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Harold and Kumar Escape From Gitmo

Ras Siddiqui April 24, 2008

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#26 Posted by US-elite on May 1, 2008 1:27:16 am
Re: # 25

Masadi,

Re: The wannabes, US-Elite, my friend madani does not live n the USA, he spits and farts in that direction....now go F yourselves...)

Is that why you flaunt your "Harvard" qualifications all over the place?

F__ yourself seems to be your forte sir. Who am I to take on what belongs to you.

Now kindly F__off or yourself whichever suits. I am too busy F__ Tahir's sister unless you have one who wants to make it in to a threesome?

Regards.

The US Elite


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#25 Posted by masadi on April 30, 2008 9:28:12 am
nkg you're a certified fool

The wannabes, US-Elite, my friend madani does not live n the USA, he spits and farts in that direction....now go F yourselves...
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#24 Posted by nkg on April 30, 2008 7:24:18 am
Re: # 21
Ahmedmadani...
Ans: Jinnah's destructive method was not good (TNT). So, you have faced another split in the form of BD. There are other ways to fight for rights of people, which M K Gandhi is proponent of. Martin Luther King followed that for african americans. So, this splitting business will not happen to USA due to blacks, indians or hispanics. 1% of US population (disgruntled Pakistani taxi drivers) can not create a separate nation...
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#23 Posted by nkg on April 30, 2008 6:57:06 am
Re: # 8
Ranjit...

Ans:
The war economy is dooming US Govt...
The H/W S/W used by US defence forces are basically indigenious. So, that amount of money is pumped back into the US economy. The remaining portion will be paid by Iraqi oil.
Regarding crumbling infrastructure in US, do you feel that is the main reason of industrial shrinking of USA? Japs and Koreans are coming with competetive technology and producing cheaper cars. These are low value and high volume products. US$ had appreciated against Asian currencies to the extent that, it is not viable to keep any low value industry in USA. So, China and India are reaping that benefit. Let the US$ depriciate 50%, India and Chinese economy will not grow at similar pace...
People of USA had to re-adjust their lifestyle. It is not possible to maintain that level of consumption with current set of technologies...
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#22 Posted by US-elite on April 30, 2008 3:37:16 am
Re: # 21

ahmedmadani,

Re: There our folks are not respected and exploited. Especially they are not able to appreciate the our culture and cukltural way. As everywhere no justic e no peace.))

We strongly recommend they head back to wherever they come from to regain that respect, avoid exploitation and reattain the lost justice and peace.

As a matter of fact we insist.

Regards

The US Elite
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#21 Posted by ahmedmadani on April 29, 2008 9:17:08 pm
Mr.Ras and Masadi...... You have lived in usa.
There our folks are not respected and exploited. Especially they are not able to appreciate the our culture and cukltural way. As everywhere no justic e no peace. From UK, germany,france, usa, canda australia just like in 1940s rise of QAMA Jinna emerged and lead to bifercation and as post script lead to BD. As these are democratic country over long terms soon all these countries will go through same process and combination of dark africans, brown mexicans, pakistani , indian desire to save culture will to new pakistans and India and mexicos and africas.
JUst like Jinnah emergence lead to seperate nations, are all oppressed colored people of west looking for
Jinnah to give split up or still away from getting that critical mass ( What numbers to reach where seperatist forces and power coloued oppressed people to get the mother land in usa they can call as real land. Or This ideas are already popular and colored of west are looking for west "jinnah" ?

Thanks
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#20 Posted by masadi on April 29, 2008 9:35:21 am
Come on people, Ras said post on the goddamned topic of this article and you all ran away....This interact area is too damn lonely, come on now, keep Ras some company. He told me to leave (politely), little did he know that everyone else would leave with me.....this is too damn much...
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#19 Posted by masadi on April 28, 2008 10:39:29 am
Ignore #15, I have found a way around the link messup regarding ilogs, the drop down menu above is the key. I am not banned from ilogging...
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#18 Posted by masadi on April 28, 2008 10:38:10 am
BTW I haven't read the book in #14, it might be that the economist has just perverted what I write about, so read it with a discerning mind and caution....it is not yet available in this beautiful city I reside in...it might be available in the concrete jungles of the barbarians.... later

g'night all
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#17 Posted by masadi on April 28, 2008 10:35:44 am
The interact police is here, I gotta go to another board, I might be distracting from this distraction.............
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#16 Posted by Ras on April 28, 2008 7:38:57 am

Could we please stick to interacts on the movie?


