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>>  For now, the old version is still in place and Nagy intends to archive it.  I'm glad, because the "old works" include some pieces I'll want to look at again, like "festmény4" or "studium II" to name just a few...  [Coolstop Daily Pick 12/19/02] 

Nestle insists on Ethiopia refund.  Swiss-based food giant Nestle defends its demand for $6m in compensation from famine-stricken Ethiopia.  [BBC News]

According to poverty relief organisation Oxfam, the Ethiopian Government has offered to pay Nestle about $1.5m (£930,000) - a figure based on the current exchange rate between the dollar and the Ethiopian birr.

But the food giant is pushing for a payment of $6m, a sum based on the exchange rate in force at the time of the nationalisation [during the communist regime in 1975].

A Nestle spokesman said "I think it is in the interest of the developing countries in general to have a continued flow of foreign direct investment."  Who knows how much Nestle already profited from their "investment."

Perhaps my impression of Nestle has already been somewhat shaded by what I read back in August on Bran's site:

yeah. i've boycotted Nestle for the last, oh, five years? ever since i learned about their horrible, predatory marketing campaigns in the third world, persuading mothers to use powdered formula samples that last just long enough for the mom's breastmilk to dry up, forcing her then to buy more formula. why is this a bad thing? a list of facts found here."

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Update 12/20/02 - Related:
BBC:  Nestle offers Ethiopia refund deal 

Paul Victor Novarese:  "While tricks the telcos and energy companies use to kill competition are morally disgusting, the technical barriers erected by the RIAA, MPAA and their ilk are even worse, since they actually damage the economy twice."  (more) 

NuCinematic  [daily pointers] 

December 2002

 


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