Forwarded from Jurriaan Bendien:
See about this Patrick Karl O'Brien, Imperialism and the Rise and Decline
of the British Economy,
1688-1989, New Left Review 238 (1999).
I met O'Brien (LSE) in Amsterdam at a Mandel seminar. He's quite clued up
about the historical data and some material is
the article
below seems of interest.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
Iraq's Labor Upsurge Wins Support From U.S.
UnionsBy David BaconOnce the U.S. occupation of Iraq
began over a year ago, Iraqi workers lost no time in reorganizing their
country's labor
Please, Jim no attachments. Not a Bhuddist comment.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Please, Jim no attachments. Not a Bhuddist comment.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Sorry about that Michael. I forgot...Old age and some powerfu meds at
work I fear.
Jim
http://www.jibjab.com/-- a funny two-minute
flick.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
Title: BOROWITZ report.com
OSAMA FOUND IN SANDY BERGER'S PANTS [by Andy
Borowitz]War on Terror Over
The war on terror came to an unexpectedly abrupt end today as
the al-Qaeda network kingpin Osama bin Laden was found hiding in the pants of
former national security adviser Sandy Berger.While
testing
From Michael Moore's letter to Las Vegas:
What country do you live in? Last time I checked, Las Vegas is still in
the United States. And in the United States, we have something called
The First Amendment. This constitutional right gives everyone here the
right to say whatever they want to say.
Paul Sweezy addressed the subject in The Theory of Capitalist Development, chapter one
section one The Use of Abstraction. I will try to summarize some of his points (my
comments in brackets):
Marx was a strong adherent of the abstract-deductive method which was such a marked
characteristic of
Jayson Funke quoted Sweezy:
Marx was a strong adherent of the abstract-deductive method which was
such a marked characteristic of the Ricardian school... Marx believed
in and practiced what modern theorists have called the method of
'successive approximations,' which consists in moving from the
One of the interesting things about the whole imbroglio is that very, very
few African states have material debts to privately owned capital. It's
almost all government-to-government debt or IMF debt apart from SA, Botswana
and a bit of trade finance (which IMO shouldn't really be analysed as
in the career of a basically good bloke.
dd
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Michael
Sent: 09 July 2004 17:30
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Fw: [stop-imf] Africa should not pay its debts - Jeffrey
Sachs
I mentioned a couple days ago how
In a message dated 7/10/2004 12:27:28 PM Central Standard
Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sachs has
always been basically a man of the left, and has been saying sensible things
about sovereign default fo longer than anyone else I can remember (including me
and Richard Portes). Perhaps the
From: Daniel Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sachs has always been basically a man of the left, and has been saying
sensible things about sovereign default fo longer than anyone else I can
remember (including me and Richard Portes). Perhaps the whole Harvard
Institute thing should be viewed by
.
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From: Daniel Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 10:27 AM
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Fw: [stop-imf] Africa should not pay its debts -
Jeffrey Sachs
Sachs has always been basically a man of the left, and has been saying
sensible
From: sartesian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Really? That's quite an aberration-- participating in the dismantling of
the Russian Revolution, transforming the remnants of socialized property
into private fortunes.
Bingo. As with, Apart from that, how did you enjoy the play, Mrs.
Lincoln?
Carl
In a message dated 7/10/2004 1:11:33 PM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Really? That's quite an aberration-- participating in the
dismantling ofthe Russian Revolution, transforming the remnants of
socialized propertyinto private fortunes. And now Sachs got
religion?
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Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 5:10 AM
Subject: [stop-imf] Africa should not pay its debts - Jeffrey Sachs
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3869081.stm
BBC News July 6, 2004
Africa 'should not pay its debts'
A
I mentioned a couple days ago how much Jeffrey Sachs has moved to the
left. Chris's message is further confirmation. As I said before, he
has also been very strong on Haiti. Perhaps Paul A. has something to
add about the relationship between Sachs and the United Nations.
