G'day Doug,
No doubt you're right - you usually are on these things, but consider this
(yeah, I've been watching the telly again). America's seven million day
traders make up 25 per cent of transactions - a fact not unrelated to the
fact they pop in and out of stocks in minutes. Many also sit
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The Guardian
I have been noticing more reports of unpleasantness on the golf courses of
America the last few years. Whether this is new or was unreported on in the
past is an open question. In toady's litigious society it just maybe a sign of
the times. So far it hasn't happened on the pro-tour, except for
From: Sid Shniad [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Are We Heading Towards Another Vietnam?
[from:]
Economic Reform, Volume 11, No. 5 May 1999
Are We Heading Towards Another Vietnam?
(Below is the key paragraph in this article. Would someone take
a crack at filling
Back in '69 or so I ran across a song (from someone in the GI movement,
but
I don't know where it originated) one of the lines of which, in the
first version
i encountered, was
They send our kids to school they're just like prisons.
Later I came across a copy of the Berkely Barb which
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I guess this is on topic.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
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Subject: Not just another frog story
A man takes the day off work and decides to go out
golfing.
He is on the second
Briefly saw Clinton on CNN last night saying "Milosevic" had made some
sort of offer for an international presence "for the first time" or
some such.
Has anyone else been following this story? Why has nobody raised the
obvious question as to how this could be the first offer if the Serb
Can anyone explain HOW the spell checker relentlessly tells the truth about
peoples' names? I just checked the piece I'm writing on the lump-of-labour
and the neo-classical "social welfare function" and the spell checker
advised me that Samuelson was SHAMELESS.
regards,
Tom Walker
Has anyone else been following this story? Why has nobody raised the
obvious question as to how this could be the first offer if the Serb
parliament made an almost identical offer (I think) on March 23?
Bill
Financial Times (London)
April 23, 1999, Friday LONDON EDITION 4
West cautious on
If NATO's planning for the war against Yugoslavia seems a bit slapdash,
take heart: the alliance can still be very detail-oriented. According to
the WP, NATO spent months of research and $70,000 on the table it will use
at its summit today. (from Scott Shuger's "Today's Papers" column in SLATE
At 07:17 AM 4/23/99 -0500, Carrol wrote:
Back in '69 or so I ran across a song (from someone in the GI movement,
but I don't know where it originated) one of the lines of which, in the
first version i encountered, was
They send our kids to school they're just like prisons.
This seems
BTW2, there is nothing wrong with golfers _per se_. (Some of my best
friends) Golf doesn't involve much in the way of exercise, so the
golfers are essentially taking a stroll in the artificial
countryside while
fooling themselves that they're staying in shape.
Not at all. We know it
Jim Devine wrote:
As I drove to work this morning, listing to US Nationalist Public Radio, I
was struck by the explanations given by the reporter, Silvia Pojoli (sp?),
for the US/NATO bombing of the Serbian television station. Not only did it
seem that she had abandoned journalistic
Mr. Blair, like all genuine cowards, is brave about spilling other people's
blood. Blair spills only bloody words. In olden times, the king led his
troops into battle to give them courage. Perhaps Mr. Blair will send a video
of himself on horseback.
Mr Blair said in Chicago: "We cannot let the
The European Marches against unemployment group together numerous
organisations which may have different analyses about the Balkan war. In
France, militants from trade unions and associations have drafted a text, on
which we have elaborated the day of our meeting of the secretariats of the
I'll bet you could sell a study of golf to the golf industry. Something pompous
like, The Marginal Efficiency of Capital Investment in the Golf Industry: Based on
the Marginal Propensity to Consume as Correlated to Environmental Factors.
Your email pal
Tom L. B.A.
Michael Perelman wrote:
I wrote: BTW2, there is nothing wrong with golfers _per se_. (Some of my
best friends) Golf doesn't involve much in the way of exercise, so the
golfers are essentially taking a stroll in the artificial countryside while
fooling themselves that they're staying in shape.
Max writes: Not at
Recently the 1984 National Security Decision Directive (NSDD
133) "United States Policy towards Yugoslavia," was released from
secrecy. Applied to the United States itself, that directive would have
ruled out Roosevelt's program for lifting the US out of the Great
Depression.
It should
I appreciate William's forwarding of this
message from Belgrade. It certainly speaks
eloquently to the insanity of the bombing and
what it is doing.
