logic
job creation
Submitted by antarchi on May 20, 2009 - 14:40Very poor people can indeed be delighted when what we call a sweatshop comes to town ...but they would be even more delighted if it paid them better wages, didn't rape and fondle the female workers, didn't spray them with toxics, etc...
When workers are weak, it is indeed true that cutting labor standards can get more factories built, but by that Times/Davos/Burma-junta logic of job creation you should also abolish the minimum wage, permit prostitution, even permit human bondage/ slavery, since each of those steps would indeed -- under weak-worker conditions -- induce the creation of new jobs.
respect for the dead
Submitted by antarchi on April 18, 2008 - 00:20you have this business where TV won't show what we see, for reasons of so-called 'bad taste.' I remember once being on the phone to a TV editor in London when Al Jazeera were asked to feed some tape of children killed and wounded by British shell fire in Basra, and the guy started saying, 'there's no point feeding us this, we can't show this.'
"The first excuse was, 'people will be having their tea, so we can't put it on,' then it was, 'this is sort of pornography, we don't show this.' And ... the last thing was, 'we have to show respect for the dead.' So we don't show any respect for them when they are alive, we blow them to bits, and then we show respect for them.
Interview with Arab Media Watch
wiping palestine off the map
Submitted by antarchi on March 10, 2008 - 19:40Hamas is slammed for wishing to ‘wipe Israel off the map’. Underline the word ‘wishing’ here because Israel had already wiped Palestine off the map. Why is Hamas being criticised for something Israel had done long ago (and still continues doing)? In fact, even the maps which Israeli children are currently studying at school have no reference to the Palestinian territories.
hamas, and israel's right to exist
Submitted by antarchi on March 10, 2008 - 19:37Q: Why doesn’t Hamas recognise Israel’s right to exist?
A: The Israel that the UN created and the international community wishes Hamas to recognise is not recognised by Israel itself (Tel Aviv has a much larger Israel in mind). And the Israel that Israel itself recognises (the one that includes land grabbed through war) is not recognised by the international community. So why is Hamas being singled out for not recognising the UN drawn Israel (the one with the pre-1967 Green Line borders)? Couldn’t it mean that Hamas has learnt a thing or two from Israel?
corporations became persons
Submitted by antarchi on February 20, 2008 - 20:24According to the official case record, Supreme Court Justice Morrison Remick Waite simply pronounced before the beginning of argument in the case of Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company (1886) that:
The court does not wish to hear argument on the question whether the provision in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids a State to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, applies to these corporations. We are all of opinion that it does.
ILL-LOGIC
Submitted by antarchi on February 19, 2008 - 14:51Among the valuable properties that logical systems can have are:
* Consistency, which means that none of the theorems of the system contradict one another.
* Soundness, which means that the system's rules of proof will never allow a false inference from a true premise. If a system is sound and its axioms are true then its theorems are also guaranteed to be true.
* Completeness, which means that there are no true sentences in the system that cannot, at least in principle, be proved in the system.
From wikipedia
