Army Says Troop Rotation Into Iraq Poses Increased Danger

* The New York Times In America November 26, 2003 Army Says Troop Rotation Into Iraq Poses Increased Danger By THOM SHANKER WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 — Senior Army officers have told Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld that the rotation of more than 100,000 soldiers into Iraq early next year will

China: from bras to tv's

Chinese upset as US imposes TV tariffs David Teather in New York Wednesday November 26, 2003 The Guardian Chinese trade officials said yesterday that they were "gravely concerned" by a US decision to slap tariffs on imported televisions. The US commerce department ruled that TVs being made by fo

Re: $/Euro dynamics

- Original Message - From: "Seth Sandronsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 5:28 PM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] $/Euro dynamics > Hi PEN-Lers, > > I am looking for current data on what share of the China US trade surplus > comes from American firms s

Rates of profit: Where goes the US economy?

Fred (and all others interested in commenting), Thanks very much for a useful post. It also gave me a chance to revisit your '97 RRPE article which gives valuable perspective (I mistakenly recalled it only analyzed data to the end of the '80s) and see that you find that the fundementals have not

Re: $/Euro dynamics

Hi PEN-Lers, I am looking for current data on what share of the China US trade surplus comes from American firms such as GM China. Thanks in advance, folks. Seth Sandronsky Date:Mon, 24 Nov 2003 15:04:18 -0800 From:Eubulides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: $/Euro dynamics Illusion of grande

Re: Amnesty International

>I would be grateful for assistance: Recently there >was somewhere or other an article analyzing the >stances that Amnesty has taken, showing its' marked >preference for pro USA positions. Cheers, Hari Kumar You might try this: www.globalpolicy.org/ngos/credib/2003/1306interview.htm Is Amnesty I

Re: cointelpro

Commentary on General Franks' statement re possible repeal of the Constitution, by Michel Chossudovsky. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!! In today's LA Times, William Arkin, Mission Creep HIts Home, about the increasing domestic role of the military.

Rummy and Boeing

[Financial Times] Rumsfeld orders Pentagon probe into Boeing By Marianne Brun-Rovet in Washington and Peter Spiegel in London Published: November 25 2003 23:19 | Last Updated: November 25 2003 23:19 Donald Rumsfeld, US defence secretary, on Tuesday asked Pentagon staff to look into the dismissal

Re: Tommy Franks/WMD/US Constitution

General Franks could of course ponder my argument insofar as he ponders anything (which he does do), but, he might say to me, "listen up young man, you ought to look at the bright and positive side of life, and inspire the troops". And I might reply, "You try telling that to the Iraqi people." Ju

Re: Tommy Franks/WMD/US Constitution

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/11/20/185048.shtml Gen. Franks Doubts Constitution Will Survive WMD Attack John O. Edwards, NewsMax.com Friday, Nov. 21, 2003 Gen. Tommy Franks says that if the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the

Re: Amnesty International

I would be grateful for assistance: Recently there was somewhere or other an article analyzing the stances that Amnesty has taken, showing its' marked preference for pro USA positions. Does anyone recall this & where it might be found? My goggling being less than Pugliesian in its over-whelming-nes

Amnesty International

I would be grateful for assistance: Recently there was somewhere or other an article analyzing the stances that Amnesty has taken, showing its' marked preference for pro USA positions. Does anyone recall this & where it might be found? My goggling being less than Pugliesian in its over-whelming-nes

cointelpro

http://www.counterpunch.org/ November 25, 2003 Ashcroft's COINTELPRO Neutralizing Dissent in America By DAVID LINDORFF Disclosure of a confidential memorandum sent by the FBI to local police disclosing a massive program of infiltration and surveillance of lawful anti-war and anti-WTO protest move

Re: Tommy Franks/WMD/US Constitution

nje, troubling that we have this type of mind high up in the military- little depth for an alternative vision- S Michael Hoover wrote: > http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/11/20/185048.shtml > > Gen. Franks Doubts Constitution Will Survive WMD Attack > John O. Edwards, NewsMax.com >

Re: Easterbrook's new book

Why not rebut point by point ? E.g., If he says, The American work ethic shifted, so that the average American now works 350 hours a year — 9 or 10 weeks — longer than the average European. Then, This is meaningless, because (1) is working longer without holidays a virtue (2) what do you get ba

Re: Tommy Franks/WMD/US Constitution

If General Franks ends his story with the conclusion that "It's not in the history of civilization for peace ever to reign. Never has in the history of man. ... I doubt that we'll ever have a time when the world will actually be at peace." then perhaps we ought to start there, making a distinction