OTOH, it also reveals the kind of deluded
thinking that lies behind Serbian nationalism.
We discover a Serbian state that has allegedly
I've posted a draft of part one of this essay at:
http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/satanic.htm
How Iatrogenic Economics Killed the Standard of Living
"Any prescribed set of ends is grist for the economist's unpretentious
deductive mill, and often he can be expected to reveal that the prescribed
At 02:23 PM 4/23/99 -0400, Barkley wrote:
This "heart of Serbia" argument is just the worst sort of pathetic
drivel. I am very sorry that these suffering people are so fixated on
such deluded garbage.
One problem is the US/NATO-imposed suffering is pushing them to embrace
that kind of deluded
--
The Progressive Response 23 April 1999 Vol. 3, No. 15
Editor: Tom Barry
--
The Progressive Response is a publication of Foreign
Doug,
I'm afraid I completely agree...
Barkley Rosser
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From: Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Friday, April 23, 1999 3:11 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:5847] Re: Re: Re: FWD: [Fwd: Alive and well for now]
Jim Devine wrote:
At
At 09:15 AM 4/23/99 -0700, Michael Perelman wrote:
Golf courses employee an enormous amount of toxic materials, especially
pesticides and herbicides.
When I was living in Monterey, CA, each time I drove through the golf
courses of Pebble Beach, I thought that when the revolution finally comes
Recently I submitted an article to CNS on "Harvey, Leibniz and Marx". As
background research I delved into the 30 years war that took place on
German soil in the mid-17th century and which traumatized an entire
generation of Germans, including Leibniz himself. This war was the most
devastating on
At 02:23 PM 4/23/99 -0400, Barkley wrote:
This "heart of Serbia" argument is just the worst sort of pathetic
drivel. I am very sorry that these suffering people are so fixated on
such deluded garbage.
I wrote:
One problem is the US/NATO-imposed suffering is pushing them to embrace
that kind
The other sinister act was bombing Milosevic's house, which Serbs regarded
as an open assassination attack.
Louis Proyect
for what it's worth, the US gov't has been prohibited from carrying out
assassinations and assassination attempts since Gerald Ford signed
Executive Order 11095 (I think)
S Pawlett wrote:
W. Kiernan wrote:
As far as I can see, those two typified or exemplified nothing
outside the classic textbook symptom list of paranoia.
I see. Time for a little schizo bashing. Why not? They can't defend
themselves, in fact they usually can't even understand what
Jim Devine wrote:
This seems reminiscent of the old New Left pamphlet "the Student as Nigger"
and the more sophisticated book by Sam Bowles and an earlier incarnation of
Herb Gintis, SCHOOLING IN CAPITALIST AMERICA.
That line was. (I posted it just for the difference between "our kids"
and
WDK wrote:
For what it's worth, my
opinion is you're all off base about broad underlying motives (such as
racism, sexism, militarism, etc.) of Klebold and Harris.
I don't argue that the above are underlying 'motives,' but I think it is
important to think of, for instance, the likely effects that
Michael "Not-Mike" Hoover wrote:
The other sinister act was bombing Milosevic's house, which Serbs regarded
as an open assassination attack.
Louis Proyect
for what it's worth, the US gov't has been prohibited from carrying out
assassinations and assassination attempts since Gerald Ford signed
Michael,
How are you enjoying yourself here in Detroit and the Conference ?
Is your hotel top still spinning ?
Charles
Michael Eisenscher [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/22/99 12:47AM
Wherein the further left swallows its own tail . . .
Socialist Workers Party (US)
denounces
Jim Devine wrote:
As I drove to work this morning, listing to US Nationalist Public Radio, I
was struck by the explanations given by the reporter, Silvia Pojoli (sp?),
for the US/NATO bombing of the Serbian television station. Not only did it
seem that she had abandoned journalistic standards in
Date: 4/22/99 2:55:31 PM Central Daylight Time
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NewsDesk)
Yugoslavian clergy have different view of war
April 22, 1999 News media contact: Tim Tanton*(615)742-5470*Nashville, Tenn.
10-21-71B{216}
NOTE: This report may be used with UMNS stories #217 and #218.
