Re: Measures of political risk

["Jose G. Perez" <jgperez@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nestor wrote:

who are the arbiters that set the ratings? The same
careful guys at the international consulting firms who doctor the
books of American corporations in order to fool the American people
and grab their savings at the Stock Exchange.

Kind of funny, if you come to think about it...

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Nestor,

It's too bad you can't become a U.S. resident for a few weeks. The current
political economic climate is hilarious. A bunch of capitalist politicos and
media outlets chasing after capitalist executives for the "crime" of ...
acting like capitalists. Well of *course* the CEO's are a bunch of criminals
who look out for number one ... like, duh. That's why they were hired.

The idea was that by investing them with tons of stock options they would
use the amoral greed of the CEO's for the "greater good" of the
stockholders. Didn't quite work out that way. Oooops!

The level of hypocrisy has reached such absurdist levels that even the
sharpest-tongued satirists have been silenced.

And speaking of absurdist hypocrisy...

The quotation that graces the bottom of this post I found ... on AOL, of all
places!!! In a downloadable MP3 audio file.

I'd like to suggest to Louis he post it on the Marxism page ... time
marxamail joined the "pirated" MP3 file revolution! It looks like even AOL
has done so ... unfortunately, the original download is within AOL's "walled
garden," but I just asked my computer, and it said it didn't care whether I
sent Louis a copy or not, it's all ones and zeros to the CPU. That's the
problem with walled gardens, you can only make the walls so high, and
butterflies are free.

José

PS: I picked the quote below really as an answer to the Militant's latest
article on Venezuela. I may even explain that in another post. I haven't
been flamed here for AT LEAST a couple of weeks and am feeling a little
cold.


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"El capitalismo foráneo, el capitalismo foráneo, y sus sirvientes
oligáquicos y entreguistas, han podido comprobar, que no hay fuerza capaz de
doblegar a un pueblo que tiene consciencia de su derecho.

"Una vez mas, mis queridos descamisados, uniéndonos al líder conductor,
reafirmamos que en la nueva argentina, ya no hay lugar para el colonialismo
económico, para la injusticia social, ni para los traficantes de nuestra
soberanía nacional y nuestro porvenir."

--Evita
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(For the linguistically challenged:

("Foreign capital and its oligarchic and sellout servants have been able to
see that there is no force that can subjugate a people conscious of its
rights."

("Once more, my dear shirtless ones, in unity with our guiding leader, we
reaffirm that in the new Argentina, there is no longer any room for economic
colonialism, nor social injustice, nor for those who would traffic with out
national sovereignty and our future.")


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