A whole mix of things probably... If you owned an enterprise but you were
bought out by an investor, the investor might keep you on as a manager,
where previously you were the employer. But if the enterprise would lay off
employees, the managers have a lower probability of being fired, especially
November 9, 2003
By GREG WINTER
The federal government typically gives the wealthiest
private universities significantly more financial aid money
than schools with much greater shares of poor students.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/09/education/09AID.html?ex=1069369809ei=1en=d3fc415b596e1d74
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Just added to my radio archive
http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html:
and for those of you who missed doug on pbs' _now with bill moyers_ fri
nite (that's when orblando affiliate carries it anyway), program website
has transcript:
Saw this chap on World View (on CBC Newsworld) this morn. Very extensive
and open interview. (CBC style, most Americans feel free to speak openly
in Canada because few people back home will ever hear about it. :)
He's author of _Rogue Nation_. Spoke critically of Bush (a radical) and
the theory
Michael Hoover wrote:
good job doug but prepare yourself for potshots about
reformist-deviationism... michael hoover
Thanks, Michael. There's that risk of attacks from the righteous
left, but there's also this, posted as a review to Amazon.com
shortly after the broadcast:
Reviewer: Mark from
Unlike the farsighted US politicians .
The Washington Post today:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17199-2003Nov8.html
The United States is deeply frustrated with its hand-picked council
members because they have spent more time on their own political or
economic interests
Doug and all,
Well at least Mark from Santa Fe admits to not having even read your book!
Doug's interview was good, even though reformist (hey, we're in the Dark Ages here folks). . .Doug should have a weekly spot on NOW and share snippets from his radio interviews, contextualized by Doug to
Hi Sabri --
I didn't respond to this because I wanted to give it a lot of thought.
And try to separate out layers of influence in my own opinions. Maybe
I've just been westernized as you sort of imply.
(Plus, Jurriaan did a rather good job in dealing with the concept of
western rationality as a
When Kamel Kilani announced the $13 CPA budget, this was based largely on
pre-war and post-war oil revenue, plus revenue from frozen local and
overseas bank accounts (about $2.5 of assets are supposed to have been
seized from Saddam Hussein's government), he said the budget reflected five
core
lookout by Naomi Klein
Bring Halliburton Home
[The Nation from the November 24, 2003 issue]
Cancel the contracts. Ditch the deals. Rip up the rules.
Those are a few suggestions for slogans that could help unify the growing
movement against the occupation of Iraq. So far, activist debates have
Jurriaan Bendien wrote:
However, once it is admitted that human
beings are part of the material world and connected with it all the time
through conscious practical activity, most philosophical problems about our
ability to know the world disappear and become practical, experiential
questions.
And what is sovereignity in this day and age ? Sovereignity is a
concept, but it's a relative concept. If there was a provisional government
of Iraq, we could give it symbolic sovereignity and it would help it to gain
legitimacy, thereby reducing the need for an assertive occupation.
- Zbigniew
That was beautifully and clearly said...
Well thanks. In Britain or California they can always say it so much better
than I can, I mean, I can think it but I might not be able to say it, that
was a problem all my life really. But I am working on it. When language gets
hard, I know I've got
Jurriaan:
I think what Sabri really has in mind by Western
rationality is the dualism and fetishes generated
by commercial activity, but Ibn Khaldun already
described that these processes were also occurring
in the East.
Ken and Jurriaan,
I don't have the time to respond to this at length
Sabri wrote:
I never claimed that western rationality is a western
phenomenon. I use it as a name only. And at times I use it
intentionally to give the word western a derogatory meaning to
take revenge from you westerners. Any objections to that?
No objections, go ahead, it's just that you
Sabri Oncu wrote:
Back to work, that is, homework and I tell you, you don't want to
do this at my age.
Yeah, work is bad enoughbut at least there, I can slog through it
while repeating to myself: I get paid $$/hour to do this; I get paid
$$/hour to do this; Hard to do that in school. By
. I never claimed that western rationality is
a western
phenomenon. I use it as a name only. And at times I
use it
intentionally to give the word western a
derogatory meaning to
take revenge from you westerners. Any objections to
that?
