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To: SliderOnTheBlack who wrote (1259)	3/2/2006 11:07:17 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Respond to of 50264

"HOMELAND SECURITY" -- FOR WHAT AND FOR WHOM? Dr. Edwin Vieira, Jr., Ph.D., J.D. March 8, 2005 NewsWithViews.com Why do so many Americans think that "homeland security" means what they think it means? Americans have learned the painful lesson that what "is" going on in politics and government these days all too often depends upon the secret, idiosyncratic definitions of "is", and many other words, that politicians and public officials are using. Of course, if a public official says something that he knows people will think means X, when in his own mind he means Y, he is lying. But such verbal legerdemain is difficult to expose, because the deceitful officeholder can always defend his statement as being literally true. Americans must therefore be perpetually on their guard to parse every sentence, phrase, and even noun and verb that politicians and public officials employ, searching for the hidden meanings lurking among the letters. This problem of differentiating between the sound of what members of the political class intone and the sense of what they really intend is nowhere more critical than in the matter of "homeland security". Too many people, however, naively accept this term at face value, without asking the vital, probing questions: What "security"? and Whose "security"? newswithviews.com

To: SliderOnTheBlack who wrote (1259)	3/3/2006 6:05:36 PM
From: Crimson Ghost	Respond to of 50264

Excellent post Slider! I for one expect $1000 gold and $100 oil a few years hence -- but not until we get a substantial correction to say $45 oil and $500-520 gold.

To: SliderOnTheBlack who wrote (1259)	3/3/2006 10:16:26 PM
From: ecrire	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50264

I'm sure you'll agree that you can't separate Crude Oil prices from potential external shocks which exist all over the world these days, and anyone of which,if they explode is capable of devastating consequences. So a large "fear" premium is quite justified, regardless of currently ample stocks. As for predictions of recession, depression, consumer debt, repercussions in China and commodity weakness, well, these predictions have been around for quite a while. In the meantime, almost all statistics regularly released, point to an economy that's in pretty good shape.