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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 26 1.2013 10:48, Guru गुरु wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/26/2013 10:38 AM, Guru गुरु
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<blockquote cite="mid:51034FAC.4040605@ITforChange.net"
type="cite"> * I would think it axiomatic that global democracy
will require a league of nations and nationalities and not any
one having any pre-eminent position, so it is disappointing
(though not surprising) that we get responses on the list about
'US eminent role/ US exceptionalism' being good or inevitable.
To quote that great American, Abraham Lincoln "No man is good
enough to govern another man without that other man’s consent",
something many Americans on this list and other nationals
favoring US eminence in IG, may want to ponder about. <br>
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also on the same wiki page - <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutocracy">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutocracy</a><br>
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" When the Nobel-Prize winning economist <a
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stiglitz"
title="Joseph Stiglitz">Joseph Stiglitz</a> wrote the 2011
Vanity Fair magazine article entitled “Of the 1%, by the 1%, for
the 1%”, the title as well as the content pointed to evidence that
the United States is increasingly ruled by the wealthiest 1%.
..... elites like to think of themselves as acting in the
collective interest, even as they act in their personal vested
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See also:<br>
<blockquote><b>Davos 2013: Joseph Stiglitz attacks US 'inequality'</b><br>
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<b>Stiglitz: 'Most citizens have not taken part in even mild
growth'</b><br>
<b>The richest 1% of Americans now hold 25% of the country's
wealth and more needs to be done to boost equality, Nobel Prize
winning US economist Joseph Stiglitz has said. </b><br>
<b><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21183987">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21183987</a></b><br>
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Norbert Klein<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:51035219.9070200@ITforChange.net" type="cite">And
so what I think you'll end up seeing is social mobility, which is
already ;decreasing in the United States, being increasingly
squeezed. You see particularly powerful sectors, finance, oil. <b>I
would say the technology sector is going to be next in line,
getting lots of government subsidies.</b><br>
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The scandalously low effective tax rates of the IT transnationals
can also be seen as some kind of implicit subsidy ... and
measures/experiments like that of the French Govt are required to
help correct this situation - by reducing the lobbying power of
these corporates and also getting the funding required by
governments to support basic societal infrastructure, including
soft infrastructure like public education and public health.. <br>
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regards,<br>
Guru<br>
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