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Remember the Kodak company? In 1997, Kodak had about 160,000 employees.
And about 85% of the world’s photography was done with Kodak cameras. With the rise of mobile cameras over the past few years, Kodak Camera Company is out of the market. Even Kodak went completely bankrupt and all his employees were fired.

At the same time many more famous companies had to stop themselves. Like
HMT (clock)
BAJAJ (स्कूटर)
DYANORA (TV)
MURPHY (RADIO)
NOKIA (Mobile)
RAJDOOT (Bike)
Ambassador (car)
None of the above companies had bad quality. Why are these companies out yet? Because they could not change themselves over time.
Standing in the present moment you probably don’t think how much the world could change in the next 10 years! And today’s 70%-90% jobs will be completely over in the next 10 years. We are slowly entering the era of “Fourth Industrial Revolution”.
Check out today’s famous companies-
UBER is just a software name. No, they have no cars of their own. Yet today the world’s largest taxi-fair company is UBER.
Airbnb is the largest hotel company in the world today. But funny thing is they don’t own a single hotel in the world.

Similarly, examples of countless companies like Paytm, Ola Cab, Oyo rooms etc can be given.
There is no work for new lawyers in America today, because a legal software called IBM Watson can advocate much better than any new lawyer. Thus, almost 90% of Americans will not have any jobs in the next 10 years. The remaining 10% will be saved. These will be 10% experts.
The new doctor is also sitting down to work. Watson software can detect cancer and other diseases 4 times more accurately than humans. Computer intelligence will surpass human intelligence by 2030.
90% of today’s cars will not be seen on the roads in the next 20 years. Leftover cars will either run by electricity or hybrid cars. The roads will slowly become empty. Gasoline consumption will decrease and oil producing Arab countries will slowly become bankrupt.
If you want a car you have to ask for a car from a software like Uber. And as soon as you ask for a car, a completely driverless car will come and park in front of your door. If you travel with several people in the same car, the rent of a car per person will be less than a bike.
Driving without driver will reduce the number of accidents by 99%. And this is why car insurance will stop and car insurance companies will be out.
Things like driving on earth will no longer survive. Traffic police and parking staff won’t be required when 90% of vehicles disappear from the road.
Just think, there used to be STD booths in the streets even 10 years ago. All these STD booths were forced to close after the mobile revolution came in the country. Those who survived have become mobile recharge shops. Again online revolution in mobile recharge. People started recharging their mobile online sitting at home. Had to replace these recharge shops again. Now these are just mobile phones to buy and sell and repair shops. But this will also change very soon. Mobile phone sales are increasing directly from Amazon, Flipkart.
The definition of money is also changing. There used to be cash but in today’s age it has become “plastic money”. Credit card and debit card round was a few days ago. Now that too is changing and the era of mobile wallet is coming. Growing market of Paytm, one click of mobile money.
Those who cannot change with age, age removes them from the earth. So keep changing with the times.
Keep creating great content, keep moving with time.
Robin Lee Reierson, 69, of Schiller Park, pleaded guilty Monday to felony charges of assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers.
A former Argonne National Laboratory employee has admitted to assaulting law enforcement officers during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot.

Robin Lee Reierson, 69, of Schiller Park, pleaded guilty Monday to a felony charge of assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers.
Reierson was among a group of rioters gathered in the West Plaza of the U.S. Capitol building, according to court documents. He used his body to push against a barrier and into a line of police officers, the documents said.

He eventually left the West Plaza, but told other rioters, “Don’t stop, keep going,” according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.
About a week after the attack on the Capitol, someone sent a tip to the FBI that an employee of Argonne National Laboratory was possibly involved in the riot. Reierson was employed as a lead welder at Argonne for more than 40 years, but he no longer works there.
The FBI matched images from videos to Reierson’s Illinois driver’s license and began surveillance of his home. Agents observed him leaving in a cargo van with the same Illinois license plates that tollway records indicate was driven to Washington on Jan. 5, 2021, and back to Illinois on Jan. 7, 2021.

The FBI arrested Reierson on Aug. 23, 2023.
He was initially charged with assaulting an officer, obstruction of law enforcement, entering a restricted building and engaging in disorderly conduct with the intent of impeding Congress.

Reierson is one of nearly 50 known Illinois residents to face federal criminal charges connected to the Jan. 6 attack.
He will be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton on Oct. 16.
The KGB’s Role in Founding the PLO
Russian KGB played a crucial role in the creation of the Palestinian national identity and the PLO. After the failure of Arab armies to destroy Israel, the KGB devised a strategy to manufacture Palestinian nationalism as a tool to oppose Israel.
The KGB was instrumental in drafting the Palestinian National Charter in 1964. It handpicked the 422 members of the Palestinian National Council, who then approved the charter, essentially creating the PLO. This move was part of a broader Soviet strategy to instill a deep-seated hatred for Israel throughout the Islamic world.

The KGB provided substantial support to various Palestinian militant groups within the PLO, including Fatah, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP). The KGB supplied arms, training, and funding, and had codenames for each faction (Fatah was “Kabinet”). This support turned these groups into proxies for Soviet interests in the Middle East.

