Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of these countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States.
But many third-world countries are now struggling under american-imposed economic "measures" that only insures that the country's assets are bought at bargain-basement firesale prices by american croporations who then move on to milk those countries' wealth.
When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.
Because the french know very well that if they let the yankees run them, it will drive them into abject submission. They haven't forgotten Roosevelt's AMGOT plans of 10 years earlier, where France was to be stripped of her industrial capability, in order to render her dependant on american industry for it's staples.
When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59 American communities were flattened by tornadoes. Nobody helped.
Who cares about trailer parks?
The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent, warmongering Americans.
The marshall plan was repaid many times when whole industries were greatly harmed by american protectionism.
I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplane. Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all the International lines except Russia fly American Planes?
The US aircraft industry was able to offer cheaper planes because it was heavily subsidized by general Curtiss Lemay's warmongering warplane buildup. And american salesmen are very good at bribing officials, too.
Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy, and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy, and you find men on the moon - not once, but several times and safely home again.
And how were the americans able to go to the moon? By using slave labour plucked from Germany's war industry. The americans by themselves would never be able to do that technological prowess, they are unable to school enough good engineers, but instead, they import their scientists from abroad. Young americans are only interested with money, so instead of becoming engineers and scientists, they become lawyers.
You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at. Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, and most of them, unless they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here.
I wonder what weed that guy has been smoking, because it seems to be mightily good!
When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still broke.
The Pennsylvania Railroad and the New-York Central railroad have been dead for 34 years; they have been merged into the Penn Centrail railroad, whose subsequent bankrupcy (the biggest bankrupcy ever in the whole universe) rocked the industrial establishment to it's foundation. All thanks to the automobile industry who, at great public expense, had hammered at a fully paid for transportation infrastructure, and replacing it with one that killed more people than all the wars ever did since the birth of mankind.
Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get kicked around. They will come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of those."
Here is a canadian with a pretty browned-up tongue!!!
So far, nearly every response I've read criticizing ESR's remarks are pretty much the same -- "he's a wacko", "this is disgusting", "stick to software", etc. ... Government restricts personal liberties of citizens for our "protection". Good citizens abide. Bad citizens bypass/ignore restrictions, leaving good citizens defenseless. Something is very wrong here, and ESR suggests that perhaps the restrictions shouldn't exist. Yesterday's incident is evidence of this scenario.
In Switzedland, everybody is drafted into the army, and goes there for a few weeks every year.
Eveyrone (who qualifies) if given an army rifle, with ammo to practice with. And they practice shooting every week. You see men in business suits carrying assault weapons in the streets as a matter of course. Nobody blinks (except the tourists)
Of course, the swiss won't give weapons to wackos who don't pass the psychological tests...
The US could very well insure that there are plenty of army reservists, properly trained (that includes psychological testing) that are allowed aboard airliners with their concealed weapons.
After all, the only Swissair airliner that ever got hijacked was not hijacked for long: the passengers instantly formed a commando that quickly disabled the culprit...
Right now, no, it would not worry me. Let's pull out all the stops and get the bastards. In a time of disaster some rules get bent, and this is one of those times. I Canada we have something called the "War Measures Act" which essentially suspends all civil rights if put into effect, and it was once in the 60's in response to internal terrorism.
The War Measures Act was used in October 1970 in reponse to the FLQ kidnapping of a Quebec politian and a british diplomat. I was a young child living in Ottawa at the time and it was truly frightening. To this day is it debatable wether this was on over-reaction on Prime Minister Trudeau's part. It is a concession to terrorism to subject your citizens to this treatment. And you are correct, the precident that would be set is terrifying.
The October crisis was just a ploy by prime minister Trudeau to hit his political ennemies, the Québec nationalists. The "terrorist" organization involved was, at the time, HEAVILY infiltrated by the Royal Canadian Maudit Police, so the political kidnapping of Québec mafia minister Pierre Laporte was setup to get rid the Québec government of an indesirable minister (he was involved with organized crime, and he was about to be charged for his involvement with organized crime).
