I think you need to get educated about the contribution Israel makes to the USA in its military way. This is from a man with wide experience in this area and a former Ambassador.
James Ausman
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Israel – a mega-billion-dollar battle-tested laboratory for the US
Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative”
August 23, 2023 (more information in these two videos)
Israel’s use of the F-35 benefits the US
A recent mega-billion-dollar increase in the export of Lockheed-Martin’s F-35 combat aircraft is due to overcoming a series of pivotal glitches. This was achieved by Lockheed-Martin, as well as by Israel’s air force and aerospace industries (especially the innovative Israel Aerospace Industries – IAI), known as the cost-effective and battle-tested laboratory of the US defense and aerospace industries and armed forces.
In June 2016, Israel became the first country to use the highly-computerized F-35 operationally. Israel soon became successful in solving initial glitches, that caused concern among prospective buyers.
The battle-tested Israeli laboratory – which communicates 24/7 with Lockheed-Martin (as it does with a litany of US defense contractors) - solved most of the operational and maintenance glitches by marshalling its intrinsic features, which have been the derivatives of the uniquely challenging and threatening Middle East environment: optimism, patriotism, defiance of odds, out-of-the-box thinking, risk-taking, do-or-die state of mind, can-do and frontier-pioneering mentality.
The scores of Israeli solutions to the F-35 glitches – in the area of data gathering and processing, electronic warfare and firing control accuracy - have been shared with the US manufacturer and the US Air Force, sustaining the F-35 superiority over its global competition; sparing Lockheed-Martin mega-billions of dollars in research and development; enhancing the manufacturer’s competitive edge; increasing exports by a few additional billions; and expanding the employment base of Lockheed-Martin and its multitude of subcontractors.
The critical upgrades in the current F-35 – achieved by the manufacturer and its Israeli battle-tested laboratory - have produced a combat aircraft, which is substantially superior to the original generation.
In fact, the enhanced performance of the F-35 demonstrates Israel’s role as an important source of US’ weaponry modernization, reduction of the unit cost, and expanding job creation in the US.
Similar mega-billion-dollar benefits to the US economy and defense have been generated by the hundreds of Israeli solutions and add-on, which have upgraded the performance of the technologically less-challenging F-16 (Lockheed-Martin) and F-15 (Boeing). In fact, all US manufacturers of military systems employed by Israel have benefited in a similar manner.
Moreover, some 250 commercial US high-tech giants (e.g., John Deere, General Electric, Johnson & Johnson, Texas Instruments, Intel, Nvidia, General Motors, Microsoft, AT&T, IBM, Dell, Google, Facebook, Intuit, etc.) have established research and development centers in Israel, leveraging Israel’s brain power and innovative spirit, in order to sustain their global lead, yielding a consequential increase in global sales.
Similarly, the US defense and aerospace industries established their own Israeli research and development centers through the hundreds of US military systems, which are employed - and systematically improved - by the Israel Defense Forces, yielding to the US consequential benefits to its economy and defense.
US-Israel mutually-beneficial two-way-street
*In 2023, the world features an ineffective NATO (No Action Talk Only?), vacillating Europe, turbulent Arab Street, intensifying anti-US Sunni and Shite Islamic terrorism, an imperialistic Iran with a solid strategic foothold in Central and South America, and a US attempt to minimize its military presence in the Middle East.
However, the Middle East is a major junction of world trade and energy resources - between the Mediterranean, Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf - the epicenter of anti-US Islamic terrorism, global drug trafficking and proliferation of ballistic and nuclear technologies, which constitutes a clear and present threat to the US national and homeland security.
Under such circumstances, Israel is the most reliable, battle-tested and cost-effective ally, and a potential beachhead of the US in the face of mutual threats (Iran’s Shite Ayatollahs and Sunni Islamic terrorism) and in the pursuit of mutual challenges (developing game-changing commercial and defense technologies).
*As stated by the late Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, who was Chief of US Naval Operations, and General Alexander Haig, who was a Supreme Commander of NATO and a US Secretary of State, Israel is the largest US aircraft carrier, which does not require a single US military personnel on board, cannot be sunk, deployed in a most critical area of the world, and sparing the US the need to manufacture, deploy and maintain a few more real aircraft carriers along with a few ground divisions, which would have cost the US $15bn-$20bn annually.
