[PEN-L] Robert Parry - Why we write

2007-11-14 Thread Ruy Lage
Dear All [My looong absence was the result of being unable to log into the mail account that I created solely for the purposes of mail from PEN-L, despite numerous attempts, including trying to change password etc. However, this morning when I read an article by Robert Parry, I longed for the

[PEN-L] John Hogue's New Book: Nostradamus: The War with Iran

2008-01-11 Thread Ruy Lage
Hi All All the best for the year ahead (minus 11 days). Snow in Baghdad made me wonder if someone had already come up with something from Nostradamus proving it is prophecy! Looks like it hasn't reached the charlatan-mill yet. But I came across this book.

[PEN-L] CIA in Kenya? [was: Peace Stability ... In Somalia

2008-02-16 Thread Ruy Lage
I tend too US involvement as always interceding on behalf of the wrong guy. Here I found an arrow that would suggest that line of reasoning. http://spookterror.blogspot.com/2008/02/cia-plot-to-topple-kenyas-leader.html Except that - at least in the beginning - the US (and the one they pick) always

Re: [PEN-L] CIA in Kenya? [was: Peace Stability ... In Somalia

2008-02-16 Thread Ruy Lage
=viewNewsArticlenav_id=33category_name=Internationalarticle_id=7b139c63abd7513f6ed536845c045832 http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/02/16/bush-touches-down-in-africa/ On 16/02/2008, Leigh Meyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 16, 2008 5:31 AM, Ruy Lage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tend too US

[PEN-L] CIA: The use of militant Moslems in Russia, China, India Indonesia.

2008-02-16 Thread Ruy Lage
http://spookterror.blogspot.com/search?q=cia The mind boggles! And, as an advocate of free expression, I am speechless that the media is lilent on most of this! I consider myself fairly well informed, yet I cannot say that in all the media that I access I ever saw anything about a Lockerbie

Re: [PEN-L] Sacramento Flood Danger

2008-02-17 Thread Ruy Lage
Surely it is an innocent oversight. However, it is quite telling about the 'quality' of people's reading! I help out on a number of translators' lists - one third of the replies demonstrate that people didn't to read properly. The knock-on effect is that people are also becoming less careful in

[PEN-L] IRAQ: OPEN SOURCE COUNTER-INSURGENCY (COIN)?

2008-02-19 Thread Ruy Lage
OPEN SOURCE COUNTER-INSURGENCY?http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2008/02/open-source-cou.html http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/ *What's left (as an option for the US in Iraq)? It's possible, as Microsoft has found, that there is no good monopolistic solution to a mature

Re: [PEN-L] Countdown Special Comment on FISA: President Bush Is A Liar And A Fascist

2008-02-19 Thread Ruy Lage
Bush has been mocked so many many times in all kinds of media across the world, he has been called all kinds of names abroad and at home, that it is not likely that all of a sudden there would be a major outcry over remarks that in themselves do not express much that is new or has not been said