Better
doing that than driving around on local streets and
highways.
Above
all: Do no harm.
arthur
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Title: corporate governance
United Airlines to terminate pension plans $9.8B default largest in U.S. history
A federal bankruptcy judge approved United Airlines' plan to terminate its employees' pension plans, clearing the way for the largest corporate-pension default in U.S. history.
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wages fall at fastest rate in 14 years
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WorkinCanada/Des dcennies de stagnation : Le travail
faiblementrmunr
auCanada
Ed
It took a long time to create a middle class in No. America, looks like it
will take less time for it to be swept away.
arthur
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Cheers,
Lawry
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governance: the end of pensions
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Subject: A.Word.A.Day--persiflage
persiflage (PUR-sih-flazh) noun
Light-hearted or flippant treatment of a subject; banter.
[From French persiflage, from
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corporate governance: the end of pensions?
I
Moving Up: Challenges to The American Dream --- Escalator Ride:
As Rich-Poor Gap Widens in the U.S., Class Mobility Stalls --- Those in Bottom
Rung Enjoy Better Odds in Europe; How Parents Confer an Edge --- Immigrants See
Fast Advance 13 May 2005The Wall Street Journal
[First in a Series]
Ed,
I
can't understand why people say "oil" in some sort of hushed tones. As
though some great conspiracy had been uncovered. Most of the world runs on
oil. It is more important for our well being than gold.
Until
we move to a post-petroleum economy ( I dearly hope sooner rather than
Freud is reported to have sometimes a cigar is also just a cigar
Perhaps the paper towels are not a result of anger or rage at the system, but
just someone in haste or perhaps someone who is a slob.
arthur
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so if you are poor the prob. is that you stay that way and if you are rich the
prob. is that you stay that way??
arthur
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Title: Jobs in the new economy
Telemarketing a jobs juggernaut: No. 1 producer since 1987
Publication: NPT - National Post
Source: INF - All CanWest Publications
May 26 01:00
Page: FP1 / Front
Section: Financial Post
OTTAWA - Those dinner-time calls may be annoying, but the telemarketing
Bubbles burst. The final cause is usually not relevant. The
fact is growth curves don't go to infinity unless the funadamentals are
sound. In the case of housing, the fundamentals are not
sound.
However unlike the stock market, people still need shelter and so I
really don't see a collapse
Many small decisions
can lead to a relaxation in the market and might evenlead to the "bursting
of the bubble."
WEEKEND
JOURNALThe Home Front:
The Home Front: For Homeowners, It's All in the Timing --- In a
Hot Real-Estate Market, Some Plan an Exit Strategy; Mr. Greenspan's New
Fans
27
Subject: Unions and telecomm
NY
Times
June 1, 2005
Unions Struggle as Communications Industry
Shifts
By MATT RICHTEL
SAN FRANCISCO, May 31 - Lisa Morowitz, a longtime union
coordinator, knows the taste of defeat.
She spends her days trying to organize Comcast cable workers. But
not
Title: Message
fyi
Subject: RE: [Futurework] NYT Series: ClassinAmerica:shadowy
linesthatstilldivide
Full Context: "First we shape our
buildings, and then they shape
us."... "First we
shape our buildings, and then they
shape us." ...
stein, Michael
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ClassinAmerica:sh
a straw in
the wind??
http://reuters.myway.com/article/20050603/2005-06-03T072109Z_01_N03232223_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-ECONOMY-ITALY-EURO-DC.html
Italy minister says should study leaving
euro-paper
Email this StoryJun 3, 3:21 AM
(ET)
I agree with Chris on this one:
In this situation, the answer is to give the government greater power to
defend national industry from foreign competition and to give control
over the exchange rate back to the government.
It was clear from the beginning that this is the big mistake of the
The
problem, in short, may not be that reality is receding from the national myth.
The problem may be the myth.
