http://www.unctad.org/Templates/webflyer.asp?docid=4078intItemID=2505lang=1mode=highlights
The Report analyses the troubled state of the world economy and asks some key questions:
Do recent signs of recovery suggest the United States has now thrown off the legacies of earlier financial excess, or
Juriaan Bendien writes:
The car industry is a very important sector of the world economy, it's among
the most important consumer durables there is. I could practically
reconstruct the whole of modern capitalist culture, just through tracing all
the connections involving one motor car.
Leonard E. Read in David Shemano's link:
The lesson I have to teach is this: Leave all creative energies
uninhibited. Merely organize society to act in harmony with
this lesson. Let society's legal apparatus remove all obstacles
the best it can. Permit these creative know-hows freely to
On Friday, October 3, 2003 at 00:30:12 (-0700) Sabri Oncu writes:
Leonard E. Read in David Shemano's link:
The lesson I have to teach is this: Leave all creative energies
uninhibited. Merely organize society to act in harmony with
this lesson. Let society's legal apparatus remove all obstacles
On Thursday, October 2, 2003 at 22:02:11 (-0400) Kenneth Campbell writes:
...
I know you have spoken in this thread about preaching to the choir.
My guess is you are now doing a kind of anti-preaching to the choir?
(But what the hell do I know?)
Still, I don't think you can dismiss ephemeral
10/3/03
Hi Jim,
Below is an item from the 10/2/03 edition of the Financial Times that
relates to your query:
The parallels between the furore now engulfing the presidency of George W.
Bush, and the David Kelly affair that has soured the reputation of Tony
Blair, the British prime minister, are
Bush is finished -- it's time to plan ahead for a struggle against a
Democratic President in the White House who won't end the occupation
of Iraq (thirteen months is a shorter period of time than you think).
* New York Times October 3, 2003
Poll Shows Drop in Confidence on Bush Skill in
Is Bush really afraid of horses??
It's in the flash piece.
Mike B)
--- Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Watch Army of One at http://www.armyofone.info/.
=
*
--why do you slack your fighting-fury now? It's hard
The Good Lord Jesus is sitting on his donkey, riding to Golgotha. A crowd of
people stands by, cheering. All of a sudden, the donkey stops, and
stubbornly refuses to move on. A Roman soldier whips the donkey, to get the
donkey to move, and whips Jesus a bit for good measure, causing blood to
well
The latest issue of Against the Current has an article by Ellen Meiksins
Wood that makes many of the same points in her radio interview that I
commented on last week and which are developed at length in her new book
Empire of Capital.
Wood:
In capitalism, it's economic imperatives, the
Let Them East War
by?Arlie Hochschild
TomDispatch
October 02, 2003
(clip)
Until Nixon, Republicans had for a century written off the blue-collar
voter. But turning Marx on his head, Nixon appealed not to a desire for
real economic change but to the distress caused by the absence of it.
And it
--- Bill Lear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday, October 3, 2003 at 00:30:12 (-0700) Sabri
Oncu writes:
Leonard E. Read in David Shemano's link:
The lesson I have to teach is this: Leave all
creative energies
uninhibited. Merely organize society to act in
harmony with
this lesson.
Eastern union
Spurred on by an unravelling of the rules about tying the knot, people in
China are rushing to wed, writes Jonathan Watts
Friday October 3, 2003
If the Chinese media are to be believed, a great deal of jujubes will be
consumed this week. The Chinese dates, along with lotus seeds
Bush - dolt or ordinary criminal?
Of course, he's both!
Think dialectically,
Mike B)
=
*
--why do you slack your fighting-fury now? It's hard for me, strong as I am,
single-handed to breach the wall and cut a path to the
Jurriaan Bendien wrote:
Has anyone ever done a really comprehensive
quantitative world study of the
political economy of cars ?
Automobilization, if I remember correctly, was a central concern of
Baran Sweezy's _Monopoly Capitalism_. They offer that as the core
explanation for both the boom
Symposium to Commemorate the Life and Work of Edward W. Said (1935-2003)
Tuesday, October 7
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM: a screening of _The Shadow of the West_ (written
and narrated by Edward Said)
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM: a panel discussion on the life and work of Edward Said
Denney Hall, Room 311 (the Commons
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Bush is finished -- it's time to plan ahead for a struggle against a
Democratic President in the White House who won't end the occupation
of Iraq (thirteen months is a shorter period of time than you think).
to all of you discussing this issue, i have a simple
Even in the most liberal city in the US, the talk shows are right wing.
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:00:38AM -0400, ravi wrote:
btw, NJ is supposed to be a democrat state. (perhaps this should not be
surprising but) the air waves have been full of criticism, by talk show
hosts, of local hero
Jurriaan wrote:
Is anybody actually explaining thoroughly how it is possible to have a
jobless recovery at all ?
the standard macro explanation points to Okun's Law, which says that for the US,
real GDP has to increase at about 3 per cent per year simply to keep the
unemployment rate constant.
