Yesterday, I organized a teach-in with three other colleagues at Rochester
Institute of Technology. To my surprise, the program was extremely well
reported in the Rochester tv, radio, and newspaper. What impressed me the
most was that the local/regional press was eager for alternative
Jim Gautama Devine writes:
It would have been very useful if someone had critiqued the kind of RPE
you
refer to. Of course, that would be a hard nut to crack, since that kind
of
RPE is definitely heterogeneous. It also doesn't avoid any of the
questions
that Spencer accuses RPE of avoiding.
Has anyone analyzed the impending bailout of the airlines in the wake
of the massive firings?
Bill
From: jennifer terry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: professors for peace
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:01:46 -0700 (PDT)
Dear Friends:
I have been talking with some of you and with others informally
around the US and overseas about the possibility of starting a group
called something like Professors
Bill Lear asked,
Has anyone analyzed the impending bailout of the airlines in the wake
of the massive firings?
The U.S. industry is seeking $24 billion. Air Canada is asking for $3-$4
billion. I would say this is only the beginning.
It would make most sense to let the airlines down slowly (the
G'day Michael,
From here it looks like Thompson was prescient, not Hirst. And if the
leaders of RPE are
anything to go by, we know why.
Amen, brother. Would that more socialist thinkers saw elitist quietism in the
theoretical contortions and abstract peregrinations of an academic left who
had
Tom Walker wrote:
Bill Lear asked,
Has anyone analyzed the impending bailout of the airlines in the wake
of the massive firings?
The U.S. industry is seeking $24 billion. Air Canada is asking for
$3-$4 billion. I would say this is only the beginning.
It would make most sense to let
At the end of August I reported that a flight I was on was remarkably empty.
There was a subsequent post from someone who flies frequently reporting that
flights were much less crowded and that upgrades to first class were much
easier than in the past.
It has been frequently reported in the
Head up, all you lefty-Keynesians, you're sexy again! More (from
http://www.prudentbear.com/international.htm) on yer actual reality forcing
economic orthodoxy back to a Keynesian future ...
Cheers,
Rob.
In response to these intensifying deflationary pressures, the new Japanese
Government has
Helmeted construction workers broke up a student antiwar demonstration in
Wall Street yesterday, chasing youths through the canyons of the financial
district in a wild noontime melee that left about 70 persons injured.
The workers then stormed City Hall, cowing policemen and forcing officials
AMR [American Airlines] said it was not yet able to estimate the financial
impact from the events of Sept. 11, but given their magnitude and possible
effects, the adverse impact on its financial condition will be material and
possibly 'highly material.'
It's a material world out there alright.
This resolution as part of the sanctions against Afghanstan demands that the
Taliban hand over bin Laden to appropriate authorities in countries in
which there were earlier attacks blamed on bin Laden e.g. Kenya, or
authorities who would transfer him to such countries, or to authorities in
any
Full article is at:
http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/16/wusa16.xm
l
Bush finalises battle plan
(Filed: 16/09/2001)
AMERICA was last night assembling the biggest military strike force since
the Gulf War as President Bush issued an ultimatum to Pakistan to
This is via Johnson's Russia list. Cheers, Ken Hanly
Krasnaya Zvezda
September 18, 2001
FIRST WAR OF THE 21ST CENTURY
The United States is not ready to fight internationl terrorism
The US government is drawing the wrong conclusions from this tragedy
Author: Yuri Pankov
[from WPS Monitoring
Small Planet Fact (from the back of a falafel mix box):
The grain and soybeans eaten by U.S. livestock could feed more than ONE
BILLION human beings. [italic emphasis in original]
Tom Walker
Bowen Island, BC
604 947 2213
Tom Walker wrote:
Helmeted construction workers broke up a student antiwar demonstration in
Wall Street yesterday, chasing youths through the canyons of the financial
district in a wild noontime melee that left about 70 persons injured.
In Bloomington Normal the employers of a bunch of
NPR said that the Bushies will meet soon about a bailout for the auto.
industry. They have already tried to bail the nukes. I don't know how
well coal was doing before. Isn't this sort of massive selective bailouts
unprecedented? Can you imagine an unemployed worker asking for a bailout?
