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TOPIC: Internet price war
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Tues, Nov 3 2009 8:19 am
From: rabm
(Associated Press http://xrl.us/InternetBooks ) - The book
price wars are no longer just for pre-orders.
Amazon.com was offering hardcovers of John Grisham's "Ford
County" and Barbara Kingsolver's "The Lacuna" for just $9
on Tuesday, the official release date for both books -
Amazon.com: http://xrl.us/PriceWar -. Hardcovers generally
have a list price of $24 or higher.
In mid-October, Walmart.com announced dramatic discounts
for pre-orders of "Ford County," Sarah Palin's "Going
Rogue" and other popular November publications. Wal-
Mart.com initially charged $9 for the books, a price
quickly matched by Amazon.com, then dropped to $8.98 by Wal-
Mart.com.
Authors, publishers and rival booksellers worry that
cutting the price so low will harm competition and force
down the cost of books overall, leading to a reduction in
author advances.
On Tuesday, Walmart.com was selling "Ford County" for $12
and "The Lacuna" for $13.50. Another price cutter,
Target.com, was selling "Ford County" for $15 and "The
Lacuna" for $18.89.
== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Wed, Nov 4 2009 6:08 am
From: Stratum101
On Nov 3, 10:19 am, rabm
<fr...@spamexpire-200911.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday, Walmart.com was selling "Ford County" for $12
> and "The Lacuna" for $13.50. Another price cutter,
> Target.com, was selling "Ford County" for $15 and "The
> Lacuna" for $18.89.
Walmart is selling barbecued lacunae.
While I may disagree politically with the Walmart
management, who can deny these hayseeds are
masters of process?
I was in the local Walmart while ago, grocery
shopping, but stopped to look over their large
collection of Reading for Rightards featuring
Glenn Beck and Pat Robertson who had once
petitioned God Almighty to steer Hurricane Gloria
clear of Virginia Beach. (It made a beeline
for Godless New Haven.)
I came upon one title of interest: "Going Roguish"
by Sarah Pei-Lin *with* (it said) Kermitsky
Green. Her literary assistant's name seemed
familiar, but I couldn't quite place it.
I thought it might be a housing
project in Chicgao.
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Wed, Nov 4 2009 12:14 am
From: The Other
Marko Amnell <marko.amnell@kolumbus.fi> writes:
> ... [Neumann] identifies Schmitt as the leading National Socialist
> voice in the use of arguments from international law to "revise" the
> Versailles Treaty, i.e. Germany must be allowed to re-arm,
> militarise the Rhineland, occupy Danzig and the Corridor,
> etc. Neumann thinks the arguments are spurious, based on tricks, and
> wipe out the boundary between ethics and law (which he thinks should
> be maintained). Neumann sees a spurious extension of the notion of
> equality (pp. 152f):
>
> "The leading voice in the Nationalist Socialist revisionist chorus
> is Carl Schmitt. [...] Not man but the community is placed in the
> center of the system. Since the essence of the community is to
> prevent one member from prevailing over another, and since
> international society is a community, the argument runs,
> international inequality violates the essence of international law.
> The trick and sham of the argument is the word equality. There can
> be no quarrel with the argument that by their very sovereignty all
> states are equals. International law could not exist without
> recognising this principle, provided equality is understood as a
> juristic category. In the same way, equality of all men in our legal
> system means legal equality, that is, the illegality of slavery and
> so forth. The National Socialists, however, do not stop with this
> formal principle. For them, equality also means the right of each
> state to adequate living space. It has all sorts of moral and
> political implications. Carl Schmitt enumerates a whole catalogue
> of rights, such as the eternal right to existence,
> self-determination, defense, and so on."
Interesting. I wonder which writings of Schmitt's he's citing. I
assume it's from the Nazi period and not earlier. Reading this
paragraph carefully, though, you see that it's the National
Socialists, not Schmitt, who are said to claim a right to Lebensraum.
The "whole catalog" of putative state rights claimed by Schmitt seems
a lot less controversial: existence, self-determination, and defense.
I think Schmitt always denied that his writings could be interpreted
to justify the concept of Lebensraum, and I don't think any serious
scholars claim that they can be, but I might be wrong.
Here's an excerpt I Googled from one of his Nuremberg interrogations,
by the US interrogator Robert Kempner (K).
K: I do not know why anyone else has questioned you. I will tell you
quite candidly what I am interested in: your participation, direct and
indirect, in the planning of wars of aggression, of war crimes and of
crimes against humanity.
S: Planning wars of aggression is a new and very broad concept.
K: I take it for granted that, as a professor of public law, you know
exactly what a war of aggression is. Do you agree with me on the fact
that Poland, Norway, France, Russia, Denmark, Holland were invaded?
Yes or no?
S: Of course.
K: Did you not provide the ideological foundation for those kinds of things?
S: No.
K: Could your writings be so interpreted?
S: I do not think so - not by anyone who has read them.
K: Did you seek to achieve a new international legal order in
accordance with Hitlerian ideas?
S: Not in accordance with Hitlerian ideas and not sought to achieve
but diagnosed.
. . .
K: You admit, however, that it [Volkerrechtliche Grossramordnung] is
clearly an international legal theory of Lebensraum?
S: I call it Grossraum.
K: Hitler was also for Grossraum.
S: All of them were probably for it, including the citizens of other
countries.
K: A reading of this essay shows it was written in the purest Hitler
syle.
S: No. I am proud of the fact that since 1936 I had nothing to do
with that.
K: Previously, therefore, you wrote in the Hitlerian style.
S: No, I did not say that. Until 1936 I considered it possible to
give meaning to these catchwords.
> Nevertheless, Neumann and Schmitt share certain assumptions,
> such as that the State is the supreme and ultimate embodiment
> of politics and sovereignty (Weber shares this assumption too).
Actually Schmitt believed that it *ought* to be such, not that it
is. From the 1920s, he described how elements of society - unions,
political parties (e.g. Nazis and Communists), the church - can take
political power which ought to belong exclusively to the state. In
the 1930s Schmitt supported a strong state as opposed to a strong Nazi
Party, and that's why he was officially denounced by the SS in 1936.
> Like Schmitt, Neumann spends much time discussing the
> essential role of the political leader. Neumann also accepts
> the basic points of Schmitt's critique of the Weiman Republic.
