Hey YouTube it's me Spotty!
Hope you're all doing great!
Today, I'm bringing you guys the 3 most important things that you need to know if
you're looking to buy the Yan Cheng Yan 3.
So getting right into it, number 1.
This cube has a pretty painful break in process and it doesn't perform that well until you
put some TLC into it.
Out of the box this puzzle performs pretty well (?) but there's some really unbearable
catching that occurs, which makes solving on it not that pleasant.
Now lubing and tensioning will, but not by much.
What you really need is some serious breaking in.
The catches I experienced didn't start to go away until I put at least 300 or so solves
into it which normally isn't that hard to do.
It takes some time but the issue that I had with this particular cube is that while breaking
it in, I wasn't able to get my normal times on it and overall my solves were really inconsistent.
So on top of the catches, this made breaking in the puzzle even more tedious and just not
enjoyable whatsoever.
So if you're looking to pick up this puzzle then just keep in mind that this cube doesn't
'get good' until you put some time and solves into it.
Okay, number 2.
The Yan 3 is nothing spectacular or revolutionary, but great nonetheless after breaking in.
And for the performance you are getting, the price is really quite nice especially compared
to some other puzzles that have been released recently like the Valk 3 or Gans Air which
can normally be found from around $15 - $20 US depending on the store you pick these up
from.
The Yan 3 can be bought for less than 11 at Cubezz which isn't a huge difference but
if you're looking for a very comparable option and wouldn't mind saving a couple
dollars then the Yan 3 is something you might want to look into.
And last but not least, number 3.
The feel.
Now no review would be complete without going over the feel because this is one of the largest
factors that nowdays would make you lean from one cube to another.
Now the feel of this cube is kinda strange.
It's smooth when turning slow but if you go a bit faster then the feeling is more crispy
and crunchy as well.
The turning all round is also really light and airy which I know a lot of people like.
(Cube noise) So overall, the Yan 3 is an interesting puzzle.
It has a painful break in process but otherwise very good performance especially for the price
you're paying.
This cube isn't going to become my main because I prefer the feeling of my Valk3 but
I wouldn't be surprised if quite a few people do switch.
If you are interested in picking up this puzzle then I will leave a link to it down below.
But, that just about wraps up this video.
Thanks to Cubezz for helping me get my hands on this puzzle, thank you guys for watching
and I will catch you all soon!
For more infomation >> 3 Things You NEED to Know About the Yan 3! - Duration: 2:46.-------------------------------------------
Surviving an ISIS Truck Bomb in Mosul | Battle for Iraq | FRONTLINE - Duration: 4:20.
>> NARRATOR: A local family has
agreed to let Ghaith and the
soldiers spend the night in
their house.
They are a mile back from the
front line, and feel safe.
But they're wrong.
The war is about to come to
them.
>> ABDUL-AHAD: I wake up early
in the morning.
I went outside to the street.
And I saw the soldier across
the street from me, and he
shouted, "Mufakhkhakha!
Mufakhkhakha!"
"Car bomb, car bomb!"
This is the other entrance of
the building.
>> Yes.
Get it quickly.
(gunshots)
>> NARRATOR: An ISIS truck bomb
has exploded a few feet in
front of the house where Ghaith
and the soldiers spent the
night.
The house has collapsed.
Ghaith immediately starts
filming.
He finds the soldier who warned
him.
(gunfire)
>> NARRATOR: ISIS gunmen are now
trying to pick off the soldiers,
who fire back.
>> ABDUL-AHAD: We were in the
middle of this huge scene of
carnage.
Everything is this dark, black,
grey, mixture of concrete and
burnt plastic, puddles of water,
debris, burnt Humvees.
Then the civilians start
emerging from the collapsed
houses.
>> NARRATOR: Ghaith's colleague
and producer, Josh Baker, has
dug himself out of the rubble.
He will later discover he has a
fractured spine.
(children crying)
>> NARRATOR: No soldiers have
been killed.
The civilians have borne the
brunt of the attack.
Several are feared dead under
the debris.
Those that survived are now
homeless.
(gunfire in background)
>> NARRATOR: The soldiers think
the attack was meant to kill
"Steel," Lieutenant Colonel
Munthadar.
>> ABDUL-AHAD: I think that day,
we realized the complexity of
the battle.
The civilians are still there.
This is a battle happening
between two enemies on a land
inhabited by the civilians.
No one knows how many civilians
have been killed in this battle
of Mosul, not even the
government of Iraq.
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[Eng Sub] BTS Jin - this is how you attract a girl 방탄소년단 진 이성 호감 기가막힌 발성 - Duration: 0:53.
