At a time when there is a contraction in profits and particularly
investment in new technology, it is comforting that at least there has been
a surge - of 8% - last year, in the investment of the means of production
of war - the global arms trade.
And considering how the USA, having
Although the World Bank/IMF offer to debate representatives of the
anti-globalization movement is being presented as unprecedented, it isn't.
Representatives from the World Bank participated in a town hall meeting of
some sort during the April demonstrations/meetings in D.C. I was not there
but I
Martin Brown wrote:
There are also prominent signs in all the rail stations warning
customers that any
loss of temper or out-burst against a member of the rail staff will be
treated as a criminal offense and prosecuted to the maximum extent of
the
law. This seemed odd to me at the service
Thatcher backs Duncan Smith
Nicholas Watt, political correspondent
Tuesday August 21, 2001
The Guardian
Margaret Thatcher finally joins the fray in the Tory leadership contest
today when she throws her weight behind Iain Duncan
Smith with a warning that his rival Kenneth Clarke would lead the
US computer firm hired Beattie Media to spy on workers
By Neil Mackay Home Affairs Editor
Sunday Herald, 19 August 2001
STRATHCLYDE police are investigating a dirty tricks campaign
orchestrated by the
PR firm Beattie Media on behalf of the giant American company
WTO backs Europe in row over tax breaks
Brussels tells US it must scrap scheme or face £2.7bn sanctions
Andrew Osborn in Brussels and Charlotte Denny
Tuesday August 21, 2001
The Guardian
The World Trade Organisation yesterday backed the European Union against
the US in a multi-billion dollar
I'm watching Stanley Fischer assure John Pilger (who's positing the
debt-as-stick argument) that debt is not a problem for the world's poor (all
they need is education and an incorruptible government, after all isn't debt a
good thing when we want something? [beaut analogy, Stan]), and that the
At least some are trading blows. We're not. The US lost its lamb quota case,
got a few months to fix it. And now the months are up. And the quota's still
there. So our Foreign Minister girded the loins, walked right up to Uncle
Sam, stared him in the eye, and gave him a few more weeks.
Michael the K wrote:
. But the public sector, so called, is in deep crisis owing to
systematic starvation of investment that predates Thatcher but was
intensified by her, and has continued up to now. Another of Judt's
musings that I could not understand was his waxing lyrical over
swinging
any comments?
From: Slate Magazine
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tues., August 21, 2001
foreigners: Saving Russia's Armpit
By Anne Applebaum
As one might have expected, the 10th anniversary of the Communist coup
against Mikhail Gorbachevwhose defeat led directly to the breakup of the
Soviet Unionis
Conservative Detroit News continues to push left line on dismal economic picture.
World Auto View
GM must face reality in Europe: Closings and job cuts are inevitable
By Daniel Howes / The Detroit News
FRANKFURT, Germany--In an unmistakable sign of how bleak things have become,
Global Automotive Report
VW offers 7 percent raise to striking Mexican workers
By Detroit News staff reports and wire services
MEXICO CITY -- Volkswagen offered its 12,500 striking Mexican workers a 7 percent
raise Monday after a round of heated negotiations and a threatened nationwide
Why is the conservative Detroit News newspaper doing a long series on poverty ? Have
they suddenly gotten a social conscience ? No, they have ruling class consciousness.
They are letting the masses know that there is market discipline for you ; if you
don't jump to the bosses' whip, you too
Charles Brown wrote:
Conservative Detroit News continues to push left line on dismal economic picture.
World Auto View
GM must face reality in Europe: Closings and job cuts are inevitable
Charles, how is this a left (or any particular) line? Condensed, it says
GM is going to have to
Shown on CSPAN tonight, the representative from 50 Years is
Enough was asked by Bloomberg News what would do about the crisis
in
Argentina, their representative literally had no answer.
==
The number for 50 Years is Enough is:
tel: +1-202-463-2265
And the groups
behind the
Soren Ambrose
M.Pugliese
FREE SPEECH LAWSUIT FILED REGARDING
WASHINGTON DC ANTI-BUSH/IMF/WORLD BANK PROTESTS -
Report on 8/20 press conference
***C-SPAN will rebroadcast on C-SPAN 1 at 12:54 am, 3:21 am
and 6:59 am (8/21).***
Today, C-SPAN broadcast live a press conference held by
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/21/01 11:50AM
Charles Brown wrote:
Conservative Detroit News continues to push left line on dismal economic picture.
