The easiest, and cheapest way for China to gain access to Russian resources is simply to trade for them, this is something that the Chinese appear to be very adept at. The Chinese government doesn't care what kind of country you run as long as you are a good trading partner (See slavery in Burma, though they are not the only country turning a blind eye). Of course this is not entirely unlike US foreign policy either.
The fact that the British press is now getting into the act of praising 1000 year old inventions and ignoring the last thousand years of stagnation is telling.
It's part of an attempt to counter the growing Islamaphobia in Europe and the West in general. Unfortunately a few political extremists are sullying the name of approximately 1.3 billion people on Earth, and many westerners are lapping it up eagerly.
Sounds like you are advocating genocide here! While genocide is an effective strategy assuming you have the will, resources, and the total lack of human decency required to do it, it kind of loses you the moral highground doesn't it?
And I believe, the US and Britain, so far, are not yet totalitarian dictatorships, so unless they are willing to go the whole hog, i.e. become dictatorships and commit genocide, they have to fight in limited, but smart ways. Not just go smashing things up like a bull in a china shop. The British seem to understand this, they learned this through their experiences of occupying many countries over many years. I think (hope!) the US may be starting to learn this as well.
Violence begets violence, that's how terrorist movements generally get started, they don't appear out of a vacuum. Usually starts when some state or government abuses/oppresses/kills people. Some are directly effected (lose family members etc) and others are just made damn angry and filled with hatred for those associated with their oppressors. The more unstable of these are then ripe for recruitment into terrorist movements.
Happens all the time, every empire or occupier has to deal with resistence/terrorism. And it's always the innocent who pay the price.
British forces were originally sent to Northern Ireland to protect Irish Catholics from violent Unionist/Protestant groups (who thought their privileged status in Northern Ireland was threatened (it was). But they were then used to oppress and kill Irish Catholics (e.g. Bloody Sunday). This resulted in the Catholics turning against the British Army (which was originally welcomed) and spawned/invigorated terrorist groups like the Provisional IRA who then went on to commit various horrible atrocities against the British.
There are 'good' fats e.g. Omega 3 & 6 fatty acids, found in olive oil, oily fish such as salmon, mackeral, and small amounts in green leafy vegetables, nuts also contain good fats that generally lower LDL cholesterol levels. 'Bad' fats are saturated fats found in red meats, dairy products, margerine and various 'butter' substitutes which usually include trans-fats as well which are bad also. Of course, some saturated fat is useful to the body, but it's better to get most of your fat from the poly-unsaturated and mono-unsaturated fats.
Here in Ireland I know some schools have started to advise parents to give their children Omega 3 suplements or to eat more Omega 3 rich foods, apparently it leads to noticeable improvements in behaviour and learning within a few weeks. This is anecdotal eveidence from some teachers I know.
Cheers.
Not sure about the 'work harder' bit, as far as I'm aware, productivity per hour worked is higher in most European countries. People in the US do work a lot more hours, but less productive hours.
BTW much of the US economic growth that you tout is driven my debt, which is funded from the savings of people in Japan, China and Europe. Economies such as Japan and Europe where people tend to save more and consume less tend to grow at slower, steadier rates.
At the moment the US government appears to be trying to stave off a massive economic meltdown by having effectively zero interest rates and huge government spending. I hope this works, because if it doesn't, it's going to horrible globally.
Which version of Firefox were you using? On what OS etc? I use Firefox 0.9.2 on XP everyday, check out Slashdot everyday amongst other sites and have never encountered this problem. In fact I have never encountered a bug in Firefox yet, in my experience it has been a joy to use. I will never go back to IE6, too much grief with crashes, spyware & adware
and limited functionality.
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The easiest, and cheapest way for China to gain access to Russian resources is simply to trade for them, this is something that the Chinese appear to be very adept at. The Chinese government doesn't care what kind of country you run as long as you are a good trading partner (See slavery in Burma, though they are not the only country turning a blind eye). Of course this is not entirely unlike US foreign policy either.
It's part of an attempt to counter the growing Islamaphobia in Europe and the West in general. Unfortunately a few political extremists are sullying the name of approximately 1.3 billion people on Earth, and many westerners are lapping it up eagerly.
Sounds like you are advocating genocide here! While genocide is an effective strategy assuming you have the will, resources, and the total lack of human decency required to do it, it kind of loses you the moral highground doesn't it? And I believe, the US and Britain, so far, are not yet totalitarian dictatorships, so unless they are willing to go the whole hog, i.e. become dictatorships and commit genocide, they have to fight in limited, but smart ways. Not just go smashing things up like a bull in a china shop. The British seem to understand this, they learned this through their experiences of occupying many countries over many years. I think (hope!) the US may be starting to learn this as well.
Violence begets violence, that's how terrorist movements generally get started, they don't appear out of a vacuum. Usually starts when some state or government abuses/oppresses/kills people. Some are directly effected (lose family members etc) and others are just made damn angry and filled with hatred for those associated with their oppressors. The more unstable of these are then ripe for recruitment into terrorist movements. Happens all the time, every empire or occupier has to deal with resistence/terrorism. And it's always the innocent who pay the price. British forces were originally sent to Northern Ireland to protect Irish Catholics from violent Unionist/Protestant groups (who thought their privileged status in Northern Ireland was threatened (it was). But they were then used to oppress and kill Irish Catholics (e.g. Bloody Sunday). This resulted in the Catholics turning against the British Army (which was originally welcomed) and spawned/invigorated terrorist groups like the Provisional IRA who then went on to commit various horrible atrocities against the British.
There are 'good' fats e.g. Omega 3 & 6 fatty acids, found in olive oil, oily fish such as salmon, mackeral, and small amounts in green leafy vegetables, nuts also contain good fats that generally lower LDL cholesterol levels. 'Bad' fats are saturated fats found in red meats, dairy products, margerine and various 'butter' substitutes which usually include trans-fats as well which are bad also. Of course, some saturated fat is useful to the body, but it's better to get most of your fat from the poly-unsaturated and mono-unsaturated fats. Here in Ireland I know some schools have started to advise parents to give their children Omega 3 suplements or to eat more Omega 3 rich foods, apparently it leads to noticeable improvements in behaviour and learning within a few weeks. This is anecdotal eveidence from some teachers I know. Cheers.
Not sure about the 'work harder' bit, as far as I'm aware, productivity per hour worked is higher in most European countries. People in the US do work a lot more hours, but less productive hours. BTW much of the US economic growth that you tout is driven my debt, which is funded from the savings of people in Japan, China and Europe. Economies such as Japan and Europe where people tend to save more and consume less tend to grow at slower, steadier rates. At the moment the US government appears to be trying to stave off a massive economic meltdown by having effectively zero interest rates and huge government spending. I hope this works, because if it doesn't, it's going to horrible globally.
Which version of Firefox were you using? On what OS etc? I use Firefox 0.9.2 on XP everyday, check out Slashdot everyday amongst other sites and have never encountered this problem. In fact I have never encountered a bug in Firefox yet, in my experience it has been a joy to use. I will never go back to IE6, too much grief with crashes, spyware & adware and limited functionality.