Ted Winslow wrote:
As I've said before, I think this view of the
development of rational
self-consciousness is mistaken. In general, I think
Marx
underestimates the tenaciousness of irrationality
and misunderstands
its roots in social relations. Misogynist
patriarchalism, for
instance,
--- Chris Burford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Mike Ballard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Bush, the lesser evil?
Chris,
Does this mean that you don't think it mattered
whether FDR
The working class is being pushed down. It's the
relentless pressure of the class struggle being
depicted here. Meanwhile, why not call in sick on
Friday, April 30 and make this May Day weekend one
long holiday.
For One Big Union,
Mike B)
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, DAILY REPORT, FRIDAY,
APRIL
Chris,
Does this mean that you don't think it mattered
whether FDR or one of his Republican opponents became
President in the 30s and 40s?
Cheers,
Mike B)
--- Chris Burford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Louis Proyect effectively demonstrates how the
concept of the lesser
evil becomes nonsense,
--- Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BTW, here's another addition to the list of why the
old USSR fell: Chernoble.
JD
*
I think it was the straw which broke the camel's back.
I was in Berlin when the plant blew up on April 26,
that if you want to see an example of the
dictatorship of the proletariat in action, look to the
Paris Commune.
All the best,
Mike B)
--- Hari Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mike Ballard:
I agree with most of your observations and I'm not
trying to play one-upsmanship here; but Marx and
many
others
Ultimately, the USSR stepped in the direction of
capitalism and I'd contend that it was because
Marxist-Leninist ruling parties have a tendency to use
wage-labour and commodity prodution as a transitional
measures.
Mike B)
--- Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
The USSR was not socialist
the Gospel of Debbie
THE GOSPEL OF DEBBIE
by PAUL RUDNICK
Recent works like The Passion of the Christ and
The Da Vinci
Code seek to illuminate the life of Jesus. Not long
ago, an
additional text was discovered in an ancient linen
backpack found in
a cave outside Jerusalem, surrounded by
--- Ted Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My initial point was that there is an internal
relation between
self-consciousness, social relations and state
power. This relation is
such that where the requisite self-consciousness
can't develop within
existing social relatons, social relations
More iceing for the cake,
Mike B)
***
Whose Human Rights is the Occupation Defending
by David Bacon; April 17, 2004
The disaster that is the occupation of Iraq is
much more than the war that plays nightly across U.S.
television screens.
I think that he knows that the liberal left is afraid
of another Bush Presidendcy, so much so that it will
keep its collective mouth shut like good Germans. So,
he only has to worry about appealing to the
conservative middle to right as the left is all sewn
up.
Shane is right. It is a
--- Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* April 16 / 18, 2004
$2,150 Per Family and Counting
Paying for War
*
A lot of the surplus value we create and which the
capitalist class appropriates is siphoned off via
taxation to buy
Even the equality of wages,which Proudhon demands,
would merely transform the relation of the present-day
worker to his work into the relation of all men to
work. Society would then be conceived as an abstract
capitalist.
Wages are an immediate consequence of estranged labor,
and estranged labor
By Robert Scheer, AlterNet
April 13, 2004
Why won't they just admit they blew it? It is long
past time for the president and his national security
team to concede that before the Sept. 11 attacks they
failed to grasp the seriousness of the Al Qaeda
threat, were negligent in how they handled the
An increase in wages arouses in the worker the same
desire to get rich as in the capitalist, but he can
only satisfy this desire by sacrificing his mind and
body. An increase in wages presupposes, and
brings about, the accumulation of capital, and thus
opposes the product of labor to the worker as
There was a long article on wage equalization in a
publication which was used by scholars in the West. I
think it was called, Problems of Communism. I think
the article came out in the seventies. I read it
around 1981. If I find the reference, I'll pass it
along. Anyway, lots of talk on this
Stop the Genocide against the People of Falluja City
in Iraq
The American military troops have proven unprecedented
cruelty and barbarism throughout a whole week of
aerial bombing on the residences of Falluja city in
Mid-western Iraq. This followed a terrorist act
administered by some local
--- Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 10:29 PM -0500 4/10/04, dmschanoes wrote:
the fighters in the streets demanding the
withdrawal of US forces
It is understandable that secular Communists are
weary of fighters
inspired by their religious faith, as the latter may
not have any
I received this message from a fellow worker. I
thought those interested in progressive economics
might find the critique of interest.
