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To: RJA_ who wrote (58667)	4/19/2006 8:38:33 AM
From: re3	Respond to of 110194

<<<<In the meantime, metals, foreign currencies, canadian oil trusts... Any more ideas? food commodities and puts on stock indexes J. Rogers discusses the first idea here: 321gold.com hard to know how much to allocate to puts...perhaps any interest from cash / short term interest bearing investments can go to puts ? hopefully others have some suggestions or thoughts...might be nice to see a few posts on this !

To: RJA_ who wrote (58667)	4/19/2006 9:23:53 AM
From: shades	Respond to of 110194

DJ Blair Says Zimbabwe's Plight Tragic, But Little UK Can Do (I wonder if they could do anything if tons of oil was there? hehe) LONDON (AP)--Zimbabwe's plight under President Robert Mugabe is a tragedy, but there is little the U.K. can do to help, U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair said Wednesday. He said he shared the worries of a lawmaker who cited statistics highlighting the southern African country's humanitarian and economic problems during Blair's weekly House of Commons question session. "The question is what is the solution to it," Blair said. "And the solutions I'm afraid are necessarily limited. Because, yes, what the regime is doing in Zimbabwe is a disgrace. There are people suffering there in a country that is potentially wealthy." "What we are doing...is our very best to try to get the right diplomatic pressure on the Zimbabwean regime to change. But there is, I'm afraid, a limit to what we can do." Zimbabweans are suffering deepening economic hardship as the gap between the rich elite and the poor majority widens. Unemployment exceeds 70% and inflation is the highest in the world at 913% on basic goods. Disruptions in the agriculture-based economy after the often violent seizures of thousands of white-owned commercial farms since 2000 have led to acute shortages of food, gasoline and medicines. (END) Dow Jones Newswires April 19, 2006 09:21 ET (13:21 GMT)