George Monbiot in today's (Aug.3's) GUARDIAN on democracy in
the so-called industrial democracies: we can vote out the monkeys but
not the organ-grinder.
Jim Devine
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George Monbiot in today's (Aug.3's) GUARDIAN on democracy in
the so-called industrial democracies: we
Title: Today's Papers
saith
right-wing nut-job Ann Coulter:"My pretty-girl allies stick out like a sore thumb amongst the
corn-fed, no make-up, natural fiber, no-bra needing, sandal-wearing, hirsute,
somewhat fragrant hippie chick pie wagons they call 'women' at the Democratic
National
Ann Coulter is channeling Dick Cheney again... ?
Ken.
Let's start a campaign to demand that Republican women officials denounce
Ann Coulter.
If this could be classified as an ethnic slur, wouldn't there be a firestorm?
Why is this tolerated?
Why is this person on TV?
At 11:55 AM 7/28/2004 -0700, Devine, James wrote:
saith right-wing nut-job Ann
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Let's start a campaign to demand
I call them utopians. I don't care whether utopians are Vladimir Lenin
on a sealed train to Moscow or Paul Wolfowitz. Utopians, I don't like.
You're never going to bring utopia, and you're going to hurt a lot of
people in the process of trying to do it. -- Larry Wilkerson, chief of
staff to Colin
When [Bob] Woodward asked [putative President]
Bush last December how history would view the war, he replied,
History. We don't know. We'll all be dead.
JD
I know in my heart and brain that America ain't what's wrong with the
world
-- Donald Rumsfeld, US Sec.Def.
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They're for free trade if it works politically and they're for
protectionism if it works politically, he said.
- Clyde Prestowitz, president of the Economic Strategic Institute, on the
Bush administration's trade policy.
Source:
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They're for free trade if it works politically and they're for
protectionism if it works politically, he said.
- Clyde Prestowitz, president of the Economic Strategic Institute, on
the
Bush administration's trade policy.
BAE accused of hiding cash paid to win deals
David Leigh and Rob Evans report on allegations based on Swiss bank
records which, it is claimed, show how Britain's biggest arms firm
conceals the sums it pays out to seal contracts
Friday December 5, 2003
The Guardian
Britain's biggest arms company
Will you be overwhelmed by foreign businesses ? The answer depends on
you... Only the best of you will survive.
- Michael Fleisher, the Coalition Provisional Authority's head of private
sector development,
In the northern city of Kirkuk, U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York
and Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island held a private meeting with local
officials who pleaded for financial help from the American government.
Clinton, a Democrat from New York, and Reed, a Democrat from Rhode Island,
spent
I have to say that it is curious to me to have a country [like Iraq - JB]
whose per capita income, GDP, is about $800 ... that a county that poor
should be required to pay reparations to countries whose per capita GDP is a
factor of 10 times that for a war which all of the Iraqis who are now in
Did Chalabi oppose the war? I doubt it.
Jurriaan Bendien wrote:
I have to say that it is curious to me to have a country [like Iraq - JB]
whose per capita income, GDP, is about $800 ... that a county that poor
should be required to pay reparations to countries whose per capita GDP is a
Did Chalabi oppose the war? I doubt it.
Jurriaan meant Gulf War II. He was of course a warhawk
for GWIII. I have no idea what his position, if any,
was on GWI--except that he stayed well away from the action.
Shane Mage
Thunderbolt steers all
things.
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
Getting the rights to distribute Procter and Gamble products would be a gold mine,
said an unnamed partner at New Bridge Strategies (the lobbying firmed profiled in
yesterday's NY TIMES). One well-stocked 7-11 could knock out 30 Iraqi stores; a
WalMart could take over the country. -- Washington
correction: the date is 10/2/03, which is also the date for MS SLATE.
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Getting
USA Today, citing Defense Department figures, reports the monthly bill
for military
operations in Iraq and Afghanistan now rival the Pentagon's
average monthly spending during Vietnam. That tab doesn't include
reconstruction costs which had no parallel, the paper says.
(from SLATE)
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source, please.
max
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4. No one could ever meet death for his country
without the hope of
immortality.
- Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero), Tusculanarum
Disputationum (I, 15)
**
I remember Grace Slick singing: War's
He's a nice fellow. You can't find a better fraternity brother.
-- Sen. Ernest Hollings, about Pres. Bush-2.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
I was always dreaming about very powerful people, dictators, people
like Jesus, being remembered for thousands of years. -- Arnold
Schwartzenegger
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Fusaro, Peter and Ross Miller. 2002. What Went Wrong at Enron: Everyone's
Guide to the Largest Bankruptcy in U.S. History (NY: John Wiley Sons).
8: Ken Lay, who kept in contact with Michael Milken years after Milken
was released from prison, clearly viewed him as a kind of role model.
Making a
Devine, James wrote:
It's from the movie Pumping Iron, as quoted by MS SLATE. The film
also shows Ah-nold smoking pot.
And toying with some rube whom he convinces to yelp oddly in a
competition, claiming that all the cool people are doing that now.
Doug
The quote is from the movie Pumping Iron, a Schwarzendegger classic.
See further: http://slate.msn.com/id/2074008/
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source, please.
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I was always dreaming about very powerful people, dictators, people
like Jesus, being remembered
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I was always dreaming about very powerful people, dictators, people
like Jesus, being remembered for thousands of years. -- Arnold
Schwartzenegger
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I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs
of Iraq.
-- U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz.
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Jim wrote:
I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal
affairs of Iraq.
-- U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz.
Great quote, sir.
Americans are never foreign in their own eyes any more. Even their
leaders of foreign policy are never foreign.
They are always right
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Jim wrote:
I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal
affairs of Iraq.
-- U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz.
Great quote
Michael Pollak:
And isn't the reason that DU munitions are so effective at
penetrating armor (which is why the military is so loathe to give
them up) because they ignite on contact -- thereby turning most of
their mass into just this kind of dust?
almost.
typically, DU ammo is fired
far __through__ the skin from
outside to reach internal organs but instead are absorbed within a few
microns.
however, if you breathe in dust containing DU, the dust gets trapped
in your lungs. Then these same alpha particles, because of their
limited ability to travel __through__ living tissue
this is great. I'm glad I posted a provocative statement about DU, since it evoked
great answers.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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however, if you breathe in dust containing DU, the dust gets trapped
in your lungs. Then these same alpha particles, because of their
limited ability to travel __through__ living tissue, deposit their
effects in the worst places locally, i.e. lungs
is DU more radioactive than the lead used in normal bullets, which also form little
particles?
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Michael wrote:
Yes
Absolutely.
On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 10:03:58AM -0700, Devine, James wrote:
is DU more radioactive than the lead used in normal bullets, which also form
little particles?
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Lead is not radioactive at all, on the contrary it is used to prevent
radiation damage in x-ray cabinet by example.
Alejandro
Devine, James wrote:
is DU more radioactive than the lead used in normal bullets, which also form little particles?
DU is chemically toxic, like lead. You don't want to eat, breath or
otherwise ingest the stuff. From what I understand, its chemical toxicity is
far more hazardous than any kind of radioactive decay.
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DU
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DEPLETED URANIUM
It's dirty, and it's deadly.
When
Title: conumdrum du jour
President Bush's warning du jour: Saddam has been successful at gaming the system. It's now time for him to fully disarm.
so Iraq vis-a-vis the arms inspectors is like Enron vis-a-vis California? does that mean, Dubya, that we should go slow treat Iraq
NY Times, Feb. 13, 2003
Behind Roses' Beauty, Poor and Ill Workers
By GINGER THOMPSON
CAYAMBE, Ecuador, Feb. 10 In just five years, Ecuadorean roses, as big
and red as the human heart, have become the new status flower in the
United States, thanks to the volcanic soil, perfect temperatures
The Democrats are like a Yugo -- you know it won't last long or work well,
but it will occasionally get the job done. Fat cats know they can buy the
Democrats at discount prices, and so they do. -- Michael Moore.
(BTW, we should once again thank Bill Clinton for the one good thing that
came out
Afghan fighters are a breed apart
IAN BRUCE
The Herald, 26 October 2001
AFGHANISTAN'S people have spent 1600 years earning their country a
well-deserved reputation as the graveyard of armies from the Mongol
cavalry hordes of Genghis Khan to the tank divisions of the Soviet
Union.
