Tuesday, November 29, 2005

comment crowds

Mary at http://peacepalestine.blogspot.com remarks on her comment section 'getting crowded'

crowded Mary?
you ought to thank your 'coremore' for not running into the comment crews on various indmedia flavors (like sf, vancouver ((archives still online)), victoria, several Middle eastern ones ((buckled and caved from chronic spammerage)), melbourne, indybay . . and pittsburgh lately for instance) several years ago; veritable torrents of emotides on anything from the democratization of tyrranicide (suggested with such forceful ((encryption)) logic that the perp (who called it 'assasination politics' had ! his compi confiscated etcetera) to the price of pretty innocence, all lavishly spiced and periodically sprinkled with huge slabs of text (which haloscan wisely prohibits). Nothing here that hasn't been there already and with much deeper shadow dancing.

I'll be posting a much more elaborate and colourful version at http://compostartist.blogspot.com in a minute

Sunday, November 20, 2005

time for a little french beauty after all that nastyness

pyrenees/boubou/bout.html

autoconstruction/pyrenees/arize.html

CABIN FEVER - WOODEN

SHELTERING GALORE;

EMBEDDING-

DOWNtoEARTHiNESS
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i'VE GONE THROUGH

ALL 50 PAGES OF

http://images.google.nl/

images?q=archilibre

980 PICTURES -

it's been too long

since I posted this site

revisionist and their nonvisionary watchers

/025240 Michael Pugliese --- he continues posting segments of a long article by Ian Williams in this part of the thread (first installment) which by the way, strange enough, google hasn't indexed yet (the content of it I mean, lending much credence to the google-watchman Brandt's criticism, though google of course is not, like he says 'dying') .. . .all the more remarkably (not to say alarming) since it appears to be this 2 year old piece: http://citycellar.com/BalkanWitness/hoare.htm The Left Revisionists (359 google hits) - By Marko Attila Hoare - November 2003 ---

ps: there are 97.100 results for "michael pugliese" (excluding the word 'music' might reduce the chore a bit, nope, .. .still 89.200). -----

Excellent example of Michael's totally useless sectarianological expertise

When is this kid gonna learn to be principled instead of looking for at and after failed heros??????

Principles don't need mouthpieces so much as (awareness of, then catalytic action conform to their relatively timeless) practices, failing that they tend to do very well and much better without humans around fucking with them.

Plenny more here: http://members.lycos.nl/vadercats/logbriefer.htm

Friday, November 18, 2005

BombSheLLLilac part 2

This item can be seen (later today) in multicolour here: http://members.lycos.nl/vadercats/logbriefer.htm My beloved Netscape browser use has been frustrated since yesterday so direct transposition from Frontpage is now impossible (due to non-reciprocity by the likes of Bill Gates or worse I don't know, a re-install didn't help).

Last week's item 11/11/ 'riding the cresting wave of uncontainable discontent' at this blog showing 'BombShellLilac' unworried, acting as if the bomb was exciting enough to look her best and she could reign run (and ruin) it even with some flimsy straps OK -- needs a little fleshing out.

Since then the Bitch has passed the 33 comments on one item of her own blog mark for the first time though she had to stoop to damn near dismemberment (luckily no worse than in the sense of singling out and the not literality of luxury) to achieve it.

She never directly referred nor responded to that (illustrated) item I had announced as written for her explicitly (she even offed an off-topic comment about an offed left winger, search seveke lieshout intel.web-log) but since 2 items later Butler and Shame serve for anchors I think I am going to remind her of what's been taken in consideration and has passed review too little so far.

Here we go:
You turned back from the bomb to the biological fleshedent, a more lovable way to war with, wag instead of wage it, bonobo like right?
I in turn ought to search for the antecedents of the lass in rock, back far enough so the sheer weight of it, ancestral authority wise, even the raw materials for bomb stay scattered and buried within it, and besides not getting out of, let alone up off the ground, better choices might be found, the ones that abort bombboostics or at least stop them from rising to the heights of bias and betrayal, inadmissible selfloathing, etcetera, in the process of hi-jacking the whole goddess blessed evolutionary train chain trails and trials of glory.

Look at her (ega's e)go
Look at her again with evolution in mind. Where did she come from? Taking it in kind, unmediated, non 'sleazygoic' (clever, hot or deceptive? Survival of the 'fitchyest'? THe cleavage that cleaves the gap between rich and poor?).

Perhaps she ain't really riding traladida but bound, strapped, shackled and enslaved to it, about to be born to her demise perhaps even (shades of Gravity's Rainbow), . Purrhips she ain't pretty under a rubber skintight mask .. . and the sacrifices she (was made to) make to get the bomb that big .. . . with the height of salesmanship jumping around both of them .. .. it's enough to buckle under even before all ill will and 'roostreadying' release, unleashment and breaking(news((?)))point (of sales((c))ale or s((h))ellingpoint) can generate at more and more distant destination (said to have provoked the turn of patriarchy's unloving arms from their default deterrent setup into last resort threat true making); the effects of which remain untold under tightestly closed fold and horrendous for generations to come!!!!!

All weak watery and kindly sharing per local race (always a different and lotsa little testy spectacle whizzing by), the chatter spatter and crunch of structured water ends up sacrificed by this bomb(BL)ast.

Pump my read
Assuming young pretty things have any choice in the matter of wether or not to get onboard shiny new things, the ones that do are somehow convinced sleazygoic rides are smart, selfmade, clever and their just deserts.