From my teacher,
I learned a vocalization method that'll appeal to a girl.
(Jin to show an already prepared idol's charm. Taking a new turn)
JM: I've never seen this before.
(An idol getting warmed up to show his charm) (revving up the engine)
(Anticipation building up) (Admiration explodes as he warms up)
AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
(Is that the "head voice" we've only heard of?) V: Is he using his head voice?
AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
V: The head voice that falls back?!
Ah.. Ah.. Ah.. Ah.. Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!
(Wonderful! Amazing! Beautiful!)
(The catastrophe caused by the burden of a skit)
(Literature Boy's unending tears)
RM: There's a transfer student in the next room!
(They go out without a second of hesitation)
(Collecting everything, taking back what has given)
(Let's never do a skit again...)
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This Is Not Happening - Lavell Crawford - White-Girl Day Camp - Uncensored - Duration: 9:52.
-And one thing a white girl could do
that just blew my mind?
She could put her hair behind her ear.
That just...
Oh, my God!
[dark electronic music]
♪
[man roars]
[both snarling]
[dark electronic music]
♪
[man grunting]
[gunshots]
[dark electronic music]
[zombie growls]
[gun cocks]
[zombie growls]
[gunshot]
♪
-An absolutely hilarious comic.
I'm so lucky to have him here.
You guys are gonna love him.
Please give it up for Lavell Crawford, everybody.
Let him hear it.
♪
- Hell yeah, I'll tell you a story about me drowning.
Uh, yes, I drowned. I literally drowned.
And the audience is like, "Wow, that's amazing,
"you being so large and buoyant.
You--how would you drown?"
Well, it was-- it was when I was smaller,
if you can believe it.
I was a little younger. I was a kid.
I was in this day camp at this little day care
where, you know, they-- my mom, it was free,
so she put me in the day care.
We up there with these little stupid-ass kids,
and we was like 11 and 12, so he was--
I used to beat them up
and take the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, you know,
and our counselor, she was, you know,
she was--she smoked weed.
She was a-- she was a whore.
You know what I'm saying?
She was nasty, and she didn't know what to do with us.
We didn't have no arts and crafts or nothing.
She didn't do shit with us.
We just hung out, playing--
making up our own games, man--
"Kiss me, you can finger me."
You know, them little--
And that got old after a while
and they ran out of hand soap,
so that--that--
that wasn't gonna be a fun night, you know.
You know, but I-- when I--
And this--this day camp was in a, uh,
you know, predominantly, you know,
suburb--may I say, you know,
like it is in here, more whites than blacks,
you know, and-- and I used to live in the hood,
you know, and when I got around white people,
there was a lot of things that was different.
White people have season passes to Six Flags,
and they could go a bunch of times.
But the main thing was the white girls.
That threw me for a loop.
I had never seen a white girl before.
I had never seen nobody named Rebecca or Samantha
or Elizabeth, you know?
I--I was around Lakeeshas and Sharondas.
You know what I'm saying?
You know, Chiquita, you know, that was my girls,
and when I seen Elizabeth, man, oh, my God.
She was cute, she had red hair,
and her cheeks were, like, rosy like a cartoon,
like Charlie Brown, you know.
Little Charlie Brown girl you had a crush on back in the day.
Her cheeks was red.
And one thing a white girl could do
that just blew my mind?
She could put her hair behind her ear.
That just...
Oh, my God!
That was so sexy to me!
I was like, holy shit!
Do that again, Elizabeth.
She's like, "What are you talking about?"
Oh, man, I was--
I'd break out in a cold sweat. I could--
I was in love with her from--
from that day on.
I followed her everywhere.
"Please put your hair behind your ears for me.
Just for the day."
"Lavell, I'm sick of doing this for you."
Oh!
And--and this little-- little girl
that was from my neighborhood, her name was Shakeesha.
She couldn't stand me 'cause she loved me.
She was--had a crush on me,
but she was mad 'cause I liked Elizabeth.
She went to the day camp too.
"Why you like that little ugly white girl?
Why you like that ugly white girl?"
I said "First of all, watch your damn mouth
"around my white woman, all right?
"You're being highly disrespectful.
"Second of all, Shakeesha,
can you put your hair behind your ear? Huh?"
She said, "Yeah, I can."
She tried, and it popped out,
and she tried again, it popped out.
I said, "I ain't got no more fucking time for you,
all right?"
She said, "Let me get some hair oil."
Fuck that, I ain't got no time!
If you can't do it on your own, you don't
need to do it at all.
