[PEN-L:5450] View of Bombing from Eastern Europe (Sofia)

1999-04-17 Thread Ken Hanly
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --FF22A1AD620F5C4FA99AD073 Here is an opinion piece from Bulgaria on the NATO bombing. Cheers, Ken Hanly --FF22A1AD620F5C4FA99AD073 html head titleNATO's Bombing Campaign Seen from Eastern Europe/title meta

[PEN-L:5447] Re: More placebo

1999-04-17 Thread Carrol Cox
Tom Walker wrote: "More telling, translating the mean placebo response effect size of 1.16 in a similar way reveals that 88% of patients who received only placebos experienced improvement (12% stayed the same or got worse). This is a remarkably high percentage and is the basis for Kirsch

[PEN-L:5445] Is military Keynesianism dead?

1999-04-17 Thread Michael Perelman
How much is military Keynesianism an artifact of World War II technology? Back then military hardware took a good number of blue-collar workers produce. Factories were spread about. Today, the labor component (even including the technical personnel) is relatively small. In addition, the

[PEN-L:5444] Re: More Dark Musings

1999-04-17 Thread Tom Walker
Carrol Cox wrote: 1) The research on clinical depression and manic depression is and always has been in a state of confusion. Postive statments such as this are not valid. Carrol is right. The finding was negative not positive. I said that Prozac has been shown to be no more effect than a

[PEN-L:5432] (Fwd) CANADA CAN STILL MAKE PEACE IN KOSOVO

1999-04-17 Thread ts99u-1.cc.umanitoba.ca [130.179.154.224]
--- Forwarded Message Follows --- Date sent: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 12:24:43 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Sid Shniad [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:CANADA CAN STILL MAKE PEACE IN KOSOVO The Toronto Star

[PEN-L:5433] (Fwd) Letter from Yugo factory

1999-04-17 Thread ts99u-1.cc.umanitoba.ca [130.179.154.224]
--- Forwarded Message Follows --- Date sent: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 16:57:21 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Sid Shniad [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Letter from Yugo factory Letter from Yugo factory

[PEN-L:5428] (Fwd) NATO-BOMBED BRIDGES CLUTTER DANUBE - Blockage affects s

1999-04-17 Thread ts99u-1.cc.umanitoba.ca [130.179.154.224]
--- Forwarded Message Follows --- Date sent: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 13:40:29 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Sid Shniad [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:NATO-BOMBED BRIDGES CLUTTER DANUBE - Blockage affects shipments from

[PEN-L:5429] (Fwd) CANADIAN CHURCH LEADERS' LETTER TO P.M. ON NATO BOMBING

1999-04-17 Thread ts99u-1.cc.umanitoba.ca [130.179.154.224]
--- Forwarded Message Follows --- Date sent: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 14:21:46 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Sid Shniad [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:CANADIAN CHURCH LEADERS' LETTER TO P.M. ON NATO BOMBING OF YUGOSLAVIA

[PEN-L:5430] (Fwd) Covering Up NATO's Balkan Bombing Blunder

1999-04-17 Thread ts99u-1.cc.umanitoba.ca [130.179.154.224]
--- Forwarded Message Follows --- Date sent: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 17:43:00 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Sid Shniad [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Covering Up NATO's Balkan Bombing Blunder

[PEN-L:5431] (Fwd) CANADA IS ABOUT AS INDEPENDENT AS A DOG ON A LEASH

1999-04-17 Thread ts99u-1.cc.umanitoba.ca [130.179.154.224]
--- Forwarded Message Follows --- Date sent: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 17:44:11 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Sid Shniad [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:CANADA IS ABOUT AS INDEPENDENT AS A DOG ON A LEASH The Province

[PEN-L:5435] Serbs not an easy target199904132351.TAA08195@sawasdee.cc.columbia.eduv04011702b3397e517b9d@[128.146.160.107] fc.004c5401009b956f3b9aca001d62d0dd.9b95ff@oufcnt2.open.ac.uk

1999-04-17 Thread Louis Proyect
Serbs Rule in Kosovo's Vacant Villages By Michael Dobbs Washington Post Foreign Service Saturday, April 17, 1999; Page A1 BREZOVICA, Yugoslavia, April 16 – A tank is camouflaged inside a haystack, its gun turret hidden by pieces of straw. At checkpoints, Yugoslav soldiers and policemen

[PEN-L:5441] Re: More Dark Musings

1999-04-17 Thread Tom Walker
Rob Schaap mused: -- snip -- There - I think I've covered everywhere that matters. Do I need Prozac - or just a new planet to live on? The 'beneficial' effects of Prozac have been shown in controlled trials to be no better than those of a placebo with side effects. I'm not kidding. If

[PEN-L:5442] Placebo Optimality

1999-04-17 Thread Tom Walker
The contribution of the great nineteenth century econo-pharmacologist Vilfredo Placebo can best be summed up in his demonstration of the principle that a drug which makes at least one person feel better without making anyone else feel worse is the opiate of the planners. regards, Tom Walker

[PEN-L:5440] Re: More Dark Musings

1999-04-17 Thread Michael Perelman
Just buy some Amazon.com with a sprinkling of eBay and enjoy the ride. At least, that is the American way. On a more serious note, Cuba, for all of its faults, seems to be the one place that seems to be finding its way -- unless the influx of $ is corroding its society too quickly. Anyway,

[PEN-L:5439] Re: Welfare Economists, Uncertainty and Planning

1999-04-17 Thread Tom Walker
Rob Schaap wrote: Seems to me that welfare economics, even the clever stuff that recognises change and uncertainty, defends competitive capitalism against socialism on the grounds that the latter does not have available to it a mechanism by which to get future values right. I see nothing in von

[PEN-L:5437] Saudi Arabia

1999-04-17 Thread S Pawlett
From _The Great Deception. Anglo-American Power and World Order_ by Mark Curtis. Pluto Press. 1999. "Saudi Arabia, perhaps the most repressive and illiberal of all the Gulf states, has been the biggest Western prize in the region in terms of oil and long-standing Western policy has been to

[PEN-L:5443] Re: Re: More Dark Musings

1999-04-17 Thread Carrol Cox
Tom Walker wrote: The 'beneficial' effects of Prozac have been shown in controlled trials to be no better than those of a placebo with side effects. Several points: 1) The research on clinical depression and manic depression is and always has been in a state of confusion. Postive

[PEN-L:5446] More placebo

1999-04-17 Thread Tom Walker
"More telling, translating the mean placebo response effect size of 1.16 in a similar way reveals that 88% of patients who received only placebos experienced improvement (12% stayed the same or got worse). This is a remarkably high percentage and is the basis for Kirsch and Sapirstein's

[PEN-L:5448] Re: Saudi Arabia

1999-04-17 Thread Jim Devine
sounds to me as if the US/NATO should bomb Saudi Arabia posthaste. At 09:58 AM 4/17/99 -0700, you wrote: From _The Great Deception. Anglo-American Power and World Order_ by Mark Curtis. Pluto Press. 1999. "Saudi Arabia, perhaps the most repressive and illiberal of all the Gulf states, has been

[PEN-L:5452] Re: Re: The Nation on Kosovo - Pro-intervention

1999-04-17 Thread Gar Lipow
Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: That is a faulty logic right from the start. It is usually the proponents of action, in this case bombing, who must demonstrate that their action will work. Otherwise, it is like uttering unsupporting opinion and then saying "it is true, unless you prove it