• Tajikistan mobilizes 20,000 military reservists to Afghan border
  
• Russia prepares to help Tajikistan protect its border with Afghanistan
  

• Afghanistan: Soldiers flee to Tajikistan after Taliban clashes (BBC, 5-Jul-2021)
  
• Tajikistan Reinforces Border As Afghan Forces Collapse Under Taliban Offensive (RFE/RL, 5-Jul-2021)
  
• A Quarter of Afghanistan’s Districts Fall to the Taleban amid Calls for a ‘Second Resistance’ (Afghan-Analysts, 5-Jul-2021)
  
• Russia drills attack helicopters, pledges help to secure Tajik-Afghan border (Reuters, 6-Jul-2021)
  
• Tajikistan calls up reservists to bolster border as Afghan troops flee Taliban (Reuters, 6-Jul-2021)
  
• Tajikistan and Afghanistan (Understanding War, 2009)
  
• Re-connect with China to revive Afghanistan's economy (CGTN, Beijing, 4-Jul-2021)
  
• Disaster Looms in Afghanistan (WSJ, 25-Jun-2021)
  
• American experiment in Afghanistan proves a disaster (TehranTimes, 25-Jun-2021)

• US withdrawal from Afghanistan threatens Central Asia stability (03-May-2021)
  
  
• High farce and tragedy continue in Afghanistan, as Biden announces Sept 11 troop withdrawal (15-Apr-2021)
  
  
• Why we can never prevail in Afghanistan (16-Dec-2019)
  
  
• China and Russia in military competition in Tajikistan (06-Dec-2016)
  
  
• Islamist Uzbeks lead terrorists in Pakistan and Afghanistan (02-Nov-2009)
  

(07-07-2021, 07:59 AM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: ** 07-Jul-2021 World View: Bond yields

Lots of panic on CNBC this morning because 10 yr bond yields are
falling to 1.3%, with the fear that they will fall to 1% by the end of
the week.

Quote:  The shape of the yield curve changes with the state of the economy. The normal or upward sloping yield curve occurs when the economy is growing. Two primary economic theories explain the shape of the yield curve; the pure expectations theory and the liquidity preference theory. 

In pure expectations theory, forward long-term rates are thought to be an average of expected short-term rates over the same total term of maturity. Liquidity preference theory points out that investors will demand a premium on the yield they receive in return for tying up liquidity in a longer term bond. Together these theories explain the shape of the yield curve as a function of investors’ current preferences and future expectations and why, in normal times, the yield curve slopes upward to the right. 

During normal periods of economic growth, and especially when the economy is being stimulated by low interest rates driven by Fed monetary policy, the yield curve slopes upward both because investors demand a premium yield for longer-term bonds and because they expect that at some point in the future the Fed will have to raise short-term rates to avoid an overheated economy and/or runaway inflation. In these circumstances, both expectations and liquidity preference reinforce each other and both contribute to an upward sloping yield curve.

When signals of an overheated economy start to appear or when investors otherwise have reason to believe that a short-term rate hike by the Fed is imminent, then these theories begin to work in the opposite directions and the slope of the yield curve flattens and can even turn negative (and inverted) if this effect is strong enough.

Investors begin to expect that the Fed’s efforts to cool down the overheated economy by raising short term rates will lead to a slowdown in economic activity, followed by a return to a low interest rate policy in order to fight the tendency for a slowdown to become a recession. Investors expectation of falling short-term interest rates in the future leads to a decrease in long term yields and an increase in short term yields in the present, causing the yield curve to flatten or even invert.

It is perfectly rational to expect interest rates to fall during recessions. If there is a recession, then stocks become less attractive and might enter a bear market. That increases the demand for bonds, which raises their prices and reduces yields. The Federal Reserve also generally lowers short-term interest rates to stimulate the economy during recessions. That expectation makes long-term bonds more appealing, which further increases their prices and decreases yields in the months preceding a recession.

Historical Examples of Inverted Yield Curves

• In 2020, the yield curve briefly inverted on Feb. 25. Signals of inflationary pressure from a tight labor market and a series of interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve from 2017 to 2019 raised expectations of a recession, exacerbated by initial coronavirus concerns. Those expectations eventually led the Fed to walk back the interest rate increases. This inversion of the yield curve signaled the onset of recession during 2020.
  
  
• In 2006, the yield curve was inverted during much of the year. Long-term Treasury bonds went on to outperform stocks during 2007. In 2008, long-term Treasuries soared as the stock market crashed. In this case, the Great Recession arrived and turned out to be worse than expected.
  
  
• In 1998, the yield curve briefly inverted. For a few weeks, Treasury bond prices surged after the Russian debt default. Quick interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve helped to prevent a recession in the United States. However, the Fed's actions may have contributed to the subsequent dotcom bubble.
  

• from Investopedia.
  

