Re: M-TH: Fiji

2000-05-29 Thread Bill Cochrane
Rob Hope you've recovered from the Brumbies choking during the big one. I think one of the really interesting things about reportage on Fiji has been the lack of class in the pundits analysis. The way I read it is the post independence constitution perpetuated and strengthened the racial fix in F

M-TH: International trade

2000-03-07 Thread Bill Cochrane
Word up thaxalotals O.K in a totally self serving move I wanta pick peoples brains for any recent references to marxian studies of international trade, by recent I mean after say 1980 (I'm nearing 40 so 1980's is recent). More will be heard from me soon. By the way what happened to Bob Malecki? Bi

M-TH: death on a picket

2000-01-09 Thread Bill Cochrane
Don't know if anyone noticed this but here's a sad piece of news , The port company in a touching show of sympathy is docking peoples pay for attending the funeral (who says business doesn't have a heart). This is the first death in a dispute since 1913, though some one bombed the wellington trade

M-TH: fool

1999-12-12 Thread Bill Cochrane
Sorry thaxians, I just forwarded a message to Kim Bullimore to thaxis instead of privately - its not particularly important but cheers anyway. Bill Cochrane --- from list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: M-TH: Bougainville timor

1999-12-12 Thread Bill Cochrane
east initially, have involved far more in the way of potential conflict with Indonesian forces that has been reported, you heard anything like this??? Anyway cheers Bill Cochrane Where now with Bougainville? It is entirely possible that Bougainville will be the next crisis in the South Pacific. T

M-TH: ha fucking ha

1999-11-28 Thread Bill Cochrane
ittle tory faces on the telly as this result became clear - ha fucking ha, with any luck its going to be a long miserable time for the new right. cheers Bill Cochrane --- from list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: M-TH: Is NZ a bloated semi-colony?

1999-10-07 Thread Bill Cochrane
Gidday Dave Yeah I pretty much agree with the first paragraph, from my perspective differential rent on pastoral production was the basis for NZ's sad and deeply flawed little variant of fordism - fordism in the sense that Jessop has advanced (Bastard keynesian economics+welfare state+some way of

Re: M-TH: Is NZ a bloated semi-colony?

1999-10-06 Thread Bill Cochrane
s of our history, for instance part of the 50's,60's and early seventies, that our agricultural produce sold at prices considerably in excess of there value in foreign markets, indicating an inflow of surplus value. Naturally I stand to be corrected on this point. cheers Bill Cochrane

Re: M-TH: Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 00:59:30 PDT

1999-09-15 Thread Bill Cochrane
Not that many people now probably realize it but I'm the other moderator of this list, I'm kind of in hiding at the moment but plan to emerge on a more frequent basis in the near future so if people want something and can't get hold of Rob try me. Bill C -- >From: "Macdonald Stainsby" <[E

Re: M-TH: Re: thaxis homepage

1999-07-12 Thread Bill Cochrane
Odd compared to what? the current subscribers, Rob . lets test the waters with a discussion of the dialectics of rubber -- >From: Russ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: M-TH: Re: thaxis homepage >Date: Tue, Jul 13, 1999, 2:19 AM > > Just had a thought- if I ad