Penners
In the context of the MI6 review of the secret state effectively
sidelining MI5's role re criminal intelligence, and Mark Jones' repeated
comments regarding the continuing existence and importance of
inter-state rivalry (contra globaloney), to name but two subtexts, this
is, to say the
New York Times 2 September 2001
Separate and Unequal on the West Bank
By AMIRA HASS
RAMALLAH, West Bank- From my living room window in Ramallah, a
Palestinian city, I see the lights of the Israeli settlement Pesagot
on the opposite mountain. Across the eastern road of my neighborhood,
there
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Subject: Failing to make the connection - Haaretz
Haaretz Wednesday,
September 7, 2001 For more information:
News ReleaseCall John Rowntree (916) 446-1758
GEORGE WRIGHT TO TALK ABOUT THE U.S. RULING CLASS AT THE MARXIST SCHOOL OF
SACRAMENTO
George Wright, professor of political science at California State
University, Chico
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The only difference this time is that the USA and Israel were made to
walk out in a huff, unable to play the roles of anti-racist leaders
of the free world, which made the conference a far more politically
provocative spectacle than otherwise. Yoshie
This is pretty thin gruel. I
From NY Times
September 7, 2001
World Bank Presses Inquiry on Economist Who Dissents
By JOSEPH KAHN
ASHINGTON, Sept. 6 The World Bank is
conducting a disciplinary investigation of one of its highest-ranking
economists, who sharply criticized
At 08:53 AM 9/7/01 -0400, you wrote:
I read the document
quickly, but from what I could see the US was
not treated very roughly at all. For one thing,
the words United States do not appear in the
document.
the US was supporting its main ally in the Middle East (and it needs its
allies). If
[Good to know how the other side thinks]
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/articles/Einhorn0901.html
The World Bank's Mission Creep
By Jessica Einhorn
Jessica Einhorn is former Managing Director of the World Bank and is
now a consultant at Clark Weinstock.
LESS IS MORE
The World Bank and the
[Esty has also called for sinking the WTO if doesn't meet certain
criteria]
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/issue_SeptOct_2001/esty.html
A Term's Limit
Many flocked to the banner of sustainable development, but it led them
nowhere.
By Daniel C. Esty
Sustainable development has been the
GROWL VICTORY: HHS TO HOLD REGIONAL HEARINGS ON WELFARE
TOMMY THOMPSON MEETS DEMAND TO HEAR DIRECTLY FROM MOTHERS ON WELFARE
Sep 7--When nearly 100 members of Grassroots Organizing for Welfare
Leadership (GROWL) descended on the Washington, D.C. offices Tommy
Thompson on January 31, 2001
Yoshie wrote:
I doubt that Israel will get much sympathies (outside the USA) for
being picked on. No one likes the teacher's pet, you see. :-
As Bob Herbert wrote in the New York Times, If absolutely everything
had gone well at the heroically named conference -- which is still
under way in
Synergies across environmental and social issues are limited . . .
Are limited is in the agressively passive tense. The studied inattention
to WHAT limits those synergies is the keynote of 'sustainable development'.
The 570,000 hits that Esty mentions have by now grown to 753,000 on Google.
Just
. . . and unemployment can't be abolished until capitalism is abolished.
Jobless Rate Surges to 4-Year High
By Caren Bohan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. unemployment rate soared to a four-year
high in August as companies hacked 113,000 workers from their payrolls, the
government said on
At 09:59 AM 9/7/01 -0700, you wrote:
The jobless rate climbed to 4.9 percent from 4.5 percent in July, the Labor
Department said.
that's a big change!
It should be noted that most of the optimistic forecasts (those that
predict recovery in a few months) also say that unemployment is going to
Jim Devine wrote:
There's a difference between a workers' recession (rising
unemployment rates) and a official -- bourgeois -- recession
(falling real GDP).
The bourgeoisie are experiencing a recession too - profits are way
off, and the stock market is in the tank. Investment banks are
Doug wrote:
The bourgeoisie are experiencing a recession too - profits are way off,
and the stock market is in the tank. Investment banks are laying people
off by the thousands.
yup, but it's not official yet. And the optimists are still predicting that
recovery is just around the corner.
By
Jobs Byte
By Dean Baker
September 7, 2001
Unemployment Jumps, as the Economy Sheds More Jobs
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Over the last three months, the private sector has
lost 349,000 jobs.
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The unemployment report
Jim Devine wrote:
real wages also increase when low-wage workers are the first to be fired.
Do we know that's actually happening? Manufacturing workers are
losing jobs most rapidly of all, and they paid higher than average.
Doug
At 02:49 PM 9/7/01 -0400, you wrote:
Jim Devine wrote:
real wages also increase when low-wage workers are the first to be fired.
Doug asks:
Do we know that's actually happening? Manufacturing workers are losing
jobs most rapidly of all, and they paid higher than average.
I don't know if it's
[was: Re: [PEN-L:16851] Re: Re: Re: Re: re: Welfare can't be abolished
until unemployment is abolished]
I wrote:real wages also increase when low-wage workers are the first to
be fired.
Doug asks:Do we know that's actually happening? Manufacturing workers are
losing jobs most rapidly of
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Michael Perelman asked,
What does liberty mean?
According to the anonymous author of the Source and Remedy of the National
Difficulties, wealth is liberty -- liberty to seek recreation -- liberty to
enjoy life -- liberty to improve the mind: it is
Businessweek, SEPTEMBER 7, 2001
COMMENTARY
By Pete Engardio
Is That Asia in America's Mirror?
For clues as to why the U.S. economy went bust in 2001, look at why Asia
melted down in the '90s. Hint: Denial plays a big role
Return with me for a moment to January, 1994. The stock markets
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, DAILY REPORT, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2001:
RELEASED TODAY: Employment fell and the unemployment rate rose sharply to
4.9 percent in August, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports today.
Nonfarm payroll employment declined by 113,000, due primarily to another
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Michael Perelman asked,
What does liberty mean?
According to the anonymous author of
Doug wrote: real wage growth has actually picked up for U.S. workers -
it's approaching 2% year-on-year in private services. Service prices are
rising more slowly than wages, putting a squeeze on profits.
oh, yeah, I forgot: is it possible that the economy is sliding upward along
a
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Subject: [PEN-L:16858] rising real wages in a recession
Doug wrote: real wage growth has actually picked up for U.S.
workers -
it's approaching 2% year-on-year in
http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opinterview.jsp?id=ns23075
Interesting article and important argument about a stabilisation of the
population of the globe within 100 years.
More detailed argument is about whether fall in fertility rates will stop
at the break even point of 2.1 or
I went to look at a website devoted to workplace problems. I found this
message:
http://www.disgruntled.com/
We are sorry to report that Disgruntled editor Daniel S. Levine has
resigned because of an ongoing dispute over wages, benefits and working
conditions at this magazine. As a result, we
In my Invention of Capitalism, I wrote: John Locke, often seen as a
philosopher of liberty, called for the commencement of work at the ripe
age of three (Cranston 1957, 425).
Ian Murray wrote:
Locke's 'utopia' was a *3* hour
workdayIf I remember my source right it's in one of Richard
What make one of shrub's announcement that to 'help the economy' he would
urge more spending cuts next year? Something about that sounded eerily
Hooverian to me, not of the J Edgar brand either...
Steve
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Jim Devine wrote:
Doug wrote: real wage growth has actually picked up
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