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Best of the Web: The H-1B visa war exposes a deeply American problem

Tarik Cyril Amar
RT
Thu, 02 Jan 2025 18:56 UTC

The Musk-Bannon bust-up shows US elites are still far from even understanding their country's real problems.

To paraphrase the American film classic, 'The Big Lebowski', say what you will about Trumpism but at least it's neither united nor dull.

US uber-oligarch Elon Musk, recently promoted to President-elect Donald Trump's "first buddy," has used his very own X platform to tell other Trump supporters to "take a big step back and F**K YOURSELF in the face" (fully spelled out in the original). The designated co-leader of a new Department of Government Efficiency, Musk also threatened to "go to war" with a ferocity beyond what we, mere mortals, can comprehend.

Using a rival social media platform, American far-right nationalist guru as well as former Trump first buddy Stephen Bannon reacted by calling Musk a "man-child" and "toddler" in need of "child services." For good measure, he also denounced him as, in effect, a coward who "punches down" instead of fighting guys his own size or bigger.

Comment: The potential is there. Figure it out.

Best of the Web: Lunatic accused of shoving random commuter into path of NYC subway is charged with attempted murder

Joe Marino and Anna Young
NY Post
Tue, 31 Dec 2024 15:31 UTC

The maniac accused of randomly pushing a Big Apple straphanger onto Manhattan subway tracks Tuesday afternoon was charged with attempted murder, cops said.

Kamel Hawkins, 23, was also charged with second-degree assault after he allegedly shoved a complete stranger onto the tracks at the 18th Street station shortly after 1:30 p.m., according to police.

The terrifying ordeal, which was captured on chilling video footage obtained by The Post, showed the hooded brute roaming the edge of the platform while the victim appeared to be looking at his phone as the train pulled into the station.

Without warning, the suspect pushed the man onto the tracks, with the unsuspecting straphanger disappearing under the train.

Flashback Best of the Web: 20 establishment figures 'in elite paedophile ring' abused children for decades while actions were covered up

Matthew Holehouse
The Telegraph
Tue, 08 Jul 2014 15:21 UTC

Judges, peers and MPs are among 20 prominent public figures who abused children for decades, a former child protection manager has said.

Peter McKelvie, who worked on the conviction of paedophile Peter Righton, said there was a "powerful elite" of paedophiles who carried out "the worst form" of abuse.

There is evidence linking the former politicians to an alleged paedophile network, he said.

Lord Warner, the former health minister, said the allegations were credible.

Mr McKelvie triggered a police investigation in 2012 when he revealed there were seven boxes of potential evidence of a powerful paedophile network, including letters between Righton and other paedophiles, being stored by West Mercia Police.

Best of the Web: 'Man-Made Virus, Watch Millions Die Biggest Profit Of Their Lives. Here's Inflation, That's Your Prize': Striking Anthem Of Our Time

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Fri, 03 Jan 2025 15:14 UTC

Australian medical doctor and independent artist Iyah May has released a new track titled "Karmageddon," which sheds light on the harsh realities of Twitter wars, political division, media manipulation, out-of-control inflation, Covid bioweapon, Dr. Fauci, and corporate greed. The song reflects the turmoil the world has endured over the past five years and might as well serve as a striking anthem of our time.

Flashback Best of the Web: Rotherham rape scandal: UK gov't covers up rape of hundreds of girls

Mohammad Kazemi
Tehran Times
Wed, 01 May 2024 08:54 UTC

She was a fifteen-year-old English girl whose life had been turned into a living hell by a group of criminals. Her home was being attacked, her family members were being physically assaulted and kidnapped, and on top of all she had been repeatedly raped at the hands of a grooming gang.

In a sane world the police and justice system would have come to her help and punished those responsible for her and her family's suffering, but that is not what happened. The British police had a higher priority than saving girls like her from rape. their main priority at the time was preserving the state's ideals of "diversity" and "inclusion", so when they learned that the men responsible for her situation were foreign immigrants, her case was quickly swept under the rug, and her suffering was allowed to continue. This was a fate she shared with hundreds of other young British girls, some as young as 11, in the city of Rotherham, a community of about a hundred thousand people.

