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Also, how long have we been being subjected to "Stupid Dubya jokes," most of which probably aren't even funny anymore to the people who actually _do_ hate him?
Let's face it, a great deal of the "hate" out there is hollywierd style groupthink/fashion... once in a while they'll actually trip over something that's actually funny to the rest of us, and that's what happened here.
Hundreds of Ugandan rebels have left an assembly point on the Sudan-Congo border and were heading towards the Central African Republic (CAF), a senior Sudanese official said on Tuesday. Uganda said the movement of Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels could be a violation of a truce agreement. It is the second time in a year that the LRA has been seen moving towards a CAF region controlled by a local rebel group.
The LRA rebels appeared to be shifting camp from the Ri-Kwangba an assembly point, Joseph Ngere, the deputy governor of Western Equatoria Province said. "We have seen hundreds of LRA rebels, children, the elderly and fighters moving westwards in the direction of Central African Republic (CAR), they have been moving for the last two days," he told Reuters via satellite telephone.
Uganda, which has been in talks with LRA representatives for 20 months, said the rebels could put themselves at risk. "If the LRA has left Ri-Kwangba, they should know that that is tantamount to a violation of the agreement and wherever they go they will not be safe," Ugandan army spokesman Captain Paddy Ankunda said.
Under a truce signed in August 2006, the LRA was meant to assemble in Ri-Kwangba -- as part of efforts to end a two-decade conflict that has killed tens of thousands. A spokesman for the LRA, which gained notoriety for mutilating victims and abducting children, dismissed the report as government propaganda.
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Either that, or a traveling revival of "Hello Dolly"...
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Georgian tycoon who claimed he was the target of assassination plot after helping lead anti-government protests in his homeland was found dead in his mansion near London, and police said Wednesday they were treating the death as suspicious.
In Georgia, Badri Patarkatsishvili's spokesman said the 52-year-old billionaire was believed to have died of heart failure.
Hearts always fail in the end, don't they.
Opposition leader Giorgy Khaindrava, though, said that "nothing can be ruled out" until after the cause of death is confirmed. "He was a healthy man. Let's wait for the results of medical examination to be clear about what has happened," Khaindrava said.
Patarkatsishvili told The Associated Press in December that he had obtained a tape recording of an official in his country's Interior Ministry. He said the official was heard asking a Chechen warlord to murder him while he was London. "I believe they want to kill me," Patarkatsishvili told the AP by telephone. It was not possible to verify his claim.
In a Dec. 23 statement released in London through the Bell Pottinger public relations firm, he demanded police in Georgia investigate the "plot to assassinate me." "If the authorities fail to respond to this urgent appeal and do not take appropriate steps, they will be held responsible for that," he said in the statement.
Scotland Yard said at the time the Georgian had not contacted British police about any plot to kill him. On Wednesday, Scotland Yard said they would not discuss the alleged threat.
Britain's Foreign Office said they were aware of Patarkatsishvili's death, but that it was a matter for police in Surrey. Surrey Police said they were called Tuesday night to Patarkatsishvili's house in Leatherhead, 20 miles south of London. "As with all unexpected deaths it is being treated as suspicious," a police spokeswoman said on condition of anonymity in line with force policy.
Patarkatsishvili helped lead anti-government protests in November and was under investigation at home on charges of plotting to overthrow the government. He denied accusations that he tried to overthrow the government, but acknowledged offering a senior police official $100 million to side with the opposition in street protests after the January election.
Patarkatsishvili placed third in last month's election with 7 percent of the vote. Presidential incumbent Mikhail Saakashvili won with 53 percent. Opposition groups have alleged the vote was rigged.
Patarkatsishvili left Georgia in November and lived in self-imposed exile in Britain and Israel.
Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky, a longtime business associate of Patarkatsishvili's who also lives in London, told the AP that Patarkatsishvili had not been ill but had complained about his heart when they met Tuesday.
