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supercat

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Wall Street Silver is spreading fake news about China.
Who is "Wall Street Silver" and what China's QR codes really do.

One of the richest Filipinos does not think it's a good idea to confront China.

Owner of the Philippines’ Largest Malls Says China Feud May Hurt Businesses​

  • SM Investments vice-chair says group ‘cautiously optimistic’
  • Teresita Sy-Coson calls for peaceful strategy on disputed sea
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Good, there will be no brain drain for China if every state behaves like Florida.

New Florida law blocks Chinese students from academic labs​

Top state education officials need to approve any proposed hires after extensive vetting

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daifo

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IMO, Florida is trying to drive out minorities or prevent them from moving in so they can hold onto the state being red. They have passed laws that negatively impacted Blacks (against black ap classes or teaching that black people should be happy because they were enslave cause they got to come to the us!), Latinos (illegal immigrant laws mostly targeting brown looking people), and Chinese (can't buy realstate or this).
 

ansy1968

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@supercat there are 2 kinds of Chinese origin oligarch, the Mestizos (Mestizos are generally understood to be persons of European and Indigenous ancestry and the Taipans THE first generation Huaqiao. The former are gentry landed elites while the latter are captain of Industries. So how do they produce their wealth? The Mestizos survived on rent seeking income and from Gov't largeness like preferable tax and buying public utilities, they pick and choose which politician to run as president, VP and members of congress and even promotion of gov't official and military personnel. The Taipans produced tangible goods and are apolitical, they are used to being blackmailed by politician for campaign contribution. What I'm worried about are those second and third generation Taipans, they had taste power and are being coopted by the Mestizo to bolster their ranks.
 

Chevalier

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When your imperialist occupation troops get so undisciplined that they need to be accompanied by "liberty buddies", i.e. literal adult babysitters.

It’s not just US soldiers in Korea and Japan. Look at the behaviour of sexpats or even westerners in Thailand and the Philippine. The entire west treats Asia like a colonial slaver. You don’t see say Australians behave back home, the way they behave in Bali or Thailand.
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He will likely be tossed back to China after a conviction
The CIA which ran human trafficking via its Albanian and Bosnian assets sure has a knack of only recruiting rapists and chinless beta males like Joshua Wong.
Surely it's better he undergoes prison and eventual rehabilitation in China than forced labor in America? The labor value extracted from him by America will directly be used to oppose China.
what does prison labour in America produce? Airliner passenger headsets and licence plates and cotton picking, Not exactly stellar human capital.
 

FriedButter

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IDF Home Front Command: "The situation in the north is worse than the situation in the Gaza, we have marked a target date for the war in the north."

So apparently, the US has given Israel a green light to more or less invade Lebanon

Sullivan who met with the members of the war cabinet said that there were diplomatic efforts underway to reach an agreement that would remove the risk of Hezbollah from the northern border adding that if those efforts fail and Israel would chose to attack Hezbollah, the U.S. would back that decision.

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horse

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_killuminati_

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Nah, US prisoner cost 100k-150k+ a year to house. They don't squeze anywhere near of that amt of labor out of them.
$45k is the annual cost / prisoner, in 2023.
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$1.15/hour is the maximum penal labor wage (national average minimum wage is $7.25/hour). $6.25+/hour saved by employers. Max 12 hours/week. Some states do not pay at all (forced labor).
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800,000 prisoners were working in 2022.
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$574.1 million annual penal labor wages. $718/prisoner/year

$3.62 billion annual minimum wages (per 800k workers). $4525/worker/year

Big savings for corporate employers. Not much for state. But then again, state is corporate oligarchs.

Slavery.
 

pmc

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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

European contribution is higher than the USA in absolute terms and that's without accounting for Americans arbitrarily valuing weapons they transfer and the toll of sanctions and refugees.
Once you count Japan, IMF and Canada (economy wholly depended on US) as part of US than the direct budget funding of US is no less than Europe. it seem EU is over valuing its spending on migration as part of Ukraine. which it will have to spend anyway and its benefit countries like Poland, Germany and Czech. US weopons, training is cheap thats why Ukrainians are waiting for F-16.
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Funding of the state budget of Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale war

07 December 2023

The current situation is just absurd because Ukraine was pushed to escalate several times by the rest of Eastern Europe and Americans.
you do realize there are German agents in East Europe (there was long interview of Hungarian minister about Auto industry where he was asked to take position opposite of Germany by Germans) and inside EU that do things which it does not want to do itself (its better that Lithuania test the waters on China) and EU has consistently pushed Ukraine in this direction. who gave visa free travel to Ukraine?. former Ukranian President Poroshenko made 3 visits to US but 7 visits each to Belgium and Germany.

The same Eastern Europe and the USA are and will be blocking every peace proposal by Western European nations, who happen to be the ones who are paying the greatest price among Ukraine's collaborators and who will finance Ukraine's reconstruction. So instead of getting the most say, these nations will have little to no say. And any opinion that is different from the American one will end up with the politician who proposed it getting called a "Putin's slave" by loads of think-tankers the US Govt funds.

Great job Germany, France, Scandinavians and BeNeLux, great job...
why would Germany want peace? This Ukraine war re engage US into Europe and Germany use US power to unite Europe behind Germany. and there is much larger benefit to Europe of US power in Mideast. Putin is German speaking and people around him are Turkish speaking. once you combine the two languages than you get the full picture and these things comes up in Arabic.
they want to wait until end of January to see what US do with funding.
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"We still have some time, Ukraine is not out of money in the next few weeks," Rutte told reporters on leaving the talks.
"We agreed with the 26 countries. Victor Orban, Hungary, were not yet able to do that. I am fairly confident we can get a deal early next year, we are thinking of late January," said Rutte, adding there would be another summit to reach the deal.
 
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