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28486 Nixon's the One -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Not because they are some abstract "independent force" but because they spend >MORE time doing electoral work than the pro-choice movement. So it's all about elections, is it? The Xian right can say - look, there are 20 or 40 million of us, and we've got the membership and institutions to show it. Toy with us and we'll go elsewhere. Clearly the Rep leadership must think there's some credible threat of exit or they wouldn't pander to them so (given the cost o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 15 14:02:32 PDT 2002

28487 Fwd: Young refusers in fifth jail term -- rank: 1000

The Support Forum for Conscientious Objectors matzpoon at yahoo.com 051-596492 Yigal Rosenberg and Yair Hilu, signers of an open letter by high school seniors refusing to do military service in the Occupied Territories, are back in prison. Yigal Rosenberg has been sentenced to a fifth term! Yair Hilu has been sentenced to a fourth! Dear friends, Yigal Rosenberg and Yair Hilu, members of The Forum in Support of Conscientious Objectors, have consistently refused to serve in Israel's army. They rep ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 15 13:28:56 PDT 2002

28488 Nixon's the One -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >What is "building a constituency"? Organizing a union to win concrete power >in a workplace I understand. But all organizing has to have goals and the >exercise of power in mind and part of any policy gains in a democracy is >winning elections. Let's take an example I've brought up before - the abortion rights movement. It's become so legalistic, so Washington-centered, and so focused on electing Dems that it's done next to nothing to build up member ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 15 13:12:04 PDT 2002

28489 high-order gloom -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >A moderate comentator in Barrons last week called the current cycle >"a bullish cycle within a secular bear cycle.' I think that's right. Prechter thinks it's more or less the end of the world. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 15 13:12:45 PDT 2002

28490 Nixon's the One -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >The corporate Right made >specific alliances with working class whites around guns and god issues, >while the Left largely abandoned any strategic vision of electoral politics. Or you could say that the "Left" - whatever that is exactly - got so wrapped up in electoral politics (which includes lobbying elected officials) that it forgot to build a constituency. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 15 11:21:08 PDT 2002

28491 Russia's net -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: > >On Wed, 15 May 2002, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> >BTW, how big of a debt-GDP ratio is this? >> >> Russia's 49% is around Latin American levels - a bit below Chile's, a >> bit above Mexico's, close to Brazil's. > >Interesting. Germany is higher than that, no? And Italy and Japan are >more than double that high. Are those three outliers, or is the average >Latin American debt-GDP ratio now lower than the European and OECD ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 15 10:43:44 PDT 2002

28492 Why U.S. supports Israel -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Republican Nut-Boy (M-L) I hope this doesn't mean you're stepping down for your leadership role in the Anybody But Lieberman & Hillary movement. Hillary's stance on welfare reform earned a rebuke from the NYT edit page today. Gail Sheehey claimed that contrary to frequent liberal fantasy, Hill was often to the right of Bill. Doug ---- New York Times - May 15, 2002 A Surprise From Senator Clinton When President Bill Clinton worked with Republicans to "end welfare ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 15 10:23:46 PDT 2002

28493 Nixon's the One -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >What was the Reagan Revolution, other than large defense spending and big >deficits starving the public sector? Oh how about the massive reassertion of U.S. imperial strength, a redistribution of income and power away from labor and towards capital, and a rather successful PR campaign on behalf of capitalism itself? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 15 10:06:10 PDT 2002

28494 Russia's net -- rank: 1000

ChrisD(RJ) wrote: >BTW, how big of a debt-GDP ratio is this? Russia's 49% is around Latin American levels - a bit below Chile's, a bit above Mexico's, close to Brazil's. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 15 10:02:10 PDT 2002

28495 Fwd: NYC School Board Action Alert -- rank: 1000

[Carrie publishes the excellent zine Stay Free!] Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 22:05:02 -0500 To: dhenwood at panix.com From: Carrie McLaren <carrie at stayfreemagazine.org> Subject: NYC School Board Action Alert hey Doug, If you this sort of thing is appropriate, could you do me a favor and send this out to the LBO list? I don't know many people w/kids in the public schools and am trying to get word around.. much thanks, carrie - - - - * * PLEASE FORWARD TO YOUR FRIENDS & COLLEAGUES IN NEW Y ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 15 09:35:12 PDT 2002

28496 Networked World - conference announcement -- rank: 1000

Networked World: Information Technology and Globalization Call for Participation When: April 24 to 26, 2003 Where: Santa Clara University Due date for applications: July 15, 2002 Santa Clara University's Center for Science, Technology, and Society (<http://sts.scu.edu/>) is pleased to announce Networked World: Information Technology and Globalization. This conference is unique in format and spirit. It is designed to foster the exchange of cutting-edge research and practice on the theme of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 15 09:31:59 PDT 2002

28497 celebrity boxing update -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - May 15, 2002 Bobbitt breaks wife's bones FOX Television has scratched John Wayne Bobbitt from tonight's taping of "Celebrity Boxing 2" because the former Marine with the reattached penis gave his current wife a bone-breaking beating on Monday night. "He will not be in the special," a Fox spokeswoman told PAGE SIX. The big question is whether Fox will find a replacement to square off against equally notorious Joey Buttafuoco, or whether Joey will be ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 15 06:50:14 PDT 2002

28498 WSJ refuses to publish IMF letter -- rank: 1000

[Why they refused to print this is hard to imagine...] <http://www.imf.org/external/np/vc/2002/041002.htm> The Letter That The Wall Street Journal Declined to Publish By Thomas C. Dawson Director, External Relations Department International Monetary Fund April 10, 2002 Mary O'Grady rails at all parties in the Argentine crisis ("Cavallo Gets the Bill for IMF and Argentine Profligacy," April 5), yet her only solution is to do nothing. She seems to reserve her highest umbrage for th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 15 06:41:17 PDT 2002

28499 high-order gloom -- rank: 1000

The latest from Robert Prechter's shop, The May Elliott Wave Theorist: >Implications for the Stock Market and the Economy > >If this analysis is correct, the U.S. stock market, and by extension >most stock indexes worldwide, is rounding the cusp of a trend change >of at least Supercycle degree. The DJIA has completed five waves up >that will lead to a three-step partial retracement of corresponding >degree. This means that the decline will not be a moderate setback >such ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 14 15:30:43 PDT 2002

28500 Why U.S. supports Israel -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >NO IT DOES NOT! IT EXPLAINS WHY SOME REPUBLICAN NUT-BOYS NOW HOLDING >EXECUTIVE POWER SUPPORT ISRAEL!! So it's mostly Republican nut-boys who support Israel now, or are there others who do so with equal passion for different reasons? U.S. support for Israel has been bipartisan since 1967. Aid goes up under Dem and Rep admins alike. Look at the vote on the Congressional support for Israel bill from the other week. Was that just RN-Bs too? What's Joe Lieberman, an honorar ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 14 14:36:53 PDT 2002