No, the story is always that "Israel retaliates." It's never "The Palestinians retaliate." It's always "Israel retaliates", the subtle suggestion being that it is the Palestinians who are the aggressors, and that is simply not the case.
Or how 12 dead soldiers and armed militiamen somehow become 12 civilian worshipers.
Since the fat man took his crap on the Temple Mount the ratio of dead has been 1,665 Palestinians vs. 639 Israelis. It is the Israelis who are invading what should be Palestine, not the other way around.
Has been for quite a while. The original 1948 plan divided the country more or less in half between "Israel" and "Palestine". Except that this wasn't an equal deal, since the Palestinians were losing half of what had been their country.
And we pay for it
Around $185 billion is the cost to the US taxpayer so far.
We don't go around saving everyone, we go around saving ourselves and protecting our interests.
Note that the "we" in this context is the US federal government (well Congress and Executive) and US based transnational corporations. Tough luck for the few hundred million people who just hold US citizenship...
Anyone who says otherwise is either misinformed or incredibly naieve.
Misinformed comes as standard with the majority of the US population who's only source of information is the mainstream media.
Because we got our asses kicked in that part of the world trying to do them a favor (we entered vietnam at south vietnams request).
Defining dropping tons of ordinance on Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia brings to mind the phrase "with friends like this who needs enemies". The US bombing of Cambodia played a part in bringing Pol Pot to power. He was brought down by the Vietnamese, too late unfortunatly to prevent ethnic cleansing. Did the US consider them heros or did it object to their invading Cambodia?
Check your history, America isn't the worlds police.
History makes the US look like a major league colonial thug.
We don't go around saving everyone, it's their job to save themselves.
All too often they need saving from the US. Indeed now that Britain, France & Spain have lost their empires and the USSR is consigned to history, about the only imperial power anyone is likely to need saving from is the US.
We don't have to "give a shit"
Maybe then the US could try withdrawing to it's borders for a decade or so?
but if you would like us too then I suggest you give us a reason to "give a shit" by not strapping bombs to your chest and going kamakazi through grocery stores and bus stations.
actually i thinks he's right. People in america seem to have history written from a white bread point of view. Now that just Sucks. Somebody needs to do more than what they did on 9/11 to really put us in our place.
Except that 9/11 didn't do much to change US foreign policy. The result was simply more of the same.
Im sorry, but we are certified bona-fide assholes. We fight terrorism from other countries, but yet we are the terrorist in some other countries.
Or more likely US backed and trained terrorists, which gives "plausable deniability". Only the most supid or most arrogant nation states don't want this, in case things to wrong.
We act like big bad america and one day, someone is gonna drop a nuke
If someone did explode a nuke in the US now then within minutes there would be land based or sub launched missiles on course for Iraq.
i find it interesting that the article chooses to talk about how he has voiced these anti-semetic and anti-american ideas, but then not go to any length to explain why.
Of course not, politically incorrect ideas should only be opposed. Why if you asked why someone held such ideas you might discover that some things aren't so simple or black & white as commonly believed. Best be a good little sheep instead, don't examine, question or rock the boat...
Ho Chi Minh was a nationalist. Read about him and you'll realize that he was using the Soviets and Chinese. He never let N. Vietnam become dependent on them, because he wanted his country to be free. S. Vietnam was completely dependent on the USA.
But the US likes countries being dependent on them. Thus to the US government Ho Chi Minh as a nationlist was even more frightening than the idea of Ho Chi Minh dependent on the USSR or China.
Yeah, but he was a chess player for god's sake what possible national security issue could he raise? Maybe he was deep programmed to shove a bishop in the president's brain if he got close enough?
The sort of warped minds who'd seriously consider killing a head of state using a cigar quite probably would consider a chess set a potentially lethal weapon...
Terrorism is the new Communism! I can't wait to see what this version of Mcarthyism ends up looking like.
