[Palast wrote a version of this article for The Nation in May, but this
one, published a month later, is much clearer, shorter and better written]
One million black votes didn't count in the 2000 presidential election
It's not too hard to get your vote lost -- if some politicians want it to
be
On Sun, 8 Aug 2004, Dan Scanlan wrote:
Moveon began in protest of the Clinton impeachment. It began as a
letter that took a life of its own.
I'd like to know more about this. I've been asked to perform at a
benefit for MoveOn and need to decide.
There's an extensive profile of the MoveOn and
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Michael Perelman wrote:
What is a good source for the share of HMO dollars that goes to care
rather than profits or overhead?
Just about anything written by Steffie Woolhandler of Physicians for a
National Health Plan (http://www.pnhp.org)
Here's a short one:
[Michael Hoover rightly pointed out that New York State's politics were
worse than most other states, so people in other states might have
opportunities that we in New York don't. Apropos, here's an article on a
recent study that claims to show that our state political system in New
York politics
http://www.juancole.com/2004_07_01_juancole_archive.html#109044887342331691
Professor Thomas Naylor of McGill writes:
quote
This is certainly not the the first time these tales about Iran cooperating
with al-Qa'idah have surfaced. About two years ago US spooks floated via the
Washington Post and
URL: http://www.sundayherald.com/43461
Sunday Herald - 18 July 2004
Regime change in Iran now in Bush's sights
By Jenifer Johnston
_
PRESIDENT George Bush has promised that if re-elected in November he
will make
[That would be delicious and completely deserved. The Halliburton
subsidiary in Iran had its the Halliburton name on it! It's the kind of
gossamer thin disguise that is used all the time to get around offshore
regulations -- but which also get enforced from time to time when people
decide to
[An obvious point but a good one to keep in mind: there are always at
least two very strong incentives toward threat assessment inflation: CYA
and the drive for institutional expansion]
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/16/international/16DISPATCHES.html
The New York Times
July 16, 2004
DISPATCHES
On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Devine, James wrote:
speaking of threat assessment inflation, there was an ad by the
Committee on the Present Danger in the NY TIMES yesterday. That kind of
inflation is their business.
some of them were called honorable as their titles. What makes someone
officially
I recently read that nominal housing prices have never declined in the US
since WWII. Real prices have declined three times, durind the mid and
late seventies and the early 90s, but nominal prices never. Is that
really true? It makes it look as if people who think they're ever-rising,
rather
On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, Doug Henwood wrote:
maybe the three million or so people who voted for nader in 2000 should
take control of local democratic executive committees, use structure in
place to recruit candidates, slag off on dems who suck, use available
funds to issue policy statements and press
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Louis Proyect wrote that the Turkish documentary The
Restorer would be playing at the following times and channels:
July 21, 8.30 pm. channel 34 Time Warner or 107 RCN,
July 29, 3.00pm channel 56 TW, or 108 RCN
Aug 4, 12 midnight channel 67 TW, 110 RCN.
Louis, are you sure
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Doug Henwood wrote:
I think you're overstating things. The infiltration strategy could have
some influence on who gets elected, and also on the environment in which
other elected officials operate - they'll have to respond to and
compromise with a whole new set of actors.
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Doug Henwood wrote:
What the conservatives did was very different. But they also had very
different issues than us -- ones that
1) they deeply believed in;
2) which could be vitally affected at the most local levels; and
3) which were so far off the map that they rated
Those can only be affected at the state level, -- which in our state,
means taking over governorship and the speakership. Nothing short of
that would have any effect at all.
This is curiously maximalist for you. Organized efforts can influence
incumbents if they feel like their incumbency is
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Michael Hoover wrote:
self-selected candidates often don't care whether they get local party
support or not (and sometimes prefer not), surely progressive/left folks
can do better than this with whatever shell of an organization exists...