(07-07-2021, 10:51 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: > As a totalitarian movement, much like Commies and fascists, the
> Taliban takeover of Afghanistan will be a humanitarian
> crisis. Watch for incoming... refugees. I see no reason to believe
> that the "new" Taliban will be any more pleasant than the "old"
> Taliban.

> Why couldn't the superpowers of the time (the USA and the Soviet
> Union) have left Afghanistan alone?

Quote:> "I think I’ve had discussions w/enough Boomer-tier
> Trump supporters who believe the 2020 election was fraudulent to
> extract a general theory about their perspective. It is also the
> perspective of most of the people at the Capitol on 1/6, and
> probably even Trump himself. 1/x

> Most believe some or all of the theories involving midnight
> ballots, voting machines, etc, but what you find when you talk to
> them is that, while they’ll defend those positions w/info they got
> from Hannity or Breitbart or whatever, they’re not particularly
> attached to them. 2/x

> Here are the facts – actual, confirmed facts – that shape their
> perspective: 1) The FBI/etc spied on the 2016 Trump campaign using
> evidence manufactured by the Clinton campaign. We now know that
> all involved knew it was fake from Day 1 (see: Brennan’s July 2016
> memo, etc). 3/x

> These are Tea Party people. The types who give their kids a pocket
> Constitution for their birthday and have Founding Fathers memes in
> their bios. The intel community spying on a presidential campaign
> using fake evidence (incl forged documents) is a big deal to
> them. 4/x

> Everyone involved lied about their involvement as long as they
> could. We only learned the DNC paid for the manufactured evidence
> because of a court order. Comey denied on TV knowing the DNC paid
> for it, when we have emails from a year earlier proving that he
> knew. 5/x

> This was true with everyone, from CIA Dir Brennan & Adam Schiff –
> who were on TV saying they’d seen clear evidence of collusion
> w/Russia, while admitting under oath behind closed doors that they
> hadn’t – all the way down the line. In the end we learned that it
> was ALL fake. 6/x

> At first, many Trump ppl were worried there must be some
> collusion, because every media & intel agency wouldn’t make it up
> out of nothing. When it was clear that they had made it up,
> people expected a reckoning, and shed many illusions about their
> gov’t when it didn’t happen. 7/x

> We know as fact: a) The Steele dossier was the sole evidence used
> to justify spying on the Trump campaign, b) The FBI knew the
> Steele dossier was a DNC op, c) Steele’s source told the FBI the
> info was unserious, d) they did not inform the court of any of
> this and kept spying. 8/x

> Trump supporters know the collusion case front and back. They went
> from worrying the collusion must be real, to suspecting it might
> be fake, to realizing it was a scam, then watched as every
> institution – agencies, the press, Congress, academia – gaslit
> them for another year. 9/x

> Worse, collusion was used to scare people away from working in the
> administration. They knew their entire lives would be
> investigated. Many quit because they were being bankrupted by
> legal fees. The DoJ, press, & gov’t destroyed lives and actively
> subverted an elected admin. 10/x

> This is where people whose political identity was largely defined
> by a naive belief in what they learned in Civics class began to
> see the outline of a Regime that crossed all institutional
> boundaries. Because it had stepped out of the shadows to unite
> against an interloper. 11/x

> GOP propaganda still has many of them thinking in terms of
> partisan binaries, but A LOT of Trump supporters see that the
> Regime is not partisan. They all know that the same institutions
> would have taken opposite sides if it was a Tulsi Gabbard vs Jeb
> Bush election. 12/x

> It’s hard to describe to people on the left (who are used to
> thinking of gov’t as a conspiracy ... Watergate, COINTELPRO, WMD,
> etc) how shocking & disillusioning this was for people who
> encourage their sons to enlist in the Army, and hate ppl who don’t
> stand for the Anthem. 13/x

> They could have managed the shock if it only involved the
> government. But the behavior of the corporate press is really
> what radicalized them. They hate journalists more than they hate
> any politician or gov’t official, because they feel most betrayed
> by them. 14/x

> The idea that the press is driven by ratings/sensationalism became
> untenable. If that were true, they’d be all over the Epstein
> story. The corporate press is the propaganda arm of the Regime
> they now see in outline. Nothing anyone says will ever make them
> unsee that, period. 15/x

> This is profoundly disorienting. Many of them don’t know for
> certain whether ballots were faked in November 2020, but they know
> for absolute certain that the press, the FBI, etc would lie to
> them if there was. They have every reason to believe that, and
> it’s probably true. 16/x

> They watched the press behave like animals for four years. Tens of
> millions of people will always see Kavanaugh as a gang rapist,
> based on nothing, because of CNN. And CNN seems proud of
> that. They led a lynch mob against a high school kid. They cheered
> on a summer of riots. 17/x

> They always claimed the media had liberal bias, fine,
> whatever. They still thought the press would admit truth if they
> were cornered. Now they don’t. It’s a different thing to watch
> them invent stories whole cloth in order to destroy regular lives
> and spark mass violence. 18/x

