Baghdad bombing as dangerous arrogance

2001-02-18 Thread Rob Schaap
G'day all, I reckon the UK has really poisoned what was left of their relationship with the continent (as Tony Hancock once said, 'the wogs start at Calais'), and I reckon Unca Sam's failure to exercise the simple good manners of telling its mates that it was about to crank up the intensity in

CALL: Economies Business in Transition: ISTANBUL

2001-02-18 Thread Charles Wankel
CALL: ISTANBUL: Economy Business in Transition: JULY 11-15, 2001 Call for papers for this refereed conference. Full-papers will be published in proceedings volume and best will be reviewed by a number of associated journals. Theme: Economies and Business in Transition: Facilitating

RE: Re: RE: Re: Bush war

2001-02-18 Thread Forstater, Mathew
Well, Cheney can also be seen to have regained access to a position where he can exact revenge rooted in his position in Daddy B's administration. And then there's Powell... Maybe Dubba-you can appt Schwartz-cop Ambassador to Iraq... -Original Message- From: Jim Devine [mailto:[EMAIL

Labor and One Nation win in Queensland

2001-02-18 Thread Chris Burford
Are there any positive reasons for Labour's success in Queensland (see below) or is this like Mitterand's ability to promote the left by using the racists to divide the right? My other question is what future can a country of 19 million Europeans have in a world economy in which their most

Re: Labor and One Nation win in Queensland

2001-02-18 Thread Michael Pugliese
http://www.google.com/search?q=pauline++nexus+new+dawn+hansonhq=hl=enlr=; safe=offbtnG=Google+Search http://www.newdawnmagazine.com.au/ One Nation and Pauline Hanson recent surge is bad news. Cf. the material in the first couple of hits. Nexus and New Dawn are New Agey conspiracy theory rags.

Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Bush war

2001-02-18 Thread Michael Pugliese
http://www.latimes.com/print/20010214/t13418.html Bush's Foreign Policy Team Is Split on How to Handle Hussein Iraq: One side wants to use opposition to attempt to oust leader. The other faction favors revamped sanctions. By ROBIN WRIGHT, Times Staff Writer Bush's Foreign Policy Team Is

Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: Bush war

2001-02-18 Thread Jim Devine
Justin wrote: Right, a routine bombing, just what one normally does. so when the Unabomber sent mail-bombs, these could also be interpreted as "routine"? (BTW, I'm being ironic, too.) No reason, maybe "self defense"--we had to bomb them because we are over there in their country defending

more news

2001-02-18 Thread Jim Devine
there's an op-ed piece in today's {Sunday Feb. 18, 2001's) L.A. TIMES by Edwin Black indicating that Thomas J. Watson of IBM supplied punch-card technology (crude computing capacity) to the Nazis to help them do the information-processing tasks needed to organize the massive slaughter of

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: Bush war

2001-02-18 Thread Michael Pugliese
Cf. the books by Jim Mann (of the L.A. Times) book and Patrick Tyler of the Washington Post (or is it the NYT?) on China policy. Michael Pugliese -Original Message- From: Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, February 18, 2001 11:59 AM

CA utilities cont.

2001-02-18 Thread Lisa Ian Murray
DAVIS ANNOUNCES PLAN TO RESCUE TROUBLED UTILITIES By Jennifer Coleman Associated Press February 18, 2001 SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Proposing to plunge California deeper into the energy business, Gov. Gray Davis announced a multibillion-dollar plan to rescue two utilities from the brink of

Re: Baghdad bombing as dangerous arrogance

2001-02-18 Thread Chris Burford
At 02:22 19/02/01 +1100, you wrote: G'day all, I reckon the UK has really poisoned what was left of their relationship with the continent (as Tony Hancock once said, 'the wogs start at Calais'), and I reckon Unca Sam's failure to exercise the simple good manners of telling its mates that it was

Anti-Semitism of Certain Famous Economists

2001-02-18 Thread J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
The Winter 2001 issue of the History of Political Economy (HOPE) has an article bearing the subject heading as its title by Melvin W. Reder. He alleges anti-Semitism on the parts of Keynes, Schumpeter, and Hayek. He also claims that there was a decline in anti-Semitism after 1950.

Re: more news

2001-02-18 Thread Justin Schwartz
I have a doll of James Madison, in a "Leaders of the World" series, featuring Madison, Franklin, Washington . . . . , and Herbert Hoover. Really! But I only have the Madison doll. I also have a Malcom X action figure. Do people know Charles Higham's fine book Trading with the Enemy? Higham

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: Bush war

2001-02-18 Thread Justin Schwartz
So what I am I thinking of that is is Wyoming, if anything? I presume this means that if Saddam Hussein blows up NORAD in retaliation, or on a routine bombing mission, that he can expect that we will let it pass as self-defense; I mean, why else would he be bombing targets in Wyomong. FWIW,

Contradictions of US labor law

2001-02-18 Thread Lisa Ian Murray
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16876-2001Feb16.html Employer, Employee Roles Blurred Subcontracting Case Demonstrates the Potential for Shortchanging Workers By Sarah Schafer Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, February 19, 2001; Page E01 It was just the kind of job that Zenon

Re: Re: Social Capital

2001-02-18 Thread J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Yoshie, Only if you get in with the friends of the editors by saying nice things about their stuff... :-). Barkley Rosser -Original Message- From: Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, February 15, 2001 11:17 PM Subject: