#2
Then they are not a 'university' or 'college', just a business and should be treated as such for taxes and assets (nice endowment you got there, we'll send the auditors over for valuation).
#3
Berkeley won't provide security, so the people once again will. And now, all eyes are on Berkeley. Should be a fun day
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#4
I think the free speech event is scheduled for after regular students have left campus for the semester, so the number of useful idiots available for rioting will be reduced.
Lost in all the hype over the pr0n star who was punched in the face at a Berkeley free speech rally last week was that she had a glass bottle in her possession. Apparently Antifa people have been telling their operatives to bring glass bottles and M-80 firecrackers to rallies. The idea is to put the firework into the bottle and throw it so the detonation sprays broken glass onto their targets.
Other thinking is that the combination is a provocation to get those at the rally, either protesters or kops to bring out their firearms. What this accomplishes is anyone's guess. Maybe Antifa wants a real sh*t show for their enemies.
Somewhat amusingly, kops in Alabama ordered Antifa demonstraters to remove their masks. Apparently in Alabama as in some other states, laws were passed in the 1920s to deal with Ku Klux Klan rallies when the Klan was on the rise nationwide. Those laws forbid public gatherings in which protesters are masked.
Oklahoma's threatened to use their law against criminal gangs in the early 1990s when they started gathering in the streets wearing masks, but as far as I know no one was actually charged. The criminal gangs were simply warned that a law passed 70 years earlier to deal with the Ku Klux Klan would be used against them. Their enthusiasm for wearing masks, as I understand it, quietly evaporated.
While this particular incident is not amusing, it does show that people, even in high tax, high regulation Massachusetts are tired of their rights being violated by politicians and their police.
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#1
The Mayor of Berkeley Jesse Arreguin is a member of the branch of AntiFA "By Any Means Necessary" that coordinated the violent attacks on events at Berkeley. He is also friends with Yvette Falarco who has been investigated by the FBI. In one event the violent group Yvette Falarco leads inflicted serious injuries to at least 10 people who were hospitalized with stab wounds.
#2
In Massachusetts, the local constabulary in Cohasset revoked a firearms permit and then moved to seize a total of 100 privately owned firearms. The activity is proudly displayed on the police website. The police never expected the severe backlash against them.
Another set of public officials who played that game in Massachusetts literally started a revolution. The Left is great in wiping out the learning process history.
#4
Antifa people have been telling their operatives to bring glass bottles and M-80 firecrackers to rallies. The idea is to put the firework into the bottle and throw it so the detonation sprays broken glass onto their targets. ...is a provocation to get those at the rally, either protesters or kops to bring out their firearms. What this accomplishes is anyone's guess.
Recruiting cadres to carry out full scale terror attacks.
[Daily Caller] Gen. Michael Hayden destroyed Russia during a CNN interview Wednesday night, calling the country "pathetic" and "by far the weaker power."
When Erin Burnett asked the former director of the National Security Agency if President Trump’s aggressions toward Russia make war more likely, Hayden had some harsh words for the wannabe superpower.
Hayden further criticized Russia for flying "1950, early 60s era" bombers off the coast of Alaska, calling the move "pathetic."
"You know what that is a bit, Erin? That’s a little pathetic," Hayden taunted. "That used to be cool in the 1960s, and if that’s what the Russians can now mount as a way to tickle us...wow."
"The Russians really don’t want to go to war with us," Hayden said. "They are by far the weaker power."
"Look, great opportunity for training for our Alaskan air forces," he added with a chuckle.
[Twitchy] Tucker Carlson, in his last show before he takes over the 8:00 p.m. timeslot on Monday, took on Rachel Maddow and MSNBC over a report that aired Thursday night that linked the violence gripping Venezuela to donations from state oil giant Citgo to the Trump inauguration:
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[American Thinker] In its ongoing effort to counter Steve Bannon's influence in the White House, the New York Times recently ran a piece essentially ridiculing Bannon's for his admiration of The Fourth Turning (1997) by William Strauss and Neil Howe.
As is the Times' MO, instead of addressing the substance articulated in The Fourth Turning, it dismisses the authors as 'amateur historians' and writes that their thesis is provocative and disputed.
Well, yes, The Fourth Turning theory of history is provocative. And it certainly is disputed by those who are presently warmly ensconced in today's establishment as well as their paid mouthpieces, for reasons that will soon become evident. But disapproval from the status quo doesn't mean Strauss and Howe are wrong. Quite the contrary. As for me, I find their arguments and analysis very compelling.
For those not familiar with the Fourth Turning, it takes a cyclical view of history. This is not based on the movement of the planets and stars but human nature and how people view things differently based on what generation they are in.
In a nutshell, the argument of Strauss and Howe is that as history moves in eighty to a one hundred year cycles. Within this saeculum cycle, there are four distinct turnings. The authors define a turning as "an era with a characteristic social mood, a new twist on how people feel about themselves and their nation. It results from the aging of the generational constellations. A society enters a turning every twenty years or so, when all living generations begin to enter their next phase of life."
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#3
The NYTs criticizes the two authors as amateur historians. The Times also says the authors present a provocative but disputed theory of history. The often disputed newspaper does not offer any alternative explanation of historical events.
#5
I haven't read Strauss & Howe's 'The Fourth Turning,' but I did read their 'Generations' and within broad limits I think they make some good points.
