World destabilising to alarming degree

It seems pretty clear that the World is becoming more destabilised than at any time in the recent past.
Isreal is coming under criticism for breaking just about every international law in the Geneva convention and doing this with impunity and full US support. Along with this, US military war crimes in Iraq are now daily news and the UN is looking so totally inefectual it may as well not exist. The US has certainly lost any moral high ground it once had along with any remaining support from the international community at large.
In a further escalation of the N.Korea situation a US nuke destroyer docked in Japan on Sunday. Also over the weekend India tested their own latest long range nuke capable missiles to which nobody blinked an eyelid.
The World is becoming redicalised and fractured according to the "with us, or against us" bu****e doctrine that is forced down our throats by the corporate media.
Since many less desirable regimes are getting nervous arms dealers are doing very well packing these unstable regions to the hilt with their latest technology.
This is certainly looking like the prelude to a new wider global conflict. I fail to see how this is actually getting us, as a race any further along the evolutionary chain.

Better get back to building that bunker in the garden.

In light of this what is the best trade right now other than canned food and lead sheeting?

In light of this what is the best trade right now other than canned food and lead sheeting?

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Since many less desirable regimes are getting nervous arms dealers are doing very well

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Arms perhaps

I fail to see how this is actually getting us, as a race any further along the evolutionary chain.

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I wasnt aware that an "evolutionary chain" actually existed .


Paul

Trader333 said:

I wasnt aware that an "evolutionary chain" actually existed .


Paul

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Its the one by which we hang by the neck from the species tree.
The homo-sapiens branch was never a particularly strong one....

Unfortuantely, intelligence is not a major factor in the selection process so the human race is doomed
to remain as stupid as it is.

Agree that there are lots of factors both economic and political that are likely to mean will be living in more interesting times in the years to come. Trades based on increasing volatility should be a good bet.

hmm well, prod the grey stuff

http://web.ukonline.co.uk/pmcrowley/index.html philosphy of stuff whilst we contemplate inbound.

maybe some get to a point and assess the sillyness of global heavy weight political chess play sit back and think, dear ohh dear, has to be a better way for life on earth for the masses, I sense this snowball is still a rollin downhill .

but bugger it we humans are herdy types, those sneaky whatsits know it, think right what do we want them to do? and know (generally) what buttons to press, spin to pump out etc.

are we evolving along a chain? id go with yes in terms of non physical aspect of a human life, the energy side. compassionate side of the human, but have I just been spun you know what?? Plus maybe not to forget leaders and their current visions or awareness cant allow mass free thinking on the earth, or so i thought.... maybe thats a 3 pint philosophy order needed to solve that one.

It feels natural to head in that direction and seems logical but it in a way goes/rubbs against westernised culture hmm.

Are the Nukes inbound in the next few years ? im ready for it, in the sense i'll cook a curry and drink a cold one, and probably think those silly buggers have done it.

evolution

hmm I did come across a few lines regarding 1 of the worlds apparently leading DNA spiral helix anlyst expert lol, or whatever they call themselves said the OUR Human DNA spiral helix or someting is too advanced for the life of this planet.... ie in know way it could of evolved here on earth in the time.

sorry to be a bit vague but was never any good at referencing etc, too lazy i suspect...

time for a pill me thinks.

Fx.

pil's

You implicitly take a position that the 'world' was at some point - stable. Where'd you get that idea from?

The World has pretty much always been as it is now, - except now we get to comment on 'events' quicker - and indeed have the luxury of commenting upon them.

With that privilege comes the ennui associated with speedy response, lack of context, lack of thought, instant reaction and the increased rate of decay of interest in them and worth of them, for those very reasons.

Waste of time.

Hacking Matter

GammaJammer, wrote:

deep otm, long dated gold calls maybe?

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I think the activities of modern day alchemists may turn out to have a bigger impact on the future value of “ancient relics” such gold, than its fans may care to think about?

Here’s why (maybe), http://www.wilmccarthy.com/hm.htm and it’s free (well almost?)

We live in interesting times, don’t we just?

HTH

Cheers

Mayfly

The world just goes from getting along in rough terms to not getting along as usual..sounds like a market to me ....as long as 99.9% of it keeps it's crap off my doorstep I don't have a problem with it ..they can keep on rattling their sabres to their hearts content..

Energy..peaceful ,or not so peaceful times it should deliver the goods. Filtering that down to specific areas of interest and allocating the capital is the challenging part.

twalker said:

It seems pretty clear that the World is becoming more destabilised than at any time in the recent past.
Isreal is coming under criticism for breaking just about every international law in the Geneva convention and doing this with impunity and full US support. Along with this, US military war crimes in Iraq are now daily news and the UN is looking so totally inefectual it may as well not exist. The US has certainly lost any moral high ground it once had along with any remaining support from the international community at large.
In a further escalation of the N.Korea situation a US nuke destroyer docked in Japan on Sunday. Also over the weekend India tested their own latest long range nuke capable missiles to which nobody blinked an eyelid.
The World is becoming redicalised and fractured according to the "with us, or against us" bu****e doctrine that is forced down our throats by the corporate media.
Since many less desirable regimes are getting nervous arms dealers are doing very well packing these unstable regions to the hilt with their latest technology.
This is certainly looking like the prelude to a new wider global conflict. I fail to see how this is actually getting us, as a race any further along the evolutionary chain.

