>>5354704

I would demand they be fired if they weren't.

>>5354872

The history of MLP on halfchan is testament to the need for infinitychan. Before half became edgy reddit with all of their attempts at censorship, it was the extreme censorship of MLP related posts on /b/ that triggered a war against censorship on half.

>>5354892

They got rid of Hangouts and +, and are consolidating most of this into something they are marketing as a "business tool." The goal is something like facebook meets linked-in meets hangouts so that a person can integrate their profile with their employers to manage business flow, calendars, etc.

While that would be rather convenient, it is, perhaps, more terrifying than Windows 10.

>>5354969

Operation Ajax, anon. You should put that into a search engine.

Ajax stabilized the region long enough to install Khomeni, who has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood - in other words, CIA/MI6.

Iran is to the middle east what North Korea is to Asia.

The expansion of Shiite and Sunni muslim militants in the region may have been genuine on the part of the grunts on the ground - but the funding for it and planning was all part of a political agenda leveraged by our "freinds" in the intelligence agencies.

>>5355095

It's a bit convoluted.

We are basically shunting off agricultural derivatives to China to help stabilize their economy, if I had to run with my gut.

Normally, the U.S. floods the third world with food. The third world farmers turn to drug production because aid programs and warlord politics make it almost impossible to make an honest living growing food - not to mention morals/ethics in the third world don't place as much weight on the subject of drugs. Those companies in the second and third world countries who do grow food do so to sell it into American markets where our market prices run circles around third world market prices.

Basically - aid programs by the U.S. destroy profit motive for food production. China is providing us a place to offload derivative contracts and excess production (relative to our market standards) while also giving them food to throw at their population, which is feeling the crunch of manufacturing declines and other issues.

Civilization is only three meals from anarchy.

>>5355266

Praise the sun.

>>5355313

No single deal is going to fix the manufacturing environment.

Of course, the problem isn't so much "what China has done" as it is the willingness of people who manage-by-spreadsheet to compete for stock share holders over consumer value.

When the consumer market is largely captive, then the principle of capitalism will actually invert under certain situations to compete for stock value - profit margin - over business volume or market price. The banker buys a business not to make a product, but to extract revenue - which is why he will choose to outsource to China in a heartbeat.