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30691 nference on Racism:Jewish Caucus Statement -- rank: 1000

Macdonald Stainsby wrote: >Doug you quoted me saying the state and not the people, and then >asked me where >the people should go. Of course Canada is included...I am- >poltically speaking- >a North American. > >It's absolutely a dream world for all the Canadian nationalists to >think about a >revolution without American co-operation as well.... likewise, it is idiocy to >imagine a revolutionary upsurge from the USA with Canada sitting there as some >sort of capi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 7 06:10:25 PDT 2001

30692 a new use for Empire (the book) -- rank: 1000

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 7 06:05:04 PDT 2001

30693 nference on Racism:Jewish Caucus Statement -- rank: 1000

Macdonald Stainsby wrote: >I mean Israel. A country founded on that notion cannot remain. >It's sad I need to say this, but of course I mean the state not the people. > >I would also add in all settler states and Britain (just for kicks). So where are all these people supposed to go? Into the seas? Is Canada included? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 6 20:40:04 PDT 2001

30694 Brazil thread -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >>On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Michael Pugliese wrote: >>> The UC, Berkeley Political Science faculty, unlike the Sociology Dept. >>, >>> is heavily tilted rightwards. Only lefty I can think of there is Michael >>> Rogin. >>> http://www.polisci.berkeley.edu/ >> >> >>Really? Even more than the Econ Dept? >> >>mbs > > >Hey! As far as econ departments go... Well tell us. What's the ideological m ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 6 20:29:28 PDT 2001

30695 Soviet Sex -- rank: 1000

Ian Murray wrote: >"Sex didn't exist in the Soviet Union," said Marina Chestnykh, Years ago, I met a male Italian journalist who said the best sex he'd had anywhere in the world was in Brazil and the USSR. Can't vouch for this, never having been to either place. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 6 16:07:16 PDT 2001

30696 GWU evicts students to protect WB/IMF -- rank: 1000

[from Sam Smith's Progressive Review] GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY EVICTS STUDENTS FOR WB-IMF MEETING George Washington University has announced that all students must leave its Foggy Bottom campus for a whole week surrounding the World Bank-IMF conference. The unprecedented eviction begins on September 27 and ends October 2. According to the university, "Residence halls in Foggy Bottom will re-open at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, October 2 and classes will resume at 4:00 p.m. that day. The Universi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 6 15:44:24 PDT 2001

30697 U.S. Exports -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Now, I don't imagine that Doug thinks ending welfare programs is a >giant step forward for humanity. So, Doug, why are you raising this >issue? Do you think the working class in Western Europe is next to >be crushed by a U.S. inspired rob-the-workers program? Hey, not me! I just forwarded the abstract as yet another example of the treachery of economists - a further illustration of Jim O'Connor's aphorism that economics is a criminal enterprise. It was also inten ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 6 15:39:02 PDT 2001

30698 nference on Racism:Jewish Caucus Statement -- rank: 1000

Macdonald Stainsby wrote: >Until *Israel* is gone, dead and buried Eh? Are you referring to a generalized bonfire of the nation-states, or are you singling out Israel? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 6 15:30:56 PDT 2001

30699 Getting rid of spam -- rank: 1000

Kelley wrote: >uhm, well, if they were handling it, she wouldn't have seen it to >begin with, eh? Panix doesn't apply the filters unless you ask. >a technical solution to spam blocking often fails to discriminate >between unsolicited bulk mail and solicited bulk mail (a list). With the Panix filters, presumed spam is dumped into a spam folder, which you can then inspect with Pine or Elm or some other Unix mailer. I've been checking, and it's all spam and SirCam. >of course, if the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 6 11:20:03 PDT 2001

30700 U.S. exports -- rank: 1000

"Welfare To Work In The U.S.: A Model For Germany?" BY: WOLFGANG OCHEL IFO Institute, Germany Institute for Economic Research CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute for Economic Research) Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=280869 Other Electronic Document Delivery: http://www.CESifo.de SSRN only offers technical support for papers downloaded from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection location. When ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 6 10:51:19 PDT 2001

30701 Getting rid of spam -- rank: 1000

Kelley wrote: >also, set up a filter, if you can. Most ISPs have spam blockers, too. Since Joanna is at Sun, I imagine they've got some pretty competent geeks there. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 6 10:34:21 PDT 2001

30702 Jackson Hole query -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >ah bollocks. He ought to get off his high horse if that's what he >thinks. All >the necessary information to correct for proforma, stock options &c are out in >the open, and anyone who has a mind to can prepare their own numbers to their >own taste. If they can't be bothered to do so and just take the reported >numbers at face value, that's a) a problem of effort or rationality, not >information and b) their own lookout. > >In any case, is ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 6 09:22:37 PDT 2001

30703 Universities != Basic Research (Was: Brazil Gets 40%...) -- rank: 1000

Kelley wrote: >At 10:00 AM 9/6/01 -0400, hncl at panix.com wrote: > >>Curtiss > > >is this curtiss? our curtiss? leung, curtiss? wo00oh00o! if so! if >not, then, ok, a woohoo. you have to earn the extra o's. It is, if his finger entry at Panix is to be believed. Which says: >To be able to say "I'm cleaning my oven!" at Balthazar without a trace >of irony or condescension. Curtiss, could you develop this for us? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 6 07:45:41 PDT 2001

30704 Brazil thread -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >When Americans talk about Russia (or the USSR), they just sound wierd. I talked to a German journalist a few years ago - who unlike most American journalists was a serious, thoughtful guy who knew a lot about the USSR - who told me about a visit to the Berkeley politics department in the late 1980s. A bunch of tenured profs could only ask him, repeatedly, whether Gorbachev was "serious" about his reforms, or whether it was all a ruse or prank. And this was well in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 6 07:29:20 PDT 2001

30705 epistolary economics -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Just as _Empire_ is deeply and viciously >anti-Third World. Right. And perhaps, from your careful reading of the book, you can offer some textual evidence for this bizarre claim, which is no less offensive than your accusation that David McReynolds trafficks in racism. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 6 07:04:02 PDT 2001