Generational Dynamics World View News

[John]

** 17-Aug-2020 World View: Bravery

> John, you are one of the bravest men in the world.
> -JCP

Thanks for the compliment.

But bravery and stupidity are two sides of the same coin.

[John]

** 17-Aug-2020 World View: Malware

> Hi John. I read your article on Microsoft and Apple and then
> decided to use the local virus scan (AhnLAb) and Google Chrome
> popped up with 1156 bits of spyware. Usually when I run a scan it
> numbers 7-8 bits. I scan my computer several times a day. I don't
> pretend to be an expert at computers, but my laptop now seems to
> be under some kind of surveillance attack. I am in South
> Korea.

It sounds like your computer has a virus or some other malware.

[John]

** 17-Aug-2020 World View: Big Tech

> I've watched parts of those hearings and it was clear to me none
> of the Congressmen had a clue about tech companies. Most of them
> have been in power for decades, long before computers and the
> internet were even a thing. They didn't grow up with him and many
> don't even use them, nor do they care, except for the campaign
> contributions they get. We're still thinking about oil and gas
> companies, big coal, titans of industry, but the world has
> changed. Big Tech has far more influence and they're not far from
> SJWs.

The amount of power these online services have is absolutely staggering.

Sitting in Redmond, the execs can look out over the world and imagine
one billion desktop computers in every country and every region of the
world, and the execs have control over all of those billion desktops.
This is an absolutely staggering amount of power. John D. Rockefeller
could never have dreamed of that much power. In fact, it may be that
Donald Trump doesn't have that much power.

[John]

** 17-Aug-2020 World View: Antifa

> Can you provide a link confirming Antifa are fascist?

Most people are content to call antifa a violent terror group, and
leave it at that.

I call it a fascist group to be ironic, and because they act like
fascists.

> From what I've read, neither the Boogaloo Bois nor Antifa are
> groups in the formal sense. If seems they are both disparate
> aggregations of individuals who are only tied together through the
> Internet.

What difference does that make? Just because a fascist terrorist
group doesn't form a legal corporation and declare itself an official
organization makes no difference at all when they're smashing and
looting and destroying hundreds of small businesses, or beating the
crap out of people they don't like. Fascism is fascism.

Antifa – Black Lives Matter Mob Brutally Attacks Man in Portland;
Knocks Him Out Cold with Kick to the Head (17-August-2020)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/0 ... ead-video/

[Guest]

Martin Armstrong said in an interview a couple of weeks ago that he expects a "Mad Max" scenario in America because people now hate each other so much. He says the country will probably break up.

[Guest]

Martin Armstrong said in an interview a couple of weeks ago that he expects a "Mad Max" scenario in America because people now hate each other so much. He says the country will probably break up.

Not break up; breakdown.

[Navigator]

Link to a VERY interesting article on potential CCP invasion of Taiwan wargamed by US Defense Dept and its primary consultants, the Rand Corp.

https://https://www.realclearinvestigat ... 24836.html

It appears that the simulation starts with massive Chinese attacks against Okinawa and Guam, as well as USN units at sea.

This could happen, but I think the Chinese would try and do it without immediately starting WW3, but would conduct the invasion without shooting at US first, in the hopes we would let them handle it as an "internal affair".

However, their odds of success would improve dramatically if they went all out right from the start.

[Russ]

Hi John,

Windows 10 may be evil, but usually it is a necessary evil. For example, much of the new hardware will not operate properly without Windows 10 as Intel, for example, does not even write drivers for Windows 7 anymore.

One way I have found to overcome the Windows 10 bloat and annoyances is to get and install the LTSB/LTSC variants of Windows 10. Generally, a single license (or a multi-pack) is not too expensive, but it is still very galling to have to pay for the same thing twice to make things be as they should be to start with. I suppose it's just the cost of having a Windows PC, keeping your sanity and staying productive.

As for your old PC (or even a newer one) - have you tried any of the Linux OS distributions as an alternative to Microsoft?

-Russ

[Guest]

How much time before war breaks out in Asia now? I live here.

[Navigator]

How much time before war breaks out in Asia now? I live here.

I would guess April/May of next year. My guess is based on a number of factors, which I will explain in the book I am working on.

John tells me the funding site for the book will be ready soon, so hopefully I can be able to share details shortly.