(From todays Financial Times)
Iraq's rebel cleric gains surge in popularity
By Roula Khalaf in Baghdad
An Iraqi poll to be released next week shows a surge in the popularity of
Moqtada al-Sadr, the radical young Shia cleric fighting coalition forces,
and suggests nearly nine out of 10 Iraqis see
Horrific new evidence of soldiers' brutality in Iraq
Secret report from notorious Baghdad jail reveals beatings, rape and
torture of prisoners by US troops
By Raymond Whitaker, Andy McSmith and Andrew Johnson
The Independent
02 May 2004
Shocking new evidence of brutality by coalition troops
1844: Leinweber searched through a United Nations database and
discovered that, historically, the single best predictor of the
Standard Poor's 500 stock index was butter production in
Bangladesh. Leinweber, David J. 1997. Stupid Data Mining Tricks:
Over-Fitting the SP 500. Working Paper, First
You might ask, how can we empirically verify that unequal exchange has
occurred ? Of course, economists who think in the spirit of Marx don't just
want theory or moral diatribes, they want empirical evidence. Well, there
are at least six good indicators of unequal exchange in price terms:
(1
Washington Mutual cuts outlookBy Gary Silverman
and Jenny Wiggins in New YorkFinancial Times, published: December 9 2003
15:40 | Last Updated: December 9 2003 15:40
The evidence of distress in the US mortgage market
grew on Tuesday as Washington Mutual surprised investors by revealing 2,900
In a message dated 9/18/03 2:16:18 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Does anybody have a clue about why the Bushies are backtracking? Why is
Germany caving and agreeing to help? What does Turkey have to gain by
sending troops?
Everything seems murky to me at this time.
I
The New York Times, September 18, 2003
Bush Reports No Evidence of Hussein Tie to 9/11
By DAVID E. SANGER
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 - President Bush said today that he had seen no
evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved in the Sept. 11 terrorist
attacks, as the White House tried to correct
Does anybody have a clue about why the Bushies are backtracking? Why is
Germany caving and agreeing to help? What does Turkey have to gain by
sending troops?
Everything seems murky to me at this time.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel.
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From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does anybody have a clue about why the Bushies are backtracking?
=
The Hutton inquiry in Britain is probably making them very anxious and
they want to pre-empt any possible moves by Congress to go after them?
Michael Perelman wrote:
Does anybody have a clue about why the Bushies are backtracking?
Are they really backtracking? But they're up to their necks in muck,
with little propsect of getting out soon. They're going to need some
help.
Why is
Germany caving and agreeing to help?
I just interviewed
--- Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael Perelman wrote:
Does anybody have a clue about why the Bushies are
backtracking?
I just interviewed Anatol Lieven, who said he didn't
see much chance
of serious help coming from Europe. And why should
they? He noted
that the Europeans
What does Turkey have to gain by
sending troops?
An IMF loan?
Doug
Maybe! But I think it is more complicated than that.
First of all, the question is ill-posed. It is not Turkey that is
interested in sending troops, if by Turkey what we mean is those 67
million people living there.
to seeking $15 billion for reconstruction in Iraq, the
proposal calls for $5 billion to be put toward building up Iraqi
security forces, including an Iraqi Army, a police force and a border
and customs agency.
In many ways, the $87 billion figure was the most compelling evidence
yet of how Mr. Bush, who
What does Turkey have to gain by
sending troops?
An IMF loan?
Doug
Maybe! But I think it is more complicated than that.
First of all, the question is ill-posed. It is not Turkey that is
interested in sending troops, if by Turkey what we mean is those 67
million people living there. Majority
From the Guardian//Joanna
Wonder what the polls will say now...
Wednesday September 17, 2003 10:09 PM
By TERENCE HUNT
AP White House Correspondent
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush said Wednesday there was no evidence
that Saddam Hussein was involved
they'll give Bush a boost for being open and honest. . .a man who overcomes his dark side and has finally entered the anointed realm. . .
