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Tsunami-hit Thais told: Buy six planes or face EU tariffs
The Scotsman International Online ^ | 1-19-2005 | FRASER NELSON

Posted on 01/19/2005 9:49:16 AM PST by Red Badger

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Doesn't the Mafia do similar things? Buy my fire insurance so you won't have a fire........
1 posted on 01/19/2005 9:49:19 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

I hope they give EU the finger...


2 posted on 01/19/2005 9:50:38 AM PST by BladeLWS
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To: Red Badger

EU - Mafia

I like it ;)


3 posted on 01/19/2005 9:53:14 AM PST by TSgt (Generic Tagline 0101010101010101010101010)
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To: BladeLWS

I'd like to give the clown that decided to tax Thai prawn 97% the finger!


4 posted on 01/19/2005 9:55:15 AM PST by highnoon (You scratched my anchor!)
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Doesn't the Mafia do similar things? Buy my fire insurance so you won't have a fire........

Exactly! This is extortion and blackmail on an international level. Is Sicily in the EU?

Dah, hey! You wanna make dis easy or should I like oughta chase youse around da room a little?

5 posted on 01/19/2005 9:55:16 AM PST by N. Theknow (Yust an old salty seadog, pumpin' up da birden.)
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To: Red Badger

By joining the EU countries have given up all thoughts of Sovereignty and have made themselves slaves to France and germany the real rulers of the EU. The EU is really Vichy France 2005 style.


6 posted on 01/19/2005 9:55:47 AM PST by sgtbono2002
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so they can use the 380's to fly the shrimps to EU...............?


7 posted on 01/19/2005 9:55:52 AM PST by spokeshave (Strategery + Schardenfreude = Stratenschardenfreudery)
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To: Red Badger

I wonder how the EU would like it if we told every country,
"Buy Boeing aircraft or face American tariffs"?


8 posted on 01/19/2005 9:56:57 AM PST by TommyDale
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To: Red Badger

this just figures...

I figure the EU will continue to embarrass itself as long as it exists...mainly because it takes it's marching orders from the frogs....


9 posted on 01/19/2005 9:57:35 AM PST by MikefromOhio (DO I need a new screen name? I am no longer in Iraq :) 18 to keep 8 to change so far)
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To: Red Badger

I have heard of jumbo shrimp, I have even heard of shrimp gumbo....but I have never heard of shrimp for jumbo.


10 posted on 01/19/2005 9:58:35 AM PST by kimoajax
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To: Red Badger

The EU is well positioned to in time act more and more brutal to "outsiders" like this. In essence the serve as a proxy for EU members for such transparent agressive acts so they can individually maintain the appearance of clean hands.


11 posted on 01/19/2005 10:03:05 AM PST by kimoajax
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>Doesn't the Mafia do similar things? Buy my fire insurance so you won't have a fire........


Always picking on us Italians....


12 posted on 01/19/2005 10:07:42 AM PST by repub_phdstudent ((one of the few Republican 22-year old academians in the Northeast!))
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This could be the Airfoil for Food Scandal.....
13 posted on 01/19/2005 10:07:47 AM PST by Red Badger (And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you FReep!........)
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To: Red Badger

Take that Kofi! They'll get their tsunami aid back with interest.


14 posted on 01/19/2005 10:19:13 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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I wonder how the EU would like it if we told every country,
"Buy Boeing aircraft or face American tariffs"?

That's what we should do. Free market my ass. Can't wait until the first A-380 falls apart in the air. Remember the first A-300. The French managed to crash it into a forest on one of its demonstration flights near a Paris airport.


15 posted on 01/19/2005 10:29:47 AM PST by Big Digger (I)
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We seem to be doing the same thing with a 97% tarrif on Thai shrimp.

Of course, our entire domestic shrimp industry would dissapear in 90 days if we didn't.

So9

16 posted on 01/19/2005 10:40:10 AM PST by Servant of the 9 (Trust Me)
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But the tariffs are already there. Buying the planes gives them an opportunity to get the tariffs lifted. Sounds fair to me. According to this article the U.S. has even higher tariffs on the prawns and gives them no opportunity to get them lifted.


17 posted on 01/19/2005 10:42:30 AM PST by floridarolf
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It's a big sign that the sales of their new planes are a disaster.

The EU is going to implode. They have deep divisions of everything, especially in cultures.


18 posted on 01/19/2005 10:44:26 AM PST by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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But we aren't telling Thailand to buy something from us or else. We just hit them with 97% tariff to protect our flailing shrimp fishing industry.......


19 posted on 01/19/2005 10:45:19 AM PST by Red Badger (And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you FReep!........)
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Can you say....Oil for bucks.... now it is aid for planes.
20 posted on 01/19/2005 10:45:40 AM PST by pointsal
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