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But at what price....
But at what price....
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Most people are thinking it will be a net gain...................Most liberals and socialists are thinking it will be a loss of free government programs (we can only hope).
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This is where the civil war will be concentrated on, I'm confidant. I wonder how many of the people who voted for President Trump will be victims and change their view.
Let's not also forget on a global scale. His accusations and views have not made him a friend to the friendly and not so friendly.
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I am not a Globalist...........Not so much a problem............Remember the US is the single largest consumer of goods....Money talks.
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Understood, but wars have been started on principal by smaller powers. Not a conspiracy theorist, just going by history. Nevertheless, it will be an interesting 4 years if he isn't assassinated in that time.
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Trump deep down is a racist and the US deep down except for a few places like California are still a very racist filled country. When I say this I'm calling all people of all colors racists not just the white folks.
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Although I'm sure that "Mr' Rogers from the neighbourhood" could do a better job than who's about to head the USA...I'll give a few more educated names that would be better choices
David Susuki
Stephen Hawking
James Hansen
Paul Allen
Jane Goodall
Naomi Oreskes
Michael Moore + Leonado Dicaprio-my two faves
Imagine if they put their heads together, and with their stances and connections, the positive changes they'd bring would benefit allGene Baur
Temple Grandin
Dr. Vandana Shiva
Are a few, and there are many more, but you know that
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Although I'm sure that "Mr' Rogers from the neighbourhood" could do a better job than who's about to head the USA...I'll give a few more educated names that would be better choices
David Susuki
Stephen Hawking
James Hansen
Paul Allen
Jane Goodall
Naomi Oreskes
Michael Moore + Leonado Dicaprio-my two faves
Gene Baur
Temple Grandin
Dr. Vandana Shiva
Are a few, and there are many more, but you know that
Hmmmmmm :sad:
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Not as fucked as the Brits.
A man was in the dock accused of possessing 9,000 indecent images of children.
David Carey appeared for a brief hearing at North Tyneside Magistrates’ Court where he faced nine charges.
The 33-year-old is accused of possessing thousands of indecent images of children, some of which were allegedly of an ‘extreme’ kind.
Carey, of Langdale Close, Longbenton , spoke only to confirm his name and tell the court his date of birth and address.
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/new...gbenton-man-court-charged-possessing-12421876
A man was in the dock accused of possessing 9,000 indecent images of children.
David Carey appeared for a brief hearing at North Tyneside Magistrates’ Court where he faced nine charges.
The 33-year-old is accused of possessing thousands of indecent images of children, some of which were allegedly of an ‘extreme’ kind.
Carey, of Langdale Close, Longbenton , spoke only to confirm his name and tell the court his date of birth and address.
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/new...gbenton-man-court-charged-possessing-12421876
Long article.
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Why is the Navy’s largest shipbuilder looking for a subcontractor in China?
By Josh Rogin September 15 at 12:32 PM
Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) in 2014. (Rogelio V. Solis/Associated Press)
Senior executives from a major U.S. defense contractor toured China last month as part of their search for a foreign company to build a dry dock for U.S. Navy ships, with the help of the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. The trip raised eyebrows both inside the Pentagon and among experts who don’t believe a Chinese company should be involved in U.S. military-related projects.
The company, Ingalls Shipbuilding, is a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, which advertises itself as “America’s largest military shipbuilding company” and has built more U.S. Navy ships than any other military shipbuilder. Ingalls is based in Mississippi. The problem is, it needs a new dry dock to build ships there and says there are no American companies that can do it. So Ingalls is looking abroad for help.
Last month, senior Ingalls executives traveled to China for two weeks to visit several different ports. They also met with officials at the U.S. Consulate in Shanghai, a meeting facilitated by a very powerful Mississippi lawmaker.
