Financial Times (UK)
August 5, 2004
Kremlin tightens its control over Russias economy
By CAROLA HOYOS and ARKADY OSTROVSKY
On July 22, the day that Yukos, the oil company,
warned of its imminent
bankruptcy and its main production subsidiary was
seized by bailiffs,
Vladimir Putin, the Russian
What's that hissing sound?
Worried about oil running out? Don't look now, but natural gas is next
on the endangered hydrocarbons list.
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By Jeff Nachtigal, salon.com
Aug. 10, 2004 | Oil prices hit an all-time high Monday, topping out at
$44.97 a barrel. There are a bundle
Electricity is generated by coal, nuclear power,
hydropower or natural
gas. Natural gas currently powers about 20 percent of
the United
States'
electricity plants, but that rate is sharply rising
because low cost
has
made gas the fuel of choice. In 2003, more than 300
new gas-fired power
stations
One of the 200 business executives who came out for Kerry last week was Leo
Hindery, a former CEO of Global Crossing and AT T Broadband. In todays
Financial Times, Hindery identifies the major reasons why a small segment of
the corporate sector - what the left has traditionally called the
Marvin Gandall wrote:
Hindery, in effect, accuses members of the US business elite of placing
their narrow personal and company interests ahead of their class interests,
and the Bush administration of pandering to their selfish needs rather than
acting in line with its broader responsibility as
The lesson here is to remain militant in the streets,
not to back a bourgeois politician.
Ironically, this is, itself, a flawed analogy. Militant in the streets
is lingo from an era of ascendant working class interests -- in
particular, radical lingo from the 60s-70s. (Militancy, itself, is older
The Cause of Israel is the Cause of America
By SEN. JOHN KERRY
My first trip to Israel made real for me all I'd believed about Israel.
I was allowed to fly an air force jet from the Ovda Airbase. It was then
that Israeli insecurity about narrow borders became very real to me. In
a matter of
The lesson here is to remain militant in the streets,
not to back a bourgeois politician.
Ironically, this is, itself, a flawed analogy. Militant in the
streets is lingo from an era of ascendant working class interests
-- in particular, radical lingo from the 60s-70s. (Militancy,
itself, is older
Yea, a bridge the size and location of the Brooklyn Bridge seems like an
inherently public use-value, especially for those who live and work in
Manhattan and nearby Brooklyn.
Big chunks of the total wealth would best be public, not private property.
What proportion of the total wealth in the
by Kenneth Campbell
CB: Another infamous case of this was the exploding Pinto of Ford.
Thanks, CB. That was the 70s. May not apply to the original post I made,
in the time frame... but same principle.
Regardless... The notion that lives have worth based upon economic
evaluation is hated
Charles wrote:
You are probably aware that many juries ( composed largely
on North American workers) have given such high awards
often that the rightwing has been carrying out tort
reform for a while, whereby caps are put on the amounts.
It was my understanding that many of these awards are
Charles' response (Economics and Law thread) about the politics behind
tort law -- especially law involving people against corporations --
reminded me of a WSJ editorial last fall.
Read the opening item, below, and check out the commentary, below it, if
you care about this kind of creation of
Kenneth Campbell wrote:
The lesson here is to remain militant in the streets,
not to back a bourgeois politician.
Ironically, this is, itself, a flawed analogy. Militant in the streets
is lingo from an era of ascendant working class interests -- in
particular, radical lingo from the 60s-70s.
Doug wrote:
Louis:
The lesson here is to remain militant in the streets,
not to back a bourgeois politician.
Me:
Ironically, this is, itself, a flawed analogy. Militant
in the streets is lingo from an era of ascendant working
class interests -- in particular, radical lingo from the
60s-70s.
Kenneth Campbell wrote:
Wel... I do not think it is an either/or thing... I think I said the
same thing as you, quoted above, in the last paragraph of that post of
mine that you quote...
Sorry, I wasn't responding to you really, but to the person you quoted.
Doug
Actually I dont think that the Pinto Case was one of a straightforward
cost-benefit analysis and didnt even include matters such as the cost of
lawsuits per se except perhaps indirectly since it included the cost of
human lives and of injuries. The human life values were themselves based
upon
At 12:18 PM -0400 8/10/04, Doug Henwood wrote:
Why isn't it better to have a bourgeois politician in office who
owes a few favors to people like us rather than someone who hates
us with a passion?
Expecting the Democratic Party elite to think that they owe
working-class Democrats a few favors is
I meant to incude this passage in the last message. Actually even less
costly improvements such as a bladder or a baffle in the gas tank would have
prevented most of the deaths and injuries. But even the original calculation
was not accurate as shown below. THere is nothing about legal costs
Yoshie wrote:
I've seen folks here and elsewhere contemptuously dismiss an
independent electoral challenge to the Democratic Party from the left
(Nader/Camejo and Greens who support them), an attempt to make voices
for peace heard inside the Democratic Party (Kucinich and those who
supported
Counterpunch, August 10, 2004
Crossroads for the California Green Party
Will It Be Nader or Cobb?
