At 09/09/01 23:01 -0500, Andrew Hagen wrote:
Raising the possibility of increasing global GDP would be a tempting
carrot to wave in front of the capitalist donkey. The global justice
movement has a wider agenda, however, not necessarily incompatible with
growth, but potentially forgettable when
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newslink/default.htm
Crisis talks aim to keep Ansett from
receivership
Frantic negotiations are underway on both sides of
the Tasman in a
bid to save Ansett
A wonderful example of how privatised companies (Air New Zealand) are run so
much better than state-owned ones and are no longer a drain on the state ...
Bill
Rob Schaap wrote:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newslink/default.htm
Crisis talks aim to keep Ansett from
AFP. 8 September 2001. Poles set to hand electoral humiliation to a
divided Solidarity.
WARSAW -- A dozen years after it toppled communism, Poland's Solidarity
is set for a colossal defeat in elections later this month which could
see it disintegrate as a political movement.
When Poles vote on
Jim Devine wrote:
you can see from the above that the unemployment rate jumped the
most for the least elite segments of the labor force, i.e., those
who are typically paid less (and have less job security). That fits
with what I said.
Over the last 6 months, the ranks of the unemployed in
From the Washington State Labor Council 2001 Convention August 23-25:
* CALL FOR AFL-CIO TO COME CLEAN ABOUT FOREIGN RELATIONS ACTIVITIES
Resolution #11
WHEREAS, the impact of economic globalization on American working
families and workers everywhere is causing more job dislocation,
Bill Rosenberg wrote,
A wonderful example of how privatised companies (Air New Zealand) are run so
much better than state-owned ones and are no longer a drain on the state ...
Good news (for me). These days I specialize in consulting on seniority
integration for the labour unions at merged
ECONOMIC NOTES
NEWS AND ANALYSIS FROM THE LABOR RESEARCH ASSOCIATION
http://www.LaborResearch.org
Sep. 09, 2001
Unions Have the Resources for Growth in Major Metropolitan Areas (Sep. 9,
2001)
As U.S. labor unions confront the challenge of renewing strength in the
face of declining union
Doug writes:
Over the last 6 months, the ranks of the unemployed in the U.S. have grown
by about 1 million - next to 134 million employed (according to the
household survey). Retail employment has grown, as has service employment
in general (according to the establishment survey), and they're
Thanks, Chris Burford and Andrew Hagen, for your
interest in my posting. It
is nice to get some support from highly esteemed comrades.
The brand name issue - I agree that global Keynesianism is as little
satisfactory as a brand
name as most other names for this kind of thing. There is a
Thanks, Professors(?) Activists(?) Citizens Burford and Hagen, for your
interest in my posting. It
is nice to get some support from highly esteemed comrades.
The brand name issue - I agree that global Keynesianism is as little
satisfactory as a brand
name as most other names for this kind of
I wrote:
The way in which US individual, external,and (to a lesser extent)
corporate indebtedness were increasing -- the Three Bears attacking the
Goldilocks economy -- suggests that the boom was unsustainable. (Godley
Izureta's (sp?) view is similar.) That in turn suggests that Alan the
[Was The Queer will be Dethroned]
Chris Burford writes:
http://www.merepseud.mcmail.com/Queer.htm
An interesting clip, but Michael [Pugliese] gave no introduction.
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MK: Yes, it would be helpful to know the purpose of this.
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Despite the title, I do not think this has anything to
One Black woman asserted, The U.S.
withdrawal is the first principled thing that the U.S. has
done. There is a profound conflict of interest in that the
U.S. is the main source of world racism. How can it come and
try to impose its will on a world conference against
racism?
September 6, 2001
from SLATE, 9/10/01:
USA [TODAY] ... leads ... with a story nobody else fronts: A University of
Pennsylvania study out today estimating that about 325,000 U.S. children
17 or under are being sexually exploited--mostly as prostitutes or
pornographic subjects--far many more than the experts
An interesting clip, but Michael [Pugliese] gave no introduction.
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MK: Yes, it would be helpful to know the purpose of this.
One of my bad habits when there is too much e-mail to deal with but, I
want to tell y'all of some interesting nibblet on the net. The title/subject
line, was a
Not impossible, but I would wait for some info on methodology and sample
size before accepting this as fact...
Jim Devine wrote:
from SLATE, 9/10/01:
USA [TODAY] ... leads ... with a story nobody else fronts: A University of
Pennsylvania study out today estimating that about 325,000 U.S.
Dear Colleagues,
We have a job opening at Bucknell. Here is the job description that
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I tend to very suspicious of this sort thing, after the McMartin fiasco
and so on. Not that there is not a great deal of child abuse, and not
that it is not horrible and worthy of being fought. But exaggerating
the extent of it seems to be a basis for a lot of destruction of Civil
liberties.
The National Lawyers Guild Middle East Report, The Al Aqsa Intifida
and Israel's Apartheid: The U.S. Military and Economic Role in the
Violation of Palestinian Human Rights, available at
http://www.nlg.org/committees/International/middle_east_delegation_report.htm.
Yoshie
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2001:
Startling analysts with its steep climb, the nation's civilian
unemployment rate rose by 0.4 percentage point to 4.9 percent in August,
according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It was the
highest
Consider the evidence...
Gary Hamel of Harvard Business School and Strategos, guru of enterprise
in the electronic era, was emphasising this week on BBC Radio 4's In
Business programme how the electronic revolution will not protect companies
that did not show expertise.
He strikingly argued
The BLS wrote:
The number of unemployed persons increased by more than half a million
to nearly 7 million in August. The unemployment rate rose by 0.4
percentage
point to 4.9 percent, seasonally adjusted, the highest level since
September
1997. The jobless rate had been about 4.5 percent since
The Weekly [Double] StandardSeptember 17, 2001/Vol 7, Number 1
First, Kill All the EconomistsOr at least ignore them. Their forecasts are almost
always wrong.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/magazine/mag_7_1_01/moore_art_7_1_01.asp
-Original Message-
From: Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Monday, September 10, 2001 6:25 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:16919] economic forecasting
The Weekly [Double] Standard
Stephen Moore, the author, might be correct, but he is also the economist
from the Cato Foundation who appears most frequently in the media.
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 07:11:42PM -0700, Michael Pugliese wrote:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/magazine/mag_7_1_01/moore_art_7_1_01.asp
-Original
I don't understand why more of the article didn't get through. I sent
several paragraphs, editing out the silly parts (where he cites his friends
as true geniuses at understanding the economy). The edited version was
funny. I especially like the part about how the forecasters said the
economy
Hi
Perhaps we can discuss the Global Communist Group's programme. Surely somone on
the list has bothered to read and has a some view on it.
Karl
To read or download our global communist programme click the following:
http://homepage.eircom.net/~beprepared/FIST%20Programme.htm
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