[PEN-L:1249] Shalom.

1995-11-06 Thread Tom Walker
To honour the memory of Yitzhak Rabin, I have changed my signature file to read "Shalom". Blessed are the peacemakers. Shalom, Tom Walker knoW Ware Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mindlink.net/knoWWare/

[PEN-L:1250] re: shrinking datastream(?)

1995-11-06 Thread Jim Jaszewski
On Fri, 3 Nov 1995, Tom Walker wrote: > With all the bad news about cutbacks in government information, I thought > PEN-L's might be pleased that advances are being made in some areas. Who > needs a census when you can get all the *really* important information by > wiretapping? I gu

[PEN-L:1251] Haiti SAP Alert

1995-11-06 Thread Mark Weisbrot
Pen-l-ers: I am forwarding this message because I think it actually might do some good, anyone with an organization or just individuals calling Brian Atwood at USAID. They have overstepped their bounds a bit here and could be persuaded to back off. If anyone wants more info, you can contact me.

[PEN-L:1252] Re: Shalom.

1995-11-06 Thread glevy
Tom Walker wrote: > To honour the memory of Yitzhak Rabin, I have changed my signature file to > read "Shalom". Blessed are the peacemakers. > While I can understand the sentiments expressed above (especially, since those ideas are being promulgated by the mass media), I think we have to have

[PEN-L:1253] Re: Shalom.

1995-11-06 Thread Trond Andresen
> To honour the memory of Yitzhak Rabin, I have changed my signature file to > read "Shalom". Blessed are the peacemakers. > Rabin presided over the military campaign against the Intifada. As opposed to most repression of popular uprisings in today's world, a special and persistent characterist

[PEN-L:1255] Serf's up! (reader's digest version)

1995-11-06 Thread Tom Walker
Hayek's Road to Serfdom is a well reasoned exposition of the progressive myth. It is a version of that myth, not a critique. If one buys the myth -- as most well socialized Westerners do -- and if you value "rationality" highly, Hayek's thesis is persuasive. Those who do not buy the myth of pr

[PEN-L:1256] The Value of Dialogue

1995-11-06 Thread Daniel O'Hagan
Today I tried twice, unsuccessfully, to unsubscribe from Pen-l. The reason was the intemperate reply to Tom Walker's "shalom" note on Rabin. There will be plenty of time to reassess Yitzhak Rabin's contribution to history. To begin to demonize him on the very day of his funeral, when he has

[PEN-L:1257] Re: Shalom.

1995-11-06 Thread Jim Jaszewski
On Mon, 6 Nov 1995 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Tom Walker wrote: > > > To honour the memory of Yitzhak Rabin, I have changed my signature file to > > read "Shalom". Blessed are the peacemakers. > > > While I can understand the sentiments expressed above (especially, since > those ideas are be

[PEN-L:1258] Re: Shalom

1995-11-06 Thread James Devine
I'm totally against political assassinations, but Rabin himself said it about a week ago when a leader of Hamas was assassinated (according to Professor Gary Sick, likely due to Israeli efforts): those who live by violent means tend to die by violent means. (Ironically, due to publication sche

[PEN-L:1259] B, Coup rumors plunges peso 8-months low, $ Slips, Nov 3 (fwd)

1995-11-06 Thread D Shniad
> This posting has been forwarded to you as a service of=20 > Accion Zapatista de Austin. > > -- Forwarded message -- > Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 23:13:48 -0500 > From: Mauricio Banda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Multiple Recipients of List Mexico2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: (Bloo

[PEN-L:1260] Israel

1995-11-06 Thread Michael Perelman
For some reason, nothing seems to divide the left so quickly as questions about Jewish politics. I have been happy to see that subject absent from pen-l. Rather than get ourselves immersed in questions of Rabin and his policies, could we leave it pass. I will begin by refraining to interject m

[PEN-L:1261] Re: Israel

1995-11-06 Thread Jim Jaszewski
On Mon, 6 Nov 1995, Michael Perelman wrote: > For some reason, nothing seems to divide the left so quickly as questions > about Jewish politics. I have been happy to see that subject absent from > pen-l. > > Rather than get ourselves immersed in questions of Rabin and his policies, > could we

[PEN-L:1262] Re: Israel

1995-11-06 Thread Michael Perelman
> > And why should the subject be avoided? > Because we would probably talk about nothing else. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 916-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:1264] Free text on resampling statistics (m11025) (fwd)

1995-11-06 Thread D Shniad
NOTE: PLEASE DO NOT REPLY "YES" TO THIS MESSAGE. THAT WILL ONLY CLOG PEN-L. > > > Resampling methods (including the bootstrap and other > simulation procedures) have revolutionized the field of > statistics in the 1980's and 1990's. To help spread the word > about resampling, the Resampl

