I am still trying to figure out what happened. TV is out. Radio is
repeating same stuff. CNN site didn't work, last I tried it. CBC.ca is
repeating CBC Radio. Anyone outside the zone of collapse with better
data?
I wrote:
but the authorities were absolutely useless.
The height of the stupidity,
Yeah, I botched Mr. Morrison's lyrics. Shows you how rattled I was.
There's danger on the edge of town,
Ride the king's highway.
Weird scenes inside the goldmine;
ride the king's highway west, baby.
Lemme tell ya, I was more than ready to ride the highway west, baby.
But, then, friends in
You are one helluva good man, Euble.
I appear to have missed it, or be caught between the replay and
conference. I will check it out on replay, though.
Many, many thanks.
Ken.
--
He took a face from the ancient gallery,
And he walked on down the hall.
-- Jim Morrison
Anders wrote (in reply to many thoughts):
Maybe I'm not reading carefully enough, but did you answered
Doug's question about what your alternative would be? You say
what you would not advise them to do, but that's really not an
answer. I'm sure they could come up all by themselves lots
of
Bush Impeached? Wanna Bet?
By Leander Kahney
Wired.com
02:00 AM Aug. 04, 2003 PT
Though there was an outcry over the Pentagon's terrorism futures market,
a similar online exchange is in the works to predict what the U.S.
government is up to.
The American Action Market will offer various
I would have bought futures on Poindexter getting axed after announcing
a futures market.
Ken.
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In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.
-- Laurence J. Peter
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Poindexter to Leave Pentagon Research Job
Project to Create Futures Market on Events in Middle
New Top General Tells Legislators U.S. Will Probably Need a Larger Army
By THOM SHANKER
New York Times
WASHINGTON, July 29 The former Special Operations commander called
from retirement to be Army chief of staff said today that the Army is
likely to need more troops to meet its worldwide
Beautiful.
Thanks, Dan.
There are so many ways to use media to create powerful propaganda -- the
latter being defined as propagation of message, not the sometimes more
common definition of manipulation.
This is one.
I don't know the organization behind it. But I like the site name and
the
I think Doug hits the point of why this is a bigger news media story...
the inherent hypocrisy of it.
Get fired. Go to school... get your degree... be part of the American
Dream... and get fired again.
Ken.
--
You never know if you've got a happy ending [to your life] until you
finally die. I
Quebec has a great (and recent) tradition of social unity and
defiance -- notably back to the asbestos strikes of the 1950s. That,
married to the general youthful opposition to Premier Duplessis and the
government collusion with the Roman Catholic Church, led to the
development of a mass cultural
Traditional intelligence services remain rather poor at what they do --
at least relative to the mythology Hollywood and the conspiracy buffs
have created around them. It's not uncommon for them to miss things that
seemed obvious to non-professionals. (Iran in 1979 is an obvious and
recent one;
Awww... they killed it.
I was looking forward to buying futures on Bush dying in a snack-related
mishap.
Ken.
--
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do
with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
-- Will Rogers
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Pentagon Folds Hand in
SPOTLIGHT PERSPECTIVES
Excerpted from article:
Consumer side:
What I think they're going to do is start suing moms and
dads and families across America. They could lose their
house or lose their ability to send their kids to college.
That is not the intent of copyright statutes, to
Jim wrote:
I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal
affairs of Iraq.
-- U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz.
Great quote, sir.
Americans are never foreign in their own eyes any more. Even their
leaders of foreign policy are never foreign.
They are always right
David Shemano wrote:
If we didn't add value, why would we be hired?
I think I answered that already.
Mafia.
Ken.
--
... the fear of facing the world, including its works of
literature, without an intellectual narcotic at hand.
-- Frederick Crews
Jim wrote:
That said, I don't think lawyers are totally unproductive;
I agree. The collision of individual interests has to be resolved in
some manner. No matter the system.
There will be costs.
The current system, commercially, is based on getting a commercial
lawyer to check-off your deal.
