On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Reuters was cited as saying:
> http://onebusiness.nzoom.com/onebusiness_detail/0,1245,207855-3-169,00.html
> "US backing for untouchable allies"
>
> In the depths of Argentina's financial crisis in 2001, US economist
> David Hale suggested Buenos Aires would get Washington to
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/29/politics/29TERR.html
Both Pacifica News and the New York Times have stories about using the
futures market to predict terrorist activities. I find the story
fascinating in one respect. Futures markets should predict future
activities given certain assumptions, in
Wolfowitz is just making an official justification for what has been a
long-standing practice of US occupiers. The cases of bombing in Afghansitan
based on "murky" data are legion. Afterwards the typical response is to
report that the bombing is being investigated even after it is clear that
innoce
washingtonpost.com
FEDERAL CONTRACTS
States News Service
Monday, July 28, 2003; Page E09
Indyne Inc. of McLean won a $429.8 million contract from the Air Force for
western range operations communications and information.
Anteon International Corp. of Fairfax won a contract valued at up to $50
mi
[New York Times]
July 29, 2003
A Warning Shot to Banks on Role in Others' Fraud
By FLOYD NORRIS
Enron lied to investors about its financial condition, but it could not
have done so without active help from its friendly bankers. And that help
constituted fraud.
That was the conclusion reached by
Jet lag for Boeing but Airbus orders pour in
David Gow
Tuesday July 29, 2003
The Guardian
Airbus, the European plane-maker, yesterday outshone its US rival, Boeing,
by announcing 600 orders for the next two years in an upbeat assessment of
the aviation market.
Rainer Hertrich, co-chief executive
18% of Workers in Study Lost Jobs
The university survey of 1,015 working-age adults covers 2000-03. Many who
were laid off didn't get any jobless benefits.
>From Associated Press
July 28, 2003
TRENTON, N.J. - Two-thirds of workers laid off in the last three years
received no severance package or
In a message dated 7/28/03 3:24:35 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Communities can engage thousands of skilled labourers while even the biggest multinational company can hardly afford to pay more than a few hundred developers. However, this touches on something else that I beli
In the armed forces, they teach you to handle a gun, and identify your
target carefully, before taking aim and shooting, but now Wolfowitz has a
new idea...
Posted on Mon, Jul. 28, 2003
Wolfowitz: U.S. Must Act on 'Murky' Info
WILLIAM C. MANN
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon's second-r
The primary aim for business is certainly to tap into cheap programming labour. This is sometimes even recognised by the chief priest of open-source, Eric Raymond, but in his words phrased as a positive feature. On why open source (and the more radically minded 'free software') will out-compete c
My brief look at mortgage borrowing in the U.S.:
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles7/Sandronsky_Mortgage.htm
Seth Sandronsky
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July 27, 2003/New York TIMES
It Looked Good on Paper
By DANIEL ALTMAN
IN a flash of intuition, Michael J. Boskin had found a silver bullet. Or
so it seemed.
About six months ago, Professor Boskin, an economist at Stanford who was
chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under the first Presi
There is an interesting exchange on the In These Times website between
Ian Williams, a Nation Magazine contributor who backed war with
Yugoslavia but not in Iraq, and John R. MacArthur, the publisher of the
excellent Harpers Magazine. For obvious reasons, I don't want to waste
bandwidth with Wi
Matthew J. Mancini. One Dies, Get Another: Convict Leasing in the
American South, 1866-1928. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina
Press, 1996. xi + 283 pp. Index, Bibliography. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN
1-57003-083-9.
Reviewed by Garland Brinkley, Department of Economics, School of Public
Health
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From: "nomi prins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 11:36 AM
Subject: [PEN-L] The Guardian - Energy's Moribund Tendencies
> Some of my current thoughts on the deteriorating state of the US energy
> sector - in today's Guardian.
>
Some of my current thoughts on the deteriorating state of
the US energy
sector - in today's Guardian.
Comments most welcome. And thanks to Eugene.
