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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: energyplay who wrote (32113)	4/2/2008 4:29:59 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217571

EP, has Russia ever attacked European countries? Russia has been attacked by France, Germany, Mongolians, China. The USSR was quite an empire, so they were not totally benign, staying within Russia-speaking realms. Since Russia has gas/oil, it's more likely that the Europeans will climb up the pipeline to secure "their" supplies than that Russia would try to take over the customers by force. Military people don't really want wars. They want big salaries, lots of marching and saluting, lots of toys, conferences, manouevres maybe a few skirmishes, but serious stuff is for civilians, not soldiers. Colin Powell was against invading Iraq. King George II was gung ho to go and get Saddam to show him who was boss. Mqurice

To: energyplay who wrote (32113)	4/2/2008 7:21:22 AM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 217571

she is at the end of her wits, engulfed, trapped by her bias, with no way around and out, consumed she is no longer rational, perhaps because it is a cultural thing, and so good she is blessed with a chinese mother in-law :0) can you imagine hanky paulson having the following discussion with putin chron.com ? i hope the thread does not lose cb ilaine's charm as we journey along towards teotwawki soooooo much fun to have her around, and watch her go through the awakening process ending with teotwawki dawn :0) quote April 2, 2008, 6:06AM Paulson tells China 'more bumps' ahead on credit crisis Associated Press BEIJING — U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson says he told Chinese leaders that Washington is making progress in resolving the U.S. credit crisis but cautioned there will be "more bumps" ahead. Paulson met on Wednesday with President Hu Jintao and Beijing's new point man on strained relations with Washington, Wang Qishan. Paulson said he explained that the United States was going through a "period of turmoil" but the economy remains fundamentally strong. "I believe we are making progress" in calming troubled credit markets, he said. However, he cautioned that the problems would require more hard work. "I continue to think there will be some more bumps in the road," he said. Paulson declined to give details on what Chinese leaders said to him. unquote my guess on what the middle kingdom said? "yeup, just keep the interest checks coming, on time, in the correct amount, stand on the line in the sand in mesoptamia, oil concession honored by bagdad, make sure our iron mine is well guarded in afghanistan, and keep your small town ex-mayors in line and know not very much lawyers on capitol hill toeing the line, along with the taiwan trouble-makers, and do not even think about most favored nation status machinations ever again"