So, one--you know, one day, we was at day camp,
and we was trying to--
we were supposed to go to a-- a--you know,
go do something with the counselor,
and she couldn't find out nothing to do,
but she wanted to see her boyfriend.
I heard her on the phone talking to him.
"I'm gonna come over, Robert.
"I'm gonna see if I can get away.
I'm gonna bring the kids over and let 'em go swimming."
I heard her say it, and I was like,
fuck it, I'll go swimming,
if you gonna take us swimming.
You know, kids love to swim, you know.
I don't--I couldn't swim. I'm black.
We don't swim. You know, black kids don't swim.
We learned later after one of our friends died,
we'd learn how to swim.
You know? And we--
This is black swimming: when we're at three feet,
we walking on the water, like,
whoa, look at me, I'm swimming, player!
We just go over and put our foot on the deep--
ooh, shit, I almost got in there!
And that's how-- that's how black--
that's how black pool parties are.
We don't go in the deep shit.
We jump off the diving board close to the side and get out.
If somebody try to push you, "Bitch, I'll fuck you up,
"if you push me again.
Stop playing. I just got my hair done."
But we--we don't-- we don't swim.
But I wanted to go, and she said, "Hey, guys,
"I'm gonna take you over to my apartment complex,
but you can't tell anybody where we're going."
'Cause she wasn't supposed to take us
away from, you know, the day care center.
We wasn't supposed to leave the premises,
but she doing some foul shit.
She said--we went over there.
She didn't even watch-- she watched us for five minutes.
We was unsupervised.
All these 11, 12 years old, all by ourself.
And it was cool 'cause I was trying
to get up on Beth anyway,
so, you know, we jump in the water.
I had on my little Aquaman, uh, swim shorts.
They tight up-- a little tight up in my crotch.
You know, I'm ready to get out there
and follow Beth around the pool.
She was cool as long was we was in, you know, three feet,
but Beth was trying to get away from me.
Apparently she wasn't as into me as I thought she was.
But I was like, "What's wrong, Beth?
"Come on, baby. Slow down.
Put your hair behind your ear and let's talk."
You know, and she kept going, "Leave me alone,"
and she just started floating, and I'm following her,
you know, and I'm mesmermized by her beauty, you know.
Her--the hair behind her ears just have me hip--
hypmatized, and I'm-- I'm following her
all the way over there, and then I noticed
that I wasn't paying attention.
I'm still walking under the water,
but the water over my damn nose.
But I kept walking with her.
Next thing you know, she took off like a feather.
Just floating across the water, 'cause she white.
They know how to swim.
She swam real well, like a damn mermaid.
And I went under the damn water.
I didn't know what-- I'm under the water.
Bloop! I'm sitting around like...
This is weird.
Why ain't I floating like Beth?
I don't know what I can do
to get up on the water like Beth,
and man, this is weird,
because I don't know why
I can't breathe now.
And I'm under there, "This is bullshit!"
I'm gonna... [sputtering].
And I didn't know what to do.
I was trying to get up,
but I couldn't get up, I couldn't get up.
Next thing you know, I've disappeared.
In my mind, I was gone,
and all I dreamed about is white women
just leaving me all over the place.
And when I woke up,
I'm laying on the side of the pool.
The camp counselor, she freaking out, like,
"Oh, shit, I'm gonna lose my fucking job."
Fuck me. Hell with me.
She didn't care if I was alive or not.
She worried about her job 'cause she wasn't even there.
She was over there, probably doing some ungodly shit
with her boyfriend,
smelling like marijuana.
And the paramedic's trying to give me mouth-to-mouth,
which, that woke me up, 'cause
you ain't gonna put your lips on me
and I don't know you.
I came through, and I threw up.
I had died--they said I was unconscious for ten minutes.
I was dead! I died!
And I'm sitting there, like, damn,
I--I died?
And Beth? Where is Beth?
Beth's stinking ass had went home with her parents.
They had sent everybody home, and she left me.
That dirty bitch.
And after that, I didn't like
white girls never again.
I went back to Shakeesha.
I said, "Shakeesha,
"I don't care if you can't put your hair behind your ears.
"Can you swim?
"Fuck swimming.
You gonna be my boo for life."