Beware to the nation that believes and acts on its
myths not realizing that they are just that: Myths.
arthur
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That's why (among other reasons) Lord Acton said that power corrupts and
absolute power corrupts absolutely
arthur
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Source for Friedman quote contained in letter to the editor in a NJ newspaper.
Protests also preserve nation's freedoms
26 May 2005
Times Union
THREE STAR
A10
In response to Mary Jane Hughes's May 15 letter, Son who is a soldier deserves
thanks, respect:
I was 19 years old when I served in
Moving Up: Challenges to the American Dream --- Slow Train:
Promotion Track Fades for Those Starting at Bottom --- Decline of In-House
Training, Rise of Outsourcing Leave More Stuck in Menial Jobs --- Lessons From
N.Y.'s Subways 6 June 2005The Wall Street JournalA1
[Fourth in a Series]
NEW
How do characterize the SEC? (securities and exchange) Hidden fist or
constantly in viewor both?
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seems appropriate for current discussions.
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oligopsony (oli-GOP-suh-nee) noun
The market condition where a few buyers
Title: Bill Moyers On Losing The American Revolution
Subject: FW: Bill Moyers On Losing The
American Revolution
Losing The American Revolution by
Bill Moyers,TomPaine.comIt wasn't
supposed
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Subject: United default a threat to all
workers
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/11701911.htm
Miami
Herald May 21,
2005
United default a threat to all
workers
By Robert V. Callahan
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Last week's United Airlines
pension default reveals serious trouble
A
colleague of mine used to avoid airlines that outsourced
maintenance.
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PMTo: Cordell, Arthur: ECOM; FUTUREWORK (E-mail)Subject:
Re: [Futurework] FW: United default a threat to all
I
think that some of the problem started when the current PM was Finance Minister
in the 90's and hesucceeded in balancing the budget at the expense of
cutting the health care budget.
Medicare should not be subject to the whims of
politicians.
As to
the present mess it really does look
And yet dentists did come out in favour of flouridating the water. Note that
Ottawa has flouridated water. Just acrosss the river in Quebec they do not.
They have a 44 percent higher rate of dental cavities than in Ottawa. (this
number was given to me; I haven't verified it.)
So dentists
ealth care in the US regardless of whether it is
offered as part of the job, since when the job is over the need for health care
goes on.
arthur
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Title: Senators Travel the World on Privately Funded Trips
Jun 14, 2005
Senators Travel the World on Privately Funded TripsBy Jesse J.
HollandAssociated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) - Senators
traveled to exotic foreign capitals and fabulous resort towns with beaches and
golf courses in
Title: Senators Travel the World on Privately Funded Trips
I
think someone should be talking about the diesel oil reserves that were held in
one of the towers. A back up to be used in time of emergency. The mayor
was warned against storing this material on that site. He voted against
the
Nah. I prefer the grassy knoll theory.
Ooops. Wrong conspiracy.
arthur
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For all those that
wish to rely on market mechanisms, recall that markets are made by people.
And people often act in their own self interest. Adam Smith saw this back
when he wrote the Wealth of Nations.
"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even
for merriment and diversion,
Moving Up: Challenges to The American Dream
--- Degrees of Separation: As Economy Shifts, A New Generation Fights to Keep Up
--- In Milwaukee, Factories Close And Skills, Not Seniority, Are Key to
Advancement --- An Ex-Welder's Computer Job 22 June 2005The Wall Street JournalA1English
Subject: Some Politics May Be Etched In the
Genes
Health
Fitness; SECTF
Some Politics May Be Etched In the Genes 21
June 2005The New York Times
Political scientists have long held that people's upbringing and
experience determine their political views. A child raised on peace protests and
Sometimes being poor
carries a benefit.
