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
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
Doctor who left a curse on Zimbabwe
Mugabe loses key ally as leader of war veterans and scourge of white farmers
dies
Andrew Meldrum in Harare and Chris McGreal in Johannesburg
Tuesday June 5, 2001, The Guardian
Few will mourn the death yesterday of Chenjerai Hitler Hunzvi, the war
veterans
Nato chief warns Taliban drug lords
JIM CASSIDY, The Herald, June 5, 2001
THE greatest threat to European stability comes from the extreme
fundamentalists who are
exporting death through drugs to the streets of Edinburgh and
Glasgow, according to Lord
Penners
Further underscoring Mark Jones' recent points about how far things have
changed with the rise of New Labour, today Rupert Murdoch's Times, for the
first time in its history, has come out supporting Labour. The Financial
Times is voting Labour for the third election in a row. Meanwhile,
Economic Reporting Review
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You may recall that Bob Mulholland is from Chico. Tim gave him a critical
evaluation a few weeks ago.
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 02:48:47PM +0300, Keaney Michael wrote:
Penners
Further underscoring Mark Jones' recent points about how far things have
changed with the rise of New Labour, today
[Blustein has a book due out soon on the politics of the Asian
meltdown ]
Stopping the Bailout Buck Here
O'Neill Taking A Tough Stance On IMF Loans To Countries
By Paul Blustein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, June 5, 2001; Page E01
Profligate governments abroad had better beware, and
www.ft.com
US productivity shows steepest fall since 1993
By Peronet Despeignes in Washington Published: June 5 2001 13:06
US workforce productivity fell more than expected in the first quarter amid
a slowdown in demand for goods and services that was more abrupt than
previously thought.
Margaret Coleman 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.
I looked at one of those layoff series (Ed Hyman's, not
[was, strangely enough: Re: [PEN-L:12770] Re: IMF]
what's amazing is that Al Bore didn't seem to use this against the
Cheney-Bush team. Or did he?
At 07:13 AM 6/5/01 -0700, you wrote:
You may recall that Bob Mulholland is from Chico. Tim gave him a critical
evaluation a few weeks ago.
Of course, none of this matters a jot to the markets. They're efficiently
signalling nothing but blue sky today - the Hand as unseeing as it is
invisible.
Funny; if technology really is responsible for rising productivity, it makes
sense to drop rates again, so that capital investment might
Doug writes:
I looked at one of those layoff series (Ed Hyman's, not the more prominent
Challenger one) and it correlated with nothing - not employment,
unemployment, initial claims, or even the BLS's mass layoffs. They're
mainly PR aimed at Wall Street, I think.
my impression is that the
His wife said that he was furious with the Dems. for their spineless
behavior.
Even though I do not always agree with him, he has an amazing political
mind. He used to be able to tell you pretty accurately how each precinct
in Chico would vote.
By the way, he was the one who first got Barbara
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From: Rob Schaap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 6:26 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:12775] Re: US productivity shows steepest fall since
1993
Of course, none of this matters a jot to the markets. They're
efficiently
signalling nothing
the FINANCIAL TIMES wrote:
US productivity shows steepest fall since 1993
...The labour department said on Tuesday that output per person-hour outside
the agricultural sector dipped at an annual rate of 1.2 per cent in the
first quarter, marking the first time US productivity has faltered since
No. I am not going. I have a sensitive stomach..
CHeers, Ken Hanly
Posted on PAR-L
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At 08:48 AM 6/5/01 -0700, you wrote:
I'm always fascinated by the absence of naming slow sales as the
culprit for lagging productivity. If no one's biting on the product,
workers can't help but slow down on the jobs/sales that are still in
the pipeline. Sales teams get boom tired too.
