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Maybe when the Democrats are (s)elected, they'll float
government bonds and tax the plutocrats to save the
Social Security system. The ex-workers of the baby
boom generation form a very large market to throw
inventory surpluses at. It would be ashame to see
them and their buying habits fade
Has any one here written about the new wave of electronic voting
machines or know of any good material on the subject? My sister-in-law
is researching this for a talk she is giving and would like some
critical commentary.
Thanks.
Bill
Try:
http://www.blackboxvoting.com/
http://gregpalast.com/
http://www.markcrispinmiller.blogspot.com/
Michael Pollak PEN-L post, Sunday, September 14, 2003 7:16 PM Insecure
code for electronic voting, Financial Times, Sep 12, 2003
Macdonald Stainsby (rad-green list) also has information on this.
There's a lot on the blogs on this. Check the archives on
www.calpundit.com, www.dailykos.com, and www.talkingpointsmemo.com
mbs
Bill Lear wrote:
Has any one here written about the new wave of electronic voting
machines or know of any good material on the subject? My sister-in-law
is
Is it possible that this manuscript could be posted on the pen-l web-site?
Jim
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From: paul phillips [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wed 11/12/2003 4:58 PM
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Cc:
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Karl Marx on
Is it possible that this manuscript could be posted on the pen-l web-site?
Jim
If you post that on the website, I suppose I better cancel my subscription.
J.
Judging from the politics chat roomsmany (but
not all) are incapable of political discoursebeyond
mudslinging matches between people who consider themselves liberals or
conservatives, or democrats and republicans..Socialism is a term used by
conservatives to apply to any liberal or
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From: Max B. Sawicky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 8:08 AM
Subject: Re: Electronic voting machines
There's a lot on the blogs on this. Check the archives on
www.calpundit.com, www.dailykos.com, and
How would it be possible to have a recount with these machines? And what
replaces party scrutineers? Or do they have them in the US. Are there are
laws regulating the manufacturers of these machines. It seems that they are
able to donate to political parties. That is an open invitation to fraud..
no, I don't mean posting it to the list-server. Last time I looked, there were
archives at the web-site. Paul's paper -- and others -- could be added to the archive.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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From:
This exchange is another on several lists that I've seen regarding the
allegedly unaccountable voting machines which doesn't deal with the fact
that this is, at least in terms of patronage if not of program, a two-party
system. If one party seeks to squirrel votes in a machine not open to public
A useful article on U.S. profit rates, from a marxian perspective, has been
published recently by Ed Wolff (What's behind the rise in profitability in
the US in the 1980's and 1990's? in the July issue of the Cambridge
Journal of Economics vol 27; write me off list for those needing an e-version).
Paul,
I would be interested in this paper.
Given tendency for relative reduction in valorization base--coupled
with fact that the higher the rate of exploitation already is, the
less productivity gains can raise it further--I have trouble
understanding how a rise in the rate of increase in the
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Another Lost Decade for Latin America?
FTAA Not Likely to Help Reverse the
Region's 25-year Economic Failure
On the eve of the FTAA Ministerial Meeting in Miami, all sides hope that
It seems to me that a context of rising profits (unless you
believe it is over) will have strategic importance to our assessments of
the medium term directions of the US economy - and the types of challenges
we will face.
As I explained before on PEN-L, Karl Marx believed equilbrium was
This has already happened in some instances where one party thinks they have
been wronged. But one would think that both parties would reject the
machines. Perhaps they think this will be an equal opportunity tampering
system!
You would think both parties would want some sort of check on
China sweetens belligerent US with $6bn jets and limos spree
Jonathan Watts in Beijing
Friday November 14, 2003
The Guardian
China is attempting to shop its way back into favour with the United
States with $6bn (£3.5bn) worth of contracts with American companies aimed
at easing the growing trade
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who became a hero to
religious conservatives for refusing to remove his granite Ten Commandments
monument from the state courthouse, was thrown off the bench Thursday by a
judicial ethics panel for having placed himself above the law. (...) The
Have you read this guy? Would you recommend?
Joanna
Jurriaan Bendien wrote:
The radical imagination of Cornelius Castoriadis, by Scott McLemee
Paris in the forties was a city awash in forged identities and remade lives.
But few transformed themselves as completely as Cornelius Castoriadis.
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From: joanna bujes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Have you read this guy? Would you recommend?
Joanna
Yes. Crossroads in the Labyrinth is an excellent book to start with. He
pillories Lacan, has a great chapter on Merleau-Ponty, moves onto all the
great
I read Castoriadis in the late 1970s and early 1980s, before the
establishment started publishing his stuff (I worked in a leftwing
bookshop). Particularly his critical interpretation of Marxism as religion
(under the pseudonym Paul Cardan), featuring pictures and cartoons based on
Gustav Dore's
I hope that Fred comments on why and how he measures the VCC
differently than Wolff.
It's unclear why in one period there would be capital saving
innovations and in another period not. Schumpeterian bouts of
innovation?
As for sectoral disaggregation, I don't see how the movement of
capital into
http://www.nationmaster.com
There are some surprises. For example:
GDP real growth rate [7.5%]
1. East Timor 18% (2001 est.)
2. Man, Isle of 13.5% (1999 est.)
3. Kazakhstan 12.2% (2001 est.)
4. Turkmenistan 10% (2001 est.)
5. Armenia 9.6% (2001 est.)
6. Mozambique 9.2% (2001 est.)
7. Ukraine 9%
PARIS, Nov 9 (AFP) - French wine and spirit exporters, already suffering a
slide in their sales on the lucrative US market, face an ominous new hurdle
next month when a law aimed at combating bioterrorism comes into effect in
the United States. The Bioterrorism Act, due to come into force December
NY Times, November 13, 2003
For Albanians, It's Come to This: A Son for a TV
By NICHOLAS WOOD
DURRES, Albania, Nov. 11 Fatmira Bonjaku's husband is in jail, accused
by the police of selling their 3-year-old son to an Italian man in
return for the television set that six other children watch in
Chronicle of Higher Education
November 14, 2003
Empty Promises?
Community colleges in North Carolina struggle to provide retraining to
displaced blue-collar workers
By JAMILAH EVELYN
Kannapolis, N.C.
Just past noon on a dreary fall day, Walter Waller sits in an
oak-paneled, fluorescent-lit room
The radical imagination of Cornelius Castoriadis, by Scott McLemee
Paris in the forties was a city awash in forged identities and remade lives.
But few transformed themselves as completely as Cornelius Castoriadis. When
the young Greek émigré arrived, in 1945, he settled down to write a doctoral
I'm absolutely in favor of anything that will strengthen the American
flag, said Clark, who stood on a chair and answered questions from the
crowd. I'm in favor of the American flag amendment.
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/7241899.htm (Eli drew my attention
to this)
According to a
A nonfiction book out this month - The Gospel of Mary of Magdala, by Karen
King of the Harvard Divinity School - strikes a different chord. An
eight-page fragment lost for 1,500 years, this gospel, written in the second
century, tells of a conversation among Mary, Peter, Andrew, and Levi about a
The UAE and other Middle East oil heavyweights need to pump nearly $100
billion into their hydrocarbon sector in five years to expand their
production capacity of oil and gas and meet a steady growth in global
demand, according to independent estimates.But most of them could find
difficulty in
Sales of Christian fiction have doubled since 1995, according to [Joan
Marlow Golan, senior editor at Harlequin's Steeple Hill imprint]. And
Romance Writers of America reports that inspirational novels grew from 6.4
percent of the romance market in 2001 to 7 percent in 2002. The new
Harlequin line
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