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brainhum writes "SF Weekly reports that proposed Department of Commerce regulations will require foreign students at US universities to apply for export licenses to use dual purpose technologies in the classroom. From the article: 'Inherent in the new rules is a discriminatory contradiction: Students from India, which has cordial relations with the U.S., will need licenses to study, but students from Saudi Arabia -- home country for most of the participants in the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington, and much of the financing and ideology behind Islamist terrorism -- will not.' The proposed regulations point out that current export license requirements are based on the person's most recent citizenship, which they believe, could allow a person born in Iran to avoid licensing if they held Canadian citizenship. More information is available in the SF Weekly story "Student of Concern"."
Wake up everyday and find this country is becoming more and more conservative and restrictive. But what do we know? The "people" supposedly elected the right administration for them, so whether they joy and suffer is their own choice.
Yeah, but that's just certain elements of the government, who happen to gain control now and again. They're very crude people who harm America's real foreign policy as promoted by "real" Americans.
Bombing a country back to the stone age removes any profit potential from them. It's important to gain control of a country intact in order to extract the most out of it. If they have nothing there's nothing for us to steal ^H^H^H^H^H buy.
This is the function of the World Bank and other such institutions. In the guise of helping a nation to develop they sieze complete economic control of a nation in such manner that the nation can never release its chains. Foreign insolvency is not the problem that the press likes to tout it as, it is the deliberate tactic. We, with malice aforethought, drive them into insolvancy, because a country irreducably indebted to us is "ours." We own that country.
It's a form of indentured servitude on the scale of nations.
Here's how indentured servitude works. You find someone in desperate need of money and loan them some in exchange for papers of indenture. You make sure that the amount of money you loan them (and they must take the amount you offer or leave it)excedes the amount you will pay them (under minimum wage)during the term of their indenture. You include in the terms of their indenture that they must do certain business arrangements through you alone. You then immediately invoke those business arrangements, recouping the money you "loaned" them right off the bat. Effectively you have indebted them for life without spending a penny, and they cannot free themselves from their indenture without removing the debt to you.
America is very, very good at doing this to entire nations without dropping a single bomb and destroying the very resources we are after.
Have you ever wondered exactly where the dollars being spent to "aid" the tsunami victims are going? They are being used to remove the victims from their ancestral lands on the valuable seaside, deport them to inland refuge camps (where they must remain, having now been divested entirely of property, money and rights), and fund foreign owned luxury resorts and casinos on beaches.
I've watched this happen from the inside of third world countries, and there is a certain sad, sick beauty to the way we go about it. We've got it down to a fucking science.
This is the reason "they hate us." It isn't because of "what we have." It's because of how we went about getting what we have, which used to be theirs by birthright.
And if we would simply act as honest, open market trading partners we might well actually earn the right to be considered the true light of the world.
Up until about the Spanish-American war we still held that possibility in our hands (see Twain's essay "To the Person Sitting in Darkness," and if you kinda squint in the dark over how we handle the native populace), and then we pissed it all away. Quite likely unrecoverably.
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You, sir, are an idiot.
We didn't ram two planes and wage a jihad war against our own country (dispite what Micheal Moore fanboys would have you believe).
Kill all the Islamic radicals, and then you can start flapping jaw if nothing happens in the political arena
Life is not for the lazy.
Your link is so Republican I can't trust it. I read three pages into it and didn't trust a word I was reading. I'm willing to listen, but not to someone who has an agenda to start with. My apologies, please find another.
As for increasing the size of the army, well, the only reason it hasn't happened is because the costs have been pushed down onto individual states by the use of the guard.
I don't have many friends / family in the army, although my Dad did draft administration during Vietnam. Lame, eh? I respect soldiers, wish they were unnecessary, and find people who send them to their deaths unnecessarily for their own personal gain revolting.
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The US have been economically enslaving many country in the past... millions are dead from hunger and disease because of this economical colonisation. And many of those terrorist were born in that misery and learned to hate the US in that context.
As someone who has studied global ecconomics, this is utter bullshit. We have done far more good for the middle east then anyone in the world. We have done nothing oppressive, not even with our trading policies.
As for breeding violence. Good, I'm glad. I'm all for stepping on the fire ant mount to get them all out. If it comes down to dropping atomic bombs on that whole region, so fucking be it!!!. Those radicals either need to stop the terrorizing, or we will stop it for them...and with FORCE! Fuck em...fuck em all that hold no value to human life through sucide bombing.
The only way to kill cancer is to kill some inocent in the process for the greater cause.
Life is not for the lazy.