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>Actually I just wanted to forward an article to you:
>http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/co/14976/1.html
*reads*.. Interesting, has Canada in it.
Though it seems to me you're turning into a conspiracy theorist if
you're believing stuff like this. Sure the US is cracking down in a
bunch of places, and their corruption goes pretty far.. but they're
not out to wage WW4, Christianity vs. Islam. That's just ridiculous.
And Canada being threatened by it is equally ridiculous. Canada is
the most multi-cultural nation in the world. No one here would buy
that kind of crap. We've been basically the only country standing
against some of the US's policies without having some business
interest in doing so. France and Russia opposed the war on Iraq
because Iraq had an oil deal with them if they'd do so. The US
proposed the war on Iraq because it would free up oil supplies and
cheapen energy costs, and because a bunch of Bush's friends and
family own oil companies that would rebuild and end up investing in
Iraq's oilfields.
Bush is a dumbass and he doesn't do nearly as much as he should to
hide how he's trying to make money off of everything, (and yes,
probably make the US in general more money or to have cheaper costs),
pretending he's acting on moral grounds.. but he's a businessman..
not a religious fanatic. Nor would he pretend to be one.
I have more problems with democracy working properly right now than I
do of anything else. There's too much co-operation, and politicians
vs. everyone else going on. The point of democracy is that if you
don't like what someone's doing, you don't vote for them. But in the
US, they only have 2 parties, which are as old as the country
itself.. and they've just given up on fighting eachother over
anything that matters. So the Republicans are corrupt, should you
vote Democrat? Doesn't matter, they're equally corrupt. It's like the
oil companies not competing for prices, they just both leave it nice
and high, and smile and make sure nobody tries to compete by lowering
it. After all, if they compete, all that's going to happen is that in
the end, all companies make less money. And that's not good.. and the
oil industry is too big for any entrepreneur to say "I could do it
cheaper and better.", it takes too much money to kick-start ourself.
Much like it's impossible to just start up a political party to
compete with all the corrupt ones. The way the election system is set
up makes sure that that won't happen.
I'm also more concerned about the media control (the US just decided
to loosen up their media controls so that companies can own far more
percentages of newspaper/TV/radio than they were restricted to
before). And with AOL and Microsoft starting to co-operate instead of
compete. It'll be nice for a few things (Like MSN messenger and ICQ
being able to communicate with eachother).. but for the most part I
think they're going to stop caring about listening to what consumers
want and just telling them what they're going to get.
*sigh*.. So many problems. So little anyone can do about them.
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>Actually I just wanted to forward an article to you:
>http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/co/14976/1.html
*reads*.. Interesting, has Canada in it.
Though it seems to me you're turning into a conspiracy theorist if
you're believing stuff like this. Sure the US is cracking down in a
bunch of places, and their corruption goes pretty far.. but they're
not out to wage WW4, Christianity vs. Islam. That's just ridiculous.
And Canada being threatened by it is equally ridiculous. Canada is
the most multi-cultural nation in the world. No one here would buy
that kind of crap. We've been basically the only country standing
against some of the US's policies without having some business
interest in doing so. France and Russia opposed the war on Iraq
because Iraq had an oil deal with them if they'd do so. The US
proposed the war on Iraq because it would free up oil supplies and
cheapen energy costs, and because a bunch of Bush's friends and
family own oil companies that would rebuild and end up investing in
Iraq's oilfields.
Bush is a dumbass and he doesn't do nearly as much as he should to
hide how he's trying to make money off of everything, (and yes,
probably make the US in general more money or to have cheaper costs),
pretending he's acting on moral grounds.. but he's a businessman..
not a religious fanatic. Nor would he pretend to be one.
I have more problems with democracy working properly right now than I
do of anything else. There's too much co-operation, and politicians
vs. everyone else going on. The point of democracy is that if you
don't like what someone's doing, you don't vote for them. But in the
US, they only have 2 parties, which are as old as the country
itself.. and they've just given up on fighting eachother over
anything that matters. So the Republicans are corrupt, should you
vote Democrat? Doesn't matter, they're equally corrupt. It's like the
oil companies not competing for prices, they just both leave it nice
and high, and smile and make sure nobody tries to compete by lowering
it. After all, if they compete, all that's going to happen is that in
the end, all companies make less money. And that's not good.. and the
oil industry is too big for any entrepreneur to say "I could do it
cheaper and better.", it takes too much money to kick-start ourself.
Much like it's impossible to just start up a political party to
compete with all the corrupt ones. The way the election system is set
up makes sure that that won't happen.
I'm also more concerned about the media control (the US just decided
to loosen up their media controls so that companies can own far more
percentages of newspaper/TV/radio than they were restricted to
before). And with AOL and Microsoft starting to co-operate instead of
compete. It'll be nice for a few things (Like MSN messenger and ICQ
being able to communicate with eachother).. but for the most part I
think they're going to stop caring about listening to what consumers
want and just telling them what they're going to get.
*sigh*.. So many problems. So little anyone can do about them.
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