James and all,
Thanks for passing this nice morsel of info on. ROFLMAO!!! I am
really laughing at Don Heath's suggestion! I hope that man isn't really
serious! You think??!!! If so, he has some serious reality problems...
Don, old son, take them blinders off!!!!
James Love wrote:
> Funny you should say this. I was just at a Department of State briefing
> on information policy last week, and when discussing a the need for new
> global rules on consumer protection, Don Heath suggested ICANN as a
> model, where NGOs (he meant business NGOs like MPAA and the BSA) played
> a role.
>
> Jamie
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Gordon Cook wrote:
> >
> > > Because ICANN is the WTO of the
> > > Intenet
> >
> > At a National Press Club conference transmitted today by NPR, John Sweeney,
>President of the AF of L-CIO, said that the WTO was a world government whose laws,
>made without the consultation or participation of workers, are establishing a world
>oligarchy of transnational corporations that will throw back workers' rights and
>environmental protection to the union-busting days of the nineteenth century.
> >
> > Is the Internet to be the mechanism for WTO world government? Is this why the U.S.
>Department of Commerce has created ICANN? What role are MCI and Vinton Cerf supposed
>to play in it? Was Jones Day selected as ICANN's lawfirm because of their connection
>with the transnational corporations controlling the WTO and benefitting from the
>GATT? Under what law will we live in the 21st century, constitutional democracy or
>the dictatorship of ICANN and the WTO?
> >
> > ========================
> > Michael Sondow ICIIU
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.iciiu.org
> > ========================
>
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