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To: glenn_a who wrote (20461)	10/22/2004 12:13:20 AM
From: Nikole Wollerstein	Respond to of 110194

""Hundreds of billions of dollars in laundered drug money flow through Wall Street each year from opium and coca fields maintained by CIA-sponsored warlords and US-backed covert paramilitary violence"" Thia book is a peace of Liberal Garbage If your a interested in the America as Empire I recommend Colossus: The Price of America's Empire by Niall Ferguson

To: glenn_a who wrote (20461)	10/23/2004 1:03:45 PM
From: orkrious	Respond to of 110194

I'd be very interested on your thoughts on the book as you read it, or after you are finished. One of the best analogies I've ever read - towards the end of the introduction: We can look at a roadmap and say that if we are headed eastbound on Interstate 10 in southeastern New Mexico, then the next major city is El Paso. In the same way, we can look at a map of how the world works, determine our position and direction, and know what is likely to come next. One obstacle that must be overcome, however, is the inherent unwillingness of the human race to honestly admit where they really are. It is useless, while sitting in Chicago, to start driving east with a wishful expectation of getting to El Paso. And yet, millions of Americans are doing just that when they insist that the United States is a great and free nation; that it didn't do anything wrong; that its economy is the best, the healthiest, and the cleanest in the world; and that it never victimizes other nations.

To: glenn_a who wrote (20461)	10/23/2004 2:23:59 PM
From: orkrious	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 110194

glenn, I just finished chapter 1, The Petroleum Man, and it is one of the most eye opening things I've ever read. thread regulars need to buy this book. amazon.com I've known for some time that the US is in deep sht for economic reasons. I now know that we (and most of the rest of the world) are in even deeper sht for other reasons. with our economic and energy problems combined, it makes me wonder what I will have to do to survive. mrs. ork already thinks I'm a lunatic pessimist. I wonder what she is going to say when in a few years, not only am I not going to want to trade up to a nicer house (which I've been promising her we could have when the RE market crashes and burns), I'm going to want to sell our condo and move out west. that's where there aren't many people, but there is plenty of water, land on which we can raise our own food, and trees which we can cut down and burn for heat. <g/ng> [EDIT] I have a wine cellar with 150 (and growing) bottles of expensive wine. How am I going to move them with me (and keep them at 55 degrees)?