> The Weimar Constitution, he agrees, leads to a lack of
> ability to make decisions, whereby a tendency toward hollow
> compromises leads to the postponement of decision-making.
> Neumann also discusses Schmitt's rejection of the parliamentary
> system.
Thanks for the interesting summary.
== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Wed, Nov 4 2009 9:37 am
From: "Marko Amnell"
"The Other" <other@address.invalid> wrote in message
lyzl72d7v5.fsf@circe.aeaea...
> Marko Amnell <marko.amnell@kolumbus.fi> writes:
>
>> ... [Neumann] identifies Schmitt as the leading National
>> Socialist
>> voice in the use of arguments from international law to
>> "revise" the
>> Versailles Treaty, i.e. Germany must be allowed to
>> re-arm,
>> militarise the Rhineland, occupy Danzig and the Corridor,
>> etc. Neumann thinks the arguments are spurious, based on
>> tricks, and
>> wipe out the boundary between ethics and law (which he
>> thinks should
>> be maintained). Neumann sees a spurious extension of the
>> notion of
>> equality (pp. 152f):
>>
>> "The leading voice in the Nationalist Socialist
>> revisionist chorus
>> is Carl Schmitt. [...] Not man but the community is
>> placed in the
>> center of the system. Since the essence of the community
>> is to
>> prevent one member from prevailing over another, and
>> since
>> international society is a community, the argument runs,
>> international inequality violates the essence of
>> international law.
>> The trick and sham of the argument is the word equality.
>> There can
>> be no quarrel with the argument that by their very
>> sovereignty all
>> states are equals. International law could not exist
>> without
>> recognising this principle, provided equality is
>> understood as a
>> juristic category. In the same way, equality of all men
>> in our legal
>> system means legal equality, that is, the illegality of
>> slavery and
>> so forth. The National Socialists, however, do not stop
>> with this
>> formal principle. For them, equality also means the right
>> of each
>> state to adequate living space. It has all sorts of moral
>> and
>> political implications. Carl Schmitt enumerates a whole
>> catalogue
>> of rights, such as the eternal right to existence,
>> self-determination, defense, and so on."
>
> Interesting. I wonder which writings of Schmitt's he's
> citing. I
> assume it's from the Nazi period and not earlier.
Yes, Neumann is citing Schmitt's writings from the Nazi
period. He gives references in the endnotes. Let me quote
a bit more from _Behemoth_ (p. 153):
"Perhaps Germany should have been allowed to rearm,
militarize the Rhineland, and occupy the Corridor and
Danzig. That is not the question. To justify these acts by
international law makes law a mere prostitute of
politics.
"The argument unquestionably has a popular appeal.
It duped the civilized world quite successfully. The
National Socialist propaganda machine knew how
to get the writings of its international lawyers into
respectable foreign periodicals. That helped. Their
trick of excluding Soviet Russia from the international
community helped too. They maintained that membership
in the international community requires homogeneity,
a number of common features and beliefs."
The endnote (number 56) for the above passage reads:
Carl Schmitt, "Sowjet-Union und Genfer Völkerbund,"
in Völkerbund und Völkkerrecht, 1934, 1935 (1), p. 263.
So here Neumann argues that Schmitt subordinates
legal arguments to political motives, i.e. he mixes
law with politics (and ethics).
Then on page 154 Neumann turns to the subject of
the "just war" and specifically Attorney-General
Robert H. Jackson's views concerning it:
"Mr. Jackson attacked those who have 'not caught up
with this century which, by its League of Nations Covenant
with sanctions against aggressors, the Kellogg-Briand
treaty for renunciation of war as an instrument of
policy, and Argentine Anti-War treaty, swept away
the nineteenth-century basis for contending that all
wars are alike and all warriors entitled to like treatment.
Neutrals must assist those nations who are fighting
to ward off aggression--a just war. In the same vein,
there is a considerable body of literature holding that
neutrals may discriminate against any nation violating
the Kellogg-Briand pact. [...]
"This new theory, especially in the Jackson formulation,
ought to be quite acceptable to German philosophy
of law. Yet they attack it, invoking the oldest and most
rationalistic arguments in existence. The same Carl
Schmitt who invented 'thinking in concrete words,'
to replace abstract, rationalistic thought, has devoted
many articles to combating the new theory of war
and neutrality. He denies the distinction between just
and unjust wars, and that neutrality can be 'halved'."
The endnote (number 62) for the above passage reads:
Carl Schmitt, "Das neue Vae Neutris," in Völkerbund
und Völkkerrecht, 1937-8 (4), pp. 633-8;
_Die Wendung zum diskriminierenden Kriegsbegriff_,
Munich, 1938.
So here Neumann accuses Schmitt of inconsistency,
of abandoning the link between law and ethics when
it leads to conclusions that he doesn't like. Instead of
accepting the notion of a "just war", he reverts to
traditional legal arguments that exclude ethics.
Then on page 156 Neumann addresses the
"Germanic Monroe Doctrine.":
"With the coming of the present war, however, a
completely new pattern of international law has
been developed: the Germanic Monroe Doctrine.
Geopolitics and international law have been joined.
"The 'large space' theory need not necessarily
bring about a tranformation of accepted international
law. If one holds that states are the sole subjects
of international relations, it does not matter whether
subjects are small- or large-space states, whether
they give themselves the fancy title of Reich or
remain content with mere 'state'. That is still the view
of many German international lawyers. But the
dominant school has abandoned both traditional
concepts, state and international law. One writer
[namely Carl Schmitt] posed the problem this way:
'If the development really tends toward large spaces,
is "international law" then that concerned with the
relation between the large spaces or is it the law
of the free people living in one common large space?"
The endnote (number 69) for the above passage
reads: Carl Schmitt, "Raum und Grossraum in
Völkerrecht," in Zeitschrift für Völkerrecht,
1940 (24), pp. 145-79, p. 145.
Neuman then goes on to say:
"The very framing of the question reveals the basic
motive. It not only stamps Poles, Czechs, Dutch,
Belgians, and Jews as 'free' people, but it also
justifies the hierarchy of races within the German
realm by a body of rules, called international
law but in fact nothing other than the law governing
the empire."
So, while you are right that Schmitt does not
"justify the concept of Lebensraum", Neumann
does accuse him of turning "international law"
into the rules that are to govern the Nazi empire
of conquest in Europe.
