[Avoiding_Sulla]

Reply #3 at one of your links (So, Have You Been Delphi'd?)
http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a37b321093ce6.htm#3
has a plan for counteracting group think schemers similar to one I proposed at "How Would You Go About Truly Reforming Our Political Parties?" http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3bdb5b6b391b.htm where I broke down the task into subtasks that began with attending what you might see as group-think functions (such as county party caucuses) with your own loyal subgroup.

Lynn Stuter obviously has studied this (I'd be interested in how much of it is academic) has provided some excellent countermeasure guidelines. My suggestions arose from analyzing my own and friends' experiences, are mostly empirical.

More contributions like ours, and a little synthesis on the part of people like you, and we can build and sustain vital influence that would be harder to ignore.

[Uncle Bill]

The revised figures for 2001 now show that instead of contracting for just the third quarter, the economy actually shrank — although modestly — for three straight quarters. The new figures show that the economy contracted by 0.6 percent in last year's first quarter, by 1.6 percent in the second quarter and by 0.3 percent in the third quarter."

New Report Shows U.S. Economy Slowed Significantly for Quarter

U.S. Economy: Second-Quarter Growth Slows to 1.1%

Andy Fastow - Enron's off-balance-sheet partnerships known as LJM2 - "Do I know everything that's going on? Do I have to sign off on every deal that goes in there? Yes," he says. "I'm in the unique position of not having the ownership or the responsibility or obligation to sell the assets, but I know everything about them, and I've been involved in their approval and maybe in their structuring."

No indictments yet in Enron case; maybe never

AOL Time Warner Hit by 2nd Federal Probe

Deutsche Bank's 2nd-Quarter Net Profit Fell 76% Amid Weak Global Economy

Deutsche Bank, BNP, Barclays Earnings Slide; Say Outlook Is `Challenging'

Verizon Loss Widens; Cuts Outlook

Tokyo stocks fall again as U.S. GDP disappoints

Asia Markets Sluggish on US GDP 'Downer'

July 31, 2002 - Wednesday's Stock Market WrapUp

[2sheep]

>More contributions like ours, and a little synthesis on the part of people like you, and we can build and sustain vital influence that would be harder to ignore.

Ah...Hegelian-speak!  The Towers of Babel/Babylon have fallen and crashed in the marketplace.  They cannot be rebuilt by consensus.

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