http://www.iht.com/articles/25811.htm
Apart from the forex department of transnational corporations, there is
probably no readership more interested in the future direction of
international exchange rates than that of the International Herald Tribune.
This article above,
Traders Find Little
(Thanks to Alan Bradley on the Marxism list for the following.)
The following article appears in the current issue of Green Left Weekly
(http://www.greenleft.org.au/):
Who gains most from New Timor gap treaty?
On July 5, representatives of the East Timor Transitional Cabinet, the
United
Penners
The Guardian newspaper has played a key role in the defeat of the
Conservative Party, bringing down a succession of government ministers
during the Major era and apparently continuing the good work with its
strangely timely exposure of Michael Portillo's financial dealings. The
New hospital with too few beds 'grossly inadequate'
Sarah Boseley, health editor
Thursday July 12, 2001
The Guardian
A new NHS hospital, built with private finance at a cost of £76m, is 54 beds
short of the number it needs just 14 weeks after it
opened, it emerged yesterday.
North Durham
Penners
This is a curious development. Previously I forwarded the list another
article by this author on this topic which yielded information which, for
the most part, is simply repeated again in the following article, with a few
additional interesting snippets (see
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Rob Schaap wrote:
Might Dubya's backflip be explained in terms of a contradiction
between use value and exchange value? I mean, it looks like Western
Europe (and poor ol' desertified Oz) will suffer far worse than most
of the USA. Sure, the USA will suffer. The whole
Tom Walker wrote:
Doug Henwood wrote,
remember, the U.S. economy has expanded for about 75% of
the time since the end of WW II
That sounds like an underestimate to me. All I've got handy is annual GDP
figures for Canada, 1962-99. They show 3 years out of 38 contracting.
Assuming those 3
Sam Pawlett [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
How are they [poor countries as they develop] to pay for it [limiting
environmental damage]? World Bank loans? I try not to assume anything,
but it's safe to say that LDC countries will follow the path of least
resistance (i.e. the cheapest) towards
Rich countries reduce pollution, in part, by exporting it to poor
countries.
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:44:00AM -0400, Julio Huato wrote:
Sam Pawlett [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
How are they [poor countries as they develop] to pay for it [limiting
environmental damage]? World Bank loans? I try not
Julio Huato wrote:
IMO, the main obstacle to the development of capitalism in the Third
World is not imperialism.
What is?
Doug
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/10/01 05:20PM
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/10/01 03:57PM
CB: Can't one just heat it and let it evaporate ?
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 02:13:10PM -0400, Charles Brown wrote:
=
What will you do to trap the toxic chemicals from diffusing into the
atmosphere
CB: Can't one just heat it and let it evaporate ?
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 02:13:10PM -0400, Charles Brown wrote:
=
What will you do to trap the toxic chemicals from diffusing into
the
atmosphere [atmofractal :-)] and killing people?
CB: Filter the steam ?
Oh, I see ( :)) . How'd the current hydrogen and oxygen atoms that comprise water
get together ?
CB
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/10/01 06:05PM
CB: I didn't know about the chemically bonding contamination. How
much is contaminated ? Sounds like a small percentage .
How about taking a bunch of
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/10/01 06:03PM
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Now, if we
can only figure out what to do with the salt...
tim
(
CB: Maybe it will be the basis for a new kind of computer chip.
Oh, I see ( :)) . How'd the current hydrogen and oxygen atoms
that comprise water get together ?
CB
=
The Ein Sof playing with 'it' 'self'.
In the beginning, God blew himself into a bazillion pieces in order
to have some friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good and is
- Original Message -
From: Charles Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 9:33 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:15040] oil predictions
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/10/01 06:03PM
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Now, if we
can only figure out what to do with the salt...
tim
The following briefing.com piece is hilarious for the way that it tries to
find an 'optimistic' rationale for a market play whose most likely
explanation can be found at the end of the third paragraph:
12:00PM: Up until last night, the market was reeling from the thought that
the
Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Rich countries reduce pollution, in part, by exporting it to poor
countries.
If Third World countries get to grow, they are likely to be in a position to
limit or negotiate this in better terms.