Then a bit further on the same page (156) Neumann
writes:
"The trend toward large spaces, conceived by
Ratzel merely as a geographical phenomenon,
now becomes an historico-political process.
Large-space economics precedes large-space
politics. Large spaces have been made mandatory,
it is argued, by the trustification, monopolization,
electrification, and rationalization of German
industry. The integrating function of technology
is not seen within the framework of a program
of territorial division of labor but within a
program of territorial expansion great enough
to absorb the products of the economic giants.
The intrinsic connection between a monopolistic
economy and territorial conquest stands fully
revealed.
"Traditional international law is condemned
as the creation of Jews and as a cloak for
British imperialism. Space must become the
primary basis of international order-- ..."
[The endnote (number 73) for the above passage
reads: Carl Schmitt, Völkerrechtliche
Grossraumordnung mit Interventionsverbot für
raumfremde Mächte, Berlin, Vienna, 1939,
pp. 12, 13.]
[The quote continues] "... -- in other words, a
return of regionalist ideas. It is National Socialist
regionalism against the universalist international
law of British imperialism and interventionism.
'Behind the facade of general norms (of international
law) lies, in reality, the system of Anglo-Saxon
world imperialism.' Universalism works on the
assumption that the equality of all this is implied
in the very notion of sovereignty. Since states no
longer stand in the center of international law,
the ideas of state sovereingty and state equality
must fall. Universalism must be replaced by
thinking in 'concrete orders' and the most concrete
of all orders existing is the grossdeutsche Reich.
Steding's book comes close to this conception,
and, though it has found few other echoes in
Germany, the National Socialist international
lawyers have given it much attention."
The endnote (number 75) for the above passage
reads: Carl Schmitt, "Der Reichsbegriff im
Volkerrecht," in Deutsches Rechts, 1939,
pp. 341.4. Carl Schmitt, "Neutralität und
Neutralisierung. Zu Christoph Steding ..."
in Deutsche Rechtswissenschaft, 1939 (4),
pp. 97-118.
Franz Neumann portrays Carl Schmitt as a leading
National Socialist international lawyer, who is
busily dismantling the traditional notion of
international law which Schmitt sees as the creation
of Jews and a cloak for British imperialism.
This outdated international law is to be replaced
by a new international law which is designed
to manage the Nazi empire of conquest in
Europe. In particular, the territorial expansion
of Germany is justified as necessary to absorb
the surplus produced by monopolistic Nazi
industry. The need for the absorption of
surplus produced by monopolistic industry
is familiar, for example, from the neo-Marxian
economic analysis in _Monopoly Capital_
(1966) by Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy, although
similar underconsumption theories already
existed within the Marxian tradition in the 1930s,
such as the theories of the Polish economist
Michal Kalecki. As Neumann writes:
"The integrating function of technology
is not seen within the framework of a program
of territorial division of labor but within a
program of territorial expansion great enough
to absorb the products of the economic giants.
The intrinsic connection between a monopolistic
economy and territorial conquest stands fully
revealed." So again, you are right that Schmitt
does not explicitly "justify the concept of
Lebensraum" but Neumann accuses him of
doing something perhaps more insidious.
The Nazi territorial conquests are justified as
necessary to counteract the tendency to
underconsumption caused by the concentration
of industry in late capitalism. The conquests
bring new markets that can absorb the economic
surplus that otherwise could not be absorbed
and would lead to an economic depression.
> Reading this
> paragraph carefully, though, you see that it's the
> National
> Socialists, not Schmitt, who are said to claim a right to
> Lebensraum.
> The "whole catalog" of putative state rights claimed by
> Schmitt seems
> a lot less controversial: existence, self-determination,
> and defense.
> I think Schmitt always denied that his writings could be
> interpreted
> to justify the concept of Lebensraum, and I don't think
> any serious
> scholars claim that they can be, but I might be wrong.
[...]
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TOPIC: Do You Believe in Free Willie? A Note for the King of Texas
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Wed, Nov 4 2009 4:15 am
From: Hal Womack 3-dan
By Hal Womack 3-dan
http://www.myspace.com/halwomack
http://tinyurl.com/8fp6zw
I am just finishing the most important story ever written about a
white Texanne*, namely, the fickle (by Chinese standards)
but adventurous Stephanie Ryder of Dallas aka Mrs. Jen Yong** aka Lai
Spring Snow of Shanghai, the heroine of Han Suyin's novel TILL MORNING
COMES (1982).
The many-splendored author***, age 92, lives in Lausanne,
Switzerland.
Cutting to the chase, I pray you, Gentle Reader, to consider the
question: Should Willie Nelson, himself 76 years old, fly to Lausanne
in order to serenade Elisabeth beneath her balcony? Now currently
during the romantic hours there the air temperature is getting down to
26 degrees F, so would Willie be able to hold his pick?
{She flew back to Dallas. And felt both triumphant and ashamed. She
would fight. With money. Because she could do a great deal with the
salve of money. Money really did change many things, in many ways. She
would use money.}
p.427. The scene takes place in the late 'Fifties.
In 1952 my mother, Margaret Harris Womack, founded "Womanpower for
Eisenhower", a statewide group which helped carry Texas for the
Republican Party for the first time since Reconstruction. In 1956 with
my two younger brothers, I sang one of Ma's political ditties on a
temporary stage on a red brick street in downtown Fort Worth in the
company of Vice-president Richard Nixon during his campaign for
reelection.
In 1962 I graduated from the honors program of Jesuit High School in
Dallas and in 1966 in philosophy from the U in Austin. Around 1976 I
hitchhiked from Houston to San Diego and ever since have made my home
in California. Could there truly have been a real-life model for
Stephanie Ryder, hereditary oil baroness & mogul of war-plane
manufacture, who had a profound understanding of both revolutionary
China and of U.S. imperialism? Without me having heard of her at all
until half a century later in a work of fiction? The world author
seems to be calling into question the hitherto well-established
proposition that all Texas billionaires are stupid sonsabitches a la
los Bushez. (I do remember a young China scholar at Columbia U in the
late 'Sixties who was from a Texas money family, but intellectually he
seemed to be merely a member of the C.I.A.--Ivy League herd.) In the
next three chapters, will young Steph get herself assassinated? Given
the depth, originality and veracity of the story WRT China, 'tis hard
to believe that Madame Han concocted the Dallas end of it purely out
of whimsy & thin air.
