ConfuciusSay02

No need to go through mental gymnastics, just call a spade a spade.

He's a shill, and the poisoning-our-food industry employs the most shills overall.

So you're advocating against long term human studies?

That's... odd.

Be prepared for the army of shills - this topic is one of the most targeted by shills.

So your answer is to rely on the DoJ, that itself is so corrupt it couldn't prosecute its way out of a paper bag?

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the entire system is corrupt to the core.

The corporations will at least have to go through an ostensibly democratic parliament system to get their agenda passed instead of a fully authoritarian EU Council that is not subject to any kind of democratic control.

Replace MSM with NYT if it makes you feel better.

You jest, but your satirical examples are actually being floated for real. Exhibit A: let's ban cars because terrorists might use them to run over people.

https://translate.google.ca/translate?hl=en&sl=sv&tl=en&u=ht...

Because MSM really hates Brexit, therefore they'll remind you about it forever.

It's a question of sheer amount of corruption. We're at a point where the revolving door has become an expressway, and the connection has become so hardened, that the only option becomes to shut them down.

Most agencies are now captured by the large interests. https://i.imgur.com/UiH0Dmb.png https://i.imgur.com/ZQsJN6T.png

Anyone who mentions anything about this must face an army of shills and dependents, while actual whistleblowing goes unreported and ignored. https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/JessRowlandMari...

Sure, in a perfect world you'd rather have functioning agencies operating in the public interest, but people need to remember that every agency created represents yet another attack surface for corruption.

A case study in how to implement an anti-democratic power grab by decorating it with buzzwords like "helping marginalized people".

The crux of the story is that they no longer want city planning decisions to have any public input, therefore they killed off the neighborhood councils by implying they were racist because they weren't "inclusive" enough. Despite the fact that no replacement mechanism for democratic public input was implemented, the article makes it sound like removing public input is a great thing.

Note that NextCity is staffed and funded by anti-American warmonger outfits like Brookings, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Ford Foundation, etc. etc.

This is how you lose your democracy folks!

Tech workers have been complaining about H1B abuse since its inception.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU

Trump should be given credit for finally doing something about instead of Trump-deranged people looking for phantom motives.

On the one hand you warn about trying to guess the outcomes of complex economic systems, while on the other you go ahead and put forward a wild guess yourself.

It's just as likely that although some jobs may be sent back to India, if all wages increase, then it's a net benefit to your average American.

It was the OP who made the comparison - I was simply replying.

The point of the program was to employ individuals with unique and exceptional skills that were otherwise not found, at all, in the country.

The point is NOT to have 49% of your staff be H1B's in order to reduce costs.

The original rules were fine, let's just get some enforcement, including on the facilitators: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU

Yes, good point. I think perhaps, as many things in life, it's a double edged sword.

There's currently a civil/proxy war going on, therefore depending on where you are, the "government of Yemen" will be a different group. The US and Saudi Arabia supports one of those two side, Iran supports the other.

The rationale for not getting congressional approval for operations in Yemen is because it's part of the "war on terror".

If it weren't for the relentless attack on wages via wage fixing cartels, visa abuses, outsourcing, etc. we would likely be seeing the very top engineers making close to $1M per year.

Far from that "hurting startups" it would be a benefit to all tech workers as wages would rise across the board.

This framing of "hurting startups" is a euphemism for "hurting investors" or "hurting the wealthy". It's roughly the same complaint as when they claim that there are "tech worker shortages".

They want to pay employees pennies on the dollar, full stop.

Yes, people have claimed over one million have been killed in the second Iraq war. And you can easily make an argument for the fact that the war has never really ended, thus if you include figures up to 2017 it is unequivocally over one million.

I'm simply pointing out that the NYT functions as a critical cog in the overall propaganda machine that provides cover for the establishment warmongering agenda. That cover, almost without exception, revolves around framing these wars as humanitarian wars that supposedly help the people and bring them freedom and democracy (by bombing the crap out of them). I'm sorry I didn't spell that out explicitly. NYT absolutely had a hand in pushing for all the aforementioned wars.