That's my story. [applause]
♪♪
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Camp Sunshine | part 2 The boiler room - Duration: 8:34.
hey everyone welcome back to camp
sunshine now when we left off in the last
episode we bounced because uh now we've
got markiplier dead here and our stabby
bear friend happened to come in the
cabin here with us and I really feel
like hanging out with him so get out
here anyway right bloody couch but I'm
ya know we have no time to sit down jump
into the TV but i'm more interested in
chucky over here let's follow Chucky a
little bit that's friend till the end
remember to do that I don't want to be
friends with you even on facebook you
know I need to get our Terms get out
here
alright well of course I'm gonna step on
the stick and making more noise see
where now
ok we're going to the boiler we're going
to you are but Lee Ji what are you doing
here
they found a quarter ok let's go hide up
here really hope the little bear guy
does not find us think okay I think
we're all right now
frog house huh we don't want any of
these animal buildings are for yet
ok it's done oh you're not dead oh maybe
are now started all right where am i
okay butters right up here I talk
telling you might memory garba hey dude
you're alive yeah you do your job and
like locked the door by chance to worry
of course your star wasn't there
stabbing people going to fix your fix
the border do your job
ok could be that the door is a glued
shut with modern old bunch of blood
oh yeah I'm so willing to go down there
and do your job for you
all right fine fine i guess I'm gonna
have to do your job for you fine
reset button ok figure this out i go
look yeah yeah yeah alright let me down
in there
alright everyone do your job for you
dude there's the boiler oh ok let me
guess since these are different colored
valve will be down here
oh I don't know doing a puzzle which i'm
really not super good at but that's okay
no biggie there I guess
all right take care maybe you can help
me quick
all right fine fine whatever I'll do
this on my own and I'll show you the
brand
alright so we got a valve that opens up
let's see where this goes
okay okay maybe this isn't going to be
the heart of a club maybe not just as I
say something i'm sure the public is way
harder now
ok so we have to do the closely do that
ok now that I've wander around the
sewers for a couple of hours i think
it's finally figured out the puzzle so
let's see if we are actually going to be
able to restart that stupid boiler now
we get the hell out of here i'm tired
too small and poop probably smell like
poop too after all this garbage
yeah me neither that's how i fix things
I just hit all right yeah let's
definitely get that diary page again is
there anything else we need to do they
think so
alright let's go upstairs and tell the
guy that we did its job for my lazy
bastard
Oh
he was so amazed with our work that he
lost his head of you didn't you get a
lot not walk in the door I told you I
don't want to be digging food out of a
dead guy's pocket because you don't know
how sanitary that is really yeah yeah i
mean come on it's head doesn't have
anything in it shit
oh hey look how that's pretty Kruger
stuff that's pretty great okay so i'm
really enjoying the different core
references this game ad that's pretty
great
alright so we got to go back up to that
girl on the map and the left okay let's
hope we don't run into our candy bar
friend again cuz that guy's a bastard
and I don't really want to kill him
anymore he seems like he's pretty quick
too
so who knows where are we
let's just go up towards the lake and
follow the lake because you know that
never nothing bad ever happens in these
slasher movies when you know you're just
kind of hanging out in the dark by a
lake and open up and look at that
happens right there we go
yeah i wish i could run further but I
swear like the character has the
endurance of a paraplegic quadriplegic
even better
she's alright we're almost there i think
i think is it yet
sure is alright she's gonna be dead now
or no
ah nope not you're welcome
hey you know what that is somebody's
life that you're talking about it could
be amazing
this is horrible because she they're not
from the Toronto family
neighborhood Oh died during childbirth
Oh almost being ugly ugly kid
well you know sometimes the truth hurts
to even the nurses right by it
what the health still tough luck man
that's likely why would I give
childbirth definitely don't need to deal
with i'm sure you're just gonna have to
bind Isaac
maybe cuz i don't even open yet i don't
know you do bordeaux like a little bit
of time to open their hearts
okay okay so since the hospital bracelet
and yellow guessing that maybe include
we need to find ya
I don't make it sticks out because it's
yellow everything else the white
oh man that the funeral ego is very
spur-of-the-moment or she the total
picture will be like
you know what I think I'm
yeah built-up luck dude normal italia
children so are you going to raise Isaac
the killer or was looking forward to
kill her i'm getting that light in the
connected
knowing trouble goddammit one of the
river kids get away from that great you
don't need a brave on it said okay so we
got the next page there how do we do
lets you know what we've made some
pretty good progress let's see if if we
can't save and we I think i'm going to
save the game here and probably call it
an episode community will go ahead and
organize your shoes the barrel come in
here and organizer organized
alphabetically
anyway thanks for watching everyone if
you enjoyed the video give it a like
share it and subscribe so i'll see you
guys in the next episode of camp
sunshine
take care everyone
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U S World Population Control Programme Revealed – War and Famine - Duration: 8:17.
U.S. World Population Control Programme Revealed � War and Famine.
by Edward Morgan.
