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't spell

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

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 favoring a

[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 Robert

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 Foundation makes