John Hjorth

I'm not going to spend as much as a second more on you. Welcome to my ignore list.

Blake [ @Blake Hampton ], You are young and most likely has one the longest runways in front of you of all of us active here on CofB&F, statistically. Please don't waste your time in this politics topic here on CofB&F. What I personally would suggest you to do is to spend more time, energy and to redirect your focus and energy on ideas presented for you in the Investment Ideas forum, instead of posting pretty much useless and immaterial posts in this topic, including a lot of macro stuff. I mean : You aren't really posting here on CofB&F in your capacity of being a US citizen, more in your capacity of being an US DIY investor. If you really think USA so f***ed up and doomed long term, why don't you just direct your investment focus somewhere else? - Canada, or Europe, for example? -In reality, you have nothing but opportunities in front of you, if you look around!

European Council - Press Release [June 17th 2025] : G7 Leaders’ Joint Statements - Kananaskis, Canada, 17 June 2025. -And then one can start reading the individual statements in pdf format... - after reading two or three, one stops, and starts thinking : 'What is this actually?' Just large streams of words! The worst is 'Chairs summary'! - So I suggest you start with that. - - - o 0 o - - - It been said in the news, that it was actually not G-7 meeting, but a G-6 meeting, POTUS leaving early 'because the Israel-Iran clash required his presense in the White House', I have seen gossip about Melonis rolling eyes and statements about POTUS leaving because nobody there wanted to talk to him ..., tariffs and all that, you know ..., and after last time POTUS participated, where he went beserk, full blown cerebral hemorrhage, after seeing the draft to the closing joint statement, stating : 'I haven't accepted, nor said all that'. [<-] - - - o 0 o - - - What a friggin' waste of time!

I think Gregs [ @Gregmals ] sentiment about interest rates and Powellls doings perhaps may be coloured of the use of debt. Just saying. Life without debt and doorknobs are just great, liars not so much.

Greg [ @Gregmal ], There is no doubt we all have to be very careful with our sources while posting here on CofB&F. So much *BS* information laying around here, there and everywhere.

Cont'd : Wikipedia : GBU-57A/B MOP YouTube : Ultimate Military Channel [May 17th 2019] : B-2 Spirit Drops A GBU-57A/B MASSIVE ORDNANCE PENETRATOR! (Demonstration/Training Event, May 2019) - - - o 0 o - - - Imagine getting paid for creating and producing such monstrous thingies, not just to call them deadly M/Fs. Thinking about it makes me feel very productive.

archive.today : Financial Times - Middle East war [June 18th 2025] : Can an American bunker-buster destroy Iran’s nuclear mountain? Subtitle : Israel hopes the US would deploy the GBU-57 E/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator, but success would not be guaranteed.

lol. Actually, I'm still laughing over Erics [ @cwericbs ] reminder to us all of POTUS' talk about the stealthyness of the F-35 - awesome entertainment

I think I understand your post, @Sweet, But the whole British situation in that regard simply roots much deeper. Why do some British women get into such situation? The answer to that question is where to begin.

I don't know, @73 Reds, I speculate a sting operation into tunnels in mountains performed by highly skilled soldiers would likely be close to a suicide mission, even for a very competent team involved. Low probability for highly skilled and esteemed soldiers to come home again to their respective families from such mission. And to me, personally, that's actually a facet of Mr. Trump I appreciate dearly and deeply, that he in such cases and situations weigh in the risk of loss of lives, including the loss of lives of civilians, very consciously. In fact, in that respect, I really admire him for it. I can't recall when and what, but he called for a strike in the area at some time in point last time he was POTUS, and his gut feeling caused him to call it off again, after having initiated it, by giving the order, planes already in the air and all that. That really calls for respect.

Parts of the Iranian Nuclear Program is going on deep down under the surface of the Earth. Only USA has the military means to take these installations out, certainly not Israel by now. And knowhow is very difficult to remove from the surface of the Earth by the use of bombs.

The macro conditions varies materially, maybe even wildly, dependent on where [which geographical place] you look, Eric [ @cwericb ]. My personal experience here on CofB&F is that North American investors in general [not all][and for some good reasons, I may say] focus on North America, while there may also be green grass somewhere else.

lol! It's killing me! - And then again : Who knows?

@changegonnacome, Because of an opportunistic Donald Trump U-turn., - Please remember to never forget.

Blake [ @Blake Hampton ], To avoid such issues with copyright infringements by posting here related to subscription paywalls, the best for us is likely to start using www.archive.today on such stuff, and having in clear mind which sections of CofB&F that are available for reading by others than just registered members of CofB&F in logged in mode. It works in most cases, but not all. Please try it out. I have started doing so recently, inspired by a post by @Spekulatius. Please just try to log out and to check it out, remember, and then log in again. Note especially The 'General Discussion' forum and the 'Books' forum are readable for guests, while the 'Investment Ideas' forum is not.

Very powerful post, Eric [ @cwericb ]!

Thaks for the link, @whiskybravo, and yes, that is just mindblowing.

@whiskybravo, Thinking just a bit about this, it pretty quickly becomes evident, that it must be the joke of the day! -Now, let me see, let's start with scrapping CVN-78 - USS Gerald R. Ford , which took almost 12 years to build and get commisioned [11 August 2005 - 22 July 2017] : - - - o 0 o - - - Do you have a source for that statement by Energy secretary Jennifer Granholm? - She obviously does not have a clue about she is talking about.

Archive : Financial Times - US Immigration [June 17th 2025] : Lutnick hails Trump’s $5mn investor visa as almost 70,000 apply Subtitle : Programme to grant foreigners legal residency in US in exchange registers 68,703 people on waiting list.

Blake [ @Blake Hampton ], YouTube : USAFacts [August 1st 2024] : Just the Facts About US Immigration: Steve Ballmer Talks Through the Numbers

Blake [ @Blake Hampton ], Or perhaps a YouTube video presentation by Steve Balmer?

Any news about the G7 Meeting in Kanaskis Kananasaskis Kananaskis [<- ! lol!, John] , Southern Alerberta Alberta [<- Not funny any longer!, John], Canada, today, by the way? I see nothing where I usually look ...

I suppose, you can't be serious about that here, @73 Reds.

FLOTUS' skirt being shorter would be a great improvement of the viewer experience.