[Daily Caller] Billionaire businessman Marc Cuban insists that the H-1B visa racket is a feature of the vaunted American free market. This is nonsense on stilts. It can’t go unchallenged.
Another billionaire, our president, has ordered that the H-1B program be reformed. This, too, is disappointing. You’ll see why.
First, let’s correct Mr. Cuban: America has not a free economy, but a mixed-economy. State and markets are intertwined. Trade, including trade in labor, is not free; it’s regulated to the hilt. If anything, the labyrinth of work visas is an example of a fascistic government-business cartel in operation.
The H-1B permit, in particular, is part of that state-sponsored visa system. The primary H-1B hogs--Infosys (and another eight, sister Indian firms), Microsoft, and Intel--import labor with what are grants of government privilege. Duly, the corporations that hog H-1Bs act like incorrigibly corrupt rent seekers. Not only do they get to replace the American worker, but they get to do so at his expense.
#2
Or limit H1-B visas to only lawyers, investment bankers and politicians.
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It's not understood how important the bonded labor aspect of H1B visas is. You normally can't bond workers under a common law principle that goes back to the Middle Ages - you cannot prevent someone plying their trade.
In IT, skill sets change rapidly and training is expensive. Companies are reluctant to hire and train people, as their value in the marketplace rises substantially and they leave for better pay.
#4
This is a complicated problem with no easy answers.
There are more reasons than "corporate greed" for the lack of Americans going into STEM fields and for lack of STEM jobs for the native born. The general decay of America's morality and work ethic, the desire of the native born to have easy, metric-free and anxiety-free jobs working for the government, and the desire of many of the smart ones to make their living in areas like finance etc. are all factors that are at least as important in creating this mess.
A dim understanding of how economics works factors in also. No matter how well trained or skilled you are for a task, if there's tons of people who are also, your pay grade WILL go down. Supply and demand.
The overall trend in the West for the public to overprice the actual value of their labor and to use unions and government to extract those expectations from employers comes into play as well.
The hyperregulatory monster that has reduced small business formation to its lowest level since the republic was founded is a factor in all this also.
None of these things, of course, justify abuse of the H1B system. But simply banning H1B isn't going to solve our problems by itself.
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Companies are reluctant to hire and train people, as their value in the marketplace rises substantially and they leave for better pay.
Yes, the Depart. of Defense does it annually. Been doing for many generations. However, DoD gets them to sign a contract for 'X' years of service. Business don't want to do that as they treat employees as liabilities not assets. So they bitch and moan and pay off Congresscritters to flood the market with labor that is as cheap as possible. Some southerns had the same attitude about cheap labor too prior to the 20th Century.
It's a start to a self inflicted wound. The program has been going full blast since the late 80s, that's decades of depressed labor value. Business has had literally generations to grow their own. Why bother when you can bribe pols to betray their own people. You'll never attract people in the numbers to go STEM as long as you keep labor down.
To paraphrase the Rev. Jackson, its amazing how a people who claim to be poor, malnourished, and oppressed can field so many athletes earning hundreds of thousands and millions so disproportionately to their numbers in the society. Incentive.
#7
To paraphrase the Rev. Jackson, its amazing how a people who claim to be poor, malnourished, and oppressed can field so many athletes earning hundreds of thousands and millions so disproportionately to their numbers in the society.
I call BS. Mumbles Jackson has never said anything that coherent or true
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Actually, he did way back when. You'd be surprised what he did say when the mics were tucked away and the press wasn't around and he wasn't selling the guilt trip. Like, its not white boys sneaking into window at night making the teenager sisters pregnant in the community.
#9
Corporations want cheap, third world labor while enjoying all the benefits of operating in the USA. Let them move their sorry asses to India: lock, stock and barrel, CEOs and board members too. Let them deal with third world red tape, infrastructure and corruption. They can build their mansions in Bombay instead of Redwood City. Then they can pay tariffs when they try to sell their bloatware in this country.
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#10
A few observations:
During the dot.com boom the tech companies had a difficult time keeping their workers because a techie could park in one lot on a Friday and on Monday park in the lot across the street with a raise in pay.
So of course businesses are going to find any recourse available and abuse the heck out of it.
I also have several friends who came here from India on visas, became citizens, and make more money than I do. They are still bemused that I am not in some way really angry about this (because Indians in India would be). However, they are older now and their skills have eroded. They aren't as marketable now. They Master's degrees that are only 20 years old. The only reason they have their jobs is that they have been working on the same setup at the same company for so long that no young folks could decipher it and it's too expensive to switch to a new system.
There is no shortage of American citizens in STEM. That's a myth promulgated by Infosys, MS, and Intel to keep the H-1B program loose. But there is no doubt that STEM programs are largely populated by Asians and more now than in the past.
It's becoming more common that coding and technical knowledge are just a part of the skill set any Millennial has to have, like being able to read and write, math, etc. For generation, GenX, taking typing and BASIC coding in HS were electives. Now they are requirements, or should be.
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During the dot.com boom the tech companies had a difficult time keeping their workers because a techie could park in one lot on a Friday and on Monday park in the lot across the street with a raise in pay.
Nothing stopped the companies from contracting their employees other than the hire/fire process usually costs much more.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Hardly the 'outrage of the week.' I give that to FOX for ousting O'Reilly and promoting Beckel and Williams.
