[PEN-L:10456] UK:TUC MOVES INTO ENERGY MARKET [UIS]

1997-05-30 Thread Michael Eisenscher
In the U.S. the AFL-CIO offers its affiliates' members credit cards. A fraction of every dollar charged is rebated back to the Federation, providing a guaranteed draw of $75 million per year (I believe that is the figure), which goes to fund many of the expanded activities of the Sweeney Administ

[PEN-L:10455] Re:Ehrenreich & McIntosh article

1997-05-30 Thread James Devine
Not only did Louis gracefully post Barbara Ehrenreich & Janet McIntosh's "The New Creationism," but the NATION actually came before June. It's okay as journalism goes (and as Doug knows, journalism has its limits). My main problem for me is that it didn't give the PoMotistas a chance to defend the

[PEN-L:10454] Re: more planning and democracy

1997-05-30 Thread Max B. Sawicky
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Walker) > Subject: [PEN-L:10423] Re: more planning and democracy > The snare's there, but not in the post. Just because there's a radical > separation between language and reality doesn't mean there's no reality or > even that reality is "unknowable".

[PEN-L:10453] Re: Cuba

1997-05-30 Thread Max B. Sawicky
> From: Louis N Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [PEN-L:10424] Cuba > The remarks below by Max and Jim Hurd are flippant and show very little > insight into Cuban history and politics. Even the bourgeois press concedes I claim zero insight into Cuba, other than vague appreh

[PEN-L:10452] Re: EU crisis (2)

1997-05-30 Thread Max B. Sawicky
> From: D Shniad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [PEN-L:10445] EU crisis (2) > The Daily Telegraph Thursday 29 May 1997 > > Crisis over euro after Bundesbank blocks Kohl To Brother Sid and the Bundesbank Buddies, You're wrong and Kohl is right. > . .

[PEN-L:10451] Re: bio-determinism

1997-05-30 Thread Tom Walker
Terry McDonough wrote: >>No matter how long you >>try you cannot deduce evolutionary biology from the principles of >>chemistry, even if it is evident that biology cannot be inconsistent >>with chemistry. Wojtek Sokolowski replied, >I do not want to be a contrarian, but I do not buy the ired

[PEN-L:10450] Re: Preliminary Conference Announcement and Call for

1997-05-30 Thread Elaine Bernard
Thanks for the dates, Phil. I'm off to Vancouver on Sunday, for a week -- and will be seeing Sid so I'll see if I can pursuade him to come too. Elaine

[PEN-L:10449] Re: bio-determinism

1997-05-30 Thread Colin Danby
Wojtek wrote: > I do not want to be a contrarian, Wojtek is welcome to take any viewpoint he wants, but he has an obligation to argue carefully and logically. I'll save Terry the trouble of noting that Wojtek's latest post does not deal with his argument but instead conflates it with a differen

[PEN-L:10448] More on Canada's military

1997-05-30 Thread Bill Burgess
On Sat, 24 May 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Canada's military spending: Perhaps this is not > insignificant as I suggested in my post, but it is surely minimal > and I would argue virtually a minimal level necessary for > air-sea rescue, coastal and fishery servailance, and contribution >

[PEN-L:10447] Job Announcement: Financial Markets Center

1997-05-30 Thread Finmktctr
Please Post: POSITION AVAILABLE RESEARCH & EDUCATION DIRECTOR The Financial Markets Center The Financial Markets Center is a new, nonprofit institute that focuses on the Federal Reserve System and the financial sector. The Center provides research, education, policy analysis and related reso

[PEN-L:10446] Re: bio-determinism

1997-05-30 Thread Wojtek Sokolowski
At 09:38 AM 5/30/97 -0700, Terry McDonough wrote: >the irreducability of one science to another. No matter how long you >try you cannot deduce evolutionary biology from the principles of >chemistry, even if it is evident that biology cannot be inconsistent >with chemistry. For the same reaso

[PEN-L:10445] EU crisis (2)

1997-05-30 Thread D Shniad
The Daily Telegraph Thursday 29 May 1997 Crisis over euro after Bundesbank blocks Kohl By Andrew Gimson in Bonn The future of the euro was in doubt last night after the Bundesbank refused to help the German government meet the criteria for membership

[PEN-L:10444] EU crisis (1)

1997-05-30 Thread D Shniad
The Daily Telegraph Friday 30 May 1997 Euro timetable faces collapse By Joy Copley, Political Staff The European single currency will be "dead in the water" if the Socialists win the election in France on Sunday, senior Government sources said yeste

