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To: TobagoJack who wrote (91601)	6/17/2012 10:20:37 AM
From: dvdw©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217689

Not at all surprising that older chinese are disappointed. Why wouldnt they be? They have effectively cut themselves out of the transfer function, where a lifes experience is available by absorption, to them that might admire. how could they be satisfied? In a new society and culture with the young completely adapted to different communications limited or no connection by culture or familial grounds...they cant be woven easily into heterogeneity. Population heterogeneity is a function For the Young...where adaptation is compounded within a process. en.wikipedia.org Team USA needs the youth from everywhere, to grow up together, as mixing is the key to compounding potential.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (91601)	6/17/2012 12:45:13 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217689

Total & Utter Failure: Nigel Farage Rips the EU Commies in Strasbourg sheikyermami.com

To: TobagoJack who wrote (91601)	6/17/2012 1:06:58 PM
From: whistler3000	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217689

Maybe TJ - but Canada immigration has seen a big change recently. Canadians are suffering from "immigration fatigue" and the federal government has responded politically. My sense is the Feds will continue to "talk up" immigration to garner immigrant votes while they actually institute measures to decrease the inflow. We are on the path to an Australia style immigration system (Prime Minister Harper has intimated that this is where we should be headed). Now: 1) Must fully document where money you are bringing is coming from - if you can't show a clear and legal paper trail, you don't get in by the immigrant Investor class (people have been refused entry on this basis in the last few months). 2) As of 1 year ago immigrants must have excellent working knowledge of English/French - including a fairly rigorous exam - no pass no entry. 3) No more family class immigrants (ie. can't sponsor relatives). 4) No more immigration by birth - so flow of pregnant immigrant ladies to Canadian obstetric hospitals stops and children born in Canada cannot sponsor their parents. 5) Immigration Canada is targeting people 18-35 with real job offers from Canadian employers - everyone else is out of luck. 5) Canadians filing tax returns must declare "worldwide assets" of more than $100,000 or risk heavy fines or worse - what's more, if you choose to leave Canada an exit tax must be paid (basically assumes you have sold all assets worldwide and you must pay Capital Gains Tax on this before leaving). Wealthy immigrants beware. What's more, in order to deal with the "immigration backlog" - government outright cancelled 180,000 and told them to "line up again." From my vantage point (I see a lot of new immigrants in my work) in Vancouver there has been a palpable slowdown in immigration. Fewer new immigrants from China Taiwan and Korea, more from the Philippines, Eastern Europe, Ireland, the UK, South America and Japan. Finally, in British Columbia it looks as though we are going to elect an NDP government next year - a socialist party that while in power in the 1990's pushed the marginal tax rate to 52%, the corporate tax rate into the high 20's and tabled a proposal on a "wealth tax" for all British Columbians, based on all holdings worldwide (real estate, offshore accounts, stocks, bonds, gold). theglobeandmail.com IOW - Vancouver/Canada = Non Freedom Rock.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (91601)	6/17/2012 4:32:44 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217689

One must be careful in choosing slogans: "Land of the Free and Home of the Brave" makes a stirring song and the idea sounds pretty good youtube.com Who wouldn't want to be American watching Whitney Houston sing that? <amongst those that 'made it to america', you can well imagine the resulting ... hard to describe ... regret ... for lack of better word, especially when i compared usa to ... say ... freedom hong kong or antiseptic singapore, that which is right at the door step or not very far away> "Land of the Free" does NOT mean it's free to go there. It is top dollar and "Welcome to the Hotel California" should be noted. youtube.com <Last thing I remember I was running for the door. I had to find the passage back to the place I was before. "Relax," said the night man, "We are programmed to receive. You can check out any time you like but you can never leave"> There are now more than a few people around the world who carefully avoid entering USA airspace. The long arm of the arbitrary law by making up rules aka "Calvinball" of the USA is reaching into places like NZ with Kim Dotcom of Megaupload now suffering the effect with a rearguard action by the NZ judiciary to maintain a facade of common law, habeas corpus, human rights but no property rights with assets confiscated en masse. He is accused of providing a toll road for people to drive on, but of not checking in the boot, under the hood, in the passenger's pockets, in their laptops and iPhones for any possible copyright breaches. Governments who also own roads do not do such checking either, and certainly do not convict themselves if criminals are found to be using the public highways to move burgled tvs and purloined proceeds hither and yon. I have provided the New Zealand police with all details and evidence of actual crime in the form of credit card fraud, with the criminal's name, address, photo, and so on, but they are 'too busy' to bother with it. They are not too busy to harass motorists to gain cash for trivial offences, nor to have a lot of fun raiding Kim Dotcom with helicopters and machine guns at the behest of the FBI who illegally copied Megaupload's computers and took the information to the USA contrary to the judge's ruling. They should of course be charged with obstruction of justice and the other offences they committed. It's appalling that the FBI illegally copied information expressly against the decision of a judge, but Megaupload and Kim Dotcom copied nothing illegally, yet Kim is held prisoner, but the FBI is free to commit more crime. Mqurice

To: TobagoJack who wrote (91601)	6/17/2012 8:37:50 PM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 217689

>>details re worldwide a/c declaration and global income taxation<< Thus the problem with Mq's promotion of TCs as the panacea for Greece's ills. You see, there is nothing whatsoever to prevent Greece and its ilk from copying the draconian US tax policies after first suckering in a bunch of foreign yokels. Prospective immigrants to anywhere must keep in mind that citizenship obligations can be changed on a whim, subjecting them to possible future tax increases, confiscation of gold, drafting into the military, nationalization of business assets, global asset reporting, etc.