Moreover, the dollar quote above seems to be pointing straight at the
moral of Ralph Nader's new fat chimera
ONLY THE SUPERRICH CAN SAVE US!
Nader's proposition obstinately disregards all the relevant national
precedents of successful revolutions in China, Vietnam, Cuba, South
Africa, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and Paraguay. But critique of this
important issue can wait until a later day.
------------------------------------
* In the solitude of my word processor, for a momentito I wondered
whether this feminine form might be a new coinage, but brief was that
vain hope:
{Results 1 - 10 of about 192,000 for Texanne.} From Google Web Page
search.
** The character's married name given Chinese style, i.e, with family
name first. (Does our human race adopt this fashion, then looking up
authors in the library will be simplified thereby.)
*** In 1974 Han Suyin "was the featured speaker at the founding
national convention of the US China Peoples Friendship Association in
Los Angeles" --WIKI.
The reader will recall that President Richard Nixon made his
stupendous trip to China in 1972.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nixon_Mao_1972-02-29.png
"Born on September 12th, 1917 in Sinyang, the province of Henan,
China, Han Suyin is the pen name of an outstanding contemporary
novelist of Belgian and Chinese origin. Born Chou Kuanghu (the Moon
Guest) vee Elisabeth Rosalie Matthilde Clare Chou, Han's present
official name is Dr. Elisabeth Comber."
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/artistpages/suyinHan.php
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(#4.)
{Winter Treasure [Stephanie's twelve year old son --HW] had served the
tea with perfect grace, but he had drunk none himself. "He drinks only
boiled water," said Mother [in-law].
"I am proud of my son," said Jen Yong. "He is idealistic. As are all
the young."
"But when the bubble bursts, then the young become bitter," said
Mother.
Yong was tonue-tied in front of his son. His son who looked at him,
looked with an exact measuring eye, unmisted by either love or
dislike.
What went on inside of him?} p.442.
END OF NEW MATERIAL
================================
My Hot Lynx:
1.) Leadbelly Picks Cotton (1945)
http://tinyurl.com/7cnuw8
'Cause Texas sho'nuff needs all the help She can get.
Louisiana to her aid!
"If Americans Knew" -- Pro journalist Alison Weir's basic Website on
Palestine:
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of
Israel (PACBI),
http://www.pacbi.org/
A.) On Thursday, the 8th of June 1967, Jews murder 34 US sailors in
order to show Pentagon brass who's running the show after the ride
through Dealey Plaza fours years before:
http://www.ussliberty.org/
The picture of eight year-old Akaber Zaid
http://tinyurl.com/yqd75d
and the story from the then leading writer HA'ARETZ of her murder by
the Guess Whoose:
http://www.counterpunch.org/levy03272006.html
***Beethoven Appassionata Op 57 Mov 3 Valentina Lisitsa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o3eiEHmJUA
World Heroines of the Third Millennium AD:
N.B. the entry for Hanadi Tayseer Jaradat
http://www.aztlan.net/women_martyrs.htm
Abir Aramin, age 9, murdered by the Jews*
on Tuesday, January 16, 2007, her picture:
http://tinyurl.com/2l6ogh
An Israeli mother, a Jewess, comments on the story:
http://tinyurl.com/3amvos
* (For a discussion of the precise use of this critical term, please
see at bottom Appendix 1.)
Iman al-Hams, age 13, STDJ [= "Shot To Death by Jews"]
on 5 October 2004 in Rafah in Gaza.
http://tinyurl.com/dehqxu = vixpic
October 25, 2004
The Killing of Iman al-Hams
Executing Another Child in Rafah
By OMAR BARGHOUTI
http://www.counterpunch.org/barghouti10252004.html
WIKI: "Subsequent to his acquittal, Captain R., was promoted to the
rank of major. In March 2006, he received 82,000 New Israel Shekels
(roughly $17,000) to compensate him for his defense expenditures and
time spent in jail.Captain R. also filed a libel suit against Dayan
and Channel 2."
Chopin Piano Sonata No.2 Op.35 - Marche Funèbre, Valentina Igoshina
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4da5zExuk8
**** B.) Flying Trapeze Aerial Voltige
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPWJc8sLhjo
The more often one watches the greatest 4'21" of human high jinks ever
on tape, the bester it gets. Flow ye tears of joy, the sheriff said.
http://peyote.com/gardening-pictures/peyote.jpg
Hero of the Twentieth Century:
http://tinyurl.com/3dlhhb
Bob Marley - Redemption Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yXRGdZdonM
- no woman no cry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg2n039txnk
Chopin - Valentina Igoshina - Polonaise in A Flat 'Heroique'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a74fk9BTv5U
"What A Wonderful World!" -- Louis Armstrong
http://tinyurl.com/2f2ls7
Nadine Fernández dances:
A) Tribal Fusion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLhabHB52Bg
B) Samba-Oriental with Drum Solo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPNc1ywgbkU
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Jesus Christ - Woody Guthrie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDS00Pnhkqk
{1 John 4 (King James Version):
20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for
he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God
whom he hath not seen?
21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love
his brother also.}
http://www.biblegateway.com/
"Who is your God?" Song video by Desert Rose; recommended by Cynthia
McKinney, with only 116 YouTube views as of 091015 but good for
clearing the sinuses:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H99mzLiBenw
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Jimmy Rodgers: Kisses sweeter than wine
http://tinyurl.com/ls38fn
Honeycomb (1965)
http://tinyurl.com/oycwd6
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Calabi-Yau manifold =
http://members.wri.com/jeffb/visualization/calabi-spin.gif
......................................................................
Elvis Presley Jailhouse Rock 1957 colour
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpzV_0l5ILI
Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles living for the city
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJYUSdX-Rps
(so much for the numbers)
2.) Capoeira Samba
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Mf_PTB8juc
3.) Mahalia Jackson sings Gospel:
"Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGkXB_unAW4&NR=1
"Go Tell It On the Mountain"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACOnUyfUXdQ
4.) Kali Dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgOmm1AglUc&NR=1
5.) Get Your Kix With Pele
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QEmnP48PEc
6.) Old Folks' Music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gsqBEPSrd0
Live Berlin version =
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skYfPirQHbY
7.) Five Minutes With Fernando Botero @ Abu Ghraib
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoleMx-sxqQ
8.) Tahitian Dance -- Corinne
http://tinyurl.com/7mmlg8
9.) Joe Biden, "I am a Zionist."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmD0G2iASk0
10.) Today In Palestine, compiled by Shadi Fadda & Co:
www.theheadlines.org
11.) Paul Robeson Sings "Old Man River"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh9WayN7R-s
12.) Martial Law USA?
