<div dir="ltr"><div>Two relevant links culled from our lists, about the Trans National predators.<br><br><a href="http://www.alainet.org/active/74982">http://www.alainet.org/active/74982</a><br><a href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014.html">http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014.html</a><br>
<br></div>Cheers. Louis<br>- - -<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 11:56 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jlfullsack@wanadoo.fr" target="_blank">jlfullsack@wanadoo.fr</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p><span style="font-size:small">Dear Parminder and all</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:small">If course I strongly suppport this new initiative of the HR Council for "binding international norms on human rights responsibilities of TNCs. And, as a Deveoped Country citizen, I profoundly regret and oppose the support given by my country, France, to the US led offensive against these norms. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:small">But I also question China's rallying support of HR norms !</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:small">This must lead CS to a balanced critical approach on these norms, both in their wordings and in their applications. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:small">I have some sad examples in mind from chinese ICT corporations -ZTE ans Huawei, both strongly linked to the State- working in Africa. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:small">Another important point is tax evasion or tax avoidance that deprives poor countries from legitimate revenues for providing essential services (Food, health, education) : this is also to be considered as an attempt agains HR !</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:small">Best greetings</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:small">Jean-Louis Fullsack<br></span></p><br></blockquote></div></div></div>