I agree
[was: Re: [PEN-L:12757] Re: Re: Re: Re: re: unemployment rate]
The story below describes the kind of over-investment process that I
theorized in my 1981 Ph.D. dissertation (another unpublished ms.) as does
the over-investment in movie theaters in recent years. In my dissertation,
I described
Ken:
The powers of the Nets can be construed in many ways - political, economic,
and social. Power can also be construed in terms of Foucault's positive
power and Bourdieu's notion of cultural capital - decentered forms of
power that encourage voluntary submission, such as English as a _lingua
Jim Devine wrote:
my impression is that the layoff numbers arise because the law
requires that layoffs be announced before they happen. Firms have an
incentive to exaggerate since an under-count will be criticized more
harshly (I don't know if there are legal penalties) and it scares
the
Hi all,
In a break from slagging back and forth, I was wondering if any folks would
be interested in looking over drafts of my book on the history of the
government's Internet policies and its effects on economic development.
Based on my dissertation, I need to get the rewrites done by the end
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Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 8:45 AM
Subject: Act now to stop Bush's rewards for corporate outlaws!
Get e-active now! The responsible contractor rule is under attack.
The
rule is
http://www.nytimes.com
June 5, 2001
Myanmar Tests Resolve of I.L.O. on Enforcing Standards
By ELIZABETH OLSON
ENEVA, June 4 - Nearly all governments agree smooth, seamless
international trade is good and mistreatment of workers is bad.
But as antiglobalization protests in Seattle and elsewhere
NY Times, June 5, 2001
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Turkey's Moment of Truth
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
ISTANBUL - I thought Madonna had arrived. The place was the Ulus restaurant
on an Istanbul bluff overlooking the Bosporus. The commotion started with
police sirens blaring. Then there was a gaggle of a
I remember the free-trade marxists who insisted
labor should cold-shoulder the WTO and try to use
the ILO.
mbs
The labor organization's fruitless effort to take a strong stand
against Myanmar has shed a harsh light on its lack of enforcement
power. . . .
I remember the free-trade marxists who insisted
labor should cold-shoulder the WTO and try to use
the ILO.
mbs
The labor organization's fruitless effort to take a strong stand
against Myanmar has shed a harsh light on its lack of enforcement
power. . . .
==
Surely we
You have to fix or nix the WTO, but until you do one
or the other, the ILO won't be a happenin place. Calls
to leave the WTO alone in
favor of the ILO do nothing but uphold the WTO and all
it represents.
mbs
==
Surely we shouldn't try to reform the WTO? And if we sink or
unbundle
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From: Max Sawicky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 7:02 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:12791] RE: Re: RE: Speaking of labor standards...
You have to fix or nix the WTO, but until you do one
or the other, the ILO won't be a happenin place.
Movie theaters are an interesting example. The new ones had better
features, so the old ones had to rennovate. The new ones expected to be
able to capture the market, which everyone had overestimated.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel.
I don't like being cut off when protesting people getting unnecessarily
killed, twice at that. Make sure it stops there and there isn't a third not a
third.
I am no Buddhist, but I do have Buddhist friends. They used to be very
peaceful people. One of them read your post, and wondered where
Ian Murray wrote:
Surely we shouldn't try to reform the WTO?
Agreed.
And if we sink or
unbundle it's functions where else are you gonna put enforceable labor
standards?
I'm afraid each national labor force is going to have to fight its own
battles. International labor standards are a
BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 2001:
RELEASED TODAY: The Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of
Labor today reported revised productivity data -- as measured by output
per hour of all persons -- for the first quarter of 2001. The revised
seasonally adjusted annual rates
To Michael Perelman and Tim Bousquet:
Are you aware of the following story:
http://www.chicoer.com/archives/index.inn?loc=detaildoc=/2001/June/02-127-n
ews1.txt
Apparently, the State of California, in its efforts to widen a highway near
Chico, is going to level the home of certain senior
That was a common observation during the Great Stagflation. Also, the recessions
promote consolidations, which promote inflation in the long run.
Jim Devine wrote:
(Wachtel and Adelsheim once argued that recessions promote inflation as
monopoly corporations try to restore profitability
michael,
for crying out loud, is this kind of threatening necessary on this list?
This has gotten wierd enough already for some kind of action, no?
Steve
Stephen Philion
Lecturer/PhD Candidate
Department of Sociology
2424 Maile Way
Social Sciences Bldg. # 247
Honolulu, HI 96822
On Tue, 5 Jun
John, I don't quite understand your note, but it does sound wierd. Here
is the problem. I don't think that anybody has quite figured out what you
are trying to say about Kant, Hegel and the like.
