History
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“What we are looking at is good and evil, right and wrong” – US President George H.W. Bush The Persian Gulf conflict began with the Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein ordering the invasion of its oil rich neighbor, Kuwait. Other Arab nations were fearful that they could also fall to future invasion and called on the
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“Second verse, same as the first” “Kings” I was curious about how many monarchs existed now that we are almost 250 years past the American Revolution and we told King George III we had enough of tyranny. Wikipedia maintains a list of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_monarchs_of_sovereign_states I could count 30 from this list plus Pope Leo XIV,
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“Shouldn’t be asking, wild and scheming.Could be my Election Day.” How did we get here? In the last 80 years we had been more concerned with winning the Cold War by forming trade alliances and the US Navy protecting the world’s oceans for international trade. Only thing is the Cold War ended in 1991 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War)
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“So wake me up when it’s all over When I’m wiser and I’m older All this time I was finding myself And I didn’t know I was lost” There are really too many happenings and highlights for this set of years. What comes around, goes around. United States Government Shutdown of 2013 and subsequent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_shutdowns_in_the_United_States
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Late Nineties. Boy Bands. Girl Bands. It was “The Long Boom” and everyone thought it was up and to the right. It was the best of times, until it wasn’t. https://www.thestreet.com/dictionary/dot-com-bubble-and-burst Pets.com was the harbinger of doom. Looking back on the dot com bust, we now enjoy a full suite of e-commerce companies such as
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The end of the American High was marked by the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy on November 22nd, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_John_F._Kennedy?wprov=sfti1# The nation mourned the end of an era of American progress and gave way to the next generation of what is now called the Consciousness Revolution. It was an awakening
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They were the GI Generation. Sometimes called The Greatest Generation. Coming of age at the end of a Crisis and into a time of relative peace. WWII ended and began an era of general prosperity and growth in the United States and the rebuilding of Europe. I have to use my father as a surrogate
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The old breakup line from our youth coming back but this time it’s the United States breaking up with the Global Order. Here’s a Gen X classic video that fits beautifully: The new US tariffs are just the beginning of the final unwinding of globalization that was initiated by the Americans starting in 1944, through
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This week Elon Musk announced the Tesla “Cybercab”. At the same time he announced “We, robot everything” Which leads us to ask the obvious question “Would you trust an autonomous system?”. Even if it was built by Elon Musk’s Tesla? System engineering safety into a product is a difficult task. Notice I said “into”. You
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When two tribes go to war A point is all that you can score Have you picked your side? Red v. Blue. Quite a July 2024 here in the US. Attempted assassination, GOP Convention, presidential run switcharoo. August will bring us the Democratic Party Convention in Chicago. The gaslighting is epic. They will continue to
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