I got the quote from today's news summary in SLATE magazine. I don't remember if it's
from the Washington POST or the New York TIMES.
-- Jim
-Original Message-
From: Kenneth Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tue 7/29/2003 6:56 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTE
As I have stated previously, Charles Post's article in the latest Journal
of Agrarian Change is an attempt to apply the Brenner thesis to the
American Civil War. On one level this would seem to make a lot of sense
since the issues seemed posed starkly in terms of free wage labor and the
ambitions o
Jim wrote:
>"I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal
>affairs of Iraq."
>-- U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz.
Great quote, sir.
Americans are never foreign in their own eyes any more. Even their
"leaders of foreign policy" are never foreign.
They are always
This is a response from David Hanly my son who is an economist for the
Saskatchewan Government who works for the Sask. government on the Kyoto
agreement's implications and energy issues.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
Hi,
I am on holidays this week so I can't access some of the references I have
at work on c
White House Used Info from Iraqi Exiles in Bush's Speech
by Jason Leopold
July 29, 2003
Last weekend, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz explained that the
United States at times relied on "murky" intelligence in trying to link Iraq
to the al-Qaeda terrorist group, but the war against I
"I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs
of Iraq."
-- U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
Back in November '95, Michael Perelman posted an announcement to the Pen-L
list of an essay prize on the topic "Privatization: has it gone far enough?"
One of the organizers of the competition was Robin Hanson, also the
originator of the "Policy Analysis Market" currently in the news. I remember
be
SPOTLIGHT PERSPECTIVES
Excerpted from article:
Consumer side:
"What I think they're going to do is start suing moms and
dads and families across America. They could lose their
house or lose their ability to send their kids to college.
That is not the intent of copyright statutes, to
http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1058868217103&p=1012571727169
Afghan government accused of criminal acts
By Victoria Burnett in Islamabad
Published: July 29 2003 14:34 | Last Updated: July 29 2003 14:34
Prominent members of the Afghan go
Awww... they killed it.
I was looking forward to buying futures on Bush dying in a snack-related
mishap.
Ken.
--
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do
with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
-- Will Rogers
--- cut here ---
Pentagon Folds Hand in On
i don't think so. I think that hegemony needs the fear of terrorism -- or it needs its
own state-organized terrorism. The US elite would rather have everything under
control...
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
> -Original Messag
a discussion on US National Public Radio I heard today indicates one
reason why this program won't fly: terrorists can use the market to
bet that a terrorist attack will occur and then win big by making it
happen.
Uh, isn't that the idea? Hegemony needs terrorism.
July 29, 2003/New York TIMES
Rights Group Reports Abuses by Afghans, Some Backed by U.S.
By CARLOTTA GALL
KABUL, Afghanistan, July 28 - A human rights report has documented
widespread extortion, armed robbery and kidnapping by police and
intelligence officials and militias in Afghanistan. The repo
a discussion on US National Public Radio I heard today indicates one reason why this
program won't fly: terrorists can use the market to bet that a terrorist attack will
occur and then win big by making it happen.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.ed
I got an email today whose subject line and content was "Regain your
confidence."
I wrote back that with bigger breasts and penis I have all the
confidence I need.
Dan Scanlan
The Borowitz report -
BUSH BLAMES ECONOMY ON SOMEONE NAMED HADLEY
Mid-level Bureaucrat Caused Massive Job Losses, President Alleges
Stephen Hadley, the mid-level bureaucrat who last week took the blame
for the controversial sixteen words in President Bush's State of the
Union Address, suffered ano
In a message dated 7/29/03 12:26:28 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
For most of this year I have been working on extending the article into a full-length book. I would be very grateful to comments, criticism and suggestions (if anyone is really interested I can send the work-in
Traditional intelligence services remain rather poor at what they do --
at least relative to the mythology Hollywood and the conspiracy buffs
have created around them. It's not uncommon for them to miss things that
seemed obvious to non-professionals. (Iran in 1979 is an obvious and
recent one; Ira
NY Times, July 29, 2003
Pentagon Prepares a Futures Market on Terror Attacks
By CARL HULSE
WASHINGTON, July 28 — The Pentagon office that proposed spying
electronically on Americans to monitor potential terrorists has a new
experiment. It is an online futures trading market, disclosed today by
c
On Monday, July 28, 2003 at 09:14:02 (-0500) Bill Lear writes:
>On Monday, July 28, 2003 at 09:58:39 (-0400) Anders Schneiderman writes:
>>...
>>I think where the issue of lowering labor costs is going to become a big issue is in
>>the new surge of outsourcing. Open source development projects ha
Message: 1
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 15:44:15 +0500
From: Tahir Hasnain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Analysis of Draft Cancun Text and its Process
Third World Network
22 July 2003
www.twnside.org.sg
Dear friends and colleagues
ANALYSIS OF DRAFT CANCUN TEXT AND ITS PROCESS
The first draft of
Quebec has a great (and recent) tradition of social unity and
defiance -- notably back to the asbestos strikes of the 1950s. That,
married to the general youthful opposition to Premier Duplessis and the
government collusion with the Roman Catholic Church, led to the
development of a mass cultural r
NY Newsday, July 29, 2003
'He Died An American Hero'
by Jimmy Breslin
There was no ceremonial viewing of the body of Pfc. Raheen Tyson
Heighter yesterday. His remains have not arrived here from Iraq. He was
a spectacular 21-year-old who was killed when a convoy in which he was
riding was attacked e
NY Times, July 29, 2003
Has the Sea Given Up Its Bounty?
By WILLIAM J. BROAD and ANDREW C. REVKIN
Most of the earth's surface is covered by oceans, and their vastness and
biological bounty were long thought to be immune to human influence. But
no more. Scientists and marine experts say decades of i
Hi Ken,
I have a reply, I have put in some headings to help you to see the substance
of Wolfowitz's argument. Obviously, I cannot go into full depth at this
point, I cannot claim to give a fully objective interpretation, because time
is at a premium and I have to write now what I can, even if some
>Could you please list once again your writings on this matter. I read much of the >material but lost the location.
Copyleft vs. Copyright - A Marxist Critiquehttp://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue7_3/soderberg/index.html
For most of this year I have been working on extending the article into a f
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