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Originally posted by Rndm_Perfection
Buuut, that's not the case, so let's not dream about it. Equally, the world does not live like North America, so let's not worry about it.
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But isn't that what you want? Look, if a country is communist, or doesn't want to do things YOUR way then you won't do business with it or you will try to convert it to capitalism.
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Originally posted by Rndm_Perfection
First off, technology would be spitting out plenty of new ways to handle resources
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Why aren't we doing it now? You see, our way of living don't give a **** about ressources, it's all about money. We'll do something allright but that's when there will be no more ressources. And then you can use all the technology you want to handle it, but if there is none to handle then we're ****ed.
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Originally posted by Rndm_Perfection
Because there are many "unfortunate" humans out there born into poor families in Third World Countries, it is a natural act to assume help from those more fortunate.
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And what do we do with them? We exploit them as cheap labor and say that we are helping them by giving them jobs.
And The Stangler, I won't start arguing with you for "who has done the worst to whom" because it will never end. But here's a few things that Americans should be proud of:
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1953: U.S. overthrows Prime Minister Mossadeq of Iran. U.S. installs Shah as dictator.
1954: U.S. overthrows democratically-elected President Arbenz of Guatemala. 200,000 civilians killed.
1963: U.S. backs assassination of South Vietnamese President Diem.
1963-1975: American military kills 4 million civilians in Southeast Asia.
September 11, 1973: U.S. stages coup in Chile. Democratically elected president Salvador Allende assassinated. Dictator Augusto Pinochet installed. 5,000 Chileans murdered.
1977: U.S. backs military rulers of El Salvador. 70,000 Salvadorans and four American nuns killed.
1980's: U.S. trains Osama bin Laden and fellow terrorists to kill Soviets. CIA gives them $3 billion.
1981: Reagan administration trains and funds "contras". 30,000 Nicaraguans die.
1982: U.S. provides billions in aid to Saddam Hussein for weapons to kill Iranians.
1983: White House secretly gives Iran weapons to help them kill Iraqis.
1989: CIA agent Manuel Noriega (also serving as President of Panama) disobeys orders from Washington. U.S. invades Panama and removes Noriega. 3,000 Panamanian civilian casualties
1990: Iraq invades Kuwait with weapons from U.S.
1991: U.S. enters Iraq. Bush reinstates dictator of Kuwait.
1998: Clinton bombs "weapons factory" in Sudan. Factory turns out to be making aspirin.
1991 to present: American planes bomb Iraq on a weekly basis. U.N. estimates 500,000 Iraqi children die from bombing and sanctions.
2000-01: U.S. gives Taliban-ruled Afghanistan $245 million in "aid".
September 11, 2001: Osama Bin Laden uses his expert CIA training to murder 3,000 people.