The New Leviathans
The New Leviathans
Would you guess which country in the world is the home to the largest
number of multinational corporations? It is not the US, Britain or
Japan.
By NAYAN CHANDA
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Would you guess which country in the world is the home to the largest
number of multinational corporations? It is not the US, Britain or
Japan.
By NAYAN CHANDA
[!Long link]
http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname 031124&fname=ASexuality+%
28F%29&sid=1&pn=2
Re: Re: Re: Re: the XTC of communication
I wonder we have to speak, or do:other such activity, at all, to
communicate 8o<
Nocommunicate, noecstacy, nocalvino
>y
-----
From: Sean Capone
I always wondered why no one made a phone in the shape of a big mouth.
Patrick Simons wrote:
> How about a big ear shaped phone, or one with a long flexicord
> attached to it?
communicate 8o<
Nocommunicate, noecstacy, nocalvino
>y
-----
From: Sean Capone
I always wondered why no one made a phone in the shape of a big mouth.
Patrick Simons wrote:
> How about a big ear shaped phone, or one with a long flexicord
> attached to it?
FW: Volunteers Needed: International week of Protest against the Wall
-----Original Message-----
From: lookingnorth@attbi.com [mailto:lookingnorth@attbi.com]
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 6:22 AM
To: bostontopalestine@lists.riseup.net
Subject: [bostontopalestine] Volunteers Needed: International week of
Protest against the
In commemoration of the day the Berlin Wall was torn down, and pursuant
to worldwide calls from the Palestinian Environmental NGO Network and
the UN Palestine NGO Task Force for an International week of Protest
against the Wall being constructed by Israel in the Occupied West Bank,
the Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights, in collaboration with
Grassroots International, United for Justice with Peace
(Israel/Palestine Task Force), Visions of Peace with Justice in
Israel/Palestine, and Jewish Women for Peace and Justice will launch a
week of protests from November 9 to November 16.
Speakers at the November 9th event in Copley Square (noon to 2 p.m.)
will
include:
Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner
Rev. Robert Tobin, Rector, Christ Church Cambridge
Ms. Amal Jadou
Dr. Nancy Murray
Dr. Alice Rothchild
Dr. Leila Farsakh
Ms. Charlene Hauptley-Pierce, Rachel Corrie's cousin
Mr. Martin Federman
Ms. Ridgely Fuller
Mr. Tom Wallace
Mr. Joe Previtera
******************************************************
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
We invite volunteers to sign up for the activities of the week - see the
details of times and locations below.
To volunteer send an e-mail to: sherif_fam@attglobal.net Please provide
-
> Your name
> Your Telephone number
> Your e-mail address
> Times you will be available (which day or days and times)
Thank you for your help!
Sherif Fam
*****************************************************
TEAR DOWN THE WALL!
LET PALESTINE LIVE!!
INTERNATIONAL WEEK OF ACTION AGAINST THE WALL
EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY AND PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBIT:
THE WALL AND ITS IMPACT ON THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE
SEE THE WALL ON EXHIBIT, NOVEMBER 9 - 15
Sunday Copley Square, Boston, noon to 2 p.m.
Monday U.MASS Boston, noon to 2 p.m
Tuesday Davis Square,Somerville, noon to 2 p.m
Wednesday Harvard Square, noon to 3 p.m
Thursday Israeli Consulate, 8 a.m to 10 a.m
Friday Government Center, 8 a.m to 10 a.m
Friday Boston U. , 2 p.m to 4 p.m
Saturday Arlington Center, 10 a.m to 12 p.m
Saturday Shoppers World, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
For more information, visit: http://www.stopthewall.org
or contact: info@bcpr.org.
From: lookingnorth@attbi.com [mailto:lookingnorth@attbi.com]
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 6:22 AM
To: bostontopalestine@lists.riseup.net
Subject: [bostontopalestine] Volunteers Needed: International week of
Protest against the
In commemoration of the day the Berlin Wall was torn down, and pursuant
to worldwide calls from the Palestinian Environmental NGO Network and
the UN Palestine NGO Task Force for an International week of Protest
against the Wall being constructed by Israel in the Occupied West Bank,
the Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights, in collaboration with
Grassroots International, United for Justice with Peace
(Israel/Palestine Task Force), Visions of Peace with Justice in
Israel/Palestine, and Jewish Women for Peace and Justice will launch a
week of protests from November 9 to November 16.
Speakers at the November 9th event in Copley Square (noon to 2 p.m.)
will
include:
Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner
Rev. Robert Tobin, Rector, Christ Church Cambridge
Ms. Amal Jadou
Dr. Nancy Murray
Dr. Alice Rothchild
Dr. Leila Farsakh
Ms. Charlene Hauptley-Pierce, Rachel Corrie's cousin
Mr. Martin Federman
Ms. Ridgely Fuller
Mr. Tom Wallace
Mr. Joe Previtera
******************************************************
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
We invite volunteers to sign up for the activities of the week - see the
details of times and locations below.
