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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
3192 Posts |
 Posted - 05/23/2008 : 06:04:45
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The world catching up to the U.S.'s total dependence on petrolium based products, the cost spiral is unlikly to ever reverse itself. Pick a country and explain how you would secure that nations interests for the next 100 years.
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 05/23/2008 : 08:04:14 [Permalink]
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Annex Iraq as the 51st state of the union. Immediately start building American amusement parks there. Send every Iraqi citizen a tax rebate check as part of a stimulus package, even though they paid no taxes yet. Free money to spend as they like is a good way to show the masses how great it is to be an American and given all the oil over there, it would be a small price to pay to secure it as an American natural resource. Start building Walmarts and such so they can get Dickies at a decent price.
Send over a contingency of the LAPD to show them how to run an effective police force.
Who wouldn't jump at the chance to be an American?
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Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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pleco
SFN Addict
USA
2998 Posts |
Posted - 05/23/2008 : 08:47:45 [Permalink]
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| I pick Monaco - its very small and therefore needs little resources. Threaten to close off access to casinos for the European noble classes unless needs are satisfied. |
by Filthy
The neo-con methane machine will soon be running at full fart. |
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 05/23/2008 : 10:10:54 [Permalink]
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Then I choose Vatican City.
But I will reconfigure it as spring-break theme holiday resort.
Sure, it might actually make less money that way, but it will be a funnier place for me to leave at. |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 05/23/2008 : 10:38:51 [Permalink]
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Cuba, and breed draft mules for export to the US, who's gonna need 'em. "Spanish" leather is considered top quality, so I'd have a thriving harness industry as well. Then you Yanqui bastards would make nice to me or suffer serious trade sanctions.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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bngbuck
SFN Addict
USA
2437 Posts |
Posted - 05/23/2008 : 11:18:18 [Permalink]
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Switzerland of course. The country is lightly populated, wealthy, and has relatively low energy demands. The Alps offer an ideal environment for wind farms, solar farms, and isolated nuclear plants whose meltdown would be a minimal ecological nuisance.
All of the technology is available in-house or next door in Germany and Italy.
Switzerland could be all-electric and totally oil-independent in five years, if they put their bankers to work on it now!
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 05/23/2008 : 14:05:00 [Permalink]
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| I think that Switzerland already buy most if not all of its electricity from France's numerous nuclear power-plants. |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan - 1996 |
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Mclaughlin: The cost of oil
