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Attention: Mr. Richard Gere Chairman of the Board of Directors International Campaign for Tibet
Dear Mr. Richard Gere,
I acknowledge your kind invitation to join you and millions of voices around the world in the Freedom Campaign for Tibet. I admire the passion, determination and zeal exhibited by the supporters towards the noble cause.
I share your concerns and views regarding the human rights abuse, violation and suppression of democracy in Tibet. Having been a resident of New Delhi, India, I’m all too familiar with the plight of the Tibetan population fleeing their homeland from persecution and unspeakable crime against humanity.
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Meryl Streep - Hollywood
USA for UNHCR Washington DC 20077-7282
Dear Meryl Streep,
I appreciate your humanitarian concerns with respect to Darfur crisis. Unfortunately, the widespread human atrocities not confined to a specific demography despite the world progress in other aspects.
Darfur is the worst humanitarian crime in the twenty first century and soon nearing a decade for the genocide. Yet, the most influential authorities like the United States, the European Union, the emerging economic powers and the United Nations continue to witness the heinous act instead of terminating it once and for all.
Although, the humanitarian relief is commendable, the poignant issue is the reluctance and the lack of action from the United Nations Security Council and the other affluent democracies in Europe and North America.
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The optimization of test node selection is key stage for analog circuits test modes. In this master thesis, optimization technique was studied for test node selection based on Ants Colony Algorithms. The studied technique can yield high faults detection and isolation rates with less number of nodes. The methods, used to select test nodes for fault isolation, such as Heuristic method, Ambiguity sets method and Hashing Method were discussed. The studied concepts can also be applied in the domain of fault dictionary approach for optimization purposes.
We have the technology, but so do they....in the event that there is a cyber attack, the idea is that the US army be able to take over your computer for the greater good of the country. However, if we compare ourselves to our bigger cousins, China...we pail in that comparison.
China could easily afford to have 250 million machines to node together into a massive botnet, sort of what we have seen the likes of with that virus STORM. We probably could accomadate 10 million machines, if there are that many infected with a special malware the army created.
There are also those special organisations..like google...that allow you to donate your cpu cycles for a special reason (like doing cancer stem cell research) which in the end makes us feel like we are doing our part, but who says that those mega machines are not infected with the same virus or worm, thereby coming back full circle as if you had the malware installed on your pc.
We match our 10 million to their 250 million, and we have to wonder...is this why we are login the cyber war??? What can we do differently, or better, to make sure this type of thing does not happen.
I would recommend something along the lines of an organised committee, that analyses the current threat that countries may pose based on their advanced techonlogy or access to...and formulate a way to moderate a country's progress. Let's say for example Africa was starting a special project to get some computers into schools.... this would be classified as mundane.
If you took a third world country that just finished purchasing special servers that allow multi processing of complex nature, sort of what you need to use to guide missles...well then we would have to review the background of where that hardware was going, and account for its presence at all times.
In the case of a botnet, it is the sum of the small parts that make the whole...does that mean we should limit the amount of computers allowed...or limit the connectivity of those computers to internet access...or anything that might put a small dent into that armor?
Who is to say, but it is something to think about in the years to come, especially now that we are seeing more and more cyber threats surfacing and making theirpresence known. ID Fraud, CC fraud, email scams....spamming, omg spamming! Just food for thought.
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With a finger on the pulse of the economy, the recent reports on employment, housing, financial and stock market post stimulus funding worth $787 billion approved by Congress in February 2009, has drawn both praise and criticism from different quarters. The praise is always welcome and encouraging for any administration and the Obama administration is no exception to the rule, particularly when they are relentlessly engaged in stabilizing the economy as the top priority.
Whereas, the criticism targeted at the President is no revelation considering the partisan Washington atmosphere. The results thus far, indicate the current national unemployment rate at 9.2% against 8% in the pre-approval stimulus package forecast. Further, the reports reveal the economy shed 1.6 million jobs with the White House claiming 150,000 jobs saved since...
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In continuation of the topic on racial attacks against Indian students (from India) in Melbourne, Australia, the incident in the new millennium strikes resemblance to apartheid in South Africa until it became free in 1994.
