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Yoshie
David Shemano wrote:
If you do not agree, you are my
enemy.
I do not agree. Do you want my adress so that you can erradicate me?
Please, if you do it, make it fast.
No hard feelings ;) It is only fair. It is war.
Manel
David Shemano writes:
The majority of the comments are what I expected. Utter moral
confusion.
Futile attempts to fit the events into your preexisting world views.
=
The above statement tells us a lot about your own preexisting world
views. And who wouldn't be morally confused in this
Jim D. writes:
Why is trying to exert control over wayward, actually and potentially,
allies and other less committed types a symptom of US imperial decline?
All empires always try to control as much as possible. If Finland were
to
be brought into the NATO fold, that would be a symptom of US
2200 pupils sent home after electrical explosions
IAIN WILSON
The Herald, 14 September 2001
A teaching union demanded answers yesterday
over safety when 2200 pupils were evacuated
after a series of electrical explosions in a
Glasgow school.
Holyrood Secondary is
BAE soars on sales hopes
Most military budgets expected to rise
David Gow
Friday September 14, 2001
The Guardian
Expectations of a substantial increase in military spending in the wake
of the attacks in the US drove shares in BAE Systems,
Britain's premier defence group, steeply higher
The following messages are from an airline union discussion list. CSSAs are
customer sales and service agents. Kiosks are the ATM-like automated
ticketing machines. Security -- that is _real_ security, not the superficial
image of security -- is labour intensive. We are talking about a
Todays Washington Post reports, in the entertainment section, that Jerry
Falwell and Pat Robertson blame the attack on the World Trade Center on the
ACLU, abortionist, People for the American Way and federal judges throwing
God out of the public square. Falwell said God continues to life the
The author of that book was interviewed on one of the networks. She came
across as a real lunatic. She coincidentally made the same argument as the
Taliban that bin Laden could not be responsible because there are no
facilities for training pilots in Afghanastan. Immediately after the
Don't insurance companies insure themselves?
I thought it was called reinsurance.
mbs
This all seems weirdly ghoulish, but CNBC had an insurance pundit on
earlier today who said the WTC was insured for terrorism, and that he
expected big claims would be paid. The consensus is that payments
This flap about Bush in the WH surprises me.
It's been in the media too. It's tantamount
to saying that if you're in a foxhole, you
are a wimp if you keep your head down.
When B was in FL, planes had not been accounted
for, and the plane that crashed in PA was headed
straight for D.C. It would
Rob wrote:
But no doubt many can be turned by
trauma, and, of course, by the type of rhetoric David feeds us here - which
leaves them nothing beyond 'With Me Or Against Me' in the self-fulfilling
prophecy that attends militantly monotheistic final-reckoning-mongering.
I was recently reading
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 10:33:35 -0400
Don't insurance companies insure themselves?
I thought it was called reinsurance.
That is correct.
--jks
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Dear penners,
I don't intend to be the EU propagandist on this list, be assured. It is just
that, being here, I can have some information on what they intend to do and is
not reflected in the american press.
Louis Michel, the Foreign Minister of Belgium and President of the EU Council
of
Max Sawicky wrote:
Don't insurance companies insure themselves?
I thought it was called reinsurance.
Yes, they do. The reinsurers are going to have to pay up, but most
can afford it.
Doug
Don't insurance companies insure themselves?
I thought it was called reinsurance.
That is correct.
But interesting things come up when a really horrible event, or confluence of
events, occurs. If memory serves, Australia's own HIH got itself deeply into
reinsurance, and the complexity of
NBC reckons there's a 'gentleman's agreement' between traders that they will
not sell the market short. Didn't Greenspan organise something like this
after the '87 hiccough? Is this sort of horizontal dealing okay? I'm sure
it's necessary, but is it technically legitimate?
Cheers,
Rob.
Max wrote:
This flap about Bush in the WH surprises me.
It's been in the media too. It's tantamount
to saying that if you're in a foxhole, you
are a wimp if you keep your head down.
When B was in FL, planes had not been accounted
for, and the plane that crashed in PA was headed
straight for
Rob Schaap wrote:
Are there large companies in America who specialise in reinsurance, such that
risk might be less than ideally distributed?
Yes, but not just in the U.S. Two of the biggest reinsurers are
European - Swiss Re and Munich Re (who are, by the way, both very
concerned about
This is true only of some libertarians. Other libertarians regard them as
complete sellouts and subjet them to the most caustic criticism.
