The Chechen resistance movement is an outgrowth of the
Chechen Mafia. Nukhayev is a former mobster who has
been in and out of prison since the 1970s. The Mafia
and the oligarchs are not exactly unacquainted. Read
Klebnikov's book on Berezovsky (Godfather of the
Kremlin)! It's all in there.
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'Fool Me Once . . . ': Race, Class, and Betrayal:
http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/fool-me-once-race-class-and-betrayal.html
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Yoshie
* Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/
* Bring Them Home Now! http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/
* Calendars of Events in Columbus:
From: Daniel Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have not followed Sachs closely in most recent times but I think he
would
strongly object to being called a 'man of the left'.
maybe I was being too charitable on this point ... I'd say he's a man of
the left in the same sense in which Brad DeLong is ...
[In
Thanks for your comment, Gil. Please excuse a layperson's question, but I
have never quite been able to understand this economist's use of secular.
What is the definition of secular.
Charles
by Gil Skillman
You could certainly point to recent economic phenomena supporting an
affirmative answer
as opposed to cyclical. It's a statistical concept at base; the idea is
that if you were able to perfectly control for the business cycle then what
you'd be left with is the secular trend.
dd
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From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Charles
Brown
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Brad DeLong:
An Infantile Disorder
Timothy Noah has fallen in love with Barbara Ehrenreich:
Chatterbox: ...Barbara Ehrenreich has established herself as the Times's
best columnist. This is, of course, a snap judgment, but Ehrenreich has
long been one of the most eloquent voices on the left,
(An interesting recent piece by the NYTs Louis Uchitelle on the differing
domestic programmes of the Republicans and Democrats. Their respective
positions on health care, labour rights, tax policy, trade, and pensions
mirror the same differences which divide social democratic and conservative
From: Charles Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks for your comment, Gil. Please excuse a layperson's question, but I
have never quite been able to understand this economist's use of secular.
What is the definition of secular.
Please excuse a layperson's answer: Secular is a trend without end.
Carl
at this point, if there's a second dip to the recession, it's likely that Kerry will
get the blame (assuming he's elected). Even if he's not elected, Bushmen will probably
blame him for undermining faith in the Chief.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
Hello, Charles. Secular meaning over a long period of time. As dd
points out, economists usually use this in the sense of as opposed to
cyclical. Gil
Thanks for your comment, Gil. Please excuse a layperson's question, but I
have never quite been able to understand this economist's use of
http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=3262027
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Special interests carve out place in convention
July 12, 2004
BY LYNN SWEET Chicago Sun-Times Washington Bureau Chief Advertisement
WASHINGTON -- Special interests -- corporations, labor unions and causes
-- are bankrolling lush parties at the Democratic National Convention in
order to buy access
Not to be confused with Paul Volcker, former chairman of
the Fed Board of Govs. -- mbs
Subject: Spam fraud moves up a notch
Usually I get requests from the families of disgraced dictators. Now look
who writes
me.
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Assistance from you
Jim wrote:
at this point, if there's a second dip to the
recession, it's likely that Kerry will get the blame (assuming he's
elected). Even if he's not elected, Bushmen will probably blame him for
undermining faith in the Chief.
...and his Office...and the US Labor and Commerce Departments...
US under fire at AIDS conference
Activists, officials clash on purchase of generic drugs
By John Donnelly
The Boston Globe
July 12, 2004
BANGKOK -- The 15th International AIDS Conference opened yesterday with
scenes of tension, repeatedly pitting the Bush administration against
activists and
The `Ubuntu' of globalization
The Boston Globe
By Julian Hewitt
July 12, 2004
IN SOUTH AFRICA, we have a term, Ubuntu, which refers to the
spirit of the community. It is a shortened version of a South African
saying that comes from the Xhosa culture: Umuntu ngumuntu
ngamuntu. This means that I
How can you defeat an alliance of Christian fundamentalists and the drug companies?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 10:01:11AM -0700, Michael Perelman wrote:
How can you defeat an alliance of Christian fundamentalists and the drug companies?
This is off topic but:
--- qoutes ---
If there is evidence that HIV causes AIDS, there should be scientific
documents which either singly or
From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How can you defeat an alliance of Christian fundamentalists and the drug
companies?
[Or for that matter, how do you defeat an alliance of drug companies and
free-trade advocates?]
Trade Pact May Undercut Inexpensive Drug Imports
By ELIZABETH BECKER and
That is why the drug companies are not happy with the conference, which wants access
to
cheap drugs.
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 06:26:06PM +0100, Daniel Davies wrote:
OTOH, although this is an interesting scientific question, it has
surprisingly few political implications. Although there are
OTOH, although this is an interesting scientific question, it has
surprisingly few political implications. Although there are differences of
opinion on how they work, the brute fact of the matter is that
antiretroviral drugs do in fact work for AIDS patients, and nothing else
does. So for the
That is why the drug companies are not happy with the conference, which
wants access to
cheap drugs.
They are also tired of the whole pro-abstinence/anti-condom line.
Joel Wendland
http://classwarnotes.blogspot.com
_
MSN 9 Dial-up
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 06:26:06PM +0100, Daniel Davies wrote:
OTOH, although this is an interesting scientific question, it has
surprisingly few political implications. Although there are differences of
opinion on how they work, the brute fact of the matter is that
antiretroviral drugs do
Dmytri K. writes: I have problem accepting a scientific explanation
because it just works but can not be theoreticly explained
is it true that the HIV -- AIDS link isn't theoretically explained? Or is it that
some disagree with this explanation?
The latter is very common concerning matters
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 11:28:22AM -0700, Devine, James wrote:
Dmytri K. writes: I have problem accepting a scientific explanation
because it just works but can not be theoreticly explained
is it true that the HIV -- AIDS link isn't theoretically explained? Or is it that
some disagree with
Charles Brown writes:
I appreciate what you are saying about Marx qualifying his
statement. I
believe all social scientific empirical generalizations are
less than 100%
true ( including the one I am making here ? Reflexivity alert :)).
This sentence that I type now isn't true.
I wonder
For some inexplicable reason I am cyber-debating some American social
democrat. He insists that the 1974-75 oil shock caused the US recession
and (implicitly) US decline from hegemony and the good days. We three
all disagree with each other on many questions but I *think* that we all
agree that
Duesberg, whom you quote, is a Professor of Molecular Biology University of Berkeley,
not a medical scientist. He, alone with a colleague of mine -- a historian who has
become a conservative activist -- have been among a handful of people who argue that
HIV does not cause AIDS, but that it is a
Russia Steps in to Aid Banking Crisis
Mon Jul 12,11:06 AM ET
By ALEX NICHOLSON, Associated Press Writer
MOSCOW - After last week's run on one of Russia's biggest private banks and
the near-collapse of a second, the Russian parliament and Central Bank
stepped in to calm frightened depositors, a
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