Bill Lear wrote:
These sound like tiny improvements, but they are STILL improvements.
Oh? And why do the body counts say the opposite? Jimmy Carter's smile
and peaceful rhetoric cloak a holy murderer.
[CLIPPED: Some incoherent passage from K.C. that I can't construe.]
Again, do the
Yoshie writes Bush is finished --
I don't think we should put that much faith in polls. Rove could figure out some way
to raise his
ward's popularity.
it's time to plan ahead for a struggle against a
Democratic President in the White House who won't end the occupation
of Iraq (thirteen months
somewhere, I read a column which posed three alternatives:
1. Bush is a fool.
2. Bush just doesn't care about the world or what's good for people.
3. Bush is a cynical manipulator.
the question posed was: does any of these alternatives make you sleep
better at night?
Of course, the Bush team
Jurriaan Bendien wrote:
Has anyone ever done a really comprehensive
quantitative world study of the
political economy of cars ?
Automobilization, if I remember correctly, was a central concern of
Baran Sweezy's _Monopoly Capitalism_. They offer that as the core
explanation for both
It seems to me that in previous years, I never heard of
Atlantic/Caribbean hurricanes or tropical storms whose names started
with letters as high as L. (Of course, the names follow alphabetical
order.) This year, I've heard of one whose name starts with N. Are
there more tropical storms this year
From: Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bush is finished -- it's time to plan ahead for a struggle against a
Democratic President in the White House who won't end the occupation
of Iraq (thirteen months is a shorter period of time than you think).
... Over all, the poll found, Americans are for
From: Mike Ballard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Only people with masochistic tendencies like being
freely smacked around by the invisible hand. Most
people instinctively put their hands up to protect
themselves ...
[Some, of course, are better positioned than others to blunt the blows :)
The following is
Hi Jim,
Thanks very much (I haven't gone outside yet, just reading your post).
the standard macro explanation points to Okun's Law, which says that for
the US,
real GDP has to increase at about 3 per cent per year simply to keep the
unemployment rate constant. This type of growth counteracts
I wrote:
the standard macro explanation points to Okun's Law,
which says that for the US,
real GDP has to increase at about 3 per cent per year
simply to keep the
unemployment rate constant. This type of growth counteracts the
[unemployment-raising] effects of an increased labor
[Federal Register: October 3, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 192)]
[Notices]
[Page 57503]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr03oc03-134]
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Outsourcing IT overseas a problem? Nah, we just need more education!
http://www.cio.com/archive/092203/reich.html
Fall/Winter 2003 Issue of CIO Magazine
Robert Reich
Jobless in America
I.T. EMPLOYMENT is down 20 percent since early 2001. Salaries are down too. In 2000,
senior software
Thanks to you all for all your input into this weighty discussion, I am a
little wheezy though, must quit smoking (how could Marx pack in all those
cigars ???).
Here's a quote from Freeman Louca, As Time Goes By (Oxford University
Press, p. 274:
B.H. Klein showed that in 1900, steam and
Hi Jim,
Or is unemployment not lower in NZ? If unemployment didn't fall, then
that contradicts
the orthodoxy.
Real unemployment is difficult for me to estimate momentarily, because of
the compilation of data and statistical presentation. For example, if you
just worked a few hours a week
I had a good friend who disappeared -- along with the plane, a WB 50 --
penetrating a hurricane for meteorolgy research.
And yesterday I got an e-mail from an alternative energy advocate who
wants to collect the wind energy in hurricanes to solve all our problems.
Gene
Devine, James wrote:
It
No intellectual property rights, no censorship vs. intellectual property
rights AND censorship.
Why do we end up with BOTH intellectual property rights AND censorship ?
Such are the mysteries of the rich in a capitalist, class-divided society
dependent on exploitation and expropriation.
J.
Mike Ballard wrote:
Bush - dolt or ordinary criminal?
Of course, he's both!
Think dialectically,
Mike B)
If Ellen Meiksins Wood's explanation of U.S. imperialism at the present
time is correct, then a dialectical explanation actually holds here:
there is an internal relation between the
Arnold has promised to put hydrogen refueling stations every twenty
miles along California freeways. And to take advantage of that, he's
converting his Hummer to fuel cell.
