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jhk
Your everyday salary worker, although paid better than 80 percent of the world, can't single handedly do anything of any great effect with his or her wealth.
Therefore, for any civilised, or smooth transition, it has to be changed infrastructurally, and it has to come from the top of the food chain.
There is just as much power in the corporation, as the media, as there is in the government. But perhaps, it would best start from the government through the media to the corporation, hence the power of the news article above.
Posted in: Senate apologizes for slavery, segregation in U.S.
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jhk
How about we change the game to which country can donate the highest percentage of GDP?
That way we can get back to reality in a world where recently 1B people are now in poverty. That's 1 in 6 people worldwide.
As the most played sport in the world, The World Cup should be about world issues, not the garbage posted above. Maybe this is why Nakata stopped playing, something to think about.
Posted in: Australia downs Japan 2-1 to secure top spot in group for World Cup
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jhk
Maybe Letterman needs to find a more useful job.
He's like the colloseum in Rome for all the Romans before the fall.
I heard that Freud says there is no such thing as slip of the tongue. All the more reason to question this guys integrity and what he does for this world. Just doing your job in this case is not very useful. Kind of like, just watching TV.
Try flicking the channel to real news and and get a dose of reality for a change.
Posted in: Letterman apologizes again for 'bad' Palin joke
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jhk
There is nothing worse than a bunch of people in fear of the wrong things. I don't recall very many gun related incidents in Japan, so an article like this (much like swineflu) would only serve to disproportionately waste time and resources. And bring out more inane regulations.
In Canada, there are rules that a bicyclist can't lift their butts off of their seats when riding.
Maybe we should make it a rule that everyone has to wear masks.
Lets just focus on the big picture, because the only people benefitting from this, are the advertisers on this forum.
Posted in: Packing heat
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jhk
Exactly, maybe in ten years (If we can get there), we will be apologizing to the 26,000 kids (ironically mostly in Africa) under 5 that are dying everyday.
There is an article about how 25% of males in Africa, mostly the wealthier ones, have admitted that they have committed rape, and see no problem with this. Yes, we have colonized Africa alright, let's forget about the apologizing at this stage, and see if we can make reparations, (without any airstrikes this time please).
Posted in: Senate apologizes for slavery, segregation in U.S.
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jhk
Forget about Cheney, don't even worry about other countries at this point, worry about what is happening to your country.
Posted in: CIA head suggests Cheney almost wishing U.S. will be attacked
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jhk
Just start with Forbes 100, and we will save millions from poverty.
Posted in: Republicans accuse Obama of socialism
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jhk
So less than 1% of the population (You can't keep everyone happy I guess, in a population of 70M people) is on the streets. Where are the rest of these Mousavi supporters? It sounded to me like a few Mousavi supporters tried to run into the Police compound. If I was a police guard, I would consider defending myself. Or maybe we should storm some airports and tasered people to death instead.
How many riots occur in the West? Hockey riots, cricket riots, UK riots, LA riots. I guess that would mean we would need to change Democracy to something else (Based on the markets it looks like maybe we do).
Ahmadinejad, won his first presidential election with more than 60% of the people's votes. I haven't seen anything about fraud, or riots then, so why should it be any different now.
Sounds like Mousavi is quickly losing ground, and trying to kiss his way out of this by looking to the West, which obviously hates Ahmadinejad who cleary, fights for the poor and oppressed, something that is really annoying to Capitalists, who also love to kiss their bosses and fear for their own 9-5 jobs. Where else can they release their pent up anger towards themselves, they have already fired as many former "buddies" as they can to preserve the lifestyle that they've become accustomed to.
"Supporters of Ahmadinejad consider him a "simple man" that leads a "modest" life. Upon becoming president (in 2005), he wanted to continue living in his "modest" family home in Tehran, until his security advisers forced him to move. Ahmadinejad rolled up the antique Persian carpets in the Presidential palace and sent them to a carpet museum, and used low-cost carpets instead. There are stories that he refused the V.I.P. seat on the Presidential plane, and that he eventually replaced it with a cargo plane instead."
"After two years as mayor, Ahmadinejad was shortlisted in a list of 65 finalists for World Mayor in 2005 and was among 3 strong candidates for the top-10 list"
Sounds like Obama to me. No-one questions his win, although, I have read there have been convicted cases of voter fraud in California recently.
What's with all these news articles on Iran? Twitter. Maybe its not about Freedom and Democracy. Just advertising space, fads, annoying "LOLs", and entertainment (Reminds me of high school kids).
