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    Coca has been, ancestrally, a sacred leaf. We, the indigenous, have had a profound respect toward it... a respect that includes that we don't "pisar" it (the verb "pisar" means to treat the leaves with a chemical substance, one of the first steps in the production of cocaine). In general, we only use it to acullicar: We chew it during times of war, during ritual ceremonies to salute Mother Earth (the Pachamama) or Father Sun or other Aymara divinities, like the hills. Thus, as an indigenous nation, we have never prostituted Mama Coca or done anything artificial to it because it is a mother. It is the occidentals who have prostituted it. It is they who made it into a drug. This doesn't mean that we don't understand the issue. We know that this plague threatens all of humanity and, from that perspective, we believe that those who have prostituted the coca have to be punished. - former Bolivian guerrilla leader and presidential candidate Felipe Quispe 2002 via Rigorous Intuition (link)

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09 October 2009

General Dynamics to Build Navy Destroyers Totaling Approx US$ 8B

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President Obama has said he wants the Pentagon to expand the use of fixed-price contracts to reduce the huge cost overruns and delays that have plagued many high-tech weapons programs.

Mr. Young [Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisitions] said the final price was still being negotiated with General Dynamics, which will now build all three of the ships in the new class, the DDG-1000. But he said the shift in contract terms should help the government save money.

Mr. Young said the first DDG-1000, which is being built by the General Dynamics shipyard in Bath, Me., was expected to cost $3.4 billion to $3.5 billion. That will include all the research and development costs for the program and the $200 million to $300 million of engineering costs that will be apportioned to each of the three vessels.

He said the price for the second ship should drop to around $2.5 billion, and the third one could cost even less.

The shift in contract terms came as part of a broader deal involving the two defense contractors that was proposed by Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates when he announced a major reshaping in weapons programs this month.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/18/business/18ships.html

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