China Displacing U.S. ?!
Sadly the U.S. is still trapped in a military mind set. The rest of the globe is thinking and doing economic things. Our job failure is part of this pattern. We have good military people killing or being killed -- and committing suicide. As I have said before, we seem now to be substituting Islam for the old Soviet Union.
Our pols are in disarray on both these issues. And Obama seems overwhelmed by them. No wonder. He inherited our next potential depression and has not the time or energy to take all problems in. There is no way to threaten China into treating its workers fairly so that their goods sell to Americans in the discount stores while Americans are terrified (or gloating if super rich) over our national disaster in the making.
I could say much more, but those of us who follow the facts rather than playing opinion games know what I am saying here. We should be putting our people to work repairing our infrastructures rather than wasting monies on pointless wars.
China is not so dumb. It has us hooked and is threatening doing us in -- or in fact doing that already. See Chomsky below.
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China’s Growing Independence and the New World Order
By Noam Chomsky
Chinese leaders are unlikely to be impressed by such [U.S. warnings], the language of an imperial power desperately trying to cling to authority it no longer has.
Of all the “threats” to world order, the most consistent is democracy, unless it is under imperial control, and more generally, the assertion of independence. These fears have guided imperial power throughout history.
In South America, Washington’s traditional backyard, the subjects are increasingly disobedient. Their steps toward independence advanced further in February with the formation of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, which includes all states in the hemisphere apart from the U.S. and Canada.
[See more at website here]
http://www.readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/83-83/3534-the-new-world-order
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"A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy cited by Machiavelli)
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Ed Kent [blind copies]
Our pols are in disarray on both these issues. And Obama seems overwhelmed by them. No wonder. He inherited our next potential depression and has not the time or energy to take all problems in. There is no way to threaten China into treating its workers fairly so that their goods sell to Americans in the discount stores while Americans are terrified (or gloating if super rich) over our national disaster in the making.
I could say much more, but those of us who follow the facts rather than playing opinion games know what I am saying here. We should be putting our people to work repairing our infrastructures rather than wasting monies on pointless wars.
China is not so dumb. It has us hooked and is threatening doing us in -- or in fact doing that already. See Chomsky below.
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China’s Growing Independence and the New World Order
By Noam Chomsky
Chinese leaders are unlikely to be impressed by such [U.S. warnings], the language of an imperial power desperately trying to cling to authority it no longer has.
Of all the “threats” to world order, the most consistent is democracy, unless it is under imperial control, and more generally, the assertion of independence. These fears have guided imperial power throughout history.
In South America, Washington’s traditional backyard, the subjects are increasingly disobedient. Their steps toward independence advanced further in February with the formation of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, which includes all states in the hemisphere apart from the U.S. and Canada.
[See more at website here]
http://www.readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/83-83/3534-the-new-world-order
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"A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy cited by Machiavelli)
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Ed Kent [blind copies]
posted by Ed Kent at 11:33 AM
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Mr. Kent, I am taking a risk of you thinking I am a religious nut, but I have read so often in your posts about how worried you are about the future of the U.S. and your children and grandchildren. So I am taking a chance and giving you a website address that explains what the United States will do in the future. It is all based on the book of Revelation in the Bible. I know there are thousands of interpretations of Revelation, but I believe this one is right and I believe that what has happened in the last few years has proved it. The website is: http://www.amazingfacts.org If you decide to check it out just go on the site search and type in: United States in prophecy.
I am reading a book called, "Every Man in This Village is a Liar," by Megan Stack. She is a reporter for the LA Times and went to Afganistan and Iraq. What broke my heart the most was when an Iraqi woman who was helping her was so distressed about Abu G(whatever that prison was called) where the pictures came out that we were torturing people. The reporter said something like, "Well, every country here does it." But the Iraqi woman said, "Yes, we are used to that. But you are the United States. We thought you were different." Lord, that hurt my heart.
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