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<div>Soros takes a lot of heat for being a "progressive" billionaire, in his charitable donations (his financial contributions oppose the so called "war on drugs," for example), second in total American charitable giving only to Ted Turner, and behind Bill and Melinda Gates: </div>
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<div><a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2058599/entry/34627/">http://www.slate.com/id/2058599/entry/34627/</a></div>
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<div>The inevitable "radical realignment of the global economy" is part of the reason the US invaded Iraq. It is a desperate measure of a over reaching global empire trying to secure the resources (oil) that will ensure it remains a dominate world power, while it still remains inevitable that the US will lose its dominate status as a super power. The desperate measures to ensure dominance become part of the reason for a loss of power, as the US trys to pay for its war empire via borrowing from other nations, China and Japan among them, inducing fiscal problems.</div>
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<div>And to change to topic a bit, though still focusing on the US global empire, given we are now supporting a massive 100s of billions in dollars socialist program to bring democracy to the Middle East...</div>
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<div>Is it not amazing how fiscal conservatives continue to criticize government funding for US domestic social programs, while billions are promoted to be spent, by the same "conservatives," ostensibly to build a democracy in Iraq in the Middle East? As if the logic to argue for spending to help our citizens, via taxation, is invalid, while the logic of US tax dollars spent on "social programs" in another nation, is valid?</div>
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<div>Ted Moffett<br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/29/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chasuk</b> <<a href="mailto:chasuk@gmail.com">chasuk@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/24f73610-c91e-11dc-9807-000077b07658.html">http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/24f73610-c91e-11dc-9807-000077b07658.html</a><br>
<br>Here is a quite interesting excerpt:<br><br>"Although a recession in the developed world is now more or less<br>inevitable, China, India and some of the oil-producing countries are<br>in a very strong countertrend. So, the current financial crisis is<br>
less likely to cause a global recession than a radical realignment of<br>the global economy, with a relative decline of the US and the rise of<br>China and other countries in the developing world.<br><br>The danger is that the resulting political tensions, including US<br>
protectionism, may disrupt the global economy and plunge the world<br>into recession or worse."<br><br>Chas<br><br>=======================================================<br>List services made available by First Step Internet,<br>
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