Michael Perelman
from Jamie Galbraith
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
I did not choose the headline on this one.. JG
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/07/07/job_growth/print.html
Length matters
While pundits sugarcoat the economy, the real
Devine, James quoted Jamie Galbraith:
As the chart shows, the index reached highs on three occasions. The first
was just after President Reagan's stinging midterm election defeat in 1982.
The second was just as Bush the elder was beaten in 1992. And the third
peak came in 2003, with a trivial
.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
-Original Message-
From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Doug
Henwood
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 10:20 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] FW: New column in Salon: Length
matters
If so, let me remind you that newspapers are not so different from
politicians. They exist to sell advertising. What goes on the page in
between the ads is not so very important.
I thought the function of news was to keep the ads from bumping into
one another.
Dan Scanlan
I've heard that Mao made the military study go and I've also heard that he suppressed
the game socially. Can't confirm if either is true. It appears as though it may be
destined to be West Point's new past time.
Jayson Funke
Michael Perelman wrote:
Didn't Mao write about Go?
, July 07, 2004 11:54 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L] FW: [PEN-L] THE GAME OF GO AND THE CHINESE WAY OF WAR
I've heard that Mao made the military study go and I've also
heard that he suppressed the game socially. Can't confirm if
either is true. It appears as though it may
from 7/3/04:
From: Today's Papers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
A front-page piece in the Los Angeles Times http://g.msn.com/0NL62004/5314 says an
unclassified, 542-page internal Army report http://g.msn.com/0NL62004/5315 on the
Iraq invasion criticizes an unreliable supply chain that kept
by Andy Borowitz--
IRAQ TRIES TO GIVE SOVEREIGNTY BACK
No Way, Says Cheney
One day after the United States transferred sovereignty to Iraq, Iraq unsuccessfully
attempted to give sovereignty back to the United States.
The decision to return sovereignty to the U.S. surprised many in diplomatic
Jim, please don't send pictures to the list.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Hi Michael,
Sorry about that. Just thought I would share. I'll not do it again. Hope
you are well.
Jim
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From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael
Perelman
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 7:54 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] FW
boy are they politically incorrect, though!
jd
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From: PEN-L list on behalf of Craven, Jim
Sent: Wed 6/30/2004 9:48 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc:
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] FW: Redneck Awards
Hi
INSPIRED BY IRAQI HANDOVER, BUSH HOLDS U.S. ELECTION FOUR MONTHS EARLY
Element of Surprise Cited As Bush Romps to Victory
[by Andy Borowitz]
Inspired by the early handover of sovereignty in Iraq, President George W. Bush
employed the element of surprise once more last night, holding the U.S.
FYI
From: James K. Galbraith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Friends,
Today's effort is co-authored with the supply-side brigand, Jude Wanniski, and appears
in the notorious
Washington Times.
Jamie
http://washingtontimes.com/commentary/20040628-092019-6437r.htm
Rate hike reservations
By James
Contrarian ChroniclesThe housing bubble doesn't
add up
Just like stock prices, real estate prices
will not go up forever. We can't all live in million-dollar houses. Thats what
scares me and should scare you.By Bill FleckensteinIt might be hard for folks to
step back and see a
An honest man is being tailgated by a stressed-out woman on a busy
boulevard.
Suddenly, the light turns yellow, just in front of him. He does the
honest thing , and stops at the crosswalk, even though he could have
beaten the red light by accelerating through the intersection.
The tailgating
FYI --
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-op-galbraith27jun27,1,545350.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions
POLITICS
Keeping It Real for the Voters
If you look past misleading labels, you'll see genuine issues.
By James K. Galbraith
James K. Galbraith is chairman of Economists
Steve Diamond [once
of pen-l] sent me the following. I don't know its source, but it makes a
lot of sense. -- jd. Why Rising Interest Rates Will Hammer
Housingby Blanche Evans
For many areas around the country, buyers are way ahead of Alan Greenspan.