In researching for another report TruePublica unearthed a database dating back to the mid
1990�s and although quite widely publicised some years ago, provides astonishing insight
into how dangerous American foreign policy has developed over the decades.
This particular article appeared as part of a feature in the December 8, 1995 issue of
Executive Intelligence Review, and was circuclated extensively by the Schiller Insitute Food
for Peace Movement entitled: �Who Is Responsible for the World Food Shortage?�
The article quotes from a classified report and summizes that a plan, formulated by Henry
Kissinger was adopted by the US administration in the 1970�s under President Gerald Ford
to use population control methods in regions around the world where threats to their own
economic or political power was likely emerging.
The article, now over twenty years old, explains in detail the plan to starve millions and
keep many countries in a cycle of perpetual emerging nation status through famine or war
or both.
At the base of the article we have included more links as supporting evidence to Joseph
Breda�s 1995 article and attached former World Bank staff Peter Koenig�s latest piece
on Washington�s �Financial Genocide� of India.
Kissinger�s 1974 Plan for Food Control Genocide by Joseph Brewda
Dec. 8, 1995
On Dec. 10, 1974, the U.S. National Security Council under Henry Kissinger completed a
classified 200-page study, �National Security Study Memorandum 200: Implications of Worldwide
Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests.� The study falsely claimed that
population growth in the so-called Lesser Developed Countries (LDCs) was a grave threat
to U.S. national security.
Adopted as official policy in November 1975 by President Gerald Ford, NSSM 200 outlined
a covert plan to reduce population growth in those countries through birth control,
and also, implicitly, war and famine.
Brent Scowcroft, who had by then replaced Kissinger as national security adviser (the
same post Scowcroft was to hold in the Bush administration), was put in charge of implementing
the plan.
CIA Director George Bush was ordered to assist Scowcroft, as were the secretaries of state,
treasury, defense, and agriculture.
The bogus arguments that Kissinger advanced were not original.
One of his major sources was the Royal Commission on Population, which King George VI had created
in 1944 �to consider what measures should be taken in the national interest to influence
the future trend of population.� The commission found that Britain was gravely threatened
by population growth in its colonies, since �a populous country has decided advantages
over a sparsely-populated one for industrial production.� The combined effects of increasing
population and industrialization in its colonies, it warned, �might be decisive in its effects
on the prestige and influence of the West,� especially effecting �military strength
and security.� NSSM 200 similarly concluded that the United
States was threatened by population growth in the former colonial sector.
It paid special attention to 13 �key countries� in which the United States had a �special
political and strategic interest�: India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Indonesia, Thailand,
the Philippines, Turkey, Nigeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia.
It claimed that population growth in those states was especially worrisome, since it
would quickly increase their relative political, economic, and military strength.
For example, Nigeria: �Already the most populous country on the continent, with an
estimated 55 million people in 1970, Nigeria�s population by the end of this century is projected
to number 135 million.
This suggests a growing political and strategic role for Nigeria, at least in Africa.� Or
Brazil: �Brazil clearly dominated the continent demographically.� The study warned of a
�growing power status for Brazil in Latin America and on the world scene over the next
25 years.�
Food as a weapon
There were several measures that Kissinger advocated to deal with this alleged threat,
most prominently, birth control and related population-reduction programs.
He also warned that �population growth rates are likely to increase appreciably before
they begin to decline,� even if such measures were adopted.
A second measure was curtailing food supplies to targetted states, in part to force compliance
with birth control policies: �There is also some established precedent for taking account
of family planning performance in appraisal of assistance requirements by AID [U.S. Agency
for International Development] and consultative groups.
Since population growth is a major determinant of increases in food demand, allocation of
scarce PL 480 resources should take account of what steps a country is taking in population
control as well as food production.
In these sensitive relations, however, it is important in style as well as substance
to avoid the appearance of coercion.�
�Mandatory programs may be needed and we should be considering these possibilities
now,� the document continued, adding, �Would food be considered an instrument of national
power?
� Is the U.S. prepared to accept food rationing to help people who can�t/won�t control
their population growth?�
Kissinger also predicted a return of famines that could make exclusive reliance on birth
control programs unnecessary.
�Rapid population growth and lagging food production in developing countries, together
with the sharp deterioration in the global food situation in 1972 and 1973, have raised
serious concerns about the ability of the world to feed itself adequately over the next
quarter of century and beyond,� he reported.
The cause of that coming food deficit was not natural, however, but was a result of
western financial policy: �Capital investments for irrigation and infrastucture and the organization
requirements for continuous improvements in agricultural yields may be beyond the financial
and administrative capacity of many LDCs.
