Compensate the living for wrongs but
dragging out every historical exploitation and compensating the descendants
is not possible or a reasonable political goal.
OK. But I had a conversation with a black Ghanaian poet friend not long
ago; we were picking apart Amistad, the movie. One point he
Lou notes:
I believe that the key to unraveling this question is in the use
value/exchange value dichotomy. Before the introduction of large-scale
commodity production, cities were much more woven into their natural
environment. It is interesting to note--as Ellen Wood does in her article
in the
In a couple of posts over the months I've alluded to it. Bolivia's economy
is effectively dollarized already, without any official declarations. Most
savings and checking accounts are in dollars or both dollars and bolivianos
(the local currenecy); you can buy all manner of fiancial instruments
Tom, Is evangelical Christianity spreading rapidly in the whole country or
just
the Cochabamba area?
All over, really, but like much else in this world it is quite diverse,
with marked class differences. Mormons, for example, seem to be a much
more upper middle class thing, with the occasional
Regarding:
I officially left the Mormon Church aka LDS Church (officially known as
The Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) six years ago after having been
most faithful
in that organization my entire 47 year life span. I am just glad that I
finally
woke up before it was
At 02:16 PM 18/05/99 -0400, you wrote:
Bombing of Yugoslavia Awakens Anti-U.S. Feeling Around World
Yup. I might have mentioned we did a couple of teach ins with unions and
students on Yugo here. People are on it: they take as their point of
departure that if the US is doing it, it's propably
At 09:11 AM 18/05/99 -0700, you wrote:
For anyone interested in the scamming of indigenous peoples by
missionaries, strongly recommend They Will Be Done.
Anybody got any good, concise dirt on the Mormons? Or a website for
recovering ones?
Tom
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
At 08:26 PM 13/05/99 -0400, you wrote:
regarding a "better globalization", Jim D writes:
One thing we need is more cooperation between labor unions in the "North"
and those in the "newly industrialized countries," to figure out how to
achieve this goal.
That kinds leaves out Bolivia, what with
Didn't Joan Robinson say that the only thing worse than being exploited
under capitalism is not being exploited?
Doug
My father in law, who worked as a low level office guy for the state mining
corporation (COMIBOL) for decades and now (age 73) makes photocopies for a
living, said with a laugh
regarding a "better globalization", Jim D writes:
One thing we need is more cooperation between labor unions in the "North"
and those in the "newly industrialized countries," to figure out how to
achieve this goal.
That kinds leaves out Bolivia, what with almost no industrailization and
all.
We read:
BLS DAILY REPORT, FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1999
RELEASED TODAY: In January 1999, there were 2,209 mass layoff actions by
employers as measured by new filings for unemployment insurance benefits
during the month. Each action involved at least 50 persons from a single
establishment, and the
During Reagan's Nicaragua campaign in the 1980s, the contra radio stations
based in Honduras would consistently broadcast horrific stories about
Sandinistas sending children to Cuba, where they would be turned into
canned meat. On the face of it absurd, but in the war-torn northern
reagions of
Doug notes:
If ever there was a target deserving sharp satire and polemic, it's
the smug, brutal, and philistine U.S. ruling class of 1999, but they're not
getting what they deserve.
Right-o. This just in: Camille Paglia explains Littleton CO and comes out
aginst the war. Pithily. Read on:
Henry wrote:
Cultural and language imperialism is a serious issue, but more for non
Westerners.
I live somewhere in between "here" and "there", north/south. (Some pomos
might want to argue we all do.) Daily I am directly involved in the the
workaday (third) world, talking with people about how
For an essay I'm doing on the hypocrisy of economic journalism here, a
couple fo questions:
Lawrence Summers wrote, as you all know, a little memo on the logic of
dumping toxics on poor people. Does anyone have the original citation, or
report on the memo (I believe a write-up apperaed in the
Tuesday's Guardian of London carried a rare, perhaps unique, interview with
a volunteer Serbian "cleanser," a 50-year-old Belgrade truck driver named
Milan Petrovic, who recently spent 10 days in Kosovo helping to drive
thousands of ethnic Albanians from their homes. Petrovic said that the
Here's a very healthy anti-dote to much of the spin on Columbine High. As
a non-jock whose school was divided between athletes and non-athletes, this
rings true. By pointing attention to the collective culture, it also helps
to see how the enemy is in us, not "out there", in the families or
At 10:27 PM 28/04/99 -0400, you wrote:
I never once attacked Max personally for taking a position I disagree
with, much
less accused him of being evil.
