Re: pen-l archives

2004-01-03 Thread Mike Ballard
Danke, Hans! Mike B) = Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) http://profiles.yahoo.com/swillsqueal __ Do you

Re: Mad Cows and the Market

2004-01-03 Thread Seth Sandronsky
Jan. 3 Hi Mike, Thanks for the thanks. Peace, Seth Re: Mad Cows and the Market by Mike Ballard 31 December 2003 --- Seth Sandronsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mad Cows and the Market By SETH SANDRONSKY http://www.counterpunch.org/sandronsky12272003.html Nice one Seth! I especially appreciated

USA: overtime pay redux

2004-01-03 Thread Seth Sandronsky
Published on Saturday, December 20, 2003 by CommonDreams.org Seizing Saddam, Deregulating Americans by Seth Sandronsky In America's big media, the seizure of Saddam Hussein has been spun in step with the Bush White House as a kind of domestic proof for the war on terror, and Iraq invasion and

Re: [political] industrial ecology

2004-01-03 Thread dmschanoes
Brings to mind an interesting (perhaps) true life story. In the mid 1970s, when I was just a lad working for the Illinois Central Gulf RR in Chicago, the Chicago Sanitary Sewage District and the ICG participated in the development of a sludge train service, where processed sewage would be loaded

Re: USA: overtime pay redux

2004-01-03 Thread Eubulides
The latest issue of Business Week has a letter from Elaine Chao asserting that EPI's estimate of 8 million workers losing OT has been discredited. Does anyone have the skinny on this issue? Max, are you out there? Ian

Al-Jazeera sacks another English journalist

2004-01-03 Thread Brian McKenna
Al-Jazeera sacks another English journalist http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/story788.shtml Posted: 2 January 2004  By: Jemima Kiss mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Former BBC journalist Shaista Aziz has become the second UK journalist to be sacked by Al-Jazeera.net in two months. Ms Aziz was an

Re: Al-Jazeera sacks another English journalist

2004-01-03 Thread k hanly
Al Jazeera has apparently bowed to US demands already. I guess when your facilities get bombed in Kabul and when you lose journalists and your station in Baghdad you get the message. They must be trusting souls to provide the US military with the co-ordinates of their Baghdad site. I

South Asia free-trade zone

2004-01-03 Thread Eubulides
South Asia Nations Move Toward Free-Trade Zone By Nirmala George Associated Press Saturday, January 3, 2004; Page E01 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 2 -- The impoverished nations of South Asia agreed Friday on the framework for a free-trade zone that would encompass one-fifth of the world's

Re: USA: overtime pay redux

2004-01-03 Thread Michael Perelman
Max says that he does not know. I will try to remember to ask at the EPI reception tomorrow. On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 12:44:57PM -0800, Eubulides wrote: The latest issue of Business Week has a letter from Elaine Chao asserting that EPI's estimate of 8 million workers losing OT has been