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To: spiral3 who wrote (80241)	3/7/2003 6:10:22 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<Why don’t the US, Russia, Venezuela, Nigeria and the Stans form a coalition to defeat OPEC> Contrary to the foaming at the mouth attacks on the evil monopoly of Microsoft by the USA [Clinton, Reno, Klein and Jackson], the USA isn't actually against monopolies, cartels and price fixing if it suits the right interests. OPEC is wanted by the USA. That's the point of Shake Ya Money's comments in that link. They want prices high - not too high, but high enough to keep American oil producers in clover. When the USSR decided to take a drive down through Afghanistan towards the oil fields, the USA got quite nervous and supplied Osama and co with the equipment to drive them out again [having tempted them in - see Zwingbeesgnig Brezinski's story]. As a result, we have the current mess. The USA foolishly thought communism was the dangerous ideology. Silly billies! It was Jihad that was the problem. Oil-powered Islamic Jihad. There's more communism in California than in Russia! Communism was always an imaginary bad guy. Well, it is bad, but not as bad as the equally authoritarian Islamic Jihad idea on how to run the show. Most people in 'free' democratic countries vote for communism, election after election - Governor Gray, for example, being an exponent of state control and ownership. Mqurice