The 'buy me' (sell yourself) pitch pictures and implies if not reflects voluntary and mutual benefit between the bomb(constructors) and her. Love your bomb(based way of life) and get better girls. She: I bleed for a bomb so you bleed for a bomb if you wanna get next to me, can't buy (the likes of) me unless your bomb affords me a little elbowroom (note how they stick out). She doesn't mind being objectified along with other manipulables cause patriarchy is insurmountable nor dismantleable. What does she stand to lose going this route? Is this the most powerful position she can expect to achieve and assume?

Maskette of patriarchy triumphant.
Does that make islam (patriarchy par excellence and heir apparant) appear the more decent version of christianity? Yes, to the extent they denounce imperialism with proof positive: privatization of violence (dunno any islamic nations without armies though but I sure as hell believed Saddam when he said he had no weapons and complied with int. agreements), as undelegable as periodic bog visits. What to gain from a suicide mission? How is this a variant of love for greater good? How does the rocket manned by gay designer's lover in Gravity's Rainbow play along here? What about the use it and lose it selfdefeat of all collective rather than cool active emotion?

Every nice girl a georgeous bomb, all pretty ladies a blog, most a private bog, each one an intimate compostage licking flickturn trick lesson; all of them a beautiful farewell video:
'hello, I want you all to know, where I am things are just too slow, it's a sickening no go show, but I am sure my fortunes lie right where I go'.

In a macho world of steel and dominance, the beau's other significates explosively with lots of down time in between.

Project present as cryptic escape from censure
projectile (a verb in dutch) presents to gain goodwill

Mothers tired and ugly from (employment)ties to and with the bomb are promised better days after the deployment.
Women love presents as sacred passdeed and prelude to her relaxation and suitor's engorgement.
Women hate poision as secret pissweird to a runaway trainload of stuff that can't but per-, in- an subvert intimacy with substitute, consu- and sublimate, surrogate cleft, spoofed, split and asundered reality of im- and omnipotence.

Tuesday, November 15, 2005

miscellany (environment, indexing, patriarchy proves actionable by illiterate)

commonsblog.org/archives/000576.php on Jared Diamond (plenny of juicy links, here's one):
http://rdrutherford.blogspot.com/2005/10/one-island-two-worldshispaniola.html a commenter's long look at the Hispaniola chapter
(questioning Diamond's damnation of the french)

jennifermarohasy.com/blog/archives/000790.html August 11, 2005 -- On Jared Diamond and Environmental Law --
this is the kind of blogger I am finding so dishearteningly few of.

jennifermarohasy.com/blog/archives/000986.html on the radical right (includes a respectable amount of commmenters)


simpleton.com/20050202.html on Finnegans wake


http://robotwisdom.com/ai/thicketfaq.html An Overview of 'Fractal Thicket' Indexing --- Jorn Barger ..
pointed to from here: http://robotwisdom2.blogspot.com/2005/11/im-idiot-about-rdf-gtd-edition.html



http://newswire.indymedia.org/en/2005/11/827937.shtml
Does Increasing Public Awareness of the Anti-Globalization Movement Affect it's Growth? (Case Study of the Movement Using Indymedia's Archives for 2002) ----- Richard E. Martin 15 Nov 2005 04:30 GMT ------- Final Thesis Copy - (pdf)

In this thesis, I utilize the 2002 archives of the Independent Media Center to measure the growth of the anti-globalization movement and attempt to determine whether this growth is correlated to media coverage of anti-globalization related events in the same year.

This thesis will also be available free of charge on the University of South Florida's library website after Fall 2005 Graduation has passed. You can search the library archives for it using the following link: ib.usf.edu/usflibraries/search_etd.html


/827915 A petition against awarding the Nobel Prize to two warmongers ---- peacemaker, 14.11.2005 21:15
The Nobel Prize committee's reasoning that the Professors Robert J. Aumann and Thomas C. Schelling have "enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis" is completely cynical. This considering Prof. Schelling's role in the Vietnam War and the Professor Aumann's hawkish "scientific" interpretations of the Middle East conflict and his belligerent recommendations for a "solution": No to efforts to end the conflict ASAP, Yes to Israeli nuclear arsenal, etc.


827908
Neocon poster girl can't read or write but got famous for filing a rape (by Talibanoid) complaint :::::: Mukhtar Mai has been cast for a lead role in a narrative already written by a neo-con agenda. To activists she may be the icon of the global woman’s movement against patriarchy, but she will quickly be reified into whatever the prevailing powers need her to be, for the moment, a victim of fundamentalism. No one can blame this poor woman simply seeking justice and a peaceful life for accepting this role. However, real change will come when those activists, turned brokers, realize that the only way to get real justice for all is not to “pull strings”, but to break strings.
ibrahim@sadatv.com sadatv.com -----

Monday, November 14, 2005

strictly distractive

folkalley.com/archives/000559.php
Now I know why Dylan struggles to talk
September 29, 2005 -- 28 comments


folkalley.com/archives/000574.php As students of American history are aware, the regular celebration of Thanksgiving in this country did not begin unil 1863, and our current use of the fourth Thursday in November was not set by Congress until 1941.

But for those who are interested in both the myth and the reality of the "Pilgrims' Thanksgiving", I offer the following link to a cool Mayflower website.

