Restructurings at Levi's

1998-10-14 Thread Ian Ritchie
> ICFTU On Line > 215/981009/ND > > Restructurings at Levi's: trade unions want global discussion > > Brussels, 13 October 1998 (ICFTU on-line): "Levi Strauss is applying a > profoundly anti-union strategy. It announces to the world that it is > pro-worker, but its real attitude is totally ou

Re: SOCIETIES AND ECONOMIC SYSTEMS

1998-10-14 Thread Ed Weick
Caspar Davis >I am actually a great admirer of the market system, but two >prerequisites for its effective function are perfect competitition >(practically non-existent) and perfect information- almost as rare in >the world of ubiquitous advertising and the corporate media. Like >Marxism, the fre

FW: The casino crumbles

1998-10-14 Thread Cordell, Arthur: DPP
-- From: Sid Shniad To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The casino crumbles Date: Tuesday, October 13, 1998 8:04PM The GuardianTuesday October 6, 1998 The casino crumbles By Paul Foot What is a hedge fund? A month ago, no one outside the City had a clue

FW: BEWARE: Phone Scam

1998-10-14 Thread Cordell, Arthur: DPP
This is going around my government department, so thought I would pass it on. -- From: Charette, Lynn: SITT To: -SITT Branch Coord; -DPP; -ECOM-TF Subject: FW: BEWARE: Phone Scam Date: Wednesday, October 14, 1998 7:47AM Priority: High FYI -- From: Dube, Jacqueline: DGSE To: 'Ann

Re: pet food

1998-10-14 Thread Eva Durant
The capitalist argument usually is the same as with the defence of the arm-industry: just imagine all those who have to be made unemployed if we scrap the pet-food industry... Less revenues from taxes... etc, etc. The socialist argument is, that if the economic system stayes the same both here an

pet food

1998-10-14 Thread Jock McCardell
In accord with a local (australia), highly unpopular politician's catch cry could someone out there 'please explain' and without junk economics I refer to michael gurstein's post 29/9/1989 wherein he forwards the NYT article covering the UN's 1998 Human Development report. The second last statis

pet food

1998-10-14 Thread Jock McCardell
In accord with a local (australia), highly unpopular politician's catch cry could someone out there 'please explain' and without junk economics I refer to michael gurstein's post 29/9/1989 wherein he forwards the NYT article covering the UN's 1998 Human Development report. The second last statis

Re: pet food

1998-10-14 Thread Steve Kurtz
If we return to pre-modernity, probably not by conscious planning :-), the pets that could would revert to a wild state and eat by hunting/browsing. Those that were unsuccessful in adaptation would be eaten by some other life form, down to worms, insects and microbes. Humans would eat many of cour