[Taxacom] Frontline program on BP

Thu Nov 4 09:00:52 CDT 2010

Dear All (minus 1),
let's continue as before...
best wishes
Peter A. Schäfer

On 04/11/2010 14:25, John Grehan wrote:
> I agree with Don completely. There are unfortunately some people who
> thing that a list serve must conform exactly to their individual
> preferences, rather than acknowledging that range and content will vary
> as widely as the number of individuals subscribing. Having once being
> subjected to threats for what I have posted I can only fully endorse
> ken's interest in contributing - whether or not I may not agree with
> everything or anything.
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> John Grehan
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> [mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of
> Don.Colless at csiro.au
> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 8:41 AM
> To: farmer at cb.uga.edu
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> Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Frontline program on BP
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> Oh dear! "Off topic" perhaps; but "nonsense", NO! I personally find
> Ken's little enthusiasms charming! TAXACOM is for me a source of
> receation, not a deadly arena.
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> Donald H. Colless
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> [farmer at cb.uga.edu]
> Sent: 01 November 2010 22:57
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> Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Frontline program on BP
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> Dear Ken,
>
> And this has to do with issues of taxonomy because...?
>
> Congratulations. You and your off topic nonsense have finally
> pushed me to hit the unsubscribe button for this listserve.
>
> When poser posters like Ken are booted off the listserve, or at least
> moderated, someone drop me a line.  I'll resubscribe then.
>
> -Mark Farmer
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> On 26 Oct 2010 at 22:30, Kenneth Kinman wrote:
>
>>   Dear All,
>>        I was just watching tonight's Frontline program on BP which
>> documents that company's apparent lack of concern about safety in an
>> apparent pennywise but severely "pound foolish" (to put it mildly)
>> effort to maximize profits over many years (particuarly with respect
>> to their takeovers of American companies and assets).
>>        Their apparent poor choice of CEOs from one disastrous problem
>>        to
>> another seems to further indicate a continuing concern of short-term
>> profits over safety of either its lower-level employees or the
>> environment overall.  As more than person in tonight's Frontline's
>> special indicates, the most recent disaster in the Gulf of Mexico this
>> year was just a continuation of the same disconnect between BP upper
>> management and the welfare of its employees (as well as the
>> environment).
>>          It seems that what poorly regulated capitalism is best at
>> producing is greed at the top and suffering among thousands that they
>> employee (and millions who ultimately pay the even bigger price from
>> pollution, job loss, or even those who die in their biggest
>> disasters), Profits trickle up to a few at the top, while misery
>> increasingly trickles down to many more at the bottom.
>>       The various levels of the middle classes get a mixed bag of some
>> who benefit during economic booms, but a lot of them also get the
>> shaft (along with the poorer classes) when economic excesses collapse
>> into diasters like 1929 and 2008.  The post-1929 misery was clearly
>> more widespread (without the social safety-net that helps many in
>> today's situation).  The pay disparity between CEOs and their
>> employees has reached a ludicrous disparity that cries out for a
>> backlash,  Otherwise, trickle-down economics has no chance whatsoever
>> of even beginning to to address economic inequality that still exists.
>>
>>            --------Ken
>>
>>
>>
>>
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