grr
>To me, it comes down to the fundamental question of whether you think
>evolution shaped our brains in ways that still affect our behavior. If the
>answer is yes, then anyone interested in shaping human society should be
>interested in finding out what those ways are.
Psychology is the st
"From the standpoint of a higher economic form of society, private ownership
of the globe by single individuals will appear quite as absurd as private
ownership of one man by another. Even a whole society, a nation, or even all
simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not the owners of
MIT to create digital library
Aims to save scholars' output
By Peter J. Howe, Globe Staff, 11/4/2002
CAMBRIDGE - Never shy about pursuing epic concepts, the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology today is formally launching one of its boldest
projects in years: an effort to create a long-term ''di
- Original Message -
From: "Mark Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 8:56 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:31851] RE: Re: RE: Re: dismantling due process
>
>
> >It's part of the new race to the
> > bottom, the downward harmonization of moral standards.
>
>It's part of the new race to the
> bottom, the downward harmonization of moral standards.
>
> Jim
>
Don't forget that it was Churchill who first proposed gassing and bombing
Iraq in 1919. The idea that there was ever an upward harmonisation is surely
illusion.
Mark
RE: [PEN-L:31839] Re: dismantling due process
- Original Message -
From: Devine, James
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED] '
Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 8:41 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:31848] RE: Re: dismantling due process
After 9/11, a fence-sitting zionist had a change of heart and said to
me:
"Looks
I wrote:
> I don't think even the leaders of AKP know what
> exactly they are. But they are definitely not mildly
> left. They are pro-market and committed to the ongoing
> implementation of the IMF programme.
One speculation I used to hear, especially before 911, was that
AKP came to existence w
Title: RE: [PEN-L:31839] Re: dismantling due process
After 9/11, a fence-sitting zionist had a change of heart and said to
me:
"Looks like the Israelis always had it right; what we need is targeted
assassinations."
I guess we're getting with the program.
Joanna
--
I had a si
NATO Looking Ahead To a Mission Makeover
New Members, Force and Philosophy
By Robert G. Kaiser and Keith B. Richburg
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, November 5, 2002; Page A01
BRUSSELS -- The North Atlantic Treaty Organization appears set to embrace a
radically new military posture and st
http://www.hinduonnet.com/stories/2002110404831200.htm
International
A new voyage of discovery for India, ASEAN
By P.S. Suryanarayana
PHNOM PENH NOV. 3. A new political dynamic in India's relations with the
Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) will become a reality when
the Prime Mini
Greetings Economists,
Steven Johnson responds to Lou Proyect,
Steven,
If evolutionary psychology has been dominated by the right, that's partially
because the left has expended all its energy denouncing the very premise
that natural selection has had an impact on who were are and the social
relati
Hari Kumar wrote:
>
> I suggest that it is for the same reason. i.e.: The lack of the
> subjective factor.
> I know that does not sit well with some. However... that is just my
> little old view.
To paraphrase an old question: Where do "subjective factors" come from?
Do they drop from the
Jim wrote:
> Is the AKP a lot like Christian Democracy in Europe
> and Latin America?
Don't know much about Christian Democracy in Europe and Latin
America, so I leave it to those with the appropriate knowledge to
answer this.
> that could make it either mildly left or hard right-wing
> or somew
At 07:49 PM 11/04/2002 -0500, you wrote:
(v) - But really - the question is much better phrased to the Americans
on the list - why the hell have they not erupted? I mean the US health
care system sucks - so much worse than the Canadian.
Yet???
Oh, that's simple. If you're an
Dear Michael:
"You ask why there isn't a backlash?"
Perhaps Ken or others from C should chip in, but I would suggest this:
(i) There is still enough 'heft' in the health care services to carry
the majority of people, & it just has not dug into enough people's real
health status as yet; that is espe
(received from Steven Johnson, the Nation Magazine reviewer of Pinker's "Blank Slate")
Louis, thanks for letting me see your reply to my piece. Obviously, I
disagree with a lot of what you say here -- I'd love it if you would forward
the last few paragraphs of my piece to your lists as well, just
After 9/11, a fence-sitting zionist had a change of heart and said to me:
"Looks like the Israelis always had it right; what we need is targeted
assassinations."
I guess we're getting with the program.
Joanna
November 4, 2002
Bin Laden Associate Is Killed in Yemen
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Fil
[who needs a trial when you've got drones?]