Read my post. Max was not mentioned.
I stand behind every word in my post.
Innocent people are getting killed.
The bombing attacks are evil (my
At 01:26 PM 28/04/99 -0500, you wrote:
Tuesday, April 20, 1999
PRONOUNCEMENT OF THE ZAPATISTA FRONT OF NATIONAL LIBERATION AGAINST
THE WAR IN YUGOSLAVIA
ainst Serbia, yes to the autodermination of
the Kosovar people!
Any leads on where to get this in the original spanish?
Tom Kruse
Casilla
NATO Chief Admits Bombs Fail to Stem Serb Operations
NYT, April 28, 1999
By CRAIG R. WHITNEY
BRUSSELS, Belgium -- The military commander of NATO acknowledged on Tuesday
that five weeks of intensive allied bombing had failed to reduce the size
of the Yugoslav force in Kosovo or its operations
Dear PEN-Lers:
I feel like sharing this, especially as we are again in a time of war. I
wrote the following piece to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Ben
Linder's death, but also in part as a response to a New Yorker article
("The Killing of Ben Linder") that portrayed Ben and his work in a
Graffitti here is pretty amazing, ranging from highly political, to
personal and poetic. There is little tagging. Many people find the walls
the place to write verse; some if it is relly pretty good.
A student om mine did a research project on it and found that the artists
were not just young
Great. Just in the nick of time.
NYT, April 26, 1999
Mania for 'Pocket Monsters' Yields Billions for Nintendo
By SHARON R. KING
LANGHORNE, Pa. -- Lisa Chapman and her two sons camped out in their car in
the parking lot of the Oxford Valley Mall here on a recent Friday night so
they could beat
Re:
"It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened
the day's toil of any human being." (John Stuart Mill, as quoted by the big
fella at the head of chapter 15 of *Capital*)
Thanks, Tom!
Rob.
Since John Stuart Mill wrote this, the average urban workyear in the
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
Tom W. wrties:
In 1987-88 after having lived for twenty years in Canada, I spent eight
months at Cornell. I lived in a residence with domestic and foreign graduate
students. One of the amazing things was watching the T.V. news together at
six. The foreigners, myself included, would gawk and howl
I'm really enjoying the story telling on (male) HS experiences. My school
(midwest, grad class of 400) was highly class and race segregated, with few
"spaces" in which such polarized lifeworlds could meet.
There were two though, kidns: sports (black white together) and drugs
(rich and poor
Regarding:
BTW, isn't Charlton Heston the head of the NRA now?
yes he is. I hear he can still walk on water, too.
Here's Moses on Littleton, from the NYT today:
[...]
Also Wednesday, officials of the N.R.A. said they had decided to scale back
their national membership meeting, scheduled
CONFESSION OF THE BOMBS
By Eduardo Galeano
The United States and its NATO allies are discharging a torrent of missiles
on Yugoslavia, or on what is left of what was once Yugoslavia. According to
the official reports, those attacking are moved by the rights of the Kosovo
Albanians, victims of a
Since the Trenchcoat Mafia acted on Hitler's birthday, and since they
reportedly subscribed to some sort of Naziism, perhaps NATO should bomb
Littleton before it's too late.
I caught a glimpse of the Littleton thing on tv here last night, and hit
the limits of my ability to mobilize irony.
Dear
There is a new "proactivivity" in US foreing polciy -- the ides that
"something must be done" before a "contagion spreads" or gets "out of
hand". In the Balkans we hear huaminitarina reaons invoked; below the
justification is the "collective defense of democracy". Feeling safe?
Read on:
How is "activist" foreign policy in the Balkans spilling over to US
relations with the Americas? You didn't ask, I know, but here's a whiff.
Please have your inflight sickness bags ready.
Christian Science Monitor
MONDAY, APRIL 19, 1999
Democracy: 'a little help from its friends'
With ups
SOUTHCOM is now in Dade country (where Noriega is behind bars), and the
bases go to ... the Dutch Antilles. Glad to see NATO countries agree on a
coupla things.
