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To: elmatador who wrote (72080)	1/18/2010 2:06:58 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Speaking about rule of law, how is it that greedy Brazilians and Australians can collude to jack up the price of iron ore paid by the poor desperate Chinese? Why doesn't the WTO have a rule against this sort of thing?... Iron ore giants, China square off over pricing cbc.ca ... it's widely reported that the big three producers this year plan first to reach a deal with Japan and then present those terms to China as a done deal. "The deal gets presented to the Chinese as 'This is what the rest of the rest of the world is paying; now, take it or leave it'," said Letourneau. "The big three have that kind of pricing power because they control 70 to 80 per cent of the sea-borne iron ore trade, which is how China gets its iron ore, so it gets really nasty."

To: elmatador who wrote (72080)	1/18/2010 1:22:46 PM
From: RJA_	8 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74559

>>Well, I was the law. The thread IMHO is now functioning better, and there is no law... other than the realization that acting like an idiot will mark you as such. That IMHO should indicate something to you. (Not that you are an idiot, you are certainly not) but that perhaps you were a just a bit too heavy handed, and perhaps the law was not needed. If you enforce a law that is not needed, and in an arbitrary and capricious fashion, people who do not need to put up with that *&^%$!@ will go away, which they did. What is surprising, is that you still do not get it. Perhaps it is a cultural thing. Lesson: There are no popular dictators (to my knowledge anyway). Over time, they are all determined to be ego maniacs, and the plebs will have done with them... Which is one thing to be said for democracy... when functioning properly it does allow for change of government without bloody revolution.