(the illusion of power drug) got very popular.
Joanna
At 03:25 PM 12/22/2002 -0600, you wrote:
joanna bujes wrote:
The looting spree started in 1980
This is a misprint for 1780?
Carrol
At 03:15 PM 12/23/2002 +, you wrote:
But I haven't seen one word in the media about investors' disgust.
No, but the stock market will reflect it. I guess there's still a lot of
ordinary folks' money still waiting to be fleeced, so why advertise the
fact that business as usual continues
At 10:08 AM 12/22/2002 -0800, you wrote:
I must ask (after reading the Dec. 17 article in Business about Bush's
presence at a 1997 Enron party where there were jokes told about
accounting practices), has everyone in this country decided to loot
what's left? And people wonder why so many have
At 03:59 PM 12/20/2002 -0600, you wrote:
I didn't pry into those 14 columns, but I bet they contain abundant
(respectable) sanction for the linguistic acceptability of the
proposition that Markets are natural.
The question is though Markets are natural to what?
Joanna
in a separate message, Ellen
writes:
What people deserve is exactly the issue the right wing
will
raise -- the rich deserve their luxuries and the poor have
no
right to take what others have earned fairly (I guess
they'll
want to leave Ken Lay out if it).
Well, the question of how the rich
At 09:07 PM 12/19/2002 +, you wrote:
The question is which nationality, race, group, or religion is next.
Mohammad Maljoo
The roundup is expected to intensify. By January 10, men from the following
countries must report to immigration officials: Afghanistan, Algeria,
Bahrain, Eritrea,
We can be confident that in the long run their real interests will lead
global elites to support empire and refuse any project of US imperialism.
In the coming months, and perhaps years, we may face a tragedy that we
read about in the darkest periods of human history, when elites are
The difference seems to be
that Hardt seems to be pretty positively disposed toward
ultra-imperialism (imperialist unity) or what he and Negri call
empire.
.. so the only question is, what can be learned from such
scum?
Joanna
It's hard to know what data to look at in figuring out whether there's a
bubble. But falling margin requirements always make me suspicious; and,
nowadays, at least in the Bay area, you can get a mortgage with little or
no money down.
There is also the extraordinary obligation of the mortgage
At 02:06 PM 12/10/2002 -0500, you wrote:
joanna bujes wrote:
I assume all sorts of unimaginable consequences will flow out of the
attempt to remake the Middle East. I wonder if anyone in power gives any
thought whatsoever to long-term consequences.
Nah. They're too stupid and too arrogant
At 10:39 AM 12/10/2002 -0800, you wrote:
I have been thinking about the horrendous cost of the U.S. support for
Israel. Does anybody believe that Israel would exist except for the
Nazis? In effect, the Middle East Holocaust is a continuation of the
original one.
I forgot who it was who said
Better is Isaac Deutscher's
explanation of the connection between the Nazis and Israel: it's as if
someone had jumped out of a burning building -- and had fallen and
squashed his neighbor (the Palestinians).
Say what?
Joanna
At 04:03 PM 12/06/2002 -0500, you wrote:
Hey Ravi- You do know what humour is! Gee...Wasn't sure from your prior
note!
H
I think he's just the sweetest thing alive!!! But I've said that before.
Joanna
At 02:32 PM 11/24/2002 -0800, you wrote:
The reason why I think the Republican coup of 2000 may be a
historical turning point for the capital accumulation process
(from speculation back to production) is that finance capital
siphoned much of what could have been siphoned from the rest of
the
At 09:17 PM 11/22/2002 -0800, Sabri wrote:
but maybe we can explain this shift of capital from
production to speculation using a more comprehensive theory,
which does not exclude advanced robotics.
From my reading of Marx, I seem to remember that the shift from productive
to speculative capital
No, it's for real.
Joanna
At 12:22 AM 11/21/2002 -0800, you wrote:
Please tell me that this news is a hoax. Sabri
+++
Thursday, November 21, 2002
By Major Garrett
Fox News
WASHINGTON A massive database that the government will use to
monitor every purchase made by
Beats me. I don't know. I have no fascinataion with Stalin.
Joanna
At 05:10 PM 11/20/2002 -0800, you wrote:
What is this strange fascination with Stalin?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 12:08 PM 11/21/2002 -0800, you wrote:
The fly in the ointment is this: the government is now controlled by the
very forces that want to end government, period, and exchange it
for total control by themselves, the elite wealthy corporatistas.