Pubdate: Wed, 14 Apr 1999
Source: Jane's Defence Weekly
Copyright: Jane's Information Group Limited 1999
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I'm reminded of a quote on my old boss's door: "One definition of insanity
is continuing to do the same thing while expecting different results."
The YDSA position says "gotta do something", and then articulately shows
how everything that has been done has been an unmitigated, murderoulsy
An effort to reduce/limit criminalization of the poor:
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Here's a note I sent to Henwood a bit ago, on this issue. At the time I
was a bit more agnostic on NGOs; now I'm a good bit more critical. I have
been looking at micro-finance NGOs, and I can't but come to the conclusion
that they foreclose on a lot of progressive potential, but turning
But capitalism civilizes, right?
It doesn't seem to do so, in the post-socialist Eastern Europe. (In fact,
just the opposite.) The Balkan civil wars illustrate why capitalism is not
at all 'progressive' there.
Yoshie
Capitalism is pretty canabalistic here too, tending to drive wages lower
and
The Economist
April 10th - 16th 1999
Fruitless but not harmless
America is declaring victory in its absurd banana war with Europe.
The damage from the dispute may prove lasting
AFTER six long years, America this week claimed to have won its
battle with the European Union over bananasa
First of all, all countries in the Americas should be bombed.
YO! Please skip Cuba ... wouldn´t want to hurt the refugees in Guantanamo;
and do lets try not to hit the Galapagos Islands.
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tel/Fax: (591-4) 248242, 500849
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How much more shaping up of our facts and conjectures before we go on the
"offensive"?
I'm dusting off my F-117 now
The list, for me, is a place to contstantly shape up factss and arguments;
when I get offensive [ ;-) ], I try to do it off list ... the act locally
thing.
Tom
Tom Kruse
At 11:45 PM 7/04/99 -0500, you wrote:
In all the demonizing of 'el presidente' Slobodan Milosevic not only
in the media but even on this list -- even by those who oppose
NATO's illegal and genocidal bombing of Serb and Albanian
civilians -- no one has ever given one argument why Milosevic
Michael noted that NPR was saying talks with para militaries in Colombia
were needed. Now this:
February 19, 1999
Title: RIGHTS-COLOMBIA: European Lawmakers Urge Redistribution of
Wealth
By IPS Correspondents
BOGOTA, Feb 19 (IPS) - A group of European parliamentarians
visiting Colombia said
Ruling Allows Tariffs by U.S. Over Bananas
NYT, April 7, 1999
By DAVID E. SANGER
WASHINGTON -- The World Trade Organization handed the United States a
significant but only partial victory in its long-running dispute over
banana trade on Tuesday, authorizing the Clinton administration to impose
On the banana war:
When I was working on drugs ... er, when I was doing research on the _drug
issue_ last year I came across a WP article on how changes in European
banana buying had left various Caribbean nations with no choice but to
transship cocaine. Someone really should do a transnational
On air power, Lou posts:
Air Power 2:
NY Times, April 7, 1999
BRUSSELS, Belgium -- When the skies cleared over the Balkans on Monday, it
seemed to be a promising day for NATO's high tech warplanes to attack
Yugoslav tanks and armor in Kosovo. But alliance officials acknowledge that
few, if any,
Max:
Given the evolution of discussion on PEN-L, your clippings on the
atrocities perpetrated against Kosovars could be seen as weighing in on the
side of arguments for "doing something" to "stop ethnic cleansing".
I have been watching with horror the whole thing unfold; a couple of things
are
Max:
Your continued defense of the "do something" (apologist for imperialsm,
etc.) camp is helpful in clearing some thoughts up
In this operation there is the "what to do" and the "how to do it" problem.
Problems arise as we analyze. The how (aerial bombing) is totally out of
synch with
Dear PEN-L:
Is there a web place to get historical (a decade or two) data on exchange
rates (I want to peak at the Brasilian real)?