Anyone out there care to share particularly memorable Thanksgiving songs?
Posted by Jim Pipkin

------ 12th comment:
a publication that excels at stepping in and back out with such great strides that the times of the pilgrims, what they found and did with 'it' (almost all of it) is kept in mind and set off in light of other major movements of men (dominated women) is counterpunch and a fresh addition is this:

counterpunch.com/neumann11112005.html November 11, 2005 -- The Rebel King of Bluegrass - Jimmy Martin: an Appreciation --- By MICHAEL NEUMANN



swaneagle:
"I see the acceleration of physical abuse, abandonment of mothers, sexual assault
to be directly related to the growth of colonialist narco free trade, the destruction of land based cultures and the valuing of competition and profit over healthy relationships."


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That's a little bit too easy. In many "relationship-based" that is to say "kinship-based" cultures the abuse of women is not even seen as abuse -- just as a sign that the owner cares. Cultures in which women are serially raped in order to punish the males to whom they belong (a recent incident in Pakistan) may be free from market relations and yet persist in femicide and abuse. In such cultures women may see a factory job as a step up.

Joanna


> George Gilder, incidentally, understood this very well. I don't have the quotes at hand, but he's very explicit on how the right to abortion puts women in control of the reproductive process, which undermines the authority of men.


This is true but it does not got far enough. In reality it transaltes into saying that women have power inasfar as they refrain from having children. Because once you have children you must contend with other issues like feeding them, educating them, getting medical care, and raising them. None of these things are resolved by controlling the reproductive process alone. (Of course, having the power to have one kid rather than ten helps.) In other words, if in having children one gives hostages to fortune, in a society in which men have power, the act of having children will always make one weaker and more apt to serve whoever the masters happen to be. After I had kids I worked much harder at my job because of my kids. So, in this society, we wind up with the paradox that I, as a woman, have the most perfect freedom from men by not having any children. That is I am most free as a woman by ceasing to function as a woman. An impotent feminism!

This is why, for me, the whole discussion about whether reproductive freedom is a woman's issue or a man's issue simply exposes the fallacy of gender-based politics. Whatever affects women affects men and vice versa. (Master/Slave in another guise.) The greatest advance in "sexual liberation" will come when we all recognize that military subscription is both a man's and woman's issue and that the right to abortion is not
just a woman's issue....etc. Until we learn to speak in this new way, we will forever be splitting the working class into more and more ineffectual splinters.

Joanna


These are complex, critical issues that, yes, are a bit too easy to address without the total context to each unique situation. The progress women make is all too often undercut by the rapid destruction of customary life and that destruction is furthered by existing patriarchy, exploited by corporate greed mongering take over. The situation for women in Afghanistan is definitely furthered by U.S. invasion terribly augmented by already existing misogyny, whether it is the Taliban, US allies or those scapegoating women due to their
own hardship. Strange how it is. It is hideous for women all over the planet and those of us who can adress it must before we are not allowed to.

In the case of Gutemala, the Mayan introduction to patriarchy came from the
Spanish and the catholics.

NAFTA flooded the Mexican market with cheap corn ruining over a million and a half farmers forcing millions to head north. Some continue crossing over the border. Millions more inhaibt squalid slums along the border such as in Ciudad Juarez. It is the factory workers of the maquiladoras that comprise the majority of the toruture-rape- mutilation-murders of women in Juarez. The murders of men exceed that of women, but it is not sexualized in nature. This is also the case in Guatemala and other Central American countries as well as Colombia.

In Tuba City, AZ, where hundreds of traditional Dineh (Navajos) have been forcibly relocated due to corporate resource extraction, such murders of the daughters of relocatees are occurring as are murders of men as well. It is the legacy of School of the Americas mentality that has always afflicted the agenda of colonialism.



polyamorysociety.org/

cog.org/witch_hunt.html


http://culturecandy.org / Baton Rouge area treasure trove of art and music
http://melissaferrick.com/communityLinks.asp
greatnewmusic.com/ 12 solo artists so far

?? culturecandy link ?? Pulse (video footage of tiny puppets and paraphernalia laden theater): "The three characters, Blood, Lava, and Electricity represent the human animal, the natural world, and civilization respectively. Blood grapples with both Lava and Electricity in their rivalry for control. "Pulse" shows humanity not as the strong rational rulers of the earth but instead as a tormented figure that struggles to find security in an uncertain world."

Friday, November 11, 2005

riding the cresting wave of uncontainable discontent

A little while back The Bitch linked to a Susie Bright piece (on porn and I forget what it came with) but as this picture shows, porn and gore sure go together as well as rich and poor. (not)

The bombs and the bluff, the blooms and the buff; why do lies hold 'm altogether?

Actually the bombsheilallah rides her 'sleaze' thingy (according to the caption; it's only half its 60K size as shown) with obviously extatic and celebratory abandon understandably enough in the light of what's with her (her way with her way preempting whatever wants to get into it with what's ((the foreign body that's)) inside already).

She makes (or is made to make .. .better yet: made TO LOOK LIKE she is making) her (unconstrainedly easy rider*) way with this righter of affairs affording her space to 'dominasticate' (cutting 3 words up short and pasting them into 1)

The male thing supremo is to pone the shortsighted, reactionary, fear, profit and cruelty driven parafernalia, in short, the bulk of all assorted products under the sun along a sliding scale just where he pleases, just where he thinks they belong, just as prime ordeal Adam starting putting and keeping things and beings in their place.

This state of affairs and affair of states is 'just' in his eyes since the enemy that is bold enough to shamelessly saddle him up with the bombfactoring burden has only himself to blame.

Some enemies are far away and they're gonna have to deal with the wreckages wrought by -- the seed that returns beyond the most wild of usurious (love making as Willy Shakes his Speare, I mean uses usury) dreams -- menacing stuff that is shiney, docile and as well behaved as a dildo** (just as catatonic when no need arises to be unleashed).