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, DAILY REPORT, JULY 12, 2001:
RELEASED TODAY: The U.S. Import Price Index decreased 0.5 percent in
June, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The decline, the
fourth in the past 5 months, was attributable to falling prices for both
petroleum and
Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Julio Huato wrote:
IMO, the main obstacle to the development of capitalism in the Third
World is not imperialism.
What is?
Doug
To state it in general may not be particularly helpful. But here it goes.
In my opinion, the main obstacle to the development of
This sounds like the articulation of modes of production
approach reviewed back in the late 70's in NLR by Aidan-Foster-Carter.
Another part of what Julio says sounds like to me like the Peruvian
economist touted by Mario Vargas Llosa, and the late Richard
Milhous Nixon, whose name I'm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/10/01 05:19PM
((
CB: I didn't know about the chemically bonding contamination. How
much is contaminated ? Sounds like a small percentage .
How about taking a bunch of hydrogen and oxygen and combining it to
make new water ?
===
That's where the Star
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/11/01 05:34PM
- remember, the U.S. economy has expanded for about 75% of
the time since the end of WW II, though you'd never know that by
reading PEN-L -
CB: What percentage of the time before WWII did the U.S. economy expand ?
The New York Times Magazine had a lengthy article about Hernando de Soto on
July 1:
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/01/magazine/01DESOTO.html?pagewanted=all
What is especially interesting is that he is apparently catching on in
various places: Aristide in Haiti and Mubarak in Egypt, among
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/images/swas/bigmelt.jpg
KEWL!!!
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast11jul_1.htm?list52322
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2001/07/11/nati
onal1701EDT0695.DTL
- Original Message -
From: Charles Brown [EMAIL
michael pugliese [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
This sounds like the articulation of modes of production
approach reviewed back in the late 70's in NLR by Aidan-Foster-Carter.
Another part of what Julio says sounds like to me like the Peruvian
economist touted by Mario Vargas Llosa, and the late Richard
At 12/07/01 11:58 +0300, you wrote:
Penners
This is a curious development. Previously I forwarded the list another
article by this author on this topic which yielded information which, for
the most part, is simply repeated again in the following article, with a few
additional interesting
IHT Thursday
Canada is so worried that rioters could wreck a summit of world leaders in
Ottawa next year that it is debating whether to move the event to a more
remote site in the west of the country, senior diplomatic sources said on
Wednesday.
In 2002 Canada will hold the presidency of the
At 10/07/01 16:21 +0300, you wrote:
Forwarded from Louis Proyect:
Hardt-Negri's Empire: a Marxist critique, part 4
(conclusion)
Thanks to Michael Keaney for forwarding the fourth and last part of this
critique by Louis Proyect, which I would now like to comment on. The
critique is clearly
If I didn't know you better, Doug, I'd have guessed the So let me see if
I've got this right gambit is a holdover from your adolescent right-wing
Yale period. You can take the boy out of the Buckley, but you can't take the
Buckley out of the boy. Jez kiddin'.
No, of course you don't have it
Paging Dr. Schaap, paging Dr. Schaap . . .
What's your take on the MerValous paroxysm at NASDAQ? The scent of death
sure gets the vultures aflutter, eh?
Tom Walker
Bowen Island, BC
604 947 2213
I knew I should have phrased that differently! Just the bit about, (2)
'superstructural' constraints,
such as laws, lack thereof, etcweak legal systems, corruption, etc. in
the poor countries... made me think of the de Soto. (Not the auto from the
50's!)
It's deja vu all over again (only this time it's going to be different):
Even bad news couldn't shake the market. Investors looked past a U.S.
government report that the number of Americans lining up to receive
first-time unemployment benefits last week reached its highest level since
1992.
Michael Pugliese [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I knew I should have phrased that differently!
No. It's fair, Michael. And thank you for all the URLs. I have heard of
de Soto before. Louis Proyect already honored me by associating me with
him. But I haven't read him directly. Now I should.
Tom Walker wrote:
You tell me it's a big recession
Well at least it'll reduce the workweek.
