A delightfully gruesome and subtle joke...
--pb
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
Michael Pollak forwarded:
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.
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Jack Ryan should enter the race again. He's sleazy and hypocritical
enough for the US Senate, perhaps even enough for the House.
jd
ditka's wife apparently said she'd divorce him if he ran for senate,
ryan's ex-wife
said that he took her to sex clubs and
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Alas he is registered in Florida -- see that Michael H. -- and will not
run.
Michael Perelman
hear ye hear ye: it's official (below story actually states he withdrew
from race that he never entered)...
although not necessarily for reason cited above, after
Panel's ties to drugmakers not cited in new cholesterol guidelines
BY DELTHIA RICKS AND RONI RABIN
July 15, 2004
Guidelines published by a government panel earlier this week, calling for
aggressive use of statin medications to lower cholesterol in people at high
risk of heart attacks, failed to
In the following Engels uses the categories absolute and relative to
analyze Hegel. See especially the last sentence in the passage below.
Perhaps this usage can help understand Marx's use of absolute in the
absolute law of capitalist accumulation.
CB
^^
Frederick Engels'
LUDWIG FEUERBACH
A cloud over civilisation
Corporate power is the driving force behind US foreign policy - and
the slaughter in Iraq
JK Galbraith
Thursday
July 15, 2004
The Guardian
At the end of the second world war, I was the director for overall
effects of the United States strategic bombing survey - Usbus, as
Title: Hawking black hole
NewScientist.com
Hawking cracks
black hole paradox
19:00 14 July
04
Exclusive from
New Scientist Print Edition.
After nearly 30 years of arguing that a black hole destroys
everything that falls into it, Stephen Hawking is saying he was
wrong. It seems that black
Counterpunch, July 15, 2004
McMissing the Point
Supersize Me Flies High at the Box Office, But Crashes on Message
By HEATHER WILLIAMS
(clip)
The problem, according to Spurlock, is that too many people are eating
out at chain restaurants. Young people in particular are vulnerable
because the food
What Spurlock never investigates is how many people who eat fast food
actually know it's bad for them.
though this review of the movie is right on target, this is slightly off. I got the
impression that Spurlock saw McFood as an addictive drug. As with cigarettes, many
people see it as bad.
The Future of the Green Party (it's the Greens for Nader and Green
leaders like Peter Miguel Camejo, Matt Gonzalez, Jason West, Ross
Mirkarimi, Donna Warren, and others who are the future of the Green
Party):
http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/future-of-green-party.html
--
Yoshie
* Critical
Paul Sweezy addressed the subject in The Theory of Capitalist Development, chapter one
section one The Use of Abstraction. I will try to summarize some of his points (my
comments in brackets):
Marx was a strong adherent of the abstract-deductive method which was such a marked
characteristic of
Title: Turkey Shoot
TURKEY
SHOOT
by Dan Scanlan
(P)resident George W.
Bush, Attorney General John Ashcroft, Homeland Security Director Tom
Ridge, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfield, Secretary of State
Colin Powell, National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice and their
many cohorts are
Devine, James wrote:
though this review of the movie is right on target, this is slightly off. I got the impression that Spurlock saw McFood as an addictive drug. As with cigarettes, many people see it as bad.
Reflecting on both Supersize Me and Fahrenheit 9/11, it dawns on me how
much both
Devine, James wrote:
though this review of the movie is right on target
i liked reading about the cost structure of a Domino's Pizza, comparing
it's $0.50 worth of ingredients (is that right???) to a $1.00 (US)
worth of rice. can anyone recommend an article or book that looks at
food services in
Les Schaffer wrote:
i liked reading about the cost structure of a Domino's Pizza, comparing
it's $0.50 worth of ingredients (is that right???) to a $1.00 (US)
worth of rice. can anyone recommend an article or book that looks at
food services in depth in this way?
Check www.foodfirst.org. And
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/15/04 2:02 PM
The Future of the Green Party (it's the Greens for Nader and Green
leaders like Peter Miguel Camejo, Matt Gonzalez, Jason West, Ross
Mirkarimi, Donna Warren, and others who are the future of the Green
Party):
-Yoshie
sex pistols ranted something about 'no
Michael Hoover wrote:
By 1936, left congressional candidates were negligible factor in wake of
most left-leaning period of New Deal that secured FDR's re-election.
