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Re: outsider everything

Posted by Marcus G. Daniels on Aug 18, 2013; 2:19am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/How-Laura-Poitras-Helped-Snowden-Spill-His-Secrets-NYTimes-com-tp7583618p7583671.html

On 8/17/13 6:03 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
There was a clause about having to report any "ongoing intimate relations" with foreign nationals (especially from sensitive countries which I seem to remember *any* country which was known to have nuclear capability, and a longer list of countries known to be "inimical" to the US).
As an exercise, I thought I'd categorize them.  I found two lists (not obvious where to get the authoritative DOE list)

http://www.wipp.energy.gov/proc/pdf/sensitivefnc.pdf  (dated 2003)
http://bss.fnal.gov/travel/SensitiveCountriesList.pdf    (dated 2007, tagged "*")

Augment the Purchasing power parity GDP info / per capital, I collect the following.
Some highlights..

1) GDP of India exceeds Russia
2) South Korea GDP is within a factor of 2 of Russia
3) UAE per captial is a dead-heat with the United States
4) Living large in Macau, right up there with Luxembourg
5) Dangerous places like Yemen, North Korea, and Afghanistan are poor absolutely and individually.
6) India and China have the most inequity, but the U.S. would be in third in this list.  Macau, curiously, has the least -- ratio very close to Luxembourg again.  Cuba's ratio of GDP to per capita is low too.

South Africa (*) $608e9 / $11750

North Africa
   Algeria $207e9 / $5693
   Libya $66e9/$10129
   Sudan $85e9 / $2544
   Egypt (*) $559e9 / $6652

Middle East
   Syria $107e9/$5100
   Israel  $248e9 / $32312
   Iran $999e9 / $13127
   Iraq $150e9 / $4272
   Jordan (*)  $36e9 / $5899
   Saudi Arabia (*) $906e9 / $31275
   United Arab Emirates (*) $271e9 / $49011 (pop 8e6)
   Yemen (*) $58e9 / $2249 (pop 23e6)

Soviet, et. al.: 
    Russia, $3380e9, $23549
    Ukraine, $344e9, $7598
    Kazakhstan,  $231e9, $13892
    Belarus, $146e9, $15633
    Uzbekistan, $103e9, $3536
    Azerbaijan, $97e9, $10568
    Turkmenistan / Turkmen, $43e9, $7846
    Georgia / Georgian, $26e9, $5929
    Armenia, $19e9, $5838
    Tajikistan / Tajik (Persian), $16e9, $2066
    Kyrgyzstan / Kyrgyz (Russian), $13e9, $1070
    Moldova / Romanian, $12e9, $3415

Cuba, $121e9 / $10200

China, et. al.:
    China $12405e9 / $9161
    Taiwan $903e9 / $38749
    Hong Kong (*) $243e9 / $34049
    Macau (*)  $47e9 / $82400

India  $4700e9 / $3851

Afghanistan (*) $33e9 / $1053

Pakistan $514e9 / $2960

Korea
   North $40e9 / $1800 
   South (*) $1687e9 / $33580

Indonesia (*) $1314e9 / $5302

Malaysia (*) $521e9 / $17675

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