Cheradenine Zakalwe comments

"Religion and Christianity are the biggest things missing from this country," he said, compelling viewers to "protect content that is pro-God. We love God.

JC railed against the Pharisees interpretation of Gospel

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/americas-first-post-text-president/549794/

And given that Trump doesn't read ; his interpretation of the Bible probably comes from televangelists like Kenneth Copeland who campaigns for him and begs his followers for donations for a second private jet to "spread the gospel".

https://www.thelancasterpatriot.com/kenneth-copeland-speaks-at-trump-rally-in-pennsylvania/

Experts say the proliferation of players in the industry due to a wave of deregulation in the 1990s was partly to blame for the sector's unique strains.

As in other nations the wave of neo-liberal "reforms" labeled deregulation in the 80's and 90's had the effect of ensuring a race to the bottom for labor and increasing the share of gains going to stock-holding capitalists.

The government is counting on such wage hikes to trickle down to smaller and medium-sized firms, which account for a whopping 99.7% of all enterprises and about 70% of the country's workforce.

Because trickle down has ever worked? Corporate tax breaks , incentives, subsidies and corporate welfare always end up in stock buybacks, dividends and executive bonuses.

Despite facing some of the country's tightest labour markets and no shortage of demand, small delivery companies like Sakata's can barely afford to make ends meet.

Cry me a river. Sakata's companies and larger ilk refuse to pay living wages according to the hours worked.

They are trying to relax language requirements for licensing and opening up the market to more low wage foreign labor.

They are trying to profit disproportionately as demand remains high and wages low, despite the labor crunch, before the inevitable shift to automation which will require significant capital investment in infrastructure that will finally weed out the smaller players in the business.

I doubt firm owner Ikuko Sakata will be having to visit soup kitchens like other Japanese workers though.

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20230710/p2a/00m/0na/020000c

Kim Yo Jong -- who is one of the regime's key spokespeople -- had hinted last month at a possible future invitation for the Japanese leader to visit North Korea.

When Yo Jung summons; thou shalt come.

I mean they have barred far lesser things, it’s quiet amazing the authorities let this one slide

Like the foreign touts physically harassing people in certain zones, or pachinko and the DPRK remittance of funds or even scamming English teaching businesses there are certain businesses which are allowed to cause social disruption and exploitation because there are connections between criminal enterprises and business and political interests which are very profitable for a select few and must be protected.

Although no injuries were reported, there were 12 accidents involving rear-end collisions and 10 other violations, including parking fines. In February, the police department handed out written requests to go-kart operators asking them to strengthen safety measures.

Compared to the horrendous deaths caused by senior Japanese drivers in their nice cars it does not seem like much cause to panic.

Instead, you’ll want to meet at one of the landmarks outside the station, and the most useful has been the Shinjuku Alta building. Immediately recognizable by its giant video screen, “in front of Alta,” or Aruta mae if you’re speaking Japanese, has been the go-to answer for “Where in Shinjuku should we meet?” for decades.

Lots of memories as I am sure other expats in Japan have.

'Time' by Hans Zimmer is a good track to reflect.

Hopefully it will not be replaced by another soulless Mori et al creation filled with empty boutiques with bored staff and posh brands catering to mostly foreign tourists now.

In sign of the conservative frustration, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., initiated an effort to oust Johnson as the House began the vote but held off on further action until the House returns in two weeks. It's the same tool that was used last year to remove McCarthy.

Extremism is a regressive force on the US but it is not the centrist cop-out of its on "both sides".

The US is being dragged to the right by Citizen's United liberated corporate money and tax-free evangelical churches as a "left" which is not really very leftist, more a half-hearted Nordic model, is more marginalized.

Pols the like of MTG infesting American politics need to be driven out and have no base of funding.

Japan will introduce a new national accreditation system for Japanese-language schools from April in an effort to ensure their quality meets the needs of the country's growing foreign population.

If it matches the accreditation and assurance for the quality of the English language instruction then it is DOA.

Seibu has approached around 10 potential buyers, including Japanese real estate developers and global investment funds such as Blackstone and GIC, said one of the people, all of whom declined to be identified as the matter is private.

Having the world's real estate owned by a global mega landlord rentier conglomerate like Blackstone sounds like a recipe for prosperity.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/sep/29/blackstone-rebellion-how-one-country-worlds-biggest-commercial-landlord-denmark

Surely the sale of post-pandemic unneeded office space will trickle down in the form of wage gains to Seibu's many service and operations staff.