Apart from the language and the details of the conspiracy theories it spins probably not much different from the last version in the US. Indeed probably not much different from any other previous version throughout recorded history.
Maybe not, I was told by a member of the CIA that Kennedy was killed in reaction to attempts on Castro's life.
This must rank amongst the daftest of the JFK theories. If any small nation had managed to kill a superpower leader don't you think they would have claimed responsibility and used David vs Goliath symbolism?
Could you name a couple of countries that does NOT spy upon their own citizens.
You can find such governments, but generally only because they are governments in exile. If they were to take back control of their countries they most certainly would be spying on their own citizens, most immedialty those suspected of aiding occupation.
At the time the United States was established as a political entity, it was a confederation of states. The word "state", you may notice, is in technical discussions and most parts of the world a term referring to a country, not a province. The issue of how much power the federal government was to have caused huge political strife and was by no means settled at the time of the Civil War.
Also IIRC some of the states made their own unilateral declarations of independence from Britain.
It was only until some time after the Civil War that "United States" became a singular term, nullification and secession were viewed as bizarre and unacceptable. The Civil War was a turning point for the United States of America, turning them from a republic into an empire, with Lincoln as its first emperor.
Looks like the US copied Rome a little too well... It wasn't until even more recently, that the US Congress decided to read parts of the US Constitution effectivly "backwards". Considering the "commerce clause" to overrule the 10th ammendment.
The us also tried to ruin Osama Bin Laden's life, and according to Frontline on PBS tried to assasinate him twice in the
1990s but failed (I assume his Allah protected him).
Like Saddam Hussain OBL is a former US puppet who turned on his "masters".
Then Osama could not take it anymore and may have tried to participate in destroyingh the world trade centers.
Maybe Castro is less easily upset, considering the number of botched US assasination attempts he has faced. Though if OBL wanted revenge why not target the CIA HQ?
The US gove BANS chess people from playing overseas. EVEN in 2002!!!!! Its true, certain chess experts are banned from
international competition if the contests are in certain countries that embarrass the US.
Does the US actually need other countries to embarrass it, all too often the US can manage without anyone elses help...
The EU should just subsidize their cell phone software companies with government money like they do with Airbus for the development of planes. That tactic certainly helped to make Airbus able to take business away from Boeing. How long the US will let that continue to happen before either stopping the practice in the EU or doing the same for Boeing we don't know.
The US government pours money into Boeing, typically via The Pentagon. Are you saying that the same is happening with Microsoft.
Why do you think so many non-US countries' governments are switching or considering to switch to Linux or other alternatives? So that, for the first time in a long time, there will actually be growth in the local software industry.
Also no sane government wants foreigners able to hold them to ransom. Especially where "gunboat diplomacy" isn't an option.
In the US its ok to use and abuse a monopoly if it doesnt hurt the comsumer. The law doesnt take other companies in account that may be killed off by abusive monopolies.
Whilst at the same time trying to claim that corporations are people. Which would logically make Microsoft a serial killer...
while the intelligent MS Smartphone sends your data to all.NET enabled dating services, who in turn pays MS a referral bonus.
With you knowing nothing about it until you get the bill. Which also includes a fee for every "match".NET dating services incorporated has found. All of which are in the US state of Utah, which was the closest match it could find to "upset".
Uh, so they are suing because MS might do something?
As opposed to the US wanting to bomb Iraq because of some weapons Iraq might have. I'm sure Microsoft would rather be sued than bombed...
I forget what the legal term for this is, but I think this guy has a big stick up his ass.
Maybe he can compare sticks with GW Bush:)
Besides, Stinger has 0 market penetration right now.
Who wants a mobile phone named after a man portable SAM or a device police use to stop cars? Maybe we should wait until things are much too late and things are crippled to SMS viruses. Thing is that people won't just accept this, because they'll know how it didn't happen in 2002.