Regards,
Mike B)
***
http://www.wsws.org
ran a four-part series on the legacy of Paul Sweezy
this past
This and other items are posted on the Worker
Communist Party site:
http://www.wpiraq.org/english/
Of the two, I prefer the WCP and their approach to
politics and poltical-economy.
Regards,
Mike B)
***
The conflict between Muqtada al-Sadr
--- Steve Cohn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Folks, I'd like
to get suggestions for readings he could do for a
term paper assignment
that asks for a Marxist analysis of some topic
(which in his case might
be a Marxist analysis of the auto industry). Any
ideas? You can respond on list or
http://www.wpiraq.org/english/
To: US State Department-Paul Bremer head of CPA in
Iraq
Yanar Mohammed, the head of the Organisation of
Women's Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), is a renowned
activist, and highly regarded in the world today for
her brave efforts in defending women's rights in Iraq.
She
Another angle here which most importantly ties
productivity to shafting.
Regards,
Mike B)
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 22:44:01 -0700
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [GuvWurld] We're More Productive. Who Gets
the
To the tune, Sweet bye and bye...and a one-ah, and a
two-ah...
Sing out,
Mike B)
And the starvation army they play,
And they sing and they clap and they pray,
Till they get all your coin on the drum,
Then they tell you when you are on the bum.
If you fight hard for children and wife,
Try to get
--- Laurence Shute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Speaking of utopianism, how does Roosevelt's
Economic Bill of Rights
proposal from 1944 sound now:
It's got my vote. ;D
For more on utopianism see Rexroth:
http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/communalism.htm
Cheers from Perth,
Mike B)
=
The
It's nice to see the commodification of patriotism
making headway.
Cheers,
Mike B)
=
The best and most beautiful things
in the world cannot be seen or
even touched. They must be
felt with the heart.
former I.W.W. member, Helen Keller
http://profiles.yahoo.com/swillsqueal
--- Ted Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It seems to me what distinguishes utopian from
scientific socialism
is that the former pays no attention to the means
through which the
better society is to be brought into existence.
*
What a
Is it time to defrost the tundra, Shrub?
Regards,
Mike B)
from the London Independent:
By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor
28 March 2004
Levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have jumped
abruptly, raising fears that global warming may be
accelerating out of control.
Measurements by US
Thatcher's TINA is the opposite side of the utopian
coin.
Commies have to know what they want as well as what
they want to leave behind in history's dustbin.
Regards,
Mike B)
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1844 Paris Manuscripts,
Marx makes a major point
of the relationship between
the sexes: The infinite
degradation in
--- Grant Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Mike,
We must have that beer some time soon.
Perhaps Tuesday.
Is LNG the same as what's being promoted in
Australia
as LPG? So as when we run low on petrol (peak
oil),
we can sell zeez nice carbon based stuff for the
burning. In
Wage-slaves create the profits. They're more
productive every year. Now, watch them being thrown
out on their rears. Set up your rocking chairs near
your graves and wait for the inevitable slip. Seems
we are still a nation of Mr. Blocks.
--- Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The flag is ubiquitous ...
I remember seeing a sea of red flags and people with
Mao buttons pinned to their jackets back, waving
plastic coated Red Books. Ah thsoe heady daze of the
Great
--- Eugene Coyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Natural gas supplies are tight in the USA. Why? A
discussion I'll duck
today.
Eugene, Grant...anybody?
