Re: Will more violence provoke an extension of the US occupation?

Was this written by the Kerry election campaign team? :-P Paul Phillips Joel Wendland wrote: Statement of the Political Bureau: About Recent Events It is quite clear that these developments do not serve, in any way, the country s stability, and will not help to resolve any of its numerous pro

Re: [Fwd: corporate felons]

Have you checked with Russell Mokhiber's Corporate Crime Reporter? http://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/ jks --- paul phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am forwarding a couple of messages Fred Lee > circulated on his post > keynesian list that I thought would be equally of > interest to

US Fights to Keep Its Iraqi Allies on Board

At 10:09 PM -0400 4/9/04, Joel Wendland posted: If this course of events is persistently maintained, the people will then find themselves in a vortex of violence and violations of the law with unpredictable consequences and an extremely negative impact on the current main objective of Iraqi people:

Re: Will more violence provoke an extension of the US occupation?

- Original Message - From: "Joel Wendland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 9:09 PM Subject: [PEN-L] Will more violence provoke an extension of the US occupation? Statement of the Political Bureau: About Recent Events __

Will more violence provoke an extension of the US occupation?

Statement of the Political Bureau: About Recent Events The recent tragic and grave developments, which have taken place during the past few days in several cities in Iraq and resulted in hundreds of people killed and wounded, have only intensified the suffering of Iraqis and deepened their alread

[Fwd: corporate felons]

I am forwarding a couple of messages Fred Lee circulated on his post keynesian list that I thought would be equally of interest to those on pen-l. Paul Phillips Original Message --- Forwarded message follows --- Subject:corporate felons Date sent:

[Fwd: New Economics Student Journal At the New SchooL]

I am forwarding a couple of messages Fred Lee circulated on his post keynesian list that I thought would be equally of interest to those on pen-l. Paul Phillips --- Forwarded message follows --- Subject:New Economics Student Journal At the New SchooL Date sent:

interesting intellectual property book & technology

http://patrifriedman.com/prose-others/fi/commented/Future_Imperfect.html David Friedman has written a libertarian book on future. I just glanced at it. He is not bad on intellectual property. What is more interesting is the way it is set up to accept comments. I suspect a relative worked up th

James Petras commentary on Iraq

Third World Resistance and Western Intellectual Solidarity by James Petras [EMAIL PROTECTED] April 7, 2004 Falluja, Baghdad, Ramadi, Nasiriya - an entire people has risen to confront the colonial occupation army, its mercenaries, clients, and collaborators. First in massive peaceful protests, the

Kerry's Fiscal Policy Resembles Bush's

* April 09, 2004 CALL ME . . . IRRESPONSIBLE John F. Kerry! We hear you have a fiscal policy . Come on down! [Blogging from home. Note disclaimer at left.] In too many ways, the Kerry policy resembles the Bush policy, which I di

Re: unsubscribing...

This is so because for example - if the price and value of agricultural produce falls faster than commodities from the industrial sector, the working of the law of value is eclipsed - not visible, to the naked eye. Just one point then I have to go back to outhinking the computers

Re: unsubscribing...

In a message dated 4/9/2004 1:01:20 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >The real point to the introduction of the advanced technology is simplecost control-- closing X number of train control stations with X numberof personnel and combining the remaining into a central office wit

Re: unsubscribing...

this is what Braverman described when he wrote about "deskilling." The skills of the older workers are collected, codified, and controlled by management, making the employees more interchangeable. JD _ Yeah, that was the theory all right. Doesn't quite work out in practi

The Outskirts

Peter Lutsik's 1998 "The Outskirts" (Okraina), which just ended a one-week run at NYC's Anthology Film Archives, mixes the Communist nostalgia of "Goodbye Lenin", the deadpan humor of Finnish director Aki Kurismaki and the esthetic conventions of 1930s Soviet film. Set on the Russian steppes and fi

Twists & turns in intellectual property

Prisoners are copyrighting their names and then suing judges for violating their copyrights. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=99&u=/ct/20040317/cr_ct/whatsinanameafortunesomeinmatessay&printer=1 -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University michael at ecst.csuchi

Re: unsubscribing...

this is what Braverman described when he wrote about "deskilling." The skills of the older workers are collected, codified, and controlled by management, making the employees more interchangeable. JD --- An interesting facet of this issue about technology and use is technology and need... how

Re: unsubscribing...

I'd bet that 95 percent of users don't use all of the capabilities of their hardware & software. If so, much of these capabilities are simply marketing matters. Jim Devine __ That's why they call it "bells and whistles." Of course, you could spend hours and hours

Re: unsubscribing...

Devine, James wrote: > ravi writes: >RTFM = read the fucking manual. < > > so what do we do when Microsoft and similar companies don't provide a > manual? > your critique of HW/SW is quite correct. but in the limited sense of interacting with the list management software, the manual is fairly dece

Re: unsubscribing...

Further, I make a habit of never buying a manual from the company that should have provided one. I think other people should follow this practice. Microsoft either should give you a manual or make the program easier to use. -- JD -Original Message- From: Devine, James

Re: unsubscribing...

ravi wrote: > > there is a simple alternative: > > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line (in the body of > the message): > > HELP > here's what i found from the above. you can temporarily suspend your membership by sending email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line (in the message body): se

Re: unsubscribing...

ravi writes: >RTFM = read the fucking manual. < so what do we do when Microsoft and similar companies don't provide a manual? I know, go buy one: there's a series of books titled "the missing manual" for all sorts of programs. That means that the cost of software and hardware isn't as low as it

Re: unsubscribing...

paul phillips wrote: > > Perhaps you could post all the standard commands for unsubbing, or > postponing mail, and for resubbing etc. since many of us will be wanting > to postpone or unsub due to summer and conference travel, etc. and given > our state of academic dementia, our memories of how to

World Bank & Asian Univeristy "reforms"

On the CKMP list: Hassan Nasir wrote : The Awakening of the Sleeping Giant By Riaz Ahmed Teachers throughout South Asia are protesting against the government policy sponsored by the World-Bank of introducing drastic reforms in universities, colleges, schools and hospitals. The proposed reforms

Re: Unemployment caused Shi'ite uprising

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/09/04 9:09 AM >>> LA Times, April 9, 2004 UPRISING IN IRAQ In Kut, Postwar Optimism Gave Way to Disillusionment With U.S. Joblessness in the Shiite city is what drove young men to side with radical cleric Muqtader Sadr, a tribal leader says. Many residents are terrified. <<

Unemployment caused Shi'ite uprising

LA Times, April 9, 2004 UPRISING IN IRAQ In Kut, Postwar Optimism Gave Way to Disillusionment With U.S. Joblessness in the Shiite city is what drove young men to side with radical cleric Muqtader Sadr, a tribal leader says. Many residents are terrified. By Nicholas Riccardi, Times Staff Writer

Re: Mark Jones Was Right

Louis Proyect is wrong.  The article he reproduces in no way proves Mark Jones was right.  Mark Jones argued that the world had reached the end of its finite hydrocarbon reserves, particularly petroleum.   The limit for Mr. Jones was natural, geological-- not economic.  The NYT article conce

State sponsored terrorism vs. amorphous reality

URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/09/opinion/09WRIG.html New York Times April 9, 2004 One Hearing, Two Worlds By ROBERT WRIGHT Even a quite vigilant administration would have needed some luck to catch wind of Al Qaeda's plans. Moreover, President Bush was hardly alone in the cen