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08-05-06, 12:44 PM | #121 | |
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Welcome to page 7 and the real war of ego
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it's Really a no brainer but not something you'll see on the news at 6. that nuke story is a bloody smokescreen!!! Hell, the Canadian dollar will finally be equal to the us dollar in no more than a year and a half. Even that should be a Major wake up call and cause for concern. |
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08-05-06, 01:23 PM | #122 | |
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This would explain why Bush wants to wean the US off of foreign oil, but I don't see how a military conflict with Iran would prevent this from happening. If anything it would encourage Iran to switch to Euros/barrel just to spite us.
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Even if the Iran oil bourse trades exclusively in Euros there's still two oil exchanges that trade in dollars and they'll cushion whatever blow the Dollar suffers. Canada and Mexico, which together export more oil to the United States than Saudia Arabia, will continue to trade oil in dollars and I don't see that ever changing. This isn't really the doomsday scenario the article portrays. |
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08-05-06, 02:11 PM | #123 | ||
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Got that right – you can find the story at this site too http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m23118&l=i&size=1&hd=0 This will not hurt the USA, it will hurt Iran. Quote:
Who cares how oil is traded – Euro, Pounds, Rubles etc, it is what the oil exporters do after the transactions are made in which matters. Whether they invest them in dollar denominated securities, or instead in stocks, bonds or real estate in other countries. Chances are if oil was traded in Euros exporters would convert the Euro to US Dollars because there is far more trade between Europe and the USA then Europe and Iran. Germany for example, who is Iran's biggest trading partner, had 4.4 billion euros, or about $5.4 billion in exports, which is about 0.6% of total exports. Germany last year sold nearly 70 billion euros in goods to the United States. Do the math.
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08-05-06, 03:11 PM | #124 | ||
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You're right
Bush couldn't do that all by himself but the fact is, it happened. As to who did it single handedly or with help is irrelavent, it's the repercussions that counts in the end. Ya think we want that too up here? We already pay our gas 4 frigging US dollar per gallon, and that's considered a low regular price. Soon it's gonna hit the 5$ mark and I ain't referring to canadian currency. It affect everything here, last year used to get my kilo of brown sugar for 2.20$, now it's 2.70$. Won't even dare to mention how much the price of dairy products are these days Ron Paul has another opinion that actually makes sense... Quote:
Another article dating from 6 days ago by Ron Paul Quote:
I know they basically say the same thing but I found this comment damned interesting ...and according to our own CIA is not on the verge of obtaining one for years. Iran is not in violation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, and has a guaranteed right to enrich uranium for energy... Why can't they say the same thing on the news instead of spewing lies and in the process scaring shitless the population? If Iran is not violating the nonproliferation treaty, why bother splash it on national news night after night after night saying that they are? Just a thought |
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08-05-06, 04:48 PM | #125 | ||||
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Is that why international politics concerns you; higher prices for poor little you? You're like a canadian version of Pisser. Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields Sold in a market down in New Orleans Scarred old slaver knows he's doing alright Hear him whip the women just around midnight -brown looks more like red on my monitor- Quote:
Try getting it from the horses mouth. http://www.un.org/english/ http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/20...m10397.doc.htm Quote:
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08-05-06, 05:29 PM | #126 |
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I think Ron Paul's crystal ball is broken.
Iran is supposedly 5 to 10 years away from developing a nuclear weapon, which means we need to act soon to make sure they never finish this project. All they have to do to keep us out of their hair is to let the IAEA do its job. We won't bomb or sanction them as long as they can prove they aren't developing WMD's. That's the same ultimatum we gave Iraq, and after what we did to them Iran should know we're serious about this. |
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08-05-06, 10:59 PM | #128 | |
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Semites bombing other semites, how wonderful *sigh* |
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09-05-06, 09:02 AM | #129 |
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To my knowledge Iranians aren't semites. Persian is an Indo-European language while Hebrew and the other Semetic languages are Afro-Asiatic (strange how those two language families criss-cross geographically in the middle east). An Israel-Iran would just be an example of Jews versus Muslims.
But Israel versus Palestine, that's an example of semites killing semites. |
09-05-06, 10:39 AM | #130 |
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Guess you just have to be right all the time Mazer.
Aren't you capable of ignoring the lies and faulty logic of others without posting knee-jerk corrections? Hmmm, maybe I could use a sidekick. |
09-05-06, 11:58 AM | #131 |
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Maybe you could learn a lesson instead. Where you would have taken the opportunity to insult miss_silver's intelligence and honesty, I took the opportunity to provide some background information in the hope that everyone might learn something new. I'm certain you googled my statements to check them for truthfulness and accuracy, and had I been wrong you would have lambasted me for making up history. While fact-checking my post you probably learned something about middle eastern languages you would not otherwise have been compelled to learn, and if that's true then I've accomplished my goal. Congradulations albed, you're now slightly smarter than you were this morning and you have me to thank.
You're welcome, by the way. However what I'd really like you to learn is how to correct a mistake without using the words idiot or liar or their synonyms. |
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Thanks for the precision Mazer, had forgotten that fact Anyway, the only thing we can do is speculate as to what might happen and sit back to witness what will happen as the weeks goes by. |
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So the translation of the letter has been officially released to the public?
Yeah, found it with Google. So, do we trust this translation? Maybe the quality of the translation doesn't actually matter considering who wrote the original. Here's the full text as reported by Reuters: Quote:
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10-05-06, 03:55 PM | #136 |
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Nah, this forum doesn't need an other Mazer, it just needs one less albed.
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10-05-06, 04:12 PM | #137 |
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Yeah, the wise all-knowing Mazer knows just what the forum needs, and the world probably; to get rid of people who aren't like him.
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10-05-06, 07:21 PM | #138 |
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AW! dont cry albed.. we luvs ya !
I for one welcome our narcissistic fruit loop wingnut overlords ! |
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