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    Rembrandt van Rijn Diana Bathing with her Nymphs with Actaeon and Callisto 1634   • China Forced Tech Transfer Problem Is Growing – EU Business G
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle May 20 2019]

    #47470
    V. Arnold
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    Happy birthday brother Malcolm.

    YES! I was going to address his absence in the other thread about MLK.
    Malcolm X AND the Black Panthers; Fred Hampton’s cold blooded murder in Chicago by the U.S. government!
    Edy Conway; a Black Panther, excon, and a producer at TRNN…
    As great as they are; they have one very serious problem; they’re BLACK;
    in the U.S.; as a result of a white, nationalist, majority…
    Many questions with damn few answers…
    Unless you accept the obvious…

    #47471
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    Well, I got lost in the weeds above.
    The worst thing you can be in the U.S. is BLACK!
    Racism, on steroids, is alive and thriving in the U.S..
    And it’s mostly aimed at black Usians…

    #47472

    I didn’t include Malcolm in the Assange/MLK article because I wanted to focus on peaceful resistance.

    #47473
    Dr. D
    Participant

    V. Compared to what? Is it 1960? Do we have segregated buses, schools, businesses, military? Are there separate laws? In fact, is there both private and government support and incentives for racially-based hiring? Are there black Mayors, Congressmen, Senators, Supreme Court Judges, billionaire businessmen, anchors, media stars, Presidents?

    People act like it’s 1959, since that’s what the media drums on, erroneously, day after day. And since we have all those things, have had them for decades, all those people are supported, were voted in by sizable majorities, I can only say it will never, ever end, and there is nothing, ever, any American can do, no person, no election, no demonstration, that will ever allow us not to be called vile overwhelming racists that still have slavery and lynchings coast to coast, in every state, every month, in public.

    Nope. No progress here! Might as well not bother. The 1 in 10 white guys killed in the Civil war fixing the 1789 compromise? Shouldn’t have bothered. The white Republicans, next to MLK taking it in the teeth, getting arrested and beaten to fix Civil Rights in 1969? Should have stayed home. White guys running the ACLU? Don’t exist. Yup, because none of that or all the years since ever mattered. No credit, nothing ever changed. It’s still 1801, and it always will be. Just ask CNN and The Guardian™, who would never lie!

    #47474
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “their companies are often compelled to hand over prized technology”

    I’m not a genius or anything, but: don’t do it? Don’t go to China and give away all your patents and manufacturing processes? Stay at home in control of your company and employing your people, the workers you grew up with?
    And they say it can’t be done, but if everybody did it…

    Dum dum dum dum…

    By the way, if they are stealing “prized technology”, not enforcing patent rights, and the “regulatory environment is “bleak” perhaps you would like to tell them instead of surrendering? You know, even have a trade war if necessary? But no, “We shall surrender on the beaches, we shall surrender in the air. We shall always, always surrender” because standing up for yourself might be hard.

    “stop the Chinese telecom firm from rolling out 5G mobile networks in Europe.”

    I would like to know what the 5G thing is, because it sure ain’t technological. It’s expensive, it stinks, and we almost certainly don’t need it. It’s faster? We already stream full video on our phones – how much faster do we need? As far as I can tell, its only purpose is to track and surveil whistleblowing reporters down to 6 feet, and to cause fires and cancer…for astronomical cost and complexity. So…discuss?

    “US internet giant Google, whose Android mobile operating system powers most of the world’s smartphones”

    Speaking of surveillance, these guys have no security at all, and a centralized point of information, where a claimed “private” company, has info on every Congressman, Senator, Judge, and Mayor worldwide. …But they’re unaccountable billionaires, I’m sure they’d never MIS-use that data, right?

    “Ecuador to hand over Assange’s entire legal defence to the United States.”

    Is this anything like search and seizure of a person’s LAWYER’S whole office, in search of a crime? I mean, 1,000 years of law, blahblah, I can’t hear you over the sound of my ego and ambition, endofwesterncivilization, blah.

    Nope, no rule of law. And money…and therefore power, always moves to where it is protected, and there ARE rules, and protections. This is the single indicator of prosperity worldwide, over all time. Japan: super-poor, no real assets = wealthiest. Congo: ultra-rich in every thing, land, minerals, gold, diamonds, labor, no rules = poorest. But hey, have it your way. They won’t learn until they are in the sty, eating with the pigs, dreaming if only they could go home again. To the Enlightenment, and a rule of law and not men.