> Time Mag told us that during the 2020 riots, there were weekly
> conference calls involving, among others, leaders of the protests,
> the local officials who refused to stop them, and media people who
> framed them for political effect. In Ukraine we call that a color
> revolution. 19/x

> Throughout the summer, Democrat governors took advantage of COVID
> to change voting procedures. It wasn’t just the mail-ins (they
> lowered signature matching standards, etc). After the collusion
> scam, the fake impeachment, Trump ppl expected shenanigans by
> now. 20/x

> Re: “fake impeachment”, we now know that Trump’s request for
> Ukraine to cooperate w/the DOJ regarding Biden’s $ activities in
> Ukraine was in support of an active investigation being pursued by
> the FBI and Ukraine AG at the time, and so a completely legitimate
> request. 21/x

> Then you get the Hunter laptop scandal. Big Tech ran a full-on
> censorship campaign against a major newspaper to protect a
> political candidate. Period. Everyone knows it, all of the Tech
> companies now admit it was a “mistake” – but, ya know, the
> election’s over, so who cares? 22/x

> Goes w/o saying, but: If the NY Times had Don Jr’s laptop, full of
> pics of him smoking crack and engaging in group sex, lots of lurid
> family drama, emails describing direct corruption and backed up by
> the CEO of the company they were using, the NYT wouldn’t have been
> banned. 23/x

> Think back: Stories about Trump being pissed on by Russian
> prostitutes and blackmailed by Putin were promoted as fact, and
> the only evidence was a document paid for by his opposition and
> disavowed by its source. The NY Post was banned for reporting on
> true information. 24/x

> The reaction of Trump ppl to all this was not, “no fair!” That’s
> how they felt about Romney’s “binders of women” in 2012. This is
> different. Now they see, correctly, that every institution is
> captured by ppl who will use any means to exclude them from the
> political process. 25/x

> And yet they showed up in record numbers to vote. He got 13m more
> votes than in 2016, 10m more than Clinton got! As election night
> dragged on, they allowed themselves some hope. But when the four
> critical swing states (and only those states) went dark at
> midnight, they knew. 26/x

> Over the ensuing weeks, they got shuffled around by grifters and
> media scam artists selling them conspiracy theories. They latched
> onto one, then another increasingly absurd theory as they tried to
> put a concrete name on something very real. 27/x

> Media & Tech did everything to make things worse. Everything about
> the election was strange – the changes to procedure, unprecedented
> mail-in voting, the delays, etc – but rather than admit that and
> make everything transparent, they banned discussion of it (even in
> DMs!). 28/x

> Everyone knows that, just as Don Jr’s laptop would’ve been the
> story of the century, if everything about the election dispute was
> the same, except the parties were reversed, suspicions about the
> outcome would’ve been Taken Very Seriously. See 2016 for
> proof. 29/x

> Even the courts’ refusal of the case gets nowhere w/them, because
> of how the opposition embraced mass political violence. They’ll
> say, w/good reason: What judge will stick his neck out for Trump
> knowing he’ll be destroyed in the media as a violent mob burns
> down his house? 30/x

> It’s a fact, according to Time Magazine, that mass riots were
> planned in cities across the country if Trump won. Sure, they were
> “protests”, but they were planned by the same people as during the
> summer, and everyone knows what it would have meant. Judges have
> families, too. 31/x

> Forget the ballot conspiracies. It’s a fact that governors used
> COVID to unconstitutionally alter election procedures (the
> Constitution states that only legislatures can do so) to help
> Biden to make up for a massive enthusiasm gap by gaming the
> mail-in ballot system. 32/x

> They knew it was unconstitutional, it’s right there in plain
> English. But they knew the cases wouldn’t see court until after
> the election. And what judge will toss millions of ballots
> because a governor broke the rules? The threat of mass riots
> wasn’t implied, it was direct. 33/x

> a) The entrenched bureaucracy & security state subverted Trump
> from Day 1, b) The press is part of the operation, c) Election
> rules were changed, d) Big Tech censors opposition, e) Political
> violence is legitimized & encouraged, f) Trump is banned from
> social media. 34/x

> They were led down some rabbit holes, but they are absolutely
> right that their gov’t is monopolized by a Regime that believes
> they are beneath representation, and will observe no limits to
> keep them getting it. Trump fans should be happy he lost; it
> might’ve kept him alive. /end"

• The accusations that Trump was somehow being controlled by
  Putin was obviously idiotic form day one, and yet the Democrats
  launched a probe by Special Counsel Robert Mueller to investigate it,
  with the intention of using it to impeach Trump. After three years,
  involving two dozen Trump-hating lawyers, the Mueller probe came up
  with nothing, which REALLY pissed the Democrats off. For me
  personally, the most amazing thing was that Trump survived this
  massive investigation of his entire life, proving that he was the most
  honest and uncorrupted politician in American history.
  