I think there is now a much more
[I saw this at a festival this winter. It's a wonderful movie about the
ambivalences of being a woman. Funny, heart-warming, and for me at least,
very informative. It gives a deeply satisfying explanation of the
oft-cited statistic of why most women are wearing the wrong size bra --
which turns
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/20/national/20guard.html
The New York Times
July 20, 2004
Governors Tell of War's Impact on Local Needs
By SARAH KERSHAW
S EATTLE, July 19 - With tens of thousands of their citizen soldiers
now deployed in Iraq, many of the nation's governors complained on
[This is much more interesting than the usual discussion. Several fairly
intelligent things get said and the video game automaton explanation
barely rates a mention. But it's the the comparative stats between WWII
and Vietnam which occur halfway through that really grabbed my attention.
They
[Does this argument make any sense? I can't see any upside for the
planters in this arrangment. It seems they would be better off doing all
their deals on the spot market. And it doesn't seem to provide any
explanation for the collapse. It seems they are just in love with the
ratio and are
[from Robert Weissman's Stop IMF list]
[Long but interesting all the way through]
call out quote
The trouble is, few of the countries winning those grants are ready to
absorb them. Their health systems have withered under austerity plans
imposed by foreign creditors. Doctors and nurses have left
What has gotten Ms. Poller worked up is Mr. Bush's decision not to
address the 95th annual convention of the N.A.A.C.P. this year, making
him the first sitting president since Herbert Hoover not to meet with
the group during an entire term in office, N.A.A.C.P. officials said.
Full at:
[An interesting addendum to the segment in F-9/11 about the paucity of patrols
in the National Parks in Washington State]
[It was only yesterday I heard a radio commentator wrongly holding this up as
an example of a Moore-ish distortion because he thought it was a matter of
state budgets that Bush
[I've got a reflex that makes me look for the fishy spot every time a CATO
guy says anything, even if he says he's on our side, especially if he says
that. Still, some of it's got a half-plausible ring. Not sure it how it
would turn out if they tried to enforce it, though.]
[Succinct last paragraph]
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/09/opinion/O9LAMB.html
The New York Times
July 9, 2004
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
The Two Sides of Kabul
By CHRISTINA LAMB
K ABUL, Afghanistan
Look, the swimming pool is in the shape of a martini glass, boasts
Alex, as he shows
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1254072,00.html
Monday July 5, 2004
The Guardian
Did one woman's obsession take America to war?
She is a conspiracy theorist whose political conceits have
consistently been proved wrong. So why were Bush and his aides so keen
to
[Rosen's letter to editor to the Atlantic, posted by Juan Cole]
http://www.juancole.com/2004_07_01_juancole_archive.html#108913458457643751
Guest Comment on Fallujah and Kaplan: Nir Rosen
Journalist Nir Rosen, who has spent most of the past year in Iraq and
has fluent Arabic, recently
[Interesting memo because it seems to prove more clearly than any other
that torture was systematically applied to insurgents in Iraq. Everyone
guesses that by now, but this seems like proof.]
[It also contains in passing the statistic that acccording to the US
military's own figures, less than
[See comment at end]
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/01/pageoneplus/corrections.html
The New York Times
July 1, 2004
Corrections
A n article yesterday about Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun, the American
marine held by kidnappers in Iraq, quoted incompletely from a comment
by a cousin of his in
[From Sam Smith's Undernews]
URL: http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/328/7454/1458
British Journal of Medicine
Bush plans to screen whole US population for mental illness
Jeanne Lenzer
New York
A sweeping mental health initiative will be unveiled by President George W
Bush in July.
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Ben Bradlee was quoted as saying:
Nobody gives a rat's ass about bylines. - Ben Bradlee, during a
Washington Post byline strike in the 70s.
Spoken as a true boss -- and justified in context. But I don't think it
necessarily applies to this one.
In the ferocious 1975-76
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/15/opinion/15SING.html
The New York Times
June 15, 2004
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
Nation Builders and Low Bidders in Iraq
By P. W. SINGER
W ASHINGTON From the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison to the mutilation of
American civilians at Falluja, many of the
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/15/international/africa/15moza.html
The New York Times
June 15, 2004
Cable Thievery Is Darkening Daily Life in Mozambique
By MICHAEL WINES
! 7 SEPTEMBER, Mozambique - At first blush, it may not seem odd that
Mozambican businesses are doing a brisk trade
[The credibility gap starts to become visible]
[From Slate's Today's Papers]
snip
Apparently tiring of Attorney General Ashcroft's habit of slightly
spinning terror cases, *nobody* fronts his announcement that a Somali man
has been indicted for his role in an alleged plot to blow up an Ohio
[Well here's a creative tactic in a labor dispute making it onto the front
page of the WSJ. I just asked a friend who is a reporter there and he
says yep, it's on -- he has a front page piece tomorrow running with no
byline and considers it a matter of pride. Things are getting rancorous.]