Patarkatsishvili built his fortune in Russia, where he became Berezovsky's business partner. However, the two men claimed in British court documents that the Russian government forced them to sell their stakes in oil company Sibneft, Russian Aluminum and television channel ORT for a fraction of their value. Berezovsky and Patarkatsishvili made nearly $1 billion each from the sale.
He was wanted in Russia on charges of stealing cars from Russia's largest car maker AvtoVAZ and plotting an escape from police custody in 2001 for a business associate who was under fraud investigation.
Man, Pooty's really cracking down on carjacking, isn't he?
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man the poice official must have been scared shitless of someone if he didn't take the $100 million.Guess that same someone must have gotten Badri in the end
Venezuela is ready to cut off oil supplies to the United States if pressed into an "economic war," the country's oil minister said in an interview published Tuesday, echoing a threat by President Hugo Chavez.
Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez told the Venezuelan newspaper Ultimas Noticias that "we're ready" to cut off oil shipments to the United States - a threat that apparently could be triggered if Exxon Mobil Corp. succeeds in seizing billions of dollars (euros) in Venezuelan assets though lawsuits abroad.
Chavez first made the threat Sunday in response to a drive by Exxon Mobil to seize Venezuelan assets through US and European courts in a dispute over the nationalization of lucrative oil ventures in Venezuela.
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Go ahead, make my day, punk!
Threat my ass, you puffed up bufoons.
Canucks, Mexico and Kuwait, Quatar, UAE would be keen to make up for the difference wih a better quality crude.
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Not a problem at all. If they cut us off they have to sell the oil to someone else. We then buy the oil that someone else was going to buy someplace else but didn't.
Goes like this ... there are 100 marbles on the planet ... we buy 10 of them from Venezuela. If they sell them to someone else, that frees up 10 marbles that someone else was going to sell for us to buy.
In other words, it makes a great news story but it doesn't work in real life.
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Let's remember that most of Venezuela's oil needs special refineries, that for now all teh refineries who can refine it are in the US, that Venezuela suffers of an accute food shortage and that oil is not edible.
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But it is fungible, (more or less). I suppose our refineries could handle cleaner crude without difficulty? If so, Hugo would be cutting off his nose to spite his face.
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Goes like this ... there are 100 marbles on the planet ... we buy 10 of them from Venezuela. If they sell them to someone else, that frees up 10 marbles that someone else was going to sell for us to buy.
Except China will use all their Walmart Dollars to bid the price up of those remaining 90 marbles. And we've made it possible. Why do you think the Chinese are making so many deals worldwide for drilling and other oil sources? It's not the same market it was a decade ago. The Chinese are not only looking at today's stock, but years out. The market is more driven by capacity because of that new big demand.
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hugos economic war is funding Shorts in our markets and paying mouthpieces to sell doom and gloom, its a soros script inherited by those who want chaos to prevail.
so, since venezuela is the beneficiary of natural resources, it has always relied on the Intellectual property of the US to convert its natural resources to something folks might want.
the bobo administration is puffed up knowing the current wars being waged on wall street are being funded by the lefts big money.
The Queen's private meeting rooms at Buckingham Palace were regularly swept for bugs by the security services, the inquest has been told. Gee, she gets top secret briefings from BOTH the PM and the FM, and they're worried about bugs. Who would have guessed?
Bugging of the Royal Family has remained a focus throughout the inquest hearing in to the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. Piffle.
Lord Fellowes, the highest ranking royal aide to appear at the inquest to date, insisted that the checks were only made to provide "reassurance".
The peer - who was at the Queen's side for 22 years - was asked by Ian Burnett QC, counsel to the inquest, whether the threat of eavesdropping was a concern at the palace.
He replied: "I wouldn't say it was a constant preoccupation but yes, we needed reassurance at regular intervals that there was no bugging going on."
The court has already heard that the Princess called in specialists to sweep her apartments at Kensington Palace for bugs amid fears she was under surveillance in the years before her death.
The Princess at one stage told a friend that she thought Mohamed Fayed was bugging her on his luxury yacht, the inquest has heard.
