I look back at my decisions and wonder, 'How on earth could I, a junior analyst, possibly believe I could change the world for the better over the decisions of those with the proper authority?
Now he is being facetious. To be honest, I like him for saying this. You know that he is digging at them with this.
However, the man still deserves the death penalty for his treason.
Cisco will likely be foolish and cut heavily from the west. Yet, China is about to block all of their equipment.
If cisco had a brain, they would start bringing back manufacturing to the west, esp. America, and pushing the fact that they are NOT made in China anymore.
First off, you will notice that almost everything that you mentioned to was pretty much 50's and somewhat the 60's. That was from when i was a kid. The ONLY exception, was W's invasion of Iraq. You mention the coup de'tat but forget to mention that France and Britain had been the lords in Bahrain and had rigged elections to get al-Quwatli into power.
Now, WRT south America, oh yeah. America has played HORRIBLE games. Most of it was 50-60s, with the exception being reagan (who also played games). But compared to Europe, America is a wonderful large nation. We have NOTHING on europe, Russia, or China, when it comes to multiple centuries of domination of other nations with illegal invasions, political games, etc. Even now, all those nations regard America as an interloper, even when we push democracy. Heck, look at Egypt. We are not wild about the miltiary removal of a freely elected muslim brotherhood. We do not like them, BUT, they were FREELY elected (unlike say what goes on in Iran or other nations).
Now, as to W's invasion of Iraq, what a joke. I was opposed to it then, but it has come at a terrible price in life. Worse, we have left a vacuum in leadership there. However, we are out of there and the freely elected gov. is in place.
Likewise, when France, Italy, etc were pushing us to invade Libya, we did not want it, so did LIMITED support. It was because of USA that Kadafhi's military fell quickly, but it was French and Italian politics that created that situation. However, we supported it under NATO command. Of course, Libya appears to be better off, which is good, though there is a lot of doubt about that. OTOH, Syria is a nightmare. Why? Because minority shias want to dominate the nation and are happy committing genocide. USA, and I suspect all of the major powers, are in there putting weapons into various groups hands. Yes, those aligned with China, Iran, Hezbollah have been caught using chemical weapons. BUT, the west is quietly giving aid to various groups. Heck, bengazi was all about the fact that we had over 100 ppl there who were working on transferring weapons to Syria. We were attacked there by shia's.
BUT, in the end, I would say that USA is no different than most of Europe (esp. UK, France, Germany, and Italy), Russia, or China.
Yup. THat was true all over the USA university system. That is what reagan brought us. I got my first degree in microbio/genetics and did research in one, but it was later converted into DARPA work. Back then, I had ethical issues with what I was working on. Now, as I look at the world situation, I do not. Hopefully, my work was continued.
Yup. Our invasion of Iraq was just so wrong. The fact that they invaded kuwait and the UN troops (with USA) stopped it has nothing to do with anything.
Likewise, when Afghanistan launched an attack on USA, we should have turned the other cheek and allowed Afghanistan/AQ to continue attacking us.
And we should just pull out of the Mid-east and allowed all of those dictators to continue wiping out their citizens.
Its funny. France and italy pushed America to help with Libya to stop the slaughter, but we are the bad guys.
Likewise, Syria has Iran and Hezbellah helping a dictator that is committing genocide, but America is to blame on this.
North Korea continues to threaten South Korea and we have helped South Korea not only build up after the korean war, but also help protect them. Every time we want to withdraw from there, the SK gov. throws a fit and wants us to stay. And NK comes on strong with all sorts of threats and attacks against SK.
Then there is Taiwan, phillipines, vietnam, and India who absolutely want us to stay in the region because they have been invaded numerous times by China. Heck, China took over tibet, who was a free nation, and yet, it is America that is the bad guy that encourages North Korea, Iran, China, Pakistan (even though they are/were an alley), etc. to build nukes, chemical weapons, etc. And obviously, it is America that encouraged Iran, Syria, Libya, and Iraq to build nukes/chemical weapons due to the threat of USA. It was never about Iran/Syria, Libya wanting to attack Israel, and then Iraq wanting to defend itself against iran.
Nope, you sideliners have it right. America is 100% to blame for it all.
Which is why we are developing lasers and rail guns for ships.
At this time, that IS the real threat that china has against our groups.
However, are also setting up a number of bases around China for just that issue: Most are known, some are not.
Who said that they are not one and the same?
We need ppl to be well so that they can fight, work, etc. WWI was stopped early due to the massive disease issues (esp. flu) and the inability of the nations to have sustained war. However, other wars have been started over resources and perceptions of being able to take on some other nation.
Doing a minimal national health care such as O'care is not all that horrible, esp. since it actually is CHEAPER to us than what we had.
