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A secular state, Syria has a population of 21 million, 90% of whom are Muslim. It is one of the few Arab states, which protects and respects its Christian minority (10%); a policy, which was also pursued by the previous leaders of Iraq and Libya.
The state provides free education up to university level, free medical care and subsidized housing for all its people. Adoption of an IMF structural adjustment program in 2006 has compromised some of these benefits. These services have also been adversely impacted by the presence of 1.5 million Iraqi and 500 000 Palestinian refugees victims of the Nakba (catastrophe) of 1948.
Most of the banks, including the Central Bank of Syria, Commercial Bank of Syria, Agricultural Co-operative Bank, Industrial Bank, Popular Credit Bank and Real Estate Bank, are STATE owned, a system of banking, which is anathema to the Western model of debt finance, which is based on fractional reserves and creates money out of nothing at interest.
Originally posted by Koffee
You know what the bankers don't control foreign policy, if they did there be far more acts of trade going on instead of military actions that destabilize regional economies.
As for Syria leadership, it never needed Western help in the past to massacre its own people like this: en.wikipedia.org... , I don't see why people can't just accept that a ruthless authoritarian dictatorship would again start killing people to ensure its own survival.
The state provides free education up to university level, free medical care and subsidized housing for all its people.
Most of the banks, including the Central Bank of Syria, Commercial Bank of Syria, Agricultural Co-operative Bank, Industrial Bank, Popular Credit Bank and Real Estate Bank, are STATE owned, a system of banking, which is anathema to the Western model of debt finance
Originally posted by ChaoticOrder
reply to post by robhines
I'm getting the strangest feeling of Déjà vu...
I don't even care anymore, people refuse to listen...
The world is going to hell in a hand basket...
Originally posted by robhines
Originally posted by Koffee
You know what the bankers don't control foreign policy, if they did there be far more acts of trade going on instead of military actions that destabilize regional economies.
As for Syria leadership, it never needed Western help in the past to massacre its own people like this: en.wikipedia.org... , I don't see why people can't just accept that a ruthless authoritarian dictatorship would again start killing people to ensure its own survival.
Do you really want me to spend the next day or so researching what you said there and see what information I can find? Bankers don't control foreign policy? Are you for real?
I'm tired, will get back to this later.edit on 27-5-2012 by robhines because: added
You know what the bankers don't control foreign policy, if they did there be far more acts of trade going on instead of military actions that destabilize regional economies.