The China, USA, and Colombia connection...

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December 7, 2009

SouthAmerica: Reply to Ricter


Thanks for your posting.

I really enjoy when Noam Chomsky is interviewed on the Charlie Rose Show.

In my opinion, Noam Chomsky is a very smart man, and I enjoy listening when he shares his observations about most subjects.


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Your second paragraph begins to politicize the topic.

Anyway, it might not cost the US anything to establish those bases. Could be a positive ROI.
 
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This thread was on the economics forum, but the moderator decided that this thread is about politics and not about economics and the thread was moved to the politics forum.

I understand why the moderator has moved this thread to the politics forum - the Chinese continues to lend tons of money to the United States and the United States continues to waste the money every way they can including the new 7 military bases in Colombia.

But at the end of the day the Chinese is just giving more rope for the United States to place around the neck of the US government and at the right time the Chinese will be glad to serve as the hangman in the future.

The Chinese already has over 2 trillion dollars of US government debt and they are happy that they are placing the United States on its knees one billion dollars at the time.

There is no war in South America today, can you imagine how many US military bases the United States would need if there was an actual war in South America?

Only fools spend so much money for no reason - unless the United States has become insecure about the future threat to the United States from Venezuela, Ecuador or even the threat from Evo Morales and Bolivia.

The Bolivians probably would attack the United States with their bow and arrows....

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Why do you care?

You are neither American, Chinese or Columbian. It's non of your business anyways.

This is coming from a guy who posted, god knows how many times about what a super guy Chavez was until he attacked Brazil and then all of a sudden Chavez was now a bad guy.

He is a Brazilliian living in the US hiding behind our freedoms and sucking off the teat of our system.

If Brazil is such a wondeful place then why then you move back? Why is Brazil's murder rate that of Somalia or Ethiopia?

Explain that professor.







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November 2, 2009

SouthAmerica: The United States government is already buried in debt up to its eyeballs, but that did not stop the US government from coming up with new ways to waste even more the money borrowed from China. And last Friday the United States sealed a new agreement with Colombia that will cost the US taxpayer/China billions and billions of US dollars in the coming years.

The United States should be glad that the Chinese and its deep pockets still are willing to finance the United States military adventures around the world. The Chinese still sending money to the United States as if there is no tomorrow, and the United States is getting the easy money and finding new ways of pissing it away.

On the Saturday edition of the Financial Times (UK) the article said: “About 800 US troops and 600 US civilian contractors will be permitted on Colombia soil and will enjoy diplomatic immunity.”

I guess it is official now: Colombia is under foreign military occupation, and the United States has another fiasco to support for many years to come or until China cuts the credit line of the United States.

Another chapter is starting on the military adventures of the United States around the globe with the compliments of China and its deep pockets.


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“Colombia: Pact to Expand U.S. Army Presence Signed”
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: October 30, 2009

In a private ceremony, the American ambassador, William Brownfield, and three Colombian ministers signed an agreement on Friday to expand Washington’s military presence. Officials have said it will increase United States access to seven Colombian bases for 10 years without increasing the number of personnel beyond the cap of 1,400 specified by American law.

A version of this article appeared in print on October 31, 2009, on page A8 of the New York edition.


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Quote from John_Wensink:

Why is Brazil's murder rate that of Somalia or Ethiopia?

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For the same reason that we can see a similar murder rate of Somalia or Ethiopia in many areas of the United States such as in the border towns between Mexico and the United States - or in jungles such as in Newark or Camden (NJ), the Bronx in New York City, in Philadelphia, in Los Angeles, in Cleveland, in Detroit, and in many other cities around the United States.

I used to go to Fordham University in the Bronx when I was attending their economics PhD program - and I can tell you that Rio de Janeiro was a safer place than the Bronx late at night.

I also worked in Newark, NJ for many years and Newark was a very dangerous city as well.

Many years ago I went to Columbia University in Manhatan to attend a lecture by a well known economist, and I got lost when I was close to that university - driving around in that area of Manhatan I had the feeling that I was driving around in an unsafe third world country.


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Quote from southamerica:

For the same reason that we can see a similar murder rate of Somalia or Ethiopia in many areas of the United States such as in the border towns between Mexico and the United States - or in jungles such as in Newark or Camden (NJ), the Bronx in New York City, in Philadelphia, in Los Angeles, in Cleveland, in Detroit, and in many other cities around the United States.

I used to go to Fordham University in the Bronx when I was attending their economics PhD program - and I can tell you that Rio de Janeiro was a safer place than the Bronx late at night.

I also worked in Newark, NJ for many years and Newark was a very dangerous city as well.

Many years ago I went to Columbia University in Manhatan to attend a lecture by a well known economist, and I got lost when I was close to that university - driving around in that area of Manhatan I had the feeling that I was driving around in an unsafe third world country.




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I worked in New york 10 years ago for 6 months and never had a worry, I recall staggering down 4th ave blind drunk,3am many a time, nothing to be proud of I know but hey, I felt a lot safer there than my home town in England....
 
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