David Shemano wrote:
I am corporate bankruptcy attorney, which is primarily
transactional ...
We need those a fair bit today, no? ...
But, more respectfully, what is the value you provide outside the
parametres for business collection upon failure (and how is that
different than Repo Men)?
Michael wrote:
Do lawyers really limit transactions costs. I thought that
they maximized billable hours.
They _do_ limit transaction costs... if you count resultant contractual
law suits as part of transaction costs.
It's a kind of mafia protection racket... Let me vet your contract, so
that I
Michael wrote:
I think that we need to have a vision of what socialism can
offer -- not just lower unemployment or lower taxes or some
other modification of what we have today. If utopianism is
the creation of such a vision then it can be very important
in building socialism. It is not the sum
Carrol wrote:
How much money do the TV networks, the advertisers, and
the makers of the products advertised make off of
them.
Which is why I say we boycott baseball. (What a stupid waste of money,
anyway. They ain't neighborhood heroes anymore.)
In terms of another sport, hockey, I agree with
Denise wrote:
Rickey Henderson is playing left field for the
Newark, New Jersey, Bears, a minor league team
that is unaffiliated with any major league team.
Good for him. (If that is true.)
Rickey was the most Satchel of all the other Paiges in the book of
baseball.
Ken.
--
And it's
I have been following Chris Burford's comments on New Labor and related
discussion sites. He mentioned Marxism Today.
I long wondered about Marxism Today, who was behind it, where did the
money come from. It appeared in mainstream book store magazine sections
in Toronto in the early-mid 90s. I
SIDE COMMENT:
I find it curious that Jacques, in the interview from Tribune in the
previous post (Marxism Today), refers to the last special issue of MT
as dealing with Blair's performance to date (the interview is posted as
9th October 1998):
But now the Blair project, as Marxism Today will
Tom Walker wrote:
Science World here in Vancouver runs a continuous loop of
the 1987 Fischli and Weiss film The Way Things Go. The
borrowings of the Honda ad from the film are obvious to
anyone who has viewed both.
I didn't know that. But not surprising. It's an ad -- and people in
I wrote:
Rather, those spouting conventional wisdoms are
able to be more easily understood in the small
space of time they will get on camera.
Tom Wrote:
Or, to cite the Far-Sighted Manifesto by Francis
Picabia, worn by Andr Breton on a sandwichboard:
POUR QUE VOUS AIMIEZ
QUELQUE CHOSE IL
Jim has been taking in some advanced US art.
The Hulk was kind of creator Stan Lee's Freudian extreme example of
the general way he made Marvel Comics a serious competitor against DC
Comics.
As I recall, Marvel arose around 1961 or so. It was far distant in
revenues.
Lee built on a trend in
Michael writes:
I haven't gone into it much farther since I read Michael
Lewis's Moneyball yesterday. Although it deals with
the management of the Oakland Athletics, it actually
contains some very interesting material about market
inefficiencies -- how a very cash-poor team was able to
buy
Very interesting.
I recall (and this is all from memory, so forgive errors on exact stats)
the most interesting financial conclusion James came to was about trade
value -- and how lesser lights in the front office were continually
taken on the market.
In particular, statistical analysis of the
Sorry Michael --
I wrote too fast in this second last paragraph:
James also did another form of that study, showing
performance value based on when a player got the
big contract. It might be related to the age study,
maybe not. Applies a lot more to pitchers, who are
more age resistant.
I
More hyperbolic shazbot from Business 2.0.
The ad itself is interesting as actual art -- kind of the old game
Mousetrap meets the Art Gallery of Ontario -- funded by an auto
manufacturer. (www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,50151,00.html)
As actual advertising, it is another familiar novelty.
Car insurance signs clear: bumpy road ahead
Complex reasons for rising rates
THOMAS WALKOM
Toronto Star
June 21 2003
Ontario's auto insurance system doesn't work. After three governments
and almost 15 years of tinkering, that's the sad reality.
The obvious problems are well known. Premiums are
As to the recent multilateralist tensions...
