Who is Yuri? Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 (edited) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/09/04/the-arab-worlds-wealthiest-nations-are-doing-next-to-nothing-for-syrias-refugees/Arab World's Wealthiest Nations Doing Next to Nothing? I'm sure that they're at least watching CNN and adjusting their investments to the projected American response. Question: did we have some sort of unspoken treaty with Kuwait? Do we have an unspoken treaty with Qatar, UAE, etc.? Edited September 5, 2015 by Franz Kafka Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 Arab World's Wealthiest Nations Doing Next to Nothing? I'm sure that they're at least watching CNN and adjusting their investments to the projected American response. Question: did we have some sort of unspoken treaty with Kuwait? Do we have an unspoken treaty with Qatar, UAE, etc.? We have official treaties with most of the region (including Qatar and the UAE. CENTCOM Forward's in Qatar; the UAE not only provides basing and support for the USAF, but their air force trains at Nellis annually.) And Americans vastly overestimate the unity of the Islamic world. The Arabs have fought more wars against each other than they have against non-Arabs. The region's dominated by tribal fractiousness, not racial unity. Why the hell would you expect the House of Saud provide aid to the Druze Syrians just because they're both Arabs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCinBuffalo Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 (edited) "German flexibility?" That's a new one. Dammit! Beat me to it by almost a week. That in and of itself is a GIANT BS flag. As somebody who has implemented SAP, been hired by 3 times by 2 different German companies(all denied) and who works with ze Germans right F'ing now(hence, most or my AM posts aren't booze-related, they are tired-related)? The fact that she would get up in front of her own people and ask them for the very opposite thing they are known for, and in many cases admired for, the world over? That's hilarious. Try to have an agrument with a German about whether ARIS or BPMN is a better methodology. Hint: Professor Scheer created ARIS. If the European Union had stuck to trade and travel they might have been OK but a single currency and monetary policy without integrated economic policy is a loser, it be like if we threw Mississippi and Louisianan to the wolves. Leave it to ...lybob. I mean...is there anything he won't say? It's like Hillary/Server. Yappity yap yap yap, your ideas suck and you're full of schit. We've had an object lesson in the failure of EU socialism, at the same time Obama has been trying to push it. The irony is hilarious, yes, but the timing? That's like Jimmy Kimmel vs. (whoever). Obama/Democrats, who have been pushing EU modeling for years, have been completely overtaken by events...in the EU. I see it as a learning opportunity. Kind of like when Toyota beat GM. We learned and are still learning about circular manufacturing and just in time supply schemes from the Japanese. GM was based upon seniority. Let's not pretend that we can't learn from other countries. Learning opportunity? Like you know, when this guy taught Japan about TQM, during the 60s delusions of grandeur/Great Society, when we still had the only not-destroyed factories running, and the Big 3 were dumb, fat and happy? You really think Toyota had a chance in hell, WITHOUT an American calling the plays? That's like me moving to South Carolina, coaching lacrosse, and giving 100% credit to the players. Or, that's like pretending Marrone == Ryan. Ignorance. Next, well, actually Deming and and a few others completely cover #2. The internet is your friend: search for JIT. Hint: The Japanese didn't create it. Henry Ford, by definition of the Assembly Line, created JIT. Once again, the aftermath of WW2 comes into play: Japan, suffering from high unemployment and schit for natural resources, is forced to make small factories and chincy schit. Exactly like Taiwan later on. These extremes demand, not create, a JIT system. But, they didn't teach us a damn thing: we were building 1 aircraft carrier a month at the end of WW2(and also insuring the the health of all those workers en masse, which is where health insurance comes from). Do you honestly believe that was possible without hyper-granular JIT? Speaking of learning? I bet you are learning right F'ing now. When I become retarded(retire) I will go the old folks home for consultants: otherwise known as college professor. Until then? Spare me the "what we learned" crap. I'll be teaching it. GM is one of my past clients. I ran a $40M gig for them(when I was 27). GM's Plan: OVERTIME! Sure, they will pay a janitor $70/hr. But, they will also require them to work 80/hrs per week. Most people do it and then quit. This way: they never have union trouble. What other janitor job is there that pays that? The unions make out, because they get a %, not fixed dues. GM makes out because they are only paying for 1 guy's benefits. Seniority? Seniority in most of GMs labor is now 3-5 years. Why the F do you see guys smoking weed/drinking? Because, it's like the Army: go through hell/work 70 hours a week for 3-5 years, and when it's over, you've got startup $ to do all sorts of stuff. Nobody gives a flying F, and everybody is making out. Remind us all of the last UAW strike? Can you? There is no "career path" for labor at GM. All there is? Do your time, get your $ and GTFO. Learning anything? Um, let's not pretend that pretty much ALL of the learning that goes on in this world is NOT USA-->down. I spend most of my time teaching, not learning. Which actually sucks, but, as I have said many times in this post: the Germans and the Japanese(Just like the French, British, and Spanish before them) don't invent/teach anything. They learn from us, and this has been going on since 1789 Edited September 5, 2015 by OCinBuffalo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deranged Rhino Posted September 7, 2015 Author Share Posted September 7, 2015 Germany to spend $6.6 Billion on 800,000 immigrants: http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/europes-border-crisis/billions-migrants-germany-spend-6-6b-800-000-newcomers-n422811 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted September 7, 2015 Share Posted September 7, 2015 Germany to spend $6.6 Billion on 800,000 immigrants: http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/europes-border-crisis/billions-migrants-germany-spend-6-6b-800-000-newcomers-n422811 Hope they're not building camps again... