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To: Ilaine who wrote (4730)	3/8/2006 2:04:13 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217661

hello cb, <<My guess is that you just want me to articulate it so you can tweak me for being racist or xenophobic>> ... have i ever done that to you? of course not, i answer for you. have i ever done that to anyone else? no, of course not, i answer for anyone else. on 2008 election, it will be fascinating ... i am hoping that condi rice will be matched against hilary clinton :0) chugs, j

To: Ilaine who wrote (4730)	3/8/2006 11:13:27 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 217661

hello cb, <<Maybe it's nothing more profound than that Indians speak very good English, better than Americans, and maybe it's just that Indians are more closely related to Europeans>> ... i am suspicious of any premise that equates language (in the case of indians) and actual skin colour or perceived culture (in the matter of russians) equation as a foundation for strategic alliance or as a base for any other sort of affinity, because the truth does not allow such easy takes on the facts, to wit the attached article, and never mind the additional religious peculiarities and caste singularities not mentioned it may serve better if one were to discern the reality of family values and moral guidance sort of markers, but that is also not perfect as guide because in any case the usa seems to have lost both, at least in an aggregate sense as sanctioned by the majority of electorates i mean, would it bother anyone in homeland defense should the gitmo inmates start to commit mass suicides out of utter despair, guilty of nothing more than having a moslem name? probably not. it is exceedingly distressing to see the nation founded on high principles by brilliant men come to what is on fox tv channel. the direction is wrong, and the trend is not uplifting. just as a counter example, i figure there is more in common between the jews and the chinese than there are between the french and germans, and between the zimbabwan and the trinidadian. perhaps i am imagining. as to the call centers, a call center business i am affiliated with in the philippines has just wrestled a large us multinational from an indian competitor; we were told the mnc's clients calling in get upset at the accent of the indian service providers ... apparently the accent training is not altogether perfect. the filipinos, otoh, are excellent at voice modulation, and in fact there are many filipino music bands performing all over the world, include very many 3-star and above hotels in china in secondary and even third tier cities, and the singing is indistinguishable from the original artists, in english, chinese and japanese languages - pretty awesome any way, onward to watch & brief ... asia.scmp.com Thursday, March 9, 2006 Wives shared between husband and brothers AMRIT DHILLON in New Delhi It would be reasonable to assume that the shortage of women in northern India might have improved their lot, as an increasing number of men are forced to compete for their hand in marriage. But instead, the shortage caused by 20 years of aborting female foetuses is prompting men who manage to find a wife to share her with their frustrated brothers. In Haryana and Punjab, men visit remote, poor rural areas to buy wives whose families cannot afford a dowry. Tripala Kumari, 18, was brought to Haryana last month from her home hundreds of kilometres away in Bihar by farmer Ajmer Singh. When she realised that Singh expected her to sleep with his two brothers, Kumari refused and Singh allegedly killed her. He has been arrested and the Haryana government has set up an inquiry into the practice of fraternal polyandry. In some villages of Haryana and Punjab, the sex ratio is 500 baby girls for every 1,000 boys. "I came across one case where five brothers were sharing the same woman," women's activist Subhashini Ali said. "You'll have one woman being passed around like a sex object." These arrangements often go wrong. Police in Uttar Pradesh reported last year that they had registered five cases of fratricide - murder among brothers, provoked by sexual jealousy or rivalry. Fraternal polyandry also raises social issues. When children are born, who has paternity? And as men scour India for a wife - often one from a different region, who eats, dresses and speaks differently - there is evidence of growing numbers of family conflicts and mistreatment of the outsider. "These families don't just need a wife to service the sexual needs of the son, they also need someone to do household and farming work so she is actually a bit like a bonded labourer," said Preet Rastogi, junior fellow at the Centre for Women's Development and Studies in New Delhi. "The neighbours ignore her and the community doesn't accept her."

To: Ilaine who wrote (4730)	3/20/2006 6:46:01 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217661

Hello CB, <<Re: nukes. Oh, I can't believe you can't tell the difference between Iran and India when it comes to nukes>> ... following up on a point until the point is perhaps more clear. It did not take long. My take on the Iranian nuke desires and the Indian nuke bomb is straightforward and obvious, that the nuke bombs make their owners feel safer, just in case. Historically, in the case of India, the apparent encouragement for possession is China and Pakistan; in the case of China, USA and Russia and Britain; and in the case of Iran, the USA, etc. History is history. Fact is, right now there are very few organized national military forces killing civilians, including 3 year olds, exhibit #1 news.yahoo.com ... and there are very few national leaders advocating war, exhibit #2 news.yahoo.com ... and there are only a very few countries believing that war is an exercise in prevention without provocation and without clear and present danger. So here we are, trying to understand why Iran feels the need for nukes. If you were Iranian leader, responsible for your people for the long haul, what would you do, even if for just in case? Some things just are. My guess, anything done to Iran in the way of invasion ala Iraq will only encourage more nuke activities around the world. I figure Israel is not strong enough to try, never mind achieve success to prevent Iran from joining the nuke club, unless it uses the nuke as prevention - a slippery slope. I have a feeling that the US will have to apply prevention to Iran as it had claimed to do in Iraq. I doubt the US will willingly face proliferation by minor states all across the globe starting with Iran, because Iran is a different calibre of entity than N.Korea. Iran has true money, in the form of black gold, and its faith is more ancient than the version practiced in N.Korea. Iran will of course be able to get the necessary help from a bunch of pools of talent, and the recent move to ease nuke non-proliferation by US with India probably does not encourage Pakistan to play according to any rules except its own rule. I would imagine Pentagon-inspired China encirclement, mark II, probably will not help matters. I am guessing, but figure Condi Rice-inspired machinations against Putin/Russia is not received kindly. We are, I believe, at one of the very few critical junctures in history, and we are simply marking time. The discussion on possibilities and outcomes does not require invocation of right and wrong, only logic. Recommendation: aggregate gold. Chugs, J

To: Ilaine who wrote (4730)	3/24/2006 3:01:46 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217661

How can we do better than Brazil here. Message 22290772

To: Ilaine who wrote (4730)	4/15/2006 1:47:36 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217661

"...we are not ready to abandon oil right now." Message 22359177

To: Ilaine who wrote (4730)	5/13/2006 7:13:10 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217661

Hello CB, Regarding your May 20th, 2001 post Message 15826282 <<Which is why I refuse to buy it. I don't care if I could become a squillionaire (that's a trillionaire squared -g-) - I say it's tulips, and I say the hell with it.-ng- Too damn rational for my own good, maybe, but that's the way it is.>>, and following up to my response at the time . . . Message 15827492 <<big Reset Button to any financial asset portfolio ... some physical gold starts to make more sense, as a super duper triple redundancy double secret backup system drive of a design originating from a technology not yet understood by earthlings, gifted to us by the action of stars gone brilliant long time ago. ... I have always liked platinum, my interest in gold is relative new (2001). ... Tulips? Yes, I say it as well, but physically more enduring, and psychologically more permanent, hard-wired on the motherboard, and doubly backed in the BIOS chip, not to mention prominently displayed in the users manual. The users manual pages have been lost for a few years, but will be rediscovered by the time the "Where to Put Your Money" issues of the popular magazines appear on the newsstands in 2001. ... At some time, I think gold will become quite rational for the crowds, just as tulips were for however a short period of time, and I will be a net seller of gold assets, moving the profit to stocks, bonds, cash, and whatever else that may be irrational at the time.>> I remind you that it is not too late to start learning and accumulating gold, and should one be daunted by the price in exchange for excess savings and surplus capital, one can focus on silver, details here Message 22447961 Chugs, J