Sales are already "flattening out" as
Title: Social Security Byte, June 2004: CBO Finds Social Security Solvent For Fifty Years
CBO
Finds[U.S.]Social Security Solvent for Fifty
Years
By Dean Baker
The Social Security shortfall is half the size of
Title: The Money Map
Thought some of you interested
in the U.S. presidential campaign might find this interesting.
Jayson
Funke
http://www.fundrace.org/moneymap.php
Democrat
vs. Republican
Looking at money
contributed
The best place to look for confirmation of this is the Harvard Institute for
International Development (now dissolved). HIID was perhaps the dominant organization
offering economic recommendations to Russia. Ironically, HIID collapsed primarily as
a result of internal corruption by its own
IRAQI SOVEREIGNTY MISSING
Here a Minute Ago, Says Bremer
Iraqi sovereignty went missing late yesterday afternoon, plunging into some doubt
whether sovereignty could be handed over to the Iraqi people by the U.S.s June 30
deadline.
News of the sovereigntys sudden disappearance was announced
ultraskeptical.
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Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 10:15:21 -0400
Subject: [PEN-L] FW: [PEN-L] Andre Gunder Frank article
The best place to look for confirmation of this is the Harvard Institute for
International Development
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My impression is that the problem with Schleifer et al. was ideological blindness,
ignorance and corruption, no? Gaidar's decision to free prices suddenly was done on
his own initiative, right? Creating economic instability in a giant
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Subject: [PEN-L] FW: [PEN-L] FW: [PEN-L] Andre Gunder Frank article
In regards to deliberate derailing of the Russian economy.
I didn't intend to infer that there was deliberate intention to cripple the Russian
economy at HIID BEYOND that which
Why is it that every time your ignorance on a particular point is exposed, you try to
change the subject?
I have better things to do with my time. Poka.
Exactly! :)
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From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 07:39:00 -0700
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] FW: Racist book The Arab Mind used to train military , but best
use is as a doorstop.
the West = the Bushist power elite plus a small
OMG! The Guardian! We must all believe the crap Guardian, whose man in Moscow doesn't
even speak Russian.
Putin is referring to Wahabbi jihadis, not the 20 million Russian Muslims represented
by the guy below.
All-Russian Social Political Movement EURASIA
ISLAMIC THREAT OR THREAT TO ISLAM?
Rosbalt, 15/08/2003, 14:08
Putin: Russia Prepared to Take Financial Responsibilities to Join Organization of
Islamic Conference
MOSCOW, August 15. Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Ambassador for Ties with
International Islamic Organizations Veniamin Popov yesterday. In part, they
See how different things look when you bother to examine primary sources and don't
rely on on crappy British newspapers?
BBC Monitoring
Putin answers questions from the public in live broadcast
Source: RTR Russia TV, Moscow, in Russian 0900 gmt 18 Dec 03
[Andreyeva] And here is the Kremlin live
I have not read any of the literature put out by the folks affiliated with ACTA
(American Council of Trustees and Alumni), but they have quite a bit of Crisis in
public education material on their web site. If you don't know, Lynne Cheney is quite
active in ACTA. I don't know if that may be a
Chris Doss wrote:
Putin is referring to Wahabbi jihadis
But that's what people like Stephen Schwartz, Paul Berman and Ian Buruma
are speaking of, as well. We need to organize a crusade against the
dirty Wahabbists so that civilization can prevail.
--
Marxism list: www.marxmail.org
Chris Doss wrote:
See how different things look when you bother to examine primary sources and don't rely on on crappy British newspapers?
Actually, I find the British press quite useful.
The Observer
June 1, 2003
Blair lauds Putin's handling of Chechen rebellion
BYLINE: Nick Paton Walsh, St
Chris Doss wrote:
Putin is referring to Wahabbi jihadis
But that's what people like Stephen Schwartz, Paul Berman and Ian Buruma
are speaking of, as well. We need to organize a crusade against the
dirty Wahabbists so that civilization can prevail.
---
I am but vaguely familiar with their
What does this have to do with Russia's attitude to Islamic culture?