As for your specific example of wood, I think it's time to move away from use of timber, anyway. We produce so much plastic, we should be thinking of newer and better ways to make use of it (Recycled) in building.
Timber recycles perfectly well. Probably with less hassle than trying to convert plastics into building materials.
Yes -- but now the "certain area" of many formeely small or local businesses can be national or international.
Small businesses have had internationally reachable postal addresses for about a century and internationally reachable telephone numbers for decades. Just because they can be contacted from afar does not mean they are capable of handling customers at a distance.
The internet is partly to blame (and to credit -- this erasure of borders is a good thing in many ways, albeit not for restaurants),
Restaurants, along with bars, hotels, nightclubs, tourist attractions, etc are businesses where the customer goes to the business. The internet can provide advertising, but something of the form "tourist.la.ca.us" or an online version of a business telephone directory will do the job perfectly well.
as anyone can do business anywhere and thus maintain a "presence" everywhere,
How does simply having a website enable a business to be able to handle any currency, know all applicable import and export regulations and be able to work out shipping costs and times? A business "presence" often requires a lot more than just a website.
plus "globalization," whatever that is exactly.
Even a lot of large businesses are anti "globalization" for retail sales. e.g. warentees on computer laptops and lawsuits against "grey" and "parallel" imports.
I would think making such information available would be in the interest of everyone... except those people who see a way to make a buck off it, which probably says a lot in itself.
Could this be information paid for by tax payers. Since corporations tend to be good at tax avoidance maybe it's these "people" who should be denied access...
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No, the story is always that "Israel retaliates." It's never "The Palestinians retaliate." It's always "Israel retaliates", the subtle suggestion being that it is the Palestinians who are the aggressors, and that is simply not the case.
Or how 12 dead soldiers and armed militiamen somehow become 12 civilian worshipers.
Since the fat man took his crap on the Temple Mount the ratio of dead has been 1,665 Palestinians vs. 639 Israelis. It is the Israelis who are invading what should be Palestine, not the other way around.
Has been for quite a while. The original 1948 plan divided the country more or less in half between "Israel" and "Palestine". Except that this wasn't an equal deal, since the Palestinians were losing half of what had been their country.
And we pay for it
Around $185 billion is the cost to the US taxpayer so far.
We don't go around saving everyone, we go around saving ourselves and protecting our interests.
Note that the "we" in this context is the US federal government (well Congress and Executive) and US based transnational corporations. Tough luck for the few hundred million people who just hold US citizenship...
Anyone who says otherwise is either misinformed or incredibly naieve.
Misinformed comes as standard with the majority of the US population who's only source of information is the mainstream media.
Because we got our asses kicked in that part of the world trying to do them a favor (we entered vietnam at south vietnams request).
Defining dropping tons of ordinance on Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia brings to mind the phrase "with friends like this who needs enemies".
The US bombing of Cambodia played a part in bringing Pol Pot to power. He was brought down by the Vietnamese, too late unfortunatly to prevent ethnic cleansing. Did the US consider them heros or did it object to their invading Cambodia?
Check your history, America isn't the worlds police.
History makes the US look like a major league colonial thug.
We don't go around saving everyone, it's their job to save themselves.
All too often they need saving from the US. Indeed now that Britain, France & Spain have lost their empires and the USSR is consigned to history, about the only imperial power anyone is likely to need saving from is the US.
We don't have to "give a shit"
Maybe then the US could try withdrawing to it's borders for a decade or so?
but if you would like us too then I suggest you give us a reason to "give a shit" by not strapping bombs to your chest and going kamakazi through grocery stores and bus stations.
When did this happen in the US?
actually i thinks he's right. People in america seem to have history written from a white bread point of view. Now that just Sucks. Somebody needs to do more than what they did on 9/11 to really put us in our place.
Except that 9/11 didn't do much to change US foreign policy. The result was simply more of the same.
Im sorry, but we are certified bona-fide assholes. We fight terrorism from other countries, but yet we are the terrorist in some other countries.
