WTO memo

Alec Ramsdell aramsdell at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 25 13:29:20 PDT 2001


Kelley Walker wrote:


> At 11:45 AM 7/25/01 -0700, Alec Ramsdell wrote:
> >Kelley Walker posted:
> > >
> > > Leaked Memo Reveals WTO Plan to "Sell" Itself to
> > > American Youth
> > > http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11172
> >
> >A friend showed me this the other night. One of
> the
> >internet sites mentioned in the memo was legit, he
> >found, but the rest was fishy. He tells me
> >plastic.com published the memo and is calling it
> >satire.
> >
> >Alec
>
>
> if you read the whole thing they write, at the end,
> "In other words ...
> gotcha!"
>
> kelley

Yeah, I'm not sure where he found the memo, but the disconcerting thing was both the outlandishness and, well, if you think about it, the strange plausibility of the idea--when the status of the memo was up in the air. The family resemblence to the Czech tobacco report.

Alec

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