--
By preferring the support of domestic to that of
foreign industry, he intends only his own SECURITY;
and by directing that industry in such a manner as
its produce may be of the greatest value, he
intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in
many other cases, led by an invisible hand to
Michael Perelman wrote:
Can you imagine an unemployed worker asking for a bailout?
Asking, sure. Getting is another matter. Isn't that why it's called
capitalism and not unemployed workerism?
Tom Walker
Bowen Island, BC
604 947 2213
Tom Walker wrote:
Small Planet Fact (from the back of a falafel mix box):
The grain and soybeans eaten by U.S. livestock could feed more than ONE
BILLION human beings. [italic emphasis in original]
This is true and important. But equally important is that a substantial
part of that
NPR said that the Bushies will meet soon about a bailout for the auto.
industry. They have already tried to bail the nukes. I don't know how
well coal was doing before. Isn't this sort of massive selective bailouts
unprecedented? Can you imagine an unemployed worker asking for a bailout?
Fed: Economy 'Sluggish' in Aug, Sept
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve on Wednesday said the U.S.
economy remained ``sluggish'' even before the attacks on New York City and
Washington last week that have heightened fears of a recession.
``Report from Federal Reserve Districts generally
I can and do. The are usually met with the argument 'too much
welfare/bailout will make you unproductive.'
steve
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Michael Perelman wrote:
NPR said that the Bushies will meet soon about a bailout for the auto.
industry. They have already tried to bail the nukes. I don't
Small Planet Fact (from the back of a falafel mix box):
The grain and soybeans eaten by U.S. livestock could feed more than ONE
BILLION human beings. [italic emphasis in original]
Tom Walker
Bowen Island, BC
604 947 2213
Give peas a chance!
Yoshie
Airline bailout is a done deal.
Other industries -- tourism, for
instance, are starting to line up.
mbs
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Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 12:20 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:
Yoshie:
Give peas a chance!
Don't you mean chick peas a chance?
Tom Walker
Bowen Island, BC
604 947 2213
Airline bailout is a done deal.
Other industries -- tourism, for
instance, are starting to line up.
mbs
Any guesses as to what will happen when the Fed pulls all the
liquidity back out of the markets?
Ian
Max wrote,
Airline bailout is a done deal.
Other industries -- tourism, for
instance, are starting to line up.
This time around there won't be any left for the hedgies. Maybe that
explains why they're intent on maintaining investment discipline.
Tom Walker
Bowen Island, BC
604 947 2213
Capturing bin Laden is the last thing the US wants. How can you justify
bombing people if you already have an accused in custody?
Gene Coyle
Ken Hanly wrote:
This resolution as part of the sanctions against Afghanstan demands that the
Taliban hand over bin Laden to appropriate authorities
Ian Murray wrote:
Any guesses as to what will happen when the Fed pulls all the
liquidity back out of the markets?
Why? You think they're going to do that anytime soon?
Doug
A friend of mine who is a flight attendant told me that 3,000 flight attendants have
quit and 6,000 are on sick leave. Nobody wants to go up there, would you ?, she
asked. They are begging us to come back.
Donald Rumsfeld told me.
Gene
Doug Henwood wrote:
Eugene Coyle wrote:
Capturing bin Laden is the last thing the US wants. How can you justify
bombing people if you already have an accused in custody?
How do you know what the US wants to do?
Doug
At 11:20 AM 9/19/01 -0700, you wrote:
Capturing bin Laden is the last thing the US wants. How can you justify
bombing people if you already have an accused in custody?
the last thing? Wouldn't a show trial have the effect of boosting
national unity and (more importantly) Dubya's approval
At 10:57 AM 9/19/01 -0700, you wrote:
Airline bailout is a done deal.
Other industries -- tourism, for
instance, are starting to line up.
mbs
Any guesses as to what will happen when the Fed pulls all the
liquidity back out of the markets?
why should they do that?
