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Syria Buys Dell PCs Despite Sanctions
puddingebola writes with a New York Times article about how mundane PC equipment — not just more esoteric and eyebrow-raising network monitoring equipment from Blue Coat — makes its way to Syria: "Large amounts of computer equipment from Dell have been sold to the Syrian government through a Dubai-based distributor despite strict trade sanctions intended to ban the selling of technology to the regime, according to documents obtained by The New York Times. The disclosure of the computer sales is the latest example of how the Syrian government has managed to acquire technology, some of which is used to censor Internet activity and track opponents of the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad."
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but after Egypt, I'm not entirely sure another MB dominated country in the ME is a good outcome for the West.
what say you?
where's the news in that?
and what the fuck does this even have to do with Dell? it's more to do with the Dubai based outfit. Dell might have good reasons to drop them as an official reseller now though, but the whole trade sanction can't work if you can sell to countries which don't adhere to the trade sanction, because they'll buy and fence the goods to their customers - that's what retailers do after all.
and an arab businessman shitting his business associates in another country? TELL IT AIN'T SO!!!! /s.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
How dare he!
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Please don't post links to nytimes.com content unless clicking on them results in something meaningful popping up. Thanks!
Even Syrians need to pay taxes and watch youtube videos featuring cats.
This is an outrage! We have set up strict trade sanctions to prevent this exact kind of thing from happening! The circumvention of these sanctions is reckless and might endanger the freedoms of Syrian citizens everywhere. To think that we would simply allow Syria to acquire Dell PCs is unfathomable. We need stronger provisions and enforcement mechanisms to make sure that Dell PCs and the dangers that they present do not wind up in the hands of other innocent countries. We must strengthen the already tough sanctions against Dell!
... of export trade restrictions. Then Dell has to terminate their partnership. That will put the lying Mr. Singh in the spot light.
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
I feel shameful as an American that despite all the measures that the people of Syria have taken to protect their country, we are still managing to violate their sovereignty with evil technology such as Dell PC. Well OK maybe Dell is an improvement over the flying bomb-dropping robots, but those are just the threat we use when we want to force people in other countries to buy Dell equipment.
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I for one am happy to see that Bashar al-Assad is not such a religious extremist. At least he is willing to buy computers from a Jew.
That Syria could only buy Dell equipment? Otherwise, they'd get iMacs.
Shocked, shocked, I tell you, that any business in Dubai would involve itself in such shady tactics:
https://www.google.ca/#hl=en&sugexp=eappswebvhl&gs_rn=12&gs_ri=psy-ab&tok=lAR8_0lfNMQukGSbTTFxZw&cp=12&gs_id=6x&xhr=t&q=Dubai+slave+labour&es_nrs=true&pf=p&biw=994&bih=599&sclient=psy-ab&oq=Dubai+slave+&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.45960087,d.cGE&fp=5a91ee71d795407c
The same people http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Perl who sold us on the idea that we had to attack Iraq, because otherwise Saddam Hussein would attack us with chemical weapons, always wanted us to attack Syria next.
The Iraq story turned out to be a lie, and we are now worse off in Iraq, with Islamist and secular militias carving up the country and giving a big slice to al Qaeda and its successors. (Not to mention the 3,000 Americans killed, and forget about the 300,000 or so Iraqis who were killed.)
Assad is running a stable, secular dictatorship that violates human rights. The anti-government forces are sectarian Islamists who will violate human rights even worse, massacre people in the other sects, destroy Syria as a functioning country and turn it into feuding fiefdoms like Iraq.
We ignored the same human rights violations when Assad was our puppet and we wanted to send prisoners to Syria for him to torture. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/19/syria-us-ally-human-rights
Flood Syria's government with Dell's. After a month, when the first 99% break, the entire government will be online with two Indian technical support technicians who will both try and get *them* to take apart their own machines even though they purchased the "premium" support package.
The regime will fall within weeks. My compliments to the CIA operative who suggested this.
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All multinational corporations involved in trade have shell corps in Dubai. For example, during the 2nd gulf war Haliburton did business with Iraq through a Dubai shell corp. Haliburton has always done business with Iran via the same technique.
The computers shipped with Windows 8.
This virtually guarantees the rebels will win as the members of the regime beat their heads against the walls trying to get the computers to work with their old, Windows 9x/XP-based software, and getting the combination to work on the new computers. They should surrender by mid-May.
If Syria wants computers that are available on the open market anywhere in the world, they'll get them. Even if every company in Dell's supply chain was 100% committed to upholding the export rules (which, obviously, they aren't), all the Syrians would have to do is set up a company in a non-restricted country to buy them by lying to a distributor about being Syrian owned, then ship them over the border themselves.
I worked selling Dells when I was at community college. Dell has extensive training for employees to avoid selling computer equipment to places like Syria and Iran. I suspect that someone got gamed by a well prepared trickster.
Don't get me wrong. After working for them, I hate Dell but I don't think they're stupid enough to go along with this kind of thing willingly.
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Putting Dubai on the list will make the entire Arab region stop selling oil to the USA and all of it's allies. Morality is nice, but not if it threatens your cheap gasoline. It will never happen.
I was promised a flying car. Where is my flying car?
these were iPhones. *ducks*
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If you think you can affect change by selective trading of low tech stuff you are dissolusioned. The Chinese are waiting in the wings for that trade.
Who do you think is behind the war on Syria? Who was behind the war on Libya? Any country that tries to extricate itself from the international JEW banking system will be mercilessly attacked by the Jews' goyim...
http://wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/6720
"What causes hyper-inflation is uncontrolled speculation. When speculation is coupled with debt (owed to private banking cartels) the result is disaster. On the other hand, when a government issues currency in carefully measured ways, it causes supply and demand to increase together, leaving prices unaffected. Hence there is no inflation, no debt, no unemployment, and no need for income taxes.
Naturally this terrifies the bankers, since it eliminates their powers. It also terrifies Jews, since their control of banking allows them to buy the media, the government, and everything else."
Newsflash for "Americans": Your trade sanctions don't do squat (and you don't produce nothing anyway). Your idiotic quarrels with others are not our problem. Signed: The rest of The World.
Syria is a sovereign country. Just because you like the opposition there, doesn't give you any right to fabricate lies to arm and support terrorism like you did elsewhere. It is the Syrians who decides who rules there and how, not you.
US foreign policy is the no.1 cause of violence in the world today.
just made the bigest mistake it could if what they really wanted was any kind of quality PCs...Dells SUCK ASS! They are the cheapest made peices nof shit you can buy, and the least reliable!
I have owned Dell in the past...NEVER AGAIN!!!