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deranged Rhino Posted September 7, 2015 Author Share Posted September 7, 2015 Hope they're not building camps again... Good point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozymandius Posted September 7, 2015 Share Posted September 7, 2015 If lice is a problem among the migrants, I heart Zyklon-B is effective Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deranged Rhino Posted September 7, 2015 Author Share Posted September 7, 2015 If lice is a problem among the migrants, I heart Zyklon-B is effective These are not migrants. They are refugees. There is a difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozymandius Posted September 7, 2015 Share Posted September 7, 2015 These are not migrants. They are refugees. There is a difference. Why are photos showing them to be mostly young men? 75% are men, 12% women, 13% children Are the women staying behind to fight ISIS? What's going on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deranged Rhino Posted September 7, 2015 Author Share Posted September 7, 2015 Why are photos showing them to be mostly young men? 75% are men, 12% women, 13% children Are the women staying behind to fight ISIS? What's going on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozymandius Posted September 7, 2015 Share Posted September 7, 2015 Angry, healthy, young men tossing aside water given to them by infidels: More angry, young, healthy men chanting Allahu Akbar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2rmA9A7CEM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozymandius Posted September 8, 2015 Share Posted September 8, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX73ggsMNEI Wait, is that Italy or Ferguson / Baltimore? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante Posted September 8, 2015 Share Posted September 8, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX73ggsMNEI Wait, is that Italy or Ferguson / Baltimore? 3rd world being the 3rd world. Why do you think the 3rd world ended up being the 3rd world? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozymandius Posted September 8, 2015 Share Posted September 8, 2015 Wait, are these migrants escaping violence or just bringing it to Europe? Europeans are such idiots. So are Americans, unfortunately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante Posted September 8, 2015 Share Posted September 8, 2015 Wait, are these migrants escaping violence or just bringing it to Europe? Europeans are such idiots. So are Americans, unfortunately. Well one reason why they won't fvck with us so much is that citizens here can actually fire back. So we aren't that dumb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozymandius Posted September 8, 2015 Share Posted September 8, 2015 Well one reason why they won't fvck with us so much is that citizens here can actually fire back. So we aren't that dumb. No, we are as dumb. It's the Atlantic Ocean that's preventing a similar invasion. Hopefully our Central American invaders will treat America better than these "Syrian refugees" treat Europe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted September 9, 2015 Share Posted September 9, 2015 THE ILLUSIONS OF THE ELITES, PART ONE: Why does Germany want so many refugees? Germany faces a severe labor shortage, both short-term and long-term. A study by the Robert Bosch foundation suggested that Germany’s workforce could shrink by about 6 million by 2030. I think what they get might not be what they want… THE ILLUSIONS OF THE ELITES PART TWO: Counter-Narratives From a Crisis. Brendan O’Neill tackles the preening—and worse than preening— of those in the European elite now so keen to show that they #WelcomeTheRefugees. THOMAS SOWELL: The Past and Future of the Refugee Crisis. Barack Obama’s decision to pull American troops out of Iraq, with happy talk about how he was ending a war, turned out to be a bitter mockery when the policy in fact opened the doors to new wars with unspeakable horrors in the present and incalculable consequences for the future. The glib rhetoric that accompanied the pullout of American troops from Iraq was displayed once again when the rise of ISIS was dismissed as just a junior varsity team trying to look like a serious threat. But now that ISIS controls a big chunk of Iraq and a big chunk of Syria, it is the Obama foreign policy that looks like the work of a junior varsity team. Undermining stable governments in Egypt and Libya that posed no threat to Western interests in the Middle East was another rhetoric-laden catastrophe of the Obama administration. No wonder President Obama does not want to get involved in the refugee crisis that his own policies did so much to create. Talking about renaming Mount McKinley seems far safer politically. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeviF Posted September 9, 2015 Share Posted September 9, 2015 These are not migrants. They are refugees. There is a difference. Please. Some of these "refugees" are fleeing "hardship" from a very safe distance from the conflict in Syria. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deranged Rhino Posted September 9, 2015 Author Share Posted September 9, 2015 Please. Some of these "refugees" are fleeing "hardship" from a very safe distance from the conflict in Syria. Some? Sure, but they're in the minority. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeviF Posted September 9, 2015 Share Posted September 9, 2015 Some? Sure, but they're in the minority. And let's face it, even the "refugees" are going to be migrants. They aren't going home once the conflict ends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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