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To: Snowshoe who wrote (63381)	5/6/2010 8:19:36 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217792

It has to do with the potential damage. Take warheads for instance. Is it worth worry about Iran which is enriching a few grams of U or about Anglos? The Pentagon says the U.S. maintains 5,113 nuclear warheads in its stockpile and "several thousand" more retired nukes that await dismantling. google.com But note that those 5,113 warhead count is the Pentagon count. If we do an independent counting. surely it will be discovered they are lying. Which is exactly what Iran is asking. news.xinhuanet.com

To: Snowshoe who wrote (63381)	8/17/2010 1:01:16 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217792

2) What's happening with your presidential election? Who's leading in the polls? Brazil’s Rousseff May Win Election in First Round, Poll Shows businessweek.com

To: Snowshoe who wrote (63381)	8/17/2010 1:51:02 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217792

3) What's happening with the proposed law to stop Rio from hogging the oil revenue, so it can be spread around to other provinces. All Brazilian states share royalties whether they produce oil or not. In early March, the lower house passed a bill that would increase the royalties for non-oil-producing states by as much as 26 percent.

To: Snowshoe who wrote (63381)	8/17/2010 1:53:43 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217792

4) Now that your courts have blocked that huge hydro-electric dam again, how will Brazil meet its growing power demand? OGX: Natural Gas Find Could Fill 25% of Brazil's Consumption Message 26754527 AND Brazilian Consortium To Build Belo Monte Hydroelectric Dam -Report First Published Monday, 16 August 2010 12:11 pm - © 2010 Dow Jones SAO PAULO (Dow Jones)-A consortium led by three Brazilian industrial conglomerates will build Belo Monte hydroelectric dam in the northern part of the country, the local financial newspaper Valor Economico reported Monday. The consortium, which is led by Andrade Gutierrez, Odebrecht and Camargo Correa, has a total of 11 engineering companies, said the report. Belo Monte will have installed generation capacity of 11,200 megawatts, making it the world's third-largest hydroelectric dam.

To: Snowshoe who wrote (63381)	8/17/2010 1:56:58 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217792

5) Does Brazil have a backup plan in case the ultra-deep pre-salt oil development turns out to be an expensive disaster like BP's current mess in the Gulf of Mexico? Lucia Rodriguez Ilaria figured it would be easy to get a big crowd together in Brazil’s largest city to demonstrate against BP Plc: In Sao Paulo, eight people showed up for the rally at Ibirapuera Park, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its September issue. ... “Like in aviation, you can’t completely eliminate risk,” says Fernando Siqueira, the president of the Association of Petrobras Engineers. “If an airplane crashes, you can’t shut down all aviation.”