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
According to the telefoongids there is nobody with this name in The Hague.
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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
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
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
(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)
http://www.milkandcookies.com/links/30845/
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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
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
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
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
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
(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
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
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
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
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
Perhaps the last 2 posts are an indication of human progress: Thoreau =
civilian
casualties in Iraq.
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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