Generational Dynamics World View News

[Xeraphim1]

** 10-Jun-2020 World View: Defunding police forces

As far as I know, every city already has the option of getting rid of
their entire police force, so no such reform is needed. If I
understand the news correctly, the Minneapolis city council has voted
to do exactly that.

It should be fun to watch.

My spineless jellyfish of a mayor actually came out and said that wasn't going to happen. Even though he's a kneejerk leftist, he's responsible for what happens in the city while the City Council is mostly meaningless so its members are free to spout inanities and insanities.

[Guest]

Wait until next January!!!! The Public Unions will see massive layoffs. There Pensions will be cut. Connecticut is a Zombie State!!! They are beyond kicking the can down the road. Car jackings/home invasions/ murder/ retail theft/ robberies this will be the new normal!!!! Our cities will be like Mad Max. We really didn't recover from 2008. They continued raising taxes because of people and businesses leaving the state. Hell is coming!!!

When the looters have to leave the burned out cities for food they will find an angry bunch of Americans they think are on their side . Not going to be the same welcome bro attitude .

[Guest]

Not a good time to go sightseeing in England...

[John]

** 12-Jun-2020 World View: Derek Chauvin - the Hmong connection

> John, There are a number of reports that the cop that killed Floyd
> knew him well. They both worked security at some club and had
> fights. Fights over Chauvin's manhandling of club customers. So
> there is an actual motive. He actually hated Floyd personally and
> wanted to hurt him.

Well, as you may know, the person who claimed that they worked closely
and "bumped heads" has now recanted his story, adding a new bizarre
twist to this whole story.

-- Man who claimed George Floyd and Derek Chauvin "bumped heads"
changes story
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/george-flo ... ges-story/
(CBS News, 11-Jun-2020)

But in this situation, I'm not sure it makes any difference whether
they "bumped heads" or not. Over the years, I've known many people
who "bumped heads" in the workplace, without leading to anything like
the horrific behavior that Chauvin exhibited. If Floyd had had an
affair with Chauvin's wife, then Chauvin's behavior might have made
sense. But under the circumstances, I still think that Chauvin's
behavior was motivated by some connection to the KKK.

Perhaps as the case evolves, something will come out that reveals the
situation, one way or the other.

Little has been reported about Chauvin's past, except that he's
married to a former Mrs. Minnesota. She's filing for divorce now, and
is apparently planning to screw him in every possible way (except sex).

• Kellie Chauvin

She's an ethnic Hmong and a Hmong activist, born in Laos, but fled to
Thailand and became a refugee in the late 1970s, when Vietnam was
committing genocide. Here's a Human Rights Watch report on the
genocide:

> "The Hmong capitol has disappeared. When the Laos and
> Vietnamese community captured the Hmong, they would cut off the
> penis off and place in the mouth. For the women captured, they are
> raped and killed. All have sharp object shoved from the vagina to
> the chest cavity. For children captured, they have toes cut off
> and also head bashed on trees. Mr. Chair, this is a new century.

> Vietnam is a member of the family of nations. We have picture of
> top Vietnamese General and his officers killed in 1998. They came
> to kill the Hmong people. I have pictures of the innocent people
> slaughtered by Vietnamese government. The people are coming to
> kill the Hmong people. The Hmong refugee that live in Laos and
> Thailand should be granted refugee status."

So Chauvin would, of course, be very well aware of this recent history
of his activist wife's ethnic group. Given the way that the
Vietnamese treated the Hmong, maybe Chauvin decided that he was
letting Floyd off easy. There still might be a connection to the KKK,
but this situation gets more complex every day.

[Navigator]

John,

I did see that the information on Chauvin having dealings with Floyd was recanted/discredited.

Of course, nothing justifies what happened. I would now probably go with the fact that they pulled up Floyd's record while dealing with him, saw the home invasion conviction, and decided to somehow base their treatment of him on that.

KKK type involvement or ideas would have made things worse. And could of course have been involved.

All of this is getting at the fact that human are incredibly bad judges of others, as most judgement are made based on appearance and "group associations" (you are part of this "group" and therefore, you must have the following attributes).

True judgement can only be done individually and by looking far past appearances.

[Higgenbotham]

** 12-Jun-2020 World View: Derek Chauvin - the Hmong connection

But under the circumstances, I still think that Chauvin's
behavior was motivated by some connection to the KKK.

As mentioned, I owned some rental properties in the 80s and 90s in a low income area. In 1994, I met a guy who was a new employee with the phone company. Being a new employee, his assigned area was the worst slum in Milwaukee. In the evening, he and I discussed things we had seen in common in the respective slums. One night, he mentioned that he appreciated being able to describe what he'd seen and express it to somebody who understood because there wasn't anybody else he could talk to about it. I said you can't talk about it with others unless they have seen and experienced what we have. Not too long after that, a coworker of his was murdered:

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Members of this community expressed shock that a 13-year-old girl is being accused by police of killing a telephone repairman whom she and other suspects thought was an uncover police officer.