'Where's that dangerous male tax already?' cried the chinese homosexuality instructor. Hey doncha know said the imam: man and woman are inseparable. We'll see about that cried the man with the hi-tec oiltin fintoil cap.

*caught glimpses of 'easy rider' for the first time last week. I'd never ever seen it yet (probably due to my resistance regarding going straight which is what is pretty much compelled and confined to do on them stupid choppers ((front wheel outasight)); I grew up with the most futuristic yet earthy sports in the world as my fav: MOTOCROSS!!!!!!)

**As to the rebels that ride dildo's exclusively I daren't say much, certainly not that they do it for lack of real men (though my troubles of finding mentally compatible mates are harrowing for sure and probably parallel) cause that would be hoisting the hurdle out of playful and seductive sight (proliferating and catching up to the rate bombs are traded and stockpiled aweful fast no?). Homosexuals were a substantial factor in fanning the great war flames so why would lesbos be any better?. There is a blog I started (and retired in favor of newborn offspring today) from being inspired by Jill Johnston who wrote one of the first large illustred books on Lesbianism: http://admacc.blogspot.com


Tuesday, November 08, 2005

digital management shrinkpiffles the puffable power milling masses puny

http://blog.pulpculture.org/2005/11/08/googlepark-panem-et-circenses/ The Bitch is getting into it, blogging that is. She wants to figure out Adsense and Adword (how BIG and puny POWER and piffle PUFF and shrink the digital valves and sluices to net them ours rather than us theirs; giant upgrade for the Joseph 'drums' up pyramid labour army tactic or what?). Let's wish her luck shall we?

Speaking about killer colour (some more)
When first starting out and entered the race for dressing up content as a worlchomp killer-colour-picker/clicker (see the ((top)) links on the right) in 1998 I was well aware of my own worth and world shaking potential in even as very sub-subsetarian a field as styling (the art of taking cover in a book).

An article about colour combination patenting crossed my path but I didn't pursue that route to taking pecuniary interest in and out of my work underestimating the effect by a wide margin; what withall my getting interdisciplinary about deeper meanings of 'sensible spectrumedge contemplation' I could well have tried to profit in earthy ways from my insight in the capacity of black/green combinatorics to sooth folks silly (worse than 'the queen of hearts' movie ever lets on).

Imagine me getting a millionth of a percent off of the world wide craze in this pixelicious matter (or haven't you noticed a particularly persistent fashion of the last few years? the sort of thing MNC's scramble to incorporate in their ad campaigns, they took the wrappings but left the gift untouched). I'd be able to start a country and lay down the constitution for it too, dontcha think; instead I am begging fruitlessly for some space to display and open my book collection to the public.

In short I need an agressive manager and The Bitch makes me feel safe.

Sunday, September 11, 2005

good news(wire back up)

http://newswire.indymedia.org//en/newswire/archive.shtml even the comments are functioning again!!!!!!

Convince yourself this deserves to revive by visiting: http://poetpiet.tripod.com/Indymediasamples.htm

The rest of this post is a follow up to the last, to wit, a snippet from the debatetle raging to the tune of 44 comments at
http://hyperstition.abstractdynamics.org/archives/006349.html

ps: there will soon be one single hit for "indexed basics based basket currency" a google Qwhack also the first one ever claimed I am willing to assert on instinct.

Saturday, September 10, 2005

various bits (including china's yuan basket)

http://hyperstition.abstractdynamics.org/archives/006349.html
Socialism with Chinese Characteristics
In early 1992, Deng Xiaoping gave a series of off-the-cuff speeches in Southern China to rally the forces of market-oriented reform against the reactionary currents setting in after the Tiananmen episode.

wow. a communist society learning how to be good capitalists while maintaining its fundamental purpose. touché.Posted by: northanger at September 8, 2005 06:56 PM


management of the Yuan using a basket of currencies -- Result 1-10 van circa 473.000 voor yuan basket (0,17 seconden) ----- 521 voor "yuan basket" (0,07 seconden)
> The value of the Yuan is not tied to the US dollar,> which is why the US is so upset. China values the> Yuan internally. The basket provides the government> with a reason/excuse to raise or lower the value of> the Yuan, in response to American government criticism that the Yuan is undervalued.>
> As far as I'm aware, the only fractional reserve> issuance going on in the PRC is in Hong Kong,> where they do not use Yuan, but Hong Kong Dollars, issued as bank notes.>
> By the way, I am assisting 3 complementary currency systems in Hong Kong.>
> Stephen DeMeulenaere == Asia Program Coordinator == Strohalm Foundation complementarycurrency.org/cc..html
appropriate-econmics.org
strohalm.org


okfn.org/wsfii/ alt-currency content and talks in


PILGRIMS OF SAINT MICHAEL michaeljournal.org



Dear all, I just finished reading from:
David Astle, The Babylonian Woe - A Study of the Origin of Certain Banking Practices, and of their effect on the events of Ancient History, written in the light of the Present Day, 1993 yamaguchy.netfirms.com/astle_d/astle_index.html
Page 138:The indignation of Cicero as recorded in this Orationmay be traced to the indifference of certain personswho lived close to the Aurelian steps, to the good ofthe Roman State wherein they lived and whosesolidarity enabled them to arrange to have mobsintimidate the proceedings of the court which heard aperson, probably a member of the banking family knownas the Lollii,(22) attempt to smear the reputation ofLucius Flaccus, who, as Praetor of Syria, had issuededict forbidding this movement of precious metalsEastward for deposit at the Temple in Jerusalem.(23)

