxury ship as a reward for his family's decades of quality governance.

    You can figure out the rest.

  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,823 ✭✭✭✭✭

    the key to resolution is a good understanding of exactly what this guy wants. I have yet to see that revealed in any news reports other than he is just nuts.

    "Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey

  • dpooledpoole Posts: 5,940 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @derryb said:
    the key to resolution is a good understanding of exactly what this guy wants. I have yet to see that revealed in any news reports other than he is just nuts.

    The recurring theory I've heard is the more plausible one: Kim observed what happened in Iraq and Libya to those tyrants who either fell short of or surrendered their nuke capacities. Kim's motivation is to insure regime preservation.

  • bronco2078bronco2078 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @dpoole said:

    @derryb said:
    the key to resolution is a good understanding of exactly what this guy wants. I have yet to see that revealed in any news reports other than he is just nuts.

    The recurring theory I've heard is the more plausible one: Kim observed what happened in Iraq and Libya to those tyrants who either fell short of or surrendered their nuke capacities. Kim's motivation is to insure regime preservation.

    https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/09/04/what-the-media-isnt-telling-you-about-north-koreas-missile-tests/

  • CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @dpoole said:

    @derryb said:
    the key to resolution is a good understanding of exactly what this guy wants. I have yet to see that revealed in any news reports other than he is just nuts.

    The recurring theory I've heard is the more plausible one: Kim observed what happened in Iraq and Libya to those tyrants who either fell short of or surrendered their nuke capacities. Kim's motivation is to insure regime preservation.

    That is a safe and feel good assumption. Reality is that the nut fed his uncle literally to the dogs.

    Address the matter now (Obama was a milquetoast) or face a much greater calamity in the future. Washington is very good at kicking the can down the road so I expect the latter.

  • dpooledpoole Posts: 5,940 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @bronco2078 That sounds like a "...but he started it" argument.

    @Coinstartled I don't think that assumption is a particularly "feel good" one, since it means (and potentially explains why) Kim has no interests in anything on offer (including demilitarization of the peninsula and a finalization of a peace treaty) in exchange for surrendering his nuclear facilities. Also: even "nuts" have motives.

  • CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @dpoole said:
    @bronco2078 That sounds like a "...but he started it" argument.

    @Coinstartled I don't think that assumption is a particularly "feel good" one, since it means (and potentially explains why) Kim has no interests in anything on offer (including demilitarization of the peninsula and a finalization of a peace treaty) in exchange for surrendering his nuclear facilities. Also: even "nuts" have motives.

    So you are in the Oval Office, David. What do you do?

  • renman95renman95 Posts: 7,037 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @bronco2078 said:

    @dpoole said:

    @derryb said:
    the key to resolution is a good understanding of exactly what this guy wants. I have yet to see that revealed in any news reports other than he is just nuts.

    The recurring theory I've heard is the more plausible one: Kim observed what happened in Iraq and Libya to those tyrants who either fell short of or surrendered their nuke capacities. Kim's motivation is to insure regime preservation.

    https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/09/04/what-the-media-isnt-telling-you-about-north-koreas-missile-tests/

    Yawn. The article is a typical hit piece on America (& The Donald). I understand the angle but the author's fawning of Kim is sad, really. Where's the concern for the victims of Kim's concentration-like camps....?

    What the media failed to mention was that, for the last three weeks, Japan, South Korea and the US have been engaged in large-scale joint-military drills on Hokkaido Island and in South Korea.

    False, I've heard it several times.

  • jmski52jmski52 Posts: 22,850 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 5, 2017 2:11PM

    Far as I know, we've been at war with N. Korea since 1951 or so.

    Aside from that detail, they've always been a proxy for Communist China. What's changed, except that the collective memories on this side seem to have forgotten who the ideological enemy is?

    N. Korea has always used extortion to get free stuff from the U.S. How is their motive any different now than when Clinton gave them a nuke reactor?

