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To: An Old Man

Everything is for sale, for the right price. Very few may resist, but most would succumb to temptation, literally selling their souls for thirty pieces of silver, or a contract with the devil.


3 posted on 04/15/2013 10:12:28 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: factoryrat

Ain’t that the truth:

In 1987, Tocibai Machine, a subsidiary of Toshiba, was accused of illegally selling CNC milling machines used to produce very quiet submarine propellers to the Soviet Union in violation of the CoCom agreement, an international embargo on certain countries to COMECON countries. The Toshiba-Kongsberg scandal involved a subsidiary of Toshiba and the Norwegian company Kongsberg Vaapenfabrikk. The incident strained relations between the United States and Japan, and resulted in the arrest and prosecution of two senior executives, as well as the imposition of sanctions on the company by both countries.[8]

From:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kongsberg_Defence_%26_Aerospace

I still have not knowingly bought a Toshiba product since.


4 posted on 04/15/2013 12:31:47 PM PDT by Only1choice____Freedom (As long as America's tolerence of failure is not overwhelmed by a desire to succeed, we will fail.)
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