[PEN-L:9615] Re: Your tax dollars at work in Indonesia

1999-07-26 Thread Bill Rosenberg
The original (excellent) report was Wasted Energy: How U.S. Companies And Suharto's Circle Electrified Indonesia --- Power Deals That Cut In First Family and Friends Are Now Under Attack --- Mission-GE Sets the Tone By Peter Waldman and Jay Solomon 12/23/98, The Wall Street Journal, Page A1

[PEN-L:9616] Re: GLOBAL WORKING GROUPS, II

1999-07-26 Thread peoples
Dear John, I totally agree and regret that I forgot to mention our address: http://www.unitedpeoples.net Ole Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 12:14:48 +1000 From: "John Nydam" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC:

[PEN-L:9617] [floridaleft] FLOC

1999-07-26 Thread Michael Hoover
forwarded by Michael Hoover from July-August Industrial Worker (newspaper of the IWW) BOYCOTT May 22, Tampa, FL by Cris D'Angelo They rallied at noon beneath a sweltering Florida sun, but after thirty years working in the fields of North Carolina and

[PEN-L:9621] Re: Re: NAFTA case; Clinton Pursues Fast TrackAuthority Again

1999-07-26 Thread Robert Naiman
Fast track this year is extremely unlikely. The AFL and the Dem (House) leadership have drawn a line in the sand on this. So have the free-trade Rs. The free-trade Rs won't even give anything fake that the libs could claim they won. Big business is not that invested. As we always said, they

[PEN-L:9622] Re: Revolution in Colombia, part one: historicalbackground

1999-07-26 Thread Jim Devine
The Communists and Trotskyists have concentrated their forces in the urban trade union movement, but most of the serious fighting in the class struggle, except for Argentina, has taken place in the countryside. didn't the Trotskyist Hugo Blanco organize (and arm) peasants in Peru? If I remember

[PEN-L:9627] RE: US Gears Up

1999-07-26 Thread Craven, Jim
I smell another "Lord of the Second Advent" or "Perfect Father" like Sun Myung Moon. Under the banner of "freedom of religion" the Moonies have been involved in material support of all sorts of neo-fascist cults and support of wanted nazi war criminals. They use all sorts of mind control

[PEN-L:9628] Re: RE: US Gears Up

1999-07-26 Thread Jim Devine
Concerning the Falun Gong cult in China, Jim Craven writes: I smell another "Lord of the Second Advent" or "Perfect Father" like Sun Myung Moon. ... I read about one person who was a member of this Falun Gong cult who ripped his stomach open with a knife looking for "the Wheel of Energy". There

[PEN-L:9630] FW: Russia's 'October Surprise' Report

1999-07-26 Thread Craven, Jim
-Original Message- From: Consortiumnews.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 23, 1999 9:41 AM To: List Member Subject: Russia's 'October Surprise' Report Consortiumnews.com - http://www.consortiumnews.com The full text of Russia's classified "October Surprise" report to

[PEN-L:9632] RE: RE: Re: tiresome debates

1999-07-26 Thread Max Sawicky
Jim C: " . . . Yes, these debates are indeed "tiresome" for those removed from the ugly realities of genocide that occurs every day in the US. . . . " For the record, removed as I am, the word "tiresome" in reference to this topic was employed by Brother Perelman, and by no other (except insofar

[PEN-L:9633] Mens Rea (Tiresome Debates)

1999-07-26 Thread Craven, Jim
It is disingenuous to suggest that mens rea ("evil mind) or intent is inferred or even established legally (domestic or international law) from professed stated or written intentions alone. In law, if there are inexorable highly probable consequences from a given act or set of policies, that are

[PEN-L:9634] RE: Re: tiresome debates

1999-07-26 Thread Charles Brown
I agree with Judge Craven here. In construing the U.S. tort law concept of recklessness, I think it was Supreme Court Justice Louis Powell who said that a person is presumed to intend the necessary and foreseeable consequences of their actions. This is substantially equivalent to Judge

[PEN-L:9638] WORLD BANK HUMILIATED BY HELIUM BALLOON PRANK

1999-07-26 Thread Robert Naiman
Subject: WORLD BANK HUMILIATED BY HELIUM BALLOON PRANK RAINFOREST ACTION NETWORK For immediate release: July 26, 1999 Press contacts: Erick Brownstein -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mark Westlund -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Telephone -- 415/398-4404 WORLD BANK HUMILIATED BY HELIUM BALLOON PRANK BANNER

[PEN-L:9639] RE: Re: RE: US Gears Up

1999-07-26 Thread Craven, Jim
-Original Message- From: Jim Devine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 26, 1999 10:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:9628] Re: RE: US Gears Up Jim Devine writes: Concerning the Falun Gong cult in China, Jim Craven writes: I smell another "Lord of the Second