Nomi
Journal of Agrarian Change, Vol. 3 No. 3, July 2003
Plantation Slavery and Economic Development in the Antebellum Southern
United States
by CHARLES POST
By contrast, capitalists can reduce the size of their labour force to
adapt new, labour-saving machinery in response to changing competitive
I have seen good articles in Z and in Dollars and Sense (and The
Ecologist) on this in the past; though they were not elaborate empirical
studies, they referred to real world cases and problems. Mat
On Monday, July 28, 2003 at 10:09:44 (-0400) Anders Schneiderman writes:
>Does anybody know where I can find empirical analysis by progressives of emissions
>trading? This weekend, I got into an argument with a conservative about sustainable
>development. When I went to check a number of progre
It's terribly controversial, of course, with many good greens supporting it
as a means to implement Kyoto. The worst aspects must be the Clean
Development Mechanism projects in places like Brazil, Thailand and here in
South Africa. I spent a week in Oxford recently with comrades Rising Tide,
Carbon
Jim,
This may help:
"Any cognitive scientist who seeks to describe the conservative and liberal
worldviews is constrained by at least two adequacy conditions. First, the
worldviews must makle the collection of political stands on each side into
two natural categories. For example, the liberal wor
what is a "conservative" anyway? it seems very subjective. aren't environmentalists
"conservatives" because they want to conserve the earth? arent't
democratically-oriented Marxists "conservatives" because they want to conserve
humanity in the face of the capitalist juggernaut?
how about if w
JOB(03)/150 18 July 2003
Preparations for the Fifth Session of the Ministerial Conference
Draft Cancún Ministerial Text
The attached Draft Ministerial Text is being circulated by the Chairman
of the General Council on his own responsibility, in close cooperation with
the Director-General. It is
Does anybody know where I can find empirical analysis by progressives of emissions
trading? This weekend, I got into an argument with a conservative about sustainable
development. When I went to check a number of progressive enviro web sites, I was
surprised to find that I was having trouble f
On Monday, July 28, 2003 at 09:58:39 (-0400) Anders Schneiderman writes:
>...
>I think where the issue of lowering labor costs is going to become a big issue is in
>the new surge of outsourcing. Open source development projects have gotten very good
>at having volunteers from around the globe wo
Can you say a bit more? What kind of measures, and why do you think they've been
useless?
Thanks,
Anders
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/28/03 03:03AM >>>
UK has a stack-load of measures of this sort, without
obvious effect.
dd
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 13:49:46 -0400, "Max B. Sawicky"
wrote:
>
> Yes b
If you look at the history of open source, I think that it would be hard to argue that
it took off because of an effort to lower costs of white-collar programmers. Most
open source software and software development made its way through the back door,
pushed by system administrators and programm
Well, yes, it is a comprehensive subject, you can do a solid, thoughtful
course in it at Glasgow University (see
http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/courses/law/veitch.shtml). The question is what
sort of juridical structure would actually deliver genuine justice in an
efficient way (i.e. jurisprudential prin
I sent an announcement of the following action planning meeting of
the Columbus branch of Solidarity to local activist listservs. If
any Midwestern comrades have some free time (especially if you live
in a small town and don't have any socialist/anti-capitalist comrades
nearby), please stop by:
Su
BRUSSELS, July 23 (AFP) - The European Commission foresees Germany's deficit
"hitting four percent of GDP" this year, in breach of EU rules, and France's
"heading towards" that level, according to a document obtained Wednesday by
AFX News, AFP's financial news subsidiary. In a briefing note for the
UK has a stack-load of measures of this sort, without
obvious effect.
dd
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 13:49:46 -0400, "Max B. Sawicky"
wrote:
>
> Yes but I forget who. Somewhere I have a stack of
> papers
> from a conference on this.
>
> Capital gains rates, among other complexities, reflect
> this pu
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 10:36:29 -0700, Michael Perelman
wrote:
>
> The US approved of the Argentinian peg and disapproves
> of the Chinese peg.
> Does anyonc sense a policy of expediency?
>
Not only that, but according to this morning's FT,
Greenspan said that "China cannot go on accumulating
ever m
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