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Hmmm.
Yea, there is a lot of superficial truth in this account, at least as
relative to Canada. But there is also a lot of overgeneralization
and obfuscation in this account also.
There is also a lot of superficial truth in his overview of Australian
economic
Correction: this was the topic I intended for my last post, which went put
under The Collapse of Argentina, part one.
Here is a bit of background on the situation in Australia and how Wackenhut
got to run the camps. I can't find very much info. on the Danish company
that acquired Wackenhut , but it must have been a sweet deal for the
Wackenhuts. I know that Wackenhut was tied up with IT Group (25% owned by
And here is info. about the Australia-related case Wackenhut now finds
itself in. It also has cases in the US against it about all sorts of
misdeeds at the US prisons it helps run.
http://asia.news.yahoo.com/020305/reuters/asia-93037.html
AFP ยท Reuters
Tuesday March 5, 6:55 PM
Lawyers to
And here is a piece from the CPA. You'll be glad to know that Wackenhut has
some solid competitors, too.
http://www.cpa.org.au/garchve3/1025pris.html
The Guardian November 15, 2000
Prisons, profits and Governor George W Bush
by Tim WheelerEditor, People's Weekly World
Longhorn cows. Oil.
Grant Lee:
Briefly: before 1901 the six current States were highly autonomous and
mutually competitive, although nominally British-controlled Colonies. Before
Federation , railways were actually a strong means of protection for the
bourgeoisies of the five mainland Colonies, who made sure that
The Financial Express
Thursday, April 11, 2002
Retail Business Bright Spot For Indonesian Banks
Jakarta, April 10: Indonesia's bruised and battered banks are likely to
experience consolidation and more foreign ownership in the years to come,
while retail and consumer banking will brighten an
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 2002:
RELEASED TODAY: The U.S. Import Price Index increased 1.1 percent in March,
the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. The increase, the largest since
September 2000, was attributable to a large jump in petroleum prices. The
In other words, a ruling class based in domestic finance capital emerged in
Canada (and Australia), and these coutnries became imperialist economies;
this did not occur in Argentina. In the case of Canada this is easier to
see if Armstrong's overstress on staples relative to the development of
South African women chain themselves to UN office
PSC Media Release
10/4/2002
Women chain themselves to UN offices in protest at UN inaction in
Palestine
As women in South Africa we cannot bear to watch - minute after
minute, hour after hour, day after day, week after week - as women and
comment: this is not tragic. Instead, it seems very clear that the Sharon
government's goal is to drive many of the cockroaches out of the occupied
territories by permanently impoverishing their political economy. This would
set the stage for a full-scale cleansing or what's been called transfer.
[I've been wondering about this since I was a freshman in college]
We must recognize that the so-called invisible hand of Adam Smith was Enron and their
fellow
gougers picking the pockets of Californians to the tune of billions of dollars, Mr.
Freeman said.
gee, why didn't the IMF apply sanctions and force these states to cut their
budget deficits by slashing non-essential (i.e., non-debt-service)
expenditure?
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
The big push for British financial investment in Latin
America came
And ended in or around 1890, when the Argentine government defaulted on its
bonds and caused the First Baring Crisis. NB that around this period, I
disagree that British were very much in the business of sending gunboats to
enforce private debts; Sir John Simon issued the circular announcing
from BUSINESS WEEK:
A Bigger Tax Bite in the '90s?
According to the Tax Foundation, the tax burden of the top 25% of federal
income taxpayers [in the U.S.] grew appreciably in the 1990s, from 77.2% of
total taxes collected in 1989 to 83.5% in 1999, while their average tax rate
climbed by 2.4
At 04:44 PM 4/12/2002 +0100, you wrote:
And ended in or around 1890, when the Argentine government defaulted on its
bonds and caused the First Baring Crisis. NB that around this period, I
disagree that British were very much in the business of sending gunboats to
enforce private debts; Sir John
CB: There first dictionary defintion you gave, which did not
mention private corporate bureaucracy ( you had to add it) is
an accurate representation of the conventional usage of
bureaucracy. Even the COMPTON passage is much heavier on
the government than the private socalled
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, DAILY REPORT, FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 2002:
RELEASED TODAY: The Producer Price Index for Finished Goods advanced 1.0
percent in March, seasonally adjusted, the Bureau of Labor Statistics
reports. This increase followed a 0.2 percent increase in February and a
0.1 percent
Calls begin for war crimes trial for Israelis
By Nicholas Kralev
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Palestinian sympathizers in Europe and the Arab world called yesterday
for the Israeli government to be investigated for war crimes, raising the
prospect that leaders of the Jewish state could be among
Was the union rank and file opposed to Chavez or just the union heads?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Seth: Looks like primitive accumulation to me, Jim.
smashing that other infrastructure
by Devine, James
12 April 2002 15:32 Thread Index
comment: this is not tragic. Instead, it seems very clear that the Sharon
government's goal is to drive many of the cockroaches out of the occupied
HindustanTimes.com
Toshiba says plans new plant in China
Reuters
Tokyo, April 11
Electronics conglomerate Toshiba Corp said on Thursday it was considering
building a new production plant in Shanghai, aiming at cutting costs as well
as boosting sales in the fast-growing China market.
The Daily
I have just attended a lecture by Israeli peace
activist Michel Warshawvski, and he did mention a
parallel with the Warsaw ghetto...
--- Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In today's GUARDIAN (U.K.), Seumas Milne likens the
Israeli
occupation/destruction of Jenin and other places in
the
Friends,
Please take a look at the address below,
http://www.cfr.org/public/resource.cgi?meet!2746
and tell me anything you know about this stress testing story.
There is a book out on this but I have not seen it yet. The book
information is below. Also, there is a related interesting
article
http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/arg01.htm
From Revolutionary History, Volume 2, No 2, Summer 1989. Used by permission.
Please spread the word far and wide and call your foreign ministry or the
U.S. State Department and tell them not to recognize the new government of
Venezuela. Chavez has not resigned! According to people I spoke to this
morning, who work close to Chavez, he is being held against his will by the
The big push for British financial investment in Latin America came after the
early 1840s, when a number of states in the U.S. defaulted on their British
bonds, which have never been repaid.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chico, CA 95929
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