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Imagine a world in which a man who is repeatedly investigated for a string of serious crimes, but never prosecuted, has his slate wiped clean every time the cops fail to make a case. No more Lifetime channel specials where the murderer is unveiled after police stumble upon past intrigues in some old file - "Hey, chief, didja know this guy had two wives die falling down the stairs?" No more burglary sprees cracked when some sharp cop sees the same name pop up in one too many witness statements. This is a different world, one far friendlier to lawbreakers, where even the suspicion of wrongdoing gets wiped from the record.

Tariq Azeem Sec. Information PML-Q, Dr. Firdous Ashiq Awan PPP, Senator Pervez Rasheed PML-N, Senator Zafar Ali Shah Leader PML-N, in fresh episode of Off The Record Discussing Current Issue With Kashif Abbasi.

Mian Manzoor Ahmed Wattoo Fed. Min. for Industries and Production, Senator Tariq Azeem Khan Sec. Information(PML-Q), Rana Sanaullah Former Provincial Law Min. (PML-N), in fresh episode of Live with Talat Discusses Currant Issue with Talat Hussain.

Aynt Ullah Durrani State Min. for Indestries & Production, Gen. (R) Abdul Baloch Former Governor Balochistan, Senator Mir Hasil Khan Bizenjo Sec. Gen. National Party, Muhammad Abdul Basad, in Fresh episode of Capital Talk and discusses with Hamid Mir.

Businesses have had at least 25 to 30 years near complete certainty -- certainty that they will pay lower and lower taxes, that they' will face less and less regulation, that they can outsource to their hearts' content (which when it does produce savings, comes at a loss of control, increased business system rigidity, and loss of critical know how). They have also been certain that unions will be weak to powerless, that states and municipalities will give them huge subsidies to relocate, that boards of directors will put top executives on the up escalator for more and more compensation because director pay benefits from this cozy collusion, that the financial markets will always look to short term earnings no matter how dodgy the accounting, that the accounting firms will provide plenty of cover, that the SEC will never investigate anything more serious than insider trading (Enron being the exception that proved the rule). So this haranguing about certainty simply reveals how warped big commerce has become in the US. Top management of supposedly capitalist enterprises want a high degree of certainty in their own profits and pay. Rather than earn their returns the old fashioned way, by serving customers well, by innovating, by expanding into new markets, their 'certainty' amounts to being paid handsomely for doing things that carry no risk. But since risk and uncertainty are inherent to the human condition, what they instead have engaged in is a massive scheme of risk transfer, of increasing rewards to themselves to the long term detriment of their enterprises and ultimately society as a whole.

Senator Jhangir Badar Sec. Gen. PPP, Khuram Dastagir Khan PML-N, Hamid NAsir PML-Q, Ahmed Raza Kasuri Advocate SC, Raja Riaz Ahmed Sen. Provincial Min. Punjab, in Special episode of Live with Talat Discusses Currant Issue with Syed Talat Hussain and Khaild Jamil.

Fouzia Wahab Sec. Info. PPP, Senator Zahid Hussain ANP and Hanif Abbasi PML-N in fresh episode of Kal Tak discussing issue of reservations on movement of IDPs to other provinces with Javed Chaudhry.

Mushahid Hussain Syed PML-Q, Imran Khan Chairman PTI and Fouzia Wahab Sec. Info. PPP in fresh episode of Kal Tak discussing performance of current government with Javed Choudhry.

Senator Babar Awan PPP, Ahsan Iqbal Sec. Information PML-N, Maulana Shah Abdul Aziz and Haidar Abbas Rizvi MQM in fresh episode of Capital Talk discussing increasing political temperature with Hamid Mir.

Lt. Gen. (R) Talat Masood Analyst, Dr. Farid Paracha JI and Fouzia Wahab Sec. Info. PPP in fresh episode of Siyasi Log discussing with Quatrina Hussain.

Ahsan Iqbal PML-N, Fouzia Wahab Sec. Info. PPP and Senator Haji M. Adeel ANP in fresh episode of Siyasi Log discussing with Qatreena Hussain.

Fauzia Wahab Sec. Information PPPP, Shamshad Ahmed Khan Former Foreign Secretary,Masood Abbas, in fresh episode of Live with Talat Discusses Currant Issue with Talat Hussain.

This is that article that James Herod write. It should be important in the upcoming assembly on the future of NEAN. He makes some weird distinctions between netwroks and federations, and I'm not so sure about his ideas on federation.