At 4:31 PM -0400 7/21/04, Michael Pollak wrote:
self-selected candidates often don't care whether they get local
party support or not (and sometimes prefer not), surely
progressive/left folks can do better than this with whatever shell
of an organization exists...
I think there is now a much more
it's only happened once in the UK since the war.
dd
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Pollak
Sent: 23 July 2004 03:12
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Subject: Housing prices
I recently read that nominal housing prices have never declined in the US
a Member of Parliament is the Honourable Member for Bogarse South. A
Privy Councillor is The Right Honourable. Debrett's would encourage you
to refer to a younger child of a hereditary peer as the Honourable as a
courtesy title in the absence of any other title, but this practice is on
the way
It may be the case that nominal house prices have rarely if ever fallen
since WW II, but I would doubt their annual average percentage increase
over this period exceeds the capital gain on stocks and certain classes of
bonds, particularly when the carrying cost of this type of investment is
--- Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there any common
cause
with any of today's 3rd world economic\political elite
(Malaysians?
Brazilians? Koreans? Russians? Vietnamese?)?
---
Russia is not a 3rd world country.
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Ulhas writes:
Hi Diane ! Mexico is not far behind Cuba in HDI,
AFAIK.
Quite true: they are right next to each other this year (Cuba #52 with and
index of 0.809; Mexico #51 with 0.802). And I think the comparison
illustrates the point about indexes (and maybe about reconstituted
statistics such
by Craven, Jim
Response Jim C: Look, whatever the problems or deficiencies in Moore's
film from any ideological purist's point of view (or from the point of
view of those familiar with even more salient facts/perspectives than
mentioned by Moorer in his film), I do applaud his effort and that he
nor is Malaysia
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Sent: 23 July 2004 14:40
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Subject: Re: Human Development Index 2004
--- Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there any common
cause
with any of today's 3rd world
Daniel Davies wrote:
nor is Malaysia
Behalf Of Chris Doss
Russia is not a 3rd world country.
Third World is not a useful category.
Ulhas
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Cuba needs to be compared with other nations that have a similar history
and resource endowment, like Jamaica or the Dominican Republic. Cuba
ranks 52, while Jamaica is at 79 and The Dominican Republic ranks 98th.
Imagine if Jamaica and The Dominican Republic were subjected to
unremitting economic
Frontline
Volume 16 - Issue 8, Apr. 10 - 23, 1999
CUBA
Cuba: Dealing with the dollar
C.P. CHANDRASEKHAR
recently in Havana
How Cuba copes with the long-term effects of the U.S.
blockade against it by
making the pursuit of dollar earning a virtual
movement.
Third World is not a useful category.
Ulhas
---
Thank you! That is so true. It seems to be a synonym
for poorer than the West. (Except that Saudi Arabia
is usually called a third-world country, even though
the average Saudi private residence is five times the
size of one in Western Europe).
If
Chris Doss writes (with related points from Daniel Davies and Ulhas Joglekar) :
--- Paul wrote: Is there any common cause with any of today's 3rd world
economic\political elite
(Malaysians? Brazilians? Koreans? Russians? Vietnamese?)?
---
Russia is not a 3rd world country.
Point taken. And of
I finally got around to seeing the Brazilian film City of God, which
was directed by TV commercial veteran Fernando Meirelles and that
enjoyed a very long run in NYC theaters a year or so ago. As most people
know, this film has been widely acclaimed by the critical establishment
and was an
http://www.latimes.com/la-et-horn23jul23,1,1478123.story
http://www.latimes.com/la-et-horn23jul23,1,1478123.story
THE [Los Angeles] TIMES POLL
Public Keeping Its Cool Over Election Effect of 'Fahrenheit'
By John Horn
Times Staff Writer
July 23, 2004
I am actually working on an article for Phil Ferguson's magazine that
will expore this topic in some depth, but I would be remiss if I didn't
comment on ISO leader Lee Sustar's article that appears in today's
Counterpunch at: http://www.counterpunch.org/sustar07232004.html
While giving the
--- Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I
imagine
Chris Doss finds that his difficulties explaining
Putin to others on
this
list relates to this point - no? And, of course, all
of us are caught
in
terrible conflicting priorities when it comes to
events in the Middle
East.