I was taken a bit off guard but this film actually

made George W. look good!

On the other hand, the troubling part was that Cheech

and Chong appear to be tame in comparison to this duo.


Overall, Muslim stereotyping was also partially addressed.


And it was all done while pushing the envelope of

bad taste.


Ras
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#15 Posted by masadi on April 28, 2008 4:26:40 am
I Have been blocked by Chowk Staff from posting new ilogs or gallery items, when I go to write an ilog it takes me to the list of ilogs, a dead end. This is outrageous, I demand that my right as a member poster here be restored, my articles that were censored released and the section where ilogs are posted opened up for my gems, immediately
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#14 Posted by masadi on April 28, 2008 4:24:51 am
Three years after I have been writing these things on Chowk, and at least 8 years after I penned them in my published articles, this Economist merely repeats the same- good to note that people through various avenues are coming to the same logical conclusion:

Rogue Economics
Capitalism's New Reality
Loretta Napoleoni


Rogue Economics offers a fascinating view of how terribly wrong things have gone. Loretta Napoleoni's book is an alarm, warning us to wake up ...more
—John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

Description

Respected economist and syndicated journalist Loretta Napoleoni shows how he world is being reshaped by dark economic forces creating victims out of millions of ordinary people whose lives have become trapped inside a fantasy world of consumerism. The world has become overrun by organizations, both private and public, which have accumulated vast fortunes and enormous political influence by regulating, containing, and manipulating the market to their own advantage. From Eastern Europe’s booming sex trade industry to China’s “online sweatshops,” from al-Qaeda’s underwriters to America’s subprime mortgage lending scandal, Rogue Economics exposes the paradoxical economic connections of the new global marketplace.

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Yesterday I heard her interview on the BBC World Service on my SW radio, she compared the discription to the Matrix- an analogy of global insitutional domination by the US elite that I have been using for a long time now.....
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#13 Posted by nkg on April 28, 2008 4:04:27 am
Re: # 3
BJ...

What a glorious day it would be - when every Amrikkan becomes familiar with Harold and Kumar!

Ans: If US people do not know what is India and Korea, it is their problem...Why you bother about it?

A popular joke...

A worldwide survey was conducted by the UN. The only question asked was: “Would you please give your honest opinion about solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?”

The survey was a huge failure.

The reason:

1. In Africa they didn’t know what ‘food’ meant
2. In India they didn’t know what ‘honest’ meant
3. In Europe they didn’t know what ’shortage’ meant
4. In China they didn’t know what ‘opinion’ meant
5. In the Middle East they didn’t know what ’solution’ meant
6. In South America they didn’t know what ‘please’ meant
7. In the USA they didn’t know what what ‘the rest of the world’ meant!!
The honesty part you can replace with Eeastern Europe and Russia also. They are equally corrupt like us.
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#12 Posted by masadi on April 28, 2008 1:15:25 am
The root cause of the suffering of the US masses and the enrichment of its elite is a militarized political economy- the fallout can easily be blamed on the immigrants and xenophobia and fear easily fills in just like it fuels militarism
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#11 Posted by masadi on April 28, 2008 1:13:19 am
ranjit writes "Otherwise we will simply be reacting to the symptoms without understanding the root cause. "

The US elite borrow on behalf of the US public to fill the coffers of the ultra rich, achieving thereby a gini index showing near complete inequality. The militarism keeps the US afloat as a competing front to government expenditure through social services. It is either one or the other and the elite have preferred militarism because it is more profitable for them and helps the ultra rich while keeping the people afloat. The US govt spend more discretionary funds on the military/defense than its spending on all other areas COMBINED. What the US needs is taxing the rich to finance social services and redistribution to the poor, and achieveing an equitable distribution of wealth and income. That wont happen because the government in the US does not decide in favor of the common man unless the very existance of the system is threatened and even then post WW2 they have preferred to start wars, which are not started for the heck of it or for particular end related to the military campaign, rather continuity is sought, wars for the sake of wars
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