Is LNG the same as what's being promoted in Australia
as LPG? So as when we run low on petrol (peak oil),
we can sell zeez nice
--- W.R. Needham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Here is an earlier piece:
THE GLOBAL MARKET DOCTRINE: A STUDY IN
FUNDAMENTALIST
THEOLOGY
John McMurtry
College of Arts
Department of Philosophy
University of Guelph
http://economics.uwaterloo.ca/needhdata/McMurtry-2.html
(Jagger-Richards, 1973)
The police in New York City,
they chased a boy right through the park.
And in a case of mistaken identity
they put a bullet through his heart.
Heartbreakers with your forty-four,
I wanna tear your world apart,
you heartbreaker with your forty-four,
I wanna tear your world
--- Marvin Gandall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
American corporations are planning a major effort to
muster their employees
to vote Republican to counter labour unions
organizing on behalf of the
Democrats, according to todays Washington Post.
From today's Yahoo news sources these two
--- Shane Mage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mike Ballard wrote:
# Kerry Campaign Has $2.4 Million on Hand
# Bush Campaign Has $110 Million on Hand
Seems the capitalist political bird is flying with
a
very large right-wing...
Remember that Kerry has a family fortune worth well
over a half
There is a time for everything--even amensia.
Cheers,
Mike B)
===
'Special skills draft' on drawing board
Computer experts, foreign language specialists lead
list of military's
needs
By Eric Rosenberg, Hearst Newspapers
Saturday, March 13, 2004
Washington
--- Michael Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Socialists: The zombies who won the Spanish election
To paraphrase Frank Zappa: Social Democracy isn't
dead. It just smells that way.
That aside, this is jut another attack on the election
in Spain and how it disappointed the ruling neo-Cons
of
--- Jurriaan Bendien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jim C. wrote:
it is an honor to be marginalized and demonized by
half-wits, sycophants
and idiots and if for some reason they did like me I
would worry and lose
sleep what I am doing wrong - why I have not drawn
the line of demarcation
clear
--- Jurriaan Bendien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
people talk about the market as if there was
only one market, which operates according to uniform
principles. This is not the case at all. It is a
bourgeois fetishism. In reality, class and sectional
forces operate through the market, to strengthen
Doug writes: The idea of revolution in the U.S. or
any of its imperial peers seems like the
stuff of a drug-induced reverie right now.
Yes, it's an individual prproletarian'sipipedreamt the
moment. Still, the fact is that workers have erupted
with revolution on their minds at various times
Thanks for providing the article James. I agree with
your assessment 100%.
Best,
Mike B)
=
...the safest course is to do nothing
against one's conscience.
With this secret, we can enjoy
life and have no fear from death.
U.S. Unloading WMD in Iraq
http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=3/13/2004Cat=4Num=011
http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=3/13/2004Cat=4Num=0
11
TEHRAN (Mehr News Agency) Over the past few days, in
the wake of the bombings in Karbala and the
ideological disputes that delayed
--- Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mike B. writes:
I'm wondering about these pressures to cut costs
which
Chomsky refers to. Don't they lead to the big, nice
co:operative having to try to find cheaper sources
of
material via low wage, usually dictatorial political
states?
FWIW,
Thanks for those insights, Paul. I really do
appreciate them. They do confirm my suspicions about
how the wages system and commodity production, no
matter how nicely controlled, have historically tended
in the direction of re-creating the social relation we
know as Capital and the eventual
--- Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Dennis Robertson. What Does the Economist
Economize? in Economic
Commentaries. London: Staples Press, 1956, pp.
147-55.
He said that we economize love.
Reminds me of that old song Love for Sale.
Interesting that the word wares appears in the
The psy-war will continue, whoever did the bombing.
Regards,
Mike B)
***
On March 11 about two hundred people were killed in
Madrid in a bomb attack closely resembling the bombing
of the Bologna railway station in Italy, more than 20
yrs ago.
March 3, 2004
By Chris Strohm
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The war on terrorism will last as long and take as
many resources as the Cold War did, the commander of
the North American Aerospace Command and Northern
Command recently said.
