I thought this article was fascinating: Bloody and bruised: the journalist caught in Egypt unrest. http://promotingpeace.tumblr.com/post/2973043380
(Guardian journalist beaten by police) <http://promotingpeace.tumblr.com/post/2973043380> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Eric Roberts < [email protected]> wrote: > > I am sure that would be a great selling point ;-) > > -----Original Message----- > From: G Money [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 13:46 > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Egypt is missing > > > Every American made weapon that we build for another country should contain > a secret tiny chip in it that can be activated at any time by our > government > to render it useless. > > That would be pretty cool. > > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Jerry Milo Johnson <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > > Also, unfortunately, today many of the weapon systems we resell were > > NOT made fully in the USA. > > > > Just as the shovel-ready projects we have "greenlighted" with the > > stimulus are using Chinese steel, and illegal immigrant labor, we are > > borrowing foreign money (China) to line the pockets of the rich > > business owners, who are creating a handful of jobs, but moving most of > their business overseas. > > > > You couldn't get a 12 year old with a basic understanding of money to > > believe what we do to ourselves. > > > > > > > > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Michael Dinowitz < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Very nice and it touches on a tiny but important issue - military > > > aid. If the US gave Egypt more economic aid than military, this > > > problem might > > have > > > been avoided. 1.3 BILLION is a lot of money, even if it's mostly > virtual. > > > > > > We play these games all over the place. We give military aid to > > > Egypt > > (who > > > still plans and expects to have a war with Israel), we give military > > > aid > > to > > > Israel to balance out their enemies, we give military aid to everyone. > > And > > > the reason we give it is because they have to spend most of it on > > American > > > military hardware. So the US government is giving money to another > > country > > > who will in turn give it to US weapons manufacturers. > > > > > > And the scary thing is if the Egyptian government falls, who will > > > have their hands on billions of dollars worth of high tech weapons? > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Good explanation of what has happened and is happening in Egypt, > > > > and > > why: > > > > > > > > http://promotingpeace.tumblr.com/post/2969260999 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:333769 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
