BBC in London this morning has just played a clip of Bush defending
himself with some red-neck stuff about Saddam Hussein that if it is a
choice between a madman and defending the American people he will
defend the American people.
If you take this literally, any mindset that Saddam Hussein was
I think calling this a banking crisis is overdoing
it. Almost none of these banks are much more than
laundrettes, and few Russians have bank accounts
anyway -- they keep their saving in cash. When
something happens to Sperbank, I'll start worrying.
__
Do you
From: Chris Burford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BBC in London this morning has just played a clip of Bush defending
himself with some red-neck stuff about Saddam Hussein that if it is a
choice between a madman and defending the American people he will
defend the American people.
If you take this literally,
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, convincing rival Dennis J. Kucinich's
If you take this literally, any mindset that Saddam
Hussein was
mentally ill is an even worse failure of intelligence
than so far
exposed. Just in terms of real politik how can you
sensibly analyse
any country on the basis that its leader is a madman?
Perhaps that
really was the problem.
---
Bush
lemme guess, Spebank is a sperm bank?
;-)
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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Sent: Tue 7/13/2004 2:50 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Russia Steps in to Aid Banking Crisis
I
it's nothing new. In US official parlance, Castro and Noriega are also crazy. Someone
is crazy if they don't obey Us.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
From: PEN-L list on behalf of Chris Burford
Sent: Tue 7/13/2004 12:27 AM
To:
Well, it is the only real macho bank stuffed full of
real money waiting to be spewed out into the world. :)
The rest are more of articifial receptacle banks.
Russia has thousands of little pocket banks.
Sperbank, Alfa Bank and CitiBank are the only real
ones, as far as I know. (Not meaning to
Michael wrote:
How can you defeat an alliance of Christian
fundamentalists and the drug companies?
Or an alliance of Medical Associations and the drug companies? In
2003, Pfizer had sales of $9.2 billion for Lipitor alone,
while Merck had sales of $5 billion for Zocor. Imagine
the possibilities
Let them eat wedding cake
By Barbara Ehrenreich
July 13, 2004
NEW YORK - Commitment isn't easy for guys - we all know that - but the Bush
administration is taking the traditional male ambivalence about marriage to
giddy new heights.
On the one hand, it wants to ban gays from marrying, through a
Moving Mountains
In her new book, journalist and activist Anne-Christine dAdesky argues
that access to AIDS medicine is a fundamental human rights issue.
Peter Meredith
Mother Jones
July 13 , 2004
Anne-Christine dAdesky has been reporting from the front lines of the
global AIDS epidemic
Now all you have to do is add the fast food industry into the mix, getting them to add
an
antiobesity drug into their hamburgers. The Bushies are making noises about screening
people for mental health -- to be treated with drugs. Fox News may also be a drug,
but I
have not seen the final study
Please excuse a layperson's answer: Secular is a trend without end.
Carl
That's one of those terms of art that reverses the lay sense. In a
religious sense a trend without end is sacred.
Charles
by Devine, James
CB: Maybe the use of absolute here is not significant.
JD:As I said, I think the word probably means abstract, but I'd have to
consult
a Hegel expert. Unfortunately, Marx decided to play with the use of Hegelian
language in CAPITAL. This has put off and/or confused a lot of
At 08:24 AM 7/13/2004 -0700, you wrote:
Now all you have to do is add the fast food
industry into the mix, getting them to add an
antiobesity drug into their hamburgers. The Bushies are making
noises about screening
people for mental health -- to be treated with drugs. Fox News may
also be a
Oil retreats from $40 mark
Crude prices drop as dealers take profits from rally; U.S. prices peaked at
$42.45 in early June.
July 13, 2004
LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. oil prices fell on Tuesday as dealers pocketed
profits from a $5 rally since the end of June.
U.S. light crude for August delivery
I notice BTW that the Western press is already using
the murder of Klebnikov as a means of attacking the
evil press-crushing Putin -- even though K. was
pro-Putin and was almost certainly killed by somebody
connected with big business, not the Kremlin. Gee, one
might think they had an agenda or
The American Intifada:
http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/american-intifada.html
--
Yoshie
* Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/
* Bring Them Home Now! http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/
* Calendars of Events in Columbus:
http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/calendar.html,
just one point, since I'm busy:
CB writes On this, I take the position that Marx actually believed that dialectics
is valid and therefore necessary as part of his conception ( not merely the
word forms to be coquetted with, despite Marx's own description). In other
words, we can't dispense with
Devine, James wrote:
I don't reject dialectical thinking. I just don't like Hegelian jargon. I think that
all of CAPITAL could be translated in relatively simple language without dropping
Marx's dialectical method, mode of presentation, or understanding of the world.
