Excerpt from Naomi Klein's article in Harpers (2004), describing in specific terms the US failure to transform Iraq into an unregulated utopia for international corporations.
In one dark corner of the [soap] plant, we came across an old man hunched over a sack filled with white plastic caps. With a thin metal blade lodged in a wedge of wax, he carefully whittled down the edges of each cap, leaving a pile of shavings at his feet. “We don’t have the spare part for the proper mold, so we have to cut them by hand,” his supervisor explained apologetically. “We haven’t received any parts from Germany since the sanctions began.” I noticed that even on the assembly lines that were nominally working there was almost no mechanization: bottles were held under spouts by hand because conveyor belts don’t convey, lids once snapped on by machines were being hammered in place with wooden mallets. Even the water for the factory was drawn from an outdoor well, hoisted by hand, and carried inside.
so what is your point here....?
assuming that blogs are self reflective..
umm...I musta I skipped that section of the blog rules book.
I thought the rule was the commenters did the reflecting.
Well, actually Sally, you seem to have ignored the whole book.
I didn't ignore it! Who do you think chewed the corners?
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Excerpt from Naomi Klein's article in Harpers (2004), describing in specific terms the US failure to transform Iraq into an unregulated utopia for international corporations.
- sally mckay 3-08-2006 8:44 pm
so what is your point here....?
assuming that blogs are self reflective..
- yoko (guest) 3-11-2006 7:53 am
umm...I musta I skipped that section of the blog rules book.
- sally mckay 3-13-2006 6:10 pm
I thought the rule was the commenters did the reflecting.
- tom moody 3-13-2006 8:33 pm
Well, actually Sally, you seem to have ignored the whole book.
- L.M. 3-13-2006 8:48 pm
I didn't ignore it! Who do you think chewed the corners?
- sally mckay 3-14-2006 8:27 pm