Malachi151
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Re: Re: Re: G8 Protests
To quote myself:
Indonesia is a classic example. How many clothes do you have from Indonesia BTW?
http://eagle.westnet.gr/~cgian/suha-cia.htm
http://www.namebase.org/scott.html
http://www.workers.org/indonesia/chap2.html
Indonesia has been a puppet of America since the 1960s, killing milions of people to serve American wishes.
Just research Indonesian history for yourself.
Colonialism officially ended with the end fo WWII, but its impossible to get rid of because the standard of living for devloped nations is dependant of exploitation of the 3rd world. So now colonialization is covert.
Nigeria, Chile, Nicoragua, Panama, and Venezuela are other good examples.
Tony said:
Why cant poor countries get access to first world markets? And what exactly does that mean? Do you have an example?
And why do the protesters think waving a sign and destroying property are going to do anything about it?
To quote myself:
The real way that American foreign investment works is this:
Wealthy American investors build factories, farms, oil wells, etc in under developed countries where labor and resources are cheap.
The people eventually get restless and rebel against the foreign investors because of unfriendly business practices and the effort by business to maintain cheap labor and working facilities.
The American investors get support for a coup from the American government who employs any number of means to put an American business friendly leader into office in the country (overt war, covert war, funding of local loyalists, assassination, etc).
American banks, or the IMF, give loans to the country, which the American friendly leader agrees to take out, for things like the building of infrastructure, roads, railroads, shipping ports, etc. The rational is that this infrastructure will help the country develop economically. Of course the country is really paying to build things that serve the interests of the American investors.
America also agrees to train the police and military forces of the country so that the leader can protect his position.
America then pays "foreign aid" to the leader of the country in order to keep the leader loyal to American interests, as well as supplying the government with arms.
In addition, the American investors that are now doing business in the country also give payoffs to the local leadership to keep them loyal to the American business interests.
These countries do not have constitutions that grant significant rights to the people. The governments are loyal to America, not their own populations. As the people begin to fight for labor rights and improved working conditions and increased pay, the governments use the American supported military and police to oppress the population.
By doing this America has cultivated American loyalists in countries all over the world, who are loyal to American interests, not the interests of their own countries. America sees to it that these American loyalists are who maintains political power in these countries.
Indonesia is a classic example. How many clothes do you have from Indonesia BTW?
http://eagle.westnet.gr/~cgian/suha-cia.htm
http://www.namebase.org/scott.html
http://www.workers.org/indonesia/chap2.html
Indonesia has been a puppet of America since the 1960s, killing milions of people to serve American wishes.
Just research Indonesian history for yourself.
Colonialism officially ended with the end fo WWII, but its impossible to get rid of because the standard of living for devloped nations is dependant of exploitation of the 3rd world. So now colonialization is covert.
Nigeria, Chile, Nicoragua, Panama, and Venezuela are other good examples.