Try not eating for one day, I bet you couldn't do it, and I guarantee it will change your perspective on life, and Islam will mean a lot more to you than you could have ever imagined.
Posted in: Iran's leader: End protests or risk bloodshed
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jhk
Its not about Republican or Democratic, left or right, it is about rich and poor.
Pretty straightforward, do we need to talk about anything else?
Posted in: Republicans accuse Obama of socialism
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jhk
hear, hear
Posted in: Israel: Palestinians use settlements as excuse to avoid peace talks
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jhk
The voices of 1,000,000,000 crying people in poverty might not be heard by some of us, but will be quickly swallowing up the rest of us, if we don't get this right.
Try not eating for one day, and let us know if makes you cry or not. And maybe you will understand a little bit more about the Islamic world.
Posted in: Iran's leader: End protests or risk bloodshed
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jhk
They are telling you that Capitalism doesn't work when the income gap keeps widening.
They won't give in to Western values of Freedom, because, Freedom, is a false ideology coming primarily from a country that has the largest prison system in the world, is responsible for not only environmental pollution, but pollution to the mind.
The mind of the Westerner has been polluted with selfishness, ignorance, and apathy towards the oppressed.
Its time to for us to wake up from the "Western Dream". Because it is over.
Posted in: Israel: Palestinians use settlements as excuse to avoid peace talks
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jhk
Kahmenei is the predecessor of Khomeini, who had 6,000,000 (Million) supporters when he returned from exile in 1979, compared to the 100,000 that Mousavi has today. The population of Iran is 70,000,000 (Million). So Mousavi has less than 1% of the population in protest.
So why does the Western media make such a big deal out of this? Sounds like a conspiracy and corruption to me.
Why are there so many immature and ignorant comments on this board? Sounds like the conspiracy and corruption is working to me.
I hope Obama and everyday Americans aren't part of this, because the whole world is watching.
Who were the people in the administration that meddled with Twitter? And why was it so important to them? If they cared about other countries and people so much, why aren't they telling twitter to keep the lines open on the 26,000 children that are dying everyday, or the increasing unemployment rate, or the 1,000,000,000 BN that are estimated to be in poverty.
One of the biggest threats to Iran has always been factioning, which threatens the fabric, culture, and history of Iran and all that it has been preserving for more than 1,700 years. Iran is a cultural world heritage, untouched by Western culture and materialism.
So when some site like "twitter", (some start-up that began less than 1,700 days ago) that is being told what to do by the US government, becomes some temporary sensation, which is feeding the factioning process within Iran, it would bother me too.
How many more countries does the West want to mess up? Doesn't it have enough mess on its hands already?
Why do I have to waste my time worrying about the West trying to mess around with another country every year? How many countries do you need to mess around with?
Posted in: Iran's leader: End protests or risk bloodshed
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jhk
Theoretically, there should be no poverty. 60 Trillion World GDP divided by 6B World Population equals 10k per capita per year. Of course GDP doesn't include ownership of assets like land, buildings, and capital.
Half the world is able to live on less than 10k per capita. Nigeria was ranked the happiest nation in the world.
If everybody donated 10% of their income on poverty, there would be no poverty.
A ten percent reduction in the world's wealthiest, would save at least ten percent of the world's poorest.
Forget about this capitalism, socialism, communism, or for that matter ideology or politics, its a crime against humanity if we don't. And we will pay for it, if we are not already.
Corporations used to be factories that gave us jobs and produced our products. Now they sell us things we actually don't even want or need, fire us, and we have to fight each other to work for them. In the meantime unemployement is about to surpass 10%, and it is estimated that there are 1BN people in poverty around the world. The days of the corporation and shareholders are numbered. They are psychopathic, and their behavior will be modified, if they do not collapse already.
Of course, we can't afford abrupt distruption to our infrastructure, especially in large cities like Tokyo, so the only way to stop the bleeding, is to target the wealthiest, to help the poorest first.
However, we have other major problems to fix as well:
The US (47k per capita), Australia (47k), Canada (40k), Japan (34k), and Western Europe(30k), should donate 10% of GDP to the rest of the world, not 0.14% or 0.7%, it should be at least 10%. We are way too spoiled. Paranoid, Schizophrenic, Psychopathic.
And now we are thinking of messing in the affairs of North Korea (1k), and Iran (4k). No wonder they are creating nuclear arms to defend themselves, because they know that we are crazy.
