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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Triton: [QB] A Trans-Pacific Tunnel Hooray! I think that we will have statehood for Puerto Rico and Canada before statehood for Australia, making Australia the 53rd state. :p Joking aside, this history professor isn't saying anything that I haven't heard from other anti-globalization intellectuals here in the United States. Reminds me of someone, whose name I am forgetting at the moment, who claimed that Washington state was a colony of the Chinese because of all the timber that was being exported and then coming back into the United States as finished goods. Or the reports I occasionally see in newspapers with so called "alarming" statistics about foreign ownership of American companies and major office building in my country's most cosmopolitan cities owned by foreigners. They tend to pick on Asian countries the most, Japan in particular. It reminds me of the United States for Americans crowd who demand that immigrants should be deported. A lot of the time they are, or have ties with, racial hate groups. But I have never read anything or heard comments by Dr. David Mosler except for the news article you linked to. Any chance that he was intentionally trying to be outrageous to start a national debate on the issues he raised? At times it sounded like he was taking the approach that Jonathan Swift used in "A Modest Proposal". By intentionally being offensive, they might listen to what I have to say? By the way, what is this fear with Indonesia that I keep reading about in the Australian press? I remember seeing what looked like a radical conservative web site from Australia that warned of the dangers of an invasion from the brown Muslims from Indonesia and that Australia would become an Indonesian colony? Are these people dismissed as mentally ill in Australia or is there a real fear of such a scenario? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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