Right, though you'll notice nobody wants to
I do not have detailed knowledge of pre WWII days; a friend who does, writes:
That is true about Czechoslovakia, except that Stalin was lobbying Britian
and France to go to war against Germany at the same time. But they didn't,
and the geographical layout of Czechoslovakia viz a viz the USSR
When is the quarter/semester over?
Joanna
At 04:29 AM 11/19/2002 +, you wrote:
Gar Lipow wrote:
Hi Joanna - I'm an anarchist leaning
independent socialist myself. (I would
explain why I'm not an anarchist, but I
doubt it would be of great interest to
anyone.)
This makes the three of
Dear Hari,
Of course the imperialists wanted Hitler to mop up those troublesome
commies; of course the imperialists had no objection to Hitler's building a
SLAVe camp in the east...that goes without saying.
The problem has more to do with our very different views of Stalin. And, I
suspect
At 05:14 PM 11/15/2002 -0800, you wrote:
The US is the puzzle. Is it deflation or
stagflation. Given what I intuitively feel about
the US economy's critical mass of true
unproductivity, I'm betting stagflation.
Uh, is that the short way of saying unemployment + inflation?
Joanna
At 08:31 PM 11/13/2002 -0600, you wrote:
A student wants to read some novels to compare the views on capitalism
they portray. Any suggestions? (something more contemporary than, say,
Dickens' Hard Times). Post-WWII or thereabouts. Thanks, Mat
These three are roughly about the same time period:
At 02:34 PM 11/13/2002 -0500, you wrote:
The U.S. is under the control of a frightening gang of lunatics hellbent
on war with a good bit of the world. Why are Toni Negri and The Nation
magazine such urgent enemies?
Doug
Who says they're enemies? I think Carrol and I are saying, in different
Oh, of course, I left out the old testament of capitalism
Robinson Crusoe
and the new testament
Lost Illusions (Balzac)
cause you said you wanted more modern stuff.
Joanna
well, wouldn't you be?
Joanna
At 05:50 PM 11/14/2002 -0800, you wrote:
the death of Satan was a tragedy for the imagination
-- Wallace Stevens
Satan is NOT dead, 'e's just pinin' for the fjords.
Tom Walker
604 255 4812
At 07:47 PM 11/14/2002 -0800, you wrote:
http://www.theonion.com/onion3842/marxists_apartment.html
OK. That was too, too silly. How could three male roommates ever achieve
socialism? Now with three female roommates, things might be different :)
Besides, is it possible to have socialism in one
Oh that's easy. Whoever doesn't get the chocolate gets the next fuckable man.
Joanna
At 08:07 PM 11/14/2002 -0800, you wrote:
- Original Message -
From: joanna bujes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 7:59 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:32239] Re: why
At 02:17 PM 11/13/2002 -0500, you wrote:
I am quite sure that Toni Negri's terminology stands a very good chance of
becoming part of everyday academic discourse down the road.
God help us all. On the other hand, it may also be a sign that pomo
scholasticism is spinning on the tip of its last
At 06:42 PM 11/09/2002 +, you wrote:
This is an interesting and important area of the economies of developed
capitalist countries. Ironically the more the emphasis on commodity
production and service industries, the higher the relative use value
placed by people on good health care. It is
What's the solution? Mazumder suggests that more access to educational
loans might help. He says many poor people who have children with great
potential can't raise enough money to send them to good schools, so the
children never take home the incomes they're capable of earning.
God, I hate
At 01:47 PM 11/08/2002 -0500, you wrote:
or are idle bums, or they have a victim mentality, and have not taken
the ample equal opportunity available to all, like condoleeza rice,
dinesh d'souza and colin powell have. in which case they deserve to be
poor. screw 'em.
Yeah, like a former friend
Yup.
Joanna
At 08:10 PM 11/06/2002 -0800, you wrote:
Greetings Economists,
The democrats lost the election.
If the democrats can't win elections why vote for them? Does that mean the
Republicans represent working people? No. Obviously this is what the left
can build a movement around.
The
Subject: BBC: US will fine companies that boycott Israel
From http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2403303.stm
US warns companies over Israel boycott
The United States has threatened to fine US companies that take part in an
Arab lead economic boycott of Israel.
