WTO Riots in Geneva...

[Supercilious]

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Symbols sighting!

I'm back home for a few days for Thanksgiving.

[Chomsky]

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I'm back home for a few days for Thanksgiving.

Glad to have you. Where are you when you are not at home, such that you cannot post to iTulip?

Also, any further thoughts on the Fed's Hammer Drill?

[Starving Steve]

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I am not a conservative, and I hate to sound like Milton Friedman; but I do believe that the best policy for nations to follow would be one of open-borders and free trade. In other words, free trade and open borders allow the consumers the right to make a choice of what to buy, where to invest, where to live, where to work, and even what language(s) to speak.

Or to put this more simply, why should I have to subsidize small and inefficient farmers, or subsidize inefficient and poorly-run companies such as GM and Chrysler, or subsidize corrupt and bankrupt banks? Why not let me decide in the free market--- not government decide for me--- what to do with my own money?

Why can't kids think this through? Why then, the protests toward free trade and free-trade policies?

And then I won't even get into the display of hooliganism in wrecking store-fronts and burning bank buildings. We saw exactly that kind of hooliganism in Europe in the pre-Hitler years, and it was exactly that kind of hooliganism that very rapidly turned into nazism in the early-1930s.

[Supercilious]

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Glad to have you. Where are you when you are not at home, such that you cannot post to iTulip?

I'm travelling and very busy with a pet project that seems to go very well so far. Probably I'll have more time to be here after march or april.

Also, any further thoughts on the Fed's Hammer Drill?

The fed is almost finishing the stage of giving a dollar enema to the whole world. A picture is worth more than 1000 words :



So the WTO as we know it may be soon gone, and the angry kids will have to find out other pretexts to vandalize stores and burn cars. I hope, they will shift their attention to the carbon credit scam ....

[metalman]

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I never heard about him :-(

The Sir Goldsmith interview is like a thunderbolt. Simply amazing how well he explains the issues as is able to deal with Ms. Tyson. In light of what is going on today I would say he was right. 35 min. into the video he makes his most sensible argument why it is all bad, GATT.

It is interesting observing Tyson and how with her "image" she sells GATT. As she says "The facts speak for themselves", yehh, which set of facts. That matter of fact and squeaky voice has its own drug like effect.

Charlie Rose November 15 1994

In the 1997 election, Goldsmith stood as a candidate in the London parliamentary constituency of Putney, against Tory cabinet minister David Mellor.
Goldsmith stood no chance of victory, but the declaration made for one of the most memorable moments of the entire election - Mellor lost his seat to the Labour candidate and was subsequently taunted by Goldsmith (who clapped his hands slowly and chanted "out, out, out!") and other candidates.

Goldsmith died in 1997 of pancreatic cancer, aged 64.

PS: This video is simply amazing. At 50 min. Sir |Goldsmith in 1994 says what is wrong with the Stock Market and hits it on the head !!!!! This is Just Too Much !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

all the great men die, to leave behind the nitwits, self promoters & snake oil salesmen who've inherited the earth.

[marvenger]

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you're not subsidizing small farmers you're subsidizng your behemoth monoculture farmers, that's the crazy thing, even with all the capital and one farmer working thousands of hectares they still need enormous subsidies to ruin the lives of half the worlds population that are small farmers.

[Starving Steve]

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What is a "behemoth mono-culture farmer", to use your exact words?:confused:
I just want to understand this eco-terminology, to begin a discussion with you.

Yes, I get the feeeeeeeeeeeeeling that "a behmoth mono-culture farmer" just might be a corporate farmer that farms one crop or two crops over thousands of acres. But tell me more about this. What makes this farmer "mono-culture"?

My brother here in Watsonville, California lives by some corporate berry farms and corporate lettuce farms. These farms provide inexpensive produce in uniform high-quality for the world market. They do a good job in what they do: corporate farming.

Central California has an ideal climate for certain crops like berries and lettuce. Vancouver Island has an ideal climate for trees. So why not farm trees on Vancouver Island, and farm berries and lettuce in Central Calfornia? .... That would make the most sense to me. ( I confess that I am a geographer, not an agronomist. )