[PEN-L:9231] Re: Thanks to all and a question

1999-07-16 Thread Jim Devine
Let me ask a simple economic question: what do you think the weakest link in the U.S. economy is today? labor resistance, ponzi-like debt, international instability, an environmental crunch [the oil companies are threatening big time price increases because their refineries keep exploding unless

[PEN-L:9233] Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: Re: Moderator request help

1999-07-16 Thread Doug Henwood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are setting a very bad example for the rest of us incapable of producing such a volume of quality in such a limited time. Maybe a hundred pages or two Michael seems to write one book a year, which is probably more than the average American reads. How does he

[PEN-L:9235] High Tech Temps Begin to Organize

1999-07-16 Thread Michael Eisenscher
Labor Group Wants to Organize Tech Temp Workers It seeks benefits, security for Microsoft `permatemps' Ilana DeBare, Chronicle Staff Writer Friday, July 16, 1999 Mark Turner is a lifelong Republican who used to have nothing but contempt for labor unions, including the teachers

[PEN-L:9236] from SLATE

1999-07-16 Thread Jim Devine
USA TODAY reports that President Clinton was ready to bomb sites of suspected Middle East terrorist in the wake of the crash of TWA 800. The story is sourced to a new book, "In the Blink of an Eye: The FBI Investigation of TWA Flight 800" by Pat Milton, a reporter for The Associated Press. The

[PEN-L:9237] Corruption of a Chinese scientist?

1999-07-16 Thread Henry C.K. Liu
Since 1998, the writer of the following article is one my partners in a financial trading company we started. I think you may enjoy reading the article. Several decades ago, I left the practice of architecture and urban planning under similar circumstances with similar results. Our private

[PEN-L:9238] Re: from SLATE

1999-07-16 Thread Eugene Coyle
Yes, flight 800 is now understood to have crashed because of bad wiring in the center fuel tank. \ The frenzy at the time over the phantom terrorists tightened domestic "security" once again. And, once tightened, it doesn't get relaxed. Gene Coyle Jim Devine wrote: USA TODAY reports

[PEN-L:9240] [Fwd: GALBRAITH WARNS OF U.S. ECONOMIC BUBBLE]

1999-07-16 Thread Michael Perelman
Sid Shniad wrote: THE VANCOUVER SUN TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 1999 GALBRAITH WARNS OF U.S. BUBBLE Legendary economist cites 'another exercise in speculative optimism.' Ashley Seager, Reuters LONDON — Legendary "people's economist" John Kenneth

[PEN-L:9241] military keynesianism redux

1999-07-16 Thread Michael Perelman
Nicholas von Hoffman recently published an article claiming that there are more than 738,000 police in the U.S., 1 for every 24 people. Is that number in the ball park. It was not clear who was counted. Prison guards? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico,

[PEN-L:9242] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Kant on Debt

1999-07-16 Thread Michael Hoover
By the way someone posted a note that Kant though his philosophy does not apply to women. Is there a reference for that? I know that he did not think that women were suited for philosophy but I hadn't realised that he did not think that the categorical imperative etc. would not apply to

[PEN-L:9246] Re: Re: Kant on Pain Moral Worth

1999-07-16 Thread Michael Hoover
I'm not sure if marxism needs or can even develop its own system of morality, though. Marx may have thought that an attempt to develop a coherent system of morality under capitalism would inevitably though insensibly get transformed into its perversions (hypocritical, impotent, and/or

[PEN-L:9247] Re: military keynesianism redux

1999-07-16 Thread Doug Henwood
Michael Perelman wrote: Nicholas von Hoffman recently published an article claiming that there are more than 738,000 police in the U.S., 1 for every 24 people. Is that number in the ball park. It was not clear who was counted. Prison guards? At that rate, U.S. population would be 17,712,000.

[PEN-L:9249] RE: Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: Re: Moderator request help

1999-07-16 Thread Lisa Ian Murray
But it was great! Ian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Doug Henwood Sent: Friday, July 16, 1999 8:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:9233] Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: Re: Moderator request help [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You

[PEN-L:9259] Re: Re: An Essay on the Origins of Racism

1999-07-16 Thread Michael Yates
Friends and Mathew, Sorry, I accidentally posted this to the list. michael Michael Yates wrote: Mathew, I have read your essay on racism and found it interesting. If you are willing to do a rewrite or two, I'll use it in RRPE. First, I think you should condense the first part on the

[PEN-L:9250] RE: Re: Re: Kant on Debt

1999-07-16 Thread Lisa Ian Murray
and virginity ian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Hoover Sent: Friday, July 16, 1999 3:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:9245] Re: Re: Kant on Debt Sam wrote: Kant's ethics make extraordinary

[PEN-L:9248] The Internet Anti-Fascist: Tue, 13 July 99 -- 3:54 (#295)

1999-07-16 Thread Paul Kneisel
__ The Internet Anti-Fascist: Tuesday, 13 July 99 Vol. 3, Numbers 54 (#295) __ 17 JULY E. TIMOR ACTION IN

[PEN-L:9245] Re: Re: Kant on Debt

1999-07-16 Thread Michael Hoover
Sam wrote: Kant's ethics make extraordinary demands on people. Kant's "kingdom of ends" is a utopia. Which is the reason why Kant had to believe in the immortality of soul. Another remainder of Christianity in Kant. Yoshie a rather 'hell, fire, and brimstone' remainder given his

[PEN-L:9243] RE: military keynesianism redux

1999-07-16 Thread Max Sawicky
Nicholas von Hoffman recently published an article claiming that there are more than 738,000 police in the U.S., 1 for every 24 people. Is that number in the ball park. It was not clear who was counted. Prison guards? Could be right. Census reports 623,000 government employees with power

[PEN-L:9239] U.S. Drug Policy in Latin America

1999-07-16 Thread Interhemispheric Resource Center
The Progressive Response 16 July 1999 Vol. 3, No. 25 Editor: Martha Honey The Progressive Response (PR) is a weekly service of

[PEN-L:9234] Re: Kant's Immortal Soul, or, the Sublime Subject

1999-07-16 Thread Ricardo Duchesne
I can't always keep up with your hopscotch, but your misreading of Kant's politics really needs to be answered. You are leaving aside the distinction Kant makes between the 'metaphysics of right', which is about the purely rational principles of the ideal state, and the problem of the

[PEN-L:9232] old world return

1999-07-16 Thread Wojtek Sokolowski
I will be away from my office for the next 10 days or so, going to London, UK. Thus, I will be unable to respond to any postings to this list. Have a nice summer everyone. wojtek

[PEN-L:9230] Iraq still being bombed

1999-07-16 Thread Frank Durgin
Friday July 16 7:15 AM ET Air Force Says It Bombs Northern Iraq Site BONN, Germany (Reuters) - U.S. planes bombed a communications site near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul Friday after being fired on by Iraqi anti-aircraft artillery, the U.S. Air Force's

[PEN-L:9226] China dismisses Cox Report

1999-07-16 Thread Henry C.K. Liu
SCMP Friday, July 16, 1999 Details said to have been stolen readily available: State Council AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE The State Council's report offers a point-by-point

Re: [PEN-L:9219] Re: Re: Re: Kant on Pain Moral Worth

1999-07-16 Thread John M. Legge
I think that you (or Allen Wood) are confusing judicial doctrine with the more abstract concept of justice. People generally (neoclassically trained microeconomists being the most glaring exception) have definite ideas of "just" and "unjust" behaviour and situations and these are unlikely to be