[PEN-L:10443] Re: Diamonds in Africa

1997-05-30 Thread Louis Proyect
Doug Henwood: > >In this week's New York Press (May 28-June 3), my favorite right-wing >columnist Christopher Caldwell wrote: > >"But Kabila is actually a savvy operator. In mid-April, halfway through his >masterful westward march across his enormous country, he took time out to >renegotiate all o

[PEN-L:10442] Re: what marketers really think of consumers

1997-05-30 Thread HANLY
Consumers "are like roaches -- you spray them and spray them and they get immune after a while," says David Lubars, chief executive of the Los Angeles office of BBDO -- Yumiko Ono, "Marketers Seek the 'Naked' Truth in Consumer Psyches," WALL STREET JOURNAL, May 30, 1997. COMMENT: If

[PEN-L:10441] Re: Diamonds in Africa

1997-05-30 Thread Doug Henwood
Louis Proyect wrote: >Mercenaries defending the interests of the bourgeoisie, both local and >foreign, are clashing with indigenous armed movements with varying degrees >of commitment to a full program of social and economic emancipation, in >Angola and Mozambique. The class struggle is sharpenin

[PEN-L:10440] Re: what marketers really think of consumers

1997-05-30 Thread rakesh bhandari
>Consumers "are like roaches -- you spray them and spray them and they get >immune after a while," says David Lubars, chief executive of the Los >Angeles office of BBDO > >-- Yumiko Ono, "Marketers Seek the 'Naked' Truth in Consumer >Psyches," WALL STREET JOURNAL, May 30, 1997. Well,

[PEN-L:10439] Re: bio-determinism

1997-05-30 Thread Louis Proyect
(This is what I wrote to the list on April 30 about Barbara Ehrenreich's new book on war. I suspect that her latest Nation article was written with a view to providing some kind of theoretical underpinning for this dreadful book, which I suspected is being greeted by dismay from her left colleague

[PEN-L:10438] Diamonds in Africa

1997-05-30 Thread Louis Proyect
Today's NY Times reports that Angolan troops have overrun large parts of the northeast of the country, driving "thousands of civilians from areas held by fighters of the former rebel movement, Unita". This, according to the Times, is an area with valuable diamond resources. The MPLA and Unita are

[PEN-L:10437] what marketers really think of consumers

1997-05-30 Thread blairs
Consumers "are like roaches -- you spray them and spray them and they get immune after a while," says David Lubars, chief executive of the Los Angeles office of BBDO -- Yumiko Ono, "Marketers Seek the 'Naked' Truth in Consumer Psyches," WALL STREET JOURNAL, May 30, 1997. __

[PEN-L:10436] Re: FW: BLS Daily Report

1997-05-30 Thread William S. Lear
I have a question on this BLS data: On Fri, May 30, 1997 at 07:10:37 (-0700) Richardson_D writes: >BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1997 >... >Consumer spending has been the driving force behind the U.S. economy >over the past year, but, ironically, American families haven't been >spending v

[PEN-L:10435] Re: bio-determinism

1997-05-30 Thread Terrence Mc Donough
Thanks to Louis for posting the Ehrenreich article. For a while, I thought perhaps I would have to modify my earlier immoderate denunciation of BE's academic work. I think BE is basically correct in taking on pomo. It is increasingly evident that the Sokal affair marks a turning point in po

[PEN-L:10434] Preliminary Conference Announcement and Call for Papers

1997-05-30 Thread Philip Kraft
All, Twenty years ago a group of graduate students and young faculty at Binghamton organized a conference on the labor process, inspired by Harry Braverman's _Labor and Monopoly Capital_. That gathering had a lasting impact on the way many of us came to understand work and class. Now a new gro

[PEN-L:10433] FW: BLS Daily Report

1997-05-30 Thread Richardson_D
BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1997 __In the month of April, when the national unemployment rate declined to 4.9 percent, there were 29 states and the District of Columbia with jobless rates at or below that level, according to data released by BLS. Labor markets have improved to such an

[PEN-L:10432] Getting The Big Picture

1997-05-30 Thread Rosenberg, Bill
This New Zealand newsletter on the WTO, trade etc may be of interest to list members. Bill Rosenberg Getting The Big Picture The Big Picture is the quarterly bulletin of GATT Watchdog. Articles in Issue 10 of The Big Picture (May 1997) : Dr Jane Kelsey (Associate Professor of Law, Aucklan