Australia designated as the industrialized nation, multicultural yet homogenous society…devoid of major ethnic representation in politics, democratic with mandatory voting (the only democratic nation to impose penalty for not voting) and,
A willful participant in all U.S. led major conflicts from Vietnam to Iraq - is a commonwealth nation sworn allegiance to Great Britain’s monarch as the head of the Republic.
The nation from “down under” celebrated bicentennial in 1970 and 1988 to commemorate the permanent white settlement is not a young republic and not new to controversies either.
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The map, based on 18 months’ worth of satellite data, shows very high levels of NO2 above major European and North American cities and across much of north-east China. South-east Asia and Africa also have raised concentrations of the gas due to their burning of vegetation. “Ship tracks are visible in some locations,” says Steffen Beirle, one of the research team at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. “Look at the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean between the southern tip of India and Indonesia.” Although NO2 is formed naturally by lightning and by microbes in the ground, it is also released into the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels by power plants, heavy industry and vehicles. Large quantities of the gas can cause respiratory problems and lung damage, and can also contribute to harmful ozone forming near ground level.
Obama has commented on helping poor nations to develop clean technologies but as you can see, it is not the poor countries that harm the planet the most. It is the rich large countries doing all of the damage. We first need to look at home and prevent the devastation that has been ongoing. United States, China, and Europe need to change the way they live first before they can start criticizing other poorer nations that only amount to about 11% of emissions around the world. Our polar ice caps have lost nearly a third of its size from 1981 to 2003(NASA Data). Your plan is to reduce amounts of emissions by the year 2050. By your logic, we won’t have a polar ice cap left. There won’t be anything to save. The climates around the world are already beginning to shift. Melting glacial water changes the composition of the ocean and changes the weather patterns around the world. Yearly Warming Temperatures from NASA
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The Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan and the northwestern regions of Pakistan, particularly the swat valley have proven deadlier for the ruling powers in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the United Sates due to the inevitable civilian casualties and displacement arising from the incessant shelling supposedly targeting the Taliban militants.
According to the Pakistani government,
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The past week - April 20 -24, 2009, Geneva, Switzerland hosted ‘The Durban II conference’ on racism. The preceding event in 2001 held in Durban, South Africa marred by racial overtones and negative attacks against the state of Israel evidently led the United States and Western allies to boycott the recent U.N meeting.
It was a United Nations gathering to address the persisting contemporary discriminatory practices often transforming into persecution, oppression and even genocide in some parts of the world. According to the White House and media reports, the reason behind United States and allies’ absence at the symposium was the blue print content notably against Israel by the Islamic Republic of Iran. However, the United Nations’ assurance to eliminate any anti-Israeli inflammatory remarks from the Iranian President’s speech failed in convincing the United States, Israel and others to attend the world forum.
Meanwhile, predictably the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinijad’s rhetorical speech caused spectacle prompting other European diplomats to briefly abandon the summit. To the United Nations’ credit, the subsequent address by the Iranian President modified to reflect reality on the tragic holocaust previously denied by the political figure.
Whenever a consortium organized to deal with sensitive humanitarian issue of great magnitude, the stage is set for fireworks and doesn’t require more than a spark to ignite the flame into blazing fire. All those refuting the one nation’s contentious repetitive conduct, regrettably ignored the wide spectrum of humanitarian crises around the world. The objection against a particular nation’s demeanor effectively dismissed the urgency for unanimous solutions to global problems affecting humanity. Further, such action conspicuously displayed hierarchy prevalent in the humanitarian priorities.
Every continent has nations with dark legacy and embarrassing episodes of human rights violation. In the new millennium, the global community challenged to empathize with those currently enduring incessant suffering due to lack of freedom, inequality, injustice including intolerance.
The Geneva conference was a great platform for the nations that boycotted the meeting exclusively the United States and Israel to express serious commitment in resolving the age-old Middle East conflict between Israel and Palestine. Any glimpse of hope in the two states solutions approved by vast majority of population on both sides with a free Palestine comprising West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem alongside the democratic Israel unequivocally accepted as a sovereign state in the entire region would have instantaneously gained credibility in the large presence of the United Nations.
