What would happen if we didn't have foreigners to pick crops? A look at Japan

What a boring account! First, via the Common Agricultural Policy, European agriculture is characterised by outrageous government subsidisation. Billions have routinely been given away to rich land owners. Second, farmers have realised that they can exploit low wage Easten European labour. For example, they get to pay less and also claw back money by offering them accommodation. Third, European productivity is built on unsustainability. Farmers have had much more relaxed controls than industry. Local rivers turn brown through the year because of factory farm excrement. Europeans like to ignore all of this, mind you, and just tut at American chlorinated chicken...

 

Gun related deaths (per 100K population), UK: 0.06
Gun related deaths (per 100K population), US: 4.46

That is, 74 times as much in the US as in the UK.

And jolly old Uncle Sam resembles which country ... ?

 

When LafayetteBis pretends to know about British crime figures, I do also want to go to the supermarket and join the gun purchase queue.

 

Assange is a "sick" man wanted to appear before a Swedish judge for rape.

No more need be said until that trial is held - and we shall see if he's not jailed for that act ...

 

This sickens me. Assange is ill because of the elite attack on his support for media innovation. The Swedish case was dismissed and replaced with accusation over validity of Swedish law.

 

I'm sick & tired of having to repeatedly explain this, over and over again in multiple different threads to people.
What Assange is actually accused of doing would not be regarded as rape in any sane & normal country. We have multiple threads in this forum that go into more detail about this. It is a rather complicated story. Both women who accused him initially did not want to go forward with the accusations, but they were goaded on by a feminist prosecutor. Both the women had previously had consensual sex with him, and at no time did they ever say "no". None of these facts are disputed by anyone (at least anyone who has read up on the details). But the media in the UK and US painted the picture that he was a rapist, which greatly swayed public opinion and made many people apathetic to his plight.

thread with the long and boring tedious details of the story here:
http://www.politicalforum.com/index.php?threads/assange-accusations-in-sweden.566335/

 

Yeah, right! Now you are JUDGE & JURY!

He is wanted by justice in Sweden to respond to claims of rape. Isn't it curious that he has fought all attempts to bring him before a court of law in either the UK or Sweden.

Including placing himself in an embassy so that no legal claim could be presented to him in the UK towards evicting him to Sweden.

Very curious ...

 

Isn't it curious he has now been held in prison so long, and yet still no evidence of any rape or crimes against the US have ever been presented in a court against him?

But I'm not going to discuss this further with you in this thread. Take the discussion to that other thread I linked to, if you want to debate this further.

 

Yes, Assange would have preferred that option.

Given that he spent a donkey's age avoiding "prison" in Ecuador's London embassy, we can see how determined he was to protect his so-called-"innocence" against the rape charges. Which was futile anyway because he has a "date" in a DC-courtroom. The Swedes no longer seek to prosecute him since the evidence of his offenses are now considered "dated".

Assange has been indicted on 17 counts of violating the U.S. Espionage Act for his role in obtaining and publishing secret military and diplomatic documents in 2010.

He opted rather to spend the rest of his life in Ecuador. But he is still facing "wanted" charges should he ever leave there.

He's forgotten history - except on the Internet ...

 

The Economist fan doesn't recognise the attack on the media, going instead for half-truths? That doesn't surprise!