[passed on to me from a friend in the SEIU DC office]
[As if to thicken the irony, today is International Human Rights Day]
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We have just received an urgent appeal from the Iraqi Federation of Trade
Unions which we feel needs to be passed on to the largest possible number
of trade
From last week's The Onion
Alan Colmes Loses Argument With Nephew
NEW YORK--Alan Colmes, the liberal co-host of the Fox News debate
program Hannity Colmes, lost an argument to his nephew Bryan
while babysitting the 8-year-old Monday. I wanted to stay up late
to watch
Power Trip (Dir. Paul Devlin):
http://www.powertripthemovie.com/index2.html
* Synopsis
Starring Piers Lewis, Michael Scholey, Dennis Bakke
In an environment of pervasive corruption, assassination, and street
rioting, the story of chaotic post-Soviet transition is told through
culture
CEO's Marital Duties Outsourced To Mexican Groundskeeper
GROSSE POINTE, MI-As part of the ongoing trend toward replacing U.S.
workers with foreign labor, the marital duties of United Carborundum CEO
Howard Reinhardt have been outsourced to his Mexican groundskeeper,
industry sources revealed
Seems that not only is the US justified in excluding those not part of the
coalition of the willing for security reasons and thus consistent with WTO
rules but also CPA is not subject to rules in first place..
The sheer idiocy of US policy is hard to fathom. Just as Baker is out
begging
Drugs for depressed children banned [in the UK]
Sarah Boseley, health editor
Wednesday December 10, 2003
The Guardian [UK]
Modern antidepressant drugs which have made billions for the
pharmaceutical industry will be banned from use in children today
because of evidence, suppressed for years,
k hanly wrote:
Seems that not only is the US justified in excluding those not part of the
coalition of the willing for security reasons and thus consistent with WTO
rules but also CPA is not subject to rules in first place..
The sheer idiocy of US policy is hard to fathom. Just as Baker is
yes, it's a Karl Rove-type strategy (and it meshes well with neo-con we are the
world arrogance) but it undermines other efforts by the Bushmasters to get France,
Germany, Russia, and Canada to help the US.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Devine, James wrote:
yes, it's a Karl Rove-type strategy (and it meshes well with neo-con
we are the world arrogance) but it undermines other efforts by the
Bushmasters to get France, Germany, Russia, and Canada to help the
US.
well, it didn't look these nations (rightly) were not going to
[I thought this was a surprising good discussion that covered all the
bases.]
Financial Times, December 2, 2003
China must move to a flexible currency -- eventually
By Martin Wolf
To float or not to float, that is the question. To be more precise, it is
one of the questions. The Chinese
http://action.truemajority.org/ctt.asp?u=302949l=244
keep the x in xmas... michael hoover
Healy, the Dr. mentioned in the article was banned from a job in Toronto b
because of pressure from the drug companies.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[He can rant all he wants about a referendum next November (now that he's
missed the deadline for March). His money runs out in June]
Financial Times; Dec 11, 2003
Moody's downgrade deepens Californian budgetary woes
By Christopher Parkes in Los Angeles
Moody's Investors Service, a top credit
On my radio show tonight, WBAI 99.5 FM NYC and http://www.wbai.org,
5-6 PN NYC time:
* Steffie Woolhandler talking about the Medicare reforms
* Bob Pollin talking about his new book, Contours of Descent
Doug
Who will blink first - Argentina or its creditors?
Reuters, 12.11.03, 10:22 AM ET
By Hugh Bronstein and Brian Winter
NEW YORK/BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Call it an $88
billion game of chicken.
On one side is Argentina, the proud and once-prosperous nation that two
years ago
[it's finally in the mainstream US press]
today's papers
Soft Money Shuffle
By Brian Montopoli
Posted Thursday, Dec. 11, 2003, at 1:25 AM PT
USA Today goes above-the-fold with a story, four months in the
making, which heavily criticizes the U.S. military for going to
war with stockpiles of
It's very simple. Our people risked their lives. Friendly coalition folks
risked their lives, and therefore the contracting is going to reflect that,
and that's what the U.S. taxpayers expect, Ui said. Vino vendibili hedera
non opus est.
