Max B. Sawicky
Up From Debt Reduction
". The tax cut having been granted, he can argue that only
his is affordable."-- Editorial, Washington Post, August 5, 2001
mbs informs us democrats and republicans squabbling and reversing roles. but
whether the medicare social security surplus is used fo
Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I do not want to have to keep monitoring this thread. It is a bad time
> for me. This sort of sarcasm has no please here. Please stop!!!
>
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 11:55:19AM -0700, Rakesh Bhandari wrote:
> >
> > Ah so someone like Kabeer is a b
[chirp] WAM
[grunt] BONK
[ribbit]SMASH
[cheep] SQUISH
. . .
mbs: defense spending could suffer in the atmosphere
of surplus mania. There hasn't been a determined push
for more defense since the 80's. We'll see how it fares
now.
Certainly the tax cut was an effort to prevent revenue
from financing spending, among other motivations, following
the 1981
PC sales continue to fall: Upgrade fatigue,
lack of innovation results in sales slump
By Gary McWilliams
Aug. 24 For the first time in 15 years, world-wide
pers
Patrick Bond writes:
> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:34:57 +0300
> From: "Michael Keaney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> If Wolfensohn really is inflicting such "damage" on the World Bank,
> should he not get some sort of PEN-L award in recognition?
Nah. Since whatever excellent destruction
At 10:13 PM 08/23/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>Just remember: Lyndon Larouche was
>once
>Lynn Marcus who wrote "Dialectical Economics" and ran thugs who broke up
>other "left" activities.
has anyone read "Dialectical Economics"? is there anything at all
worthwhile in that book? (It was written when L
[from where did 'mankind' get right to claim phenotypic immortality
for itself]
* IMPORTANT CONFERENCE *
BEYOND CLONING:
Protecting Humanity From Species-Altering Procedures
Friday-Saturday, September 21-22, 2001
Boston University, Conference Auditorium, George Sherman Union.
Sponsored by: Bo
Friday August 24, 4:00 PM
China's unemployed far outstrip available jobs
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's jobless far outnumber available positions, with
2.22 million unemployed competing for 1.54 million jobs in major cities in
the second quarter of this year, state media said on Friday.
According
--Next time you see "according to CCP statistics 'x' percentage of
enterprises in China are collectively owned"...take a note of the 'Sunan
model' mentioned as the alternative to the Wenzhou model...
Steve
SCMP
Friday, August 24, 2001
City gets down to business as model for rise of red capita
Rakesh Bhandari wrote:
> henwood referred to those who characterize the anti sweatshop movement as
> protectionist as bourgeois hacks--to this you do not object!
Hmm, the first version of this was labeled "offlist," as was this
response, initially. But since turned out not to be, neither will
I have a copy. I wrote the author to ask him a question. He wrote back
with a 3 or 4 page single spaced type written letter.
I was impressed with the book at the time, but I don't remember why.
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 07:02:14AM -0700, Jim Devine wrote:
> At 10:13 PM 08/23/2001 -0700, you wrot
I don't care now about who did what when. The list was going quite well
until you revived this vituperation. It must cease immediately.
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 02:13:40AM -0700, Rakesh Bhandari wrote:
> Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > I do not want to have to keep monitoring
Read a little. The annotated bibliography in the back, is fascinating.
Comments on everyone from Kant to Rosa Luxemburg. Also in the body of the
text he goes on and on about Riemann(?) Some physicist?
Maybe, I'll check it out of the SFPL.
Michael Pugliese
-Original Message-
From: Jim D
I appreciate the reply, Doug, though I don't think it's fair as to what I have
already written. Unfortunately because you ignore that I have to repeat myself.
>
>
>
> It's clear from these repeated characterizations that you know
> nothing about the movement, except maybe what you've pi
A friend of mine here that comes from a rough and tumble Teamster family
met LaRouche in the early 70's. Before, "Operation Mop-Up." Larry sez
he laid out, in detail, how the U.S. would be de-industrialized.
An acquaintance, Tom Condit, of the Peace and Freedom Party, once told me
of his wife
Ian asks:
>[from where did 'mankind' get (the) right to claim phenotypic immortality
>for itself]
since it's only humanity that can define "rights" -- because there's no
such thing as "natural rights," since Nature can't determine "rights" --
humanity can claim any right it damn well pleases. B
> Ian asks:
> >[from where did 'mankind' get (the) right to claim phenotypic
immortality
> >for itself]
>
> since it's only humanity that can define "rights" -- because there's
no
> such thing as "natural rights," since Nature can't determine
"rights" --
> humanity can claim any right it damn w
According to Godley & Izurieta, and I believe them, in the current
implosionary era, monetary policy is especially ineffective at preventing
either deepening collapse or persistent stagnation. But what's fiscal
policy to do? The first quote below suggests the unlikelihood of further
expansiona
At 07:44 AM 8/23/01 -0700, you wrote:
>Today's front page column in the Wall St. Journal is on intellectual
>property. It emphasizes how seriously the ruling class takes the
>issue. "Next week some of the nation's brightest minds will gather at ...
>Jackson Hole to grapple with how intellectu
The Economist/August 25, 2001
EDITORIALS
Get a parachute
FOR the seventh time this year, America's Federal Reserve has cut interest
rates, this time by a quarter-point to 3.5%, leaving the federal-funds rate
a full three percentage points lower than at the start of 2001. Americans
hope that
I'm going to be getting off the list again
as of the end of today, but will send a few more
messages, as I see fit before then. Too busy.
Two comments on this:
1) I agree with Doug Henwood that it is unlikely
that there will be a plunge of the dollar. Currency
plunges happen to th
Dialectical Economics is not a bad presentation
of a purist form of Marxism. LaRouche was at
one point (1950s, I believe) a member of the SWP,
and thus a straight Trotskyist, so to speak. He
morphed from that into his own thing when he formed
the NCLC in the late 1960s, especially in respon
Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I don't care now about who did what when. The list was going quite well
> until you revived this vituperation. It must cease immediately.
Michael,
since you are blaming me for the vituperation, you obviously do care who did
what when. And you are
I'll try to respond to this when I have more time to do it right. But there
is something else I wanted to bring up from the International Health
Economics Association meeting.
There were several plenary and regular sessions focusing on the "Wilkinson
Hypothesis". That is to say the theory that
Brown, Martin - ARP (NCI) wrote:
>I'll try to respond to this when I have more time to do it right. But there
>is something else I wanted to bring up from the International Health
>Economics Association meeting.
>
>There were several plenary and regular sessions focusing on the "Wilkinson
>Hypot
DRINKING WATER
Compressed Data: Having Customers Say No to Tap Water
New York Times - 8/20/01
By David F. Gallagher,staff writer
It is no secret that the Coca-Cola Company would like
to sell the world more Coke. But some Web surfers were
still taken aback recently by the candor of an article
on o
What I said is that I don't care. Drop it. Don't bother the list with
old hat. I would rather than you engage in constructive dialogue.
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 11:53:54AM -0700, Rakesh Bhandari wrote:
> Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > I don't care now about who did what when
Having said in an earlier post that it is unlikely
that there will be a plunge of the dollar or of any other
of the big three currencies (what constitutes a plunge
is obviously a matter of debate), let me note that it is
not totally impossible. Indeed, in Chapter 16 of the
1991 edition of
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