Re: OT - yet another OT thread

James J. Gavan wrote: 
LX-i wrote:

James J. Gavan wrote:

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Jeepers ! I'll ignore the previous, your optimism about EVENTUALLY finding WMDs and cracks at tree-huggers and environmentalists. Let's just concentrate on the following.

heh... Together with this thread and the other one, we've probably veered onto about every hot-button issue there is.

In your obliviousness, you don't appear to be getting the message I was illustrating above, although I have referred to it before. 

I'm not oblivious - I just don't see things the same way.

Roughly two weeks back, an article from an Indian correspondent (East Indian to you), conveyed that India was starting to feel its muscles which led him to the tack that a triumvirate could be formed from modern Russia, India and China. Did the following not show up as even a small item on US TV coverage - lo and behold about some five days after his article was published, the BBC showed shots of the Indian and Chinese PMs meeting in India, to establish an Asian economic pact. So that's Step 1. Step 2 - that ex-KGB guy in Moscow has to be interested in becoming a partner, rather like he is trying to hone the Russian image in the Middle East at the moment. Our comrades still feel bruised from the failure of Soviet Communism to retain its threat as a world power.

Think of the implications of such a tripartite pact on US foreign policy. Not only the Chinese are direct competitors thirsting for oil, but the newcomer is also India.

I agree, it's something to be considered. Makes it even more important that we get some oil sources and refining capacity in this country ASAP, before the supply pinch really puts the screws to us.

Sure the Chinese are happily entering the capitalist game to pick up oil wherever they can. Me, I don't mind either. Probably doesn't even warrant a footnote in your news, but you, (the political entity called the U.S.A.), have screwed us for so long over lumber, wheat and BSE (mad cow disease - one miserable cow back in 2003), that I personally welcome an alternative buyer for our oil.

And that's great too - spread the wealth around, OPEC's power in the whole game decreases.

NAFTA - Hah ! Good job I'm not Canadian PM. This is how I would play it. "OK, Uncle Sam, want to trade with us. Let's have a bi-annual meet, topics on the table - (a) You want our oil and (b) what about our wheat, lumber and beef that you manage to keep out - even when we score points in the WTO. (c) Your President wants Canadian beef back in, as does the USDA, and your meat packers who are suffering from the shortfall - all clipped by some short-sighted and parochial bunch called R-CALF in Montana.

Trade-wise, regrettably, I find myself becoming anti-American. Just think if a fair percentage of Canucks arrived at the same thought process.

There are issues to work through - you're right about that. It's refreshing to see that I'm not the only one perturbed with some of these folks in our country.

PS: One of those tidbits from the paper to-day. Some financial investor has just bought some 10% of Wendy's stock, (which now includes the Canadian Tim Hortons doughnut/coffeeshops). The buyer, as a result of owning 10%, wants a say in how Wendys will be run - stay tuned, the outcome might be interesting.

As long as the keep staying open late, and keep selling Frostys, I'll be happy. :)


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