Thanks-
Tom
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tel/Fax: (591-4) 248242, 500849
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I hope I'm not asking for repeats of discussion here
1. Why was the autonomy for Kosovo revoked in 1989? Was it, as Paul
Phillips suggests, a response by Milosevic to anti-Serb activities in
Kosovo? Paul noted:
The third purge of Slavs from the province began in the early 1980s
which
Nathan writes:
What is the criterion here for when state violence is potentially
progressive and when, as Yoshie argues, there is no "we" attached to an
inherently anti-worker state? Is anarchism the only moral position until
after the cataclysm of world revolution?
[another post]
Would the
At 12:16 PM 5/04/99 -0400, you wrote:
Devine quoted:
A WP story reports that support is growing inside the Clinton
administration and its NATO allies for making the ouster of Slobodan
Milosevic one of the Yugoslav war objectives.
Henwod noted:
Another big question - do they really believe this
I'm sure I'm not the first to ponder this, but
Lacny writes:
In this
atmosphere, the task of people of conscience worldwide will be not unlike
that of their counterparts in the years leading up to 1914: steadfast
opposition to chauvinism, xenophobia, and militarism of all kinds.
From Chile, a response to the recent Law Lords decision.
---
A LITTLE JUSTICE FOR MAJOR CRIMES
Valparaíso sits proudly staring at the Pacific Ocean, its multicolour
houses hanging miraculously from its 37 hills, indifferent to the rain and
wind that sweeps through the city's narrow
Dear PEN-L:
Any suggestions on a good introduction to Taylor and Taylorism?
Tom
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tel/Fax: (591-4) 248242, 500849
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'd be very interested to hear from you all on the following claims. Takers?
-o-o-o-
Productivity Gains Help Keep Economy on a Roll
NYT, March 22, 1999
By LOUIS UCHITELLE
DES MOINES, Iowa -- At the Maytag Corp. factory in nearby Newton, four
young people stand around a large Lazy Susan, as
Dear PEN-Lers:
Does anyone have an email address for David Harvey?
Tom
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tel/Fax: (591-4) 248242, 500849
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
means an injury to the seller."
Is it a "non-injury" by virtue of the fictive equality in the exhcnage
relation ("liberty, equality, and Bentham", as Doug notes)?
Tom
At 07:19 PM 17/03/99 -0500, you wrote:
Thomas Kruse wrote:
Doug Carrol:
Speaking of irony (you we
Is it the case that:
... the main point of the Left's opposition to death
penalty (at least as I see it) is that it is class [and race, I'd add]
biased.
??
I've worked with a lot of religious social action left types for whom
killing was just plain wrong; with other secular types who suggest
Doug Carrol:
Speaking of irony (you weren´t, Doug), that is what don Carlos was up to
here, no?
On first glance, and even second, the market is that place of
liberty, equality, and Bentham that Marx said it was
Tom
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tel/Fax: (591-4) 248242,
America's most thoughtful and talented architects, such as Frank Gehry [snip]
Gehry: now THAT'S good, fun, and responsive to context, etc., espeically his
earlier stuff, smaller, residential, in and around LA. Until I saw it (in
the mags), I never would have believed that chain link fence could
Nifty post Lou. Some comments follow.
This credo was central to Frank Lloyd Wright's early approach not only to
architecture, but to design as well. He often took pains to design not only
the house in a "natural and unforced manner" but even the furniture and
utensils within the house. For one
Big Labor Meets Big Business
By Frank Swoboda
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, November 12, 1998; Page F01
Treading where no labor leader had ever gone before, AFL-CIO President John
Sweeney appeared before the board of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce yesterday
with an appeal to the
Colin:
What do you cal this?
Putting-out is I think the traditional English term when the work is
done
in the artisans' own homes or shops at piece rates. I don't know if
there's
a Spanish term like trabajo a destajo but which makes clear the work is
done outside the factory.
Best, Colin
Help a friend in distress?
I need a good, short working defintion of what a "maquila" is, especially in
terms of forward/backward linkages and ownership. By defintion are inputs
and outputs provided/absorbed by one transnational or parent company? By
definition is ownership separate from the
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From today's paper in Cochabamba, Bolivia:
La Paz (Los Tiempos).- The Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces [of
Bolivia], general Carlos Béjar, said yesterday that members of the military
"have their own reality" and with that argument he declared himself in
oppostion to re-opening
Jim Deivne wrote:
Does anyone on this list know of research indicating that the percentage of
workers employed in the "primary sectors" of good jobs and relative job
security has been shrinking relative to the total?
