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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>No, it is suppose to make us all go out and buy more
lithium powered flash lights, camera, and other devices so as to justify taking
Afghanistan over for the foreseeable future - especially since the domination of
the oil pipelines from the various oil fields of the various former Soviet
properties which are now sovereign countries did not work out all that well as
either a justification for our actions of a effective practical plan.
However, even this call to purchasing actions is not well thought out since most
of the lithium based devices are made in China not in the West so China will
benefit more than the US or its corporations and China will seek to controll the
lithium supply as an integral part of their national security and economic
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=jbw292002@gmail.com
href="mailto:jbw292002@gmail.com">John W.</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, June 14, 2010 3:17 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=davegreen84@yahoo.com
href="mailto:davegreen84@yahoo.com">David Green</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Cc:</B> <A title=peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net
href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">Peace Discuss</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Peace-discuss] skepticism Re: Afghanistan has $1
Trillion inmineral deposits (DN! Monday, June 14, 2010)</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:12 PM, David Green <SPAN
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<DIV>Of course! you don't just stumble over $1 trillion (a nice juicy figure)
of resources one day, and publicize it the next. This had to be used at the
appropriately desperate time. This is all an open secret among elites, but
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<DIV>All right, so what is this new revelation supposed to make us in the rabble
do? Support the war in Afghanistan with renewed enthusiasm? Doesn't
it rather transparently convey the message that "this is what we are REALLY
there for"? Assuming that we had not known this all along, would this
"new" information galvanize us to unqualified support of the war??</DIV>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Robert Naiman <<A
href="mailto:naiman.uiuc@gmail.com"
target=_blank>naiman.uiuc@gmail.com</A>><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Jenifer Cartwright <<A
href="mailto:jencart13@yahoo.com"
target=_blank>jencart13@yahoo.com</A>><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</SPAN></B> Peace-discuss <<A
href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net"
target=_blank>peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</A>><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Mon, June 14, 2010 12:30:31
PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [Peace-discuss]
skepticism Re: Afghanistan has $1 Trillion in mineral deposits (DN! Monday,
June 14, 2010)<BR></FONT><BR>A skeptical take regarding this purported "news"
from Blake Hounshell<BR>at (the establishment insider publication) Foreign
Policy:<BR><BR>Say what? Afghanistan has $1 trillion in untapped mineral
resources?<BR><A
href="http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/06/14/say_what_afghanistan_has_1_trillion_in_untapped_mineral_resources"
target=_blank>http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/06/14/say_what_afghanistan_has_1_trillion_in_untapped_mineral_resources</A><BR><BR>[...]<BR>In
short, things don't look good for the United States ... which makes<BR>me
suspicious of the timing of this attention-grabbing James Risen<BR>story in
the Times, which opens with this mind-boggling lede:<BR><BR>The United States
has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped<BR>mineral deposits in
Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known<BR>reserves and enough to
fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and<BR>perhaps the Afghan war itself,
according to senior American government<BR>officials."<BR><BR>Wow! Talk about
a game changer. The story goes on to outline<BR>Afghanistan's apparently vast
underground resources, which include<BR>large copper and iron reserves as well
as hitherto undiscovered<BR>reserves lithium and other rare
minerals.<BR><BR>Read a little more carefully, though, and you realize that
there's<BR>less to this scoop than meets the eye. For one thing, the findings
on<BR>which the story was based are online and have been since
2007,<BR>courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey. More information is
available<BR>on the Afghan mining ministry's website, including a report by
the<BR>British Geological Survey (and there's more here). You can also take
a<BR>look at the USGS's documentation of the airborne part of the
survey<BR>here, including the full set of aerial
photographs.<BR>[...]<BR><BR><BR>On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Jenifer
Cartwright<BR><<A href="mailto:jencart13@yahoo.com"
target=_blank>jencart13@yahoo.com</A>> wrote:<BR>><BR>>
Friends,<BR>> This was one of this morning's Democracy Now's headlines.
Anybody care to guess what the US will do about this??<BR>>
--Jenifer<BR>> Report: US Discovers $1 Trillion in Afghan Mineral
Deposits<BR>> The New York Times is reporting the United States
has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan,
including huge amounts of copper, cobalt, gold and lithium. US officials say
the find could alter the Afghan war and make Afghanistan one of the most
important mining centers in the world. An internal Pentagon memo states that
Afghanistan could become the “Saudi Arabia of lithium,” a key raw material in
the manufacture of batteries for laptops and cell phones. The value of mineral
deposits dwarfs the size of Afghanistan’s existing economy. Afghanistan’s
gross domestic product is only about $12 billion. American geologists have
been studying the potential for mining since at least 2004. The timing of
the New York Times article has been questioned by some because it is
being published at a time when the Obama administration has little good news
to report on Afghanistan. On Saturday the Times reported Afghan
President Hamid Karzai had lost faith in the United States and NATO to prevail
in Afghanistan. Karzai has reportedly been involved with secret negotiations
with the Taliban outside the purview of American and NATO officials.
Meanwhile, a new report from the London School of Economics includes new
evidence that Pakistan’s main spy agency, the ISI, continues to arm and train
the Taliban. The report states, "Without a change in Pakistani behavior it
will be difficult, if not impossible, for international forces and the Afghan
government to make progress against the insurgency."<BR><BR><BR>--<BR>Robert
Naiman<BR>Policy Director<BR>Just Foreign Policy<BR><A
href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/"
target=_blank>www.justforeignpolicy.org</A><BR><A
href="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org"
target=_blank>naiman@justforeignpolicy.org</A><BR><BR>Urge Congress to Support
a Timetable for Military Withdrawal from Afghanistan<BR><A
href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/feingold-mcgovern"
target=_blank>http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/feingold-mcgovern</A></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>--
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