World Auto View
GM must face reality in Europe: Closings and job cuts are inevitable
Charles, how is this a left (or any particular) line?
[from Doug's house]
[from the World Bank's daily clipping service]
LITTLE COMMON GROUND FOR GLOBALIZATION DEBATE.
The proposed debate next month, between four anti-globalization
non-governmental
organizations on one side and the International Monetary Fund and the
World Bank
on the other, may
there are no sure-fire money-making opportunities under capitalism
A Growth Industry Cools as New York Prisons Thin
By DAVID ROHDE/ New York TIMES/August 21, 2001
With the number of inmates in state prisons across the country either
stabilizing or dropping after decades of explosive
National Security Archive Update, August 20, 2001
*ARCHIVE RELEASES US DOCUMENTS ON RWANDAN GENOCIDE*
http://www.nsarchive.org/NSAEBB/NSAEBB53/press.html
Washington, D.C., August 20 - Today the National
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/sk145/
Statement on Ravi Kanbur's Resignation as World Development ...
Statement on Ravi Kanbur's Resignation as World Development
Report Lead Author. ...
www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/bwi-wto/wbank/kanbur2.htm
-Original Message-
From: Michael
-- Forwarded message --
Transcript of a Press Conference
on the Outcomes of the Recent Köhler/Wolfensohn Trip to Africa
by IMF African Department Director
G.G. Gondwe and World Bank Vice-President African Region Callisto Madavo
Wednesday, March 7, 2001
MR. UKU: Okay. I think
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/sk145/
Statement on Ravi Kanbur's Resignation as World Development ...
Statement on Ravi Kanbur's Resignation as World Development
Report Lead Author. ...
www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/bwi-wto/wbank/kanbur2.htm
Vorkuta had one of the few revolts in the GULAG. Led by Trotskyists.
Most of these hits on google are from far right loons, aarrggg!
http://www.google.com/search?hl=ensafe=offq=Vorkuta+GULAG+revolt+spell=1
the eXile - Feature Story
... protests or even revolt, while on the other ... said.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/17/01 06:49PM
In reply to Charles:
CB: Isn't the standard that Justice Powell articulated that a person is
presumed to know the necessary and foreseeable consequences of their actions
? That would be an objective standard. Focussing on what he knew is a
subjective
Warning over disappearing forests
Satellites show world's main woodlands concentrated in 15 countries
Tim Radford
Tuesday August 21, 2001
The Guardian [UK]
More than 80% of the world's remaining forest is located in just 15
countries, according to an international study published today.
For
[we haven't had any GM articles in awhile...]
Market enforcers
Biotech firms found persuasion didn't work, so they are using a new tactic:
coercion
Special report: what's wrong with our food?
George Monbiot
Tuesday August 21, 2001
The Guardian [UK]
I've always been a little uncomfortable
In reply to Charles:
CB: I guess it's all a subjective issue in the sense that mens rea
examines the mental element in the crime. However, this mental state , in
both cases of negligence and recklessness is purportedly judged by an
objective (socalled reasonable man , sic) standard.
This is
CB: 7/8's true. I didn't say everything you do is necessarily
justified. Lenin never did anything analogous to blindly running red
lights, etc.
Lenin ordered the taking of food peasants were growing for their own
subsistence. If I was sitting on the jury, that is blindly running a red
light
In reply to Charles:
CB: You haven't proven the fact you assert.
If my facts were true, would it make any difference to you?
David Shemano
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, DAILY REPORT, AUGUST 21, 2001:
RELEASED TODAY: The number of employed youth 16 to 24 years old increased
by about 2.4 million from April to July, the Bureau of Labor Statistics
reported today. This year's seasonal expansion in youth employment was
slightly
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In reply to Charles:
CB: You haven't proven the fact you assert.
If my facts were true, would it make any difference to you?
