Chris Burford wrote:
A Google search for [Ian Bruce Herald] produced a number of articles
suggesting to me that his sources have included a KLA insider, and someone
close to George Robertson, now Nato Secretary General.
=
MK: He does appear to be well connected alright. It's not so clear
In respect to oil there are some observations that
were made about the nineties, and these are:
World demand is increasing, with third world demand
increasing at 2 percent yearly.
Refineries are operating at 98 percent capacity, with
little new investments.
The ratio of new find to reserves was
Greetings Econo Mitts,
Tom Walker,
Too late, Doyle. Rob put in a contender. And we still haven't heard from Jim
three bears Devine and Max the tax Sawicky.
Doyle
Curses
thanks
Doyle
It seems that my first message did not go through:
In respect to oil there are some observations that
were made about the nineties, and these are:
World demand is increasing, with third world demand
increasing at 2 percent.
Refineries are operating at 98 percent capacity, with
little new
Once again, I have to remark on how weird it is that a bunch of
friends of the working class are getting all excited about the
prospects for recession, which means the disemployment of millions
and lower wages for everyone else. Does the ghost of Andrew Mellon
lurk over PEN-L?
Doug
The spinmeisters have more work ahead, I reckon.
Argentina has slowed its economy to crisis-point by slicing public expenditure
in response to a national credit rating that wouldn't allow it to borrow at
rates it could afford. Yesterday we heard capital was bolting, and that
Brazil has caught
Once again, I have to remark on how weird it is that a bunch of
friends of the working class are getting all excited about the
prospects for recession, which means the disemployment of millions
and lower wages for everyone else. Does the ghost of Andrew Mellon
lurk over PEN-L?
Doug
I think
G'day Doug,
Once again, I have to remark on how weird it is that a bunch of
friends of the working class are getting all excited about the
prospects for recession, which means the disemployment of millions
and lower wages for everyone else. Does the ghost of Andrew Mellon
lurk over PEN-L?
Mark Jones wrote:
Doug Henwood:
Once again, I have to remark on how weird it is that a bunch of
friends of the working class are getting all excited about the
prospects for recession, which means the disemployment of millions
and lower wages for everyone else. Does the ghost of Andrew
Nobody is salivating over the prospect of the working class suffer, but it
did not do that well during the Clinton boom. But I do relish the
downfall of many highly leveraged businesses.
I recall your glee at the demise of some of the dot.coms -- a
pleasure,which I shared with you.
Although
Hi again Doug,
Actually I think it's quite relevant to the intellectual and
political marginalization of left political economy - it has no
analytical vocabulary for talking about good times,
If the times are usually good for most people, and sustainably so, well, I
wouldn't be a lefty.
Rob... And, as you're a pal, I'm happy that the reservations you expressed
in *Wall
Street* might be vindicated at the expense of the credibility of rude
critics
like that chap on the book's jacket.
Alan Abelson, early in his journalistic career, dissed (deliberately
misunderstood? or is
Doug Henwood wrote,
Once again, I have to remark on how weird it is that a bunch of
friends of the working class are getting all excited about the
prospects for recession, which means the disemployment of millions
and lower wages for everyone else. Does the ghost of Andrew Mellon
lurk over
Michael Perelman wrote:
Nobody is salivating over the prospect of the working class suffer, but it
did not do that well during the Clinton boom. But I do relish the
downfall of many highly leveraged businesses.
I recall your glee at the demise of some of the dot.coms -- a
pleasure,which I
Justin:
I think that you and I have different views on how socialists and radicals of all
stripes should participate in large mass movements. I think that openness and honesty
is essential, and that it is the failure to be open and honest that leads to trouble,
not red baiting. Red baiting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pretending that this is not true, in the name of avoiding 'red
baiting,' is, in my view, engaging in the type of deception which
has haunted the work of the left in the American trade union
movement.
My understanding is that Solidarity people are extremely coy about
Michael Keaney posted:
(Thanks to Alan Bradley on the Marxism list for the following.)
