the_bottom_line mon uow the bottom line: privatizing the world "This provocative documentary investigates the privatization of the world and invites viewers to reflect on the notion of the 'common good'. Through various stories shot in Canada, the US, Mexico, France, Brazil, and India, this documentary discusses world's compliance to private interests: a Canadian farmer is sued by Monsanto because patented seeds brought by the wind are growing in his fields; traditional knowledge is being patented in India; American people without insurance are denied healthcare; and businessmen who want to sell Canadian water to the highest bidder while thousands of people in the world desperately need it. This documentary offers a revealing snapshot of a global community at a crossroads." 050307 ... andru235 sometimes it seems as if big business would end the world because it was profitable to do so. in fact i sometimes wonder if that is gradually what happeneth. to /not/ do so would require the admission that (financial) profit is not always for the better, thus negating one of the core tenets of capitalism (but not mercantilism, necessarily, albeit probably) 050307 ... . is better than the visible panty line 050308 ... Finger Table_Tennis 050308 ... 智慧21 to the Moon ... 050308 ... * 1232005 人质获释显现中国政府外交智慧 * 050308 ... stork daddy if your profit ended the world in your lifetime, it would end your profit. a company making a billion one day on a business plan that has them losing two that night is not profitable. now if your profit ended the world in someone else's lifetime, you probably could care less, hardcore capitalist that you are. 050308 what's it to you? who go blather from