Anybody know which currencies he invested in? Some other article said he
was out of $$ and into five other currencies
Joanna
Eubulides wrote:
Buffett: Bush Tax Cuts Favor Corporations, Wealthy
By Joe Ruff
Associated Press Writer
Saturday, March 6, 2004; 3:36 PM
OMAHA, Neb. -- Billionaire inve
Eubulides wrote:
But some economists point to those same federal forecasts to poke holes in
the argument that the key to job creation is more sophisticated education
and knowledge. Yes, the greatest increase is expected to be for registered
nurses (an increase of 623,000 jobs) and college and univ
Buffett: Bush Tax Cuts Favor Corporations, Wealthy
By Joe Ruff
Associated Press Writer
Saturday, March 6, 2004; 3:36 PM
OMAHA, Neb. -- Billionaire investor Warren Buffett accused the Bush
administration Saturday of pursuing tax cuts that favor large corporations
and wealthy individuals.
"If clas
[The numbers for nurses seems *way* too low. Lat year I had cancer surgery
and the doc. told me there was a shortage of nurses that passed the 2
million mark.]
[New York Times]
March 7, 2004
RETRAINING FOR WHAT?
If You're a Waiter, the Future Is Rosy
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
NO sooner had th
Sabri Oncu wrote:
Even if they stayed, most of the white-collar "workers" are not needed.
Ain't that the truth!
Joanna
Carrol:
> No one said anything about "more competent." I
> myself am suspicious of almost all comparative
> judgments of competence, ...
You are right! Yours was not a comparative statement.
It was my mistake. You said "most of them ... are
pretty damn competent."
I am sure there are a few among
Reminds me, in a way, of the scene in Charlie
Chaplin's "Great Dictator" where the maestro is
prancing around his office with a hot air, bubble of a
globe.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/content/articles/901/images/2.dictator-chaplinFS.jpg
Regards,
Mike B)
=
**
** Mass march against Turkish job cuts **
"The Turkish capital has not seen a demonstration of this size since
before the Iraq war"
Up to 80,000 people demonstrate in Ankara against government plans to
reform Turkey's administration.
< http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/europe/3539881.stm >
March 6, 2004
Hey PEN-L:
The Marxist School of Sacramento is seeking speakers
for this fall. Please contact me off-list for more information. Thank you.
Solidarity,
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Contrarian Chronicles (from CNBC)
Don't take mortgage advice from Alan Greenspan
The Fed boss says homeowners should switch to adjustable-rate loans and save the
difference. His record is full of dangerous moments like this when heâs been way,
way off.
By Bill Fleckenstein
Last week, Alan Gr
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/27/04 6:13 PM >>>
I have it on good authority that Peter Camejo actually doesn't
intend to run for president -- he (probably along with several other
candidates currently running in the Green primaries) is a
"placeholder" for Ralph Nader.
The Green Party needs to run a pre
Carrol,
Of course it, the notion that all those with connections are leaders, is too
simple. It's also something nobody has argued, logically, morally,
empirically. Your version is that somebody, me I guess, argued "ALL A
(those with connections) ARE B (leaders), and then proceed to refute "
Sabri Oncu wrote:
>
> >
>
> Those in the upper management are there not because
> they are more competent
No one said anything about "more competent." I myself am suspicious of
almost all comparative judgments of competence, whether we are talking
about the CEOs of the Fortune 500, the drivers in
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Why can't we say that Eisner is a capitalist, whether or not he works?
We can, and I would (and do). Why do you think otherwise?
Doug
I asked because you said, by way of example, "Even Michael Eisner is
a worker, at least for a little while longer." A good number of
Ameri
It was a more general complaint, and I felt that having published in the
magazine, contributed to it, and subscribed for 25 years, I might get a note
from the exalted editor. Previous editors were courteous enough to
respond, much as I respond to letters we get at Monthly Review.
