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China to Build World's First "Artificial Sun"
cletuii writes to tell us the People's Daily Online is reporting that China is planning on building the world's first "artificial sun" device. From the article: "The project, dubbed EAST (experimental advanced superconducting Tokamak), is being undertaken by the Hefei-based Institute of Plasma Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It will require a total investment of nearly 300 million yuan (37 million U.S. dollars), only one fifteenth to one twentieth the cost of similar devices being developed in the other parts of the world."
You, sir, should take yourself off Slashdot and over to the National Review board, or the nearest mental facility.
FIRST ISSUE: how can you be so blind as not to see the relationship between MONEY and FISH? The fish is compared to the money that America gives to some 30 odd countries, and as I said, it would be better to help the nation industrialize itself and become self sufficient - but since their government is likely to come take what we have given them or help them acheive, be it free money or helping the people of the nation become self sufficient.
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SECOND ISSUE: This is where their government becomes a major part of the issue. How many of you have heard of or seen the video clip of the third world country wherein a group of international charities were kind enough to build a soccer/football (only soccer in America, correct?) stadium for the people. In return, their government seizes it to publicly execute people in. So what do the people of the country that used to enjoy soccer games there do??? Instead of seeing their own government as a serious threat to themselves, they ask the international charities to BUILD THEM ANOTHER STADIUM, when instead they could have at the absolute least asked the UN and NATO for help replacing the current government.
I know a LOT of you guys think like rts008 here, that "Sooooo, if they aren't marching to our tune they are WRONG? Again.... WTF????". It is NOT a matter of getting them to do what we say, its called giving the people FREEDOM AND LIBERTY from the oppression of their own government, or the "revolutionaries" that supposedly fight for the betterment of their country, yet hold whole villages hostage (such as cases where either the military or revolutionaries place landmines around the village well, and only they know where to step to get through to the well withought getting blown to peices) which they daily have to live with the fear of being tortured or executed because of what they say or do. One of Saddam Husseins kids (was it Uday or Qusay?) favorite methods of torturing people was to chain them to a wall by their feet, with the victim hanging upside down, and to beat their feet with a baseball bat (swinging down on their heels).
My point is, for the past FORTY YEARS the people Iraq lived in this kind of fear, and the situation is not limited to just Iraq and Afghanistan. How is it hurting the people of their country by taking away that fear and helping them to set up a government where THEY make sure it never happens again?