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Subject: Re: [Goanet] misfired price blame
(DEL)
Leal notes quite pertinently:
?If a nation loses its memory, it loses everything. Countries and
peoples who have forgotten their past no longer
On 16 January 2011 21:19, soter so...@bsnl.in wrote:
I very much agree that no system is perfect because man himself is
imperfect. We need to take what is positive. As regards citing the
example of Cuba, it was just the point to refute the argument whether
one can survive by growing potatoes and
This thread started with Rahul blaming (veiled) Pawar for the prolonged and
excessive price rise in food items. Manmohan, Sonia, Pawar, Montek were blamed.
But now I feel that they are less to be blamed. Because when they meet to
discuss the issue, they probably de-tour Cuba, Gandhi, Birla,
Marlon:
The high cost of organic produce may not be a problem for an elitist
like Soter, but I suspect it would be a problem for those who do not engage
in
dodgy real estate transactions or who do not have the benefit of a rich
inheritance.
Comment:
Really feel great on being given the tag of an
On 16 January 2011 23:00, rajendra kakodkar rskakod...@yahoo.co.in wrote:
[1] This thread started with Rahul blaming (veiled) Pawar for the
prolonged and excessive price rise in food items.
[2] Manmohan, Sonia, Pawar, Montek were blamed.
[3] But now I feel that they are less to be blamed. Because
Marlon wrote:
I thought they tried it out in
the Great Leap in China and apparently folks in N.Korea are still perfecting
this model, without much success. You may be shocked to know that even not
taking into account currency/PPP factors, much of the basic necessities such
as
food and clothing
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 13:02:14 -0800 (PST)
From: marlon menezes goa...@yahoo.com
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Subject: Re: [Goanet] misfired price blame
From: Venantius J Pinto venantius.pi...@gmail.com
He did reject the factory model
Marlon wrote: I thought they tried it out in the Great Leap in China
and apparently folks in N.Korea are still perfecting this model,
without much success. You may be shocked to know that even not taking
into account currency/PPP factors, much of the basic necessities such
as food and clothing are
There is no fuel blockade on Cuba. The fact that they cant afford to buy fuel
is
a testament to their economic failure. Not that I am against organic gardening.
I would be happy to send Soter some of my home made compost. The problem with
organic gardening is that it is very labor intensive
JC wtrote:
There is merit and de-merit in both the rampant capitalist and the
suppressive socialist systems.
Comment:
I very much agree that no system is perfect because man himself is imperfect.
We need to take what is positive. As regards citing the example of Cuba, it was
just the point to
From: Venantius J Pinto venantius.pi...@gmail.com
He did reject the factory model of industrialization,and rather preferred
that a machine be kept idle than a man/person. This I deeply believed from
the time I was around 20 that this should have been the model for India, Not
having NAM and then
Thanks Venatius, for a nice compilation with commentry of Gandhi's philoophy.
Gandhi preferred that machine be kept idle than a man/person. This is
largely interpreted as: he prescribes manual labour or lower mechanization. And
in those days of a large unskilled manpower that India had, it was
better out of India than dead.
It not fear needless to add.
venantius j pinto
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Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 22:44:12 +0530
From: soter so...@bsnl.in
To: goa...@goanet.org
Subject: Re: [Goanet] misfired price blame
Eric wrote:
Had Gandhi lived, there would certainly have been a new
Try military super power ! Pawar had complained publicly about the military
brass and it's insatiable hunger for new weapon systems: think Hari Singh,
1810,
all over again, the warlord who purchased Kashmir, then ravaged their
countryside. Our Punjabi generals consume half of our puny
Eric wrote:
Had Gandhi lived, there would certainly have been a new freedom movement,
with
a restoration of a free economy, enterprise without today's crony
capitalists.
Comments.
Definitely. Gandhi would have started a second struggle to free the villages
from central domination. We would
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