It doesn
> > Carrol Cox wrote:
> >
> > Most of them (unfortunately for us) are pretty
> > damn competent, though it's because of their
> > connections that they get to exercise that
> > competence.
>
> If this is the case, I have not seen it in thirty
> years in ANY place I have worked.
I will have to agre
MICHAEL YATES wrote:
I bitched to the editor once but got no response.
The editor has no control over book reviews. Bitch to the literary
editor, Adam Shatz.
Doug
ï
I don't think anyone has ever said that someone is a "shit" for publishing
in the Nation or implied such a thing. The Nation has seen a number of
changes in its general outlook. I think it was much more to the left under
Carey McWilliams and even Navasky than it is now. But it is what it
The NATION is okay, or by another measure, much better than the vast majority of the
US press that gets general circulation. (Gee it would be nice if pen-l-type ideas got
so much hearing!) It presents a variety of different view-points, some of which are
wrong (in my estimation). Its factual ar
Carrol Cox wrote:
Most of them (unfortunately for us) are pretty damn competent,
thoughit's because of their connections that they get to exercise that
competence.
If this is the case, I have not seen it in thirty years in ANY place I
have worked. What I have seen is that the grunts do the work and
I canceled at the time of the Pacifica crisis. I guess I agree with what I read
there much of the time, but I find the disagreements to be particularly painful.
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 03:33:49PM -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Michael Perelman wrote:
>
> >I agree with Lou that the Nation attacks on
Michael Perelman wrote:
I agree with Lou that the Nation attacks on the left were despicable. I don't
believe, however, that the appropriate response is to demonize the Nation.
Under Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation has opposed every U.S. war.
Doug
I agree with Lou that the Nation attacks on the left were despicable. I don't
believe, however, that the appropriate response is to demonize the Nation. I think
that we can be critical, but to treat them as enemies is a mistake.
The Nation is not just the people who write for the magazine, but a
Wasn't he a Ph.D. mathematician also?
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 08:40:21PM +0300, "Chris Doss" wrote:
> Yes, this goes for Russia as well. Berezovsky sold used cars. Actually all the
> oligarchs with a few exceptions (e.g. Khodorkovsky) were lumpens, nobodies.
>
> -Original Message-
> Fro
"Devine, James" wrote:
>
>
> Even so, we have to recognize that even the most competent power elite can fall for
> the trap of believing its own propaganda. This opens the way for being replaced by a
> different ruling-class power elite -- or for a fundamental shift in class relations.
>
There i
It's not only that. It's this idea that everybody with connections in the ruling group
is utterly cynical. My impression from dealing with former members of the Soviet
nomenklatura is that they were completely convinced that they were doing the right
thing for the country (and getting something
CC writes:>Most of them [member of the rulign class] are pretty damn competent, though
it's because of their connections that they get to exercise that competence.<
True. The power elite (the organized body of the dominant fraction of the ruling class
and its political and military helpers) large
joanna bujes wrote:
>
> Agreed.
>
> Joanna
>
> dmschanoes wrote:
>
> >Really? I don't think so. I think it has nothing at all to do with
> >experience and/or capability, and everything to do with connections and
> >representing specific class interests.
This is too simple. Not _all_ the people w
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/06/04 12:37 PM >>>
figures associated with Dissent Magazine and the
Nation have been aggressively attacking the Nader campaign, ANSWER and
other groups and individuals to their left.
The left orients to a class that not only has no power; it is not even
self-aware as a cla
Hi, Joanna.
My impression is that the Communists reincarnated as SocDems have had electoral
successes because they promised to represent the interests of those who had been hurt
by reforms. That is certainly the case in Moldova. It's where Putin gets his
popularity from (although he was never i
Agreed.