  
• One shock occurred during Trump's 2018 State of the Union address,
  when he announced the lowest black unemployment rate in history.
  Everyone in the country was cheering, but not the Congressional Black
  Caucus:
  
  
  
  • Congressional Black Caucus as everyone else was cheering Trump's announcement of low black unemployment rates
  
  
  That's when I realized that the Congressional Black Caucus were just a
  bunch of house slaves that were only allowed to think and say what
  White Master asshole Pelosi ordered them to think and say.
  
  
• The 2019 Ukraine impeachment hearings were a complete shock to me,
  since I previously could not have believed something so horrible could
  happen in America. Led by shithead Adam Schiff, the whole "trial" was
  a farce. Schiff even manufactured a document, a letter from Trump to
  Ukraine's president, that showed that Trump was a criminal. Trump was
  able to produce the real letter, but, incredibly, proving that Schiff
  had lied made no difference. Schiff just ignored that and went on to
  the next lie. When I say it was a major shock to me, I'm not
  exaggerating, since I never believed that something like that could
  happen in America.
  
  
• The most bizarre shock came because I actually watched the
  hearings, something that probably no one else reading this did, so I
  know what actually happened. I actually watched the hearings, working
  at my desk with the tv on, and I know that every bit of testimony was
  completely refuted by Republican cross-examination. But then every
  single news report lied about it, saying something like "Today,
  Ambassador X gave explosive testimony that Trump withheld aid from
  Ukraine until Ukraine started investigating Joe and Hunter Biden." In
  fact, all the news reports used the same words, indicating that they
  were all reading the same press releases from Adam Schiff and the
  Democrats. But since I had seen every hearing, I knew that this was
  simply a lie. Particularly shocking was that the BBC knowingly
  repeated the same lie, because they receive a lot of funding from NPR
  and the Democrats.
  
  
• One thing I found particularly shocking was the role that violence
  and threats of violence played a major role in impeachment hearings.
  The Democrats' star witness Gordon Sondland was forced to change his
  testimony. That occurred because Oregon Democratic Rep. Earl
  Blumenauer and other Democrats called on anti-Trump activists to
  attack Sondland's businesses. Sondland was forced to change his
  testimony to support the Democrats because his businesses and family
  were being threatened with violence, riots and demonstrations, after
  Democrats led by Adam Schiff called on the rioters to threaten
  Sondland. But even so, Sondland was forced to back down under
  Republican cross-examination. So at the end, not a single witness
  supported the Democrats' charges. Not a single one. I knew that
  because I had watched the hearings.
  
  *** 03-Dec-2019 World View: Civil war and impeachment hearings
  *** http://gdxforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=5168&p=48678#p48678
  
  *** 14-Dec-2019 World View: Impeachment and violence
  *** http://gdxforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=5168&p=48827#p48827
  
  
  
• Readers should be aware that the Democrats are using violence
  and threats of violence everywhere possible. As Darryl Cooper points
  out, no judge is going to risk his life and the lives of his family
  by ruling against the Democrats. That's why so many judges
  just threw up their hands and dismissed the election fraud cases
  on a technicality.
  
  
• The whole Democrat censorship regime was also a complete shock
  to me. The Ukraine hearings proved that the mainstream media
  would say whatever shithead Schiff told them to say. When Trump
  and other Republicans were blocked from social media, it was
  clear that something really evil was going on. The real tipping
  point came when Amazon, with a flip of a switch, was able
  to shut down parler.com, an online social media service with
  millions of members, but they did. Overnight. With no serious
  explanation. That's when I wrote
  
  ** 12-Jan-21 World View -- America and the standard Genocide Playbook
  ** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/xct.gd.e210112.htm#e210112
  
  
  where I wrote, "I never never thought I'd see the Genocide Playbook
  being used in America. This is the darkest time for America in my
  memory."
  
  
• The darkness in America has only gotten worse since then. There
  have been many new "shocks," but they aren't really shocks anymore
  since we've gotten used to the bad news. There is increasing evidence
  that the January 6 "insurrection" was staged by the Democrats. The
  only person killed was an innocent Trump supporter, Ashli Babbit. Her
  murder by a member of the Capitol police is being massively covered up
  by the Democrats. Beyond that, the Democrats are holding dozens of
  innocent protesters in jail, in solitary confinement, for months, with
  no charges or trials. This is what happens in China, and it's clear
  that the Democrats are increasingly emulating the Chinese Communists
  in many ways.
  
  I recently wrote about a BBC podcast, an investigation into
  the Democrats' horrific treatment of children at the southern border.
  
  *** 04-Jul-2021 World View: BBC Investigation into horrific treatment of children at southern border
  *** http://gdxforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=62349#p62349
  
  Podcast: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09mm9nn
  
  Listening to this podcast is sickening. She talks about hundreds of
  girls being forcibly packed together and locked up in a tent because
  they all have lice. That's just the start. Sexual assault is common,
  and covid is widespread.
  