Well, this is not quite accurate. Those candidates tended to function as
the left wing of the New Deal. In other words, they had the
Matt Gonzalez: Why Vote for Ralph Nader?:
http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/matt-gonzalez-why-vote-for-ralph-nader.html.
--
Yoshie
* Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/
* Greens for Nader: http://greensfornader.net/
* Bring Them Home Now! http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/
*
Jayson Funke quoted Sweezy:
Marx was a strong adherent of the abstract-deductive method which was
such a marked characteristic of the Ricardian school... Marx believed
in and practiced what modern theorists have called the method of
'successive approximations,' which consists in moving from the
Now that I have a bit less family and work pressure on me, I am getting
back to a project I began about a year ago. I am pulling together Mark
Jones's writings on the Internet, plus some written material that I have
scanned in.
This is the first installment:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/15/04 3:02 PM
Michael Hoover wrote:
By 1936, left congressional candidates were negligible factor in wake
of
most left-leaning period of New Deal that secured FDR's re-election.
Well, this is not quite accurate. Those candidates tended to function as
the left wing of the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/15/04 3:56 PM
Michael Hoover wrote
36 'left' (note scare quotes, few people realized
that party was front for father coughlin)) prez alternative was populist
candidacy of union party's william lemke (farmer-labor member of
congress from north dakota)...
left out of above:
Michael Hoover wrote:
big difference between 36 and today re. above is that fdr did court
variety of progressive types, in fact, he ran 36 campaign as
'progressive coalition' rather than DP candidacy, number of 'soft' left
leaders did sign on to become 'junior' partners,
In a message dated 7/15/2004 2:54:17 PM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Now that I have a bit less family and work pressure on me, I am
gettingback to a project I began about a year ago. I am pulling together
MarkJones's writings on the Internet, plus some written
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/15/04 4:02 PM
Michael Hoover wrote:
big difference between 36 and today re. above is that fdr did court
variety of progressive types, in fact, he ran 36 campaign as
'progressive coalition' rather than DP candidacy, number of 'soft'
left
leaders did sign on to become
In Chapter six (of Klehr's The Secret World of American Communism), an
NKVD document reports...
do you trust Klehr?
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
-Original Message-
From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
by Ted Winslow
This misinterprets Whitehead. Like Marx's, his ontology is alternative to
and radically inconsistent with the materialist ontology that has
dominated science since the 17th century. In elaborating it, he provides a
systematic critique of this scientific materialism in all its forms
Trickle down effect
-Clip-
Though Kuznets' law seems to describe the process of industrialization in
the U.S., at this point it is past its application, with steady increases in
inequality in wealth and income. Rises in gross domestic product in recent
decades have usually coincided with
Devine, James wrote:
NKVD document reports...
do you trust Klehr?
On this, I do. It actually undermines Klehr's general point that the
CPUSA was subversive. They were as subversive as David Cobb.
--
Marxism list: www.marxmail.org
that's because I rewrote -- or wrote -- most of the stuff on the Wikipedia about the
trickle down effect. (There's also an entry on trickle down economics, but, the
last time I looked, it was incoherent. When I rewrote it, the fellow used
(misinterpreted) my text as representing bad thinking.)
Kerry/Edwards: Divorced from Gay Marriage: (Kerry avoids Gavin
Newsom to dodge the question -- also, Kerry and Edwards were the
only senators who abstained from voting on the Federal Marriage
Amendment)
http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/kerryedwards-divorced-from-gay.html.
--
Yoshie
* Critical
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Kerry/Edwards: Divorced from Gay Marriage: (Kerry avoids Gavin
Newsom to dodge the question -- also, Kerry and Edwards were the
only senators who abstained from voting on the Federal Marriage
Amendment)
This just in from the San Francisco Bay View (July 14, 2004) -- A
Letter to the Black Caucus from a Black Woman Living in South
Central by Donna J. Warren, supporting the Nader/Camejo Campaign:
http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/letter-to-black-caucus-from-black.html.
--
Yoshie
* Critical
Michael Hoover wrote:
...[in 1936] fdr's biggest fear (not too realistic imo) apparently
was that lafollette might be able to bring together
progressive/'left' elements...
but until a year earlier, when the proverbial lone nut appeared, fdr's
biggest, and quite realistic, fear, was that Huey Long
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