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  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,823 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Kim's a stacker. Rodman's been bringing him AGE monster boxes. He's just trying to increase his return.

    "Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey

  • dpooledpoole Posts: 5,940 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Coinstartled said:

    @dpoole said:
    @bronco2078 That sounds like a "...but he started it" argument.

    @Coinstartled I don't think that assumption is a particularly "feel good" one, since it means (and potentially explains why) Kim has no interests in anything on offer (including demilitarization of the peninsula and a finalization of a peace treaty) in exchange for surrendering his nuclear facilities. Also: even "nuts" have motives.

    So you are in the Oval Office, David. What do you do?

    I'd get with the Chinese. I'd say I know you want a buffer state, and that you would prefer that you had a puppet there. We'd go with that.

    How about you and we find some NK disgruntled general with some potential following, promise him exoneration from post-coup prosecution or other retaliation (and other enticing goodies) in exchange for his overthrowing Kim? We'd go along with the puppet of China's choice in exchange for an inspected and absolute de-nuclearization of the Korean peninsula. We'd pull out anti-missile batteries and agree to multi-lateral (including So. Korea) talks to end the Korean War.

  • CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Quite a gambit Poole but the idea has some merit.

    Chinese cooperation to any US plan has been difficult. Trump would have to let them believe that it was their idea.

  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,823 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Anyone who doesn't agree with you appears to be nuts.

    "Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey

  • cohodkcohodk Posts: 19,127 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @derryb said:
    Anyone who doesn't agree with you appears to be nuts.

    Yeah..probably, or rightly. ;) lol

    Excuses are tools of the ignorant

    Knowledge is the enemy of fear

  • ChrisRxChrisRx Posts: 5,619 ✭✭✭✭

    You can't reason with the insane.

    Plan: get the whole world's navies together and park them off the NK coasts (completely surrounded.)
    Give Kim and all his cronies 24 hours to surrender, if not, bombs away (has to be fast and efficient to keep south Korea safe.)

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  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,823 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey

  • ChrisRxChrisRx Posts: 5,619 ✭✭✭✭

    Run a false flag and get it over with.

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  • ChrisRxChrisRx Posts: 5,619 ✭✭✭✭

    Agree.

    Let's just run a false flag and get it over with.

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  • bronco2078bronco2078 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭✭✭✭

    No leader should trust the US , we have wrecked all these other countries we intervene in . We say Saddam you can't kill your own people thats bad , then we go in and kill even more of them and leave the place a smoking ruin . Libya got the same deal , and Syria is 90% ruined , and given the chance we will destroy North Korea too.

    This constant warfare and these interventions don't benefit American citizens or the country as a whole it just lines the pockets of special interests and the politicians they own.

  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,823 ✭✭✭✭✭

    NK should just have remained quietly in the background. There are no known plans to run a gas or oil pipeline through there. This is Kim's mistake.

    "Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey

  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I wish Kim had a Twitter account

    mark

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  • jmski52jmski52 Posts: 22,850 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I wouldn't want to be working for him and accidentally get on his bad side. It could be as bad as working for Hillary.

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  • renman95renman95 Posts: 7,037 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Justacommeman said:
    I wish Kim had a Twitter account

    mark

    @ nuKim

  • sumnomsumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭

    @dpoole said:

    @Coinstartled said:

    @dpoole said:
    @bronco2078 That sounds like a "...but he started it" argument.

    @Coinstartled I don't think that assumption is a particularly "feel good" one, since it means (and potentially explains why) Kim has no interests in anything on offer (including demilitarization of the peninsula and a finalization of a peace treaty) in exchange for surrendering his nuclear facilities. Also: even "nuts" have motives.

    So you are in the Oval Office, David. What do you do?

    I'd get with the Chinese. I'd say I know you want a buffer state, and that you would prefer that you had a puppet there. We'd go with that.