For many years these defenseless girls were made victims of the city's vicious grooming gangs, and were subjected to rape, prostitution, and drug trafficking. But the way the British law enforcement dealt with these grooming gangs was just as appalling, for it is now known that for many years the police deliberately allowed the activities of these gangs to continue purely for ideological concerns.

Comment: This is heartbreaking. The universe relies on balance, and such deep injustice and evil will eventually force reality to collapse and then to transform. When the truth is silenced, and evil thrives, the weight of suffering will demand change.

Humanity can make these changes, or the universe will make them for us. The balance must be established either way. Let's bring the comets and start all over. Maybe some better people will create a better world. This is insane.

Best of the Web: Former NATO Head Jens Stoltenberg Becomes Chair of Bilderberg Group And Munich Security Conference

Charlie Skelton
The Guardian
Wed, 25 Dec 2024 22:17 UTC

Business partners in war and crime

The former head of Nato, Jens Stoltenberg, has been named the new co-chair of the influential Bilderberg Group, which convenes a yearly transatlantic policy conference and has long been the subject of conspiracy theories around the extent of its power to shape global events.

After a turbulent decade at the helm of the alliance's military, Stoltenberg now takes over at its pre-eminent discussion forum: a fiercely private four-day event frequented by prime minsters, EU commissioners, bank bosses, corporate CEOs and intelligence chiefs.

Stoltenberg's first Bilderberg was back in 2002, a few years before his second tenure as Norway's prime minister. His decade as secretary general of Nato saw further visits, and he even gave the keynote speech at the group's Saturday night banquet in Turin in 2018. His appointment as Bilderberg's co-chair cements the group's role at the heart of transatlantic strategy.

Comment: Well well, the stultifying Stoltenberg is moving up in the world.

To think he was Norway's Prime Minister, twice! And a LEFTY one at that!

Look at him now, liquidating millions of lives to enrich himself and his psychopathic friends.

Flashback Best of the Web: How & Why Government, Universities, & Industry Create Domestic Labor Shortages of Scientists & High-Tech Workers

Eric Weinstein
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Tue, 28 Mar 2017 12:50 UTC

scientist, chemist, chemistry, chemistry set, science

Long term labor shortages do not happen naturally in market economies.

Upcoming labor market shortages will devastate Science and Engineering.

This was a mantra heard through much of the 1980s. And yet, the predicted "seller's market" for talent never materialized as unemployment rates actually spiked for newly minted PhDs in technical fields. In fact, most US economists seemed to think that the very idea of labor market shortages hardly made sense in a market economy since wages could simply rise to attract more entrants.

In the late nineties, in the course of research into immigration, I became convinced that our US high skilled immigration policy simply did not add up intellectually. As I studied the situation, it became increasingly clear that the groups purporting to speak for US scientists in Washington DC (e.g. NSF, NAS, AAU, GUIRR) actually viewed themselves as advocates for employers in a labor dispute with working scientists and were focused on undermining scientists' economic bargaining power through labor market intervention and manipulation.

Increasingly the research seemed to show that interventions by government, universities and industry in the US labor market for scientists, especially after the University system stopped growing organically in the early 1970s were exceedingly problematic. By 1998, it was becoming obvious that the real problems of high skilled immigration were actually rather well understood by an entire class of policy actors who were not forthcoming about the levers of policy they were using to influence policy. The NSF/NAS/GUIRR complex appeared to be feigning incompetence by issuing labor market studies that blatantly ignored wages and market dynamics and instead focused on demographics alone.

Comment: It would make sense that the H-1B visa program was originally intended to artificially suppress Ph.D. wages and provide other benefits to US employers since US employers have used it effectively for this purpose. The years since the original writing of this article and the revelations that have come out as a result of the recent X debates have just reinforced Weinstein's proposition and analysis.

Best of the Web: Three dead as massive waves 13 feet high slam Peru, Ecuador and Chile

Yahoo! News
Mon, 30 Dec 2024 11:24 UTC

The waves left many fishing boats and crews stranded at sea.