“The staff of Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS), the Chairman of the Appropriations Committee, has requested that Consulate Shanghai meet with a Mississippi constituent company Ingalls Shipbuilding,” wrote an official from the State Department’s legislative affairs bureau in a July 19 email I obtained. “The constituent is looking for a new Chinese vendor to build a new drydock for their shipbuilding company. They would like advice from the Consulate to walk them through how to do business in China.”
Ingalls executives met with U.S. officials in Shanghai, including Cameron Werker, the principal commercial officer at the consulate. In a follow-up email, Werker said Ingalls executives were planning to visit seven ports in China. The company has already conducted technical evaluations of proposals, and “China is the leading candidate,” Werker wrote. The other candidates are South Korea and Japan.
Ingalls’s only client is the U.S. Navy, according to Werker. He wrote that the plan is to build ships to about 50,000 tons in Mississippi and then float them out to the dry dock for adding another 20,000 tons of exterior work. The dock would then be used for “launch and retrieve.”
After the Ingalls executives left China, the defense liaison officer in Shanghai, Steve Angel, alerted the Pentagon, the Navy and the U.S. Embassy in Beijing about the trip.
“Ingalls Shipbuilding was here looking at Chinese shipbuilding companies to build a dry dock for USN ship construction,” Angel wrote. “Lobbied for by a U.S. Senator (Cochran). Not sure what Big Navy’s or OSD’s awareness are, but wanted to flag this for awareness.”
Larry Ferguson, China country director for the Office of the Secretary of Defense’s policy shop, responded to Angel’s email: “I think it’s fair to say we’ll want to do some fact finding.”
The Pentagon declined to comment about whether it has concerns about a Chinese shipbuilding company potentially building a dry dock that will then be used to build and maintain U.S. Navy ships.
“As many other shipyards in America, including those that also build Navy ships, have done in the last decade when needing to replace a large dry dock, Ingalls Shipbuilding is looking across the world market for a solution,” said Bill Glenn, a spokesman for Ingalls. “Since no decision has been made, it is premature to discuss this effort further.”
Chris Gallegos, a spokesman for Cochran, told me that the senator’s office didn’t actually lobby for Ingalls to get meetings with U.S. officials in China, but only forwarded a request for a point of contact at the U.S. Consulate in Shanghai from Ingalls to the State Department.
As for whether there is a security concern about having a Chinese company help build U.S. Navy ships, Gallegos said, “Senator Cochran expects all security precautions to be in place to protect U.S. national security.”
According to its public filings, Huntington Ingalls spent $4.8 million on lobbying in 2015. One of Huntington Ingalls’s in-house lobbyists, Carolyn Apostolou, spent 26 years as a professional staffer on the Senate Appropriations Committee before joining Huntington Ingalls in 2013, according to the Center for Responsive Politics’ Open Secrets project. Gallegos said Ingalls employees have also supported Cochran financially.
“Ingalls is the single largest private employer in Mississippi. Given Senator Cochran’s strong record of support for industry in Mississippi, I suspect many Ingalls employees have supported his campaigns,” he said.
Some Asia experts believe that there’s a real security risk in having a Chinese company build a dry dock for U.S. Navy ships because all large Chinese companies have deep ties to the Chinese government.
“Any time you have an entity like that working on U.S. military systems, common sense tells you there’s likely a security risk,” said Michael Auslin, Asia scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. “We know that there are connections, we know there is influence, we know there is government assistance. The Chinese government will have the plans.”
The Chinese government could use the project to implant surreptitious recording devices or other surveillance equipment near where sensitive U.S. Navy operations are ongoing, he said. U.S. intelligence agencies suspect that China uses projects of its largest telecom company, Huawei, as a means of spying on foreign countries.
Moreover, the Ingalls project would be a boon to the Chinese defense industry at the expense of the defense industry of U.S. allies, Auslin said. The money is essentially coming from the U.S. taxpayer because the U.S. government is Ingalls’s only client, he said.