Or more likely US backed and trained terrorists, which gives "plausable deniability". Only the most supid or most arrogant nation states don't want this, in case things to wrong.
We act like big bad america and one day, someone is gonna drop a nuke
If someone did explode a nuke in the US now then within minutes there would be land based or sub launched missiles on course for Iraq.
i find it interesting that the article chooses to talk about how he has voiced these anti-semetic and anti-american ideas, but then not go to any length to explain why.
Of course not, politically incorrect ideas should only be opposed. Why if you asked why someone held such ideas you might discover that some things aren't so simple or black & white as commonly believed. Best be a good little sheep instead, don't examine, question or rock the boat...
Ho Chi Minh was a nationalist. Read about him and you'll realize that he was using the Soviets and Chinese. He never let N. Vietnam become dependent on them, because he wanted his country to be free. S. Vietnam was completely dependent on the USA.
But the US likes countries being dependent on them. Thus to the US government Ho Chi Minh as a nationlist was even more frightening than the idea of Ho Chi Minh dependent on the USSR or China.
Yeah, but he was a chess player for god's sake what possible national security issue could he raise? Maybe he was deep programmed to shove a bishop in the president's brain if he got close enough?
The sort of warped minds who'd seriously consider killing a head of state using a cigar quite probably would consider a chess set a potentially lethal weapon...
Terrorism is the new Communism! I can't wait to see what this version of Mcarthyism ends up looking like.
Apart from the language and the details of the conspiracy theories it spins probably not much different from the last version in the US. Indeed probably not much different from any other previous version throughout recorded history.
Maybe not, I was told by a member of the CIA that Kennedy was killed in reaction to attempts on Castro's life.
This must rank amongst the daftest of the JFK theories. If any small nation had managed to kill a superpower leader don't you think they would have claimed responsibility and used David vs Goliath symbolism?
Could you name a couple of countries that does NOT spy upon their own citizens.
You can find such governments, but generally only because they are governments in exile. If they were to take back control of their countries they most certainly would be spying on their own citizens, most immedialty those suspected of aiding occupation.
The article says his mother is Jewish, and gives hints that his father may be Jewish too.
Dosn't matter if his father was or wasn't. His mother being Jewish makes him Jewish.
At the time the United States was established as a political entity, it was a confederation of states. The word "state", you may notice, is in technical discussions and most parts of the world a term referring to a country, not a province. The issue of how much power the federal government was to have caused huge political strife and was by no means settled at the time of the Civil War.
Also IIRC some of the states made their own unilateral declarations of independence from Britain.
It was only until some time after the Civil War that "United States" became a singular term, nullification and secession were viewed as bizarre and unacceptable. The Civil War was a turning point for the United States of America, turning them from a republic into an empire, with Lincoln as its first emperor.
Looks like the US copied Rome a little too well... It wasn't until even more recently, that the US Congress decided to read parts of the US Constitution effectivly "backwards". Considering the "commerce clause" to overrule the 10th ammendment.
Wen Ho Lee is not "Chinese" either - he is Taiwanese. Big difference.
When did people in the "Republic of China" cease to be "Chinese". Both the RoC and the PRC claim to be the true China.
The us also tried to ruin Osama Bin Laden's life, and according to Frontline on PBS tried to assasinate him twice in the 1990s but failed (I assume his Allah protected him).
Like Saddam Hussain OBL is a former US puppet who turned on his "masters".
Then Osama could not take it anymore and may have tried to participate in destroyingh the world trade centers.
Maybe Castro is less easily upset, considering the number of botched US assasination attempts he has faced. Though if OBL wanted revenge why not target the CIA HQ?
The US gove BANS chess people from playing overseas. EVEN in 2002!!!!! Its true, certain chess experts are banned from international competition if the contests are in certain countries that embarrass the US.
Does the US actually need other countries to embarrass it, all too often the US can manage without anyone elses help...