Three deaths have been blamed on large waves up to 13 feet (four meters) pummeling Ecuador, Chile and Peru, where nearly 100 ports have been closed because of the rough conditions.

Ecuador's secretary for risk management, Jorge Carillo, told a media conference that an "extreme event" was occurring and warned that similar phenomena could be expected in the future.

He added that "unfortunately, we have two deaths, both recorded" in Ecuador's southwestern Manta region.

Another was recorded in Chile, the country's navy said, after a 30-year-old man was found dead at a beach.

Best of the Web: China sanctions US defense firms

RT
Fri, 27 Dec 2024 14:23 UTC

Beijing has placed restrictions on Washington's military assistance to Taiwan, the foreign ministry has said.

Beijing has imposed sanctions on seven US defense companies and their executives in response to Washington's sale of arms to Taiwan in violation of the One-China principle, the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced on Friday.

The move comes after outgoing US President Joe Biden last week authorized a $571.3 million military aid package to Taiwan.

Washington's actions "interfere in China's internal affairs, and undermine China's sovereignty and territorial integrity," the Chinese Foreign Ministry said as it announced the restrictions.

The companies targeted by the sanctions include Insitu Inc., Hudson Technologies Co., Saronic Technologies, Inc., Raytheon Canada, Raytheon Australia, Aerkomm Inc., and Oceaneering International Inc.

The ministry said "relevant senior executives" of the companies had also been blacklisted, without providing any names.

Best of the Web: Another Expert Report Finds Israel Is Committing Genocide - While The West Yawns

Jonathan Cook
Middle East Eye
Tue, 24 Dec 2024 12:29 UTC

Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, and Medecins Sans Frontieres are all agreed. But the Gaza genocide is now just another routine news item, buried on the inside pages

Three separate reports published this month by leading international human rights and medical groups have detailed the same horrifying story: that Israel is well advanced in its genocide of the Palestinian population in Gaza.

Or, to be more accurate, they have confirmed what was already patently clear: that, for the past 14 months, Israel has been slaughtering tens of thousands of Palestinians with indiscriminate munitions, while at the same time gradually starving the survivors to death and denying them access to medical care.

Genocides can happen with gas chambers. Or with machetes. Or they can be carried out with 2,000lb bombs and aid blockades. Genocides rarely look the same. But they are all designed to arrive at the same endpoint: the elimination of a people.

A very well reasoned and thought out article. Valid premises and insights. There is one glaring omission, although it can be seen somewhat between...

Gus

''The U.S. and Israel for some months have been attempting to bring a segment of leaders in Lebanon to accept the task of disarming Hizbullah, as...

Demore

bah! me thinks these will attract meteors! and Fireballs! Hmm, vaguely remember a breakdown of a meteor hitting a smokestack somewhere in the...

FireH20

If the UN is going to demand access to Iran's nuclear stuff, they should do the same to Israhell.

ReRan

So, just how close are we to the cliff? Weeks, months or years?

ReRan

Best of the Web:

Best of the Web: The H-1B visa war exposes a deeply American problem

Best of the Web: Lunatic accused of shoving random commuter into path of NYC subway is charged with attempted murder

Flashback Best of the Web: 20 establishment figures 'in elite paedophile ring' abused children for decades while actions were covered up

Best of the Web: 'Man-Made Virus, Watch Millions Die Biggest Profit Of Their Lives. Here's Inflation, That's Your Prize': Striking Anthem Of Our Time

Flashback Best of the Web: Rotherham rape scandal: UK gov't covers up rape of hundreds of girls

Best of the Web: Former NATO Head Jens Stoltenberg Becomes Chair of Bilderberg Group And Munich Security Conference

Flashback Best of the Web: How & Why Government, Universities, & Industry Create Domestic Labor Shortages of Scientists & High-Tech Workers

Best of the Web: Three dead as massive waves 13 feet high slam Peru, Ecuador and Chile

Best of the Web: China sanctions US defense firms

Best of the Web: Another Expert Report Finds Israel Is Committing Genocide - While The West Yawns

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