Re: Tommy Franks/WMD/US Constitution

aren't there a lot of laws currently on the books that would allow the detention of large numbers of US citizens if/when a national emergency were declared? JD >Gen. Franks Doubts Constitution Will Survive WMD Attack John O. Edwards, NewsMax.com Friday, Nov. 21, 2003 >Gen. Tommy Franks says th

Tommy Franks/WMD/US Constitution

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/11/20/185048.shtml Gen. Franks Doubts Constitution Will Survive WMD Attack John O. Edwards, NewsMax.com Friday, Nov. 21, 2003 Gen. Tommy Franks says that if the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties,

Re: Easterbrook's new book

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/25/03 04:35PM >>> btw, it came up in David Brooks's op-ed piece in the Times today. Brooks is being groomed to replace Safire. My own rude comments are interspersed. OP-ED COLUMNIST Refuting the Cynics By DAVID BROOKS The evidence also rebukes those gloomy liberals who for

Re: Easterbrook's new book

Michael Perelman wrote: Oh damn. I will have to look at that crap, since I am taking on that literature in my new book project. btw, it came up in David Brooks's op-ed piece in the Times today. Brooks is being groomed to replace Safire. My own rude comments are interspersed. OP-ED COLUMNIST Refu

Re: Easterbrook's new book

Oh damn. I will have to look at that crap, since I am taking on that literature in my new book project. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement (MST) on Living Room

Tues 11.25.03| Struggles of the Landless It’s been called Latin America’s most important social movement. The Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement has been occupying and redistributing land in the world's most unequal country for the past twenty-five years, providing a model for agrarian reform st

Re: Bush trumps royalty

Well, we just have to agree with the Queen on that one... but let us notice one little thing: > "The repairs will cost tens of thousands of pounds but the damage to > historic and rare plants will be immense. They are still taking an > inventory. Notice here that there is no referencing at all to

Re: Bush trumps royalty

the Bushes prefer long-dead plants, i.e., oil. BTW, in the lite-comedy movie LOVE ACTUALLY, the Prime Minister of England -- played by Hugh Grant, who would be an improvement over the poodle currently in that position -- gives a great speech against the over-bearing Americans, led by the Presid

Bush trumps royalty

Prescott Bush's grandkid can't keep from killin' PLANTS for heaven's sake! Everything he touches seems to die... * GROUND FARCE 1 Nov 23 2003 from the Sunday Mirror in the UK Exclusive By Terry O'Hanlon THE Queen is furious with President George W. Bush a

pensions once again

[My pension dollars at work.] Hello, Mr. Blue Chips TIAA-CREF gets a money makeover. By Daniel Gross SLATE/Posted Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2003, at 7:53 AM PT The financial adviser to the wine-and-cheese set is undergoing a money makeover. A year ago, TIAA-CREF, the $300-billion-asset not-for-profit

Re: How to insult a millionaire

You've got a winner! Call Fox immediately. Gene joanna bujes wrote: OK. Alternative reality show: "How to Insult a Millionaire!" Contestants compete for the best letter (250 words or less) telling upper management exactly what they think of them.Winner HAS to make public the name of the compan

Last Call for AFIT Paper Proposals

Dear Colleagues, This is the last call for AFIT paper proposals. AFIT welcomes papers from Institutionalist, Marxist, feminist, post-Keynesian, and other heterodox economists. The deadline is December 1st to submit a proposal for a paper or panel for the 2004 AFIT conference in Salt Lake City in

FW: Don't shrink from it

["humor"] An Englishman is being shown around a Scottish hospital. At the end of the tour he is shown into a ward with a number of patients who show no signs of injury. He goes to examine the first man he sees, and the man proclaims "Fair fa' yer honest sonsie face, Great chieftain o' the p

Re: Easterbrook's new book

Bill Lear wrote: Has anyone reviewed *The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse* by Gregg Easterbrook? This sounds like the kind of Panglossian horseshit you get from Brad DeLong and Virginia Postrel. From Publishers Weekly Easterbrook sees a widespread case of cognitive d

Easterbrook's new book

Has anyone reviewed *The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse* by Gregg Easterbrook? Bill

catfish redux

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Market tolerance: firing a magazine in the Dutch Wild West

AMSTERDAM - The editing bureau of the monthly Dutch business magazine "Quote" was the target of gunfire yesterday or this morning, by unknown people. Thursday night, the home of Quote publisher Maarten van den Biggelaar in Amsterdam South was the target of gunfire as well. The perpetrators are unkn