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Country GDP Growth Correlation Checker Script, Crazy Nude Women, and More

Country GDP Growth Correlation Checker Script:
- after noticing similarities/correlations in individuals/groups/countries who do well/not so well economically I decided to drill down a bit deeper by looking for cross correlations between high economic growth and general economic policy/history. It's pretty interesting and enlightening if you know what to look at and where to look. You can download a script I built and some sample results here:
country_gdp_growth_correlation_checker-1.03.zip
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_I3ub2UbOZrxMBFMZeoEb6GT0h7VFG0R/view?usp=sharing
http://sites.google.com/site/dtbnguyen/
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com.au/
- description is as follows:
# After noticing similarities/correlations in individuals/groups/countries
# who do well/not so well economically I decided to drill down a bit deeper
# by looking for cross correlations between high economic growth and
# general economic policy/history. This script is one of the consequences
# of such research:
# https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/12/not-much-has-changed-from.html
# https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/11/what-people-eatate-random-stuff-and-more.html
# https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/11/abs-postcode-research-script-random.html
# https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/09/wikipedia-list-data-scan-pack-random.html
# http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/01/how-elite-maintain-power-random-stuff.html
#
# Obviously, to make the most of this script you'll need to be able to
# understand how to script/program.
#
# 1.00 - Download relevant data from Macrotrends
# 1.01 - Download relevant data from Wikipedia
#        Experiment with data analysis above and below
#        particular growth rates
# 1.02 - Added comments. Added word frequency analysis code. Code cleanup
# 1.03 - more code cleanup. Fiddling around with alternate growth figures
#
# As this is the very first version of the program it may be VERY buggy.
# Please test prior to deployment in a production environment.
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Crazy Nude Women:
- as I alluded to in another post some crazy, desperate, and sexual frustrated people occasionally frequent my blog. Recently, there's been an influx of crazy women who've been sending me their nude pictures (about a dozen a day over weeks/months). Anyhow, I really need this to stop as I receive too much email as is and I find it disturbing that women are actually ready and willing to send their nude pictures to strangers (if these are just phishing attempts I rarely open emails from people that I don't know):
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/01/email-harvesting-notes-sperminator-ari.html
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https://www.abc.net.au/radio/brisbane/apple-and-rhubarb-pudding-with-biscuit-crumble/13669920
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/16/ohio-police-ask-for-help-finding-thieves-who-stole-entire-bridge
https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2021/dec/11/toxic-endgame-looms-for-jose-mourinho-as-doom-cycle-comes-round-ever-quicker
https://www.abc.net.au/everyday/everyday-dehydrating-food-for-camping-and-big-weather/100681100
https://www.news.com.au/sport/american-sports/nba/nba-star-gilbert-arenas-was-homeless-after-blowing-12m-rookie-salary/news-story/53e6b9a20c61219e2faddcfe0e590493
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Random Quotes:
- According to Zakharova, the United States wants to be always be a leader on the international arena and cannot put up with the inevitable loss of its leadership. In her words, these fears are clearly seen in US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's recent statement that the Americans are doomed to be the leaders as, otherwise the world will plunge into chaos or their place will be taken by those who don't share their values.
"It means that very many things done by the United States today rest on fear of losing its own exclusiveness, its leading role. It has little to do with real leadership," she said, adding that the most dangerous thing about this situation is not that the United States has got used to see itself "as a master of everything around" but that its current behavior "stems from the fair to lose everything."
"It means that the United States doesn't actually understand that it has no leadership skills at this stage. They don't actually see that the world is now built on other conceptual approaches," she stressed. "After all, when a political elite is afraid of anything and demonstrates this fear, it has lost.".
US afraid of losing leadership in international affairs — Russian diplomat
https://tass.com/politics/1380717
