Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Have a happy and merry December 25

2011-12-25 Thread CeJ
Yes, once again we celebrate the life of our favorite religionist (heretical), biblical scholar, occultist, prophet of the apocalypse, and all around weird guy. Can we find anyone else born on 25 December? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_newton#Religious_views According to most scholars,

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Have a happy and merry December 25

2011-12-25 Thread CeJ
I nominate Rod Serling for our celebrated life. Certainly more socially interesting than most of what I see on lists like LBO Squawk or Marxmal or the A (sshole)-List. CJ On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 11:02 PM, CeJ jann...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, once again we celebrate the life of our favorite

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Why too- big -to- fail creditors should not be able to charge interest

2011-12-25 Thread CeJ
Because the rationale for charging interest is that the creditor faces risk of loss , risk of non-performance by the debtor. I don't think this applies to loans. They charge interest on loans in order to make a profit. Where else are bank profits going to come from? Another way of creating debt

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Ron Paul Supporter Openly Calls For Assassination Of President Obama On Facebook Page ?

2011-12-25 Thread CeJ
Wow, the warpigs in the WH must really be afraid over Ron Paul's anti-war stance and his surge in polls in Iowa. I checked out the so-called 'Ron Paul supporter' and he is no one official with the campaign. He also doesn't actually seem to be someone closely associated with the so-called Tea

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Ron Paul Supporter Openly Calls For Assassination Of President Obama On Facebook Page ?

2011-12-25 Thread c b
More concerned that he had a KKK type newsletter a few years back. Ron Paul and his Senator son, have a George Wallace position on the Civil Rights Act. On 12/25/11, CeJ jann...@gmail.com wrote: Wow, the warpigs in the WH must really be afraid over Ron Paul's anti-war stance and his surge in

[Marxism-Thaxis] Plenary Talk Abstracts of the Conference Critique, Democracy, and Philosophy in 21st Century Information Society (Uppsala, 2-4 May 2012)

2011-12-25 Thread Christian Fuchs
Critique, Democracy, and Philosophy in 21st Century Information Society Towards Critical Theories of Social Media The Fourth ICTs and Society-Conference Uppsala University, May 2nd-4th, 2012. The collected abstracts of the plenary talks are now available:

[Marxism-Thaxis] tripleC: Table of Contents Vol. 9 (2011)

2011-12-25 Thread Christian Fuchs
tripleC: Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society Edited by Christian Fuchs tripleC is a peer-review open access journal that focuses on information society studies and studies of media, digital media, information and communication in society with a special interest in

[Marxism-Thaxis] Why too- big -to- fail creditors should not be able to charge interest

2011-12-25 Thread c b
Yes, you can see below that the standard rationale for charging interest includes charging for the risk that the loan might not be paid back. There are other reasons discussed. I would just like to get some discussion of this in the context of the Occupation Wall Street movement, as part of

[Marxism-Thaxis] I AM THE 99%

2011-12-25 Thread c b
Teri Deister Okay Here I go.. I also want to thank all of the OCCUPIERS and I commend you for your efforts.. and your demands... I know that you are out there every day and every night.. trying to speak out for those of us WITHOUT A VOICE.. or too chicken shit .. to SPEAK THEIR VOICE.. But I AM

[Marxism-Thaxis] Origin of boycott

2011-12-25 Thread c b
Go even further back to the origins of the word boycott and you'll find the story of Irish tenant farmers who got tired of being taken advantage of by rich landowners. Charles C. Boycott, an English estate manager in Ireland, found himself in the middle of a game-changing protest. Despite a poor

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Why too- big -to- fail creditors should not be able to charge interest

2011-12-25 Thread CeJ
What you are getting at here, I believe, is the very damaging and possibly criminal nature of forcing people into high-interest loans that increase their chance of defaulting. The system basically says, you are a bad credit risk, so the the only loan we will extend you is so high in interest, that