Charles:
Engels also said that when American workers
move they move with seven league boots
( i.e. take giant steps) . We are still
waiting :)
As an Arabic saying goes:
Terrible Habibi!
By the way, habibi means the loved one.
Best,
Sabri
Sovereignty and Iraq after June 30 2004
By James O'Neill
04/29/04 ICH -- At his press conference of 14 April 2004 the United States
President George W. Bush reaffirmed his determination that sovereignty
would pass to Iraq on June 30 2004. The precise legal basis of this
transition is to be found
read the last note for the kicker.
Blanchflower, David G. and Andrew J. Oswald. 2004. Well-Being Over Time
in Britain and the USA. Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 88, pp. 1359-86.
Reported levels of well-being have declined over the last quarter of a
century in the US; life satisfaction has run
Sabri Oncu wrote:
The flag's designer said that he received a call a few
months ago from his brother, asking him to submit a
proposal. The only guidelines, he said, were to
present Iraq as a Western country and to include
references to the past. He said his inspiration was
simple flags like those
What's good for the goose
Welcome to the age of the warlords.
Joanna
Recently, I noticed mentions of a new group called the Thulfiqar
Army in Western news sources: e.g. Colin Freeman, Mystery Group
Wage War on Sadr's Militia,
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=482652004.
James Devine wrote:
Dependent countries can escape dependency (or at least its effects) if they have a
highly-priced export item. But if oil goes away (i.e., if prices fall back to 1980s
levels), the Russian economy would be in Big Trouble, since there's not much else to
export. (Used
(This morning Don Imus interviewed Colonel Jack Jacobs, a retired
military figure ubiquitous to CNN, MSNBC, etc. He stressed the
importance of wiping out the bad guys in Fallujah, which he viewed as
a battle critical to the future of Iraq. If this was not done, he said
that we might as well
My blog entry on the March for Women's Lives: Here to Lead or Here
to Be Led?
http://montages.blogspot.com/2004_04_01_montages_archive.html#108323938508550582.
--
Yoshie
* Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/
* Bring Them Home Now! http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/
* Calendars of Events
Chris Doss wrote:
I think a notable difference between the examples you use and Russia
-- correct me if I am wrong, for I am no expert on Latin America by any
means -- is that, as far as I know, Argentina and Venezuela have
relatively large elites committed to the status quo. The only people
What's the point of disagreement? I didn't disagree with any of this. I believe that
Russia is developing into a stabilized state capitalist society with a lot of unique
characteristics, moving away from the anarchic oligarchic model into one governed by
the bureaucracy. Did I say anything
Chris Doss wrote:
Actually it is hard to place the Russian chinovniki into a class
analysis, at first examination. They are an odd bird.
The same thing is true of China's millionaire Communists. If I may be so
arrogant to say so, you really need to think dialectically to make sense
of this.
--
The
In a message dated 4/28/2004 1:54:16 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
We are all Highland Parkers ( Waistline's/Melvin Pcity)
Comment
What most of Highland Park looks like, basically, is some little townoverrun by the Nazis in World War II. MP. I have in mind a combination
from London Observer
http://www.observer.co.uk
Year the music died
In 1968 we thought we could change the world. But we didn't change that
much
David Aaronovitch, columnist of the year
Sunday April 25 2004
Some brands never die; but the people who buy them always change. On
the first floor
Three years ago, the city was taken over by an emergency financial manager, Ramona Henderson-Pearson, who remains in charge. According to a document prepared in February, she found money missing and records in chaos.MP. Sister Ramona aspires to be Condensing Rice and fired the entire police
Michael Hoover wrote:
When you are the most junior possible extra in an epic involving
millions, you can't be expected to understand the whole thing. This
week, reading Mark Kurlansky's new book 1968: The Year That Rocked The
World, I got a sense of
how it had all fitted together, of how the
Here's my blog entry on the occasion of the release of a new Gallup
poll of Iraq, entitled A Very American Occupation, at
http://montages.blogspot.com/2004_04_01_montages_archive.html#108325145811133429.
Enjoy. ;-)
--
Yoshie
* Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/
* Bring Them Home
Russia's strong educational tradition separates that country from most
dependent economies -- especially if Russia can stem the brain drain.