November 4, 2002
Bin Laden Associate Is Killed in Yemen
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 6:07 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. forces killed a top associate of Osama bin Laden in
Yemen in a missile strike, expanding the war on terror with America's fi
Why isn't there a backlash? Or is there?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For the debate on health care!
Here's what's influencing Ontario health-care policyBy Michele
Landsberg
The Star Oct. 20, 2002.
IF PUBLIC policies dont seem to make sense to you, then youre just not
paying attention. Everything that seems downright irrational, wasteful,
At 05:13 PM 11/04/2002 -0500, you wrote:
When I got my first complementary copy this morning, I was reminded why I
let this awful magazine lapse. Starting out with an editorial admonition
to its readers against wasting a vote for the Green Party in tomorrow's
elections, it then proceeds to a de
A few weeks ago I received an invitation to get a trial subscription to
the Nation Magazine. What the hell, I said. This would give me a chance
to see what the red-baiters were up to first-hand, as well as work on
their nifty crossword puzzles. When my last subscription was winding
down during
- Original Message -
From: "Mark Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Right, 'but' the other shoe that keeps the deflation from becoming a big
> >black hole is US imports from the region and the $1billion + a day comin'
in
> >as well. If the rate of return for Asian investors is higher in the US
Title: results of the Turkish elections
Is the AKP a lot like Christian Democracy in Europe and Latin America? that could make it either mildly left or hard right-wing or somewhere in-between.
JD
btw, the message in question was not sent by me. It was sent by an aol
address that had somehow managed to fake mine. We are looking into it
right now.
Max B. Sawicky wrote:
I get messages like this every day. Anybody know which virus
this is, and is there something I can do about it? Is it
s
I get messages like this every day. Anybody know which virus
this is, and is there something I can do about it? Is it
something the sender has, or me?
max
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:owner-pen-l@;galaxy.csuchico.edu]On Behalf Of Michael Perelman
Sent: Sunday, Nov
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:owner-pen-l@;galaxy.csuchico.edu]On Behalf Of Charles Jannuzi
> Sent: 04 November 2002 14:01
> In Japan it is caused, it seems to me, by a
> chronically overvalued yen--against the US dollar
> ( a de facto world currency for every
This was on the front page of the Washington Post this morning.
-Original Message-
From: Sabri Oncu [mailto:soncu@;pacbell.net]
Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 5:43 PM
To: PEN-L
Subject: [PEN-L:31815] Preliminary results of the Turkish elections
I am sure all members of PEN-L are very mu
Title: RE: [PEN-L:31822] Re: Roach on Asia
CJ writes: > I object to the constant crisis-mongering discourse of the 'analysts' and 'economists' at venture banks.<
Charles, what is _your_ job? is there anything associated with your job which would encourage anyone to dismiss your opionions wit
It seems to be a double end game the US empire
has going: take over the last giant reserves of
oil for US control (and end OPEC), and takeover
the strategic manufacturing bases (along with
banking systems) of Japan, S. Korea and Taiwan.
CJannuzi
__
>
> I don't get this. Are you saying that deflation
> in Asia is a result of lack
> of effective demand in Asia? Is it not more
> the result of the lack of
> effective demand in the world as a whole, the
> reason being that
In Japan it is caused, it seems to me, by a
chronically overvalued ye
I found this article somewhat bizarre. At first I
thought 'Dore-san' was Japanese because I missed
his first name. Now I get it. He knows little or
nothing, not surprising.
For example:
.> First, large corporations work as
> semi-communities with lifetime employment
> and company-based unions.
you have of course overproduction and a decline in chip prices. but a witty colleague also noticed that intermediate products were piling up in a sort of glut and final demand for the final product e.g. computers, was not moving. here waht is interesting is not anarchy on the distribution side (con
--- Mark Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> At 03-11-02 15:22, you wrote:
> >Because Asia is not shot.
>
> There is a major and chronic deflationary
> crisis in Japan. Asia may not be
> shot, but this crisis is very real, is it not?
>
> Mark
>
But I don't need the likes of Roach to tell me
th
At 03/11/02 21:15 +, you wrote:
At 01/11/02 17:21 -0500, you wrote:
Devine, James wrote:
so are you saying
that Leon Trotsky should have rejected any connection with John Dewey,
because he was the leader of liberal
pragmatism?
Yes
Louis Proyect
Why?
Chris Burford
Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2002 16
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