Australia is the only developed country to lock up those who apply for
asylum. [...Those who are accorded refugee status] are granted only
three-year temporary protection visas. They cannot get access to full
benefits, they have no right to English language classes and they cannot
bring over
Well, elephants refuse to work more than four hours a day; the rest of the
time they are petted, washed and fed by their handlers. I always thought
they were on to something.
Thanks for the good words on Sinclair's book, Tom -- and may he prosper.
Joanna
At 23:53 29-07-01, you wrote:
Three
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Friends,
There is a bill in the U.S. House that needs the help of third
Hi Ian, Ken and Andrew,
What is the whole? How could we possibly test/verify/falsify Hegel's
assertion? It was Protagoras who said man is the measure...
Ian
True enough, Protagoras said it. Aristotle just wrote it down. Kinda like
Socrates and Plato, I would've thought.
Ken, I take no
(Coming in on this thread late, here, sorry, just got back on the list this
morning)
Die Wahrheit ist die Ganze will translate as The truth is the whole. I
am pretty sure that is how Miller does it. --jks
Actually, Hegel's phrase is Das Wahre ist das Ganze, meaning the true is
the whole.
At 15:13 01-01-01, you wrote:
Chris Burford asked
Why is it happening?
My call is mismanagement -- a combination of inept labour cost accounting
practices and management credulity toward their own stupid propaganda has
led U.S. employers to pursue lower hourly labour _rates_ even at the
How I sympathise!
At the very same time I was undergoing the same treatment at Johns
Hopkins.
yours in profane illumination,
Joanna
Also (on the eve [Eve] of the
millennium):
Karl Marx, Results of the Immediate Process of Production
Appendix to
Capital vol. 1, 1976 translated by Ben Fowkes.
Hi pen-lers,
Under socialism, we would not want
to lower the standard of cleanliness public health. Instead,
we would want to socialize laundry, so that we could cease the wasteful
practice of individual purchase use of privately washing
machines. Doing the wash privately is not only
Hi Michael and Yoshie,
Not exactly right. The word entrepreneur may be a red flag to
some. To others, like me, the very idea that creating new needs can
be a good thing is anathema. Whether it's a cooperative venture or
a venture capitalist producing the new not-to-be-done-without item is of
no
At 19:00 10-11-00, Chris wrote:
Gore's supporters presumably had a
tendency to lack assertive middle class social skills, may
not have negotiated the ballot paper so effectively, may not have had the
confidence to have asked for a replacement, if they had made a mistake on
the first one, may
A. Cockburn
wrote:
As for Nader holding the country to ransom, what's wrong with a
hostage
taker with a national backing of 2.7 million people? The election
came
alive because of Nader. Let's hope he and the Greens keep it up
through the
next four years. Not one vote for Nader, Mr. Alterman? He
At 06:21 06-11-00, you wrote:
I've been floundering around for
twenty years or so trying to work out a
program -- not a vision, not a theoretical critique but a program.
Of
course a program needs to be grounded theoretically (here) and it needs
to
project a vision of where its going (there). One
At 12:22 19-10-00, Martin wrote:
The thing that I might find
distressing would be if a lawyer was needed -
and the same disparity in weighted value of hours exists. A lawyer could
get hundreds of hours of labor for a few hours of labored
citations.
Those who get paid in Ithaca money are
For those of you interested in local money...
I believe my home town of Ithaca, NY was the first to develop the idea,
encapsulated in Ithaca Hours (each one of which is, by common agreement,
worth ten dollars). And Paul Glover's the madman behind the
local tender scheme. He's also the one who
improve the lives of a few people -- but Doug is
probably
correct that the overall effect would be rather modest.
Doug Henwood wrote to LBO:
Joanna Sheldon wrote:
For those of you interested in local money...
I believe my home town of Ithaca, NY was the first to develop
the
idea, encapsulated
Schaapster,
That's where I get half of it. Just reminding you, is all. Ordered your
new book, too. At current cross-rates, they should be able to complete the
payments out of my estate ...
You should check to make sure the size of your Sutton holdings haven't been
figured into the amount you
another NPR story remarked unlike the Ozzies and the Kiwis, the "Yanks"
don't really have a cute nickname for themselves. What should it be?
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
The latest manifestation of empire isn't likely to be allowed a cute
nickname for
Just came across your answer of a few days ago, Tom.
Jo wrote:
Yeah? And who emerges from the spotless sheets? You positing a saviour
of some sort, Sandwichman?
Don't you mean:
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
I'll bet I
Yeah? And who emerges from the spotless sheets? You positing a saviour of
some sort, Sandwichman?
Jo
At 13:18 21-09-00 , you wrote:
There is an immaculate conception between this topic and the "Market as
God" thread.
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
215-2273
We'd love to help, down here, by keeping our air conditioners cranked up
all summer long (October to April) but that might make things worse...
Jo
At 14:14 13-09-00 , you wrote:
Re: Prayin' for a warm Winter
luckily, global warming will provide...
;-)
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Jim and Doug,
Brad writes:
Positively, totally, utterly, completely nutso.
Michael, isn't this the kind of abusive rhetoric which gets people expelled
from pen-l. (NB: I'm not in favor of expelling anyone. If Brad doesn't
clean up his act, I encourage everyone to put him on their filter
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At 17:54 31-07-00 , Ricardo wrote:
. My own view is that this problem is (partly) due to the
fact that the gay men who control the fashion are not interested in
real women but prefer them to look asexual or androgynous.
I agree entirely. In fact, I've been spouting this view, for years.
At 11:49 18-07-00 -0700, you wrote:
Ricardo, I did not think that Neil was really communicating with us.
--?? Michael. You having a bad day? On the face of it this is the most
unreasonable unsubbing I've ever witnessed.
Of course Ricardo's mocking us, Michael. Marxists, that is. More
Lou,
Multiply this baneful pattern across the world. Meanwhile, the classic
pastoralists, who have historically provided most of the meat in Africa
with grazing systems closely adapted to varying environments, are being
marginalized. Grain-based livestock production inexorably leads to larger
Lou,
Turning to the question of beef, pork, chicken, etc. We absolutely need to
drastically reduce their role in our diet. If one acre of soybeans, relying
on 100 gallons of water, can produce the same nutritional value as 100
acres of grazing land, relying on 10,000 gallons of water, then we
Hi Rob,
Just that most Marxists seem to agree that the development of a class for
itself would have to occur outside extant institutions. The theory being
that those extant institutions (including unions) are complicit in the
perpetuation of capitalist hegemony, and that any policy to advance
Or is the central question to do with that self-institutionalising
dissenting movement? Human agency - the self-conscious drive to become the
subject of our history, if you like. I have no idea why these movements pop
up when they do - and why they don't when they don't. Neither the
...and the jabs keep coming. I wish more folks would take time out to
realise that the personal insult is more damaging to communication than it
is corrective of behaviour. A little self- (read ego-) sacrificial, I mean
modest, questioning -- even if it only poses as modest -- would be far
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