Re: UK does not trust directors

2003-07-03 Thread Chris Burford
At 2003-07-02 19:14 -0700, you wrote: Hi Chris, I do not necessarily hold that against you! It is just that the song refers to the word divine and some of our more astute readers might draw a link to Jim Devine. === to err is human, to forgive is Devine... Jim that's good!

Howard Dean: Now That We're There We Can't Leave

2003-07-03 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
If Howard Dean gets elected, we can count on the escalation and prolongation of the occupation of Iraq * National Public Radio (NPR) SHOW: Morning Edition (11:00 AM AM ET) - NPR July 2, 2003 Wednesday LENGTH: 1493 words HEADLINE: Howard Dean on issues that are important to him as a

Re: UK does not trust directors (final)

2003-07-03 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
Well there's a few slips in what I wrote. I do not exactly know how many people Fletcher Challenge employ in New Zealand nowadays, I would need to look it up, but it would be at least 5 percent or so. They are a very large multinational by now, like, they would own forests in Canada and Chile etc.

One more correction - Directors

2003-07-03 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
I referred to non-profit local government work, that is obviously a wrong formulation, since many local government functions are privatised, semi-privatised or contracted out to private enterprise. It is just that where I worked, it was mainly non-profit. Local government agencies often have low

letters to the editor

2003-07-03 Thread Devine, James
[Meanwhile, for a good time, do a google search on weapons of mass destruction and click on I feel lucky.] http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-le-bremer3jul03,1,5123630.story http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-le-bremer3jul03,1,5123630.story LETTER TO THE

Hilary Clinton reveals all

2003-07-03 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
I have just starting reading Hilary's autobiography. Here's a snippet: Back in 1959, I wanted to become a teacher or a nuclear PHYSICIST. Teachers were necessary to TRAIN young citizensand without them you wouldn't have much of a country. America needed SCIENTISTS because the RUSSIANS have about

Re: one-upmanship, capitalism

2003-07-03 Thread Devine, James
what's an extropian in this context? (I did a google, to find the closest to a definition: Transhumanist group which advocates using technology to extend healthy life, augment intelligence,...) Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine

new IMF head economist

2003-07-03 Thread Devine, James
Replacing Kenneth Rogoff as the head economist at the IMF is Raghuram Rajan, the co-author of the book reviewed below. April 08, 2003 Book Review: Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists (from http://www.socialfunds.com/news/article.cgi/article1084.html) by William Baue A new book

Re: Howard Dean: Now That We're There We Can't Leave

2003-07-03 Thread Michael Perelman
The Howard Dean phenomenon reminds me of the poll that Patrick Caddell took in which he compared the electability of the existing Democratic candidates and a nonexistent, but good-looking Senator Smith, who had no record it all. Seeing how well Senator Smith fared, Gary Hart jumped into the

Re: Howard Dean: Now That We're There We Can't Leave

2003-07-03 Thread Devine, James
Is it true that one of the reasons why Dean is doing so well in the real primaries (fund-raising) is that he did best in the liberal-leaning MoveOn's on-line poll? (In the meantime, today the LA TIMES shock-cartoonist Michael Ramirez likens Dean to former Senator and 1972 Presidential anti-war

Correction

2003-07-03 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
Actually, my sister didn't work for a Fletcher Challenge company in Christchurch, but rather for a Brierley Investments company, a bookstore called Whitcoulls, originally Whitcombe Tombs. Brierley was an authorative expert in the rationalisation of capital in New Zealand. His method of primitive

Greetings from Istanbul

2003-07-03 Thread Michael Perelman
Here is a message from Sabri: Dear All, It is one of those rare moments that I have access to the net and I wanted to say hello. Life has always been very exciting here and it is no different this time. We the peoples of Turkey don't need to learn anything about chaos because chaos is what we

Hit men movies

2003-07-03 Thread Louis Proyect
I had selected Jean-Pierre Melville's 1967 Le Samoura and Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai's 2001 Fulltime Killer pretty much at random from the local video store. But comparisons between these two 'noirs' involving hit men and the cops who pursue them began to suggest themselves immediately.

Bring 'Em On?

2003-07-03 Thread Louis Proyect
Counterpunch, July 3, 2003 A Former Special Forces Soldier Responds to Bush's Invitation for Iraqis to Attack US Troops Bring 'Em On? By STAN GOFF In 1970, when I arrived at my unit, Company A, 4th Battalion/503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, in what was then the Republic of Vietnam, I was

Re: one-upmanship, capitalism

2003-07-03 Thread Eubulides
- Original Message - From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] what's an extropian in this context? (I did a google, to find the closest to a definition: Transhumanist group which advocates using technology to extend healthy life, augment intelligence,...) === [as one

July 4 Demo in Dayton--Major Changes

2003-07-03 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Here's an update from Dayton organizers of the July 4 protest against Bush -- note the time location changes made by the organizers: * Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 17:48:24 + From: Barbara Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [September11Coalition] July 4 Demo--Major Change To: [EMAIL

Re: new IMF head economist

2003-07-03 Thread Eubulides
- Original Message - From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] Truly free markets would unseat many of these incumbents, === hahahahahahahahahaha

Re: UK does not trust directors

2003-07-03 Thread michael
I found this statement by Chris very interesting. Maybe you could elaborate. I appreciate Jurriaan's discussion of personal experience. I would argue it is a feature of late monopoly capitalism to put so much emphasis on subjective individual experience, and to lose social structures and

WB-corruption

2003-07-03 Thread Eubulides
World Bank Focused on Fighting Corruption Graft and Bribery, Once Tolerated, Punished by Blacklisting By Jonathan Finer Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, July 4, 2003; Page E01 Once upon a time, World Bank financiers viewed their mission in narrow terms: Lend money to poor countries to try

Re: WB-corruption

2003-07-03 Thread Michael Perelman
The WB fights retail corruption, not wholesale corruption. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: WB-corruption

2003-07-03 Thread Eugene Coyle
Does anybody know if the WB publishes the blacklisted corporations? The list is only ...nearly 100 companies and individuals .. Pathetically short list, but I'd like to see it. Gene Coyle Eubulides wrote: World Bank Focused on Fighting Corruption Graft and Bribery, Once Tolerated, Punished by

Re: WB-corruption

2003-07-03 Thread Eubulides
- Original Message - From: Eugene Coyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does anybody know if the WB publishes the blacklisted corporations? The list is only ...nearly 100 companies and individuals .. Pathetically short list, but I'd like to see it. Gene Coyle === Surf's