“Wouldn’t it be better to go with an ally like Japan or South Korea?” Auslin said. “In an environment like this, you are basically subsidizing the Chinese defense sector. Is that something we want to do?”
It’s a shame the United States can’t handle 21st-century shipbuilding with its own domestic industry. But if U.S. defense contractors have to go abroad, they might want to think twice before subcontracting to America’s biggest naval competitor. It’s either a security risk or an economic subsidy that could better benefit an allied country. Either way, it’s a bad idea.
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Why is the Navy’s largest shipbuilder looking for a subcontractor in China?
By Josh Rogin September 15 at 12:32 PM
Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) in 2014. (Rogelio V. Solis/Associated Press)
Senior executives from a major U.S. defense contractor toured China last month as part of their search for a foreign company to build a dry dock for U.S. Navy ships, with the help of the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. The trip raised eyebrows both inside the Pentagon and among experts who don’t believe a Chinese company should be involved in U.S. military-related projects.
The company, Ingalls Shipbuilding, is a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, which advertises itself as “America’s largest military shipbuilding company” and has built more U.S. Navy ships than any other military shipbuilder. Ingalls is based in Mississippi. The problem is, it needs a new dry dock to build ships there and says there are no American companies that can do it. So Ingalls is looking abroad for help.
Last month, senior Ingalls executives traveled to China for two weeks to visit several different ports. They also met with officials at the U.S. Consulate in Shanghai, a meeting facilitated by a very powerful Mississippi lawmaker.
“The staff of Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS), the Chairman of the Appropriations Committee, has requested that Consulate Shanghai meet with a Mississippi constituent company Ingalls Shipbuilding,” wrote an official from the State Department’s legislative affairs bureau in a July 19 email I obtained. “The constituent is looking for a new Chinese vendor to build a new drydock for their shipbuilding company. They would like advice from the Consulate to walk them through how to do business in China.”
Ingalls executives met with U.S. officials in Shanghai, including Cameron Werker, the principal commercial officer at the consulate. In a follow-up email, Werker said Ingalls executives were planning to visit seven ports in China. The company has already conducted technical evaluations of proposals, and “China is the leading candidate,” Werker wrote. The other candidates are South Korea and Japan.
Ingalls’s only client is the U.S. Navy, according to Werker. He wrote that the plan is to build ships to about 50,000 tons in Mississippi and then float them out to the dry dock for adding another 20,000 tons of exterior work. The dock would then be used for “launch and retrieve.”
After the Ingalls executives left China, the defense liaison officer in Shanghai, Steve Angel, alerted the Pentagon, the Navy and the U.S. Embassy in Beijing about the trip.
“Ingalls Shipbuilding was here looking at Chinese shipbuilding companies to build a dry dock for USN ship construction,” Angel wrote. “Lobbied for by a U.S. Senator (Cochran). Not sure what Big Navy’s or OSD’s awareness are, but wanted to flag this for awareness.”
Larry Ferguson, China country director for the Office of the Secretary of Defense’s policy shop, responded to Angel’s email: “I think it’s fair to say we’ll want to do some fact finding.”
The Pentagon declined to comment about whether it has concerns about a Chinese shipbuilding company potentially building a dry dock that will then be used to build and maintain U.S. Navy ships.
“As many other shipyards in America, including those that also build Navy ships, have done in the last decade when needing to replace a large dry dock, Ingalls Shipbuilding is looking across the world market for a solution,” said Bill Glenn, a spokesman for Ingalls. “Since no decision has been made, it is premature to discuss this effort further.”
Chris Gallegos, a spokesman for Cochran, told me that the senator’s office didn’t actually lobby for Ingalls to get meetings with U.S. officials in China, but only forwarded a request for a point of contact at the U.S. Consulate in Shanghai from Ingalls to the State Department.
As for whether there is a security concern about having a Chinese company help build U.S. Navy ships, Gallegos said, “Senator Cochran expects all security precautions to be in place to protect U.S. national security.”