Incidentally, that is also why top generals in the military back taking actions on AGW. They would rather not have to go to war in the future. Yet, it is so odd that so many neo-con types want to allow AGW to continue and do not care about future wars. I guess that is because so many of them have never been to war.
be changed. They should only be allowed for positions that can not be filled by Americans and can be proven.
One other item is that at some point, we need to say that if a nation is manipulating their money against just the dollar, then we need to stop trade with them. The idea of free trade is that the nations equalize by money changing. With this approach, it is simply theft.
Actually, that has little to do with our military spending. The fact is, that we spend a great deal less than Russia and China on a % GDP basis. Our problem is that we are not taxing enough and reagan, Poppa Bush, W, and Obama have ran up a massive debt.
so that we can get laser com from multiple sources. Then simply beam down to earth. I would guess that 10 or more would be needed, but this is cheaper than all of the ground stations that we have set up.
Basically, use a maglev approach (seraphim motor) but rigged in the same spiral fashion. Far less chance of failure and very likely a great deal cheaper to do.
100% correct. The issue here is that NSA can NOT tell the general public exactly what they are up and what was effective. If they do, then AQ and China have more useful information on how to avoid detection.
Yeah, it could not be the fact that those 2 were talking to ppl that we did not know were terrorists and since the NSA does not spy on everybody (you have to have 3 degrees or less of seperation from a KNOWN terrorists before they did), it PROVES that you are right.
in terms of % of GDP, both Russia and China outspend them by a great deal.
But, I guess you see what you want to see. It is like those that push CO2 emissions / capitia, rather than CO2 emissions / GDP. They pick stats that are worthless yet, they will push them hoping that it will stick as being the measure.
I have supported the use of records and even following connections from a known terrorist, but this is insane. Pure insanity.
No doubt this is because terrorists/spies have changed tactics, but still this is the wrong way to take solve this.
No, they are not. Snowden was a 'whistle blower' when he was speaking about the nation spying on Americans, though it was all hashed out before in 2005.
He became a traitor once he moved to talking about our interactions with other nations, spies and terrorists.
Think about it. If a Canadian was to give up OLD KNOWN information about issues dealing with you, and then talked about NEW information that helped AQ to hide and then allow them to attack you, would YOU not consider them a traitor?
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They already do.
I look back at my decisions and wonder, 'How on earth could I, a junior analyst, possibly believe I could change the world for the better over the decisions of those with the proper authority?
Now he is being facetious. To be honest, I like him for saying this. You know that he is digging at them with this.
However, the man still deserves the death penalty for his treason.
Cisco will likely be foolish and cut heavily from the west. Yet, China is about to block all of their equipment.
If cisco had a brain, they would start bringing back manufacturing to the west, esp. America, and pushing the fact that they are NOT made in China anymore.
First off, you will notice that almost everything that you mentioned to was pretty much 50's and somewhat the 60's. That was from when i was a kid. The ONLY exception, was W's invasion of Iraq. You mention the coup de'tat but forget to mention that France and Britain had been the lords in Bahrain and had rigged elections to get al-Quwatli into power. Now, WRT south America, oh yeah. America has played HORRIBLE games. Most of it was 50-60s, with the exception being reagan (who also played games). But compared to Europe, America is a wonderful large nation. We have NOTHING on europe, Russia, or China, when it comes to multiple centuries of domination of other nations with illegal invasions, political games, etc. Even now, all those nations regard America as an interloper, even when we push democracy. Heck, look at Egypt. We are not wild about the miltiary removal of a freely elected muslim brotherhood. We do not like them, BUT, they were FREELY elected (unlike say what goes on in Iran or other nations). Now, as to W's invasion of Iraq, what a joke. I was opposed to it then, but it has come at a terrible price in life. Worse, we have left a vacuum in leadership there. However, we are out of there and the freely elected gov. is in place. Likewise, when France, Italy, etc were pushing us to invade Libya, we did not want it, so did LIMITED support. It was because of USA that Kadafhi's military fell quickly, but it was French and Italian politics that created that situation. However, we supported it under NATO command. Of course, Libya appears to be better off, which is good, though there is a lot of doubt about that. OTOH, Syria is a nightmare. Why? Because minority shias want to dominate the nation and are happy committing genocide. USA, and I suspect all of the major powers, are in there putting weapons into various groups hands. Yes, those aligned with China, Iran, Hezbollah have been caught using chemical weapons. BUT, the west is quietly giving aid to various groups. Heck, bengazi was all about the fact that we had over 100 ppl there who were working on transferring weapons to Syria. We were attacked there by shia's. BUT, in the end, I would say that USA is no different than most of Europe (esp. UK, France, Germany, and Italy), Russia, or China.
Yup. THat was true all over the USA university system. That is what reagan brought us. I got my first degree in microbio/genetics and did research in one, but it was later converted into DARPA work. Back then, I had ethical issues with what I was working on. Now, as I look at the world situation, I do not. Hopefully, my work was continued.