The US government is strongly
At 04:44 PM 11/05/2002 +, you wrote:
I've been waiting for years to hear Jim Devine agree with me that the Soviet
Union was a Good Thing. At last! At last! The next step in his intellectual
evolution would be to acknowledge the indispensable role of Stalin in
defending the existence of the
Mark wrote:
The next step in his
intellectual
evolution would be to acknowledge the indispensable role of Stalin in
defending the existence of the USSR againt imperialist attacks in the
1940s-1950s.
Joanna wrote:
I'd give the credit to the Soviet people.
Mark wrote:
then you'd
Dear Mark,
Akhmatova, one of the greatest poets of this century, would turn over in
her grave if she knew that her poetry was used in defense of Stalin. As for
the piece by Simonov, it is a typical piece of nationalistic clap
trap--having nothing whatsoever to do with the heroic and selfless
At 05:13 PM 11/04/2002 -0500, you wrote:
When I got my first complementary copy this morning, I was reminded why I
let this awful magazine lapse. Starting out with an editorial admonition
to its readers against wasting a vote for the Green Party in tomorrow's
elections, it then proceeds to a
After 9/11, a fence-sitting zionist had a change of heart and said to me:
Looks like the Israelis always had it right; what we need is targeted
assassinations.
I guess we're getting with the program.
Joanna
November 4, 2002
Bin Laden Associate Is Killed in Yemen
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
At 07:49 PM 11/04/2002 -0500, you wrote:
(v) - But really - the question is much better phrased to the Americans
on the list - why the hell have they not erupted? I mean the US health
care system sucks - so much worse than the Canadian.
Yet???
Oh, that's simple. If you're an
Slight change of plans for tonight. As it turns out, tonight is the one
night that the dance performance will start at 9 p.m. That shouldn't be too
late for the kids, so we can still go see that. There's also going to be a
huge light show, which the kids should enjoy. AND, I did buy three
Oooops. Sorry about that everyone; the email was meant to go to Sabri.
Joanna
At 10:54 AM 11/01/2002 -0800, you wrote:
Slight change of plans for tonight. As it turns out, tonight is the one
night that the dance performance will start at 9 p.m. That shouldn't be
too late for the kids, so we
In order to come to the show...or to hang out with all the sexy belly
dancers I know, you and Divya have to pony up some $$ to Jet Blue...and
I'll pick you up at the airport...you...youspoiled Brahmin you...
Love,
Joanna
At 03:16 PM 11/01/2002 -0500, you wrote:
joanna bujes wrote:
Oooops
At 05:21 PM 11/01/2002 -0500, you wrote:
Yes, and he should have stayed away from that batty Frieda Kahlo as well.
Hell, he didn't even get a portrait out of it.
Joanna
Wow!.Unfuckingbelievable!
Joanna
At 11:34 AM 10/30/2002 -0800, you wrote:
Is this as bad as they say? Does anybody have more info?
Published on Wednesday, October 30, 2002 by the Toronto Globe Mail
For-Profit U.S. Schools Sell Off Their Textbooks
by Doug Saunders
Students already
Georg Luckacs also has some more theoretical but valuable points to make
about the ontology of drama and the novel in his Historical Novel. I
think it amounts to one introductory chapter.
Joanna
At 03:09 PM 10/30/2002 -0500, you wrote:
Steve Cohn wrote:
I teach a senior seminar on paradigm
At 04:57 PM 10/28/2002 -0500, Lou quoted Yardeni:
Deflation is a very unstable and potentially dangerous economic
environment. Macroeconomists, particularly monetarists, believe it can be
overcome by pumping up the money supply. I am not so sure. I believe that
it is a consequence of
Yes, the diversity was wonderful. This was the first time that I attended
an anti-war rally where there were actually a fair sprinkling of African
Americans and this was good to see. Also included was every age group
and, clearly, a variety of people of differing backgrounds that I don't
usually
At 07:09 PM 10/22/2002 -0700, you wrote:
The reality is that many children and
adolescents just can't adapt to
incarceration-style education.
Oh man, is that ever true!
I didn't know the meaning of the word boredom until I went to school.
Joanna
I would think it would be relatively easy to determine whether you are
right. Surely they must keep statistics that would help you correlate
age/medical intervention with incidence of learning disorders, autism, etc.
Joanna
At 05:56 AM 10/19/2002 -0700, you wrote:
I think a big factor--whether
At 09:10 PM 10/15/2002 -0700, you wrote:
Anyone have the stats on sales of women's clothes, fashion accesories,
perfumes etc. since Reagan and Thatcher? I suspect they've been brisk.