Sure, all you Orientals are irrational, we wouldn't
why don't we call it capitalist rationality?
JD
-Original Message-
From: Sabri Oncu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sun 11/9/2003 12:03 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc:
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Western rationality
further to the dicussion on surplus-value etc - and thanks for your
comments! - and using Jim Devine's expression (below) of pool of global
surplus-value, QUESTION: what does a worker in a sweatshop factory in Haiti
contribute to the pool of *global* surplus-value (SV)?
My example is from a
why don't we call it capitalist rationality?
JD
Well as you know, I never disagree with you.
J.
that is rational, in a western way. ;-)
Some people get a cheap laugh breaking up the speed limit
Scaring the pedestrians for a minute
Crossing up progress driving on the grass
Leaving just enough for room to pass
Sunday driver never took a test
Oh yeah, once upon a time in the west
Yes, it's
Sure, all you Orientals are irrational, we wouldn't
expect anything better.
jks
Hey! This is not an insult but a great praise. I take pride in
being irrational. I don't think heart and reason are separable.
By the way, jks's reaction also demonstrates how good I am at
touching the peoples
--- joanna bujes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The federal government typically gives the
wealthiest
private universities significantly more financial
aid money
than schools with much greater shares of poor
students.
I used to laugh at the notion that Stanford was a
private university and that
A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.
- Paul Valery
Ken:
I had originally thought it was about the proportion
of onion, green pepper and ham in an omelets.
What you originally thought was right. It doesn't have anything
to do with east or west but as I said in my previous post, it is
about that heart and mind are not separable. In reason there
Jurriaan:
A Turkish guy I lived with in New Zealand later
accused me of trying to steal his girlfriend but
it was bullshit, she didn't even fancy me either.
Hey! I don't know about other Turkish guys but most of the time I
had been the one who was accused of trying to steal other guys'
Jurriaan Bendien wrote:
Hey! I don't know about other Turkish guys but most of the time I
had been the one who was accused of trying to steal other guys'
girlfriends. Those girlfriends usually fancied me without me
doing anything about it but I never ever stole girlfriends of
other
Jurriaan:
Or maybe ire-rational ? I haven't done it either, not
wittingly anyway, but I could imagine that in certain
situations having a heart could lead to that situation. I am
not saying all Turkish guys are alike, because they aren't,
I am just saying I have known them to jump to
All Right!
Sabri writes, progressively:
You are demonstrating a westernly rational behaviour.
It is slipping from an adjective to... well... a lesser adjective. Not
western now westernly.
Soon it will be a not eastern.
Also, I never said that I want to take revenge from western
rationality.
Ken:
It is slipping from an adjective to... well... a
lesser adjective. Not western now westernly.
What was I supposed to write Ken in order not to slip to a lesser
adjective?
Western rationally behaviour? Westeronoid rational behaviour?
Western rationalesque behaviour? Or would it have been
I like this one:
Westeronoid rational behaviour?
After that, you can loot the fucking tradition. :)
Ken.
--
Fall out of the window with confetti in my hair.
-- Tom Waits
[New York Times]
November 10, 2003
When Subsidies to Lure Business Don't Pan Out
By LOUIS UCHITELLE
INDIANAPOLIS - A huge, light-gray building, trimmed jauntily in blue,
rises from the rolling, grassy fields on the far side of the runways at
Indianapolis International Airport. From the approach
I think Gore Vidal summed it up best when he said What we have in this
country is socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor.
Joanna
Eubulides wrote:
[New York Times]
November 10, 2003
When Subsidies to Lure Business Don't Pan Out
By LOUIS UCHITELLE
INDIANAPOLIS - A huge, light-gray
I think Gore Vidal summed it up best when he said What we have in this
country is socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor
Maybe this is a bit side-ways, but in his essay What is the bureaucracy ?
(reprinted in Tariq Ali (ed.), The Stalinist Legacy), Ernest Mandel refers
to the elite
In the list of corporations I cited, two spelling errors slipped in:
Randstand Detache - 254,000
KNP Telecom -38,000
Randstand should be Randstad, this is a corporation which hires out
detache's and temporary workers to other companies. KNP Telecom should be
KPN Telecom. The original state-owned
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