[PEN-L:1263] Re: Israel

1995-11-06 Thread Paul Zarembka
I see no reason why Israeli politics should be an immune topic, any more than Sri Lankan, Bosnian, Canadian, German, U.S., Mexican, Philipine, Polish, New Zealand, Greenland, Irish, Norwegian, etc. politics should be immune. Paul Zarembka On Mon, 6 Nov 1995, Michael Perelman wrote: > For some

[PEN-L:1265] J.Ross, Anti-Green Counterattack on Dolphin Protection, Nov 1 (fwd)

1995-11-06 Thread D Shniad
> Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 01:28:57 -0500 > From: Mauricio Banda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Multiple Recipients of List Mexico2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: (Gemini) Green Activists Feel Free-Trade Pinch > > News source: Gemini News Service > File source: http://www.oneworld.org/gemini/wk42_gemi

[PEN-L:1266] Re: Israel

1995-11-06 Thread Jim Jaszewski
On Mon, 6 Nov 1995, Michael Perelman wrote: > > And why should the subject be avoided? > > > Because we would probably talk about nothing else. Isn't _that_ too bad? Don't worry -- talk will tail off as soon as the Establishment signals they want it to end by taking it off

[PEN-L:1267] Re: Shalom.

1995-11-06 Thread Jim Jaszewski
On Mon, 6 Nov 1995, Trond Andresen wrote: > Calling this guy a peace martyr, is just as meaningful as calling Mr. De > Klerk a freedom fighter when he had to give in to the S.A. liberation > struggle, and to call Mr. Kissinger a peacemaker when he finally had to > give up the Indo-China wars aft

[PEN-L:1268] Serf's up! (reader'

1995-11-06 Thread Peter.Dorman
For a well-developed critique of Hayek that implicitly (although not explicitly) draws on Dewey, see Hilary Wainwright's ARGUMENTS FOR A NEW LEFT. Dewey viewed the knowledge-creating and -disseminating function of participative organization to be a fundamental basis for democracy. I will forgive

[PEN-L:1269] Re: Shalom.

1995-11-06 Thread V600A8E6
People, Yitzhak Rabin was hardly a "warrior of peace" as the bourgeois media emphasizes. He was, first and foremost, a military man, part of a command structure, not a "democratic" polity. He knew exactly what he was doing when engineering Israeli "security" and butchering unarmed Palestinia

[PEN-L:1270] open season on immigrants (fwd)

1995-11-06 Thread D Shniad
Forwarded message: Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 12:55:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Phil Agre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: open season on immigrants Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-URL: http://communication.ucsd.edu/pagre/rre.html X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: list Date: Sat, 28 Oc

[PEN-L:1271] Re: Shalom.

1995-11-06 Thread Trond Andresen
Apologies to Michael perelman, but i think we should be allowed at least some room to exchange views on this issue. Pen-l is mainly for economics, yes, but we have gotten to know each other (in my case over a 3-year period on this list), and on a seldom occasion I feel a need to express my thought

[PEN-L:1272] Re: Shalom.

1995-11-06 Thread bill mitchell
Trond {with much deleted) strikes my own sentiments. i couldn't care less about this incident. capitalism leaves millions of innocent children starving across the world as it pursues its global strategy to destroy the spirit of the workers and to take as much as it needs from them in return for th

[PEN-L:1273] Israel and pen-l

1995-11-06 Thread Michael Perelman
I guess that I underestimated the level of sophistication of pen-l. I have seen so much energy wasted by so-called enemies of anti-semitism that bristle everytime something critical of Israel emerges, that I wanted to avoid that sort of garbage here. Trond and others have eloquently expressed th

[PEN-L:1274] words of wisdom

1995-11-06 Thread James Devine
"Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda and entertainment without moral passion is television." -- Rita Mae Brown. sincerely, Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] Econ. Dept., Loyola Marymount Univ. 7900 Loyola Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90045-84

[PEN-L:1276] Karl Marx Goes to Japan: a talk by Bertell Ollman

1995-11-06 Thread Bill Koehnlein
THE BRECHT FORUM The New York Marxist School 122 West 27 Street, 10 floor New York, New York 10001 (212) 242-4201 (212) 741-4563 (fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (email)

[PEN-L:1277] Israel/Palestine

1995-11-06 Thread Heather Grob
Wait a minute. Most coverage I have seen makes it clear that he was militaristic. And no liberals I know dispute the plight of Palestineans, or how they were placed in their situation. Don't you guys care about what will happen next? Wasn't there a "peace process" that Palestineans could live

[PEN-L:1278] (Fwd) new book on Technological Revolution and Its Impact on Society

1995-11-06 Thread John R. Ernst
>- Forwarded message (Kate Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) -< >This volume presents campus and community experts, software designers and >striking agribusiness workers, biotechnologists and Black scholars debating >the technology revolution and its impact on society. It also provides