In _Alienation_
[An interesting addendum to the segment in F-9/11 about the paucity of patrols
in the National Parks in Washington State]
[It was only yesterday I heard a radio commentator wrongly holding this up as
an example of a Moore-ish distortion because he thought it was a matter of
state budgets that Bush
by Devine, James
just one point, since I'm busy:
CB writes On this, I take the position that Marx actually believed that
dialectics
is valid and therefore necessary as part of his conception ( not merely the
word forms to be coquetted with, despite Marx's own description). In other
words, we
A spectre is haunting the developed world - the spectre of the
Limits to Growth. All the makers of accepted opinion have combined to exorcise
this spectre: market analysts, editorialists, news anchors, economists. But the
spectre remains as the economy's problems grow.
We are now about
to
Speaking of Hegel...
CB
News and Letters October 1998 Journal of Marxist-Humanism
... Class 5: The Notion of Capitalism: The Absolute General Law of
Capitalist
Accumulation. Class 5 focuses on the absolute general law ...
www.newsandletters.org/
Graphic Witness home page http://www.graphicwitness.org/ineye/index2.htm
Hugo Gellert: http://www.graphicwitness.org/contemp/gellert.htm Karl
Marx' 'Capital' in Lithographs
http://www.graphicwitness.org/contemp/marx51.htm
http://www.graphicwitness.org/contemp/marx53.htm
page 52. LAW OF
Is he really running for Senator? Charles Barkeley spoke about running for Alabama
governor, but he dropped the matter.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Gellert: Karl Marx' 'Capital' in Lithographs
LAW OF CAPITALIST ACCUMULATION: effect of crises on the better-paid part of
the working-class
. . .I wish to give an example showing how crises affect even the
better-paid portion of the working class, the labor aristocracy. . . .To
show the
Nation's Liberals Suffering From Outrage Fatigue
WASHINGTON, DC-According to a study released Monday by the Hammond
Political Research Group, many of the nation's liberals are suffering
from a vastly diminished sense of outrage.
With so many right-wing shams to choose from, it's simply
American Leftists, Michael Moore, and Ralph Nader:
http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/american-leftists-michael-moore-and.html
--
Yoshie
* Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/
* Bring Them Home Now! http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/
* Calendars of Events in Columbus:
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
American Leftists, Michael Moore, and Ralph Nader:
http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/american-leftists-michael-moore-and.html
This Mark Ames is a real piece of work, isn't he? He barely looks old
enough to shave, but has the gall to dress down the US left. What gives
CAPITAL IS ONLY THE FRUIT OF LABOR* (The Bees, the Drones, and the Wasp)
Some Bees had built their comb in the hollow trunk of an oak. The Drones
asserted that it was their work, and belonged to them.
The case was brought into court before Judge Wasp. Knowing something of the
parties, he thus
[I've got a reflex that makes me look for the fishy spot every time a CATO
guy says anything, even if he says he's on our side, especially if he says
that. Still, some of it's got a half-plausible ring. Not sure it how it
would turn out if they tried to enforce it, though.]
What about that movie that portrayed W as a 9-11 hero, which did have active Repug
support.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
I think Chris Doss's remarks on Russian banking worries (and I think they
are in the worry, not crisis,category) are a little too non-chalant..
The Guta bank is/was/had been considered one of the sounder banks in the
Russian financial network, with higher quality loans/assets to better
performing
One more thing... I went back and paged through Capital, and then picked up
Vol 1 of the Science of Logic, and damned if I can find anything anywhere in
Capital that approaches, parallels, the language Hegel uses in the Science
of Logic-- not that Hegel doesn't make sense-- but Capital, to a
sartesian wrote:
One more thing... I went back and paged through Capital, and then picked up
Vol 1 of the Science of Logic, and damned if I can find anything anywhere in
Capital that approaches, parallels, the language Hegel uses in the Science
of Logic-- not that Hegel doesn't make sense-- but
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