[Got it from A.W.A.D, so don't know the exact source]
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary
depends upon his not understanding it. -Upton Sinclair, novelist and
reformer (1878-1968)
Michael
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/13/international/asia/13INDI.html
The New York Times
June 13, 2004
Short on Priests, U.S. Catholics Outsource Prayers to Indian Clergy
By SARITHA RAI
B ANGALORE, India - With Roman Catholic clergy in short supply in the
United States, Indian priests are
[speaking of wikipedia articles, here's one that seems germane]
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Generalissimo-Francisco-Franco-is-still-dead
Updated: Jun 08, 2004
Encyclopedia: Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead
The
[Like a right wing nightmare of a big government police state]
[NB: even the coalition official admits this off the record]
[BTW, it's worth reading all the way through for its documentary cum
short story value]
URL: http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/8891610.htm
URL: http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/2004/mj04/mj04lortie.html
May/June 2004, Volume 60, No. 3, p. 12
BULLETIN OF THE ATOMIC SCIENTISTS
Bush's nuclear FreedomCAR
By Bret Lortie
In his 2003 State of the Union address, President George Bush proposed
$1.2 billion in research
Apropos the use and abuse of the memory of WWII, here's an article c/o of
Sam Smith's Undernews:
URL: http://www.lancasteronline.com/pages/news/local/6749
May 23, 2004
Lancaster (PA) Sunday News
Gil Smart
Smart News
snip
Believe it or not, the writer states, the
In the Wednesday USA Today, the article that covers Bush's speech is
subheaded:
quote
Occupation Will End Soon; Troops Remain Indefinitely
unquote
Michael
On Tue May 25, Michael Perelman wrote:
As far as we're concerned we've been entirely successful. That tyrant
Saddam is gone and the Americans are in Baghdad. What was said before
is not important. The Bush administration is looking for a scapegoat.
We're ready to fall on our swords if he
http://www.cartoonbank.com/product_details.asp?mscssid=AT1VQC89CE608MUND8P0LBU63RKK1R88sitetype=1sid=70643did=4
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2004%2F02%2F19%2Fwirq19.xml
Chalabi stands by faulty intelligence that toppled Saddam's regime
By Jack Fairweather in Baghdad and Anton La Guardia
(Filed: 19/02/2004)
snip
Ahmad Chalabi: 'we've been entirely
http://slate.msn.com/id/2100720/
This is not perfectly executed (it's a bit tendentious), but it's easy to
imagine it done perfectly, and it seems like a great idea. It does a
great job of capturing what's wrong with the man's speech. It's not that
he makes gaffes, but rather lards that he
[If this is true, I think I'm just going to through in the towel and
decide that covert intelligence is an oxymoron. Is there no country with
a spy agency who can divine their own long-term interests? Are they all
willing to shipwreck their country just for the chance to say they made
something
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/02/magazine/02LIVES.html
The New York Times
May 2, 2004
Into the Heart of Falluja
By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
M ovement to Contact. That was the name of the mission. And the moment
we set off I knew it was dicey. It was 4 a.m. The sky was inky. I was
[Hey, we won the war! Isn't it in our interests that [Americans like my
friends get the contract instead of stinking Europeans! So what if US
forces die in the short term for lack of good communications. I'm talking
long term.]
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/30/nyregion/30ghana.html
The New York Times
April 30, 2004
Studying Albany, and Giggling Politely
By MARC SANTORA
A LBANY, April 29 - The people of the visiting party from Ghana, a
fledgling West African democracy, spoke perfect English, but walking
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/09/opinion/09WRIG.html
New York Times
April 9, 2004
One Hearing, Two Worlds
By ROBERT WRIGHT
snip
Even a quite vigilant administration would have needed some luck to
catch wind of Al Qaeda's plans. Moreover, President Bush was hardly
alone in
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/la-040704iraq_wr,1,895904.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Fallouja Mosque Hit by Rocket, 40 Said Killed
From Associated Press
7:41 AM PDT, April 7, 2004
FALLOUJA, Iraq -- U.S. Marines in a fierce battle for this Sunni Muslim
stronghold fired rockets that
['The June 30 thing is mostly symbolic,' said Joseph S. Nye, dean of
Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and a former assistant defense
secretary in the Clinton administration. 'What you have on June 30
essentially is a transformation of the CPA into an embassy. But it's
mostly in name.']
