CIA cash funded drugs trade

2001-07-08 Thread Michael Pugliese
http://www.scotlandonsunday.com/world.cfm?id=CIA08071&feed=N CIA cash funded drugs trade By Nick Peters in Washington WHILE Peru's disgraced former spymaster Vladimiro Montesinos awaits trial in a maximum security jail in Lima, it has emerged that millions of dollars donated by the United Stat

The curse of the vigilantes

2001-07-08 Thread Michael Pugliese
http://www.economist.com/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=576250 Another source that says FARC has the support of 3%... Michael Pugliese

US needs another "locomotive"

2001-07-08 Thread Chris Burford
International Herald Tribune Saturday U.S. to Urge Economic Push by G-7 Europeans and Japanese Will Be Asked to Do More The United States, Mr. O'Neill said at a news conference Thursday, has done its part to spur an economic rebound by reducing interest rates and cutting taxes.

Re: Hacking actors

2001-07-08 Thread Doyle Saylor
Greetings Economists, The NYTs article cited by Ian Murray is bizarre reaction to computer animation. What it exploits is an appearance of a fear of job loss by actors to computer images, but is that what is going on? The term, Photo Realist, is something arising historically in the U.S. culture

Re: Losing the American dream

2001-07-08 Thread Chris Burford
At 08/07/01 17:14 -1000, you wrote: >http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/top/features/documents/01701322.htm >IT IS ONE of the bitterest ironies of globalization: immigrant workers, >having come to this country in search of a better life, left unemployed as >their coveted Ameri

Losing the American dream

2001-07-08 Thread Stephen E Philion
http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/top/features/documents/01701322.htm

Marx and Keynes would go

2001-07-08 Thread Ian Murray
C H A O SA N D C O M P L E X I T YF A N S ! ! Interested in the state-of-the-art applications of chaos and complexity theory to human systems? How about coming to the 11th Annual Conference of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and Life Sciences, to be held in Madison, Wiscon

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2001-07-08 Thread LeoCasey
<< Leo, what on earth are you trying to say? >> I has thought that the parallels between the oil/energy crises of your novels and the imminent energy crisis you have been predicting here were pretty obvious. Seems like fiction and social analysis seem to seamlessly fade into each other... Leo

Re: Re: UN HDR out

2001-07-08 Thread Michael Pugliese
July 16th issue of The Nation has several pgs. of letters on GMO. Michael Pugliese P.S. Cover story, Bill Greider on Sec. of Treasury, Paul O'Neill. - Original Message - From: "michael perelman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 1:48 PM Subject: [

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2001-07-08 Thread LeoCasey
<< so if Zhirinovsky says it's bad, it must be good? >> I can think of worse rules of thumb. But what I find so interesting here is how the Mark of fiction and the Mark of social analysis so closely follow each there. Why it is almost down right lit-crit pomo, to invoke a much overused stereoty

Re: UN HDR out

2001-07-08 Thread michael perelman
The New York Times also reported that this year's edition comes out in favor of biotech as a great hope for the poor. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: Summer Reading?

2001-07-08 Thread Michael Perelman
Mark do you use the blub from Zhironovsky the way Doug used his "scum" quote from the Wall Street Journal? On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 11:01:43AM -0700, Jim Devine wrote: > also by Mark Jones Black Lightning Gollancz Vista Paperback £4.99. > A post-Cold War political thriller set in the new Russia wh

Re: pen-l etiquette

2001-07-08 Thread Chris Burford
At 07/07/01 09:12 -0700, you wrote: >Chris, you have "refuted" Lou P. twice this morning. Please, he is no >longer here, so this does no good now. Well Lou no doubt browses and also considers how best to use his time. He has promoted his list as a internet feature and wishes to be influential.

Hacking actors

2001-07-08 Thread Ian Murray
[NYT] July 8, 2001 Movie Stars Fear Inroads by Upstart Digital Actors By RICK LYMAN [snip] The specter of the digital actor - a kind of cyberslave who does the producer's bidding without a whimper or salary - has been a figure of terror for the last few years in Hollywood, as early technical expe

Re: Re: Re: culture to the masses

2001-07-08 Thread Michael Pugliese
Maybe Justin or someone else has read the E.P. Thompson bio of William Morris? Michael Pugliese - Original Message - From: "Ann Li" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 9:31 AM Subject: [PEN-L:14809] Re: Re: culture to the masses > The point relevan

Re: Re: Summer Reading?

2001-07-08 Thread Michael Pugliese
"Zhirinovsky Absolut, " Penguin Books compilation oh his greatest rants. Harpers a few yrs. ago had some great stills from a Moscow TV show of Z. wrestling with some woman and him drenching her with his water. Michael Pugliese - Original Message - From: "Jim Devine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To

Mommy, what's an intellectual?

2001-07-08 Thread Ian Murray
What are we thinking of? Gardening and cooking, mostly. True, we British were never that keen on fine minds and big ideas, but is the intellectual in mortal danger? Andrew Anthony Sunday July 8, 2001 The Observer The British, famously, do not trust intellectuals. We are much more at home cultiv

UN HDR out

2001-07-08 Thread Ian Murray
[contact info for challenging claims is at bottom of article] Third World boom raises hopes of end to poverty Anthony Browne, environment editor Sunday July 8, 2001 The Observer They are usually seen as lands of poverty and repression where the drinking water is poisonous, stomachs are empty an

Re: Summer Reading?

2001-07-08 Thread Jim Devine
also by Mark Jones Black Lightning Gollancz Vista Paperback £4.99. A post-Cold War political thriller set in the new Russia where the threat to the West is greater than it ever was before. "Russia can emerge - strange as it may seem - as the true victor of the twentieth century. If ever they do

Summer Reading?

2001-07-08 Thread Max Sawicky
Mark Jones-- Caviar --- Gollancz (0 575 06043 3) £15.99 out August 25th The game is international; the currency is oil; the penalty for defeat: extinction - in Mark Jones' devastating new thriller of realpolitik in a fragmented world. Douglas and Zildra Reynard have gone to ground in a remote cott

Re: Re: culture to the masses

2001-07-08 Thread Ann Li
The point relevant to the earlier question of a consumer culture in this case is the broad application of improvements (and scale economies with the 19 C. background often used to explain 20 C. post-fordist flexible production) in printing technology to produce patterns that could be applied in a

Re: Re: RE: Re: RE: Yet another take on Hubbert'speak

2001-07-08 Thread Doug Henwood
Ken Hanly wrote: >But how do you know that your own references are so reliable. See for >example the following on some of the problems involved: > http://sepwww.stanford.edu/sep/jon/world-oil.dir/lynch/worldoil.html Very helpful link. >In 1996, I published a piece discussing the various met