ajit,
please do send me a copy of your paper. looks interesting. what bit
or bits do you want me to elaborate on re the stuff about value?
regards,
angela
I don't think these letters to Hasart is going to have any impact, that's
why I'm not writing a second letter. I think the case should be taken up by
civil liberties union or some such national level organization, and it
should be written about in newspapers and magazines. I have a case too, in
At 02:08 17/12/98 +1100, you wrote:
ajit,
please do send me a copy of your paper. looks interesting. what bit
or bits do you want me to elaborate on re the stuff about value?
regards,
angela
___
I'll need your postal address to send the paper. I was not talking avout
"value" in
A few reflections:
1. I think the "wag the dog" scenario is too generous for Clinton. I do
not think that spineless jellyfish or his spindoctors are capable of
masterminding something of that sort. Methinks, that poor excuse for a
human being acted in his more usual-self fashion: by
I'm going to be doing a "chat" at 1:00 EST on the ABC News site, which will
be mirrored (I think) on TheStreet.com. It looks like the URL will be
http://chat.abcnews.go.com/chat/chat.dll?room=abc_Doug_henwood. It'd be
nice to see some familiar pixels there.
Doug
At 02:56 PM 12/16/98 -0800, Brad de Long wrote:
You can think that the people who pushed through the Marshall Plan and the
post-WWII economic order were as much cynical realists as George Kennan.
But in my opinion at least you would be mistaken. And you can't say that
these economic idealists
It seems to me that any evaluation has to conclude on net that the
projection of U.S. military power in the twentieth century has been a
positive force--unless the person doing the evaluation sees positive
aspects to Hitler, Stalin, and Mao that I do not see.
Brad DeLong
DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY
Wojtek writes:
2. Who knows, maybe all that impeachment brouhaha was a Kisingeresque ploy
devised by the said hawks and bigwigs to ascertain Clinton compliance? The
standard liberal-democrat line that the impeachment ploy has been cooked
only by a handlful of right wing characters is not very
December 15, 1998
Michele Cheung
Editor Dark Night field notes
P.O. Box 3629 Chicago, IL 60690-3629
Tana Hasart President Clark College
1800 McLoughlin Blvd.
Vancouver, WA 98663
Dear President Hasart:
It has come to my attention that my name and e-mail address have appeared
on a December
Date sent:Thu, 17 Dec 1998 06:31:01 -0500 (EST)
To: (Recipient list suppressed)
From: David Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kremlin says Iraq raid may wreck START-2
MOSCOW, Dec 17 (Reuters) - U.S. air strikes against Iraq may have wrecked
chances of the Russian
I reply (WS): I am not a historian, but was not the Japanese attack on
Pearl Harbour a response to the US militarism in the region, specifically
the threat of cutting off the Japanese oil supply lines? A decision to
destroy the US navy was was a logical defensive movement on the part of
Japan's
Ummm... The U.S. embargoes exports of oil to Japan (because Japan continues
its campaign to conquer China, and prepares to send its armies north into
Siberia). A Japanese attack on the U.S. is a "logical defensive movement"
in response?
A very, very strange argument...
Brad DeLong
To
At 10:36 AM 12/17/98 -0800, Brad de Long wrote:
I reply (WS): I am not a historian, but was not the Japanese attack on
Pearl Harbour a response to the US militarism in the region, specifically
the threat of cutting off the Japanese oil supply lines? A decision to
destroy the US navy was was a
Ajit,
You may be right. But, I figure every little bit
helps. They need to have a barrage of pressure coming from
a lot of directions.
The report that the Chronicle of Higher Education is
getting interested in Jim's case is the best news I've
heard so far on this unfortunate
Wojtek,
You don't have the timing right here. It was not a
threat to cut off Japan's oil supplies. The US did so a
full six months prior to Pearl Harbor. As I have explained
in another post, FDR fully expected this to bring a
Japanese attack on Philippines on the way to the Indonesian
In connection with the most recent international developments and in
connection with some recent threads on the list
- bombing in Iraq, globalization, civil society, international trade,
global financial crisis -
I assume it might be quite interesting to have a look at this revealing
document:
does someone have a copy of the infamous memo from Hasart et al. about Jim
Craven's use of e-mail? I'd like to forward it to some civil libertarians.
Send it directly to me, please, to avoid cluttering the list. Thanks ahead
of time.
At 11:53 AM 12/17/98 -0500, you wrote:
Jim is running off to a
As part of the pen-l process of prodding Brad to name names, I wrote:
I still want to know who these "people" are. If they were standing for
human rights, democracy, and economic development despite the poopstorm
coming down on their heads during the Truman-McCarthy era, when the
slightest
A curious related political tidbit to this BST thing
is that one of the politicians opposed to it is Senator
Russell Feingold of Wisconsin, where dairy farmers would
like to keep dairy prices up and are unimpressed as a group
with BST.
Feingold is also one of the leaders (along with
On Thu, December 17, 1998 at 14:24:29 (-0800) Brad De Long writes:
And his definition of economic development was clearly that of the
development of capitalism.
