The Financial Express
March 23, 2002
ATT Launches Landmark China Telecoms Venture
Shanghai, March 22: Telecoms titan ATT Corp launched China's first foreign
telecoms venture on Friday and gained a window into broadband Internet
services in the country, a nascent market that will take time to
I have just one major one minor comment about what's left out of the
following:
Major: the soaring exchange rate of the dollar isn't mentioned at all. That
allowed real wages to soar after 1995 or so because it made imports much
cheaper. It also put pressure on export-competing employers,
March 23, 2002
Sharp Rise in Federal Spending May Have Helped Ease Recession
By LOUIS UCHITELLE
When a bitterly divided Congress failed to pass an economic stimulus bill
last fall, many predicted the recession would only worsen. But while few
were paying attention, government spending
The curriculum goes from
the Greeks to Descartes, Hume, and Kant. I had one (elective) class in the
scholastics at Tigertown, and sat in on Michael Frede's class on Scotus's
ontological argument. That was a scary experience.
jks
^
Charles: What was scary about it ?
Frede attains a
true solicitation received recently. dont even know
where to begin with this one!
-
Friends,
acquaintances, economists, investors:
Are
you interested in investing a bit of your
He devotes the same attention to his students' work that he does to Plato
or Aristotle (Platon or Aristotles, sufein, he's German). He'd do all this
without making you feel dumb. He look at some particularly inane bit of
argument with gentle puzzlement, then say Oh, sufein, ach, jawohl, I
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, MARCH 25, 2002:
Despite the holiday-shortened week, look for a bevy of economic data, most
of which are expected to underscore the strengthening economy, says the Los
Angeles Times in an Internet article that combines reports from Reuters,
sufein? Gently puzzled. Do yu zink of Sufi, surfin', saufen, or
saufein?? Ziss iss ze Frege.
But as you continue And he'd say something that you never throught of...
with the nice ellipsis of drought and throat I suppose you was thinking of
saufen. It's time for a pint of bitter.
No,
General Electric has a plant in Pennsylvania working 24/7
to replenish the supply of bombs to use in Iraq in 6 months...
M.P.
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From: Forstater, Mathew [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: 3/25/02 9:31:12 AM
true solicitation received recently. don't even
Aside on Michael Frede, Scary
by Justin Schwartz
25 March 2002 17:02 UTC
The curriculum goes from
the Greeks to Descartes, Hume, and Kant. I had one (elective) class in the
scholastics at Tigertown, and sat in on Michael Frede's class on Scotus's
ontological argument. That was a scary
Aside on Michael Frede, Scary
by Justin Schwartz
25 March 2002 17:02 UTC
CB: Sounds truly scholastic, a real book worm, textiphilia. So, you mean
scary like good-scary.
Yes, very. Very good, very scary, scary-good. --hjs
_
Thursday, April 4, 2002, 10 pm on PBS
(check your local listings):
Resistance: Untold Stories of Jewish Partisans
I saw a screening of this. It's pretty good.
Producer is a friend of mine.
mbs
a friend of mine -- an anthropologist named Martin Cohen -- has done a lot
of research on this (and he's not the only one). He argues that there was an
amazing amount of Jewish armed resistance to the Nazis, even in Germany.
Also, he argues that the U.S. Jewish establishment hates this stuff and
At 23/03/02 09:11 +, I wrote:
At 21/03/02 14:12 -0600, you wrote:
Sabri Oncu wrote:
As far as I can see, we are about to engage in the same old
fight
between reformists and revolutionaries(not necessarily
Marxist-Leninists). I am sure everybody here heard
enough of
such fights, so let
if true, one reason could be the extent to which the
resistance was intertwined with the Soviets. the
documentary makes heavy use of Soviet archives,
including old reenactments that use Russian soldiers.
portraying both partisans and Nazi's.
mbs
a friend of mine -- an anthropologist named
I wrote: a friend of mine -- an anthropologist named Martin Cohen -- has
done a lot of research on this (and he's not the only one). He argues that
there was an amazing amount of Jewish armed resistance to the Nazis, even in
Germany. Also, he argues that the U.S. Jewish establishment hates this
Maybe some of our Turkish Pen-lers might have
comments on this.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
Ken,
I am not ignoring your question. I was waiting for a response
from those Turkish Pen-lers who live in Turkey. As far as I
remember from an earlier post of Michael, from some six months
ago or so, there
This doesn't say anything about the economy but it shows how
important Turkey is to the US operation in Iraq.
