The Herald, 15 March 2001
Private hostel plan for asylum seekers dropped
IAN WILSON
AN English firm has abandoned plans to buy an A-listed hotel in Glasgow and
turn it into a hostel for asylum seekers.
No reasons were cited by the Leena Corporation's solicitors on formally
withdrawing the
Who let the big Russian bears out ?! wo, wo, wo, wo. Someone owes Mark Jones a drink.
Dow falls below 10,000
Fear sweeps Wall Street as economic crises in Europe and Japan unnerve investors
By Detroit News staff and wire services 3/15/01
NEW YORK -- Fears of a global economic slowdown
Thursday, March 15, 2001
Foot and mouth - a disease of the profit system
Over the past weeks the news has been dominated by the story of yet another
crisis in farming. Appalling pictures of funeral pyres of animal victims of
the foot and mouth outbreak have even made the front page of
Important post, Lou! I'd been picking up on some hints here and there that
were heading in precisely this direction. Seems we're burning a lot of
life-saving protein for reasons most of the world's people, living with fm as
they are, find rather bemusing, eh?
Cheers,
Rob.
At 08:08 PM 3/14/01 -0800, you wrote:
Rob wrote:
Hang on, mate! Haven't you just finished telling me (perhaps over
on Doug's
list) that the only way to measure such things is by way of social
indicators?
These two seem pretty blunt social indicators to me ...
Brad riposted:
The initial reaction of consumers (and that's all of us) to the news of the
outbreak is along the lines of, 'Oh no, the food industry is poisoning us
again'. And that's not true. No human can suffer the effects of foot and
mouth. And the disease is not fatal to the vast majority of farm animals.
Jim Devine wrote:
sounds like shish kebab Hopefully the lamb didn't have scrapie. BTW, I
think one of my students may have scrapie... He sure acts like a sick
sheep. I used to think that "the Stepford children" was a better metaphor.
=
In the last issue of that hotbed of radicalism,
[was: Re: [PEN-L:9029] Indonesian minister warns of nation's demise-paper ]
In the last issue of that hotbed of radicalism, "The National
Interest",Anatole Lieven complains about the predominant rational choice
paradigm governing strategic planning at the Pentagon and State
Department,
Jim Devine wrote:
After all, you can't have an ideology if you're mindless.
Sure you can. Ideology, in one sense, is the very definition of
mindlessness - all the received crap we take as "normal." Unless
you're talking about literal mindlessness; I doubt my cat has an
ideology.
Doug
I wrote:
After all, you can't have an ideology if you're mindless.
quoth Doug:
Sure you can. Ideology, in one sense, is the very definition of
mindlessness - all the received crap we take as "normal." Unless you're
talking about literal mindlessness; I doubt my cat has an ideology.
right. It
Jim Devine wrote:
After all, you can't have an ideology if you're mindless.
Sure you can. Ideology, in one sense, is the very definition of
mindlessness - all the received crap we take as "normal." Unless
you're talking about literal mindlessness; I doubt my cat has an
ideology.
Doug
NY Times, March 15, 2001
Paying for the Potemkin Boom
By RON CHERNOW
Concern has centered on the misery of small investors maimed in the tech
wreckage. But what happened to all the money they squandered in the
I.P.O.'s? Think of the stock market in recent years as a lunatic control
tower that
I mentioned before how much I enjoyed the new book by Rampton and Stauber.
Their research on the public relations industry indicates how intensively
ideology is cultivated in United States. I think it was in Business Week
recently where they had a George Bush dictionary, defining some of the
I'm not convinced that cats are that dumb. After all, they've tamed
us, getting us to feed them odorous food and to empty disgusting
litter-boxes, while cleaning up their hair-balls and their "gifts."
(For awhile, our house had mice _because_ we had cats, since one of
them would bring mice in
Yoshie, I knew that. Don't be pedantic (since it's _my_ job!). (I hope
you'll forgive me, BTW, if I value human lives over animal lives.)
At 01:17 PM 3/15/01 -0500, you wrote:
I'm not convinced that cats are that dumb. After all, they've tamed us,
getting us to feed them odorous food and to
Michael Perelman wrote:
I mentioned before how much I enjoyed the new book by Rampton and Stauber.
Their research on the public relations industry indicates how intensively
ideology is cultivated in United States. I think it was in Business Week
recently where they had a George Bush dictionary,
Jim D. says:
(I hope you'll forgive me, BTW, if I value human lives over animal lives.)
Today's youths in rich nations, alas, do not necessarily share our
healthy prejudice. :-(
Yoshie
A remarkable development in late capitalism is that a good number of
humans have come to fight for "animal rights," going further than
feeding, cleaning, taking care of litter-boxes.
John Sobotkowski, "Protesters Claim OSU Cat Research Inhumane," _The
Lantern_ 8 March 2001 at
Michael Perelman wrote:
I mentioned before how much I enjoyed the new book by Rampton and Stauber.
Their research on the public relations industry indicates how intensively
ideology is cultivated in United States. I think it was in Business Week
recently where they had a George Bush dictionary,
A remarkable development in late capitalism is that a good number of
humans have come to fight for "animal rights," going further than
feeding, cleaning, taking care of litter-boxes.
John Sobotkowski, "Protesters Claim OSU Cat Research Inhumane," _The
Lantern_ 8 March 2001 at
I just found this article
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?cfid=109781cftoken=25789273abstract_id=250374
It seems to confirm my suspicion that
the problems in Japan were to a large
extent the result of trying to adopt
US-style financial methods within the
context of the Keiretsu. Am I
Fellow Researchers, Please distribute this information as widely as
possible. Thanks.