Joanna
dmschanoes wrote:
Really? I don't think so. I think it has nothing at all to do with
experience and/or capability, and everything to do with connections and
representing specific class interests. Revolutions, and reactions, have
little enough trouble creating "leaders" without
Counterpunch, Weekend Edtion
March 6 / 7, 2004
Remembering Paul Sweezy
"He was an Amazingly Great Man"
By ROBERT POLLIN
When news came that Paul Sweezy had died we turned to Robert Pollin, once a
student of Sweeezy's, for input on Sweezy's economic contributions. Pollin
is professor of economics at
Yes, this goes for Russia as well. Berezovsky sold used cars. Actually all the
oligarchs with a few exceptions (e.g. Khodorkovsky) were lumpens, nobodies.
-Original Message-
From: "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 09:38:18 -0800
Subject: Re: [
I don't know much about Eastern Europe, but it seems to me that many of the rising
class of capitalists (and capitalist politicians) there also were "entrepreneurs" in
the illegal markets. I would guess that in Poland, some of them were corrupt unionists
from Solidarnosc.
Jim Devine
---
Michael Perelman wrote:
The ascent of the right depended upon a (hard capitalist or cultural
conservative)
vision of society, a long-term perspective, and lots of money. If we had
our own
vision and a long-term perspective, we could compensate for our lack of
money. The
right was able to hold tog
Come to think of it, this can even contribute to popularity. Lukashenko runs as "the
only member of tbe Belarussian CP to vote against breaking up the USSR." It's where
his populist image comes from, as the only member of the elite not to betray the
country.
Where I am (Russia) having been a me
Well, yeah, but I was just trying to say that the only people who had any experience
with administration in e.g. Poland were former Communists, for obvious reasons. People
running around publishing samizdat aren't usually experts on city planning.
Russia's a big exception to this.
-Original
Really? I don't think so. I think it has nothing at all to do with
experience and/or capability, and everything to do with connections and
representing specific class interests. Revolutions, and reactions, have
little enough trouble creating "leaders" without official experience.
Where former c
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Why can't we say that Eisner is a capitalist, whether or not he works?
We can, and I would (and do). Why do you think otherwise?
Doug
I have not participated in this thread very much. I think that the problem may be
that some much of our political debate revolves around current trends, such as
whether this new yuppie class will reject the right, or around some immediate event,
such as the election.
I've just begun a new book, F
Today’s Independent examines the widespread public influence of Iraqi
cleric Ali Sistani, but less well known is the hidden power being
amassed by Pentagon favourite Ahmed Chalabi reported by the conservative
Washington Times.
Times columnist Arnaud de Borchgrave says “Ahmad Chalabi is rapidly
eme
of course, back when they ran "communist countries," they tried to make sure that
no-one else _could_ govern unless they'd already proved their loyalty...
Jim D.
-Original Message-
From: "Chris Doss" [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sat 3/6/2004 3:04 AM
Eubulides wrote:
>
>
>
> http://www.sup.org/cgi-bin/search/book_desc.cgi?book_id=3804%203806
> The Classless Society
>
> Paul W. Kingston
>
My point (of course) is that we need to identify _classes_ but we do
_not_ need to classify _individuals_ into classes. It is the latter
that is a scholarly
F A C I N G S O U T H
A progressive Southern news report
March 4, 2004 * Issue 74
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INSTITUTE INDEX * Follow the money (again)
Amount of money President Bush has raised for re-election campaign, in millions: $145
Amount that top four Democratic candidates have raised combined, in million
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/05/04 8:40 PM >>>
Why can't we say that Eisner is a capitalist, whether or not he works?
--
Yoshie
<>
Definitions of capitalist on the Web:
a conservative advocate of capitalism
www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn
a person who invests capital in a business (es
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/05/04 4:58 PM >>>
I'm not saying that worker = working class. A worker is someone who
works; a member of the working class is someone with little or no
property who must earn a paycheck to stay alive.
Doug
<>
Definitions of worker on the Web:
a person who works at
I don't know about the Romanian situation in particular, but one reason why former
"Communist" leaders are in power thruought EE is that they are the only ones with
experience in actually running a country.
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From: "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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