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[Exorcist-seeker]

Iv just returned from a weekend of standing outside Buckingham Palace with a few hundred ppl (maybe a few thousand) demanding the queen gives Tony Blair a Knighthood.... For his work in the 3rd World and for the good he has done in iraq and for america!!

[Eliko]

Exorcist-seeker,

[Exorcist-seeker]

Eliko can we depend on your vote for Tony Blair to be knighted?

Sir Tony Blair

[Filitsa]

[Damsi]

Just a few notes on US altruism


"Although the US does contribute a large share of the UN budget, one should consider this information in the context of World GDP (the total wealth produced on Earth). When GDP is measured by purchasing power parity (a method of calculation that looks at how much goods and services cost in different countries as opposed to exchange rates), the US takes in 20.9 percent of global GDP.
If one divides the percent of US contribution to the UN budget by America's share of world wealth, the ratio is almost one-to-one. Other wealthy states contribute significantly more given their share of global wealth. For example, using the same formula as above: Japan: 2.9; Germany: 2.1; France: 1.8; UK: 2.2; Canada: 1.6; and Italy: 1.7. There are, however, nations that contribute much less, such as Russia: 0.4, and China: 0.2."

"The United States is assessed for the regular budget at the ceiling rate of 22 percent, which in 2006 was $423,464,855 of the total $1,924,840,250. This works out to be a contribution of about $1.42 per American citizen, according to 2006 census data. Japan, the second largest contributor to the regular budget at 19.47 percent, pays $374,727,900 or about $3.94 per citizen in comparison."

By 2005, the US owed $963.1 million in total to the UN in dues to the regular and peacekeeping budgets.

http://www.unausa.org/site/pp.asp?c=fvK ... &b=1813833


The bottom line is the money the US may do a lot of good all over the world but that is not the main goal. The greater good is secondary to foreign policy objectives. They admit it themselves in black and white in a paper concerning the funding programme US AID, which we are no strangers to in Cyprus.

Minutes of a discussion on a White Paper related to USAID Feb 2004

"Sarah Lucas from the Center for Global Development commented that the White Paper is
framed in a national security way. She inquired if there are any long-term dangers about using
this as an overarching frame.

Response: Barbara Turner, Acting Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Policy and Program
Coordination, USAID “Ms Turner replied the White Paper was written in response to the sense that this is the reality of foreign assistance.

QOUTE "The idea that USAID makes decisions on purely humanitarian grounds simply isn't reality.

quote "Mr. Natsios (USAID chief) commented that some people question whether USAID funding levels should be connected to America's foreign policy interests. The fact is that they have been connected for a very long time. Mr. Natsios suggested that USAID embrace, rather than deny its foreign policy role. Without development, the foreign policy objectives of the U.S. will not be accomplished."

http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:jEhc ... clnk&cd=18

[humanist]

How about this as a possible scenario ....... US is concerned about the exhaustion of its oil and indeed around the globe, finds an excuse to invade Iraq, how could this excuse be a good enough reason. Lets blow up the towers we'll loose a few thousand people but hey its for the betterment of our great nation. Then we can blame Sadam and invade Iraq. Gawd I ought to have been a playwrite instead.

[miltiades]

How about this as a possible scenario ....... US is concerned about the exhaustion of its oil and indeed around the globe, finds an excuse to invade Iraq, how could this excuse be a good enough reason. Lets blow up the towers we'll loose a few thousand people but hey its for the betterment of our great nation. Then we can blame Sadam and invade Iraq. Gawd I ought to have been a playwrite instead.

Good one Andreas , but you forgot something . Let us spend billions and billions of dollars invading Iraq so that we can then recoup a fraction of our costs by exploiting Iraq's oil reserves. Brilliant dont you think ?
As for the 4 planes that the CIA hijacked and the 4 thousand people killed , well small price to pay for keeping our oil reserves going.

[QAMERSLAND]

Eliko lets be frank and honest, your theories are based on speculation and the 'conspiracey thery' get a grip lad n get your head out of you anus and smell the coffee, america are there for the good of iraqi ppl... the 'shites' population of the country feel under threat by the 'sunnis' population, america are there to save the innocent people in between them.. as peace keepers.. all the crap you say iv seen b4 nothink will change... so get a grip and for once back the good guys..

If USA is there to help Shites then why USA is not there to help palestanian to cick out the Isaraelis from their occupied land?

why USA is not there to get Kashmiris Freedom from Inidia, in fact USA is making Nuclear deal with india?


I heard today in the news Mr Bush thretening Palestanians that if you will give vote to Hamas, you will be resposible of your destruction. Imagine What kind of democracy Mr Bush is looking for?

it is just to make the world a fool that USA is there to Help Shites, USA is there to occupied the Oil, it is an open secret.

USA is there to help israel to create greater Israel. as you listened Mr Bush said , Isreal shoud be the Example sate for Iraq.


Now even shites are demanding to USA to withdraw the troops except few leaders who are not true leader of iraqis

[song bird]

So, humanist and Gorilla Gal, answer me this........are you two going to get together over a drink??? What a happy ending that would be to such a miserable, heated topic.......

[free_cyprus]

many people can see theres room for doubt when it comes to 9/11 that it was an inside job, also many people dont realise that 911 is an emergency number used in the states like 999 in the u k .

we can debate till the cos come home reagrding this issue just like the topic i brought up that cyprus situation was an inside job by those that sold us out to greece and turkey, by becoming their agents in cyprus to spy on our own people and to commit crimes against our own people..................butthis topic seems to be taboo in this forum and no one has come forth and said yes theres truth in that when all the facts are are lol