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** 12-Mar-2021 World View: Antifa-blm violence explodes in Portland Oregon on Thursday

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  • Tweet by local journalist Garrison Davis showing federal
    police clashing with protesters in Portland on Thursday night (Daily
    Mail)


Democrats had promised that the antifa-blm fascist riots would end
once Trump was no longer president, but they've actually been
continuing off and on in Portland, Oregon, for over a year.

On Thursday evening they exploded. Dozens of demostrators set fires,
smashed windows, and burned American flags outside the federal
courthouse until police forced them to flee. Courthouse walls were
spray-painted with graffiti as well.

The police deployed chemical weapons and projectiles. Bystanders
claimed the police were aggressive and the air was thick with smoke.
Police said they expected more violence over the weekend.

The antifa rioters were reportedly rioting against Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE). Others protested proposed plans to replace
and expand an oil pipeline that stretches between Superior, WI, and
Alberta, Canada. Protesters carried a large banner proclaiming:
“Protect the land, end America.”

Black lives matter (blm) supporters said that they were rioting in
protest of the refusal by Portland police and Mayor Ted Wheeler’s
refusal to reopen a case where a black man was allegedly shot multiple
times by police.

It seems likely that antifa-blm fascist violence is going to grow as
the weather warms up, and spread to other cities.

The trial in Minneapolis of the Derek Chauvin in the death of George
Floyd is expected to trigger nationwide antifa-blm fascist violence
because, according to several legal analysts on Fox News including
Alan Dershowitz, the evidence is insufficient for a verdict for guilty
of murder, although there may be enough evidence for a verdict for
guilty of manslaughter.

Ted Wheeler, the Mayor of Portland, is seeking $2 million in
additional funding for police. Last summer, Wheeler led the way to
defund the police, but there has been a massive increase in gun
violence, and he's forced to make a u-turn.

--- Sources:

-- Portland protesters set fires, damage federal courthouse; officers
respond with tear gas, impact munitions
https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2021...sters.html
(Oregonian, 12-Mar-2021)

-- Crowd becomes destructive outside federal courthouse in downtown
Portland; officers deploy tear gas
https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/c...95d9e9a698
(KGW-Portland, 12-Mar-2021)

-- Ted Wheeler / Portland mayor seeks $2M for police to stem rampant
gun violence
https://lasvegassun.com/news/2021/mar/11...-violence/
(AP, 11-Mar-2021)

-- Overnight riots in Portland: Tear-gas, violent confrontation with
police outside federal courthouse
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/03/12/...e-1041901/
(BizPacReview, 12-Mar-2021)

-- Portland burns AGAIN: Federal agents shoot tear gas at Antifa
protesters setting fire to American flags and smashing windows
outside boarded-up courthouse
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...tland.html
(DailyMail, 12-Mar-2021)
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** 13-Mar-2021 World View: Generational timeline for Vietnam

Phong Tran" Wrote:> I was wondering if you were planning to include a generational
> historical breakdown of Vietnam, the same way that a breakdown for
> the history of Myanmar (Burma) was presented?

I've added a generation timeline to most of the dynasty histories,
and I've added a section listing the major generational crisis
wars in history:

111 BC - Invasion and conquest by Chinese
938 AD - Battle of Bach Dang River -- end of Chinese rule
1287 - Tran Dynasty defeats the Mongol invasion
1471 - Destruction of Champa Kingdom
1771 - Tay-Son Rebellion
1887 - France completes conquest of French Indochina
1979 - Climax of massive genocidal war involving Vietnam,
Cambodia and China

Phong Tran" Wrote:> Just one other thought about the book. I'm wondering if the sub
> title "How Vietnam became an economic powerhouse after the
> Vietnam War
" may be a bit misleading as only Part II really
> talks about Vietnam's economic history and policies which is only
> about 10-15% of the book. Anyone purchasing the book based on the
> title might be expecting the topic to be at least 30-35% of the
> book.

Haha. That's very funny.

If you're not Vietnamese, and you want to live in Vietnam or do
business in Vietnam, then you're going to have to know a lot more than
just a list of economic reforms. Such a person should really take the
time to understand the entire history of Vietnam, to get a feel for
what the Vietnamese culture is like. Therefore, 100% of the book is
how Vietnam became an economic powerhouse.
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** 14-Mar-2021 World View: Preparing for the approaching crisis

We've written a lot in this forum about preparing for the coming
crisis, and Navigator has written an entire book on making
preparations (see below).

Aeden has highlighted a new article on crisis preparation. It's worth
a read:

*** Here’s How 30 Preppers Have Adapted and What They Foresee Happening Next
https://www.theorganicprepper.com/preppers-adapted/

Reposted on Zerohedge:
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finan...ening-next

These are simple suggestions, like staying out of debt, keeping a
stock of dry foods, more gardening, and so forth.

Some people are preparing for "hyperinflation." As I've written in
detail many times, hyperinflation is impossible, and we're headed for
a deflationary crisis. That's why you have to stay out of debt.

At any rate, the article is worthwhile reading.

Navigator's book, How To Prepare For The Coming Storms, provides
valuable detailed information on what what's coming. Much of the
information in this book is not available in any form anywhere else.

You can obtain a copy of this book by making a $25 donation to the
following GoFundMe campaign:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/coming-storms-preparation

This donation will fund further development of Generational Dynamics.
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** 14-Mar-2021 World View: Sunday morning news

Some highlights from the Sunday morning news shows today:
  • Fox News is focusing on the crisis at the southern border.
    This is an enormous crisis, which is growing worse every day, where
    thousands of migrants are simply walking in to the US. The children
    are locked up in storage containers, while the adults are put on buses
    to go wherever they want. According to sample tests, about 10% of
    them have Covid, and they're spreading it across the country.

    Another issue is that Mexican cartels are making huge amounts of money
    from this. They have complete control of the border, and they charge
    people who want to cross into America. The charge is around $5,000
    for someone from Central America, and $15,000 for someone from Europe
    or the Mideast. That doesn't even count the tons of drugs that are
    coming across the border and are being sent across the county.
    Democrats want this to continue so that the illegal immigrants will
    vote for Democrats.

    Needless to say, only Fox News is covering this. The mainstream media
    are totally silent about this.

  • The mainstream media are focusing on Biden's speech last week, how
    wonderful and nurturing it was, and how it's preparing the country to
    be ready for get-togethers by July 4. I also saw discussions about
    how California is handling the Covid crisis properly, while Florida is
    not.

    There's also a lot of coverage about Andrew Cuomo and his seven sexual
    abuse accusers. This whole subject is a farce, since Democrats don't
    care about rape or sexual abuse by Democrats. The most obvious
    example of this is that something like a dozen women accused Bill
    Clinton of violent rape, but Democrats still treat him like a god, and
    the same for Hillary, who trashes any of Clinton's rape victims.
    Democrats love rape when the rapist is a Democrat.

    So the question I have is: Why are the Democrats throwing Cuomo under
    the bus? They could easily bat away Cuomo's accusers, just as they've
    batted away Clinton's accusers. I'm 100% certain it has nothing to do
    with sexual abuse or nursing home deaths, since Democrats don't even
    care about those. Most likely is that they want to replace Cuomo with
    an even loonier leftist.

