Thread: Rants and WTF are you talking about and Coronavirus!
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09-24-22 13:31 #10852
Posts: 1329Originally Posted by PaulInZurich [View Original Post]
Several other individual stories of white collar friends working for smaller companies as consultants and engineers also seem to generate favorable accounts. Cynically, a common statement I hear from them when working on multi-national teams are comments about how their European branch counterparts are only putting in 35 hours work so they're not going to overextend themselves here state-side.
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09-24-22 11:15 #10851
Posts: 6686It is all a setup in order to crush the fiat currency and start anew with central bank digital currencies. And soon we in europe will get basic income paid out directly from the central bank. Because the current interest rate increases will force the central banks to pull the rates far far down below zero 2 years after the rates got hiked. Or leave them where they are and also start with basic income payouts. Just wait 18 months or something like that. Maybe 24.
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09-24-22 08:17 #10850
Posts: 22240Originally Posted by DrPoon [View Original Post]
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09-24-22 07:21 #10849
Posts: 2363Originally Posted by EscapeArtist [View Original Post]
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09-24-22 00:42 #10848
Posts: 806Originally Posted by EscapeArtist [View Original Post]
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09-23-22 23:14 #10847
Posts: 806I can't see why Germany is going along with this. Germany should delete its sanctions so it can get gas ASAP or demand that same reduced prices and volume from gas delivered from the Loisiana gas terminal from the USA.
Originally Posted by McAdonis [View Original Post]
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09-23-22 17:34 #10846
Posts: 1329Originally Posted by McAdonis [View Original Post]
If European companies come over and maintain their general philosophy of respecting work-life balance, those companies may attract American workers who are already shifting their mentality of being a slave to your job.
Once again, America stands to be the big winner during times of European chaos.
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09-23-22 17:21 #10845
Posts: 1329Originally Posted by McAdonis [View Original Post]
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09-23-22 14:05 #10844
Posts: 2073Originally Posted by EscapeArtist [View Original Post]
Governments have gone all out: from capping gas and electricity prices to rescuing struggling energy companies and providing direct aid to households to fill up their cars.
The public spending has continued, even though European Union countries had accumulated mountains of new debt to save their economies during the Covid pandemic in 2020.
https://www.thelocal.at/20220922/how-european-countries-are-spending-billions-on-avoiding-energy-crisis/
The questions that executives across the country find themselves faced with are of an existential nature: For how long can we continue to withstand high energy prices? How can we save? Is production in Germany even still worth it any longer? Or is it time to move away to a place where energy prices aren’t as high?
https://www.spiegel.de/international/business/growing-energy-crisis-a-grave-threat-to-industry-in-germany-a-9152547c-a31d-483e-a70c-242c280cab23
Germany’s economy hasn’t grown for nearly five years. Its recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic has been weaker than any major advanced economy. Its ability to fill its energy needs is in question. And now the country once known as the economic engine of Europe is teetering on the brink of a recession.
It’s a sharp turn of fortunes for Germany’s large manufacturing sector, which flourished over the past two decades just as other Western nations saw industrial jobs migrate to Asia.
Germany’s big and long-successful bet on manufacturing relied on four engines: Free and open global trade, surging demand from China, an efficient domestic workforce and cheap Russian energy.
Each of those is now sputtering.
Siltronic AG , a Munich-based company that produces silicon wafers for the semiconductor industry, recently chose Singapore over Germany as the location of a new €2 billion factory, the biggest investment in the company’s history.
That reflected lower running costs in Singapore, including for energy and staff, said Christoph von Plotho, the company’s CEO.
“Cost always matters, even where you have a product with relatively limited competition,” Mr. von Plotho said. His competitors produce similar wafers, so price, not quality, provides the edge, he said. In Germany, “we don’t have competitive energy costs, which is one of the major cost drivers in an industry like ours,” he said. Singapore currently produces about 60% of the company’s total output, and output there is expected to double again with the new factory, he said.
Kostal Automobil Elektrik, a century-old auto supplier based in western Germany, said in June it would end production in Germany by the end of 2024, closing its three German plants. About 900 jobs will be relocated or cut, according to labor unions. That includes about 100 service-center jobs that will be moved to Budapest.
