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PATRICK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-02-09 02:08 PM
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11. I think the similarities
Edited on Fri Oct-02-09 02:12 PM by PATRICK
are in imperial designs and corporate makeovers of nationalism. What is happening in all these cases is loss of "homeland" interests in favor of multinational empire and business. I don't thing "globalization" and other catchwords stand for anything really new. Yet the scale and scope of the US surrender to this proud absurdity is boggling to the mind of any intelligent species in the universe.

manufacturing, farming. the size and self-sustainability of America. You could even add in Canada and South America and there is no justification or rationale at all to import any but the most exotic foods and products from anywhere. Instead we have drywall and apple concentrate shipped from the shoddiest most starved and unreliable regions by slow steamer. Everything rots. Everything is shoddy and the economy is false and wasteful and destructive of all, repeat ALL parties to the madness. Only a totally surreal money game dominates the paper empire. In the past collapse is simple, inevitable and a caveat to the unending calvacade of repeating imperial pretensions. Ours has the potential to be quite spectacular, humiliating and inexcusable by any standard,
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