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175 comments on Council on Foreign Relations -"National Security Consequences of Oil Dependency"

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LevinK on December 5, 2006 - 5:03pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
"Free trade" is the code word which OECD countries use in public for the process of securing the resources they need from the 3rd world. Before we used to conquer them, now we give them no other choice but joining the so called "free market". Which of course is dominated by us... Same topic is covered in BBC's "Why we fight?".
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Keithster100 on December 5, 2006 - 5:56pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Learning about free markets from a tax money-fattened gang of unaccountable bureaucrats? Interesting approach.
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BrianT on December 5, 2006 - 6:07pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Keithster: You're right. You can only get the truth from a Murdoch employee.
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Keithster100 on December 5, 2006 - 8:44pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
This source will work too.
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expat on December 6, 2006 - 3:24am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Ah, wealth beyond nations in the digital age - this link http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3300 is the Project Gutenberg entry, while the following link is a plain text iso-8859-1 zipped file http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext02/wltnt11.zip which anyone can distribute, without much involvement in the market, except for that of ideas.
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