    How about you and we find some NK disgruntled general with some potential following, promise him exoneration from post-coup prosecution or other retaliation (and other enticing goodies) in exchange for his overthrowing Kim? We'd go along with the puppet of China's choice in exchange for an inspected and absolute de-nuclearization of the Korean peninsula. We'd pull out anti-missile batteries and agree to multi-lateral (including So. Korea) talks to end the Korean War.

    Not a bad response, Dpoole. Not bad at all. If the proposed puppet regime is too transparently a puppet regime, South Korea and Japan may have something to say about it. At the moment the Chinese do not have anywhere near the amount of influence many think they do. If the PRC simply steps in, there will be trouble with the ROK and that relationship is economically important to the PRC. Plus, there is some concern in the region of Chinese expansionism. Too brash a move in the DPRK would be taken as a realization of those fears.

  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,293 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Another war movie, with a twist. These clowns love making history. I don't really care who is on what side. War & Peace is big business.

  • dpooledpoole Posts: 5,940 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I agree a problem with the puppet state idea is that the So. Koreans may well (and justifiably) feel betrayed by our implicit abandonment of their aspirations to reunite the peninsula.

    Of course, with our pulling out, So. Korea would be in a long-term position to achieve reunification in exchange for a "Findlandization" of a united Korea, via a vis China. That I expect would happen anyway over time, given China's growing gravitational pull and regional power.

  • tincuptincup Posts: 5,141 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "You can't reason with the insane."

    That's what I really think we are dealing with here. Executes individuals by feeding them to hungry dogs, firing squad using an anti-aircraft cannon (for 'crimes' such as falling asleep in meetings), using flamethrowers, poison, etc. Also quite willing to starve his people rather than give up developing his 'toys' so he can potentially cause more havoc. There does seem to be something not quite right with this individual besides just wanting to keep power.

    I see no good outcome to the situation. Best scenario is some general takes huge risk and tries to take over.

    ----- kj
  • drwstr123drwstr123 Posts: 7,037 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "You can't reason with the insane."

  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,823 ✭✭✭✭✭

    third US aircraft carrier en route. Somethings coming.

    "Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey

  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,121 ✭✭✭✭✭

    F35's are now in Japan

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  • cohodkcohodk Posts: 19,127 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 25, 2017 12:21PM

    I think Godzilla has been sighted.

    Excuses are tools of the ignorant

    Knowledge is the enemy of fear

  • KkathylKkathyl Posts: 3,762 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I am embarrassed to admit I know Dennis Rodman as an investor. SMH, he used to actually be normal.

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  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,660 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Oh, it's on, on like Donkey Kong!

    I'd like to sell some gold n silver@ new highs!

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  • KkathylKkathyl Posts: 3,762 ✭✭✭✭✭

    HAHA just read all the comments, Made me think of, HI IM MEGAN KELLY and here's a bunch of nothing I will try to make sound like something with my voice.

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  • CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Kkathyl said:
    I am embarrassed to admit I know Dennis Rodman as an investor. SMH, he used to actually be normal.

    I was a Worm fan when he was in Detroit. Seemed halfway sane. I think the hair dye did him in.

  • bronco2078bronco2078 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @jmski52 said:
    I wouldn't want to be working for him and accidentally get on his bad side. It could be as bad as working for Hillary.

    I can see her executing someone with an antiaircraft gun.> @OPA said:

    F35's are now in Japan

    That will scare him :D They don't even bother to air up the tires on them everyone knows they can't fly.

  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,823 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 12, 2017 9:14AM

    If The Saudi Arabia Situation Doesn't Worry You, You're Not Paying Attention

    This threatens the price of all things paper, and could easily drive the price of all things real, starting with oil.

    "Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey

  • cohodkcohodk Posts: 19,127 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'm not worried.

    Excuses are tools of the ignorant

    Knowledge is the enemy of fear

  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,823 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @cohodk said:
    I'm not worried.

    of course not

    "Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey

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