[PEN-L:6908] Off Limits: USA

1996-10-25 Thread Alex Izurieta
Thanks Michael, I take this one! ...and write you immediately, before you go picnic! Now that you say it, I am ashamed that I never introduced myself!!! The truth is that I entered into the list as a 'passive observer', whith the single intention of learning and getting a relief feeling that

[PEN-L:6909] Re: that toothpaste

1996-10-25 Thread bill mitchell
At 5 pm on Friday Chuck said: I heard that the Fed is putting interest rates up. Didn't know who said it, but one rumour is enough to keep us going for another day whatdyamean. i also heard that Clinton changed toothpaste brands yesterday. Maybe he knew something we didn't then? later bobbie

[PEN-L:6910] Re: Off Limits: USA

1996-10-25 Thread bill mitchell
Obviously, I have a preference for issues that concern directly the third world; but, overall speaking, in the 'global context' we are submerged, there is little that would not influence in one way or another, at the end, the lifes of people in the third world (and viceversa). I have to admit

[PEN-L:6911] the IFIs and the like

1996-10-25 Thread Alex Izurieta
I've written: I have to admit that 'I have had it' with the international financial institutions (WB, IMF, IADBs, etc.) Bill said: so when were you ever enamoured with SAPs? Never! nooi! nunca! mai! jamais! What I meant was that I screened almost every relevant piece written by or about

[PEN-L:6912] FW: BLS Daily Report

1996-10-25 Thread Richardson_D
BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1996 RELEASED TODAY: Median weekly earnings of the nation's 92.7 million full-time wage and salary workers were $488 in the third quarter of 1996. This was 1.9 percent higher than a year earlier, compared with a gain of 3.0 percent in the Consumer Price

[PEN-L:6913] Re: rising rate of profit? -Reply

1996-10-25 Thread Patrick Bond
Ok, if we're meant to be heard from the periphery, let's not miss this moment of yankee silence. Patrick in Johannesburg chiming in on Doug's puzzle: Because of the reasons Jim's laid out, I'm less satisfied with relying upon the search for relative and absolute surplus value as the key way of

Re: [PEN-L:6905] Re: I'm afraid to say this...US blackout

1996-10-25 Thread Anthony D'Costa
How about those who are neither here nor there? That is non-US nationals in the US? Do they get a break or are they lumped together as "people of color" "immigrants who should go back where they came from?::) My two paisas worth: recently on pen-l a number of issues cropped up, one of which

[PEN-L:6914] Re: Off Limits: USA

1996-10-25 Thread dilek cetindamar karaomerlioglu
We have probably 100 people from outside of the U.S. We get quite a bit from Canada, some from OZ or NZ, and occassionaly something from Europe. Let's hear from you. -- Michael Perelman Although I am temporarily living in the US (for a year now, came as a visiting scholar right after my

[PEN-L:6915] Re: Off Limits: USA

1996-10-25 Thread Fikret Ceyhun
This is a very good proposal to give us one day a week for picnic. I would like to add to his proposal this one: We should have one day a week "European Forum," One day "Asian Forum," and one day "Third World Forum." We shoud set aside one day to air each forum. The US posters should be silent

[PEN-L:6916] Canada: Me and Barbara Amiel

1996-10-25 Thread Tom Walker
Only Canadian subscribers will be aware that Barbara Amiel is the right-wing columnist wife of Conrad Black, owner of the majority of Canadian newspapers. Today, I had the unexpected honour of pinch hitting for Barbara's opinion column in the Vancouver Sun. Don't be alarmed, "Barbara Amiel will

[PEN-L:6917] Canada: the discipline of the marketplace

1996-10-25 Thread Tom Walker
What would happen if we imposed the discipline of the market on the ideas of those whose mantra is 'competitiveness'? More precisely, how willing would *investors* be in literally buying into policy ideas like the "laffer curve", the the 'natural' or non-accelerating inflation rate of

[PEN-L:6918] Re: I'm afraid to say this...

1996-10-25 Thread Doug Henwood
At 9:01 PM 10/24/96, bill mitchell wrote: 4. why censoring the USA for the whole world is a breakthrough. Though of course we wouldn't even be talking to each other like this if it weren't for the Pentagon. Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA

[PEN-L:6919] Re: I'm afraid to say this...

1996-10-25 Thread bill mitchell
4. why censoring the USA for the whole world is a breakthrough. Though of course we wouldn't even be talking to each other like this if it weren't for the Pentagon. there is a fallacy in this argument Doug. you assume there is a uniqueness to phenomena. but path dependency can be non-unique

[PEN-L:6920] Mexican oil development

1996-10-25 Thread Doug Henwood
Can anyone advise me or direct me on how to be advised on how Mexico has used its oil over the decades? Did they historically view it mainly as a cash cow, or did they try to develop domestic spinoff industries? Did debt come to claim so large a share of oil revenues that the decision was made

[PEN-L:6921] Textbook help

1996-10-25 Thread Eric Nilsson
I recently received the following message asking for help in finding suitable textbooks. If you think you can make good suggestions, please sent it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am a post-grad. student at Institute of Political Science in Aarhus, Denmark, currently

[PEN-L:6922] Re: Off Limits: USA

1996-10-25 Thread Marianne Brun
As it is still shortly before midnight in Germany, I might as well get in my two-cents worth - although I don't fully fit the requirements: I am sort of not at home here in Germany and half not at home in the States. Since I do go back an forth a lot, I

Re: [PEN-L:6920] Mexican oil development

1996-10-25 Thread Anthony D'Costa
From what I understand, the oil was seen as cash cow of sorts, since the confidence of borrowing from the international market was based on potenial oil revenues. Certainly there was an attempt to integrate backard industrially, as the structure of Mexico's industrial sector would indicate and

[PEN-L:6923] Re: I'm afraid to say this...

1996-10-25 Thread Tom Walker
Doug Henwood wrote: Though of course we wouldn't even be talking to each other like this if it weren't for the Pentagon. No, Doug, first things first: SPUTNIK -- October 4, 1957 -- *then* the establishment of the Advanced Research Projects Administration (ARPA) spawner of ARPANET, begetter of

[PEN-L:6924] Fwd: afghan women

1996-10-25 Thread MScoleman
I would urge everyone on pen-l to fill the white house email with messages about the inhuman treatment being unilaterally inflicted on Afghan women -- messages about same follow. you can all email Clinton at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Forwarded

[PEN-L:6925] Re: I'm afraid to say this...

1996-10-25 Thread MScoleman
Query: Who 'owns' and maintains the internet today? maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]