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Generational Dynamics Web Log for 19-Jan-2010
19-Jan-10 News - Greece continues to head for default

Web Log - January, 2010

19-Jan-10 News - Greece continues to head for default

Major Taliban attack on Kabul, Afghanistan.

Greece enters a critical period

The next 48 hours are critical for Greece as they negotiate with European financial ministers in Brussels, according to Kathimerini (machine translation).

The article warns that "The climate in Brussels is not the best for the Greek program," and when further information on the budget deficit is published at the end of January, the climate will get worse.

Meanwhile, the ECB is preparing the legal ground to eject Greece from the European Union, according to Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in The Telegraph.

This reflects the fury in Brussels at the Greek government for lying about budget deficits in the past.

This is a warning shot for all of the "P.I.I.G.S" (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain), countries that are getting closer to being unable to pay their bills -- and the UK and the US are not far behind.

Taliban launches major military attack on Kabul

Two suicide bombings and multiple gun battles punctuated a five hour attack by the Taliban and Afghanistan's presidential palace and other government buildings, as well as a shopping complex.

The purpose of the attack is to reject an outreach by the Karzai government to the Taliban, according to an analysis by CS Monitor.

From the point of view of Generational Dynamics, this attack by the Taliban is likely to backfire. Afghanistan is in a generational Recovery era, having had a very bloody civil war in the early 1990s, and even Taliban supporters have little sympathy for this type of violence.

Blondes do get their own way

A study by the University of California has discovered that women with blonde hair tend to get their own way with men, and also feel entitled to get their own way, according to The Straits Times.

We can only hope that not too much taxpayer money was spent on the University of California study, because I think it's something that we already knew.

Actually, there's something else: "What we did not expect to find was how much more warlike they are than their peers on campus. Many blondes exist in a kind of bubble where they have been treated better than other people for so long, they may not even realise they are treated like a princess," according to study leader Aaron Sell.

According to Sell's web page, he's an expert on evolutionary psychology. The web page doesn't say whether Sell's wife (or ex-wife) is blonde.

Correction: Professor Aaron Sell, the author of the study, has written to tell me that the news reports I quoted are in error. Click here for the text of his message.

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