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Saturday, May 4, 2013

Re: [mukto-mona] [Politiconomy] Sheikh Hasina's CNN Interview



If you keep a slave at home, his/her food and shelter would cost you more than an average garment worker earns in Bangladesh.  So this is worse than slave labor.  Historically speaking, slavery was outlawed because it became economically nonviable.  The present pope is known for his austerity and sympathy for the poor and downtrodden.  Let us wait and see what he contributes to improving the lot of the poor.  For a fifteen dollar shirt, a garment worker earns only a couple of dimes.  Think about it.


On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 7:56 PM, Shah Deeldar <shahdeeldar@yahoo.com> wrote:
 

Ammanpour is a savvy journalist and she did ask the right questions. When you are answering such pointed questions, you should not bring examples from other countries why they have not this or that. As a Prime minister, she should take the responsibility for the disaster and make sure that it does not happen again. I would say Prime minister did not perform very well. It could be due to her uneasiness with the language.

I am sure any idiot knows what is going in the name of cheap clothes. West want cheap clothes and factory owners want biggest margin of profits on their invested dollar. That is the problem and it was not touched at all. At least, not in details as I could see.

In regards to Pope's comment, I must say that he should be talking to his client countries rather going after the slave labor. The Bangladeshi labor is basically a weak hostage with not rights to protest. If this Papa, Pope really cares about the labor, he should start sharing some of huge Catholic wealth for the poor of Asia and South America. It is easy to talk than walking the walk. I am not sure how long we have put up with another Jesuit clown.
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"All great truths begin as blasphemies." GBS
From: saurav shome <shomesaurav@gmail.com>
To: mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, May 4, 2013 3:40 AM
Subject: Re: [mukto-mona] [Politiconomy] Sheikh Hasina's CNN Interview

 
Hi,

I find Honourable Hasina's conversation interesting, because she handled the questions quite nicely. A PM alone can not do and she can not answer several things in yes/no format, what reporters want. When CNN blame, Government of Bangladesh for corruption, why do they not ask USA to stop exploiting other countries. Why should Bangladesh be accountable to USA for answering the state of labour rights in their country?

In connection to Honourable Mamata, I think we have to understand that thinking and articulating the thinking goes hand by hand. Somehow in our education, we do not connect this aspect and do not prepare people to reflect on their own thinking. One more problem is we start relying too much on our common sense understanding in solving social and political problems. I think this speech of Mamata madam forced us to revisit these aspects.

I am giving some links of Navjot Singh Sidhu's debate in Parliament. I found these debates interesting. These are with different tone but entertaining.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUPLbKBXSms

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqN3GOCH270

With best regards,

Saurav

On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 5:53 AM, Sukhamaya Bain <subain1@yahoo.com> wrote:


I do not think Hasina was hilarious. She did not have a particularly good position to sit in. She could not just admit the truth that her country was corrupt to the core, including most people who run her own government. For a really hilarious one, see the Mamata Banerjee video:  



From: Abdullah Dewan <adewan@emich.edu>
To: Politiconomy <politiconomy@list.emich.edu>
Sent: Friday, May 3, 2013 5:34 PM

Subject: [mukto-mona] [Politiconomy] Sheikh Hasina's CNN Interview

 
Hilarious: Enjoy it

 http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2013/05/02/exp-bangladesh-pm-accidents-amanpour.cnn#/video/world/2013/05/02/exp-bangladesh-pm-accidents-amanpour.cnn


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