Health
Poorer kids have much lower risk
of leukemia
23 June 2005The Globe and MailA21English
Children living in Canada's poorest
neighbourhoods have a sharply lower risk of developing leukemia compared
Uncovering the
bank's "dirty little secret"
---
Leading the
News
Merchants Expand Credit-Card Fight --- Lawsuits That Claim
Visa, MasterCard Collude on Fees Could Hit Issuers' Profits
23 June 2005The Wall Street
Report on Business: CanadianREAL ESTATE
Reichmann knows property meltdowns: It's time to sell'
30 June 2005The Globe and Mail
Philip Reichmann is fighting a major battle to save the $2-billion deal to
sell his real estate empire.
For several weeks, rumblings have been building from a group
Title: CBC News: Founder of Earth Day dies
This is from the exec.
summary. (emphasis is added) The problem seems to be: What happens when
the African governments are themselves corrupt. Who governs the
governors?
What is the
over-arching enforcement agency that brings change?
arthur
Recall
that 9/11 happened "out of the blue" a la Pearl Harbor. It seems
that war was declared. This time by a network.
While
the reaction of the US vis a vis Iraq may have been misguided or overly
optimistic or whatever. The "bad guys" struck first and have been doing it
for some time.
The
infrastructure of modern society (electrical grids, rail lines, highways, the
internet, etc., etc.,) was all designed and put in place before the reality of
terrorism.
As we
replace infrastructure, design criterial will have to take into account the
reality of the "new" war.
arthur
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AMTo: Cordell, Arthur: ECOM; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
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[Futurework] More thoughts on the London attacks
The time when
the West can be seen as an independent entity is pas
l south to undermine the roots of
terrorism?
arthur
karen
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AMTo: Cordell, Arthur: ECOM;
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e-From:
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14, 2005 9:46 AMTo: Cordell, Arthur: ECOM; Keith Hudson;
futurework@fes.uwaterloo.caSubject: RE: [Futurework] Terrorist
attacks are not about terrorism
Surely that's too simple! Its sort of Bush's you are
eithe
Title: saudis and al qaida
this one may be easier to access.
Middle East Defense Newsletter
http://menewsline.com/defense.html
===
Sunday - July 17, 2004
Saudis Allowed To Fund Al Qaida
WASHINGTON [MENL] -- The United States has determined that Saudi
for those with some
extra time this summer
-
What We Don't Know [Science 125th Anniversary Issue
Special Report]
http://www.sciencemag.org/sciext/125th/
"A special, free news feature in Science explores 125
big questions that
face scientific inquiry over
Agree with Chris on this one.
Its the Detroit Mullahs conspiring with a complaisant Washington which, in
effect, allowed for the avoidance of CAFE standards on fleet fuel efficiency.
Margins are higher on SUVs. Way higher than on the Detroit compacts.
arthur
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From:
How Slumping Market for SUVs Is Hurting Detroit's Bottom Line
by Neal Boudette and Joseph B. White, Wall Street Journal, May 13, 2005
A big problem for General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co. as they struggle with
falling sales
and profits is the rapidly bursting bubble for highly profitable
don't think this
will do much and it is a case of closing the barn door, etc. but here it
is. it might also lead to the creation of the 4 ton
SUV
==
The
Economy
New Gas-Mileage Standards May Vary by Vehicle Weight
19 July 2005The Wall Street
Career Journal: Keeping Up Is Hard to Do --- With Wages Flat, a
Family Struggles to Make Ends Meet; Why the Chevy Stays Parked
19 July 2005The Wall Street JournalB1
Lower Burrel, Pa. -- MARK AND DONNA Bellini don't need economists to
tell them that wages for many workers have not kept pace
'Terrorism'? Who's to say?: Informed sourcesNational Post July 19, 2005What follows
is a memo distributed to CBC staff describing the CBC policy on use of the word
'terrorism.' 'Terrorist' and 'terrorism': Exercise extreme caution
before using either word. Avoid labelling any specific
During the sixties and seventies people thought
they could change the system or even bring it down by marching, shouting and
throwing rocks. That doesn't work any more. The globalized state has
become immune to it. Much stronger means are now required.