    Otoh, Assange hasn’t been murdered yet, so that’s a wonder. Because any day now either Benjamin or Tommy will be.

    “Swedish Prosecutors Ask to Detain Assange over Rape Investigation (Ind.)”

    Excuse my ignorance here, but a FOREIGNER, an Australian, who is in ANOTHER country, England, is being asked to be detained over an INVESTIGATION, not even a legal charge? What’s Swedish for ‘Go f—yourself?’

    (Excuse my candor as for the moment we still have a 1st Amendment here.)

    Skripals: “the call, which has not been disclosed before”

    I’m not even going to use my 1st Amendment right to discredit this. It discredits itself, and the Guardian, and the Independent, and England, and Europe, and the Trump Administration who repeated it.

    “Rich White Men Rule America. How Much Longer Will We Tolerate That For? (G.)”

    Wow, what excellent racists. We now determine who can rule based on the color of their skin. Heinrich Himmler much? I could write a paper, indeed a book refuting the Guardian, but it’s been covered in every history book written before 1990, and they already refuted all credibility in the article, above. So when The Guardian’s England, has candidates that are ALSO not from Westminster, they openly slander them, remove their speech, openly incite violence, and cheer on their public murders, because The Guardian™ will not tolerate their own white men being unseated, even a tiny. Little. Bit. Not even in British Parliament, which has power, even if they won’t use it, but as Reps of the totally toothless, student government, EU parliament. And they still can’t handle it.

    PS, as I know you can’t read, listen to “Hamilton”, cartoon version, and tell me what you think about the racist, slaveholding founders.

    “Theresa May Prepares ‘Bold’ Last-Ditch Offer To MPs On Brexit Bill (G.)”

    Speaking of Westminster insiders with no imagination, completely controlled, against the people, May prepares a ‘Bold’ offer, to take the exact same offer she already gave, that was voted down by a 1,000-year record majority, or else. …Or else she doesn’t have any other ideas at all, and also no leverage to make anyone do anything.

    BTW, now she’s cooperating with Labour, which is itself history, as people hate Westminster so much BOTH Labour AND Conservatives effectively cease to exist as viable parties, in one short year.

    “NHS England Loses 6,000 Mental Health Nurses In 10 Years (G.)”

    Is this because National Health always collapses when they run out of other people’s money? “Government is FIRE. It is FORCE.” It is not a nice, caring uncle who will pay for and gently take care of everyone. It’s literally the OPPOSITE of that and, historically the WORST provider of ANY service in EVERY country, over all time. As if our “War on Poverty” and “War on Drugs” didn’t clue you.

    And gosh, I was in a good mood before the news today, too.

    #47475
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    V. Compared to what? Is it 1960? Do we have segregated buses, schools, businesses, military? Are there separate laws? In fact, is there both private and government support and incentives for racially-based hiring? Are there black Mayors, Congressmen, Senators, Supreme Court Judges, billionaire businessmen, anchors, media stars, Presidents?

    Separate laws? Sure there are. Blacks are shot on sight, in the back mostly, it seems.
    Black presidents? You mean that lieing, murdering, oreo cookie, Obama?
    Anyhoo; I’ll not go through the litany of the black reality on the ground in the USA.
    If you’re happy with the racial realities of the U.S., fine.
    1960? No, I’d say it’s worse in 2019.
    Bottom line: Equality/morality cannot be legislated, ever. Racism in the U.S. has been finely crafted over the last 240+ years and there is no end in sight…and I’ll not be an apologist for the ongoing racism rampant in the U.S., ever…

    #47476
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    I didn’t include Malcolm in the Assange/MLK article because I wanted to focus on peaceful resistance.

    Neither Malcolm X or the Black Panthers espoused violence; however, they did claim their right to self defense against violence perpetrated against them. I personally affirm their right of self defense.
    I also greatly respect MLK’s pacifist actions…
    True pacifism must rank as one of the highest of human achievements possible, IMO…
    MLK proved beyond doubt he was faithful to his convictions…

    #47504
    barnaby33
    Participant

    The articles and the comments, this place is becoming more a pro Russian troll farm every day.

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