<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2722" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV>D Henwood wrote: "Well for one the 70s were a time of wildcat strikes and Third World <BR>rebellions; there's not much of that now."</DIV> <DIV>Doug</DIV> <DIV>Comment: I am really surprised by this reply. The whole Islamic world is in revolt in three continents and, similarly, most of South America is in a state of political effervescence, especially against US corpos. The war in Iraq continues to eat US fiscal resources away putting severe downward pressure on the dollar and interest rates which in turn pulls down job creation and income generation,etc. Actually, a lot of etcs.</DIV> <DIV>I have always been convinced that living in Manhattan or Brooklyn produces a severe case of metropolitan insularity  out of which the rest of the world is seen in a foggy,cloudy state.</DIV> <DIV>Cristobal Senior</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>