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    Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson

    "The only asset, and I use that word lightly, that's done worse than the ruble's 50 percent fall is #, which is a fake currency that techno-utopians insist is the future we don't know we want." Ouch. Zing. http://ur1.ca/j5ycp

    Friday, 19-Dec-14 06:18:29 UTC from microblog.ourcoffs.org.au
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      Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson

      Mind you, Saudi Arabia's main target is more likely # dirty-crappy-expensively-extracted-oil. # is collateral damage. http://www.juancole.com/2014/11/targets-shale-russia.html

      Friday, 19-Dec-14 06:23:24 UTC from microblog.ourcoffs.org.au
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        Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson

        Note the irony that one of the real reasons for invading # was that it was a swing producer, hurting # oil revenue. Thus relieved, now they're doing it to their rescuers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_producer

        Friday, 19-Dec-14 06:40:24 UTC from microblog.ourcoffs.org.au
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          Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson

          Bonus irony is that the other, contradictory, reason to invade # was to install a puppet government that would be a proxy swing producer for the # to use against # Arabia and the rest of # Double #!

          Friday, 19-Dec-14 06:46:35 UTC from microblog.ourcoffs.org.au