[PEN-L] RE: [PEN-L] RE: [PEN-L] RE: [PEN-L] RE: [PEN-L] Good Gödel, Batman!

-Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Devine, James BTW, I posted the SLATE article simply because I think that some people use Gödel as saying "anything goes." Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine --- Do

[PEN-L] RE: [PEN-L] RE: [PEN-L] RE: [PEN-L] Good Gödel, Batman!

BTW, I posted the SLATE article simply because I think that some people use Gödel as saying "anything goes." Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine --- Do you have any evidence of people using Godelian arguments in saying anything goes in science/philos

[PEN-L] Michael Hudson's Super-Imperialism

Jerry Levy on OPE-L has recently been digging up some good sources on the Web. Here is a book that I recommended sometime ago. Michael Hudson's _Super-Imperialism_ is now available at his website. You have the choice of either downloading a Zipped Word version or opening a PDF version of the 2n

[PEN-L] RE: [PEN-L] RE: [PEN-L] Good Gödel, Batman!

-Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Devine, James BTW, I posted the SLATE article simply because I think that some people use Gödel as saying "anything goes." Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine --

[PEN-L] Chinese human capital

This article describes the Chinese policy of emphasizing investment in physical rather than human capital. It gives illiteracy figures for individual provinces. I always thought that education was a key component for development in South Korea and Taiwan. When did illiteracy start to become comm

[PEN-L] Leowontin reviews Steven Rose's latest book on the brain

From the Lancet March 12 2005 The 21st-Century Brain: Explaining, Mending and Manipulating the Mind Steven Rose. Jonathan Cape, 2005. Pp 344. £20·00. ISBN 0-224-06254-9. In their attempts to make the mysterious complex

Re: [PEN-L] When liberals lie down with wolves

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/14/05 4:54 AM >>> It seemed to matter to a lot of radicals from Northeastern suburbs who were rebelling against their parents who ran the "establishment". They complained about how John Lindsay said he was not a racist but really did this and this and this... They also woul

[PEN-L] [NYC] Mark Weisbrot Talk on Social Security, March 20, Staten Island

To URPE Members and Friends, Economy Connection has been providing speakers on Social Security to activists and radio stations. We invite you to attend a discussion Sunday with Mark Weisbrot, co-author with Dean Baker of "Social Security: The Phony Crisis," hosted by the Unitarian Church of Staten

[PEN-L] Kargalitsky on Putin

The Progressive, March 2005 issue Putin Stumbles by Boris Kagarlitsky The state-run television channels were in hysterics. Every political show included condemnation of American expansionism and calls to protect the country against an enemy that was threatening the very existence of our state. It w

Re: [PEN-L] Jim Craven on Taiwan

To what extent are the coal mines of the PRC privatized (see below)? If they aren't, why is "privatization" an issue? Jim Devine Perhaps 40-50% of coal produced in China comes out of private mines. Because they're usually much smaller, they make up the bulk of coal mines, however. There's a big

[PEN-L] The US imperialist "war for democracy" in the Middle East

The US media is portraying the March 14 demonstration by the U.S.-supported "Cedar Revolution" wing of the widening political crisis as far larger than the Hezbollah protests. The Guardian is more cautious. It was to be expected that this protest would be much larger than the previous actions by th

[PEN-L] I don't know German but...

I don't know German but, as far as I can tell, "Wolfensohn" means son of wolves, while "Wolfowitz" means joke of wolves. Jim Devine, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine/

Re: [PEN-L] Decline of the dollar

Robert [no relation to Paul] Samuelson writes> But beyond all the upbeat indicators lurks a potentially frightening problem that unsettles even the wisest and most seasoned economic observers. It's not government budget deficits, a possible housing bubble or even $2-a-gallon gasoline. It's the doll

Re: [PEN-L] People vs Banks

hmm, sounds expensive.   nothing preventing you from doing this in principle, but if you were going to run a mortgage bank on these principles you'd need to square the other side of the book away by finding some depositors who didn't mind a similar schedule of repayments being applied to the

Re: [PEN-L] When liberals lie down with wolves

Robert Scott Gassler wrote: > > It seemed to matter to a lot of radicals from Northeastern suburbs who were > rebelling against their parents who ran the "establishment". They > complained about how John Lindsay said he was not a racist but really did > this and this and this... They also would say

[PEN-L] Decline of the dollar

Bottom Dollar The greenback's fall is stoking fears of a global crisis. Behind the slide: a world economy wildly out of balance By Robert J. Samuelson Newsweek March 21 issue - There's been plenty of good news of late about the U.S. economy, so let's start with that: employment is expanding (2.4

[PEN-L] Fwd from Jim Craven: On Dan Rather

It is a classic technique among the "Psyops" types known as the "poison pill". When a damaging story is gaining momentum and more and more is coming out damaging to your cause or candidate for office, you plant a story with some even more damaging--to your cause or candidate--and salacious details

[PEN-L] People vs Banks

Isn't the rule that mortgage payments are high proportion paid to interest and low proportion paid to principle in early payments an arbitrary exercise of banking power ? If higher proportions of early payments were used to pay off the principle, the principle would be paid off sooner and th

[PEN-L] Marx in Soho, by Howard Zinn

Praxis is pleased to present: MARX IN SOHO, written by Howard Zinn, performed by Bob Weick with the Iron Age Theater (60 minutes) March 29, 2005: 7 & 9pm performances, FREE ADMISSON, Little Center, Clark University, Worcester, MA 01610 Sponsored by the following Clark University Departments: Th

Re: [PEN-L] a new category for the Oscars?

