Re: Stress testing the system

2002-04-13 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: Sabri Oncu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apparently, The National Interest is very much interested in publishing information about The End of everything, from history to globalization. Sabri Except the End of the construct named THE national interest. Ian

the non-linearity of deadlines

2002-04-13 Thread Ian Murray
http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline A deadline for development The global economic development regime sets for itself 2015 as the target year to reduce the extent of extreme poverty by half. A reality check. DAVID LUDDEN LEADERS of the institutions that guide global economic development have

Opportunities in airport security

2002-04-13 Thread Charles Jannuzi
If you read this article, you can see why Wackenhut and others (like federal spending parasite Carlyle Group which owns an array of companies selling services to the federal government) will want to get into airport security more deeply. Partial federalization takes the liability out of the

Re: Opportunities in airport security

2002-04-13 Thread Charles Jannuzi
As it turns out, Carlyle Group does have connections to private airport security. For a start, they own the company that makes high tech security equipment for airports. This by the way is a well written article on CG. Notice how ex-SEC head Levitt is giving his opinions everywhere about more

Global Crossing and Debt owed Japanese companies

2002-04-13 Thread Charles Jannuzi
Seems like some of the bad debt in Japan is owed by Global Crossing. And wouldn't it figure that Carlyle Group aims to buy Asia Global Crossing. From the Taipei Times April 6, 2002 BLOOMBERG, TOKYO Carlyle Group and other investors may bid at least US$250 million for Asia Global

Bureaucracy (speculative rant alert)

2002-04-13 Thread bantam
G'day Jim, Quoth you: The relationship between lords and serfs involves the direct application of force by the former against the latter to extort surplus-labor. That doesn't fit with academia well at all. (We do rely on the reserve army of academic labor, so that there is coercion of

RE: Re: Argentina, Australia and Canada

2002-04-13 Thread phillp2
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yea, there is a lot of superficial truth in this account, at least as relative to Canada. But there is also a lot of overgeneralization and obfuscation in this account also. Since I have already published several hundreds of pages and articles on this subject

Re: Re: Opportunities in airport security

2002-04-13 Thread Michael Best
Carlyle buys a segment of EGG According to Note 7 of the 2000 annual report of PerkinElmer (previously known as EGG) in 1999 EGG sold its Technical Services segment, including the outstanding capital stock of EGG Defense Materials, Inc., a subsidiary of the Company, to EGG Technical Services

Re: RE: Re: Argentina, Australia and Canada

2002-04-13 Thread Michael Perelman
Louis tells us that that the British behaved differently toward Argentina than Canada. Why? Was it because the settlers were ethnically different in Argentina from those in Canada? Did Britain have to behave differently toward Commonwealth countries? Paul, could you give us a brief outline of

class politics in India

2002-04-13 Thread Ian Murray
http://www.outlookindia.com The Indian Middle Class Caged And not in a gilded one either, with a funds-hungry government squeezing it from both directions Paromita Shastri You wonder why common sense isn't more common. And why budgets always mean more money out of your pocket. And what the

Re: Re: RE: Re: Argentina, Australia and Canada

2002-04-13 Thread phillp2
Michael, I don't know enough about Argentina to do a proper comparison, but a few points on Canada -- since the break with British colonialism in Canada's case was initiated by Britain over the opposition of the ruling elite in Canada. 1. The British were losing money on the Canadian

[Fwd: Venezuelan Generals Backing Interim President are SOA Grads]

2002-04-13 Thread Eugene Coyle
---BeginMessage--- Venezuelan Generals Backing Interim President are SOA Grads Army Commander in Chief Efrain Vasquez and General Ramirez Poveda, two of the major military backers of a transitional government, received training at the notorious US Army School of the Americas (SOA).

IMF bailouts after

2002-04-13 Thread Ulhas Joglekar
The Economic Times Saturday, April 13, 2002 IMF bailouts after JOSEPH STIGLITZ I AM a frequent IMF critic, so when the IMF gets something right, I should acknowledge it. The IMF has, at last, recognised the failure of its big bailout policies - failures all too evident in Thailand,

Chavez supporters enter the stage

2002-04-13 Thread Sabri Oncu
Top World News 04/13 19:20 Venezuela's Carmona to Restore Congress Amid Rioting (Update5) By Alex Kennedy, Patrick Gordon, Peter Wilson and Toby Muse Caracas, April 13 (Bloomberg) -- Venezuelan interim President Pedro Carmona said he would reinstate the nation's congress after soldiers and

Re: Argentina, Australia and Canada

2002-04-13 Thread Grant Lee
Louis: If it isn't already clear, I find references to monolithic, single-minded exploitative entities called Great Britain or the United States to be untenable generalisations, which ignore the complexity of real class structures and the historical agency of indigenous layers of capital (in

Venezuelan Interim President Resigns

2002-04-13 Thread Sabri Oncu
Venezuelan Interim President Resigns Sat Apr 13,11:00 PM ET By ANDREW SELSKY, Associated Press Writer Venezuela's interim president resigned Saturday — a day after taking office — in the face of protests by thousands of supporters of the ousted president, Hugo Chavez. Before the nation, before

Translation of document written by the legal Ministry of Venezuela

2002-04-13 Thread Bill Rosenberg
Translation of document written by the legal Ministry of Venezuela Caracas, April 12, 2002 PRESS RELEASE The Ministers denounce the coup against Chavez and warn that the President has not resigned. The ministers called on the Governors and on the Federal Councils of the Government to defend

Analysis of contemporary capitalism

2002-04-13 Thread miychi
Analysis of contemporary capitalism In the historical disputes among various Marxist parties,there have been many problems at issue for the development of capitalism,for example, the law of capitalist development,the agricultural problems,the theory of imperialism etc. Today the development of