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To: goldsheet who wrote (91346)	11/21/2002 5:37:59 AM
From: Step1	Respond to of 116950

Should we expect them to treat SWC production figures as state secrets as well then? I was thinking Goldfields or NEM might have made a move on SWC. Sounds like a done deal already, could a second bidder come in? TIA Step1

To: goldsheet who wrote (91346)	11/21/2002 8:02:55 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116950

Well at least they (La Russiana) still do Mining and Industrial enterprise. With our governments you would think it were a crime to build anything out of anything more durable than toilet tissue and white papers. Someday someone will have the opportunity to imprison all the politicians on a desert island somewhere with hidden cameras thereon. It would be amusing to see their attempts to survive and feed themselves by committee formation and resolutions of council. Eventually it might dawn on some of them that a society needs some infrastructure and that is built from raw materials that in turn requires a level of technology in heavy industry that is inescapable, and that to maintain that basic infrastructure, a modern society requires an economically self-sustaining homegrown means of harvest and implementation of metallurgies and their manufacture. In any other scenario of costs rise unacceptably and society decays commensurate with the decay of its underlying physical components, amongst the concomittant and inexorable accumulation of waste. It is the story of the decline of all civilizations. I have now identified its cause as over-politicization and the rise of a political class that becomes exclusive and bureaucratically driven. In such a society of governors, no competent person may rise to any useful level of influence. Adoption of ever more reactionary and mythos-driven thinking patterns occurs, as weak and self-serving plans are dredged out of the paranoid, incapable and purely self-protective leadership, whose energies are dissipated solely upon political games, and whose limited intellectual acumen is engaged in fooling with dangerous intitiatives whose consequences they cannot fully think out. EC<:-}