[PEN-L:3314] Re: Foreign Trade-Industrial Revolution

1999-02-13 Thread Joseph Green
Ricardo Duchesne wrote: The supply of cheap capital from the colonial trade was not the only crucial factor giving Europe (E) a chance to overcome its marginal position in the world economy. Another one was E's high wages relative to Asia's low wages. E's comparative wage-costs were such

[PEN-L:3296] Re: Re: Re: Back to the land

1999-02-13 Thread rc-am
-Original Message- From: Ken Hanly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whatever the crimes of Pol Pot ... his Khmer Rouge were a popular and ultimately successful revolutionary movement. interesting that the statement i prefaced by 'whatever the crimes', which is subsequently absolved by the words

[PEN-L:3294] Re: Timor.

1999-02-13 Thread Rob Schaap
G'day Sam, The way I hear it down here Habibi has flagged independence for East Timor (there remains an Indonesian West Timor on the island) by as early as January. That would have to be attended, I'd reckon, by Gusmao's release. Anyway, all this means that Indonesia anticipates a very quick

[PEN-L:3318] Inherited Wealth, Stakeholder Effects: The American Disease.

1999-02-13 Thread Ken Hanly
Paper ID. National Bureau of Sensible Research: Working Paper Number 6815 Date: February 1999 By: TOKEN LEFTIST Queens University ( Canada's Prime Producer of Made-to-Order Civil Servants) US Doctors for Universal

[PEN-L:3326] Re: [Fwd: Listen, Student!] II

1999-02-13 Thread valis
Rev Tom to John Lacny: One more thing, though: historical parallels intended or not, and with full knowledge of a certain cautionary warning about tragedies and farces, one of the first regional conferences of this organization is going to be held at Kent State. I get the allusion, but

[PEN-L:3328] Hawaiian music, Hawaiian liberation

1999-02-13 Thread Louis Proyect
The cattle that the British made as a "gift" to the great King Kamehameha in 1795 became like all species imported into an alien ecosphere: a destructive nuisance. As they multiplied out of control, they began to destroy Hawaiian crops, including the precious taro fields. In desperation, the

[PEN-L:3329] Biker Buddy

1999-02-13 Thread ts99u-1.cc.umanitoba.ca [130.179.154.224]
I apologize to Bill if I misinterpreted his initial comment but his comment "I don't have too much of a problem arguing against helmet laws" implied to me that he opposed helmet laws -- i.e. supported Biker Buddy's position. I am glad to see that he, in fact, supports helmet legislation. 1.

[PEN-L:3332] Demonstration against sanctions

1999-02-13 Thread John P. Lacny
This morning at 10 o' clock, approximately 25 people attended an action/demonstration called by the newly-formed Pittsburgh Mobilization to End the War Against Iraq. (I take full credit and/or blame for the name, once again keeping in mind that warning about tragedies and farces.)

[PEN-L:3333] Re: Re:Inherited Wealth, Stakeholder Effects: The American Disease.

1999-02-13 Thread Ken Hanly
Im a bit mystified rather than infuriated... after the compliment how could I be infuriated.Could you explain the "predominantly rentier nature of "indigenous" Canadian capitalism"? I am not exactly sure what you mean. Insofar as indigenous capitalism is related to the billionaire heir

[PEN-L:3341] Re: Re: Foreign Trade-Industrial Revolution

1999-02-13 Thread Joseph Green
Charles Brown wrote: Here's a response from Andre Gunder Frank to Ricardo's comments. Charles Brown ___ thanks for the forward AGF 'answer' for re-forward/ing: maybe you are missing something since the index of the book says "income: per capita/distribution,

[PEN-L:3345] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Back to the land

1999-02-13 Thread Dennis R Redmond
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Rob Schaap wrote: I don't know what the phallus is, but I know it's not supposed to be reducible to the penis. So what is it? How do we deploy the concept? Is it important for lesbianism (or feminism-in-general?) to incorporate into its identity (as Ange implies

[PEN-L:3339] Re:Inherited Wealth, Stakeholder Effects: The American Disease.

