Re: Australian Update #2

1998-04-12 Thread Rob Schaap
G'day Penners, At 11.00pm on Tuesday night, Patrick Stevedores sacked all its workers around Australia. All were unionists (members of the strong and relatively militant MUA) and all were sacked because they were unionists. Most were not out on strike, were working well up to the productivity

Re: 1 in 8 plant species threatened with extinction

1998-04-12 Thread boddhisatva
Bill, We have recombined, through introduction of exotics, many species that were once separated by continental drift and other geography. Fish species come immediately to mind - the salmoninds, tilapias, etc,. We are also introducing species and then isolating

Re: Social Security Rescue

1998-04-12 Thread boddhisatva
Doug, Stocks return a third from dividends? Many new companies don't even pay dividends, are you sure about that figure? peace

(Fwd) Caught playing God

1998-04-12 Thread James Michael Craven
April 8,1998 Mr. Dan Geer, Mr. Allen Lowry, Mr. Lowell, Meznarich Glacier County Commissioners Mr. Larry Epstein Glacier County Attorney County Court House Cut Bank, Montana 59427 Dear Sirs: As you good people know I have been researching the history of the

World Bank Think-Tank On-Line

1998-04-12 Thread Michael Eisenscher
Forwarded message Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 21:06:46 -0700 (PDT) From: MichaelP [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [E-CARM] WTO/World Bank conference on IPR and Economic Development (fwd) - This message has

Hacker (Toronto Star 12 April)

1998-04-12 Thread Michael Eisenscher
April 12, 1998The Toronto Star How `Datastream Cowboy' took U.S. to the brink of war Teenage hacker wove a path through computer systems around the world to attack the Pentagon

Re: US vs. Europe (was: Democrats, labor leaders and NAFTA/IMF)

1998-04-12 Thread PJM0930
In a message dated 98-04-11 13:02:25 EDT, you write: The answer as to why class politics did not emerge in the US with an electoral manifestaion as opposed to Europe is SIMPLE. (Skocpol's analysis is so beside the point it is I think this is a good point, though your confidence in

Re: Australian Update #1

1998-04-12 Thread maxsaw
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 23:31:10 +1100 Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Rob Schaap [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Australian Update #1 G'day Max, One thing I'm hearing more about from my dear friends at the Heritage