The EU should just subsidize their cell phone software companies with government money like they do with Airbus for the development of planes. That tactic certainly helped to make Airbus able to take business away from Boeing.
How long the US will let that continue to happen before either stopping the practice in the EU or doing the same for Boeing we don't know.
The US government pours money into Boeing, typically via The Pentagon. Are you saying that the same is happening with Microsoft.
Why do you think so many non-US countries' governments are switching or considering to switch to Linux or other alternatives? So that, for the first time in a long time, there will actually be growth in the local software industry.
Also no sane government wants foreigners able to hold them to ransom. Especially where "gunboat diplomacy" isn't an option.
If MS use passport to authenticate, and use a propriatory protocol ("because it's more secure"), then others are locked out.
In practice using a proprietary protocol whould tend to mean less secure, assuming it's secure at all.
In the US its ok to use and abuse a monopoly if it doesnt hurt the comsumer. The law doesnt take other companies in account that may be killed off by abusive monopolies.
Whilst at the same time trying to claim that corporations are people. Which would logically make Microsoft a serial killer...
while the intelligent MS Smartphone sends your data to all .NET enabled dating services, who in turn pays MS a referral bonus.
.NET dating services incorporated has found. All of which are in the US state of Utah, which was the closest match it could find to "upset".
With you knowing nothing about it until you get the bill. Which also includes a fee for every "match"
Pointy sticks and wet clay... I have no idea what you're talking about there.
A reusable writing tablet. Considering some of the chemicals in the pens (and that they run out) a whiteboard might not qualify as an improvement.
This might seem somewhat strange from an american point of view. There it seems more like letting them do the mess and clean up afterwards.
The last bit probably should be more like "asking them nicely, hoping they will clean up the mess. If they don't ask them nicely again".
Uh, so they are suing because MS might do something?
:)
As opposed to the US wanting to bomb Iraq because of some weapons Iraq might have. I'm sure Microsoft would rather be sued than bombed...
I forget what the legal term for this is, but I think this guy has a big stick up his ass.
Maybe he can compare sticks with GW Bush
Besides, Stinger has 0 market penetration right now.
Who wants a mobile phone named after a man portable SAM or a device police use to stop cars?
Maybe we should wait until things are much too late and things are crippled to SMS viruses. Thing is that people won't just accept this, because they'll know how it didn't happen in 2002.
As for your specific example of wood, I think it's time to move away from use of timber, anyway. We produce so much plastic, we should be thinking of newer and better ways to make use of it (Recycled) in building.
Timber recycles perfectly well. Probably with less hassle than trying to convert plastics into building materials.
Yes -- but now the "certain area" of many formeely small or local businesses can be national or international.
Small businesses have had internationally reachable postal addresses for about a century and internationally reachable telephone numbers for decades. Just because they can be contacted from afar does not mean they are capable of handling customers at a distance.
The internet is partly to blame (and to credit -- this erasure of borders is a good thing in many ways, albeit not for restaurants),
Restaurants, along with bars, hotels, nightclubs, tourist attractions, etc are businesses where the customer goes to the business. The internet can provide advertising, but something of the form "tourist.la.ca.us" or an online version of a business telephone directory will do the job perfectly well.
as anyone can do business anywhere and thus maintain a "presence" everywhere,
How does simply having a website enable a business to be able to handle any currency, know all applicable import and export regulations and be able to work out shipping costs and times? A business "presence" often requires a lot more than just a website.
plus "globalization," whatever that is exactly.
Even a lot of large businesses are anti "globalization" for retail sales. e.g. warentees on computer laptops and lawsuits against "grey" and "parallel" imports.
I would think making such information available would be in the interest of everyone... except those people who see a way to make a buck off it, which probably says a lot in itself.
Could this be information paid for by tax payers. Since corporations tend to be good at tax avoidance maybe it's these "people" who should be denied access...