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2005-10-21 Europe

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Posted by anonymous5089 2005-10-21 08:05|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Russia should open up the Pacific provinces to immigration from india (hard workers, well educated, and with no claim to the land (unlike the turkish folks, Chinese and Japanese) and investment from Japan (economies gotta kick into gear soon, and they make such nice cameras).

Lastly they need a good old Chinese-type have a baby for Mother Russia campaign to arrest the death spiral.

I think they should also develop a backup plan. They will lose the bulk of the Islamic stans. They should figure out how that might turn out, what borders they could live with if they absolutely had to, and start trying to promote migration of Muslims into the areas likely to break-away, and European Russians out of the areas likely to break-away. That way they can plan on stopping the breakage at some point.

Posted by rjschwarz 2005-10-21 12:06|| 2005-10-21 12:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Bush should put in a bid for Siberia and send all the amnestified illegal Mexicans there to colonize it under the direction of Halliburton/KBR, the East India Company of the 21st century.

Posted by Whinese Angairong2119 2005-10-21 12:46|| 2005-10-21 12:46|| Front Page Top

#3 2119 - I like your thinking! ;-p

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2005-10-21 18:57|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2005-10-21 18:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Part of the problem in Russia is massive environmental contamination. I'm no ecofreak, but the state of much of Russian soil, air and water is Not Good for Babies - or for adults who have reverted to alcoholism in the face of despair and poverty.

Posted by lotp 2005-10-21 20:25|| 2005-10-21 20:25|| Front Page Top

#5 lotp, if ya check out the freep thread, there's massive dissention going on there...

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-10-21 23:06|| 2005-10-21 23:06|| Front Page Top

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