I would have guessed that Korean brands like Samsung and LG still do a lot of manufacturing in Korea, under better conditions than what China usually has.

Chrome: "No more OCSP for us"
Banks: "Dooiiiyyeeee can we have IE6 back, pretty pleeeease?" :-)

I'm glad posters with views that twisted feel a need to post as AC and hide behind the anonymous mod system. That makes them jingoists and cowards.

Acting out a pattern of violence over decades, especially for gain, is never associated with being naive. Not among the civilized or the sane.

As for making stuff up, I would put Klein's veracity against that of commentators commonly found on Wall St media outlets between 2002 and 2008. Start with yellowcake (made up), aluminum tubes (made up), photos of massed troops near Saudi border (made up in Photoshop). Going both forward and backward in time, there are numerous fabrications and deliberate distortions, some of them created by public relations (propaganda) firms for media consumption. Almost any lie about this years new-new-enemy or old-new enemy is uncritically flogged as gospel and real evidence is shut out until its too late.

And most people around the world now know this.

Much as you like to insist the US gets the benefit of the doubt and retain some deranged aura of innocence, I gotta tell you that by and large people who are not directly subjected to the US culture are not buying your freeper-apologist "violent-and-innocent-oh-well" schtick. It doesn't go over very well in this country, either.

"quack quack quack conspiracy theory..."

A major point of the article I posted was that the situation in Libya was very much unlike the Arab Spring in places like Tunisia and Egypt.

Why would the U.S. goad the world into using only dollars for purchasing oil and gas without creating ways for them to access those resources? Also, the article looks at the role that international banking plays... no one is saying that its a simplistic U.S.-against-the-world contest, although it is true that the U.S. establishment is interested in maximizing globalization. It is also true that uniting Africa under a common gold-backed currency would have created a continent-wide hold out from globalization (which includes unfettered corporate access to oil).

The rest of your 'argument' (which is little more than a mixture of ad-hominem and 'we just don't do those things here' posturing) doesn't hold up well either.

VPN and other encrypted communications which are P2P in nature are suspicious in their eyes.

The FBI are saying go ahead and report them because they *might* be terrorists.

It's your desire to give the FBI the benefit of the doubt that is exaggerated.

I don't know what tech companies will do as they are increasingly being paid by the govt to perform "legal intercept" spying against us.

One thing is for sure: The working definition of a 'suspicious person' will be someone making encrypted connections with parties who do not define the US govt international "interests" e.g. addresses that do not belong to the govt itself or large corporations. So, if you HTTPS or VPN into large corporations why then you are merely sampling the apple pie from the wholesome cupboard of freedom itself... and God help if you like to connect with anyone else.

Incidentally, the things described here as terrorist tools are mostly things you would also need to defend against public WLAN hacking.

There are fewer and fewer words these days...

http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MD14Ak02.html

No wonder The Wall St. Journal is gushing.

People who equate the accused with "criminals" are the nutjobs. Just sayin...