Reap what they sow.Thomas Eddlem wrote a fine article, "Phony 'Free Trade' Lobby," in the May 16 issue explaining why the so-called free trade lobby is pushing its destructive agenda. Because I was a Boeing employee until last year, I was particularly interested in what he had to say about that global giant, l would like to add a couple significant points. First, we should expect all this cloak and dagger Cloak and dagger is a term sometimes used to refer to situations involving espionage, mystery, or even assassination. The phrase dates in English from the early 19th century. It is a translation of French de cape et d'epee and Spanish comedia de capa y espada. work from a former American, now multi-national, company whose senior vice president of international relations international relations, study of the relations among states and other political and economic units in the international system. Particular areas of study within the field of international relations include diplomacy and diplomatic history, international law, is Thomas R. Picketing, CFR CFR See: Cost and Freight member and lifelong foreign service "globocrat," and whose 10-member board of directors last year included no fewer than five CFR members, one of the five being Kenneth M. Duberstein, also a member of the Trilateral Commission Trilateral Commission From the site at Trilateral.org: The Trilateral Commission is a non-governmental policy-oriented discussion group of about 325 distinguished citizens from North America, the European Union, and Japan which seeks to foster mutual issues for which these . Second, Mr. Eddlem highlights "production sharing" as one method of forcing our economic dependency through outsourcing "'so that no single nation retains the ability to manufacture a complete product on its own." It's worse than that. China drives hard bargains. Boeing and one of its heritage companies, McDonnell Douglas, sowed to the wind and reaped the whirlwind when it inked deals with the Red Chinese that required technology transfers from us to them and that mandated certain portions of planes they "bought" from us be built in China. With Boeing's help, the Chinese say they have come to the point that they are independent with respect to designing and building their own airplanes. Here's the story from the dragon's mouth Dragon's Mouth, n.pr a Shiatsu technique in which the practitioner uses the same hand to simultaneously stabilize the limb being worked on and to apply pressure with the first knuckle of the index finger. . On April 7, 2004 an article from China's People's Daily Online appeared under the headline "China tries to break Boeing, Airbus domination with self-made aircraft." The article is about China's ARJ A compression program for backup archiving from ARJ Software, Inc., Norwood, MA (www.arjsoftware.com). Introduced in the early 1990s and created by Robert Jung (the RJ in ARJ), ARJ never achieved the popularity of PKZIP, although it is considered a worthy competitor. See JAR. 21, "a self-designed passenger aircraft." "On December 20, 2003, manufacture of AR J21 was kicked off simultaneously in four plants in Shanghai, Xi'an, Chengdu and Shenyang." "Aviation expert Zhou Jisheng said in a very affirmative tone, 'China is now able to make large mainline aircraft, on top of designing, China can also produce and manage mainline aircraft after cooperation with McDonnell Douglas on MD90. This problem has been solved.'" The article went on to say, "Production of ARJ is only a start." And in a bitter irony they say it is the patriotic thing to do. Maybe they have a point. STEVE JACKSON Fountain Valley, California Fountain Valley is a city in Orange County, California, United States. The population was 54,978 at the 2000 census. History The city was incorporated in 1957, before which it was known as Talbert (also as Gospel Swamp). |
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