Freddie Mac

2003-08-21 Thread Eubulides
[getting a little less quiet on this front] Freddie Mac Board Told to Remove CEO Regulators Cite Parseghian's Role in Improper Accounting; Directors' Response Is Unclear By Kathleen Day Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, August 22, 2003; Page E01 Federal regulators have told Freddie Mac's boar

Re: South Africa: WTO strategy

2003-08-21 Thread Eubulides
- Original Message - From: "Patrick Bond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 12:47 AM > Subject: South Africa: WTO strategy > > South Africa is likely to act in consent with two main groups in Cancun > > next month: it is a key player in both the African bloc and in the C

Re: South Africa: WTO strategy

2003-08-21 Thread Patrick Bond
- Original Message - From: "Eubulides" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 12:47 AM Subject: South Africa: WTO strategy > South Africa is likely to act in consent with two main groups in Cancun > next month: it is a key player in both the African bloc and in the Cairns > Group

Reductionism

2003-08-21 Thread Doyle Saylor
Hello All, Reductionism is not a philosophy as much as a practice in parts of science. However, the method has drawn substantial fire as a philosophy. I am going to examine one such attack. In this case this is an interesting wide ranging criticism of not Reductionism but of the established Neuro

South Africa: WTO strategy

2003-08-21 Thread Eubulides
http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=566&fArticleId=211881 SA maps out its WTO strategy August 21, 2003 By Quentin Wray Johannesburg - South Africa's agroprocessing, steel and coal industries are at the forefront of its negotiating strategy in the upcoming World Trade Organisation (WTO) m

Re: Turkey: 10,000 soldiers to Iraq

2003-08-21 Thread Sabri Oncu
Michael: > I can see why Pakistan would do it. That nation is a > virtual hostage. What does Turkey get? I think a better question is what sections of Turkey would get something from it. At least two groups would gain some, at least, in the short run: 1) AKP, the governing Islamic "Christian D

Dutch Economy out of Step: brief comment

2003-08-21 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
Tuesday, 19 August, 2003 Dutch economy out of step by RN Economics editor Wendy Braanker, 18 August 2003 The Dutch economy has shrunk by nearly a full percentage point in this year's second quarter. The figure is higher than many analysts had expected. They put it down to declines in household c

After Orwell: a useful reference about the problem of reductionism, by Joe Faith

2003-08-21 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
http://computing.unn.ac.uk/staff/CGJF1/pdf/ch2.pdf

News from the Dutch Socialist Party

2003-08-21 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
- On the 14th August, Harry Voss of the Socialist Party Environmental Alarm Team delivered a bouquet of flowers, which included polluted thatch reeds, to the State Forest Management, Middelburg city (in the province of Zealand). This happened after the neglect of cleaning operations on the banks of

I read the news today oh boy: from the Dutch press

2003-08-21 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
- The four most important ministers in the Dutch cabinet agreed unexpectedly about a budget-cut of nearly 4 billion euro, in addition to the 13 billion euro previously decided in the governmental accord by the coalition partners. In general, the Dutch government seeks to impose austerity through bu

Re: Turkey: 10,000 soldiers to Iraq

2003-08-21 Thread Devine, James
speaking of Pakistan, the recent Congressional report on 911 left out the many pages on the Saudi contribution, but what about the Pakistani dimension there? the Pakistani intelligence services were allegedly allied with the Taliban; were they allied with al Qaeda? Jim

Re: Turkey: 10,000 soldiers to Iraq

2003-08-21 Thread Michael Perelman
I can see why Pakistan would do it. That nation is a virtual hostage. What does Turkey get? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Turkey: 10,000 soldiers to Iraq

2003-08-21 Thread Sabri Oncu
Below is from: http://www.turks.us It is based on a current article from the Turkish site of MSNBC. According to the original MSNBC article, Pakistan is also expected to send troops to Iraq. Turkey has to pass a resolution from the Parliament to send the troops and this time, they will do it as i

take back government

2003-08-21 Thread Dan Scanlan
Title: take back government Cast your vote for a better Constitution. http://www.ni4d.com/

Re: men don't negotiate?

2003-08-21 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
Jim, What I have done now, as a "Gedankenexperiment", is very simply to change the genders in the article you posted. Have a go at reading the article afresh (perhaps difficult, in view of psychological primacy and recency effects), and see what you think, in terms of what we are talking about, in

Re: Portrait of a Marxist as a young nun

2003-08-21 Thread Michael Hoover
check out director ann hui's 1998 'ordinary heroes' about left-wing groups in hong kong's 1980s 'go-go' days, actor anthony wong's character is based on real-life catholic priest with maoist tendencies... michael hoover

women don't negotiate?

2003-08-21 Thread Devine, James
[One explanation of the view that women don't negotiate prices when buying as much as men do is that most of the car salesforce are men, members of the societally dominant group. Similarly, most of those higher up in the corporate hierarchy who make hiring and pay decisions are also men. Male car-

Re: The Nile virus, objectivity and priorities

2003-08-21 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
Thanks for your comment, Louis. I tend be be in favour of a categorical separation of environmental politics and pop music, just as I distinguish betwen the Merck manual and the Bible. However, as Marx and Engels observed, all categories are relative, not just because of the phenomena of linguistic

Language

2003-08-21 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
The system administrator at the Dutch Socialist Party server reports as follows: "As regards the virus storm you mention, we are alas all plagued by this. Whether a new name will really help... [is doubtful]" Jurriaan

Portrait of a Marxist as a young nun

2003-08-21 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
"Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the Law of The Lord, and on His Law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, that yields its fruit in its seaso

Re: The Nile virus, objectivity and priorities

2003-08-21 Thread Louis Proyect
The irony is that the CDC was set up in 1946 in a building formerly occupied by the Office of Malaria Control in War Areas, at a time when malaria was still prevalent in the southern USA (10). While malaria still kills millions in Africa, it seems perverse that another, much rarer, mosquito-borne d

The Nile virus, objectivity and priorities

2003-08-21 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
West Nile Virus was first isolated in 1937 in Uganda. It has spread in recent years to temperate regions, with the first cases reported in the USA in 1999. Between 1999 and 2001 there were 149 cases in the USA, leading to 18 deaths. In 2002 there was a sharp increase, to 4156 reported cases and 284

Children's Attack

2003-08-21 Thread Louis Proyect
For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD. And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the b

Re: Language -addition

2003-08-21 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
Of course, in language, "form" and "content" cannot be completely separated, and influence each other, as shown clearly for example in statistical research about question-wording effects (response effects). I suspect that Chomsky's theory of generative grammars fails to explain quite a number of l

Language

2003-08-21 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
My quick notes on the electricity buy-out in New Zealand were evidently wrongly expressed, regardless of the validity of the argument, because they very quickly attracted a couple of hundred infected spams so far. Former US President Ronald Reagan used to carp about the "Marxist virus", but these d

Stern: How America Created a Terrorist Haven

2003-08-21 Thread Michael Pollak
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/20/opinion/20STER.html New York Times August 20, 2003 OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR How America Created a Terrorist Haven By JESSICA STERN Y esterday's bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad was the latest evidence that America has taken a cou

Dowd: Magnet for Evil

2003-08-21 Thread Michael Pollak
[Peppily put, no?] New York Times August 20, 2003 Magnet for Evil By MAUREEN DOWD W ASHINGTON The Bush team has now created the very monster that it conjured up to alarm Americans into backing a war on Iraq. Rushing to pummel Iraq after 9/11, Bush officials ginned up links b