[PEN-L:9641] Progressive Response: Immigration Policy Debate

1999-07-26 Thread Interhemispheric Resource Center
The Progressive Response 26 July 1999 Vol. 3, No. 26 Editor: Martha Honey The Progressive Response (PR) is a weekly service of

[PEN-L:9643] Cybersweatshops and Unions

1999-07-26 Thread Lisa Ian Murray
Self exploitation of Gen-X continues. The situation is nowhere near as rosy as Greenhouse portrays it. $50,000 a year at 70 hour weeks come to a little over $14 an hour http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/07/biztech/articles/26labo.html July 26, 1999 High-Technology Sector Unmoved

[PEN-L:9642] Sweatshops Won't Get Rid of Poverty

1999-07-26 Thread Robert Naiman
Sunday Journal, Suburban DC July 25, 1999 Robert Naiman, Preamble Center "On the Left" Sweatshops Won't Get Rid of Poverty This month President Clinton toured poor communities in the United States. Some praised Clinton for highlighting the fact that the benefits of the recent economic

[PEN-L:9640] Re: RE: Re: RE: US Gears Up

1999-07-26 Thread Jim Devine
Jim Craven wrote: What social systems engineering is all about is creating a new "status quo" that turns a whole society into an appendage of an imperial system. They use "social scientists", "journalists", missionaries, trade unions (AFL-CIA), "educational exchanges", spies, military

[PEN-L:9637] Minnesota Nuts

1999-07-26 Thread Max Sawicky
In following Louis' link to the Bill McKibben piece, I found one by Gary Wills on Jesse the Body which I thought quite good. Here's a choice excerpt regarding Pat Buchanan's abortive attempt to curry favor w/Jesse and the Reform Party: "It is a measure of Buchanan's desperation that, after his

[PEN-L:9636] RE: Re: tiresome debates

1999-07-26 Thread Charles Brown
"Charles Brown" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/26/99 Thus, there may not be smoking gun evidence of intent to kill or cause premature deaths in setting up Indian reservations or slave plantations , but the deaths and torture are foreseeable and necessary consequences of creating such conditions and

[PEN-L:9635] For Max

1999-07-26 Thread Craven, Jim
Max, We must be telepathic. While in Canada this weekend, I too reflected on your comments. I must say that you too have a point. As you noted, just as some Zionists may cynically use/misuse--and in my opinion desecrate--the true dimensions, lessons and scope of the nazi Holocaust for hidden or

[PEN-L:9631] RE: Information about the American Economic Group

1999-07-26 Thread Fellows, Jeffrey
Has anyone ever heard of the American Economic Group? Apparently, they conduct tobacco-friendly research for the Tobacco Institute, and recently may have published a report suggesting that the tobacco industry generated $54.3 billion in wages and other compensation in 1994. I would greatly

[PEN-L:9625] FW: the People's Paths home page! North American Indian Indigenous People! has changed

1999-07-26 Thread Craven, Jim
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, July 24, 1999 2:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ""the People's Paths home page!" North American Indian Indigenous People!" has changed Mind-it, your FREE personalized tracking service from

[PEN-L:9623] Re: Re: Revolution in Colombia, part one:historical background

1999-07-26 Thread Louis Proyect
didn't the Trotskyist Hugo Blanco organize (and arm) peasants in Peru? If I remember correctly, some Trotskyists were criticized by the Left in general because they organized and armed peasants and then left them to defend themselves against the Army. And some of the armed movements in Latin

[PEN-L:9620] Books on ecological crisis reviewed

1999-07-26 Thread Louis Proyect
From http://www.nybooks.com Nature Without People? BILL MCKIBBEN August 12, 1999 1) Requiem for Nature by John Terborgh 234 pages, $24.95 (hardcover) published by Island Press 2) The Condor's Shadow: The Loss and Recovery of Wildlife in America by David S. Wilcove 339 pages, $24.95

[PEN-L:9619] Re: Revolution in Colombia, part one: historical background

1999-07-26 Thread Michael Hoover
Simon BolĂ­var tried valiantly to carry out a bourgeois-democratic revolution in Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador, but the cowardly and unpatriotic bourgeoisie would not lead it, let alone cooperate. civilian political rule, divided between the two major parties, Liberal and Conservative, who

[PEN-L:9618] U.S. Bombed Iraq

1999-07-26 Thread Frank Durgin
Monday July 26 9:12 AM ET U.S. Says It Bombed Target In Northern Iraq BONN (Reuters) - U.S. warplanes bombed a communications center in northern Iraq Monday after coming under attack from anti-aircraft batteries, a spokeswoman for the U.S. European Command in Germany said. All aircraft