Two Americas of Fahrenheit 9/11 and The Passion of the Christ:
http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/two-americas-of-fahrenheit-911-and.html
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Yoshie Furuhashi
English
Comparative Studies
Ohio State University
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
614-668-6554
I don't know -- I'm not a banking expert. I actually
had an account at Guta for awhile. But Guta is just
not a household name. When I was working for the
Russia Journal, we practically never wrote on Guta.
--- sartesian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think Chris Doss's remarks on Russian banking
As I'm sure most of you have noticed US labour productivity has been the talk of
the economics blog world of late.
I have a few questions regarding this productivity boom that have not been
answered sufficiently in what I have read so far.
Productivity, as best as I can tell, is defined as
NY Observer, July 14, 2004
House Of Bush, House Of SaudHouse Of Cusack
by Rachel Donadio
Michael Moores Fahrenheit 9/11 may have focused feverish attention on
the alleged axis of evil between the Bush family and the Saudis, with
inferences about their business connections drawn largely from
I happened upon this in the LBO-archive. Carl Remick asked a similar
question about Jeffrey Sachs in 1998.
CB
^^
Has Jeffrey Sachs changed his tune...
Charles Brown CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us
mailto:lbo-talk%40lbo-talk.org?Subject=Has%20Jeffrey%20Sachs%20changed%20hi
Reviews of Capital by Frederick Engels 1867
Review of Volume One of Capital for the Demokratisches Wochenblatt
March 1868
excerpt
...We will pass over a number of further excellent investigations of more
theoretical interest and will pause only at the final chapter which deals
with the
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998
Subject: capitalism AND dialectics AND nature
From David Black
On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Kenneth Ferris wrote:
The Nation magazine in the U.S. has recently said (probably not the
first time anyone has said this), that capitalism is always in
Daniel Davies asked:
was he right?
Hegel's logic elaborates an ontology. One of its key concepts is
internal relations. Individual entities are internally related where
their essences are the product of their relations. This contrasts
with the concept of external relations which conceives
Nader's got some explaining to do. Why is his campaign headquarters
housed in his nonprofit's tax-exempt offices?
By Joe Conason, salon.com
March 15, 2004 | Ever since Ralph Nader announced his independent
candidacy for president last month, both friends and critics have
wondered why he is
For sale -- cheap: 'Dead white men's clothing'
In Africa, the West's castoff clothes are de rigueur, not demeaning.
Nearly everyone has to buy used
LA Times, July 14, 2004
By Davan Maharaj, Times Staff Writer
Tossed off a flatbed truck, a 100-pound bale of used panties and bras,
worn socks,
Generation Debt: The New Economics of Being Young
by Solana Pyne
The Village Voice
One Sick Fall
With health insurance out of reach, a generation braces itself for the
worst
July 13th, 2004 11:30 AM
If they're not outright poor as a class, young adults in this country are
at least very, very
In Hegelian jargon absolute is contrasted with relative. Perhaps Marx
sharply stresses the bad sides of capitalist production as its absolute
aspect, but with equal emphasis clearly proves that this
social form was necessary to develop the productive forces of society,
etc. , as the relative
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/14/04 8:51 AM
coziness with the Saudis is a bipartisan phenomenon.
of course...
saudi gov't is among top ten buyers of u.s. arms, human rights abuses in
saudi arabia include use of u.s. made restraining belts and chairs,
saudis also use
electro-shock devices of which u.s.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/13/04 9:18 AM
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
July 11, 2004
Kerry heads off platform squabble
From the Nation/Politics section
Stephen Dinan
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. -- Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry's
campaign headed off a showdown in the party platform yesterday over
Iraq,
In a message dated 7/14/2004 9:03:49 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Modern industry never views or treats the existing form of a
production process as the definitive one. Its technical basis is
therefore revolutionary, whereas all earlier modes of
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/13/04 5:08 PM
Is he really running for Senator? Charles Barkeley spoke about running
for Alabama
governor, but he dropped the matter.
Michael Perelman
Some in Illinois Want Ditka for Senate
By MIKE COLIAS
Associated Press Writer
July 14, 2004, 4:42 AM EDT
CHICAGO -- In a
Michael Hoover wrote:
The Hall of Famer led the Bears to the 1986 Super Bowl and now spends
most of his time on TV as a football analyst and pitchman for a casino
and an anti-impotence drug.
This would seem to qualify him to run as a Democrat, a party badly in
need of some viagra.
--
The Marxism
Dmytri asks:
I have a few questions regarding this productivity boom that have not been
answered sufficiently in what I have read so far.