Air Force Gen. Ralph Eberhart, who was in charge of
the nation's air
The psy-war on the ruled continues
Regards,
Mike B)
http://www.alternet.org/members/story.html?StoryID=18090
By Laurie Spivak, AlterNet
March 10, 2004
It seems that President Bush's culture war may
finally succeed where Operation Iraqi Freedom did not.
Namely, W and Rove's latest foray
--- paul phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mike B wrote
I agree, it would be much better, if workers ran
and
managed the the firms in which they exploited
themselves for surplus value. Honestly though,
hasn't the history of creating such entities, like
say
Mondragon or the Amana
--- Chris Burford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
An article in the latest British Medical Journal on
a painful subject
reports powerful data that the privatised health
care market in the US
is not only unfair, it is inefficient, despite the
democratic fact
that all parents and indeed ourselves
But the polytricksters keep robbing the fund to pay
for the various debts they incur in financing the
capitalist State. So, if there's more money in it
because of productivity or immigration or whatever,
they'll continue to rob us to pay Paul and then say
they're broke when it comes time to
This is
LONDON
10/03/04 - News and city section
By Ben Leapman, Evening Standard Political Reporter
The Government's chief scientist today set out an
apocalyptic vision of global warming bringing back
the conditions which drove the dinosaurs to
extinction.
Professor Sir David King told a House
--- David B. Shemano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am a Peanut Butter and Jello Libertarian.
Actually, I disclaim all labels, except contrarian.
Since this list is against liberty for Exxon-Mobil,
I am for it.
Liberty, equality, fraternity for the gas pumps!
Best,
Mike B)
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--- andie nachgeborenen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Moreover one could imagibe a market society where,
for
eaxmple, the corporations did not have undemocratic
power and wealth, and where the workers managed them
themselves. Such corporations would be far less
problematic than the largest ones
--- joanna bujes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
David B. Shemano wrote:
So, when I, avoiding immiseration, get a job to work
in a corporation, I
am entering in a contract over which I have any
control? I can bargain
for my wage? I can bargain for my vacation? I can
bargain for the
conditions
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Just thought you might like to see a sample.
Cheers,
Mike B)
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--- k hanly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A35472-2004Mar6?language=printer
The True Rationale? It's a Decade Old
Capitalist imperialism?
What else could it be?
Best to all,
Mike B)
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We find that the centering of the management of
industries into fewer and fewer hands makes the trade
unions unable to cope with the ever growing power of
the employing class. The trade unions foster a state
of affairs which allows one set of workers to be
pitted against another set of workers in
--- Peter Hollings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This appeared on Daniel Ellsberg's list and I
thought it might be of
interest.
Peter Hollings
That it was. Thank-you, Peter.
Regards,
Mike B)
=
Beers fall into two broad
As a Marine Corps drill sargent once remarked to me
and a bunch of recruits: YOU are ALL professional
killers NOW! DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT GIRLS?
To which, we made the standard reply, YES SIR!
Regards,
Mike B)
=
Beers fall into
--- Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
March 2, 2004/New York TIMES
NEWS ANALYSIS
Medicare and Social Security Challenge
By EDMUND L. ANDREWS
In theory, the two giant trust funds are
accumulating huge surpluses
that can be used to pay for benefits when the baby
boomers retire and
They destroyed the village in order to save it. A
friend from up there in the Northern Hemisphere
related the below to me.
Best,
Mike B)
***
On Pacifica's Democracy Now today, Rep Maxine Waters,
Dem, Ca (from LA) said she spoke with Jean
For those of you at your computer, or SF-local, tune
into KPFA
(www.kpfa.org) and listen to blow by blow coverage
of the coup in Haiti.
Armed US/CIA-affiliated terrorists (Guy Philippe,
FRAPH), that US
media have
portrayed as nonviolent, are engaged in a bloody
purge of Aristide
supporters,
--- Eubulides [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/Index.html/
Have fun
***
I would like Brad De Long to be remembered for the
following passage:
How Strong a Supporter of International Capital
Mobility
Michael Yates wrote:
I have an article posted on the Monthly Review
website (www.monthlyreview.org) titled Can the
Working Class Change the World? It is a write up
of a talk I gave to the Marxist School in
Sacramento. Comments welcome.
