On 3/29/07, Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: utterly irrelevant to somebody in the Congo. Or in Uganda. Or in
the Philippines. Or Pakistan. Or Indonesia. Etc., etc., etc.
Understanding what Ward Churchill meant when he used the phrase 'little Eichman', and a Goldman Sachs account exec is a perfect example of that nomenclature, is the key to understanding why the 'financiers' are part of the problem... and not part of any solution I'D care to be part of, because for the Congolese... Indonesians... it is part of a 'Final Solution'. That billion dollar computer system is a factor in that solution as well. It's not 'utterly irrelevant' Also, I don't see anything 'utterly irrelevant' about the effect on the citizens of the countries where the mining companies (f'rinstance), financed by the financial 'little Eichmans' operate, hiring mercenaries and private armies (often with compliance of weak governments who believe these companies, run by their cronies, are providing added 'state security'), creating toxic waste pits on the landscape, polluting the air, and displacing indigenous people at their leisure and profit. The holocaust IS NOT over yet, and the greed/accumulative addiction of the big investors, who BTW often own large parts of the media that sells us the belief that we need the crap that we have to kill all those 3rd world people to obtain, drives it. [$0.02] Leigh
