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11 minutes ago, Rue said:
I am calling this individual out again as an absolute falsehood. There was never any offer by any Palestinian let alone the Arab League to recognize Israel as a Jewish state with ANY borders of any kind.
This is precisely why he provides no sources. He has fabricated an out and out falsehood.
Its time this bullshit came to an end.
You're setting up an impossible scenario... It makes no difference if Palestinians recognize a jewish state, or if Israelis recognize a palestinian muslim state. What is important is that they simply recognize each other as nations with borders and respect those borders.
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20 minutes ago, ?Impact said:
Yes, we will run into some natural barriers but what they are an when we run into them is hard to speculate. We have relied on technology solutions ever since society has evolved from hunter/gatherer. The obvious technology solution to your immediate limitation will by hydroponics, but that itself might be obsoleted by future developments we cannot envisage today.
Yes things like hydroponics could sustain a tiny population. But that will not compensate for the fact that traditional farming and organic growth that have kept both humans and livestock alive for thousands of years will not be possible in another 60 at the current rate.
All the dirt will be gone, and it will take thousands of years for it to return.
Heres an interesting article about it. SE is 10 thousand times the threat that terrorism, or global warming will ever be, yet most people have not even heard of it.
The could be our "near extinction" event.
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Population will be controlled naturally. I predict that by the end of this century there will only be about 1/2 a billion people left. And the real killer is not something people even talk about. Within the next hundred years there will be no farming, and no crops because we will run out of dirt about 60 years from now.
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Reverting to a posture of economic isolationism with china is not in the cards. This ship sailed about 30 years ago. Investigating political interference, sounds nice...the problem whoever did the investigating would be people that are in on all this.
It would be like expecting the fox to fix the holes in your chicken coup. He wont do a very good job because he likes the holes and wants to eat the chickens.
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6 minutes ago, ?Impact said:
There were 68 unmatched residency graduates from Canadian medical schools this year (yes it is the highest in recent years), not the 1000s you suggest. You are talking about International medical graduates, not Canadian or American. Note that the largest number of unfilled positions (over 95%) is for family medicine, that is because the students want to specialize and there are limited positions for their specialities. If more wanted to be family doctors, then we would have no problem at all. I am not sure where you get your information from, I generally go to an official source and not someone with an agenda.
All the details can be found here (pages 48-51 are most relevant):
Yes I'm talking about foreign doctors who come here and pass our exams... and still cant practice.
QuoteLast year approximately 2000 foreign trained doctors applied for residency positions. They were able to apply for the residency positions only after they got pass standing in the required examinations. Among them approximately 350 doctors got their desired residency positions.
Again... there's about 10 thousand such doctors in Canada right now, and again these doctors all passed or in some cases aced our medical exams.
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On 12/1/2017 at 1:07 PM, ?Impact said:
I thought anyone that graduated from a Canadian or American medical school almost automatically got a residency. I know there is a problem with other foreign medical school graduates, but that is because they didn't pass our medical exams (including language exams). Now limits on places in a Canadian medical school is a different issue.
Incorrect. Thousands of doctors PASS our medical exams and still wait years for residency, many eventually just give up. The doctor shortage is manufactured by doctors to drive up their own wages.
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The whole public vs private aspect of the healthcare debate is really besides the point. You could have a good system using either or both.
The real problems with our medical system....
1. Conflict of interest / Protectionism
Trade unions masquerading as associates, not only negotiate doctors salaries with each province, but they control much of the certification/standards regime. This is a blatant conflict of interest, and these organizations have an intrinsic interest in create artificial scarcity because it improves their negotiating position with the provinces. We have a chronic shortage a family doctors even though there are hundreds/thousands of doctors that have passed our medical exams. They are simply prevented from practicing.3. Our proximity to the US
We are a tiny market next to a large market, that has a system specifically designed to price-gouge patients to enrich investors and doctors. This drives up costs.3. Trade Policy / Globalism
This is probably the biggest one. Most workers face competition in some way from foreigners in developing markets. Their wages are pretty much stagnant. People like doctors and teachers though face much less competition due not only to successful and organized attempts to protect themselves from competition, but from logistics as well. The result is that the people facing competition, are having a harder and harder time buying services from the people that don't. Medical services, and education are increasing in cost from 5 to 10% annually because of this.Juggling around who the "payer" is (public or private) will do nothing to fix any of this. Costs in markets that use both methods are escalating. Everywhere.
