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@Frank said in US Politics:
@No-Quarter
I wonder if Trump will try and go after the Saudis and Qataris funding ISIS. This is the crux of the problem - IMO It's always easy to find a bunch of dispossessed pissed off young Arab men.I'm thinking the things limiting that will be the degree to which Congress, the Senate & every past Repuiblican president is funded by the Saudis. The level of oil the Saudis have. And the fact that the Saudis are the core counterbalance to Iran. Worth noting too Exxon has massive investments in Saudi.
But yes, anyone actively wanting to go after islamic terror worldwide, stop one is the Saudis. Every single terror group we are currently "at war" with is Sunni & has direct roots back to the Saudis & wahabism. Pick any of them Al Nusra, AQ, ISIS, Boko Haram, Al Shabab, etc..
Alas I have ZERO faith in anyone actually going to town on them.
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@No-Quarter said in US Politics:
A load of waffle from Obama that doesn't really say or mean anything in the end.
A lot like his entire presidency.
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Anyone else see this:
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/mtv-hey-white-guys-video-2016-12?r=US&IR=T
Absolutely fucking disgusting.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in US Politics:
Anyone else see this:
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/mtv-hey-white-guys-video-2016-12?r=US&IR=T
Absolutely fucking disgusting.
Racist pricks.
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MTV is always doing "fuck white guys" video's like that. There's one woman that's particularly bad, I can't remember her name and don't want to look it up, but it's pretty unwatchable stuff.
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I stopped watching MTV when they wouldn't consistently play music videos. Then it appeared to turn into an affirmative action studio from a womyn's and minorities collective elective class at a "progressive educational institution".
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@No-Quarter said in US Politics:
MTV is always doing "fuck white guys" video's like that. There's one woman that's particularly bad, I can't remember her name and don't want to look it up, but it's pretty unwatchable stuff.
I recall seeing a video about how being colourblind or not caring about colour was racist because it showed a lack of respect for people of colour.
How on earth did this channel morph from music videos to this crap?
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While I'm all for Lena Dunham not passing on her genetic stock I still find it bizarre that the democrats had her campaigning for them in one of the more conservative southern states.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/life/87844578/lena-dunham-i-wish-i-had-experienced-abortion
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Obama destroyed full time jobs, created smaller part time ones and now claims there are more jobs.
Investing.com -- A new study by economists from Harvard and Princeton indicates that 94% of the 10 million new jobs created during the Obama era were temporary positions. The study shows that the jobs were temporary, contract positions, or part-time "gig" jobs in a variety of fields.
Female workers suffered most heavily in this economy, as work in traditionally feminine fields, like education and medicine, declined during the era.
The research by economists Lawrence Katz of Harvard University and Alan Krueger at Princeton University shows that the proportion of workers throughout the U.S., during the Obama era, who were working in these kinds of temporary jobs, increased from 10.7% of the population to 15.8%.
Krueger, a former chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, was surprised by the finding.The disappearance of conventional full-time work, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. work, has hit every demographic. โWorkers seeking full-time, steady work have lost,โ said Krueger.
Under Obama, 1 million fewer workers, overall, are working than before the beginning of the Great Recession.The outgoing president believes his administration was a net positive for workers, however.
"Since I signed Obamacare into law (in 2010), our businesses have added more than 15 million new jobs," said Obama, during his farewell press conference last Friday, covered by Investing.com. -
Under-employment is becoming a big issue in a lot of countries. I keep reading about "zero-hour contracts" in the UK, particularly in low-income areas that used to be hubs for mining or industry. They need the work but the organisations basically demand them at short notice, then flick them if they're unable to turn up.
At the same time, a lot of futurists are predicting that the majority of workforce will move to what is effectively contracting. So companies and corporations will retain a worker base of about 10-20% full time "organisers" and the rest will basically blow in and out as the work is required.
And that is predicted for corporate jobs as well. Certainly where I work in IT there is a hell of a lot of outsourcing, and while that used to be cyclical, the retention of IP is less of a concern for management now as they believe it is just task-driven, "agile" work.
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Anyone remember during the campaign the black church burned down with the "Vote Trump" graffiti outside?
Turns out the person who did was actually a member of the church and his name was
George McClinton - lol -
Obama destroyed full time jobs, created smaller part time ones and now claims there are more jobs.
@Frank This not actually what the report says.
The change is from 2005 - 2015 and includes the recession period - the writers specifically state that they can't determine whether the replacement occurred before, during or after the recession and that there likely were huge losses of full time jobs due to the recession.
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@Frank said in US Politics:
@Nepia Damn you are your thorough research
Though I think the basic point that Obama created a shitload of part-time work and then touted it as adding new jobs when it was often just people working less still stands.No it really doesn't.
As Nepia says the report actually says -
"Under Obama, 1 million fewer workers, overall, are working than before the beginning of the Great Recession."
Not the "before the great recession" bit. That wasn't Obama. The actual message of that report is that "the US is only a million jobs short of where it was before George Bush oversaw the 2nd biggest recession in US history"
And all of the recovery in jobs came under Obama.
Its like saying FDR destroyed a stack of American jobs because employment in 1935 was below 1927
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@Frank said in US Politics:
@Nepia Damn you are your thorough research
Though I think the basic point that Obama created a shitload of part-time work and then touted it as adding new jobs when it was often just people working less still stands.You give me too much credit, not thorough research, I just assumed you were emulating your idol so it best if I actually read the report in question.
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