Re: [Futurework] Fw: Bigger Than Watergate!

2003-07-10 Thread wbward
Selma, The question is whether or not you are a Jeb/George Bush fan. Bill On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 10:41:15 -0400 Selma Singer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm sorry to be so dense; perhaps I misread the article. My understanding was that this egregious situation has NOT been corrected. Selma

[Futurework] more reading

2003-07-10 Thread Karen Watters Cole
Thought this bibliography might be of some interest to some. Snagged, as they say, from an e-newsletter, Sojo Mail, but attributed to Georgetown Univ. Sojourners is the center-left Spiritual group that originally was a community, and in response to the Bush2 administration, has become

[Futurework] World Press Review and More....

2003-07-10 Thread Cordell . Arthur
World Press Review - World News from World Newspapers http://www.worldpress.org/ Most Americans don't understand how different the world -- and America -- looks to people in other nations. This sampling of current and archived news stories from around the world does much to correct that.

RE: [Futurework] Vietnam, the Sequel

2003-07-10 Thread Karen Watters Cole
Ed wrote: ..The other is sustainability. Prospects for the US economy are not good. Money is needed at home to patch up deteriorating infrastructure and growing unemployment. There is also a third factor: growing cynicism as the Haliburons, Bechtels and Worldcoms are seen to be principal

Re: [Futurework] Fw: The Other War

2003-07-10 Thread Brad McCormick, Ed.D.
Selma Singer wrote: - Original Message - Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 8:39 PM Subject: The Other War http://www.tikkun.org/magazine/index.cfm/action/tikkun/issue/tik0305/article/030511e.html [snip] It has long seemed fairly certain to me that *a* major, if not *the primary* objective

RE: [Futurework] Bigger Than Watergate!

2003-07-10 Thread Karen Watters Cole
The point should be to distribute this kind of provocative information as widely as possible, look for any publication elsewhere, generate letters to the editor and Congress. If the people who do these things believe that no one is paying attention, as all the voters should be in a democracy,

RE: [Futurework] Fw: Bigger Than Watergate!

2003-07-10 Thread Karen Watters Cole
The point should be to distribute this kind of provocative information as widely as possible, look for any publication elsewhere, generate letters to the editor and Congress. If the people who do these things believe that no one is paying attention, as all the voters should be in a democracy,

RE: [Futurework] Vietnam, the Sequel

2003-07-10 Thread Karen Watters Cole
Ed wrote: ..The other is sustainability. Prospects for the US economy are not good. Money is needed at home to patch up deteriorating infrastructure and growing unemployment. There is also a third factor: growing cynicism as the Haliburons, Bechtels and Worldcoms are seen to be principal

Re: [Futurework] FW: check this out

2003-07-10 Thread Brad McCormick, Ed.D.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *Subject:* FW: check this out *Subject:* check this out Darn! It looks like there are some nerds out there with a social conscience! Gotta get that national testing program in place to help them see what the right answers are! \brad mccormick 1. Go to

[Futurework] FW: U.S. report on 9/11 to be 'explosive'

2003-07-10 Thread Cordell . Arthur
Subject: U.S. report on 9/11 to be 'explosive'U.S. report on 9/11 to be 'explosive'A long-awaited final report on the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks will be released in the next two weeks, containing new information about U.S. government mistakes and Saudi financing of terrorists. The full article

RE: [Futurework] Bigger Than Watergate!

2003-07-10 Thread Cordell . Arthur
Is this true, or will it turn out to be another urban legend? -Original Message- From: Karen Watters Cole [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 11:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Futurework] Bigger Than Watergate! The point should be to distribute this kind

[Futurework] Fw: PRO/EDR Cholera - Liberia (Monrovia) (02)

2003-07-10 Thread wbward
FWers While Cholera is much dreaded, it does not have to be since it can be dealt with by constantly rehydrating a person for three or four days [enormous manpower delays even though you do not have to use clean salt-sugar-citrus solution]. Still, it shows the chaos that civil war can cause and

RE: [Futurework] Bigger Than Watergate!

2003-07-10 Thread Karen Watters Cole
Arthur, if applying Karen's 50% Rule, if only half of this is true, it's Serious. The best way to know is to investigate. If not true, it will unravel. To ignore would be extremely dangerous, ignorant and foolish. Much better to be embarrassed later than reticent now. There are legitimate,

[Futurework] Sustainability and Iraq

2003-07-10 Thread Ed Weick
In an appearance before Congress, Donald Rumsfeld, American Secretary of Defense, estimated the cost of maintaining current US forces in Iraq at $3.9 billion per month. In addition, he estimated the monthly costs of American operations in Afghanistan at $900 to $950 million. Iraq works out

RE: [Futurework] Bigger Than Watergate!

2003-07-10 Thread Cordell . Arthur
Something is up. The op-ed of the WSJ is raising some Bush questions -- The Fog of Deceit By Albert R. Hunt 10 July 2003 The Wall Street Journal Preparing for his State of the Union in January, President Bush faced a challenge: American troops were amassed to overthrow Saddam

RE: [Futurework] Bigger Than Watergate!

2003-07-10 Thread Karen Watters Cole
Arthur, thanks for posting this from WSJ, even though its by Al Hunt. NeoConservative Loyalists will immediately denounce this piece because of Al Hunts politics, and some may even remember a story during Campaign 2000: Candidate Bush walked up Hunt in a restaurant, and cursed him for

Re: [Futurework] Bigger Than Watergate!

2003-07-10 Thread Ray Evans Harrell
They are not trustworthy. I think Hunt is a decoy. In case the race is lost they can claim to have been on top of the truth by taking credit and if Bush gets away with it they can ignore Hunt and call him the house liberal which he isn't. I'm so tired of journalists who care so little about

Re: [Futurework] Bigger Than Watergate!

2003-07-10 Thread Brad McCormick, Ed.D.
Ray Evans Harrell wrote: They are not trustworthy. I think Hunt is a decoy. In case the race is lost they can claim to have been on top of the truth by taking credit and if Bush gets away with it they can ignore Hunt and call him the house liberal which he isn't. I'm so tired of journalists

RE: [Futurework] Fw: Bigger Than Watergate!

2003-07-10 Thread Karen Watters Cole
Harry, if even a third of this story is true, then why should they pay for people to vote when someone can make the switch, invalidate the date and or time, and walk off with a memory card with hundreds if not thousands of votes on it, never to be counted? Or just program the machines to fail so

Re: [Futurework] Vietnam, the Sequel

2003-07-10 Thread Ray Evans Harrell
I mean they seem to be arguing that by taking care of THE World, their world will be fine because saving the world from itself is the only reason for existence in the first place. With Bush's fundamentalist mentality it may very well be that America is not his reason for "being" but healing

RE: [Futurework] Vietnam, the Sequel

2003-07-10 Thread Karen Watters Cole
Well, since Safires Nixon-channeling has been mentioned twice today on FW, Im pasting below for the curious, black humor and all. Maybe hes hinting hes retiring below? Cousin, I dont know what it will take to get a serious discussion of the roots of Americas tendency to treat the world

[Futurework] Profits before principles

2003-07-10 Thread Karen Watters Cole
The administration is catering to its base no, not the Fundamentalists, although this article refers to the Scriptural admonition that you cannot serve two masters. KWC The Two Faces of George Bush in Africa By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman President Bush is doing a