The following might interest a number of subscribers of this list. I have
found the French version of Le Monde Diplomatique most interesting,
professional and very insightful. The published articles eventually find
themselves on the Web site plus they have an exhaustive and well classified
A little late for Halloween, but pretty scary. The issue, of course, is not
the Social Security system but transfusing the financial pyramid. Dracula
sucked only blood. This baby wants IT ALL!
Full text of Greenspan's testimony to the Senate Budget Committee
WASHINGTON, November 20 --
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I'm usually just a 'lurker' on the list, but the question of the
exact definition of the beginning/end of the millenium has aroused me
from my lethargy.
For those who really care, 2000 AD in 'our' calculation is actually
13-- (?) on the Mohamedan calendar, and 47-- (?) on the Jewish