[A
[There's nothing new about boondoggles in military procurement. But
there's a systematic reason why it's 20 times worse now than it's ever
been before: measured by personnel, the amount of work that is outsourced
is 10 times higher than it was at the time of the first Gulf war
(according to Frida
Copyright 2001 Associated Press
All Rights Reserved
Associated Press Online
January 17, 2001; Wednesday
LENGTH: 531 words
HEADLINE: Clinton Adviser Warns of Bin Laden
BYLINE: EUN-KYUNG KIM
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
BODY:
Incoming National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday that
[So even Arnaud de Borchgrave knows the cold war is over?]
URL: http://www.upi.com/print.cfm?StoryID=20040329-094918-2616r
Commentary: Chalabi's road to victory
By ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE
UPI Editor at Large
Published 3/29/2004 12:24 PM
WASHINGTON, March 29 (UPI) -- With only
[The headline and introduction to this are completely misleading -- they
make it sound like this is an approach that has promise: It is not clear
whether they had won, or lost, more hearts and minds. But the day by day
account that follows seems to me to leave no doubt. This seems like a
In today's Times one of Rice's minions, Franklin Miller, disputes Clarke's
account of 9/11:
quote
In Mr. Clarke's account, in a chapter called Evacuate the White House,
he heads into the Situation Room at the first word of attack and begins
issuing orders to close embassies and put military
[From the Slate newsletter, Today's Papers]
excerpt
USA Today leads with a poll that has President Bush ahead of Senator Kerry
49 percent to 45 percent with Ralph Nader at 4 percent. The poll claims
that in 17 battleground states where Bush has launched an ad barrage,
Kerry went from a 28 point
First the military diverted specialized forces from Afghanistan to Iraq:
URL: http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20040329/6056156s.htm
And now the same process is being carried out by the free market:
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/30/politics/30MILI.html
Michael
[Here's a word ripe for resurrection. And what a doubly apt etymology.]
bushwa (BUSH-wa) noun, also bushwah
Nonsense; bull.
[Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a mispronunciation of bourgeois.]
The tone of his (Antonin Scalia's) remarks suggested that the court had
never before moved social
[The FT also ran a longer and more detailed article on the same day, from
which I just want to cull the following paragraph, which emphasizes that
they suspected it was ETA from literally the very first moment they
arrived on the scene:]
[After 30 years in the front line of the battel against
Headline on one of the front page articles in today's FT:
Afghanistan in danger of reverting to terror breeding ground, warns UN
and the pullout quote is:
The report notes Iraq receives '10 times as much development assistance
with [a similar] population.'
Michael
[The fun part is 1/3 of the way down: even David Kay is unloading on the
Bushits now]
The Independent (UK)
29 March 2004
Iraqi defector behind America's WMD claims exposed as 'out-and-out
fabricator'
By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
The case for war against Iraq was dealt another
[By using State Department and Pentagon money to propagandize the US
domestic audience?]
April 5th Issue
Newsweek
Chalabi: A Questionable Use of U.S. Funding
Under investigation: Congress is examining whether Ahmad Chalabi
inappropriately used U.S. taxpayer dollars to prod
[Summary of an article in today's WP from Slate's Today's Papers
newsletter:]
quote
Each day, activists fan out to collect signatures for a petition rejecting
the interim constitution, which Sistani opposes. Thousands of those
signatures are scanned in nightly and sent by CD to headquarters in
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/28/magazine/28QUESTIONS.html
[A pretty good column...]
And one more sizeable step in his suprisingly swift evolution away from
mainstream economic thinking and towards common sense:
There's a lesson in this experience. Sometimes there's no magic in the
free market - in fact, it can be a hindrance. Health insurance is one
[This is great. Read this mundane article in the normal fashion. And
then laugh out loud when you come to the buried -- and disavowed -- lede.