Paul
---
I think that, in
Chris D. writes:... Putin considers the market
economy as something that should serve the state --
capital is a handmaiden of the state, not vice versa.
Business exists in order to fill the federal treasury.
This is a very non-Western view, ...
this was a Western view under Mercantilism. And it
--- Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
this was a Western view under Mercantilism. And it
worked for South
Korea, didn't it?
jim devine
---
I think there is still a possibility that Russia will
move in a South Korean chaebol-like direction. That
seems to have been the original strategy
Also worth noting (although to be honest I'm not anything like informed
enough to be a booster or otherwise of the Cuban economy) that unlike
Jamaica and Dom. Rep., Cuba's economy is not a material exporter of cannabis
or cocaine, although it is perfectly well set up to be. This has to be
Hello from Johannesburg,
Should capitalists who profited handsomely from South Africa's
racist/sexist apartheid system pay back the victims? Should we, in the
process, teach big corporations that they will pay a price for
supporting undemocratic, oppressive regimes?
A very important case is being
What is a good source for the share of HMO dollars that goes to care rather than
profits or
overhead?
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Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
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I don't think that it was worth leftists' time to fight to have
Howard Dean nominated, as Dean's agenda in some crucial respects
(especially on Iraq) went against leftists', but, supposing that
there were left-of-center liberal folks who really, really, wanted
what is progressive economist take on ford and general motors releasng
info the other day indicating that each only made profits from
credit/lending operations...
michael hoover
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Please Note:
Due to Florida's very broad public records
LA Times, July 22, 2004
COMMENTARY
Democrats Richly Deserve Nader
By Alexander Cockburn
Always partial to monopolies, the Democrats think they should hold the
exclusive concession on any electoral challenge to George W. Bush and
the Republicans. The Ralph Nader campaign prompts them to
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Government of India
National Human Development Report 2001
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NY Times, July 23, 2004
OP-ED COLUMNIST
Who's Getting the New Jobs?
By BOB HERBERT
A startling new study shows that all of the growth in the employed
population in the United States over the past few years can be
attributed to recently arrived immigrants.
The study found that from the beginning of
I think that this is very important. For me it signifies that the
center of gravity of the economy is shifting in the direction of finance
capital, except that I would include intellectual property as part of
the nonmaterial properties that represent the core of finance capital.
Michael Perelman
accounting for the profits of lending is the second blackest of the black
arts (accounting for the profits of life assurers is the blackest). There
are often very substantial gaps indeed between even the best accruals
accounts and cash. If the debt ends up not being repaid, this earnings
stream
Suicides, Military and Economic (rising suicide rates of Israeli
soldiers, Japanese workers, and Indian farmers):
http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/suicides-military-and-economic.html.
--
Yoshie
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* Greens for Nader: http://greensfornader.net/
*
what is progressive economist take on ford and general motors releasng
info the other day indicating that each only made profits from
credit/lending operations...
michael hoover
^
You must be reading Detroit newspapers in Ann Arbor, Michael.
Charles
Wall Street analysts said they'd like to see GM -- as well as Ford -- make
more money from selling cars and trucks. Ford is even more dependent than GM on
its credit business, getting about 77 percent of its profits from there.
"I think at both GM and Ford the reliance is a general concern.
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We hear News
Charles Brown wrote:
what is progressive economist take on ford and general motors releasng
info the other day indicating that each only made profits from
credit/lending operations...
michael hoover
^
You must be reading Detroit newspapers in Ann Arbor, Michael.
It made the Chicago
Michael Hoover wrote:
responses to my initial post conveyed, by and large, varying degrees
of maximalism, making quantitative leap from my modest suggestion
all the way to presidential electoral politics (by such measures
*all attempts will fail), pervasive problem imo...