  I would like to say that this was shocking, but nothing about the
  Democrats is shocking anymore. The Democrats are recreating the KKK
  by other means, by adopting policies that result in the murders of
  thousands of blacks on the streets of Chicago and other Democrat-run
  cities. The Democrats were freely lynching blacks a century ago, and
  now they're doing it in a different way. And the George Soros-funded
  Democrats have also adopted policies to do everything possible to
  destroy the US Constitutional form of Federal government, just as they
  tried to do during the American Civil War. The Democrats are still
  extremely pissed off that they lost the Civil War and the slaves were
  freed by Abraham Lincoln and the Republicans, and destroying the
  United States government is their way of getting revenge for the Civil
  War.
  
  There is no excuse for the Democrats. Everything they do is
  sickening, but nothing they do is shocking or surprising any more.
  They are as vicious and evil as the Nazis, the Soviets, the Chinese
  Communists, and any other horrific regime you can think of.

Quote:> "We, the undersigned organizations, call on the Biden
> administration and all members of Congress to eschew the dominant
> antagonistic approach to U.S.-China relations and instead
> prioritize multilateralism, diplomacy, and cooperation with China
> to address the existential threat that is the climate crisis.

> The escalating, bipartisan anti-China rhetoric in both Congress
> and the White House damages the diplomatic and political
> relationships needed to move forward boldly and cooperatively. It
> also bolsters racist, right-wing movements in the United States,
> fuels violence against people of East and Southeast Asian descent,
> paves the way for higher U.S. military spending, and, critically,
> does nothing to actually support the wellbeing of everyday people
> in either China or the United States.

> Like the pandemic and so many of our most urgent crises, climate
> change has no nationalistic solutions. To combat the climate
> crisis and build a global economy that works for everyday working
> people — in the U.S. and China alike — we must shift from
> competition to cooperation."

(07-11-2021, 09:52 AM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: ** 10-Jul-2021 World View: Latest news about election audits

The Democrats and the mainstream media think that we're all so stupid
wise that we'll never be able to prove the massive fraud in the 2020
elections.

Quote:There are several election audits going on.  They take a lot of time
since they require forensic analysis of millions of votes.  Results
are expected this fall.

Quote:In the meantime, here's some of the latest news on the election

audits:

-- A.U.D.I.T. of Elections: Democrats Can’t Stem the Flow of
  Revelations No Matter How Hard They Try
https://redstate.com/stu-in-sd/2021/07/09/a-u-d-i-t-of-elections-democrats-cant-stem-the-flow-of-revelations-no-matter-how-hard-they-try-n408164
(Redstate(7/9/2021);

-- New Evidence Indicates Enough Illegal Votes In Georgia To Tip 2020
  Results
https://thefederalist.com/2021/07/09/new-evidence-indicates-enough-illegal-votes-in-georgia-to-tip-2020-results/
(Federalist, 10-Jul-2021)

Quote:According to the latest Rasmussen poll, the number of people who believe
that the election was rigged is increasing:

Rasmussen Reports @Rasmussen_Poll

Jul 2 "How likely is it that cheating affected the outcome of the 2020
presidential election?"

Very or Somewhat Likely-
White - 51%
Black - 49%
Oth Non-White - 56%
Dem - 30%
Unaffil - 51%
GOP - 74%
All Voters - 51%

https://twitter.com/Rasmussen_Poll/status/1410924418189217792

• Mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic, and lack of vital
  medicines. (Cuba is supposed to be this great country for medical
  research, but was not so great during the pandemic.)
  
  
• Bad economy -- growing inflation, blackouts, and shortages of
  food, medicine and basic products.
  
  
• Access to internet social media, used to spread the news of the
  protests.

(07-12-2021, 01:22 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: > It's over.

Quote:President Joe Biden said Monday that the United States stands with the Cuban people, as thousands protest against food and medicine shortages amid the coronavirus pandemic. It has been said to be the biggest anti-government protest in 30 years.


“We stand with the Cuban people and their clarion call for freedom and relief from the tragic grip of the pandemic and from the decades of repression and economic suffering to which they have been subjected by Cuba's authoritarian regime,” Biden said in a statement.
The president also called on the Cuban regime to “hear their people and serve their needs at this vital moment rather than enriching themselves.”

“The Cuban people are bravely asserting fundamental and universal rights,” Biden said in a statement. “Those rights, including the right of peaceful protest and the right to freely determine their own future, must be respected.”

Quote:Although many people tried to take out their cellphones and broadcast the protests live, Cuban authorities shut down internet service throughout the afternoon. Officers also charged protesters, barraging them with tear gas and arresting some.

“As if pandemic outbreaks had not existed all over the world, the Cuban-American mafia, paying very well on social networks to influencers and YouTubers, has created a whole campaign ... and has called for demonstrations across the country,” President Miguel Díaz-Canel told reporters.

