Re: [PEN-L] walter reed, privatization, and public health care

2007-03-25 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
On 3/24/07, ken hanly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Canadian system is extremely limited in what it covers. Most dental care is not covered, long term care for the aged. Provinces have add ons but over the last long while the ad-ons are being subtracted or weakened. A good example is the various

Re: [PEN-L] walter reed, privatization, and public health care

2007-03-25 Thread ken hanly
I don't know why you think that the Canadian system is better than the UK system. WHO ranks Canada as 30 in the world whereas UK is 18. Coverage is far superior in Great Britain. Certainly the system has gone downhill but this is virtually universal in developed capitalist countries. US is

[PEN-L] Frank L. Kluckhohn follow-up

2007-03-25 Thread Louis Proyect
Yesterday, after I reported on the pro-Franco reporting of NY Timesman Frank L. Kluckhohn during the Spanish Civil War, I was somewhat surprised to discover a comment in his defense from one of his relatives, a man named R.H. Kluckhohn who describes himself as a retired man keen on model

Re: [PEN-L] Norton nonsense

2007-03-25 Thread Jim Devine
thanks. I'll tell you if it works. On 3/24/07, joel blau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Leigh Meyers wrote: Ah Norton, the anti-virus that IS one. Runner-up... ZoneAlarm OK, I can tell you how, but you'll need to install a registry cleaner like Cclean, Registry Mechanic or regvac. Use it to

Re: [PEN-L] Norton nonsense

2007-03-25 Thread Leigh Meyers
This might be overkill, but the only other thing, after you do all the other stuff, ==if you feel lucky (as in Clint Eastwood 'lucky') and confident playing with the guts of the registry== , would be to physically check the registry with windows regedit, to manually find delete everything still

[PEN-L] Rethinking Mutual Aid

2007-03-25 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
At the origins of the modern Left, mutual aid organizations were very common, probably the predominant form of proletarian organizations. Marxists, however, have tended to think that such mutual aid organizations are primitive workers' organizations inferior to trade unions and political parties

Re: [PEN-L] Rethinking Mutual Aid

2007-03-25 Thread Jim Devine
back when the social-democratic and communist parties had mass working-class bases, mutual aid organizations were often under their umbrellas, parts of their broader networks. On 3/25/07, Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the origins of the modern Left, mutual aid organizations were

Re: [PEN-L] Rethinking Mutual Aid

2007-03-25 Thread Jim Devine
one type of working-class mutual aid organization is the Lodge (like the Moose or the Elk) which started out as funds for pooling funds for such things as paying burial expenses. On 3/25/07, Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/25/07, Sandwichman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To steal a

[PEN-L] Let's Get Personal - Foreclosure No. A200642668

2007-03-25 Thread Leigh Meyers
The last couple of paragraphs are chilling. Subprime bust forces families from homes By ADAM GELLER, AP National WriterSun Mar 25, 12:17 AM ET http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070325/ap_on_bi_ge/house_of_cards;_ylt=AmVHzG8HUzGS7zpSHvGTjzfMWM0F The lights are still on inside Foreclosure

Re: [PEN-L] Rethinking Mutual Aid

2007-03-25 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
On 3/25/07, Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: one type of working-class mutual aid organization is the Lodge (like the Moose or the Elk) which started out as funds for pooling funds for such things as paying burial expenses. At one point, that probably was the only alternative to paupers'

[PEN-L] Insurgent Identities: Class, Community, and Protest in Paris from 1848 to the Commune

2007-03-25 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Mike Davis, Slavoj Zizek, et al. have written about the growth of global slums and informal sectors and what that means for the prospects of social revolution. What do such urban informal workers think of themselves and the world in which they live? What social identities and ideologies do they

Re: [PEN-L] Rethinking Mutual Aid

2007-03-25 Thread Daniel Davies
or the Supreme Tribe of Ben-Hur! http://d-squareddigest.blogspot.com/2007/02/irregular-secret-society-bloggin g.html The Ku Klux Klan revival in the 1920s was largely a result of an extremely successful PR campaign carried out by a firm that specialised in helping insurance lodges to recruit

Re: [PEN-L] Rethinking Mutual Aid

2007-03-25 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
On 3/25/07, Daniel Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: or the Supreme Tribe of Ben-Hur! http://d-squareddigest.blogspot.com/2007/02/irregular-secret-society-bloggin g.html The Ku Klux Klan revival in the 1920s was largely a result of an extremely successful PR campaign carried out by a firm that

Re: [PEN-L] walter reed, privatization, and public health care

2007-03-25 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
On 3/24/07, Leigh Meyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When exactly was the 'golden age' of the VA health delivery system? Certainly not right after WWII: Reading back up to the beginning of this thread, I just noticed your remark. I think that the VA system could and did work when the nation was

Re: [PEN-L] walter reed, privatization, and public health care

2007-03-25 Thread Michael Perelman
Nobody was speaking of a Golden Age. The idea was that under Clinton, the agency got very efficient in some respects, then privatization a flood of soldiers for whom they were not prepared. Some of my students from the 1st Gulf War told me horror stories about the VA under Clinton, though.