Kind regards
Martin Watts
Dear Colleagues
The Centre of Full Employment and Equity at the University of Newcastle is
holding its
Third Path to Full Employment Conference, which will be held at the
University
Thanks, Paul.
I am sorry that I just came across this.
Yea, it would be pretty shocking if Canadian law allowed for expropriation.
Charles
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/06/01 09:52PM
Charles,
As I thought, private property is not protected under the
constitution but is under common law in Canada.
BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 2001:
Released Today: The U.S. Import Price Index increased 0.1 percent in
February, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The rise
followed a 0.1 percent decrease in January and was led by an increase in
imported petroleum prices. The
I wonder, is there any connection between Stepfordism and Fordism?
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
I see that the US bankruptcy laws are being tightened, just in time to add
more force to a debt-deflation, it seems.
I wanted to ask David Shemano, our resident libertarian and bankruptcy
lawyer, what the point of bankruptcy protection was from a libertarian
perspective. It seems a blatant
For those in the Santa Cruz-Oakland-San Fran area-- my piece on MLK, Jr. on jobs
is in the March, 2001 STREET SPIRIT: Justice News and Homeless Blues in the Bay
Area. The paper is sold by the homeless. It was previously in the homeless paper
in San Diego. (I can e-mail the article to anyone
I think that you are being unfair to David, except for the initial
question about the point of bankruptcy.
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 02:16:49PM -0800, Jim Devine wrote:
I see that the US bankruptcy laws are being tightened, just in time to add
more force to a debt-deflation, it seems.
I
Since I really don't know his opinions on the matter, I was wondering if he
chose any of those answers. He can answer none of the above if he wants.
At 02:45 PM 3/15/01 -0800, you wrote:
I think that you are being unfair to David, except for the initial
question about the point of bankruptcy.
Jim Devine wrote:
I see that the US bankruptcy laws are being tightened, just in time to add
more force to a debt-deflation, it seems.
I wanted to ask David Shemano, our resident libertarian and bankruptcy
lawyer, what the point of bankruptcy protection was from a libertarian
perspective. It
Casualties of the war on drugs crimes are coming home. We have to
stop the war _and_ create a society in which ex-convicts can find
good jobs, or else we can never diminish racism, much less abolish
it. Yoshie
* New York Times 15 March 2001
Flood of Ex-Convicts Finds Job Market
Casualties of the war on drugs crimes are coming home. We have to
stop the war _and_ create a society in which ex-convicts can find
good jobs, or else we can never diminish racism, much less abolish
it. Yoshie
* New York Times 15 March 2001
Flood of Ex-Convicts Finds Job Market
Try to avoid this sort of confrontation.
Lisa Ian Murray wrote:
Perhaps you could ask Brad what the Pareto optimal solution to this problem is,
given the exogenous constraint of current obsessions with fiscal discipline by
the neoliberal state.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
What are the limits put on corporate bankruptcy in the new law that is afoot?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Casualties of the war on drugs crimes are coming home. We have
to stop the war _and_ create a society in which ex-convicts can
find good jobs, or else we can never diminish racism, much less
abolish it. Yoshie
* New York Times 15 March 2001
Flood of Ex-Convicts Finds Job Market
Michael Perelman askes:
What are the limits put on corporate bankruptcy in the new law that is
afoot?
The new law barely addresses corporate bankruptcy -- it has been pushed
through by the credit card and personal finance companies. The only
substantive special interest change that affects
I just saw an article somewhere discussing the major companies that have
gone bankrupt multiple times.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ANALYSIS-U.S. ban on EU meat could be trade time bomb
BRUSSELS, March 15 (Reuters) - A U.S. ban on European Union meat over
foot-and-mouth disease may be an understandable short-term reaction but if it
persists, it risks escalating into a new transatlantic trade row, analysts said
on
We call it Chapter 22. TWA made it to Chapter 33.
-Original Message-
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Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 8:26 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L:9059] Re: RE: RE: bankruptcy
I just saw an article
Ok. Money is free speech. Why not just set up display like the brokerage
firms used to have. You can see the quotes about who is offering how much
for each policy.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
New York Times 16 March 2001
Big Impact Seen From New Bankruptcy Rules for Small Business
By RIVA D. ATLAS
Most of the proposed changes in the bankruptcy bill passed by the
Senate yesterday concern individuals, but the new rules for
corporations could ultimately affect far more people.
The
Ok. Money is free speech. Why not just set up display like the brokerage
firms used to have. You can see the quotes about who is offering how much
for each policy.
Michael Perelman
The most expensive exclusive Japanese restaurants neither offer
menus nor display prices. If you have to ask
The passage of the bankruptcy "reform" bill today highlights both the
meaning of "compassionate conservatism" (it is neither, as we already
knew)and the fact that this administration does not even feel the need to
cloak its auctions of legislative influence "behind closed doors." This
Some of the classic class biases in the new bankruptcy bill are
protecting the homesteading exemption for shielding multi-million dollar
assets in residential "estates" in those states without a cap limit such as
Florida (see ex-MLB baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn and corp raider
What is striking about the bankruptcy bill is how little justification there
is at this time. Cost of funds is declining, bankruptcy rates are declining
(except for those under 30), credit card delinquencies are declining, and
lending rates have steadily risen which means that a high
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