  • On CNN's Reliable Sources this morning, there was a long segment
    attacking Fox's Tucker Carlson. I recommend Carlson to everyone
    because he's been the most effective in exposing the loony leftist
    policies, such as saying that there's no difference between male and
    female, or teaching kids that all whites are racists, or ignoring the
    antifa-blm violence that's once again spreading, or the cancel culture
    lunacy. The fact that CNN is spending so much time attacking Carlson
    and trying to force him off the air shows how effective he's
    become.
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** 15-Mar-2021 World View: Myanmar / Burma violence continues to grow explosively

Over 50 peaceful protesters were shot dead by security forces in
Yangon, Myanmar / Burma, over the weekend.

According to reports by BBC correspondent Jonathan Head, the security
forces (police + army) are becoming extremely contemptuous of the
peaceful protestors. They shoot people without provocation, picking
them off from bridges with high-powered rifles, and then picking off
someone who tries to help. According to Head, they're posting videos
expressing contempt of ordinary civilian protesters.

This is the same kind of contempt that the army showed for Rohingya
Muslims, when they were conducting genocide and ethnic cleansing.

If this isn't a real sign of an impending civil war, then I don't know
what is. The next step would be for someone to supply weapons to
protesters.
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** 15-Mar-2021 World View: Syria vs Burma/Myanmar

DaKardii Wrote:> Exactly ten years after the civil war in Syria began under similar
> circumstances. Could history repeat [in Burma]? And if it does,
> could it drag in the US, China, and India into a proxy
> war?

There are significant differences.

The Syria civil war began during a generational Awakening era. The
war would have fizzled, and in fact al-Assad was losing the war in
2015, but Russia, Iran and Hezbollah moved in to support al-Assad. So
the war was internationalized when other countries entered to support
al-Assad, and also when young Sunnis from some 80 countries traveled
to Syria to fight against al-Assad, eventually forming ISIS.

Myanmar/Burma is well into a generational Crisis era, so there is no
chance of the civil war fizzling. Other countries may get involved,
but not because they need to support junta leader Min Aung Hlaing.

China may get drawn in because the protesters are blaming China for
supporting the junta. Over the weekend, two China-owned factories in
Yangon were burned down.

India may get drawn because Burma refugees may flee across the border
into India. Already, about a dozen Burmese policemen have crossed
into India seeking asylum because they don't want to kill civilians,
and Burma is demanding that they be extradited. If India gets
involved, it may be on the side of the junta, since India also has a
lot of Rohingya refugees.
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*** 16-Mar-21 World View -- After ten years, Qatar seeks to become Syria war mediator

This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
  • After ten years, Qatar seeks to become Syria war mediator
  • Ten years of war have turned an affluent Syria into a country in ruins
  • The remaining battleground in Idlib province
  • Qatar's strategy in offering to mediate the Syrian war
  • Syrian war timeline

****
**** After ten years, Qatar seeks to become Syria war mediator
****


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Map of Syria showing areas of control, as of February 2021 (BBC)

On Thursday of last week, a three-way conference was held in Doha,
Qatar's capital, to lay the groundwork for a political solution to war
in Syria that began in 2011. Qatar has suffered some foreign policy
defeats in recent years, and is looking for a new role to play, and
apparently sees this as a way of gaining increased influence in the
Mideast.

The conference was attended by ministers form Qatar, Russia and
Turkey. They were Qatar's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of
Foreign Affairs Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Russia's Foreign
Minister Sergei Lavrov and Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu.

According to Cavusoglu: "Today we launched a new trilateral
consultation process. Our goal is to discuss how we can contribute to
efforts towards a lasting political solution in Syria."

This is laughable. The United Nations has appointed several envoys --
Kofi Annon, Lakhdar Brahimi, Staffan de Mistura -- to mediate a
political solution, and in the end they all resigned in disgust after
being made useful idiots by Bashar al-Assad. In neach case they
provided cover for al-Assad to continue his war crimes and genocide
targeting innocent Arab Sunnis, and also provided cover for al-Assad's
supporters in Russia and Iran, allowing them to make sanctimonious
statements while they support al-Assad's bloody slaughter. The UN has
recently appointed a new envoy, Geir Pedersen, who sounds to me like
all the others, and speaks the same nonsense.

All of these envoys say the same thing: "A military solution is
impossible. There has to be a political solution." The problem is
that Syria, Russia, Iran and Hezbollah have joined together, and have
brought about a military holocaust in Syria. Bashar al-Assad believes
that he is close to a total victory, and will never agree to any
political solution.

So now Qatar wants to take on the role of mediator. Qatar is a little
different from the envoys because it openly supports tne anti-Assad
Arab political opposition, while the UN envoys are supposedly neutral.
But Qatari officials apparently believe that they can use their
existing relationship with Russia to bring something about.

Russia's Vladimir Putin, of course, doesn't care how many Sunni Arabs
Bashar al-Assad beats, tortures, rapes or kills. Russia is supporting
al-Assad because it wants to retain control of its two military bases
in Syria, the Tartus naval base and the Hmeimim airbase. When
al-Assad begged Putin for military help in 2015, Putin agreed to help,
and received control of the two military bases in return.

****
**** Ten years of war have turned an affluent Syria into a country in ruins
****


Ten years ago, Syria used to be a beautiful, affluent middle-class
country. Today, the entire country looks like a war zone, with
buildings destroyed everywhere, particularly schools, hospitals and
markets.

Of the 22 million people that lived in Syria before the war, about
half a million have been killed, and more than 12 million people have
been forced to flee their homes, either becoming refugees or displaced
people in their own country.

Today, Syria is an economic basket case, with massive poverty among
people who still live there, and among Syrians who live in refugee
camps in Lebanon and Turkey.

The Syrian currency, the Lira, has crashed. $10 used to give you 500
Syrian Lira. Now $10 is 40,000 Syrian Lira. Money-changers need carts
to carry their currency, in a scene reminiscent of the wheelbarrows of
money in Germany in the hyperinflation of the early 1920s.

Post-war discontent with corruption, spiralling food prices, a
collapsed currency, worsening power cuts and gasoline shortages have
aggravated hardships for the remaining citizens.

****
**** The remaining battleground in Idlib province
****


The war in Syria has become more or less static in the last year.
There are about 2.5 million Sunni Arabs in Idlib province, which is in
northwest Syria along the border with Turkey, and I had expected that
Syria's dictator Bashar al-Assad, backed by Russia, would by this time
have found a way to exterminate many of the 2.5 million people, who
are mostly women and children. But Turkey has sent its own troops and
tanks into Idlib, and al-Assad's extermination process has been
slowed.

Al-Assad himself has been shown by defectors to be someone who gets
obvious pleasure from gouging out people's eyes or pulling out their
fingernails, or other forms of torture. (See "8-Feb-17 World View -- Investigation reveals depraved new atrocities by Syria's Bashar al-Assad"
)

Most of the civilians in Idlib are women and children refugees from
other provinces, including Aleppo, Ghouta, Daraa and Quneitra. In
each of the other provinces, al-Assad sent missiles into school
dormitories to kill children, or dropped barrel bombs laden with
metal, chlorine, ammonia, phosphorous and chemical weapons on civilian
neighborhoods, or using Sarin gas to kill large groups of people.
Al-Assad's barrel bombs, missiles and chemical weapons have
specifically targeted schools, markets and hospitals, in order to kill
as many women and children as possible, Since chlorine gas is heavier
than air, it seeps down into the basements and forces the choking
women and children out into the open, where they can be targeted by
missiles and gunfire. As if that wasn't enough, al-Assad was
supported by Russian warplanes.

In each case, international pressure forced al-Assad to allow hundreds
of thousands of civilians, mostly women and children, to escape to
Idlib province. The result is that about half the population in Idlib
is refugees from other provinces.