Page 146:22. Michael Grant, (From Imperium to Auctoritas. P.57.), makes mention of a banking family known as theLollii . Cicero speaks of a Laelius ; (Orationes : ProFlaccus, Book XVII.) . They are more likely members ofthe same family.-----------
Now be aware that the Lollii family still exist: Guglielmo Maria Lolli Ghetti di Ferentino, an old prince living in Rome, is the Honorary President of our Italian Center of Monetary Studies (CSM):centrostudimonetari.org
He is a Knight Templar strongly supporting our idea to establish cc worldwide and an international cc clearing system. He knows very well Paul Marcinkus and maybe we will soon be able to know the true history behind the IOR Vatican bank. His website: rextemplar.it/

openbarter.net/

(1) Money, in the present UMS (Usury Monetary System) is definitely backed -- by the most important backing of all: the worthy REAL asset of the "borrower" (eg. his house).

JCT: Good point. People keep calling it "fiat" money like it's issued on the basis of nothing, "by fiat," when almost all loans are over-collateralized by poorer borrowers so richer ones can get under-collateralized loans. But there's always lots of backing behind all loans.



http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ijccr/message/4182 Subject: RE: [ijccr] Before, it was land from Indians and now crude oil from Iraqis ---

W B Ryan's ugly side shows - don't go there unless you can handle a bad temper


JCT: I think Bill Ryan is either an agent provocateur sent in to give Social Credit a bad name or he's a lunatic. He's been causing so much trouble that I've decided to add the link to my debates with him to my home page debates section: cyberclass.net/turmel/ryan00.htm

linklist addition candidates

Monday, August 29, 2005

Can state and private monies fire up and flesh out gender theory?

Here are some (162) gooooooglies for "Georg Friedrich Knapp" state money
unfortunately, when adding gender there ain't much goin on but if you read german go for evi Genetti (at the U of Vienna); her little essay connecting state theory to gender is found at 3 lefty sites.


Brought back to a manageable 19 results by simply adding 'risk'; the first page carries two authors from my private pantheon of world classy clarity consciousness card carrying cash currentseeing clarion callers; can you tell which ones my favorites are? You may consult 2 of the links on the right, if that is enough for you a prize is waiting (a return visit to your fingertippy tapsell).


Some sampling:

Max Weber and the State Theory of Money
by Fiona Maclachlan
I hope for the approval of those who take the monetary system as a branch of political science.--G.F. Knapp (1924, p. viii)



PKT list:

On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 11:22:53 -0400, Per Gunnar Berglund BergP867@newschool.edu wrote, under the title "Re: Expanding the definition of chartalist money",
---- Great posts! This discussion is finally getting somewhere. May I suggest the following points to summarise - and slightly amend - what has beensaid hitherto?
1. Currencies are names that are state monopolies, functioning muchlike a 'registered trademark' of a government - or Keynes's'dictionary' for that matter.
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Now this is getting closer. Money is an institution (a system ofestablished behaviour), and this definition is getting away fromtreating money like "stuff" and closer to treating it as asystem of interactions between people.
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2. Tokens (like notes and coins) denominated in a currency becomeliquid by means of general acceptability. This is a generallyaccepted definition of 'money' (liquid financial assets), embracedby 'everybody' ranging from Metallists like Menger to Chartalistslike Lerner.
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As does anything else denominated in a currency, includedstrings of 1's and 0's in a banks computer system somewhere.
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3. General acceptability is driven by state acceptance in payment oftaxes and other liabilities. (This is the Chartalist standpoint, cf.Knapp's 'State Theory of Money', Lerner's 'Money as a Creatrue of theState', Randy Wray's 'Understanding Modern Money', and others.) Suchacceptance also involves fixing the nominal value of tokens in termsof the currency unit (e.g. a piece of paper with a certain printedportrait of Hamilton is worth 'ten U.S. dollars', etc.
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We ought not expect something as critical to the economic systemin general as acceptability of the nation's currency to be drivenby a single factor. Also driving the acceptability of currencyis the fact that entrepeneurs on the whole are net borrowers, andmust offer something acceptable to their creditors in payment.The support of the legal system for contracts denominated in the nation's currency helps drive that acceptability, as does theneed for commercial banks to satisfy the demands of the nation's central bank. The two are even made explicit on US notes, whichare both labelled as legal for all debts public and private, and as Reserve Notes -- that is, as permitted to be used as an addition to Reserves at a bank as soon as they get into the register. On Australian notes, this is less explicit, as the notes aresimply labelled as legal tender. However, these notes weredesigned more recently in a society where there was lesscontroversy over paper (now plastic) notes. Virtually, Bruce McFarling, Shortland, NSWecbm@cc.newcastle.edu.au

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From: UMKC Center for Full Employment To: 'Bruce McFarling ' Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2000 2:40 PMSubject:
RE: Expanding the definition of chartalist money
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Bruce wrote: This is fine as long as it is not read "is *exclusively* driven by state acceptance ..."
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A key point of the Chartalist 'Revival,' if one will, is that whilethere now seems to be little controversy concerning this point, one ishard-pressed to find statements to this effect in the large PK literature prior to therevival (outside of the now familiar statements by people such as Lerner,Minsky, etc.) or discussions of Keynes's explicit acceptance of Knapp's prime point.This holds even for the many explorations of various components of the demandfor money, etc. So part of the source of the heavy emphasis by the 'newChartalists' has been as something of a corrective, and an explorationof its implications.One may also approach 'taxes-drive-money' not as descriptive, but as*prescriptive*--the power to declare twintopt, along with a variety ofother state powers, is a powerful policy tool for managing a currency andpursuing certain policy goals. Mat

