In a message dated 5/10/99 11:26:02 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
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Subj: Watson the Racist
Date: 5/10/99 11:26:02 AM Pacific Daylight Time
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Ah-Ho Mr.
I was made aware of this information today, and thought I'd pass it on to
those of you whom may be interestedand have not yet heard about this.
You will be able to hear an interview with Mike Levine and Tosh Plumlee in
Los Angeles on KPFK either this Wednesday night-Thursday
Thanks to Doug for this. Actually since Nixon, all of the presidents
including Reagan have attempted to co-opt and redefine May 1st. It is an
axiom among the psy-ops and propagandists that it is easier, more efficient
and more effective to appropriate, co-opt, and redefine existing popular
Happy May Day to All. Thanks to Michael for this moving and penetrating
obituary for his father. In many ways, his father was like and shared the
experiences and forms of oppression of many of our fathers and mothers who
suffered with our fathers.
This was so appropriate for the Day that
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Louis,
With eloquence and substance, presented and argued.
By the way, anybody feel that the FBI Building, a building of the JUSTICE
department, being named after J. Edgar (aka "Mary") Hoover is on the one hand
quite appropriate, while on the other hand,
It is all really too much, Nightly specials with Norman Schwarkopf as a pundit
on an NBC Special. And all the sanitized photos showing destruction from a
high-tech distance and all "our boys" came home.
If imminent destruction of whole peoples is the criterion for launching NATO
strikes, then
Comment:
I thought that the article was dead on. Some people's search for "socially
responsible investment" in capitalism is like others who see eating Ben and
Jerry's ice cream as a revolutionary act. Information as in that article is
the real revolutionary act.
Jim Craven
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As someone who lives in both the Indian and non-Indian worlds, and just
returned today from the Peigan Blackfoot Reservation in Browning and the
Kainai Blackfoot Reservation in Alberta, I felt compelled to comment.
There
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Ken,
I think your comments are well taken on one level. It is true that in one
sense, in one context, the ProfitPower imperatives and dynamics of
capitalism do indeed lead to risktaking andn investments that lead to
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In a message dated 1/20/99 7:34:26 PM Pacific Standard Time,
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Writers don't just write to be understood;
they write for the future readers who may someday understand what they
were trying to
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So true, so elegantly put, so human.
Dead On.
Jim
In a message dated 1/21/99 6:37:22 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subj: [PEN-L:2451] quote from Monthly Review article
Date: 1/21/99
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Comment:
This is absolutely right on in my opinion and so elegantly and humanly
expressed.
There is another epistemological question. To do concrete struggle, where does
the requisite knowledge come from and how is it
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From what I have been able to see so far, and I for one cannot deconstruct
Butler's award-winning feast of tortured syntax, I think Cabaret might be an
accurate metaphor for some of this pomo stuff (and for the stuff that
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In a message dated 1/20/99 9:19:04 PM Pacific Standard Time,
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Subj: [PEN-L:2382] Re: Fwd: Re: Re: Re: Judith Butler, etc.
Date: 1/20/99 9:19:04 PM Pacific Standard Time
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I recorded HRS (His Royal Slickness) giving the speech--along with the talking
heads---for my daughter, a Blackfoot, to graphically illustrate various types
of infected blankets wrapped in slick bundles. Plus, it will be a great
pedagogical tool to illustrate visually naked hypocrisy, shameless
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Just a few months ago, there was a TV interview with some famed geologist who
claimed that they had found whole new evidence of the Columbia River having
once been a subterranean passage (a river underground) as told in the
In Kerala where I lived, in a small village called Kunnanthannum with 150
people in the village, people often would sarcastically yet penetratingly,
answer questions with simple questions. So for example if someone asks if you
went to church today, often the answer would be "Does the one who
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For myself, noting and agreeing with the assertion of the general function of
institutions like MIT in capitalist society and as instruments of expanded
reproduction of that system, a few like Noam Chomsky do slip through
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Instead of ghosts of chirstmans past, present and future I see signs of the
substance and prophesies and extrapolations of Marx, Engels, Lenin and so many
who stood on their shoulders and/or whose shoulders Marx and others
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According to John Chief Moon, Spiritual Leader and Elder of the Kainai Piikani
(Blackfoot) and Long Standing Bear Chief of the Peigan Blackfoot, both of whom
are extremely knowledgeable on these matters, these accounts are
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In a message dated 12/29/98 9:31:14 AM Pacific Standard Time,
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j:(Fwd) Twas The Night Before Impeachment
Date: 12/29/98 9:31:14 AM Pacific Standard Time
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James
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I believe I saw an announcement like this from Daimler dated around 1933.
