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Date:
Thu, 20 September 2007 11:19 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject:
Apec's Four Arrows Up
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APEC leaders and representatives pose
for a family photo on the final day of the Asia-Pacific Economic
Cooperation (APEC) leaders summit at the Sydney Opera House
September 9, 2007. Front row L-R: Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah,
Chile's President Michelle Bachelet, Hong Kong's Chief Executive
Donald Tsang, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Malaysia's Prime
Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, New Zealand's Prime Minister Helen
Clark, Philippine's President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Russia's
President Vladimir Putin, Thailand's Prime Minister Surayud
Chulanont and U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab. Back row L-R:
Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper, China's President Hu Jintao,
Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, South Korea's
President Roh Moo-hyun, Mexico's President Felipe Calderon, Papua
New Guinea's Prime Minister Michael Somare (hidden), Peru's
President Alan Garcia, Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong,
Taiwan's economic leader representative Stan Shih, and Vietnam's
President Nguyen Minh Triet.
(Will
Burgess/Reuters)
Reuters - Sun Sep
9, 3:26 PM ET
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In the family photo of APEC leaders at the
Sydney Opera House on the final day of the Asia-Pacific Economic
Cooperation (APEC) leaders summit September 9, 2007, the background looks
like four arrows pointing upward. Like concomitant with my consent to move
up to the eternity, to the heaven above. Not about moving up in politics,
of course.
Among the leaders in the photo were Japan's
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Malaysia's Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad
Badawi, New Zealand's Prime Minister Helen Clark, Philippine's President
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Russia's President Vladimir Putin, Thailand's
Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont, Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper,
China's President Hu Jintao, Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang
Yudhoyono, South Korea's President Roh Moo-hyun, Mexico's President Felipe
Calderon.
The photo was made after I uploaded my
previous letter of "Paris
'8' Endeavour".
Although president Bush was also attending the
summit, he was not in the photo, he was represented by U.S. Trade
Representative Susan Schwab
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Date:
Thu, 20 September 2007 11:28 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject:
Oil Price Record High of "80" After "Paris
' 8 ' Endeavour"
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Oil hits $80 a barrel
for first time
By JOHN WILEN,
AP Business Writer
Wed Sep 12, 6:21 PM ET
NEW YORK - Oil futures prices rose
sharply Wednesday, briefly climbing above a record $80 a barrel
after the government reported a surprisingly large drop in crude
inventories and declines in gasoline supplies and refinery activity.
The report from the Energy Department's Energy Information
Administration suggested oil supplies are tightening as demand
remains strong.
That's why oil prices are rising despite
OPEC's decision on Tuesday to boost crude production by 500,000
barrels per day this fall, analysts said. Despite Wednesday's jump,
oil is still well below inflation-adjusted highs hit in early 1980.
Depending on the adjustment, a $38 barrel of oil in 1980 would be
worth $96 to $101 or more today.
Oil's recent advance has been largely
due to speculative buying by big investment funds, who are
responding to a price structure in which oil contracts for delivery
in future months are cheaper than the current front-month contract,
said Jim Ritterbusch, president of Ritterbusch & Associates in
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Chart shows the price of crude oil; 1c x
3 inches; 46.5 mm x 76.2 mm
AP - Wed Sep 12, 4:53 PM
ET
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Oil hits new high
above $80
Thu Sep 13, 2:37 PM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil hit an all-time
high over $80 a barrel on Thursday after Hurricane Humberto forced
the closure of some U.S. Gulf refiners, stoking concerns of fuel
supply shortfalls. U.S. crude traded up 9 cents to $80.00 a barrel
by 2:15 p.m. EDT, after hitting a record $80.20 earlier. London
Brent crude gave up 23 cents to $77.45 a barrel. U.S. gasoline
futures soared in early activity after Hurricane Humberto shut oil
shipping channels and three refineries as it slammed onshore in
Texas, before being downgraded to a tropical storm.
"We have a storm working its way to
American facilities. We have an economic crisis, so many things are
affecting ... prices," said Hasan Qabazard, director of OPEC's
research division.
"Modest demand growth combined with no
significant supply increases has caused oil inventories to decline
sharply, creating backwardation in the oil forward curve, which is a
very bullish signal," said Jeffrey Currie of Goldman Sachs. |
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Oil breaks 80 dollars on
supply, storm fears
by Antoine Agasse
Wed Sep 12, 4:16 PM ET
NEW YORK (AFP) - Crude oil prices burst
into record territory Wednesday as New York futures topped 80
dollars a barrel, with traders fretting over a big drop in US
reserves and a new tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico.
The contract for light, sweet crude for
October delivery closed at 79.91 dollars, a jump of 1.68 dollars,
after peaking at 80.18 dollars. That smashed the record of 78.77
dollars on August 1.
In London, the price of Brent North Sea
crude for October delivery settled up 1.30 dollars to 77.68 dollars
per barrel after rising as high as 77.93 dollars, approaching the
all-time high of 78.60 dollars on that exchange.
Prices shot higher after news that US
crude reserves fell by a sharper-than-expected 7.1 million barrels
over the past week. "The seven-million barrels drop in crude oil
stocks was the primary surprise" of the Department of Energy report,
Citigroup analyst Tim Evans said. |
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A new record high of oil price emerged on
Wednesday 12 September 2007 piercing the level of US $ 80. It was a few
days after my letter of 'Paris
"8" Endeavour' dated 4 September 2007.
The title 'Paris
"8" Endeavour' is related with my consent to move up to the eternity.
Because the word Endeavour is like having the meaning of "end a
four", and since in Dutch or German the word "four" is "fir", so the "end
a four" is like "end a firman". In other words, the title 'Paris
"8" Endeavour' has the meaning of "Paris Hilton aids the end of
Firman", to help me move to he eternity.
It becomes more significant for me since it
happened after "Anita
Roddick Died" on 10 September 2007. The first name of Anita Roddick
reminded me with a former neighbor of mine Anita who once developed a
close relationship with me in 1982, and after she turned to another man
then the oil price dropped sharply to the record low of below US $ 6, a
disastrous price for certain oil producing countries including Indonesia..
Since then I felt guilty for becoming like a
trigger of disaster.
It could have been the worst mistake I have
ever done. I should have not falling in love with her , because after all
my condition was inappropriate to become someone beside her. Her father
was a famous figure, a member of the parliament, one of the leaders of
huge Indonesian Islamic organization. While I was only an incoherent
artist working some small printing business and printing design. My
falling in love with her could jeopardize the equilibrium of human
interaction, considering my unbalance position with her in the society.
So now that the oil price has reached a record
high of US $ 80 after my letter of 'Paris
"8" Endeavour' it could be the answer to this problem of mine, and the
solution will be to focus on my consent to move to the eternity with
significant aid from Paris Hilton.
May God help me with my consent, for the good
of this world.
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