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From: Ronald Calitri To: UMKC Center for Full Employment Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 9:10 PM

Subject: Re: Expanding the definition of chartalist money-----
Three issues 1) "law abiding", 2) Knapp, 3) "aggregates"

1) That citizens who disobey the chartalist principal are not "lawabiding" is somewhat questionable. Even though Hart, Kaldor and Tinbergen (1964)put it this way, their choice of language may have been for diplomaticpurposes.
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Paul Davidson wrote:
The moral of this historical episode is that if a population is nolonger law abiding -- the goveRnment can raise taxes in anything it wants and aslong as the population produces more than the government buys ... [etc]
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ronc asks (rhetorically):
whether a "law abiding" population is half as important as a "law abiding" State? This question used to be discussed around the issue of "legitimacy" of government. In this case of business activity, legitimacy boils down to the issue of whether thegovernment is willing to enforce contracts, and has been extended by most modern democratic folks to the idea that government's burdens on the population should be economic rather than personal.
The legitimacy of a government precedes the willingness of its population to be law-abiding. The population who are not "law abiding" in such instances are obeying a deeper economic "law" governing economic relations, one that has been fought for through history through a succession of apparently"solid" states. The more solid a state money is, the more intertwined with healthy economic relations, the more of a shadow creature it actually gives the appearance of being. The more adaptive a state is to the deeper economic needs of its population, the more legitimacy it wins.
An "illegitimate" government that tramples on people's historical observation of "economic laws" based on currency used for transactions isdue for overthrow. A theory of "State money" is probably just as bogus as a theory of "Sovereignty" based on the idea that the king is closest to god.
In any case it seems rather strange for the proponents of a commodity-backed currency to be held out as exemplars of a whimisical state value theory.

2) Keynes' acclaim for Knapp may not be fully related to an "acceptance"of the chartalist "prime point". He may also have been referring to thelatter two-thirds of Knapp's book where the more "advanced" portion of his thesis discusses the manners of money transmission through a variety of commercial circuits. I was left with the impression from the GT that the value of currency is much dependent on these and that Knapp's studentesque chartalism may not havebeen his major selling point.
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Mat provided an explanation of Keynes' position (privately): "Knappaccepts as "Money"--rightly, I think--anything which the Stateundertakes to accept at its pay-offices, whether or not it is declared legal tenderbetween citizens." (_Treatise on Money_, Volume 1)
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I really cannot buy this argument, one that apparently made its way intoHicks' Market Theory of Money. There ignorance ofhis own country's history really shows, and is embarassing for 1968 historiography. In Keyne's 1920s "beknighted" era, it is more excusable.
If that were indeed the case, then since peasants did not have money and hadto give labor-days as taxes, I suppose then labor was money.
The main "philosophical basis" for my disagreement with the chartalistperspective may be put this way: The principals of a "caring" government often say -"we should have a police force because our people are killing each other".
They may also say, "We should have a money because our people aretransacting with each other.
"Taxes may be collected in any currency. It may be more convenient fora small, cruel state to collect taxes in dollars and circulate asubordinate "own" currency to among the peasantry who are thereby keptsubordinate and out of touch. Similarly "corporate cash" to fox thecustomers.
In a similar spirit it would probably be desirable to determine whetherthe Soviet ruble ran on the basis of your theory. I do not suppose thiscurrency can be dismissed as a "rare anomaly"?

3) Aggregates: Most battlers against monetarism have taken the positionthat M4 is better than M3, than M2, than M1, than reserves, etc.
Indeed some of the more thoughtful analysts have argued for allowinghousework and other non-compensated transactions into the GNP. This arguesthe most useful "expansion" of money will be to all transactions, and toall sources of liquidity in a country, and to all countries.Ronald Calitri

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Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 18:53:51 -0400 ----
Reply to Colin's Challenge - Mat's Answer

Who is the sanest one of all (on a good day)? Mat offers a compromisesolution that chartalism is needed to balance transaction-drivenneoclassicism followed by a very real question:""'What are the possibilities for managing 'money'/'currency' in certainways to effectively pursue certain policy goals, such as full employment, price stability, rising living standards, etc.?"""
-----Obviously, the reciprocal question would be whether the chartalist theoryof money offers any difference of policy methods? Not being a proponent I donot wish to see any; but given the torrents of sand being kicked onchartalism's hearth by its hastily retreating supplicants, it does seemdesirable to make an end-run for the last ember.
------Sorry for the above sentence - I just read Colin's paper, concluding that itis not really targeted at the present PK debate but offers a key to Mat'sproblem in what it does not discuss and in misconclusion. [Well, Colin, whatdo you expect when deprecating, "that few consumers are solving Lagrangiansin their heads as they shop in the supermarket." Of course they are, and awide variety of other dynamic methodologies. The gender problem is partlythat females in our culture are more trained in multidimensional thinking than males.]
-------What Colin just misses in his analysis is a possible answer to what, beyondgoods, is being transacted in the "gift exchange". That I would argue - is"time", the "long view". My question for your anthropologists has to do with whether it was a "good" time or a "bad" time. The MACRO dimension your argument is lacking. There, "position" - the political purpose of potlatchbeing to give the recipient a feeling of "safety", "satiety" and "good ofall" that is predisposing to good policy reasoning in council or discourse. But this is a "trick" practiced in every culture; and for all that it beats"pork" nomenclatura-lly, just reminds us that the spirit of heterodox economics lies in a "potlatch in every pot" kind of goal-setting.-------
That aside, is what I am afraid of is what may be the unconscious reason thechartalists are kicking in their fire. This, I fear, may be a need tobelieve that "State" power is something different from the "private" kind. To avoid seeing that it is not, they would rather withdraw.-------
So here is the "ember" I would rather save from extinction: the "state",after all, is no more than an "executive committee" of interests. ALL thatchartalism offers ["inductively"] is that relatively preponderant interestsmay be rallied to defend a state's currency. That is an historical truth ofit, though the demographical economic BENEFIT of it may have been eitherpositive or negative, the "legitimate" state always argued the balance ofconsequences was positive.--------
So there IS something useful in chartalism, but nothing MORE useful than thePK analytical preference for imperfect competition. So Mat, the state, b-byd-damn, especially if democratic c-can g-give better potlatch! B-but t-thatis because it can rearrange the stream of transactions by f-fiat, or in thelanguage of our debate, byv-volkswagen.------
In-carriage-ingly,
-----Ronald Calitri--------