In his article, Michael Yates wrote:
What went wrong?
Farewell fellow worker.
Mike B)
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Here's an interesting take:
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17969
The Class Warrior..
Struggle continues,
Mike B)
--- Jurriaan Bendien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think you are correct. I already experienced this
in the 1980s in New
Zealand, it's just that the USA is much wealthier
Here's a note from a friend of mine.
Cheers,
Mike B)
*
The Bush economic team is apparently at a loss on how
to stop the erosion of US manufacturing jobs. (I
think every monthly employment report for more
than 40 consecutive months has
--- Diane Monaco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BBC News
23 feb, 2004
The rebels are led by the mysterious Joseph Kony,
who was part of a
previous rebel force in northern Uganda.
He has said that he wants to rule Uganda according
to the Biblical Ten
Commandments.
But the rebel practice of
--- Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
joanna bujes wrote:
I gag at the thought of voting for Kerry, but I
will because I think
Bush and his gang are not merely reacting to the
passing of the
post-war boom: I think they are looters and goons
who will continue to
wreak destruction if
Right on, Ralph. If the chickenhawks want an empire,
let them be ready to send their own kids to battle for
it. Lest we forget, it was Nixon who got rid of the
draft in favour of the all (poor prole) volunteer
military.
Regards,
Mike B)
--- Ralph Johansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What of the
--- Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Good point. Here's another question my little
sister asked me the
other day: If the popular vote doesn't mean
anything, why do we
vote?
Joanna
The popular vote doesn't mean much, but voter
registration work does.
While you are registering
--- Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Right on, Ralph. If the chickenhawks want an
empire, let them be
ready to send their own kids to battle for it.
Lest we forget, it
was Nixon who got rid of the draft in favour of the
all (poor
prole) volunteer military.
You see, that's why I
--- Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mike Ballard wrote:
Neither wage-labour nor state ownership will ever
lead to anything but capitalism.
I think that this is simplistic. State ownership of
the means of production seems necessary to the rise
of socialism and the eventual abolition
--- Jurriaan Bendien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Council on Foreign Relations Task Force Report
states that, for every dollar spent on the military,
the US spends seven cents on diplomacy.
Source:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/FB19Ad01.html
--- Jurriaan Bendien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is Colin Powell melting down?
Suddenly, he stopped and
glared at a Democratic committee staffer who was
smirking and shaking his
head. Are you shaking your head for something,
young man back there?
Powell grumbled. Are you part of the
--- MICHAEL YATES [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Among the texts John is using
is my new book Naming the System: Inequality and
Work in the Global Economy.
Go Michael (both of yuz)! Keep on keepin' on. You
and John and the rest of you lurking out there are
really doing something worthwhile. Don't
Neither wage-labour nor state ownership will ever lead
to anything but capitalism.
Regards,
Mike B)
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You can't depend on your eyes when
your imagination is out of focus.
--Mark Twain
http://profiles.yahoo.com/swillsqueal
Just thought I'd share this insight with you on the
question.
Regards,
Mike B)
***
The analyst and his patient share this alienation, and
since it does not usually manifest itself in any
neurotic symptom but rather as the hallmark
of mental health, it does not appear in
My interpretation of the rise of the corporate form is
that Marx thought it might encourage workers to see
that they were already doing all the work to keep
society going (the capitalists being by then totally
divorced of any productive function) and doing it
co:operatively so why not do it for
PROTECTED] wrote:
Mike Ballard wrote:
Why *don't* the proles revolt? After all,
capitalism
is way past its use-by date by now. That's
demonstrated on this list daily by the countless,
excellent news articles posted.
Could this condition originate in a conservative
psychological character
--- Bill Lear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Monday, February 9, 2004 at 10:28:36 (-0500) Doug
Henwood writes:
...