See for example: http://www.lewrockwell.com/
The most recent edition has the Chossudovsky article on bin Laden.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
- Original
David,
I don't know what list you've been reading, but I haven't seen any of the kind of
one-size-fits-all analyses that you refer to in your post. If you believe that the
market is a state of nature, perhaps it's disconcerting to read that the US' obnoxious
attempt to foist its version of
Two months is forever.
I wonder now about the tension between providing liquidity to equity markets
and the now questionable safe-haven overhang of the dollar. The only way
that an ongoing Fed liquidity bailout of equity markets can avoid devaluing
the dollar is with an equally sustained,
WHO IS OUSMANE BIN LADEN?
by Michel Chossudovsky
Professor of Economics,
University of Ottawa
Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG) at http:/globalresearch.ca.
The url of this article is http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO109C.html
Posted 12 September 2001
A few hours after the
I don't understand the WH as target theory
for the plane that hit the Pentagon. Apparently
the plane was headed for the WH and turned to
hit the Pentagon. I don't understand that either.
But so far nobody disputes that the PA plane was
headed straight for D.C. Why would a president
with any
Just to back up Manuel's reading of the official ambience in Europe ...
Rob.
Ananova : Europeans get edgy over war mania
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_398759.html?menu=news.latestheadlines
European leaders have sought to quell any moves toward warmongering after the
terrorist attacks.
I have been been largely silent because I do not have any idea about
what is happening. What is a war on terrorism? Would it include Nelson
Mandela of a few years ago? Would it include CISPES or group that
raises money for Palestinian children?
Certainly NATO has the military might to defeat
Some on this list are apparently not interested in morality or praxis.
Presumably they have already deleted this message.
For the rest of us, the time is now to organize the anti-war movement.
It is a matter of days before the U.S. and NATO launch a war, yes complete
with ground troops, on
The Pentagon is a better target than the White House
in simple war terms, but then so isn't the NY Stock
Exchange a better target than the WTC? I mean, even as
a symbolic gesture? Or was the WTC something more than
a simple office building, as I've always assumed?
Could it be that the WTC was
NPR is now airing a church service and patriot music--
not as a news story with commentary, interviews and so
forth, but simply in its entirity.
tim
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Check out the Chico Examiner listserves at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DisorderlyConduct
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ChicoLeft
Would it include CISPES?
See Brian Glick book from South End Press.
Interview with Frank Varelli, Former FBI Informer
... Interview with Frank Varelli, Former FBI Informer. EXCERPTS FROM
INTERVIEW
WITH FRANK VARELLI FORMER FBI INFORMER, AND INFILTRATOR OF CISPES. ...
Reinsurance weaves a complex web. An insurance company assumes risks.
Then the insurer buys insurance to cover their risk. That's
reinsurance. The reinsurer buys reinsurnace to cover *their* risk. My
understanding is that many companies are both insurers and reinsurers.
Often a reinsurer is
The plane that hit the Pentagon flew from Dulles all the way to
Kentucky, and then back to the DC area. It flew past the Pentagon and
over the Capitol, where, according to one report, it circled that
building. Then it flew just above the White House. This caused White
House security to instruct
Thursday, September 13 6:20 AM SGT
Protesters rethink strategies after deadly US attacks
LOS ANGELES, Sept 12 (AFP) -
This week's deadly terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington are prompting
activists to postpone protests and rethink their strategies, groups said Wednesday.
The
Hmm. The NPR coverage I heard, in the evenings hosted by Scott Simon,
this week, has been less jingoistic than during the Gulf War, being
especially careful, in the call in portions to respond pro-actively to
callers in that advocate nuking Afghanistan or targetting Arab-Americans, as
happened
This is too much, but for a suggestion from a reader in Honolulu's
Honolulu Advertiser: Then again, it beats 'retaliate with the military'
ideas that have been floated thus far...
Fighting terrorism with our checkbooks
The nation sat riveted to the television on Sept. 11 as news of terrorist
IMF staffers resigned to calling off meetings
Thursday, September 13, 2001
By Mark Egan, Reuters
WASHINGTON #8212; Staff at the International Monetary Fund and World Bank were
resigned Wednesday that their upcoming annual meetings at the end of September would
be called off, saying an
More Libertoons and paleo-cons that are consistent.
Americans Against World Empire, Americans Against Bombing
... for reclaiming its empire. NATO came out ... led by the Americans
into the action ... build
a peaceful world and to terminate ... speak out against evil financed ...