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Queen Elizabeth isn't a dim bulb like her oldest son - she's a shrewd, competent member of the ruling class and a valuable contributor to British government. She's also a monarch who truly cares about her people. That's why Charles is such a pathetic joke - he's NOTHING like his mother. She reaches out, he pushes away. Britain will be a much poorer place with her passing.
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why does she need too know anything about anything top secret
Unless she subscribes to the Mirror, it's the only way she can find out what the grand kids are up to?
Whoa! Fulda Gap, here we come! Hello, 3rd Shock Army!
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TOPIX > NORTH KOREA WAITING FOR THE NEW ADMINISTRATION + ASIA TIMES: ASIA'S HIDDEN ARMS RACE + US:NORTH KOREA STILL A NUCLEAR THREAT + US DEEMS NEW NK SHORT RANGE MISSLE A THREAT. The NK "Doksa".
Considering how closely NK + Iran have acted in parallel thus far, prob safe to say that what happens in one will be seen again in the other??? e.g. AFGHAN SPRING > TALIB-ISLAMIST THREAT TO RENEW/BEGIN NEW INSURGENCT ACTIONS = NORTH KOREA???
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Whoa! Fulda Gap, here we come! Hello, 3rd Shock Army!
Short of going nuke right off the bat, I doubt the Soviets Russkies are going to make it through Poland first. The Poles performance in Iraq and Afghanistan certainly show far more promise of military competency than Russian skill shown in Chechnya. The Poles remember. The Poles will fight and fight hard.
Toledo City Council yesterday attempted to quell the controversy surrounding Mayor Carty Finkbeiners order to cancel a Marine Corps warfare training exercise downtown with a unanimous vote of apology.
Without discussion, the 12-member council approved a resolution apologizing to Company A, 1st Battalion, 24th Marines, based in Grand Rapids, Mich., for the mayors action Friday afternoon.
Mr. Finkbeiner, who has refused to apologize and has defended his decision, yesterday declined to say whether he would sign the resolution or if he believed the controversy would hinder the citys attempt to renew the 0.75 percent income tax on the March 4 ballot.
Katerina Bekyarska, a spokesman for Mr. Finkbeiner, said the mayor had not seen the resolution and has 10 days to consider signing it.
Regarding the effect on the tax renewal, Ms. Bekyarska relayed the mayors comment: Well see on March 5.
People on both sides of the Marine issue testified before a council committee yesterday. Many blasted the mayor, and some even called for his resignation.
James Hintz, of Henry County, testified that people should vote no on the 0.75 percent tax.
Carty is a politician and the only thing that makes them aware is to take away what feeds them and that is money, Mr. Hintz said.
Councilman Joe McNamara, who presented the resolution along with Frank Szollosi, D. Michael Collins, Michael Ashford, and Mike Craig, pleaded with people not to attempt to punish the mayor by defeating the income tax renewal.
Voting no on the 0.75 percent tax will not remove Mayor Finkbeiner from office, Mr. McNamara said. Please dont throw the baby out with the bath water.
The 0.75 percent is projected to raise about $57.7 million in 2008 and is part of the citys total 2.25 percent wage tax. The money would be allocated equally to police, fire, and other safety departments; the general operating fund, and the capital improvements fund.
During the committee hearing, Mr. Collins and Mr. Szollosi grilled Deputy Police Chief Don Kenney and Dave Moebius, the mayors assistant chief operating officer, about when the mayor learned the Marines would be in Toledo and whether he had given a previous order to keep them from using the downtown for urban exercises.
Mr. Collins, a former Marine, also wanted to know what the mayor would do to fix the problem, which has thrust Toledo into the national media.
Initially, Mayor Finkbeiner said if there was one major regret about the matter, it was the lack of communication to his office.
The mayor said if he had known of the Marines plans ahead of time, he could have arranged for the city to open the vacant North Towne Square mall or the former Jones Junior High School for their training.
He said he only learned about the training event scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. Friday from an article that morning in The Blade.