Wanna fix it? Flood the market with doctors. Theres 10's of thousands of good doctors around the world that would love to practice in Canada for 100k. Identify them, and fast track accreditation, and certification. Force our doctors to compete with them.
Castrate the medical associations, and make it so the organizations that negotiate wages and salaries, are totally separate from the ones that control standards and certification.
Fund more residency slots so that all the doctors that ARE here working.
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4 hours ago, Goddess said:
How do we do that?
I dont have all the answers. But I do know, that while the problem is worse muslim households right now, patriarchy is not a muslim problem. Millions of woman live in male dominated homes, and are subject to abuse, pressure, etc. I guess women need to keep fighting for equality, and we should help them in any way we can. Support structures, education, laws, etc.
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On 11/13/2017 at 12:55 PM, Boges said:
So you'd support public schools saying that Women covering their faces is a bad thing?
I would support efforts to empower muslim women to make whatever personal choices they want, and to join us in shrugging off patriarchy.
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3 hours ago, PIK said:
Tell us 70% of canadians are sick and tired of having a sick and tired religion forced onto us. So eyeball, why do you hate women so much? Something happen while you were young?
If womens rights is an issue here the answer is definitely not to use the state as fassion policy and ban them from wearing certain garments. Instead we should spend that money on education, and empowering muslim women.
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7 hours ago, Army Guy said:
But it is hard to take Dialamah studies with a grain of salt when the most wanted list as published on that date and previous dates is over 75% immigrants charged with serious crimes. when it should be filled with white faces.....
Again... mind boggling. This is basic k-12 math... those lists represent a sample that is so small its completely useless to draw conclusions from. All you have shown is that you are not equipped to provide useful commentary on this issue. Even if those lists were 100% immigrants it would indicate nothing about the crime and immigrant population as a whole, and you should have known why in about Grade 9.
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3 hours ago, Argus said:
Disagree. Companies can go out of business and do all the time because, while profitable, they are not profitable ENOUGH. By way of comparison. I can invest my money in Company A, which will return 10% profit per year, or Company B, which returns 3% profits per year. If I can't get a higher return from Company B I will close it down and invest my money in Company A.
The link between changes in tax policy and economic growth is tenuous based on the data available... even non-existant. GNP growth is not correlated with shifts in tax policy at all, in fact some of the strongest growth in GNP has happened during periods of high taxation.
