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To: Thomas M. who wrote (12635)	3/14/2002 5:24:01 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

Secretary of State Colin Powell scorned as "Uncle Ben" by Judeofascist Naomi Klein.... Democracy, thankfully, has other ideas. Unlike strong brands, which are predictable and disciplined, democracy is messy and fractious, if not outright rebellious. Beers and her colleagues may have convinced Colin Powell to buy Uncle Ben's, but the US is not made up of identical grains of rice or hamburgers or Gap khakis. Its strongest "brand attribute" is its embrace of diversity, a value Ms Beers is now, ironically, attempting to stamp with cookie-cutter uniformity around the world. The task is not only futile but dangerous. guardian.co.uk Bio snippet on Klein: Article Two by Naomi Klein Last week, Neil Bissoondath wrote that we in Canada have made such a fetish of other cultures and traditions that for many of us, "Canadianness is only skin deep." Our "real" selves are rooted in idealized versions of elsewhere, anywhere but here. The description struck a chord with me. As the child of two Jewish Americans of Eastern European descent, I have often looked elsewhere (to the U.S., Israel, Europe) and felt the strange arbitrariness of nationality, felt it to be very unreal indeed. [...] schoolnet.ca _____________________ Got the picture, Thomas? Such off-handed name-calling by Transatlantic glitterati betrays more than anything else the underlying ideological "mismatches" that'll drive the US and Judeofascist Eurasia further and further apart.... After all, Klein's tagline is clear: the American model --ie a "mongrelized" social fabric-- doesn't suit everybody... it doesn't fit Europe, for one. Gus