(07-12-2021, 11:01 AM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: ** 12-Jul-2021 World View: Election audits

(07-12-2021, 01:22 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: >   It's over.

It is definitely not over.  Far from it.  Democrats like yourself are becoming desperate and hysterical as the audits proceed.  Democrats are frozen in terror by the 75 million Trump supporters who overwhelmingly believe that the election was rigged, and there are more of them than they are of you.  In fact, 30% of Democrats believe the election was rigged.  No wonder your posts sound so desperate and hysterical.

By the way, if you want to NOT sound desperate and hysterical, you might try the following: "We Democrats welcome the election audits, because they'll prove that the election was fair, and that Biden is the legitimate president, so the Trump supporters can accept that."

Hahahahahahahahahaha

(07-11-2021, 09:47 AM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: ** 10-Jul-2021 World View: Shocks of understanding

• One shock occurred during Trump's 2018 State of the Union address,
  when he announced the lowest black unemployment rate in history.
  Everyone in the country was cheering, but not the Congressional Black
  Caucus:
  
  
  • Congressional Black Caucus as everyone else was cheering Trump's announcement of low black unemployment rates
• That's when I realized that the Congressional Black Caucus were just a
  bunch of house slaves that were only allowed to think and say what
  White Master asshole Pelosi ordered them to think and say.

Quote:The 2019 Ukraine impeachment hearings were a complete shock to me,
since I previously could not have believed something so horrible could
happen in America.  Led by (PPE*) Adam Schiff, the whole "trial" was
a farce.  Schiff even manufactured a document, a letter from Trump to
Ukraine's president, that showed that Trump was a criminal.  Trump was
able to produce the real letter, but, incredibly, proving that Schiff
had lied made no difference.  Schiff just ignored that and went on to
the next lie.  When I say it was a major shock to me, I'm not
exaggerating, since I never believed that something like that could
happen in America.

Quote:The most bizarre shock came because I actually watched the
hearings, something that probably no one else reading this did, so I
know what actually happened.  I actually watched the hearings, working
at my desk with the tv on, and I know that every bit of testimony was
completely refuted by Republican cross-examination.  But then every
single news report lied about it, saying something like "Today,
Ambassador X gave explosive testimony that Trump withheld aid from
Ukraine until Ukraine started investigating Joe and Hunter Biden."  In
fact, all the news reports used the same words, indicating that they
were all reading the same press releases from Adam Schiff and the
Democrats.  But since I had seen every hearing, I knew that this was
simply a lie.  Particularly shocking was that the BBC knowingly
repeated the same lie, because they receive a lot of funding from NPR
and the Democrats.

Quote:Readers should be aware that the Democrats are using violence
and threats of violence everywhere possible.  As Darryl Cooper points
out, no judge is going to risk his life and the lives of his family
by ruling against the Democrats.  That's why so many judges
just threw up their hands and dismissed the election fraud cases
on a technicality.

Quote:The whole Democrat censorship regime was also a complete shock
to me.  The Ukraine hearings proved that the mainstream media
would say whatever shithead Schiff told them to say.  When Trump
and other Republicans were blocked from social media, it was
clear that something really evil was going on.  The real tipping
point came when Amazon, with a flip of a switch, was able
to shut down parler.com, an online social media service with
millions of members, but they did.  Overnight.  With no serious
explanation.  That's when I wrote

** 12-Jan-21 World View -- America and the standard Genocide Playbook
http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/xct.gd.e210112.htm#e210112


where I wrote, "I never never thought I'd see the Genocide Playbook
being used in America.  This is the darkest time for America in my
memory."

Quote:Parler (/ˈpɑːrlər/) is an American microblogging and social networking service. It has a significant user base of Donald Trump supporters, conservatives, conspiracy theorists, and far-right extremists.[9][10][11][12] Posts on the service often contain far-right content,[17] antisemitism,[24] and conspiracy theories such as QAnon.[28] Journalists have described Parler as an alt-tech alternative to Twitter, and users include those banned from mainstream social networks or who oppose their moderation policies.[9][12][29]

Launched in August 2018, Parler markets itself as a free speech-focused and unbiased alternative to mainstream social networks such as Twitter and Facebook. Journalists have criticized this as being a cover for its far-right userbase.[11][12][23] Journalists and users have also criticized the service for content policies that are more restrictive than the company portrays and sometimes more restrictive than those of its competitors.[30][31][32][33] Some left-wing and liberal users have been banned from Parler for challenging the prevailing viewpoints on the site, criticizing Parler, or creating parody accounts.[34][35][36]

Founder and CEO John Matze was Parler's chief executive officer until January 29, 2021, at which point he said he had been fired by the company's board, which he asserted was controlled by co-founder and investor Rebekah Mercer.[37] Former Tea Party activist Mark Meckler served as interim CEO from February to May 2021, when the Brexit Party donor and former candidate George Farmer was named CEO.[38][39]

After reports that Parler was used to coordinate the 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol, several companies denied it their services.[40] Apple and Google removed Parler's mobile app from their app stores, and Parler went offline on January 10, 2021, when Amazon Web Services canceled its hosting services.[41][42][43] Before it went offline in January 2021, according to Parler, the service had about 15 million total users.[44] It resumed service on February 15, 2021, having found alternative hosting arrangements, and a version of the app with added content filters was released on the Apple App Store on May 17.[7][8][45]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parler

Quote:I recently wrote about a BBC podcast, an investigation into
the Democrats' horrific treatment of children at the southern border.