By
From: Abu Nasr
After three weeks of delay due to third world conditions, I am able now to
provide readers with an official statement by the Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine regarding the Yugoslav conflict. The statement, as
carried in the 11 April 1999 issue of the PFLP's magazine
IN THIS MESSAGE: STATEMENT OF CONCERNED SERBIAN ANTI-NATIONALIST CITIZENS;
Winnipeg Ottawa Labor Councils on Balkans
TO ALL CONCERNED
This is a statement of the leading liberal (anti-nationalist) voices of
Serbia concerning NATO aggression on Yugoslavia.
You are free to translate it, publish
Hi,
Good to see you again. I'm glad the rain has stopped, although I never got
out of the hotel today. It's like old home week, catching up with friends.
LN is smaller this year than last time. More later.
M.
At 08:46 PM 4/23/99 -0400, Charles Brown wrote:
Michael,
How are you enjoying
Forwarded by Charles:
On Thursday, 22nd April, over 600 shop stewards gathered in the Milan
CGIL trade union headquarters to take part in a national assembly called
by forty factory councils. The meeting called on the national leadership
of the three main trade union federations (CGIL,CISL and
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 16:23:14 -0600 (MDT)
Subject: First strike against the war in Italy (fwd)
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First
What exactly are broad underlying motives ? Are they being opposed to thin surface
motives ? What is being said ? That there are some other motives that are more
important to understand ? What are they and why are they more important than those
listed below , sexism , racism, militarism ?
So,
At 02:23 PM 23/04/99 -0400, you wrote:
I appreciate William's forwarding of this
message from Belgrade. It certainly speaks
eloquently to the insanity of the bombing and
what it is doing.
OTOH, it also reveals the kind of deluded
thinking that lies behind Serbian nationalism.
I had
Ken,
I don't think I have any serious disagreement with
this post or with the arguments of Jim D. and Dough that
this war is seriously exacerbating the nationalist sentiments
of both the Serbs and the Albanian Kosovars. And with the
scrambling of the populations and the discrediting of
forwarded by Michael Hoover
New York Post®, Copyright 1999 NYP Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved.
... Ousted Compaq chief Eckhard Pfeiffer is walking away with a $278
million severance package.
But he would have gotten much more - up to $418 million - if he hadn't
bungled in
Jim Devine wrote:
At 02:23 PM 4/23/99 -0400, Barkley wrote:
This "heart of Serbia" argument is just the worst sort of pathetic
drivel. I am very sorry that these suffering people are so fixated on
such deluded garbage.
One problem is the US/NATO-imposed suffering is pushing them to embrace
Ken,
Sorry if I was unnecessarily cranky. This business
just does not admit of any obvious or easy solutions.
Partition was not so difficult in Bosnia-Herzegovina
(well, a few hundred thousand people got killed first)
in that although there was a lot of mixing of people it
was fairly clear
Jim Devine wrote:
At 07:17 AM 4/23/99 -0500, Carrol wrote:
Back in '69 or so I ran across a song (from someone in the GI movement,
but I don't know where it originated) one of the lines of which, in the
first version i encountered, was
They send our kids to school they're just like
Naturally everyone is sorry about the innocent victims, and horrified,
disgusted, repelled by what those two poor miserable psycho bastards
Harris and Klebold did. But they're not alive any more for us to hate;
fear and rage ate their minds, they went mad and now they're dead. So
I, at
JIm wrote:
As I drove to work this morning, listing to US Nationalist Public Radio, I
was struck by the explanations given by the reporter, Silvia Pojoli (sp?),
for the US/NATO bombing of the Serbian television station. Not only did it
The other sinister act was bombing Milosevic's house, which
As I drove to work this morning, listing to US Nationalist Public Radio, I
was struck by the explanations given by the reporter, Silvia Pojoli (sp?),
for the US/NATO bombing of the Serbian television station. Not only did it
seem that she had abandoned journalistic standards in order to simply
"W. Kiernan" wrote:
Maybe the saying is true that "schizophrenia isn't a diagnosis but a
prognosis."
Aw come on Bill. One of my best friends is a schizophrenic -- and
several of my best friends are the parents or grandparents of
schizophrenics. They're pretty nice and harmless people for
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The Vancouver Sun
Try not to give him any idea, Charles. Max is gonna soon retire from the
grinding work of churning out unread policy papers, to spend his twilight
years at a nursing home with a miniature golf course. He already had a
vision of it.
Yoshie
If I had stayed in lit-crit I could be churning out
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From Economic Reform, Volume 11, No. 5
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