By TODD CHRETIEN
In the next couple days, the California Green Party will decide whether
or not to hold a state-wide convention to consider putting Nader/Camejo
on the ballot. What will the party do?
Castro Turns 78 Rolling Back Capitalism in Cuba Tue Aug 10, 2004 12:16
AM ET
By Anthony Boadle
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban President Fidel Castro turns 78 on Friday
striving to roll back creeping capitalism in the socialist society he
built from a guerrilla revolution in 1959.
The world's
At 12:52 PM -0400 8/10/04, Marvin Gandall wrote:
But to imagine you can create strikes, demonstrations, and other
forms of mass activity in the streets through the sheer power of
ideas, where the conditions for those ideas to take root are largely
absent, strikes me as -- well, idealism.
You are
Yoshie wrote:
My posting was in response to the remark that militant
demonstrations in the streets are tactics of another
era and that protests that are more theatrical than
militant are merely marginal.
Shame on the person who wrote that horrible thing you respond to...
Ken.
--
Fascism should
Louis Proyect writes:
Darley touches briefly on alternative sources of energy, such as
hydrogen, solar and wind, but discounts them as full-scale replacements
for oil and gas because their implementation is too expensive.
Nonsense. Darley seems not to realize that hydrogen, which
must be
Peter Olney of the Institute for Labor and Employment in CA has written on
the need for organized labor in the U.S. to hone its domestic sights on what
the FT reporter termed the global hub-and-spoke network (which) is designed
to link hundreds of towns and cities with an overnight communications
I meant I do think that it is a straightforward case of cb
analysis...sorry.. By the way a Pinto built in Canada and tested by the govt
in Arizona passed a crash test. Seems that the later models were built a bit
differently in Canada with a baffle that cost about a buck that made a lot
of
Jim wrote:
I would guess that the Fed -- led by Dubya's close friend Alan, who
visits the White House more than weekly -- is going to surprise the
financial markets by standing pat on August 10th. (I'll be out of
the country, so I won't be able to stop them.)
The Fed raised the rate today. How
At 1:07 PM -0400 8/9/04, Michael Hoover wrote:
nader people might be of greater help to polity in general (of
course, this is electoral campaign which, by definition, has narrow
focus) by highlighting unequal/unjust ballot access procedures,
state by state rules are clear violation of 14th
by Kenneth Campbell
Charles wrote:
You are probably aware that many juries ( composed largely
on North American workers) have given such high awards
often that the rightwing has been carrying out tort
reform for a while, whereby caps are put on the amounts.
It was my understanding that many of
by ken hanly
Actually I dont think that the Pinto Case was one of a straightforward
cost-benefit analysis and didn't even include matters such as the cost of
lawsuits per se except perhaps indirectly since it included the cost of
human lives and of injuries. The human life values were themselves
by Louis Proyect
-clip-
He is the sort of man who does not want to see his legacy diluted in
his lifetime, the diplomat said, adding that Castro was probably
unaware of the extent of social decay in Cuba.
^^
CB: Social decay in Cuba or China ?
Regarding the Pinto, cost/benefit analysis, etc., what exactly is the issue? I mean,
we know with certainty that a certain number of people are going to die each year from
auto accidents. We also know that if we reduced the speed limit to 5 m.p.h. required
all passengers to wear helmets,
My guess is that this is a reference to prostitution in Cuba.
Charles Brown wrote:
by Louis Proyect
-clip-
He is the sort of man who does not want to see his legacy diluted in
his lifetime, the diplomat said, adding that Castro was probably
unaware of the extent of social decay in Cuba.
^^
CB:
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
The Fed raised the rate today. How committed are they to this course
of action in the next 12-18 months?
All depends on the data that comes out over the next 12-18 months.
They don't have any preconceived strategy; it's strictly a seat of
the pants operation.
Doug
David, the problem with the Pinto is that the government does not
adequately regulate safety -- not even to the extent of making relevant
information available -- so the regulation is left to the lawsuits -- a
very inefficient way of doing things.
A few bucks for a protective gasket would not
I think the thing with the Pinto is that Ford concluded that it would cost
them less to pay for wrongful death suits than to put something in the
Pintos that would stop them from exploding in rear end collisions. I
suppose this is the issue in dispute, but the greater cost of the part to
prevent
CHARLES BROWN WROTE:
...Myself, I think the benefit of reducing the speed limit substantially (
maybe not to 5 miles per hour), and more safety features of the type you
mention would be worth it in the lives and injuries saved...
