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I lived in Argentina in the late 80's. The country could be so successful if it was just less corrupt and better managed. It has oil reserves, tremendous areas suited towards agricultural, a strong southern European tradition, beautiful beaches and mountains for tourism. I saw first hand hyperinflat...

Guest said: Jack, in an era of fake news where no on wants to believe anything they read or see in the media, how are people to judge what is fact? You both want to stand back and say something along the lines of 'prove it' . How? Do you expect people to fly you out to the location? What you both co...

Jason said: Chlorine gas can easily be made with low cost commonly available chemicals. Any high school junior can make it, as I did in class. I still remember the choking fumes. How do we know Russia made or deployed this gas? Russia has vastly more efficient chemical weapons. It is more likely tha...

John, Thanks. This an insightful article and as usual something totally different than what most are discussing. The topic of the importance of security with the Pivotals was something I had never considered before. My experience with this group is a bit different and perplexing. For many years I wo...

Anthropogenic Global Warming may not yet be a disaster or even a crisis, but it is a problem: The issue I have with the alarmists, is that all of their solutions involve paying more taxes and giving government more control over people's lives. If they seriously cared about reducing CO2 output, what...

Really enjoyed this perspective, it's just not something I'm likely to encounter in any other forum/blog. John wrote: I don't know if Nazir Afzal's suggestion of working with Muslim women's groups would work, but it makes enough sense that it's worth a try. Yes it does. Thanks for bringing that to m...

Jim4881 said: Just curious but not overly so.... How are your statistical models useful if often incorrect – unless they are not meant to actually be applied to anything of value or unless you are working through a government grant? Unless they are for amusement only, I miss the point of the exercis...

How do you explain WW 2? The WW 1 generation was running the show. Why didn't the WW 1 generation stop it? I'm not attacking you, John, but I'm curious.

http://generationaldynamics.com/dl/Gene ... estiny.pdf

page 44

The entire book is worth a read.

Jack

jimw4881 said: Well then, are not all of Generational Dynamics “predictions” at least unreliable? The fudge used to be “time”, how fast or slow would the GD predictions come to pass which allowed for unlimited "wait and see" statements that were made on the assumption that they will prove to be true...

John said: Thus, Thursday's statements by Putin and Trump should be viewed not as presenting a danger of nuclear war between Russia and the US, but as a sign that the both the US and China are moving to protect themselves from the inevitably preemptive nuclear missile attack by China. Think you mean...