- "It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it."
― Frank Warren
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/36738-it-s-the-children-the-world-almost-breaks-who-grow-up
https://quotefancy.com/quote/7494/Frank-Warren-It-s-the-children-the-world-almost-breaks-who-grow-up-to-save-it
- Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has bought another 110 acres of land on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, assuming ownership of territory that includes a reservoir and a pristine forest, despite protests from locals.
The social media tycoon and his wife now own 1,400 acres of land on the island, much of it protected agricultural and conservation land. The latest addition to their $100 million Ko'olau Ranch includes the Ka Loko reservoir, where a dam collapsed in 2006 after 40 days of rain, killing seven people, local media reported this week. The disaster was blamed on the previous owners, from whom the Zuckerbergs bought the property in November for $17 million.
The billionaire has previously faced accusations of trying to "colonize" Kauai. The couple's actions on purchasing their first mansion on the island in 2014 were hardly neighborly, with the billionaire opting to build a wall around the 707-acre property to block locals from accessing Pila'a Beach, which had been a spot loved by locals and travelers alike. Zuckerberg was subsequently accused of attempting to force tenant farmers from their land – a quest he finally gave up three years later, apologizing in the local paper for his attempted takeover.
The Zuckerbergs also own most of Kahu'aina Plantation and Larsen's Beach, having acquired an additional 600 acres in April for $53 million. The security team assigned to protect the pair and their investments costs more than half as much, running to $23 million, according to local media.
That team is probably worth the money, given how many signatures have been accrued on a Change.org petition asking the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to "Stop Mark Zuckerberg from colonizing Kauai." Over a million people have signed the petition at the time of writing.
The Zuckerbergs are far from the only tech billionaires expanding their footprints across Hawaii's tropical paradise islands. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos bought a $78 million estate on Maui in November after leaving his wife, staking claim to a marine fishing reserve with his partner Lauren Sanchez.
His presence can't be sitting too well with the locals, as even they are not permitted to fish or conduct commercial activity in the area. He also recently snapped up a huge piece of property for his parents on the island. Meanwhile, Oracle's Larry Ellison owns almost the entire island of Lanai.
https://www.rt.com/news/544641-zuckerbergs-expand-hawaii-footprint/
- 'Burn, baby, burn!' has long been the cry of militant indigenous activists. This time it looks like they mean it.
Old Parliament House is not public housing, or a house in a remote settlement, to be trashed and burned because that's what some people do. It is a living symbol of our parliamentary democracy dedicated to, as our Constitution says, 'peace, order and good government.'
What we saw in images of this outrage on Thursday went beyond what actually happened.
It was a symbolic assault by activists who elevate one culture and one race over another. An assault by activists who venerate a stone age indigenous culture, that evolved little over 40,000 years, against the Western and Eastern cultures that gave the world writing, science, philosophy, arts, and literature. And a belief in the rule of law, and civil order that means not burning down other people's property, and especially a House of Democracy.
If it is found to be deliberate arson, I hope those who torched Old Parliament House get what they deserve. But they won't. Extenuating circumstances to get them off will somehow be found, or people 'can't be identified' to be charged.
https://spectator.com.au/2021/12/activists-cheer-while-old-parliament-house-burns/
- Former Soviet state and party leader Mikhail Gorbachev has disproved the statement that in talks about German unification he had been promised that NATO will not expand to the east, zeit.de reported in 2014.
During the negotiations in 1990, this was not an issue, said Gorbachev to the heute-journal on ZDF. He added: "The Warsaw Pact still existed. The question did not arise at the time."
The two-plus-four treaty of 1990 dealt with the territory of the GDR, said Gorbachev. When asked whether it is a myth that he was betrayed by the West, Gorbachev replied: "Yes, that is actually a myth. The press had a hand in it."
https://uatribune.com/en/this-is-a-myth-gorbachev-admitted-that-nato-s-expansion-was-not-an-issue-in-90s/

Saving Money (without Sacrificing), Random Stuff, and More

- use price matching when you can to get an extra discount. Note, a lot of companies advertise low prices just to get you through the door. ...