Probably, but what's pushing it forward is not fashion change but the
by-now compulsive impulse to buy.
TradeAlert.org | Fighting for American Companies, Fighting for American Jobs
http://www.tradealert.org/view_art_print.asp?Prod_ID=661
Market Share Nosedive for U.S. Industries
By Alan Tonelson
Friday, October 11,
At 10:58 AM 10/15/2002 -0700, you wrote:
The response to the falling market share on the part of the U.S. government is
to intensify the intellectual property extortions and arms sales.
But eventually we'll all figure out that the emperor is naked and holding a
bazookaright?
Joanna
At 04:57 PM 10/15/2002 -0400, Michael P wrote:
And
the clothing fashion cycle, the ultimate model of all modern fashion
cycles, is almost as old as mass production itself; it becomes annualized
and society-wide in the early 19th century.
Well fashion changes go back to year zero, I'm sure.
At 08:01 PM 10/13/2002 -0700, you wrote:
To put it differently, is there a unique order relation that
partially orders the universal set?
Yes. They call it Nature. And, as Aristotle said, Nature IS order.
The guiding question in science has been How do you read/interpret that
order? The answer
At 03:47 AM 10/12/2002 +, you wrote:
The sheer complexity of modern technologies requires that RD be a team
effort; no one individual acting alone can supply the expertise needed to
advance the state of the art. If you have a team effort, you need
administrators to coordinate efforts,
At 05:12 PM 10/10/2002 +, you wrote:
Again, I believe it's the nature of science itself -- not just the
corruptive effects of capitalism -- that so often causes technology to
have a destructive, dehumanizing impact on society. The ever increasing
specialization of scientific knowledge
At 10:56 AM 10/09/2002 -0400, you wrote:
Unfortunately critical thinking toward bourgeois science (and there *is*
such a thing has been associated with postmodernist relativism,
Not really. There is the work of Feyerabend and a tremendous amount of
ground breaking by the phenomenlogists and by
Even more generally, the
single number fallacy fits with the general capitalist philosophy that
the value of everything should be measured by its contribution to
profits.
Yup.
Joanna
At 02:41 PM 10/09/2002 +, you wrote:
That's the horror of it all. As Huxley suggested in Brave New World,
there doesn't seem to be any choice between the dehumanization of science
and reversion to simple savagery. As I said, I don't have any answer to this.
Oh, that's just silly. We have
At 06:01 PM 10/09/2002 +, you wrote:
From: joanna bujes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 02:41 PM 10/09/2002 +, you wrote:
That's the horror of it all. As Huxley suggested in Brave New World,
there doesn't seem to be any choice between the dehumanization of
science and reversion to simple
At 10:35 PM 10/08/2002 +, you wrote:
Scientific study by its nature puts distance between a human observer and
human subject, creates a hierarchical relationship and deliberately limits
development of empathy. I think this has had a deeply damaging effect on
human relations overall.
It's interesting that Bush has not treated this situation so far as Reagan
did the air traffic controllers. Any speculation as to why he's holding off?
Joanna
At 10:18 PM 10/05/2002 -0700, you wrote:
Port Talks Resume; White House Warns of Economic Harm (Update3)
By Karen Gullo
San
At 07:30 PM 09/29/2002 -0700, Charles wrote:
I would bet you used phonics methods in beginning
reading within a much larger approach to reading,
which usually is, in a nutshell, to learn to read
by reading so as to have lifelong reading to
learn. That might include sight vocabulary/whole
word
At 08:27 PM 09/30/2002 +0100, you wrote:
Here's how the US news media now tends to rpesent the case for US predation
in the Middle East. We're seeing a lot of this kind of 'bonanza' stuff but
what they don't talk about is what will happen if they _don't_ get their
hands on Iraqi oil, for whatever
Hey Charles,
I'm lost. I've taught three children to read using phonics...with
outstanding results. Is the point that phonics is a bad method? Or that the
tests are self serving?
Joanna
09/25 00:19
Argentine Workers Seize Factories, Assets as Recession
Deepens
By Helen Murphy
Buenos Aires, Sept. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Domingo Ibanez
has a new boss: himself. Six months ago he and 44
other workers seized the bankrupt ice-cream flavoring
factory where they worked.
Now the plant in
No, I don't think so. (see ravi's post below).
