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Friday, June 14, 2002
[6:43:26 PM]

Read Buzzflash to find the news buried by the corporate media.

[4:43:58 PM]

US had role in Taleban prisoner deaths [scotsman.com]: 'Two other witnesses claim they were forced to drive into the desert with hundreds of Taleban prisoners who were in containers. The orders came from the local US commander, they alleged. Prisoners who had not suffocated to death were then shot dead while 30 to 40 US soldiers stood by watching.'

[1:56:15 PM]

Itemization of taxpayer property damage [whitehouse.org].

[1:52:29 PM]

Remaining U.S. CEOs make a break for it [satirewire.com]: Unwilling to wait for their eventual indictments, the 10,000 remaining CEOs of public U.S. companies made a break for it yesterday, heading for the Mexican border, plundering towns and villages along the way, and writing the entire rampage off as a marketing expense.

[1:41:44 PM]

spin-on-this.com: USA OFFICIALS FOIL PRESS ATTACKS (POSTED 11 06 02) Attorney general John Ashcroft says he has 'foiled more bad press for the Bush administration' by claiming to prevent a non-existent terrorist attack. Ashcroft explained "as you know, we proved to be incapable of preventing the real September 11th attacks, despite plenty of warning. However we find we can stop imaginary attacks with amazing ease!" He concluded "thank you for all your help. Especially the way you're not remotely suspicious when I release a story about superb co-operation between the FBI and CIA in the same week they're tearing each other apart."

[11:25:18 AM]

So some army officer let loose a rant about Bush being an idiot. In the army, truth is not a defense. "In the army." Bush, meanwhile, is a deserter. And the guy who covered up that Bush deserted the army in time of war -- he's now in charge of the entire country's air defense.

Chris Floyd [tmtmetropolis.ru].

[10:15:27 AM]
Management is a problem for the New Economy. Bluestone was pretty good software. Darth Fiorina came to HP and spent half a billion dollars to buy Bluestone. Now she's dumping it. Maybe because she's got Compaq to play with and she's too busy firing 15,000 workers? You have to hope she doesn't just dump all of Compaq in a year.

[10:02:22 AM]
A Myth: The New Economy Myth [wired.com].... Reminds people that -- besides the stupid hype and the stupider stock bubble -- the "new economy" really is going to change things in a big way.

The way I see it, the problem is that the new economy is incompatible with Alan Greenspan and the Bush mafia. If real wages and wealth start to go up for the masses, Greenspan will kill the next surge, just as he killed the previous surges.

Here's a guy who killed the golden goose. Why's he still got a job when so many (formerly) productive workers don't? Well, he assassinated the goose just in time to help Bush in the election. Now is that a coincidence, or what? And what a coincidence that Bush keeps him on.

The Bush gang want people poor and scared, stripping as much wealth as possible from the bottom 99% of the population. If people aren't scared about paying for food and shelter, there's no telling what people might do. They might object to coup d'etats.

Greenspan can whack the economy any time he feels like it, and the American government can choose fear-mongering over prosperity. The "new economy" isn't stoppable, but maybe they can contain the damage. We'll find out.

[9:47:17 AM]
Suppose you have 10,000 workers, average 10 years employment, average $75,000 total salary/etc. cost. That's a $7.5 billion investment in "human capital" -- knowledge, expertise, ability to handle unusual cases, understanding of internal and external relationships, etc.

Now suppose you throw away that $7.5 billion investment....

My favorite story is the rocket-launch company that disposed of its old-geezer techs, and then for a decade couldn't get a satellite into orbit to save their CEO's precious stock options.

Employees are disposable, of course, but that doesn't mean they are replaceable.

That company had rockets blowing up every which way, and their insurance rates went through the roof. But some management genius shaved a bit on salary.