According to its public filings, Huntington Ingalls spent $4.8 million on lobbying in 2015. One of Huntington Ingalls’s in-house lobbyists, Carolyn Apostolou, spent 26 years as a professional staffer on the Senate Appropriations Committee before joining Huntington Ingalls in 2013, according to the Center for Responsive Politics’ Open Secrets project. Gallegos said Ingalls employees have also supported Cochran financially.
“Ingalls is the single largest private employer in Mississippi. Given Senator Cochran’s strong record of support for industry in Mississippi, I suspect many Ingalls employees have supported his campaigns,” he said.
Some Asia experts believe that there’s a real security risk in having a Chinese company build a dry dock for U.S. Navy ships because all large Chinese companies have deep ties to the Chinese government.
“Any time you have an entity like that working on U.S. military systems, common sense tells you there’s likely a security risk,” said Michael Auslin, Asia scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. “We know that there are connections, we know there is influence, we know there is government assistance. The Chinese government will have the plans.”
The Chinese government could use the project to implant surreptitious recording devices or other surveillance equipment near where sensitive U.S. Navy operations are ongoing, he said. U.S. intelligence agencies suspect that China uses projects of its largest telecom company, Huawei, as a means of spying on foreign countries.
Moreover, the Ingalls project would be a boon to the Chinese defense industry at the expense of the defense industry of U.S. allies, Auslin said. The money is essentially coming from the U.S. taxpayer because the U.S. government is Ingalls’s only client, he said.
“Wouldn’t it be better to go with an ally like Japan or South Korea?” Auslin said. “In an environment like this, you are basically subsidizing the Chinese defense sector. Is that something we want to do?”
It’s a shame the United States can’t handle 21st-century shipbuilding with its own domestic industry. But if U.S. defense contractors have to go abroad, they might want to think twice before subcontracting to America’s biggest naval competitor. It’s either a security risk or an economic subsidy that could better benefit an allied country. Either way, it’s a bad idea.
Short article.
This is why President Trump and America, has a lot of work to do.
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Huge floating dry dock arrives in San Diego after voyage from China
POSTED 9:06 AM, DECEMBER 8, 2016, BY CITY NEWS SERVICE, UPDATED AT 09:25PM, DECEMBER 9, 2016
SAN DIEGO — The largest floating dry dock in California is calling San Diego home after arriving Friday at a local shipyard.
The 950-foot-long, 55,000-lifting-ton floating dry dock was delivered to BAE Systems Ship Repair in Barrio Logan as part of BAE’s $100 million investment in the shipyard to service the anticipated increase of U.S. Navy ships on the West Coast.
“We have made the strategic investment to meet the ship repair needs of the Navy,” said Joe Campbell, vice president and general manager of BAE Systems Ship Repair. “With two large dry docks now in our shipyard, we’ll enhance the San Diego industrial base’s ability to repair warships in their home port, providing the key maintenance and modernization work needed for the ships’ continued service to our nation and the stability for the ships’ crews.”
The floating dry dock was towed by the ocean-going and salvage tug Posh Terasea Eagle to the BAE shipyard. Over the next two months, the BAE Systems team will complete final assembly, installation, testing and certification of the dry dock, which is expected to be operational in early 2017.
The first ship to be serviced in the dry dock will be the San Diego-based amphibious transport dock ship USS New Orleans.
https://fox5sandiego.com/2016/12/08...arrives-in-san-diego-after-voyage-from-china/
This is why President Trump and America, has a lot of work to do.
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Huge floating dry dock arrives in San Diego after voyage from China
POSTED 9:06 AM, DECEMBER 8, 2016, BY CITY NEWS SERVICE, UPDATED AT 09:25PM, DECEMBER 9, 2016
SAN DIEGO — The largest floating dry dock in California is calling San Diego home after arriving Friday at a local shipyard.