The family-owned company, whose products are found in roughly half of all cars worldwide, blamed high costs in Germany, aggravated by the pandemic and the war in Ukraine. It said it also needed to invest heavily in new technologies as the auto industry switches to battery power.
Labor unions warned that Kostal’s move could create a domino effect. “There is a risk of a loss of competence and, as a result, the loss of further jobs for the entire German automotive industry as well as the creeping de-industrialization” of the region, said Fabian Ferber, the IG Metall union representative at Kostal.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-german-economy-broke-down-exports-
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09-23-22 12:25 #10843
Posts: 806Ukraine Votes Sept 27 - Nuclear Attack Predicted
On September 27 Ukraine will have completed an election to have the East Side area between Russia through Crimea to join Russian territory.
This of course is in line with Russian nuclear doctrine which because then the territory legally belongs to Russia and then allowed to defend with nuclear weaopons, will then allow a nuclear attack on probably Lyiv first, and if Ukraine doesn't quit fighting then Kyiv. Similar to the USA nuclear attack which took two nuclear attacks to force a surrender.
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09-23-22 07:44 #10842
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09-22-22 15:37 #10841
Posts: 1329Originally Posted by Adindas [View Original Post]
Examining the socioeconomic group sent from each immigrant population yields much more informative reasons for the the discrepancies. Latinos aren't sending their educated, Indians are. West Africans are black but they come over without the mental baggage and community ties of Black American historical oppression.
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09-22-22 13:03 #10840
Posts: 920Originally Posted by Ararat [View Original Post]
What is the population of India, China, Japan, Korea?? Not enough to answer that question??
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09-22-22 07:51 #10839
Posts: 717Originally Posted by Turgid [View Original Post]
Reality is that conservative governments (who were ideologically more in the political centre) who were in power decades ago are the best kind of governments for P6.
Biden and his crew of CNN-MSNBC Marxists have been in power for almost two years: what has significantly changed in the liberating the P6 scene in the USA? Nothing!
Ask yourself this: what do you think those 87000 new IRS agents will be doing? Yup: harassing small cash-only businesses like strip bars and massage parlours whilst leaving big corporations and billionaires (who can afford to hire the best tax consultants and lawyers) alone.
I've been predicting this for quite some time: if you want to see the future of FKKs in Germany, look no further than leftwing Feminazi countries like Sweden.
Originally Posted by HammerTime96 [View Original Post]Originally Posted by HammerTime96 [View Original Post]
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09-22-22 07:23 #10838
Posts: 1329Originally Posted by Ararat [View Original Post]
Anyway, there is only one answer, and race is not it.
First, it would be wise to divide blacks or as I like to call them, black people, into Black Americans and various other black immigrants.
But before diving into that, let's examine the 2 immigrant groups, Indians and Latinos. Well, they are completely different types of immigrants. Extremely poor, unskilled Indians don't come over in the same numbers as Latinos. Most importantly, Indians come over with English proficiency as a result of their colonial past. Also, on average, the Indians coming over come with more wealth, while not wealthy, they do have more cash in their pockets than the typical migrant Latino. They also generally come more educated, many with actual university education and even more with IT backgrounds. As such, they fall into higher paying occupations. Some even come with enough to start small businesses. Consequently, as a result of their higher starting point and ability to assimilate due to their language proficiency, their children are thus able to advance their own futures and skip a social class. Their Latino children counterparts however, must assume must more responsibility in childhood, often raising their siblings, obtaining part-time jobs in school, and serving as translators and cultural ambassadors for their parents.
With different starting points, it is no wonder that Indians immigrants outperform Latino immigrants.
As for black people, well yeah, Black Americans underperform greatly. But to show it is not a matter of race, look at Black West African immigrants. They become, by a significant margin, American's single most educated immigrant group. The have come to hold the most graduate degrees per capita, including medicine, surpassing Indians, East Asians, and Europeans, even Europeans from countries with free university. As such, while Black Americans underperform in number of doctors and engineers, black West Africans who do not carry the same psychological baggage as Black Americans outperform just about everyone.
Clearly both scenarios should reinforce to you that people, surprise, surprise, progress along life from different starting points. It's easy to lump humans together and think of them as one stereotypical monolith, it is much more prudent to see humans as products of human situations.