Doug
Greetings Economists,
Everyone will laugh at you on C-Span
thanks,
Doyle Saylor
Greetings Economists,
In the disabled community the new XP operating system
Microsoft will introduce in October has been generating disability access
issues very strongly. Here is a forward from Vicug Visually Impaired
Computer User Group raising the issue of disabled access to the new OS XP.
charles asked:
How about taking a bunch of hydrogen and oxygen and combining it to
make new water ?
to which ian replied:
That's where the Star Trek technology comes in. You'd need a quantum
computer capable of synthesizing probability amplitudes from the
Planck scale; it's not even
In reply to Jim Devine:
Instead of engaging in a specific point-counter-point, let me make a series
of comments and ask a couple of questions that are generally responsive to
your statements.
1. What is the evidence that the gold standard had anything to do with the
economic contraction in
Another critique of same, forwarded from Thomas
Seay via a list that has focused on "Empire", If I am not mistaken. One list, of
the 115, I'm not on! ;-)
Michael Pugliese
--- Erik Empson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: "Erik Empson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:
Mon, 9
David, I am not sure that anybody but you and Jim are following this
discussion. What you claim would be largely orrect in a world without
any credit whatsoever. Anyway, if this is not of general interest, maybe
it could continue with you an Jim offlist?
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 06:59:44PM
Doyle Saylor wrote,
Everyone will laugh at you on C-Span
Nice try, but its a stretch.
Doug Henwood wrote,
Well at least it'll reduce the workweek.
That doesn't even rhyme. Think, Doug: beancan? meanman? steamfan? cleanscan?
And here I thought you were an English major. On second thought
G'day Tom,
Paging Dr. Schaap, paging Dr. Schaap . . .
I'm sure Doug has me down as the anesthetist ...
What's your take on the MerValous paroxysm at NASDAQ? The scent of
death sure gets the vultures aflutter, eh?
The Lesser Speckled Argentinian Vulture is remarkable for its habit of
Mark Jones sees the coming crisis as based upon lack of oil caused not just
by limited reserves but alos a capital shortage so great as to hinder
development of those reserves because of an accumulation crisis. In the
background there seems to be the assumption that somehow Liebig's law of the
www.antiwar.com is routing y'all to Defense Systems Daily for Stratfor.
http://defence-data.com/current/page11556.htm
Michael Pugliese
You say you want an intervention
Well you know
We all want to change the rate
You tell me it's a big recession
Well you know
We all want to change the rate
But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Greenspan . . .
Well Canute couldn't do it and I doubt he can
Don't you know there's
Greetings Critical Economists,
Buenos Aires defaults yo spam.
? I win if I am the only entry!
Doyle Saylor
Michael:
I don't thnk it should be pushed off list, but if it is, I'd like to be included.
Joel Blau
Michael Perelman wrote:
David, I am not sure that anybody but you and Jim are following this
discussion. What you claim would be largely orrect in a world without
any credit whatsoever.
Tom Walker wrote:
Doug Henwood wrote,
Well at least it'll reduce the workweek.
That doesn't even rhyme. Think, Doug: beancan? meanman? steamfan? cleanscan?
And here I thought you were an English major. On second thought maybe that
explains it.
Rhyme is so 18th century. Pope saw capitalism
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Michael Perelman wrote:
David, I am not sure that anybody but you and Jim are following this
discussion.
Actually I'm enjoying Jim's responses a lot.
Michael
__
Michael PollakNew
Doyle Saylor asked:
? I win if I am the only entry!
Too late, Doyle. Rob put in a contender. And we still haven't heard from Jim
three bears Devine and Max the tax Sawicky.
Tom Walker
Bowen Island, BC
604 947 2213
Rob Schaap wrote,
It'll wear off by lunchtime, and it'll hurt all the more then.
Was that lunch Tokyo time?
Tokyo stocks open mixed after Nasdaq surge
Tokyo stocks falter by midday, buck U.S. surge
Tom Walker
Bowen Island, BC
604 947 2213
You say you want an intervention
Well you know
We all want to change the rate
You tell me it's a big recession
Well you know
We all want to change the rate
But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Greenspan . . .
[Pen-l contest: complete the last line here, what rhymes with Greenspan,
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