*** 04-Jul-2021 World View: BBC Investigation into horrific treatment of children at southern border
*** [url=http://gdxforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=62349#p62349]http://gdxforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=62349#p62349

Podcast: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09mm9nn

Listening to this podcast is sickening.  She talks about hundreds of
girls being forcibly packed together and locked up in a tent because
they all have lice.  That's just the start.  Sexual assault is common,
and covid is widespread.

I would like to say that this was shocking, but nothing about the
Democrats is shocking anymore.  The Democrats are recreating the KKK
by other means, by adopting policies that result in the murders of
thousands of blacks on the streets of Chicago and other Democrat-run
cities.  The Democrats were freely lynching blacks a century ago, and
now they're doing it in a different way.  And the George Soros-funded
Democrats have also adopted policies to do everything possible to
destroy the US Constitutional form of Federal government, just as they
tried to do during the American Civil War.  The Democrats are still
extremely pissed off that they lost the Civil War and the slaves were
freed by Abraham Lincoln and the Republicans, and destroying the
United States government is their way of getting revenge for the Civil
War.

There is no excuse for the Democrats.  Everything they do is
sickening, but nothing they do is shocking or surprising any more.
They are as vicious and evil as the Nazis, the Soviets, the Chinese
Communists, and any other horrific regime you can think of.

• South Africa tribal violence spreading and growing
  
• Xenophobic violence during Jacob Zuma's term
  
• Cyril Ramaphosa, from the Venda tribe, becomes president
  
• Brief generational history of South Africa
  
• Rewriting the history of the Mfecane
  
• Cuba street protests at start of its generational Crisis era
  

• Mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic, and lack of vital
  medicines. (Cuba is supposed to be this great country for medical
  research, but was not so great during the pandemic.)
  
  
• Bad economy -- growing inflation, blackouts, and shortages of
  food, medicine and basic products.
  
  
• Access to internet social media, used to spread the news of the
  protests.

• Worst violence in years spreads in South Africa as grievances boil over (Reuters, 13-Jul-2021)
  
• Cyril Ramaphosa’s ANC election a win for Venda tribe (Washington Times, 19-Dec-2017)
  
• Venda, Tsonga / The torment of being a ‘questionable’ South African (Mail And Guardian, South Africa, 13-Sep-2019)
  
• Tsonga and Venda (Country Studies, 1994)
  
• History of South Africa - The Rise of African States (Mother Earth Travel, 1980s)
  
• State Formation in Nineteenth-century South Africa (SA History, 18-Jun-2019)
  
• The Mfecane As Alibi: Thoughts On Dithakongand Mbolompo By Julian Cobbing (Journal Of African History, PDF, 1988)
  
• The Mfecane as Alibi: Thoughts on Dithakong and Mbolompo1 (Cambridge University, 22-Jan-2009)
  
• South Africa's Ramaphosa assures Zulu king, tribal leaders on land issue (Reuters, 6-Jul-2018)
  
• South Africa deploys military as protests turn violent in wake of Jacob Zuma’s jailing (Washington Post, 12-Jul-2021)
  
• Violent protests deal body blow to South Africa’s economy (Al-Jazeera, 13-Jul-2021)
  
• South Africa deploys military to tackle Zuma riots (BBC, 12-Jul-2021)
  
• 10 dead in South Africa riots over jailing of ex-leader Zuma (AP, 12-Jul-2021)
  
• South Africa's Largest Oil Refinery Shutters Operations Amid Ongoing Violence (Zero Hedge, 13-Jul-2021)
  
• Over 70 Killed As South Africa 'Crumbles' Despite Military (Zero Hedge, 14-Jul-2021)
  
• South Africa goes after social media as it cracks down on looting and protests (Quartz, 14-Jul-2021)
  
• Fears of food and fuel shortages as unrest rocks South Africa (Al-Jazeera, 14-Jul-2021)
  
• Zuma: South Africa's charismatic, yet divisive ex-president (AFP, 8-Jul-2021)
  
• South Africa / Opinion: Zuma, Zulu nationalism and the rule of law (New Era, 13-Jul-2021)
  
• UN report: Pandemic year marked by rise in world hunger (FAO, 12-Jul-2021)
  
• African National Congress (Britannica)
  
• Cuba: Thousands turn out to anti-government protests (Deutsche-Welle, 12-Jul-2021)
  
