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MI5 Persecution: BBC h2g2 online

MI5Victim

12/27/2006 7:07:00 AM


BBC h2g2 16/Sept/1999

The BBC's h2g2 website is billed as "Earth Edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy!". Naturally, one of its pages
is about me, me, me. It starts off with the lines;

Every now and then something comes along which makes you
think "Ah! That's what the Internet is for!" Mike Corley
is one such case.

The page itself can be found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabast...

The user comments linked from h2g2 are less than respectful, but given the point of view my website promulgates that is
understandable. It's true that without the communications ability afforded by the internet, which came along at just the
right time, my complaints would be getting nowhere. But that's a two edged sword also; miniature cameras only appeared
around 1990, so the advantage of technology is up to the adopter. Secret service intrigues, and on the other side of the
coin human paranoia, have both been going on for centuries; what changes now is an increased technologisation of both sides.

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Kerryn Offord

12/15/2011 1:32:00 AM

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On 12/15/2011 10:17 AM, Shawn Wilson wrote:
> On Dec 14, 1:00 pm, Public Servant<public.serv...@anniebirdsong.com>
> wrote:
>
<SNIP>
>
>> Capitalists walked away from us, sending 50,000 factories overseas.
>
>
> Because Americans had better jobs than crappy factory work. Factory
> owners couldn't compete with people offering Americans more than the
> factory owners could, so they shipped the factories overseas to be
> manned by people who wee less expensive.

***
All those factory workers in America who lost their jobs when the
company moved production offshore might beg to differ...


> Look at a rich place like Manhattan or Chicago's Loop. There are no
> factories or factory workers there.

***
For two very simple reasons.

Land is way too expensive for factories in those areas, and factory
workers can't afford to live there.

>> Take a stroll through the Walmart. Nothing there is made locally.
>> Hats, gloves scarves -- made in China. Purses, jewelry -- made in
>> China. Baby clothes and dresses -- made in China. What is left for
>> us to do?
>
>
> That would be the things we can do better than the Chinese can...
> Shouldn't we focus on OUR strengths rather than China's? Oh, right,
> you wanted college graduates to *work*in*factories*...
>
> What does the US export? You can look it up-<SNIP>

***
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/balanc...

US isn't exporting enough....

and hasn't been doing so for a while..
http://www.mint.com/blog/trends/spending-beyond-our-means-us-trade-balance-...

<SNIP>