Re: [silk] Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world - New Scientist - New Scientist

2011-11-08 Thread Anish Mohammed
>Sorry, am late in coming in, but has anyone pointed out this http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/10/the-network-of-global-corporate-control.htmlor this http://www.forbes.com/>sites/timworstall/2011/10/21/150-companies-control-the-world/

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2011-11-08 Thread Salil Tripathi
Correlation, causality, etc. Sorry, am late in coming in, but has anyone pointed out this http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/10/the-network-of-global-corporate-control.htmlor this http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2011/10/21/150-companies-control-the-world/ ? Salil

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2011-10-30 Thread Sruthi Krishnan
> 7 Billion people now, and 9 Billion by 2025. We are quite likely the last > generation to see glaciers, and the capitalistic system denies it's raping > the planet and the human race? > > Was reading an article on the 12th Plan approach paper for India. The same binaries keep playing out - on on

Re: [silk] Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world - New Scientist - New Scientist

2011-10-30 Thread Heather Madrone
On 10/30/11 5:55 AM October 30, 2011, Venkat Mangudi wrote: I posted this a few days ago. www.missinghumanmanual.com. The more I read stuff there, the more I am convinced we are shooting ourselves in the foot. Once we fix ourself, the system will fix itself I think. A worthy lifelong goal, fix

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2011-10-30 Thread Venkat Mangudi
On Sunday 30 October 2011 02:39 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: Capitalism is a demonstrably failing or even failed system, even though any reasonably grownup adult of a country today looks to economic development and growth as barometers of success. The lack of an alternative has everyone worr

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2011-10-30 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Anish Mohammed [30/10/11 08:34 +]: >A huge list of shadowily held corporations, several you haven't heard of and aren't publicly >traded? Now upto plane spotters and other amateurs to build the picture of interactions and interrelationships :) you are likely to see enough interrelationshi

Re: [silk] Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world - New Scientist - New Scientist

2011-10-30 Thread Anish Mohammed
ces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net > Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 10:47:50 +0530 > To: > ReplyTo: silklist@lists.hserus.net > Subject: Re: [silk] Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world - > New Scientist - New Scientist > > On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 10:12 AM, S

Re: [silk] Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world - New Scientist - New Scientist

2011-10-29 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk] Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world - New Scientist - New Scientist On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > its such an old trope, this.. faceless evil world dominating capitalists > I t

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2011-10-29 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > its such an old trope, this.. faceless evil world dominating capitalists > I thought the whole point of this study was that the world dominators AREN'T faceless any more. Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.d

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2011-10-29 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
its such an old trope, this.. faceless evil world dominating capitalists --srs (iPad) On 30-Oct-2011, at 8:13, Gautam John wrote: > On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 2:39 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: > >> It isn't the unexpectedness of it or even the super connectedness of it, but >> the empiricality

Re: [silk] Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world - New Scientist - New Scientist

2011-10-29 Thread Gautam John
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 2:39 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: > It isn't the unexpectedness of it or even the super connectedness of it, but > the empiricality of it. I see. I thought you were pointing to some larger conspiracy theory of ownership.

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2011-10-29 Thread Anish
] Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world - New Scientist - New Scientist On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Gautam John wrote: > On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan > wrote: > > > The top 50 of the 147 superconnected companies > > Why is it su

Re: [silk] Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world - New Scientist - New Scientist

2011-10-29 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Gautam John wrote: > On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan > wrote: > > > The top 50 of the 147 superconnected companies > > Why is it surprising? I'd totally expect finance/banking companies to > be there. After all, they do fund much of the econom

Re: [silk] Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world - New Scientist - New Scientist

2011-10-29 Thread Gautam John
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: > The top 50 of the 147 superconnected companies Why is it surprising? I'd totally expect finance/banking companies to be there. After all, they do fund much of the economy.

[silk] Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world - New Scientist - New Scientist

2011-10-29 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
http://www.newscientist.com/mobile/article/mg21228354.500-revealed--the-capitalist-network-that-runs-the-world.html I'm on a smart phone so I'm not enclosing the entire text, apologies. What's interesting to me are the names I'd never heard of before: The top 50 of the 147 superconnected companie