9.5' video from Global Research
http://tinyurl.com/629yoh
13.) Danca Brasil Samba Show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THk5GB3JYG4
14.) 4 IRANIAN NEWS SOURCES:
http://www.tehrantimes.com/
http://www2.irna.ir/en/
http://www.parstimes.com/media/iran/
http://www.presstv.ir/default.aspx
15.) Ladysmith Black Mambazo does "Homeless"
http://tinyurl.com/5oo359
16.) Street Drummer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjyQkrE8Mok&NR=1
--or http://tinyurl.com/6zmp5r
17.) African Choral
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSl4w1ilw8s
18.) LONG KISS GOODNIGHT [movie 1996]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116908/
19.) "Amazing Grace" sung in Cherokee on You Tube:
http://tinyurl.com/6r7snl OR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvYIjFtPQEk
20.) _Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand
Years_ (1994) by Israel Shahak
http://tinyurl.com/8gaoac
21.) Six Brazilian Chorus Girls
http://tinyurl.com/8wyey8
22.) The late George Carlin sings Ron Paul:
http://tinyurl.com/2lzxdt
23.) The 9/11 Lie (video):
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/333.html
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/fiveisraelis.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h3P7POHnJc
24.) "Under the Boardwalk" (1964) by The Drifters.
http://tinyurl.com/6nby9x
25.) "Sittin' On the Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding.
{"This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by WMG" --
YouTube.}
26.) Kobe Bryant in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeXZY4eVLlo
28.) http://www.rafahtoday.org/
................................................
30.) Here's the link to what I wrote on the eve of SonnaBush's
(fronting for Aerial Shaboom) invasion of Iraq:
http://tinyurl.com/2xcvdo
(The tag end of the piece was stuck on rather roughly by the HANDSTAND
editor & could profit from a bit of pruning.)
If any reader can find another article from that critical moment which
has better stood the test of time, will she please be so kind as to
tell me about it?
...........................................................................
31.) February 7, 2008
"It's the Real Thing:
Hugo Chávez's Coca"
By NIKOLAS KOZLOFF
http://tinyurl.com/ywjauf
............................................................
http://tinyurl.com/coclre
The New York Times
March 14, 2009
Op-Ed Contributor
Let Me Chew My Coca Leaves
By EVO MORALES AYMA
La Paz, Bolivia
..................................................................
32.) For Susan Abulhawa's new novel of Palestine, SCAR OF DAVID (2006)
http://tinyurl.com/2n77bo
...................................................................
33.) http://www.americanfreepress.net/
FINAL JUDGMENT by Michael Collins Piper, first published in 1994 and
now in its 6th edition, lays out the Jewish background to the JFK hit
in >600 fascinating pages (which badly need editing, evenso --attn:
M&W).
(See the AFP site above also for the moving letter of 29 November 2006
from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, directly addressed to
"Noble Americans" --maybe your local jewspaper forgot to pass it along
to you?)
On the AFP site linked above I just now (Tuesday 071211)
found the following Michael More out-take from Sicko about a certain
northern country:
http://tinyurl.com/23zgxu
34.) The leading U.S. academic expert on foreign policy = the author
James Petras, friend of Fidel Castro, of President
Hugo Chavez and of FARC.
http://petras.lahaine.org/
_Zionism, Militarism and the Decline of US Power_ (Paperback)
by James Petras
.....................................................................
35.)
Five Principal Joojingo or "JJ" resources:
1. http://www.aipac.org/
2. The Bronfmen @ http://www.acbp.net/
3. http://www.jinsa.org/
4. http://www.adl.org/
5. http://www.hasbara.co.il/
Four Righteous Jewish Antidotes:
1. http://www.ostrovskyfineart.com/index.htm
2. http://www.nkusa.org/index.cfm
3. http://www.israelshamir.net/
4. http://tinyurl.com/3c9jm8
5. Jascha Heifetz plays a) Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto: 1st mov.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFaq9kTlcaY
[Film clip from the movie _Carnegie Hall_ (1947)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039244/ ]
b) Hora Staccato
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mag2mc5Vva0
c) Rondo by Mozart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVSgx7gKc_k
d) Richard Strauss "An eisamer Quelle" op.9 no.2
http://tinyurl.com/ygqlm2g
........................................................
36.) US Alliance Afghan Genocide -
Six Million Excess Deaths?
By Dr Gideon Polya
08 November, 2007 Countercurrents.org
http://tinyurl.com/36ylq2
..........................................................................
37.) All rise,
This clip was the first time I ever saw Marvin Gaye perform. The word
in my mind = "composure".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRvVzaQ6i8A
(Has this cut been slightly sabotaged?)
http://www.counterpunch.org/dolby04032007.html
..........................................................................
38.) Kidz Today:
A) Iron Maiden The Trooper By Gauchos
http://tinyurl.com/8mj8nx
B) The Impeach Bush Club Parade
http://tinyurl.com/88lnb9
...............................................................
39.) A valuable but erratic site:
http://www.counterpunch.org/
40.) Flag of USrael:
http://www.nogw.com/images/inminds.jpg
44.) http://www.zundelsite.org/
Carl Orff: Carmina Burana
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEllLECo4OM
45.) http://margaritaville.com/
[cartoon panel]
http://tinyurl.com/2kyyc9
.............................................
46.) "Culture of Life News":
http://elainemeinelsupkis.typepad.com/
49.) http://www.currentissues.tv/
50.) Excellent 1997 documentary showing Billary burning
down American rainbow Protestants in their own Texas home: http://www.waco93.com/
51.) ("Nadine Eats Pizza in Ramallah")
http://www.israelshamir.net/Contributors/Contributor47.htm
53.) Alan Pogue's Texas Center for Documentary Photography
http://www.documentaryphotographs.com/
................................................................
