From the article I sent:
CIA Director George Tenet told the breakfast,
God teaches us to be resolute in the face of
evil, using all of the weapons and armor that
the word of God supplies.
Unbelievable. Apparently, I missed the above. Of course, God
Save the Queen, or, was it In God We Trust?
Powell said: I would call my colleagues' attention to the fine paper that
the United Kingdom distributed... which describes in exquisite detail Iraqi
deception activities.
However
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,890916,00.html
Apart from passing this off as the work of its
"Blair stuck to a radical view that after Sept 2001 no unstable state could be allowed to have weapons that could fall into the hands of terrorists. "
did anyone ask: is it not inevitable that weapons of mass destruction will fall in the hands of terrorists" and should it not be that the class
soula avramidis:
Blair stuck to a radical view that after
Sept 2001 no unstable state could be allowed
to have weapons that could fall into the hands
of terrorists.
did anyone ask: is it not inevitable that weapons
of mass destruction will fall in the hands of terrorists
and should it
Is there any state out there that is more unstable than the US atthis point in history?Answer: at least the group of 77 AND China.Do you Yahoo!?
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U.S. Moves Closer to Colombia's War
Involvement of Special Forces Could Trigger New Wave of Guerrilla Violence
By Scott Wilson
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, February 7, 2003; Page A22
SARAVENA, Colombia -- The arrival of U.S. Special Forces trainers in this
battered town last month
http://www.eurasianet.org
EURASIA INSIGHT February 7, 2003
RISING DRUG FLOW OUT OF AFGHANISTAN THREATENS CENTRAL ASIAN NEIGHBORS
Todd Diamond: 2/06/03
The US-led war against terrorism and subsequent reconstruction efforts in
Afghanistan have failed to stem the flow of narcotics out of the
The report is at
http://www.nupr.neu.edu/2-03/left_behind.PDF
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Title: FW: Today's Papers: N Korea standoff
from SLATE's summary of major US newspapers:
Several papers front Colin Powell's defense of the administration
policy on North Korea. Responding to the latest rhetoric from
Pyongyang (pre-emptive attacks are not the exclusive right of
the U.S.,)
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From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED]
my prediction: the US will launch a strategic-bombing attack on N Korea's
nuclear facilities, explicitly emulating US ally Israel's unprovoked attack
on Iraq's facilities a few years ago. It's most likely at about the same
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=1716552cat=21616type=3dept=3920path=0%3A3920%3A
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(On a recent show of his -- the pretentiously named O'Reilly Factor
-- Bill O'Reilly learned that a family member of a 9/11 victim had
signed 'the not in our name' statement of conscience ad that appeared
in the New York Times on Jan. 27th and promised to invite him on the
show... here is the
And this (O'REILLY) is the man that cool leftists want to praise for his
sense of humor?
Carrol
That's hard to answer, but if stability can be defined as the congruence
between the wishes/needs of the population at large and the wishes/needs of
the governing regime, I would say that there are few very stable states.
Joanna
At 02:08 AM 02/07/2003 -0800, you wrote:
soula avramidis:
Blair
Carrol Cox wrote:
And this (O'REILLY) is the man that cool leftists want to praise for his
sense of humor?
I suppose this is directed at me, so...
I know I'll never be as uncool as you Carrol, though I have to admit
I'm not trying very hard. But I've said lots of times, while O'R is
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From: Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Now I know one isn't supposed to take any pleasure in evil people;
I'm in an unsuccessful rebellion against my Catholic past, and
sometimes I forget this point.
==
Somebody break out the Bushmill's and call the
Big Stores To Charge Sales Taxes Online
Retailers Agree To Collect for States
By Brian Krebs and Jonathan Krim
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, February 7, 2003; Page A01
Some of the nation's largest retailers started voluntarily collecting taxes
this week on all their online sales, a
http://www.osearth.com/resources/worldometers/
--ravi
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 02:55:45PM -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
I hate to deploy Fitzgerald's cliche once again, but I guess it
became a cliche because there are so many illustrations of the
principle: The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to
hold two opposed ideas in mind at
Title: doublethink
[was: RE: [PEN-L:34449] Re: Re: Re: a slip of the Fox noose]
Doug: I hate to deploy Fitzgerald's cliche once again, but I guess it
became a cliche because there are so many illustrations of the
principle: The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to
Fwd by Leo Panitch:
From: Rick Hesch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 5:57 AM
To: Canadian Dimension magazine
A reporter is asking an American official, What proof do you have that Iraq
has weapons of mass destruction? and the American replies, We kept the
receipts.
Kendall Clark wrote:
I think that it's O'Reilly who has a hard time squaring internal
contradiction, however.
He can't handle it when leftists are smart articulate, like Glick
was. We were watching a few weeks ago when a very sharp immigration
lawyer was giving him a hard time for his
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 04:09:01PM -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
Kendall Clark wrote:
He can't handle it when leftists are smart articulate, like Glick
was.