And if we truly believe in God, as 80% of us supposedly do, then we should be paying this fast before Jesus arrives, or before North Korea and all of the other countries that hate us, declares war on us.
The days of the billionaire are over. There is no such thing as a "good" billionaire, unless they give most of their money away. Ridiculous.
So the world will be watching Obama (the leader of one of the wealthiest, most powerful nations in the world 47k) who has just labelled the people of North Korea (one of the poorest, most isolated countries in the world 1k) "a grave threat".
If we gave them and the rest of the poor nations 10% of our GDP, (which, any individual or company could easily figure out how to do), we would not be having this problem with North Korea, we would not be seeing homelessness, or poverty, or the 95% bad news in the newspapers, and we wouldn't be so selfish, paranoid, schizophrenic, or psychopathic.
We already have enough problems on our hands, why make it more complicated, and why make it worse.
Posted in: Jolie, Pitt give U.N. agency $1 million
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jhk
sailwind, from your writing, I guess we would have to presume that you are a "wealth creator", relatively "wealthy", against both socialism, and obviously communism, and therefore capitalist.
How much wealth do you have, and what are you doing with it, in a time when it is now estimated that 1B people (That's 1 in 6 worldwide) are in poverty, 26k children under 5 are still dying of poverty everyday, and official unemployment in western countries is about to surpass 10%.
If the information above is propaganda, which I doubt, then I would apologize, but is it too "ideological" (which by the way hints on the theological), for you to see that there is a gaping income gap, and that capitalism is not only more likely to be destroying wealth than creating it, but seems to have lost its steam, or maybe in sailwind's case, no more wind?
Just worried about you guys, let me know if I'm not seeing things correctly.
Posted in: Republicans accuse Obama of socialism
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jhk
Apologizing for slavery, long overdue, a good start, lets also move to other related issues such as the estimated 1,000,000,000 (1BN) in poverty across all countries, (however mostly blacks in Africa) and the group of people worldwide who have more than 1,000,000,000 (1BN) in assets (of which it would be safe to assume most are whites).
Just trying to connect a massive problem with the only solution. Was this not the message from Obama that got him elected? Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, who both live in Africa, and despite their spats, have donated 1M, as a start.
Any others? At this stage it shouldn't matter if you are black or white. Do something now, before we find it much harder to forgive you.
Posted in: Senate apologizes for slavery, segregation in U.S.
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jhk
hear, hear
Posted in: Israel: Palestinians use settlements as excuse to avoid peace talks
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jhk
Oneforall: "No wealth = No jobs"
I think we have this the other way around, "No jobs = No wealth", if corporations keep firing people at the rate they are, we are shooting ourselves in the foot don't you think.
CEOs & VPs keep their same salaries and performance bonus for poor performance, and fire 5-10% of their workforce doesn't make any sense.
They should reduce their salaries by 5-10%, or I would argue by the same value that their stock value dropped.
It is Psychopathic behavior, and very, very, un-Democratic.
Don't worry, change is already happening, and we will not forget what these totalitarian leaders did to our Democratic system.
Posted in: Republicans accuse Obama of socialism
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jhk
Its just a matter of determining how much is excessive (Say more than 5 million in assets, or say more than 500 thousand a year).
Of course how these assets were accumulated as well as how they are being spent would also help determine the degree of antisocial behavior, but we can leave this up to the mental health professionals to figure out.
Also the use of offshore entities to minimize tax, or the act of short-selling for profit taking, could be seen as antisocial as well.
One path would be the mental health route, and the other would just be the criminal or civil route.
It would be a great opportunity for Lawyers, Forensic Accountants, and Mental Health Professionals.
Does anyone disagree?
Posted in: Republicans accuse Obama of socialism
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jhk
Maybe because it is democracies that need reshaping, including Israel.
If we took a closer look at what these demands are, they are basically saying, "don't meddle with our countries", of which the case of Israel is that it is a democracy meddling with Palestine.
No Mcdonalds, no Walmart, no mortages, no US dollars, no hedge funds, no outsourcing, no media, no twitter, no bulldozers, no same sex marriages, no abortions, no obesity, no chemicals in our food, no atomic bombs, no oil seekers, none of that freedom jargon, no thanks and thank you.
I feel sorry for Obama, he probably has the toughest job in the world. But some of the people that he represents don't even deserve a leader like him. I hope administrations and other so called democracies don't mislead him into going into North Korea.
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