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by Tom Mazanec
Sat Oct 06, 2018 10:02 am
Forum: International events
Topic: second ACW?
Replies: 21
Views: 126079

second ACW?

Why we might have a second Civil War:
https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2018/1 ... civil-war/
by Tom Mazanec
Sat Oct 06, 2018 9:47 am
Forum: International events
Topic: Iran
Replies: 21
Views: 78733

Re: Iran

by Tom Mazanec
Mon Oct 01, 2018 2:10 pm
Forum: Weblog News Comments and Discussion
Topic: 30-Sep-18 World View -- University of N. Florida and Pentagon cut ties with China's Confucius Institutes
Replies: 3
Views: 6744

Re: 30-Sep-18 World View -- University of N. Florida and Pentagon cut ties with China's Confucius Institutes

Sun Tzu said that "All warfare is based on deception," and he advocated the use of deception first, and actual war as a last resort.
This is why China will not nuke America until they are balked.

even though they were written down 15 centuries ago
25 centuries
by Tom Mazanec
Mon Oct 01, 2018 2:03 pm
Forum: Science, Technology and the Singularity
Topic: Life in the early Singularity
Replies: 2
Views: 11254

Re: Life in the early Singularity

Another good one:
https://www.amazon.com/Whiplash-How-Sur ... s=whiplash
Has 9 chapters on surviving the future, all on the line of "X over Y".
by Tom Mazanec
Sat Sep 29, 2018 4:40 pm
Forum: Weblog News Comments and Discussion
Topic: 28-Sep-18 World View -- Number of Kashmir militants surges as India's 'Operation All-Out' fails
Replies: 4
Views: 7229

Re: 28-Sep-18 World View -- Number of Kashmir militants surges as India's 'Operation All-Out' fails

Generational Dynamics predicts that Kashmir is returning to full-scale war, re-fighting the extremely bloody partition war of 1947.
Between two nuclear powers this time...
by Tom Mazanec
Wed Sep 26, 2018 8:47 pm
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Stocks overvalued
Replies: 93
Views: 63510

Re: Stocks overvalued

by Tom Mazanec
Wed Sep 26, 2018 6:20 pm
Forum: Weblog News Comments and Discussion
Topic: 26-Sep-18 World View -- World Health Organization fears 'perfect storm' could spread Ebola rapidly in DR Congo
Replies: 16
Views: 18261

Re: 26-Sep-18 World View -- World Health Organization fears 'perfect storm' could spread Ebola rapidly in DR Congo

:o My goodness. A potential DRC health crisis and Guest is parsing. While the pontiff's whitewashing of sin is indeed disgusting, ignoring a plague is a mite insensitive, Deus. WHO staff understood risks when agreeing to their assignments. As medical personnel who no doubt knew recent African histo...
by Tom Mazanec
Wed Sep 26, 2018 12:53 pm
Forum: Science, Technology and the Singularity
Topic: Life in the early Singularity
Replies: 2
Views: 11254

Life in the early Singularity

Although Kelly does not expect the Singularity in the timeframe he explores (2046) he describes a dozen features of future life that will shape the world of the early 2030s as the Singularity starts:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B016JPTOUG/re ... TF8&btkr=1
by Tom Mazanec
Wed Sep 26, 2018 11:13 am
Forum: Generational Theory
Topic: 2018 elections
Replies: 65
Views: 63955

Re: 2018 elections

Why the polls are probably underestimating Trump:
https://www.americanthinker.com/article ... rcent.html