I thought Amiri Baraka cleaned his clock too, even with the sorta dumb bit
about George Bush knew it was gonna happen. If Baraka's
My guess is that he let Fish go on because there is submissiveness and a
profound sense of inadequacy mixed with his fake populism toward the
left and cultural elites.
Joel Blau
Doug Henwood wrote:
Kendall Clark wrote:
I think that it's O'Reilly who has a hard time squaring internal
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From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Doug: I hate to deploy Fitzgerald's cliche once again, but I guess it
became a cliche because there are so many illustrations of the
principle: The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to
hold two opposed
Title: RE: [PEN-L:34458] Re: doublethink
the cited paper starts by saying Nagarjuna is surely one of the most difficult philosophers to interpret in any tradition. His texts are terse and cryptic.
Ian, your stuff is often terse and cryptic. Are you saying that Nagarjuna is engaging in
Kendall Clark wrote:
Of course, Stanley Fish walked all over him and he didn't cut him
off. I wonder why he got away with it?
I didn't see this. Transcript? (I would hypothesize that O'Reilly's
readiness to cut people off is subject-matter dependent, to some degree. He
seems genuinely
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From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 1:25 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:34459] RE: Re: doublethink
the cited paper starts by saying Nagarjuna is surely one of the most
difficult philosophers to interpret in any
Joel Blau wrote:
My guess is that he let Fish go on because there is submissiveness and a
profound sense of inadequacy mixed with his fake populism toward the
left and cultural elites.
Joel Blau
And perhaps because they are twins under the skin?? :-) I've never heard
Fish speak, but
Title: RE: [PEN-L:34460] a slip of the Fox noose
It's really irritating how O'Reilly keeps on calling Fish Dean (and not Dean Fish). But more importantly, I think that the reason why he let Fish walk all over him is that the issue at hand was pretty abstract, i.e., whether Osama should be
Title: RE: [PEN-L:34460] a slip of the Fox noose
I think that's a fair
assessment. Fish, after all, was making
a pragmatic argument from the perspective of the loyal opposition: let's
understand Bin Laden better to make it easier to destroy him, hardly more than a
difference in tactics.
Title: RE: [PEN-L:34461] Re: RE: Re: doublethink
Ian: Nagarjuna was arguably the first philosopher to systematically explore and
*break* with the limits of the applicability of the law of non-contradiction
and the implications for ontology and epistemology.
so he or she embraces
Devine, James wrote:
On the other hand, more of a Marx-style contradiction would occur if there weren't
enough seats in the stadium for all the people, so that there's an inherent conflict
over the distribution of seats that can't be solved via why can't we just get
along? (i.e., figuring
Title: RE: [PEN-L:34466] Antagonistic and Non-Antagonistic contradictions, was Re: doublethink
somewhere in one of my many unpublished manuscripts, I also link the coordination problem to non-antagonistic contradictions, on the other hand, and structural conflict to antagonistic ones, on the
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From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ian: Nagarjuna was arguably the first philosopher to systematically
explore and
*break* with the limits of the applicability of the law of
non-contradiction
and the implications for ontology and epistemology.
so he or
A reporter is asking an American official, What proof do you have that Iraq
has weapons of mass destruction? and the American replies, We kept the
receipts.
So if they return the weapons can we get a refund?
It is a good idea to clip the extraneous text when you reply.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No 10 admits dossier blunder
http://www.channel4.com/news/home/z/stories/20030207/dossier.html
some of those working on this report were not the Iraqi experts at the
Foreign office or MI6 but Downing street staffers, including those that
work in Alastair Campbell's department
Tonight, CBC's As it happens interviewed Glen Rangwala, the Oxford instructor who blew
the whistle on the plagiarism. I've been
following the rather intense coverage this has been receiving in the UK press. The
Friday press briefing from 10 Downing St. was
amazing, with the Prime Minister's
North Dakota Found To Be Harboring Nuclear Missiles
http://www.theonion.com/onion3904/north_dakota.html
BISMARCK, ND-The stage was set for another international
showdown Monday, when chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans
Blix confirmed that the remote, isolationist state of
North Dakota is in
Three Guests Who Bested O'Reilly:
* Stanley Fish, Dean (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)/Professor
of English and Criminal Justice (Milton and Post-Modernism),
University of Illinois - Chicago
* Amiri Baraka, Poet Laureate, New Jersey
* Jeremy Glick, Lecturer, English (African-American
I guess I must be in the loyal opposition too. I want to understand Bin Laden the better to destroy him. I don't believe anyone here regards him as a freedom fighter. In fact, I don't think bin Laden and his gang regard themselvesa s freedom fighters. Holy warriors, maybe. I think they are mass
You miss my point. Its not that Fish was
wrong or sychophantic about Bin Laden. I just don't see how arguing with
O'Reilly that its useful to understand Bin Laden is a particularly
radical or challenging assertion, and I suspect that O'Brien response was
weak because what Fish was arguing
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