Behaviours

Protests in Athens, over those harsh austerity measures that Germany wants to impose, in exchange for aid, to bail out the sinking Greece economy.  30,000 to 40,000 took to the streets.

Would you bite the hand that feeds you?  Even my cat knows better than that..

Loans from China, to prop up the sinking U.S. economy.  How does this kind of "aid" change behavior?  No protests here.  Right now.

What if the Chinese set conditions on us, a "super power".  Would we have super powers to get out of it?  I didn't watch all of that Superman flick, but somehow even after he gave up his super-humanity to marry Lois Lane (or at least shack up for a night) the poor folks on earth needed him to rescue them from the evil trio - and he was able to get his super human strength back and be victorious.

What if they set conditions, tightening that Nyssa bracelet ever tighter.  Like on the old Doctor Who episode, Nyssa from Trachon (one of Adrick's friends) was given a bracelet by the Master - to do his bidding all he had to do was tighten its hold on her, and she did as instructed.

Are we free?  What conditions could they put on us?  No more $3.99 Dove bars?  No more 99 weeks of unemployment?  No more retirement at age 62.  No more Medicare A B C D..

New bridges - financed with Chinese labor, Chinese equipment.  Like those African nations.  could we become a colony?  Are we?