Is it still continuing?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael at
On Doug's list, people have been discussing that O'Reilly says that we
should boycott Canada and treat it as an enemy. Is Switzerland part of
old Europe?
Is there something subversive about the flag?
On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 10:13:04PM -0700, Sabri Oncu wrote:
FALLUJAH - A former general in Saddam Hussein's army will be responsible for
security in the Iraqi city of Fallujah under a new deal reached on Thursday.
The Fallujah Protective Army will include up to 1,100 Iraqi soldiers and
will be led by a former division commander under Saddam. It will move
I wrote:
Dependent countries can escape dependency (or at least its
effects) if they have a highly-priced export item. But if oil
goes away (i.e., if prices fall back to 1980s levels), the
Russian economy would be in Big Trouble, since there's not
much else to export. (Used nukes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/29/04 11:37 AM
FALLUJAH - A former general in Saddam Hussein's army will be responsible
for
security in the Iraqi city of Fallujah under a new deal reached on
Thursday.
The Fallujah Protective Army will include up to 1,100 Iraqi soldiers and
will be led by a former division
Michael Perelman wrote:
On Doug's list, people have been discussing that O'Reilly says that we
should boycott Canada and treat it as an enemy.
here's a reason to boycott canada:
http://www.animalsvoice.com/PAGES/features/seal1.html
Seal Song: The Canadian Seal Slaughter
--ravi
O'Reilly was concerned that Canada might harbor deserters from our noble
ventures abroad -- perhaps even Navy Seals.
On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 12:06:17PM -0400, ravi wrote:
Michael Perelman wrote:
On Doug's list, people have been discussing that O'Reilly says that we
should boycott Canada and
given that the US does even worse, how can I boycott US goods?
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
-Original Message-
From: ravi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 9:06 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:
didn't Bill O'Reilly decide that the Splendid Little War Against Iraq was a mistake?
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
From: Michael Perelman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
O'Reilly was concerned that Canada might harbor deserters
from
I think that we can learn from this discussion, even if we do not agree about
the context, but we should avoid loaded [painfully] language.
Louis Proyect wrote:
Chris, it is painfully obvious that you don't speak Marxism-Leninese,
if by this you mean the method of analysis pioneered by Karl
NY Times, April 29, 2004
Debate Stirs Over Tiny Loans for World's Poorest
By CELIA W. DUGGER
GORMA, Bangladesh Nearly every woman in this village seems to have
gotten tiny loans to invest in a miniature business.
None has made better use of the cash than Firoza Akhter, a shrewd,
flinty young
I Hate Sao Paulo is a semi-autobiographical film by Brazilian director
Dardo Toledo Barros, who now resides in NYC. It is an ironic play on the
slogan of his new home, I love New York.
The main character Daniel is a millionaire financial speculator who is
seen taking a helicopter to work in the
found this in unix 'fortune':
Laissez Faire Economics is the theory that if each acts like a vulture,
all will end as doves.
--ravi
with apologies for the flippant content:
A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for
the first time.
-- Alfred E. Wiggam
Q: How many right-to-lifers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Two. One to screw it in and one to say that light started
Charles B:The USSR didn't fail economically,
did it ? It failed politically.
Chris D.: Well, a lot of Soviets were
dissatisfied by their living conditions, especially the intelligentsia. Soviet
consumer goods did tend to suck.
Charles B. : The
standard of living in the SU was higher
* From: Sabri Oncu
...from good historical reasons, the Americans are
worlds behind in all theoretical things, and while
they did not bring over any medieval institutions from
Europe they did bring over masses of medieval
traditions, religion, English
The hegemonic coalition forces are not going to get encircled and be
forced to surrender, but Fallujah is arguably the Stalingrad of this
war - the advanced point that the invaders could not take, the point
where they found their logistical, and in this case, particularly
their political, lines of
April 28, 2004 New York Times
U.S. Deletes, Alters Gender Issue Web Data - Report
By REUTERS
Filed at 6:13 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration has stripped information on
a range of women's issues from government Web sites, apparently in pursuit
of a political agenda,
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