[PEN-L] Subject: Re: Sociobiological tripe about Jewish intelligence

Ed Sullivan, as a journalist before he became host of a popular US TV variety show, said that Jewish basketball players excelled due to their genetic traits of stealth, etc. Seth Sandronsky Date:Sun, 5 Jun 2005 02:20:55 +0100 From:Daniel Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

[PEN-L] Emmett Till documentary

On June 1, the NY Times reported that Emmett Till's body was being exhumed as part of a reopening of an investigation into his murder. The article stated that Federal interest in the case was heightened more recently by a documentary, as well as the long-lost trial transcript. Its discovery was

[PEN-L] corporatizing the blogosphere

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700slug=Corporate%20Bloggers Sunday, June 5, 2005 · Last updated 11:31 a.m. PT Corporations entering world of blogs By NICOLE ZIEGLER DIZON ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER When General Motors Corp. wanted to stop speculation this spring

Re: [PEN-L] make my day

I received a message off list in response to my post with this concluding thought: Think of the institutionalization of the suppression of information in this country as the long-range spiritual death that we are facing that is comparable to the biological death that DU is foisting on Iraq or

[PEN-L] Query - crash of empires

Can you steer me to articles/books where the author contends that an empire fell because of income inequality? Gene Coyle

Re: [PEN-L] anti-capitalism as commodity

[EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/04/05 8:57 AM At the end of the book, when Heath and Potter propose that capitalism be tamed by small, workable proposals and collective action by governments rather than trendy protests, it as if they have forgotten the whole history of postwar European social democracy.

[PEN-L] traffic control

Following the marked success of the computerised congestion charge in London, the UK government has trailed a pilot project for taxing care road usage by the mile, at differential rates according time of day and location. England is good country to test drive this.

Re: [PEN-L] anti-capitalism as commodity

And so they have failed to spot something important: that the counterculture of the 60s and its successors have simply been examples of prosperous westerners seeking social distinctiveness, as Veblen predicted. From hippies to punks, from organic farmers to ravers, rebellious subcultures are

Re: [PEN-L] traffic control

Following the marked success of the computerised congestion charge in London, the UK government has trailed a pilot project for taxing care road usage by the mile, at differential rates according time of day and location. England is good country to test drive this This might replace

Re: [PEN-L] traffic control

On 6/5/05, Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Following the marked success of the computerised congestion charge in London, the UK government has trailed a pilot project for taxing care road usage by the mile, at differential rates according time of day and location. England is good

[PEN-L] the rain in Spain.........is nowhere in sight

http://www.guardian.co.uk/spain/article/0,2763,1499894,00.html Spanish forced to ration water Giles Tremlett in Madrid Monday June 6, 2005 Guardian Water is being rationed in half of Spain to save it for domestic use, as parts of the country suffer the worst drought for 60 years. Weeks before

[PEN-L] Swans' Release: June 6, 2005

http://www.swans.com/ June 6, 2005 -- In this issue: Note from the Editor: We need somebody like that who is highly placed to tell us what's really going on. We know that we were misled on Iraq, said George McGovern, when interviewed about the Deep Throat revelation. I wish there were somebody

Re: [PEN-L] make my day

A Swedish friend said today that that since Chernobyl you can no longer fish or swim in Sweden's lakes and rivers. Ralph Daniel Davies wrote: I grew up in a corner of Wales that not only had two of our own large nuclear reactors, but was also a major target for Soviet nukes *and* caught the

Re: [PEN-L] anti-capitalism as commodity

Daniel Davies wrote: And so they have failed to spot something important: that the counterculture of the 60s and its successors have simply been examples of prosperous westerners seeking social distinctiveness, as Veblen predicted. From hippies to punks, from organic farmers to ravers,

[PEN-L] Interview: Maureen Taylor, Detroit's grassroots City Council candidate

An interview with Maureen Taylor, Detroit's grassroots City Council candidate http://www.lrna.org/league/PT/PT.2005.6/PT.2005.6.4.html By People's Tribune Staff Editor's note: The People's Tribune recently interviewed Maureen Taylor, who is a candidate for the Detroit City Council.

Re: [PEN-L] Ward Churchill's wife comments on investigation

What a clear, articulate letter. Ward is to be congratulated as well on his choice of mates. I would like to have seen the summary and attachments that accompanied this letter. Ralph Louis Proyect wrote: Dear friends and colleagues, My apologies for not keeping you updated on a more regular