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Party Lies: USA Media Backs Communist Wuhan Myths to Slap Trump

The mainstream USA news media initially accepted Chinese communist party lies about the virus that appeared in Wuhan, and when those lies were uncovered, reporters began to highlight the communist response as a way of criticizing President Donald Trump’s own actions.

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Scott Adams says the real reason people hire consultants is so they’ll have cover when the plan fails. After all, the consultant almost always advises what the company wanted to do in the first place

Just a note about the definition of an expert. Look at the pronunciation, X-spurt. As we all know from Algebra, X is an unknown, and a spurt is just a drip of water under pressure…thus, an expert is an unknown drip under pressure. (Yes, it works better verbally.)

Yes, I’m pretty sure that French labeling on American products is a (perhaps NAFTA-related) Canadian requirement to allow those products to be sold in Canada.

You are correct. If the product is to be sold in Canada, it is required to have the French labeling. That is the reason it is there. That requirement has been in place well before NAFTA, though. I got that from marketing classes in college circa late 70’s and it had been in effect well before that.

Good to know. I personally learned about this in the early 1980s during a family trip to the Canadian Rockies. We were highly entertained by French renderings of things like “Kentucky Fried Chicken” and every other package we saw in Canada. So when I started encountering it more and more over the years, I attributed it to the increase in trade caused by Nafta, and figured that the rules were memorialized in Nafta.

Nowadays I find it interesting that, although I live way down here in Texas, probably the same number of packages have French translations as Spanish (some have both).

Good point about the shrinking francophonie. I’m a tour guide (among other things) and some years ago I was talking to a colleague who was about to do a tour for some Vietnamese army officers. I asked what language he’d be doing the tour in (he can guide in French, Spanish, German and Italian as well as English). He said, rather dismissively, of course he’d be doing it in French. I replied that if he was taking their fathers around that might be the case, but if these were currently serving army officers I’d be surprised if they weren’t more comfortable with English.

He later admitted, with ill grace (being a Remainiac Europhile), that they’d asked for him to do the tour in English. 😀

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