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Monday, January 30, 2006

Should it be this way?

Up Hill the only way to go!

The most recent news concerning Osama Bin Ladens crusade against the Americans in Muslim nations has now reached a new plot point. A tape was released which contained a message from a person which is presumed to be Osama Bin Laden, in this tape was a very clear message.
This message in short form would have read like this “Go Home Americans!” (and this after more then two decades of control and pressure by the US started 1979)
Osama Bin Laden stated that if the Americans would not leave all Muslim nations then further attacks would follow onto US soil. He hinted as well that if the Americans would retreat that a truce between his organization and the US would not be out of question. The American response was as follows “We will hunt you guys down” with no intend to negotiate or to accept that other nations do not want to be governed by the US.
This is one of the best examples of a imperial state seeing the sunset and being scared, this sunset would mark the end of the US era. The US era started with the 2nd world war and seems to be ending now, the end of this era would mark it as one of the shortest reigns of an imperial state. But as well as one of the bloodiest and most destructive in human history, it seems that the US was in the afterburner the entire time of its reign and is now running out of gas. The running out of gas seems to be something that the US can not accept, or they say 'If we go will take the rest of you with us!'.
This behavior can only be damaging in the long run, and ultimately backfire, because once the reign is over and the power something of the past, well other nations will not bow down anymore, and many nations have a bill to correct with the US.
Other nations like France have a very different way dealing with terrorists which is clear and very aggressive, even though it excludes any kind of occupation. The French prime minister stated that France if attacked by a terrorist would retaliate with its nuclear arms against the nation, from which this attack had been started. This threat seems very extreme but probably will send a very clear message.
In other areas is the great company apple which seems to be very interested in their costumers habits, the most recent iTunes update appears to contain very interesting additions. For one the new version has the ability to track costumer interests and thus creating custom stores, these stores are nothing but a new, more profitable way to Spam. Now you think well just tracking sales? That is something even Amazon does, well it is not that simple apple apparently has gained the ability to watch their costumers while they wander through the iTunes Music store, it is not established if this new feature goes beyond iTunes and into the web browser.
Microsoft does not seem to have many issues with breaking privacy rules either nor does Sony, well not until the light was steered towards that issue.

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