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To: TobagoJack who wrote (7144)	8/15/2001 1:57:10 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

Re: <<should the market continue to meander the way it has for the next 60 months>> Without the sucking sound of exports going to underdeveloped parts of the world, economies grind to a halt. Ex: Japan, Germany, Benelux countries etc) Without this demand we are in trouble. The world economy always need an economic 'miracle' happening somewhere to act as the economic engine of the world. Europe and Japan in the post war provide that nicely. JC, if we distillate this whole economic situation -on a global scale- we are going to settle with that: 1) There is a lot of economic activity in the developing countries. But no money. Just watch the crumbling transport system at 08:00AM. in the morning in any major metropolis of developing country. You can gauge the level of economic activity and the lack of capital. Still a mass economy. 2) There is a lot of money but no economic activity in the developed countries. Just watch a big shopping mall at 11:00 AM in a developed country. You can gauge the availability of money but the lack of economic activity. Take a tennis shoe. Produced in Indonesia cheap, cheap. Then you will note that Nike paid USD30 million to a basketball start to endorse it. This shows where is the money and where there is not money. Of course all that is economic activity, lots of brain power behind the Nike product positioning. (produce there, ad the value here. pure information economy). It is there in the GDP but this does not cause that sucking sound of exports from the developed world. As a result the world economy gets "Japanised". Until it is worked out a solution that causes the sucking sound of exports to where there is economic activity and no money, it will continue to meander like that.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (7144)	8/15/2001 3:03:03 AM
From: Moominoid	Respond to of 74559

Jay I'm happy people appreciated this material! There are more links on my thread about Anat. There are different versions seemingly as tradition varied in different places. Anat is either the sister or wife or maybe both of Ba'al the storm god in the Canaanite pantheon. Ugarit is on the coast of Syria. This stuff is from about 1400BC. The Jews chucked out all these other gods including Ashera the wife of El and kept only El (Allah, Elohim) the supreme God. They seem to have merged in other traditions they brought with them out of the Desert, hence God's dual names of Yah and El. This stuff is in the hidden foundations beneath Christianity and Islam :) David