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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49226)	10/9/2005 6:11:33 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Our little efforts should make some sense, it is kind of strange that a night before the earthquake in Pakistan, I wrote this article....sometime when we make sense we like it, others we don't we want to forget.. The earth's surface is broken into seven large and many small moving plates. These plates, each about 50 miles thick, move relative to one another an average of a few inches a year. At transform-fault boundaries, plates move horizontally past each other. The San Andreas Fault zone is an example of this type of boundary where the Pacific Plate on which Los Angeles sits is moving slowly northwestward relative to the North American Plate on which San Francisco sits. Millions of years ago the Eurasian plate movements caused Himalayas to rise. Imagine a self conscious being witnessing Himalayas rising and reporting the associated earth quakes and destruction? Would he consider that to be fault of green emissions? Like many blamed the recent Tsunami to obscure nuclear test explosions in the Pacific’s. One Karakatoa eruption releases far more obnoxious gases and so does these underground Tsunamis that alters the balance of Ozone layers far more adversely than our little gizmos and gimmicks that we blame all our ills on. Nature has its own cure and journey of billions of years would not end by one century of ‘abuse!’ If even we agree to call it so. Lets think for moment and stop self flagellation, we are not responsible for movements of these plates over hot molten lavas, and this is the nature of the beast we live with. Our limitations are immense and we need to know and prepare the best we can. We don’t have all the answers and we shall have not all the answers. We like to confront nature, we like to live in cities which sit on faults, and we like to live in cities that are below the sea level that is how we have progressed, by taxing nature, sometime punished for going against the natural law. cybermusings.blogspot.com And just two weeks before 911, I wrote this one too.. The war of ideas where Islamic clergy, for its own limited interests, has tried to introduce elements of bigotry and fanaticism in mainstream Islamic thought is not new to Muslim societies. It has made them weak and backward and if it continues in its most dangerous form, such a schism will fragment the country whose only reason to exist as a nation is theological unity of belief. Today, our Darul-Ulooms are a breeding ground for sectarian terminators. Unless our Darul-Ulooms become and are redesigned on the pattern of House of Wisdom, of Baghdad and, instead of producing human terminators, we produce men of letters who may recognize how to respect life, our prospect as a nation is bleak. iranian.com A year ago I also predicted this, so far it has not come true..but still I don't want to forget about it.. During the first eight months of this year, the price of oil has risen to nearly $55 from just under $29. For the last 30 years, the price of oil has been the single most important determinant of the economy and the stock market. However, there is something amiss in this whole equation of the steep oil price rise. Whilst in the short term it provides opportunity, to me, in the long term, it sounds like a death knell for OPEC. As I recently explained to an OPEC country oil minister, oil pricing is a two-edged sword, which is hard to manage. Let it drift too low and quota-cheating necessitated by the single commodity- dependent economies of OPEC take the bottom of the oil prices like, oil at below $10; keep it too high, long term impacts are disastrous. Thus, rich oil nations like Saudi, Iran, Iraq and Kuwait are caught up in a quandary. They need to maintain oil at a price that helps them grow their single commodity dependent economy to a multifaceted economy, but at the same time keep new producers and threatening new tech advance out of the contention. The authors of "Oil Factor," a gloomy book about energy, claim that the oil price will soar above $100 a barrel by the end of the decade, and possibly sooner. The Oil Depletion Analysis Centre (ODAC) is a stunning group convinced that the world is perilously close to an oil shock induced by scarcity, not politics. Thanks to the surge in the price of oil to nearly $50 a barrel, the predictions of OACD and Oil factor authors look realizable. The cartel's export earnings are running at almost three times what they were in 1998, when a barrel fetched only around $10. OPEC's 11-member states produce 26 million barrels of oil a day - 39% of the world's oil production, which accounts for half of all oil exports. They are swamped with extra $360 billion's by end of 2004. It seems Russia that produces equal barrels to Saudi should one day become the swing producer, but if one scratches the surface a little, he would realize that on reserves Saudi and their closest allies in OPEC belong to different breeds of oil producers. The two groups as a result should have conflicting oil pricing policy. iranian.ws