Yup. Our invasion of Iraq was just so wrong. The fact that they invaded kuwait and the UN troops (with USA) stopped it has nothing to do with anything.
Likewise, when Afghanistan launched an attack on USA, we should have turned the other cheek and allowed Afghanistan/AQ to continue attacking us.
And we should just pull out of the Mid-east and allowed all of those dictators to continue wiping out their citizens.
Its funny. France and italy pushed America to help with Libya to stop the slaughter, but we are the bad guys.
Likewise, Syria has Iran and Hezbellah helping a dictator that is committing genocide, but America is to blame on this.
North Korea continues to threaten South Korea and we have helped South Korea not only build up after the korean war, but also help protect them. Every time we want to withdraw from there, the SK gov. throws a fit and wants us to stay. And NK comes on strong with all sorts of threats and attacks against SK.
Then there is Taiwan, phillipines, vietnam, and India who absolutely want us to stay in the region because they have been invaded numerous times by China. Heck, China took over tibet, who was a free nation, and yet, it is America that is the bad guy that encourages North Korea, Iran, China, Pakistan (even though they are/were an alley), etc. to build nukes, chemical weapons, etc. And obviously, it is America that encouraged Iran, Syria, Libya, and Iraq to build nukes/chemical weapons due to the threat of USA. It was never about Iran/Syria, Libya wanting to attack Israel, and then Iraq wanting to defend itself against iran.
Nope, you sideliners have it right. America is 100% to blame for it all.
Always has been and still is. Chinese leaders are very much in a cold war with the west.
hint; yes it was.
Which is why we are developing lasers and rail guns for ships.
At this time, that IS the real threat that china has against our groups.
However, are also setting up a number of bases around China for just that issue: Most are known, some are not.
Who said that they are not one and the same?
We need ppl to be well so that they can fight, work, etc. WWI was stopped early due to the massive disease issues (esp. flu) and the inability of the nations to have sustained war. However, other wars have been started over resources and perceptions of being able to take on some other nation.
Doing a minimal national health care such as O'care is not all that horrible, esp. since it actually is CHEAPER to us than what we had.
Incidentally, that is also why top generals in the military back taking actions on AGW. They would rather not have to go to war in the future. Yet, it is so odd that so many neo-con types want to allow AGW to continue and do not care about future wars. I guess that is because so many of them have never been to war.
???? huh? Why do they hire in Mexico to get around NAFTA?
I have also worked with a number of Indians who were educated in India and are NOT ready for work here.
BUT, I think that she is arguing that she was good enough and the job should not have been outsourced.
be changed. They should only be allowed for positions that can not be filled by Americans and can be proven.
One other item is that at some point, we need to say that if a nation is manipulating their money against just the dollar, then we need to stop trade with them. The idea of free trade is that the nations equalize by money changing. With this approach, it is simply theft.
Actually, that has little to do with our military spending. The fact is, that we spend a great deal less than Russia and China on a % GDP basis. Our problem is that we are not taxing enough and reagan, Poppa Bush, W, and Obama have ran up a massive debt.
so that we can get laser com from multiple sources. Then simply beam down to earth. I would guess that 10 or more would be needed, but this is cheaper than all of the ground stations that we have set up.
This man is a traitor through and through.
He deserves to be executed along with Snowden and Hasan.
Basically, use a maglev approach (seraphim motor) but rigged in the same spiral fashion. Far less chance of failure and very likely a great deal cheaper to do.
And yet, that is far less invasive than is China, Russia, UK, France, Germany, Japan, etc.
Actually, ever major nation has a LONG history of spying on others. And China has been very aggressive about it.
100% correct. The issue here is that NSA can NOT tell the general public exactly what they are up and what was effective. If they do, then AQ and China have more useful information on how to avoid detection.
Yeah, it could not be the fact that those 2 were talking to ppl that we did not know were terrorists and since the NSA does not spy on everybody (you have to have 3 degrees or less of seperation from a KNOWN terrorists before they did), it PROVES that you are right.
in terms of % of GDP, both Russia and China outspend them by a great deal.
But, I guess you see what you want to see. It is like those that push CO2 emissions / capitia, rather than CO2 emissions / GDP. They pick stats that are worthless yet, they will push them hoping that it will stick as being the measure.
Not a problem. Elsewhere the business give up passwords to their gov. Quietly.
I have supported the use of records and even following connections from a known terrorist, but this is insane. Pure insanity. No doubt this is because terrorists/spies have changed tactics, but still this is the wrong way to take solve this.
No, they are not. Snowden was a 'whistle blower' when he was speaking about the nation spying on Americans, though it was all hashed out before in 2005.
He became a traitor once he moved to talking about our interactions with other nations, spies and terrorists.
Think about it. If a Canadian was to give up OLD KNOWN information about issues dealing with you, and then talked about NEW information that helped AQ to hide and then allow them to attack you, would YOU not consider them a traitor?