• Cuba protests: Three key issues that explain the rare unrest (BBC, 12-Jul-2021)
  
• Hundreds of people take to Tampa streets to show their support for protesters in Cuba (ABC, 12-Jul-2021)

• Namibia may follow South Africa with land confiscation without compensation (03-Oct-2018)
  
  
• South Africa politics roiled by Trump tweet on killing white farmers (24-Aug-2018)
  
  
• South Africa announces plans for unpaid confiscation of white-owned farms (04-Aug-2018)
  
  
• Moving sharply left, South Africa calls for potentially disastrous land reform (01-Mar-2018)
  
  
• Xenophobic violence - Generational history of South Africa (31-May-2008)
  
  
• South African xenophobic violence echoes 1820s Mfecane Zulu massacre (17-Apr-2015)
  
  
• Cuba's seismic shift has global implications (16-Sep-2010)
  
  
• Cuba's new president Miguel Díaz-Canel makes delusional promise to continue Socialist revolution (20-Apr-2018)
  

Quote:The United Nations Genocide Convention, which was established in 1948, defines genocide as "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such" including the killing of its members, causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group, deliberately imposing living conditions that seek to "bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part", preventing births, or forcibly transferring children out of the group to another group. Victims have to be deliberately, not randomly, targeted because of their real or perceived membership of one of the four groups outlined in the above definition.[4][5][6][7]

thinker Wrote:> As the only Cuban on this forum that I know of I would like to put
> somethings out there and see what you guys think.

> I do not know if the Cuban government will use Venezuelans. From
> what I have gathered from members of my family and Venezuelan
> friends that the Venezuelan government uses Cuban secret police
> for their own security all the way up to Maduro. They do not trust
> enough of their own people for this work and they are supposedly
> in even worse shape than Cuba if you can believe that. I think a
> better candidate and what I worry about is that it will be
> China. China has already collaborated with the Cuban government on
> other things and this would give them a very strong foothold on a
> country that is less than 100 miles from the U.S..

Guest Wrote:> Yes, I have lived in Latin America, and yes, the Cubans provide
> Venezuela's eite with security and are bones and muscle of the
> police state there. Yes, China will be called in. BUT, Latin
> America is not an easy place. I think even the Chinese will be
> overwhelmed. The Soviets offered some free stuff in exchange for a
> loss of personal freedom. China only offers slavery.

thinker Wrote:> On South Africa, I went on safari to South Africa during the Obama
> administration and met with lots of people. The white South
> Africans told me that there was a civil war coming between the
> black tribes. The white South Africans were planning on staying
> out of it but they were arming themselves more than usual. I do
> not know if they will be able to stay out of it but I did see
> videos of a group of people called the cape colored who are the
> descendants of former Indian slaves brought to South Africa during
> colonial times. They were organizing themselves with white South
> Africans into armed militias to protect themselves.

Quote:> "INDIAN PEOPLE TARGETED

> One of the leaders of the Indian community in South Africa said,
> "The Indian people are being targeted in all areas of Kwazulu
> Natal and Johannesburg. There are 1.3 million in South Africa,
> although all are not in danger presently, but it's heading that
> way. We have been crying out to the South African government to
> send the South African Defence force to assist. They are not
> coming through. Our Indian brothers and sisters together with
> South African police forces cannot cope, they being outnumbered."
> https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/-we-are-outnumbered-govt-raises-concerns-attacks-indians-south-africa-1828312-2021-07-15

Quote:> "Under investigation: Twelve masterminds planned and
> executed insurrection on social media, then lost control after
> looting spree

> South Africa suffered an insurrection attempt this week with two
> provinces, KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng, disabled and national fuel
> and food supply lines disrupted. It is the first such campaign
> organised and orchestrated on social media and shows the potency
> of the medium. Just over 38 million South Africans are now on the
> internet and 25 million of us are on social media.

> More than 70 people have died, at least 1,354 people have been
> arrested and 12 ringleaders are being investigated for a political
> campaign that has spiralled out of the control of its
> firestarters."

Jack Edwards" Wrote:

Quote:The CCP will not go down easy. Nukes are most certainly
> going to be used and it will start with the CCP stupidly launching
> nukes after discovering its conventional military, crap airforce
> suffer humiliating losses.

> Take this advice. Geiger counter and iodine tablets will be a
> must. Store food and water to last several months.

> I ran into this article/video. Chinese propaganda aimed at
> intimidating Japan: If even one soldier from Japan interferes with
> Taiwan then a "Japanese exception protocol" will be enacted
> authorizing preemptive use of nukes. Not sure it represents
> policy at the highest level of CCP leadership - but scary
> nonetheless.
> https://www.opindia.com/2021/07/china-threatens-to-nuke-japan-non-stop-if-it-tries-to-defend-taiwan/

tim Wrote:> And yet we have people here, who are supposedly students of
> Generational Theory, who actually believe that nukes will not be
> used on cities.