Here's a sign that there might emerge space in the US media for
challenging the Bush line. Honolulu isn't the mainland, but it does count
as US newspaper...
Posted on: Friday, September 14, 2001
Editorial
Bush must address new world disorder
As the Bush administration gathers evidence,
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2001:
RELEASED TODAY; The U.S. Import Price Index declined 0.1 percent in
August, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Falling prices for
nonpetroleum imports more than offset a small increase in petroleum
I just received a suspicious e-mail message. It turns out to be a
virus. If you get mail that says
I send you this file in order to have your advice.
Do not open the attachment. Just delete the mail message and empty the
trash folder in your e-mail program. I don't know for sure that it came
I hope they do cancel. If, contrary to this news story, the IMF and WB
do still hold meetings, we *have* to get out there and protest, but do
so totally nonviolently. I mean nonviolence like Martin Luther King.
We're in a Catch-22. If they meet and we don't protest, we're admitting
that our
Andrew wrote:
Reinsurance weaves a complex web. An insurance company assumes risks.
Then the insurer buys insurance to cover their risk. That's
reinsurance. The reinsurer buys reinsurnace to cover *their* risk. My
understanding is that many companies are both insurers and reinsurers.
Often a
I've been getting those for weeks and weeks.
Must have seen 10 or 20 of them. They haven't
caused any other evident damage, even though
I opened them all. My email program prevented
me from looking at the attachment, which is
where the virus is.
mbs
I just received a suspicious e-mail
At 02:19 PM 9/14/01 -0500, you wrote:
I hope they do cancel. If, contrary to this news story, the IMF and WB
do still hold meetings, we *have* to get out there and protest, but do
so totally nonviolently. I mean nonviolence like Martin Luther King.
even without the events of Tuesday, nonviolence
There are ongoing talks even though it is still unclear whether bin Laden
was responsible.
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/32524.htm
Cheers, Ken Hanly
http://politics.slate.msn.com/code/chatterbox/chatterbox.asp?Show=9/13/2001;
idMessage=8286
U.S. buildup at Turkey air base reported
September 13, 2001 Posted: 5:58 PM EDT (2158 GMT)
By Jane Arraf
CNN Ankara Bureau
ANKARA, Turkey (CNN) -- Turkish military sources said Thursday the United States has
beefed up its presence at Incirlik Air Base in south-central Turkey.
The American
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, DAILY REPORT; FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2001:
RELEASED TODAY: The Producer Price Index for Finished Goods increased 0.4
percent in August, seasonally adjusted, the Bureau of Labor Statistics
reports. This index posted a 0.9 percent decline in July and fell 0.4
Well given the meetings of CNN News honcho with Tom deLay, Dick Armey
and Rush Limbaugh I don't doubt that CNN is moving right to compete with Fox
We Report , You Decide, ('ya right!, thanx, Roger Ailes!) News. But, on
BBC that I watch ever night over the net and MSNBC have had footage that is
9/14
The following message was written by Rev. Sandra Olewine, the United
Methodist Liaison in Jerusalem.
Joseph Gerson
American Friends Service Committee
Dear Friends,
I've had numerous emails from people asking me to help interpret the
scenes they have watched of Palestinians
Attacks Won't Cripple Insurers, But Issues Are Complex
By CATHERINE TAYLOR
Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
LONDON -- Paying claims for the world's worst terrorist atrocity won't
cripple the world's insurance industry, industry experts said Friday, but it
will be a long and complicated process
Please, could someone send us a piece of good news?
Sabri
++
09/14 15:53
U.S. Treasuries Advance, Pushing 2-Year Yields to 50-Year Lows
By Walden Siew and Heather Bandur
New York, Sept. 14 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Treasuries gained, pushing two-year yields to
the lowest level in almost half
During the early part of World War II, American insurance companies would
purchase reinsurance from European companies with German connections. The
Germans used this advanced information to pick off ships with important cargoes.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State
This appointment is denied by the Taliban. The original report came from
Pakistan.
Anyone know anything more about this?
Cheers, Ken Hanly
Thursday, 30 August 2001 9:58 (ET)
Taliban slammed over bin Laden appointment
MOSCOW, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- Russia's Foreign Ministry on Thursday condemned
So did KPFK in Los Angeles - a Pacifica station.
Marta
Tim Bousquet wrote:
NPR is now airing a church service and patriot music--
not as a news story with commentary, interviews and so
forth, but simply in its entirity.
tim
=
what's wrong with low bond yields? why it this bad news?