Or, if you want to take it further, there's Judith
Butler's argument
- rooted in that silly doctrine called
psychoanalysis - that subjects
are formed in subjection (through
, for fear of
the disintegration of the subject.
Mike Ballard wrote:
Why *don't* the proles revolt? After all,
capitalism
is way past its use-by date by now. That's
demonstrated on this list daily by the countless,
excellent news articles posted.
Could this condition originate
Mike Ballard wrote:
I see humans (and most humans are workers at this
stage in history) as having an instinct for
freedom.
According to my reading of Freud, this instinct is
repressed in order to maintain civilization i.e.
whatever class society exists at the moment.
--- Louis
--- Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Carrol Cox wrote:
1. What validity does psychoanalysis have? Answer:
[P]sychonalysis [is]
a mistake that grew into an imposture. Frederick
C. Crews, Preface to
_Unauthorized Freud: Doubters Confront a Legend_,
ed. Frederick Crews
(New York:
Psychoanalysis has changed its function in the culture
of our time, in accordance with fundamental social
changes that occurred during the first half of the
century. The collapse of the liberal era and of its
promises, the spreading totalitarian trend and the
efforts to counteract this trend, are
Psychoanalysis has changed its function in the culture
of our time, in accordance with fundamental social
changes that occurred during the first half of the
century. The collapse of the liberal era and of its
promises, the spreading totalitarian trend and the
efforts to counteract this trend, are
--- joanna bujes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Freud does not constitute the alpha and omega of
psychoanalysis, just
one of its more conservative currents. For more
forward looking work,
look to Otto Fenichel, Thomas Szasz, Reich, Laing,
etc.
Joanna
Agreed. But I think he made a cogent
--- Dan Scanlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When is a plan not really a plan?
Philadelphia Inquirer
Thu, Feb. 05, 2004
They do have a plan: fund Empire building, cut the
producing class out of the wealth they create of as
much as you can.
Regards,
Mike B)
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http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17711
By Thom Hartmann, Thomhartmann.com
February 1, 2004
While global warming is being officially ignored by
the political arm of the Bush administration, and Al
Gore's recent conference on the topic during one of
the coldest days of recent years
--- Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm no expert on this, but it sure seems that any
kind of global change in the average temperature
would disrupt weather patterns all over the world,
causing severe winters, droughts, etc.
I'm just an aspiring prolo-author. But the noises
coming
--- Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the word progressive is profoundly ambiguous. is
it Bull Moose and Teddy Roosevelt? or Lafollette? or
Henry Wallace?
*
To me progress is a directional verb with the
direction being towards greater freedom. If the
movement leads
Right you are, James. The freedom of Bush and the
bourgeoisie is for me and my class,
un-freedom--continued wage-slavery. On the other
hand, freedom for me and my class from wage-slavery
should translate into a generalized freedom for all.
Progressively yours,
Mike B)
P.S.
Jurrien, thanks for
--- Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
This is the first that I heard that China is putting
its reserves in
Euros. Is that true?
Euros reserve increasing
According to comments made by the head of the State
Administration of
Foreign Exchange and vice governor of the central bank
Guo
No nursing home for us. We're checking into the
Holiday Inn! With the average cost for a nursing home
per day reaching $188.00, there is a better way when
we get old feeble. I have already checked on
reservations at the Holiday Inn. For a combined long
term stay discount and senior discount,
Thought this might be of interest. Nanotech is
getting a lot of attention by those in the van of the
capitalist production process these days.
Regards,
Mike B)
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Tiny particles enter the brain after being inhaled
JIM GILES / Nature 9jan04
As the Walrus and the Carpenter discuss the relative
merits of cabbages and kings, we oysters sit in
spetacular bemusement.
Regards,
Mike B)
From the London Independent:
Global warming will plunge Britain into new ice age
'within decades'
By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor
25 January 2004
Excellent work Steve. Shows what CAN be done.
Thanks,
Mike B)
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I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity.
Charity is so vertical. I goes from the top to the bottom.
Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other
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