The KGB cultivated close ties with PLO leaders such as Yasser Arafat and Wadi Haddad of the PFLP. These relationships involved providing intelligence, training camps, and directing some operations. The KGB’s influence ensured that Palestinian groups operated in alignment with Soviet objectives.
The KGB’s propaganda efforts were aimed at portraying the PLO as a legitimate national liberation movement. By manufacturing Palestinian nationalism and backing the PLO, the KGB successfully promoted it on the international stage. This propaganda helped the PLO gain observer status at the UN in 1974 and recognition from various states, bolstering its credibility.
The KGB’s creation of Palestinian nationalism had long-lasting effects. Even after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the nationalist sentiment it had fostered continued to influence Palestinian groups. This foundation of anti-Israel ideology perpetuated the conflict and influenced subsequent generations of Palestinian militants.
The KGB-backed Palestinian militant groups posed significant security threats to Israel. These groups carried out numerous terrorist attacks, including hijackings and bombings, which forced Israel to adopt stringent security measures. The KGB’s support for these groups directly influenced Israel’s security policies and its approach to dealing with Palestinian militancy.
Operation SIG was a KGB active measures campaign aimed at undermining Israeli democracy by inciting hatred against Israel and creating chaos. This campaign involved disinformation and support for terrorist activities, further destabilizing the region and complicating Israel’s security landscape.
The creation of the notion of “Palestine” and the establishment of the PLO were the results of intricate geopolitical maneuvers involving key figures like Ahmad Shukeiri, Yasser Arafat, and the strategic influence of the KGB.
55 years ago on July 20, 1969, Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong become the first men to set foot on the moon. The 363 feet tall Saturn V rocket that launched the Apollo 11 astronauts into space is still the tallest, heaviest, and most powerful rocket ever flown. Fully fueled for liftoff, the Saturn V weighed 2.8 million kilograms (6.2 million pounds), the weight of about 400 elephants. The rocket generated 34.5 million newtons (7.6 million pounds) of thrust at launch, creating more power than 85 Hoover Dams.

Armstrong was the first to walk on the moon because he was closest to the door of the tiny lunar module which had landed in an area known as the Sea of Tranquility. When his feet touched the ground he famously said, “That’s one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind.” He claims that he said, “That’s one small step for a man” but the transmission cut out during the “a.”
In central Ohio, where Armstrong was raised, speakers have a tendency to blend the two words together. Linguistic studies have confirmed that coming out of Armstrong’s mouth, the phrase “for a” would have sounded like “frrr(uh)”. Armstrong maintained that the quote was not pre-planned and that he did not give any thought to what he would say until after he landed the lunar module.
Buzz Aldrin called for a moment of silence after the landing to give thanks for their survival. He took communion with a wafer and a tiny chalice of wine. He described the moon, “Beautiful! Beautiful! Magnificent desolation.”

It took seventy years for the Soviet Empire to collapse and shrink into the current, autocratic state of Russia. Smaller, engaged in war, while bleeding away its manpower and wealth for a pointless war. In the unlikely event that Putin could pull some kind of rescue plan from his failing economy, Russia is an empire in rapid decline.

Most of the western world would regard this as good news, but blinkered in their views, they cannot see a similar decline in the empire created by the USA. A great nation, built on strong constitutional and moral foundations is floundering and although its economy remains strong, that economy relies on confidence, unity and leadership. Since the election of Clinton and GW Bush, the USA has struggled with morality, its system of electing leaders, the integrity of its justice system and the partisan division of congress. No longer working for the people, elected representatives work for power and money. Half of the population cannot afford higher education and are left as a vote dump for extremists, while the remaining half demand lower taxes. With the loss of moral expectations at every level, the USA struggles to find a direction for the future. Without the principles of ‘Right and Wrong’ it is hard to build confidence. The USA has been another empire in decline since the election of Richard Nixon and his presidential pardon. Modern ethical standards are now based on whether one gets caught.
Europe struggles, the great European post war experiment is cracking under pressure from well funded authoritarian based, political parties with leaders fond of money and control who are building their voting base on division and fear. There is still a strong moral centre to Europe but it is under attack. In the UK, since Brexit and Covid, nothing works, revealing the final stages of degradation in another once great empire that lasted three hundred years. Finished off by the two great wars of the 20th century.
The Chinese Empire has risen and fallen more times than all the others put together. China sits like a vulture waiting for Russia or the USA to destroy one another. China is viewing Russian Manchuria. Russia cannot defend the east while it expends all its efforts in the west. China can wait and watch, selling to Russia, Europe and the USA. China is united and wealthy with vast well organised resources.
India, the largest ‘democracy’ in the world sells to whoever has the money to pay. All ethical considerations come second to the principle of profit, no different from the rest, just more predictable and obvious.
Is there a future for:
Russia? No!
The USA? I desperately hope so.
Europe? Yes, if it becomes more self reliant.
China? Yes.
India? Yes, they will always make a profit.
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