Productivity, as best as I can tell, is defined as follows:
Productivity = (Gross Output - Foreign Inputs) / Domestic Labour
So, foreign inputs are simply
The State of America's Children 2004: A Continuing Portrait of Inequality
50 Years After Brown vs. Board of Education
7/13/2004 12:24:00 PM
Contact: John Norton of Children's Defense Fund, 202-662-3609
WASHINGTON, July 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- This week the Children's Defense
Fund (CDF)
Shane M. writes:
In the depths of WW One Lenin felt called upon to study the Science
of Logic. He found it revelatory, and in his Philosophical Notebooks
he wrote (I quote from memory, perhaps inexactly):
It is impossible to understand Das Kapital without a thorough
comprehension of Hegel's
Village Voice, July 13th, 2004
Generation Debt: The New Economics of Being Young
by Solana Pyne
If they're not outright poor as a class, young adults in this country
are at least very, very broke. The average collegian graduates with more
than $20,000 in debt, headed for a job market where real
When Marxists heap adulation on a reactionary, racist, anti-humanist
metaphysician and Prussian propagandist, then perhaps we have a slight
problem.
Sure, some of Hegel's ideas are built into Marx's thinking and later
Marxism. So are Aristotle's, Leibniz's, etc. Sure, Marx matured in an
atmosphere
Think of the way we vilify or
ignore Dewey. Russell. Whitehead. Mead.
who is this we?
jd
Diane Monaco wrote:
Dmytri, foreign inputs don't appear to be ignored in the formula you've
given above, but I would definitely agree with you that as cheaper foreign
labor inputs displace domestic labor inputs, productivity would rise.
A productivity guy at the BLS told me that foreign labor
THE CONFLICT IN IRAQ
Advocates of War Now Profit From Iraq's Reconstruction
Lobbyists, aides to senior officials and others encouraged invasion and
now help firms pursue contracts. They see no conflict.
By Walter F. Roche Jr. and Ken Silverstein
Times Staff Writers
July 14, 2004/L.A. TIMES
Counterpunch, July 14, 2004
Chronicle of a Nomination Foretold
The Green Deceivers
By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR
(clip)
So who is this new champion of the Greens, David Cobb? In the 1990s,
Cobb, who markets himself as a working class hero, lived in Houston,
where he worked as a lawyer for an insurance
Long version:
Last time I looked, we weren't heaping praise on Hegel, nor has anyone denied Hegel's
racism. But denying the importance of both the substance and method of Hegel to
Marx's of work because Hegel wasn't a humanist, was an idealist, and was ignorant,
in every sense of the word,
Doug wrote:
Diane Monaco wrote:
Dmytri, foreign inputs don't appear to be ignored in the formula you've
given above, but I would definitely agree with you that as cheaper foreign
labor inputs displace domestic labor inputs, productivity would rise.
A productivity guy at the BLS told me that
Louis Proyect wrote:
En lucha
Jim Blaut
This reminds me of an argument I was never able to have with Jim. In the
context of a different discussion he remarked in a post on the marxism
list that if one knew all the facts involved one would not have to study
the relations among them. As I say,
Diane Monaco wrote:
Would have little impact on which productivity figures, Doug? If foreign
labor inputs are displacing domestic labor inputs, and domestic labor
inputs are counted in domestic productivity figures, wouldn't there be an
impact on domestic productivity figures?
(domestic labor
strictly speaking, labor productivity isn't (domestic output)/(domestic labor input).
Rather, it's (domestic value added)/(domestic labor input), where value added =
domestic output minus intermediate goods input.
BTW, it sure looks like the concept of value added is very similar to Marx's
TIME.com: The End Of Management? -- Jul. 12, 2004 http://www.time.com/time/insidebiz/article/0,9171,1101040712-660965,00.html
/
New from the Financial Markets Center (7/14/04)
Federal Reserve Research Roundup: January-June 2004
Each year, staff and visiting scholars at the Board of Governors and 12
Reserve Banks publish hundreds of journal articles, working papers, policy essays
and other reports addressing topics that
Suppose a Chinese girl makes a pair of Nikes for $2. Someone in the US puts them in
a box and sells them for $150. The boxer is paid $2, but his productivity
statistics will look fairly impressive, even considering the marketing management
overhead.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
Doug wrote:
Diane Monaco wrote:
Would have little impact on which productivity figures, Doug? If foreign
labor inputs are displacing domestic labor inputs, and domestic labor
inputs are counted in domestic productivity figures, wouldn't there be an
impact on domestic productivity figures?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/12/04 5:42 PM
For some inexplicable reason I am cyber-debating some American social
democrat. He insists that the 1974-75 oil shock caused the US recession
and (implicitly) US decline from hegemony and the good days. We three
all disagree with each other on many questions
F A C I N G S O U T H
A progressive Southern news report
July 9, 2004 * Issue 83
_
INSTITUTE INDEX * Remember Enron?
Amount of contributions that Enron gave to President Bush's 2000 campaign: $623,000
Rank of Enron among Bush's biggest campaign contributors in 2000: 1
Out of 8
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/14/04 11:51 AM
Michael Hoover wrote:
The Hall of Famer led the Bears to the 1986 Super Bowl and now spends
most of his time on TV as a football analyst and pitchman for a casino
and an anti-impotence drug.