These people at the Times have no shame.]
The New York Times In America
March 22, 2004
Delivery Delays Hurt U.S. Effort to Equip Iraqis
By THOM
[The $150 billion underestimate is only the beginning. The details are
actually worse.]
URL: http://www.nathannewman.org/log/archives/001593.shtml
March 20, 2004
Withheld Medicare Details
In a classic Friday information dump, the Bush administration allowed
Richard Foster, the
[Life imitates Onion dept.]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-3876471,00.html
Thursday March 18, 2004 7:31 PM
STATESBORO, Ga. (AP) - A couple was arrested after their argument over a
theological point turned physical following a night at the movies to see
``The Passion of the
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A64913-2004Mar16
Don't Expect Fed To Limit Banks' Bad Behavior
By Steven Pearlstein
Wednesday, March 17, 2004; Page E01
How many financial scandals does a banking company have to be involved
in before the Federal Reserve will finally
I didn't catch the earlier part of this thread, but what scale are we
talking here? The world's largest oil producer is Russia.
The largest average daily producer, but not the largest proven reserves
and not the largest exporter.
Michael
Financial Times; Mar 10, 2004
Jobs data look as poor in quality as quantity
By Christopher Swann in Washington
Job-creation figures in the US may have struck many economists as dismal
over the past few months. But even as job quantity dominates the political
agenda, the quality of the few jobs
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/02/opinion/02KRUG.html
New York Times
March 2, 2004
Maestro of Chutzpah
By PAUL KRUGMAN
T he traditional definition of chutzpah says it's when you murder your
parents, then plead for clemency because you're an orphan. Alan
Greenspan has chutzpah.
[What's interesting here is the listing of precise numbers each special
interest contributed to produce this result. I wonder if we'll see more
of this in articles like this now that everyone can just look it up in
Charles Lewis's book _The Selling of the President_. It makes very clear
the
[Nice history lesson]
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/13/opinion/13SMIT.html
February 13, 2004
Beware Generals Bearing a Grudge
By JEAN EDWARD SMITH
H UNTINGTON, W.Va.
In pulling out of the Democratic presidential race, Gen. Wesley Clark
ended what was once a promising quest
The New York Times In America
February 12, 2004
The Khan Artist
By MAUREEN DOWD
W ASHINGTON
I think President Bush has cleared up everything now.
The U.S. invaded Iraq, which turned out not to have what our pals in
Pakistan did have and were giving out willy-nilly to all the
On Sat, 7 Feb 2004 Michael Perelman wrote:
The electability phenomenon has the potential to allow small bits of
information to cascade into huge consequences. It also means that when
people learn about the problems with Kerry, they will be more easily
discouraged.
No on both counts. You
On Sat 7 Feb, 2004, Slate's Michael Kinsley was quoted as saying:
The process the Democrats are putting themselves through resembles John
Maynard Keynes' famous description of the stock market. The game isn't
to figure out which stocks are most likely to do well, but to figure out
which
[The argument in a nutshell: longevity is rising even faster than forecast
(and the forecasts were already unbelievable in historical context). But
the elderly are also becoming much healthier than forecast -- to the point
where it is likely that the average period of disability before death will
Published on Friday, January 23, 2003 by UPI
Janes: U.S. Might Strike Hezbollah in Bakaa
by Lou Marano
WASHINGTON -- The prospect of the United States attacking Hezbollah
bases in southern Lebanon is no idle threat, the editor of Jane's
Intelligence Digest said Friday.
URL:
Friday, January 23, 2003
Agence France Presse
Canadian Sues US for Deporting Him to Syria for Torture
NEW YORK - A Syrian-born Canadian filed a lawsuit in US federal court,
accusing Attorney General John Ashcroft and other top officials of
deporting him to Syria in the knowledge he would be
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Louis Proyect wrote:
Now that Dean has come in third in the first primary, the media smells
blood and won't be happy until he is out of the race.
Yeah, but that could play to his advantage. If he wins the next few --
which he well might, since Iowa is in everyway an
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, michael wrote:
Here is a quiz. Who can find something that this adminstration has done
right?
