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Beihuxiang

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'The second 12-year-old female from Lufkin, who Sheriff's investigators believe was involved with the planning of the shooting, was taken into custody last week and has been charged with conspiracy to commit murder.'
It remains unclear why the girls wanted to kill their families and run away.

Just speculating here but sounds like the autopsy should include examination for sexual assault. And a thorough investigation of the dads’ computers for CSAM.
 

pmc

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Israel is not a burden on the west; this is Iranian propaganda. In 2022 it had a GDP of almost half a trillion dollars. In that same year the aid it received by the United States was roughly four billion, or less than one percent of Israel's GDP and less than one tenth of one percent of US GDP. Israel does not need Arab protection from Iran because it has nuclear weapons on top of conventional superiority.
Of course Israel does not want US aid to go away. But even if it did, the state could still finance its military budget with a modest increase in tax revenue. It is not financially dependant on the US despite how often that claim gets thrown around.
i am sure there are Israeli unique high tech products that are needed but they are not that much that it can create half trillion GDP.
Intel has $56b yearly total revenues out of it $9b is claimed from Israeli Fab. how Intel is going to manage so many Fabs when revenues are static or declining? any additional revenue will come at expense of US Fabs.
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It is service exports that has startup sale inside. which can easily shifted unless political reason make them stay in Israel. R&D is not factory. you can look at BioNTech revenues. complete collapse. what if some countries do not need these services. you still cannot answer how Israel can reduce its dependence on Asia and still solve its cost of living crises.
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“For many years people thought that trade and services are not important, they believed that the most important sectors are manufacturing, building, and agriculture,” Lynn said. “But the economy has changed and in most of the western world, trade and services is now the largest sector of the economy.”

Iran nuclear or otherwise has Arab opposition but Arabs create counter balancing forces. who do you think is kicking around France in Africa. France still can sell its culture and sports to Arabs. but what if Germany unable to produce what is needed in Arab world than ?

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sndef888

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They are kind of relying on their readership being pretty unthinking. 4000 RMB per month is a decent salary, do they have dorms too? The working conditions are probably not great, but we all have to grind out a life. Elon Musk is praised for sleeping in the factory, so what is so wrong with Shein? Sometimes work is just hard...

I always despised this kind infantilization of developing countries. Having attended a very "progressive" university, I was often treated to rallies against globalization and what not. I asked them some simple questions like "Do you think they are forced to work in these factories at gunpoint?", "What do you think they would rather be doing rather than this factory work?". They never really think of that. I do think we should strive to improve working conditions, make sure things are safe, but salaries are rarely the issue. Really people are attracted to these factories because the alternative is backbreaking subsistence farming with an irregular income.



The infiltration of the teaching profession was so utterly through. Now there is a shortage of teachers because so many left HK. The sheer numbers are amazing, I definitely think that the profession was identified as a weak point by western intelligence agencies, the targeting seems too precise to be simple coincidence.
4000 is a bit low by Guangzhou standards, especially if they have to work "18 hours". I highly suspect it was intentionally misreported.

You can earn around 5-6k easily in an electronics factory at fixed 12 hours a day.
 
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taxiya

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China's policy on North Korea in the last two decades or so can only be described as a failure. That doesn't mean that the Korean side isn't also at fault. But China unfortunately believed the American fairy tale that economic sanctions can stop nuclear weapons development. The Kims clearly didn't trust China or Russia to defend them if they were attacked, that's why they developed the bomb. Chinese sanctions on North Korea only reinforce their belief that they can't trust China. The same story is repeating with Iran. Instead of becoming Chinese allies, they are now getting closer to Russia

Of course I'm not saying that China should have picked fights over other countries in the past. But right now China is still enforcing sanctions instead of recognising that the good times with the US are never coming back.

There's a balance between standing with other countries to protect them against American aggression and complying with American wishes in order to conduct more trade. But China has been so far on the side of compliance that it has gained the reputation of an unreliable ally that's only interested in a transactional relationship. The west doesn't impose crippling sanctions just because you don't obey them completely. Russia intervened in Syria and Mali against Western interests and they did nothing. Did Brazil get sanctioned for it's pro Iran policy in the previous Lula administration? India even built a port in Iran and got it excluded from sanctions. China could have done more at minimal cost 10 years ago. Today, any action China takes only accelerates American sanctions by a few months

China doesn't have any useful allies, that's the problem
In short, your whole thought is based on the assumption that North Korean wanted China's protection agasint US aggression, but China refused, so NK developed nukes, then China complies to US sanction on NK to stop the nukes.

That is totally opposite to the truth. Do you know that Kim il song purged his colleagues who had deep histories with both Soviet Union and China in the early time of NK? Is that the fault of China and USSR/Russia of not providing protection? Being a Chinese vessel state for over a thousand years made Kim extremely sensitive not to make NK once again a vessel state, either Soviet or China. If NK really wanted China's protection like you assumed, why didn't Kim ask PVA to stay and pay for it like SK did to US? According to you, it was China's fault that NK asked China to leave and facing the US and SK alone?

You also assume that China's joining sanction is only to please the US. On the contrary, from China's perspective, so long as SK and Japan not having nukes, NK should not have either, this isn't related with Sino-US relationship. China is not going to go as far as unilaterally sanction NK for building nukes (China never did such things), but China is not going to stop US to do the dirty job.

You seem to have the mind that anything anti-US is automatically good for China, it isn't. China's agenda is to be the number one, many of that agenda is at odd with US, but far from all. Many regional powers' anti-US agenda isn't pro-China either, they are for themselvs which is not necessrarily in line with China.
 
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CMP

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In short, your whole thought is based on the assumption that North Korean wanted China's protection agasint US aggression, but China refused, so NK developed nukes, then China complies to US sanction on NK to stop the nukes.

That is totally opposite to the truth. Do you know that Kim il song purged his colleagues who had deep histories with both Soviet Union and China in the early time of NK? Is that the fault of China and USSR/Russia of not providing protection? Being a Chinese vessel state for over a thousand years made Kim extremely sensitive not to make NK once again a vessel state, either Soviet or China. If NK really wanted China's protection like you assumed, why didn't Kim ask PVA to stay and pay for it like SK did to US? According to you, it was China's fault that NK asked China to leave and facing the US and SK alone?

You also assume that China's joining sanction is only to please the US. On the contrary, from China's perspective, so long as SK and Japan not having nukes, NK should not have either, this isn't related with Sino-US relationship.

You seem to have the mind that anything anti-US is automatically good for China, it isn't. China's agenda is to be the number one, many of that agenda is at odd with US, but far from all. Many regional powers' anti-US agenda isn't pro-China either, they are for themselvs which is not necessrarily in line with China.
You're making the mistake of assuming you're arguing with someone who is sincerely wrong, rather than one who is simply pushing a narrative/agenda.
 
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