Re: [nukkad] Is US Economy already in Recession?

["Dr.M.C. Gupta" <>]

Some related information, courtesy Dr. Taher, though not directly answering
your query. I am going to find out that world war thing soon.

MCG

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TERRORISM QUIZ


1)  Which is the only country in the world to have dropped bombs on
over twenty different countries since 1945?

2) Which is the only country to have used nuclear weapons?

3) Which country was responsible for a car bomb which killed 80
civilians in Beirut in 1985, in a botched assassination attempt,
thereby making it the most lethal terrorist bombing in modern Middle
East history?

4) Which country's illegal bombing of Libya in 1986 was described by
the UN Legal Committee as a "classic case" of terrorism?

5) Which country rejected the order of the International Court of
Justice (ICJ) to terminate its "unlawful use of force" against
Nicaragua in 1986, and then vetoed a UN Security Council resolution
calling on all states to observe international law?

6) Which country was accused by a UN-sponsored truth commission of
providing "direct and indirect support" for "acts of genocide" against
the Mayan Indians in Guatemala during the 1980s?

7) Which country unilaterally withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile
(ABM) Treaty in December 2001?

8) Which country renounced the efforts to negotiate a verification
process for the Biological Weapons Convention and brought an
international conference on the matter to a halt in July 2001?

9) Which country prevented the United Nations from curbing the gun
trade at a small arms conference in July 2001?

10) Aside from Somalia , which is the only other country in the world
to have refused to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the
Child?

11) Which is the only Western country which allows the death penalty
to be applied to children?

12) Which is the only G7 country to have refused to sign the 1997 Mine
Ban Treaty, forbidding the use of landmines?

13) Which is the only G7 country to have voted against the creation of
the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 1998?

14) Which was the only other country to join with Israel in opposing a
1987 General Assembly resolution condemning international terrorism?

15) Which country refuses to fully pay its debts to the United Nations
yet reserves its right to veto United Nations resolutions?
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Answer to all 15 questions: USA.

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With best wishes,

-Dr. Taher Kagalwala

6 July 2007
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On 1/22/08, Indian Rediff  wrote:
>
> I would appreciate the links to 'experts' that state, explicitly, that
> WWI, WWII were started primarily because of a recession in the US.
> Frankly, this is the first time I am hearing of such a correlation.
>
> Secondly, if such a correlation exists for WWI and WWII, I'd like a
> similar aggression tactic being used by the US to drag itself out of a
> recession for the dates as detailed in the following document:
>
> http://www.nber.org/cycles.html
>
> Even if you can give me wars initiated for the following periods -
> those within our memories - it would be great:
>
> March 2001 thru November 2001 (which is when the last recession in the
> US ended) - note - Afghan war began *after* the recession had ended.
> Iraw war began well after that - and there was no recession ongoing at
> the time or for a couple of years before the invasion began.
>
> July 1990 thru March 1991
>
> July 1981 thru November 1982
>
> January 1980 thru July 1980
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sai
>
> On Jan 22, 2008 10:34 AM, Dr.M.C. Gupta  wrote:
> > This is serious, though not unexpected. It might as well be the
> harbinger of
> > a new war by US. History is witness that whenever recession has hit US
> > economy in the past, it has found an effective antidote in war. The
> first
> > and the second world wars had their genesis in US recession. And, so did
> the
> > Iraq war. the present itch in the US to invade Iran and Syria is
> probably
> > symptomatic of the inevitable consequence of the US recession.
> >
> > NB: The above is not MY thinking. I am neither a historian nor an
> economist.
> > These are views expressed by US experts to which I can give reference if
> > anybody is doubtful.
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