A cricket match takes place in Pakistan today between Pakistan and
India, two of the most populous countries on the planet, who have been
in a state of war or armed hostility for many decades and which have
nuclear arms.
As the son of a good cricket-player I have never understood the game
and
Hi Michael,
Caveat emptor: I am not an economist. However, these are my two kopecks' worth.
There is no doubt that a great deal, possibly the majority, of the economic boom has
been the result of high oil prices. The federal treasury gets the great majority of
its money from sales of
I didn't ask the question to be provocative. Someone raised it with me in a
discussion. Your answer seems to be maybe they work for hedging purposes,
but they still represent a potential source of catastrophic instability.
That's essentially what I replied, wondering whether I'd missed any
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Why not simply say that human relationships are bound by love. After all,
contracts are always conditional, whereas love is not.
Let's have a think. This idea would possibly help to explain why many people
disparage free love so much, as a dreamy hippy phenomenon, applying only
to marginalised
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F A C I N G S O U T H
A progressive Southern news report
March 12, 2004 * Issue 75
INSTITUTE INDEX * Blue-Light Special America
Number of Georgia children on subsidized healthcare whose parents work at Wal-Mart:
10,260
Percent of Wal-Mart workers who can't afford the company health plan: 55
Peter Drucker, the doyen of the management community, claims that 90
percent of all financial transactions in the world have no relationship with
either production or trade [of tangible goods and services]. Drucker refers
to this as the growth of the symbol economy (see Peter Drucker, The New
David B. Shemano wrote:
I have been accused of being reductionist. According to
dictionary.com, reductionsist means:
...
Based upon that definition, I accept the label. It is better than
being wrong.
What really are we fighting about?
i called your definition (of corporations)
Chris Burford wrote:
Now today behind this important ritualised trial lies the context
that the national bourgeoisies of India and Pakistan have decided it
is in their economic interests to promote a free trade area and some
sublimation of the extraordinarily dangerous potential for war.
But don't ask me actually how to play the game. I always went
paralytic.
i have always assumed that a paralytic condition is a pre-requisite for
the lethargic sport ;-). don't tell my cricketing family, but
personally, i prefer basketball!
--ravi
Truly terrible confessions. I'm
The West Australian
March 05, 2004
[A front page story from my local paper. The last paragraph is illuminating.
Perth is rated by The Economist as one of the world's most liveable
cities. Marx summed up such paradoxes well in his General Law of Capitalist
Accumulation:
it is capitalistic
S. Brian Willson, John Kerry's Obsession:
http://www.covertactionquarterly.org/kerrys.html.
--
Yoshie
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* Calendars of Events in Columbus:
http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/calendar.html,
http://www.freepress.org/calendar.php,
--- Joanna:
Why not simply say that human relationships are
bound by love. After all,
contracts are always conditional, whereas love is
not.
Ah, Joanna. What can one say to this? Here's one of my
my chief Authorities on love, Cole Porter:
What is this thing called love?
This funny thing
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Shakespeare wrote once that all's fair in love and war. Associated Press
just now reports that in Tikrit, a roadside bomb killed two American
soldiers and wounded three this Saturday. They were the first casualties
suffered by a new US army regiment taking over security in Saddam
Wall Street is not as enamoured of George Bush as might be supposed and some
think a John Kerry presidency would be better for the economy, reports the
American financial weekly, Barrons. Wall Streetis pretty much divided on
the two candidates, writes Jim McTague.
In essence, as individual
Joanna:
Why not simply say that human relationships are
bound by love. After all,
contracts are always conditional, whereas love is
not.
Dans les premires passions les femmes aiment l'amant, et dans les autres
elles aiment l'amour. -- Franois, duc de La Rochefoucauld
Tom Walker
604 255
http://www.guardian.co.uk/recession/story/0,7369,1159787,00.html
Herein lies the conundrum. If dramatic advances in productivity can replace
more and more human labour, resulting in more workers being let go from the
workforce, where will the consumer demand come from to buy all the potential
new
Sabri Oncu wrote:
After all, every human relation is based on some sort
of a contract whether it is our relationship with our
lovers, children, parents, siblings, friends and the
like.
Just that most these (unsigned) contracts are
enforceable not by law but by love and we can always
opt out
From the very fine Moscow News.
http://www.mn.ru/english/issue.php?2004-9-12
Reflecting on Robbie Williams, Dutch journalist Jan Kuitenbrouwer has some
interesting backchat comments on the critique of the political economy of
consumption, in a recent issue of the middleclass Hague Post/Time magazine
(12 March 2004 issue, p. 90), of which I have translated this excerpt:
I
In a message dated 3/11/2004 11:34:55 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The Passion, which could become the
biggest-grossing movie of 2004 and surely the biggest ever with subtitles -
the actors speak in Aramaic and Latin - appears to have pushed some very
influential
Justin writes:
Who said limited liability was limited to torts? The
corporate forms protects its investors against all
liabilities -- contractual, tort, property, civil
rights and other statutory -- even criminal to a
point, bankruptcy, etc.
