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Where is/can Donald Trump take US (sic)?

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I'd imagine that without wikipedia most of your good jokes would fall pretty flat.

Yeah, I am a tragic for old history, old novels, encyclopedia, etc, especially facts, but I do very well at trivia nights because of it.:rolleyes:
 
Yeah, I am a tragic for old history, old novels, encyclopedia, etc, especially facts, but I do very well at trivia nights because of it.:rolleyes:

I did alright at those. Just often got them wrong because I can't pronounce certain names without having heard it said first :D

Zeus = Zee Us
Socrates = So crates.

Our HS teacher didn't give me a mark for getting Zeus right, dam it! We both know who Ze Us is dude.
 
Great picture Iuutzu, sums it up perfectly, yet we in Australia are pushing harder and harder, to head down the same road. It seems to be helped along by the media though.

I find it weird, people in Australia are pushing for equality, yet I have found Australia the land of opportunity regardless of background.

I hope the change people are pushing for, is a change for the better, I personally can't see how it can be achieved.
I see a lot of reward for endeavour, in Australia, we seem to be trying to extend that to reward for missing out.
 
Now here is a novel proposal, health insurance that doesn't make a profit.

Warren Buffett, JP Morgan and Amazon are starting a health care scheme aimed at reducing the cost of health care for their employees and the established health care companies don't like it a bit.

Go Warren !

Healthcare sunk by Buffett and co
Health stocks were hit hard after Amazon, JPMorgan and Berkshire Hathaway announced they would join forces to start a new healthcare company— to lower healthcare costs for their hundreds of thousands of US employees.

The industry titans said this venture will be "free from profit-making incentives and constraints" as they take on the inefficient and expensive American healthcare system.

"The ballooning costs of healthcare act as a hungry tapeworm on the American economy," said Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway's chairman and CEO.



"Our group does not come to this problem with answers. But we also do not accept it as inevitable."

In a statement, Berkshire said the initial focus of the joint venture will be on "technology solutions" to bring about simplified and cheaper healthcare.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-...amup-healthcare-dow-jones-wall-street/9377446
 
Now here is a novel proposal, health insurance that doesn't make a profit.

Warren Buffett, JP Morgan and Amazon are starting a health care scheme aimed at reducing the cost of health care for their employees and the established health care companies don't like it a bit.

Go Warren !



http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-...amup-healthcare-dow-jones-wall-street/9377446

Those three aren't known for their non-profit gig though. Buffett is giving away most of his fortune but here he's running a business, not in the charity mode. The other two...

Did you know that Amazon would rather have an ambulance stand waiting outside their warehouse in case their employee faint... that rather than turn on the air conditioning to make the place more comfortable where people don't have to faint? Cost/Benefit.

That and Amazon targets older/senior workers. Use psycho-babble but pay them diddly. And like Wal-Mart, they show their underpaid employees how to get food stamps and gov't welfare... all that even though their employees work full time, not paid enough to live.

All these is to keep the costs of healthcare down as they themselves control it. So they keep the fund/premium in-house, negotiate better deals.

Does that mean they pass the savings on? Maybe a few bucks discount.

What's more scary would be employees' privacy. What if the company's doctors' record show this employee have a high chance of X, very expensive, illness?

They fired that's what.
 
Those three aren't known for their non-profit gig though. Buffett is giving away most of his fortune but here he's running a business, not in the charity mode. The other two...

Did you know that Amazon would rather have an ambulance stand waiting outside their warehouse in case their employee faint... that rather than turn on the air conditioning to make the place more comfortable where people don't have to faint? Cost/Benefit.

That and Amazon targets older/senior workers. Use psycho-babble but pay them diddly. And like Wal-Mart, they show their underpaid employees how to get food stamps and gov't welfare... all that even though their employees work full time, not paid enough to live.

All these is to keep the costs of healthcare down as they themselves control it. So they keep the fund/premium in-house, negotiate better deals.

Does that mean they pass the savings on? Maybe a few bucks discount.

What's more scary would be employees' privacy. What if the company's doctors' record show this employee have a high chance of X, very expensive, illness?

They fired that's what.

You're always so negative !
 
You're always so negative !

A realist :xyxthumbs

Serious. I saw interviews with reporters going undercover with Amazon's workers.

People in the warehouse often have to walk total of 16miles a day packaging and sorting etc. They get what's called scanner-syndrome where their fingers claws because they use the scanner/repetitive work too much.

Their pay are bad, the hours long, and Jeff Bezos get to Twitter about giving him ideas on how to save the planet.

Good thing is the employees get free pain medicine from the warehouse's cabinet.
 
Full FISA memo released



Significant parts:

"Furthermore, Deputy Director McCabe testified before the Committee in December 2017 that no surveillance warrant would have been sought from the FISC without the Steele dossier information."

Spying on political candidates to obtain opposition research, funded and aided by the US government


They got yahoo to print a story that was then used as corroborating evidence for another FISA renewal aka circular reporting

The BIG thing of the memo, essentially, is that Comey in the FBI, McCabe, Sally Yates and then Rosenstein in the DoJ, all knew 100% that the Steele dossier came from the DNC and was funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign as oppo research, but purposefully misled the FISA courts by not disclosing this information. They didn't just not disclose one time, but 4 different times: the initial, and the 3 subsequent re-authorizations.

Also, it is pretty bad because one of the "evidences" they presented to the FISA courts was Yahoo news article on Carter Page, but it turns out Fusion GPS was the one who fed Yahoo news that Carter Page article, meaning that they used the dossier, then had the Yahoo news article as a source corroborating the Dossier, except it was the dossier's author that gave the info to Yahoo News, thus Christopher Steel corroborated his own dossier, and that was used as evidence for FISA warrant. The damning part is that apparently the DoJ and FBI knew that Fusion GPS fed the story to Yahoo News, yet presented that to the FISA courts as an evidence corroborating the dossier anyway, deceiving the FISA courts.



If you put all the pieces together here's what you get. The DNC rigs the Democratic Primary Election against Bernie Sanders so Hilliary can win the nomination. Obama's administration starts to request surveillance on Trump, his family, his transition team, and anyone associated with him. Donna Brazil gives Hilliary the questions to a debate. The DNC pays Christopher Steele to come up with a smear dossier about Trump. The mainstream media releases a taped conversation about Trump talking about grabbing women parts. After all this Trump still wins the General Election. Obama orders an investigation into Russia meddling in our elections. Obama changes Executive Order 12333 to allow more agencies to have access to surveillance data. The Democratic Party comes up with a scandal that Trump Colluded with Russia to win the election with no evidence or proof. This wild claim is backed up by the mainstream media. Obama hold overs start unmasking Trump's transition team and staff members then release the classified information to the mainstream media. Why? Because the DNC and the Obama administration colluded with the intelligence community to thwart Trump's campaign efforts to get him elected president. All this Russia collusion is an attempt to cover up the fact that the Obama administration, the intelligence community, the DNC, along with the mainstream media used our nations surveillance as a political tool to try to get Hilliary elected President. This makes Watergate look like a kindergarten play. Let that sink in.......
 
The sheer stupidity of claiming credit for rising sharemarkets still blows me away. Shows complete lack of understanding of the factors which drive financial markets.

How long until he attempts to manipulate the FED into maintaining low rates, in an attempt to push this bubble further?
 
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