*Israel shares with the US more intelligence than shared with the US by all NATO countries combined (e.g., counter-terrorism, rival and enemy advanced weapon systems). According to General George Keagan, who was Head of US Air Force intelligence, the scope of Israeli intelligence gained by the US is equal to the output of five CIAs (the annual budget of one CIA is almost $15bn).
*Israel’s battle experience has been shared with the US, saving American lives by serving as a basis for the formulation of US air force and ground force battle tactics, enhancing military medicine, as well as training US soldiers in urban warfare and facing car bombs, suicide bombers and improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
*In view of the aforementioned data, the annual $3.8bn extended to Israel (to purchase only US military systems) does not constitute “foreign aid.” It is an annual US investment in an immensely-grateful Israel, yielding to the US an annual Return-on-Investment (R-o-I) of a few hundred percent. It is the most productive and secure US investment, underlying the mutually-beneficial US-Israel two-way-street.
I think if you folks listen to Martin Armstrong more, you will see him as a brilliant historian, as well as a world class financial expert. He has offices all over the world, and yes, he probably is a libertarian.
I’ve been expecting a break up of the USA for many years now. I’ve been surprised by the countries resilience to this however the divisive nature of politics since the Cold War supposedly finished has placed increasingly greater pressure on this union. Brexit, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia all point to this for different reasons. Of course this moves us onto the next stage of various powers taking advantage of smaller weaker countries and expanding their imperialistic ambitions. Does Georgia become part of the Russian empire, the crumbling eu or stay independent. Answers on a post card.
“In 1860, Abe Lee and the Slater Party discovered $8 million in gold in California Gulch on the outskirts of what is now Leadville, Colorado. The "Gold Rush" had begun. Thousands flocked to "Oro City", as the settlement was called, to stake their claim of the golden fortunes. By the mid 1860s, however, was short lived, as the vast numbers of prospectors quickly depleted the gold reserves.
Alvinus Wood and William Stevens, gold miners in Oro City, discovered that "all that black stuff" in the sand that separated from their gold search was actually silver bearing lead ore and recognized it's worth in 1874. Old gold claims were quickly bought up and the "Silver Boom" had begun. Millionaires were made almost overnight, such as: Horace Tabor, David May, J.J. Brown and his wife Margaret, the Guggenheims and the Boettcher family.
"Cloud City" as it became known, incorporated and changed it's name to Leadville in 1878. By 1880, some 30,000 residents had swarmed to the rich, second largest city in Colorado.
Horace Tabor and his wife, Augusta, owned a general mercantile store in Leadville. Profits from his store allowed Tabor to invest in silver mining operations. Tabor's success made him a powerful man and politician in town.
The fame and fortune of Leadville did not attract just the business barons. Molly Brown (Unsinkable Molly Brown) arrived in Leadville in the 1880s, as a seamstress and eventually married J.J. Brown. Susan B. Anthony, Jesse James and "Buffalo Bill" all visited during the Boom Days.
Doc Holliday moved to Leadville shortly after the shootout at the OK Corral. Ill with tuberculosis, Holliday was confronted by ex-lawman Bill Allen about a $5 debt. Records indicate that Holliday shot, but did not kill Allen...the last man to be shot by Holliday. Though penniless, the $8,000 bail was raised by Holliday's wealthy friends and he was acquitted in March 1885.
The repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act in 1893 spelled ruin for Horace Tabor and many others who profited from the mining riches of the area. Now destitute, Tabor died penniless and Baby Doe froze to death in the small shack at the Matchless Mine.
The "Silver Boom" was over, and miners in the area now had to mine for other, less productive minerals, such as lead, zinc and molybdenum (named for Molly Brown).
This sign, which is on Highway 24, on the south side of dowtown, says
(WABAC, to the future, machine) Sherman, Wm Tecumseh’s brother (for when velvet legislation doesn’t work … Sherman’s march to the oh say why can’t you see?). Same Snidely Sibling as put his name to the defunctified “Antitrust Act” that didn’t & won’t deflect Peter Thiel et al.
