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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (11024)	6/2/1999 3:10:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

Let the rest of the world adapt our multi-ethnic model >>> Are you out of your mind? O'key you have never lived or visited Balkans, but you lived in USA all your life.... Race relations with relative calm are hanging by the thread (very similar to Tito times in Yugo) barely masked by prosperity OJ Simpson trial was true reflection

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (11024)	6/2/1999 6:30:00 PM
From: Douglas V. Fant	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Ron, Well spoken- let's see if we can get a peace treaty here shortly and go forward to reconstruction efforts.....

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (11024)	6/3/1999 5:21:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

And I think Gustave would agree with you. He fears, and I think with good reason, that Serbia's nationalism might spark renewed efforts by nationalist groups throughout Europe, undermining the EU's stability. So while I'm not entirely against an eventual economic globalism, I'm sure as heck not willing to compromise America's prosperity or American's inalienable rights, to achieve it. Let the rest of the world adapt our multi-ethnic model and then we can talk seriously about empowering the UN as a world government. Agreed. And that's reminding me what President Clinton once said about the United Sates: he said they were the indispensable country. Yesterday, I've been mulling over it and then I got it! One of the best trumps of the American (ideological) fabric is what is seen by most Europeans as Americans's vile focus on ''money''. Think about it: the US are potentially at war with each and every other civilization on earth: Europe, China, Japan, India, Latin America, Russia, Islam, Africa, you name it --even Israel doesn't enjoy a clear-cut friendship with her sturdy patron! However, all these rather ethnical monoliths are basically resentful of the US's craftiness in business: people around the world don't fear so much being abused by Americans because they're ''niggers'' or ''chinks'' or ''Japs'' or Muslims as being diddled by these sly business whizzes! Well, that's not Europe's way of looking at it: because of a different culture and a quarrel-laden history, Europeans tend to draw the line at the cultural front. They will hand-pick their partners on some cultural, religious, or ethnic basis --examples: the EU is a Christian-only club (Turkey and Albania don't qualify); Europe is historically ''white Caucasian'', hence no colored people are allowed in the media (no Oprah Winfrey, Bill Cosby,...); etc. To be sure, such an anthropological bias in the European fabric is severily hampering Europeans' attempt at challenging the US leadership on a geopolitical level. Besides, regarding the so-called economical globalization at work, I'd like to refer you to the following French article of mine: 209.67.4.246 What I stated in this early 1998 article is that the current victory of capitalism over communism is an irony. After all, a keystone of any communist regime is economic planning, along with the state ownership of the productive means: no market-driven competition and no freewheeling innovation are allowed --much less any Schumpeterian creative destruction! But look at today's global picture: mega-merger is the new name of the game, ''Big is Beautiful'' is Wall Street's new motto! And, indeed, the world economy looks pretty much like a planned economy, dominated by a handful of corporate behemoths in every economic sector. Coca Cola Corp. has almost a worldwide monopoly in soft drinks, Airbus and Boeing share a duopoly in the aviation industry, and it's the same with the media industry (Time Warner/CNN, Murdoch's NewsCorp), the software biz (Microsoft, Oracle, IBM), the car industry (DaimlerChrysler, Volkswagen, Renault-Nissan), etc. At such a level of capitalistic concentration, one can no longer talk of a ''market economy'': the CEOs and the executive boards of these global corporations are no longer consumer-driven salespeople. Their marketing and manufacturing strategies pretty much resemble the quinquennial plannings of the late USSR's Supreme Soviet! Well, enough for this morning! Regards, Gustave.