54.) Big avalanche ( O-nadare) Joseki (by Satoshi Yuki 9-dan
Professional on Japanese TV)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIftm71MzTc&NR=1
..................................................
http://vcnv.org/
http://www.johnpilger.com/page.asp?partid=1
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=491
Bharatanatyam Bharatnatyam Indian dance
http://tinyurl.com/5cl88n
Paris Hilton answers McCain:
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/64ad536a6d
http://www.lucasgray.com/video/peacetrain.html
http://www.rense.com/1.imagesD/dbaby4.jpg
http://www.nelsonmandela.org/
http://www.parnasse.com/gaia.jpg
http://www.sf911truth.org/
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
http://www.aztlan.net/
http://www.valleyofthewolvesiraq.com/high/main.html
http://electronicintifada.net/new.shtml
http://dahrjamailiraq.com/index.php
http://antiwar.com/
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/index.htm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
http://www.infowars.com/
http://www.al-awda.org/
http://www.imemc.org/
http://www.vcnv.org/
http://www.ziopedia.org/content/view/3301/58/
http://www.cnionline.org/
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=
http://www.honestmediatoday.com/index.htm
http://prorev.com/indexa.htm
http://www.deiryassin.org/index1.html
http://www.marwenmedia.com/index.html
http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage
http://www.vho.org/ = Germar Rudolph
http://www.malaysiasun.com/
http://www.ronpaul2008.com/
Kathak in Varanasi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqfQsILe7AM
(Wednesday '090311 -- I just found this latest addition
to my Lynx above. Since the list is getting rather long, I will
particularly appreciate any sincere suggestions from friendly readers
on which items to toss.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBPFvp750sc
("Let It Be!")
Feline Fine (MHL):
http://tinyurl.com/8xmwlt
http://www.fuckinggoogleit.com/
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,150 for "free your mind, the rest will
follow".
...................................................
All sincere comments on this list are welcome; some links will blink
out, necessitating updating, so will you please email me when you find
one such? Last list (partial) review = Thursday 090813.
Protocol: Top posting in follow-ups 'cause that way makes most sense
to me
and placing the reply at the bottom of the thread as it appears on my
Google newsreader. BTW does some friendly expert want to recommend a
better newsreader aka Usenet access tool,
especially for posting, then I'm all ear.
.....................................................................
APPENDIX 1:
Thus plain speech and accurate English, in the same sense that we have
long been wont truly to say that in the 1930's
the Japanese invaded China; on 22 June 1941, the Germans
invaded Russia (then styled the USSR) and in later decades the
Americans have attacked Korea, Cuba, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, the
Dominican Republic, Lebanon, Nicaragua, Grenada,
Panama, Serbia, Iraq and and Afghanistan (partial list), murdering
more than ten million people in the last twenty years alone.
Because of the long-noted peculiar nature of the distributed
nationality of world Jewry,
the ins & outs of this most grave accusation against them bear
extended discussion so that we, the normal alias "gentile" rainbow
righteous Seven Billion of Earth, may achieve a clear understanding of
the character of the doomed tyranny --sometimes called, among other
names,
"JAT" for Jewish-American T.-- which presently oppresses us. Despite
the opprobrium of the sister term "self-righteous",
'tis of the greatest importance IMHO for those who do stand for
justice to develop a sense of self-awareness and a firm grasp of the
vital distinction between ourselves vs. the imperial criminals,
addicted as they are to waging aggressive war.
Those last two fatal words mean mass murder, torture, industrial-
strength lies aka "mainstream news media" and
robbery on a planetary scale. Each of us should meditate regularly on
individual cases of our choice --for example,
those of the Rabbo girls in Gaza, of Iman al-Hams, of Akaber Zaid, of
Abir Aramin and of Rachel Corrie-- in order to prepare ourselves for
the intellectual exercise of multiplying by the necessary factor of
millions
the fate of any one given victim. Such preparation will provide us
with the motive for constructing the essential hierarchy
of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of Earth.
Many inspiring examples in history remind us that
yagotta have somebody to beat anybody. We Americans (here to speak of
my own nation) have the duty and the opportunity to learn from the
successes of Presidents Hugo Chavez, Nelson Mandela, Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad, Evo Morales, Rafael Correa, Fernando Lugo and Hizbullah
Secretary-General
Hassan Nasrallah, among others.
Will we learn to save time by using positive grammar to the max? Thus
to transform a Jewish proverb, she who can endure the evil will live
to see glory. Let our watchwords be: Save life! Live and let live.
Friendly competition. Mercy* to all criminals, even the Bushez,
Clintonz and Obama meaning, of course, that first we put them at our
mercy.
From dissent and protest to popular accord, from tail-chasing
"activism" to vast vision to sound strategy to bold action to
victory!
{Results 1 - 10 of about 398,000 for German invasion of Russia.}
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D21IL
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TOPIC: System is the declared enemy of Man
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.books/t/40f65db7078ee870?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Wed, Nov 4 2009 4:15 am
From: Arindam Banerjee
On Nov 4, 7:41 am, "Marko Amnell" <marko.amn...@kolumbus.fi> wrote:
> "System is the declared enemy of Man."
> -- Roland Barthes
Not for the Man making his living analysing It.
> Claude Lévi-Strauss has died at the age of 100. He was
> buried today.
>
> The NYT obit is good as far as it goes.http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/world/europe/04levistrauss.html?_r=...
>
> Lévi-Strauss was one of the founders of structuralism.
What on earth is that?
> It's good to recall just how crazy structuralism could get
> Barthes's dictum was not a criticism of System but a
> criticism of Man! Man may think he cannot be reduced
> to the System of structures that set him in place.
Man may think anything, but he'd better shut up about his thoughts if
they go against the System that feeds him. Such I find is Modern
Thinking.
But
> structuralism asserts that this is an illusion. In reality,
> human meaning consists simply of differences between
> two or more elements of System of structure.
What if no one has made any definitions commonly accepted about these
elements of System of structure? What if humans are too stupid, cowed
down, lazy, robotic etc. to find meanings in anything save those
related just to their own existences? Countless mundane
subjectivities are just that - they do not constitute meaningful
meanings, but they have been selling well when presented as Art.
It is an
> apotheosis of Freud's absurd idea of a science of
> subjectivity.
Good, someone is associating Freud with absurdity. The same
conclusion must be made for Einstein and Gandi. Few things could be
more wrong than a science of subjectivity.
