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Thanks to Carlos for taking the time to insert such worthwhile and valuable information about the status of the Brazilian Telecom sale. Very depressing, which set me to wondering what the U.S. Government would be willing to sell to service it's debt for a few months or even a few days - which begs the question of why it is never pushed into that position. Meanwhile the workers of Bell Atlantic (a major telecom provider that gobbled up NYNEX last year) are out on strike. What is one of their major issues? The forty hour work week! It seems overtime is mandatory for workers at this highly profitable telecom. In spite of the legacy of workers revolts throughout the turn of century, those brave souls who fought and died for 'our' rights (like the 40 hour week) have been long since forgotten in the high stakes rush on the global competition boardgame. Today's new Neoliberal Pinkertons no longer carry guns or nightsticks, just laptops. That's all it takes to bring a developing country to it's knees and force it to divest public resources to refinance the national debt. By the time this obscene mess shakes out none of us may have phone service that works much less food. >Recently, this same government rescued misdeeds of the big Brazilian >bankers to the tune of more than 10 billion dollars... I'm afraid it just gets worse, today I heard Mexico was forced to outdo this figure for the misdeeds of its own white collar banking criminals (three of which are on the Forbes 200 list of the richest people in the world). Viva Marcos! Michael -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Tiger Television 339 Lafayette Street fax: (212) 420-8223 New York, NY 10012 email: [email protected] phone: (212) 420-9045 web: http://www.papertiger.org -------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Tiger TV is a non-profit volunteer collective that has been pioneering media criticism through video since 1981. The diverse series of over 260 programs addresses issues of demo- cratic communications, media representation and the economics of the information industry. The tapes are broadcast in NYC and across the U.S. The tapes are also distributed by PTTV to universities, libraries, and media art centers worldwide. -------------------------------------------------------------- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ AMARC 7 Foro Virtual Forum Virtuel http://www.amarc.org/amarc7 to unsubscribe / pour se desabonner / para abandonar : e-mail "unsubscribe amarc-1 " to: [email protected]