Needlessly, as holocaust victims Israel was better qualified to condemn any crime against humanity and set an example by leading the world in the establishment of peace and democracy with its neighbor Palestine. Israel had a unique opportunity in Geneva to demonstrate solemn pledge and action to aid those, relevantly the Palestinians deserving similar liberty granted to Israel predominantly with the support and solidarity among the nations around the world. Israel’s unprecedented humanitarian gesture would have made it incumbent on the Arab nations at the conference to forge alliance in promoting regional unity and peace.
If the world would not have heeded to the humanitarian call for an Independent Israel, it could have resulted in the devastating annihilation of a specific human race. Likewise, South Africa proudly declaring results from a democratic election today would have succumbed to oppressive apartheid without the international community’s involvement in the freedom of that nation.
There is immense misery and extreme hardships in various parts of the world. People in these regions generally exposed to despair, depression and death at infancy consider themselves fortunate if they live beyond the short life expectancy because of poverty, disease, war and deprivation of basic human rights.
Geneva conference reached a broad based consensus against racial and gender discrimination, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia other than human rights abuses across the globe. An international assembly by governments from most parts of the world had the moment and venue to review pertinent matter concerning different nations and people. Unfortunately, the U.N committee presumably under intense pressure from nations prioritizing political agenda in their allegiance to a single ally, did not layout the importance of relieving humanity from the perpetual violence through war, invasion and occupation reminiscent of the twentieth century’s imperialism and colonialism .
Is there deficiency in related topics involving the remaining population on the planet seeking entitlement to the international representation, rescue and relief from burgeoning crimes against innocent civilians?
Only if rationality and utilitarianism prevailed over popular political dogma of individualism, the desirable goals for fairness and justice are attainable in human affairs.
Is the struggle for peace and independence by the population in Palestine, Burma, Tibet, and North Korea any less significant than the international feud between Israel and Iran?
What about the status quo of civil wars contributing to genocides in Rwanda, Darfur, Congo and other parts of Africa?
Should the world ignore the escalating ethnic cleansing in Sri Lanka as an internal matter rather than an international moral issue?
Where was the denunciation of the pervasive Taliban abuse of women in Afghanistan now dangerously spreading to the Northwestern regions of Pakistan?
Why did the summit not extensively focus on the various abuses in Latin, Central and South America and China, notwithstanding the denial of equal status to women in the Middle East and other Islamic nations?
On the generic concept of racism, xenophobia - typically the fear of the unknown, homophobia - the overt hate crimes against gay and trans-gender community and other horrific incidents in human trafficking, child pornography and numerous offenses were excluded during the five-day long international meeting.
Apparently, the interpretation of ‘tolerance’ in the crimes against humanity is subject to the relationship among existing and emerging economic and political powers in the global society.
The protocol on protests, boycott and co-operation alike varies depending on the nations along with political and economic repercussions arising from such action.
For example, the Iranian President’s controversial stance against Israel held responsible for the Western nations’ boycott of the latest Geneva conference on racism while implying the other attendees’ motive questionable.
Nevertheless, the human rights activists’ plea to boycott the 2008 Beijing Olympics to draw attention towards the plight of the Tibetan population persecuted by the hour and suppression of the democracy movement in the People’s Republic of China rejected by the participating nations prominently those who recently boycotted the Geneva conference.
It is widespread knowledge that the emerging economic power China being the treasury and Exchequer for the world economy, a nuclear nation possessing veto power routinely exercised against common benefit in the U.N. Security Council decisions, privileged with supreme diplomatic immunity in all things inhumane.
In the recent G-20 summit, call for globalization over protectionism dominated the theme for global economic revival. Synonymously, in the environmental matter and international security collective effort embraced as a successful strategy. Henceforth, collaborative action regarded imminent to resolve international crises.
Ironically, abstaining from leadership at the summit to formulate policies in the restoration of human rights, freedom and civil liberties, the fundamental requirements for peace, progress and prosperity, creates a vacuum rather than serving the real purpose.
History is testimony to the rise and fall of civilizations that fair well when guided by wisdom, compassion and courage for universal good.
