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John wrote:
Tom Mazanec wrote:
FishbellykanakaDude wrote:
St. John (X) is not dead yet...!!!

..but his profits DO seem to have largely expired...

WRITE ANOTHER BOOK,.. 'cept this time,... ZOMBIES..!!!
I meant John the Apostle
I'm an Apostle of Generational Dynamics.
..yeah,.. so THERE...!!

..is there a St. Malthus mentioned in the Catechism?

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Guest wrote:
FishbellykanakaDude wrote:
Guest wrote:Seems like things are moving forward at full throttle. I can feel it in my gut. In 1992, I thought the prospect of dying in a nuclear war had finally disappeared. Now it seems more inevitable than ever. I hope I die instantly.
How old were you in 1992?

..that's pertinent because I'm interested in your "generational perspective". :)


I was in my mid-forth decade (b.1956-9).
23
..so you were in your early-mid third decade.

Yeah,.. you were semi-sentient at that point. :) Though not quite ancient enough to realize that Nukes can't just "go away",.. apparently.

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We all lose if Donald Trump signs bills related to Hong Kong into law
At a time when pessimism and uncertainty have grown deeper roots, the US president’s only viable option is to veto the acts passed by Congress
https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/ar ... -hong-kong
“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”

― G. Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain

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Tom Mazanec wrote:We all lose if Donald Trump signs bills related to Hong Kong into law
At a time when pessimism and uncertainty have grown deeper roots, the US president’s only viable option is to veto the acts passed by Congress
https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/ar ... -hong-kong
I want him to sign the bill into law. The Chinese government is evil and must be completely destroyed. I want a balls to the wall trade war (new cold war) that will last at least 50 years.

Let the world be divided between the free and the slaves.

Synder is nothing but doom porn.

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FishbellykanakaDude wrote:
Guest wrote:
FishbellykanakaDude wrote:
How old were you in 1992?

..that's pertinent because I'm interested in your "generational perspective". :)


I was in my mid-forth decade (b.1956-9).
23
..so you were in your early-mid third decade.

Yeah,.. you were semi-sentient at that point. :) Though not quite ancient enough to realize that Nukes can't just "go away",.. apparently.
I didn't think nukes would 'go away', but the very real threat of MAD episode with the Soviet union disappeared with them. Yes, I felt relieved. I didn't expect to see the MAD threat to return in my lifetime.

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Guest wrote:
Guest wrote:
Londonistan wrote:In the wake of the Prince Andrew sex slave scandal and Markle sparkle, do you think the British monarchy could end soon?
Blinked 10 times in ten seconds? When the Royals get this emotional they usually shape shift into Draco Reptilians. Guess they edited the interview.
PIZZA
Referendum on the monarchy now.

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http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201911190037.html
China warns Japan, S. Korea over deployment of U.S. missiles

Chinese officials have warned Japan and South Korea that their relations with Beijing will deteriorate if they allow the United States to base intermediate-range missiles on their soil, several sources said.

One of the warnings came during Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s separate meetings with his Japanese and South Korean counterparts in August, Japanese and U.S. government sources said.

Beijing’s concerns arose after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty with Russia. One reason cited was that the treaty did not cover China, which was developing such missiles.

With the INF now invalidated, Beijing is concerned that Washington plans to deploy intermediate-range missiles in Japan and South Korea where they would be capable of reaching China.

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** 22-Nov-2019 World View: Uprisings in Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Chile, Venezuela

The continuing chaos in Bolivia has resulted in a mainstream media
spate of stories about demonstrations, populism and uprising in
several Latin American countries, particularly: Bolivia, Brazil,
Ecuador, Chile, and Venezuela.

These stories are sometimes extended to Colombia, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon,
Sudan, Haiti, Kashmir, Afghanistan, and of course Hong Kong.

The stories all give the same core reason: poverty. A lazy or
ignorant reporter assigned to write a story about demonstrations or
riots in some country, just has to check the inflation rate,
unemployment rate, grocery prices, or gasoline prices, and simply
blame the riots on one or more of those. In fact, the news story
could be written by a bot.

The problem with just naming poverty as the reason is that there's
always some level of poverty in every country, including countries
where there are no demonstrations and riots. Some reason has to be
found why poverty in one country is different from the same level of
poverty in another country, and that question is never addressed.

The articles about riots in Latin America point to the rise of
Socialist or left-wing governments, but once again, give no reason why
socialist governments are rising in some countries but not others.
Mostly, the reporters are confused about whether to blame the
socialism for the poverty or the poverty for the socialism. Sometimes
they blame both of them on Trump.