Slightly before Laporte was kidnapped, a british diplomat (James R. Cross) was also kidnapped.
The federal prime minister Trudeau jumped on the excuse to proclaim martial law in Québec, suspend the civil liberties, and the police and the army moved-in to put all Trudeau's political ennemies in jail, without trial. Over 400 people were detained for months.
I was a young child living in Montréal at the time, and our family fled to New-York (where I got my first sight of the twin towers, then being built), not knowing when we'd be back. Not exactly a pleasant thing to live through (the police would simply pick targetted people from the street and wouldn't let them take care of their children, leaving them in the dark).
Pierre Laporte was found dead a few weeks later in a car trunk, whilst James R. Cross was freed unharmed.
The War measures act was abrogated by conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney, in a gesture to show willingness to accomodate Québec's concerns.
Fortunately, this outrageous piece of legislation does not exist anymore, to be again abused by the tyrannical liberals.
I would never EVER let someone wielding a bladed weapon hi-jack an airplane.
With all due respect, I think it's easier to imagine being a brave hero in that sort of situation than it is to actually do it. Still, if everyone on board is doomed to die anyway, you have nothing to lose....
I have been once attacked by someone with a knife, and I was able to fend-off the attack with my backpack long enough for the guy to panic and flee when he saw that I wasn't buckling.
So, now the perspective of facing a knife-yielding moron doesn't alarm me anymore.
This is the real thing, and it's not about the planes or the black boxes or the television. It's about the people, because that's what Matters.
If the people mattered, you wouldn't see firms headquartered around where the WTC was pick greedily and destroy the lives of the many people who were downsided all over the place in the name of the sacrosanct bottom-line.
The pisser is that even that amount of wanton destruction won't teach them that little!!!!
The "Martyrs" who perpetrated this act. Now roasting in hell.
They are indeed martyrs; they performed the ultimate sacrifice for the cause
they were fighting for. And for this, they were promised a place in heaven by
their mollahs.
The political leaders of the Middle East and their bloodthirsty rhetoric
that encourage this.
Yeah, israeli leaders are quite savages; their treatment of the palestinians
over the years has been pretty appaling.
The people we see on TV, cheering as footage of this event is played over
and over.
Hey! All their life, all they've seen was bullets and bombs coming from jews,
bullets and bombs that have been largely funded by the United States. It's quite
normal to see them cheer then the main sponsor of their oppressors has been
hurt.
How many jews around the world cheers each time a palestinian house is bulldozed
in Gaza, or some rock-toting arab kid is shot dead by well-armed israeli troops?
The moslems in the United States and elsewhere who send money to FUND
these groups and their activities.
How about the american jews who send money to israel to fund their state-terrorism?
How about the american jews who control the medias (just watch
the generic of anything you see on TV) and thus control the opinion in order
to subvert democracy for it to support israel?
The religious leaders of the Islamic religion, both in the Middle East,
and in the US, and elsewhere, who preach hatred and intolerance of Amercans
and Jews and anyone who is not a Moslem - don't tell me that I'm racist for
saying this, I have moslem friends, and they tell me what they hear in the
mosque.
The jews who relentlessly paint arabs as ignorant, intolerant racist bigots,
while all they do is defend their own country that has been stolen from them
thanks to horribly misguided policy achieved through subversion of their democratic
institutions?
These people could not have done their own cause a more gross disservice.
They shall now reap what they have sown.
Indeed, the americans are reaping what they have sown with their horribly misguided,
self-centered foreign and economic policies...
But lots of people everywhere need to know for a fact that America stands for freedom and liberty, and that we will never as a people let stand any action that takes freedom or liberty away from any individual.
What fucking bullshit! "Freedom and liberty". Ha! Only the rich people with lots of money can afford the lawyers to defend their freedom and liberty. And yet, they don't have any more freedom and liberty because they are slaves to their money and bottom-line, and they can be sued into oblivion by whoever is richer than them.
