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You foreigners (well, technically I'm a foreigner too) have absolutely no idea. Right now this is barely news in america, but the second Obama obstructs a US Attorney, even though he appoints them, it will become a huge scandal. And for US domestic news, it will not be about the Indian consular...

I think you guys are mistaking a strip search for a cavity search. the US admits to a strip search, but not a cavity search -- they're two different things. There are frisks/pat-downs (no clothes taken off), there are strip searches (most outer clothes taken off, underwear usually not taken off...

Your meaningless calculations are off, by the way, because wage workers in america are entitled to overtime rate after 40 hours per week. She was probably working longer than 8 hours per day as well. The sad part about all this is that I wish your workers had the same labor protections that ours...

Rent is cheaper than $2,000 a month, and no that doesn't count toward minimum wage, that's not how american labor laws work. New York City has rent control, has housing assistance (state, city, and federal). Poor people exist in NYC, it's not a rich-only enclave. It's a hardscrabble life, but...

Yeah, states set different minimum wages. $7.25 is the Federal one, which means state minimum wages can go higher but not lower than that. Cities can also declare their own minimum wages. Lucky for your consular official she didn't reside in Seatac, where they just passed a $15 an hour minimum...

All I can really say to that is "okay, fine, good luck, have fun"

Most people in the US find the idea of having maids weird. And if you can't afford to have a maid, don't get a maid. Having a maid is not a human right, it's an obscene luxury

Non-cash benefits do not count towards minimum wage in America, so that's irrelevant.

the philippines has always considered indonesia a friend, i'm sure our country would be happy to see indonesia lead ASEAN as a good example. the only country in ASEAN that could possibly not be okay with indonesian leadership is malaysia, but surely there's less bad blood nowadays than before

Holy crap, this is neoliberalism to the max. I don't care what those commenters are saying about what the "purpose" of the program is, they're just parroting the line of liberal economists and government bureaucrats

The Philippines used to have a problem with fake military officers as well. It just comes with the territory -- if a position has prestige, people will try the easiest way to gain its benefits. Buying and wearing uniform is a lot easier than joining and serving. Some Americans do it as well, but...

There's antisemitism outside of europe, but it was introduced to the rest of us by the europeans. The protocols of the elders of zion may have gained recent popularity in the muslim world, but remember it was the russians who originally wrote it and spread it around in the first place. The arabs...

The corruption isn't on any of the aid -- our government steals from us not from you. One of the stories you even linked reflects that -- it was before the storm's damage was apparent and the most important news in the country was about a pork barrel scandal. Most of those stories aren't talking...

You Chinese show off how inexperienced you are at the world stage. Nobody withholds aid as a diplomatic weapon or maintains an enmity during a natural disaster, because they're something that can affect any one of us without warning and we often have no real defenses against them. After the 2005...

Thank you, America. photo by the US Navy, of the USS George Washington Battle Group underway

Some of the cities hit by the typhoon had been hit by a 7.2 earthquake only 2 weeks ago -- the infrastructure was already in shambles

The $90 million is just for the two hulls and propulsion machinery -- the weapons, sensors, and other key systems will be bidded and integrated separately. This is also (obviously) a separate contract than the frigates, which we will probably get from South Korea (though there are other...

Why would an unarmed boat attempt to ram a ship with eight times its volume (remember, half length also means half beam and half draft -- not to mention one is fiberglass and the other one is metal). That doesn't make sense. Why are the other Filipinos taking that at face value? Why would anyone...

Poaching and tresspassing aren't punishable by death. Also, the attempt to ram is a claim and hasn't been established by fact The BFAR boat was twice as long (and many more times as massive) as the unarmed boat that was allegedly trying to ram it. Again, the idea that an unarmed boat was...