Bashar al-Assad repeatedly vowed to attack Idlib next, with Russian
support, and to exterminate all the Sunni Arab civilians. This threat
actually presented a huge threat to Turkey and even to Europe, as
those attacks would drive millions of refugees across the border into
Turkey, and possibly into Europe from there.

To block this, Turkey sent its own troops into Idlib, so that an
attack on Idlib would be an attack on Turkey. This has prevented the
expected extermination of Sunni Arabs in Idlib. But it has also
raised pressure on Turkey to end its "occupation" of Syrian territory.

****
**** Qatar's strategy in offering to mediate the Syrian war
****


From the outbreak of the Syrian conflict, Qatar, provided huge
financial, political and media support for opposition groups,
especially armed ones. However, this aid stopped in 2015 when Russia
intervened.

Qatar has for years had sharp differences with the other members of
the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). In March 2014, Saudi Arabia, the
United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain recalled their ambassadors from
Qatar after a stormy meeting. One issue was Qatar's friendly
relationship with Iran,as well as Qatari support for two organizations
that Saudi Arabia and UAE consider to be terrorist organizations --
the Muslim Brotherhood and the Union of Muslim Scholars.

They papered over their differences in 2014, but the diffeences
exploded in June 2016, when Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, and the
United Arab Emirates (UAE) also broke relations and imposed a sea, air
and land blockade on Qatar. Qatar is a very wealthy country and was
able to weather this blockade, but it lost influence in the Mideast.

There has been some softening of the blockade in recent months. That
change, combined with the presence of a new admiistration in the
United States, has led Qatar to change direction and reactivate its
diplomatic posture.

Having ended its aid to Syrian opposition groups in 2014, Qatar is now
returning to mediation in the Syria war, taking advantage of what it
hopes are its existing good relations with Russia and Iran.

****
**** Syrian war timeline
****


The following timeline lists the major events in the ten-year Syrian
war?
  • March 2011 -- The first big protests against Assad’s rule that
    began in Deraa in southern Syria spread across the country. Security
    forces respond with arrests and shootings.
  • August 2011 -- Al-Assad began his policy of ethnic cleansing and
    genocide by attacking and cleansing the al-Ramel Palestinian refugee
    camp in Latakia, forcing 10,000 people to flee for their lives.
    Later, that region was repopulated by Iranian and Hezbollah Shias.
    This was the launch of genocidal attacks on many Syrian cities. The
    attack on the Palestinian camp was signficant because it
    internationalized the war, and eventually caused thousands of young
    Sunni males in 80 countries to travel to Syria to fight al-Assad,
    eventually forming ISIS.
  • April 30, 2012 -- Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallad gave a
    televised speech committing Hezbollah's soldiers to enter Syria and
    fight on the side of al-Assad's army.
  • May 2012 -- Syrian security forces stormed Aleppo University,
    breaking down doors and using machine guns and rifles against
    students. Al-Assad launched air raids on many cities and towns,
    killing thousands. This began a policy of targeting schools,
    hospitals, markets and residential neighborhoods, particularly
    targeting women and children.
  • December 2012 -- US officials confirm that Syria has the precursor
    chemicals for deadly Sarin gas, and loaded the gas into bombs. Iraq's
    president Saddam Hussein's forces killed 5,000 Kurds with a single
    Sarin gas attack on Halabja in 1988. Barack Obama declared that use
    of chemical weapons would be a "red line" that would provoke a
    military response from the US.
  • March 19, 2013 -- A Sarin gas attack killed 26.
  • June 2013 -- Syria launched a Sarin gas attack on a densely
    populated rebel-held Eastern Ghouta on the outskirts of Damascus
    killing hundreds of civilians, without triggering a U.S. military
    response.
  • August 21, 2013 -- A Sarin gas attack on the densely populated
    Eastern Ghouta on the outskirts of Damascus. Washington declares it
    to be use of chemical weapons violating its red line, without
    triggering a U.S. military response.
  • January 2014 -- A jihadist group, later to be called ISIS, seized
    territory across Syria and Iraq, and declared a caliphate.
  • April 13, 2014 -- First reported use of chlorine gas by al-Assad
    in barrel bombs targeting women and children in markets and
    residential neighborhoods.
  • September 2014 -- US begins air strikes in support of the Kurds
    against ISIS
  • May 2015 -- After suffering several major military defeats, and
    with his army near total collapse, al-Assad announces that he's losing
    the war.
  • June 2015 -- Iran announces plans to deploy tens of thousands of
    troops to Syria in support of al-Assad.
  • September 2015 -- Russia joins the war on al-Assad's side,
    deploying warplanes and giving military aid that, with the help of
    Iran, swiftly turns the course of conflict against the rebels.
  • December 2016 -- After massive slaughter of residents of Aleppo by
    Syrian and Russian forces, al-Assad scores a "historic victory" in
    Aleppo.
  • February 2018 -- Syria, Russia, Iran conduct full-on mass
    extermination of civilians in Eastern Ghouta
  • April 2018 -- Donald Trump administration, allied with France and
    Britain, launch a missile attack on Syria in retaliation for crossing
    "red line" on use of chemical weapons. However, al-Assad continued to
    use chemical weapons anyway, with impunity.
  • May 2018 -- Civilians in Eastern Ghouta and Douma are allowed to
    flee to Idlib province
  • June 2018 -- Al-Assads begins massive slaughter in Daraa and
    Quneitra provinces.
  • July 2018 -- Civilians in Daraa and Quneitra provinces are allowed
    to flee to Idlib province.
  • August 2018 -- Al-Assad promised to slaughter all the 2.5 million
    people at that time.
  • October 2019 -- Trump administration announced withdrawal of
    American troops. Turkey announced plan to invade Turkey to protect
    civilians in Idlib, and to keep Kurds under control in northeastern
    Syria.
  • February 2020 -- Turkey sent tanks across border into Syria to
    confront al-Assad regime in Idlib

Sources:

Related Articles:



KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Syria, Bashar al-Assad, Qatar,
Russia, Turkey, Iran, Hezbollah, Vladimir Putin,
Kofi Annon, Lakhdar Brahimi, Staffan de Mistura, Geir Pedersen,
Idlib province, Aleppo, Ghouta, Daraa, Quneitra.
Gulf Cooperation Council, GCC,
Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, UAE,
Muslim Brotherhood, Union of Muslim Scholars.
Sayyed Hasan Nasrallad, Aleppo University,
Sarin gas, chlorine, barrel bombs,
al-Ramel Palestinian refugee camp, Latakia

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Butcher Assad has all the cards.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist  but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.


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** 21-Mar-2021 World View: Sunday morning news - Southern border

Some highlights from the Sunday morning news shows today:

How things have changed in a week! Last Sunday, the mainstream media
were pretending that there was nothing going on at the southern
border, and only Fox News discussed the crisis. Everyone else was
silent.

Now, the crisis has gotten so bad that the mainstream media are
even calling it a crisis, although the administration is calling
it a "challenge," apparently thinking that the rest of us
are so stupid we believe them.

Here's how CNN described the situation:

Quote:> "CNN previously reported that children are alternating
> schedules to make space for one another in confined facilities,
> some kids haven't seen sunlight in days and others are taking
> turns showering, often going days without one, according to case
> managers, attorneys and Border Patrol agents. Bunk beds have been
> brought in to one of the processing facilities to help accommodate
> the influx of children, with one agent saying children are also
> sleeping on plastic cots and mats on the floor and
> benches."
> https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/21/politics/...index.html
>

The administration used to criticize Trump for cruelty with "kids in
cages," but Biden's is a far more cruel situation, with kids crammed
into shipping crates with no social distancing, no sunlight, and
limited facilities. Furthermore, the kids are being controlled by
child traffickers who abuse the kids and exploit them sexually.
Furthermore, the cartels are using the fact that border agents are
overwhelmed to massive amounts of Fentynal and other drugs into the
US.

