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To: Chuckles_Bee who wrote (24624)	11/8/2006 9:51:20 AM
From: Chuckles_Bee	Respond to of 78419

Good grief. Russia owns 56% of SWC..and it was a shotgun wedding (courtesy of U.S. government)!?!? I was looking for info on Norilsk Nickel because of the platinum interruption rumor and found these 2004 bits on the takeover: Russia: The Best Enemy US Taxpayers Can Buy goldismoney.info It is against the law for a Russian firm, controlled by the Russian government, to purchase any mining company in the United States which produces any strategic metal or mineral. “Strategic” in this case means that besides any precious metal value it has and its normal industrial value, it is a metal which is needed to build certain weapons systems, principally strategic weapons systems. Still selling us out for fun and profit unknownnews.org Country for sale, slightly used, inquire within unknownnews.net Whether you want to believe any of it or not, the unknownnews site is worth a few minutes of look-about time. Also related to the SWC takeover, this is an interesting 10/20/2006 Russian news read: Russian state resumes intervention in the economy en.rian.ru Regards, CB.