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To: average joe who wrote (92097)	7/2/2012 6:23:42 PM
From: dvdw©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219928

Do you have much experience with magnetic anomaly surveys? Or even sources of information / case studies, which you deem credible. Your a savvy contributor whose opinions are valued.

To: average joe who wrote (92097)	7/3/2012 8:55:14 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219928

What is Country, State and Nation. I need to explain this basic concepts here as I taught that a democracy is based on division of powers: Executive, Legislative and Judiciary. Take the US. The Country is the physical territory of the US: Grand Canyon, Manhattan Island, infrastructure build since its inception; harbors canals, airports, hydropower dams. The coast surrounding the Country. The US state, is the political body that runs the Country and the Nation. The Congress and Senate. The Constitution, the Armed Forced, the postal stamps. The legal system. All those are the apparatus of the United States. The US Nation, is the people of the US. Ralf Waldo Emerson, Mark Twain, Louis Armstrong, Hemingway, Will Rogers, Mohamad Ali. Their culture, Hollywood, Rock n´ Roll, Jazz, their language, the schools... After you learned these basic concepts, in Brazil you learn them before 6th Grade, I will explain the Mexican problem.

To: average joe who wrote (92097)	7/3/2012 10:03:37 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219928

Once people understand the concept, then they are able to analyse their own country, state and nation and compare them with other countries, states, nations. Consider the case of the police of Mexico. I've never been there thus can only draw from my experience in Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Angola and Nigeria as well as Brazil. That experience coupled with the one I have in Europe and N. America. Is complicated. It is not easy. I have 29 years experience living and working abroad to help me understand that plus I read a lot on the subject. And when I say a lot, possibly if you start today (I put you certainly above 40 years of age) you would never cover what I have read in your lifetime. The Mexico state -that entity that governs the Mexico's nation and country- is responsible for the monopoly of the use of the force which is a prerogative of the Mexico state. You cannot blame the Mexico citizen who comprises the Mexican nation. Neither the country itself. See how crystal clear is now? Now let's move to another simple concept: political maturity. Political maturity is how we can analyse a nation-state vis a vis other nation-states. You can look to a country today and see how it is politically mature as compared to what it have been in the past. This is history, a part of the nation. Any state you look at has matured along the centuries. Take bunch of states like Europe. It had 2.000 + years to become what they are today, and they are not homogeneous states, right? The bunch of states like LATAM. They have 500 years of history and their nations comprises imported populations, natives and mixed races. Compare these with tiny little countries in Europe whose only possibility not to kill each others are to be little countries as homogeneous as possible (and I can tell you from experience that a Finn man does not exactly love a Swedish one). Even Belgium wants to break into two. Czech Republic already broke, Yugoslavia broke and Scots and Irish also do not love the Englishmen and given a chance would secede. Back to LATAM. We Latin Americans have achieved in these short 500 years a status of maturity faster than Europe. Considering that we are not slaughtering each other com gusto like they've done. Germany is a much more politically mature country than Greece, Portugal and Spain that were dictatorships about 40 years ago. Now that you can grasp the concept of political maturity, we can move to how a country differs from each other. In LATAM Brazil, Chile, Argentina are much more politically mature than Equador, Bolivia and Venezuela. In a country like Mexico, the governing elites that runs the state and its oligarchies priority is not a tidy, law abiding country. Tidiness and law abiding countries are for politically mature countries. And the elites in politically mature countries must prioritize tidiness and respect of the law. For its populations are developed and educated enough to give same priority for those concepts else they will vote them out of power. Any citizen of a nation that prioritizes respect for the law and have a judiciary to make sure laws are enforced, should avoid entering in countries where his ideas of citizenship does not adhere to the country situation. I do not even think about going to Mexico unless I have something to do there. Say I have a contract to work there and it'd be worthwhile, I would go since this is what I do for a living. Same applies to African countries. I avoid even going for pleasure or to visit friends to countries that ask for a visa. My money is spent ONLY where I am welcome and feel at easy. If you go to Mexico, no one invited you to go there, you went on your own volition and you should take the country as it is. You are obviously entitled to your opinion: This is pile of shit, I returned and the only difference is that the shit pile is higher than before. Now that is not exactly clever to state: I always figured finding something valuable in Mexico or S. America might mean certain death. It is akin to MQ's 'shooting at the back thing'...