Sabri
Former CIA chief says Iraq-Al-Qaeda links obvious
Turkish Daily News - March 25, 2002
Former director of the U.S. intelligence agency, the CIA, James
I think it's slightly more sinister: the elite wants passive
donors to their
cause and support for Israel no matter what. Zionism and
standing-and-fighting are seen as mutually exclusive
alternatives. Further,
the Bund tradition of socialist or labor-oriented Jews is
anathema, whether
These should give you some information on the current economic
conditions, of course, if you take them at the face value.
Sabri
+++
Privatization Minister says sell-offs so far unsatisfactory
Turkish Daily News, March 25, 2002
Turkey has carried out $7.4 billion worth of sell-offs since
I remember hearing an interview on KPFA in Berkeley sometime ago regarding
a story of several teenagers, boys and girls, who were Jewish partisans.
Perhaps somebody knows the book. They showed incredible courage and
ingenuity. Eventually they settled in Israel.
The leader, hardened by the
Not necessarily. Properly reconstructed, the resistance
could serve the purposes of elites. For instance, the
recent TV movie about the Warsaw ghetto uprising was
leached of left political content and framed the rebellion
as a more honorable form of suicide: stand-and-fight
as a matter of
I wrote: a friend of mine -- an anthropologist named Martin Cohen -- has
done a lot of research on this (and he's not the only one). He argues that
there was an amazing amount of Jewish armed resistance to the Nazis, even
in
Germany.
Well, what's an amazing amount? I visited the very moving
Really interesting things are happening there. I think we are
going to war. Also of interest is the change in strategy of the
Kurdistan Workers Party, as mentioned in the third piece below.
Sabri
++
MILLIYET - March 25, 2002
SENATOR MCCAIN: ''YOU SHOULD PRERARE YOUR LIST''
U.S. Senator
Doug Henwood graciously put an extract from my new IP book at his web
site:
I just got my copy a couple of days ago.
An excerpt on intellectual property from Michael Perelman's
forthcoming book is now at
http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/MPonIP.pdf. According to the
file info box, it's
[In re the TV version of the Warsaw uprising]
Sure the film was lousy with Nazis. But there was nothing
about fascism -- only terribly bad guys called 'Nazis'
some pretty bad guys called 'Poles,' and some schlemiels
who were jews (one of whom redeems himself).
The Bund was referenced in the
www.forward.com
Have you read the Forward recently?
It's under new (old) ownership, I'm told.
One of the old-timers told me it's back on track.
mbs
Absolutely. As one of the last few in the old tradition, I'm a dinosaur.
jks
APRIL 1, 2002/BusinessWeek
Restating the '90s
By Michael Mandel.
We now have enough perspective to look back at the last decade and
assess
what was real--and what wasn't. Conjure up the economic gains of the
1990s,
and what comes to mind? Perhaps it was how the stock market ruled: All
those
with regard to Michael's reference to Hoffman's STEAL THIS BOOK,
investigative comedian Bob Harris has a book titled STEAL THIS BOOK AND
GET LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE. The change in the title reflects the change in the
U.S. political economy since Hoffman's book. -- JD
-Original Message-
I did not choose the title. The publisher insisted on it.
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 06:12:20PM -0800, Devine, James wrote:
with regard to Michael's reference to Hoffman's STEAL THIS BOOK,
investigative comedian Bob Harris has a book titled STEAL THIS BOOK AND
GET LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE. The
Former director of the U.S. intelligence agency, the CIA, James
Woolsey said that links between the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks
and Iraq were obvious, commenting that only Turkey's support of
an operation on Iraq would be vital.
Taking part in a CNN television program, Woolsey spoke about the
The US simply does not want any nation to have an effective defence against
it, if that can be avoided. Iraq is no doubt attempting to develop weapons
that would make US attempts to simply impose their will on Iraq quite
costly. The US is convinced it has the power to simply replace Hussein one
From a free trade perspective, the moves make no sense at all (neither the
tariffs by the US or the European retaliation).
From a strategic trade perspective, though, they make perfectly good sense.
The US trade policy strategizers want higher steel prices, even if they have
to be artificially
First, I'm not sure why what I wrote somehow ended up looking like it was
quoted from a previous mail with the symbols--must be a quirk of shifting
fonts on this Japanese OS I'm using.
Next:
And of course you can't contemplate US strategic trade policy without
getting the more obviously venal
To finance and gear investments like this:
http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/180800/detECO06.htm
Carlyle of US to invest $250 mn in IT sector HT Correspondent (New Delhi,
August 17)
CARLYLE GROUP, the US based leading private equity fund has decided to
invest $250 million in Indian
On reading the material surrounding the passage I chose to comment upon I
see that I have indeed misunderstood your remarks. However, you still seem
to commit a petitio since in reply you insist that what you identify as a
fallacy is such when that is part of the issue- even though my response
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