Brian McKenna
Independent challenging key points.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=419050
assaults, particularly in western
Iraq, will seek to disrupt any potential attacks on Israel.
Despite so little hard evidence of Iraq's capabilities, U.S. troops have
been vaccinated, trained, equipped and dressed to prepare for chemical and
biological war. For military units, all this is no more than
- Original Message -
From: Tom Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Deception is not new but as Chris's 'post modern' suggests, there is
something new about the deployment of deception here. My point
of reference would be Enron: Enron, Enron. Enron, WorldCom, Tyco,
etc.,etc.,etc.
What
to the thread title, not to lose it and the connection here.
Elbaradei (sp?) has not accused the British government of faking the
evidence about Iraq's nuclear involvement: the embarrassing and pointed
comments are that the British government accepted a source originating in
the Ivory Coast from
Title: RE: [PEN-L:35363] Re: evidence of war hawks' stupidity?
this ignores the fact that the US warhawks can learn lessons from the successful prosecution of urban warfare by Israel in the West Bank Gaza...
Jim [irony intended] Devine
-Original Message-
From: Ian Murray
To: pen
At 2003-03-07 23:32 -0800, you wrote:
What's postmodern about Machievellian political strategies of strategic
deception-opacity combined with a variation on good old fashioned
catachresis?
Ian
Well, I shall avoid discussing processology!
But what Blair and Campbell did was to take somewhat
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From: Chris Burford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
But what Blair and Campbell did was to take somewhat dubious sources and
dress them up without giving references or checking sufficiently. I do
not
think this is quite Machiavelli. It is about management of perceptions
in
the
but then again some have suggested that Protagoras was pomo,so:-)Ian
Maybe a premo?
jksDo you Yahoo!?
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Deception is not new but as Chris's 'post modern' suggests, there is something new
about the deployment of deception here. My point
of reference would be Enron: Enron, Enron. Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, etc.,etc.,etc.
What I allude to is a political economy OF deceit, not simply a political economy
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From: Tom Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Deception is not new but as Chris's 'post modern' suggests, there is
something new about the deployment of deception here. My point
of reference would be Enron: Enron, Enron. Enron, WorldCom, Tyco,
etc.,etc.,etc.
What I allude
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030307-092710-3308r
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From the Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,910113,00.html
Another embarrassing defeat for the postmodernist approach to world
governance rather than some sort of due process.
Chris Burford
London
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Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 11:10 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:35362] UK nuclear evidence a fake
From the Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,910113,00.html
Another
Iraq's political
economy. There is no doubt that Saddam has used terror as a means of state
policy, but that is not so far back in the history of most states. I
presume there will be evidence of continued ruthless suppress of political
opponents. But what we need to check is how the regime has
BUSINESS WEEK
FEBRUARY 13, 2003
READER SURVEY RESULTS
Weighing Powell's Evidence
Some 60% of respondents to our online survey still don't think the Bush
Administration has made a persuasive case against Iraq
Despite the photos and documents that Secretary of State Colin Powell
unveiled
Despite the warning, the European declaration was marked most by what
it did not say: It set no deadline for the inspections to be called
off; it did not commit European countries to using force to back up
U.N. resolutions on disarming Iraq; and it did not say Hussein is
already in material breach
Hussein is
already in material breach of the resolutions.
washingtonpost.com
And another slight bit of evidence:- Bush's studied reluctance in agreeing
to seek another UN resolution to help friends and allies - Blair who
absolutely needs a second resolution.
I would not overestimate
On Newsnight, discussing the Blair interview, Menzies Campbell, the
foreign affairs spokesperson of the Liberal Democrats, the only major
party in the UK opposed to the Iraq war, set the standard firmly as
proof beyond reasonable doubt, and that all diplomatic and
other alternatives should have
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Title: Difference on evidence of deheimnisvolle der Warenform in first edition and fourth edition of Capital
On 2002.03.22 00:31 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 3/21/2002 6:42:04 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've always liked
n Formen von Gegenständen"
Thus between first edition and fourth edition,evidence of "Geheimnisvolle der Warenform" is proved from different angle.
