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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (104084)	7/4/2003 10:08:19 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 281500

Nadine, Aucklanders use about 200 litres per day per person watercare.co.nz At 1c per litre, which is the cost of desalination I remember from my 1980s BP Oil time, that would be $2 a day. As you say, I don't think Israel is going to run out of water. That would be a large economic burden in somewhere like India with a per capita GDP of a few $hundred. But in Israel, which has a high income per capita [I guess], $1000 a year wouldn't be the end of the world. Sure enough, Google knows how much money Israel produces. $17,000 is quite good: us-israel.org Having a big pool of cheap people to produce GDP [when they stop murdering and start working] means that even if water is expensive, it's offset by cheap employees who can also benefit from an economic boom. It seems to me that the Palestinians should be grateful to have a swarm of Jews setting up shop in Israel. Jews will suck capital in from their mates in the States and provide a large economic opportunity. An intifada seems really stupid. Throwing the cash flow into the sea doesn't make sense, or cents. I've got some Jews working for me here roamad.com and in the USA qualcomm.com I find them very useful to employ. I provide capital, they run the business and hire Palestinians, Indians, Chinese, Iranians and anyone else who can lend a hand effectively. Works well. Much better than fighting for obscure reasons with nothing to gain. My Jewish companies hire Indians, Chinese, and anyone else who wants to join in. It's great. Our son works for Japanese snowadventures.co.nz [Japanese snowboard tours] and eigokyoshitsu.com [teaching Engrish to Japanese] - those are his businesses, we provided capital to set them up. QUALCOMM qualcomm.com sells CDMA2000 cyberphones to Japanese, the Japanese sell Toyotas to the USA and find SnowAdventures using CDMA2000 in cyberspace, book on line and show up here for Tarken [son] to take them on tour. He tells me what's good to invest in, such as roamad.com and it all seems to go round happily. We all end up with money, cyberphones, mobile WiFi, Toyotas and life is fun. Iraq sells oil to fuel us all. Iraqis buy Globalstar globalstar.com from QUALCOMM. There's room for everyone to join in. It's much better than strapping explosives to our waists in some weird mystical race war based on an eons-old mammalian territorial alpha male conquest way of life. Shifting people from authoritarian confiscatory dominance hierarchies to libertarian freely exchanged value seems to be hard work. Moslem ideologues need a paradigm shift in their heads. Some of them live here [in New Zealand] now and they collect their share of my cash - kebabs, taxis, medical services, member of parliament and wherever they fit into the economy. So far, they aren't involved in jihad mayhem, though there is a guy in Paremoremo prison under investigation for jihad associations. Even Saddam's stepson prefers life here as an aircraft engineer - also training as a pilot [though the jumpy yanks went weird on him in a fit of bureaucratic terrorist phobia when he went to do simulator training - they said his paperwork wasn't quite right, kept him prisoner for a few days then evicted him back to NZ]. cbsnews.com Mqurice