'sleazy world of "subprime" finance'

June 12, 2003 DH on economic news * Michael Hudson, author of a report on the sleazy world of "subprime" finance [ignore the promises of listener phone calls - they're not included in the archive versions] --- low and hi fi stream and download

Google to the rescue (resolution of cueing):
Mutualist Blog: Free Market Anti-Capitalism MaxSpeak on the March of Democracy ... we find people like Michael Hudson and groups like the Geonomics Society arguing for the collection of rent not only ... mutualist.blogspot.com/2005/ 02/extended-free-association-rap-loosely.html

Further toward the left end of the Geolibertarian spectrum, we find people like Michael Hudson and groups like the Geonomics Society arguing for the collection of rent not only on land and natural resources, but on "social commons" like the radio spectrum. Many of the same groups advocate distributing, as a "citizen's dividend," the surplus rent that remains after all public goods are fully funded.

http://kenmacleod.blogspot.com/2005_02_01_kenmacleod_archive.html
Kind readers: Kevin pointed me to two interviews with Professor Michael Hudson, applying a Georgist analysis of privatization to Russia and to broadcasting.



Sunday, August 28, 2005

measuring digital traffic

masternewmedia.org/2004/08/11/.. August 11, 2004 PACmeter - Popularity, Authority, Credibility Online.

I go: hi, first I'd like to thank you for your work. Quite astounding you can keep up with all these puzzling (puzzlepushing) developments.

Most of it seems to fit the category I would circumscribe as 'work' which leaves us with less time to leave 'it' out fostering, due to and in growth conducive conditons when we are busy cutting it up and studying cleavage lines changes from differently angled, weighted and timed blows.In other words the abstractive sterilizing mere mime and surrogative symbolizatory ritualization of the actually effective action (I had gotten tired of repeating this type of phrase and shied away from it for a long while but you bring it all back up).

Anyway, that's not (very obviously got much to do with) the reasons I decided to comment, which are:I have owned/operated one of the oldest and most old fashioned types of blogs for years so consistently that google was following me very closely and bringing three to four hundred daily clicks (how many amongst those were robots or with what searchterms they came I never struggled through the ins and outs that seem to be your strengths, to find out) to my static (most bloglike) url alone (spinning off 2-3 160K files a month).

So, my question: was I a great source of revenue for my host Lycos? Why did their stats show 15 'visits' a week for years? Were they only counting clicks on their ads?Why won't they answer enquiries about why they blocked my account and broke a promise made at the same time to allow 3 months worth of time for me to save my files?????


masternewmedia.org/news/.. How to think outside the box -- video footage of an interview Robin did with nomorefaknews.com man Jon Rapoport


masternewmedia.org/I.. August 05, 2005 Internet Television First Independent Channel Features Quality Grassroots News And Views

current.tv/studio/ Current follows the global news pulse via Google Current, a new short video segment which provides a real-time view of what the world's searching for, presented every half-hour around the clock. Google essentially reports on what its users are looking for in popular culture and on the breaking issues happening around the world.Content on Current is about topics ranging from technology, fashion, music and videogames, to the environment, relationships, spirituality, politics, finance, and parenting... subjects not easily found on mainstream TV channels.

kolabora.com

Saturday, August 27, 2005

JFK on this blog's theme

On 8/26/05, Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote: The point is: telemarketing not only contributes> nothing to that total but is really an annoying *disservice* and> would be counted as negative in any objective system of> economic measurement were such a system to exist.> > Shane Mage


"Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered communityexcellence and community values in the mere accumulation of materialthings. Our gross national product ... if we should judge America bythat - counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulancesto clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for ourdoors and the jails for those who break them. It counts the destruction of our redwoods and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm and the cost of a nuclear warhead,and armored cars for police who fight riots in our streets. It counts Whitman's rifle and Speck's knife, and the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children.

Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of ourchildren, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages; the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity ofour public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage; neither our wisdom nor our learning; neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country; it measures everything, in short, except thatwhich makes life worthwhile. And it tells us everything about Americaexcept why we are proud that we are Americans."

Robert F. Kennedy Address, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, March 18, 1968-- Michael Pugliese


Milton S. Gwirtzman must have been a good speechwriter. Still and all, don't you hate to be lectured by a Kennedy on "the mere accumulation of material things?"

