jimclegg

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by jimclegg 6y ago
Exporting our broken form of governing, which is rife with corruption, mismanagement, unresponsive to the majority of the population, and defaults to redirecting money from the poorest to the richest, is the goal of western monopoly capital
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by jimclegg 6y ago
Reddit's definition seems more contextual, it weighs the dynamics of current economic, cultural, institutional, etc... racism Here is the Oxford dictionary definition: "The inability or refusal to recognize the rights, needs, dign
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by jimclegg 6y ago
>This is actually great news, China is returning to a pre-western interference/corruption state. >In the end it seems the phony protests and other types of agitation funded by western intelligence agencies and capital weren'
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by jimclegg 7y ago
The most recent accounts I've seen were in Cold Case Hammarskjöld (documentary). They found a few defectors/whistleblowers that had visited and worked at SAIMR's (South African Institute for Maritime Research) CIA funded labs
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by jimclegg 7y ago
How does cash flow not change when you have to scrap the whole lot of 737Max orders?
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by jimclegg 7y ago
Chrome is glorified spyware, simple truth. When $GOOG gets squeezed, they always find new ways to use your data for commercial purposes.
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by jimclegg 7y ago
Yes, the US was funding the movements to overthrow Assad. "helping Isis fighters relocate" and "throwing bags of cash" sounds pretty similar to me, if the cash leads them to China's border.
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by jimclegg 7y ago
I agree and think China has a right to include its own account of history in the record.
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by jimclegg 7y ago
Now we knows what this feels like... We had a lot of sanction happy presidents and the American population barely bat an eye-lid as millions died from the fallout. Only thing lost in this case is money, so far.
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by jimclegg 7y ago
This is the problem with only having 4-5 media companies as well, you have a point. Every media organization aligned against Saddam when the intelligence agencies (US govt) signaled it, with 0 evidence.
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by jimclegg 7y ago
Lot of truth to the funding sources for HK protests originating in the west even if the protestors believe in what they are fighting for.
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by jimclegg 7y ago
>A democratic society can fix laws that don't live up to its ideals. A lawless, autocratic society cannot. China has mechanisms to change laws but they have to be routed through the proper channels. From what I understand, individua
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by jimclegg 7y ago
It takes a certain level of Eurocentricism to believe roughly 4 countries are the world.
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by jimclegg 7y ago
The "well planned" foreign infrastructure projects have had positive impacts on the local communities and economies. They provide access to loans from an alternative world bank at competitive rates with less strings attached. Addi
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by jimclegg 7y ago
Not the world vs China, it has always been the West vs China, European leaders' "zero sum" mentality has made it an economic target for the better part of 2+ centuries. Please don't include the majority of the world that
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by jimclegg 7y ago
Thanks to the tremendous criminality and wealth concentration of the last 200 years, western corps generally only answered to western wealthy audiences. The game has changed, that's all....
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by jimclegg 7y ago
These conversations always ignore the fact that we, the critics in the US, have paid to murder far more innocent people abroad than China ever has.
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by jimclegg 7y ago
China will consider it a favor if you block your own "offensive" company from the Chinese market.
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by jimclegg 7y ago
Our government paid good money to organize those HK protestors. The media has an obligation to cover it now.
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by jimclegg 7y ago
Looks similar to what happens in the UK - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF_rvhsGjBM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1Xr4nfKsWk Wonder what she typed.
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by jimclegg 7y ago
They also contain traces of the bleach used to whiten them from what I understand.
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by jimclegg 7y ago
I heard this fraud implemented in Texas forces low income people without vehicles to travel 400+ miles by bus to the nearest DMV to get the correct replacement voting documentation (many seniors/disabled). When conservatives (racists)
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by jimclegg 7y ago
Wow this thread reeks of classism. You can't imagine an American that cannot afford $50-100 for a government I.D.? You can imagine (& possibly smell) the feces on the street but not the poor people who excrete it? We know most Amer
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by jimclegg 7y ago
So if I have sex with a consenting 14-17 year old on vacation (the actual legal ages of consent in Europe) people in USA can just call it rape/sexual assault? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_Europe
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by jimclegg 7y ago
Something that isn't intuitive about our monetary shift is that as we debase the USD, we also debase the most desperate/marginalized of our population. It is a feature of our system that is only accelerated by income inequality an
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by jimclegg 7y ago
More specifically here is the incarceration rate change when the monetary system changed. https://wtfhappenedin1971home.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/in... PS. Don't downvote me if you don't know economics
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by jimclegg 7y ago
The change in monetary system caused a cascade of despair. https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
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by jimclegg 7y ago
After I give them the data required to prove I'm authorized to delete the template, what happens to that data? Trusting Facebook... rather jump down a well.
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by jimclegg 7y ago
No need for propaganda when one can reference history books and current affairs. No doubt there will be a day when China could become more democratic but initiating this too early in development opens many attack vectors. Anybody who truly
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by jimclegg 7y ago
Yes, our prop group made quite a bit with out-of-the-money AAPL 135 puts (AAPL will hit this strike price again). Alarms bells are ringing in this market... If your good at risk management and can initiate low cost perma-bearish positions,

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