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28681 felon disenfranchisement -- rank: 1000

Just got a copy of the premier issue of Legal Affairs, "the magazine at the intersection of law and life" <http://www.legalaffairs.org>. It has a page on the political consequences of felon disenfranchisement in the U.S. - 48 states restrict the voting rights of convicted felons (40 prohibit voting by inmates, 8 more strip ex-cons of voting rights for life). Florida banned 887,812 from voting; had they been allowed to vote, the magazine estimates that Gore would have carried the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 25 13:29:09 PST 2002

28682 Michael Perelman on IP -- rank: 1000

An excerpt on intellectual property from Michael Perelman's forthcoming book is now at <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/MPonIP.pdf>. According to the file info box, it's Acrobat 3.x format. Thanks to Michael for sending it along. See, talk of sharing wasn't a complex joke about IP! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 25 13:06:00 PST 2002

28683 Spineless Max S. and Reactionary Slander (was RE: Russian Israelis) -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >3. Charges of 'slander' and 'racism' are an unfortunate >commonplace on the net, but I always thought cop-accusations >were an expelling offense on left lists. If so, I'd like to turn in my >chit. I think it was a figure of speech. Because if it's not, it's delusional. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 25 12:35:50 PST 2002

28684 Spineless Max S. and Reactionary Slander (was RE: Russian Israelis) -- rank: 1000

pradeep wrote: >I dont think you realize how >ridiculous not to mention obscene your trying to equate the vile racism >and imperialist policies that are being protected from view with this >charge of "anti-semitism" and the threat that real antisemitism poses >today, which as people like Chomsky and Finkelstein have repeatedly >pointed out, is a as much a real threat today as anti-Irish or >anti-Italian feeling. It also shows how the US left, including you, >oft ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 25 12:28:02 PST 2002

28685 Doug and Charles' hair shirts -- rank: 1000

James Heartfield wrote: >When you say "the waste that is spewed out by cars" what you really >mean is people. Like the Victorian Patrician of old you imagine you >can see a miasma rising up from the stinking masses and wafting your >way. (strangely air quality in more car owning countries is a great >deal better than those owning less). Uh, no, I don't mean this at all. I like people. I live in a city jam-packed with them. You're the one who loves the suburbs, which are ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 25 11:32:05 PST 2002

28686 Fed considered extreme measures -- rank: 1000

[since we have one of the more distinguished academics who study the Fed right here on this list,i Tom Dickens, Tom, is this your understanding of "unconventional measures"?] Financial Times - March 25, 2002 Fed considered emergency measures to save economy The minutes of a January FOMC meeting suggest using 'unconventional' methods to stop interest rates becoming an ineffective monetary policy tool By PERONET DESPEIGNES The US Federal Reserve in January considereda variety of "un ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 25 11:28:44 PST 2002

28687 invective -- rank: 1000

Ok, enough with the duelling accusations. All parties to the war of insults have made their points, and unless I'm misreading the audience, further iterations would neither be enlightening nor entertaining. Those continuing in this vein will probably do more damage to their own reputations than to their targets. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 25 11:26:24 PST 2002

28688 soap opera -- rank: 1000

[sent to me rather than list] From: "Daniel Davies" <dsquared at al-islam.com> Subject: Re:lbo-talk-digest V1 #5879 Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 01:08:39 -0600 Justin wrote: >Farrakhan said "Judaisim is a gutter religion." which, as fans of Jude Wanninski will be aware, he actually didn't. This is one from the Michael Caine "not a lot of people know that" dept, but Farrakhan has never used the phrase "gutter religion" to describe Judaism and has extrac ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 25 11:23:52 PST 2002

28689 If gas didn't cost less than Evian -- rank: 1000

James Heartfield wrote: >I would like to suggest that your difficulty in imagining that those >car journeys are, to those people, worthwhile, is your difficulty, >not theirs. That your life is managed rather differently ought not >make it so hard to understand car users. In the end, isn't it just >snobbery on your part? Oh, c'mon, this is just a defense of the status quo disguised as populism. It's a favored trick of the American right - guess it's making its way across the ocean ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 24 16:44:33 PST 2002

28690 Lenin today -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: > > >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> A bit from Michael Tomasky's review of David Brock's new book in this >> week's Nation: "Of parties at the home of archconservative fomenter >> Grover Norquist, who hung a portrait on his living room wall an >> doften quoted Vladimir Ilyich's dictum to 'probe with bayonets, >> looking for weakness'.... " > >Could you identify where Lenin said this. I've never seen it before, >eit ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 24 16:37:01 PST 2002

28691 more IP -- rank: 1000

More on IP: Dean Baker's most recent work on intellectual property, a vaccine buying pool proposal, is at <http://www.cepr.net/globalization/vaccine.htm>.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 24 14:36:48 PST 2002

28692 Spineless Max S. and Reactionary Slander (was RE: Russian Israelis) -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >Let me get this straight, Doug: one cannot use the phrase "the Jews" >because it might imply that they are "a homogeneous and powerful force" -- >and that "bears the scent of anti-Semitic discourse"? > >I'd suggest that the heresy-hunters here have come up with examples of >ever more exquisite politico-linguistic sin. The effect is to serve the >goal announced by Abba Eban long ago: "one of the chief tasks of any &g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 24 12:02:53 PST 2002

28693 Energy Efficiency: Regulation Vs. Price -- rank: 1000

Gar Lipow wrote: >Hi Doug. Yes, gas prices are higher in Europe. But regulation is >more stringent too. My argument was not that price means nothing, >but that regulation means more. I've got absolutely nothing against environmental regulation. A higher gas tax whose proceeds were dedicated to public transit and energy R&D would make sense on several levels. So would tighter regs on smokestack emissions. I proposed a higher gas tax as a simple and painfully obvious step. There are o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 24 12:00:13 PST 2002

28694 Spineless Max S. and Reactionary Slander (was RE: Russian Israelis) -- rank: 1000

pradeep wrote: >Exactly. >Especially a US 'left' listserv with a high portion of lib Democrats. I started this list with the fond hope that people who were more or less on the same side could talk to each other across various ideological divides. I'm now coming to understand that the "archaic" definition of "fond" ("naively credulous or foolish") still applies. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 24 11:55:42 PST 2002

28695 IMF programs & growth -- rank: 1000

"A Cure Worse Than the Disease? Currency Crises and The Output Costs of IMF Supported Stabilization Programs" BY: MICHAEL M. HUTCHISON University of California at Santa Cruz Department of Economics Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=288720 Other Electronic Document Delivery: http://econ.ucsc.edu/faculty/hutch/new_nber_w8305.pdf SSRN only offers technical support for papers downloaded from the SSRN Electronic Pap ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 24 11:33:11 PST 2002