To volunteer send an e-mail to: sherif_fam@attglobal.net Please provide
-
> Your name
> Your Telephone number
> Your e-mail address
> Times you will be available (which day or days and times)
Thank you for your help!
Sherif Fam
*****************************************************
TEAR DOWN THE WALL!
LET PALESTINE LIVE!!
INTERNATIONAL WEEK OF ACTION AGAINST THE WALL
EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY AND PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBIT:
THE WALL AND ITS IMPACT ON THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE
SEE THE WALL ON EXHIBIT, NOVEMBER 9 - 15
Sunday Copley Square, Boston, noon to 2 p.m.
Monday U.MASS Boston, noon to 2 p.m
Tuesday Davis Square,Somerville, noon to 2 p.m
Wednesday Harvard Square, noon to 3 p.m
Thursday Israeli Consulate, 8 a.m to 10 a.m
Friday Government Center, 8 a.m to 10 a.m
Friday Boston U. , 2 p.m to 4 p.m
Saturday Arlington Center, 10 a.m to 12 p.m
Saturday Shoppers World, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
For more information, visit: http://www.stopthewall.org
or contact: info@bcpr.org.
margolis on current iraq
Eric Margolis
Foreign Correspondent / Defence Analyst & Columnist
http://www.foreigncorrespondent.com/
NO LIGHT AT THE END OF THE IRAQ TUNNEL
Watching the storm of car bombs, rockets, and gunfire in central Iraq
last week, and the deaths of 19 Americans over the weekend, gave me
nasty deja vu back to the January, 1968 Tet offensive in Vietnam.
Then, many of the soldiers our US Army unit were getting ready to depart
for Special Forces camps in Vietnam's Central Highlands. We stood in
mute horror watching TV, as reports flooded in that these very camps
being overrun by North Vietnamese troops, and their garrisons killed to
the last man.
We immediately understood the bloody Tet offensive was a huge political
and psychological victory for North Vietnam. Tet blew away for good
Washington's claims of light at the end of the Vietnam tunnel.
Reacting to last week's Ramadan offensive in Iraq, President George Bush
actually claimed it proved things were improving, though attacks on US
forces have surged from 20 to 30 daily. He called for more US-run Iraqi
`sepoy' forces to be deployed -shades of the ill-fated `Vietnamization'
strategy of three decades ago.
At times, Bush and his senior aides seem more out of touch with reality
than Iraq's former minister of misinformation, `Comical' Ali. Consider:
*Bush was reported shocked and amazed at his mid-October meetings in
Bali with moderate, pro-American Muslim leaders who complained
Washington considers all Muslims terrorists. They warned the surprised
Bush that his total identification with Israel's rightwing government
was ruining chances for Mideast peace.
Bush was apparently unaware his administration is increasingly viewed
abroad as an aggressor and a bitter foe of Islam. We know Bush prides
himself in not reading, but being so out of touch staggers the
imagination.
Is Bush really unaware a mainstay of his administration, the
Muslim-hunting Attorney General John Ashcroft, claims `in America, there
is no king but Jesus!'
Or Lt. Gen William Boykin, a loudmouthed imbecile he put in charge of
anti-terrorism, recently claimed while in uniform that Muslims were akin
to Satan, and that his god was `bigger' than idols he mistakenly said
were worshipped by Muslims.
Or that Bush's neo-conservative advisors, who want the US to destroy all
Israel's enemies, keep calling for `World War IV' against the Muslim
world?
Bush was too busy blasting Malaysia's retiring leader, who recently
claimed Jews ran the world and the United States, to denounce equally
odious canards against Islam by his own administration and its fevered
supporters in the media and on the religious far right.
Bush, of course, has never been in touch with reality. Just recall his
preposterous claim about Iraqi uranium, `drones of death,' `vans of
death,' links to al-Qaida, the imminent threat of mass destruction to
the US from Iraq, etc.etc.
*VP Dick Cheney, who appears to be running Mideast policy, repeatedly
claimed Iraq had deployed nuclear weapons that threatened the US. He
maintains such absurd claims, though absolutely nothing was found after
a 5-month, $300 million search. The rarely-seen Cheney sounds as
isolated and out of touch as old Mad King Ludwig of Bavaria, except that
the ditty Ludwig didn't start any wars.
*Poor Colin Powell, now demoted to TV talk show guest, disgraced himself
before the world at the UN by his lurid, nonsensical claims about Iraq.
*Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, a prime architect of the Iraq
War, went to Baghdad last week where he met the real world for the first
time. Iraqi resistance forces rocketed the heavily-guarded al-Rashid
Hotel, the imperial cantonment where he and other US VIP's were lodged.
One was reminded of the Vietcong attack on the US Embassy in Saigon
during Tet.
The attack left Professor Wolfowitz visibly shaking and badly
frightened. Here was the fire-eating warlord, the `ruthless' neo-con
theoretician who had sent American GI's into combat in Afghanistan and
Iraq, trembling in his brand-new chukka boots after the tiniest taste of
real war.
