2016-12-11, 07:38 | Link #2622 | |
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For example a minster of education should really be a retired teacher and a minster of defense should come from some kind of background with the army,navy or air-force. That way they understand how things work on the ground, but also have spent enough time in politics to understand how things work on the grander scale. Last edited by Draco Spirit; 2016-12-11 at 07:55. |
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2016-12-11, 07:52 | Link #2624 |
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I'm not sure if you are trying to say the US is good at retraining displaced workers... But we have been absolutely shit at that for the last 20 years. The companies won't do it either. It's far easier and cheaper to just hire a H1B who has the knowledge already and can be your indentured worker than it is to train someone.
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2016-12-11, 11:57 | Link #2625 | |
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2016-12-11, 15:14 | Link #2626 | |
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With the amount if automation and other jobs going away, we have more people than jobs it would appear. What do you do then? Hire four people to do ten hours of a forty hour a week job? A lot of companies do just that so they don't have to pay benefits. They can easily toss aside one and replace them because there are so many people looking for work...of all ages now. EDIT: It seems the President-elect may continue to break the tradition started by Carter in 1979: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politi...cid=spartandhp The question will be what will he do as President? There is no going back to the pre-1972 model of the Republic of China being China and the Mainland being ignored, but there is not real logic for continuing with the idea that there is the People's Republic of China, and a rogue province of Taiwan that no one speaks of. Because the truth is their are two countries over there, and it might be time to be respectful of that fact.
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2016-12-11, 17:12 | Link #2627 | ||
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EDIT: In the end I'd expect little from this statement as internal political wrangling in and under the Trump administration to be the bigger focus for Trump, and any given actions are more for gaining economic concessions than anything else. Last edited by aldw; 2016-12-11 at 18:48. Reason: addition |
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2016-12-12, 02:28 | Link #2628 |
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China has flown a nuclear-capable bomber outside its borders in a show of force for the first time since US President-elect Donald Trump’s phone call with the president of Taiwan.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a7468021.html this is merely a show of force, but I didn't know it turned out this way. there's no telling if further antics may escalate this There are some fragile egos involved in this, after all
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2016-12-12, 03:00 | Link #2629 | ||
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But what surprises me is that how fragile USA snowflakes. I mean they call themselves a superpower yet **** their pants for any Chinese action lol
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2016-12-12, 04:12 | Link #2630 |
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I must say it's quite the first time China has deployed that kind of hardware considering that they did fuck all the last time the US Navy sent an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the area.
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2016-12-12, 04:48 | Link #2631 | |
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Nevertheless I think the world war will burst out as soon as somebody finds some kind of the defense against nuclear weapons. Basically it is the only thing that prevent global war now.
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2016-12-12, 07:56 | Link #2634 |
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Regarding economic relations...Difficult to say. Economical potential of Russia is the highest for sure. Then I think either China or USA. Maybe USA the second in the end.
Russia is strong. Too bad there was not anybody who was able to completely realize its potential. Stalin made an attempt but was not able to finish it. And next leader - Khrushchev - started the rollback of all Stalin's policies and in the end every other leader just made attention only to foreign affairs. Russia has a lot unexplored territories, some regions has harsh conditions (well people live under -40C and everything is fine though) and of course it is vast. Also as people usually live under more severe economical conditions than Europe it has a strong society. It is also homogenous. Generally China has problems with food supplies and it might play big role in the conflict. Also it also relies on the support of its people. If people suddenly lose faith in their government - there might be civil war and due to population - possible on world war scale inside the country. Its millitary is not that strong but it is trying to copy it as close as possible to modern standards. Its population is extremely homogenous. But in the end everything might be futile if its population turns away from the government. Paper tiger that is it. Strong point of USA is that it does not rely on population to fight in wars. But its society is rather fragile. It might burst into civil war due to some pathetic reason. (imagine stopping Iphone supplies - it would be epic ololol). But at the same time it won't affect its army. Which is good too. Basically army and population in USA - are separate entities more or less - it can be compared to mercenaries. If USA relied on its population - it would be in deep trouble as its society is extremely heterogenous. USA is huge...but unfortunately only Navy part stronger than Russian. USA used to fight overseas. But in the end it might take quantity over quality approach against Russia.
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2016-12-12, 21:00 | Link #2635 |
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Trump scares me a lot-I really don't think the idiot will be able to do even a third of what he said he would during the campaign without getting assassinated or impeached but still......! All the recrapacans want to do is repeal everything Obama did-biggest on the list is Obamacare. Ask them what they'll replace it with and all you'll get for an answer is a bunch of hemming and hawing-they don't have any answers. God help us all!!
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2016-12-13, 03:04 | Link #2636 | |
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So Trump's choice for Secretary of State is the CEO of ExxonMobil. Who's got great relations with Putin it appears. And so much for draining the swamp.
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He should go with something more epic - with symphonic orchestra instead
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2016-12-13, 06:40 | Link #2639 |
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Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has ordered the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran to start planning the development of nuclear marine propulsion in reaction to what he called the United States' violation of the nuclear deal.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a7471566.html welp...
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2016-12-13, 06:53 | Link #2640 |
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Well, other than Clint Eastwood, nearly all of Hollywood and entertainment business played cheerleaders for Hillary. And embarrassed themselves as a result when Trump got elected. Its no wonder Mark Whalberg said that celebrities should learn to STFU about politics, especially when elections are around.
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