Year Real GDP growth Effective rate on capital income Statutory rate 1947 -0.9% 38.0% 1948 4.3% 38.0% 1949 -0.5% 38.0% 1950 8.4% 42.0% 1951 7.5% 50.8% 1952 3.8% 52.0% 1953 4.5% 52.0% 1954 -0.6% 58.0% 52.0% 1955 7.0% 44.0% 52.0% 1956 2.0% 46.0% 52.0% 1957 2.0% 48.0% 52.0% 1958 -0.9% 47.0% 52.0% 1959 6.9% 45.0% 52.0% 1960 2.4% 42.0% 52.0% 1961 2.3% 42.0% 52.0% 1962 5.9% 35.0% 52.0% 1963 4.3% 34.0% 52.0% 1964 5.6% 31.0% 50.0% 1965 6.2% 29.0% 48.0% 1966 6.3% 30.0% 52.8% 1967 2.5% 33.0% 52.8% 1968 4.7% 37.0% 52.8% 1969 3.1% 45.0% 52.8% 1970 0.2% 42.0% 49.2% 1971 3.3% 38.0% 48.0% 1972 5.2% 38.0% 48.0% 1973 5.6% 38.0% 48.0% 1974 -0.6% 42.0% 48.0% 1975 -0.2% 44.0% 48.0% 1976 5.2% 40.0% 48.0% 1977 4.5% 40.0% 48.0% 1978 5.4% 46.0% 48.0% 1979 3.1% 45.0% 46.0% 1980 -0.3% 48.0% 46.0% 1981 2.5% 38.0% 46.0% 1982 -2.0% 35.0% 46.0% 1983 4.4% 34.0% 46.0% 1984 6.9% 33.0% 46.0% 1985 4.1% 33.0% 46.0% 1986 3.4% 33.0% 46.0% 1987 3.1% 33.0% 40.0% 1988 4.0% 33.0% 34.0% 1989 3.5% 33.0% 34.0% 1990 1.9% 31.0% 34.0% 1991 -0.2% 30.0% 34.0% 1992 3.3% 30.0% 34.0% 1993 2.8% 31.0% 35.0% 1994 4.0% 30.0% 35.0% 1995 2.5% 31.0% 35.0% 1996 3.7% 31.0% 35.0% 1997 4.4% 31.0% 35.0% 1998 4.3% 30.0% 35.0% 1999 4.7% 30.0% 35.0% 2000 4.1% 31.0% 35.0% 2001 1.1% 30.0% 35.0% 2002 1.8% 29.0% 35.0% 2003 2.5% 23.0% 35.0% 2004 3.4% 26.0% 35.0% 2005 3.0% 30.0% 35.0% 2006 2.6% 35.0% 2007 1.9% 35.0% 2008 -0.3% 35.0% 2009 -3.5% 35.0% 2010 3.0% 35.0% QuoteThe top statutory corporate tax rate has been falling since the early 1950s. The top corporate tax rate was 52 percent throughout the Eisenhower administration—17 percentage points higher than the current top rate of 35 percent. U.S. GDP grew by almost 4 percent annually in the 1950s compared with a 1.8 percent growth rate in the 2000s. On the surface, it would appear that more robust economic growth is associated with higher corporate tax rates. Further analysis, however, finds no evidence that either the statutory top corporate tax rate or the effective marginal tax rate on capital income is correlated with real GDP growth.
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5 hours ago, SpankyMcFarland said:
It's very disappointing to see that. I know the medical associations ran a big campaign across Canada to organize opposition to these proposals and it seems to have borne fruit.
The medical associations should be castrated anyways. They are behind most of our healthcare woes.
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5 hours ago, eyeball said:
The truly rich are those who have the most influence on/over people in power. We could tax their money but the real trick is to somehow place a tax on their influence. That's what I'm into taking away the most from the truly rich and redistributing to the people.
I don't think you can "fix" it though. Change will come once the fact we are really an oligarchy becomes so blatant that we burn it all to the ground and start again from scratch. Unfortunately that will take a while, because they are able to keep the illusion that the system works for "the people" by borrowing vast sums of money from people that are not even alive yet.
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7 hours ago, Bonam said:
Par for the course. The safeguards that Western governments and institutions are supposed to have against corruption and nepotism are breaking down, mostly as a result of partisanship (i.e. a Liberal partisan will reflexively defend the Liberals regardless of if they have acted improperly, same with a Trump supporter defending Trump, etc) and apathy (people just don't care enough to push for these kinds of things to be properly investigated and guilty parties punished).
We have been had. Its the citizens that are supposed to keep the government honest, but we have bought their little left vs right charade hook line and sinker. No matter what any government does now we will just be partisan hacks like the guy that started this thread and most of the other people here.
Died in the wool partisans (both liberal and conservative) would still stand by their parties and leaders even if they got caught red handed in high def video ass raping a small child. They would say "ya but so and so is worse"... or "the source of the ass raping video is not credible).
