The French language public radio and television service called
Radio-Canada has announced a budget reduction of $90 million and
layoffs of 654 workers. These cuts affect every major city in the
country with some city operations, such as in the West, shutting
down altogether and being
BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1996
Average annual pay of U.S. workers rose by 3.4 percent in 1995, ahead of
the 2.2 percent increase of 1994, the Labor Department reports.
Washington, D.C., again led the nation in average annual pay The
mining industry -- comprising less than 1
The next to last item is particularly interesting. At one time we
thought it was
a shame that kids with college degrees couldn't find suitable
employment.
Now, applying a magnificent spin, Business Week thinks it is wonderful
that
so many factory workers now have college degrees.
Dave
S. Tell's sermons may seem pointless, since as far as I can tell,
pen-l people don't read them.
But aren't they broadcast to PeaceNet, so that someone outside of
pen-l might read them?
Recently, because I was starving for nonmainstream news about
what was happening in Palestine, I read one
Dale Wharton wrote:
.. . .
Through the 1940s Seldes wrote America's first journal of press
criticism, a weekly newsletter called In Fact (it inspired I F Stone's
Weekly). Shortly after WW2, Seldes got wind that antitrust lawyers
were looking into investment banking. The US Department of
BLS DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1996
The technical data consensus forecast is for an increase of 160,000 in
payroll employment and a rise to 5.3 percent for the unemployment rate
in September (Wall Street Journal, "Tracking the Economy," page A4).
"Inflation Inflated," a column by
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So, Greg, are you saying that John Locke, who many see as the
founder of classical liberalism and was clearly an important
intellectual predecessor of Adam Smith, didn't posit in the
"state of nature" the existence of a generally-accepted
morality, in which "all
Doug Henwood wrote:
I just heard from a friend of mine that the big U.S. federal budget bill
was essentially a secret document. . . .
As far as I know, this is unprecedented at the federal level. State
legislatures act this way, but this seems to be a new low in federal
budget-making.
It seems that the Middle East doesn't command much attention on this
list as other regions. Is that because it is a very touchy and
emotional issue for some on the list or what? It certainly is for me,
but am just curious as to what is pen-lers' take on what is going on
and on the whole
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To Garnett,
I am the person on this list who from time to time has
bothered to respond to some of Shawgi Tell's more inane
missives. I was told offlist by numerous people not to
bother, most of the people on the list hoping that if he is
ignored he will just go away. Maybe so, maybe
Doug Henwood wrote:
I just heard from a friend of mine that the big U.S. federal budget bill
was essentially a secret document. She heard that among the 4 votes against
the bill was that of my personal Congressperson (and hers), Jerry Nadler.
She called Nadler's office to find out why. It was
It seems that the Middle East doesn't command much attention on this
list as other regions. Is that because it is a very touchy and
emotional issue for some on the list or what? It certainly is for me,
but am just curious as to what is pen-lers' take on what is going on
and on the whole 'peace
1. "M.S., Seeker of Truth" asks: An innocent question: does the
'institutionalist' view (your view?) preclude the idea that there
is some kind of lawfulness about the way the economy evolves
which is presumably susceptible to some kind of theoretical
explanation, including a possibility of
On Mon, 30 Sep 1996, Breen, Nancy wrote:
Marx, of course, wrote in Capital of freedom in the double sense: freedom
from the means of production and freedom to work for wages which is a key
contradition that leads individuals in these conditions into labor
exploitation under capitalism.
Blair,
You've got the concept right but the facts wrong. It
is the US that calls it the "Middle East." The British
called it the "Near East." I think that you can figure out
why and the significance of the shift in terminology.
Barkley Rosser
On Tue, 1 Oct 1996 11:16:23 -0700 (PDT)
During the entire twentieth century, the capitalist
class appears politically as Right or Left. This
division began at a time when the bourgeoisie was no longer capable
of ruling without whole sections of the people, especially the
workers, voting for one bourgeois party or another. Within
BTW, the reason why pen-l doesn't discuss what's happening in
the Greater Levant (is that a good term, Blair?)
Hey, Jimmy D., I should have guessed you'd pick up on this. :)
Actually, I consulted my dictionaries (electronic and paper) on this.
Here's what I found:
"The countries bordering on
Blair,
You've got the concept right but the facts wrong. It
is the US that calls it the "Middle East." The British
called it the "Near East." I think that you can figure out
why and the significance of the shift in terminology.
Barkley Rosser
Right. I've been careless. My apologies. It
I confess that I have tried to discourage this subject. I have the
feeling that 1/2 of the progressive community in the U.S. is zionist and
the other half side with the plight of the indigenous people. Since the
region is so confusing, there is probably another 1/2 that disagree with
both
Blair writes: Right. I've been careless. My apologies. It
should be obvious that my question/criticism refers equally to
the "Far East" or "the Orient." Actually, from the point of view
of England, I'd think that Ireland is the Far East. And for the
U.S. the Far East would be California. Hey,
The economic situation in France continues to deteriorate as a
severe crisis grips the country. Figures released by the French
Labor Ministry on Friday show that unemployment rose by 1.3
percent in August to 3.085 million people. This amounts to almost
13 percent of the French workforce. There
I read in the WSJ that the guarantees Ford and Chrysler made to keep
employment at 95% of current levels have some escape clauses:
1. The companies can cut jobs if there's an economic downturn (okay, we
knew this already);
2. They can eliminate jobs if they become more efficient at producing
Doug wrote:
I just heard from a friend of mine that the big U.S. federal budget bill
was essentially a secret document. She heard that among the 4 votes against
the bill was that of my personal Congressperson (and hers), Jerry Nadler.
She called Nadler's office to find out why. It was because
These big bills are always passed this way. When terrible things are
placed in them, nobody takes responsibility. In many cases, no one even
admits to putting the clause in the bill.
I would like to see a law passed that no law can be voted on until the
body has 2 weeks to look it over.
But
some Dem congressional candidate from Washington State was quoted in
the NYT as saying the railing gave way because it was built with
non-union labor.
By the way, I did not attend the Republican meeting in Chico where Dole
fell down off the stage, but the railing was unattached to
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