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the people behind the attack wern't Muslims, because the traditional Muslim faiths don't condone killing others. Unfortunately for her and us, though, our only image of the Muslim faith is BinLaden carrying out his attacks in the name of religion.
So, what are the muslim authorities doing to get rid of that image-breaking Ben Laden???
It's pretty easy for us on/. to decry law enforcement aids like facial recognition hardware and software when times are good. However, it's at times of senseless tragedy like this when we really need to stop and think about letting law enforcement have the tools they need to prevent wanton acts of distruction like this.
Yeah, because of a few rotten apple (terrorists), we oughta scrap all our hard-won freedoms and liberties.
Here is a draft of what I'll be submitting to them:
Regarding copy control technologies
The current state of the law provides for a civil relationship between the parties of a transaction involving copyrighted material. [...]
The content-providing industry is but a small part of the Economy in general; as time went, computers have become pratically indispensable to the conduct of other economic activity. However, we're witnessing unprecedented efforts from the content industry trying to take over the computer industry by imposing it's conditions to the use of computer equipment: first, they tried to introduce into storage equipment specifications functions designed to control whether what the device does is legitimate, and right now, a bill of law is being studied in the USA which would make such control devices compulsory.
Letting the content industry dictate it's terms of use regarding computer equipment not only to flagrantly violate their customer's fair use rights, but also to dictate to the whole of society the way it should use it's own computers is a gross subvertion, which should imperatively be rejected with the utmost energy, as it would give a minuscule sector of the economy a totally unwarranted and unmerited influence on the circulation of data, ideas and concepts.
Canada shall therefore not legiferate in any way whatsoever against the use of software and/or devices which would allow data users to exert their legal fair use rights. Acting otherwise would surrender totally the freedom of circulation of ideas, a fundamental concept of our society.
As for the greater good, you know what? I think the government does a crappy job of doling out support. I chose my charities based on what they give back to the community - looking for a return of investment in the form of people helped/money committed. I suspect you can count the really good government programs on one hand - I could not think of any examples, while I can think of several non-profits locally that do a fantastic job.
The problem with charities is that they only take care of the "popular" causes, whereas a welfare State takes care of ALL causes, regardless of what the silent majority thinks.
My job is designing automotive climate controls ... but when there are multiple zones (driver, passenger, rear, etc) where each zone has its own control, it doesn't work very well.
Well, simply skirt around the problem by putting two thermostats: one labelled "his" and one labelled "hers", each with two settings: "too hot" and "too cold".
And the search was probably justified. Muslim
terrorist groups use fronts disguised as charities
to move money around, and the Holy Land Foundation
has long been suspected of being a financial front
for Hamas. Since HLF uses the Web to collect
donations by way of credit cards, a search of the
Web hosting company is legit.
Jewish business groups use fronts disguised as charities to funnel money into the state of israel, which then uses it to bully it's neighbours in the middle-east.
Double standard again; the american jews have money, and the american arabs don't. So guess which side the US is leaning towards???
Why do you believe that you have a right to privacy while employed and paid by someone else, and while using their equipment, internet connection, etc?
The cornerstone of our civilization being a state of law where everything the State does is DICTATED BY LAW ALONE, law that has to be the same for everyone, it is absolutely essential that there shall be no interference between the executive, judiciary and legislative branches.
So, YES, we believe that those in one branch do indeed have a right of privacy from the other branches.
Monitoring opens the door for filtering, which by definition operates with the sole purpose of preventing access to certain information.
...
Granted, monitoring is not filtering, but again, it's a slippery slope.
Darned damn well it is! If a judge working on a controversial case want to get informed and fetch information about the controversial stuff he's working on knows that legislators will see that he's getting data on the unpopular thing du jour, it will have a definite chilling effect on efforts made by the judiciary to get informed.
