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2010-04-13 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-04-13 07:23|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 Not a single mention of exploratory and production drilling in the US. I call BS.

Posted by Beldar Threreling9726 2010-04-13 09:08|| 2010-04-13 09:08|| Front Page Top

#2 During this Great Recession mil spending is going to drop less the cost of any active war operations. You can count on everyone else of any 'Coalition' are going to cut if not gut their military. They already are sucking effectiveness after the Cold War peace dividend they've spent buying time till the bill is due on unsustainable social programs. Given the inability of most of the existing Western nations to effectively inter operate with American mil now, it's going to be even worse then. There's not going to be a 'Coalition' beyond someone tacking the name on some piece of paper that has zero effective range beyond any room it's composed in given a decade or so down the road.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-04-13 09:39|| 2010-04-13 09:39|| Front Page Top

#3 They write, with minor modifications, what the mandarins tell them to write, and the mandarins don't want local drilling.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-04-13 11:09|| 2010-04-13 11:09|| Front Page Top

#4 -- Regardless of 'mandarin' theories, economic prosperity since the 1600's has hinged on abundant cheap energy of whatever source. One of the reasons England's economy outstripped France's starting around 1750 was the availability / cheapness of English coal vs. whatever energy sources France had, which both countries needed to make iron & steel.
--- One could make the case that the current economic stagnation is exacerbated by or even due to the current high price of petroleum. Finding more petroleum won't help unless and until the price can be considered cheap!
--- By 2030, the world will require production of 118 MBD I cannot make sense of statements like this. The world requires wetter water and an infinite supply of free beer, also. The world cannot use more than current production/stockpiles, whatever that happens to be.
--- Enemies of the USA will also be constrained by decreasing availability of cheap energy. 9/11 wouldn't have happened without the ability to fly Islamofascists all over the world at discounted air fares.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-04-13 12:16|| 2010-04-13 12:16|| Front Page Top

#5 Feb. trade deficit increases to $39.7 billion
The Commerce Department reported Tuesday that the deficit for February increased 7.4 percent to $39.7 billion. That was larger than the $38.5 billion deficit economists had expected. Exports edged up 0.2 percent while imports jumped 1.7 percent.

Imports rose a larger 1.7 percent to $182.9 billion as imports of consumer goods rose to the highest level since October 2008. Increases were recorded in shipments of computers, televisions and other electronic appliances, toys and games and clothing. Imports of all petroleum products rose 1.6 percent to $27.6 billion on a seasonally adjusted basis even though the number of barrels of crude oil imported fell in February to the lowest level in 11 years.

Posted by ed 2010-04-13 12:46|| 2010-04-13 12:46|| Front Page Top

#6 Drill here, drill now. What is the problem with the government, it is almost like it wants us to have $5 gas.

Posted by bman 2010-04-13 15:14|| 2010-04-13 15:14|| Front Page Top

#7 IOW, IMO what this Artic is tyring hard NOT to say is that America = Amerika, the Mighty OWG USSA = Weak OWG USRoA SSR, must find a way to expand and make NUCLEAR-BASED TECH AVAILABLE AND AFFORDABLE TO FREE MARKET MASS CONSUMERS.

Clearly a job for FUTURAMA'S mad Mad MAD M-A-D MMMMMMAAAAAAAADDDDDD FRANKEN/ZILLA SCIENTISTS, + FRYE.

* "Its almost like it wants us to have $5.0 gas" > wehell,IMO THEY DO.

To wit,

As times before, 9-11 + GWOT > AMONG OTHER, 'TIS ABOUT SETTING UP [Pro-US vs Anti-US]OWG-NWO INCLUDING NATIONAL-GLOBAL/UNIVERSAL SOCIALIST ORDER, EVEN IFF THE POLITICOS, ETAL. DON'T = WON'T WANT TO ADMIT SO AT THIS TIME.

MSM-Net > PCorrectly-Deniably ascribed as "THE RISE OF THE REST" OF THE US-WORLD.

"JUSTIFIED" = "LEGITIMATE" = "VALIDATED" = "CREDIBLE" = ..................@.

D *** NG IT, TWASN'T OUR GOVT NICE ENOUGH TO NOT ASK MAINSTREAM AMERICA = AMERIKA TO VOTE ON WHETHER YOU WANTED SAID SAME OWG-NWO, US-GLOBAL SOCIALIST ORDER, .................@ USE YOUR $$$ TO PAY FOR DEV THE REST OF THE WORLD!?

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-04-13 19:16|| 2010-04-13 19:16|| Front Page Top

#8 The Chinese are laying down approximately 1,000 kilometers of four-lane highway every year, a figure suggestive of how many more vehicles they expect to possess

Not mentioned: increasing the ability to move large numbers of military and paramilitary forces, provide landing strips for aircraft, etc.

Posted by Pappy 2010-04-13 21:18|| 2010-04-13 21:18|| Front Page Top

#9 "I can assure you, only the highest specification of flyash has been extensively used...."

Posted by Frank G 2010-04-13 21:55|| 2010-04-13 21:55|| Front Page Top

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