It is the slowest rate of growth for the Asian nation in nearly a decade, Xinhua reported.
The economic data was announced at a news conference by Ma Jiantang, director of the National Bureau of Statistics.
Gross domestic product reached 6.6 trillion yuan (about $939 billion) during the quarter, according to government-run news agency Xinhua.
Meanwhile, industrial output grew 5.1 percent for the quarter and showed signs of improvement -- climbing 8.3 percent in March.
China's consumer price index and producer price index -- two major indicators of inflation -- fell 1.2 percent and 4.6 percent, respectively, while retail sales grew 15 percent.
There are so much to say about what Barack gives me。。。
I am a university student from Shanghai ,Tongji University,China,majoring in environmental engineering.
The first time he fascinated me was on Ellen's show,his handsome dance and outlook and more important humerous and generous quality.
Since I attend an interpretation class in Shanghai,our teacher Jack Peng was graduated from the Texas University majoring in Environment and Energy with Ph.D degree and also got a master degree in the interpretating school in Montery,the practice material our teacher gave us included his speech at the 2004DNC,and of course the victory speech on election night and the inauguration speech in Washington DC.
But that's far from enough for me,so I then bought a biography of him written by Greenwood.I read it even if I'm having my classes.And now I'm reading the Audacity of hope,which has been so familiar to most of you.
What Obama presented to me is really different from several previous U.S politician I used to think about,his heart for the nation and it's people was so open and sincere.He brings back the truth of the American virtue after so many years of struggle and division.He make people believe in their own strength.
Since I have downloaded may video clips from the website,all those really touched me a lot ,both Obama and the volunteers have fought hard for this campain.No matter what backgrounds they come from,they have come together for this election.The youth in America find their common grounds in the Obama politics,their heart reopened to the world.So they put their unprecedented enthusiasm to this election.
I really look forward to the further relationship between China and the U.S,since Shanghai2010 World EXPO is drawing near.There will be more exchanges between the two nations people.Both of two sides are getting in line with each other.
One world,on dream right?
Hope for the future for the people and the nation!!!
I am sincerely looking forward to our further contacts in the days and months to come on this website or through my facebook or e-mail.
The posting I’m authoring is more-or-less a follow on to a previous post listed here, regarding our international trade and American business interests on foreign soils.
A keyword flooding around, and which has resurfaced in these past few economic stricken times is “Protectionism”, where I have read this word a few times in our American based online news articles, but have seen it almost daily in foreign based web publications. In essence these foreign based governments via their media services have directed warnings to America not to establish policies locking out their countries goods and services in America.
Fair enough, these countries are worried, such as we ours, about their country’s unemployment and perhaps trade imbalances; and need assurances from the US that we won’t adopt trade barriers or policies, which could further hamper their economic recovery efforts.
It’s when these countries enact policies against us, which is beginning to presently happen, is when I become disturbed and disgruntled. Today, an article appeared within TIME, entitled: “China Says ‘Keep Out’ to Coca-Cola”, which I feel is an outstanding example of a country who has developed a huge imbalance of trade with us, a country to whom we owe one trillion dollars to (as pointed out in my previous aforementioned posting above) and according to some Washington folks (legislative branch) have understood it to mean a threat in some ways.
Consider taking a read of the TIME article and see what your feelings are over the frustration of letting the Chinese shop in America, picking up our small and middles sized businesses at a bargain, and not allowing us to invest within their country.
Again another video, but perhaps a neutral view on China’s business dealings with America, as presented by Bloomberg’s.
US Trade Deficit Narrows: US Trade Deficit With China; China’s Role In The World Economy
Analysis by Fred Bergsten of Peterson Institute for International Economics; Analysis by Carl Weinberg of High Frequency Economics
Thomas Jefferson Monument
This is troubling to me that we owe, as I understand it, over one trillion dollars to China, which could work against us someday in the future.
No, I don’t believe we’ll have to place the Lincoln or Jefferson Monuments up for sale, but there could be other ramifications should we be in debt so heavily and trusting that Economical Recovery Package “not” fail.