From: "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The LA [TIMES] highlights a disturbing trend among U.S. soldiers in Iraq: making music videos using amateur war footage. ... Some videos are meant to be funny or patriotic, but most are gory. "This isn't some jolly freakin' peacekeeping mission," explained

[PEN-L] a new category for the Oscars?

>The LA [TIMES] highlights a disturbing trend among U.S. soldiers in Iraq: making music videos using amateur war footage. American soldiers are creating "fast-paced, MTV-style music videos" using footage of firefights and killings. Some videos are meant to be funny or patriotic, but most are gory.

Re: [PEN-L] Jim Craven on Taiwan

So you're advocating that the PRC take over Taiwan by force if necessary? The way they invaded Vietnam? (Was it US imperialism that caused the latter?) BTW, who said that the Chinese CP wasn't "communist"? not I. It does seem to me that after decades in power, the internal nature of party has chan

Re: [PEN-L] Jim Craven on Taiwan

I wrote:>> Obviously, these are important indicia, but it's up to the people involved (the Mainlanders, the Taiwanese) to decide how distinct they are, in a democratic way. One thing that should be noted is that Taiwan has a "Formosan" (non-Han) population that the PRC lacks << Steve Philio

Re: [PEN-L] Competition is sick

This one seems to be merely a critique of the mentality of the rich and near-rich, since few working people were swept up in the 1990s mania. BTW, why isn't Whybrow's solution to give us all Prozac? Jim Devine, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine/ From: Louis Proyect

Re: [PEN-L] REPORT: Ward Churchill Settlement?

Of course, if the boss were to pay me $400 thou to go away, at 5% interest, that would only be $20 thou per year. Jim Devine, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine/ > -Original Message- > From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Doug > Henwood > Sent:

Re: [PEN-L] US Social fascism: Bankruptcy law 2005

In a message dated 3/14/05 10:17:03 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * From: "Devine, James" BTW, let's avoid the word "fascist" if possible. It's extremely over-used, depreciating its meaning. (It's like using the word "rape" to refer to seduction.)  I liked the term that

[PEN-L] US Social fascism: Bankruptcy law 2005

* From: "Devine, James" -clip- BTW, let's avoid the word "fascist" if possible. It's extremely over-used, depreciating its meaning. (It's like using the word "rape" to refer to seduction.) I liked the term that Krugman used earlier this weak: debt peonage. ^^ CB: I use the word "fasci

[PEN-L] Jim Craven on Taiwan

For moi, an important aspect of analyzing a situation concerning the right to national liberation and self-determination is considering oppressed nation and oppressor nation dynamics, and the history. The main oppressor nationalism involved in the history and origin of Taiwan as a separate nation

Re: [PEN-L] REPORT: Ward Churchill Settlement?

Devine, James wrote: what can _I_ say that would get me this kind of deal? Develop Jim O'Connor's aphorism that bourgeois economics is a criminal enterprise? Explore how people like Larry Summers are complicit with mass death? Doug

[PEN-L] Farmworker Victory

Coalition of Immokalee Workers and Taco Bell reach historic agreement! Farmworkers win decisive victory for human rights!... FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Lucas Benitez, CIW/239-503-0133 Julia Perkins, CIW/239-986-0891 Laurie Schalow, Taco Bell Corp. 949-863-3915 or onsite at 949-637-1153

[PEN-L] Reply to Carl Davidson

(Carl Davidson was a leader of the new left in the 1960s and early 1970s. Along with other SDS'ers and Guardian newspaper figures--he was associated with both--Davidson discovered "Marxism-Leninism" in the mid 1970s, which meant Maoist ultraleftist party-building experiments of the sort described b

Re: [PEN-L] REPORT: Ward Churchill Settlement?

what can _I_ say that would get me this kind of deal? ;-) Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine From: PEN-L list on behalf of Ralph Johansen Sent: Mon 3/14/2005 12:37 AM To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Subject: [PEN-L] REPORT: Ward Churchill Sett

[PEN-L] RE: [PEN-L] Good Gödel, Batman!

BTW, I posted the SLATE article simply because I think that some people use Gödel as saying "anything goes." Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine From: PEN-L list on behalf of Michael Pollak Sent: Sat 3/12/2005 11:43 AM To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUC

[PEN-L] detainees

JUSTICE DEPT. CONSIDERING TORTURE IN SPACE 'Thinking Outside the Box,' Gonzales Says [by Andy Borowitz] Acknowledging the legal barriers to torturing detainees in U.S. custody, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales confirmed today that the Justice Department was exploring the feasibility of torturi

[PEN-L] measuring growth in China

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-chinagdp14mar14,0,3034179.story China's GDP Figures in Doubt By Don Lee Times Staff Writer March 14, 2005 BENGBU, China - On a gray Friday morning in February, Liu Min quietly went up to the ninth floor of an atrium building here, climbed over a 4-foot railin

Re: [PEN-L] Douthat

And the third sons became soldiers, fourth sons went to govern the colonies for a while... explains a lot. At 00:07 14/03/05, you wrote: michael perelman wrote: > > When did rich kids become priests? The Middle Ages or more recently? > As late as the early 19th century the second sons of _very_ ri

Re: [PEN-L] When liberals lie down with wolves

It seemed to matter to a lot of radicals from Northeastern suburbs who were rebelling against their parents who ran the "establishment". They complained about how John Lindsay said he was not a racist but really did this and this and this... They also would say, "I'd rather meet a racist than a lib

[PEN-L] REPORT: Ward Churchill Settlement?

BREAKING NEWS: http://hnn.us/articles/4480.html Ward Churchill: An attorney for Ward Churchill, the professor who compared some Sept. 11 victims to a Nazi leader, said today he expects to reach a settlement with the University of Colorado "within the next day or so" on the embattled professor's fut