Party leaders, including Kishida and Secretary General Toshimitsu Motegi, will make the final decision on who will be subject to punishment and its extent.

Oh, so its in good hands then.

No question the punishment will be apportioned according to the individuals complicity in the crimes, illegal benefits that were reaped and other such concerns.

Not to divert attention from those in charge and to ensure that the case is falsely closed and the gains are ensured and business can continue as usual.

"As a party, we believe that further efforts are needed to verify the facts. We want to reach a conclusion promptly on the issue of political responsibility and accountability," Motegi told reporters in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Saturday.

Integrity level: -9

Keep in mind, more downvotes i receive, means more accurate my statements, both above and anywhere.

Parroting the powers that be, offering no insight, with consistent and rampant signs of bias , and garbled syntax.

Those might be more of a reason for this outcome.

The reality is the stock market is entirely orthogonal to the economic outcomes of the majority.

https://www.epi.org/blog/wage-inequality-fell-in-2022-because-stock-market-declines-brought-down-pay-of-the-highest-earners-but-top-1-wages-have-skyrocketed-171-7-since-1979-while-bottom-90-wages-have-seen-just-32-9-growth/

Mass layoffs, restructuring are great for markets!

Monetary easing can also exacerbate social inequality, and "tends to distort financial markets", Kuijs warned.

There is no "can" about it.

The monetary easing of the BOJ was just a guaranteed subsidy to the income of wealthy investors and a wealth transfer away from Japanese workers.

It is official.

https://www.cepweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/CEP-WP-2009-2-Saiki-and-Frost.pdf

The vast majority of Jewish Americans identify as Democrats, but Trump has often accused them of disloyalty, perpetuating what critics say is an antisemitic trope.

Whatever you want to call it: Cultural Marxism, "woke", "international Jewry", the far left, great replacement, socialism; it is a very old trope of associating heretical Jews with a certain element. And we all know where it comes from and who uses these tropes all the time.

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No, it's only insane to think that those 'AI' attempts will ever work somehow on any size of processors or their advancements, because that is mathematically intrinsic and impossible.

I may be wasting time responding to this that has been posted multiple times but the data points to the backpropagation algorithm developed by Hinton used in neural network LLM as superior in many respects to human cognition especially when equipped with vast amounts of data and compute.

https://www.inference.vc/mortal-computation-hintons/

That is why there are many high-level AI alarmists at present.

The event, dubbed the "AI Woodstock" by Wedbush analyst Dan Ives, has become a can’t-miss date on big tech's calendar due to Nvidia's singular role in the AI revolution that has taken the world by storm since the introduction of ChatGPT in late 2022.

A Singularity is coming even faster than Kurzweil suspected.

Liberals always overplay their hand and helplessly watch as it all boomerangs right back in their faces.

According to history, true.

Lib boomerangs, care to elucidate?

Allow me to quote myself but this looks like a B-52 sized boomerang coming back on Trump.

Another irony about this is that the Trump admin was responsible for the rollback of Obama admin. reforms to limit civil asset forfeiture.*

https://www.thestreet.com/personal-finance/civil-forfeiture-trump-resurrects-an-ugly-practice-for-no-reason-14237541

Biker Mice from Mars..

This was a deep dive even for this 90's "kid".

I usually don't read your comments because of the "LOOOL" but + 1 for referencing a series that had "Ronaldo Rump, a Chicago real estate tycoon who has stolen it so he can transform Mexico into a humongous golf and hotel resort."

So it is very relevant as the article states

"In early reviews, The Atlantic noted an "uncomfortable resonance in these politically polarized times." Rolling Stone said "you might accidentally mistake" the film's futuristic premise for the present.*

In the UK I worked for 20 hours per week for 10 years earning more than a living wage and the client made a profit. I wasn't paid by the hour. I was paid for what I achieved.

This is exactly what Bernie is promulgating and what oligarchic capitalists do not like.

Contractors et al should all be in favor of this.

Until people get used to 32 hours then they will stop working harder and expect 24 hour work week at same pay.

Never ends.

Yeah all those greedy , acquisitive laborers have been getting a free ride for too long while the virtuous investor class have been working overtime to provide a living wage and prosperity for all!

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/walmart-and-mcdonalds-among-top-employers-of-medicaid-and-food-stamp-beneficiaries.html

It is nice to see the arguments against Sanders basically amount to the same tired corporate shillery nil.

