A few replies to Sawicky, Featherstone, Henwood and Bond.
Sawicky first.
Sawicky on Lind
mbs argues that lind not a racist because he tolerates all around miscegenation
within US borders. mbs labels me an irresponsible hysteric for calling lind
a social imperialist, nativist and racist
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/onpolitics/transcripts/omb_2002budget.p
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Liza asked me to forward this. - Doug]
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 15:45:13 -0400
From: Liza Featherstone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Though my name has dropped out of these tirades, I co-authored the articles
that this person attributes to Doug. These posts reflect a lack of specific
knowledge about the
Henwood wrote:
Michael Perelman wrote, quoting a comprador Third World trade
minister writing under the name Rakesh Bhandari:
And thereby revealed that he still refuses to recognize that it's not just
third world trade ministers, neo liberal economists and the big bourgeoisie
which
Tory civil war erupts
* Major savages Thatcher * Tebbit savages Clarke * Clarke savages Duncan
Smith
Nicholas Watt, political correspondent
Thursday August 23, 2001
The Guardian
A ferocious round of internal Tory bloodletting was unleashed yesterday
when John Major intervened in the
He had to stop her
As seen by John Major and correspondents of the rightwing press
Julian Glover
Thursday August 23, 2001
The Guardian
John Major is fortunate that his interpretation of the Conservative
party's recent history hangs together. Otherwise his intervention
in his party's
Allied bombers chose 'easy' German targets
Richard Norton-Taylor
Thursday August 23, 2001
The Guardian
Britain and the US bombed small towns in Germany in the final stages of
the second world war because they would burn easily
and not because they were strategically important, documents found
PFI projects buoy Balfour Beatty
BENEFITS SHOWING FROM RESTRUCTURING:
Financial Times, Aug 16, 2001
By CHARLES BATCHELOR
Government-funded private finance projects underpinned a growing
proportion of first-half profits at
Balfour Beatty, the engineering and construction group.
Underlying
Dear friends,
I've just subscribed to this list and would like to present myself.
Name: Manuel Resende, friends call me Manel.
Age: 53
I'm portuguese and work as a translator for the EU. I've published some books
of poetry.
I do not intend to post many messages, since i'm not an economist and
Steve Diamond wrote:
In any case, let's look at what Maurer himself says: since he thinks
finance discourse is not understandable on its own terms -
Securitization, thus, is not obvious or self-evident - he is here to tell
us what is really going on - and THAT is the fundamental conceit behind
Ian Murray reports:
The September/October issue of Foreign Policy carries an investigative
piece that is sharply critical of World Bank President James D.
Wolfensohn's style of personalized management and costly embrace of
trendy ideas.
=
Such trendy ideas include the notion that Cuban
Michael Perelman wrote:
I was only responding to Rob, whom I [mistakenly?] thought was
suggesting such a possibility -- not predicting anything.
Just quoting some thoughtful people's ideas and trying, in an admittedly
amateurish way, to tie them together into the narrative that most
The first thing I do is to look at the headings of my mail to see who has
written. I have not read anything yet, but the headings that I see
trouble me.
Rakesh sent in three posts, each with a person in the heading. I hope
that what I find is not going to be overly personal.
--
Michael
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:34:57 +0300
From: Michael Keaney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If Wolfensohn really is inflicting such damage on the World Bank,
should he not get some sort of PEN-L award in recognition?
Nah. Since whatever excellent destruction of that institution's
esprit
Here's the website of the Committee for Justice in Palestine:
http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/cjp.html. This is the first
webpage I made, so naturally it's a simple one, but I hope it's
serviceable for the time being.
Any comments will be appreciated. Also, please send me any relevant
RK: A few replies to Sawicky, Featherstone, Henwood and Bond. . . .
There has been and will be no dialogue between me
and babbling trust fund babies, except for this:
Rakesh, if you moved out of your parents' house and got
a job, it might clear your head. At the very least, it
would be a
This is very unfruitful. Yes, Rakesh, Doug's response to your initial post was not
polite, but your initial post was far from respectful. Look how your write about
how he refuses to recognize When will Henwood recognize
As I asked you a few weeks ago, please try to communicate in a less
Today's front page column in the Wall St. Journal is on intellectual property.
It emphasizes how seriously the ruling class takes the issue. "Next
week some of the nation's brightest minds will gather at ... Jackson Hole
to grapple with how intellectual-property businesses are changing the
Rakesh, as I understand this thread, Max said something good about Lind, then you
attacked him personally because Lind favors restriction of immigration, when that
subject was extraneous to what Max praised in Lind. My recollection might be
wrong. If so, I apologize. What Max wrote in
Yes, it is personal. Please let this thread die an ignoble death.
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 10:35:08AM -0400, Max Sawicky wrote:
RK: A few replies to Sawicky, Featherstone, Henwood and Bond. . . .
There has been and will be no dialogue between me
and babbling trust fund babies, except
Liza Featherstone I have both decided that it's best not to respond
to Rakesh's posts, which seem motivated more by personal hostility
than genuine political content. Please don't mistake our silence for
assent.