Our policy towards Libya and Sudan has changed for the better. They're
kind of exceptions that prove the rule -- they both happened for weird and
perverse reasons and won't
[One cheer for Lula deparment]
January 3, 2004
The New York Times
Brazil Pays Parents to Help Poor Be Pupils, Not Wage Earners
By CELIA W. DUGGER
F ORTALEZA, Brazil Vandelson Andrade, 13, often used to skip school to
work 12-hour days on the small, graceful fishing boats that sail
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Renato Ribeiro Pompeu wrote:
[One cheer for Lula deparment]
As a matter of fact, these programs began long before Lula became
president. They were initiated principally by municipal governments.
That's why he gets one cheer instead of three. But he is increasing them
URL: http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040112s=alterman
George W. (You can't distinguish between Al Qaeda and
Saddam when you talk about the war on terror) Bush cannot pretend to
defend deceiving the nation into war anymore. When ABC's Diane Sawyer
pressed him in an interview
The New York Times In America
December 31, 2003
Karzai Refuses Deal on 18th Day of Afghan Talks
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 2:36 p.m. ET
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- President Hamid Karzai's insistence on a
powerful presidency under Afghanistan's new constitution is driving a
[The argument that the MMA has substantially moderated in a relatively
short time since taking power is interesting]
Financial Times; Dec 29, 2003
A perfect moment to secure peace in Kashmir
By Mansoor Ijaz
Early next month, Pakistan is due to host the annual South Asian
Association for
Financial Times; Dec 30, 2003
BACK PAGE - FIRST SECTION: Secular education chalks up success with
Pakistan's poor
By Farhan Bokhari
In one of the poorest areas of Pakistan's biggest city, it is no surprise
to see walls plastered with graffiti calling for volunteers to join a
Taliban-style
From the Today's Papers newsletter for December 18th:
quote
The Post says all the way on A42 that the head of the weapons of mass
destruction search team, David Kay, is quitting. It's not exactly clear
when Kay is going to clean out his desk, but the WP says he might not be
back after the
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[I thought this was a surprising good discussion that covered all the
bases.]
Interesting though, that the general principle that in a fixed rate
system the burden of adjustment falls on the deficit country, is
completely ignored; ie the entire
From today's Washington Post:
Judge Patrick Higginbotham, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th
Circuit and one of three federal judges hearing the case, seemed skeptical
of the Democrats' suggestion that redistricting had ever been a
scrupulously fair undertaking.
He recalled that former
[passed on to me from a friend in the SEIU DC office]
[As if to thicken the irony, today is International Human Rights Day]
===
We have just received an urgent appeal from the Iraqi Federation of Trade
Unions which we feel needs to be passed on to the largest possible number
of trade
From last week's The Onion
Alan Colmes Loses Argument With Nephew
NEW YORK--Alan Colmes, the liberal co-host of the Fox News debate
program Hannity Colmes, lost an argument to his nephew Bryan
while babysitting the 8-year-old Monday. I wanted to stay up late
to watch
[I thought this was a surprising good discussion that covered all the
bases.]
Financial Times, December 2, 2003
China must move to a flexible currency -- eventually
By Martin Wolf
To float or not to float, that is the question. To be more precise, it is
one of the questions. The Chinese
[He can rant all he wants about a referendum next November (now that he's
missed the deadline for March). His money runs out in June]
Financial Times; Dec 11, 2003
Moody's downgrade deepens Californian budgetary woes
By Christopher Parkes in Los Angeles
Moody's Investors Service, a top credit
URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3249574.stm
BBC NEWS
Woman crushed in rush at DVD sale
A US store chain has apologised to a woman knocked unconscious as
shoppers rushed for a sale of DVD players.
Patricia VanLester was knocked to the ground in the frenzied dash for
[So this is the basis of democracy, huh?]
New York Times
November 30, 2003
BUILDING DEMOCRACY
Iraqis Learn Bureaucracy at Town Hall Meetings
By JOEL BRINKLEY
B AGHDAD, Iraq, Nov. 29 They are the vanguard of democracy in Iraq,
and they like to say they are a most unhappy lot.
I
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