U.S. Public Is Unconvinced on War

2002-12-21 Thread Chris Burford
Significant article on their website by the president of the US Council on Foreign Relations http://www.cfr.org/publication.php?id=5326 The website does not quickly reveal to me the annual budget of the Council and its main sources of income. Nor whether, according to information that I

Global Women's Strike's Call to Support the Venezuelan Revolution

2002-12-21 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
The Venezuelan revolution by GLOBAL WOMEN'S STRIKE Fri, Dec 20 2002, 11:00pm phone: 087 7838688 [EMAIL PROTECTED] An appeal from women to women all over the world We women reject the organizers of hate and chaos. We women are on the front line for our right to live in peace and to defend the

Bribes Offered to Key Officers to Topple Chavez

2002-12-21 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Venezuelan Opposition Solicits Key Officers Payments Offered To Topple Chavez By Scott Wilson Washington Post Foreign Service Saturday, December 21, 2002; Page A01 MARACAY, Venezuela -- As gasoline, food and patience run low in Venezuela's punishing 19-day-old national strike, President Hugo

Re: Re: Re: The ideological implications of Scorcese's latest f...

2002-12-21 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 12/20/02 6:41:48 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: "America was born in the streets," the posters for "Gangs" proclaim. Later, Amsterdam Vallon, in the aftermath of the draft riots, muses that "our great city was born in blood and tribulation." Nobody as

Re: The Economicst considers Karl Marx ref # 33297

2002-12-21 Thread Doyle Saylor
Greetings Economists, first Jim Devine writes unconvincingly, Jim D: but just as the lunatics have taken over the asylum, the looney right wing has taken over the conciousness of much of the US citizenry (at least here in SoCal), along with taking over more and more of the judiciary every day.

Re: muscular economics

2002-12-21 Thread Doug Henwood
Michael Perelman wrote: Krugman's latest says: The Washington Post reports that one of Mr. Bush's frequent complaints about Larry Lindsey was that he didn't get enough physical exercise. Yeah, and an earlier article said he looked jowly on TV. In other words, he's fat, but no one wanted to

Iraq: Away to you, close to us!

2002-12-21 Thread Sabri Oncu
So was one of the slogans in the antiwar demonstrations in Istanbul. Iraq, or, Irak as we spell it, means away in my language. As the war drums are getting louder and louder, it seems we are heading towards a new map of the Middle East. Don't know what to say! Fuck you Bush, fuck you! Sabri

Re: Re: Re: The Economist considers Karl Marx

2002-12-21 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: andie nachgeborenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's a logical impossibility. If there's no state, there's no property or contract law, so no title to anything, and no sanctioned and enforceable exchanges, so no markets. A most rare and strange zone,

US: The emerging centralized state

2002-12-21 Thread Sabri Oncu
Do something about this Americans. It is getting worse. Sabri ++ New York Times December 20, 2002 Bush Administration to Propose System for Monitoring Internet By JOHN MARKOFF and JOHN SCHWARTZ The Bush administration is planning to propose requiring Internet service providers to

Venezuela Update

2002-12-21 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
* BBC News World Edition Sunday, 22 December, 2002, 01:21 GMT Venezuelan tanker forced into port The Pilin Leon had been sitting idle in Lake Maracaibo The Venezuelan Government has commandeered and steered into port an oil tanker, in an attempt to break a general strike that has led to

Déstabilisation au Venezuela

2002-12-21 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Déstabilisation au Venezuela (13 décembre 2002) Après avoir subi un cinglant échec lors de la tentative de coup d'Etat du 11 avril 2002 contre le président Hugo Chávez, l'opposition vénézuélienne, minorité électorale emmenée par l'organisation patronale Fedecamaras, la bureaucratie syndicale

Re: muscular economics

2002-12-21 Thread Michael Pollak
On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, Doug Henwood wrote: Krugman's latest says: The Washington Post reports that one of Mr. Bush's frequent complaints about Larry Lindsey was that he didn't get enough physical exercise. Yeah, and an earlier article said he looked jowly on TV. In other words, he's fat,

Re: Re: muscular economics

2002-12-21 Thread Michael Perelman
Michael, I think that you would find that academic economists on average are pretty fit. The examples you give are exceptions. My own personal observations are that you will find a fairly high percentage of academics tend to spend some time running, swimming, playing racquet sports, etc. --

Petroleros por Venezuela

2002-12-21 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
* En Maturín Petroleros por Venezuela realizan asamblea extraordinaria Por: LB Publicado: 20/12/02 Casi simultáneamente a una reunión extraordinaria realizada en la Quinta La Esmeralda (donde un grupo de trabajadores golpistas de PDVSA deicidieron no acatar el dictamen del Tribunal