[PEN-L] Dog bites man

2005-06-03 Thread Louis Proyect
NY Times, June 3, 2005 Bush S.E.C. Pick Is Seen as Friend to Corporations By STEPHEN LABATON WASHINGTON, June 2 - In Republican and business circles, William H. Donaldson has been viewed as the David Souter of the Securities and Exchange Commission, a disappointingly independent choice who sided

Re: [PEN-L] Dutch No to constitution

2005-06-03 Thread Leon Kuunders
According to the telefoongids there is nobody with this name in The Hague. -Original Message- From: Michael Perelman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: vrijdag 3 juni 2005 3:44 To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Dutch No to constitution Leon, I appreciate the

[PEN-L] What follows burst housing bubble?

2005-06-03 Thread Charles Brown
Yeah, in real terms but it's also a much slower process than the metaphor of popping suggests and therefore more difficult to detect and possibly of less immediate concern than the other stuff that will be going on at the time. A whimper rather than a bang. The Sandwichman ^^ CB: Might we

[PEN-L] is the EU on a path towards monetary disintegration?

2005-06-03 Thread Charles Brown
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,1498334,00.html What do no votes mean for the union? Voters have clearly rejected closer union and Europe will start to unravel, says Larry Elliott ^^ CB: What Europe needs is an international union organized by the working class of Europe

[PEN-L] Thomas Friedman blather

2005-06-03 Thread Louis Proyect
(Check out the reference to the CP of West Bengal declaring tech workers' strikes against the law.) NY Times, June 3, 2005 Op-Ed Columnist A Race to the Top By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Bangalore, India It was extremely revealing traveling from Europe to India as French voters (and now Dutch ones)

[PEN-L] The Adventures of Divertor

2005-06-03 Thread Louis Proyect
http://www.milkandcookies.com/links/30845/ -- www.marxmail.org

Re: [PEN-L] Dog bites man

2005-06-03 Thread Jim Devine
so do we want a SEC leader who serves the long-term interests of financial capital by seriously regulating finance (and protecting small and outsider financiers) -- or one who serves the short-term greed of big financial investors, i.e., Cox? Maybe with Cox as Cox of the Walk, small financiers

Re: [PEN-L] An argument for the existence of God

2005-06-03 Thread Jim Devine
Has Bushie or Ah-nold declared Laguna Beach a disaster area, so that taxpayers can subsidize the rich folks' clean-up? and so they continue to have an extra incentive to build behemoths on unstable land? On 6/3/05, Louis Proyect wrote: LA Times, June 3, 2005 LAGUNA BEACH LANDSLIDE To Many in

[PEN-L] Joseph Massad on the witch-hunt at Columbia University

2005-06-03 Thread Louis Proyect
Counterpunch, June 3, 2005 Witch Hunt at Columbia Targeting the University By JOSEPH MASSAD Targeting the university is the latest mission of right-wing forces who have hijacked not only political power and political discourse in the United States but also the very vocabulary that can be used

Re: [PEN-L] is the EU on a path towards monetary disintegration?

2005-06-03 Thread Jim Devine
in international finance, the really dramatic depreciations occur when exchange rates are rigid and are defended by the Central Banks to the death. whether or not the various currencies that make up the euro end up breaking up, however, depends on how close their values are to fundamentals and

Re: [PEN-L] is the EU on a path towards monetary disintegration?

2005-06-03 Thread Michael Perelman
Has anybody looked at the savings that come from the decline in uncertainty regarding the relative values of currencies within the EU, such as the elimination of the need to hedge against currency shifts? I assume that it would be small for some countries where the central banks tightness has

[PEN-L] Sociobiological tripe about Jewish intelligence

2005-06-03 Thread Louis Proyect
(Two things to note. This idea of Jewish breeding is no different than Jimmy the Greek saying that blacks excelled at sports because of slave plantation breeding techniques. Furthermore, it is interesting that Jared Diamond endorses this nonsense.) NY Times, June 3, 2005 Researchers Say

Re: [PEN-L] is the EU on a path towards monetary disintegration?

