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Much of the changes in both US and UK economies are the result of 3rd world production of goods, and now many services. The cost of paying some one in China to make some thing or India to answer a phone can be a LOT cheaper. (have you talked to call center for something recently?) Its simple and short sighted economics. I consider it less conspiracy then greed and short sighted profits. And I am an avowed capitalist. Some things that require repetitive work can not now be profitably made in the US or Europe.
Originally posted by marsha law
In my lifetime I have seen the US economy reduced from a thriving behemoth into a shivering wreck. The UK is in the same boat.
Just as in the UK the borders have been opened and wages decimated.
Just as in the UK children are given ritalin and prozac and anti psychotics.
Just as in the UK authorities are pushing the fluoride agenda.
The entire world is wrapped in chemtrails.
Most people are completely hypnotized by the telly.
There is not enough money in the world to cover the 1.5 quadrillion in
derivatives that are outstanding.
Our productive capacity no longer exists.
Only war can save us it seems, or perhaps.........www.army.mil...
Originally posted by arbiture
Much of the changes in both US and UK economies are the result of 3rd world production of goods, and now many services. The cost of paying some one in China to make some thing or India to answer a phone can be a LOT cheaper. (have you talked to call center for something recently?) Its simple and short sighted economics. I consider it less conspiracy then greed and short sighted profits.
"If the Venezuelans and the Russians want to have, you know, a military exercise, that's fine, but we'll obviously be watching it very closely," US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Monday.
"I don't think there's any question about who ... the region looks to in terms of political, economic, diplomatic and as well as military power," McCormack added.
The US has expressed concern, however, about Russian arms supplies to the oil-rich OPEC country.
The two countries have signed 4.4 billion dollars in bilateral arms deals since 2005, including radars, 24 Sukhoi-30 planes, 50 helicopters and 100,000 Kalashnikovs.
Medvedev was expected to expand arms deals during his visit, as well as economic and energy ties, including plans for a joint civilian nuclear reactor.
"Russia is a friend which held out a hand to us," Gonzalez told AFP in a recent interview.
"We want to be very strong, but in a highly dissuasive direction. So that any country in the world thinks not once but 10 times before coming here."
In September, two Tu-160 Russian strategic bombers carried out training for several days in Venezuela.
The Russian warships were due to sail into La Guaira, near Caracas, and Puerto Cabello in northern Carabobo state.
"Until a few years ago, we did a lot of maneuvers with the United States. Now we don't do maneuvers with the United States, of course. We got out of that defense system and we're creating our own system of defense," Chavez said Monday.
The fleet includes five aircraft and several small ships, and Venezuela will provide eight aircraft and 11 ships, Gonzalez said Monday, adding that 1,150 Russian forces and 600 Venezuelans would take part in the exercises.
"Nations frequently exercise with each other. Russia is free to exercise peacefully with anyone that they want to exercise with," Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said Monday.