Finally, I'm not saying the NYT is controlling the military, it is obviously the other way around - NYT is the mouthpiece of the established powers. But this discussion is in the context of comparing what is more dangerous; an establishment mouthpiece propaganda outlet that provides cover for killing millions, or Trump saying some questionable things from time to time. As of right this moment, NYT's track record looks much worse to me. But hey, maybe you're on the side of people like Madeleine Albright who think that killing hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children through sanctions was totally worth it.

I agree with you. I think I'm just more optimistic is all.

Ahh yes, just an honest mistake, and so long as only one million people are killed, not two, then we can promptly dismiss any concerns. Is that how it works?

I wonder if you think the NYT had a hand in pushing for the first Iraq war? How about in Yugoslavia? Panama? Libya? Syria? Or were all of those moral and noble humanitarian wars where the death and destruction was worth it?

Although the Iraq war is the best and most blatant example of the NYT's warmongering, it is far from the only one. All of these wars combined easily resulted in millions of deaths.

Despite what we like to think, with every declassified document released we learn that what we thought were facts in the past were really just fictional stories being pushed upon us by the media.

Our ability to see this deception admittedly means that finding the truth will be a bit more messy than the "truths" we've been presented with in the past. But far from this diminishing our ability to discern truth, it is helping us by forcing us to return to critical thinking.

If this means democracy is in crisis, then democracy requires deception to operate.

More dangerous than lying us into foreign wars that kill millions of people and bankrupt the country?

That's quite a high bar.

Ahh, ok thanks.

I'm not sure he "openly stated that he intended to cause a seizure".

The image itself says something like "You deserve a seizure" but that image has been around for years - this person did not create that image.

There's no shortage, the perennial shortage claims are simply an effort to reduce wages across the board.

To their credit, they do include this obvious fact in the article, although it's presented as "there are those who claim..."

Thanks for perfectly illustrating the parent's point.

There was only two choices...

>I've studied it in basic biology classes

Nobody is arguing that the basic functionality of vaccines doesn't work - this is a strawman argument that those who wish to dismiss any criticism of the vaccine industry use.

Understanding infectious diseases and taking proper personal hygiene measures along with having clean drinking water and plumbing/sewage had much more to do with the decline in infectious diseases than vaccines ever did. The effectiveness of vaccines is highly overstated.

Many doctors have spoken out about the vaccine issue. They are typically threatened and punished after doing so.

Pharma companies have billions if not trillions of dollars in profits at stake on this issue. To dismiss any concern as being "anti science" is the height of ignorance. Any academic institution is simply a collection of fallible human beings. These institutions can, and have, become corrupted just as easily as any other.

There is a very long list of vaccines that have been developed that were later found to have been causing horrible medical problems. The idea that a vaccine could cause medical problems is not at all a controversial one.

There is convincing evidence from scientists like a certain CDC whistleblower that there is indeed data showing that there are major problems with the current vaccine schedule.

Asking questions like, why has the vaccine schedule for babies exploded to dozens of shots in rapid succession, when there's not been an equivalent explosion in those infectious diseases? Why should gigantic pharma companies, who every year make billions in profits, be not held liable for any harm that is caused, nor are they required to perform rigorous testing with double blind human trials for vaccines (like they are for other drugs)?

But I guess since you once studied it in a basic biology class, all those questions are just "dumb anti vaxers".

So you're trying to convince me something has materially changed by posting a quote that compares the current scenario to what the Soviets used to do?

Either things have changed, or the Soviets were doing it in the past. Only one of these statements can be true.

Facts have been invented in order to push agendas since the dawn of time. Nothing has changed.

The day the printing press was invented is the day it was subverted to push propaganda.

The "era of fake news" is fake. It has always been this way.