For some of the areas under heaviest population pressure, there is little or no prospect for
foreign exchange earnings to cover constantly increasingly imports of food.�
�It is questionable,� Kissinger gloated, �whether aid donor countries will be prepared
to provide the sort of massive food aid called for by the import projections on a long-term
continuing basis.� Consequently, �large-scale famine of a kind not experienced for several
decades�a kind the world thought had been permanently banished,� was foreseeable�famine,
which has indeed come to pass.
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hitler is a gut - Duration: 0:20.
it's time to stop
why the fuck do you care you fucking black man
no more gas
where are youre kids
who are youre kids
i am going to call your mom gay
it's time to died
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GORBACHEV 'IT ALL LOOKS AS IF THE WORLD IS PREPARING FOR WAR' - Duration: 7:10.
GORBACHEV: �IT ALL LOOKS AS IF THE WORLD IS PREPARING FOR WAR�
by Darius Shahtahmasebi.
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announced on Thursday of this week that the Doomsday
Clock now stands at two-and-a-half minutes to midnight.
This spine-tingling announcement suggests that existential threats now pose a greater
threat to humanity than they have at any time since the height of the Cold War.
�This is the closest to midnight the Doomsday Clock has ever been in the lifetime of almost
everyone in this room.
It�s been 64 years since it was closer,� said Lawrence Krauss, a theoretical physicist
at Arizona State University and the chair of the Bulletin�s board of sponsors.
Now is the time to panic � or not, depending on your level of resolve (or apathy).
Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union and author of The New Russia,
wrote an article published in TIME Magazine entitled �It All Looks as if the World Is
Preparing For War.� In the article, Gorbachev notes:
�Today, however, the nuclear threat once again seems real.
Relations between the great powers have been going from bad to worse for several years
now.
The advocates for arms build-up and the military-industrial complex are rubbing their hands.�
Gorbachev is not overstating the threat of global warfare.
In an interview with Prism magazine, retired Army General Stanley McChrystal issued two
warnings that, as noted by Foreign Policy magazine, are �hair-raising� to say the
least.
�A European war is not unthinkable,� McChrystal explained.
�People who want to believe that a war in Europe is not possible might be in for a surprise.
We have to acknowledge great power politics; we can�t pretend that they are gone.�
McChrystal admits the U.S. made vital mistakes in speedily invading Afghanistan and Iraq,
as well as �paying a high price� in Syria.
As he has observed: �In the case of Afghanistan, immediately
after 9/11, in terms of military action we should have done nothing initially.
I now believe we should have taken the first year after 9/11 and sent 10,000 young Americans�military,
civilians, diplomats�to language school; Pashtu, Dari, Arabic.
We should have started to build up the capacity we didn�t have.
I would have spent that year with diplomats traveling the world as the aggrieved party,�
McChrystal stated.
Now that the world is headed down the path toward a possible world war, McChrystal acknowledges
the unthinkable is to follow: the erosion of our civil liberties, which will directly
impact on ordinary civilians.
�We are beginning an era in which our ability to leverage technology to track people and
control populations is going to create a lot of tension; I think we are going to see a
lot more population control measures.
We are going to have to give up a lot more of our precious civil rights than most of
us imagine because we want security,� McChrystal added.
Speaking to Republican policymakers in Philadelphia, U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May stated that
Britain and the U.S. will no longer invade sovereign foreign nations �in an attempt
to make the world in their own image.� Such an ambiguous statement makes it unclear whether
this means Britain and the U.S. will still invade sovereign nations for other reasons,
especially in light of May�s statement that �nor can we afford to stand idly by when
the threat is real and when it is in our own interests to intervene.�
What May�s address really symbolizes is that the U.K. will still continue to follow
the U.S. hand-in-hand, as has been the case for decades.
This can be seen most clearly in the events following Donald Trump�s calls to focus
more on ISIS as opposed to Assad in Syria.
Britain�s answer to Donald Trump in the form of Foreign Minister Boris Johnson followed
suit, stating it is �better sometimes to have a tyrant than not to have a ruler at
all.� Not surprisingly, as a result of her comments
and commitment to the U.S.-U.K alliance, May just secured �100% support� for NATO from
President Trump.
Instead of focusing on Assad in Syria, as Obama and former prime minister, David Cameron
did, May made it clear the U.K. and U.S.� renewed focus is on this recently adopted
approach to foreign policy: Iran.
May stated that pushing back on �Iran�s aggressive efforts� to increase its �arc
of influence from Tehran through to the Mediterranean� was a �priority.�
Essentially, despite May�s rhetoric, nothing will actually change in practice.
