[PEN-L:7308] Re: post-modern wars--Is competitive the heart of...?

1996-11-07 Thread Paul Zarembka
On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Ajit Sinha wrote: I did not explain exploitation FROM competition. My point was that REPRODUCTION of exploitation by individual capitalists comes about due to the pressure of competition, which is a structural aspect of capitalism. In other words, even if all

[PEN-L:7309] New WWW Site: Jubilee 2000 campaign

1996-11-07 Thread Tom Walker
Announcing a new web site: IN THE SPIRIT OF JUBILEE: Sound the Trumpet throughout the land. Proclaim Liberty to all people. http://www.lights.com/jubilee Over 3,000 years ago, the ancient Hebrews celebrated the Year of Jubilee. With a trumpet blast throughout the land, debts were cancelled,

[PEN-L:7310] Re: New WWW Site: Jubilee 2000 campaign

1996-11-07 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Tom Walker wrote: IN THE SPIRIT OF JUBILEE: Sound the Trumpet throughout the land. Proclaim Liberty to all people. . . . As we approach the new millenium, jubilee is an ancient idea whose time has come. JUBILEE 2000 is a campaign to celebrate the new millenium by cancelling the

[PEN-L:7311] Max's Mom's Jubilee

1996-11-07 Thread Tom Walker
Max Sawicky asks, And what about my Mom, whose sole source of non-Social Security income is a lowly interest-bearing financial asset? This isn't the "widows and orphans" theory of capitalism, is it? By the powers vested in me, I hearby declare Max's Mom *personnally exempt* from any wholesale

[PEN-L:7312] Re: election post-mortem

1996-11-07 Thread Thad Williamson
Yes, and it precisely proves my point, which is: I'd like too the Dems take over completely for 4 full years, and show how incapable they are of doing substantial reform even when they are in the majority, with no one to blame themselves. That is, deliver 4 years of milquetoast legislation that

[PEN-L:7313] Re: Re: Prop. 215 wins!

1996-11-07 Thread JDevine
In response to my joke about CA Prop. 215, legalizing the medical use of marijuana, Maggie Coleman is reasonable to bring up the passing of anti-affirmative action Prop. 209 in California. It was gallows humor, something that unfortuately seems to have become more and more necessary since

[PEN-L:7314] CAW's historic gains on outsourcing

1996-11-07 Thread D Shniad
The Globe and Mail Report on Business November 14, 1996 FORD DEAL LIMITS OUTSOURCING -- CAW VOWS TO SPREAD FIGHT Issue expected to surface at other tables By Susan Bourette, Labour Reporter TORONTO -- The last

[PEN-L:7316] FW: BLS Daily Report

1996-11-07 Thread Richardson_D
BLS DAILY REPORT, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1996 Bridgestone/Firestone and the United Steelworkers reach a tentative agreement resolving "all key issues" in their long-running labor dispute, the parties announce. Neither side released details of the agreement Announcement of the tentative

[PEN-L:7317] Re: Re: Prop. 215 wins!

1996-11-07 Thread Doug Henwood
At 11:11 AM 11/7/96, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Clinton: $112 million spent on campaigning/45.6 million votes = $2.46/vote. Dole: $116 million/37.8 million votes = $3.06/vote. Perot: $37 million/7.8 million votes = $4.70/vote. (I don't know if the dollar figures include soft money or not)

[PEN-L:7320] a cartoon -- and then back to work

1996-11-07 Thread JDevine
Here's a recent cartoon (LA Times, Nov. 6, 1996). Sorry I can't draw the pictures: US-based radio interviewer (a man): "So Janet... what do CANADIANS think about our elections?" Canadian newspaperwoman (Janet): "YOUR ELECTIONS? It's all about YOU isn't it? Your elections... Your Olympics...

[PEN-L:7321] FW: BLS Daily Report

1996-11-07 Thread Richardson_D
See next to last item on Manpower pay. It would seem that a lot of their workers were getting the $4.25 minimum wage or close to it. Dave Richardson -- BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1996 RELEASED TODAY: The preliminary seasonally-adjusted annual rates of productivity growth

[PEN-L:7319] help on racial differences (fwd)

1996-11-07 Thread Eban Goodstein
Hi folks, In the context of a discussion today of the social construction of race, a student brought up the myth of differences in musculature between Africans and Europeans, insisting that in fact there were real and significant differences. This came in at the end of class, so next time

[PEN-L:7322] Re: help on racial differences (fwd)

1996-11-07 Thread rakesh bhandari
I only took first-year genetics and biology many years ago, so if anyone wants to clarify the arguments I try to make below, please do. Sickle cell, Tay-Sachs and other ailments can be tied directly to parts of the DNA. So can several phenotypical variations among peoples. However, 1)these

[PEN-L:7323] Re: widows orphans

1996-11-07 Thread Doug Henwood
At 1:19 PM 11/7/96, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is serious stuff: there's an underground Wall Street theory that says that when the "widows and orphans" (WS jargon for amateurs, outsiders) get into the stock market (with or without mutual funds as mediators), it's time for a crash. I don't

[PEN-L:7324] Fwd: Affirmative Action in public employment and education is dead

1996-11-07 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 96-11-07 14:06:11 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Myra Strober) writes: ubj: Affirmative Action in public employment and education is dead Date: 96-11-07 14:06:11 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Myra Strober) Sender:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] As you

[PEN-L:7325] Re: post-modern wars--Is competitive the heart of...?

1996-11-07 Thread Ajit Sinha
Regarding the law of value you seem pretty close to equating competition with commodity production itself. Am I correct? Paul Z. This is a curved ball, and I don't know whether i can do justice to the question in the hurry I'm right now. But let me try. In