BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1999
RELEASED TODAY: In May 1999, there were 1,033 mass layoff actions by
employers as measured by new filings for unemployment insurance benefits
during the month. Each action involved at least 50 persons from a single
establishment, and the number of
Win bar bets, embarrass reactionaries, impress
your friends with:
http://www.brookings.org/es/taxpolicy/facts.htm
For instance, there is a table showing that for
the bottom 60% of tax filers, average tax burdens
from 1980 to 1999 have gone down (mostly after
1990). For the fourth quintile, the
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Subject: eco-racists plan protest of "Makah Days" and support of Gorton
please post widely
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PROTESTING
Mathew Forstater wrote:
I wasn't making a personal attack. Rod I think used the term vulgar
himself, saying there was a value in vulgar materialism, by which we both
meant I think somewhat mechanical or deterministic materialism or economic
determinism.
O.K. In any case my post was only
Sadly, the only response I whipped up was a question about the need for a
response. Let me give Carrol a specific example of what I had in mind.
Korean workers in the Chaebol, at least as I understood the situation, had
a degree of job security.
Once the crisis hit, they lost the rights to jobs
I am a vulgar Marxist, goddamn it.
Charles Brown
Carrol Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/20/99 01:22PM
Mathew Forstater wrote:
I wasn't making a personal attack. Rod I think used the term vulgar
himself, saying there was a value in vulgar materialism, by which we both
meant I think somewhat
>From Progressive Response
By Tom Barry
Corporate welfare for U.S. transnational corporations isn't a hot issue in the current budget fight on Capitol Hill. But it should be. Although budget reformers have largely ignored the issue, citizens opposing corporate welfare may find an unlikely ally in
Sorry, I meant to say " I be a vulgar Marxist, motherfucker."
CB
"Lisa Ian Murray" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/20/99 05:53PM
what a great t-shirt slogan
ian
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Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999
Not just physicians. Its in the animal feed that agribusiness uses! Makes
them grow faster.
Carrol Cox wrote:
On an outbreak of antibiotic resistant staph infections.
http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/082099hth-outbreak.html
One observation. Ordinary causal analysis of
The NY Times says that Ecuador might default. Maybe that will get
someone interested in addressing economic issues.
http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/financial/latin-econ.html
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
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Chico, CA 95929
Nathan N,
There are diseases created by nature and those
created consciously by people/societies/governments .
What is worse, a capitalist market driven social system
dominating the planet with nation states a la the USA and
others bent on world domination no matter the human cost,
or GI's
chaz writes:
Sorry, I meant to say " I be a vulgar Marxist, motherfucker."
chaz! it's muthafuckah. look you have to hang out on the b=ball courts
with the kids more often
audi5000
snitgrrRl
p.s., ajit, my use of "chaz" is long standing and a term of affection.
Carrol Cox wrote:
Sam, careful. You are implying a teleology to evolution. Even in
strictly historical and social terms I see no evidence that "hopes ...
of reproductive success" play any part in human affairs.
Not consciously. The argument is genetic.
SP
what a great t-shirt slogan
ian
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Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 12:59 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L:10265] Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: Ideology/consciousness
andmaterial/social
I
I don't want to go to a system of relations without causation because there
is one causal relation that it is very important not to ignore--human
purposeful activity, the will, human agency, etc. (what ever you want to
call it) The political consequences are passivity, hopelessness, dispair.
Dislando, where I live, may be first municipality in country to have an
ordinance allowing residents to vote on whether or not they want to be
designated a 'traditional neighorhood'...unsurprisingly, people who've
lived in these areas longest are generally opposed because they understand
that
Michael Perelman wrote:
If the stock market crashed today or if a major U.S. bank went under,
pen-l would buzz with activity. So too would virtually every other
list.
I would think that our purpose would be to lay the groundwork so that
when a crisis would break out, we would be
JUSTICE SEEKS WIDER ACCESS TO COMPUTER DATA
The Justice Department wants to broaden rules for allowing law
enforcement
officials to secretly enter suspects' homes or offices and disable
security
on PCs in advance of administering a wiretap or conducting a further
search.
An Aug. 4 memo says that
Coming back to the topic of gentrification, I think that the current
interest in 'urbanity' among city planner-types isn't likely to bring back
public spaces + microstructural ties of the kind you're talking about
above. They seem more interested in a kind of theme-park simulation of
Excerpted from: www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org/progresp/vol3/prog3n29.html
The Progressive Response 18 August 1999 Vol. 3, No. 29
*** SETTING UP THE UN TO TAKE THE BLAME IN KOSOVO ***
(Editor's note: Recent statements by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Henry Shelton and
Michael Perelman wrote:
In violation of what I just wrote, I have one brief question -- not
wanting to reignite the thread -- why hasn't the women's movement with
its belief in one's right to control one's body spoken up about the
manditory innoculations by the military, in particular, the
If the stock market crashed today or if a major U.S. bank went under,
pen-l would buzz with activity. So too would virtually every other
list.
I would think that our purpose would be to lay the groundwork so that
when a crisis would break out, we would be prepared.
We have discussed abortion,
Sam Pawlett wrote:
Yes, humans spend a lot of time--a great deal more than most animals--
in raising and rearing the young in hopes time invested now will pay off
later in terms of reproductive success.
Sam, careful. You are implying a teleology to evolution. Even in
strictly historical
I wasn't making a personal attack. Rod I think used the term vulgar
himself, saying there was a value in vulgar materialism, by which we both
meant I think somewhat mechanical or deterministic materialism or economic
determinism. I should use mechanical. In any case, Rod can let me know if
I
Rod- I prefer not to use the word sophisticated I guess. In any case, I
engage in the conversation with you with an open mind, although I suppose I
believe the views to which I adhere better assist me in understanding (and
changing) social phenomena, or else I wouldn't adhere to them! At the end
NEW YORK -- The massacre by the Nazis of hundreds of thousands of
people known in Europe as Gypsies is a little known fact of World War
II. The lack of public awareness is shared by the Gypsies, who now ask
to be called Roma: They themselves are coming to realize the tragedy
only now.
Check "The
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The Internet Anti-Fascist: Friday, 20 August 1999
Vol. 3, Numbers 66 (#319)
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THREATS DOG FAMILY OF VICTIM
[NOTE: In what I think is a first, this article quotes a
Pentagon spokesman admitting --on the record-- that
American personnel are, in fact, fighting "in the
field!" These are not "DEA agents", however. They are
"special operations." -DG]
la guerra sucia
=
The attacks, attributed by witnesses to the
right-wing Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia
(AUC), have taken place in the northern
Sam Pawlett wrote:
Ajit Sinha wrote:
Do you think animals have rights or not?
No. I don't like rights-based theories at all--they have intractable
problems-- but in some cases ,like
abortion, talk about "rights" makes the conversation a lot easier. Most
political philosophies, even
Michael Hoover wrote:
haven't read 1995 Petchesky that you cite and its been awhile since I
read _Abortion and Woman's Choice_, but if memory serves, she criticizes
negative freedom (individual right to privacy) because there is no state
obligation to facilitate reproductive rights and because it
Rod Hay wrote:
Abandoning some distinctions, between material and ideal causation, between
the human and the natural world, etc. leaves us with an indeterminate
system. In a world were anything goes. We have no grounds upon which to make
any distinctions.
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But why we
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