Walsh doesn't speak Russian, BTW, judging from all the interpreters who appear in his
reports.
How is it a rebellion?
---
Actually, I find the British press quite useful.
The Observer
June 1, 2003
Blair lauds Putin's
Chris Doss wrote:
Russia's concern is jihadi activity along its southern rim, mostly financed from abroad. Islamic fundamentalism is completely alien to post-Soviet Muslims, which is the main reason why the wahabbi dream of a pan-Caucasian caliphate is fantasy, and why, instead of meeting Khattab
Title: Message
Go to
Google and type in for search "Weapons of Mass Destruction" then, instead of
hitting "enter" or clicking on "search", click on "I'm feeling
lucky."
enjoy.
Jim
C
Here
is what it says:
These Weapons of Mass Destruction cannot be
The West is psycho. The population of Russia is about 20% Muslim,
and there's no war of civilizations crap rhetoric going on here.
---
Message
Can I raise on PEN-L an article which I was uneasy to find forwarded to me by a
liberal professional colleague in the USA
THE AGENDA OF ISLAM - A WAR
Chris Doss wrote:
The West is psycho. The population of Russia is about 20% Muslim,
and there's no war of civilizations crap rhetoric going on here.
The Guardian (London)
November 13, 2002
Threat of war: Get circumcised, angry Putin tells reporter
BYLINE: Ian Traynor
President Vladimir Putin has
: Chris Doss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Mon 5/31/2004 5:09 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc:
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] FW: Racist book The Arab Mind used to train military ,
but best use is as a doorstop.
The West is psycho. The population
Title: Message
Can I raise onPEN-L an article which I was uneasy to find forwarded
to me by a liberal professional colleague in the USA
THE AGENDA OF ISLAM - A WAR BETWEEN CIVILIZATIONSby Professor
Moshe Sharon
Itappears to be circulating extensively in some quarters on the
internetand to
Why is this not true for all monotheistic religions?
On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 08:31:49AM +0100, Chris Burford wrote:
The element of truth is that this monotheistic religion was an aggressive and
militarist political programme at a time of divided polytheistic tribal society. To
apply that
Title: Message
Sent:
Wednesday, May 26,
2004 12:42
PM
Subject: Vine
Deloria refuses honorary degree
Subject: Taking a Stand
(leaders)
The
Denver Post
diane carman
Scholar: CU "honor" no
compliment
By
Diane Carman
Denver Post
Columnist
Tuesday, May 25,
2004 -
Vine Deloria
Title: Message
'Its best use is as a doorstop' Brian Whitaker explains why a book packed with sweeping generalisations
about Arabs carries so much weight with both neocons and military in the
US Monday May 24, 2004 Consider these statements:
"Why are most Africans, unless forced by dire
I ran across this definition that sheds some light:
A continent (from the Latin continere for to hold together) is a large continuous
mass of land in the planet Earth.
There is no single standard for what defines a continent, and therefore various
cultures and sciences have different lists of
BUSH TO USE GIANT HYPNO-COIN IN SPEECH TO U.N. -- by Andy Borowitz.