We prefer to talk about the "mixed economy," or "social democracy," or
"social-market economy," or the "political-economic
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
Hector Saez wrote:
Please Post this job announcement on Pen-L.
Wagner College, Staten Island, New York
A0 General Economics
F0 International Economics
L0 Industrial Organization
P0 Economic Systems
R0 Urban/Regional Economics
The
Brad, who is this "we"? You and Truman? Harry S Truman (to whom "his"
referred in my sentence) was no social democrat! He was a right-wing member
of the New Deal coalition (which makes him sort of left wing by today's
standards). I'm surprised that you want to put yourself in the same league
I wrote:
And his definition of economic development was clearly that of the
development of capitalism.
Brad writes:
We prefer to talk about the "mixed economy," or "social democracy," or
"social-market economy," or the "political-economic arrangements that
produced the fastest generation of
Micheal laments:
All the while, we remain unorganized
Many of us on this list are taechers, and I imagine many of you, like me,
fancy that every once in a while something happens in a student, something
important, on the basis of the learning opportunites we structure. Not
organizing, I
And his definition of economic development was clearly that of the
development of capitalism.
We prefer to talk about the "mixed economy," or "social democracy," or
"social-market economy," or the "political-economic arrangements that
produced the fastest generation of economic growth that the
I see the three topics in my heading being symptomatic of the way power
is thrown about today. A small college executive, fearing trouble about
"radical" activitity on campus,wields all her power against an
individual faculty member. Clinton fearing domestic (in a double
sense?) problems bombs
Ken wrote:
It is a growth hormone. The hormone increases milk production in
cows. Some studies, however, indicate it may enter the bloodstream when
people drink the milk and cause increased incidence of certain types of
cancer. Some studies also indicate that it may cause health
Well, the usual story that I have heard about the US
and Japan and oil in WW II is not that the US needed it
because we had it then. We were the Saudi Arabia of the
world at that time, the great Saudi fields only having just
begun to be developed in 1936. It was the 1950s when we
became a
At 08:15 AM 12/17/98 -0800, Jim Devine wrote, inter alia:
today. As noted, he's been more than willing to comply. The exception, I
feel, is that he does have a core constituency that he can't abandon
completely. Thus he has made fewer compromises on abortion rights and a few
other issues (I
Well, the usual story that I have heard about the US
and Japan and oil in WW II is not that the US needed it
because we had it then. We were the Saudi Arabia of the
world at that time, the great Saudi fields only having just
begun to be developed in 1936. It was the 1950s when we
Wojtek:
I reply (WS): I am not a historian, but was not the Japanese attack on
Pearl Harbour a response to the US militarism in the region, specifically
the threat of cutting off the Japanese oil supply lines? A decsion to
destroy the US navy was was a logical defensive movement on the part of
Wojtek
What exactly is recombinant bovine somatotrophin (BST) and what is it
used
for?
-Original Message-
From: Ken Hanly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It is a growth hormone. The hormone increases milk production in
cows.
The other concern flows from bst's use to increase milk production
At 08:05 AM 12/17/98 -0800, Brad deLong wrote:
"Countries" aren't conscious beings with objectives that "allow"--such
patterns of thought have been a principal cause of a lot of atrocities in
this century, as people who should know better believe that by killing
civilians in large numbers they
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Jamestown Foundation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 17 December 1998 Monitor - Vol.IV, No.233
Thursday, December 17, 1998
MONITOR -- A DAILY BRIEFING ON THE POST-SOVIET STATES
RUSSIA
Jim is running off to a big meeting and asked me to forward Michelle
Cheung's letter to PEN-L. I don't think he'd mind if I also forwarded this:
-
Also, Chronicle of Higher Ed is getting on this--reporter contacted me aqnd I
sent everything. Please thank Doug. Bear Chief just called me and
I heard that the passage of time was being delayed because of the war
against Iraq...
At 10:58 AM 12/17/98 -0500, you wrote:
Rob Schaap wrote:
Bewdy! What time (EST) is it right now? Mebbe I can sit up for this one.
11 AM EST right now. But by the time you get this that time will be
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is a growth hormone. The hormone increases milk production in
cows. Some studies, however, indicate it may enter the bloodstream when
people drink the milk and cause increased incidence of certain types of
cancer. Some studies also indicate that it may cause
Rob Schaap wrote:
Bewdy! What time (EST) is it right now? Mebbe I can sit up for this one.
11 AM EST right now. But by the time you get this that time will be
inoperative.
Doug
What exactly is recombinant bovine somatotrophin (BST) and what is it used
for?
Wojtek
.
6. It just came to me that traveling around the world with a document
showing the US logo on it is both disgraceful and unsafe. I think I need
to renew my expired Polish passport.
7. Fuck the United States of America and its
THE POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK:
A HISTORY OF BIO-CHEMICAL WEAPONS
By Zoltan Grossman
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400s BC.: Spartan Greeks use sulfur fumes against enemy soldiers.
1346: Crimean Tatars catapult plague-infected corpses into
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for the correction. Maybe I voted the opposite to what I
intended!
Cheers, Ken Hanly
In a message dated 12/16/1998 7:40:37 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
http://newsworld.cbc.ca
--- it needed the colon, but what you
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