WHAT IS GADOO GADOO?

4 September 2022I'm here in Bali for a month. Do I escape a routine and stressful home life? Not really - I bring my routine with me : excel, blogg, correspondance, chat with family and friends, politics, airbnb, Youtube .... And I can hardly describe my life as stressful.But the routine activity volumes are down because a new destination means local activities to explore. Beach burn, walking round town monuments galleries temples museums, shopping...

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WHY IS STERLING COLLAPSING?

2 September 2022It's about inflation, the current account balance, the govt budget, the national debt and prospects for growth in the UK economy. They are all moving in the wrong direction and everytime a forecast is published, it's worse than the previous....could there be still worse to come? Result: stirling is hardly a safe haven for people wondering where to invest and as exports fall so does the demand for the pound.Last time I looked at inflation it was supposed to hit 18% by January '23, but today when I looked, Goldman Sachs are saying...

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THESE AMERICAN SAVAGES

31 August 2022https://youtu.be/wmOePNsNFw0Totally brilliant intervention from Jeffrey Sachs. I've been following him for a long while. He may not be the world's most entertaining speaker, but he is certainly the most mature and accurate. Yea I'd like to comment further.It is desperately important that Europe work on its independence and get out from under these American meatballs.A "Europe 2049" would be appropriate.Russia may have invaded Ukraine, but the war was caused by America - hardly "unprovoked"! America takes us for fools. I will...

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MACRON WAVES TO THE CROWDS IN ALGERIA

29 August 2022https://youtu.be/-s8n_LbCORgI love this....the Algerians hate Macron, but he ignored that and made it look like they were cheering him!!! Algerian independence from France was declared in 1962, not 1960, incidentally. The French ran Algeria for 132 years, the war of independence lasted 8 years from 1954 and was marked by murder and torture and the death of over million people. The French were even accused of genocide, which admittedly is a word that's thrown around rather loosely these days.France failed to hand over respectfully...

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REBUILDING MARIOPOL

29 August 2022https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/commodities/russia-outlook-charts-wall-street-investing-analysis-market-strategy-economy-2022-8Looks like Russia is rebuilding mariupol v v quickly. Impressive.That is a really amazing progress. Potemkin would be proud. Wonder if the Chinese will get in on, after all, construction is their bread n butter, they can slip these new pieces into their jigsaw silk road.The Russians on the front line, wrecking and burning to rubble; then the Chinese following around after, building back better (but...

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GREATER DISASTER THAN VIETNAM, IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN

29 August 2022The "unprovoked invasion" is being revealed as one scenario anticipated by western planners of this conflict, when Kiev stepped up its bombing of its Donbas back in 2021 and then intensified further in January and early February 22, With Russian acquiesence to Ukraine's joining NATO, or an outright proxy war with Russia as the two possible results; defeat for Putin and his replacement by a western sympathiser was expected in either case. (who would also incidentally - this is my guessing so probably seems madly misjudged...

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CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT OR RADICAL DISRUPTION?

Actually I am someone who by temperament favours continuous improvement where you make the best better and transfer best practises to poorer performing processes.Step change or disruption is often portrayed as a choice between the staying on the burning platform or  jumping into the freezing seas.But one reader had an interesting reply to this criticism of breaking with the past."Growth needs change...even broken ..From seed to tiny plant need to be broken.A chicken emerge when the egg broken.Lava from mountain after eruption need to make...

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CONDEMNED TO YEARS OF MISERY AND SQUALOR

28 August 2022It's a bit weird that even after six months of fighting in Ukraine, people seem largely ignorant of the real causes and real consequences of this war. They made up their minds on the 24th of February on the basis of almost no understanding and they haven't moved on in the light of new and relevant evidence. Each side battles on for total victory, indifferent to the appalling casualties and costs.Applying logic to this crisis doesn't seem to work!But why so irrational? Too proud to admit a mistake? Stuck in the rut of their ideology?...

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THE DECLINE OF THE WEST

26 August 2022Mearsheimer with his story took us up to when the Russian Bear wrecks its neighbour because it doesn't like being poked in the eye Example from six years agohttps://youtu.be/JrMiSQAGOS4From a couple of months backhttps://youtu.be/qciVozNtCDM... but after that? This is what comes next:The failure of negotiations, the moral defeat of the West, the end of the monopolar world, the re-integration of half of Ukraine into Russia...

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WESTERN GOVTS, ANALYSTS AND MEDIA - HOW PROPAGANDA WORKS

26 August 2022Simple-minded banalities and prejudice. This is the diet fed to the public through official channels.In the UK, the ministry of defence MoD publishes daily bulletins on its site, and these talking points are picked up by the mainstream media, which then goes into a little more detail, and this is fed to the British public, which is why so many people who have a diet of only mainstream media have such a restricted and false view of the causes and consequences of this conflict. That is how consent for this war is manufactured.Today...

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INDIA IS IN A GOOD PLACE

India is in a good place! This guy below,  has no need to lecture us on what our past glories meant for the other side of the transaction. On the contrary, we left India with superior governance.America invited India into its World Order, but India held back. Even though America offeted start-up capital, its home market and guaranteed the supply routes.But while holding back means India chose to be a laggard, it also means any collapse of the American Order wont worry India - cf China.India's present woes are its choice, but India is well...

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