Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: [corp-focus] Reclaiming Economic Freedom

2008-01-28 Thread Kurt Nolte
Keith Addison wrote: >> doesn't it? For the minority who wield (weild? Sometimes I HATE this >> language!) ... >> > > :-) What's the problem Robert? Just follow the rules: i before e > excepting after c. Simple. So please rein in all this unseemly > language-hatred. It's weird that you can

Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: [corp-focus] Reclaiming Economic Freedom

2008-01-27 Thread robert and benita
Keith Addison wrote: >Hi Robert > >Indeed so, alas. The winds of free trade favour the ships with the >biggest sails. > > Or, perhaps, the biggest guns . . . Why does this unfettered marketry require repression of some kind? Perhaps most people see the "rules" of unfettered markets fav

Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: [corp-focus] Reclaiming Economic Freedom

2008-01-27 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Robert Indeed so, alas. The winds of free trade favour the ships with the biggest sails. But you malign the much misquoted Adam Smith. He's supposed to be the darling of the neo-liberals and the corporate world, but he'd have hated them. It's not just the term "economic freedom" that got h

Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: [corp-focus] Reclaiming Economic Freedom

2008-01-26 Thread robert and benita
Keith Addison wrote: >> >>Every year, the Heritage Foundation, in conjunction with the Wall >>Street Journal, dutifully churns out its annual Index of Economic >>Freedom, a ratings guide to countries' relative corporate >>hospitality. >> >> Anything that comes out of the Heritage Found

[Biofuel] Fwd: [corp-focus] Reclaiming Economic Freedom

2008-01-26 Thread Keith Addison
>From: robert weissman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [corp-focus] Reclaiming Economic Freedom >Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:13:45 -0500 > >Links and forum to comment on this and other columns at: >http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/editorsblog > >Reclaiming Economic Freedom >By