> Consciousness is a fraud;
In any so-called democracy run by shadowy corrupts, who manufacture
consciousness through various cunning ways, I am afraid this has to be
true.
at the centre
> of the human subject lurk anonymous forces of which
> consciousness is ignorant.
The theist would have no hesitation about their origin. The atheist
may well be recalcitrant,
>So it's a good thing that
> structuralism is no longer in fashion (not that
> post-structuralism is any better).
I would like some definitions here, but thank you Marko for your post,
excellent as usual.
Arindam Banerjee
== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Wed, Nov 4 2009 7:00 am
From: Marko Amnell
On Nov 4, 2:15 pm, Arindam Banerjee <adda1...@bigpond.com> wrote:
> On Nov 4, 7:41 am, "Marko Amnell" <marko.amn...@kolumbus.fi> wrote:
>
> > "System is the declared enemy of Man."
> > -- Roland Barthes
>
> Not for the Man making his living analysing It.
>
> > Claude Lévi-Strauss has died at the age of 100. He was
> > buried today.
>
> > The NYT obit is good as far as it goes.http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/world/europe/04levistrauss.html?_r=...
>
> > Lévi-Strauss was one of the founders of structuralism.
>
> What on earth is that?
It's hard to define, and with smw and Moggin
apparently gone for good from RAB, I don't
think anyone here will step forward to defend it.
But here is wikipedia's description of it:
Structuralism is an approach to the human sciences that attempts to
analyze a specific field (for instance, mythology) as a complex system
of interrelated parts. It began in linguistics with the work of
Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913). But many French intellectuals
perceived it to have a wider application, and the model was soon
modified and applied to other fields, such as anthropology,
psychoanalysis, literary theory and architecture. This ushered in the
dawn of structuralism as not just a method, but also an intellectual
movement that came to take existentialism's pedestal in 1960s France.
[1]
In the 1970s, it came under internal fire from critics who accused it
of being too rigid and ahistorical. However, many of structuralism's
theorists, from Michel Foucault to Jacques Lacan, continue to assert
an influence on continental philosophy, and many of the fundamental
assumptions of its critics, that is, of adherents of
poststructuralism, are but a continuation of structuralism.[1]
Structuralism isn't only applied within literary theory. There are
also structuralist theories that exist within philosophy of science,
anthropology and in sociology. According to Alison Assiter, there are
four common ideas regarding structuralism that form an 'intellectual
trend'. Firstly, the structure is what determines the position of each
element of a whole. Secondly, structuralists believe that every system
has a structure. Thirdly, structuralists are interested in
'structural' laws that deal with coexistence rather than changes. And
finally structures are the 'real things' that lie beneath the surface
or the appearance of meaning
History
Structuralism appeared in academia in the second half of the 20th
century, and grew to become one of the most popular approaches in
academic fields concerned with the analysis of language, culture, and
society. The work of Ferdinand de Saussure concerning linguistics is
generally considered to be a starting point of structuralism. The term
"structuralism" itself appeared in the works of French anthropologist
Claude Lévi-Strauss, and gave rise, in France, to the "structuralist
movement," which spurred the work of such thinkers as Louis Althusser,
the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, as well as the structural Marxism of
Nicos Poulantzas. Almost all members of this so-called movement denied
that they were part of it[citation needed]. Structuralism is closely
related to semiotics. Post-structuralism attempted to distinguish
itself from the simple use of the structural method. Deconstruction
was an attempt to break with structuralistic thought. Some
intellectuals like Julia Kristeva, for example, took structuralism
(and Russian formalism) for a starting point to later become prominent
post-structuralists. Structuralism has had varying degrees of
influence in the social sciences: a great deal in the field of
sociology.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structuralism
> > It's good to recall just how crazy structuralism could get
> > Barthes's dictum was not a criticism of System but a
> > criticism of Man! Man may think he cannot be reduced
> > to the System of structures that set him in place.
>
> Man may think anything, but he'd better shut up about his thoughts if
> they go against the System that feeds him. Such I find is Modern
> Thinking.
>
> But
>
> > structuralism asserts that this is an illusion. In reality,
> > human meaning consists simply of differences between
> > two or more elements of System of structure.
>
> What if no one has made any definitions commonly accepted about these
> elements of System of structure? What if humans are too stupid, cowed
> down, lazy, robotic etc. to find meanings in anything save those
> related just to their own existences? Countless mundane
> subjectivities are just that - they do not constitute meaningful
> meanings, but they have been selling well when presented as Art.
>
> It is an
>
> > apotheosis of Freud's absurd idea of a science of
> > subjectivity.
>
> Good, someone is associating Freud with absurdity. The same
> conclusion must be made for Einstein and Gandi. Few things could be
> more wrong than a science of subjectivity.
The attack on the very notion of a science of
subjectivity was my own idea.
> > Consciousness is a fraud;
>
> In any so-called democracy run by shadowy corrupts, who manufacture
> consciousness through various cunning ways, I am afraid this has to be
> true.
>
> at the centre
>
> > of the human subject lurk anonymous forces of which
> > consciousness is ignorant.
>
> The theist would have no hesitation about their origin. The atheist
> may well be recalcitrant,
>
> >So it's a good thing that
> > structuralism is no longer in fashion (not that
> > post-structuralism is any better).
And just in case you were wondering what
post-structuralism is, here is wikipedia's
description of it (although it is as difficult to
define as structuralism):
Post-structuralism encompasses the intellectual developments of
certain continental philosophers and sociologists who wrote within the
tendencies of twentieth-century French philosophy. The movement is
difficult to define or summarize, but may be broadly understood as a
body of distinct responses to structuralism (hence the prefix "post").
