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Sat Dec 4 05:01:03 UTC 2021

----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Levine" <johnl at iecc.com>

> I suspect the Bougainvillians (Bougainvillains?) have a few more urgent topics
> to attend to.  The island's only significant asset is a huge copper mine which
> has been closed since 1989 when the civil war started.  If they can't figure
> out how to both get the mine open again and to deal with the environmental mess
> left by the former operator, they won't have much of a country.

Well, sure, but with the copper deposit measured in double-digit billions, 
it seems sane to assume they've got a plan there...

Though given .TV's benefits to Tuvalu, and the number of Scandahoovian 
businesses that are BVs...

Cheers,
-- jra
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