Gene
Jurriaan Bendien wrote:
Thanks to you all for all your input into this weighty discussion, I am a
little wheezy
An important item from
www.venezualanalysis.com,
the new English-language source of news and analysis from
Venezuela.
in
solidarity,
michael
--
Magazine's reputation seriously damaged
U.S. News World Report Spreads Disinformation about Chavez Government
We need them. Hurricanes clean out the pollution in estuaries. With more
pollution
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 08:54:49AM -0700, Devine, James wrote:
It seems to me that in previous years, I never heard of
Atlantic/Caribbean hurricanes or tropical storms whose names started
with letters
Cde Macdonald Stainsby draw my attention to this site:
http://www.bartcop.com/diebold.htm
The Boomtown Rats were formed in Dun Laoghaire, near Dublin, Ireland, in
1975 by a former journalist Bob Geldof (vocals - born 5 Oct. 1954), Johnnie
Fingers (keyboards - real name John Moylett, born 10,
Doug wrote:
One of the key areas for the disabled rights movement is cognitive issues. To be
clear when I use this term, cognitive, many disabled people do not use
it in broad context, but to mean a specific area of disability. Cognitive for me is
involvement of the brain in a disability.
Doug wrote:
One of the key areas for the disabled rights movement is
cognitive issues. To be clear when I use this term,
cognitive, many disabled people do not use
it in broad context, but to mean a specific area of
disability. Cognitive for me is involvement of the brain in
a
--- Carrol Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I find it rather depressing that anyone on the left
should offer any
defense of Carter whatever. After all, Carter bears
rather more
responsibility for the present war than Bush does.
Apparently it really
works to Smile and smile and be a villain.
Getting the rights to distribute Procter and Gamble products would be a gold mine,
said an unnamed partner at New Bridge Strategies (the lobbying firmed profiled in
yesterday's NY TIMES). One well-stocked 7-11 could knock out 30 Iraqi stores; a
WalMart could take over the country. -- Washington
The Thursday Wall Street Journal has a piece by none other than Arthur
Laffer, proving that California's progressive tax system is responsible
for all of the ills of the state.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Chico, CA 95929
correction: the date is 10/2/03, which is also the date for MS SLATE.
-Original Message-
From: Devine, James
Sent: Fri 10/3/2003 4:50 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc:
Subject: [PEN-L] quotation du jour
Getting
I haven't been reading more than a acattering of posts today, so I
haven't read any other posts with heading. But cognitive is, in
psychiatry, defined a bit more narrowly than Doug's definition.
Schizophrenia does directly impair cognitive functions of the brain,
while bipolar and unipolar are
http://www.wipo.org/
Press Release PR/2003/363
Geneva, October 1, 2003
2003 SESSION OF WIPO ASSEMBLIES CONCLUDE
The Assemblies of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
concluded on Wednesday following a review of activities over the past year
and agreement on the agenda of the
http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2099851
To this day, no one has come up with a set of rules for
originality. There aren't any. [Les Paul]
is there any truth to the rumor that the makers of Prozac are pumping up Arnold's
campaign in order to drum up business for their product?
At 8:33 AM -0700 10/3/03, Devine, James wrote:
Yoshie writes Bush is finished --
I don't think we should put that much faith in polls
The latest New York Times/CBS News poll (and trends in previous polls
about Iraq and economy) simply confirms my findings based upon
participant observation of
- Original Message -
From: Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Americans are losing jobs at home, and American soldiers are losing
lives and limbs in Iraq, and there is no way the Bush administration
can turn them around in thirteen months.
==
What did that guy Keynes
* Posted on Fri, Oct. 03, 2003
Republicans unsure of Bush's chances for 2004 election
By Ron Hutcheson and Steven Thomma
Knight Ridder Newspapers
CHUCK KENNEDY, KRT
President Bush speaks at the White House.
WASHINGTON - In a sharp reversal, Republicans who just months ago
daydreamed about a
Does October Surprise mean anything?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Positive emotions don't necessarily narrow people toward a specific action,
like negative emotions do. Positive emotions seem to broaden people's
repertoires of things they like to pursue. They broaden ways of thinking
beyond our regular baseline, and they accumulate. And that broadening allows
Gore eyes CBC-launched cable company Newsworld International
Barbara Shecter and Isabel Vincent
National Post
Oct 3 2003
In his quest to set up a new liberal-leaning broadcaster in the United
States, former U.S. vice-president Al Gore and a group of investors
could end up buying Newsworld
Drones May Be Allowed to Share U.S. Skies
By Renae Merle
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, October 4, 2003; Page E01
NASA launched a program this month budgeted at more than $100 million aimed at allowing
unmanned aircraft to share the skies with commercial airliners, bolstering what the
Great news! I have trouble sleeping sometimes. A Gore network would do
the trick.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I think that a snap-shot impression in political poll results says very
little, particularly as political variables are so much more prone to
volatility. Therefore, I think it is always important to look at the trend
in polling results over time, and consider what specific intervention would
--- Carrol Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mike Ballard wrote:
Bush - dolt or ordinary criminal?
Of course, he's both!
Think dialectically,
Mike B)
If Ellen Meiksins Wood's explanation of U.S.
imperialism at the present
time is correct, then a dialectical explanation
actually
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