Is there some deeply entrenched reason that North America and Europe
(whether the UK ever decides to be in that or not) have different
reactions to world events -- including socialist ideas?
Maybe a burn out factor, to use a colloquial term?
For
In terms of Mr. Bendien's take on history... I could not agree more.
Foreground and background are simple painting ideas...
But, when used in political/materialist history, it often seem to baffle
the religious textualists.
(And leave it to French academics to make a complex discipline out of
If this is what the guy looked like, one really does have to wonder
about security, or perhaps what is meant by fancy dress...
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_792983.html
Look... we here in Canada had a heart-stopping moment when a serious
assassination attempt was made on our Prime
I never knew Hatch was such a Renaissance Man... Wonder what the tunes
were? $18,000 in 2002 royalties...
Poor music industry fighting the Internet... now making allies with Tin
Pan Alley Hatch... and becoming a government sanctioned virus
propagator.
Ken.
--
The more I study religions, the
Manitoba to create greenhouse gas exchange
Canadian Press
Wednesday, Jun. 18, 2003
Manitoba is formally pursuing the creation of a commodities exchange to
buy and sell greenhouse gas emission credits.
The NDP government has asked Lloyd Axworthy, former Winnipeg MP and
foreign affairs minister,
I wrote:
I never knew Hatch was such a Renaissance Man... Wonder
what the tunes were? $18,000 in 2002 royalties...
And Ian replied, and very very quickly, by the way:
http://www.hatchmusic.com/songs.html
I do not want to know why you have that URL so close at hand, Ian.
The Hatch
And Ian replied, and very very quickly, by the way:
http://www.hatchmusic.com/songs.html
I do not want to know why you have that URL so close
at hand, Ian.
=
Hello, Google, Hello.
Uh huh. Suuure, Ian. :)
Btw, my college roommate's father used to work for the CIA.
On the one hand, I hate having to wade through 300+ email crap every
day. (I have old, Web published, email addresses from media work. Those
addresses have been harvested and used by spammers -- as I would imagine
many in academia also have a problem with.) It would be nice to only get
email from
House Discloses Itself to Be Poorer Sibling of the Senate
By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.
New York Times
WASHINGTON, June 16 Compared with the millionaires' club in the
Senate, many leaders in the House of Representatives have wealth more in
line with that of successful middle managers, according to
'Straussians' in the news; the world trembles (II)
Clifford Orwin
National Post
Tuesday, June 17, 2003
In yesterday's column I began to address the allegations that a sinister
cabal of Straussians dominates American foreign policy and was
responsible for the war against Saddam. Many would have
Ellen wrote:
I recall reading some poll results where a majority
identified the line from each according to his ability
to each according to his need as coming from the US
Constitution.
You might mean a 1987 Boston Globe magazine poll which claimed that
about half the American population
Sorry to have gone on too long about this book (Postmodern Pooh,
Crews)... and talked about postmodernism itself. After this post, I will
not mention Pooh again.
But I have just finished it... reread it even. I also actually searched
for the footnote citations and found every single one. As one
The biggest legal defence to the legendary ineptitude of VeriSign (nee
NSI) has been this notion that there is no intellectual property in a
domain name. It's a license.
I guess that is a way of saying it is a monopoly and not liable for
damages for incompetence on the part of the license
Sabri wrote:
Today, I went to Home Depot to buy some halogen lamps. After
I picked up the lamps, I proceeded to the check out area and
came across this automated cashier there: You scan your own
items, swipe your credit card and all.
What will happen to the human cashiers if one of these days
Walking thru the Art Gallery of Ontario with a friend, she commented on
the wall of contributors as we were leaving. I said, off-handedly, it
was a wall of people with too much money. She said it was _because_ of
these people that we had just enjoyed a couple hours. I said that was
technically
'Straussians' in the news; the world trembles (I)
Why not blame the war on a sinister clique which
has duped the public and even the President?
