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sailwind
The U.S pretty much feeds the world through its grain exports, I do not have problem with that. You seem to.
Posted in: U.S. farmers celebrate approval of free trade deals
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sailwind
On Iraq?
How would that affect Iran plotting to blow up Saudis in the US?
Need a good staging area for the troops if it is ever a go to into Iran, Madverts.
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sailwind
Madverts,
Agreed, the U.S is broke and if President Obama wants to use military pressure on Iraq he is in bad shape.
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sailwind
LRA,
You do understand the concept of a bumper crop one would hope. One would also hope you understand the concept of drought also and the concept of trying to keep a steady food supply between the two.
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sailwind
Good thing for President Obama. We have a lot hard battle ready troops already in Afghanistan and Iraq who could turn on a dime if he orders them to "turn right" to Iran.
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sailwind
Yabits,
Halperin already admitted to "making stuff up"
the authors were tackled about it on Fox TV, and had to admit they did not know exactly what Clinton said.
Your repeating gossip not fact.
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sailwind
About your book source Yabits.
A review found after researched on the internet as you suggested.
This is real fly-on-the-wall journalism, where long conversations are reproduced in direct speech, and the authors claim to know not just what people said, but what they were thinking. For instance, there is an account of Bill Clinton calling Ted Kennedy in the hope of persuading him to endorse Hillary. Kennedy was impressed by the relative upstart, Barack Obama. Clinton could not believe that the Democrat's senior statesman could want to back someone so raw. "A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee," Clinton exclaimed.
Or did he? After this reported comment had buzzed around the blogosphere, the authors were tackled about it on Fox TV, and had to admit they did not know exactly what Clinton said.
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sailwind
You do understand that we using personal computers and more than likely a windows operating system to have this discussion half way around the world don't you?
Posted in: Sarah Palin says U.S. due for a woman president
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sailwind
globalwatcher,
Actually, I take news articles from sources both left and right with a huge grain of salt. And when I see an article that pikes my interest and curiosity I hit the internet to try and form as much as I can an unbiased opinion out side of the article I am reading at the time. I usually do a google search on the title of the article and hit the news button. There I can find sources not only reporting from the U.S but also from the rest of the world. It was how I found out about what she actually said at her speech. I found it pretty surprising that she was actually in agreement with the Obama administration on Free Trade policy with South Korea.
As far why she was invited. Before I looked into other news articles on the story I actually goggled "World Knowledge Forum" first. Was pleasantly surprised also. This group has been around for awhile and it is comprised of some of to most top notch talent and leaders of the world to discuss policies that mainly effect Asia on a global scale.
Wiki entry:
The World Knowledge Forum is a fete of knowledge, the biggest in Asia. It is also known as Asia's Davos Forum (World Economic Forum). Established in October 2000, the World Knowledge Forum gathers more than 100 business and opinion leaders from around the world ranging from environmental and international organizations to world's biggest corporations and institutions. These leaders predict the future and discuss possible solutions for problems that are already, or might become, an issue. The main aim is to highlight the importance of knowledge sharing towards a balanced prosperity of the global economy.
I also went to their actual website.......As after reading Wiki it really got my interest up. This is what they had to say on her.
Sarah Palin first made history on December 4, 2006 when she was sworn in as the first female governor of Alaska. In August 2008, Senator John McCain tapped Palin to serve as his vice-presidential running mate in his presidential campaign, making her the first woman to run on the Republican Party's presidential ticket. In Alaska, her top priorities included fiscal restraint, limiting the size of government, resource development, education, equitable oil valuation. Palin is a contributor for FOX News where she offers her political commentary and analysis across all FOX News platforms, including FOX Business Channel. She is the author of The New York Times best-selling books, Going Rogue: An American Life (November 2009) and was named to TIME magazine's 2010 "100 Most Influential People" list.
I would guess she was invited as she is a pretty influential force in American politics and in Asia people would be interested on her perspective on things from a conservative American's point of view.
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sailwind
Agreed, that Corporate developed Technology in the first place is sure is helping them get the word out to others to overthrow those corporate fat cats.
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sailwind
globalwatcher,
If you want her exact quotes on the matter,
Bloomberg Business Week covered her whole speech in depth. Left out the fluff that A.P thought was important though.
‘I support what is being debated right now in Washington, D.C., with the FTA with South Korea because we are natural trading partners from automobiles to agricultural products.