The majority of those who spoke at yesterdays hearing opposed the mayors order last week.
The only thing he could do is spare us more embarrassment and resign, said Chris Tiefel, of North Toledo.
Others, like downtown resident Robert Russ, supported Mr. Finkbeiners decision to prevent the Marines from using the downtown for the weekend-long exercises.
I truly believe canceling this exercise was the prudent thing to do, Mr. Russ said.
The exercises were to include mock firefights, ambushes, and the firing of blank ammunition.
Mr. Russ said if the weapons fire had caused somebody to die of cardiac arrest, people would have criticized the mayor for not canceling the event.
He added that the political aftermath is just A-team, B-team garbage, referring to the two factions of local Democrats that often are at odds.
Mayor Finkbeiners office yesterday released dozens of e-mails sent to city hall showing support for his decision. The office received many more negative e-mails.
During his State of the City address Monday, Mr. Finkbeiner said he would choose to again cancel a Marine training exercise in downtown Toledo, despite the backlash.
Later in the day, Mr. Finkbeiner e-mailed several Marine officers a formal invitation back to the city.
I have further stated my desire to have the U.S. Marine Corp. [sic] conduct training exercises in the city of Toledo, wherever appropriate, with the probable exception of the central business district, the e-mail said.
Mr. Finkbeiner said downtown, particularly on a weekday afternoon, was not suitable for military staging operations because as many as 14,000 people would have been departing their office buildings at the same time. He also said thousands of schoolchildren would have been transferring buses downtown Friday just as the exercise was to have begun.
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And they didn't even need to send in R. Lee Ermy.
Cool.
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Councilman Joe McNamara, who presented the resolution along with Frank Szollosi, D. Michael Collins, Michael Ashford, and Mike Craig, pleaded with people not to attempt to punish the mayor by defeating the income tax renewal.Voting no on the 0.75 percent tax will not remove Mayor Finkbeiner from office, Mr. McNamara said. Please dont throw the baby out with the bath water.
Because, when you come right down to it, The Public Tit is what keeps us all together. Let's not tip The Trough over just because Funky Winkerbein's an idiot...
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Well, I'm no fan of taxes - particularly income taxes, but it seems to me the proper path in this case would be exercising whatever recall mechanism the local ordinances/charter specify. Vote the taxes down on their own lack of merit.
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Funny how it's always the threat of cutting off funds that brings out the "troop support".
A superdelegate is a person appointed to state delegations after voters have chosen among delegates to Democratic conventions in primary elections. While most elected delegates have pledged to support a specific candidate on the first ballot, some run on uncommitted slates. Superdelegates comprise approximately 20 percent of the number of delegates necessary to designate a presidential nominee. After the chaos that ensued at the Democratic national convention in Chicago (both inside the hall and out) and the circus activists committed to peacenik George McGovern put on in 1972, pressure arose within the party to designate a certain number of grown-ups to maintain at least a semblance of decorum. Party elders became apoplectic when a college student committed to McGovern defeated Averell Harriman for delegate in the New York primary, a McGovernite majority denied Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and his delegation seating at the convention, efforts by feminists to foist a Texas politician Cissy Farenthold onto McGoverns ticket, delaying McGoverns delivery of Bob Shrums prepared acceptance speech into the wee hours of the morning.
After a little-known peanut farmer from the state of Georgia by the name of Jimmy Carter won the nomination by taking advantage of rules that, for the first time allocated delegates on a proportional basis, party elders decided to take action. (Jimmy Carter cannot be president, proclaimed the same Averell Harriman. I dont know him.) By 1984, Democrats decided that there would be a sufficient number of Harrimans at their convention even if voters decided otherwise. In the ensuing years, an increasing number of party big shots, eager to escape the embarrassment of having their neighbors reject them at the polls, opted to attend as superdelegates. These voter-shy delegates can be present and former officials, party donors, celebrities, or seasoned political operatives.
Much more at the link.
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All delegates are equal, but some are more equal than others.