Meanwhile, adults are now simply crossing the border and told to go
wherever the want, without even being tested for Covid. They aren't
even being assigned a court date, which is what Obama used to do.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas made the rounds of the
news shows, clearly telling one idiotic lie after another -- the
border is closed, the situation is under control, it's all Trump's
fault, blah blah blah.

Here's Mayorkas' position:
  • He stated without evidence that the Trump administration dismantled
    the border policies that Obama had set up.

  • He said that Trump's policies were cruel, and that's why Biden
    rushed to dismantle all of Trump's policies on day one.

  • He stated without evidence that they have a new plan. If they
    have a plan, nobody knows what it is, so it's pretty clear that they
    don't have a plan.

  • It will take time to implement the new plan, and then everything
    will be dandy.

This is complete nonsense by an administration that's floundering, led
by someone who is cognitively deficient, and which has no plan and no
idea what to do.

One of the flaws in this logic is that if the administration knew
there would be a surge, then why did they rush to dismantle Trump's
policies before beginning implementation of their own policies? They
should have held off dismantling Trump's policies until they were
prepared. But they didn't care about the damage they were doing.
They just wanted to reverse the policies of the hated Trump.
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** 21-Mar-2021 World View: Sunday morning news - Anti-Asian hate

The other big story this morning was the anti-Asian hate crimes. The
mainstream media, which are suffering PTSD from lack of having Trump
around, blamed the Atlanta shooting on Trump's phrase "China virus,"
which is ridiculous.

All the signs are there that the Atlanta shooter was obsessed with
Asian women and went berserk. I find this quite believable, since
I've known two guys in the past who were obsessed with Asian women --
to date them not to kill them. There's something about Asian women
that causes some men (not me) to obsess about them. (However, I admit
that I do find Elementary star Lucy Liu to be super-hot.)

The mainstream media were going on and on blaming white supremacists
for thousands of incidents last year for anti-Asian hate incidents.
However, the data shows that most anti-Asian hate crimes are
perpetrated by blacks.

In January, the National Institutes of Health used data from the
Department of Justice to "examine the nature and characteristics of
hate crimes against Asian Americans." The report compared hate crimes
against Asian Americans, African Americans, and Hispanics.

The most important finding of the report is that perpetrators of hate
crimes against Asians are most likely to be blacks. This is something
that's been known anecdotally for a long time, but the NIH report
confirms it. It's also clear that the writers of the NIH report don't
want you to easily find this result, probably for fear that if they
expose the truth, they'll get fired or canceled by the Stalinist
Democrat Party regime.

You have to go far into the report to find the results (search for
"Table 3" or "Findings of this study, however, also provide support to
the minority-specific model"), but the findings are clear:
  • Hate crimes against Asians are overwhelmingly done by blacks.

    "Hate crimes against Asian Americans are more likely than hate crimes
    against either African Americans or Hispanics to be committed by
    non-White offenders."

  • Blacks may be motivated by their resentment of the success of
    Asians.

    "This finding may be attributed to animosity toward the “model
    minority” from other minority groups. As aforementioned, the “model
    minority” stereotype assuming Asian Americans’ success in economics,
    education, and other opportunities generates potential competition or
    threats by members of other racial groups, which in turn may lead to
    resentment to be further acted upon through hate crimes."

  • Blacks may be motivated by fears that they'll lose their special
    privileges and financial welfare and other benefits because Asians
    will get the same benefits during downturns.

    "Offenders of other minorities of color targeting Asian Americans
    might fit the category of “reactionists." ... Instead of acting
    impulsively, the “reactionists” are motivated by protecting their
    resources from competitors.... This finding might also lend indirect
    support to the perspective of racial competition motivating hate
    crimes, which argues that when members of a racial group perceive that
    their access and privileges to material resources are threatened by
    other racial groups during economic downturns, racial conflict and
    hate crimes may occur."

Although all three of these reasons apply to Black Lives Matter (blm),
the third reason seems to me the most relevant of all:
  • The increase in hate crimes against Asians in 2020 was not
    caused by Trump, but was caused by blacks fearing that they'll get
    less welfare payments, and Asians will get more.

  • The attacks by antifa-blm fascists, burning down and trashing
    small businesses, may have been specifically an attack on Asian owned
    businesses.

The article by Michelle Malkin referenced below provides multiple
examples of hate crimes against Asians by blacks, probably all
Democrats.

Reading through the news stories of that Atlanta shooting, you can
almost see the frustration of the writers that they can't find an
angle to blame Republicans. By this time it's almost certain that the
Atlanta shooter was a Democrat, probably a supporter of Black Lives
Matter.


---- Sources:

-- Hate Crimes against Asian Americans
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7790522/
(National Institutes of Health, 7-Jan-2021)

-- Asians: Stop blaming Whitey
https://norfolkdailynews.com/commentary/...12012.html
(Michelle Malkin, 10-Mar-2021)
Reply
** 22-Mar-2021 World View: Everything is a bubble?

Cool Breeze" Wrote:> Here's your problem, and why you can't think straight about this
> topic: everything is a bubble to you. You can't even differentiate
> value from a bubble, because your whimsical approach doesn't
> define what either is. Sorry, you don't get to just declare
> something is a bubble without any reasoning. Tell me something
> that ISN'T a bubble (for example, something that is increasing in
> price, just to make it a comparison) and why?

> I hope everyone notices the response to this, will yet again, be a
> nothing answer.

I don't think that you actually care, but the following article
describes the analytical method for determining a bubble:

** WSJ's page one story on Bernanke's Princeton 'Bubble Laboratory' is almost incoherent
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/x...tm#e080518



The problem with Bitcoin is that it has no history. The 1929 crash
was entirely predictable because it had many decades of history. The
1987 false panic was not a crash, as could be proven by applying the
analytical method to decades of data.

But in the case of Bitcoin, all we can do is compare it to other
values that had no history, and Tulipomania and the South Sea Bubble
are the obvious choices. Without historical data, and with a
parabolically increasing value, the burden of proof is on the side of
proving that it isn't a bubble, but it obviously is.
Reply
** 22-Mar-2021 World View: Blacks and White Asians

tim Wrote:> I remember when not that long ago the Left was claiming that
> Asians were not "people of color" and are actually "white".

> Cue a mentally ill white man murdering Asian women and the Left no
> longer claims that Asians are "white", but are now regularly
> victims of "white supremacy".

> https://reason.com/volokh/2020/11/16/sch...-of-color/

> https://www.nationalreview.com/news/sf-s...get-ahead/

> https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volo...ame-white/

Thank you for posting those article links.

The NIH article that I referenced in my previous message, which NIH
posted in January of this year, makes it clear that anti-Asian hate
crimes are overwhelmingly perpetrated by blacks. The NIH article
gives two reasons: that blacks are resentful of the economic success
of Asians, and that blacks feel that they are in competition with
Asians for resources, since Asians are another "minority."

The articles you've posted make it clear that both of these reasons
are highly prevalent. One San Francisco school board member refers to
Asians as "house ni--ers" because she wants to "combat anti-black
racism." I guess she feels that the anti-Asian racism is the best way
to combat anti-black racism.

One of the articles says "Asians have become white," which is likely
"to create nasty, corrosive, sometimes fatal battles over which racial
groups get the spoils."