‘‘What government can do is to open the gate and then get out of the way and let the people trade, let the markets dictate what should be traded and much of the terms, and I do look forward to seeing that outcome from the U.S. and Korea free- trade agreement.’’
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sailwind
You've got your facts wrong.
President Obama in November 2010
President Obama and President Lee Myung-bak of South Korea failed to reach an agreement Thursday on a long-awaited free-trade agreement, saying they had decided instead to give their negotiators more time to work out differences, which revolved around Korean imports of American autos and beef.
Sarah Palin in today's keynote speech.
On issues in the Korean peninsula, Ms. Palin said there needs to be a regime change in North Korea given the brutal dictatorship in the country and separately called for a stronger partnership between the U.S. and South Korea, noting the latter country’s impressive development in the past 50 years and voicing her support for the South Korea-U.S. free-trade agreement.
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sailwind
Some of the things she said in her speech not used here in the article;
"Technology means individuals have been empowered in ways they have never been empowered before in our entire history," she told the World Knowledge Forum hosted by Maeil Business Newspaper.
"Technology has taken power away from central authorities and provided individuals with more choices. We are no longer living in a top-down world. Now we are living in a bottom-up world, from entertainment and information to education."
But governments seemed to be going in the opposite direction, with the European Union in Brussels "dictating terms for the member states across the continent", she said.
In China, "where there have been some movements towards reform, the Communist Party still dictates to the Chinese what they can and what they can't do in so many respects", she added.
Even in the United States, the political elite "believe we just can't get along without them", Palin charged.
"Government officials like to push this idea because it gives them the opportunity to pick the economic winners and losers in our system... in other words, it gives them ultimate economic power.
"I just call it crony capitalism."
Pretty astute I must say.
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sailwind
Yabits,
Moody's downgrades a dozen UK banks .......... Yesterdays headline on JT for a little reference on London based advice.
Posted in: Obama to GOP: Act on jobs or get run out of town
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sailwind
Madverts,
In a Yank word......"Yup".
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sailwind
Madverts,
I do hope you get well. Honesty time. During our past discussions on Bush during the years I was still Active duty Military. I served twenty years, under both Republican and Democrat Commander and Chiefs. I took my oath to support the constitution and obey the orders of the Commander and Chief very seriously. I would not or could not in good conscience violate that oath and there were many times when I wish I could have posted more disparaging words about Bush during that time and I did not agree with a myriad of things he did during his terms, but service to ones country means just that.........Words sort of fail me right now, but understand this, I will have always tried to respect your posts and positions, and will always strive to in the future, I wil get rid of the template.
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sailwind
Madverts,
I have been working a template to copy and paste prior to anything I post to sastify your continued demands that I hate Bush just as bad you do.
Here it is so far, " President Bush was bad President, now on to the topic at hand"...........
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sailwind
Yabits,
After world war 2, Europe and Asia were ruins. The U.S was the only country whose industries were intact and could supply the insatiable demand Europe and Asia needed to rebuild after the war.Reality is we got lucky due to our geographic position and did not have our industrial base bombed into ruins by the Facist forces that held sway in the world then. Our prior economic policies during the war only shifted from war industry to a consumer based one based on rebuilding the free world after the war. Your position that our deficit spending created massive demand after the wer is flat out wrong. It was consumer demand and if not for that we would still be saddled with that long ago debt to this day.
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sailwind
Changing policy revolves around stopping the current policy in place. You have to have that basic step first until anything can change. President Obama has not changed his policies and in fact has now double downed on them and is racheting up the class warfare rhetoric. Also Madverts, if you are going to use a past quote from me to show my 'radical' views please use the entire quotation so others that read here can make their decisions if my saying that the U.S deserves to default if it can't its fiscal act together is not based on hard economic reality and not on Maynard Keynes economic fantasies. You will also notice in my quote I advocated we change course and fast.
sailwindJul. 29, 2011 - 08:34PM JST Did it occur to anyone that the U.S actually deserves to default and have her credit rating downgraded? Our spending is out of control and there is no fiscal sanity anywhere evident in Washington. Until we learn to live with in our means we do not deserve to be able to borrow as we please or be considered a good credit risk. We have not earned our good credit rating since Obama became President and until we change course and get our spending under control and grow our economy through the hard work of the private sector to put people back to work should we bitch that our country defaulted and was downgraded as a not so good credit risk.
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sailwind
No offense. Define and clarify your vision of better quality of "Thinking" and your plan to bring it to the masses.
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