I created an online store <cafepress.com/montages> where nothing is sold, featuring this remark by Walter Benjamin:

"The collector dreams his way not only into a distant or bygone world but also into a better one -- one in which, to be sure, human beings are no better provided with what they need than in the everyday world, but in which things are freed from the drudgery of being useful." -- Walter Benjamin

If only Michael P. can always (like in this instance) free his collection of quotations from the drudgery of being useful. . . .

Yoshie Furuhashi
<http://montages.blogspot.com/>
<http://monthlyreview.org/>
<http://mrzine.org/>

The LBO-talk list funnies

The momma tries to maintain a 3 post a day limit (loosely but untiringly); he gets his members to start counting a lot quicker than they start stopping.

At 05:50 PM 8/26/2005, Chris Doss wrote:
>Come to think of it, I do that all the time too,
>mentioning Russian political celebs like Kadyrov,
>Zhirinovsky, Limonov, Dugin, etc., whereas probably
>many people here have never heard of them.

good. you should. make people work at it.
Yo mama's so stupid she sold her car to buy gas.
Yo mama so stupid, I told her it was chilly outside, so she went outside
with a spoon.
Yo mama so stupid, she climbed up a tree talkin' about branch management.
doin' the dozens,
kelley
"Finish your beer. There are sober kids in India."
-- rwmartin


on the not so funny front (but still speaking about real mothers):

On Friday, August 26, 2005 7:34 AM [PDT], Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:> I've heard from a couple of sources now that Fenton Communications,> the "progressive" PR outfit that's handling Cindy Sheehan's> publicity, is keeping the press away from her, apparently because> she's given to making intemperately strong statements of the sort> that embarrasses publicists. They're only allowing organized press> conferences, and not individual interviews.> > Free Cindy Sheehan!>


Assuming this is true, a positive outcome would depend on whether she can as strongly apply her personality to this issue as she's appliedher self to the demand to meet GWB. Which insinuates that her energytoward her goal would be diverted, drained, just confronting the situation, and within the gaze of the media, which would feed on the story like sharks.But given the directness of the naming of names here, I'd saysomeone has a personal problem with Fenton Communications.And it's probably not Cindy Sheehan.

Just a little gnawing feeling at the back of my brainpan say it'sall probably B.S., or Cindy Sheehan is aware of it and it's not a problem for her, but it might be for other interested parties.Including the media. When's the last time anyone we know was "ratpacked" by the national & international media in full feeding frenzy.

Without Fenton, and people like them, Cindy Sheehan would be psychologically raped by AP/CNN/Reuters stringers and other assorted parasitic vermin that prey on: "celebrities".

Travus T. Hipp Commentary [ August 22 2005 ]: Critiquing Camp Casey: There are two forces in the universe - One that gets it together, and one that takes it apart http://www.snurl.com/tth_050822


Why progressive in scare quotes? Fenton started in the Liberation News Service in the 60's (read theRay Mungo autobios. on LNS, howlingly funny), did PR for the Angolansof the MPLA vs. Savimbi, worked for Maurice Bishop (I assume w/ DonRojas), the FSLN and the FMLN.-- Michael Pugliese

Friday, August 26, 2005

indexation has entered its (st)age of usefulness

I hope to find lots of relevant stuff; for now you could go visit the most recent time I had occasion to peruse some of Ulrich von Beckerath's thoughts (always a pleasure: proteinwisdom.com/index.php/weblog/entry/18880/ This post concerns Pat Robertson's Fatwah over Chavez -----

I go: Here's the much improved version of what I posted at 8.13 AM the 24th of august: /monies-mystics-and-marksmen.html -

this long comment is concluded with:

The centralized sort that has even just about managed to do away with the distinction between state and open market money (feminine types geared to the satisfaction of immediate and intimate needs, non-profit and local vs the fast boy high risk stuff that have in the past managed to keep each other honest as long as there is some naturally incremental standard that keeps pace, I would suggest using ((regional)) photosynthesis rates and diversities figured into basic indexed commodity baskets* ((voluntariness not to mention volutarization factored in)) for that soon).

Piet: A second reading was more enlightening, but could you clarify the last sentence for me?
Thanks. --- Posted by insomni permalink on 08/24 at 03:43 PM

I go: find ‘8. 4. 1949’ in (the last sixth of) http://liecause.tripod.com/Beckerath-Meulen-corr3.htm - quoting from John Zube’s note to the letter by Beckerath written on said date: “--- I do believe that one should clearly distinguish between those index standards which are intended only for optional, competing and privately or cooperatively issued currencies, which are refusable and discountable and those index standards meant for an exclusive and forced currency, i.e., one with compulsory acceptance and a compulsory value. The former are a problem at most only for those who voluntarily use them. The latter are a problem for all who are forced to use them. As a mathematician and statistician, who had himself calculated index numbers for the “Festmark Bank” and possibly others, B. objected only to the tyrannical aspects of many of the index currency advocates. E.g., Gesell wanted to “stabilise” the general price level by adding to or reducing the volume of the circulation of an exclusive and forced currency, and others, having only legal tender currencies in mind, do not want to abolish their monopoly or their coercion, but merely to “improve” or to mitigate (as in Israel) their effects by “stabilising” this monetary despotism via one index or the other.”

I am just thinking of ways to take the positive properties of the late gold standard applicable to an even and especially this day and age sorely missed ecological orientation regarding e- and direction of values standards.
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