This would seem to qualify him to run as a Democrat, a party
Issued 7/13/04 11:45 p.m. PDT
For immediate release:
Contact: Michael Eisenscher, U.S. Labor Against the War
510-693-7314
Largest State Federation of Labor in U.S. Calls for Immediate End to
U.S. Occupation of Iraq
San Diego, CA: On Tuesday, July 13th at its 25th biennial convention,
the
Jim Blaut wrote:
Think of the way we vilify or
ignore Dewey. Russell. Whitehead. Mead. The positivists. Etc. These
folks represent the main line of thinking in philosophies that are
friendly to science and are to one degree or another materialist
(although the word of course scared them). Nor are
The Federal Reserve began raising interest rates in 1972 - gently at
first, but more aggressively in 1973. The fed funds rate broke 10% in
July 1973 for the first time ever. Inflation had been rising - from
under 3% in mid-1972 to 6% a year later - and the monthly inflation
rate was hitting an
I love it! Total Information Awareness meets ParEcon. Robin Hanson, may I
introduce you to Robin Hahnel...
Charles Brown wrote,
TIME.com: The End Of Management? -- Jul. 12, 2004
http://www.time.com/time/insidebiz/article/0,9171,1101040712-660965,00.html
Tom Walker
604 255 4812
this is such crap. Note that the closer than the official forecast 75% of
the time number shows up twice in different contexts. Note also that you
would do better than the official forecast 50% of the time by simply
flipping a coin, so 75% seems a pretty low bar (if your playing a coin
flipping
speaking of the Saudis, they regularly behead murderers, etc. So the beheading of
captives by Iraqi insurgents isn't as shocking to people in the Middle East as it
might be to us Amurricans.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
kucinich folks have to make decision at some point re. that
They should be told to leave the Democratic Party and joing the Green Party.
--
Yoshie
* Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/
* Bring Them Home Now! http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/
* Calendars of Events in Columbus:
Jack Ryan should enter the race again. He's sleazy and hypocritical enough for the US
Senate, perhaps even enough for the House.
jd
I got this from Al Krebs' newsfeed.
CREED OF GREED:
STRANGE SENSE OF MISSING TARGETS
PERSISTS DESPITE RECENT CORPORATE
CONVICTIONS AND JAIL SENTENCES
NICHOLAS E. HOLLIS, AGRIBUSINESS COUNCIL: Last week's long awaited
indictment of former Enron chairman Kenneth L. Lay in Houston prompted
new
waves
In a message dated 7/14/2004 2:21:54 PM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
TIME.com: The End Of Management? -- Jul. 12, 2004
http://www.time.com/time/insidebiz/article/0,9171,1101040712-660965,00.html
The article states:
The end of management just might look
From the Financial Times from the NYT web sites.
Poorer nations to soften trade stance
By Guy de Jonquières in London and Frances Williams in Geneva
Published: July 14, 2004
A last-minute diplomatic offensive by leading trade powers appeared last night to have
beaten back moves by
Sabri thought that this might be interesting.
http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~yeldane/Turkey_June2004.pdf
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Chico, CA 95929
530-898-5321
fax 530-898-5901
[from Robert Weissman's Stop IMF list]
[Long but interesting all the way through]
call out quote
The trouble is, few of the countries winning those grants are ready to
absorb them. Their health systems have withered under austerity plans
imposed by foreign creditors. Doctors and nurses have left
What has gotten Ms. Poller worked up is Mr. Bush's decision not to
address the 95th annual convention of the N.A.A.C.P. this year, making
him the first sitting president since Herbert Hoover not to meet with
the group during an entire term in office, N.A.A.C.P. officials said.
Full at:
Daniel Davies wrote,
Hanson put out a press release last year saying that the revised Policy
Analysis Market would be up and trading by March 2004. I emailed him
offering to bet $500 that it wouldn't, but I never got a reply.
However, had he accepted your wager, Daniel, he would have paid up:
Greens for Nader! (circulating a petition to protest the campaign
against the voters by Democratic Party operatives trying to keep
Ralph Nader Peter Miguel Camejo off the ballot):
http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/greens-for-nader.html.
--
Yoshie
* Critical Montages:
July 14, 1789/1958
Celebrate the French Revolution in 1789 and the 1958 Revolution in Iraq.
http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/july-14-17891958.html
--
Yoshie
* Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/
* Bring Them Home Now! http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/
* Calendars of Events in
Alas he is registered in Florida -- see that Michael H. -- and will not run.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
speaking of the Saudis, they regularly behead murderers, etc. So the
beheading of captives by Iraqi insurgents isn't as shocking to
people in the Middle East as it might be to us Amurricans.
If Halliburton collects enough of the nubs, should it be taxed for
additional capital gains?
kucinich folks have to make decision at some point re. that
They should be told to leave the Democratic Party and joing the Green Party.
--
Yoshie
er, might you mean the Nader/Camejo campaign?
Dan Scanlan
--
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IMPEACHMENT: BRING IT ON NOW!
NOVEMBER COULD BE TOO LATE.
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