So the issue of anti-Asian hate groups is really about black
resentment of Asians' success, and about competition among minority
groups (blacks and Asians) for resources.
Reply
*** 23-Mar-21 World View -- Book Announcement: World View: Vietnam, Buddhism, and the Vietnam War

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Book Announcement: World View: Vietnam, Buddhism, and the Vietnam War

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Most people know nothing about Vietnam except that their grandfathers
fought in something called "the Vietnam War." And yet, as guardian of
the maritime routes from Europe to India, Malaya and China, Vietnam
has for millennia been a dominant player in world trade.

And now, with China illegally annexing the South China Sea, which
controls $1.3 trillion in trade, Vietnam's historic role as guardian
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This book describes Vietnam's history since ancient times, through
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that historically it's not a country in the European sense, but is
composed of "Vietnam Villages" that define its culture and business
dealings, and should understand the interaction between Buddhism,
Confucianism, and Christianity in the villages and guilds.

The book has extensive coverage of the history and theology of
Buddhism, and how it spread from India to Vietnam and China, in one of
the most sigificant events in the history of religion. The book
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Buddhism, Daoism and Confucianism, and how Chinese and Vietnamese
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especially between North and South.

The author's previous book on the history of Iran has extensive
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The book also has extensive coverage of what "really happened" in the
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had family and friends who fought in the war, nonetheless have no idea
what the Vietnam War was about. Even Vietnamese people under age 50
don't know what it was about. This book will tell you what actually
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Now, almost 20 years later, there are over 6,000 articles on my web
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Table of Contents - World View: Vietnam, Buddhism, and the Vietnam War

Part I. Vietnam, Buddhism and the Vietnam War -- Vietnam today
Chapter 1. Importance of Vietnam
Chapter 2. Overview of Contents
Chapter 3. Objectives of this book
Chapter 4. Description of Buddhist theology
Chapter 5. Getting a 'feel' for Vietnam
5.1. Vietnam country names
Chapter 6. Brief summary of generational eras

Part II. Vietnam's Doi Moi economic reforms (1986-present)
Chapter 7. Vietnam's legal and economic history
7.1. Nations, kingdoms, empires, leaders, kings, emperors, dynasties
7.2. Economic influences in historical Vietnam
7.3. Vietnam's economy after French colonization (1858)
7.4. Social etiquette
Chapter 8. The collapse of Communism, Socialism, Marxism in Asia
8.1. China -- Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward
8.2. Russia -- Perestroika and Glasnost
8.3. South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong -- the 'Asian Tigers'
8.4. The Doi Moi economic reforms
Chapter 9. Details of Doi Moi reforms
9.1. Reforming centrally-planned to market oriented economy
9.2. Land reform
9.3. Abolishing the dual-pricing system
9.4. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
9.5. Financial crisis in 2009-12
Chapter 10. Vietnam's economic crisis during Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic (2020)
10.1. Vietnam focuses on foreign investment and trade
10.2. Government heightened focus on high tech and artificial intelligence
10.3. Human Rights

Part III. Overview of Asian religions and theology
Chapter 11. Evolution of great religions
11.1. Evolutionary framework of great religions
11.2. Documentation -- written law of the great religions
11.3. Written law in Hinduism and Buddhism
11.4. Etiquette in engaging with Buddhists
Chapter 12. Overview of Buddhist theology
12.1. Achieving Nirvana
12.2. Theravada Buddhism ('Path of the Elders')
12.3. Mahayana Buddhism ('The Great Vehicle')
12.4. Hinayana Buddhism ('Modest Vehicle')
Chapter 13. The school of meditation: Ch'an / Zen Buddhism
13.1. Rise of Ch'an/Zen Buddhism in China
13.2. Philosophy of Daoism
13.3. Ch'an / Zen Buddhism and sudden enlightenment
13.4. Zen Buddhism in the West
Chapter 14. Other schools of Buddhism
14.1. The evolution and simplification of Buddhism
14.2. Pure Land Buddhism
14.3. Tantric (Vajrayana, Tibetan) Buddhism
14.4. Bodhisattvas in Mahayana Buddhism
14.5. The Maitreya in Buddhism

Part IV. How Hinduism and Buddhism spread from India to southern Vietnam
Chapter 15. Aryan invasion, and rise of Hinduism in India
15.1. Life of The Buddha (563-483 BC)
15.2. The Middle Way and Enlightenment
15.3. Hinduism and Buddhism
15.4. Popularity of Buddhism
Chapter 16. Legacy of Emperor Ashoka (304-232 BC, Ruled 273-232 BC)
16.1. Ashoka commits genocide and ethnic cleansing
16.2. Ashoka repents and converts to Buddhism
16.3. Spread of Buddhism north and south -- overview
16.4. Ashoka's influence on Buddhism
Chapter 17. Spread of Theravada Buddhism to southeast Asia and southern Vietnam
17.1. Spread of Buddhism to Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
17.2. Spread of Buddhism to Burma (Myanmar) and Siam (Thailand)
17.3. Spread of Buddhism to Malay Peninsula and Indonesia
17.4. Spread of Buddhism to Cambodia and southern Vietnam (Mekong Delta)

Part V. How Buddhism spread through China to northern Vietnam
Chapter 18. Spread of Mahayana Buddhism along the Great Silk Road
Chapter 19. Collapse of China's glorious Han Dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD)
19.1. Significance of China's Han Dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD)
19.2. Decline of the Han Dynasty in the 100s
19.3. Collapse of the Han Dynasty -- Yellow Turban Rebellion - 184 AD
Chapter 20. Changes to Daoism and Buddhism during and after Han Dynasty
20.1. Daoism during and after the declining Han Dynasty
20.2. Buddhism during and after the declining Han Dynasty
20.3. Differences between Chinese and Indian languages and culture
20.4. Role of Daoism in linking Indian and Chinese cultures
Chapter 21. Sacking by the Huns (311) -- China splits into North and South
Chapter 22. Spread of Buddhism south of the Yangtze River
22.1. Buddhism vs Confucianism and Daoism
Chapter 23. Spread of Buddhism north of the Yangtze River
23.1. Northern rulers' adoption of Buddhism
23.2. Northern rulers' misgivings about Buddhism
23.3. Emancipation of Buddhist ideas from Daoism in the North
Chapter 24. Spread of Buddhism in Sui and Tang dynasties (589-906)
24.1. Divergence of North and South during period of disunion
24.2. Regulation of religions during Sui-Tang dynasties
24.3. Great Buddhist movements during Sui-Tang dynasties
24.4. The school of meditation: Ch'an or Zen Buddhism
24.5. The catastrophic An Lu-shan Rebellion (755-763)
24.6. Union of Uighurs and Tibetans (765)
24.7. The Great Suppression of Buddhism (842-845)
24.8. Revival of Confucianism
Chapter 25. Zen Buddhism in Japan
25.1. The Zen Koan: What is the sound of one hand clapping?
Chapter 26. Buddhism in Vietnam
26.1. Adulteration / Syncretism of Buddhism in Vietnam
26.2. Vietnam Communist Party hostility to religion

Part VI. South Vietnam's ancient history
Chapter 27. Background: Archaeological ages and Geography
27.1. Archaeological ages
27.2. Stone age
27.3. Bronze age
27.4. Iron age
27.5. Vietnam's fusion of races, languages and cultures
27.6. Vietnam's Geography
Chapter 28. South Vietnam's ancient civilizations -- Sa Huynh, Dong Son
28.1. Sa Huynh culture (10000 BC - 200 AD)
28.2. Dong Son (Dong Son) culture
28.3. Growth of Dong Son culture
28.4. China-Vietnam disputes over Dong Son cultures