You Are Getting Very Sleepy, He Tells World Body
President George W. Bush will use what aides are describing as a gigantic
hypno-coin when he addresses the United Nations to ask for assistance in Iraq,
White House sources
-Original
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AMTo:
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labor/abortion comments
Dear Prof. Rosen
Title: FW: May 20th URGENT Action to Stop Latest anti-Cuba Travel policy
Dear Freedom to Travel Activists:
We need you now more than ever. On Thursday, May 20th over 100,000 US citizens will come together to protest the latest attacks against our rights to travel and the threats to Cubas
The website of the International Working Group on Value Theory
(IWGVT) has
moved to
www.iwgvt.org
The site gives free access to over 150 papers on value theory and
related
topics covering eleven years of debates at IWGVT mini-conferences,
held
annually under the auspices of the Eastern
To URPE Members and Friends
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
On Behalf Of Benan Eres
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004
3:50 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Hgs] Call for
papers: Critical Perspectives on Third WorldDevelopment
WTI New York session has successfully commenced last Saturday. You can read
the final statement of the jury of conscience, the press release, and the
presentations in the first two parts of the session from the following link:
http://www.worldtribunal-nyc.org/Document/index.htm
The third part,
Subject: Fw: Why the torture at Abu Ghraib should be no surprise
Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 07:28:51 +0100
From: joseph schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Science for the People Discussion
List[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Here is my brother's analysis of the torture in Iraq. I think
Title: FW: [PEN-L] The new Iraqi Flag
I happened to catch Alan Aldas Scientific American Frontiers on PBS last night with the focus on Future cars from hybrids to electric and fuel cells. While the new technology makes for far more efficient and even less polluting vehicles, what is typically
today's papers [from Microsoft SLATE]
Tortured Admissions
By Eric Umansky
Posted Wednesday, May 5, 2004, at 1:43 AM PT
Everybody [i.e., the major US newspapers] leads with the Army saying it is
investigating 35 cases
of possible abuse or torture of prisoners in Iraq and
Afghanistan, including
Borowitz does not know what he is talking about. Several prisoners say
that they experienced worse treatment under the US than they did under
Saddam.
Seymour Hersh's New Yorker piece is very revealing. Also, listen to his
interview at
www.democracynow.org
The surprising thing about this hubbub
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Borowitz does not know what he is talking about. Several
prisoners say
that they experienced worse treatment under the US than they did under
Saddam.
Seymour Hersh's New Yorker piece is very revealing. Also,
listen to his
In case you
haven't heard...
Disney Has Blocked the Distribution of My New Film... by Michael
Moore
May 5, 2004
Friends,
I would have hoped by now that I would be able to put my work out to the
public without having to experience the profound censorship obstacles I often
seem to encounter.
Title: FW: [PEN-L] The Empire Falls Back - Niall Ferguson
Ken Hanly wrote:
Strange that the media never seems to detect any immorality at the sight of the most powerful nation in the world attacking countries such as Afghanistan, Panama, Grenada and Iraq that are completely outmatched
A friend forwarded a letter to me from a student who's currently taking an orthodox
economics course. I interspersed my answers among his or her questions. They represent
my opinions. If anyone wants to toss in their two kopecks, please feel free. (Of
course, I know you will.)
Jim Devine
Jurriaan sent the following link, on outsourcing:
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/650504.cms
Jim D.
[forwarded and edited]
David was in his 7th grade class when the teacher asked the children what
their fathers did for a living. All the typical answers came up --
firefighter, police officer, sales rep, doctor, lawyer, etc. David was being
uncharacteristically quiet and so the teacher asked him
Title: FW: [PEN-L] New Business Model
I currently work for a large financial corporation, and most of the new sotware programs we currently use are owned, hosted, serviced, and maintained by the parent company and most interactions occur over the internet. We pay a yearly rental fee. I think
Hasn't IBM for some time been putting multi-page ads in the WSJ
proposing that data management be regarded as a fifth utility? I think
that started over a year ago. Sun's program as Joanna describes it would
seem to be the same sort of thing.
Carrol
Anders Schneiderman sent me the following.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
H!
Our new SEIU campaign, Justice at Work, has just launched an experiment
on SEIU's blog (http://www.fightforthefuture.org/blog/). If you could
spread the
In Jerusalem, an American female journalist heard about an old rabbi who
visited the Wailing Wall to pray, twice a day, everyday, for a long,
long time.
In an effort to check out the story, she goes to the holy site and there
he is! She watches the bearded old man at prayer--and after about 45
FYI
--
To the editors of the L.A. TIMES:
Solicitor-General Ted Olsen argues in front of the U.S. Supreme Court that
the "enemy combatants" caged at Guantanamo are not subject to U.S. law -- and do not have the
right to be defended in U.S. courts -- because it's Cuban territory.
from MS SLATE's Today's Papers --
The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and Washington Post all lead
with President Bush essentially endorsing Israeli Prime Sharon's
unilateral plan to pull out of Gaza and keep some major
settlements in the West Bank. Bush also rejected the
Palestinians' right of
Belgian minister sparks US genocide row
9 April 2004
Expatica News
BRUSSELS - Belgian Defence Minister Andre Flahaut has come under heavy
criticism for approving an official document that says the United States
is responsible for the biggest genocide committed during the past 500
years.