Its pretty awesome if you think about. Philosophers have been trying to figure out how to game democracy for hundreds of years... they finally figured out all they had to do was trump up fake enemies and turn us against each other by convincing us that ideology and the retarded culture war are whats important.
We get exactly the kind of government we deserve, and to be honest its great to see us starting to get punished for our stupidity. Sometimes pain is the only way to learn.
Last laugh will be on them though... because once corrupt career politicians and their financial and industrial elite buddies have finished stealing everything, they will get dragged from their estates and cut into little pieces.
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On 9/27/2017 at 4:15 AM, ZenOps said:
If North Korea used nukes as a first strike, they would probably use the full compliment of sixty maybe 100 that they probably now have ready. In about a year, they will probably have enough to mini-nuke every city in the USA if they wanted to do small scale nuclear bombardment. Arguably this would be the primary scenario if Kim Jong were assassinated (maximize death say greater than 35 million nuke retaliation)
The coastal cities would be relatively easy to hit if they used a LORAL type cargo ship with mobile launcher (doable today) but its not impossible that the primary goal would be one gigantic very high altitude EMP smack in the Middle of the USA, or one on each coast to maximize the number of eyeballs as a show of power.
I think the likelyhood of such a strike is extremely low. What much more likely is that they want nukes to make sure they don't get sacked like fellow "axis of evil" member, Iraq did.
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On 10/4/2017 at 8:23 AM, taxme said:
I have been noticing lately that most corporate commercials and Hollywood comedy type shows always appear to want to keep showing us all about the joys of the Caucasian gay lifestyle and interracial marriage. What I mean is that most commercials and Hollywood always push scenes of two white male or female homosexuals holding hands or kissing and living together but one never sees any scenes of two non-white homosexuals holding hands and kissing and living together. Why is that?
Also, corporate commercials and Hollywood will always only show scenes of a white interracial couple but never scenes of two non-white interracial couples. Why is that?
Personally, is this just another way of the sickos out there whom are trying to convince white people that it is great to be a gay white male or female and being married to another gay white person or that it is great for a white person to be married to a non-white person. Why is that?
They never seem to want to show two black or Asian gay men or women hooked up together in a gay relationship scene or show a non-white person hooked up in a interracial scene with another non-white. Why is that.
Is there something that I am missing here? Any comments on this?
I challenge your entire claim? "Most Commercials" ????
QuoteBeing a betting man, I would say that this is just another form of brainwashing in order to try and genocide the Caucasian race.
Oh jesus... just never mind.
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On 10/9/2017 at 10:45 AM, Army Guy said:
No, and that's my bad for suggesting you did....how ever you did use those studies to counter argus comments., and my examples show a much different tune..
Your examples show nothing at all. It boggles the mind that any educated adult would use top x lists as evidence to make assertions about a large population.
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On 11/2/2003 at 7:13 AM, Craig Read said:
Incredible. You actually believe that the US would have been better off to do the following:
-Not fight in WW1 and WW2
-Not fight the Cold War [the Russians loved their children too according to that great political analyst Mr. Sting]
-Not fight to liberate Kuwait
-Not fight to liberate Kosovo
-Not fight the war on terror
-Allow fascist regimes to terrorise their citizens and the world community at large
-Allow China to dominate the Asian world militarily
The US should have fought WW1 and WW2, they just shouldn't have waited so long.
The cold war was a colossal waste, and both the Russians and Americans are too blame.
They only fought to liberate Kuwait after they green lighted Sadams invasion.
In Kosovo they actually liberated a terrorist army (the KLA)
They help and sponsor fascist regimes, dictatorships, autocracies, etc.
The war on Terror has been by all objective measures a massive failure.
The US has funded China's military buildup, by being its biggest customer.
At the end of the day, while there's no question that the US has been a hugely positive influence on the world, it is mostly through the development and export of life improving technologies. Its military adventures are at BEST a mixed bag.