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And it is interesting to note that Israel pulled-out ALL of it's ambassadors mere minutes after the WTC was hit.
Something *** BIG *** is brewing, and it ain't smellin' good.
And how come the news don't show any pictures of people jumping from the WTC towers???
But many third-world countries are now struggling under american-imposed economic "measures" that only insures that the country's assets are bought at bargain-basement firesale prices by american croporations who then move on to milk those countries' wealth.
Because the french know very well that if they let the yankees run them, it will drive them into abject submission. They haven't forgotten Roosevelt's AMGOT plans of 10 years earlier, where France was to be stripped of her industrial capability, in order to render her dependant on american industry for it's staples.
Who cares about trailer parks?
The marshall plan was repaid many times when whole industries were greatly harmed by american protectionism.
The US aircraft industry was able to offer cheaper planes because it was heavily subsidized by general Curtiss Lemay's warmongering warplane buildup. And american salesmen are very good at bribing officials, too.
And how were the americans able to go to the moon? By using slave labour plucked from Germany's war industry. The americans by themselves would never be able to do that technological prowess, they are unable to school enough good engineers, but instead, they import their scientists from abroad. Young americans are only interested with money, so instead of becoming engineers and scientists, they become lawyers.
I wonder what weed that guy has been smoking, because it seems to be mightily good!
The Pennsylvania Railroad and the New-York Central railroad have been dead for 34 years; they have been merged into the Penn Centrail railroad, whose subsequent bankrupcy (the biggest bankrupcy ever in the whole universe) rocked the industrial establishment to it's foundation. All thanks to the automobile industry who, at great public expense, had hammered at a fully paid for transportation infrastructure, and replacing it with one that killed more people than all the wars ever did since the birth of mankind.
Here is a canadian with a pretty browned-up tongue!!!
In Switzedland, everybody is drafted into the army, and goes there for a few weeks every year.
Eveyrone (who qualifies) if given an army rifle, with ammo to practice with. And they practice shooting every week. You see men in business suits carrying assault weapons in the streets as a matter of course. Nobody blinks (except the tourists)
Of course, the swiss won't give weapons to wackos who don't pass the psychological tests...
The US could very well insure that there are plenty of army reservists, properly trained (that includes psychological testing) that are allowed aboard airliners with their concealed weapons.
After all, the only Swissair airliner that ever got hijacked was not hijacked for long: the passengers instantly formed a commando that quickly disabled the culprit...
The October crisis was just a ploy by prime minister Trudeau to hit his political ennemies, the Québec nationalists. The "terrorist" organization involved was, at the time, HEAVILY infiltrated by the Royal Canadian Maudit Police, so the political kidnapping of Québec mafia minister Pierre Laporte was setup to get rid the Québec government of an indesirable minister (he was involved with organized crime, and he was about to be charged for his involvement with organized crime).
Slightly before Laporte was kidnapped, a british diplomat (James R. Cross) was also kidnapped.
The federal prime minister Trudeau jumped on the excuse to proclaim martial law in Québec, suspend the civil liberties, and the police and the army moved-in to put all Trudeau's political ennemies in jail, without trial. Over 400 people were detained for months.
I was a young child living in Montréal at the time, and our family fled to New-York (where I got my first sight of the twin towers, then being built), not knowing when we'd be back. Not exactly a pleasant thing to live through (the police would simply pick targetted people from the street and wouldn't let them take care of their children, leaving them in the dark).
Pierre Laporte was found dead a few weeks later in a car trunk, whilst James R. Cross was freed unharmed.
The War measures act was abrogated by conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney, in a gesture to show willingness to accomodate Québec's concerns.
Fortunately, this outrageous piece of legislation does not exist anymore, to be again abused by the tyrannical liberals.
So what? Then bomb iraq too. Kill two birds with one stone. Then the israeli will be immensely pleased with the US and maybe do them a favour or two.
And increase the risk of another attack tenfold?
That's brilliant!
