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From: Tom Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Deception is not new but as Chris's 'post modern' suggests, there is
something new about the deployment of deception here. My point
of reference would be Enron: Enron, Enron. Enron, WorldCom, Tyco,
etc.,etc.,etc.
What
At 2003-03-08 22:08 -0800, Tom wrote:
Deception is not new but as Chris's 'post
modern' suggests, there is something new about the deployment of
deception here. My point of reference would be Enron: Enron, Enron.
Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, etc.,etc.,etc.
What I allude to is a political economy OF
At 2003-03-09 00:11 -0800, Ian Murray wrote:
[Attention General Equilibrium shoppers, the equilibrium level of
malfeasance is available on aisle
4]
http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/acad_unit/finance/wp/2002/12-02.pdf
Chicanery, Intelligence and Financial Market Equilibrium
Avanidhar Subrahmanyam
"Presumably most of the published literature is biased against the regime."
Imagine you standing up and writing in favour of the regime, it must have had some good and bad points, dialectics, as you usually say, implies that. but the chances are you will not even if you knew that and publically
Contradictions, as they say, are sharpening. Who is going to stumble or
miss a crucial shot?
from today's Observer, UK
Blair sets out final terms to avoid war
http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,910690,00.html
Prime Minister, go to bed now
Buffett warns of derivatives threat to financial system
By Ross Gittins
March 10 2003
They don't call Warren Buffett the Oracle of Omaha for nothing. He's always
issuing warnings and they're almost always borne out - on the dotcom
madness, dodgy accounting practices, executives' options
In a message dated 3/9/2003 12:48:40 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
"We try to be alert to any sort of megacatastrophe risk, and that
posture may make us unduly apprehensive about the burgeoning quantities
of long-term derivatives contracts and the massive amount of
I really liked this article summarizing the experience of a reporter
trying to make sense of that installed U.S. President George W. Bush:
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/mar2003/bush-m08.shtml
Thus, after surveying the serious reports of the responsible U.N.
officials, and comparing them to
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UN launches inquiry into American spying
Martin Bright, Ed Vulliamy in New York and Peter Beaumont
Sunday March 9, 2003
The Observer
The United Nations has begun a top-level investigation into the bugging of
its delegations by the United States, first revealed in The Observer last
week.
(If I had the time and inclination, I'd do an investigative piece on
Dissent Magazine, the social democratic rag that has supplied many of the
apologetics for the war on Iraq. The day before yesterday, editor Michael
Walzer wrote an op-ed piece in the NY Times defending a small war:
Title: US out of Colombia?
According to SLATE: The U.S. is getting out of one war, the [Washington POST] reports... After the U.S. recovers Americans that are missing, the Bush administration wants to pull out troops from Colombia and have that country shoulder more of the military and
At 2003-03-09 10:59 -0600, you wrote:
UN launches inquiry into American spying
Martin Bright, Ed Vulliamy in New York and Peter Beaumont
Sunday March 9, 2003
The Observer
Interesting that the inter-imperialist contradictions and the
contradictions within imperialism about different strategies,
Title: War test
Take the War on Iraq IQ
Test
Do you know enough to justify going to war with
Iraq?
1. Q: What percentage of the world's
population does the U.S. have? A: 6%
2. Q: What percentage of the world's wealth does the U.S. have? A:
50%
3. Q: Which country has the largest oil reserves?
The uranium was supposedly to be bought from Niger not the Ivory Coast. A
con man sold the fake documents to an Italian intelligence agent who passed
it on to the UK and US. The latter both accepted it at face value. I have
not kept the articles that noted this but a Google search through Google
Title: War test
The answer to question 17 is
incorrect.
Actually there were a number of casualties inflicted by the
Iraqimilitary---although some of those listed below may be the result of
friendlyfire certainly not all were... there were not 0 casualties inflicted
bythem.This site also
Could the con man have an address in Langley?
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 07:20:25PM -0600, k hanly wrote:
The uranium was supposedly to be bought from Niger not the Ivory Coast. A
con man sold the fake documents to an Italian intelligence agent who passed
it on to the UK and US. The latter both
[LA Times]
China Sees Grand Solution to Its Water Problem
A $60-billion project would divert resource from the south to parched north. Critics
say the supply
would reach cities, not farmers.
By Ching-Ching Ni
Times Staff Writer
March 9, 2003
LIUZHUANGBEILING, China -- Water is so scarce in this
Bubble blowers run out of puff
Larry Elliott
Monday March 10, 2003
The Guardian
We live in a world where bubbles are the norm. We've had bubbles in currencies, in
property,
government bonds, corporate junk bonds, bubbles in equities. The granpappy of them
all, however, is
the bubble in
Title: Re: [PEN-L:35400] Re: War test
The answer to question 17
is incorrect.
Actually there were a number of
casualties inflicted by the Iraqi
military---although some of those listed below may be the result of
friendly
fire certainly not all were... there were not 0 casualties inflicted
by
washingtonpost.com
When Workforces Collide
By Steven Pearlstein
Wednesday, March 5, 2003; Page E01
Washington's legion of government contractors are salivating over the Bush
administration's plan to allow them to compete with 450,000 civil servants
to perform a quarter of the government's
By the Bombs' Early Light; Or, The Quiet American's War on Terror
by H. Bruce Franklin
(Originally published in The Nation, February 3, 2003. Copyright ©
2003 H. Bruce Franklin; all rights reserved.)
In the new film version of _The Quiet American_, a photographer races
into a plaza in
"But today Iraq is seen as abusiness client and a more reasonable, less arrogant one than Saudi Arabia."
I think I was not clear enough because there is so much to say, but I agree that it is not so much hate and or second hand emotions, I simply meant that there is so much misreading of history a
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Japanese fear more for economy, society
The Japan Times: March 9, 2003
Japanese people are becoming more pessimistic about the troubled economy
and more worried that their society is becoming increasingly unstable,
according to a survey released Saturday.
The Cabinet Office conducted the survey
The trouble with most of the pieces analysing this is that they are too secular in approach. The notions of Evil and Punishment which are to some extent driving US policy towards the Middle East , I susepct, are more susceptible to analysis by Karl Jung than by Karl Marx. although the latter
Xinhuanet 2003-03-10 11:27:41
CHINA, FRANCE, RUSSIA INSIST ON PEACE
Chinese President Jiang Zemin stressed that the world is facing many
problems, and they can not be solved simply by force, when heand British
Prime Minister Tony Blair exchanged views on the Iraq issue by phone
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