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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
A nation with a sovereign currency can never be "broke as shit". It is impossible unless its currency is not accepted in trade by its own people.
edited 28th Sep '15 7:07:14 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Trump goes back to Fox
- or at least, to O'Reilly.
Trump was last interviewed on Fox last Monday. That interview was with Greta Van Susteren. The same night, he assailed other Fox shows, including "The O'Reilly Factor" and "The Kelly File," in a storm of tweets, and kept going on Tuesday. On Wednesday morning, according to Fox, the network canceled his upcoming appearance with O'Reilly. Trump, however, said that's not what happened. He suggested in a tweet that he initiated a boycott. "Fox News has been treating me very unfairly & I have therefore decided that I won't be doing any more Fox shows for the foreseeable future," he wrote.
This was just the latest in a series of tiffs between Trump and Fox. The day after Trump's "boycott" tweet, Trump and Fox News chairman Roger Ailes spoke by phone. Fox said afterward that they "plan to have a meeting" to "discuss their differences of opinion regarding Fox's coverage of Mr. Trump's presidential campaign." The meeting is expected to take place sometime this week, but the date is not known.
Waterboarding is an aggressive technique, slammed by critics as torture, that simulates drowning. It was used by the U.S. under the George W. Bush administration to interrogate detainees. A Senate Intelligence Committee report released last year decried the program of enhanced interrogation — describing in graphic detail how brutal the practices were and how little critical, time-sensitive information it actually produced.
As for working with the NSA as the chief of HP to support the U.S. surveillance program, Fiorina said she felt it was her "duty." "One of the things that I advised the NSA and CIA to do is to be as transparent as possible about as much as possible — because transparency reassures people," Fiorina told Yahoo News. "Intelligence agencies that engage in covert activity need to be very creative about how they can be transparent while not jeopardizing our personnel and sources and methods."
U.S. presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton criticized Chinese President Xi Jinping for co-hosting a summit on women's rights with the United Nations whilst punishing several prominent women's rights activists in his own country. "Xi hosting a meeting on women's rights at the U.N. while persecuting feminists? Shameless," Clinton tweeted Sunday.
Clinton was referring to the cases of five Chinese women activists — Wei Tingting, Wu Rongrong, Li Tingting, Wang Man and Zheng Churan — who were detained in March for campaigning against sexual harassment. Although China released them on bail 37 days later, their ordeal continues. The five women are subject to surveillance for a year, their activities restricted, and police can call them in for questioning at any time. "This shouldn't be a moment of celebration," Wu's lawyer Liang Xiaojun told CNN at the time. "The arbitrary detention and release of these women really shows the backwardness of China's legal system."
At the U.N. summit meeting, Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed to "reaffirm our commitment to gender equality and women's development." It marked the 20th anniversary of the historic Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing in 1995. Xi invoked a famous line from Mao Zedong that "women hold up half the sky" and pledged $10 million to the U.N. agency for women.
"As the Chinese people pursue a happy life, every Chinese woman has the opportunities to excel in life and make their dream come true. China will do more to enhance gender equality as its basic state policy, give play to women's important role as 'half the sky' and support them in realizing their own dreams and aspiration in both career and life," Xi said.
To emphasize China's rising position on the world stage, Xi also promised to help build schooling and health projects for women and girls in developing countries. In programs jointly funded by China and the U.N., China will host women from other parts of the developing world to build skills. "The Chinese women, through their own development, will also play a greater part in global women's movement and make greater contributions to gender equality in the world," Xi said.
According to Chinese media, Li Junhua, Director-General of the Department of International Affairs of the Foreign Ministry, remarked on Sunday that the feminists "were arrested not because they were advancing women's rights but because they broke the law." China Daily quoted him saying that "Chinese women are best judges of their rights" and "some individuals or entities take groundless views, or show a lack of understanding" in what appeared to be a jab at Clinton's comment.
On Weibo, China's version of Twitter, users also joined in on the chatter. One user cited traditional expectations of womanhood and said Clinton "abandoned her grace and self-restraint," her words unbecoming for someone who served both as First Lady and Secretary of State.
However, one of the more popular comments came from "Voices of Feminism," which posted a number of surveys filled out by Chinese women about their satisfaction with the levels of gender equality in their country. It concluded that more than 70% of women were not satisfied. "Hillary said it right," a user commented on the findings. "Shameless, indeed."
Meanwhile, The National People's Congress, China's top legislature, has begun deliberations on its first-ever draft law on domestic violence, reported Xinhua, a state-run news agency. Domestic violence is one of the key issues the five previously-detained activists have protested against — including "performance art"-style demonstrations where they donned wedding gowns splattered in blood.
Clinton, who is making a second run at becoming the U.S.'s first female president, has been a long-time advocate of gender equality. At a 1995 conference in Beijing, as First Lady, Clinton delivered a landmark speech on the violations of women's rights worldwide. Since she announced her run in April, she has made women's rights a cornerstone of her 2016 presidential campaign. "What we are learning around the world is that if women are healthy and educated, their families will flourish," she said in her 1995 speech. "If women are free from violence, their families will flourish."
While she has harsh words for China's track record on gender equality, the U.S. also has significant room for improvement, according to campaigners there. The U.S. Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE) and The Leadership Conference released a separate "shadow report" over the weekend to coincide with the U.N. meeting. Signed by a network of American women's rights groups, the report called on the U.S. to improve its domestic and foreign policies, from banning violent practices such as the "shackling of pregnant women" in prison, to expanding health services for women, immigrants and LGBTQ people, to fully implementing its global development initiatives.
Ever since he won reelection, Obama has done nothing but to aggravate me in the field of foreign policy. Taking the moral highground but doing nothing to change an evil situation is nothing more than meaningless drivel. Avoiding war for its own sake is as dangerous as warmongering. It's not a cut and dry thing, which requires case by case analysis, and he has utterly UTTERLY failed in this regard.
And the sad thing is, none of his potential successors seem any better.
He was like this before the election, what with his failure to rebuild Libya, his infamous red line in Syria, his premature ending of the war in Iraq, and a whole host of other debacle's. On the bright side however, I think Clinton could do a lot better than him. Sanders and the Republicans though would launch us into a dark age in foreign policy that I fear we may never escape. So in conclusion, vote for Hillary, or the country goes the way of ancient Rome
edited 29th Sep '15 4:39:04 AM by JackOLantern1337
I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
edited 29th Sep '15 4:44:48 AM by DrunkenNordmann
We learn from history that we do not learn from historyWhat, back to the "United States is the world's white knight" thing? That ended with the Cold War, guys. Catch up.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"The US doesn't have to be a white knight. It can be a normal nation. But the US likes having it both ways, where it "leads the world" with its condemnations and moral posturing and then conspiciously does nothing. I'd rather Washington call a spade a spade and not interfere period, or be prepared to go full scale. Tired of this half-assed shit. Been tired of it since Bush.
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@Jack- Hilary is just gonna be more of the same.
edited 29th Sep '15 5:13:20 AM by FFShinra

Profit!!!
Look upon my privilege ye mighty and despair.