Posted on 10/20/2001 11:33:54 AM PDT by t-shirt
Quite an amazing leap you've made there!! You haven't had many courses in logic, have you?? (Maybe they've had more important things to do than dig up bodies to make you happy). Duhhhhh!!!
Not at all.
I realize the DNC gets lots of attention for brown-bagging it at Buddhist Temples but that also serves to divert attention from the neatly typed invoices, board appointments, advisorships and other means by which the GOP's "public servants" clean up by the millions as Maotais.
The Daddy Party most definitely takes the lead in this realm.
The CIA in the New World Order - Intelligence Challenges Through 2015 (Article From CIA Website) http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3aebc4a26794.htm
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It also admits that globalization will cause more terrorism.
Yet all solutions offered on the CFR/CIA piece are more globalization, centralization, totalitarianism, and freedom and liberty robbing moves.
Speaking at the CEO forum held around the APEC conference in Shanghai, company chairman Jack Smith decribed the Asia Pacific region - especially China – as the only bright spot at the moment for the industry.
"The one country that stands out with growth is China and the vehicle market here is very strong at the moment. This market has the greatest potential of any market," Smith said, adding that GM’s sales in the country – measured at more than 30,000 units last year – are on course to double in 2001. "Obviously next year will be another great growth year for us because we only introduced the Sail [a Corsa-badsed small car] in May," Smith said.
GM's manufacturing presence in China is now substantial, comprising a US$1.5 billion joint venture in Shanghai and a US$230 million light truck venture in northern China which began regular production this year.
Smith said that GM currently holds a 5% share in the China market and remains confident of capturing a 10% share of the regional Asia-Pacific market in the medium term. If affiliate operations are included (e.g. Isuzu), the GM group will hold a 20% share of the Asia-Pacific market before too long, he went on. "We are taking market share this year. Our sales in the Asia Pacific and the market is down slightly, so our market share versus last year is up."
Hammered by slump in US demand, GM reported a third-quarter net loss of US$368 million and warned of weaker fourth quarter earnings. "Our judgment was that we would skate through it and not touch down on negative growth, but that changed dramatically after September 11," Smith said. "In my judgement, we're in recession, which is technically two successive quarters of negative growth."
Report From AFP 20oct01
LONDON: China paid suspected terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden several million dollars for access to unexploded US cruise missiles following an attack on his bases three years ago, according to a newspaper report here.
The Guardian reported that an alleged senior agent of bin Laden's al Qaeda network in Europe told an associate, in a secretly taped conversation, that Chinese businessmen had paid $US10 million ($A19.69 million) to study the missiles. Bin Laden is the prime suspect for the September 11 terrorist assault on New York and Washington which claimed the lives of some 5,500 people.
Following the 1998 attack, carried out in reprisal for the bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, reports suggesting China had acquired two unexploded Tomahawk missiles were attacked as "groundless" by Beijing, the broadsheet said.
The Guardian report came the day after US President George W Bush, in a joint press conference with Chinese President Jiang Zemin, welcomed the Asian nation's "firm commitment" to the war on terrorism, although Beijing has yet to explicitly endorse the US-led campaign.
The daily said that on March 9, a 32-year-old Libyan terrorist suspect met the head of al Qaeda's Italian cell, Sami Ben Khemais, in a Milan flat and told him of China's involvement in the missiles.
The suspect, who was arrested in Munich on Wednesday at the request of the Italian authorities in connection with al Qaeda, told Ben Khemais: "With these weapons, he (bin Laden) has boosted his financial resources. From every part of the world businessmen who hate Americans have come to study American missile strategy.
"In particular, businessmen have come from China. He works a great deal with China. He's got good relations with them," added the suspect, named Ben Heni by the paper.
The Guardian said that unknown to the two men, the flat had been bugged by Italian anti-terrorist officers.
Was one of those vegetables ketchup?
American Foreign Policy is about to be fatefully transformed; I think people fret excessively now about past idiocies.
Even many sloppy liberals have sobered up; don't sell America short!
Most proponents of globalization say that increased terrorism is inevitable; those same proponents also say that globalization is inevitable. At some level, faulty reasoning is to blame; at another is the refusal to acknowledge that man has limitations.
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