Generally, as a rule on the list, when someone keeps posting something,
and nobody seems terribly
In a message dated 6/5/2001 4:32:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
michael,
for crying out loud, is this kind of threatening necessary on this list?
This has gotten wierd enough already for some kind of action, no?
Threatening? I fail to see how you got that from such a
In a message dated 6/5/2001 4:48:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
John, I don't quite understand your note, but it does sound wierd. Here
is the problem. I don't think that anybody has quite figured out what you
are trying to say about Kant, Hegel and the like.
Generally,
In re: the Zendo, better behind than before,
say I.
mbs
John, I don't quite understand your note, but it does sound wierd. Here
is the problem. I don't think that anybody has quite figured out what you
are trying to say about Kant, Hegel and the like. . . .
He fetl quite upset. He said
The issue is not the olive trees, but the meadowfoam, an endangered
species.
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 01:09:45PM -0700, David Shemano wrote:
To Michael Perelman and Tim Bousquet:
Are you aware of the following story:
http://www.chicoer.com/archives/index.inn?loc=detaildoc=/2001/June/02-127-n
Let's keep this in perspecitve. Mr. Phillion finds me threatening (, Sen
woodcutters?), my post was due to my finding him threatening. It's that
simple. And it would be threatening in the end, to me, make no mistake,
nothing against Mr. Phillion. It was a declaration that killing off
Isn't the problem widening the highway, not which side it is widened on?
Why widen it, except to sell cars and gasoline and to disperse houses
and big box stores over wider and wider areas?
No more highways.
Gene Coyle
Michael Perelman wrote:
The issue is not the olive trees, but the
The world is full of evil and sorrow, because it is full of lust.
Men go astray because they think that delusion is better than truth.
Rather than truth they follow error,
which is pleasant to look at in the beginning
but in the end causes anxiety, tribulation, and misery.
--The Gospel of
In reply to Michael Perelman:
The issue is not the olive trees, but the meadowfoam, an endangered
species.
The story is ambiguous whether the specific problem is the meadowform or the
olives:
While CalTrans was forced to come up with a $10 million plan to move the
The story is ambiguous because the ER is amateurish. If you want real
reporting about Chico, subscribe to Tim's Chico Examiner. The problem is
the meadowfoam.
Also, I have not followed the ins and outs of the highway location
carefully, but I don't think that moving the people is the only
Max Sawicky wrote:
The world is full of evil and sorrow, because it is full of lust.
Men go astray because they think that delusion is better than truth.
Rather than truth they follow error,
which is pleasant to look at in the beginning
but in the end causes anxiety, tribulation, and
Who is a good buddha?
Anthony P. D'Costa
Associate Professor Ph: (253) 692-4462
Comparative International Development Fax: (253) 692-5718
University of
BLAIR:
Yes, I know what your question is. I am choosing to answer it in my way
rather than yours.
PAXMAN:
But you're not answering it.
BLAIR:
I am.
PAXMAN:
You are answering another question.
BLAIR:
I am answering actually in the way that I want to answer it...
On Monday night Blair was
Anthony DCosta wrote:
Who is a good buddha?
no, no, not a good buddha. the good buddha, as in the main man
himself, siddharth, gautama, you know, the dude with the piled-on-
top-in-a-bun hairdo and the funky toga robe thingummy, who turned
to existentialist despair upon confronting the real
At 04/06/01 09:41 +0100, Mark Jones wrote:
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,
Could be a CB handle.
mbs
Who is a good buddha?
In a message dated 6/5/2001 6:50:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
no, no, not "a" good buddha. "the" good buddha, as in the main man
himself, siddharth, gautama, you know, the dude with the piled-on-
top-in-a-bun hairdo and the funky toga robe thingummy, who turned
to
In a message dated 6/5/2001 6:50:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Anthony DCosta wrote:
Who is a "good buddha"?
no, no, not "a" good buddha. "the" good buddha, as in the main man
himself, siddharth, gautama, you know, the dude with the piled-on-
top-in-a-bun hairdo
Today out of morbid fascination, I turned on WBAI to hear the final day of
the fund-raising marathon. For about 20 minutes this morning I heard Public
Affairs Director Djabel Faye railing at all the Europeans who were
spreading AIDS throughout Africa and trying to destroy WBAI.