In the case of Latin America, not a single article that I read today
mentioned the split between indigenous people (Amerindians) versus the
descendants of European invaders and mestizos (children of
intermarriage). This is an important issue in every Latin American
country, and it's an issue that the mainstream "reporters" are
apparently too embarrassed to mention, even though it's the most
important issue in most cases, and even though this issue is
enormously obvious to the people who live in the country. As I
described in my recent article on Bolivia, the European descendants
marginalize the indigenous people, resulting in political differences.
These political differences can turn into demonstrations, riots and
uprisings when the economy worsens, since the marginalized indigenous
people are the hurt the most.

** 15-Nov-19 World View -- Ouster of Bolivia's president Evo Morales evokes memories of Ché Guevara
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ ... tm#e191115



One problem for mainstream reporters is that to understand what's
going on requires knowing a little bit about the history of the
country they're reporting on. College students today are taking
far-left courses in sociology, women's studies and underwater
basket-weaving, where they're taught nothing about history,
and are taught that Socialism is wonderful. These children know
nothing about history, and believe that "history always begins
this morning," so they look on far-left socialist movements as a
good thing, not even having a clue that what's going on is not
socialism vs capitalism, but Europeans vs Amerindians.

Riots and demonstrations have been spreading among Latin American
countries, initially led by Venezuela, as indigenous people in one
country follow the lead of indigenous rioters in another country.
Within the last couple of weeks, Colombia has joined this list of
rioters.

From the point of view of Generational Dynamics, there are two
important trends in Latin America.

First, most of these Latin American countries had their last
generational crisis civil wars in the 1960s or thereabout, and so by
the 58-Year Hypothesis, they're coming due for the next crisis civil
war. At present they're in a generational Unraveling era, and so
there are periods of demonstrations alternating with periods of
ceasefires, but a new full-scale crisis civil war is not expected for
another few years.

Second, most of the world is in a generational Crisis era, and a
feature of this era is that central banks have been cutting back on
"printing" money, which means that there's less money in the world,
which means that there's less money per capita, resulting in poverty
among margialized people.

In the meantime, the world is approaching a new world war, and the
demonstrations, riots and uprisings in the Latin American countries
and elsewhere will in the end be folded into the world war.

---- Sources:

-- Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile / South America's
uprisings are about more than politics
https://www.axios.com/south-america-upr ... d8b17.html
(Axios, 21-Nov-2019)

-- Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Brazil, Venezuela / Opinion:
Latin America needs solidarity
https://www.dw.com/en/opinion-latin-ame ... a-51038560
(Deutsche Welle, 29-Oct-2019)

-- Latin America’s upheaval should finally shatter conventional wisdom
about the region
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... ut-region/
(Washington Post, 22-Nov-2019)

-- Roundup: Mass protests hint at deeper crises behind the headlines
https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news ... -headlines
(Memri, 22-Nov-2019)

-- Leftist Government In Latin America: A Comparison Of Bolivia,
Brazil, Chile, And Venezuela
http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/etext/l ... eftist.pdf
(University of Texas, PDF, 2008):

JCP

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THURSDAY: Police confirm evacuating mainland #China university students from #HongKong by boat. Other students on social media say taking taxis, volunteer private cars to catch trains to nearby mainland city Shenzhen. SZ Communist Party youth league offering them free room/board

https://twitter.com/onlyyoontv/status/1 ... 5272272896

The Chinese are getting ready to massacre protesters in Hong Kong. Will make for horrific television viewing--at least until the feed is cut.

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** 24-Nov-2019 World View: Hong Kong elections
JCP wrote: > THURSDAY: Police confirm evacuating mainland #China university
> students from #HongKong by boat. Other students on social media
> say taking taxis, volunteer private cars to catch trains to nearby
> mainland city Shenzhen. SZ Communist Party youth league offering
> them free room/board

> https://twitter.com/onlyyoontv/status/1 ... 5272272896

> The Chinese are getting ready to massacre protesters in Hong
> Kong. Will make for horrific television viewing--at least until
> the feed is cut.
I don't believe that this is a change. As I understand it, there
are only a couple of dozen protesters still hiding away inside
the university, and the police have said they'll wait them out.

Hong Kong is holding elections on Sunday. Everyone has been on
their best behavior this past week, in order to get votes.

As of this time (midnight ET = Sunday 1 pm in HK), al-Jazeera is
reporting much larger than usual turnout.

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