If its a choice between the anarchy
Agree. What do we mean by it?
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Lawrence deBivort wrote:
in
We seem to be coming to a fork in the road. Perhaps there is no middle way,
at least for now.
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Harry's question still stands.
I know that it would be nice to avoid grievances and for us all to live in
peace and harmony. But at this juncture: What to do?
If the police don't shoot they are blamed. If the police shoot they are blamed.
arthur
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Subject: RE: [Futurework] London Assassins were Trained in Israel
No one would blame the London police if they had
Re: suicide bombers and
terrorism.
"A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at
last it comes." (Mark
Twain)
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://www.domini.org/openbook/sud80210.htm
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Subject: RE: [Futurework] London Assassins were Trained in Israel
If, Arthur
Subject: RE: A.Word.A.Day--cassandra
sure doesn't apply to us FWers.
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Cassandra (kuh-SAND-ruh) noun
One who
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From Karen's Casey
Report.
Comment
Globalisation is an anomaly
and its time is running out
Cheap energy and relative peace helped create a false doctrine
James Howard Kunstler
Thursday August 4,
2005
Guardian
The big yammer these days
in the United States is to the effect that
Title: Belfast Telegraph
Subject: 10 years history of
the net
Belfast Telegraph |
Sunday
Life | Ireland's Saturday
Night | Business
The Sweat of Their Brows --- Federal Plan Finances Homes Of
Low-Income Families Who Build Their Own Dwellings 10 August
2005The Wall Street JournalB1English
Coachella, Calif. -- FROM MONDAY to Friday, Guillermina and Refugio
Cuevas pick and pack grapes for a living. On weekends, each dons a
this
report from a financial institution deals with Avian Flu and financial markets
and of course the economy and the future of work.
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Avian Flu report
Subject: [Ottawadissenters] Avian Flu
reportThanks to Barry Randall for informing
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sending the link again
http://www.bmonesbittburns.com/economics/reports/20050812
Worst Jobs in History
http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/W/worstjobs/
A good place to visit on days when your own job is driving you nuts.
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Time for Chairman
Mao???
Aug 22, 2005
Chinese Scholars Warn Growing Wealth Gap Likely to Trigger
Social InstabilityBy Christopher
BodeenAssociated Press WriterSHANGHAI, China (AP) - Chinese
scholars have warned that rising income disparities - especially between the
nation's booming
Agree
with you Lawry.
There
is a great danger in dumbing down and, going further, creating material that is
false but believed because it hasn't been peer reviewed and a great many people
access that material. It becomes a self-fulfilling sort of
thing.
I find
that the better has been
The surest way to dumbing down is to absorb only what's fit to print
and accept that as gospel because the experts (with an agenda) said so.
It becomes a self-fulfilling sort of thing.
Better to read all sides of the story --on the Internet-- and compare
what fits reality better.
Unfriendly workplace
in the sky. Deregulation has led to a strange sort of competition with
everyone feeling stressed.
Time for
re-regulation?
==
Business/Financial Desk; SECTCITINERARIES: SOUNDING
OFF
Looking for Friendly Skies? Stay on the Ground
By Chris
sday, August 24, 2005
12:10 PMTo: Cordell, Arthur: ECOM; 'FUTUREWORK
(E-mail)'Subject: RE: [Futurework] Unfriendly workplace in the
sky
I dont know just
when it happened, but some years ago the flight attendants started stating
that they were there to ensure passenger safety, dro
,
2005 2:09 AMTo: Cordell, Arthur: ECOM; 'FUTUREWORK
(E-mail)'Subject: RE: [Futurework] Unfriendly workplace in the
sky
Yep, re-regulation will raise
prices and keep the great unwashed off the
planes.
