Chapter three of Moby Dick, titled "The Spouter Inn", contains one of the
most famous scenes in American literature. The narrator Ishmael awakens to
find the heavily tattooed, South-Sea Islander, harpooner and sometime
cannibal Queequeg in his bed. In a few days he and Queequeg have overcome
their
On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, valis wrote:
> > And why has no one mentioned the eerily hilarious coincidence that "Deep
> > Throat" was the Woodward and Bernstein code name for their Watergate
> > informant?
>
> Because life has higher purposes, Tom, but don't ask me for any examples
> right now.
The re
Quoth Bill Burgess re the current state of the DC cesspool:
> Less and less debate about the
> economy, civil rights, foreign politics, etc.; more and more character
> assassination, the politics of resentment, the 'pornoization' of politics.
> Didn't the Nazis step into this kind of atmosphere t
> And why has no one mentioned the eerily hilarious coincidence that "Deep
> Throat" was the Woodward and Bernstein code name for their Watergate
> informant?
Because life has higher purposes, Tom, but don't ask me for any examples
right now.
> >Citizens and Seniors Sit-in at Northwestern General Hospital
> >Report from Harrisville Health Care page - Toronto -
> >http://home.echo-on.net/~command/actionh.htm
> >
> >It was nearly six when I heard that a group of citizens along with
> >liberal MPPs Mike Colle and Gerard Kennedy were invo
>The Irish Times
>WORLD NEWS Saturday, January 31, 1998
>
> Global protests
> surprise government
> _
>
> Michael
Sheesh. When I saw the header on Louis's posting about Moby Dick's
revenge, I thought it was going to be more about Clinton's sex scandal.
Forgive me for even thinking along these lines, but I had to share it.
Sid
> Financial Times - Wednesday 28th January
>
> Russia: Workers act over unpaid wages
> WEDNESDAY JANUARY 28 1998
>
> By Chrystia Freeland in Moscow
>
> Disgruntled Russian workers, infuriated by months of unpaid wages,
> yesterday blocked the country's main railway and took their employers
> an
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> Subject: URGENT ACTION ALERT - STOP THE LOGGING ON DEH CHO LAND
> Date: Sat, 31 Jan 98 21:20:27 +1200
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>
> URGENT ACTION ALERT - STOP THE LOGGING ON DEH CHO
>
> MEDIACULTURE REVIEW IS BACK & ONLINE!
> http://www.mediademocracy.org/MediaCultureReview
>
> MediaCulture Review, the award-winning quarterly zine published by
> Institute for Alternative Journalism, is now going weekly in electronic
> form. This week's roundup includes:
>
> * Wag the Media
In an extremely helpful review of Sichel's book, Doug wrote : "Even if you
assume that computers yield superprofits, above the "normal" rate (as some
studies have claimed), their overall contribution would still be minimal,
given their small share of the overall capital stock. But if they were
yi
Finally, after months of gathering dust, the LBO web site has been spiffed
up with some new entries:
* a historical overview of U.S. income and poverty statistics
(http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/Stats_incpov.html)
* an examination of why computers haven't offered the promised productivity
boom,
This is for US subscribers, excepted from the Sinn Fein newsletter:
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Urgent action required for H-Block 3
A sign-on letter is being circulated in Congress
calling on President Clinton to grant bail to the
H-Block 3 in San Francisco, three Irish politic
>Zapruder's own literary agent, Luc Goldberg, and that the film in his
>position is the highest expression of self-valorizing capital.
That should read "film in his possession". Maybe in the even more
deconstructionist sequel ("Put 'n' Take II") we'll dwell entirely on the
tension between the non
James Devine wrote:
>o impose state control on
>our bedrooms and bodies; no libertarians they.) Abortion is almost the only
>issue where Clinton shows any kind of backbone -- and that may be an
>opportunist effort to maintain his core constitutency.
I thought it was very interesting that when he
>Let's imagine a scenario in which the President of the United States is
killed, along with his porn-star girlfriend, when his limosine slams into a
underpass support post while fleeing a pack of papperazzi hoping to capture
a telephoto shot of the president and friend in *flagrante delecto*.
>
>N
I had no idea I was so close to fame! As I was walking down Broadway
yesterday morning, I noticed an encampment of reporters, cameras,
spotlights, and microphones on 84th Street just west of Broadway, the
building just outside my livingroom window. (It also happens to be the site
of a former farmh
Doug Henwood wrote,
>I had no idea I was so close to fame! As I was walking down Broadway
>yesterday morning, I noticed an encampment of reporters, cameras,
>spotlights, and microphones on 84th Street just west of Broadway, the
>building just outside my livingroom window. (It also happens to be t
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "William S. Lear"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>("Equilibrium theory in a shambles? Post-Keynesians and Marxists
>nipping at your heels? Try new and improved Complexity ... wow
>credulous journalists and the 'Nobel' committee ... great on Congress
>... removes social
It is interesting to note that the chaos/complexity "paradigm" is
often portrayed as "cutting edge; the notions of hidden order in
complexity and complexity out of assumed order, fuzzy logic, strange-
attractors, spirals rather than linear chains of causality etc.
The earilies known date of the
> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 03:07:36 -0500
> Subject: Student Squat
>
> Students in Jeopardy in Bank Squat
> Report from Harrisville on the Web
> http://home.echo-on.net/~command/action.htm
>
> The anti-Harris chants reached my ears as I strode through the
> underground beneath the Commerce Court.
On Sun, February 1, 1998 at 04:36:32 (-0500) Rakesh Bhandari writes:
>After briefly discussing Stuart Kauffmann, Wolfgang Stolper discusses the
>possible relation between chaos theory and the Schumpeterian system:
>
>"First when evolution is rapid--both the number and kinds of elements
>change rap
Just thought you might like to know, Krugman was on CBC national
this morning explaining the Asian Crisis. He said it was all
due to nepotism and corruption of Asian society. The nephew of
a dictator will set up a bank or a company and everybody will
lend to him because the loan is, in effect,
On Sat, 31 Jan 1998, James Heartfield wrote:
> Permanent scandal is getting to be the norm for the
> political process in most countries.
Yes, and I admit spending longer than usual watching the news because of
Clinton's latest, even though it seems to me on a bigger canvas it
should be apparant
Max writes: >You could also interpret [right-wing] scandal-mongering
[against Clinton] as a straight-forward strategy to delegitimize government
and feed the attitude that nothing constructive can come from government.
This attitude is the most powerful brake on social reform, in my view. I
agree
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Rakesh asks:
> why in recent years has capital export taken less the form of
> foreign direct investment and more the form of short term credits or hot
> money (one of the articles from *The Economist* at the website gives some
> rather stunning data on the growth of short-term credit vis-a-vis f
1. Krugman is obviously jealous that Brian Arthur has achieved a certain
status as an popular interpreter of economics, a position to which Krugman
seems to feel he has exclusive rights.
2. The Santa Fe school has 2 main claims to economic relevance -- besides
undermining traditional theory in a
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After briefly discussing Stuart Kauffmann, Wolfgang Stolper discusses the
possible relation between chaos theory and the Schumpeterian system:
"First when evolution is rapid--both the number and kinds of elements
change rapidly, and so do the 'rules' by which the elements interact--we
may not get
Thanks Jim for this website. There has been a lot of talk about how
imperialist financial institutions were seduced to 'cover Asia with cash'
or about the unique moral hazards posed by Southeast Asian intermediary
financial institutions. Just from a layperson's perusal of the New York
Times and Wa
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