Re: Newsday: Iran wanted US to invade?

There is one thing i forgot to add and that is in a place where a tribe is 5 to 8000 years old and where lineage down to abraham times is taken as relaity rather than myth, anonymity is impossible. no one can colloborate with the occupation forceswithout a tremendous cost. so anyone who lives in

the ruler of Iraq at the moment is Mr Bremer

that makes bremer 1053 monarch of mesopotemia since milkart the assyrian Mr. Lakhdar Brahimi, Special Advisor to the Secretary-General Interview with Al-Arabeya, taped with Lakhdar Brahimi in Baghdad and programme host in Dubai, via satellite, Sunday 23 May 2004 – 21:30 p.m. to be broadcast

Famous last words

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2004%2F02%2F19%2Fwirq19.xml Chalabi stands by faulty intelligence that toppled Saddam's regime By Jack Fairweather in Baghdad and Anton La Guardia (Filed: 19/02/2004) snip Ahmad Chalabi: 'we've been entirely

Extent of Medical adverse evetns in Canada

http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/170/11/1678 Abstract The Canadian Adverse Events Study: the incidence of adverse events among hospital patients in Canada G. Ross Baker, Peter G. Norton, Virginia Flintoft, Rgis Blais, Adalsteinn Brown, Jafna Cox, Ed Etchells, William A. Ghali, Philip Hbert,

Still solidly Bush

Even by traditional Republican standards and despite Iraq, Wall Street is engaged in an unprecedented drive to reelect George Bush, according to the Washington Post. Investment dealers like Morgan Stanley, who have profited hugely from the administrations first term dividend and capital gain tax

FW: hypno-shocker

BUSH TO USE GIANT HYPNO-COIN IN SPEECH TO U.N. -- by Andy Borowitz. You Are Getting Very Sleepy, He Tells World Body President George W. Bush will use what aides are describing as a gigantic hypno-coin when he addresses the United Nations to ask for assistance in Iraq, White House sources

A Giant Sucking Sound of the Presidential Election Year

The problem of presidential election years for activists on the left is not only that they tend to suck many activists' time and energy into the self-defeating project of electing the perceived lesser evil who turns against them but also that Democratic Party political machines suck big money out

The Origins of Continents

Title: The Origins of Continents Can anyone tell me of origin of the term continents? Why, for instance, are the Americas split into two continents? Why are Europe and Eurasia separated? Why is India considered a sub-continent, and not, say Canada? If my suspicions are correct, does the

Draft of UN resolution

The resolution makes no mention of UNMOVIC. Does this mean that the US will make the final report to the UN onf WMD or what? THe UN seems to suffer from severe memory loss. Does it not remember that inspectors were given a day or so to clear out of Iraq or be bombed by the USUK forces? USUK simply

Re: Collective wisdom

I wrote: My feeling is that [Condorcet] was saying that a jury of 12 would be more accurate in its processing of the facts they were given -- to make a _binary decision_ (guilty/not guilty) -- than would be a jury of 1 or 6, assuming that one of the two verdicts is actually valid. It's like

URPE at Brecht, Wed. June 9: Book Party -- Reclaiming Development

URPE AT BRECHT FORUM, SPRING 2004 presented by New York Union for Radical Political Economics and the Brecht Forum

Re: Collective wisdom

Jim D. wrote: I think that profit-max is a better description of firms than utility-max is as a description of people. Again, I think the dominant view ignores alternative approaches. If capitalism is a social system whose characteristic relations generate psychopathology i.e. some degree of

I just think it's a lost cause

Soldiers' Doubts Build as Duties Shift For Many, Prolonged Stay and New Threat Have Eroded Early Optimism By Daniel Williams Washington Post Foreign Service Tuesday, May 25, 2004; Page A11 KARBALA, Iraq -- When the Army's 1st Armored Division arrived in Iraq 13 months ago, its job was to close out

Re: Famous last words

I thought that he said that it was not an interview, only around drinks, not that he was joking. On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 04:26:08AM -0400, Michael Pollak wrote: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2004%2F02%2F19%2Fwirq19.xml Chalabi stands by faulty intelligence that

Re: Collective wisdom

I wrote: I think that profit-max is a better description of firms than utility-max is as a description of people. Again, I think the dominant view ignores alternative approaches. If capitalism is a social system whose characteristic relations generate psychopathology i.e. some degree

Re: Analysts - Putin to Launch Systematic Campaign Against Oligarchs

The US Robber Barons participated in the creation of modern industry. Will there be any positive legacy of their Russian counterparts? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu

Re: Collective wisdom

What I know of Taylor as a person comes from the long, One Best Way book. He was firmly aligned with the progressive movement. He did not seem crazy, but he certainly had personality defects. He saw himself as helping worker to gain a better life. I don't think that craziness is relevant to

Mike Davis on oil supplies

The View from Hubbert's Peak By Mike Davis Angry truckers celebrated this May Day by blocking freeways in Los Angeles and container terminals in Oakland and Stockton. With diesel fuel prices in California soaring to record levels in recent weeks, the earnings of independent container-haulers have

Re: Analysts - Putin to Launch Systematic Campaign Against Oligarchs

In a message dated 5/25/2004 2:23:39 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The US Robber Barons participated in the creation of modern industry. Will there be any positive legacy of their Russian counterparts? Comment I have a point of view that cannot be validated . . yet. The

Re: Collective wisdom

Michael Perelman wrote: I don't think that craziness is relevant to the evaluation of a person. I would not change my mind about Bush if someone convinced me that he were mentally unbalanced or if he were healthy. At the same time, I think that mental states are relevant in forgiving people. I

if you believe polls...

from MS SLATE's news summary: the [Washington] Post goes Page One with a poll concluding that Bush's support is continuing to drop, with the president now getting a 47 percent approval rating, the lowest the Post has ever recorded for Bush. Forty percent of respondents also said they want the

Salah Edine Sallat: Art against Torture

Iraqi artist Salah Edine Sallat puts the final touches to a wall painting based on the US Statue of Liberty and a widely published photograph of an abused detainee at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad's Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City (AFP/Ramzi Haidar) -- see Sallat's work at

Re: Extent of Medical adverse evetns in Canada

Makes you want to stay clear of the hospitals! -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu

Re: The Origins of Continents

Jayson Funke asks: Can anyone tell me of [the] origin of the term continents? The term is of Greek origin, *epeiros*. It seems to have been first used in the sense of continent by Herodotos. Plato, at Timaios 25A, speaks of the American continent: ...all that we have here, lying within the