Better get back to building that bunker in the garden.

In light of this what is the best trade right now other than canned food and lead sheeting?

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Shut up scaremongoring you twit, Israel has been continually criticized for over half a century as has the US been commiting war crimes for the same period

Don't listen to this stupid bear

Thank you for your considered response Jason.
I was not scaremongring, just re-iterating what I read in the news over the weekend. Maybe you should try that yourself sometime rather than spitting your dummy out.

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Thank you for your considered response Jason.
I was not scaremongring, just re-iterating what I read in the news over the weekend. Maybe you should try that yourself sometime rather than spitting your dummy out.

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I had no idea that bears used dummies.

I expect it stops the babies being grizzlies.

GammaJammer said:

Hence the oft misquoted phrase 'does a bear spit in the woods?'

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Noooooo....

or the other oft misquoted phrase "Is the Pope a Catatonic?"

JasonC2 said:

Israel has been continually criticized for over half a century as has the US been commiting war crimes for the same period

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If they didnt commit warcrimes, then they wouldnt be crtiticized.

Funny how history repeats itself - the jews were the victims of aggression in WW2 but rather than humanity learning from this futuile waste of human life and suffering, the victims seem to have become the aggressor and the cycle of suffering begins again.

If they didnt commit warcrimes, then they wouldnt be crtiticized.

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Along with this, US military war crimes in Iraq are now daily news

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the UN is looking so totally inefectual it may as well not exist.

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Just to add comment on a couple of random statements out of all this. First up people need to get the absurd idea out of their heads that war is an activity that can be tidied up so the folks back home can talk about it over dinner. War is not pretty, it's not fair, and it isn't civilised, never has been, and never will be. "War crimes" "atrocities" media jargon for things that have always been committed by all sides in any war, the only thing that is new in more recent times is that the media is piping it into your living room. Personally some of the first people I'd shoot in a combat zone would be the media.

the UN is looking so totally ineffectual it may as well not exist.

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That statement is so true, and it's due largely to the whining extreme pacifists and civil rights campaigners who, in a world drowning in political correctness are able to force UN policy to act weakly and softly.
Newsflash: War is grotesque and ugly, that is it's nature , and the way it has to be.

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War is grotesque and ugly, that is it's nature , and the way it has to be.

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I recall reading in the press a little while back about "outrage" that coalition troops were using white phosphorous as anti-personell munitions because , horror of horrors, it burns the enemy to death.

And the point of that outrage was? errr... thats what it was designed to do., it just happens to be particularly effective at killing combatants inside the targetted area. Same end result, bullet or baked.

It tends to be only the losing side that go to warcrime tribunals and only the winning side who write the history books.

“Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”
- Hermann Goering

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Personally some of the first people I'd shoot in a combat zone would be the media.

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Yes, perish the thought that the raw brutality of it all should be brought home to the common people and they might turn on Bush, Blair and the other warmongers. Best that they should live in ignorance.

twalker said:

It seems pretty clear that the World is becoming more destabilised than at any time in the recent past.
Isreal is coming under criticism for breaking just about every international law in the Geneva convention and doing this with impunity and full US support. Along with this, US military war crimes in Iraq are now daily news and the UN is looking so totally inefectual it may as well not exist. The US has certainly lost any moral high ground it once had along with any remaining support from the international community at large.
In a further escalation of the N.Korea situation a US nuke destroyer docked in Japan on Sunday. Also over the weekend India tested their own latest long range nuke capable missiles to which nobody blinked an eyelid.
The World is becoming redicalised and fractured according to the "with us, or against us" bu****e doctrine that is forced down our throats by the corporate media.
Since many less desirable regimes are getting nervous arms dealers are doing very well packing these unstable regions to the hilt with their latest technology.
This is certainly looking like the prelude to a new wider global conflict. I fail to see how this is actually getting us, as a race any further along the evolutionary chain.

Better get back to building that bunker in the garden.

In light of this what is the best trade right now other than canned food and lead sheeting?

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quite.

we can land on the moon,

we can live (for short periods) under water.

we can cure disease and even transplant organs.

we have invented loads of useful stuff - in fact we are capable of achieving almost anything we can imagine doing if we really put our minds to it.

however, we still havent figured out how to live at peace with each other - or often even ourselves. talk about putting the cart before the horse!

may be i should go to church some more.

maybe this is Gods divine way of telling us to short the dollar. no good ever comes from bad.

JasonC2 said:

Shut up scaremongoring you twit, Israel has been continually criticized for over half a century as has the US been commiting war crimes for the same period

Don't listen to this stupid bear

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there is good reason for the criticism aimed at israel.

they moan about the holocaust all the time, yet act in the same nature as the nazis - building ghettos, demolishing communities, schools, universities etc, murdering innocent women and children deliberately, cutting off water supplies etc. now they are starting to go down the death camp route also - but they have outsourced that to america.

i have nothing against the jewish people, but israel stinks, and we should do something about it.