Profit and loss

calbert at tiac.net calbert at tiac.net
Thu May 3 11:02:38 CDT 2001


jbor:

> Whether or not the amassed thugs breaking stock
> > market and government office windows and assaulting police are
> > actually lobbying against low refugee intake quotas or
> > genetically-modified foods or environmental destruction or union
> > disempowerment they have banded
> together
> > under the anti-globalisation banner and are in fact *serving the
> > interests of* extreme nationalist and corporate factions within the
> > developed
> nations
> > who desire to retain current tariffs and levels of trade
> > protectionism.
> And,
> > it is these trade policies which have been and are crippling the
> > economies of developing nations and which are the cause of the
> > immense gulf in
> living
> > standards between the First and Third Worlds.

Sorry, it's just that the above is so brilliant as to merit repeating.

thanks, jbor.......

love,
cfa



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