However, my father once told me “if you have to borrow money, watch you borrow from” (of course we all know that’s very true), meaning in essence “don’t let them use your indebtedness against you”.
This was the case in the Truman Administration when Great Britain owed us a sum of money after World War II and we used the threat of increased interest payments against them in order expedite a problem in the Middle East.
I would hate to see the Chinese use the same kind of threat(s) against us to forsake a friendly nation we currently support or perhaps share some our technology, which someday could be used to harm Americans or our businesses.
Currently it appears, according to a TIME Online article entitled: “Will the U.S. Sell Assets As the British Government Did?” that According to The Times of London, “The government is pressing ahead with plans to sell a string of state-owned organizations as part of a privatization drive to add £35 billion to the dwindling public purse.” Among the treasures being sold are the Royal Mint and the national mapping agency.
Please don’t take this posting as doubting President Obama’s Stimulus Package and his plans for revving our troubled economy, but my major concerns are the “nay” sayers we have in existing in our legislative branch of government; who are quick to condemn, slow to react and most importantly fail to provide workable solutions to our country’s burdens.
Here’s another video example we have to also contend with, and that’s our small and middle sized businesses being forced into being put up “for sale”, such as what happened last July when oil prices were high and the Middle East went shopping in America.
US firms up for sale to foreign investors - 29 July 08
The falling dollar means foreign investors are buying thousands of American firms, but at the same time American companies are going to countries such as Mexico in search of cheap labour and lower prices. Al Jazeera’s Sherine
Update 17 March 09:
China seeks technical assets abroad from UPI Asia Online by By Cong Cao
This columnist predicted that China may take advantage of the global financial crisis to acquire valuable but deeply discounted assets globally. Indeed, China has acquired overseas natural resources, and now is ready to shop overseas for small- and medium-sized enterprises, especially high-tech ones.
Update 18 March 09:
Since the time I’ve blogged this posting a release from the White House came out 12 hours later, which relates to my concerns:
Message to the Congress from the President concerning exports to China from White House.gov Press Office Feed
In accordance with the provisions of section 1512 of the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 (Public Law 105-261), I hereby certify to the Congress that the export of fine grain graphite to be used for solar cell applications and for the fabrication of components used in electronic and semiconductor fabrication, and two dual-motor, dual-shaft mixers to be used to produce carbon fiber and epoxy prepregs for the commercial airline industry is not detrimental to the U.S. space launch industry, and that the material and equipment, including any indirect technical benefit that could be derived from these exports, will not measurably improve the missile or space launch capabilities of the People’s Republic of China.
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In an article authored by Hari Sud for UPI Asia, I found out what has happened to my country of America the past thirty years and especially the last ten years.
I have reprinted the article in its entirety, since I strongly belief it should be read and considered by all; the article is entitled: “What’s next for globalization?” I have taken the liberty of high-lighting sections and phrases, which I deem most important to our current financial burden.
What’s next for globalization?
By Hari Sud Column: Abroad View Published: February 20, 2009
Toronto, ON, Canada, — As the U.S. financial meltdown continues in 2009, attention is now directed toward the wider and long-range impact of globalization. In theory, globalization is increasing the mobility of goods, services and capital throughout the world by removing the barriers to free trade and increasing closer integration and the inter-connectedness of national economies.
For the West, that has translated into relocating labor-intensive and smokestack industries to countries where costs are lower. Europe and the United States have envisioned themselves as the world’s bankers, financial masters and influence peddlers – which was great in theory, if only the crooks in the U.S. financial sector had been kept away from the proceeds of globalization.
Since 2001, the United States has been awash with cash. It came from oil-producing Arabs and from the export proceeds of China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and India. That cash found a home in the subprime mortgages that have started the financial meltdown that is pulling the world down.
Europe and the United States were winning the globalization race until 2008, as master bankers handling the export earnings of other states. On the sidelines, China, Asia’s Tiger economies, Brazil and India began generating some cash and technology and building their own economies, leading to rapid increases in their gross national products. However, the benefits did not extend to the rest of Asia, Africa and other less-developed countries.