Doug
Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Rakesh, as I understand this thread, Max said something good about
Lind,
right. something about how lind was against protectionism for the
overclass, e.g., tenure.
then you
attacked him personally because Lind favors restriction of
immigration,
Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
This is very unfruitful. Yes, Rakesh, Doug's response to your initial
post was not
polite, but your initial post was far from respectful. Look how your write
about
how he refuses to recognize When will Henwood recognize
Oh, a lecture about
Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Liza Featherstone I have both decided that it's best not to respond
to Rakesh's posts, which seem motivated more by personal hostility
than genuine political content. Please don't mistake our silence for
assent.
Doug
My posts can't be motivated
G'day Gene,
Actually, some of the brightest minds are on PEN-L
Well, I ain't one of 'em, but will start the ball rolling with what I take to
be the standard leftie scenario.
and we should be laying out policy options for the world.
Yeah, but I'm sure Jackson Hole ain't about doing the
Of course, workers and the poor are the main victims of bad times.
CB
(((
From In Defense of Marxism website (Grant-Woods)
It's still getting worse
The last time I commented on the state of the US and world economy was in
May. The piece was called: The worst is yet to come.
It's
If I read the last series of posts a few weeks back from the USAS mtg.
correcdtly,
one thing stood out re: strategy, namely the intent to work on sweatshop
struggles that unions are currently engaged in, be they in the States or
abroad. In your schema, the US unions and/or college based
Please, one of the no-no's on the list is demanding that someone answers
another's challenge/question, etc..
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 08:20:08AM -0700, Rakesh Bhandari wrote:
Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Liza Featherstone I have both decided that it's best not to respond
to
I just answered Rakesh off list, not realizing that he sent a note to the
list also. Look, Rakesh, we cannot have this sort of personal attack
here.
Please, as I said before, I mentioned that you can make constructive
points, but you must do it without the invective. This is a place for
Stephen E Philion [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
If I read the last series of posts a few weeks back from the USAS mtg.
correcdtly,
one thing stood out re: strategy, namely the intent to work on
sweatshop
struggles that unions are currently engaged in, be they in the States or
abroad. In your
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/22/01 04:17PM
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/22/01 02:12PM
((
CB: Since it was bailed out when it lost its bet, LTCM was taking
zero risk. It was the opposite of a high risk taker , yet it is
rewarded the most of all because it claims to take risk.
Stephen E Philion wrote:
If I read the last series of posts a few weeks back from the USAS mtg.
correcdtly,
one thing stood out re: strategy, namely the intent to work on sweatshop
struggles that unions are currently engaged in, be they in the States or
abroad. In your schema, the US unions
Aug. 23, 2001
Many State Treasuries Are Running Dry
By DAVID A. LIEB
.c The Associated Press
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (Aug. 23) - Some foster children here may no longer
get state aid. A new prison stands completed but empty. And the fountains
outside the state Capitol temporarily ran dry.
All of
- Original Message -
From: Charles Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CB: If ex post it didn't take the risk, then it didn't take the
risk. The ex ante risk was an illusion.
===
No. That's too teleological and smacks of post hoc ergo prompter hoc
CB: The philosophical ,
Breaking patents -- things fall apart. You know your Yeats.
Today's WSJ carries another important story re the intellectual property
discussion -- and one which, among others, has put the topic on the agenda
in Jackson Hole.
The threatening story to Greenspan, Summers, et.
al. is that Brazil
At 12:28 PM 8/22/01 -0400, you wrote:
there was recently a whole article produced by Goldman Sachs (The
Un-Godley Private Sector Deficit, US Economics Analyst, 27 July) where they
were trying to argue precisely the opposite: that of course things are not
rosy, but that a recovery would follow
Jacques Attali's book NOISE: The Political Economy of Music
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 8:09 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:16183] Political Economy of Music
Penners,
Does any good work exist on the political economy of
Henwood wrote:
Student anti-sweatshop activists are opposed to
protectionism and to boycotts.
Well they may not recognize as protectionist what other trade unionists do.
Moreover, the students don't seem to have yet put this to a vote or put it in
writing. They haven't formally
[Aren't a lot of these guys lawyers?]
[NYT]
AUG 23, 2001
Officials in N.F.L. Consider Job Action
By MIKE FREEMAN
National Football League referees have become so frustrated by what
they feel is the league's arrogant stance during negotiations for a
new collective bargaining agreement that a
(TOMPAINE.com: Nixon: Do the Tapes Tell the Full Story?
... fact, some of Nixon's advisers had at ... any action against Brookings
at the very ... Buchanan
and Charles Colson, the originator of ... cockamamie fire bomb plot, were
...
www.tompaine.com/history/1999/10/20/
NameBase Search Results
[NYT]
August 23, 2001
ECONOMIC SCENE
Good Monitors Make for Better Contracts
By HAL R. VARIAN
BEFORE 1998, video rental stores bought tapes from distributors for
about $70 each. Because the tapes were so expensive, the stores bought
relatively few of them, with the result that customers had to
Jim wrote:
is the G-S article on-line? where is your web-site?