2005-06-03 Thread Doug Henwood
Jim Devine wrote: whether or not the various currencies that make up the euro end up breaking up, however, depends on how close their values are to fundamentals There are no constituent currencies anymore - they ceased to exist, allegedly forever. We're probably going to see some divergence

Re: [PEN-L] Sociobiological tripe about Jewish intelligence

2005-06-03 Thread Jim Devine
On 6/3/05, Louis Proyect wrote: Furthermore, it is interesting that Jared Diamond endorses this nonsense. FWIW, he starts his GERMS, GUNS, AND STEEL with the assertion that New Guinean people are smarter than we are... (Brad deLong complains about this bit.) JD

[PEN-L] civilian casualties in Iraq

2005-06-03 Thread Jim Devine
from SLATE's news summary today: The _Washington Post_ leads with Iraq's interior minister saying, apparently, that 12,000 civilians have been killed by insurgents since the war began. The minister said 10,500 of them were Shiites. Though the Post doesn't get curious about it, the Iraqi

[PEN-L] Thoreau's environmental ethics

2005-06-03 Thread Louis Proyect
H-NET BOOK REVIEW Published by [EMAIL PROTECTED] (March, 2005) Philip Cafaro. _Thoreau's Living Ethics: Walden and the Pursuit of Virtue_. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004. xii + 272 pp. Index. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8203-2610-0. Reviewed for H-Nilas by Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, Department

Re: [PEN-L] Thoreau's environmental ethics

2005-06-03 Thread Michael Perelman
Perhaps the last 2 posts are an indication of human progress: Thoreau = civilian casualties in Iraq. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu

Re: [PEN-L] capitalist efficiency

2005-06-03 Thread Jim Devine
On the US NPR news, I heard that Toyota is the most efficient of the major auto producers (partly or mainly because so much of the production is integrated, i.e., not contracted out). But I think the most efficient auto factory in North America was a GM (or D-C?) one in Ontario, also because it

Re: [PEN-L] capitalist efficiency

2005-06-03 Thread Michael Perelman
The Harbour Report, an influential gauge of productivity and profitability that is closely watched in the auto industry, On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 01:40:33PM -0700, Jim Devine wrote: On the US NPR news, I heard that Toyota is the most efficient of the major auto producers (partly or mainly

Re: [PEN-L] is the EU on a path towards monetary disintegration?

2005-06-03 Thread Chris Burford
Larry Elliott comes from a long standing critical point of view about the European Union which differs from mine. In my opinion like Marx and Engels I believe in looking at the balance of power between the major states and making judgements about which sides are more progressive. That leads to

[PEN-L] evaluating deep throat

2005-06-03 Thread Jim Devine
http://www.latimes.com/features/lifestyle/la-et-rutten3jun03,1,6203275.story REGARDING MEDIA / TIM RUTTEN Felt's actions are what matter most TIM RUTTEN June 3, 2005/L.A. TIMES And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered

[PEN-L] Why Jean Berthet decided to work with the FLN

2005-06-03 Thread Louis Proyect
From Martin Evan's The Memory of Resistance: French Opposition to the French Algerian War (1954-1962): Jean Berthet. Worked with the FLN in Aix-en-Provence and then was a Member of the Curiel Network. Born 1921. Died, Avignon, 6 July 1989 In the summer of 1944, Jean Berthet was deported for

Re: [PEN-L] Why Jean Berthet decided to work with the FLN

2005-06-03 Thread Michael Perelman
thanks. i had never even heard of him. On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 07:04:08PM -0400, Louis Proyect wrote: From Martin Evan's The Memory of Resistance: French Opposition to the French Algerian War (1954-1962): Jean Berthet. Worked with the FLN in Aix-en-Provence and then was a Member of the

[PEN-L] Manmohan Singh's 1st year, redux: closing off opportunities for the Indian left?

2005-06-03 Thread Autoplectic
http://www.flonnet.com/fl2212/stories/20050617005800800.htm Volume 22 - Issue 12, Jun 04 - 17, 2005 On the route of liberalisation V. SRIDHAR If it is a fact that there is a zone of cooperation between the UPA and the NDA on economic reforms, then the political options for the Left are closing

[PEN-L] anti-capitalism as commodity

2005-06-03 Thread Charles Darwin Jr. Jr.
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/books/story/0,10595,1498527,00.html Branded for life Is the anti-capitalist movement part of the solution or part of the problem? Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter make the case for the prosecution in their thought-provoking The Rebel Sell, says Andy Beckett