"It's frightening and it's chilling," said Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Stanley Miller. "My concern is that we're manufacturing as a culture and as a society young people who are ready to kill."

Ameritech employee Albert Thompson, 39, was found by a coworker in a service van in a Milwaukee alley with a gunshot wound to the head January 18, police said. He died at Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital Jan. 23.

"Every law-abiding person in the city was shocked by Thompson's murder," said Milwaukee Mayor John O. Norquist. "And we are shocked by the age of the shooting suspect."

A 20-year-old male and a 19-year-old female also were taken into custody, but police believe the 13-year-old is the one who shot the Ameritech employee, police said in a news release Saturday.

The 20-year-old man supplied the handgun to the 13-year-old girl, police said. The trio was operating a drug house and had seen the Ameritech van on many occasions in the alley where Thompson was found, police said.

https://journaltimes.com/news/national/ ... 13f1a.html

One day, I took a female tenant over to the liquor store so she could cash her welfare check. We parked in the back. While she was in the liquor store, some thugs who were parked next to me began to taunt me saying, "If that honkey turns his head to the side, we'll blow it off." I didn't turn it to the side. Then they taunted me further, saying he knows better than to turn his head, etc. This is standard fare in those neighborhoods. Not to say that it happens every day or it's most of the people, but you can expect it to happen on any given day. If you get to be known in the area as I was, it helps, and most people will support you.

In my opinion, when years and years of operating in that kind of environment are combined with a psychopathic or extremely vindictive and aggressive personality, you get a Chauvin. Based on my experience, I doubt there was any white supremacy movement type of involvement. People like that should be screened out of the police force and removed at the first sign of being abusive. They have plenty of company on the other side. I doubt we'll ever know the full story.

[John]

13-Jun-20 World View -- China and India mobilize thousands of troops along border in Ladakh

Significance of the Ladakh border confrontation

** 13-Jun-20 World View -- China and India mobilize thousands of troops along border in Ladakh
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ ... tm#e200613




Contents:
China and India mobilize thousands of troops along border in Ladakh
Significance of the Ladakh border confrontation


Keys:
Generational Dynamics, China, India, Ladakh,
Pakistan, Bhutan, Doklam Plateau,
Marco Polo Bridge Incident, Japan, Rape of Nanking

[utahbob]

** 13-Jun-20 World View -- China and India mobilize thousands of troops along border in Ladakh
http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ ... tm#e200613
John,
Thanks for posting this. Good analysis. A few of my former colleagues are now drawing odds and dates of when this will go hot. If new reports of special (CRBN teams and national reconnaissance assets) US military getting orders to prepare to deploy, it the US is hedging its bets. If medical units are spun up, oh well, get out your popcorn.

[John]

** 13-Jun-2020 World View: I'm Not Lisa

An apocalyptic, Fourth Turning Crisis Era love song:

[John]

** 13-Jun-2020 World View: Xenophobia

> A few thoughts about xenophobia.

> I do not consider myself particularly hateful towards the people
> of Russia or China. I can see the ugly times that led them towards
> revolution. I can feel pity for them for having had to endure
> Stalin and Mao. I can think poorly of their leaders and elites
> autocratic decisions to expand, and point out a need for
> containment, for the Domino Theory. Autocrats are quite willing to
> see the people suffer for their own gain.

> But that does not mean I hate the people. I distrust the policy of
> their leaders, yes. But I do not particularly hate the people. I
> feel this shared among the folk I’ve talked to, though I
> acknowledge Massachusetts as perhaps biased on this.

Strictly speaking, the word "xenophobia," which is one of my favorite
words ever, doesn't mean hatred of some people, though it may.

If you go back to the Greek roots, it literally means "fear of
foreigners or strangers." My father once told me that in ancient
Greece it referred to invaders from the north.

It has a much broader reach than the word "racism." It's an umbrella
word that can refer any of a number of emotions towards another nation
or society: Fear of power, fear of invasion, jealousy, anger, hatred,
impatience, annoyance, and so forth.

I use the word "xenophobia" frequently to describe an attitude of the
people of one nation or society to another that might lead to war in
this generational Crisis era. It's frequently used in conjunction
with the world "nationalism," which refers to an inward emotion, while
"xenophobia" refers to an outward emotion. This is contrasted to the
Unraveling era of the 1990s, when different words would be used, such
as xenophilia, accepting, compromising, impartiality, or indifference.