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Poster:	dead-head_Monte	Date:	Feb 11, 2011 5:05pm
Forum:	GratefulDead	Subject:	Re: He's Gone (?)

The Big Picture, imo: At the end of the day in "Our World," the Eqypt scene -- inside AND outside of Egypt -- is all about maintaining Cheap Energy, selling more Weapons, and making huge profits for the Military Industrial Complex's Ponzi-scheme. Most of the war machine's profits earned go to petrol businesses and military contractors. For example: Exxon-Mobil, BP, Chevron, Shell, Conoco-Phillips, Halliburton, Boeing, Lockheed-Martin, SAIC, Raytheon, Blackwater (Xe Services), etc. There are way too many to list here. But, it works this way:

all Wall Street players know the game
study the idiot's guide for Hedge Fund Managers

"The Arms Industry" • Weapons is a HUGE Industry -- it's big business in the USA This is a list of the ten countries with the highest defence budgets for the year 2008. The information is from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Total world spending amounted to $1.321 trillion USD in 2008.

World's largest defense budgets

Rank	Country	Spending ($ b.)	World Share (%)	% of GDP, 2008
—	World Total	1321.19	100	—
1	United States	904.0	41.5	4.3
2	China	84.9	5.8	2.0
3	France	65.7	4.5	2.3
4	United Kingdom	65.3	4.5	2.5
5	Russia	58.6	4.0	3.5
6	Germany	46.8	3.2	1.3
7	Japan	46.3	3.2	0.9
8	Italy	40.6	2.8	1.7
9	Saudi Arabia	38.2	2.6	8.2
10	India	32.7	2.1	2.6

a SIPRI estimate

The units in the table below are so-called trend indicator values expressed in millions of US dollars at 1990s prices. These values do not represent real financial flows but are a crude instrument to estimate volumes of arms transfers, regardless of the contracted prices, which can be as low as zero in the case of military aid. Ordered by descending 2000-2009 values. The information is from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

Current Rank	Supplier	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
1	United States	7220	5694	5091	5596	6750	6600	7394	7658	6090	6795
2	Russia	3985	6011	5773	5202	6260	5321	6156	5243	6026	4469
3	Germany	1603	821	892	1697	1067	1875	2510	3002	2499	2473
4	France	1055	1270	1308	1288	2194	1633	1577	2342	1831	1851
5	United Kingdom	1484	1257	915	617	1180	915	808	987	1027	1024
6	Spain	46	7	120	156	56	108	757	565	603	925
7	China	272	496	515	632	82	306	599	412	544	870
8	Israel	354	360	414	358	612	315	282	379	271	760
9	Netherlands	280	203	243	342	08	583	1221	1322	554	608
10	Italy	189	217	400	312	214	743	525	706	424	588
11	Sweden	46	830	185	515	305	537	417	367	457	353
12	Switzerland	176	193	157	174	250	267	306	324	467	270
13	Ukraine	288	661	244	430	202	281	557	99	269	214
14	Canada	110	129	170	255	268	235	231	43	236	177
15	South Korea	8	165	N/A	104	29	48	94	228	80	163

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Poster:	Mandojammer	Date:	Feb 13, 2011 4:04pm
Forum:	GratefulDead	Subject:	Re: He's Gone (?)

That's the one good thing about what's coming monte.

THERE IS NO MORE CHEAP AND EASY OIL!!

That is incontrovertible. So while the mil-ind complex and the fat cats running the banks will be shielded from what is coming - for a time - they are not immune.

There is a new world order coming, but it's not Glenn Beck's version, it's not a bunch of cross bred, alien, lizard ruling elite bankers or a bunch of fat, rich, spooky darks, sitting in some austere Victorian mansion in Austria drinking baby's blood and sacrificing virgins.

It is a new world order, without oil. And the transition is probably going to be painful.

But once it's here.......Talk about a level playing field.

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Poster:	rastamon	Date:	Feb 11, 2011 1:58pm
Forum:	GratefulDead	Subject:	Re: He's Gone (?)

poppycock. The sun rules most all pollution, though I'd concede that Big Al could lower dreaded CO2 emissions by holding his breath for awhile. In fact, all u believers in man-made global warming (excuse me..hahahahahaha)
..jest hold yer breath for awhile and starve vegetation.
what, no sense of humour?? OK, tax the sun - lol?