(
CB: If your facts were false, would it make any difference to you ?
In reply to Charles:
CB: If your facts were false, would it make any difference to you ?
I would acquit Lenin of premeditated murder of the peasants if he did not
order the taking of the subsistence food. It would not change my overall
impression of Lenin and his rule.
Now you answer.
David
Weather forecasters (see the Weather Underground website!
I kid you not it is a weather forecasting website) sees flame
war ahead. Dr. Science here requests someone to give a quick
summary say of the work of Moshe Lewin in, Soviet Peasants
and Russian Industraialization, ( think that is the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/21/01 04:28PM
In reply to Charles:
CB: If your facts were false, would it make any difference to you ?
I would acquit Lenin of premeditated murder of the peasants if he did not
order the taking of the subsistence food. It would not change my overall
impression of Lenin
In reply to Charles:
CB: I would acquit Lenin of homicide on the defense of necessity. It
would not change my opinion of Lenin and his leadership.
Res ipsa loquitor.
David Shemano
Forget Locke? From Proprietor to Risk-Bearer in New Logics of Finance
Bill Maurer
Recent debates on globalization are frequently thin with details of
the mechanisms that facilitate the flow of capital across borders.
What on-the-ground, back-office practices constitute and expedite
those flows?
These don't come around too often . . .
Job OpeningInternational Trade Economist. The Economic Policy Institute, a
leading progressive think tank in Washington, D.C. has an immediate opening
for an economist to carry out research on problems related to the current
systems of globalization.
Even those who today, for example, most explicitly repudiate Marx's theory
of politics and history have absorbed many of his ideas,
which have passed into common currency.
Aside by Stuart Hampshire, 1988, in Spinoza, An Introduction to this
Philosphical Thought, making an analogy with the
I am seeing more and more stories doubting that a recovery is on the
near horizon. Notice the quote below
We think the economy has got
real problems that won't be
rectified quickly, said William
Dudley, an economist with
Goldman Sachs Co. in New
York. We think monetary policy
in this
the facts speak for themselves
???
-Original Message-
From: David Shemano [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 1:56 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:16140] RE: Mens rea of political leaders /Hoover'sguilt
In reply to Charles:
CB: I would acquit
[NYT]
August 22, 2001
Argentina Gets $8 Billion Aid From the I.M.F.
By JOSEPH KAHN
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 - After nearly two weeks of negotiations, the
International Monetary Fund announced tonight that it would provide up
to $8 billion in emergency aid to Argentina to stabilize its economy.
The
This article is a miracle of unclarity. I wanted to know the pound of
flesh that they are going to extract. Are the creditors going to relent
with no pound of flesh?
Ian Murray wrote:
[NYT]
August 22, 2001
Argentina Gets $8 Billion Aid From the I.M.F.
By JOSEPH KAHN
WASHINGTON, Aug.
This article is a miracle of unclarity. I wanted to know the pound
of
flesh that they are going to extract. Are the creditors going to
relent
with no pound of flesh?
===
Um, Max Weber the official secret ring a bell? No? Perhaps J.
Stiglitz' secrecy creates rents ?
Ian
Re:
Forget Locke? From Proprietor to Risk-Bearer in New Logics of Finance
Bill Maurer..
God forbid that postmodernism should try to take on global finance. I don't
know who this guy is, but he doesn't know a lot about the global capital
markets. For example, securitization and
- Original Message -
From: Steve Diamond [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 9:28 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:16149] WB/IMF reconstructing capitalism yet again -
!!??
Re:
Forget Locke? From Proprietor to Risk-Bearer in New Logics of
Finance
Bill
ENTIRE DEMOCRACY NOW! STAFF SUSPENDED WITHOUT PAY
Below is a bulletin from the Pacifica Campaigns Juan Gonzalez
explaining why most Pacifica listeners are no longer hearing the
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Youll find several ways to help toward the end of his
At 21/08/01 21:41 -0700, Ian wrote:
He does go into how one
material medium's relation to time--paper--affected the bundling of
asset streams and how computer programs for bundling, unbundling and
rebundling in the quest for the dream of liquidity and market clearing
is
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