XPost: can.general, can.politics, ott.general   
   From: campbell@neotext.ca   
      
   On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 21:58:34 -0600, John Fleming wrote:   
      
   > On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:45:29 GMT, while chained to a desk in the   
   > scriptorium Duncan Patton a Campbell  wrote:   
   >> $On Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:27:26 -0600, John Fleming wrote: $   
   >> $>> $Canada too is in this boat but is a temporary haven as in the   
   >> world $>> $scheme of things, Canada is a flea on the dog.  Just along   
   >> for the $>> ride. $  By the end of 2012 I will have 50% of my portfolio   
   >> in $>> central/south $America (except Argentina) where banking is more   
   >> stable $   
   >> $Ha.  And I'd 'ave picked Argy as one of the few places down there   
   >> $safe for my level of "investment": a mortgage on some BA property   
   >> $probly has more long term stability than most everything else there...   
   >> $might go down but A. it will come back up and B. it will still be   
   >> $yours.  Now if I had the coin and moral inclination of a currency   
   >> $speculator I think Brazil would have more potential for sweatin' $down   
   >> favellas and growing soy from ashes.   
   >   
   > Brazil is an emerging economic power in the world.  One of the world's   
   > largest mining companies, Vale, is Brazillian. One of the world's larger   
   > aircraft manufacturers, Embrear, is Brazillian.   
      
   I'm not knocking their accomplishments, but there's a lotta stone-suckin'   
   poverty there along with the truly rich, and no much else.   
      
   Dhu   
      
   >   
   > While it's not an economic factor, one could ogle quite a few nice   
   > looking chicks in Rio during Carnival.  :)   
   >   
   >> $>> and better $returns with stable currencies. $>   
   >> $> The one thing we do have going for us is the resources we   
   >> produce--oil, $> natural gas, potash, iron, nickel, timber, uranium, .   
   >> . .. $>   
   >> $> Pity the US is our biggest trading partner. $>   
   >> $   
   >> $Which makes the usual gleefulness at USian misfortunes seem especially   
   >> $futile to my mind.  There's a lot of useless vanity that's paying for   
   >> $all their troubles, for sure.   
   >   
   > Particularly with one of our left of center political parties, US   
   > bashing has become a popular past time.   
   >   
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   >   
   > John Fleming   
   > Edmonton, Canada   
   >   
   >      Old MacDonald had a farm E-I-E-I-O   
   >      And on that farm he had a genome E-I-E-I-O With a SNP SNP here and   
   >      a SNP SNP there, Here a SNP, there a SNP, everywhere a SNP SNP Old   
   >      MacDonald had a farm E-I-E-I-O   
      
      
      
      
      
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   Duncan Patton a Campbell is Dhu >>> Ne Obliviscaris   
      
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