This is only one example of difference. Many other modification are added. This is very important, because specific scientific valu
. Galati marched out of the courtroom, Mr. Jaballah himself
took the stand and, on the advice of his lawyer, declared that he too would
no longer participate in the hearing.
I can see nothing new in the evidence that has been given to me and my
lawyer, said Mr. Jaballah, a teacher and principal
The equality/efficiency trade-off: empirical
evidence
Arthur Okun. Equality and Efficiency: The Big Trade-off,
1975
The pursuit of efficiency necessarily creates inequalities. And
hence society faces a trade-off between equality and efficiency.
Paul Krugman in NYT Sept. 16, 2001
Wonderful!
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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Seymour Hersh was interviewd on NPR the other day and he spoke of his
numerous high up contacts in the CIA revealing to him that there's noo way
a white paper could be drawn up by the administration today, there just
isn't enough evidence that's convincing enough. I think he has an article
The evidence is detailed at: http://www.pm.gov.uk/
I would be interested in people's response. There is not too much that is
new. A lot of the evidence has nothing specific to do with the attacks on
Sept 11 but relate to earlier attacks on the US embassies in Kenya and
Tanzania and the USS Cole
is unlikely to rally the Arab world to the West's war
on terrorism. Only nine of the 70 points in the document relate to the
attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, and these often rely on
conjecture rather than evidence. Claiming that an operation on the scale of
the 11 September attacks
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From: Jim Devine
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 10/2/2001 10:14 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:17980] Re: RE: Evidence against bin Laden
BTW, as far as I know, there are NO bin Laden supporters or sympathizers
on pen-l. To whom are you referring?
I was referring to the Taliban
Please Andrew, we have better ways of using our time. This seems to be
the thread that you started on the Marxism list.
I have never said anywhere that we should kill large numbers of innocent
Afghans. Elsewhere I have said I am categorically opposed to the US going to
war with
Michael Perelman wrote:
Please Andrew, we have better ways of using our time.
In other words, no political debate, please, we're economists?
I don't get what your standards are, Michael. More transparency, please!
Doug
I agree with Doug. Michael, you seem to be rejecting any discussion that's
unpleasant.
At 10:10 AM 10/03/2001 -0400, you wrote:
Michael Perelman wrote:
Please Andrew, we have better ways of using our time.
In other words, no political debate, please, we're economists?
I don't get what your
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 08:04:08 -0700
To: Austin, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [PEN-L:17980] Re: RE: Evidence against bin Laden
At 07:47 AM 10/03/2001 -0500, you wrote:
The Taliban is a
brutal atavistic and patriarchal regime.
so is the Saudi Arabian
,
Kahsmirs, Indonesians, etc., that have been attacked by integrist terrorists. It is
our interest of us all that Bin Laden is isolated.
3/ Think of all those Arab workers that are attracted by Bin Laden's propaganda. Think
of Pakistan. If US/OTAN are or seem to be confiscating evidence, there's
Both Jim and Doug disapproved of my handling of Andrew's post. My
response reflected the way I saw Andrew's thread evolve on the Marxism
list. If you think that it can lead to a fruitful discussion, then go
ahead. I remain skeptical
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State
Just building on this ObL stuff while I may; isn't there something of a fetish
happening here? I mean, I go a good way with Andy's position on the bloke,
but I keep harking back to EP Thompson's explanation for why the magistrates
couldn't nip the Luddite movement in the bud. Experienced
produced the evidence
they promised), there will be copy-cats, as often happens with spectacular
homicides. (Also, a lot of folks admit to crimes they haven't committed,
just to get attention.)