What pollutes academic life is the fact that ideas are turned into
various forms of intellectual real estate. This transformation is
effected by the expression of ideas/arguments in a capricious
poetics/language -- making it difficult for any but
But the idea of a new pseudo-mathematical language
that would make meaningless debates impossible and force some form of
responsible analysis has been used for this purpose.
True. But if our goal is to find the truth, rather than to censure
unorthodox ideas, the technique of choice would be
Don't forget news://alt.politics.socialism.trotsky!
Doug
Hey Doug. Netscape says it can't find it. Was THAT the joke? Well, too bad,
cause this is my one and only chance to tell my Trotsky joke:
A messanger arrives at the Kremlin bearing a telegram.
I must speak to Comrade Stalin, he cries
How do you subscribe to the A list?
Joanna
At 08:25 AM 09/23/2002 +0100, you wrote:
Dear Pen-lers,
The Left Book Club by the A-list officially launches with the following
titles courtesy of Zed Books. As was recently discussed, Zed operates a
differential pricing policy enabling purchasers
At 08:38 AM 09/22/2002 -0700, you wrote:
How effective can military keynesian be now?
Not very...at any rate, the market doesn't seem to think it would be very
effective; have you noticed how it swoons everyt ime we come one step
closer to war?
The US economy is very open,
so much of the
Thanks for this, I was wondering about Europe.
Also, totally off the subject, are you Turkish?
Joanna
At 12:40 PM 09/22/2002 -0700, you wrote:
Europe Is Giving Up on Itself
Stephen Roach (New York)
Global Economic Forum, Sept 20, 2002
These past two weeks in Europe have been sort of an
At 11:55 AM 09/20/2002 -0700, you wrote:
In either case, US academics (read: MIT, Harvard, UC Berkely, et al),
consultants, and apologists at FERC and the Congress will continue to
boast that deregulation works.
Gene Coyle
It works for some (the people who work the scams); it doesn't work for
At 03:32 PM 09/18/2002 -0400, you wrote:
More obscene than the polarization of wealth is the expropriation of the
resources of the earth and the resources of humanity as the private
property and exclusive concerns of the few.
Joanna
Excuse, but what *is* the polarization of wealth but the
At 01:52 PM 09/18/2002 -0400, you wrote:
You may have seen this before but one needn't be a Marxist to see clearly
that what you say is certainly so. Therefore I repeat my announcement about
Socioeconomic Democracy and the democratic and peaceful reduction of the
obscene -- and harmful --
Wooops. Forgot to send you my Sun address:
Joanna Bujes
Sun Microsystems
1800 Harrison St.
Oakland, CA 94612
Joanna
At 06:21 PM 09/10/2002 -0400, you wrote:
[Please forward to others who may be
interested]
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: MIDWEST ECONOMICS
Thanks much.
Joanna
At 12:03 PM 09/08/2002 -0400, you wrote:
[Dear friends and colleagues, please forward
the following very usual information by Katha Pollitt and Jennifer
Baumgardner on EC (emergency contraception) to all...but
especially young people. Many thanks, Diane]
Date: Sun, 08 Sep
The following is an excerpt from an interview with Robert Willens a tax
expert, published in Barron's 8/26/02. FYI.
Joanna
___
Q. We've talked aobut some macro issues. How about some micro issues?
A. A lot of companies have sustained losses this year. When a company
Yes, thanks. I did read that; it was probably that article I had in mind,
plus more stuff from the UC Berkeley strike, when I wrote the post below.
Joanna
At 03:06 PM 09/03/2002 -0400, you wrote:
At 02:58 PM 9/2/2002 -0700, joanna bujes wrote:
The current situation in academia is the triumph
The current situation in academia is the triumph of divide and rule
tactics. It is an enraging, nauseating situation. However, if current
drifts continue (what is it presently?... 70% non-tenured, 30% tenured
nation-wide?), it will simply come to this: that by dint of sheer numbers,
At 09:47 PM 08/20/2002 -0400, you wrote:
Numers don't tell lies because numbers don't make propositions - people
do. I don't see how this is a counter-example, either. I provided figures
for both the % of high school graduates proceeding directly to college and
the % of all 25-29 year-olds who
At 10:58 AM 08/20/2002 -0400, you wrote:
I don't think 57% is right. The percentage of high-school graduates
enrolled in college for the subsequent year was at a high of 67% in 1997,
and over 60% ever since (see ftp://146.142.4.23/pub/news.release/hsgec.txt
for latest figures), and the
(Has anyone ever been to a
Mensa meeting?)