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2 hours ago, Argus said:
Your Muslim relatives are not evidence of anything but your own bias.
Like I said, Donald Trump is honest compared to you.
Yes, his knowledge of a small group of immigrants is anecdotal... but so is this entire thread. And you are absolutely the last person to point fingers over this kind of thing. Christ... I just read a thread where you were using "top ten most wanted" lists
to support your assertion that immigrants increase crime rates. You are CAPTAIN anecdote.
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On 10/1/2017 at 3:01 PM, betsy said:
The man responsible for the Edmonton terror attack was in the process of making a refugee claim.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/terrorism-attempted-murder-charges-pending-in-edmonton-attack-1.3614259
What does this say about our screening process? Why is a refugee so easily radicalized? Aren't refugees supposed to be running from ISIS or Al Qaeda?
How can we trust the screening process for refugee claimants? Why is he still in Canada?
You have to look at the immigration population as a whole... and not wretch and jerk at the knees over what is probably anecdote. I have never seen any information showing that immigrants commit murder or other violent crimes at a higher rate than the general population. And overall the murder rate is falling regardless of immigration policy.
That's not a reason to not strengthen the screening process, but policy should not be formulated based on reactionism from irrational people like you.
Spending on ANYTHING that's meant to keep us "safe" is basic risk management. Insurance adjusters should decide where money gets spent... people that understand risk management. Otherwise we will misallocate funds like the trillions spent on the counter-productive GWOT.
You have done precisely nothing to show the screening process is deficient.
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On 10/6/2017 at 4:24 PM, OftenWrong said:
Their rationale for removing the children from reserves was to save them from slow death by starvation and disease.
No, that's just flat out false. The goal was forced assimilation, and forcing natives to act "white".
Sir John A Macdonald...
2 hours ago, hot enough said:“When the school is on the reserve, the child lives with its parents, who are savages, and though he may learn to read and write, his habits and training mode of thought are Indian. He is simply a savage who can read and write. It has been strongly impressed upon myself, as head of the Department, that Indian children should be withdrawn as much as possible from the parental influence, and the only way to do that would be to put them in central training industrial schools where they will acquire the habits and modes of thought of white men."
And John A Macdonald again...
Quote"The great aim of our legislation has been to do away with the tribal system and assimilate the Indian people in all respects with the other inhabitants of the Dominion as speedily as they are fit to change.”
And Duncan Scott, minister of Indian affairs... 1910.
QuoteIt is readily acknowledged that Indian children lose their natural resistance to illness by habitating so closely in these schools, and that they die at a much higher rate than in their villages. But this alone does not justify a change in the policy of this Department, which is being geared towards the final solution of our Indian Problem.
The last quote illustrates the silliness of your claim. The government of Canada knew full well that it was destroying the lives of many natives they just didnt care. They wanted a final solution to the Indian problem. They wanted to eradicate their culture, and make them act white, plain and simple. It had nothing at all to do with helping natives or native children.
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"The liberal press"
ROFLMAO
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56 minutes ago, Moonlight Graham said:
I say trade with virtually everyone, just don't be a jerk about it.
Problem with that is that if you want open and free markets, consumer ethics is the only real regulation. So you reward the practices of those you patronize. Would you buy a shirt from a pedophile instead of someone else because its a buck cheaper?
Trade should be used as a foreign policy tool... its really the only card the western world has left to play. If everyone thought like that we would have lost the cold war because we would have made the USSR filthy rich buying cheap stuff made by slaves in gulags.
Jerusalem is Israel's Capital...
in The Rest of the World
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Here's a bit of history about the "jewish state" demand. It has never been a pre-requisite to peace until 2007. In fact before then it was never even MENTIONED by Israel in negotiations with ANY of its Arab neighbors, including Egypt and Jordan.
Its just a blatant attempt to make a two state solution even less possible, and to make sure Conflict: Dirtfarm Holyland continues as per status quo.