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To: TobagoJack who wrote (57301)	4/2/2006 9:18:17 PM
From: re3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

by energy etf, do you mean xle or the new barrels of oil unit (is it USO ?)

To: TobagoJack who wrote (57301)	4/2/2006 9:54:53 PM
From: shades	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

australian agriculture products process/trade company, uranium, oil, gas, These make sense financial speculator entity, gold mine Did gold mines do well in the 30's? I read in some places they didn't - maybe they had poor hedging strategies? pinned at the high, with low volatility, waiting for signs of breakdown or breakout When volatility is low - you MUST go! i figure all will vote for joyous hyper monetary inflation over miserable debt deflation, More worthless green paper - hooray - load me up Bernanke! Maybe I can funnel that money to the hookers quicker than my peers and get lots of naked fun before the prices go up too much! I can AFFIRM for you that hookers do not LIKE prices going down - they would rather not work than sell themselves cheap - but if you give them MORE worthless money - they have been programmed in a way that they think they WIN when their prices go up. political/economic/monetary/social events will go from bad to worse, Silly Chen! You take that frown and turn it upside down - things are getting better all the time. Look at the wonders in Shanghai - pudong got bulldozed over for new development - and all the poor pudong farmers stand there gaping at the new honda dealership selling cars that only rich party members can afford - where they used to grow thier food - that is progress right? money is still free; as to mopping up of liquidity, i am not convinced, We got to drain those swamps. Mosquitoes are flying all around. I heard new zealand and iceland gonna start - maybe Japan too. My bum friend, all he wanted was young women giving him sex to get out and work hard - but no money would buy him how much he wanted - and after he got older his brad pitt looks waned - so he sat down - monetary people can't understand there isn't enough money in the universe to make that donkey plow - they are using the wrong carrot. Just like I posted about your chinese friends stealing korean wives - many people won't work if they can't get what they want. Their wants and needs transcend money and monetary things. because debt is increasing, via fiscal policies all around, unless i am misunderstanding something Zimbabwe has 600% interest rates - are they draining thier swamps? all signs point to intention to trash the dollar again, even as all other currencies are trash as well The philster thinks pimco and magic offshore accounts are still doing a good job of supporting the dollar. I bet iceland and new zealand and australia and such just WISH they were as sneaky and clever as those USA boys - we got so many tricks it makes houdini's head spin in his grave. oh, and yes, i expect the usa to take on iran as was the case with iraq Whew - that is gonna be a hard sell Chen - the rednecks I know are no where NEAR as gung ho about iran like they were Iraq - 9/11 was a long time now and they are all going broke with ARM's that are resetting - I just hope el mat gets all his friends out of there if/when the bombs start dropping. possible solution set: accumulate gold, hoard silver, tank up n non-ME oil, ... well, you know conservativecrust.com General check this out - you will laugh your ass off - who wins - the tank or the tianneman square student with a gold coin? Patron told me the indians should have invested in smith and wesson - not teepees and buffalo - HAHA!

To: TobagoJack who wrote (57301)	4/3/2006 11:12:41 AM
From: shades	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

Iran Makes 'al Qaeda Look Like Kindergarten' abcnews.go.com April 3, 2006 — The Iranians continue to ratchet up the tension with the United States, testing a high-speed torpedo this weekend that they say can destroy warships and submarines. This follows the test-firing just two days earlier of a new multiple warhead missile they say can evade radar. Despite the provocation, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice downplayed the possibility of a military strike, although she did not rule it out. "We are committed to a diplomatic course because we believe that a diplomatic course can work," she said on ITVL's "Jonathan Dimbleby Programme." In a front-page story on Sunday, The Washington Post reported that U.S. intelligence analysts believed Iran would retaliate against U.S. military strikes on its nuclear sites by carrying out terrorist attacks, including on American soil. "Iran is the No. 1 world sponsor of terrorism," said Richard Clarke, ABC consultant and former national security official. "Iran has a host of instruments they could throw at us, and they are much better organized and well-equipped than al Qaeda. And in the event of a U.S. attack on Iran, you could expect attacks on the U.S." The United States believes Iran is attempting to produce nuclear weapons. Iran denies the accusation, saying it intends only to generate electricity. The U.N. Security Council has demanded Iran give up uranium enrichment, a crucial part of the nuclear weapons production process. Washington is pressing for sanctions if Tehran, Iran's capital, continues its nuclear program. Clarke said that Iran had three terrorist organizations it sponsored or controlled. The most important is the Lebanon-based paramilitary organization Hezbollah, which destroyed the Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983 and killed 241 Marines. Hezbollah is suspected in the 1996 attack on the Khobar towers in Saudi Arabia. Iran also has control over Shiite militias in Iraq and has its own special forces called the Qods Force. These three organizations make al Qaeda look like a kindergarten, Clarke said. The United States Will "Suffer" Iran's hard-line president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has warned that the United States will "suffer" if it takes action against its nuclear program. Some have seen that as a threat to increase militant action in the region or turn to the oil weapon. Clarke said the missile test might actually hurt Iran. "The missile test may backfire. Iran is claiming that missile has multiple warheads," he said. "We don't know if that's true, but you can argue the only reason for having multiple warheads is if you have nuclear weapons. So Iran may have further confirmed in the eyes of U.S. analysts that it is in fact trying to get nuclear weapons. That, in turn, will step up the pressure by the U.S. on Iran." If diplomacy fails and a military strike becomes the only option, experts fear a devastating response by Iran and not by conventional means. "Their best option is to use other ways of attacking to support terrorist and extremists," said Anthony Cordesman, an ABC News national security analyst. Last month, a senior Iranian official warned the United States that "it may have the power to cause harm and pain, but it is also susceptible to harm and pain." At the time, some analysts believed that was a reference to withholding oil but now they are not so certain. "U.S. policymakers have to be thinking a move ahead," Clarke said. "They have to assume: If we attack Iran, Iran will attack us. So what's step two? Do we bomb Iran even more? Where does that get you?" Where is the great Chen and his letters to presidents to stop all the war mongering? Maybe time to dig up some of grandpa's old writings?