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To: KyrosL who wrote (10403)10/23/2006 8:36:22 AM
From: foundation  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217884
 
re: I know, it sounds absolute

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Here is my future free lunch of words:...:-)

... in my view, Globalization - read US hegemony over global resources and markets - is soon to die a remarkably rapid, wrenching death.

... enter market and resource nationalism (see Russia for a preview), protectionism and, above all, rapidly accelerating resource wars...

The 11th commandment -- that energy resources are, by definition, fungible -- is sheer folly.

I count Afghanistan (perceived need, at the time, for safe pipeline route*) and Iraq (rather obvious to even the most indoctrinated) as resource wars numbers 1 and 2.

* the projected and hyped Soviet x-satellite "istan" oil bonanza has since turned bust - with expected reserves cut by a factor of 10 --- which explains why the US is cutting and running...