Title: FW: At a Loss
Thanks to everyone for the interesting responses.
Carrol wrote: There are, what, 300 million people in the U.S. There must be 10s of millions who could be reached by left agitation if we found a way to attract their attention. So why are you wasting your time trying
MELANCHOLY SADDAM LONGS TO SHUT DOWN A NEWSPAPER
Former Dictator in Deep Funk, French Lawyer Says [by Andy Borowitz]
The U.S.s shuttering of an Iraqi newspaper sent Saddam Hussein into a deep
funk, his French lawyer said today, as the former Iraqi dictator increasingly longs
to shut down a
AL-JAZEERA SLAPS OSAMA WITH 7-SECOND DELAY
Warns Madman About Potty-mouthed Terror Rants (by Andy Borowitz)
Reflecting the increasingly prudish tenor of the times, the Arabic-language broadcast
network al-Jazeera today warned al Qaeda madman Osama bin Laden that all future on-air
appearances
for your own info, and you may want to pass this on to Chomsky, the NDP,
whom I believe he'll be speaking at one of their fundraisers have
committed great human rights violations against indigenous people in
this province.
UPCOMING EVENTS IN SUPPORT OF INDIGENOUS SOVERIGNTY
1) picket in honour
so I was supposed to do some public speaking in early May ...and I get
this letter:
Jim,
Well, the shadow of McCarthy still lingers. When your name and
description
was given by our sub-commitee on the Issues Forum to the overall
coordinating commitee,
Title: Message
Subject: Locating Bin LadenWhen recently interviewed --
Pentagon officials believe they have been unable to locate Bin
Laden because he has found a place to hide out withthese
characteristics:
1) It is easy to get in if you have money;2) No one will recognize or
remember
so I was supposed to do some public speaking in early May ...and I get this letter:
Jim,
Well, the shadow of McCarthy still lingers. When your name and description
was given by our sub-commitee on the Issues Forum to the overall
coordinating commitee,
The Russian word for irony is ironiya. The word for iron is
zheleznoye. So no pun.
I wasn't sure if I smelt one or not.
Scanlan
From Microsoft's SLATE magazine:
We shall strengthen the multiparty system. We shall
strengthen civil society and do everything to uphold media
freedom, Putin said after a campaign in which he arrested a
political opponent, solidified his personal control of
Parliament, refused to debate his
Devine, James wrote:
The pictures are irony, not Stalin.
I wonder what the russian word for irony is and if the russian
contains the pun on iron/steel.
Carrol
Jim D.
Ho-hum.
From Microsoft's SLATE magazine:
We shall strengthen the multiparty system. We shall
strengthen civil society and do everything to uphold media
freedom, Putin said after a campaign in which he arrested a
political opponent,
How did Khodorkovsky become a political opponent? Are
The Russian word for irony is ironiya. The word for iron is zheleznoye. So no pun.
-Original Message-
From: Carrol Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 12:58:09 -0600
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] FW: Today's Papers: Putin
Devine, James wrote:
The pictures
moneybox
The Social Security CrisisSolved!
A Democratic economist's miraculous plan.
By Daniel Gross
Posted Tuesday, March 9, 2004, at 2:24 PM PT
This is the fantasy of every Washington politician: You wake up one morning, and the
Social Security crisis has vanished. Who knows where it
But the polytricksters keep robbing the fund to pay
for the various debts they incur in financing the
capitalist State. So, if there's more money in it
because of productivity or immigration or whatever,
they'll continue to rob us to pay Paul and then say
they're broke when it comes time to
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