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To: arun gera who wrote (93207)	8/7/2012 8:48:10 PM
From: carranza2	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219874

We're complicated, Arun. Next to the thugs in finance are incredibly capable people who can do things like this: youtube.com

To: arun gera who wrote (93207)	8/9/2012 5:00:12 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 219874

People speak of empires as bad things. I have worked for them and found them to be very useful to me, paying much more than I could get working for local bosses who had contrived to get themselves into positions of power through government imposts and protections. Right now, I have most of our savings invested in the American empire and am much happier with returns from that than I could get from NZ. India did very well from the British Empire too, with hordes of Indians able to earn much better livings than otherwise, and able to enjoy the 20th century advantages of railways and all sorts that the British Empire provided. After independence, it all went backwards as the local bosses nabbed the loot and the spivs in government took the rest. But at least some good things like english as a lingua franca remained, which enables hordes of Indians to join the world, many fleeing India to do it. The crooks running India even tried to eliminate english, but young people rebelled as they realized that the ticket out of privation hinged on being in command of english. Sanjay Jha would not have worked for Qualcomm without english. Hordes in China are trying to catch up, but they have a problem because they rejected the great advantage they had with the British Empire association and ended up with Japan invading - way to go guys!! So english never got going in China, other than in Hong Kong, which not by accident is now, as TJ points out, one of the world's pre-eminent places. Take a look at Singapore too. Fortunately, I have not been "protected" from the American empire, or the Japanese empire, of the remnants of the British empire by the crooks running Helengrad, though they did keep people well trussed up in NZ until 1984 and the depredations of the kleptocratic suffocatocracy are so great that a million Kiwis have fled the country to earn and enjoy a better living elsewhere. We need a better empire though. The American empire has peaked and gone into kleptocratic suffocatocracy mode, with wall to wall debts piled up by the $trillion. China's burgeoning empire is not grounded in the pleasant Christian ideology of each to their own, peer to peer dealings, with rejection of temporal overlords. It's a totalitarian ideology with anyone popping their head above the parapet sure to be squashed. They are basically reinstituting the old emperor ways. North Korea has already gone dynastic, back to the old Emperor ways. China will no doubt follow in due course. Bo Xilai was heading that way but a Shakespearian Macbeth scene took over en.wikipedia.org with his wife murdering her way to more power. Maybe he had a little knowledge of the situation too. Cyberspace will be the new world order. We the People versus the Temporal Barbarians. With a swarm of independent nations as a front and on our side, we'll be set to rule the world. The Temporal Barbarians are fighting a rearguard action. Mqurice