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Racism is in the eye of the beholder - and in the narrator.

Jon Stewart made a great comment when Obama visited Saudi Arabia:
Don't receive the first black president of the United States while you're wearing a white robe and hood

And don't be giving him no bling bling!

By my count, we are probably dealing with as many as eight, maybe even nine, unexplained cut or damaged undersea cables within the last week, and not the mere three or four that most mainstream news media outlets in the United States are presently reporting. Given all this cable-cutting mayhem in the last several days, who knows but what there may possibly be other cut and/or damaged cables that have not made it into the news cycle, because they are lost in the general cable-cutting noise by this point. Nevertheless, let me enumerate what I can, and keep in mind, I am not pulling these out of a hat; all of the sources are referenced at the conclusion of the article; you can click through and look at all the evidence that I have. It's there if you care to read through it all 1) one off of Marseille, France 2) two off of Alexandria, Egypt 3) one off of Dubai, in the Persian Gulf 4) one off of Bandar Abbas, Iran in the Persian Gulf 5) one between Qatar and the UAE, in the Persian Gulf 6) one in the Suez, Egypt 7) one near Penang, Malaysia 8) initially unreported cable cut on 23 January 2008 (Persian Gulf?)

The article includes the following links as references to document the above list of believed cuts:

1) http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?c=JPArticle&cid=1202064573279&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
2) http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/business/?id=24186
3) http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theuae/2008/February/theuae_February121.xml&section=theuae
4) http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080202132053.iohfg5ob&show_article=1
5) http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/04/2153455.htm
6) http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i03tUdyj8wf2Xa9P4trWEjqAJdyQ
7) http://www.arabianbusiness.com/510132-internet-problems-continue-with-fourth-cable-break?ln=en
8) http://www.globalresearch.ca/PrintArticle.php?articleId=7980
9) https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/IEPM/Effects+of+Fibre+Outage+through+Mediterranean
10) http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/02/01/internet.outage/?iref=hpmostpop
11) http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/04/technology/cables.php
12) http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/business/worldbusiness/31cable.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
13) http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/01/31/Cut-cable-disrupts-Internet-in-Middle-East_1.html
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How about these people?

You can easily find more.

"Why develop a Rolls Royce to only deliver pizza?"

Uh, name one. Just one... actually, you said citizenS... so I guess you should name at least two. Oh and define torture while you are at it.

José Padilla, a US citizen is one such victim. There may be others, but the US government does not have to tell you about them for "national security" reasons. Certainly, there are hundreds if not thousands of foreign torture victims, examples and more examples. Not even guilty people deserve that kind of barbaric treatment. This is the result of approving "stress positions," sleep deprivation and other "mild" forms of torture for suspects.

So tell me, who's taking away rights again? ... Have you been arrested for what you are typing?

In the US, it's easier to smear and blacklist your political or economic enemies than it is to jail them. It's called "economic assassination." Domestic spying programs are used to make the blacklists. Political abuse of such programs has happened in the past and should be expected but they hardly ever round up real criminals, so they are always a waste of money. The harm they can do is gauged by the extent of government GDP, currently larger than 25% of the economy. The victim never knows.

Egypt? A secular state? Are you kidding me? Then what are they doing with a "religious authority" that has the power to censor speech, conduct raids, confiscate materials, and make arrests? And which, I might add, was given this power by the government?

How secular would you consider the US to be if GW gave Pat Robertson the exclusive power to seize/ban/destroy everything "non-Christian"?

What happens when a few rouges from one culture enter another culture against their will

You get Iranian women using lots of Western cosmetics.

I guess you mean the same Haider that visited and comforted Saddam shortly before the US invaded? The same guy who still believes his good old buddy Saddam could have never been stupid enough to be captured by the US?

Silly European countries to be upset that such a freak gets so many votes in Austria.

Now, it's time for the world to make a serious decision. If we're going to keep putting our chips in with the United Nations, maybe it's time for the United Nations to step in and start acting against these fascist governments, and demand some real reforms. That's what the UN is for, for governments to get together, come up with some common laws, and rule when some nations are in contempt of those laws. And we find the same nations are violating their citizens rights over and over, and the UN does nothing. Then we have nations crying "Why won't the USA step in?" See Monrovia, Liberia... But the US doesn't want to be "the policeman of the world", yet we seem to be drug into that role over and over.

Noble noble noble, until you start looking in the way for example the USA is acting in their own self interrest.

The problem with the UN is that it doesn't have any real power. It is not much more than an assembly hall, and the biggest bully of the all decides to ignore them at will. That's the problem. The only way the UN could work is if it had a military power of it's own. Troops that are not under the command of any specific country but at the disposal of the UN itself. That doesn't happen though and it won't happen. Where would you base them? Where would you get them from? How could you make certain that the troops would be loyal to the UN?

The (current) US Administration doens't care about the UN unless it gives the US some benefit, most countries don't want to put up with this anymore as can now be seen in Iraq.