At 5:17 PM -0800 12/31/02, Dorman, Peter wrote:
This is an unsatisfying view, one which undermines the subversive --
and realistic -- history-telling pretentions of the film. A better
film would have placed the gangs within the larger structural
formations of mid-19th century society: the
At 10:09 PM -0500 12/31/02, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
Peter criticizes the oversight about people at work and the
political implications of that. I noted that as well. But the film
implies that for the working class, the gang structure superceded
all other social attachments. Right or wrong,
Title: new frontiers in absudity
from SLATE: The President's [i.e., Dubya's] new gambit is that an attack by Saddam Hussein would cripple the U.S. economy. A Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is a threat to the security of the American people, he says in the NY [TIMES].
JD
Title: Orwell/doublethink/Iraq
Triumph of doublethink in 2003
Orwell warned against the kind of lies we are being fed about Iraq
Paul Foot
Wednesday January 1, 2003
The Guardian [U.K.]
This year, I suppose, for many of us will be George Orwell year. He was born in 1903, and died in
Jan. 1, 2003
RE: Re: Re: Huck Finn
Hi Max,
For me, one of the most striking passages in HTIBW concerns the, at times,
non-segregated relations between black/white prisoners in Philadelphias
Walnut Street Jail (pp.45-51). Given the rigid segregation now in
jails/prisons (at least in
Right. In this respect, incidentally, the friendship in the
film between the Irish and the black seems like a film cliche
but is actually true to the history. There was enough mingling
for such an alliance to be plausible. At the same time, it isn't
overplayed. The black man is not prominent
If the inspectors do find weapons of mass destruction, it is proven that
Iraq needs to be bombed. If the inspectors do not find weapons of mass
destruction, it is proven that Iraq is even more clever and needs to be
bombed twice over. Paul Z.
fight the hate, end the occupation
PALESTINE TRUTH TOUR 2003
First-hand reports from Palestine.
With speakers, video, photos, and more.
Will feature new video from the filmmaking collective Big Noise Films
(www.bignoisefilms.com) as well as speakers with eyewitness reports
from Palestine. The
with a break for lunch, yes, at the York Theater in SF about 15 or 20 years
ago.
And btw not a bad format as precedent, for a film that has it all.
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Cabinet papers released under the thirty year rule from 1972 show how the
use of force by the state is critical in extreme situations but in order to
perpetuate an oppressive relationship, it is necessary for the state to
moderate it by appearing to stand above it.
In the case of the miners
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Greetings Economists,
MBS writes,
Right. In this respect, incidentally, the friendship in the
film between the Irish and the black seems like a film cliche
but is actually true to the history. There was enough mingling
for such an alliance to be plausible. At the same time, it isn't
overplayed.
[This seems kind of unbelievable. Isn't the first fallacy that economics
101 sets out to refute the idea that a household budget is analogous to a
set of national accounts? I thought it was regarded not only as a fallacy
but as the shibboleth of economic ignorance. Has something changed that a
Michael,
I don't think Rogoff is making the econ 101 mistake you attribute to
him. He is arguing against the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy that,
because austerity follows IMF intervention the IMF is necessarily
responsible for it . The problem is not that the IMF loans money,
however, or
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Peter Dorman wrote:
Michael,
I don't think Rogoff is making the econ 101 mistake you attribute to
him. He is arguing against the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy that,
because austerity follows IMF intervention the IMF is necessarily
responsible for it.
Yes he tacks
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