Jim
Bush already gave us the answer to that. Those who harboured terrorists are
also guilty and to be punished.
In fact this may be one reason the Taliban may not be inclined to hand him
over. In fact some sources say that one of the conditions for his release
is the removal of sanctions and threats
Ian Murray asked,
Any guesses as to what will happen when the Fed pulls all the
liquidity back out of the markets?
Ever try to pour steam into a bottle?
Tom Walker
Bowen Island, BC
604 947 2213
It is. . .only a modest move but at this
point any kind of uptick is
encouraging.
Tom Walker
Bowen Island, BC
604 947 2213
Ken Hanly asked:
Will some websites be shut down?
Enjoy it while you can, Ken. I'm surprised the free-for-all has been allowed
to go on as long as it has. Maybe counter-intelligence still has some unused
disk space to write to.
Tom Walker
Bowen Island, BC
604 947 2213
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, DAILY REPORT, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2001:
The September employment report, scheduled for release October 5 by the
Bureau of Labor Statistics, will not reflect losses from the September 11
terrorist attacks because of the way payrolls are counted, BLS officials
JRN Essay Byron Weeks, is a militia loon that believes that there are 300
Concentration Camps ready for when the NWO is gonna round up the Christians.
J.R. Nyquist is a right-wing military expert that is always citing, The
Perestroika Deception, a book that alleges that Gorby pulled a big one
Awhile back, I alluded to the publication of the Federal Reserve Bank of
St. Louis as not having any statistics about the money supply, even though
that Bank used to be a hotbed of Monetarism. I suggested that it might be a
symptom of the decline of Monetarism (something that's real, since
The following is very similar to the article that I published in the REVIEW
OF RADICAL POLITICAL ECONOMICS [1993] that Spencer cites. [The printed
version had more editing.] He does not heed what I said in his article,
though: he seems to quote the following as part of the radical economics
Michael, Could you send me Spencer's article (again).
Thanks.
kind regards
Martin
At 06:26 PM 09-09-01 -0700, you wrote:
The following article is interesting in several respects. First,
it shows how the state is trying to shortchange the local prisons
in favor of the for-profit prisons. Also,
Jim, have you forgotten that we bombed Panama and killed a bunch of people
BEFORE Noriega was placed in custody?
I agree that what you call the defense types -- I'm sure you mean war
types -- will proceed with the attacks on an assortment of targets.
Gene Coyle
Jim Devine wrote:
At
Apologies for private message.
Martin
Macdonald Hastings, the right wing British newspaper editor who specialises
in military matters, said Tuesday night on BBC2 Newsnight that the language
of war was wrong: the taks is essentially one of global policing.
I suggest this means that the talk about a global coalition is raising the
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Date: 9/19/01 4:01:09 PM
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At 04:32 PM 09/19/2001 -0700, you wrote:
Jim, have you forgotten that we bombed Panama and killed a bunch of people
BEFORE Noriega was placed in custody?
nope.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine
Declaration of Havana
EVERYTHING IS NOT LOST, YET
Under the effect of the shock caused to the world by the appalling and
brutal terrorist
action that targeted the American people on September 11, underlined by
painful
reports and images of grief and sorrow, certain minds driven by feelings of
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 11:15 AM
Subject: To punish innocent Afghans would be immoral
To punish innocent Afghans would be immoral /14.09.01
Chris Buckley, Christian Aid Programme Officer for Afghanistan
I have just returned from Afghanistan, and cannot avoid a growing feeling of
dread
No comment . . .
WASHINGTON President Bush regrets using the word crusade, with all its
historical connotations of religious war, to describe his campaign against
terrorists, his spokesman said Tuesday.
Bush only meant to say that his is a broad cause to stamp out terrorism
worldwide, White
http://www.outlookindia.com/
I could not resist stealing this from Doug's LBO list.
If you bought $1000 worth of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be
worth $72.
If you bought $1000 worth of Budweiser (the beer, not the stock) one year
ago, drank all the beer, and traded in the cans for the nickel deposit,
you would
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