Beijing's New Enforcer - Microsoft

QuatermassX writes "The New York Times editorial page comments on the responsibilities of American technology companies doing business in China. From the article: 'Such obvious disregard for users' privacy and ethical standards may make it easier to do business in China, but it also aids a repressive regime. Some in the American Congress are talking about holding hearings. Microsoft has responded to criticism by saying, 'We think it's better to be there with our services than not be there.' This is a false choice. China needs Internet companies as much as they need China.'"

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It appears that you were not paying attention when Iran recently stated that they do not need or intend to develop nuclear weapons. It must also be mentioned that the planned invasion March 2006 was announced half a year ago, the western propaganda to justify this planned invasion is extremely easy to see through if you had been paying attention the last decade. It seems obvious to me that you've missed a lot. Check independent sources and start with World War I, then move forward to today and you will find and realize that there is a lot more to both history and reality than what you are told on your lying corporate media.

"Another remarkable feature of the new "crisis" is that Iran is successfully portrayed as a villain and threat based on a distant prospect of its acquiring nuclear weapons, even as the United States and Israel brandish those weapons and threaten Iran with attack. If Iran did acquire nuclear weapons it could never use them against Israel or the United States without committing national suicide, whereas the United States has used them in the past and could do so now without threat of nuclear retaliation. However, if Iran built a small stock of such weapons it could pose a low probability threat of a nuclear response to a direct attack. So Iran's real "threat" is the threat of being able to defend itself" (see Herman, "Iran's Dire Threat," Z Magazine, October 2004)."

Behind the facade the only real difference between the repressive dictatorship regimes in China and USA is that most people in China know about it while the vast majority of the population in the USA still haven't realized that 911 was done by their own government (Want rock solid absolute proof? I've made hours and hours of documentaries available at http://torrentchannel.com/ and if that's not enough there have been - and are being - written huge amounts of books and websites who clearly show that the official government story is in possible not only because of one, two or three but SEVEN laws of psychics. And you should realize that it says a lot about your media if this information is news to you; this information is censured in all government and large corporate media in all NATO countries).