Clifford Orwin
National Post
Monday, June 16, 2003
Hardly a day passes now when I don't wake up to read about myself in the
papers. I've become one of
In thread [PEN-L] economics and sociology JKS wrote:
My 10 yr old son asked me yesterday, What kind of scientist
was Karl Marx? We had been talking about Galileo, Newton,
etc. And German idealism (They sort of believe the world
is like the Matrix, right, Dad?) (He made me insert the
word
JKS wrote:
Years ago I was stuck in traffic due to roadwork
with my daughter, then aged about 4
I am going to report you for child exploitation... doing roadwork with
your daughter.
No wonder you are a rightwingsexistbigotoppressordupe.
Ken.
--
From the contagion of the world's slow stain he
Michael writes:
pbs apparently has policy prohibiting persons being
interviewed for broadcast from using terms 'capitalist'
and 'capitalism', reference to 'business elite' is ok,
info comes from michael zweig who was recently
subjected to said policy...
Assuming that is true (and I have no
Hi Sabri --
I have nothing against the emancipation of humans from mundane
tasks Ken but the fact that the cashiers and bagboys of the
nation can't be relocated to Indonesia is a problem, is it not?
Yes it is a problem. A good problem.
So what now? should be the slogan of every non-Yanqui
Michael Perelman wrote:
I forgot about the Poole speech. It sounded dramatic, then
everyone poo-pooed it [is that ok, Ken] so I forgot about it.
Your sub-contextualization of a previous concretization of thought in
relation to the Pooh-ization of post-modernization is a micro-critical
Chris has put forward some ideas.
I am not an economist, but I would like to offer some ideas for other
areas to cover, or sub-areas.
ENVIRO: I didn't see anything about green business policies. I just
finished a private sector project on sustainable development. Whatever
else one wants to say
Another thing I think Aldo is right about is language. Write in common
parlance.
Academia has a terrible tendency to write in a private language that
keeps it dissociated from the public.
Along that line... Someone suggested that I should read Postmodern
Pooh since I like humor that skewers
Saddam paying to have U.S. troops killed: Chalabi
Exile leader says Saddam sighted on several occassions
NEW YORK (AP - June 10 2003) -- Saddam Hussein has been seen north of
Baghdad and is paying a bounty for every American soldier killed, the
leader of an Iraqi exile group said today.
Saddam
JKS wrote:
Crews is an English prof at Berkeley, best known to me as
as withering, merciless, and brilliant critic of psychoanalysis.
Apparantly he is a recovering Freudian,a nd decided to make life
hell for the remaining Freudians. I am not sure whether he has
radical politics, but he sure is
Hi Aldo --
I enjoyed your post. I like the 3 chaps you happened to mention in the
opening, so that part wasn't my fave.
Aside from that, I agree, and I like the style. I have often thought of
the Godot parallel. That was the thing that attracted me most to Mr.
Marx, the early idea of his about
Sabri the anarcho-Sufi-Leninist writes:
This is why I call myself an anarcho-Leninist with a
touch of Yunus Emre, the sufi humanist
That explains where the good humor comes from in your posts. :)
We could all use more sufi influence...
Ken.
--
Fundamentally, there is no more morality in world
Jim D wrote:
I'd say that the new economy involved two major sources:
1) government: the Pentagon-created and -subsidized ARPAnet,
along with all sorts of other government research subsidies.
Absolutely. There is nothing involving the Internet that would have
happened without a progression of
Is that a vanity press?
Ken.
--
Invest in land.
They have stopped making it.
-- Mark Twain
Grin...
Is that a vanity press?
Is that a joke?
You got it the first time. :)
Or just Canadian provincialism at work?
We have provinces! You have states!
A second gold star!
Ken.
--
Negative. We are not in the Eighth Dimension.
We are over New Jersey.
-- Buckaroo Bonzai
There is a simian-like figure accepting Prozac... and he is arguing with
Stanley Kubrick about being the owner of the bone he is about to throw
into space...
Ken.
--
The main figure is a horse's ass, head down, thinking of a drink but
afraid of a pretzel.
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