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To: Seeker of Truth who wrote (17525)	4/21/2007 8:27:36 AM
From: Slagle	Respond to of 218057

Seeker, That is an interesting concept, illustrated by the Sumo wrestlers. But don't be so sure that your "super-country" is the terminal state of human existence. Seems to me that it is just another type of empire and over history very many empires of all different sorts have come and gone. The EU has been made possible by the continuous occupation of Germany and to an extent all of Europe by the American military for the last sixty years, so you might say that the EU was imposed upon the nations of Europe by force. The reason given to the American taxpayer for the existence of the expensive army of occupation in Europe was "to oppose the USSR" and this may have been true in the beginning, but Soviet communism has been gone for fifteen years and yet the American army of occupation still remains. Other polyglot empires have come and gone, the Roman but more recently the Russian and the Hapsburg Empire. The EU is brand new and in actual application, for example the Euro currency, just a few years old. I doubt it will survive its first serious crisis. Time will tell. You seem to believe the drift toward empire or "super-country" is the result of natural forces, the desires of "proletarians" and "capitalists" and the like. I believe otherwise and have some considerable evidence to support my belief that the drive to globalism has been the project of a very tiny international elite who have been working towards this goal for over 100 years. Slagle

To: Seeker of Truth who wrote (17525)	4/21/2007 9:21:41 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 218057

Iran is to set up Europe's first ethanol refinery in Bosnia and Herzegovina Iran, Bosnian ethanol deal Iran: Monday, April 09 - 2007 at 16:57 Iran is to set up Europe's first ethanol refinery in Bosnia and Herzegovina, according to the Tehran Times and citing Esmaeil Shahmir, the Managing Director of Mashal Khazar Darya. Shahmir said the contract would be worth around $150m and revealed that a plot of land will be assigned to the project for 50 years. The fuel will be exported to Austria, Germany and the Black Sea region.