I think there's an actual organization, though. The timings of the bombings
is too accurate: hitting
From: Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
But getting rid of ObL and his cronies wouldn't abolish the social
historical forces that gave rise to Islamic fundamentalism as a
force to
mobilize people to engage in terrorism. In fact, it might easily
create
martyrs (and US NPR said this morning that
I wrote:
US NPR said this morning that ObL _wants_ to be a
martyr...
What, did they talk to OBL on the phone?
it's probably based on on dit evidence (i.e., rumor). But it sounds like
a plausible possibility.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
Blair set to reveal bin Laden evidence
By Paul Waugh, Stephen Castle and Patrick Cockburn
04 October 2001
Internal links
Now the politicians must win the diplomatic offensive
Tony Blair will use an emergency statement to Parliament today to make
public for the first time Britain's
From AFP:
Washington welcomed both Blair's speech and NATO's response to the evidence
it presented, but declined to offer any clues on what that evidence was and
flatly rejected a request from the Taliban to be given some of it too
COMMENT:
So even though theTaliban offered to give up bin Laden
Even if bin Laden's supporters and sympathizers wish to ignore the evidence
that is leaking out the pores of official sources all over the world, there
is plenty of hard evidence on the series of terrorist actions organized by
bin Laden already publically available. Cruise the FBI website
Andrew Austin wrote:
Even if bin Laden's supporters and sympathizers wish to ignore the
evidence that is leaking out the pores of official sources all over the
world, there is plenty of hard evidence on the series of terrorist actions
organized by bin Laden already publically available. Cruise
I concur with Jim. We have no need to discuss the bin Laden here,
expecially when we know so little about him and his organization.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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I foresee at some point a man with a white piece of paper in his hand
stating, I have here the names of dozens of known Bin Laden supporters
in the White House.
Steve
On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Michael Perelman wrote:
I concur with Jim. We have no need to discuss the bin Laden here,
I have already been hearing resports of intrusive FBI investigations of
people who have had no possible connection with the bombing -- for
instance, a SF branch of the peace group, Women in Black.
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 05:42:20PM -1000, Stephen E Philion wrote:
I foresee at some point a man
alterations in Washington's publicity on the
business. We were promised the promulgation of specific and decisive
evidence, and what we're getting is the assertion that whatever secrets
apparently convince Whitehall and the Pentagon should be good enough for us.
I understand that there might
The New York Times
December 16, 2000, Saturday, Late Edition - Final
SECTION: Section A; Page 12; Column 1; National Desk
HEADLINE: U.S. Frees Palestinian Held 3 Years on Secret Evidence
BYLINE: By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS
DATELINE: WASHINGTON, Dec. 15
Attorney General Janet Reno today authorized
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/19/00 12:07PM
What is so special about hobbies like hunting and sport that elevates
people to a special status in this country, whereas work or protecting work
conditions does not. In fact, protecting workers' interests will not even
get you the public benefit status
Greetings Economists,
I will reach into Carrol's comments on depression to make a point about
rationality which leaps out at me from Carrol's comments,
Carrol,
..."Most of us, when "depressed," are unable to do sustained reading (of any
texts). I own a stationary bicycle, and while suffering
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote,
Actually, nearly all feminists -- including even Carol Gilligan --
have written about how sexism victimizes men as well, not just women
(if you haven't noticed the prevalence of this argument in feminism,
you haven't read many feminists). And this feminist
to in the above? Evidence? Citation?
To have to live up to some kind of emotionless rationality - to avow, and
to have ascribed to you, no explanation or excuse to be eg. chronically
depressed - well, that sounds pretty crappy to me. So does having one's
intellect and potential ignored and mistrusted because
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
sound reasons to be depressed)
This reduces the whole discussion to nonsense. The *whole* point about clinical
depression is that one is "depressed" WITHOUT any reasons, sound or otherwise,
for being depressed. (We are not dealing here with the "ultimate" causes,
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
sound reasons to be depressed)
This reduces the whole discussion to nonsense. The *whole* point about
clinical
depression is that one is "depressed" WITHOUT any reasons, sound or otherwise,
for being depressed. (We are not dealing here with the "ultimate" causes,
Ricardo wrote:
Maybe I was too subtle. She picked stuff out of the air, and
misrepresented her sources. Read the Flanders piece.
