Here is an outside view on the China Policy, I find it very interesting....
http://www.canoe.ca/Columnists/margolis_apr7.html >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/08/02 12:52PM >>> role playing game. At 12:49 PM 4/8/02, you wrote: >Interesting. I've never heard of that. I've seen the acronym RPG used before, but >its usage here eludes me. Can you fill me in. I'm sure I'll feel really stupid once >you tell me. > >I know that when communism fell, all of the world oil companies were chomping at the >bit to get in there and start drilling. The Soviet Union's technology was decades >behind. the advantage went to all of the Norwegian countries who have been drilling >successfully in similar or worse climates than Siberia. Not sure how successful many >of these were, but there was a lot of hope that getting in there would break OPEC's >strangle hold on the world oil and introduce fierce competition (I.e. much lower oil >prices). > >Michael Corrigan >Programmer >Endora Digital Solutions >1900 Highland Avenue, Suite 200 >Lombard, IL 60148 >630-627-5055 ext.-136 >630/627-5255 Fax > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Michael Dinowitz > To: CF-Community > Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 11:37 AM > Subject: Re: Bush's Mid East Policy > > > There exists a RPG called Cyberpunk written by a psychic named Mike Pondsmith. He >wrote a time line in it that has almost all come true. One of the things he added was >a group called SovOil, which was a soviet oil company that tapped the vast reserves >in Siberia. If America ever got its act together with Russia and tapped into those >reserves then we'de be free of the middle east. The soviets understand cash and have >no religious obligations against infidels. > > At 12:05 PM 4/8/02, you wrote: > >Regarding the oil issue, it will be interesting to see what Russia does this >spring/summer. Putin has already bucked OPEC by increasing production when they were >cutting. They've (OPEC) already vowed to cut production through spring and most >likely into summer. I'm going to make a prediction here that Bush and Putin will >have another meeting out at the ranch sometime this spring and then when summer comes >and OPEC is cutting production, Putin will increase production to offset OPEC. Just >a hunch. > > > >Michael Corrigan > >Programmer > >Endora Digital Solutions > >1900 Highland Avenue, Suite 200 > >Lombard, IL 60148 > >630-627-5055 ext.-136 > >630/627-5255 Fax > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Michael Dinowitz > > To: CF-Community > > Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 10:56 AM > > Subject: RE: Bush's Mid East Policy > > > > > > Thats the problem. Here's the situation. Bush says that terrorism must stop and >any harboring a terrorist is a terrorist. Arafat has said in arabic that he supports >the suicide attacks and tons of indicators over the years support accusations that >he's a terrorist. By bush's own words, America should be attacking arafat, not >Israel. But when Israel is attacked daily, his words to them are to show restraint >and don't retaliate. > > So eventually, Israel says enough. They go in and take down the terrorist >structure, capturing hundreds of thousands of dollars (and shekels) of counterfeit >money, weapons, documents, etc. The rate of suicide bombings have dropped to nill >with the few who are trying getting caught. The operation is a success with a minimum >loss of life (despite accusations of massacres, the only dead seems to be the >fighters). This success has upset the arab world again. Israel isn't supposed to win. >They never were. Their very existence disrupts the arab ideal of superiority. > > So what happens? The arabs yell, their allies (the europeans) yell, the people >who care about arafat but don't care about Jewish blood yell and Bush flip flops. He >demands that Israel pull back. Israel says in so many words, "screw off". So we're at >an impasse. America wants to keep good relations with our pushers (we snort oil), our >pushers are rattling their sabres that they'll cut off our drug (but if they do they >die as well as we prop them up), and America backs down. Of course, only one pusher >has rattled his sabre, but we're afraid others may as well. > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