The 950-foot-long, 55,000-lifting-ton floating dry dock was delivered to BAE Systems Ship Repair in Barrio Logan as part of BAE’s $100 million investment in the shipyard to service the anticipated increase of U.S. Navy ships on the West Coast.
“We have made the strategic investment to meet the ship repair needs of the Navy,” said Joe Campbell, vice president and general manager of BAE Systems Ship Repair. “With two large dry docks now in our shipyard, we’ll enhance the San Diego industrial base’s ability to repair warships in their home port, providing the key maintenance and modernization work needed for the ships’ continued service to our nation and the stability for the ships’ crews.”
The floating dry dock was towed by the ocean-going and salvage tug Posh Terasea Eagle to the BAE shipyard. Over the next two months, the BAE Systems team will complete final assembly, installation, testing and certification of the dry dock, which is expected to be operational in early 2017.
The first ship to be serviced in the dry dock will be the San Diego-based amphibious transport dock ship USS New Orleans.
https://fox5sandiego.com/2016/12/08...arrives-in-san-diego-after-voyage-from-china/
Americans are fucked!
Totally fucked!
The injustice!
Fuck you!!!!!
Black Man Out Of Work
The local African-American resident was explicitly informed he would not be able to work in the same office ever again.
January 20, 2017
WASHINGTON—Joining the ranks of the unemployed at a time when joblessness remains stubbornly high among African Americans, 55-year-old local black man Barack Obama has lost the full-time job he has held for the past eight years, sources confirmed Friday.
A father of two and his family’s sole breadwinner for much of the past decade, the dismissed African-American employee was reportedly instructed to vacate his workplace by the end of the week, after which he will no longer be on his employer’s payroll.
“Minorities continue to face challenges in the job market even when they possess extensive qualifications and experience,” said Gerald Harmon, chief economist with the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University. “While the U.S. economy has enjoyed a record 75 months of continuous job growth, the grim reality for Mr. Obama is that the unemployment rate among black Americans continues to hover at around 8 percent.”
“We’ve seen tremendous gains since the labor market bottomed out seven years ago, but unfortunately for this man, and many other people of color, we still have a long way to go,” he continued.
According to sources, the local black resident has cycled through at least three different occupations since turning 40, and was in serious danger of losing his job four years ago. Reports indicate that after taking the position in 2009, he faced daily antagonism from his mostly white colleagues, who reportedly never stopped questioning his qualifications and competence, a situation that is said to have made it difficult for him to perform the duties assigned to him.
As such, sources asserted that the man faced greater challenges in the workplace than a white person with the same job would have, and had to work much harder to achieve even the smallest amount of respect. Acquaintances noted the working conditions soon began to take a visible toll on his health.
“What makes his circumstance even more tragic is that the job he had wasn’t even that great to begin with,” said Harmon, citing the long hours, difficulty of tasks, and toxic work environment that characterized Obama’s former position. “It was better than nothing, sure, but we’re talking about some really grueling and thankless work here.”
Harmon added, “His position was emblematic of the kinds of high-stress, low-reward jobs that African Americans are often relegated to in our economy.”
Because he obtained healthcare through his employer, Obama will now have to purchase insurance to cover his family’s medical expenses, which experts said is an option that will soon become exceedingly expensive if lawmakers vote to do away with the few affordable plans currently available to individual consumers.
In another devastating blow, the family is reportedly expected to lose their home.
“Even though everyone in the Obama family is out of a job, it sounds like they’re going to stick around the neighborhood and try to make things work,” Harmon said. “But it wouldn’t be surprising if we eventually see them wind up like millions of others, particularly fellow minorities, who find themselves in the same position: moving back to their hometown, where they have relatives and friends they can lean on.”