War is still a reality; it just might take place in a different theater.
As a result, it is no surprise that the U.K. and the U.S. have been the most staunch backers
of the Saudi-led brutal assault on Yemen, as it is argued a Houthi-led government in
Yemen could align itself with Iran, creating an Iranian-influenced adversary on Riyadh�s
doorstep.
It should also be noted that Iran is bound to Syria by a mutual defense agreement.
Russia and China have made it abundantly clear they will not tolerate any attack on Syria
or Iran, as evidenced by Russia�s decision to overtly intervene in the Syrian war in
2015.
Further, Iran may eventually join the Eurasian security bloc, placing the Islamic Republic
into a direct alliance with nuclear powers Russia and China.
In turn, the U.K. and the U.S. are surrounding Russia with troops, missiles, tanks, and everything
in between.
Does this sound like the actions of two countries that will no longer invade sovereign nations
to shape the world in their image?
There is no way around this delicate issue other than to completely dismantle the world�s
current system of war.
As noted by Forbes: �However, there is more to averting nuclear
holocaust than having a robust strategic force.
The U.S. needs to avoid getting into non-nuclear conflicts and crises that could escalate to
the nuclear level.
Eastern Europe is the place where such a scenario is most likely to unfold, because since the
Cold War ended, the U.S. has extended security guarantees to former Soviet republics and
satellites that lie close to the Russian heartland.� Gorbachev himself has acknowledged this chilling
fact and offered his vast experience in this area.
The whole world should heed his words: �In modern world, wars must be outlawed,
because none of the global problems we are facing can be resolved by war � not poverty,
nor the environment, migration, population growth, or shortages of resources.� [emphasis
added]
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Why The Cold War Between Tech CEOs and Trump Is About To Go Nuclear.
by Tyler Durden.
Over the weekend, openly defiant CEOs, particularly among the tech sector, expressed their displeasure
with Trump's Friday executive order temporarily banning refugees and limiting travel from
seven Muslim countries, with both words and deeds, among which the following (summary
courtesy of Axios):
VCs funding the ACLU: Several venture capitalists, as well as a few entrepreneurs, took turns
soliciting donations to the American Civil Liberties Union through social media and personally
matching those donations.
Airbnb volunteers to help provide housing for impacted immigrants: The home-sharing
company said that it will work with travelers and organizations to provide housing for those
impacted by the executive order, whether through volunteer hosts or by funding housing.
Lyft and Uber commit millions of dollars to legal aid: On Sunday, Lyft said it will donate
$1 million to the ACLU over the next four years.
Later in the day, Uber said it will create a $3 million legal defense fund for impacted
drivers, as well as provide legal assistance and compensate their lost wages.
Google is setting up a $2 million crisis fund: The search giant has set up a fund that will
donate to the American Civil Liberties Union, Immigrant Legal Resource Center, International
Rescue Committee, and UNHCR.
On Monday morning, former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, speaking in an interview with
Bloomberg Television, said that he is �gratified� by what he heard from the tech community.
�As global businesses, they have a huge stake in the United States being a nation
of the Statue of Liberty rather than being a nation of refugee camps.� He added that
�they have a huge stake in the United States supporting an open and tolerant global system,
they have that stake for their employees, their customers, they have it for the reputation
of the United States and they have spoken out.�
Donald Trump sitting down with tech CEOs during less turbulent times.
That may be, but the biggest reason for the anger by tech CEOs at the Trump administration
is a simple, and a more selfish one.
The reason for the simmering cold war between tech CEOs and Trump can be summarized in just
three letters: H1-B. The bottom line is that tech CEOs fear Trump will single them out
for outsourcing jobs or shut down the so-called H-1B visa program they use to hire high-skilled
foreign employees for crucial engineering and technical jobs.
And, as Axios adds, White House officials say they are right to be nervous, especially
about changes to the visa program.
Chief strategist Steve Bannon and policy chief Stephen Miller are known to be deeply skeptical
of the program, and will have a strong, vocal ally when Jeff Sessions gets confirmed as
Attorney General.
Some further observations:
Trump's mixed messages: On the campaign trail, he promised to "end forever the use of H-1B
as a cheap labor program."
He later signaled in a meeting with tech leaders that he's most concerned about companies misusing
the visas to displace lower-wage American workers.
How it works: Visas are capped at 65,000 a year, with 20,000 additional visas for foreign
workers with master's degrees.
The demand for the visas is so high that the cap is usually exceeded within a few days
of the application window opening.