Part VII. The millennium of Chinese rule (111 BC to 938 AD) -- Viets, Funan, Champa, Khmers
Chapter 29. North Vietnam: Confucian Viet culture, following conquest by China
29.1. Chinese invasion and conquest (111 BC)
29.2. Confucianism in Vietnam and role of women
29.3. Trung Sisters Rebellion (40-43 AD) and reconquest by China
29.4. The Sinicization of North Vietnam
29.5. Ly Bi overthrows Chinese rule, creates Van Xuan empire (544-603)
29.6. Chinese rule by China's Tang dynasty (618-906)
Chapter 30. Chinese rule ends with spectacular Battle of Bach Dang River (938)
30.1. Ngo Quyen defeats Chinese in the spectacular Battle of Bach Dang River (938)
30.2. Dinh Bo Linh's tributary mission to China (968)
Chapter 31. Far Southern Vietnam: Rise of Hinduized Funan culture, centered in Cambodia
31.1. Funan Culture and Oc-Eo port city
Chapter 32. Central Vietnam: Rise of Champa culture
32.1. Champa culture
32.2. Cham people today

Part VIII. Nine centuries of Vietnam independence -- 938 - 1862
Chapter 33. Reference list of Vietnamese dynasties after independence
Chapter 34. Vietnam villages
34.1. Vietnam's guilds and villages
34.2. Village organization
Chapter 35. Brief history of Laos
Chapter 36. Early Le Dynasty (980-1005)
36.1. Generational summary
36.2. Defeating another Chinese invasion
Chapter 37. The First Great Dynasty: The Later Ly Dynasty (1009–1225)
37.1. Generational summary
37.2. Development of agriculture in Red River Delta -- and southward move
37.3. Development of written law
37.4. Growth of Buddhism in Nam Viet
37.5. Buddhism in central and south Vietnam
37.6. Champa Kingdom conquest by Angkor Khmers (Cambodia) (1203-20)
37.7. Cultural differences: Nam Viet vs Champa
Chapter 38. The Second Great Dynasty -- The Tran Dynasty (1225-1400)
38.1. Generational summary
38.2. Mobilizing eunuchs and slaves - preparing for war
38.3. Sacking of Champa capital Vijaya (1252)
38.4. First Mongol War (1257)
38.5. The Tran vs the Mongols [1284-1287]
38.6. Tran Dynasty defeats the Mongols (1284, 1287)
38.7. Mongols face Vietnamese war elephants (1284)
38.8. Tran soldiers defeat Mongols in Battle of Bach Dang (1287)
38.9. Tran war with Champa (1312)
38.10. Buddhism vs Confucianism during the Tran dynasty
38.11. Growth of Confucianism to modern times
Chapter 39. Ho Dynasty (1400-1407) -- Vietnam's most hated dynasty
39.1. Ho general usurps the throne
39.2. China invades Vietnam in brutal period of governance
39.3. Ho Dynasty echoes through Vietnam's history
39.4. War with the Chinese (1417-1427)
Chapter 40. Later Le Dynasty Part 1: destruction of Champa Kingdom (1428-1527)
40.1. Generational summary
40.2. Destruction of Champa Kingdom (1471)
40.3. Southern expansion (nam-tien) and land settlement (don dien)
40.4. Aftermath of the destruction of Champa kingdom
40.5. Decline of the Le Dynasty (1497-1527)
Chapter 41. Later Le Dynasty Part 2: The warring warlords (1527-1787)
41.1. Generational summary
41.2. The Mac family and Nguyen family split Vietnam in two (1527-45)
41.3. Trinh family joins the struggle (1545-1592)
41.4. Arrival of the Europeans - 1600s
41.5. The inevitable war between Nguyen and Trinh begins (1620-1672)
Chapter 42. The cataclysmic Tay-Son Rebellion (1771-1790, defeated 1802)
42.1. Background to Tay-Son Rebellion
42.2. The Ho (Nguyen) brothers begin the Tay-Son rebellion
42.3. Marxist Socialism before Marx -- Tay-Son rebellion
42.4. Tay-Son rebels align themselves with Chinese pirates
42.5. Socialism in the 21st century -- Memories of the Tay-Son rebellion
Chapter 43. Nguyen Phuc Anh (Gia Long) launches a harsh new Nguyen Dynasty
43.1. List of kings of the Nguyen Dynasty
43.2. Generational summary
43.3. Nguyen Phuc Anh defeats the Tay-Son rebels (1776-1802)
43.4. Vietnam finally adopts the name Viet Nam
43.5. The Nguyen Dynasty (1802-1945)
43.6. Nguyen Dynasty and persecution of Christians

Part IX. The Treaty of Saigon and French colonization (1862-1954)
Chapter 44. Treaty of Saigon, June 1862
44.1. France completes conquest of French Indochina (1887)
Chapter 45. Conflicts during French colonization
45.1. Vietnam Villages during French colonization
45.2. Vietnam government after the Treaty of Saigon (1862-1954)
45.3. Truong Dinh -- anti-French guerrilla movement (1858-64)
45.4. Anti-Catholic violence
45.5. Vietnamese modernization movements opposing French colonialism
Chapter 46. Rise of Vietnam nationalism up to World War II
46.1. Phan Boi Chau and the Rise of Nationalism (1904)
46.2. Did Ho Chi Minh betray Phan Boi Chau?
46.3. Rise of Ho Chi Minh and fight for independence from the French
46.4. European migration to French Indochina until 1945

Part X. Understanding the context of America's 'Vietnam War'
Chapter 47. Summary of America's Vietnam War
Chapter 48. Major findings about America's Vietnam War
48.1. Disastrous decisions by President Kennedy
48.2. The question of insanity
48.3. The question of sophistry
48.4. Facts and events vs Context
48.5. Was the Vietnam War worth the cost?
Chapter 49. Major world events as context of Vietnam War
49.1. March of Communism
49.2. North Vietnam's toxic relationships with China and Soviet Russia
49.3. Vietcong insurgency in South Vietnam
49.4. Laos coup and the 'Ho Chi Minh Trail'
Chapter 50. Insanity and Greek Tragedy
50.1. Understanding Greek Tragedy
50.2. Insanity
50.3. Aeschylus and Prometheus
50.4. The relevance of Greek Tragedy
50.5. The Vietnam War and Greek Tragedy
50.6. Setting the scene in 1959-60 -- the seeds of future defeat
50.7. The main characters
Chapter 51. Generational issues
51.1. The Vietnam War and American generations
51.2. Public moods in Vietnam, France and America after WW II
51.3. Hannah Arendt -- 'the calm that settles after all hopes have died'
51.4. Communism on the march -- and the 'Iron Curtain'
51.5. The Truman Doctrine makes America Policeman of the World (1947)
51.6. Truman receives NSC-68 report calling for Soviet Communist 'containment' (April 14, 1950)
51.7. Communist North Korea invades South Korea (June 25, 1950)
51.8. President Eisenhower explains the Domino Theory (1954)
51.9. President Kennedy's 'ask not' inauguration speech (1961)
Chapter 52. From trauma in World War II to a Generation Gap in the 1960s
52.1. The traumatic World War II
52.2. Lessons learned: New laws and institutions after WW II
52.3. Definition of the 'Generation Gap'
52.4. The Summer of Love (1967)
52.5. America's generational Awakening era -- 1960s-1970s
52.6. Generation Gap resolution -- Awakening Climax
Chapter 53. Examples of generational Recovery and Awakening Eras
53.1. America after World War II (1945)
53.2. Iran after Great Islamic Revolution (1979)
53.3. Zimbabwe after war of independence (1980)
53.4. China after the Communist Revolution (1949)
53.5. American Civil War (1865)
53.6. America's Revolutionary War (1782)
53.7. Japan after the Meiji Restoration (1868)
53.8. Japan after World War II (1945)
53.9. The generational 'Democide Pattern'
Chapter 54. The political debate over America's 'Vietnam War'
54.1. The left-wing antiwar view of the Vietnam war
54.2. The Vietnamese view of the Vietnam war
54.3. America allies with Ho Chi Minh in World War II
Chapter 55. Overview of the Vietnam War