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Henry writes: "As someone who has managed campaigns, I share the unique understanding of the challenges that the campaign will face over the next several weeks.
Translated:
"I have managed many successful campaigns. I understand the challenges and tried to share my knowledge. The campaign only has a days or few weeks left and I need to find a new job."
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Blacks are voting for Obama vs Hillary on an 8 to 2 basis. They are also just under 60% of DC's population. Of course Obama's winning 3 to 1 in DC. That's the proportion of the black vote in the Democratic primary there.
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rjs: I'm still not sure it's a race issues. Blacks vote for Obama because they consider Hillary to be as vile as the rest of us, perhaps more so.
Like it or not, race affinity is a big factor in elections. Whites are probably the least race-conscious, and blacks the most, with everyone else somewhere in the middle. The average Democrat likes the Clintons. The communist media hate them because they're not hard left like Obama or Edwards, not because of personal foibles. The average Democrat likes the Clintons. But there is no way blacks are gonna to vote for a white candidate when there's a black one available and he's even more left-wing than the white candidate, not to attends a black supremacist church and has been endorsed by the black supremacist Black Panthers.
rjs: I'm still not sure it's a race issues. Blacks vote for Obama because they consider Hillary to be as vile as the rest of us, perhaps more so.
Like it or not, race affinity is a big factor in elections. Whites are probably the least race-conscious, and blacks the most, with everyone else somewhere in the middle. The average Democrat likes the Clintons. The communist media hate them because they're not hard left like Obama or Edwards, not because of personal foibles. But there is no way blacks are gonna to vote for a white candidate when there's a black one available and he's even more left-wing than the white candidate, not to mention attends a black supremacist church and has been endorsed by the black supremacist Black Panthers.
Democrat Barack Obama extended his winning streak over presidential rival Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, decisively winning the state of Virginia to build momentum in a hard-fought U.S. nominating race. Virginia was one of three battlegrounds in the U.S. capital region on Tuesday, along with Maryland and the District of Columbia, and Obama was projected to roll to another easy win following five consecutive victories over the weekend.
Republican front-runner John McCain and his last major challenger, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, were running neck-and-neck in very early returns in Virginia as McCain tried to move closer to clinching the party's nomination for the November election.
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Choices, how wonderful. One 's worth six, the other 's worth half-a-dozen.
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Even with China's low labor rates, they still tax auto imports at 30%. Now China is gearing up to export cars. If US car makers thought the Japanese invasion was painful, this should cause the life support to be unplugged. As for action, all Chinese imports should be taxed at 30% to start.
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50% plus and check for lead content
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UNITED NATIONS - The UN Security Council threatened on Tuesday to step up measures against armies and groups using child soldiers but made no firm pledge to impose sanctions requested by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
In a report last month, Ban listed 58 parties to armed conflict in 13 countries mainly in Africa and Asia that sent children into battle. They included government armies in Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar, Somalia and Sudan as well as rebel factions. The Security Council should consider penalizing those responsible by banning arms and military aid and slapping travel and financial restrictions on them, Ban said.
In a statement adopted after a debate on Tuesday, the council expressed readiness to review the relevant provisions of its resolutions on children and armed conflict ... with a view to further increasing the efficiency of its actions. But the statement, read out by current council president Ricardo Alberto Arias of Panama, went no further and asked Ban to submit another report by May 2009.
Thereby demonstrating just how important the issue really is.
The UN childrens fund UNICEF estimated last year there were some 250,000 child soldiers worldwide. Other experts say the true numbers are impossible to determine.
The council had already said in resolutions in 2004 and 2005 it would consider targeted measures against violators, but so far it has punished only one person. In 2006 a sanctions committee imposed a travel ban and asset freeze on a former rebel commander from Ivory Coast, Martin Fofie.
Okay, there's one!
The latest resolution in 2005 set up a monitoring and reporting mechanism that allows Ban to identify violators in his reports.
Due in sixteen months. Followed by an extension, and then a stern warning.
