[PEN-L] Lakes turning to dust

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0115/p01s04-woeu.html Drain on the Mediterranean: rising water usage In a dramatic illustration of a broader regional crisis, a Turkish lake three times the size of Washington, D.C., has dried up in the past 15 years. By Nicole Itano | Correspondent of The

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http://tinyurl.com/34p43s P.s. : Can we do a little PEN-poLling here: How much water do YOU think YOU consume ever day (directly and indirectly)? Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a Turkish lake three times the size of Washington, D.C., has dried up in the past 15 years.

Re: [PEN-L] commodities boom

The New York Times / January 15, 2008 12:30 AM Business / World Business: Commodities' Relentless Surge By CLIFFORD KRAUSS A global boom in the cost of commodities, the staple ingredients of a modern economy, is entering its sixth year with no end in sight. Full Story:

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On Jan 15, 2008, at 9:18 AM, Jim Devine wrote: The New York Times / January 15, 2008 12:30 AM Business / World Business: Commodities' Relentless Surge By CLIFFORD KRAUSS A global boom in the cost of commodities, the staple ingredients of a modern economy, is entering its sixth year with no end

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Well, I don't eat Big Macs... That saves the 300 gallons that are required to produce one... Can a $0.49 hamburger REALLY be worth eating anyway? Leigh Water? Never touch the stuff Fish f*ck in it. --W.C Fields On Jan 15, 2008 6:08 AM, g.a.s. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[PEN-L] new news on Hugo

word on the web: NEW FAMOUS COUPLE Naomi Campbell Together With Hugo Chavez? According to the newspaper El Universal, the model Naomi Campbell has been in a relationship with Hugo Chavez for 2 months. Naomi Campbell and Hugo Chavez are a new model – politician couple after Carla Bruni and Nicolas

[PEN-L] drug flop

The New York Times / January 15, 2008 Study Reveals Doubt on Drug for Cholesterol By ALEX BERENSON A clinical trial of a widely used cholesterol drug has raised questions both about the medicine's effectiveness and about the behavior of the pharmaceutical companies that conducted the study,

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Jim Devine that's true. so where will the next bubble be? ^ CB: Tulips ? No recession !

[PEN-L] religious Bushwa

New York TIMES / January 15, 2008 / reporter's Notebook In Heart of Islamic World, Bush Puts Forth His Faith By STEVEN LEE MYERS RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — President Bush's Christianity is so central to his life that it is not surprising that it would figure prominently in a visit to Israel and the

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me: so where will the next bubble be? Louis quotes: The next bubble must be large enough to recover the losses from the housing bubble collapse. How bad will it be? Some rough calculations: the gross market value of all enterprises needed to develop hydroelectric power, geothermal energy,

[PEN-L] news of the weird

from HARPER'S WEEKLY: ... Obama and Mike Huckabee were the surprise winners of the Iowa caucuses. None of this worries me, said Rudy Giuliani, who came in sixth place in the Republican caucus. September 11, there were times I was worried. John McCain and a tearful Hillary Clinton won the New

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Doug: If we're six years into it, it's probably closer to its end than its beginning. A U.S. recession would probably take a lot of the heat off commodity prices. Besides, if the NYT says there's no end in sight, there's a school of thought that would argue that that declaration itself is the

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Jim Devine wrote: that's true. so where will the next bubble be? This is the last paragraph from an article titled The next bubble: Priming the markets for tomorrow's big crash in the latest Harper's. It is online but only for subscribers. The next bubble must be large enough to recover the

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On Jan 15, 2008 8:21 AM, Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hyperinflation. It evokes thoughts of Germany in 1923. I don't think that the US is going to have hyperinflation any time soon. Currently, we have fascism without goose-steppers concentration camps (Guantanmo, Bagram AFB, and abu

Re: [PEN-L] Culturnal homogenization/hybridization -- some incomplete thoughts.

Greetings Economists, On Jan 14, 2008, at 6:15 PM, g.a.s. wrote: the machine? http://tinyurl.com/2jor4n http://tinyurl.com/2fn7vl Doyle; You like to use photos to sort of make a point. I like to make photos too. However open I am to reuse of my photos I seldom have an ant hill to offer to

Re: [PEN-L] Culturnal homogenization/hybridization -- some incomplete thoughts.

The System/Dynamics? 1 _ http://tinyurl.com/262djp 2 _ http://tinyurl.com/2hkz73 3 _ http://tinyurl.com/2ar82z 4 _ http://tinyurl.com/2ho6zw . . . a+a=b . . . b+c=d . . . {- etc works, too } Doyle Saylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings Economists,

[PEN-L] GMOs 4 U 2

US authorities to approve cloned animal foods 15/01/2008 17h39 WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US food health authority Tuesday was set to authorize the sale of meat and milk from cloned livestock, declaring the controversial products as safe to eat as those from normal animals. An official of the Food

Re: [PEN-L] Lakes turning to dust

The last figure I saw, a while back, was over 2000 liters/day ~ on average (west. So much(little) for watching your tab while washing (your hands, dishes, etc). Leigh Meyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I don't eat Big Macs... That saves the 300 gallons that are required to produce

[PEN-L] Indigenous and colonial origins of comparative economic development - Colonial India and Africa

Indigenous and colonial origins of comparative economic development : the case of colonial India and Africa Source: World Bank Policy Research Working Papers This paper concerns the institutional origins of economic development, emphasizing the cases of nineteenth-century India and Africa.

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Louis Proyect wrote: Jim Devine wrote: that's true. so where will the next bubble be? The next bubble must be large enough to recover the losses from the housing bubble collapse. For some time I've been predicting a new burst of craziness in energy-related derivatives, especially the

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I heard James Lovelock compare Kyoto to Chamberlain's Munich -- empty talk about a big problem. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

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Michael Perelman wrote: I heard James Lovelock compare Kyoto to Chamberlain's Munich -- empty talk about a big problem. we should be careful with such analogies. It wasn't a matter of Munich and appeasement as much as the fact that a big chunk of the Brit ruling class favored Hitler or

[PEN-L] The Law Is an Ass

Two recent decisions confirm that Charles Dickens' Mr. Bumble was correct in declaring, The law is a (sic) Ass. In the first case, California's Supreme Court dismissed a suit by workers who were damaged by solvents, only because the majority held stocks in the oil companies. In the second,

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Sate of Exception, by Giorgio Agamben is worth checking out on the topic of personhood. Agamben draws quite a bit on Foucault's concept of biopower, which is quite interesting. From the jacket: Two months after the attacks of 9/11, the Bush administration, in the midst of what it perceived to be

[PEN-L] the darker nations

I just finished the book. I was impressed, even though there was a bit too much monday morning quarterbacking -- this leader did too much of that or too little of the other. Have others looked at this book? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929