Gold is “now illegal tender.” And snitches “will get a slice of civil asset forfeitures they call in.” So it is written, so let it be done: the first commandment.
Pharaoh’s faro table & Mose gets manual’d … every time, but for rule proving exceptions that fuel the sugared tank of gamblers ruin rune-hope (what happens in Vegas stays everywhere, every when):
Far from perfect, but some decent flake in Lobaczewski’s Political Ponerology - The Science of Evil, Psychopathy, & the Origins of Totalitarianism re predicting what abnormal psychologies - with a little ton of help from their normie captives - will do (it isn’t all that open-ended).
I don't think there will be another gold heist. Right now, gold isn't considered as money by the government; they don't want to monetize it. Besides, following the precedent of Freaking Drunk Roosevelt (FDR), they'd have to pay for it.
On the separatism issue, wouldn't making big cities like Chicago their own city-state be an good solution? Chicago holds the rest of Illinois hostage, same with NYC and NY state. NYC's population was much smaller relative to the rest of the state when the Constitution was written.
On X, Grok mentioned that on March 26 there were over 49,000,000 SLV Shares sold short. On April 16, the number was at a 5 year high… combined with a bearish put-call spread… I don’t know about anyone else but I don’t want to see a fast short squeeze. I want the short frogs to boil… and you do that slowly. Keep an eye on the Friday London Fixes. Higher highs and a dropping silver:gold ratio is the sign.
Nuclear weapons were dirtier??? The yield of modern nuclear weapons has increased dramatically.
I think you need to get educated about the contribution Israel makes to the USA in its military way. This is from a man with wide experience in this area and a former Ambassador.
James Ausman
image001.png
Israel – a mega-billion-dollar battle-tested laboratory for the US
Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative”
August 23, 2023 (more information in these two videos)
Israel’s use of the F-35 benefits the US
A recent mega-billion-dollar increase in the export of Lockheed-Martin’s F-35 combat aircraft is due to overcoming a series of pivotal glitches. This was achieved by Lockheed-Martin, as well as by Israel’s air force and aerospace industries (especially the innovative Israel Aerospace Industries – IAI), known as the cost-effective and battle-tested laboratory of the US defense and aerospace industries and armed forces.
In June 2016, Israel became the first country to use the highly-computerized F-35 operationally. Israel soon became successful in solving initial glitches, that caused concern among prospective buyers.
The battle-tested Israeli laboratory – which communicates 24/7 with Lockheed-Martin (as it does with a litany of US defense contractors) - solved most of the operational and maintenance glitches by marshalling its intrinsic features, which have been the derivatives of the uniquely challenging and threatening Middle East environment: optimism, patriotism, defiance of odds, out-of-the-box thinking, risk-taking, do-or-die state of mind, can-do and frontier-pioneering mentality.
The scores of Israeli solutions to the F-35 glitches – in the area of data gathering and processing, electronic warfare and firing control accuracy - have been shared with the US manufacturer and the US Air Force, sustaining the F-35 superiority over its global competition; sparing Lockheed-Martin mega-billions of dollars in research and development; enhancing the manufacturer’s competitive edge; increasing exports by a few additional billions; and expanding the employment base of Lockheed-Martin and its multitude of subcontractors.
The critical upgrades in the current F-35 – achieved by the manufacturer and its Israeli battle-tested laboratory - have produced a combat aircraft, which is substantially superior to the original generation.
In fact, the enhanced performance of the F-35 demonstrates Israel’s role as an important source of US’ weaponry modernization, reduction of the unit cost, and expanding job creation in the US.
Similar mega-billion-dollar benefits to the US economy and defense have been generated by the hundreds of Israeli solutions and add-on, which have upgraded the performance of the technologically less-challenging F-16 (Lockheed-Martin) and F-15 (Boeing). In fact, all US manufacturers of military systems employed by Israel have benefited in a similar manner.
