In general, convincing, but is Claire Sterling
a reliable source?
mbs
Dear Sir,
So Alan Duncan was employed by 'controversial commodities trader Marc Rich
and Co' (May 20 1966)?
Marc Rich is controversial in the same way Genghis Khan was controversial.
According to Claire Sterling . . .
Greetings Economists,
Tom Walker writes,
Tom
Flaw in the argument is that productivity here is irrespective of the
integrity of the information being processed. One uses the same formula to
measure noise productivity as signal productivity. IT generates a lot of
noise. It is labour intensive
I would tend to believe the opposite of anything Claire Sterling wrote.
Max Sawicky wrote,
In general, convincing, but is Claire Sterling
a reliable source?
Tom Walker
Bowen Island, BC
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On Sat, 9 Jun 2001 16:25:22 -0700, Michael Perelman wrote:
John, I do not see you as an enemy at all. I do not understand most of
what you write, but I suspect that you are on our side most of the way.
My problem has to do with your style. Rather than engage in discussions
on ongoing threads,
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It's all about the transportation of massive oil
resources from the Caspian Sea through the
The following extract from the Washington Post and IHT puts
widens the potential application of the concept of the death of
Thatcherism to the USA:
Chris Burford
William Hague's Demise Also Marks the Death of Thatcherism Stanley B.
Greenberg Saturday, June 9, 2001
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But the biggest
Except for the Bulgarian Connection, no?
M. Pugliese
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I would tend to believe the opposite of anything Claire
The truth of religion is less important than its practical effect. When
a person is unable to resist or liberation is unrealistic, then
religious belief in the face of oppression can be beneficial. It acts
as a salve to the psyche. For many, a few moments of deluded happiness
at the end are
As for Serbia, and the statement in the article that the mass graves were
never found and that the killings were about what you'd expect in a
counterinsurgency war, I'm inclined to agree, and I think that the ghoulish
stories that are circulating about factories being turned into makeshift
Yellowstone journal, no. 7 June 9-10, 2001
Yellowstone Park is the first of the countrys national parks; it was
designated one in 1872. The idea of national parks, however, dates from a
few decades earlier. Philip Burnham, in his interesting book, Indian
Country, Gods Country: Native Americans
How do we know this isn't a leak by one intelligence community against
another? Actually, the information isn't even that embarrassing. So
what if the CIA is getting money from arms shipments? What exactly is
their link to cocaine smuggling to the Middle East? Is there any link
at all? Why would
http://www.observer.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,504481,00.html
Recovering Earth
Environmentalists said our planet was doomed to die. Now one man says
they are wrong. Anthony Browne reports
Special report: global warming
Sunday June 10, 2001
The Observer
It hardly needed explanation. 'Everyone knows
It is a bit hard to discuss anything after being unsubscribed. I will reply
with this next email address, then switch to the next in a list of fifteen,
once this one burns.
Moral: don't bother to unsubscribe me. It won't work. As to bandwidth, give
me a break. The total is about a few K. And I
http://www.versobooks.com/books/cdef/cockburn_alex_whiteout.shtml
Whiteout's explosive history of the CIA, drugs,
and the press tells how:
US intelligence agents saved America's top mobster, Lucky Luciano, from 40
years in prison and helped him build his global heroin syndicate.
Klaus Barbie,
Even now, I am probably being re-unsubscribed I will slip this in at high
speed. Michael, you are lucky I read two of your books. If I didn't respect
your work, you would be the victim of a melted marshmallow special.
A final note answering XAH, who didn't realize I couldn't reply.
The study
forwarded from Michael Keaney ---
With respect to Chris's repeated assertions that Thatcherism is dead, this
line is totally misleading. Thatcherism is not dead -- it is being
consolidated and deepened; it is evolving. There is a big difference between
what Stanley Greenberg interprets UK voters
Pacifica Campaign Release
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Here's one example of how religion can be liberating: the Dalits,
untouchables in India, associated historically as well as now (mainly
in rural areas/small towns) with polluting activities, such as sweepers
(janitors), midwives, leather workers and cremation workers, among others.
Being
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/oil1.htm
This is not an example of religion exerting a
liberatory influence. I'll grant the facts as you describe them, with
one addition. The Dalits were previously Hindu. Under Hinduism, they
were systematically oppressed. As you mention, when they switched
religions, they gained some measure of
The basic points remain that (1) we should carefully document and
consider our allegations against intelligence services, because
unfounded charges won't lead to change, and, particularly, that (2)
there is no hard evidence of a CIA scheme to flood the Middle East with
cocaine.
Andrew Hagen
I subscribe to the softer version of the conspiracy theory, esp. as
regards the Afghans (CIATaliban support to kick out the Soviets) and the
Golden Triangle (Khun Sa esp. see the Alfred McCoy classic, reissued by
Lawrence Hill Press on Heroin and the Indochina wars. Simply stated: Guns
and drug
The report seems to suggest that environmentalism has succeeded in
protecting the Earth. Thus, we should drop environmentalism. The Earth
is doing better than thought, thanks to conservation. Even if true,
however, this success does not justify a halt in ecological protection.
Victory in a few
On Sun, 13 May 2001, Brad DeLong wrote:
But the overall record in terms of improvements in material welfare
is astonishing. (Although, alas, Botswana is about to be hit very
hard by the AIDS crisis.)
Perhaps there is more hope than at first appears?
May 8, 2001
Free AIDS Care Brings Hope
You can be sure that the state of groundwater is deteriorating rapidly.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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Responding to long posts. I should be careful about choosing this
particular note, especially after denouncing Jim a couple of days ago, but
it is a useful example.
Michael K. wrote a long note about Thatcherism. Jim responded, placing
his comment at the end.
Two suggestions.
1. If you can,
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I would tend to believe the opposite of anything Claire Sterling wrote.
You'd be wrong.
Marc Rich is one og the greatest criminals of the age. Here are 2 samples.
1. In 1996 I wrote to The Guardian as follows. The Alan Duncan I mention
later became a Tory MP, close adviser to the now-defunct William Hague, and
yesterday was interviwed widely on British TV for his thoughts on how to
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