The questions of what we
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Even if the Green Party were to succeed in
electing Green mayors in all cities in the United States, for
instance, an impact of such a dramatic change in local politics on US
foreign policy won't be even minimalist -- it will be practically
zero.
Not necessarily.
It made the Chicago papers too; I can't remember now, but I think there
was a brief story on it in the Bloomington Pantagraph. GM Ford are big
news reverberate outside the City of Eddie Guest. :-)
Carrol
^
CB: Well GM is only about the third largest company in the world now. I
wonder if
Please, Jim no attachments. Not a Bhuddist comment.
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
I don't recall the exact details, but a few years ago when Rupert Murdoch was looking
to expand his satellite business the Wall Street Journal said that he was mulling
over the possibility of buying General Motors, because its satellite division was
worth more on the market than the company as a
Please, Jim no attachments. Not a Bhuddist comment.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Sorry about that Michael. I forgot...Old age and some powerfu meds at
work I fear.
Jim
Carrol wrote:
even through contesting for power in local DP organizations.
At the local level, what a Green politician does and what a really
good left-wing Democratic politician does may not be so different
anyway. (Real irreconcilable political differences make their
appearance at the level
In a message dated 7/23/2004 4:04:00 PM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
CB: Well GM is only about the third largest company in the
world now. I wonder if what's good for General Motors is still good for America.
Way back in the thirties it was Alfred P. Sloan ( I think)
General Motors put on the back burner for a moment its new
production facility design of modular produced vehicles . .. where the modules
are shipped to a central point for assembly. By the early 1970 General Motors
already had the blueprints for a 90 - 95% automated engine assembly plant .
The Hindu
Saturday, Jul 24, 2004
Kurdish warlords delay unity
By Jonathan Steele
Kurdistan's two big party leaders may end up producing
a deal with Baghdad
that their own people denounce.
SHORT OF leaving Iraq altogether, the only chance of
escaping Baghdad's
overwhelming heat and the
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Michael Perelman wrote:
What is a good source for the share of HMO dollars that goes to care
rather than profits or overhead?
Just about anything written by Steffie Woolhandler of Physicians for a
National Health Plan (http://www.pnhp.org)
Here's a short one:
I had been looking at my notes on her work, but could not find anything recent.
Thank you very much.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Don't you think it will be necessary for the Greens to win a number of
congressional seats before they can be seen as a potential alternative to
the Democrats by the unions and social movements, and a durable third party
in the country as a whole? After all, electoral politics in a capitalist
Marvin Gandall wrote:
Don't you think it will be necessary for the Greens to win a number of
congressional seats before they can be seen as a potential alternative to
the Democrats by the unions and social movements, and a durable third party
in the country as a whole?
You are assuming
Social democracy is as dead as stalinism. Both were equallydiscredited by the events of the twentieth century. Justin argues thatthere will never again be mass "Marxist" parties. Could be. But the sameargument suggests that there will never again be mass social democraticparties.
But aren't
Jim wrote:
did you see
any cats or dogs? when I was in Cuba in the late 1970s, I didn't see any
of them. I was wondering if someone had decided that they were luxuries.
(I asked about it and our guide accused me of thinking that people had
eaten them!)
Come to think of it I didnt see any cats
Ulhas wrote:
Diane Monaco wrote:
Cuba IS a remarkable country
Hi Diane ! Mexico is not far behind Cuba in HDI,
AFAIK.
Btw, 75% Singaporeans, 50% Malaysians 33% of Thais
have cell phones. How many cell phones Cuba has?
Hola! Hola! I really don't know the answer to that question
and I don't
Of course, bonded labor practices are nothing new, were only seeing
newer versions emerging as our borders open with increasing
globalization. Using the fear of deportation to exploit the labor
illegal immigrants from neighboring countries is a bonded labor practice
where the impossible to
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