Doug
Methinks it is you who's picking stuff out of the air making
accusations against Sommers without offering any evidence.
At 5:34 PM -0300 7/31/00
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Speaking of evidence, can Ricardo offer evidence for his insinuation
that studies that have found "for every male diagnosed as suffering
from depression, two to six times as many females are so diagnosed"
are inaccurate? What's his ground for t
subtle. She picked stuff out of the air, and
misrepresented her sources. Read the Flanders piece.
Doug
Methinks it is you who's picking stuff out of the air making
accusations against Sommers without offering any evidence.
At 5:34 PM -0300 7/31/00, Ricardo Duchesne also wrote:
Studies have
At 04:29 PM 08/01/2000 -0500, you wrote:
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Speaking of evidence, can Ricardo offer evidence for his insinuation
that studies that have found "for every male diagnosed as suffering
from depression, two to six times as many females are so diagnosed"
are
At 06:36 PM 08/01/2000 -0400, you wrote:
For good criticism of Gilligan see also a fine book called the Mismeasure
of Woman, I forget the author
Carol Tavris. It's a good book (though it leaves important stuff out).
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine
G'day Carrol ( yeah, I know you don't read my posts, but that doesn't mean
one of us can't be civil, eh?)
The disproportion in rates of clinical depression between men and women is
one of those facts so widely known and accepted that like the fact that
Lansing is the capital of Michigan it does
inter alia) emotional and masculinity as reasonable.
Any feminist knows this, as Carrol the rest of us (except Ricardo) do.
The patronising and stifling insult sustained by women here seems the pick
of two real stinkers ...
What do you exactly refer to in the above? Evidence? Citation?
All I see is t
This surge has nothing to do with economic fundamentals in Asia.
Henry C.K. Liu
Saturday, July 3, 1999
Asian surge continues
AGENCIES
Asian stock markets pushed further ahead
yesterday, with blue chips in
Apologies to the list for the double posting,
though sometimes repetition can be helpful.
mbs
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A Third of Refugees Report Rights Abuses . . .
A Third of Refugees Report Rights Abuses
Kosovo Survey Reveals 'Brutal Campaign'
By William Branigin
Washington Post Sta*ff Writer
Wednesday, June 16, 1999; Page A32
Nearly a third of Kosovo refugee
actually, there is no reason to worry about the IMF being strapped for cash,
because
1) it isn't. a recent gao report says the IMF has $43 billion in lendable
reserves. when you add in the New Arrangements to Borrow and their gold
reserves, they have $100 billion; if you count their ability
Robert Naiman's note on the IMF is a perfect example of what I was referring to
in my earlier post on socializing the downturns and privatizing the booms.
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At 08:41 PM 8/4/98 -0700, Michael P. wrote:
Robert Naiman's note on the IMF is a perfect example of what I was
referring to
in my earlier post on socializing the downturns and privatizing the booms.
this seems to be a dynamic version of Norman Thomas' phrase "socialism for
the rich, capitalism
Michael Eisenscher forwarded a column
Study Considers Worst Case If Asia
Collapses
By Clay Chandler
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, August 1, 1998; Page C01
Call it the Asian Armageddon scenario:
Instead of getting better, Asia's economic crisis just gets
worse -- lots worse. Policy
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At the signing ceremony for Ukraine s admission into the aggressive
practitioners? or, in the language of the staff "are they acting like
kamakazee's for their race?"
does anyone have any anecdotal evidence on this point? a lit. search
revealed no comparative stats. on black/white placement rates upon
completion of the phd. so, i pose the following questi
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