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10-16-2007, 06:49 PM
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What about sierra leon and other diamond countries in Africa?
I watched a doco on this last night and although I knew what happened/s there is attrocious, it still makes me sick when I see things like that again. I want to know why the US doesn't step into those situations. If they want to go and make Iraq free, why can't they go and make sierra leon free? What's the difference? The RUF are just as much terrorists as AQ or any of the rest. Someone, please tell me what the fucking difference is before I blow a gasket.
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10-16-2007, 07:12 PM
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10-16-2007, 07:16 PM
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We weren't the ones that ran off to liberate Iraq although we were pretty quick to jump on the bandwagon. I'm sure we'd do the same again...and will continue to do so in the future, and in this case, I would support the move because I would consider it to be more altruistic although I'm sure there'd be some profit in there.
Did you know that Angola (another conflict diamond nation) is one of the richest countries in the world as far as natural resources go? Why not save them? I'm sure there'd be benefits. However, the question I asked was, what's the difference? Can you tell me that?
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10-16-2007, 07:21 PM
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We don't need no stinkin' diamonds.
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10-16-2007, 07:22 PM
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Hmmm...that's not what the consumer says...
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10-16-2007, 07:27 PM
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They're not a big deal to us as a whole though, which is why it took us forever to deal with the former Yugoslavia...they had nothing we could really use/take.
We like that black gold. |
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10-16-2007, 07:32 PM
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Well, Angola has a lot of natural gas under all the diamonds and other gems on the surface. I'm sure once the black gold runs out, there'll be a push to go grab all the natural gas. It's good as fuel too.
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10-16-2007, 07:51 PM
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10-17-2007, 09:39 AM
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10-18-2007, 10:05 PM
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It's shippable, anything is shippable.
A LNG tanker exploding in the port of Newark, NJ, would kill an estimated 8 million people. Oil is relatively safe. |
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10-18-2007, 11:04 PM
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NJ desperately wants to build an LNG terminal in Delaware Bay (south Jersey) to meet demands. Obviously LNG in Newark makes less sense. America, one of the world's largest producers of natural gas, must import so much LNG within the next decade as to be 5% of America's supply. America requires twice as much energy to do the same work compared to any other nation. NJ has so many more McMansions to heat and so many electric power plants dependent on natural gas. That NJ LNG port is being killed by Delaware. Strangely Delaware owns the entire Delaware Bay up to sand on Jersey's beach. In a last ditch effort to build an LNG port in a mostly rural area, NJ has filed suit in the US Supreme Court. Will the court decide based upon what is necessary or simply enforce the law? Delaware is more concerned with the safety of Clayton DE than with natural gas supplies needed by NJ and the rest of NE United States. |
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10-16-2007, 07:36 PM
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I have a list of things for us all to "get over".
If you don't like the list...well...... 
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10-16-2007, 08:04 PM
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So Bruce, what you're saying is that in your view, it really has nothing to do with liberating anyone and everything to do with getting their oil, and if they don't have oil, the US and associates don't care?
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