Writing from Bolivia, Tom Kruse asks the appropriate question: In what
From:
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2. STUDY: 13% Of Black
At 16:08 2/11/98 -0800, you wrote:
Does anyone on this list know of research indicating that the percentage of
workers employed in the "primary sectors" of good jobs and relative job
security has been shrinking relative to the total?
In what country?
Tom
Tom Kruse / Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba,
At 20:36 28/10/98 -0800, you wrote:
Tom's message on Cuba makes me think about the 2 directions of the new
Cuba: opening up to more and more market relationships with the resulting
inequalities and the development of new technologies that engender self
sufficiency -- e.g. organic agriculture, new
At 08:55 28/10/98 -0800, you wrote:
My vote goes to Tom and Max. Poverty politics too often become politically
impoverished because they provide a fertile ground for "intermediaries"
(poverty pimps) who advocate "on behalf of" the poor. One might cynically
suggest that poverty technocrats (along
At 09:10 28/10/98 -0500, you wrote:
MBS suggested that...
"A more renegade thought is that it is a mistake to zero in on poverty in
the first place, rather than put the condition of the working class first.
If the class is well-served, so too will be the poor"
On the contrary, I find the issues
These are special times. Only yesterday consigned to a distant, irrelevant
past, today the crimes of the dictators are front page news. I am in
perpetual amazement. A couple of details to give you the flavor.
Augusto Pinochet was finally notified of his arrest yesterday. Apprently,
he's
[Michaela very kindly passed on the following email from Tito, a close
friend and colleague in Valparaiso, Chile. The copy that arrived to me was
pretty mangled. Just in case you might want a less mangled copy for
distribution, I'm resending. Please ditribute widely, and apologies for the
Sometimes I say to myself--no offense to anybody on PEN-L--that scholarship
is only meaningful if you don't get paid for it. Who cares if you get paid
to read De Cecco, if it is part of getting ahead.
I agree, kinda. We have a good, small group of Bolivian students here.
Together we are
At 12:52 4/10/98 +0100, you wrote:
Tom,
I have articles on underemployment. Should I mail them to you?
Golly yes! US Airmail please to the address below:
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812
Cochabamba
BOLIVIA
I would be happy to reimburse anyone for mailing costs. Many thanks!
Tom
Tom Kruse /
Dear Pen-Lers:
First, thanks to all of you who responded to the query on the definition of
underemployment. I hope the very good reponse lifts Michael's animus to
continuwe with PEN-L.
I'm back now with another query. A while back there was a good discussion
on ISO 9000, with participation
Dear June:
Many thanks!
Both underemployment and subemployment categories not only are
measurement problems, but more important, political
problems--governments are not pleased to acknowledge higher
unemployment. I'd be interested to know about the disagreements you
mention.
Agreed
Todya I read:
Labor statisticians from around the world meeting in Geneva agree on new
global standards for reporting income from employment and on-the-job
injuries. The statisticians had more difficulty, however, in dealing
with a new proposal for measuring underemployment, with officials from
[A note sent to lbo-talk, in response to comments there]
Regarding Pinochet's arrest:
A couple of points, first a small one. From emilio we read:
BBC-TV shows interviews with refugees from Chile living in London.
Refugees ?
I doubt because since 1990 Chile had been a full democratic
From a Salomon Smith Barney blurb:
"Given worldwide economic turmoil and our outlook for slowing profits
growth, we have been recommending that investors focus on defensive names
with topline growth and strong earnings visibility. Stocks within the
defense industry have typically provided a
On defense sector stocks:
About $9 Billion Is Added to Pentagon Budget
NYT, today
By TIM WEINER
WASHINGTON -- The White House agreed with congressional negotiators Thursday
to add about $9 billion to the military budget, including about $2 billion
for intelligence programs and about $1 billion
Jim D. notes:
(See almost every labor econ.
textbook.)
Any suggestions? Favorites? I need one that covers:
- classical and neo classical approaches
- some left critique, marxian approaches
- due consideration of "third world" experiences with labor, labor markets
(formal-informal sectror
I completely agree. BTW, his album with Ali Farka Toure "Talking Timbuktu"
is also great.