===
Alex reaction:
The Un-Godley private Sector Deficit was the central article of the US
Economics Analyst , 27 July, which is produced by the 'GS Financial
Workbench' and is distributed to *subscribers*. I guess that one
Is this the Reaganite game of running a deficit as an excuse to cut social programs (
what few are left ) ? Is this a way to destroy Social Security, the last bastion of
the New Deal ? Is Bush running the economy like a five year old driving a car ?
Surely, the news is worse than what is
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, DAILY REPORT, AUGUST 23, 2001:
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that both the total number of mass
layoff events and the number of workers affected
rose sharply during the second quarter. Extended mass layoff events --
those lasting at least 31 days --
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, DAILY REPORT, AUGUST 22, 2001:
RELEASED TODAY: In the second quarter of 2001, there were 1,911 mass
layoff actions by employers that resulted in the separation of 371,708
workers from their jobs for more than 30 days, according to preliminary
figures released
a. yes. saying there's no money left is a justification for spending
cuts and an obstacle to new spending or to progressive tax cuts.
b. no, Social Security is just fine, as long as Bush doesn't get a
chance to fix it.
c. no. Bush is not driving. He's in the car-seat, playing with his
I do not want to have to keep monitoring this thread. It is a bad time
for me. This sort of sarcasm has no please here. Please stop!!!
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 11:55:19AM -0700, Rakesh Bhandari wrote:
Ah so someone like Kabeer is a bourgeois hack like Friedman? Hmm. What do you
think
New approach from Turkey on its Central Asian policy
NEWS ANALYSIS
Ankara - Turkish Daily News- August 23, 2001
Turkey's policies towards the Caucasus and Central Asia were
widely discussed at Tuesday's National Security Council (MGK)
meeting
and reportedly council members agreed on starting a
Breaking patents -- things fall apart. You know your Yeats.
Today's WSJ carries another important story re the intellectual
property discussion -- and one which, among others, has put the topic
on the agenda in Jackson Hole.
That article was a joke. I particularly liked the
Boo boo alert:
If anything it's the other way around. The law determines the
economy
more than the economy determines the law.
===
I meant to say the law determines the economy more than economic
theory does and where economic theory contravenes legal doctrine so
much the worse for
[Very apropos on the WSJ piece and the future of IPR and labor
relations]
Robert L. Hale, Coercion and Distribution in a Supposedly
Non-Coercive State, 38 Political Science Quarterly (1923), 470-478.
And while the House of Peers withholds its legislative hand,
And noble statesman do not itch
Heh!
Michael Pugliese
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2001/2832toni_negri.html
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2001/2832glob_terror_intro.html
Teddy Goldsmith:
The `Jeremy Bentham'
Behind New Terrorism
George Soros: Oligarchy's
`Inside-Outside' Controller
Peoples' Global Action
Is
http://www.populist.com/01.16.sawicky.html
Defiant Brazil gives go-ahead for copies of anti-Aids drug
Special report: Aids
Alex Bellos in Rio de Janeiro and James Meikle
Friday August 24, 2001
The Guardian
Brazil has declared that it will allow generic copies of a brand-name
anti-Aids drug to be made without the permission of the
http://argument.independent.co.uk
Shopological
24 August 2001
Internal links
Shopping is bad for men, claims study
The purpose of academic research being to find out what we already
know, a BBC programme called Shopology has commissioned a study which
discovered that shopping is bad for men's
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/23/01 01:13PM
If , in fact, LTCM was not allowed to take the fall when its bet
failed , then it did not take a risk initially. Risk means that a
chance is taken of a negative outcome. If when the negative outcome
arises, the risktaker is not required to suffer the
Ian Murray wrote, in part:
=
It's the other way around; the intellectual and other types of
property rights in productive assets are a threat to the majority of
the world's peoples.
Ian
Good point. But it is both ways. Don't forget they are reacting to us.
Gene
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/23/01 04:23PM
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Democrats responded that the administration had squandered the surplus by
pushing through an irresponsibly large tax cut, putting the government into
such a squeeze that not only Democratic initiatives but Mr. Bush's own
agenda, including a big
Harry Cleaver responded to the earlier post about Negri.
Fun stuff,huh? The Larouchites have been tracking Negri et al for years.
These are the same people who argue that the Zapatistas are tools of the
House of Windsor in its attempts to bring down modern industrialism and
restore the glories
[Didn't the genome project come in lower than previous estimates?
Blast, can't find the number in Kauffman's book!]
Tally of Human Genes Challenged
Estimate May Be Higher Than Genome Project Predicted, Study Says
By Terence Chea
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, August 24, 2001; Page A10
[NYT]
AUG 24, 2001
Can Hacking Victims Be Held Legally Liable?
By CARL S. KAPLAN
Suppose, Margaret Jane Radin of Stanford Law School wrote recently,
that a Web site operated by a securities brokerage suffers a crippling
attack by hackers. The ability of its customers to conduct trades is
Actually Tom Streeter's last book had some nice things on BMI ASCAP and
royalties.
- Original Message -
From: Ann Li [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 1:01 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:16260] Re: Political Economy of Music
Jacques Attali's book NOISE: The
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