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To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (57599)	12/25/2004 6:12:05 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 74559

Take care of mom. I got the drift of your post. Understand where you are coming from. Have no particular arguments with it. I had lived under the same systems as you did, and now find Hong Kong, with its big pot of money, tiny little government, no mob able to vote my wallet, and absolute freedom to do whatever I like within a very limited set of laws very attractive, justifying the high real estate price as voted by electorates everywhere. Except I happen to have my strage way of thinking about Chaos, Crisis, Volatility, and how to incorporate it all into Lonely Path/Right Way Schema, as well as Survival Construct. 2005 should be interesting. Chugs, Jay

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (57599)	12/26/2004 12:31:13 PM
From: smolejv@gmx.net	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

For the argument's sake let's do a mind swap and think through the following scenario: it's the start of the last century and UK has - with a help of a con man or two - acquired ("expatriated"?) US oil stocks, locking out the Rockefeller and Co from oil on American soil. Huh?!... Mind you, it would probably be easier to catch US with pants down then than Russia, or anybody for that matter, in the current (start of 21st century) situation. ... Henry Ford was still a couple of years away from Model T and so was US.... Mean to say, rather than painting Putin as the next Khan, it's more proper to see him as a realpolitiker with a clout - that got quite a deal bigger, now that Russian oil is back where it used to be. btw, I'm heating with Gazprom gas...