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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (29501)	2/15/2008 4:33:54 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 219408

Coming on top of corruption scandals at companies including Siemens, Volkswagen, Daimler and BMW and controversy about the levels of executive pay, it has tarnished the image of German business severely. They look like us Brazilians, Elroy!! actions of Klaus Zumwinkel, who resigned on Friday as the chief executive of Deutsche Post, were “beyond the imagination of many people in Germany”. ft.com Looks like it was not the Soc Generale guy trying to make a quick buck!!

To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (29501)	2/16/2008 3:00:56 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219408

Steve Fosset played wayo. And worked. He's now declared dead. I think he engineered his own escapade. Cherchez la femme. It could be he fell in love with Thai or Brazilian girl, was too ashamed to admit, divorce and all the brouhaha that could follow. Escaped, ditched the plane, took new identity. A normal person, and more important, a non-billionaire, would have problems engineering and executing such plan, but him, a committed adventurer, it was easy. He just wants to enjoy the rest of his life...

To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (29501)	2/17/2008 6:22:24 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 219408

Bush wats to help Africa? Easy! Cut cotton subsidies! Our leverage is that we want cotton subsidies cut, thus our appeal as African partners are stronger. Bush tells African cotton producers subsidies are US matter 13 hours ago COTONOU (AFP) — President George W. Bush told West Africa's cotton producers that US subsidies to American cotton growers were a matter for Washington, Benin's President Boni Yayi said Saturday. Yayi was speaking at a joint press conference with Bush, who spent three hour in the small west African country at the beginning of a five-nation tour of the continent. Bush "considers that the question of these subsidies was an American matter, and told me that he was well aware of the importance of this sector in the life of our people," Yayi said. The US leader advised West African countries to grow cotton and process it for added value. Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mali have been battling at the World Trade Organisation for an end to export subsidies and other incentives provided by western industrialised countries, particularly the United States, to their cotton farmers. On Wednesday a US official said Washington was appealing a WTO ruling upholding Brazil's complaint that US farm subsidies, particularly to cotton growers, violate global trade rules. The United States claims it is now in full compliance with the WTO's earlier recommendations and rulings. Agriculture is a main sticking point in the six-year-old Doha Round of WTO trade negotiations. The United States and the European Union are under pressure to cut their farm subsidies but demand in return that other WTO members, notably developing nations like Brazil and India, reduce their tariffs on imported industrial goods.