A piece of paper and a team of lawyers isn't enough
Labour has such enthusiasm for private sector contracts
Hilary Wainwright
The Guardian, Thursday May 31, 2001
Almost half of all tax revenues, excluding social security payments, now go
directly to profit-making companies for the purchase of
Election special: Capita growth
by James Ashton
Last update: 01:00 GMT, Jun 05, 2001, Business AM
It doesn't really matter who's sitting in No 10: the trend for
public-private tie-ups is set to
continue.
Rod Aldridge is not standing for parliament. Nor is he a member of one of
the legions of qua
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From: "Max Sawicky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 6:40 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:12506] RE: query
> There's a brand new Congressional Budget Office
> report w/tons of stuff on the income part. It can be
> downloaded at www.cbo.go
I am not convinced that the ex-husband was guilty, but the trial has many
more ramifications -- namely, that the FBI blamed it on her and her friend
and then went on a witch hunt for environmentalists.
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 07:12:05PM -0700, Tim Bousquet wrote:
> The Judi Bari bombing trial is
On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Tim Bousquet wrote:
> I'll spare you any more details unless anyone on this list is
> interested. If so, I'll post more info.
I'd be interested in your take on the details, Tim.
Michael
__
Michael Poll
The Judi Bari bombing trial is about to start in
Oakland.
I'm not one to latch onto conspiracy theories-- I read
the latest thread on this with great interest-- and I
think all the usual JFK stuff, etc. is hokum. BUT,
there are conspiracies within what I would call the
faux-left. And the story b
--- Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> from SLATE's summary of today's major US newspapers
> (which somehow misses
> Tim's journal) --
Good point. I'm working on doing a weekly recap of
international and national news, and am looking for
articles to reprint, etc. Mostly it's a financial
is
Marx thought that China could undersell British textiles.
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 12:50:14PM -0400, Louis Proyect wrote:
> Ricardo:
> >Who enjoyed the greatest windfall of cheap resources? Poor
> >England had to cross the Atlantic Ocean to obtain its cotton. Why
> >coal can be classified as Eng
Elstrom, Peter. 2001. "Telecom Meltdown." Business Week (23 April): pp. 100-10.
105: "The model for how to make a fortune in the new world of telecom was set by
one oft-forgotten telephone company: MFS Communications Co. Led by James Q. Crowe,
MFS laid telephone lines around major cities th
Carrol Cox says, amongst other things, Political practice, not
theoretical definitions, will carve out those workers who "count" and
those who don't.
This is a whole other discussion -- as you know from years of practice yourself!
maggie
Carrol Cox wrote:
> Margaret Coleman wrote:
> >
> > Hi Jim
In response to Doug,
That's interesting that participation and labor force fell (well the two
frequently, though not always, move together). Any guesses on why? (or
explanations?) I'll have to go look up the most recent employment situation
reports and read the demographics. I am truly curious
The best place to go to for a blow-by-blow, everything you ever wanted
to know and were afraid to ask, definition of all the employment figures
(unemployed, employed, unemployment, discouraged workers -- levels and
rates) is www.bls.gov. maggie coleman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Doug wrote,
> . .
true -- a 1/10 decrease in one month could also be faulty statistics. however,
the fact that the rate did not go up with all the announcements of layoffs is a
surprise. maybe i'm getting brain washed by cnnfn. maggie coleman
Jim Devine wrote:
> At 09:55 PM 06/03/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> >The
Yes, according to official bls definitions, institutionalized means mental
institutions, jails, or any place where you might be incarcerated against your
will. Employment statistics also omit military, students, anyone voluntarily
unemployed (as in retired), and anyone who has not looked for a jo
Statistically, family history explains less than 12% of all breast cancers.
maggie coleman
Michael Pugliese wrote:
> MANMADE BREAST CANCERS
>
> Zillah Eisenstein
>
> A new understanding of humanity and feminism from the starting point of
> breast health is the ultimate goal of Zillah EisensteinÕ
The Corporate and Telecom debt has been increasing steadily for the last decade. As
Henwood's Wall Street book shows, the increase in corporate debt has risen far faster
than the increase in consumer debt -- hard to imagine since consumer debt is so high.
Telecom debt began when more and more
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>From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 11:35 AM
>Subject: [PEN-L:12734] Re: Fwd: News: Suicide Bombing in Tel Aviv
>
>
>> Tim Bousquet wrote:
>>
>> >Probably, I'm guessing, the situation has
>> >evolved t
> >So, what's to be done, practically speaking? Work within the
>>Colombia Action Network or get a FARC solidarity group going if you
>>can?
