cheers Jo
At 19:02 12-09-00 , you wrote:
>Bill Gates got his turn at the WEF - assuring everyone that IT was closing
>the gap between the poor and the rich. He got into the casino thanks to a
>mounted police charge on the front door that injured several dozen
>protesters. The unions (well, the two best of 'em) duly joined in after
>the aggro was past. One interesting moment was when the crowd parted like
>the biblical sea when its Moses, Vandana Shiva, wanted to get in. She's
>been getting a lot of coverage, too - and her possie within the trenches
>and fortifications has lent much credence to the
>'I-know!-Let's-have-some-democratic-content-in-globalisation!' case.
>
>For the rest of the suits (bar our ACTU boss, the only other woman,
>incidentally), it was all just a problem in public relations, and they
>smugly said so. The protesters didn't understand, and the message merely
>needed better 'selling'.
>
>David Hale was probably the most appallingly arrogant of an appallingly
>arrogant bunch of suits - but that's hardly news,I s'pose (he spoke for the
>less diplomatic half of the convocation, to the effect that all outside
>were thugs who 'just didn't like life'). Fortunately, he was so
>sumptuously reclined, exquisitely dressed and smugly smiled that the
>majority of viewers could not help but detest him on sight.
>
>Anyway, I won't go on about it - just a note for Doug and the odd
>non-American Observer who might be interested in the unfolding of a
>world-wide phenomenon ...
>
>Cheers,
>Rob.
>