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To: KyrosL who wrote (66418)	7/19/2005 2:35:08 PM
From: Slagle	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74559

Kyros Re: "worse scenario" It doesn't have to be all or none, a middle way is possible like in decades past where you have some global trade but no nation puts all the eggs in that basket. Back in the 1990's there was just a flood of small second hand Japanese diesel tractors into the US. Now I really like machinery, especially things like machine tools and farm tractors. And these little tractors were just so neat, little minature machines, many of them not any bigger than a riding lawnmower, but all of them real efficient diesels and made to last a lifetime. Why the flood of these odd little tractors? Because Japan had been forced to give up her domestic rice farming due to the evil Uruguay round, which is what these nifty little machines were built for. Going back over 100 years ago Japan had a really rapid population growth that had at times, especially in the early 1920's outstripped her ability to grow rice and had resulted in privation and even starvation, and was one of the primary causes of Japanese expansionism into China and elsewhere and even a main cause of Pearl Harbor. Japan with her rocky unproductive islands had a problem feeding the "100 million". After WWII Japan resolved to never face the problem again and had embraced the "green revolution" and had developed the most efficient agriculture possible on her rocky soils. But of course the tiny Japanese fields could never compete with the giant Texas or Arkansas fields, some many miles across. On the other hand these little fields were certainly no threat to agribusiness anywhere else, but did provide Japan with a safety factor and also a healthy environment and occupation for many Japanese. It wasn't the money that was behind the push to strip Japan of her rice industry. The evil bast@rds wanted to strip Japan of her ability to feed herself, so that the nation would be a "reliable hostage" to the globalist scheme. Gives you an idea of the depth of Satanic evil that you are dealing with here. In some future crisis you may have mass starvation in Japan because of this evil action. I really think that when you look at the likes of Greenspan and his ilk you are looking into the very face of evil. If this all ends badly may he and the rest burn forever. Slagle