Sailing towards Valentine's Day

2003-02-05 Thread Chris Burford
Yesterday, as Blair and Chirac rehearsed their disagreements in public with every show of courtesy, the French launched their only aircraft carrier to join up on the way to the Gulf for exercises with the US. Blair declared that 14th February is a decision day for him and presumably Bush.

Re: Turkey: War protocol

2003-02-05 Thread Sabri Oncu
Michael: Almost $300,000 per soldier. In 1953, when the US Secretary of State Dalles claimed that Turkey supplied the cheapest soldiers to NATO, for 23 cents each, Nazim wrote a poem entitled: A soldier for 23 cents It starts like this: Mister Dalles, It is not appropriate to hide it from

What will the Turkish Government remember as it votes on the war thisweek?

2003-02-05 Thread Sabri Oncu
Istanbul Independent Media Center - Original article is at http://istanbul.indymedia.org/news/2003/02/131.php What will the Turkish Government remember as it votes on the war this week? by Ayse Gul Altinay • Wednesday February 05, 2003 at 12:59 AM Last week,

Oddly enough

2003-02-05 Thread Tom Walker
http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNewsstoryID=2174773 UN Cover-Up: Guernica Hidden as U.S. Speaks on Iraq Wed February 5, 2003 11:35 AM ET UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - In a bold cover-up, the United Nations on Wednesday concealed behind a blue cloth and a row of flags the

IRA/RothIRA

2003-02-05 Thread joanna bujes
What, if anything, would be the advantage of converting an IRA to a RothIRA? Thanks, Joanna

Re: IRA/RothIRA

2003-02-05 Thread Shane Mage
What, if anything, would be the advantage of converting an IRA to a RothIRA? Thanks, Joanna Advantage: IRA withdrawals are taxable income, Roth IRA withdrawals are tax free. Disadvantage: The entire balance transferred in the conversion counts as taxable income in the year

FW: The ABCs of Political Economy

2003-02-05 Thread Devine, James
teachers of economics may be interested in the following announcement. Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine I wanted to let you know that The ABCs of Political Economy: A Modern Perspective hasbeen published and is now availablefromStylus Publishing who is the

steal this university

2003-02-05 Thread Ian Murray
Steal This University The Rise of the Corporate University and an Academic Labor Movement -- edited by Benjamin Herber Johnson , Kevin Mattson , Patrick Kavanagh Publisher: Routledge Pub Date: 01/2003 Pages: 272 pages Size: 6 x 9 ISBN: 0415934834 Edition: First About the Book Welcome to

Channel 4 News on Powell's speech 7pm London time

2003-02-05 Thread Chris Burford
much old and widely known. Pentagon prevailed over CIA in including softer evidence. Result pretty uneven Aim to overwhelm by quantity rather than quality of evidence. Expert from Janes' intelligence: could not rely on pictures alone without corroboration from inside witnesses. British

the $

2003-02-05 Thread Ian Murray
Dollar slumps as markets wait for war The Guardian Staff and agencies Wednesday February 5, 2003 The dollar fell to a four-year low against the euro today amid market nervousness ahead of a speech by US secretary of state Colin Powell to the UN security council on the possibility of war with

RE: Channel 4 News on Powell's speech 7pm London time

2003-02-05 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:34367] Channel 4 News on Powell's speech 7pm London time and even if Hussein has weapons of mass destruction, the burden of proof is on the US to show that Iraq is a clear and present danger to the world at the present point in history. After all, Bush proposes to kill a

Looking for work

2003-02-05 Thread GeorgeCSDS
An Israeli doctor says Medicine in my country is so advanced that we can take a kidney out of one man, put it in another, and have him looking for work in six weeks. A German doctor says That is nothing, we can take a lung out of one person, put it in another, and have him looking for work in

leaked British intelligence report

2003-02-05 Thread Chris Burford
BBC: Leaked report rejects Iraqi al-Qaeda link http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2727471.stm This caused Blair some embarrassment and obliged him to make clear the differences between Britain and the USA ahead of Powell's speech on the question of whether Iraq has links with Al Qaeda

BBC Newsnight on Powell speech

2003-02-05 Thread Chris Burford
A Gaullist MP Jacques Myard, appeared sceptical that Iraq is likely to have mass quantities of chemical or biological weapons and that these amount to a significant threat. Sir Andrew Green former British Ambassador to Saudi Arabia stated his opinion that the test of evidence appropriate to

No casus belli? Invent one!