Then they can be used by those who
really deserve them government
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August 25, 2005 1:16 PMTo:
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August 25, 2005 1:16 PMTo: Cordell, Arthur: ECOM; Christoph
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workplace in the sky
How do you
know? Is i
s."
As I
said in an earlier posting it seems that all groups, in all regions, have to
some degree "blood on their hands."
arthur
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collegially,
arthur
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workplace in the sky
As
Pres. Clinton might say
mes
Thurber)
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I
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I agree that the victors write history. They may or may not have more blood on
their hands.
arthur
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Looks like a
demonstration of "the reserve army of the unemployed"
Using Temps Proves Potent At Northwest
29 August 2005The Wall Street JournalB1
A LITTLE OVER a week into the first major strike at
a U.S. airline in seven years, the battle
For a
catastrophe that was predicted for 50 years there was just about no disaster
plan in place. Criminal.
There
will be plenty of blame to go around. e.g., why weren't the levees better
protected. why weren't the pumps equipped with emerg. power. why
weren't the fleet of New Orleans
Maybe
the lesson that will emerge from this is that, finally, we must pay attention to
the infrastructure. We have to think long term. Longer than the next
quarter's bottom line. A society that will continue must build and
maintain infrastructure. Not glamourous but oh so
important.
I
agreee that Bush has not been of much help. But the lack of attention to
infrastructure is part of the consumer culture. Bush is just carrying on
as have previoius Presidents.
The
buses could have taken the people anywhere. Out of the "bowl" that is New
Orleans. To higher ground. To a
A smattering of interviews with refugees from NOLA indicate that they don't
want to go back.
Time will tell but it from a public policy point of view NOLA should be rebuilt
elsewhere.
arthur
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to understanding the
events of the past few days.
from Maisonneuve MediaScout [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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New Orleans Power
Elite doing just fine.
Old-Line Families Escape Worst of Flood And Plot the Future ---
Mr. O'Dwyer, at His Mansion, Enjoys Highball With Ice; Meeting With the Mayor
8 September 2005The Wall Street JournalA1
NEW ORLEANS -- On a sultry morning earlier this week, Ashton
flexible supply lines
can have a big pay-off
-
At Wal-Mart, Emergency Plan Has Big Payoff
12 September 2005The Wall Street JournalB1
THE FEDERAL Emergency Management Agency could learn
some things from Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
On Wednesday, Aug. 24, when
I think everybody is a little bit on the mark with this.
I also think that 20-20 hindsight is a game everyone can play and enjoy.
My 20-20 is that it was a disaster and there is enough blame to go around. I
would start with the mayor and governor then move on to Fema.
When the hurrican veered
Job Outpouring For Evacuees Sparks Backlash 13
September 2005The Wall Street JournalB1
AFTER HURRICANE KATRINA, the influx of thousands of jobless people into new
cities has ignited an unusual labor quandary: Many evacuees have arrived to the
open arms of employers -- touching off
Subject: mayor of NO moves to Dallas.Dallas DigsTuesday,
September 13, 2005By Brit HumeNow some fresh pickings
from the Hurricane Grapevine:New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin (search)
greeted President Bush when he arrived in Louisiana last night, and was at his
side as he fielded questions on the
CUBICLE
CULTURE
Storm Survivors Long For the Normal Hassles Of a Day on the Job
14 September 2005The Wall Street JournalB1
TONY DICARLO was having a good year. He got married, a license to
practice law and a job at a firm in his old neighborhood of St. Bernard Parish
in New Orleans. Then
According to the theories of Sigmund Freud, it
is a psychological
defense
mechanism whereby one "projects" one's own undesirable thoughts,
motivations, desires, feelings, and so forth onto someone else (usually another
person, but psychological projection onto animals and inanimate objects
from
http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Psychological_projection
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International News
Spreading the gospel according to
Chavez 19 September 2005The Globe and MailA1English
NEW YORK -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez looked
fully at home in the pulpit of Manhattan's Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew as
he preached the gospel of social justice so widely
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