In between,
from Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff: This is going to be a very, very long campaign. It may take till
next spring. It may take till next summer. It may take longer than that in
Afghanistan.
(exerpted from
G'day Pen-pals,
I don't know if we have a nastier government than you when it comes to 'labour
market reform' or just a more honest good ol' fashioned bunch of class
warriors - anyway, here's a quick intro to the rising star of the Liberal
Government here, Tony Abbot, who seems to think workers
who said the following?
It's not yet clear whether the Bush administration really is a government
of, by and for big corporations to an extent not seen since Warren G.
Harding was president, or whether it just looks that way. But the stories
keep accumulating. Intel's chief lobbyist says
who said the following?
It's not yet clear whether the Bush administration really is a
government of, by and for big corporations to an extent not seen
since Warren G. Harding was president, or whether it just looks
that way. But the stories keep accumulating. Intel's chief lobbyist
says
At 02:53 PM 6/27/01 -0400, you wrote:
who said the following?
It's not yet clear whether the Bush administration really is a
government of, by and for big corporations to an extent not seen since
Warren G. Harding was president, or whether it just looks that way. But
the stories keep
I was going to say Trent Lott. But I guess I'm too conspiratorial. But Lott
almost certainly was behind the FERC chair Hebert's revelation about Enron/Ken
Lay's modest proposal to trade support for policy.
Gene Coyle
Jim Devine wrote:
who said the following?
It's not yet clear whether
yeah, unless your teenage daughter is in danger of falling afoul the 3
strikes and you're out law you signed in texas before stealing the election
for president. maggie coleman
Jim Devine wrote:
Every day is a great day when you're the president. -- George W. Bush
Jim Devine [EMAIL
Every day is a great day when you're the president. -- George W. Bush
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
"This theoretical potential [of the neoclassical "new political economy"] is not fully
realized, in the sense that to date research has not led to the emergence of robust
testable predictions, say, something comparable in scientific status to the life-cycle
theory of savings or the Hecksher-Ohlin
Milano, 10 May 1999
the Luddites were active exactly within the French Revolution/Napoleon
period, that is between 1785-1812. After the defeat of Napoleon I they mor
or less gradually ceased all existence.
There is a very good book written by a couple of italian authors, which
gets rid of all
Sorry to pen-l for re-sending back pen-l posts. Hahnel, in case you deleted
the second post (pen-l 6472) here it is again.
Who else but E.P. Thompson's Making of the English Working Class. His
is views on the Luddites may be similar to yours.
I'm in search for a single piece of
How odd to have a position on something you know nothing about.
Who else but E.P. Thompson's Making of the English Working Class. His
is views on the Luddites may be similar to yours.
I'm in search for a single piece of information on the Luddites:
Approximate dates during
Rod Hay wrote:
How odd to have a position on something you know nothing about.
Hey, it's pretty standard practice here in the US of A. Clinton started
bombing Yugoslavia before he started "reading up" on the region.
Doug
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Subject:USE OF DEPLETED URANIUM (DU) BULLETS AND BOMBS BY NATO FORCES
I have been searching the net in vain to find any site that
discusses DU reinforced shells and cluster bombs as banned
weapons. There are many sites that discuss DU and even some that
discuss cluster bombs and some say that they are banned, but none
give a reference to verify this.. A few posts
Mandel was no "Tofflerite". He was a revolutionary socialist. All I am
saying is that most of his substantial economic theory was geared to
understanding the post-WWII expansion and putting it into some kind of
perspective, so as to allow Marxist activists to swim against the stream.
He was
"Belief in the omnipotence of technology is the specific form
of bourgeois ideology in late capitalism. This ideology proclaims
the ability of the existing social order gradually to eliminate
all chance of crises, to find a technical solution to all its
contradictions,
Pen-lers, Sorry to bother you with this again. Does anyone know of a labo(u)r
oriented conference in the N. Hemisphere, preferably europe, anytime between
after Easter and early June.
Martin Watts ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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