Re: Generational Dynamics World View News
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2020 5:13 pm
The Velvet Revolution was 1989, not 1969.
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Thanks!Tom Mazanec wrote:The Velvet Revolution was 1989, not 1969.
That's a lot of good information. Thank you.Warren Dew wrote: > The Chiang Kai Shek's nationalists were from primarily from
> "southern" China - that is, from the Yangtze River basin rather
> than from the Yellow River basin - but not so far south as to be
> Cantonese, which is perhaps best associated with the Pearl River
> basin. The Yangtze River basin area is still Mandarin speaking,
> as opposed to the Pearl River basin. When the Nationalists were
> driven out by the Communists, they did retreat south, but took
> their Mandarin speaking nationalist government with them to
> Taiwan.
> Plenty of Cantonese fled the Communists, too - my mother was one
> of them - but they mostly either stayed in Hong Kong or emigrated
> to the US rather than going to Taiwan.
> I think Taiwanese was the most commonly spoken dialect of Chinese
> in Taiwan in 1986. However, Mandarin was becoming more common as
> a result of all official schooling being done in Mandarin from
> 1945-1990 or so. Wikipedia says Mandarin is now the most commonly
> used language at home in Taiwan at 83.5%, but bilingualism is much
> more common than I realized, with Taiwanese at 81.9% using it at
> home.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Taiwan
Not to mention another popular song from that show: I Enjoy Being a Girl.That also puts into perspective the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway show Flower Drum Song.
John wrote: > It's not clear that Trump even understands that there's a stock
> market bubble. But if he does, he wouldn't want it to burst
> before the election.
Higgenbotham wrote: > If he doesn't understand, it's because he chooses not to
> understand. Because he understood at S&P 2100.
OK, but I think it's more nuanced than that.Trump on 26 Sep, 2016 | 22:05 wrote: > Trump: 'We are in a big, fat, ugly bubble'
> Donald Trump reiterated his belief that Janet Yellen and the
> Federal Reserve are keeping interest rates low for political
> reasons during the first presidential debate on Sept. 26.
> "The Fed is being more political than Secretary Clinton," the
> Republican presidential candidate said.
> [urlhttps://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/ ... sg4p7wxrq2[/url]
As we watch the increasingly delusional impeachment show by the> "American democracy has always been a struggle between
> the misaligned protections of specific freedoms and a raging, at
> times intoxicating, 12 cylinder economy. It demanded
> vigilant/consistent regulation, compassion for the
> disenfranchised, and the periodic display of a necessary sacrifice
> that allowed for the long term health of our society at the
> expense of short term whims.
> The desecration of those ideals and the near moral collapse of
> this country falls squarely in the lap of Trump’s supporters, as
> opposed to Trump himself, who is merely what psychology labels the
> 'objective negative function,' like fire, floods and earthquakes,
> it destroys, and only destroys, by its very nature. Without
> prejudice.
> It is Trump voters, particularly those who would re-elect him who
> bear the blame. For the undeniable and colossal destruction of
> everything that matters to us as Americans that cannot be merely
> monetized."
Why do you listen to a self-admitted prognosticatory failure?Tom Mazanec wrote:2020 The Year of Living Dangerously
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2020 ... ngerously/
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2020 ... -part-two/
This joker sells anxiety."I don’t know what events will dominate the coming year, but I do know the intensity of hate and vitriol will increase. I do know military conflict in the Middle East will expand. I do know the political machinations in this country will surge as the election approaches. I do know the Deep State will do everything in their immense power to undermine Trump. I do know the Fed will QE and Trump will cheer every new stock market record. I do know I will be lied to and propagandized by the mainstream corporate media.
Lastly, I do know the risk of catastrophe rises as we approach the climax of this crisis. The outcome is uncertain, but the trials awaiting will surely test our strength and fortitude. I hope enough patriots will do the right thing and lead the country to a new beginning."
..and people will carry on carrying on.John wrote:.... So Bannon would certainly have told Trump about the danger of a stock market bubble and global financial crisis.
But that doesn't mean that Trump believes it. Trump may well believe, like all the mainstream idiots, that there's a bubble going on, and even if there is a bubble, and even if the bubble bursts, then it won't be any worse than the bubbles that burst in 2000 and 2007.
That's just as good as not believing there's a bubble.