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To: TobagoJack who wrote (59614)	1/29/2005 5:01:20 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

Ukraine is needed by the EU. Europe has accelerated addition of new members as its core countries market stagnated. EU needs Turkey. Needs Ukraine. EU are post-Keynesians but their system is not good enough. They go there dump 80.000 laws for the potential entrant implement if accomplished, they create the purchasing power and sell into that given market. Given the overcapacity on all industry, it is required is for the whole world go post-Keynesian. And that is what the new Abracadabra is all about.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (59614)	1/29/2005 11:56:39 AM
From: smolejv@gmx.net	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

It is easy to fall into the trap of seeing Ukraina as torn between east (those Asiatic/communist morons) and west - church-going folks, who even know how to use forks and knives, with pictures of Franz Josef II in their bedrooms. I'd turn the argument 90% into the alternative between a democracy and some kind of autocratic big-brother big-thieves government. I KNOW there's correlations ... but they are there to be misunderstood, misapplied and misused.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (59614)	1/29/2005 12:32:14 PM
From: Seeker of Truth	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74559

"On CCJ, I may follow you." Dear EP and JC, Like you two I like U, whether as the oxide or the fluoride, and therefore I have had a fair amount of CCJ for some time, as it floats ever upward. But it seems to me that while there is a well documented case that the planet is running out of oil, I have not heard the same argument for U. What I believe is that it is too cheap now. Have either of you heard of any arguments that "Uranium has peaked"? About coal, it is evidently in short supply which I find astonishing. I remember when I lived in China geographers there said that China has 1000 years of coal in the ground. Of course the population has grown a lot but is it just a matter of digging some more and thereby establishing new mines or has coal peaked? Canada exports coal. The US is said to have centuries of coal reserves. ???? Baffled oil and real estate fancier.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (59614)	1/29/2005 1:57:09 PM
From: ild	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

RE: Ukraine Very poor article. What he didn't even mention is that most of Ukraine's economic power in concentrated in the East and South. In general I'm surprised by the amount of anti-Russianness in US press. From reading US papers one would think that China and Russia are two bloody enemies of USA. From Heinz on US foreign policy: trotsky (Scott TL) ID#248269: Copyright © 2002 trotsky/Kitco Inc. All rights reserved "Bush has found his way back to the core, universalist principles that have usually shaped American foreign policy..." that's BS. these principles haven't shaped US foreign policy until Wilson and FDR entered the scene. Washington asserted that America would welcome the emergence of liberty abroad, and would lend it its moral support. but he also asserted that it would not seek to impose these values by force. and we can now clearly see that he knew what he was talking about. besides, the whole enterprise is a hypocritical farce anyway. the imposition of 'democracy and liberty' at the point of the US gun is reserved only for those regimes that are not doing the US's bidding. e.g. Islam Karimov, the bloody dictator of Uzbekistan who boils his political opponents alive, can continue to feel quite safe. after all, he has welcomed US military bases on his soil ( the population was not consulted ) and he won't stand in the way of any planned oil pipelines either. the same goes for countless other tyrannies , that either qualify for exemption on the same grounds as Karimov, or because they have the ability to shoot back ( i.e., invasion of their countries isn't 'doable' to use one of Wolfowitz's remarkably candid comments on the question of 'why Iraq'? ) . i believe it's precisely this problem that Washington foresaw - he knew that the US wouldn't be able to liberate the whole world, which automatically then raises questions about the choice of targets.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (59614)	1/29/2005 6:47:47 PM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Re: Ukraine - Timoshenko sounds like an inusrance policy for the president - something bad happens to me, you get her. My guess is Putin gets a number of favors and concessions over the next year.