At 04:32 PM 9/14/01 -0400, you wrote:
Please, could someone send us a piece of good news?
Sabri
++
09/14 15:53
U.S. Treasuries Advance, Pushing 2-Year Yields to 50-Year Lows
By Walden Siew and Heather Bandur
Jim Devine [EMAIL
From Islam.com One of the requirements by the way is to help the poor and
oppressed and punish the oppressors. There is not much in here that is
counter to the view that people act on the basis of expected utility. The
difference is in what satisifies believers in the Jihad's utility functions.
I doubt it. The Taliban just got what was it something like
over a $100 million for crop substitution to help get rid of
all the opium poppies from Uncle Sam. Not that I think they love
Uncle Sam...On the below inquiry, try the great webpgs. of Mario
Profaca. He has a great list too, [EMAIL
what's wrong with low bond yields? why it this bad
news?
Jim,
Low bond yields can be good, bad or neutral depending on the situation. Bad news in my
opinion is that the Consumer Confidence fell to an eight-year low. And this occurred
before the attack. This is noted towards the end of the
Heh, I'm not a engineer...
Michael, go to the Counterpunch-List archives. Jeffrey St.
Clair has a post on this from the 13th. Did not know that there
archives were based at CSF too.
Michael Pugliese
Interview with Francis Boyle, Professor of Law, University of Illinois
Subject: NO RUSH TO WAR!/O'Reilly Factor/FOX/13Sept2001
SHOW: THE O'REILLY FACTOR (20:29)
September 13, 2001 Thursday
Transcript # 091303cb.256
SECTION: News; Domestic
LENGTH: 3973 words
HEADLINE: America
The Prof did very well, but what did Sam say?
What happened to that part of the transcript?
mbs
BODY:
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY
BE UPDATED.
O'REILLY: While most Americans are united in their support of President
Bush and the desire to bring
From Rob Scott of EPI, occasionally reviled
on this list for his views on trade. He's
our biggest resident peacenik. As you might
expect, I am pleased to be holding down the
right wing.
mbs
I'm terribly sorry for everyone's losses in this awful tragedy. Its
also important to thank the
http://www.counterpunch.org/aftershocks.html
Where there was this was, Least credible news footage, in between,
Least credible analysis, and, America's Greens Rally to Flag, Run for
Cover. is now empty. HTML wiped clean, no retraction. Egg on face?
BTW, yrs. ago Alex Cockburn asked to
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The recent use of hijacked aircraft in an attack on US buildings involving the
destruction of two of the tallest buildings in the world and damage to the
Pentagon has had a serious political impact
This O'Reilly character fits the classic profile of a jingoist.
Is there a transcript of what Huessini (sic?) said? did O'Reilly cut him
off before he finished his points? It sure looks that way.
At 04:59 PM 09/14/2001 -0700, you wrote:
Interview with Francis Boyle, Professor of Law,
Comment No. 72, Sept. 15, 2001 September 11, 2001 - Why?
On September 11, 2001, the whole world watched a human tragedy and a
great drama, and everyone was fixated on it. In the U.S., four
commercial airliners were hijacked in the early morning. The
hijackers numbered 4-5 persons in each
I'm sorry Karl, I'm sure you are a nice fellow but the below could have
generated by a marxist version of that postmodernist jargon generator that
you've probably seen. Clumps of marxese with little empirical backbone.
Conjecture about ruling class policy shifts/fractures/motives which I
I want us to be careful here. I was going to comment to Karl before, but
resisted the temptation. While I found myself in agreement with much that
Karl said, I wondered if I could communicate with anyone whom I know in
such terms.
I think that it is important for us to develop the ability to
the attacks. The third and
fourth are discussed later in this message.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010914/ts/terrorist_attacks_27.html
Bush has declared a state of emergency, as Macdonald Stainsby just
posted. I don't think it gives the President the power to suspend civil
liberties
I think Wallerstein is wrong on a number of counts. The attack is meant to
show that the US ( its allies) are not invulnerable and that it cannot
simply impose imperial rule with no costs to its own citizens. It is not
meant to show that the US is a paper tiger. This brings me to a second
point.
http://fn.emediamillworks.com/
The O'Reilly Factor - SEPTEMBER 13, 2001 (Hit Score: 14)
Headlines: America Unites: How Should the U.S. Bring Terrorists to Justice?
Byline: Bill OReilly
Guest: Sam Huessini, Francis Boyle
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