Yes, but it is only with respect to
http://www.flonnet.com/fl2106/stories/20040326004103000.htm
OBITUARY
A SAINT AND A SAGE
PRABHAT PATNAIK
Volume 21 - Issue 06, March 13 - March 26, 2004
India's National Magazine
from the publishers of THE HINDU
[snip]
The revival of interest in Marxism on the campuses in the late 1960s led
Jim wrote:
I think that Sabri goes much too far. All contracts -- including unsigned
ones -- are based on trust, not love. (...) One of the problems with a
capitalist society (or, more generally, a commodity-producing one) is that
market competition encourages rampant individualism and
Tom Walker wrote:
Joanna:
Why not simply say that human relationships are
bound by love. After all,
contracts are always conditional, whereas love is
not.
Dans les premires passions les femmes aiment l'amant, et dans les autres
elles aiment l'amour. -- Franois, duc de La Rochefoucauld
OBITUARY
A SAINT AND A SAGE
PRABHAT PATNAIK
Volume 21 - Issue 06, March 13 - March 26, 2004
India's National Magazine
from the publishers of THE HINDU
Response Jim C: What a wonderful obit. When I lived and taught in India
(Kerala), I eagerly looked forward to getting and reading The Hindu
Have you seen the movie?
No, not yet, but intend to see it when I am thinking about my father again.
Jurriaan
I wrote:
But this story has another implication. As I have said previously, the
perfect crime is the crime which is not a crime since then it considered a
crime, and can be prosecuted legally as such.
That should obviously be:
But this story has another implication. As I have said previously,
There's an old Sufi saying: The Devil is a pretty shoe. ...and yes,
I'd say we are in Hell.
On the other hand, poor teenager. When girls come into their womanhood,
they are all thumbs about expressing their new-found sexual
selves/feelings etc. They tend to exaggerate everything: the sexy walk,
I wrote:
But this story has another implication. As I have said previously, the
perfect crime is the crime which is not a crime since then it
considered a crime, and can be prosecuted legally as such.
That should obviously be:
But this story has another implication. As I have said previously,
There's got to be a way to find my way to heaven, cuz I did my time in hell,
to paraphrase Keith Richards. Actually, I quite like short skirts on women,
but then, I'm a man. I haven't got time just now to go into a whole
dialectical analysis of Dutch Treat, but thanx for the comment.
J.
March 3, 2004
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The war on terrorism will last as long and take as
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the North American Aerospace Command and Northern
Command recently said.
Air Force Gen. Ralph Eberhart, who was in charge of
the nation's air
Missteps on Economy Worry Bush Supporters
By Jonathan Weisman and Mike Allen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, March 13, 2004; Page A01
A string of glaring missteps by President Bush's economic team has raised
alarm among the president's supporters that his economic policymakers may
have
Banking is one of Israel's largest industries. In 1996, the banking industry
(1) generated NIS 15,250 million ($4,690 million) in added value, (2)
accounting for 8 percent of business sector product and 20 percent of total
product in trade and services. (...) http://www.iasps.org.il/bank.htm
Yes, but it is only with respect to non-contractual
liabilities that the limitation is state imposed.
I disagree. First, a contract is state imposition or
creation. A contract, in law, is a promise the law
will enforce. Second, the limited libaility accorded
corporations is a matter of the
The psy-war on the ruled continues
Regards,
Mike B)
http://www.alternet.org/members/story.html?StoryID=18090
By Laurie Spivak, AlterNet
March 10, 2004
It seems that President Bush's culture war may
finally succeed where Operation Iraqi Freedom did not.
Namely, W and Rove's latest foray
It is actually more complicated since the US Federal Reserve directly influences the cost of bank funds that are resold to consumers directly through the Federal Reserve discount rate (currently 1%) . Also, the regulation (or lack thereof) of the sale of mortgage-backed securities on the secondary
--- paul phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mike B wrote
I agree, it would be much better, if workers ran
and
managed the the firms in which they exploited
themselves for surplus value. Honestly though,
hasn't the history of creating such entities, like
say
Mondragon or the Amana
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A BRITISH captive freed from Guantanamo Bay today tells the world of
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Bush's disturbing sleeping disorder
By Hunter S. Thompson
The national news was crowded with big stories this week, and most of
them turned out to be somehow joined at the hip with major league
Sports -- especially Football and its sinister connections with
tainted money and naked women. It was
Some of us are not so ignorant of the game, having played in school and
college teams and have trophies to show for them! When I have the time I
might tell you about what a googli ball is. I wouldn't read that much
into the game. South Asians are bloody good at the game, a game that is
as
Robert Manning wrote:
snip
The investment risk of peaking US housing market prices (buttressed by
historically low debt service levels) is globalized through the sale
of these mortgage-backed securities in international markets such as
London and Japan. Hence, low interest rates fuel higher
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