At 14:08 13/10/98 -0400, you wrote:
It is excellent. Cooder, unlike David Byrne, knows how to stay in the
background.
At 02:06 PM 10/13/98 -0400, you wrote:
Lou:
While we're on the subject, what do you
Lou:
While we're on the subject, what do you think of the Buena Vista Social Club
album with Ry Cooder?
Tom
Tom Kruse / Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tel/Fax: (591-4) 248242
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At 23:00 24/09/98 -0700, you wrote:
michael perelman wrote,
A couple of days ago NPR had a story about Native Americans being poor
employees because their family obligations are too strong. They are too
prone to take time off to help a friend or family member in need.
Yup. Key lines of
Regrading Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: (etc.)
Max's note on the political implication of relative incomes are important.
Missing from our chat, though, are the kinds of real vulnerabilites (and on
the upside, potentials) that accompany (or not!) various levels of
--- so if the bottom 80% ends up with 'more' (even though it's a
smaller portion of the total ) , it's a worse situation ?
There are mores and there are mores. Some mores actually bring with them
more collective and individual vulnerabilities (to disease, abuse, hunger,
humilitation,
While you are at it, subscribe to the magazine. Monthly Review magazine
is one of the best left journals in the world.
And one of the best journals left in the world.
We just had a rousing round of debate here with a group who read the issue
on the 150th anniv. of the Manifesto. The issue
A bit back I remember some incensed comment about the Citicorp-Travelers
Merger. It seems they announced the merger prior to securing approval from
Washington regulators; and the announcement was seen as a move to force
Washtington's hand.
Well, it seem it didn't take much forcing. 5-0 vote
At 20:53 21/09/98 -0700, you wrote:
Tom, are you a member of lbo-talk?
Nope; volume was a bit high.
could you post a message to that list on
the proposition that Sach's policy worked to solve the problems of the
Bolivian economy to that list?
Depends on what you mean by "worked". I'd only
Regarding the stuff on Sachs in Bolivia, the piece plays so fast and loose
with the details as to -- unfortunatley -- bring into question the rest of
the article.
The thousands of tin miners who lost their jobs were
forced into an economy with few alternatives. Of the
Gar Lipow wrote:
When Neruda died during the coup
Actually, he died on the 23rd. At the time of the coup he was terminally
ill with cancer, I believe. But the coincidence of the two events was
devastating.
This afternoon we're hoilding an event at the University, bringing together
Regarding:
Max Sawicky:
But other historical episodes which
culminated in the mass slaughter of
an ethnic group, a religious group,
or of a nation did not entail an
intent to bring about that result.
The enslavement of Africans in the
Western Hemisphere would seem to be
a good example.
What of
Jokes are also a way of releasing aggression in a way more socially
acceptable than punching someone in the nose. Most leftish writing these
days is as dull as dirt precisely because it's so shy about aggression and
the risk of being offensive.
Watcha got against dirt, Henwood?
Tom Kruse /
Regarding:
Because of the two Grade 12 students, the McDonald's fast food empire has
its first unionized outlet in North America.
Wonderful!
McDonalds has arrived Bolivia now, too. The first restaurant opened in La
Paz in October of last year, with great fanfare. Priests blessed it with
Returning to the global economy and finances, [Mexican Finance Minister Jose
Angel] Gurria said: "What worries me is who is running this show. There is
an enormous vacuum of leadership worldwide. Where are the consensus-building
and decision-making mechanisms to face situations like Russia and
Regarding:
hence I don't understand its [asshole] perjorative
use
See Mary Dougals, _Purity and Danger_, old but very good. Looks at how such
ideas are socially/culturally constructed. Clear implications for
understanding "purity" as one of the bases for racism. Also for why asshole
is
At 09:49 3/09/98 -0400, you wrote:
. . .
that there are some references--e.g. certain Zionist leaders
collaborating with Nazis to get young and religious Jews to Palestine and
leave older and more secular Jews to the gas chambers . . .
Although I've read some about nazi-zionist
transactions,
In pondering the shit thread, I rememberd the following. On necessity of
race purification for Bolivian "development" in the 19th century, prominent
statesman Gabriel Rene Moreno wrote:
"If in any way the indians and cholos [poorer peoples of peasant-indian
extraction, who have left the
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