“Regardless, the employment outlook isn’t bright for an older person of color with Obama’s work history,” he added. “At his age, someone like him might just while away his remaining years moving between various part-time positions and focusing on his own personal hobbies. It’s unlikely he’ll ever land a job as steady or as meaningful as the one he was just let go from. Unfortunately for him and so many others, that’s just the sad reality of the situation.”
https://www.theonion.com/article/black-man-out-work-55106?utm_content=Main&utm_campaign=SF&utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMarketing
:don'twantto-see:/ <--- the see no evil American
Funky & Music <--- the hear no evil American
:wacko: <--- the speak no evil American
:whip2: <--- the 1% American enjoys
Totally fucked!
The injustice!
Fuck you!!!!!
Black Man Out Of Work
The local African-American resident was explicitly informed he would not be able to work in the same office ever again.
January 20, 2017
WASHINGTON—Joining the ranks of the unemployed at a time when joblessness remains stubbornly high among African Americans, 55-year-old local black man Barack Obama has lost the full-time job he has held for the past eight years, sources confirmed Friday.
A father of two and his family’s sole breadwinner for much of the past decade, the dismissed African-American employee was reportedly instructed to vacate his workplace by the end of the week, after which he will no longer be on his employer’s payroll.
“Minorities continue to face challenges in the job market even when they possess extensive qualifications and experience,” said Gerald Harmon, chief economist with the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University. “While the U.S. economy has enjoyed a record 75 months of continuous job growth, the grim reality for Mr. Obama is that the unemployment rate among black Americans continues to hover at around 8 percent.”
“We’ve seen tremendous gains since the labor market bottomed out seven years ago, but unfortunately for this man, and many other people of color, we still have a long way to go,” he continued.
According to sources, the local black resident has cycled through at least three different occupations since turning 40, and was in serious danger of losing his job four years ago. Reports indicate that after taking the position in 2009, he faced daily antagonism from his mostly white colleagues, who reportedly never stopped questioning his qualifications and competence, a situation that is said to have made it difficult for him to perform the duties assigned to him.
As such, sources asserted that the man faced greater challenges in the workplace than a white person with the same job would have, and had to work much harder to achieve even the smallest amount of respect. Acquaintances noted the working conditions soon began to take a visible toll on his health.
“What makes his circumstance even more tragic is that the job he had wasn’t even that great to begin with,” said Harmon, citing the long hours, difficulty of tasks, and toxic work environment that characterized Obama’s former position. “It was better than nothing, sure, but we’re talking about some really grueling and thankless work here.”
Harmon added, “His position was emblematic of the kinds of high-stress, low-reward jobs that African Americans are often relegated to in our economy.”
Because he obtained healthcare through his employer, Obama will now have to purchase insurance to cover his family’s medical expenses, which experts said is an option that will soon become exceedingly expensive if lawmakers vote to do away with the few affordable plans currently available to individual consumers.
In another devastating blow, the family is reportedly expected to lose their home.
“Even though everyone in the Obama family is out of a job, it sounds like they’re going to stick around the neighborhood and try to make things work,” Harmon said. “But it wouldn’t be surprising if we eventually see them wind up like millions of others, particularly fellow minorities, who find themselves in the same position: moving back to their hometown, where they have relatives and friends they can lean on.”
“Regardless, the employment outlook isn’t bright for an older person of color with Obama’s work history,” he added. “At his age, someone like him might just while away his remaining years moving between various part-time positions and focusing on his own personal hobbies. It’s unlikely he’ll ever land a job as steady or as meaningful as the one he was just let go from. Unfortunately for him and so many others, that’s just the sad reality of the situation.”
https://www.theonion.com/article/black-man-out-work-55106?utm_content=Main&utm_campaign=SF&utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMarketing
:don'twantto-see:/ <--- the see no evil American
Funky & Music <--- the hear no evil American
:wacko: <--- the speak no evil American
:whip2: <--- the 1% American enjoys
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Quite honestly, the first day in office, Trump sent out his press secretary to bitch (lie) about crowd size.If he;s going to lie about this How can we then believe anything that is going to be said from here on in. Yes Ameircan's just might be fucked.
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