The visas are distributed to companies through a lottery system.
Tech companies such as Microsoft, Google, IBM, Cisco, Apple, Intel and Facebook say
the visas are crucial for specialized jobs they can't fill domestically because of a
shortage of American graduates with the right technical skills.
When CEOs spoke out over the weekend about the ban, they pointed out the importance of
allowing the "best and brightest" to work in the U.S.
* * *
Which is why if a news report about Trump's next imminent executive order is accurate,
the simmering cold war between the tech CEOs and Trump is about to nuclear.
Bloomberg reports that the Trump administration has drafted an executive order aimed at overhauling
the work-visa programs technology companies depend on to hire tens of thousands of employees
each year.
If implemented, the reforms could force wholesale changes at India companies such as Infosys
Ltd. and Wipro Ltd., and shift the way American companies like Microsoft Corp., Amazon.com
Inc. and Apple Inc. recruit talent.
Companies would have to try to hire American first and if they recruit foreign workers,
priority would be given to the most highly paid.
The draft of Trump�s executive order covers an alphabet soup of visa programs, including
H-1B, L-1, E-2 and B1.
The first is a popular program with technology companies and is aimed at allowing them to
bring in high-skill workers when they can�t find local hires with the appropriate skills.
The legislation caps the number of people who can enter the U.S. annually at 85,000,
including those with undergrad and master�s degrees.
The average salary of an H-1B worker at Apple is reportedly more than $100k.
�Our country�s immigration policies should be designed and implemented to serve, first
and foremost, the U.S. national interest,� the draft proposal reads, according to a copy
reviewed by Bloomberg.
�Visa programs for foreign workers � should be administered in a manner that protects
the civil rights of American workers and current lawful residents, and that prioritizes the
protection of American workers -- our forgotten working people -- and the jobs they hold.�
The foreign work visas were originally established to help U.S. companies recruit from abroad
when they couldn�t find qualified local workers.
But in recent years, there have been allegations the programs have been abused to bring in
cheaper workers from overseas to fill jobs that otherwise may go to Americans.
The top recipients of the H-1B visas are outsourcers, primarily from India, who run the technology
departments of large corporations with largely imported staff.
�If firms are using the program for cheap labor, I think it will affect them and they
will have to pay workers more,� said Ron Hira, an associate professor at Howard University.
�If tech firms are using the program for specialized labor, they may find there are
more visas available.�
The Trump administration did not respond to a request for comment on the draft.
The proposal is consistent with the president�s public comments on pushing companies to add
more jobs to the U.S., from auto manufacturing to technology.
It�s not clear how much force the executive order would have if it is signed by the president.
Congress is also working on visa reforms and the parties will have to cooperate to pass
new laws.
Zoe Lofgren, a Democratic congresswoman from California, introduced a bill last week to
tighten requirements for the H-1B work visa program.
"My legislation refocuses the H-1B program to its original intent � to seek out and
find the best and brightest from around the world, and to supplement the U.S. workforce
with talented, highly-paid, and highly-skilled workers,� Lofgren said in a statement.
Meanwhile, as Bloomberg adds, India�s technology companies, led by Tata Consultancy Services
Ltd, Infosys and Wipro, have argued they are helping corporations become more competitive
by handling their technology operations with specialized staff.
They also contend the visa programs allow them to keep jobs in the U.S. and that if
they have to pay more for staff, they will handle more of the work remotely from less
expensive markets like India.
Trump, however, see things differently.
�Inspections and investigations in the past have shown no cases of wrongdoing by Indian
IT services companies, which have always been fully compliant with the law,� said R Chandrashekhar,
president of Nasscom, the trade group for India�s information technology sector.
�The industry is open to any kind of checks in the system, but they should not cause any
hindrance to the smooth operation of companies.
The proposed Trump order is also aimed at bringing more transparency to the program.
It calls for publishing reports with basic statistics on who uses the immigration programs
within one month of the end of the government�s fiscal year.
The Obama Administration had scaled back the information available on the programs and
required Freedom of Information Act requests for some data.
Whatever specific changes are implemented, they are likely to add to the expenses for
India�s technology companies.
That may accelerate a shift to new kinds of services, such as cloud computing and artificial
intelligence, said Raja Lahiri, partner at the Mumbai-based partner at consultancy Grant
Thornton India �The visa challenges are not going to go
away easily,� he said.
�They will continue to be a challenge for Indian IT companies.�
But while the pain for India will be acute, it will be Silicon Valley that may be most
impacted, as suddenly its favorite source of cheap, skilled labor is eliminated.
How it will responds remains to be seen.
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