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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-26-04 04:42 PM
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WTO approves sanctions against the US
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4045979.stm

"The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has given Europe, Japan and others the go-ahead to impose sanctions on a number of US companies dumping low-cost goods.
The sanctions are in retaliation for the Byrd Amendment, a rule that allows US firms to blow the whistle on "unfair" trade practices.

The $150m (£79m) in fines against the US could be imposed in early 2005. "
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Coventina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-26-04 04:44 PM
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1. WHOO-HOOOO!!!!!
Depression here we come!!

Thanks Chimpy!!!

</sarcasm>
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one_fine_day Donating Member (4 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-26-04 05:02 PM
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3. Not cool
Is there really a possibility of another Great Depression?

Scary :cry:
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PrisonerLazy8 Donating Member (88 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-26-04 09:50 PM
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14. What?
Why are you cheering against Robert Byrd (one of our finest Democratic Senators)? We should support our leaders and not cheer against them.
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msgadget Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-27-04 01:38 PM
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20. Wonder if he'll be blamed
when he was just trying for a way to force a little parity, give our own sectors a shot at fair trade. Enforcing fair trade practices will be painful initially but its worth the cost if we can keep jobs home and stop the worldwide predilection toward cheap labor above all else.
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bullimiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-26-04 04:49 PM
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2. we are an outlaw regime
a very dangerous one.
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-26-04 05:09 PM
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5. Not we, but rather the repukes, we are just stuck on this train for the
ride.
It is going to be a ride through hell before we get back on track.
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seafey Donating Member (204 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-26-04 05:58 PM
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6. We're all guilty in one way or another...
Edited on Fri Nov-26-04 05:59 PM by seafey
Did we protest when the US backed out of the Kyoto Treaty? Did we (Dems, that is) hit the streets en masse when we figured out what happened in Florida in 2000? Have we demanded the media report the whole truth? Have we *really* done everything possible to make our government what it should/could be?

I know I'm guilty too- I haven't done everything in my power. But to put 100% of the blame on the Repubs is an unwise thing to do in my opinion...
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PurityOfEssence Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-27-04 03:33 PM
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23. Absolutely. Thanks for saying that.
We benefit from the Mercantile policies of this country by a high standard of living and other perks, and whether we disagree or actively oppose its actions of unremitting greed, we are all at fault. We're less at fault by degrees depending on our actions, so come comfort can be taken there, but self-absolution like the one in the post to which you responded is nothing short of denial.

Republicans and other greedy users refuse to accept any responsibility for their own or our collective national actions; let us not be like them. The a la carte view of personal responsibility is dangerous, self-effacing and supremely incorrect.
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Dimsdale Donating Member (466 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-26-04 07:14 PM
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7. What this country needs..
is a BIG dose of humility. A serious economic downturn as a result of our arboreal leader's policies? Fucking excellent! Maybe THAT will finally wake up Idiot America to the fact that they've been had (as in fucked over).
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chiffon Donating Member (527 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-26-04 05:04 PM
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4. Looks the Euro's climb is becoming a force to be reckoned with. n/t
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Ima Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-26-04 07:38 PM
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9. And it will become more so.
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alexisfree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-26-04 07:16 PM
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8. YEAH!!!!!!
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Bush_Eats_Beef Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-26-04 07:53 PM
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10. Bush: "Note to self: bomb Europe, Japan and others immediately"
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koopie57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-26-04 08:54 PM
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12. I wonder
if you (anyone at DU) were in in a cafe and bush came to shake your hand, would you shake it?

And is that a little mad face painted on his fingernail?
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-27-04 02:51 PM
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21. I would not shake his hand
unless I had, oops, never mind. No threats here. Simply put, NO WAY!
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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-26-04 08:23 PM
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11. You're quite a leader chimpy boy
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MetaTrope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-26-04 09:40 PM
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13. Oh, right, the Bush junta will be paying up
Just as soon as they've paid off those UN dues. :eyes:
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VegasWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-26-04 09:58 PM
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15. "The $150m (£79m) in fines", tells it all, before awols first term
you could buy the euro for about a buck. After four years
of awol the dollar is worth about 68 cents. I've shifted
my dollars to euros. I talked with my family who are
rural Florida republicans, and they are getting concerned.
The aked me for advice, and I told them "Don't vote republican."
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gottalickbush Donating Member (90 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-26-04 10:00 PM
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16. Well,
At least if they do sanction us, we won't be sending any more money to the other countries. (not allowed to trade with sanctioned countries) then we can use the money that won't be sent out to pay down the resident idiots debt.
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Robert Oak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-26-04 10:00 PM
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17. hmmmm....anybody notice
when it comes to war...no problemo for the neocons to endorse
unilateral action...

but when it comes to trade, they magically are multi-lateralists?

Shouldn't this be opposite? Has anybody else noticed the WTO
is always ruling the US is "illegal" while the other "most favored"
nations never seen to have any problems?

Beyond the mulitnationals who originally pushed for the WTO
and are behind much of it's policy...

doesn't it appear that the US, the #1 economy is getting gang banged
by the other 1st world members?
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-26-04 11:46 PM
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18. did you think the world would just stand idly by while a mega-nuclear
power started playing "Cowboy" all over the world?

we are scaring the chit out of the other nations in the world
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VegasWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-26-04 11:57 PM
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19. I think the hearing voices of god in awols head got them peeing in
their pants too.
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genieroze Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-27-04 03:24 PM
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22. This is Clintons FAULT!
Made ya look, Gotcha! lol

:crazy:
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