Moreover, some 250 commercial US high-tech giants (e.g., John Deere, General Electric, Johnson & Johnson, Texas Instruments, Intel, Nvidia, General Motors, Microsoft, AT&T, IBM, Dell, Google, Facebook, Intuit, etc.) have established research and development centers in Israel, leveraging Israel’s brain power and innovative spirit, in order to sustain their global lead, yielding a consequential increase in global sales.
Similarly, the US defense and aerospace industries established their own Israeli research and development centers through the hundreds of US military systems, which are employed - and systematically improved - by the Israel Defense Forces, yielding to the US consequential benefits to its economy and defense.
US-Israel mutually-beneficial two-way-street
*In 2023, the world features an ineffective NATO (No Action Talk Only?), vacillating Europe, turbulent Arab Street, intensifying anti-US Sunni and Shite Islamic terrorism, an imperialistic Iran with a solid strategic foothold in Central and South America, and a US attempt to minimize its military presence in the Middle East.
However, the Middle East is a major junction of world trade and energy resources - between the Mediterranean, Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf - the epicenter of anti-US Islamic terrorism, global drug trafficking and proliferation of ballistic and nuclear technologies, which constitutes a clear and present threat to the US national and homeland security.
Under such circumstances, Israel is the most reliable, battle-tested and cost-effective ally, and a potential beachhead of the US in the face of mutual threats (Iran’s Shite Ayatollahs and Sunni Islamic terrorism) and in the pursuit of mutual challenges (developing game-changing commercial and defense technologies).
*As stated by the late Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, who was Chief of US Naval Operations, and General Alexander Haig, who was a Supreme Commander of NATO and a US Secretary of State, Israel is the largest US aircraft carrier, which does not require a single US military personnel on board, cannot be sunk, deployed in a most critical area of the world, and sparing the US the need to manufacture, deploy and maintain a few more real aircraft carriers along with a few ground divisions, which would have cost the US $15bn-$20bn annually.
*Israel shares with the US more intelligence than shared with the US by all NATO countries combined (e.g., counter-terrorism, rival and enemy advanced weapon systems). According to General George Keagan, who was Head of US Air Force intelligence, the scope of Israeli intelligence gained by the US is equal to the output of five CIAs (the annual budget of one CIA is almost $15bn).
*Israel’s battle experience has been shared with the US, saving American lives by serving as a basis for the formulation of US air force and ground force battle tactics, enhancing military medicine, as well as training US soldiers in urban warfare and facing car bombs, suicide bombers and improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
*In view of the aforementioned data, the annual $3.8bn extended to Israel (to purchase only US military systems) does not constitute “foreign aid.” It is an annual US investment in an immensely-grateful Israel, yielding to the US an annual Return-on-Investment (R-o-I) of a few hundred percent. It is the most productive and secure US investment, underlying the mutually-beneficial US-Israel two-way-street.
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I complexly agree with Doug’s assessment of the danger of bio weapons. I wrote about this already in November 2024:
https://open.substack.com/pub/fulgurite4779/p/is-there-a-connection-between-covid19
I think if you folks listen to Martin Armstrong more, you will see him as a brilliant historian, as well as a world class financial expert. He has offices all over the world, and yes, he probably is a libertarian.
I agree. Plus his forecasts have been correct for a long, long time. Pretty good for a guy with a laptop, eh?
GIS - graphic information systems - not a typo
I’ve been expecting a break up of the USA for many years now. I’ve been surprised by the countries resilience to this however the divisive nature of politics since the Cold War supposedly finished has placed increasingly greater pressure on this union. Brexit, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia all point to this for different reasons. Of course this moves us onto the next stage of various powers taking advantage of smaller weaker countries and expanding their imperialistic ambitions. Does Georgia become part of the Russian empire, the crumbling eu or stay independent. Answers on a post card.
I think Doug is on to something:
"masks as a badge that designate you are a dangerous idiot!" I want the Tshirt vending on that!!
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/XtQAAOSwtJdixOCR/s-l1600.jpg
“In 1860, Abe Lee and the Slater Party discovered $8 million in gold in California Gulch on the outskirts of what is now Leadville, Colorado. The "Gold Rush" had begun. Thousands flocked to "Oro City", as the settlement was called, to stake their claim of the golden fortunes. By the mid 1860s, however, was short lived, as the vast numbers of prospectors quickly depleted the gold reserves.
