Global summit studies placing Internet under U.N. control

[Restola]

Originally posted by shartley

lol excellent idea. For the next few decades we'd just have to put up with them passing resolutions, but never following through.

I like it!

[BobTheCow]

Originally posted by beam
...and then they could elect Al Gore as Secretary General...I mean for the love of Pete he INVENTED the blasted thing.

LOLOLOLOL!!!!!!

Interesting... I'd imagine (if this all actually worked as planned) this would put a huge crimp on things like geocities and yahoo... basically any internet-based company that offers free services.

[than205]

imho there are no major news stations that dont stretch facts or are unbiased

a possibility -

http://www.csmonitor.com/

[FactsOfLife]

that's a pretty good one, I read this one a lot as well.

JWR

[than205]

Originally posted by FactsOfLife
that's a pretty good one, I read this one a lot as well.

JWR

Care to point out a few articles that I should read first?

[Lopy-slopy]

Originally posted by FactsOfLife



if you really believe this, you need to be home schooled immediately....

The US has fought so many wars in the middle east in the recent past, but has totaly ignored africa, where civil wars have been raging for years. Can you think of a reson why?, humm, the middle east is full of oil, africa? not so much.
Fighting for the people, mabey, but more like the one's in america at the fuel pumps, not the ones they bobmb everyday.

[1stdeadeye]

Originally posted by Lopy-slopy


The US has fought so many wars in the middle east in the recent past, but has totaly ignored africa, where civil wars have been raging for years. Can you think of a reson why?, humm, the middle east is full of oil, africa? not so much.
Fighting for the people, mabey, but more like the one's in america at the fuel pumps, not the ones they bobmb everyday.

Go watch Black Hawk Down! I guess the troops we lost in Somolia were there to plunder that country for their vast wealth of natural resources.

Or how about our marines in Liberia? Are they there to pump oil from the congo?

Of course your country Canada is the paragon of moral virtue. Hey Lopy Slopy, how do you like living in America-Light?

[Lohman446]

You people annoy me some days

Do we not have a right to protect our own interests? Frankly, if Africa offered something that we had to have, then we would be in there as well. We supported very brutal dictators in South America in the war on Communism (this is totally misnamed, it was a war on totalatiasm (sp) communism is an economic system, not a system of government). The US has protected its own interests, and will likely. The world can either wake up to the fact and deal with it, or continue to make themselves a worthless organization that no longer has any power.

The American Service Person Act - AKA the Hague invasion act is a great example of this. Iraq - maybe. What if we had not gone to the middle east in the first place, to free Kuwait, what if we had let Iraq control more oil, what if we had not run an embargo against Iraq, it could have split apart OPEC perhaps. Saddam would have been considered an ally still - oil prices would have stayed low and WE WOULD HAVE NEVER RISKED AN AMERICAN LIFE.

America does often act to protect its own interests, it also takes on the job of policing the world - which needs to, the UN has proven itself incompetent and only good at giving speeches.

[1stdeadeye]

Originally posted by Lopy-slopy


The US has fought so many wars in the middle east in the recent past, but has totaly ignored africa, where civil wars have been raging for years. Can you think of a reson why?, humm, the middle east is full of oil, africa? not so much.
Fighting for the people, mabey, but more like the one's in america at the fuel pumps, not the ones they bobmb everyday.

Oh yeah, I left out Afghanistan's vast oil reserves from our recent campaigns!

Did the Muslims in Kosovo turn over their oil to us too after we drove out the serbs?

Let's see that is two recent wars in an oil producing area versus 4 campaigns with no oil or wealth.....hmmm I guess we are mercenary bastards after all!

[-Carnifex-]

Originally posted by 1stdeadeye


Go watch Black Hawk Down! I guess the troops we lost in Somolia were there to plunder that country for their vast wealth of natural resources.

Or how about our marines in Liberia? Are they there to pump oil from the congo?

Go watch Congo! Diamonds, duh!

[mag-hatter]

the U.N. can kiss it. im positive they will be the end of us all.

[FactsOfLife]

Originally posted by than205


Care to point out a few articles that I should read first?

nope. I read a number of the columns on there on a daily basis.

the link wasn't to any specific one, just to an excellent site that gathers a lot of info in one place.

[FactsOfLife]

Originally posted by Lopy-slopy


The US has fought so many wars in the middle east in the recent past, but has totaly ignored africa, where civil wars have been raging for years. Can you think of a reson why?, humm, the middle east is full of oil, africa? not so much.
Fighting for the people, mabey, but more like the one's in america at the fuel pumps, not the ones they bobmb everyday.

But but the UN was supposed to be taking care of Africa!

Chalk up another one to the band of Incompetents.

[p8ntball1016]

god forbid the international community doesnt bend over for uncle sam.

[FactsOfLife]

At this point I don't care if they "bend over".

As long as they stay the hell out of the way, I'll be happy.

They've long since stopped being a help, and have become a hindrance.

And tell me, all you internationalists, why would any American in their right minds hand over their own country's autonomy to some country like say, Libya?