No, but when I was a state park ranger, they were having some kind of
annual meeting at the conference grounds where I worked. I have never, in
my entire life, met a group of people that were more rude and pathetic
than these Mensa geeks.
Joanna
At 03:47 PM 08/20/2002 -0400, you wrote:
About 66% of high school graduates get some college education, but not
everyone graduates from high school. Counting the high school dropout
rate, it's about 57% of young Americans who get some college education.
Big numbers can tell big lies. In
At 09:44 AM 08/21/2002 +1000, you wrote:
I do remember a chat we had on LBO a couple of years back concerning the
inverse relationship between ball-size and player-wealth. It'd be no
bad thing if a few thousand golf-courses were to go under in sympathy
with, um, the post-wealth effect, as golf
At 04:48 PM 08/19/2002 -0700, you wrote:
was not particularly impressed by Stiglitz. He stands out only
compared to the complete dolts at the IMF who are not only stupid but
obviously arrogant and blind to reality, completely brain-washed by
text-book economics and immune and unable to
At 04:35 PM 08/13/2002 -0400, you wrote:
Foucault is a obscurantist and aesthete who has poisoned the mind of a
whole generation of intellectuals and activists who should be reading
Lenin and/or Alinsky instead. Worse, he's French. How dare you bring him
up on PEN-L!?
...and a bad scholar.
I became aquainted with Wood's writing and thought by reading through an
interview and an article in some old Monthly Reviews. I then went out to
look for some/all of her books and I've been having a lot of trouble
locating them. Apparently some are even out of print.
I live in Oakland (CA)
At 01:30 PM 08/03/2002 -0700, you wrote:
I thought it happens when your wife is a socialist and you actually pay some
attention to what she says.
Hmmm. Reminds me of when I used to be married to a Trotskyist. Since he was
so busy doing political work and thinking political thoughts, he never
Jim wrote:
One thing we should do is to make
sure that the experts don't restrict the supply of education in order to
shore up their status as experts.
You mean like the American Medical Association?
Joanna
Louis Proyect wrote...
A related position is Giovanni Arrighi's peculiar 'geometry' of world
processes under capitalism. Arrighi is an admitted Kantian, and he believes
that the basic forces determining the historical trajectory of the modern
world are ultimately spatial, in an absolutist,
At 11:14 AM 07/31/2002 -0700, Ian wrote:
[problem solved; all is better now!]
There is nothing uniquely American about corporations that cook
their books, or accountants and bankers who countenance it, or
executives who use corporate treasuries as personal piggy banks.
But it is probably only
At 02:34 PM 07/31/2002 -0700, you wrote:
[comments?]
THE ECONOMIST / July 20, 2002
Convergence, period
The Economist is the most loathsome economic periodical I have ever read.
It is such a mass of confusion, legerdemain, prevarication, and
obfuscation that I do not think it is worth
Yes I do object. With regard to reserach, neither I nor anyone here wants
to be told what to work on. Now, there is some democratization possible in
the decision to fund kinds of projects. The legislature can (and does)
decide to alot a certain amount of funds to, say, cancer research. Or
At 09:16 AM 07/30/2002 -0400, you wrote:
4] To what degree has the bubble (aka new) economy been nothing more than
an elaborate and calculated scheme to steal money from employees and middle
class investors, or was it more fortuitous accident of history for those who
got rich at every one else's
At 08:42 PM 07/30/2002 +, you wrote:
What do you think of juries? Is this an example of the hoi polloi
interfering in your area of expertise?
Joanna
No. Juries find facts, they don't decide questions of law. Neither I nor
any other lawyer has any expertise in hwta happened in a
At 08:55 PM 07/30/2002 +, you wrote:
What part do you reject, Doug? Representative govt? Univeral suffrage?
Extensive civil and political liberties? In fact you reject none of it.
You are a bourg lib too, as are probably 95% of the people on this list.
Explain the bourgeois part.
Thanks,
At 12:00 AM 07/31/2002 +, you wrote:
What?! The Federal Reserve is explicitly authorized to take equity stakes
in private enterprise? My God, is there anything the sovereign state of
the Fed is *not* entitled to do?
I'm confused. The Federal Reserve, despite its name, is very much a
Many of you are familiar with the story of the Tower of Babel, but just so
we all start on the same page, here it is (from King James version):
1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they
found a
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