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To: TobagoJack who wrote (36543)	7/26/2003 1:37:28 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Gidday Jay. A good [Kiwi] friend recently bought a Tonka Truckload of silver. I am endowed and defended with my CDMA2000 phragmented photon cyberspace light sabre investment which requires near-zero oil to create or run but provides an alternative to all the SUV mobility which duplicates much of what cyberspace can do. I'm ready for Saudi Arabia to go off-line. Other OPEC members will immediately pump like crazy. Prices will rise. Power stations will switch to coal, gas, or Orimulsion. SUVs will look a little large and filling the gas tank will causing skin moistening in the indebted when interest rates start zooming and the house isn't a convenient source of spending power any more. I do like the idea of platinum. But not the price. I love what it might do for methanol-powered fuel cells which everyone will want in their cyberphone light sabres. Perhaps I should investigate more closely. Manana, Mqurice

To: TobagoJack who wrote (36543)	7/26/2003 1:55:37 AM
From: smolejv@gmx.net	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74559

Hi Jay - felt bad writing that NYP short comment like "cant you be a little more positive instead of bitching & baiting all the time" (do I, I dont know, I guess it's just my usual delusion of grandeur). Whatever - a little self-castigation now and then does not hurt ;) -. >>In a fascinating development not indicative of marketplace adulation for Fed policies, the yield curve is becoming unusually steep. The spread between the 2-year and 10-year Treasuries closed today at 267 basis points, 16 wider for the week, 30 wider for two weeks, and almost 50 wider over four weeks. According to Bloomberg, this is “the widest gap in more than a decade.”<< (Doug Noland) Even more interesting times ahead of us, heh? Have hair bristling on my neck. some new stuff to show/prove alternative thinking: textnart.de textnart.de btw will be in US in a week and will report how it looks and feels. A lady in the front office indicated I could do something about my beard - a sign of concern, even if over the line -. I said, if necessary, I'll just raise my hand, smile and say "Salaam. Aleykum salaam".

To: TobagoJack who wrote (36543)	7/26/2003 5:00:36 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Respond to of 74559

Some interesting snipets from this article - As for the CIA, the Agency let the State Department take the lead and decided simply to ignore Saudi Arabia. The CIA recruited no Saudi diplomats to tell us, for instance, what the religious-affairs sections of Saudi embassies were up to. The CIA's Directorate of Intelligence avoided writing national intelligence estimates--appraisals, drawn from various U.S. intelligence services, about areas of potential crisis--on Saudi Arabia, knowing that such estimates, especially when negative, have a tendency to find their way onto the front pages of U.S. newspapers, where they might have an undesired effect on public opinion. ................................................. Consider the case of the Carlyle Group--a private investment company, founded in 1987, that almost since its inception has been conducting immensely profitable business with Saudi Arabia. From 1993 to 2002 the chairman of Carlyle was Frank Carlucci, who served first as Ronald Reagan's National Security Adviser and then as his Secretary of Defense. Carlyle's senior counselor is James Baker, who served as Secretary of State under George H.W. Bush--who in his post-presidency also happens to be a Carlyle adviser. Others who hang their hats at Carlyle include Arthur Levitt, the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission under Bill Clinton, and now Carlyle's senior adviser; John Major, a former Prime Minister of Great Britain and the current chairman of Carlyle Europe; William Kennard, who chaired the Federal Communications Commission during the second Clinton Administration; Afsaneh Mashayekhi Beschloss, a former treasurer and chief investment officer of the World Bank; and Richard Darman, who ran the Office of Management and Budget under the first President Bush and also served as deputy secretary of the treasury under Reagan. ........... Elsewhere, Nicholas Brady, the Secretary of the Treasury under the first President Bush, and Edith Holiday, a former assistant to the first President Bush, serve on the board of Amerada Hess, which has teamed with some of Saudi Arabia's most powerful royal-family members to exploit the rich oil resources of Azerbaijan. In 1998 Amerada Hess formed a joint venture, Delta Hess, with the Saudi-owned Delta Oil to explore and exploit petroleum resources in Azerbaijan. The Houston-based Frontera Resources Corporation joined the Azerbaijan hunt the same year, teaming with the newly created Delta Hess. Among the members of Frontera's board of advisers: the former Texas senator former Secretary of the Treasury, and 1988 Democratic vice-presidential candidate Lloyd Bentsen; and John Deutch, a former CIA director. and what I posted several times on SI that Powell is to the US security is the most dangerous US citizen in public office trough his policies Bandar was once Colin Powell's racquetball partner. ........................... Prince Bandar once told associates that he is very careful to look after U.S. government officials when they return to private life. "If the reputation then builds that the Saudis take care of friends when they leave office," Bandar has observed, according to a source cited in The Washington Post, "you'd be surprised how much better friends you have who are just coming into office". Practically every deal with the Saudis eventually becomes hard to trace, lost in some desert sandstorm back near the wellheads where the money sprang from in the first place.