To solve the israeli problem, instead, the US should WITHDRAW ALL SUPPORT to israel and let ALL the jews there to immigrate in the U.S.
But naaaah, not a chance, americans are too racist to let that happen.
I have been once attacked by someone with a knife, and I was able to fend-off the attack with my backpack long enough for the guy to panic and flee when he saw that I wasn't buckling.
So, now the perspective of facing a knife-yielding moron doesn't alarm me anymore.
The pisser is that even that amount of wanton destruction won't teach them that little!!!!
They are indeed martyrs; they performed the ultimate sacrifice for the cause they were fighting for. And for this, they were promised a place in heaven by their mollahs.
Yeah, israeli leaders are quite savages; their treatment of the palestinians over the years has been pretty appaling.
Hey! All their life, all they've seen was bullets and bombs coming from jews, bullets and bombs that have been largely funded by the United States. It's quite normal to see them cheer then the main sponsor of their oppressors has been hurt.
How many jews around the world cheers each time a palestinian house is bulldozed in Gaza, or some rock-toting arab kid is shot dead by well-armed israeli troops?
How about the american jews who send money to israel to fund their state-terrorism?
How about the american jews who control the medias (just watch the generic of anything you see on TV) and thus control the opinion in order to subvert democracy for it to support israel?
The jews who relentlessly paint arabs as ignorant, intolerant racist bigots, while all they do is defend their own country that has been stolen from them thanks to horribly misguided policy achieved through subversion of their democratic institutions?
Indeed, the americans are reaping what they have sown with their horribly misguided, self-centered foreign and economic policies...
Hell, make it four towers!
What fucking bullshit! "Freedom and liberty". Ha! Only the rich people with lots of money can afford the lawyers to defend their freedom and liberty. And yet, they don't have any more freedom and liberty because they are slaves to their money and bottom-line, and they can be sued into oblivion by whoever is richer than them.
So, what are the muslim authorities doing to get rid of that image-breaking Ben Laden???
Yeah, because of a few rotten apple (terrorists), we oughta scrap all our hard-won freedoms and liberties.
What's next to justify that? For the children?
Here is the NOAA radar image of the dust cloud.
Here's a link to the NOAA website showing the radar image of the northeast US, showing the extent of the dust cloud.
Ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! HA! ha! ha! hA! ha! ha! HA! ha! ha! hic! ha! ha!
I've been doing exactly this for the last 6 years on my website...
The problem with charities is that they only take care of the "popular" causes, whereas a welfare State takes care of ALL causes, regardless of what the silent majority thinks.
Jewish business groups use fronts disguised as charities to funnel money into the state of israel, which then uses it to bully it's neighbours in the middle-east.
Double standard again; the american jews have money, and the american arabs don't. So guess which side the US is leaning towards???
Better live under a jewish-masonic rule than under strict islamic rule!
Just like the old Deutsche Democratische Republik where about half the population was informant for the state secret police...
Now, the police state is within the capitalist entities that croporations are. Makes you wonder if man isn't naturally a totalitarian communist...
The cornerstone of our civilization being a state of law where everything the State does is DICTATED BY LAW ALONE, law that has to be the same for everyone, it is absolutely essential that there shall be no interference between the executive, judiciary and legislative branches.
So, YES, we believe that those in one branch do indeed have a right of privacy from the other branches.
Darned damn well it is! If a judge working on a controversial case want to get informed and fetch information about the controversial stuff he's working on knows that legislators will see that he's getting data on the unpopular thing du jour, it will have a definite chilling effect on efforts made by the judiciary to get informed.
And boy do we know how bad can an uninformed court can be!
Lastly, monitoring judges is a totally intolerable and unacceptable interference with the judiciary by both the legislative and executive branches.
Perhaps the judges should protest by installing bots that continuously troll for pr0n, in order to overwhelm monitoring efforts.
But the only problem is the slowness of the propagation.
Next year, they are going to try the same experiment with rabbit nerves, to see if there is a speed improvement.