2003-02-05 Thread Chris Burford
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,889419,00.html

PEN-L equals redistributionist LIBERALS

2003-02-05 Thread hudal
I look at PEN-L and all I see are a bunch of LIBERALS from universities whose economic schemes all seem to involve big government coming in to enact their redistributionist schemes. I see a lot of talk about economics, including the discredited Marx. Well here are some things that you seem to

Re: PEN-L equals redistributionist LIBERALS

2003-02-05 Thread Carl Remick
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I look at PEN-L and all I see are a bunch of LIBERALS from universities whose economic schemes all seem to involve big government coming in to enact their redistributionist schemes. I see a lot of talk about economics, including the discredited Marx. Well here are some

RE: PEN-L equals redistributionist LIBERALS

2003-02-05 Thread Max B. Sawicky
gee i never thought about it that way before . . . -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 8:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:34374] PEN-L equals redistributionist LIBERALS I look

Re: leaked British intelligence report

2003-02-05 Thread Carl Remick
From: Chris Burford [EMAIL PROTECTED] BBC: Leaked report rejects Iraqi al-Qaeda link http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2727471.stm This caused Blair some embarrassment and obliged him to make clear the differences between Britain and the USA ahead of Powell's speech on the question of whether

Re: PEN-L equals redistributionist LIBERALS

2003-02-05 Thread Doug Henwood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People who don't like working for a company should START THEIR OWN BUSINESS. And people who don't like getting old should JUST GET YOUNGER! People who don't like being sick should JUST GET HEALTHY! I can forsee an entire genre of SELF-HELP HERE. Doug

Re: PEN-L equals redistributionist LIBERALS

2003-02-05 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I look at PEN-L and all I see are a bunch of LIBERALS from universities === You forgot to mention that we're also a bunch of pantheists who see all of space-time as a temple with way too many money changers wrecking the place.

RE: Re: PEN-L equals redistributionist LIBERALS

2003-02-05 Thread Marens, Richard S.
Doug Sounds good to me, maybe you've writing the wrong kind of books. I'm sure you guys and gyns have discussed this already, but is Christopher Hitchens on some kind of medication? He sounds not so much reactionary as to my ears as incoherent, like the people who used to wander up and down

letter to Biden

2003-02-05 Thread Dan Scanlan
Title: letter to Biden 379 Clark St Grass Valley CA 95945 Sen. Joseph Biden US Senate Washingon DC FAX: 202-224-0139 Feb 5, 2003 Senator Biden, Your statement re Colin Powell's assertions at the UN Security Council today places you solidly in the wrong. If you were to take your concerns and

Re: Re: PEN-L equals redistributionist LIBERALS

2003-02-05 Thread andie nachgeborenen
I'm a liberal, but not from a university. The universities didn't want me because i was too radical. This is actually true. jks Ian Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message -From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I look at PEN-L and all I see are a bunch of LIBERALS from

Venezuela Fixes Bolivar

2003-02-05 Thread Sabri Oncu
Top Financial News 02/06 00:22 Venezuela Fixes Bolivar 17 Percent Stronger (Update1) By Alex Kennedy Caracas, Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Venezuela fixed the bolivar at a rate 17 percent stronger than it last traded to protect foreign currency reserves after a two-month national strike crippled the

Re: PEN-L equals redistributionist LIBERALS

2003-02-05 Thread dsquared
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I look at PEN-L and all I see are a bunch of LIBERALS from universities Absolutely right mate. In fact it might be worse than that. I think that some of them are practically SOCIALISTS! Perhaps it would help if somebody could look up a few statistics from the

Re: PEN-L equals redistributionist LIBERALS

2003-02-05 Thread Grant Lee
During the Lenten Season, please help support the mission of Catholic Online by purchasing goods and services from our sponsors at http://www.catholic.org/clife/lent Sounds suspiciously like your church is sponsoring redistribution, Alois. What's more, I can say for certain that a lot of us

Online Turkish newspaper critical of war

2003-02-05 Thread Louis Proyect
This is from Zaman (Time), a Turkish newspaper that seems fairly progressive. Forcing God's Hand by ALI BULAC War supporters say that every probable bad and destructive result is a conspiracy in order to prove the rightness of USA's war based on no legitimacy. According to them, USA

How the Coming War Stacks Up

2003-02-05 Thread Louis Proyect
How the Coming War Stacks Up Blood, Stats, and Tears by Ward Harkavy Village Voice, February 5 - 11, 2003 Number of precision-guided missiles and bombs that the United States plans to launch per hour at Baghdad during the war's first 48 hours: 63 Number of days it is expected to take for Baghdad