In the 1830s, coal miners and textile workers began pushing back against workdays of up to 14 hours. After the Civil War, the abolition of slavery caused those in the U.S. to take a fresh look at workers' rights. Unions rallied around the slogan: "Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, eight hours for what you will.”

All of the labor and human rights we take for granted now in the Western World post-slavery are due to the agitation of unions and movements labeled "socialism".

https://www.salon.com/2021/06/14/amazons-labor-exploitation-is-a-return-to-the-1920s--and-unions-are-our-best-hope-out/

It can go forward, or go back. It is up to you (to some extent).

His “Hans Zimmer Live” tour, which sold out in Europe, will make its way to the U.S. and Canada this fall, marking the first time Zimmer has performed in North America in seven years.

One of the best of the best as a composer, along with the late James Horner and Williams.

Businesses in the industry have taken a hit especially on social media where their products are sometimes singled out for abuse, and misinformation and false claims spread.

When you think about it a cricket or beetle is just land shrimp.

Jail terms of up to 7 years for 12 who stormed Hong Kong legislature in 2019

Principled young people fighting for freedom expression against an authoritarian regime.

Unlike, as it will inevitably be compared to , the stormers of the legislature in the world's foremost democracy who were fighting for a would-be authoritarian who lost an election.

The planned legal revision also includes revoking permanent residency status from foreigners if they do not pay taxes or social insurance premiums.

Good Kyodo article leaving that stinger til the end.

This has been de facto at Immigration but have to rope in those foreigners who were skipping the residence taxes and pension payments from these low wage jobs and install some formal procedures.

Met a few students/trainees who had choices between rent/food or these taxes at the end of the month.

“In each of these cases, Donald Trump is pursuing and articulating an agenda that is at odds with the conservative agenda that we governed on during our four years. And that's why I cannot in conscience endorse Donald Trump in this campaign," he said.

Pence would be a great president of the Republic of Gilead.

Unfortunately the MAGA faithful want the prosperity gospel, reality show, porn star payoff version of the good ole fundamentalist USA.

Schumer has already done enough dam to his own country and now this idiot wants to do damage to Israel as well??? Geez, what a loser this guy is.

Not as much as the outgoing ghoul Mitch McConnell did.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/15/us-supreme-court-mitch-mcconell-conservative-judges-democracy

If there were more Bernie Sanders and AOCs what a world America would be.

Atarashii Gakko! doing of cover of the Ray Parker Ghostbusters theme is definitely something.

The UBI scheme you are dreaming of is a direct wealth transfer from people who have jobs and want to work to people who are too lazy or entitled. The universe does not owe you anything, and neither do taxpayers.

The wealth transfer is from working poor to the investor class through BOJ policies that are said to be to "raise wages" and just raise stock markets, and yes they do not deserve this passive wealth accumulation.

https://www.cnbc.com/2013/12/18/qe-the-greatest-subsidy-to-the-rich-ever.html

It has accelerated since the pandemic too.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/04/cramer-the-pandemic-led-to-a-great-wealth-transfer.html

@Cheradenine Zakalwe Japan has a UBI. About 2% of the population qualify for it, everyone else is expected to earn their keep.

The "universal" part of UBI seems to have escaped you proxy.

The 2% in Japan you are referring to as recipients of government easy money would be the independently wealthy investors in the skyrocketing Nikkei boosted by QE investments.

Not the vast majority of non-unionized working poor struggling with poverty wages and little to no social welfare support.

People are reflected in a window of a hotel at the Davos Promenade in Davos, Switzerland.

The Davos set are worried about the "integrity" of the "democratic" processes in nations which are basically just giving a imprimatur to the chosen neo-liberal manager for oligarchic capital.

Meanwhile true independents and the public are concerned about the more real threat of corporate control of GLLM automation, layoffs and poverty.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/17/bernie-sanders-workers-should-reap-benefits-of-ai

Central banks worldwide have raised interest rates in recent years to tackle soaring inflation, but the BoJ has kept in place its negative interest rate and other measures designed to boost the stagnant economy.

QE is a subsidy for rentier capital, full stop.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/qe-the-ultimate-subsidy-for-the-rich/

If it was paid out as a UBI instead of a fake trickle down strategy you would see real prosperity in nations.

https://www.businessinsider.com/universal-basic-income-guy-standing-quantitative-easing-2017-1

"Squid Game," a series that depicts a dark world where marginalised individuals are forced to compete in deadly versions of traditional children's games, quickly gained immense popularity on Netflix.

Seems in keeping with the character he played.