1999-02-13 Thread Tom Walker
Ken Hanly wrote, Im a bit mystified rather than infuriated... after the compliment how could infuriated.Could you explain the "predominantly rentier nature of "indigenous" Canadian capitalism"? I did warn at the beginning of my earlier message that I would further muddy the waters. I have to

[PEN-L:3338] Re: Canada

1999-02-13 Thread Bill Burgess
Paul Phillips wrote about one claim of the NBER paper on Canada: This strikes me as odd because Canada has a higher proportion of foreign investment than any other industrial country I believe. Yes, inward FDI is high in Canada. But it is even *higher* in the U.K., Netherlands, and

[PEN-L:3337] Kissinger and the purloined Chinese vase

1999-02-13 Thread Louis Proyect
From a Chinese technician intimately familiar with the imbroglio at the time it occurred we have learned the following, deeply enjoyable anecdote about Henry Kissinger. It's 1971 and Henry the K is secretly in Peking, setting the stage for Nixon's historic visit of 1972. Kissinger's Chinese hosts

[PEN-L:3336] Re: Foreign Trade-Industrial Revolution

1999-02-13 Thread Charles Brown
Here's a response from Andre Gunder Frank to Ricardo's comments. Charles Brown ___ thanks for the forward AGF 'answer' for re-forward/ing: maybe you are missing something since the index of the book says "income: per capita/distribution, 173-74,266,304-9,312-13,315,317. See also

[PEN-L:3335] Re: Wojtek's worm alert

1999-02-13 Thread Gar Lipow
I did some research. Your geek friend is half right. Internet anti-hoax sites are condemning the alert as panic mongering. But, there really is a worm/trojan attached to most copies of happy99.exe. To quote an anti-hoax in full on this particular worm I GOT SWAMPED again with email concerning

[PEN-L:3331] Re: Re:[Fwd: Listen, Student!]

1999-02-13 Thread John P. Lacny
On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, Tom Walker wrote: John Lacny wrote, One more thing, though: historical parallels intended or not, and with full knowledge of a certain cautionary warning about tragedies and farces, one of the first regional conferences of this organization is going to be held at

[PEN-L:3325] Fwd: Labor Alerts from Mexico

1999-02-13 Thread Jim Devine
Dear Sisters and Brothers and other Friends and Activists: There has been a lot of activity recently in Mexico, as thousands of workers have asserted their rights. I do not usually send out many alerts, but have received three in the past week that I believe merit your support: 1) an up-date

[PEN-L:3324] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Back to the land

1999-02-13 Thread Doug Henwood
Sam Pawlett wrote: The Khmer Rouge were prudes and as such were completely blind to the significance of THE LESBIAN PHALLUS. You know, if this concept were as risible and irrelevant as most people here seem to think, they wouldn't be so obsessed with mocking it. Kind of like the way the

[PEN-L:3323] Re:[Fwd: Listen, Student!]

1999-02-13 Thread Tom Walker
John Lacny wrote, One more thing, though: historical parallels intended or not, and with full knowledge of a certain cautionary warning about tragedies and farces, one of the first regional conferences of this organization is going to be held at Kent State. I get the allusion, but then I'm 50

[PEN-L:3322] Re: Bill gets off, again

1999-02-13 Thread Tom Walker
In a message dated 99-02-13 02:02:10 EST, Tom Walker queries: Then what was that DNA stuff on the blue dress, if not semantic clarity? Well, it turns out that the dna was not usable (as opposed to admissable) because almost everyone in Arkansaw has the same dna. maggie coleman [EMAIL

[PEN-L:3321] Re: Re: Bill gets off, again

1999-02-13 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 99-02-13 02:02:10 EST, Tom Walker queries: Then what was that DNA stuff on the blue dress, if not semantic clarity? Well, it turns out that the dna was not usable (as opposed to admissable) because almost everyone in Arkansaw has the same dna. maggie coleman [EMAIL

[PEN-L:3320] Clarification on Cuba

1999-02-13 Thread Louis Proyect
Jim O'Connor sent me a private note reminding me of the heavily proletarian character of the Cuban revolution. I might have given people the impression that Cuba was to be grouped with El Salvador or Nicaragua in terms of revolutionary dynamics. While land hunger certainly explains the appeal of