[PEN-L:558] Re: good news!

1998-10-17 Thread valis
Jim D makes known that the cosmos is conscious after all, just real slow: Chilean Ex-Dictator Pinochet Arrested In London . LONDON (Reuters) - Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London Saturday by police acting

[PEN-L:561] Re: re-no comment, II (investing in defense)

1998-10-17 Thread Tom Walker
Michael Perelman wrote, Somehow there has to be a logical thread here . . . "In this game (which is called 'defense') proportions are lost to the public mind (can the mind resist) An 'economy' of permanent warfare is called 'peace' and 'preparedness' -- every person and thing is upheaved in its

[PEN-L:563] Re: Re: Lincoln Brigade Is Honored

1998-10-17 Thread Eugene P. Coyle
Jim, I think the term WAS used by the US military, when many of the Vets enlisted in the US forces in WWII. The term was entered-- I believe, but haven't actually seen a document -- on the military records of the enlistee, for the purpose of relegating them to certain roles/sectors.

[PEN-L:562] Re: (investing in defense) II

1998-10-17 Thread valis
Somehow there has to be a logical thread here . . . WAR IS PEACE NAPALM IS BREAD CLINTON IS GANDHI

[PEN-L:560] Re: Stanching the crunch?

1998-10-17 Thread Doug Henwood
Tom Walker wrote: Notwithstanding the irrationally exhuberant stock market response to the Fed's surprise rate cut yesterday, what is the likelihood that the cut can fulfill its purported mission of easing a credit crunch? Yesterday morning, before the cut, the spread between 30 year treasury

[PEN-L:559] Re: re-no comment, II (investing in defense)

1998-10-17 Thread michael perelman
Let's see if I understand this correctly. The CIA fails to predict the Indian nuke test -- even though early reports of it were in the press -- so they deserve more money. The towering regime of N. Korea threatens to bomb Hawaii -- yes, I remember when Reagan spoke of the immanent danger of the

[PEN-L:557] good news!

1998-10-17 Thread James Devine
from today's Reuters wire, via Yahoo!: Chilean Ex-Dictator Pinochet Arrested In London By Paul Majendie LONDON (Reuters) - Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London Saturday by police acting on a request from Spain. A police spokeswoman said

[PEN-L:556] re-no comment, II (investing in defense)

1998-10-17 Thread Frank Durgin
I watched the Leher report last night. Lots of discussion about a lot of things I can't remember now, but nothing about this. My only prior awareness of it came from reading Tom Kruse's Pen-l554 message. The following report is from the English Electronic Telegraph

[PEN-L:555] NY Times Ad for Mumia, Friday, October 16th

1998-10-17 Thread Paul Zarembka
Below is a message I have received that the Mumia support ad appeared in the New York Times yesterday. Below that I include the resolution in support of a retrail for Mumia which passed the UUP Delegate Assembly--the faculty and professional staff union of SUNY. In Solidarity, Paul Zarembka

[PEN-L:554] We act big, misuse our land, ourselves

1998-10-17 Thread Louis Proyect
[Charles Olson, from his essay on Melville, "Call me Ishmael"] I take SPACE to be the central fact to man born in America, from Folsom cave to now. I spell it large because it comes large here. Large, and without mercy. It is geography at bottom, a hell of wide land from the beginning. That