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1997-12-09 Thread cab
I have simply been lurking for some time, but the first part of this post from Thomas Lunde (combined with a post from someone else the other day about our attachment to outdated concepts) galvanised me into action (again) - on a theme I have addressed a number of times over the past two

Components of GDP (fwd)

1997-12-09 Thread Eva Durant
so how does the "national income" relate to GDP? [EMAIL PROTECTED] puzzled over them earlier. Bill asks about the components of GDP and perhaps this will help. In 1995, for example: . GDP in the U.S. totaled $7,245.8 billion .

[csdgen] Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity. (fwd)

1997-12-09 Thread Michael Gurstein
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 00:13:23 -0500 From: Antonio Lambe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [csdgen] Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity. Dear Administrator, The appended material is probably inappropriate for the full CSDGen

Copy of: [passem] Really Final Kyoto Action Alert! (fwd)

1997-12-09 Thread Michael Gurstein
-- Forwarded Message -- From: Annelise J.Hansen, 106457,2734 TO: Deling Wang, INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] DATE: 08-12-97 00.15 RE: Copy of: [passem] Really Final Kyoto Action Alert! Final Kyoto Action alert Thanks for your great

Everything's on the table, or still in the closet?

1997-12-09 Thread Barry Brooks
Jay wrote: #1. That the approaching dieoff is the WORST possible outcome, and that the primary goal of governments MUST be to avoid that dieoff. #2. That participants are willing to put everything on the table -- are willing to abandon any "belief" in the face of contrary scientific

Re: Undoing Monopoly by E-Mail

1997-12-09 Thread Eva Durant
Your program is what, socialism? and why not? Convincing capitalist to be capitalist in a non-capitalist way is more difficult than socialism. Eva At 12:23 PM 12/9/97 +, you wrote: What you suggest is an interesting excercise in democracy. However I hate to

FW

1997-12-09 Thread Thomas Lunde
Dear Mary, Thank you for acknowledging my post, but for some reason, I feel their is more to your response than you are telling us. Join in, it is only when the disadvantaged speak their truth that others learn. Respectfully, Thomas Lunde

FW -- Re: Response to Durants posting

1997-12-09 Thread Thomas Lunde
Dear Mr. Spencer, What a great post and I feel your insights tie together a few small threads we keep chewing on in this list. Jay Hanson, in his focus on energy is describing another "successful" one dimensional system, the burning of fossil fuels which the results are now being debated in

Undoing Monopoly by E-Mail

1997-12-09 Thread charles mueller
Thanks to Jim Fleming, we now have the E-mail addresses of 77 U.S. senators (below). Charles Mueller, Editor ANTITRUST LAW ECONOMICS REVIEW http://webpages.metrolink.net/~cmueller @ U.S. Senate e-mail addresses Alabama - Shelby, Richard C. (R) - [EMAIL

Re: Everything's on the table, or still in the closet?

1997-12-09 Thread Ed Deak
Barry, When you look at the whole paragraph where the "invisible hand" is mentioned by Smith, it says exactly the opposite of what's being taught and propagandized. It is the REAL meaning of the invisible hand that's causing the dieoff. As for being goosed by it, reminds me of the time 20

Global Markets' Massive Extraterritorial Power

1997-12-09 Thread mcg1
I realize that I am violating all the copywright caveats that we have agred to observe. But the following article from the Los Angeles Times is so interesting, I felt compelled to post it. My apologies to Cordell and Lerner. Hugh McGuire http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/OPINION/topstory.html

Undoing Monopoly Via E-Mail

1997-12-09 Thread charles mueller
More progress. Franklin (below) reports that he has the software needed for a 1-button post to all of our 77 senators with E-mail addresses "pretty much ready to go." Paul Petricone gives us some new links on mailing to Congress (below). And Dan Mogin (also below) has identified for

Undoing Monopoly by E-Mail

1997-12-09 Thread charles mueller
Let me offer a 2d modest proposal. The first was a question: Does computer technology now permit the combining of the E-mail addresses of our 100 U.S. senators (and our 435 congressmen, and our 1,000 federal judges) into a 'mailing list' format such that any U.S. citizen (or anyone

C4LDEMOC-L: MAI text On-Line (fwd)

1997-12-09 Thread Michael Gurstein
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 12:34:30 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Hendrik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: October draft of the MAI on line The October draft text of the MAI (Multilateral Agreement on Investment) can be downloaded from the following URL:

Re: Where are we being taken?

1997-12-09 Thread Michael Spencer
Ed Weick quite reasonably asked: Am I alone in wondering where we are going? I, for one, don't think the answer is "off into blue sky" or "around in circles". Only a few of us are employed directly in labour, work or economic policy making or research. The official FW title (as of last

Re: Where are we being taken?

1997-12-09 Thread Tom Walker
Ed Weick wondered (in part): Am I alone in wondering where we are going? And Michael Spencer replied (in part), I, for one, don't think the answer is "off into blue sky" or "around in circles". . . And . . . to judge the listserv by the conversation on the list is missing a large part of