Neither Bush, Cheney, nor Wolfowitz ever served in their nation's armed
forces, though all were of military age during the Vietnam War - unless
you count George Bush's sporadic appearances at the Texas Air National
Guard.
Wolfowitz, and fellow neo-conservative Administration warmongers, like
Richard Perle, Elliot Abrams, Doug Feith, Michael Ledeen, and John
Bolton (all avoided military service), who now call for attacks on Iran,
Libya, Lebanon, Syria, Sudan - vividly recall the words of American
political thinker and poet, Peter Viereck.
In his brilliant book. `Metapolitics
Foreign Correspondent / Defence Analyst & Columnist
http://www.foreigncorrespondent.com/
NO LIGHT AT THE END OF THE IRAQ TUNNEL
Watching the storm of car bombs, rockets, and gunfire in central Iraq
last week, and the deaths of 19 Americans over the weekend, gave me
nasty deja vu back to the January, 1968 Tet offensive in Vietnam.
Then, many of the soldiers our US Army unit were getting ready to depart
for Special Forces camps in Vietnam's Central Highlands. We stood in
mute horror watching TV, as reports flooded in that these very camps
being overrun by North Vietnamese troops, and their garrisons killed to
the last man.
We immediately understood the bloody Tet offensive was a huge political
and psychological victory for North Vietnam. Tet blew away for good
Washington's claims of light at the end of the Vietnam tunnel.
Reacting to last week's Ramadan offensive in Iraq, President George Bush
actually claimed it proved things were improving, though attacks on US
forces have surged from 20 to 30 daily. He called for more US-run Iraqi
`sepoy' forces to be deployed -shades of the ill-fated `Vietnamization'
strategy of three decades ago.
At times, Bush and his senior aides seem more out of touch with reality
than Iraq's former minister of misinformation, `Comical' Ali. Consider:
*Bush was reported shocked and amazed at his mid-October meetings in
Bali with moderate, pro-American Muslim leaders who complained
Washington considers all Muslims terrorists. They warned the surprised
Bush that his total identification with Israel's rightwing government
was ruining chances for Mideast peace.
Bush was apparently unaware his administration is increasingly viewed
abroad as an aggressor and a bitter foe of Islam. We know Bush prides
himself in not reading, but being so out of touch staggers the
imagination.
Is Bush really unaware a mainstay of his administration, the
Muslim-hunting Attorney General John Ashcroft, claims `in America, there
is no king but Jesus!'
Or Lt. Gen William Boykin, a loudmouthed imbecile he put in charge of
anti-terrorism, recently claimed while in uniform that Muslims were akin
to Satan, and that his god was `bigger' than idols he mistakenly said
were worshipped by Muslims.
Or that Bush's neo-conservative advisors, who want the US to destroy all
Israel's enemies, keep calling for `World War IV' against the Muslim
world?
Bush was too busy blasting Malaysia's retiring leader, who recently
claimed Jews ran the world and the United States, to denounce equally
odious canards against Islam by his own administration and its fevered
supporters in the media and on the religious far right.
Bush, of course, has never been in touch with reality. Just recall his
preposterous claim about Iraqi uranium, `drones of death,' `vans of
death,' links to al-Qaida, the imminent threat of mass destruction to
the US from Iraq, etc.etc.
*VP Dick Cheney, who appears to be running Mideast policy, repeatedly
claimed Iraq had deployed nuclear weapons that threatened the US. He
maintains such absurd claims, though absolutely nothing was found after
a 5-month, $300 million search. The rarely-seen Cheney sounds as
isolated and out of touch as old Mad King Ludwig of Bavaria, except that
the ditty Ludwig didn't start any wars.
*Poor Colin Powell, now demoted to TV talk show guest, disgraced himself
before the world at the UN by his lurid, nonsensical claims about Iraq.
*Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, a prime architect of the Iraq
War, went to Baghdad last week where he met the real world for the first
time. Iraqi resistance forces rocketed the heavily-guarded al-Rashid
Hotel, the imperial cantonment where he and other US VIP's were lodged.
One was reminded of the Vietcong attack on the US Embassy in Saigon
during Tet.
The attack left Professor Wolfowitz visibly shaking and badly
frightened. Here was the fire-eating warlord, the `ruthless' neo-con
theoretician who had sent American GI's into combat in Afghanistan and
Iraq, trembling in his brand-new chukka boots after the tiniest taste of
real war.
Neither Bush, Cheney, nor Wolfowitz ever served in their nation's armed
forces, though all were of military age during the Vietnam War - unless
you count George Bush's sporadic appearances at the Texas Air National
Guard.
Wolfowitz, and fellow neo-conservative Administration warmongers, like
Richard Perle, Elliot Abrams, Doug Feith, Michael Ledeen, and John
Bolton (all avoided military service), who now call for attacks on Iran,
Libya, Lebanon, Syria, Sudan - vividly recall the words of American
political thinker and poet, Peter Viereck.
In his brilliant book. `Metapolitics