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Nephilim on August 12, 2008 - 10:16am

mcgowanmc: I concure with your astute observations.
War and conflict have taken a more exaggerated turn
towards protection from real or perceived affronts to
a region or political entities security and access to
resources...(READ "OIL").
I greatly fear that what has been often discussed here on TOD as a result of the insertion of P.O. into
the matrix of world governments attempts to form allies and alliances and all the complexities invovled, will lead to chaos unimaginable only in
hindsight will a semblence of truth be found and even
with 20/20 perspective of hindsight...it will be open
for debate.
"The future ain't what it used to be"

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mcgowanmc on August 12, 2008 - 10:28am

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DJIA up 300 pts with the attack.

DJIA down 76 pts with the rout.

"The Endowment for Democracy purchased Georgia as a US colony. The affront to Russia was extreme, but at the time Russia was weak. Oligarchs with outside money had grabbed control over Russian resources, and Russia was in dire straits and could not resist American imperialism.

Putin corrected the situation for Russia."

Paul Craig Roberts

http://www.vdare.com/roberts/080810_stupid.htm

Worse than a mistake, it's stupid

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Nephilim on August 12, 2008 - 11:50am

DJIA up 300 pts with the attack

DJIA down 76 pts with the rout

I find it even more telling the market was up "long"
the weekend when this all started on Friday the 8th.
And even more telling that oil is still dropping.
The juxtapostion of up 300 points on war and down
now 61.58 on rumors of a cease of hostilities,leads
one to believe the fat lady isnt gonna sing just yet.

(No fat opera ladies were harmed in this dramatization)

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