Alvinus Wood and William Stevens, gold miners in Oro City, discovered that "all that black stuff" in the sand that separated from their gold search was actually silver bearing lead ore and recognized it's worth in 1874. Old gold claims were quickly bought up and the "Silver Boom" had begun. Millionaires were made almost overnight, such as: Horace Tabor, David May, J.J. Brown and his wife Margaret, the Guggenheims and the Boettcher family.
"Cloud City" as it became known, incorporated and changed it's name to Leadville in 1878. By 1880, some 30,000 residents had swarmed to the rich, second largest city in Colorado.
Horace Tabor and his wife, Augusta, owned a general mercantile store in Leadville. Profits from his store allowed Tabor to invest in silver mining operations. Tabor's success made him a powerful man and politician in town.
The fame and fortune of Leadville did not attract just the business barons. Molly Brown (Unsinkable Molly Brown) arrived in Leadville in the 1880s, as a seamstress and eventually married J.J. Brown. Susan B. Anthony, Jesse James and "Buffalo Bill" all visited during the Boom Days.
Doc Holliday moved to Leadville shortly after the shootout at the OK Corral. Ill with tuberculosis, Holliday was confronted by ex-lawman Bill Allen about a $5 debt. Records indicate that Holliday shot, but did not kill Allen...the last man to be shot by Holliday. Though penniless, the $8,000 bail was raised by Holliday's wealthy friends and he was acquitted in March 1885.
The repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act in 1893 spelled ruin for Horace Tabor and many others who profited from the mining riches of the area. Now destitute, Tabor died penniless and Baby Doe froze to death in the small shack at the Matchless Mine.
The "Silver Boom" was over, and miners in the area now had to mine for other, less productive minerals, such as lead, zinc and molybdenum (named for Molly Brown).
This sign, which is on Highway 24, on the south side of dowtown, says
"Welcome to Historic
Leadville
"On Top of it All"
10,200 ft. Elev””
https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM7V91_Leadville_Colorado
Penstrokes - “legislation” - is all it takes.
(WABAC, to the future, machine) Sherman, Wm Tecumseh’s brother (for when velvet legislation doesn’t work … Sherman’s march to the oh say why can’t you see?). Same Snidely Sibling as put his name to the defunctified “Antitrust Act” that didn’t & won’t deflect Peter Thiel et al.
Gold is “now illegal tender.” And snitches “will get a slice of civil asset forfeitures they call in.” So it is written, so let it be done: the first commandment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bQnxlHZsjY
Pharaoh’s faro table & Mose gets manual’d … every time, but for rule proving exceptions that fuel the sugared tank of gamblers ruin rune-hope (what happens in Vegas stays everywhere, every when):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK3IX_Q66AE
Far from perfect, but some decent flake in Lobaczewski’s Political Ponerology - The Science of Evil, Psychopathy, & the Origins of Totalitarianism re predicting what abnormal psychologies - with a little ton of help from their normie captives - will do (it isn’t all that open-ended).
I don't think there will be another gold heist. Right now, gold isn't considered as money by the government; they don't want to monetize it. Besides, following the precedent of Freaking Drunk Roosevelt (FDR), they'd have to pay for it.
On the separatism issue, wouldn't making big cities like Chicago their own city-state be an good solution? Chicago holds the rest of Illinois hostage, same with NYC and NY state. NYC's population was much smaller relative to the rest of the state when the Constitution was written.
POTUS strikes me a Peronist.
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Maybe?
Yep, analysing satellite data
And Lidar
On X, Grok mentioned that on March 26 there were over 49,000,000 SLV Shares sold short. On April 16, the number was at a 5 year high… combined with a bearish put-call spread… I don’t know about anyone else but I don’t want to see a fast short squeeze. I want the short frogs to boil… and you do that slowly. Keep an eye on the Friday London Fixes. Higher highs and a dropping silver:gold ratio is the sign.
An attempt by the bullion banks to keep physical prices suppressed. (In reality shorts on PSLV don't allow physical withdrawals).