Part XI. French Indochina War (First Indochina War, Nov 1946 to Aug 1954)
Chapter 56. Beginnings of the war
Chapter 57. Vietminh strategy
Chapter 58. Battle of Dien Bien Phu

Part XII. Interwar period -- 1954-1959 -- Republic of Vietnam
Chapter 59. Disagreements between China and Vietnam over who gets the credit
Chapter 60. History of persecution of Catholics
Chapter 61. North-South migration after First Indochina war
Chapter 62. Land reform program
Chapter 63. Beginnings of American military involvement
Chapter 64. Le Duan replaces Ho Chi Minh as de facto North Vietnam leader
64.1. Legacy of Le Duan (1908-1986)
64.2. Rise of Le Duan
Chapter 65. North Vietnam ratifies Resolution 16, authorizing war with the South (May 1959)

Part XIII. Second Indochina War 1959-1975 (America's "Vietnam War")
Chapter 66. Conflicts between Washington and Saigon
66.1. Core issues - John Kennedy and William Averell Harriman
66.2. Kennedy's youth and inexperience
66.3. Two peoples, quite apart in culture, thrown together against a common enemy
66.4. Ngo Dinh Diem and South Vietnam's imperfect democracy
66.5. America's conflicting values and policies
66.6. America's conflicting policies in Vietnam under Eisenhower
66.7. Kennedy's disastrous international agreement on Laos
66.8. The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba (April, 1961)
Chapter 67. Conflicting counterinsurgency (COIN) strategies
67.1. Summary of conflicting counterinsurgency (COIN) strategies
67.2. Counterinsurgency (COIN) military doctrine
67.3. Clear-hold-build counterinsurgency framework
Chapter 68. Antecedents of Vietnam's Strategic Hamlet program
68.1. Description of the resettlement strategy for COIN operations
68.2. Boer War (1899-1902) resettlement operations for counterinsurgency
68.3. The Malayan Emergency (1948-55) counterinsurgency (COIN) program
Chapter 69. Vietnam's Strategic Hamlet counterinsurgency (COIN) program
69.1. Mixed success of strategic hamlet program
Chapter 70. Military coup and assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem
70.1. Eruption of Buddhist-Catholic conflict (summer 1963)
70.2. Rise of antiwar activism and assassination of Diem (1963)
70.3. Summary: Kennedy's two acts of sabotage of the Vietnam War effort
70.4. Sabotage of the Strategic Hamlet program by Hanoi
Chapter 71. Why did the Strategic Hamlets program fail?
71.1. Ethnic and linguistic purity in Malaya and Vietnam
71.2. Ethnic and linguistic purity in Boer War
71.3. Counterinsurgency operations in Iraq War and Afghanistan War
71.4. Ethnic and linguistic purity issue in Afghanistan
Chapter 72. Lyndon Johnson's war (1964-1967)
72.1. Battle of Ia Drang (November 14-18, 1965)
72.2. Chaos in Saigon -- Buddhists vs Catholics
72.3. Was the war already lost in 1964?
72.4. Lyndon Johnson's 'limited war' escalation
72.5. Tet Offensive, January 1968
72.6. The My Lai Massacre (March 16, 1968)
72.7. Korean soldiers in Vietnam war
Chapter 73. Nguyen Van Thieu and the Second Republic of Vietnam (1967-1975)
73.1. Creation of the Second Republic (1967)
73.2. American policy mistakes in Vietnam
73.3. Problems facing Richard Nixon
73.4. Nixon's 'Vietnamization' policy
73.5. The Cambodia incursion
73.6. The Paris Peace Agreement - October 1972
73.7. The collapse of South Vietnam
73.8. Le Duan's victory speech (May 15, 1975)

Part XIV. Vietnam - Cambodia - China war (Third Indochina War, 1975-1989)
Chapter 74. Overview of the so-called 'Vietnam War'
Chapter 75. Richard Nixon's 'decent interval' policy
Chapter 76. North Vietnamese post-war massacres and boat people (1975-85)
Chapter 77. Pol Pot and the Cambodian 'Killing Fields' by the Khmer Rouge
77.1. Rise of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia
77.2. Pol Pot's Killing Fields -- one of the worst genocides of the 20th century
77.3. War between Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge (supported by the Chinese Communists)
77.4. Cambodia invades Vietnam (1977)
77.5. Hanoi attacks the Chinese population in Vietnam (1978)
77.6. Collapse of Vietnam's economy (1978)
77.7. History of China and Russia wars and border conflicts
77.8. Vietnam invades Cambodia
77.9. China invades Vietnam (1979-89)
77.10. Le Duan dies and Vietnam opens its markets - Doi Moi (1986)

Part XV. References lists
Chapter 78. Reference list of names for Vietnam
Chapter 79. Reference list of Vietnam's dynasties
Chapter 80. Reference list of 54 Vietnamese Ethnic Groups
80.1. Eight categories of Vietnamese ethnic groups
80.2. Alphabetical list of Vietnam's 54 ethnic groups
Chapter 81. Reference list of China's dynasties

Part XVI. Histories of Vietnam's neighbors
Chapter 82. History of Philippines
82.1. China's history with the Philippines
82.2. Ancient history of the Philippines
82.3. Philippines Spanish colonial period (1521-1898)
82.4. Philippines under American control (1898-1946) and Japanese occupation (1941-45)
82.5. Modern generational history of the Philippines republic
Chapter 83. Brief generational history of Cambodia
Chapter 84. Brief generational history of Thailand
Chapter 85. Brief generational history of Myanmar (Burma)

Part XVII. The End
Chapter 86. About John J. Xenakis
86.1. Acknowledgments

Part XVIII. Footnotes / References





KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Vietnam, Buddhism, Vietnam War,
India, Hinduism, Cambodia, Laos, China,
Confucianism, Daoism, France, French Indochina,
Vietnam Villages, Doi Moi, Le Duan, Ho Chi Minh,
Boer War, Malaya Emergency, Strategic Hamlets,
John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon

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(03-22-2021, 09:37 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: ** 22-Mar-2021 World View: Blacks and White Asians

tim Wrote:>   I remember when not that long ago the Left was claiming that
>   Asians were not "people of color" and are actually "white".

>   Cue a mentally ill white man murdering Asian women and the Left no
>   longer claims that Asians are "white", but are now regularly
>   victims of "white supremacy".

>   https://reason.com/volokh/2020/11/16/sch...-of-color/

>   https://www.nationalreview.com/news/sf-s...get-ahead/

>   https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volo...ame-white/

Thank you for posting those article links.

The NIH article that I referenced in my previous message, which NIH
posted in January of this year, makes it clear that anti-Asian hate
crimes are overwhelmingly perpetrated by blacks.  The NIH article
gives two reasons: that blacks are resentful of the economic success
of Asians, and that blacks feel that they are in competition with
Asians for resources, since Asians are another "minority."

