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Date: Thu Jan 30 2003 - 02:17:56 MST
So far as it goes the "reins" of "power" are held by the elites in the US
and Russia, since they hold 95% of the atomic weapons. The European elite
holds about 2.3% of "power" and the remaining 2.7% is divided between China
and Israel. I may not agree with the above, but this is the current reality.
And unfortunately it is not "ultimate" power, it is power per se.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Lorrey" <mlorrey@yahoo.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: POL: Anti-{American,European}ism
>
> --- Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:
> >
> > Alterman's thesis basically rests on the idea that there are four
> > demographic groups at play here: European "elites", US "elites",
> > everybody else in Europe and everybody else in the US. Polls show,
> > he argues, that three of these groups agree on just about everything
> > but the renegade group that doesn't--US elites--holds the reins of
> > global power.
> >
>
> The problem with this assumption is that 77% of Americans (based on a
> 660 person random sample) who watched Bush's State of the Union now
> agree that Iraq needs invading.
>
> =====
> Mike Lorrey
> "Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
> - Gen. John Stark
> "Pacifists are Objectively Pro-Fascist." - George Orwell
> "Treason doth never Prosper. What is the Reason?
> For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid
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