This afternoon I
Gene writes: Isn't the problem widening the highway, not which side it is widened
on?
Why widen it, except to sell cars and gasoline and to disperse houses and big box
stores
over wider and wider areas?
No more highways.
According to our libertarian brethren and sistern, as I
I do not think pen-l is a great place for discussing Buddhism. While I am
deeply irreligious, I have great respect for those who are. Ravi's
commentary is simply at best immature and at worst inflammatory. The left
does not have much too offer to those who are often poor and religious,
except
Thanks a lot for the gesture, and to Michael also. I will be on my way soon,
hounded off the list--nope, I am never hounded, I am done for the nonce.
Doesn't matter. This kind of hostility wears off. I must remember just how
hard it is to really deal with issues of ideology and evolution.
I
At 03/06/01 20:56 -1000, you wrote:
On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Chris Burford wrote:
I wonder now what contemptuous humorous joke Louis Proyect was trying to
stifle when I first enquired whether there had been any discussion of
sheep. If it was anything more than political analysis by sectarian
This is a good example of the way secular thought is being outflanked,
Spetner is good, the physicists are starting to take a look at the Darwinian
theory.
I will leave you with that
Guard dogs that won't bark...
Dr. Edward E. Max posted an essay entitled The Evolution of Improved
Steve, please stop grading other people's posts. Write the person off
list if you want.
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 12:26:43AM +0100, Chris Burford wrote:
At 03/06/01 20:56 -1000, you wrote:
On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Chris Burford wrote:
I wonder now what contemptuous humorous joke Louis Proyect was
Chris,
honestly, i felt my remarks regarding the exchange on Brenner were
relevant to the exchange between Jim D and Lou P. The debate as far as I
can tell is finis. Even Michael P. has asked folks to not continue with
it. You seem only interested in this issue as a means to attack Lou. I
In a message dated 6/5/2001 7:34:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
John, maybe it will be best if you leave. It would have been more
fruitful if you had been able to create a dialogue.
I don't think people are defensive about Darwin. It is more that you
never made a
Also, I take a lot of heat for criticizing Darwin. A lot! I am linked to
Proyect's website. Great. You guys wish to get free mileage, while I take
the
heat. Not so nice. So if I am that bad, should Louis unlink my site? You
can't have it both ways.
No more goodbyes.
John Landon
Jim Marrs or Texe Marrs? Both are conspiracy theorists, the latter being
of the Xtian fundamentalist far out fringe (far beyond even Pat Robertson on
the Illuminati), Jim being more secular. They are both kooks but of the two,
Texe is far more paranoid with his visions of biochips being
Anthony DCosta wrote:
I do not think pen-l is a great place for discussing Buddhism. While I am
deeply irreligious, I have great respect for those who are. Ravi's
commentary is simply at best immature and at worst inflammatory. The left
does not have much too offer to those who are
I'm sorry, I've been at an all-day City Council budget
meeting, and am only now catching up on email (and boy
is this a busy list), including a couple of other
replies, including the Bari story. Patience please.
The Highway 149 issue is rotten to the core. I'll do
some more research vis-a-vis
What Ravi needs is moksha!:) While I couldn't make out heads or tails
about eonic effects, I certainly do not see John cracking a joke on
Buddha. If you saw one, I guess I missed it. I do not think you
intended disrespect but then the road to hell is often paved with good
intentions!
Cheers,
--- Eugene Coyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Isn't the problem widening the highway, not which
side it is widened on? Why
widen it, except to sell cars and gasoline and to
disperse houses and big box
stores over wider and wider areas?
No more highways.
Yes, as I argued in my
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gene writes: Isn't the problem widening the
highway, not which side it is widened on?
Why widen it, except to sell cars and gasoline and
to disperse houses and big box stores
over wider and wider areas?