What Obama and this country’s financial leaders of this country don’t seem to understand is that simply bailing it out doesn’t fix the hole. How does giving a few people temporary jobs help solve the problem? By temporary I mean that hopefully it will not require 30 years to fix and build all of the infrastructure we need.
But let us say that some how, I don’t know where, the government comes up with money to pay for all of these projects. The money is sent to the state. The states allot the required amounts to the contractors. This goes into the payroll of the various businesses. The question they have to ask is, “then where does it go?” A good guess would be to look at who make up the top retailers in the country. Wal-Mart, Home Depot, CVS, Kroger, Costco, Target, Walgreen, Sears/ K-mart, Lowe’s, and Super Value make up the top 10. Next quantify what percentage of their gross income ends up being sent outside of the economy. How much of that local income is spent on paying low wages to people that are forced to shop at these chains and deliver even more money outside of the economy. What you see is that in very few turns of the original capital, almost all of the invested money is no longer circulating through the US economy. That leads us right back to where we are today.
How are any of these suggestions going to stop capital from going outside the economy. We are drowning in debt. That is a fact that is true from the individual family, through all branches of business and government, and ends on the capital steps. Is there anybody in Washington that really understands how we ended up here?
Today I listened to most of what Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Putin of Russia said during their presentation at the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland, on CNN about the international community’s economic troubles and walked away upset.
Both squarely placed the blame on the US, which I hate to admit is true, but throughout both of their speeches neither rendered one constructive suggestion on methods to implement to resolve the economic, burdening problems. Instead, they were consistently positioning themselves and countries to have a stronger voice in the world’s economic community, which may be needed and fair, but the way they presented their arguments was totally uncalled for.
Here from the Washington Post and AP an article entitled “China’s Wen Guardedly Hopeful” (title misleading) are excerpts from what occurred at the meeting today.
Associated Press Thursday, January 29, 2009
DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 28 — Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao brought cautious optimism to the World Economic Forum on Wednesday, predicting that his country will achieve its target of 8 percent economic growth this year despite the global financial meltdown.
Remember China you’re manipulating your currency on us, as I stated in this posting here.
Wen called for enhanced U.S.-China cooperation to address the issue, even as he and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin obliquely criticized the United States, blaming a relentless pursuit of profits for the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Putin, who called the crisis a “perfect storm” that was wreaking destruction on all corners of the global economy, refrained from blaming the United States directly — but pointedly noted that just a year ago at Davos, American delegates emphasized the U.S. economy’s fundamental stability. People are “depressed and traumatized,” Rupert Murdoch, chief executive of News Corp., said on the first full day of the forum. He noted that worldwide about “$50 trillion of personal wealth” had vanished since the crisis worsened with the Sept. 15 collapse of the U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers.
Wen called for enhanced U.S.-China cooperation to address the issue, even as he and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin obliquely criticized the United States, blaming a relentless pursuit of profits for the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
Putin, who called the crisis a “perfect storm” that was wreaking destruction on all corners of the global economy, refrained from blaming the United States directly — but pointedly noted that just a year ago at Davos, American delegates emphasized the U.S. economy’s fundamental stability.
People are “depressed and traumatized,” Rupert Murdoch, chief executive of News Corp., said on the first full day of the forum. He noted that worldwide about “$50 trillion of personal wealth” had vanished since the crisis worsened with the Sept. 15 collapse of the U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers.
Personally I don’t consider Mr. Murdoch a reliable source of reference on the situation at hand.
“The size of the problem confronting us today is larger than in the 1930s,” said billionaire philanthropist George Soros.
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I’m a firm believer that protectionism is not the answer, at this time in the world’s economy situation; however it is also my strictest of belief’s America as given away far too much of its technology to other countries, which in some cases as used it against us.We have seen what Japan and Korea as done with our cars, TV’s Microchips (RAM chips especially) and steel. No, in honesty both countries were developing these industries within their own country, but we provided them some of the needed know-how to get them off the ground.Today we wonder where all of our jobs have gone (out sourcing), consider re-reading the aforementioned paragraph and contemplate what the answer could possibly be?Now China has decided it needs to shift gears from being an exporter of inexpensive, commercial products to more a higher level of manufactured goods requiring advanced technology.
