JP Morgan takes over U.N. role (no joke)

2003-08-30 Thread Paul
Yes! Now that I go back and read my (subscription) copy I see that you called it - right on the button. Poor Iraq, its all so predictable. This is outside my field, and I doubt that the associated banks will play much of a role, but I would caracterize the choice of Credit Lyonnais as similar but

Re: Iraq: JP Morgan takes over U.N. role (no joke)

2003-08-30 Thread nomi prins
It is no surprise that JPM Chase bagged the lead role running Iraq's financial system. When in doubt about how to extend credit on egregious terms (which will happen), controlling the entire banking mechanism helps. JPM Chase and their consortium are front running the IMF and Worldbank in the drive

Re: Iraq: JP Morgan takes over U.N. role (no joke)

2003-08-30 Thread Sasha Lilley
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Iraq: JP Morgan takes over U.N. role

2003-08-30 Thread Sasha Lilley
Hey Pratap, Have you see this yet? S > The occupation government in Iraq has announced that > the U.N. 'Oil For Food > Programme' now been replaced by a bank consortium > run by J.P. Morgan. The > J.P. Morgan consortium (it will run the Iraq Trade > Bank controlling all > foreign transactions gov

Iraq: JP Morgan takes over U.N. role (no joke)

2003-08-30 Thread Paul
The occupation government in Iraq has announced that the U.N. 'Oil For Food Programme' now been replaced by a bank consortium run by J.P. Morgan. The J.P. Morgan consortium (it will run the Iraq Trade Bank controlling all foreign transactions governmental and private). The initial capital will be

Capitalism, slavery and the Brenner thesis; part 2

2003-08-30 Thread Louis Proyect
I want to begin this article by thanking Mark Lause, American historian and socialist who I had the misfortune to be on the other side of a bitter faction fight with in the mid-1970s. I much prefer the current relationship. Mark was of enormous help in supplying the texts that much of this arti

Original accumulation - reply to Carrol

2003-08-30 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
Carol says: "I haven't been following this thread, but if this is the sort of material you have been offering as relevant to "original accumulation," you've wasted a lot of bandwidth." Thanks. Carol says: "You seem to be talking about the "original accumulation" of particular capitals by partic

Re: New territories for original accumulation: extending the boundaries of th...

2003-08-30 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 8/30/03 8:22:50 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Special IQ test for Melvin P.: (a) how do you think the sex barons get their "chicks" ? Chose from the following options: (1) women just want to have fun, and make lots of Baht. (2) women are conned by the sex

Re: New territories for original accumulation: extending the boundaries ofthe exploitable

2003-08-30 Thread Carrol Cox
Jurriaan Bendien wrote: > > The number of complaints concerning computer-related crimes handled by > police across Japan more than doubled in the first six months of this year et cetera Jurriaan, I haven't been following this thread, but if this is the sort of material you have been offering as r

New territories for original accumulation: extending the boundaries of the exploitable

2003-08-30 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
The number of complaints concerning computer-related crimes handled by police across Japan more than doubled in the first six months of this year over the same period last year, the National Police Agency said Thursday. (...) The agency said police received 19,097 calls from the public on so-called

The savings rate in Japan: there is a limit to the accumulation fund derived from workers' savings

2003-08-30 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
Falling savings rate is a warning Until not long ago Japan was criticized -- or praised -- for its extraordinarily high savings rate, depending on how one looked at it. The United States, for one, pointed out that Japan was saving too much and investing too little, and called for steps to stimulat

The Cato Institute plays the morality card against Governor Riley: God is against tax hikes, and Japanese ought to know this

2003-08-30 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
A tax hike for God? Don't you believe it By DOUG BANDOW WASHINGTON -- It has long been said that patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. Today religion plays that role in the United States. At least it does for Gov. Bob Riley of Alabama, who is pushing a massive tax hike in the name of Go

Re: Last Warning: Primitive accumulation-2

2003-08-30 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 8/29/03 11:37:22 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >If you study the history of the USA, you will find that there was a time,when although capitalist industry was established on the Eastern seaboard, large tracts of the mid-West and the West were not yet settle

Imperialism's role in the Hutu-Tutsi conflict

2003-08-30 Thread Louis Proyect
NY Times, August 30, 2003 BOOKS OF THE TIMES | 'THE GREAT LAKES OF AFRICA' A Deep Crisis, Shallow Roots By JOHN SHATTUCK In central Africa, a genocidal war has raged for nearly a decade, costing more than four million lives in Rwanda, Burundi and Congo and precipitating the worst humanitarian cri

Re: Last Warning: Primitive accumulation

2003-08-30 Thread Waistline2
When writing to a public forum one can be challenged. The etter you sent to me (reproduced below) simply means you lost the argument and could not justify reinterpreting Marx writings on this subject. I am aware that you a bright and translating Mandel must have been important to you. The article

A game of golf in Aussie

2003-08-30 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
Big businesses and some of the world's wealthiest people are renting taxpayer-owned land in New South Wales (Australia) for peppercorn rates under a system that is riddled with inconsistencies and loopholes. Office buildings, factories, marinas, petrol stations, restaurants, prestigious golf course

Texas; the commodity

2003-08-30 Thread Eubulides
http://www.texasobserver.org/showArticle.asp?ArticleID=1434 The Rise of the Machine How a small group of politicians and corporations bought themselves a legislature BY JAKE BERNSTEIN AND DAVE MANN To this day, no one has come up with a set of rules for ori

Asia: dirigsme

2003-08-30 Thread Eubulides
http://www.flonnet.com Volume 20 - Issue 18, August 30 - September 12, 2003 India's National Magazine from the publishers of THE HINDU COLUMN Strategy of development JAYATI GHOSH The economies of South Asia have many more features in common than is generally recognised, but unfortunately for the

Indiana Jones criticizes US foreign policy

2003-08-30 Thread Louis Proyect
NY Daily News, August 29, 2003 Indiana Jones whips Dubya's policy Harrison Ford staged an attack on foreign soil yesterday, but his target was George W. Bush. Ford is the latest Hollywood celebrity to dump on the Prez, joining Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn, among others, in criticizing America's adv