The following article appears in the current issue of Green Left Weekly
(http://www.greenleft.org.au/):
Who gains most from New Timor gap treaty?
On July 5, representatives of the East Timor Transitional
Doug, I don't entirely disagree with you, but part of the problem w/ the
Asian crisis was that it was localized -- leaving the neoliberal
juggernaut relatively unaffected. It was the worst of both worlds -- a
crisis with a neoliberal solution.
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 12:34:44PM -0400, Doug
Michael Perelman says:
Doug, I don't entirely disagree with you, but part of the problem w/ the
Asian crisis was that it was localized -- leaving the neoliberal
juggernaut relatively unaffected. It was the worst of both worlds -- a
crisis with a neoliberal solution.
The 70s was a period of
The 70s were interpreted as a failure of the left, opening the way for a
move to the right as a solution. The failure of this decade will be seen
as the responsibility of the right.
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 01:53:01PM -0400, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Michael Perelman says:
Doug, I don't
Colleagues,
Apologies for the self-promotion. The third edition of my text
Economics and the Environment is now out. It has a four-chapter
section on the political economy of regulation and also features
back-to-back chapter-length presentations of neoclassical and
ecological approaches to
Mark Jones wrote:
Tom Walker wrote:
There IS a cure for blasé indignation. It is called
beginner's mind. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but
in the expert's there are few.
Good stuff, however I fear a return right back to the womb may be necessary
in the case of some
Michael Perelman says:
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 01:53:01PM -0400, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Michael Perelman says:
Doug, I don't entirely disagree with you, but part of the problem w/ the
Asian crisis was that it was localized -- leaving the neoliberal
juggernaut relatively unaffected. It
Ditto.
- Original Message -
From: Michael Pollak [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 9:20 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:15076] Re: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Gold
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Michael Perelman wrote:
David, I am not sure that anybody but you and Jim
It is helpful to get some [not too much] feedback about what people find
useful. Thanks.
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 01:22:50PM -0700, Christian Gregory wrote:
Ditto.
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From: Michael Pollak [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 9:20
Of course, you are correct. No problem with what you are saying.
All too often, liberals are left to implement the final stages of
austerity.
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 02:20:15PM -0400, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
If we are to exploit any crisis, what we need is a political program
that goes
Glendale will begin using chromium water
Level of chemical, at one part per billion, is within
all
federal and
state health standards.
Los Angeles Times - 7/13/01
By Alex Coolman, staff writer
GLENDALE -- The city will soon begin delivering to
residents
drinking
water containing minute
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/marxist/message/4888
Duh, forget to add the URL link this time to pen-l like I did here,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/marxist/message/4886
http://csf.colorado.edu/pen-l/2001III/
http://csf.colorado.edu/pen-l/2001III/msg00629.html
Get some lateral communication going
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000
From: Akira Matsumoto
Subject: Gold
http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/OPE/archive/0001/0130.html :
*-*-*-*
I argued in the previous letter that
The purchasing power index of gold = the value index of a unit gold/the
commodity value
The cost is being factored in:
Senior European Union ministers are meeting to discuss ways to curb riots
that have disrupted international conferences recently.
Friday's special session of interior ministers from the 15 member states
was called in the wake of last month's rioting at the EU
Tarpinian from LRA here
Teamsters Enter New Era With 26th Convention (Jul. 9, 2001)
By Greg Tarpinian
http://csf.colorado.edu/pen-l/2001III/msg00442.html
M.Pugliese
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 2:18 PM
Subject: Re:
As long as I letting the fur fly today, let me add a few comments about Radosh and the
Rosenbergs. With the promiscuous cross-poster Michael P. around, this e-mail will get
back to Radosh himself, one way or another.
I am waiting for my copy of Radosh's autobiographical tome _Commies_ to
Dear Friend,
I am writing to you because I'm concerned about what I consider to be a
serious injustice being committed by URPE, the Union for Radical Political
Economics, which publishes the Review of Radical Political Economics (RRPE).