Tom Walker
604 255 4812
Thursday, December 11, 2003
Airbus on lookout for undue Japanese government aid for 7E7
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PARIS -- European aircraft maker Airbus said yesterday that it has been
gathering information on public aid to three Boeing Co. subcontractors to
check whether the company's deals with the
Global warming is killing us too, say Inuit
Paul Brown in Milan
Thursday December 11, 2003
The Guardian
The Inuit people of Canada and Alaska are launching a human rights case
against the Bush administration claiming they face extinction because of
global warming.
By repudiating the Kyoto
It's very simple. Our people risked their lives. Friendly coalition folks
risked their lives, and therefore the contracting is going to reflect that,
and that's what the U.S. taxpayers expect, Ui said. Vino vendibili hedera
non opus est.
Non Ui sed Ubu
This stance is conclusive proof that gov't contracts are pork, not
transactions at arms length. The gov't is not usually that open about its
dealings.
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:55:36AM -0800, Tom Walker wrote:
It's very simple. Our people risked their lives. Friendly coalition folks
risked
I have been trying to find the time to join this interesting discussion on
the rate of profit in the US economy. My classes finally ended
yesterday. A few comments:
1. I think we can all agree on the big focus of profit rates, as Paul
put it - that the rate of profit is the most important
Michael Perelman wrote,
This stance is conclusive proof that gov't contracts are pork, not
transactions at arms length. The gov't is not usually that open about its
dealings.
Yes, indeed. It's about the loot. There's also a formidible subtext here
about the weapons of mass destruction. That
- Original Message -
From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This stance is conclusive proof that gov't contracts are pork, not
transactions at arms length. The gov't is not usually that open about
its
dealings.
==
Now if we could only get the citizenry to see
Stopped at an I-Hop for lunch on the road today.
Three women, dressed as office workers, perhaps 25 - 35 years old, took
the next table.
They chatted, then one spoke of a friend in the service in Iraq, working
on restoring the electrical grid. They'd come under attack, and one boy
lost an arm, a
I fear to think of what it will take to wake this country up...or what
will happen if they choose not to.
Joanna
Eugene Coyle wrote:
Stopped at an I-Hop for lunch on the road today.
Three women, dressed as office workers, perhaps 25 - 35 years old, took
the next table.
They chatted, then one
Adventurer marxists hope to foment revolution and will take some credit for it when it occurs, rightly so. . .but it'll likely come upon us like a midnight storm, cracking the roofs, jolting us awake. . .
Review of: Catherine Blackledge, The Story of V: Opening Pandora's Box
(London: Weidenfeld Nicholson, 2003), 322 pp.
What in heaven's name is this book about, and why would anybody buy it ?
Does it make sense, or is it a fuck-up ? What is V, is it the 21st letter
in the alfabet, or a Latin
Typo. A bit blurry I guess. I wrote:
Anthropology texts from the early twentieth century detail
how among the Ashanti of Ghana, and in Afghanistan, an adulteress was
chastised by the serving of her nose,
serving should be severing.
J.
* World On Fire by Amy Chua
A new book argues that when Third World countries embrace democracy
and free markets too quickly, ethnic hatred and even genocide can
result.
- - - - - - - - - - - -
By Michelle Goldberg
Jan. 13, 2003 | The case Amy Chua makes in World On Fire: How
Exporting
THE U.S. ARRESTS IRAQ'S UNION LEADERS
By David Bacon
BAGHDAD, IRAQ (12/10/03) -- US occupation forces in Iraq
escalated their efforts to paralyze Iraq's new labor unions with a
series of arrests this weekend. On Saturday, a convoy of ten humvees
and personnel carriers descended on the
PENTAGON REGRETS FRANCE SUCKS MEMO
Timing 'Unfortunate,' Wolfowitz Says
The Pentagon said today that it regretted releasing a memo indicating that France
sucks just hours before the U.S. was to ask the French to forgive billions in Iraqi
debt.
The timing of the memo was unfortunate, said
Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that
God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever:
Jefferson, On Slavery, Notes On the States of
Virginia, p. 171 in my edition.
--- joanna bujes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I fear to think of what it will take to wake this
country up...or
[the questionstill, is whether US unions can help contruct a
global social movement unionism that links with all the other social
movements of century 21]
CAFTA: The Coming Free Trade Fight
By Marcela Sanchez
Special to washingtonpost.com
Thursday, December 11, 2003; 10:58 PM
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