Something about high quality engines for German bombers and fighters that
could operate on both sides of the Atlantic. Also something about providin=
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In a message dated 12/28/98 10:24:01 AM Pacific Standard Time,
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I was wondering: is the word "philistine" a version of the word
"Palestine"? (That's why I put this negative term in quotation
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In a message dated 12/27/98 6:37:25 PM Pacific Standard Time,
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At 08:59 PM 12/27/98 -0500, you wrote:
Happy Holidays to All eventhough personally I think that Scrooge was an
advanced thinker.
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Happy Holidays to All eventhough personally I think that Scrooge was an
advanced thinker.
My daughter is learning alternatives early. For example, to the tune of God
Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen:
God rest ye merry merchants
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No, unlike Bill's, my apology is sincere and as for close to Bill's, well you
know the rest..."close but no cigar".
But you know, reductio ad absurdum/nauseum as a instrument of rhetoric and
reasoning does not so much
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To Jim Devine's reposne I have to agree. There is a real danger in
trivializing the most horrible with analogy overreach or fallcy of "proof" by
analogy. On the other hand, Auschwitz was an inexorable result--not a
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IMHO this is wonderfully argued and quite historically accurate--and an
excellent and concentrated metaphor. The libertarian "voluntarism" is the a
priori, hypothetico-deductivist or de jure coupled with no notion or
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On the comments blow, my own comments are:
a) I can think of a long list of "non-democratic"/anti-democratic regimes set
up and social systems engineered as non-democratic/anti-democratic regimes in
the service of US and
The Columbian article failed to explicitly note that not only have I filed a
grievance, but per Clark College processes, my first level of appeal goes to
none other than Vice-president Ramsey ("please Mr. Himmler, at least fairly
consider the possibility thant anti-Semitism is evil and even
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Response: And at the risk of being charged with "excessive teleology",
contexts and interests and contradictions shape contextual imperatives that
shape, constrain and trigger behaviors and postures. In my classes I bring
The following is an exact reproduction (with translation) of a captured
SS document at Auschwitz.
Rentabilitatsberechnung der SS uber Ausnutzung
der Haftlinge in den Konzentratrationslagern
(Table of Profits (or yield) per prisoner in conentration camps
I loved the reference to the infamous "Summers Memo" as a concentrated
expression/self-parody of neoclassical economics "applied" and the resultant
reductio ad/absurdum/nauseum/inhumanum. Imagine, how refined and sterile the
suggestion/assertion that the calculus of marginal "private" and
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Thanks Rob,
Some of my students--and the Administration--however, feel that I am number
one candidate for being the "Anti-Christ". They keep looking for 666 tatooed
on me somewhere. Some of the ultra-rightist students go
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Interesting argument below. However, I would prefer not to repeat one
neoclassical fiction (market rewards individuals according to their relative
marginal contributions to social product) in the course of exploring others.
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Could someone put out the infamous Summers Memo on pen-l. My copy is buried
somewhere and I don't have a scanner yet (Karl M. Klaus might bring me one).
It is a sight to behold.
Basically Frank, it says that when you
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Response: That is exactly right. Summers later claimed it was his own kind of
"reductio ad absurdum/nauseum" exercise he was doing. The problem is that that
memo had been widely circulated and quoted
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Dear Barkley,
Thanks for the thoughts and to all of you. As you can see from the documents
posted, the case is as presented. As for the Admin reading my mail, well I'm
at home now, so for all of those who might be reading
Saddam Husseing's regime is extremely dangerous. I remember when at the
beginning of the so-called "Gulf War", Bush proudly announced "The Vietnam
Syndrome is Over." As Bill is on his way out, and Saddam is still in power,
probably getting laid with more women than Bill could even imagine,
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Dear Friends,
This was sent by a friend in Canada who is a tireless activist on Indigneous
Peoples Sovereignty questions. I wanted to share it not to point to my own
case, but because the lessons and concepts are
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Louis,
Thanks for this. Since my mail is being read at the College, I guess even at
home I have to point out that the phrase "provocations that would make Mother
Teresa go postal" is simply a metaphor and a bit of
Dear Friends,
Just go back from up north and I just can't describe the feeling I got/get
from the warm letters of support.
If you remember, I was order to produce e-mails (sent and received) that had
anything to do--directly or indirectly--with a one Kevin Annett with whom I
had had some
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