What happened to Carly? Commentary: Fiorina hurt by Compaq buy, personal style

Marketwatch.com ^ | 2/9/05 | John C. Dvorak

[NormsRevenge]

The sad thing, in a way, if you will, is she now has more funds and time than ever to pursue her little 'secret' agenda.

[hedgetrimmer]

Private sector joins UN's poverty battle
Last week, Ernesto Zedillo, the former Mexican president, and Paul Martin, an aspirant prime minister of Canada, announced at the UN in New York the creation of a UN Commission on the Private Sector and Development, aiming to remove obstacles to budding entrepreneurs in the developing world. Other commissioners include Carly Fiorina, president of Hewlett Packard, Anne Lauvergeon, president of Cogema, and Rajat Gupta, a senior partner with McKinsey. Mark Malloch Brown, head of the United Nations Development Programme, said the commission reflected the "next big thing" in third world development policy, an increasing engagement by the UN of private enterprise. Kofi Annan, UN secretary-general, asserted: "We cannot reach [poverty reduction] goals without the support of the private sector."...In parallel, the UN claims its three-year-old "Global Compact", which brings together the UN, non-governmental organisations, labour and multinational companies, is beginning to spawn initiatives with real results. It cites the example of Shell, the international oil company, which has initiated solar energy and water projects with the Care and Oxfam charities in Ethiopia.

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The global poverty programs are nothing but wealth transfers from the US taxpayer to the third world. Should people with ties to the UN and globalist inspirations be allowed to run for office or participate in state government? Obviously their loyalties do not lie with the US or US citizens.

[hedgetrimmer]

Well it doesn't have to be a secret. People should talk about it, if she runs for office or seeks appointment, there ought to be some public debate on the topic.

[Just mythoughts]

Wow she has JFKerry's orange tan.

[GOP_1900AD]

The only mechanism capable of doing so would be a critical mass of shareholders who maintain their own independent set of long term corporate performance metrics and who take names and kick butt based on them. To an extent, some of the mutual fund and 401K/IRA managers may have the ability to do this, but legally they cannot interefere with the company, so much for that idea. Failing that, it would be down to groups of individual investors who had enough knowledge of corporate operations to be able to do this competently. I have ideas. Developing ...

[GOP_1900AD]

From my profile:

* When the gallows at Nuremburg dispatched Evil Incarnate, many mouthed the words "never again." Sadly, it would have been possible to predict, as early as 1946, that this was but a shallow platitude. The Trial of the Century convicted only a fraction of a certain Nazi contingent of the overall totalitarian monster. It did not indict, per se, totalitarianism. In all but Western Europe, totalitarianism was given a pass. The cancerous cells were never eradicated. And, predictably, they have again taken root. Islamism, National Bolshevism, neo-pan Sinicism, neo-pan Slavism, and a number of other mass psychotic polities, have risen to the surface once again, and have merged with the general envy that less capable countries (and even internal factions sympathetic with them) have toward the West and toward the US (and Israel) in particular. "Never again" is now impossible. So now the only question is, when "it" happens again, who will be the fiends, who will be the victims, where will it happen and how badly? To shy away from this only means that one is dreaming of the impossible. How naive.

* I loath the 3rd Way, the Norquist Arabists and Transnational Progressives, and pledge to fight these movements with all my might. The 3rd Way, Norquist Arabists and the Transnational Progressives are unmistakable enemies within of the USA and the West. No matter how high in position any of them are, if they commit treason, then the full weight of the law must come down on them and make examples of them which shall be remembered for 1000 years.

* "Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government." ---George Washington, 1793

[GOP_1900AD]

RE: Should people with ties to the UN and globalist inspirations be allowed to run for office or participate in state government?

Should they even be allowed to run US headquartered companies? To me, there are serious conflicts of both economic and political interest if we allow these types to steer the directions of multinational corporations headquartered in the US. People get all up in arms about the revolving door vis a vis people going from US government into business, and yet they remain stupidly silent about anti US, globalist, anti capitalist fiends taking the reigns of corporate power. Missing the forest for the trees...

[Fred Hayek]

I've had pretty much the same experience with Dell. And on top of that I had a peculiar requirement for 2 different operating systems (choice to boot to either XP Pro or 2000 Pro. A specialized application that I use has driver problems with XP). So no problem with a custom build dual boot. And on top of that no useless geegaw software that I would have no use for (kids games, etc.), that I would find with an HP build.

The only future HP product I may be considering in the future may be a drawing plotter.