Captain, I'm back from "battening down the hatches"

Aye, we have a big bugger of a blow going on down here in the S.F Bay Area....I definitely had to secure "my part of the ship" against this storm....and then the power went out!

Well I'm back up online again at least, and back in the fray! I still think alot of this turmoil in the press these last weeks has been "contrived" for the benefit of the bargaining process...now that the pump has been primed by fear, Correa and his team can back down the rhetoric and begin the "horse dealing" with the real companies involved now.

I believe you and Ankheroo have it right, that ARU should stay "Mum" in their responses to the Government at this stage of negotiations...

They don't want to be seen as being involved in the politics of the Host country in any way....just stay quite in "the Press" and do the dealings of business in "quite"...so as not to upset the cart that carries the "Golden Goose"

Sharpen the Cutlasses! Here we go again into the "Breech"

Long for Cash