The French have reduced highway deaths by more than 25% over
the
" David, the problem with the Pinto is that the government does notadequately regulate safety -- not even to the extent of making relevantinformation available -- so the regulation is left to the lawsuits -- avery inefficient way of doing things.
Doesn't Richard Epstein (the Chicago LE extremist
HORRIFIED BY CHINA
Western observers said Castro was shocked by the rapid move to capitalism and growing social differences he witnessed in China last year.
"There is no coincidence that a lot of this has happened since he visited China. Many people say he was horrified with what he saw,"
my
understanding of the whole thing is that the popular revulsion to Ford in the
Pinto case was basically Kantian; they didn't consider the people's deaths as a
"cost" in themselves, but only in as much as some proportion of the deaths would
probably give rise to lawsuits which would affect
David, the problem with the Pinto is that the government does not adequately regulate safety -- not even to the extent of making relevant information available -- so the regulation is left to the lawsuits -- a very inefficient way of doing things.
A few bucks for a protective gasket would not
Michael Perelman writes:
David, the problem with the Pinto is that the government does not
adequately regulate safety -- not even to the extent of making relevant
information available -- so the regulation is left to the lawsuits -- a
very inefficient way of doing things.
A few bucks for a
Charles Brown writes:
Myself, I think the benefit of reducing the speed limit substantially (
maybe not to 5 miles per hour), and more safety features of the type you
mention would be worth it in the lives and injuries saved, and the cost
would not be astronomical given what would be saved.
maybe post header should have read: anybody but kerry and cobb, in any event, no need
to limit oneself to left petit-bourgeois deviationism of nader, choose between several
real-live socialists (commies even), and yes folks, personal choice party vp candidate
is *behind green door* marilyn
Title: nader goes southwest
Nader
Presidential Campaign Announces Southwest Airlines as its Unofficial
Campaign Airline
Based on several years of experience with an upstart airline from
Texas, the Nader Presidential campaign announces Southwest Airlines
as its unofficial campaign airline.
Charles wrote:
I think you are right that the problem wouldn't just go
away with socialism. There might , in general, in
socialism be more focus on some safety issues when the
decision would not depend upon how the safer engineering
impacted an individual corporation's bottomline. I can
see a
[lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 8, Issue 83
Tommy Kelly tkelly15450 at charter.net, Tue Aug 10 17:28:55 PDT 2004
snip
What happens to the 2004 numbers if you add Libertarian Party's
candidate Michael Badnarik?
blockquoteDemocratic strategists have long fretted that Ralph Nader
could draw votes
At 9:20 PM -0400 8/10/04, Michael Hoover wrote:
maybe post header should have read: anybody but kerry and cobb, in
any event, no need to limit oneself to left petit-bourgeois
deviationism of nader, choose between several real-live socialists
(commies even)
Only Nader/Camejo represented a potential
David writes:
I don't have a strong opinion on whether regulation should be
done by legislation or litigation -- it seems like a
peripheral issue.
I think that is a HUGE issue, not peripheral. But that's for another
thread and another day.
[...] safety is not an absolute value that takes
Kenneth Campbell writes:
[...] safety is not an absolute value that takes
precedence overy everything else. That is evidenced
by how people actually live their lives, and that
fact must be taken into consideration when determining
appropriate rules.
This is the heart of it.
To use your
To URPE Members and Friends
*
*Life After Capitalism Conference 2004 NYC August 20-22nd*
www.lifeaftercapitalism.org
-- register now !--
The protests around the Republican National Convention taking place in New
York City later this summer are shaping up to be
David wrote:
Conceptually, you are right back where you are
today, where the poor can buy a used Pinto.
David Shemano
My parents were not poor... they were working class... they did work to
make ends meet. Your mobile poverty metre is a tad chintzy.
To assume that they might have to buy a car
Kenneth Campbell rides to the rescue of Charles Brown:
Why do you assume such facts for a socialist society?
Note that Charles uses his language with purpose. There do not seem to
be a lot of wasted words. There is the statement and for a long time
in that last sentence -- and it means
David wrote:
Any economy in a country whose name had or has the words
People's, Socialist or Sweden in it.
I like Sweden. You gotta problem with that, punk?
Ken.
--
I like Sweden. You gotta problem with that, punk?
-- Me in this thread
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At 1:07 PM -0400 8/9/04, Michael Hoover wrote:
nader people might be of greater help to polity in general (of
course, this is electoral campaign which, by definition, has narrow
focus) by highlighting unequal/unjust ballot access procedures,
state by state
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/10/04 10:01 PM
Nader Presidential Campaign Announces Southwest Airlines as its
Unofficial Campaign Airline
Nader had a good word for Southwest Airlines founder, Herb Kelleher.
wonder what nader thinks of kelleher's $47,500 to rep national committee
this year and $2000 to
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