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To: long-gone who wrote (66760)	3/30/2001 11:58:58 AM
From: Rarebird	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116753

<How much longer can they keep up the game of "divesting" what they've already loaned and is now gone?> The paper game or Ponzi scheme cannot go on ad infinitum, as the decline in the Nasdaq over the past year has illustrated. The end of the Ponzi scheme(which is not illegal BTW- that's where GATA has it all wrong) will come from a Cascading Dollar. Ultimately, the economic fundamentals rule and determine the movement of the currency in question. There is a mistaken assumption here that the US is going to get hurt less than its trading partners in a global economic downturn. This is not 1997. I think it is very possible as the economic environment deteriorates even further, one of the CB's breaks rank and buys Gold. How much longer would you continue to fund someone who you know deep down cannot pay you back and whose economic situation is getting worse each passing day? Wouldn't you eventually cut your losses and start over?

To: long-gone who wrote (66760)	3/30/2001 1:36:48 PM
From: Rarebird	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 116753

FBI nabs refinery worker on bomb threat Friday, March 30, 2001 12:48 PM EST LOS ANGELES, Mar 30, 2001 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- An employee on a stress disability leave was arrested for allegedly threatening to open fire on his co-workers at a Los Angeles-area oil refinery and the set off a bomb in the highly flammable plant, it was reported Friday. The Los Angeles Times said an assault rifle, armor-piercing ammunition and books on explosives and living as a fugitive from justice were found Thursday at the Torrance home a 37-year-old employee of the Chevron refinery in El Segundo. "We feel a potentially significant workplace tragedy was prevented," said FBI Assistant Director James DeSarno. The suspect was scheduled to be arraigned Monday on charges of interfering with interstate commerce through threats, threatening to use a weapon of mass destruction and mailing threatening communications. The FBI said refinery worker had been on stress disability leave from the plant for two years and, according to a Chevron psychologist quoted in court documents, had threatened last December to blow up the refinery. The Times reported that the man had filed a lawsuit last summer claiming that Hispanic employees had been unfairly promoted over him. The Chevron El Segundo refinery is located near the coast less than 1 mile south of Los Angeles International Airport. Copyright 2001 by United Press International. News provided by COMTEX comtexnews.com