Radhika Coomaraswamy, UN special representative for children and armed conflict, told Tuesdays debate it was most important that the council make good on its promise to adopt concrete measures.
Several Western countries said they supported Bans position. Speaking for France, Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said the councils credibility was at stake. There is no credible deterrence without real sanctions, he said.
Flaccid power at work!
But Chinese envoy Liu Zhenmin said the council should work through governments and Beijing had always opposed the wilful use of sanctions or the threat of sanctions. He added that caution is called for on the issue of child soldiers.
US envoy Alejandro Wolff said while Washington backed Bans efforts to end the use of child soldiers, it opposed his recommendation to refer violators to the International Criminal Court, to which the United States does not belong.
Despite the lack of firm commitments by the council, Coomaraswamy told reporters the statement keeps the momentum, moving us forward.
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Oooh, the UN is threatening "firmer action." I bet the Congolese are quaking in their boots.
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Don't fool yourself, child soldiers means America because we allow soldiers one year below the Un's established minimum. I don't know if that's 18 or 17 or what but I believe that is where this is aimed.
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Yep you are rj, this is a nose under the tent. It's the 17 age limit [with the consent of one parent]. The little thing there called Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution grants Congress that authority which it has used since the beginning of the republic to identify the federal militia as starting at age 17. The intent was 12 and 13 year olds et al, but the UNacrats have used it to stick the US as usual. Nothing of course about using kiddies or down syndrome inflicted applies to the barbarians of the world.
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I'm sure there is some difference between 17 year olds enlisting in their national army and pre-pubescent children being press-ganged into an irregular guerrilla force. Give me a minute to think and I'll come up with it.
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I agree there is a difference but I believe (a) those using child soldiers tend to be rebels and governments that don't care what the UN says so nothing can get done (b) the UN likes to bash the USA and our 17 year old soldiers gives them an opening.
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Taking a cue from the anti-ANWR crowd -
Big deal. Even if we recover all of the theoretical total, it only amounts to 20 months, at current consumption. I did the math
Personally, I come from the "every little bit helps" school.
In other words, it is not a 'silver bullet', so why even put it in the ammo belt?
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Yes, but its 20 months you can dump on the market when speculators run prices up. I sincerely believe that there is mechanism that needs to be in place to make sure such creatures are held to pay the peak price the bid or be banned from ever participating by self or front in the market, after their assets are seized.
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If it's US supplies for 20 months, it's 20 % of US supplies for 100 months, or about 8 years. Which means, well, leverage to lower the price we get charged by others.
Y'all notice that the US Gulf Coast only produces a small percentage of global oil production, but when it got taken out by Katrina the global spot market price went up $ 20/bbl?
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I agree with all of you, and Fred's title. It'll be interesting to see if the discovery is trivialized, like ANWR, because it is not the 'silver bullet'.
More fossil fuels, more choices; I do not want even liberals to freeze to death in the dark.
Let me just re-think that last thought...
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How much time do you need ?
Gas can be clean and ready to burn, or it can need some refinement, thus pushing up the cost. At any rate this is good news.
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Appalachia has tons and tons of coal. Coal breaks down into methane and water. I'm not surprised there's a huge gas field in the area. There are dozens of places in Colorado where people are beginning to tap into coal fields that have become unprofitable to mine, just for the natural gas.
A well-known petroleum scientist has said that decaying matter on the continental shelf is producing a trillion cubic feet of NEW natural gas every decade. I wish I could find the article again, and post it here. If he's right, we'll have an abundance of natural gas for generations to come.
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Georgian tycoon who claimed he was the target of assassination plot after helping lead anti-government protests in his homeland was found dead in his mansion near London, and police said Wednesday they were treating the death as suspicious. 
Venezuela is ready to cut off oil supplies to the United States if pressed into an "economic war," the country's oil minister said in an interview published Tuesday, echoing a threat by President Hugo Chavez. 
UNITED NATIONS - The UN Security Council threatened on Tuesday to step up measures against armies and groups using child soldiers but made no firm pledge to impose sanctions requested by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
