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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (7947)	10/29/2001 12:28:49 AM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

so where's our empire? finance.yahoo.com@^dji

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (7947)	10/29/2001 7:16:37 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

<Like I keep asking, so where's our empire? -g- > Here I am!! On the other hand, I was thinking that the USA is part of my empire. So far, I own Kiwiland [as a citizen], have a Canadian son, by birth, so he owns that. I earned money from Texaco in Canada and BP Oil International. I used that money to buy QUALCOMM, which hires a bunch of employees who invent and produce really good stuff, such as Globalstar links for airliners so real-time views and communications and gps can be maintained. QUALCOMM sells the technology to Koreans and companies like Kyocera. They sell handsets and other devices around the world and build factories in China, hiring Chinese to produce handsets. CDMA is rapidly spreading around the world and every time anybody buys it, they give me money. I pay taxes to the USA government which pays soldiers and builds things like USS Enterprise, to enforce some sort of rule of law around the world. It's very approximate and rough justice at times and sometimes willfully criminal, but overall it's been okay. So, I have been colonized, but I'm not sure that's a bad thing. In fact I quite like it. What's especially nice is that I don't have to live in the USA to colonize it [or be colonized]. Part of the difficulty with empires is that people tend to see them as one way streets and that the colonized are oppressed. I think that's a short-sighted view. My opinion is that Africa and India were better off as British colonies than independent. The partition of India, violence, and now nuclear threats together with the lack of progress wouldn't have happened under British colonization. India looks as though it hasn't moved in the 50 years that the British left - though they have got LOTS of people and maybe that's the best progress possible. China kicked the British [and a few New Zealanders including my 8 year old Chinese born mother] out and went into an economic and social maelstrom for 60 years. Now, they have got it figured out a bit and are taking over from the USA as the economic engine of the world, growing at 7% while the rest of the world is wringing their hands in recessionary worries. Happily Colinized and Condominiumed, Mq