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To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (1043273)	12/15/2017 4:48:12 PM
From: FJB	Respond to of 1583764

TECH INDUSTRY CEO: ‘POLITICAL CORRECTNESS IS KILLING SILICON VALLEY’ by JAMES DELINGPOLE There is now more freedom of speech in Beijing than in the San Francisco Bay area — and this could kill the Silicon Valley tech industry. While right-wing commentators have been saying this for years, it’s extremely unusual to hear it from the lips of a Silicon Valley tech guru as impeccably liberal as Sam Altman. Altman, influential and respected CEO of Y Combinator — an accelerator program for Silicon Valley start-ups — has triggered outrage in the tech community for having dared to suggest that political correctness has gotten so bad that it threatens to destroy their business model. cont...

To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (1043273)	1/2/2018 9:21:18 AM
From: RetiredNow	3 Recommendations Recommended By Mick Mørmøny PKRBKR Taro Respond to of 1583764

Very true. Well, here's one thing I think we get. We have finally laid down the marker to the crazy assed Middle East Muslims, that we are not their friends. It's about time we stopped being mealy mouthed about that. They don't share our values and we need to be very clear we will not make moral equivalencies. The price we will pay is that the hostilities will get worse. I hope we're prepared for that. I think mostly in economic terms and that's why I like peace. We're so indebted that we simply cannot afford more war. If I were President, I'd look for a way to bring a 20 year peace about, so that we can focus on rebuilding our economy, paying down the debt, and refocusing our armed forces towards economic and cyber warfare, while maintaining a quick strike strategic capability, including robots, and a strong, modernized deterrent nuclear capability. Economic warfare should be our focus. I think most Americans have forgotten that military supremacy is completely dependent on economic supremacy...and we're losing our wealth and strategic economic advantage to China VERY fast. Just because they have 1 billion people doesn't mean we can't win at economics. We CAN, but we need to have a government focused on partnering with business to win our economic wars. For the last 8 years, we have had a government that was openly hostile to business. Right now, 80% of Americans are unfavorable to openly hostile to business. Trump is a friend to businesses but he business CEOs are lukewarm or openly hostile to him. We have a GIANT f__ng problem here in the US. If we don't fix our business/government partnership, then we will lose our economic advantage, our wealth, and what prosperity there is left. Then all the problems of the middle and lower earners in this country will multiply out of control until Socialism is ushered in with a Bernie-like candidate and then all hell will break loose. We may even slide towards a Venezuela-like outcome. Socialism is a country killer. Even China figured that out. They now have a Politburo controlled Oligarchic-Capitalism to replace their former Communist-Socialist model. Russia replaced their Communist-Socialist model with Dictatorship controlled Oligarchic-Capitalism. So our two biggest competitors realized Socialism killed their competitiveness against the US, back when we were a well functioning Republic controlled Capitalist country. Now, we have the idiots in this country moving us towards Socialism, which every damned country in the world has figured out is an economic system that DOESN'T WORK, and yet, we're going to try it again here? WAKE UP AMERICA! It's 2018! Read your history books!

To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (1043273)	4/29/2018 5:03:08 PM
From: FJB	1 Recommendation Recommended By THE WATSONYOUTH Respond to of 1583764

Saudi Crown Prince: Palestinians should take what the U.S. offers. “In a closed-door meeting with heads of Jewish organizations in New York on March 27th, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) gave harsh criticism of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), according to an Israeli foreign ministry cable sent by a diplomat from the Israeli consulate in New York, as well three sources — Israeli and American — who were briefed about the meeting. The bottom line of the crown prince’s criticism: Palestinian leadership needs to finally take the proposals it gets from the U.S. or stop complaining.” Plus: “He made clear the Palestinian issue was not a top priority for the Saudi government or Saudi public opinion. MBS said Saudi Arabia ‘has much more urgent and important issues to deal with’ like confronting Iran’s influence in the region. . . . A source who was briefed on the meeting told me the attendees were stunned when they heard the Saudi Crown Prince comments on the Palestinian issue. ‘People literally fell off their chairs,’ the source said.” Amazing that this took a month to leak, but it says volumes about how America’s mideast diplomacy has changed things. And reportedly it was Jared Kushner who got the Crown Prince on board. Posted at 4:03 pm by Glenn Reynolds April 29, 2018 pjmedia.com