>>
>>Yoshie
>
>Little confused by your question. The CAN, while not exactly a FARC
>solidarity group (this might land you in jail), is about as close as yo
>Jim Devine wrote:
>
>>question: doesn't non-institutionalized also mean "not in a mental
>>institution" (and by that I don't mean a university)?
This overlap between the language of "mental" and "academic"
institutions is striking.
"Sectioning" in the US involves dividing groups of undergradu
Doug wrote,
> . . .who are not inmates of
> institutions (e.g., penal and mental facilities, homes for the aged)..
Slightly fuller defintion (BLS Handbook on Methods): "The institutional
population . . . consists of inmates of penal and mental institutions,
sanitariums, and homes for the aged
> BLS DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, JUNE 4, 2001:
>
> Nonfarm payroll employment fell 19,000 in May, yet the overall
> unemployment rate actually dropped 0.1 percentage point to 4.4 percent as
> the number of people in the labor force fell, the Bureau of Labor
> Statistics reports. "This is a day of mix
Jim Devine wrote:
>question: doesn't non-institutionalized also mean "not in a mental
>institution" (and by that I don't mean a university)?
Yup. Here's the official def: "Civilian noninstitutional population.
Included are persons 16 years of age and older residing in the 50
States and the Di
- Original Message -
From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 11:35 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:12734] Re: Fwd: News: Suicide Bombing in Tel Aviv
> Tim Bousquet wrote:
>
> >Probably, I'm guessing, the situation has
> >evolved to such a poin
At 03:58 PM 6/4/01 -0400, you wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>>What's the difference between the EPR and the participation rate?
>
>EPR = employed/adult population.
>
>LFPR = (unemployed+employed)/adult population.
>
>Adult pop = noninstitutionalized (i.e., not jailed) and 16 and over.
questi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>What's the difference between the EPR and the participation rate?
EPR = employed/adult population.
LFPR = (unemployed+employed)/adult population.
Adult pop = noninstitutionalized (i.e., not jailed) and 16 and over.
Doug
>Because the U.S. labor force fell by 485,000. Employment (in the
household survey) fell by about 252,000. The EPR fell by 0.1
percentage point to 63.9%, down from 64.5% in January. The
participation rate fell by 0.3 points.
What's the difference between the EPR and the participation rate?
Margaret Coleman wrote:
>The unemployment rate fell by a tenth last month, instead of going up as
>everyone predicted. This is despite all the tech closings and lay
>offs. Anyone want to guess why?
Because the U.S. labor force fell by 485,000. Employment (in the
household survey) fell by abou
>From an article on genetically modified food by Richard Lewontin in the NY
Review of Books (http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/index.html):
Until twenty years ago there were four intimate aspects of our personal
lives that we assumed to be produced by individual artisanal activity. They
were medicine,
China's colonial penetration and settlement into the south-western
regions continued through Qing times (1644-1911). While Guizhou
was turned into a province early in Ming times, with considerable
Han migration following thereafter, sparking major rebellions
including one led by "a firerce fe
>So, what's to be done, practically speaking? Work within the
>Colombia Action Network or get a FARC solidarity group going if you
>can?
>
>Yoshie
Little confused by your question. The CAN, while not exactly a FARC
solidarity group (this might land you in jail), is about as close as you
can co
>Max:
>>Opposing U.S. intervention does not depend on solidarity
>>with the FARC or anyone else. Presumably most people
>>here who opposed NATO in the Balkans were not practising
>>solidarity w/Milo.
>
>Actually, the same divide that existed with respect to US intervention in
>Yugoslavia exists w
Tim Bousquet wrote:
>Probably, I'm guessing, the situation has
>evolved to such a point that the Palestinian elite no
>longer matter from a political standpoint, and so the
>choice is exactly as you stated: either complete
>surrender or complete war. I think, as do a great many
>of my Palestinian
>any pen-l thoughts? as a professional economist, I must admit that I'm
>worried that Toledo is a US-trained economist...
