Jed wrote:
. . .
Most people throughout most history have been rational and reasonable. Not
ideal, but good enough. If that were not true our species would have gone
extinct long ago. We are social animals -- pack hunting carnivores, like
wolves. Such animals must to cooperate and protect other me
Nice one, Jed
"If several hundred researchers could all make large mistakes using 100
and 200-year-old techniques, science would never work in the first place.
That is like asserting that you can select 200 carpenters at random, have
each of them build a wooden house, and when they finish every
Edmund Storms wrote:
As you have probably noticed,
policy is based on what a country CAN do not on what we think it WILL
do. Not only is it not possible to know how a country will behave,
we have found that a country usually does what it CAN
do.
The Soviet Union might have started a nuclear war
g the threat of selling as a way to gain
influence and money. As long as a doubt remains about their having a
weapon, they are safe from attack. Consequently, they playing poker
while we are playing chess.
I doubt there will be an energy war -- either economic or the shooting
kind of war. Fi
I'm not an economist, but I have been doing considerable reading about
the problem. The Chinese can do the following:
1. They can use dollars obtained from providing products to Wal-Mart et
al. to buy oil and other commodities that are sold in dollars. This
will drive up the prices of these co
$1.93 T is the *total* outstanding T-Note debt of which 10% is held by China:
http://www.treas.gov/tic/mfh.txt
Jones Beene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The Government of China is holding U.S. currency andTreasury notes in a $1.9 trillion Treasury bond trap. Whenthey pull the trigger on their "
in did the same thing for a long time, for reasons only he can tell.
If the Koreans actually had weapons or a weapons production facility,
they could have convinced the Los Alamos experts in 15 minutes.
I doubt there will be an energy war -- either economic or the shooting
kind of war. Fixing the ene
Terry
> An interesting treatise on the future war with China:
http://www.321energy.com/editorials/winston/winston020905.html
There is probably a better adjective... maybe terrifying,
alarming, etc. but is it really accurate? Are there any
economists on Vortex?
"As China's Master Plan to Destr
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