I believe fundamental issues of principle are involved:
Leo, we do have different ideas about left organizing. You think is
appropriate to spread unsubstantiated, untrue, and potentially damaging
rumors, and to call people who call you on it, in effect, liars who want to
run subterranean entrist campaigns in mass movements. It may be common
the
internut was supposed to facilitate non-hierachical discourse
mongering...Could throw in some postmodernist lingo ala Hardt and Negri
Empire but I'll
give that thread a rest...
Context? Ask Leo, it was probably started offlist between Leo from DSA
and
Justin from Solidarity. Leo is at a
Leo, you are a liar or a fool. I never dedied that Soli had any serious Trot
history. I don't know what connections are. What I said was that we are
not a Trot group and that the specific people imvolved in LN and TDU are not
Trots. You either deliberately misrepresented or could not
http://www.ea1.com/CARP/tiller/index.html
Here's a somewhat dated story in the AgBiz Tiller that
gives a clear explanation of insider trading in cattle
futures, circa 1978, in which Hillary Clinton did her
bit of magic. It strikes me that this is exactly what
Gene Coyle is talking about when he
Whoa. Nobody needs to attribute views to others here; nor to call anybody
a liar or a fool.
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 11:25:03PM -, Justin Schwartz wrote:
Leo, you are a liar or a fool. I never dedied that Soli had any serious Trot
history. I don't know what connections are. What I said
Doesnt the new labor legislation in Russia turn back the clock!
In the US and Canada it would seem that temporary workers are used to
keep full time workers from working overtime at a higher wage.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
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From: Tom Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There
Sounds as if Solidarity has been infiltrated by market socialists borrowing
from within:)
Cheers, Ken Hanly
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From: Justin Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 6:06 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:15117] Re: Openness and Honesty in Left
http://www.thegully.com/essays/gaymundo/010705gay_yugoslavia.html
Had not seen this online publication before. This looks good too, Depleted
Uranium:
The Vieques-Kosovo Connection,
Vieques Movement:
Little Engine That Could,
http://www.thegully.com/essays/puertorico/010212depleted_uranium.html
Links to the Honesty on the left thread.
Michael Pugliese, my last post for the day...Hooray Go The Masses!
http://www.thegully.com/essays/US/politics_2001/010409left_homophobia.html
Michael, he called me, and outfit, a liar and a sneak. He's also redbaiting
Soli, LN, TDU, Tarpinian, and LRA, the latter two of whom he respectively
called a Commie and CP front. Who's out of line here? Not me, I think. --jks
From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL
The redbaiting does not belong here. I have not been following everything
carefully because I have a book ms. to copyedit --The Pathology of the
U.S. Economy Revisited. Even so, I did not think that your response was
appropriate.
I will try to be more careful in monitoring things. I, for one,
Well it has come to pass as Lawrence Summers saith. Russia is underpolluted
and is now engaging in a profitable trade in pollution.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
Christian Science Monitor
3 July 2001
Russia's nuclear-waste gambit
A $21 billion cash for trash plan is now before Putin. Critics say it will
Ken Hanly wrote:
In the US and Canada it would seem that temporary workers are used to
keep full time workers from working overtime at a higher wage.
Au contraire. Temp workers and part-timers are part of the mix with
overtime. More temp and part-time = more overtime.
Tom Walker
Bowen
Geoff Rothwell says that the Russian deal will not work because they are
charging too much and will only hold the stuff for 20 years.
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 11:20:55PM -0500, Ken Hanly wrote:
Well it has come to pass as Lawrence Summers saith. Russia is underpolluted
and is now engaging in a
I temped for about 6 years. Occasionally, I was told by the secretaries
or lower level mgrs. esp. cynics in banking and financial services, how much
Wells Fargo or whoever was paying the agency . For a $10 an hr. assignment,
they were paying $15. For $12, they were paying $18-20 on up.
Do you have the figures? Why is this the case do u think? I guess my remark
about the new Russian labor law is true though.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
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From: Tom Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 10:55 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:15129] Re:
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