No more highways.
According to our libertarian
Since a Tathagata, even when actually present, is incomprehensible, it is
inept to say of him that after dying the Tathagata is, or is not, or both is
and is not, or neither is or is not.
Samyutta Nikaya, III, 118
John Landon
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Website on eonic effect
http://eonix.8m.com
Although we might be wary of allpurely metaphysical approaches to the study
of history, the pattern of what we will find from the periodization of
civilizations must almost by definition pertain directly to theideas of
so-called Universal History. This idea finds its classic realization in
The objective, external forces which have hitherto dominated history will
then pass under control of men themselves. Itis only from this point that
men, with full consciousness, will fashion theirown history; it is only at
this point that the social causes set in motion bymen will have,
bye
John Landon
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Website on eonic effect
http://eonix.8m.com
http://www.eonica.net
Nautilus sights capital frigate
The wind done blew blew blew our faces flat
and all across the seascape loomed the rain
in clouds that tumbled like a blown off hat.
I watched as Nemo scoped the swelling main.
Nemo seemed distant, yet present from a mile.
"Nemini, there", he shouted, pointing
--- Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
The story is ambiguous because the ER is amateurish.
If you want real
reporting about Chico, subscribe to Tim's Chico
Examiner. The problem is
the meadowfoam.
Also, I have not followed the ins and outs of the
highway location
carefully,
--- ravi narayan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anthony DCosta wrote:
I do not think pen-l is a great place for
discussing Buddhism. While I am
deeply irreligious, I have great respect for those
who are. Ravi's
commentary is simply at best immature and at worst
inflammatory. The left
Tim,
Keep an eye out for a road warrior named Wendell Cox who gets parachuted
around the country by right-wing think tanks to attack rail transport and
transit-oriented urban planning. An op-ed by him showed up in the Vancouver
Province last week -- there's a bus strike on and one of the issues
Check out his website: http://www.publicpurpose.com/
Good for a few laughs. I guess you can find an
expert to spout just about anything. Reminds me of a
certain egineer at Chico State who hires himself out
as an expert witness in slip and fall cases and the
like, for whoever the highest bidder
thank you sweet Jesus.
m
bye
John Landon
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Website on eonic effect
http://eonix.8m.com
http://www.eonica.net
- Original Message -
From: Chip Berlet [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Michael Pugliese [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 6:50 PM
Subject: Re: [PEN-L:12818] WBAI: let it die
Hi,
It is Jim Marrs who is being featured on WBAI.
-Chip
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From:
This is all perfectly rational and a real not a potential Pareto
improvement. If the poor get 1 cent for every 1 million more the richest get
then as Blair will tell you the more millions the richest get the more the
poor get -and isnt that just dandy. The real issue is not the millions more
the
Tim should have added that because of leapfrog development and sprawl, the
bus service is set up to fail in a strict economic sense. If the city
were more compact, then it would work quite well.
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 05:52:09PM -0700, Tim Bousquet wrote:
--- Eugene Coyle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.aril.org/panikkar.htm
NINE WAYS NOT TO TALK ABOUT GOD
by Raimon Panikkar...
The Silence of God: The Answer of the Buddha
The June 6th New York Times has a story about the electricity crisis in
Brazil. It is outrageously misleading about the crisis.
I went to Brazil at the invitation of the Congress about two weeks ago.
In Brasilia I was part of a debate in the House of Deputies about the
very, very serious and
Before I went to Brazil I read a couple of posts from Ian about
international coffee markets.
I made use of those in my talk in the Congress, and I think to good
effect. I got great applause at the end, from at least one side of the
aisle.
I've been meaning to thank Ian and also to call
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From: Kevin Robert Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 4:46 PM
Subject: [marxist] CIA, drugs, and Plan Columbia
Verryyy interesting
23/05/01 UNITED STATES
CIA Tainted by
I would love to see pen-l help to develop the sort of analytical materials
that Gene reported. I know that others here, Ellen Frank, Doug Henwood,
the inestimable Max Sawicky and others frequently are called upon for
public presentations. I would not be surprised to see Tim call upon Gene
for
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