Many contributors, most notably Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and
Julia Kristeva, either inverted structuralist principles or set out to
reject them outright. In direct contrast to the structuralist claim of
an independent signifier superior to the signified, post-structuralism
generally views the signifier and signified as inseparable but not
united; meaning itself inheres to the play of difference.[1] Theorists
such as Roland Barthes and Jean Baudrillard merged traditional Marxian
ideas relating to capitalist exchange value (e.g. commodity fetishism)
with such novel principles, bringing into attention the relationship
between consumerism and the realm of the sign. The movement is closely
related to postmodernism. Anti-humanism, as a rejection of the
enlightenment subject, is often a central tenet. Similarly,
existential-phenomenology is of considerable influence. One could
argue that the post-structuralists might just as accurately be called
the "post-phenomenologists".[2]
Many so-called 'post-structuralist' theorists actively refused the
label. Indeed, the term came into being pejoratively through Anglo-
American academe as a means to distinguish those continental
philosophers who rejected traditional analytic standards. Further
controversy owes to the way in which these loosely-connected thinkers
tended to dispel with theories claiming to have discovered absolute
truths about the world.[3] Although such ideas generally relate only
to the metaphysical; for instance, metanarratives of assumed
historical progress (e.g. dialecticism), many commentators discredited
the movement as relativist, nihilist, or simply indulgent, to the
extreme. One must reiterate that as few have willingly accepted the
post-structuralist label, there is no single, unified manifesto.[4]
Certain contemporary movements, such as critical realism, may be
viewed as attempts to reconcile the overarching skeptical conclusions
of post-structuralism with scientific frames of enquiry.
> I would like some definitions here, but thank you Marko for your post,
> excellent as usual.
>
> Arindam Banerjee
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TOPIC: Hannah Arendt's Wrinkled Cunt Rides Again
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.books/t/165ed1cfe37f2566?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Wed, Nov 4 2009 4:19 am
From: Arindam Banerjee
On Nov 4, 3:00 am, Michael Zeleny <larva...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 3, 3:24 am, Stratum101 <j.coll...@cross-comp.com> wrote:
>
> > On Nov 3, 3:37 am, Michael Zeleny <larva...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Setting aside the insinuation of covert anti-Semitism, the notion of
> > > the Jews having created gentile hostility by demanding equal rights
> > > but refusing to surrender their ethnic integrity is baffling. Is it
> > > likewise possible to blame women for having created male hostility by
> > > demanding equal rights but refusing to surrender their sexual
> > > integrity? For that matter, is it possible to blame any man for having
> > > elicited the hostility of his peers by demanding equal rights but
> > > refusing to surrender his personal integrity? If the claim is that
> > > ethnic descent or religious confession are somehow unlike biological
> > > sex and personal identity in their moral implications, why is that the
> > > case, and how so?
> > It was never easy being Green.
>
> I must make an allowance for you, Collier.
> "With kikes like you on the loose, who needs Hitler?"
>
> --
> Michael Zel...@post.harvard.eduhttp://larvatus.livejournal.com/
Who was supposed to answer your question? Was it rhetorical? It is
perilous to answer rhetorical questions, then!
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TOPIC: Richard Chicken, the real Wilkins Micawber
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.books/t/af10cd461acf354d?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Wed, Nov 4 2009 8:05 am
From: TM
Hello – just to let you know of a new and comprehensive not-for-profit
website about Richard Chicken of York, Charles Dickens' model for
Wilkins Micawber. You can find it at http://www.sandramidgley.com/RichardChicken/index.html.
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TOPIC: Affordable, Healthy Dope-Care for the Masses
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.books/t/d6aa8c5527d90076?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Wed, Nov 4 2009 10:34 am
From: Just Me
On Nov 3, 1:01 pm, Just Me <jpd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Get the hell out! And leave the dirty business to those most directly
> concerned: Pakistan.
>
> Only way to go is to get the Afghan and Pakistani heads of state
> together into total military alliance, opening the border of their
> shared frontier to free movement of troops from either side, as the UN
> moves in to replace the US and NATO, strictly to the task of assuring
> that the sovereignty, property and laws of both nations are respected
> each by the other throughout the course of operations. Any presence of
> NATO forces would be limited to administering the flow of munitions
> and funds for prosecution of the Afghan/Pak mission.
>
> Following upon that, the one remaining matter of business is the opium
> trade. That may be regulated as follows: you internationally outlaw
> any present legal farming of the poppy by the pharmaceutical cartels
> of the world, thus forcing them to limit their source of supply to
> growers appointed by administrators at WHO. Let Afghanistan get on its
> economic feet legitimately by serving the need for a worldwide medical
> morphine supply. You require that all synthetic production of opium-
> based pain-killing drugs, any highly addictive products like Vicodin
> and Oxycodone; any such Rush Limbaugh candy in form of hydrocodone,
> after being sternly looked at for any advantage over a more natural,
> organic production of plain old codeine and laudanum; that all these
> also be regulated such that the opium base be purchased from approved
> WHO Afghan, Turk, and Pak growers, with no further legit corporate
> farming permitted.
>
> You take the dope peddling business away from the caviar gargling
> multi-billionaires in the pharmaceutical jet-set and give it back to
> those peasant farmers who are in a far better position to deserve the
> business, while at the same time the prices for pain-killing
> medication are thus drastically cut to the point that anyone in need
> of the dope can afford it.
>
> Obama's health-care reform mission is a war on two fronts with two
> enemies in one Axis of Evil: the pharmaceutical and insurance
> cartels. He can do a lot in Afghanistan to make health care
> "affordable".
>
> Make cheap dope for the pain-wracked and dying a Human Right
> universally recognized for all mankind.
>
> If Obama can do that, he's got my salute. If not, I shall do an about-
> face and join with the mad-as-hell ranks of those who are out there
> demanding to see his birth certificate, in order to prove that he
> isn't an alien from outer space without a clue as to what's going on
> here.
>
> I always did say that he looked suspiciously like Mr. Spock.
> --
> JMhttp://doo-dads.blogspot.com
== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Wed, Nov 4 2009 11:54 pm
From: Just Me
> You take the dope peddling business away from the caviar gargling
> multi-billionaires in the pharmaceutical jet-set and give it back to
> those Afghan farmers who are in a far better position to deserve the
> business, while at the same time the prices for pain-killing
> medication are thus drastically cut to the point that anyone in need
> of the dope can afford it.
>
> Obama's health-care reform mission is a war on two fronts with two
> enemies in one Axis of Evil: the pharmaceutical and insurance
> cartels. He can do a lot in Afghanistan to make health care
> "affordable".
>
> Make cheap dope for the pain-wracked and dying a Human Right
> universally recognized for all mankind.
>
> If Obama can do that, he's got my salute. If not, I shall do an about-
> face and join with the mad-as-hell ranks of those who are out there
> demanding to see his birth certificate, in order to prove that he
> isn't an alien from outer space without a clue as to what's going on
> here.
>
> I always did say that he looked suspiciously like Mr. Spock.
> --
> JMhttp://doo-dads.blogspot.com
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