The articles you've posted make it clear that both of these reasons
are highly prevalent.  One San Francisco school board member refers to
Asians as "house ni--ers" because she wants to "combat anti-black
racism."  I guess she feels that the anti-Asian racism is the best way
to combat anti-black racism.

One of the articles says "Asians have become white," which is likely
"to create nasty, corrosive, sometimes fatal battles over which racial
groups get the spoils."

So the issue of anti-Asian hate groups is really about black
resentment of Asians' success, and about competition among minority
groups (blacks and Asians) for resources.

Many white people appalled at the prospect of one of their offspring marrying a black person have far fewer qualms about their beloved son or daughter marrying and having children by an Asian or Asian-American. Very pale skin is commonplace among Koreans, Japanese, and Chinese.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist  but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.


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** 23-Mar-2021 World View: Pale skin

(03-23-2021, 06:39 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: > Many white people appalled at the prospect of one of their
> offspring marrying a black person have far fewer qualms about
> their beloved son or daughter marrying and having children by an
> Asian or Asian-American. Very pale skin is commonplace among
> Koreans, Japanese, and Chinese.

My conversations with people I've known over the years certainly
confirm what you've written. The other issue is that, even among
blacks, light-skinned blacks are considered better looking to one
another than dark-skinned blacks, as shown by the number of African
women who go through horrific skin bleaching processes. However, many
Americans, including Asians, also resort to skin-lightening, which
adds to what you've written.

https://www.byrdie.com/skin-bleaching

https://www.webmd.com/beauty/skin-lightening-products

https://www.vogue.com/article/skin-light...uty-market
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Yuck! Mercury compounds!
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist  but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.


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(03-15-2021, 09:38 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote:
  • So the question I have is: Why are the Democrats throwing Cuomo under
    the bus?  They could easily bat away Cuomo's accusers, just as they've
    batted away Clinton's accusers.  I'm 100% certain it has nothing to do
    with sexual abuse or nursing home deaths, since Democrats don't even
    care about those.  Most likely is that they want to replace Cuomo with
    an even loonier leftist.

The big news about Cuomo is that he killed thousands of people in nursing homes by requiring them to accept people who had covid, and who proceeded to infect the rest of the residents.  This has been known by conservatives for almost a year, but has only recently broken into the mainstream media.  It also applies to lots of other blue state governors, and it is the main reason why New York's covid death rate is so much higher than Florida's.

The sexual harassment "scandal" is just a way to bury Cuomo's - and other blue state governors' - mishandling of covid.
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(03-26-2021, 09:41 AM)Warren Dew Wrote:
(03-15-2021, 09:38 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote:
  • So the question I have is: Why are the Democrats throwing Cuomo under
    the bus?  They could easily bat away Cuomo's accusers, just as they've
    batted away Clinton's accusers.  I'm 100% certain it has nothing to do
    with sexual abuse or nursing home deaths, since Democrats don't even
    care about those.  Most likely is that they want to replace Cuomo with
    an even loonier leftist.

The big news about Cuomo is that he killed thousands of people in nursing homes by requiring them to accept people who had covid, and who proceeded to infect the rest of the residents.  This has been known by conservatives for almost a year, but has only recently broken into the mainstream media.  It also applies to lots of other blue state governors, and it the main reason why New York's covid death rate is so much higher than Florida's.

The sexual harassment "scandal" is just a way to bury Cuomo's - and other blue state governors' - mishandling of covid.

The big fault lies in the cover-up, and a cover-up of incompetence even without prior criminality is itself a crime for a government official. I have been hitting former President Trump hard for his bungled approach to COVID-19, but any misdirection from anyone can be a contributing factor. It was easy enough for people to blame t he spread of COVID-19 in New York upon its rapid transmission through NYC transit systems, especially the subways. 

I have praised Republican governors, especially in Indiana and Ohio, for responding swiftly and effectively to COVID-19. Mass death is not a partisan issue. Do right (Holcomb, DeWine) and you get my praise for bucking the Party and the partisan orientation of your state. Do badly, like Abbott or Ducey, and you get my scorn. 

Democrats tend to be much less lenient on their own for sexual harassment, as we have seen with Al Franken and now see with Andrew Cuomo. Right-wing authoritarians (and much of the GOP has gone that way) find it far easier to excuse serious misconduct. This sort recognizes Humanity as hopelessly depraved, and that one can overlook the misbehavior of such heroes as one has. Well, nobody is perfect, and without power one cannot achieve "national greatness".  With that national greatness may be war, corruption, persecutions, and the degradation of workers' lives, but annexing Lebensraum or some Co-Prosperity Sphere, sacrifices are necessary. 

It astonishes me that so many Republicans still think it OK that President Trump could egg on the Capitol Putsch, which resembles either the Bolsheviks storming the Winter Palace or the Beer Hall Putsch -- take your pick.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist  but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.


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(03-26-2021, 09:41 AM)Warren Dew Wrote:
(03-15-2021, 09:38 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: So the question I have is: Why are the Democrats throwing Cuomo under the bus?  They could easily bat away Cuomo's accusers, just as they've batted away Clinton's accusers.  I'm 100% certain it has nothing to do with sexual abuse or nursing home deaths, since Democrats don't even care about those.  Most likely is that they want to replace Cuomo with an even loonier leftist.

The big news about Cuomo is that he killed thousands of people in nursing homes by requiring them to accept people who had covid, and who proceeded to infect the rest of the residents.  This has been known by conservatives for almost a year, but has only recently broken into the mainstream media.  It also applies to lots of other blue state governors, and it the main reason why New York's covid death rate is so much higher than Florida's.

The sexual harassment "scandal" is just a way to bury Cuomo's - and other blue state governors' - mishandling of covid.

New York got the brunt of the COVID variant from Europe early in the process, and made plenty of mistakes as a direct result -- the nursing home mess being one of several.  Cuomo's guilt lies not so much in the decision to send patients back: the ICUs were full and ERs were overflowing.  His guilt was lying about it -- that and getting his family preferential treatment.

The sex issues are totally separate and probably valid.  I loved his Dad, but Mario has always been a little too oleaginous: always working the angles, taking credit where he can, and always passing blame.  I'm not a fan, but I never liked the Clintons either.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.
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** 24-Mar-2021 World View: Massive cargo ship blocking the Suez Canal

[Image: 1000.jpg?width=700&quality=85&auto=forma...807e8172a9]
  • Massive cargo ship, the Ever Given, operated by
    Taiwanese company Evergreen Marine, wedged horizontally
    across the Suez Canal


One of the largest cargo ships in the world, the Ever Given, operated
by Taiwanese company Evergreen Marine, is wedged in the Suez Canal and
is blocking traffic in both directions. It ran aground on one side
and then rotated around so that it's blocking traffic on both sides.

There are already a few hundreds ships that are frozen in place,
waiting for the opportunity to continue. The only way to avoid the
Suez Canal is to travel around the southern tip of Africa, and that
can take several days.

The blockage is affecting all kinds of things -- oil deliveries, parts
for cars, and so forth. Already it's apparently begun to affect the
price of oil.

They hope to free the ship within a couple of days, but it may be
wedged too deeply in the sand to do that. In the worst case scenario,
they'll have to unload some of the cargo to lighten the ship, and that
could take weeks.

--- Source:

-- Evergreen / Ever Given, the massive cargo ship that ran aground in the Suez Canal, is still stuck
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/24/ever-giv...canal.html
(CNBC, 24-Mar-2021)
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