Michael Perelman (mich...@ecst.csuchico.edu) wrote on 2009-08-30 at
18:53:48 in about [Marxism] railroads:
In China, I gave 2 different talks about 150 -200 miles away from where I
was staying in Beijing and Shanghai. The trips took less than 2 hours;
very comfortable. I don't know
Michael Perelman (mich...@ecst.csuchico.edu) wrote on 2009-08-30 at
20:29:19 in about Re: [Marxism] railroads:
The trains were far more comfortable than planes.
If I could have power on my computer for the trip,
which is typical for modern trains, at least here in Europe
I would
(the original translation of the article cited in the controversial
Counterpunch piece that Fred posted. The original seems to me to be much
less controversial)
http://www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/article5691805.ab
Publicerad: 2009-08-26
Our sons are plundered of their organs
[Photo: Young
I was wrong about the Beijing-Shanghai Express Railway. My information
was way out of date. The gov't is building it as a 'traditional'
high-speed rail link, 220mph, not 'mag lev' design. I just looked it up.
It's expected to be completed by 2020.
David
Merkel's CDU loses big in regional elections
Results embolden left-leaning parties before national vote
BERLIN-German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party suffered heavy
losses in regional elections on Sunday, encouraging leftleaning parties ahead
of Germany's national elections set
S. Artesian (sartes...@earthlink.net) wrote on 2009-08-31 at 09:32:21
in
about Re: [Marxism] China investing heavily in infrastructure:
Railway
(was:railroads):
As for China's high speed trainsets-- look what you wrote: bogies [we call
them trucks in the US] and electric/electronics
David, on the aggregate data you gave, were you lumping together
freight human transport? If so, some of the data might be
misleading.
One other anecdote: I see railroad track quite often when I travel
around the US. I did not recall seing any railroads or even track
outside of the train
I have to admit that he mere mention of the name of Obama is not enough to
convince me to oppose the current health-care bill. My main problem is that
I do not understand what is in this legislation. It appears to be a mixed
bag, it is a thousand pages long, and God only knows how many gifts to
Adele Cannon Passes
Adele Cannon was a long-time Communist and California
Peace and Freedom activist. She was state treasurer of
the Peace and Freedom Party for many years, and the PF
candidate for Congress against Henry Waxman in the 2006
election. Her husband, Oneil, (who is now in his 90s)
ran
Jeff lays out the issue well. i would like to see some discussion on it.
the Subject line is a little off, the rule is not about length of posts
per se (the limit is 35 kB), but the length of a post which is already
available somewhere else on the web.
one point: Jeff states that for the
At 16:38 31/08/09 -0400, Les Schaffer wrote:
anyway, please discuss the issues of bandwidth, ease of reading long
online articles, difficulty parsing long posts, etc.
And I just wanted to correct the numbers I threw out before, when I said
that the webpage (107KB) was 7 times more data than the
Jeff wrote:
And I just wanted to correct the numbers I threw out before, when I said
that the webpage (107KB) was 7 times more data than the same article sent
as an email (16KB). It's much worse! I hadn't noticed, but that particular
webpage (but again, this is typical) was only the FIRST of 3
Les offers a telling comment on the potential value of the list for
discussion...as opposed to the mere forwarding of electronic
clippings.
I've suggested in the past...and would resurrect it here...that we
have particular topics for discussion at intervals. Other things
could be posted, as
From
Politico.com:
George Will calls for pull-out
By: Mike Allen
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=7234F616-18FE-70B2-A84F1D0E014AC4C1
S. Artesian (sartes...@earthlink.net) wrote on 2009-08-31 at 13:01:39 in
about Re: [Marxism] China investing heavily in infrastructure: Railway:
So let's look at this, China's network is 60,809 km vs the US 192, 123km.
China with 2,075,000 employees vs 164,000
[149,000 Class 1,
Luko...comparing the basic productivity of Chinese rail to US rail
is...weird. Why? Because the US doesn't have a rail system that is
particularly good, not when our highways are the main transport mode
for most things, including people. I would like to see a comparison with
*European* rail
Does it include passenger operations? Because China's Rail Knowledge
magazine reports 77,000 KM of total track in China, not 60,000 for 2006.
And you said that you guessed that the Chinese numbers include some
passenger lines. I tend to ignore guesses-- old habit. Anyway the number
of
The US, and its Canadian partners [Canadian Pacific and Canadian National
both own US railroads], have the most productive freight rail transportation
system. The passenger system is in many places, as David put it, yuck.
The money's in freight. That's why the bourgeoisie are there, that's
Ghosts of Germany's Communist Past Return for Election
By: Erik Kirschbaum
- Erik Kirschbaum is a Reuters correspondent in Berlin. August 28th, 2009
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate-uk/2009/08/28/ghosts-of-germanys-communist-past-return-for-election/
Will the party that traces its roots to
Japan opposition takes on economy after landslide
By ERIC TALMADGE, Associated Press Writer Eric Talmadge, Associated
Press Writer 1 hr 53 mins ago
TOKYO – Japan's likely next prime minister rushed to select Cabinet
ministers Monday after his party trounced the ruling conservatives in
elections
This is a partly at least misleading report not taking into account the changes that one of the
constituent elements of Die Linke - ie the former PDS which arose from the eastern Communist Party,
SED - went through nor does it take into account what the West German element,
originally called
If a non-European wants to really
understand what is going on he (she) has to read a countervailing reports
by ot er journalists (in differenr media).
Stephen Steiger, Praue, Czech Republic
^^^
CB Got any countervailing reports ?
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Japan Votes for Multipolarity
dredmond
Voters roundly reject the LDP's watered-down variant of a
US-subservient neoliberalism:
http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200908300210.html
Japan, it should be
The thing to remember is this: the NEW RULING party is simply a set of
factions that emerged from the OLD RULING party over 10 years ago.
They ran as opposition on MORE FREE MARKETS, DEREGULATION,
LIBERALIZATION and appeasement of big business interests that seek to
co-habit with American big
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