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To: TobagoJack who wrote (57263)	11/1/2009 3:59:45 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217786

I can't imagine why a US or Canadian company would risk major long-term capital to develop a huge copper mine in Afghanistan. There are plenty of other sizable copper deposits around the world that don't involve that high degree of political risk. The US mission is to deter the militant Islamists, so if Chinese economic involvement helps achieve that then it's a win-win deal as far as I'm concerned. But my earlier recommendation for the Chinese still stands: buyMRAPs.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (57263)	11/1/2009 6:02:48 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217786

It does read like the common whine, "They are doing it below cost. Unfair!!" When in fact the whiner is simply too greedy with a sense of entitlement. If China's companies are willing to invest and start digging copper, that's quite a commitment so things can't be too terribly unstable. The companies presumably calculate that whoever is in power, they will want the copper mine to continue production. Even in Zimbabwe, mines sometimes continue production. The production company will of course hire the best people for the job = cheap local yokels as they can, more expensive Chinese imports as they need, hideously highly paid international technologists like ElM with English skills as they must, and of course, unavoidably and essentially, Qualcomm to provide mobile communications and cyberspace requirements bringing peace, light, harmony, happiness, health, prosperity, longevity fun and love to a land with centuries of conflict at the cross roads of humanity. Mqurice

To: TobagoJack who wrote (57263)	11/1/2009 7:06:32 PM
From: Box-By-The-Riviera™	Respond to of 217786

Message 26063855 we may need to start leveraging this the hedge fund way then it won't matter so much if we bought the wrong farm. we go the right way, the next two months are going to be a perfect trade environment. such occurances, at least in the last 16 years plus, are rare. i'm watching.