>
>Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
Toledo is a worthless demagogue. He uses his humble birth and Indian blood
to get votes, but his program
NY Times, June 4, 2001
Calls for Slavery Restitution Getting Louder
By TAMAR LEWIN
Part of the new momentum in the reparations movement comes from efforts to
win restitution not just from the federal government, but also from
companies that profited from slavery. "I started doing research abou
from SLATE's summary of today's major US newspapers (which somehow misses
Tim's journal) --
>Alejandro Toledo's victory in the Peruvian presidential race comes
>slightly more than a year after disgraced former president Alberto
>Fujimori rigged an election and defeated the Toledo-led oppositio
This morning, the studios of WBAI were occupied by protestors. The audio
record is at:
http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=3158
The occupation couldn't have come sooner since the morning's proceedings
were taken up with the "Egyptian yoga" techniques promoted by a smarmy new
age huckster na
Ricardo:
>Who enjoyed the greatest windfall of cheap resources? Poor
>England had to cross the Atlantic Ocean to obtain its cotton. Why
>coal can be classified as England's fortunate internal resource but
>not China's cotton? Why was the textile sector in China not
>mechanized despite its ampl
I have a collection of American (US) poetry that includes Eliot. He lived in
the US for a considerable part of his life although his poetry is mostly
upper class Anglo but then so is Boston aint it. His cat poetry is universal
though...
Cheers, Ken Hanly
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From: J
The case for the importance of American cotton imports to British
industrialization is seemingly a stronger one. P argues that,
without American cotton, England would have found itself relying on
wool as the only worthwhile substitute. "But raising enough sheep
to replace the yarn made with
Well, maybe Eliot failed to become Anglicized; I agree that the quoted
attempt at self-conscious Englischkeit is embarassing, rather likethe
pathetic American drones one would sometimes see around the Cambs colleges,
talking in bad imitation of Brit accents,a nd hoping to be accepted by the
Br
Justin Schwartz wrote:
>
> Fair enough, at least about Pound. Eliot became so thoroughly Anglicized (as
> I was not) that he was only from here, AMerican in the sense that, say,
> Conrad was Polish.
I haven't given much thought to Eliot for 40 years or so, but I'll
quibble a bit. Eliot _tried
Timber from North America is another product which P thinks
offered England significant ecological relief; exports which he says
were "trivial before 1800", "but by 1825 they were large enough to
replace the output of over 1,000, 000 acres of European forest and
soared thereafter" (275). He
Fair enough, at least about Pound. Eliot became so thoroughly Anglicized (as
I was not) that he was only from here, AMerican in the sense that, say,
Conrad was Polish. Incidentally, I asked a very educated Polish doctor
whether Conrad was known in Poland. She said, Who? I still can't make
anyt
I wrote:
> > Of course, this is the kind of thing that the
> > Palestinians have to decide
> > for themselves.
Tim writes:
>The problem is: Who are the Palestinians, and Who
>speaks for them?
that is _the_ problem. If the Palestinians were actually organized and had
some kind of legitimate lead
G'day Gene,
> Yeats wasn't a Brit.
Too right - can't imagine too many Brits of Yeats's poshness seeing the Easter
Uprising as a terrible beauty born.
Cheers,
Rob.
Yeats wasn't a Brit.
gene coyle
Rob Schaap wrote:
> G'day Justin,
>
> > Well, Brit writers wouldn't be of _my_ society; Pound, Eliot, and
> > Yeats are
> > as foreign as Akhmatova and Brecht to an American.
>
> *Whoop. Whoop. Gross and possibly offensive generalisation alert!*
>
> As I unders
Chris Burford reports:
Today significantly the TImes report as their main headline Hague Turns
Left to avoid a Labour Landslide. This is important because it shows a
shift in how politics are perceived in the battle between the main parties.
It is a sign that after the election the centre of g
Penners
Hot on the heels of Norman Tebbit, we can see just how fashionable it is for
the beneficiaries and former apparatchiks of Mrs Thatcher's regime to bemoan
their reversals of fortune when no less than former disc jockey, TV
"personality" and "entrepreneur" Noel Edmonds (!) claims to have an
Chris Burford wrote:
> In my earlier post entitled 'A People's History of England' I
> gave detailed
> evidence of why orthodox marxist views on England in the past gave
> prominence to the role of sheep and wool in the emergence of
> capitalism in
> England,
Morton's classic work does show how
Rob Schaap wrote:
>
> What One.Tel tells us about competition
> By KENNETH DAVIDSON: THE AGE Monday 4 June 2001
[snip]
>
> Even worse, the imposition of mindless competition on network development
> (parallel roll-out of the broadband cable by Telstra and Optus, five mobile
> networks and so on
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