Re: [PEN-L] Rethinking Mutual Aid

2007-03-25 Thread Jim Devine
On 3/25/07, Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While Gone with the Wind has been rightly criticized, what it captures well is the fact that the KKK involved the pillars of community, more often than not. ] isn't it Birth of a Nation that's about the KKK? GWTW is pretty pro-South, but I

Re: [PEN-L] Rethinking Mutual Aid

2007-03-25 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
On 3/25/07, Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/25/07, Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While Gone with the Wind has been rightly criticized, what it captures well is the fact that the KKK involved the pillars of community, more often than not. isn't it Birth of a Nation that's

Re: [PEN-L] Rethinking Mutual Aid

2007-03-25 Thread Jim Devine
On 3/25/07, Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, The Birth of a Nation is about the KKK and pro-Southern whites, but so is Gone with the Wind, though more ambiguously so. Ashley Wilkes, Scarlet's original love and the mirror of Southern gentlemen, is a member of the Klan. the

Re: [PEN-L] Rethinking Mutual Aid

2007-03-25 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
On 3/25/07, Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/25/07, Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, The Birth of a Nation is about the KKK and pro-Southern whites, but so is Gone with the Wind, though more ambiguously so. Ashley Wilkes, Scarlet's original love and the mirror of

[PEN-L] Two Job openings at Dollars Sense

2007-03-25 Thread Ruth Indeck
Dear friends and colleagues, We at Dollars Sense have two job openings: for a development and promotion coordinator, and for a business and circulation coordinator. We would greatly appreciate any help you may be able to provide in filling these positions (e.g. forwarding this message to any

[PEN-L] Shocking Immigration Fact of the Day

2007-03-25 Thread Michael Perelman
Desai, Mihir A., Devesh Kapur, and John McHale. 2002. The Fiscal Impact of High Skilled Emigration: Flows of Indians to the U.S. http://www.people.hbs.edu/mdesai/fiscalimpact.pdf -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael

[PEN-L] shocking immigration fact of the day -- fixed

2007-03-25 Thread Michael Perelman
Desai, Mihir A., Devesh Kapur, and John McHale. 2002. The Fiscal Impact of High Skilled Emigration: Flows of Indians to the U.S. http://www.people.hbs.edu/mdesai/fiscalimpact.pdf Indian-born residents of the U.S. are four times as likely to have a graduate degree as the native-born and their

Re: [PEN-L] Rethinking Mutual Aid

2007-03-25 Thread Daniel Davies
The KKK was so ubiquitous at its height (something like 25% of adult males in Indiana, for example) that it could hardly have avoided having a large proportion of its support coming from the working class. Need to distinguish, by the way, between the original 19th century KKK, the one in Gone

Re: [PEN-L] Rethinking Mutual Aid

2007-03-25 Thread Jim Devine
allegedly, when my grandfather ran (published) the newspaper in Clarksburg, West Virginia, in the 1920s, it crusaded against the KKK there. Coal-miners joined the cause, using dynamite to threaten the KKK. That's what my father said, but my mom said there was no evidence. On 3/25/07, Daniel

Re: [PEN-L] Norton nonsense

2007-03-25 Thread Jim Devine
I've done everything -- including buying and installing Registry Mechanic -- and the problem remains! BTW, there's a great old e-mail post that circulated a few years ago that says that MS Windows is a virus. On 3/25/07, Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks. I'll tell you if it works.

Re: [PEN-L] Norton nonsense

2007-03-25 Thread Leigh Meyers
On 3/25/07, ravi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By message do you mean one of those transient pop-up windows? The problem is probably that Norton's background process is not uninstalled (when you try to) because it is running. You could bring up Task Manager (right click on the taskbar and choose

[PEN-L] Reverse Foreign Aid: $784 Billion from the South to the North

2007-03-25 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/25/magazine/25wwlnidealab.t.html March 25, 2007 Idea Lab Reverse Foreign Aid By TINA ROSENBERG For the last 10 years, people in China have been sending me money. I also get money from countries in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa — really, from every poor