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31696 Reparations revived; was; Defacing Websites -- rank: 1000

Kelley Walker wrote: >anyway, i think calling it a "crime against humanity" is a cop out >that does implicate capitalism as much as i want. I could say that capitalism itself is a crime against humanity, which it is, but somehow slavery strikes me as several degrees more criminal. Maybe I'm just in the grip of liberty, equality, and Bentham. Doug

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Date:	Fri Mar 30 08:35:06 PST 2001

31697 "Practicalities" of Reparations (was Re: Defacing Websites, "Stealing" Free Papers) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Mat & Justin have already made an argument that practicalities are >not the problem. What's your objection to them? 1) Defining race. 2) Defining eligibility after defining race. 3) Defining the mechanism of reparation (America's plan reinforces capitalist logic; you want to undermine it. Robinson would make tuition free; everyone should have free tuition.) 4) Deciding whom to exclude - if you include the descendants of slaves, why not Indians? Why not the Lat ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 29 13:11:11 PST 2001

31698 Reparations revived; was; Defacing Websites -- rank: 1000

Ian Murray wrote: >Perhaps those who have successfully agitated/organized for the holocaust >reparations have created a cookbook for strategies and tactics that are >transposable to a US context? Names, phone #'s etc to make contacts yaddah >yaddah. That's some model. Enrich lawyers and establishment organizations, while the real victims get a few bucks. Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 29 13:12:07 PST 2001

31699 Defacing Websites, "Stealing" Free Papers -- rank: 1000

I think the paper-stealing thread has passed the point where there's a favorable relation between heat and light. Reparations, though, is an important issue. I've nudged people on the practicalities because I think they're pretty complicated, but there's no doubt in my mind that U.S. society is built on a number of crimes against humanity - not just slavery and its aftermath, but the genocide of the indigenous population and a century or more of imperial adventures. So I'm all for more discussio ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 29 12:50:40 PST 2001

31700 The bourgoisie worries about the Japanization of the US economy -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Doug, if jiggling interest rates is sufficient to avoid a crisis, you may >be correct, but if there are deeper structural problems and the stock >market is just froth on the top ..... Yup, you're right. It's just a major difference in the financial environment bewteen the U.S. today and Japan in 1990. Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 29 12:24:12 PST 2001

31701 The bourgoisie worries about the Japanization of the US economy -- rank: 1000

Ian Murray wrote: >http://www.tieconomy.com/articles/japansfunk.htm Well, they're not *too* worried. The consensus seems to be a 10% chance. The mighty C. Fred Bergsten declares: "There is very little risk that the United States will become overconfident and suffer a severe economic reversal as Japan did a decade ago." No sign of overconfidence in that sentence! Like I said before, though, one big difference is that the BoJ kept raising rates for over a year after the Japanese stock ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 29 12:01:22 PST 2001

31702 sp!ked-latest: In defence of modern life, 29 March 2001 -- rank: 1000

[Leave it to the LM alums to weigh in on F&M - can anyone fact-check this stuff?] From: sp!ked-central <spiked-central at spiked-online.com> To: sp!ked-central <spiked-central at spiked-online.com> Subject: sp!ked-latest: In defence of modern life, 29 March 2001 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - sp!ked-latest: In defence of modern life - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - http://www.spiked-online.com Thursday 29 March 2001 - ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 29 09:59:58 PST 2001

31703 Econ 101 -- rank: 1000

Forstater, Mathew wrote: >most of the textbook presentation of the Fed is wrong. for an interesting >institutional analysis of Fed-Treasury relations and fiscal-monetary policy >relations, see Stephanie Bell, Journal of Economic Issues "Can Taxes and Bonds >Finance Government Spending?", 2001 (might be 2000); a previous version is >available at the Levy web site as a working paper. A good primer on monetary >theory and policy is L. R. Wray Money and Credit in Capitali ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 29 08:41:14 PST 2001

31704 religion in America -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr010329.asp> POLL RELEASES March 29, 2001 Americans More Religious Now than Ten Years Ago, but Less So than in 1950s and 1960s Americans most religious in 1956, least religious in 1993 by George Gallup Jr. GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- The latest Gallup Index of Leading Religious Indicators (also called the Princeton Religion Research Index) remains at a relatively high level, but is far below the figures recorded in the 1950s and early 1960s. T ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 29 08:20:46 PST 2001

31705 McCain-Feingold -- rank: 1000

Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 20:37:12 -0600 (CST) From: Benton John McCune <jmc164 at casbah.acns.nwu.edu> Hello LBO-ers, McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill would prohibit union donations to political parties. I believe the Labor Party receives a good chunk of its funds from union rather than individuals. Wouldn't McCain-Feingold thus damage the prospects for the Labor Party? Someone, please fill in the gaps in my understanding of soft money, McCain-Feingold, etc. Thanks, Ben Benton ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 29 08:06:05 PST 2001

31706 Student Protests Against Horowitz Ad] -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >LBO-talkers defending Horowitz' "right" to place an ad ("free speech >= money to advertise") are not unlike Medea Benjamin & Co. >protecting the corporate windows of Nike, etc. from festive & >youthful anarchist window-smashers. Huh? Smashing windows is a kind of symbolic speech, and Benjamin wanted cops to put a stop to it. How's that a parallel? Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 29 08:03:18 PST 2001

31707 Econ 101 -- rank: 1000

Bob Morris wrote: >Ok, I'll admit it, I don't really know exactly how the >Fed guides the economy. > >The want to stimulate the economy, so they drop rates. >This means loans cost less so people are more likely to >take a loan and build a factory or whatever. This I >understand. However, doesn't the Fed also control how >much money is in circulation by buying or selling >bonds? How does this work? They bid high on t-bills, >thus drawing money from banks? Why d ...

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31708 Klein on FTAA in Mexico -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >Let's keep an eye out for the demos this weekend. That is, if the >discussion can be steered away for this largely parochial, >Yankee-centric, boring, obsessive thread on Horowitz and >reparations. Replace the "free speech" yipyap with a discussion of >white racism and white supremacy, both here and abroad. People who complain about what other people are talking about are always free to enter the fray themselves, and turn the discourse towards what t ...

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31709 Student Protests Against Horowitz Ad] -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: > >>> dhenwood at panix.com 03/28/01 01:05PM >>> >Charles Brown wrote: > >>How is the direct action of destroying the papers "self-defeating" , >>except with respect to the opinion of those of the predominanly >>mental intellectual strata who have a fetish about the written word ? > >Wow, that's kind of scary Charles. > >((((((((( > >CB: Wow , Doug, what's so scary about it ? I guess my fetish is showi ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 28 11:32:40 PST 2001

31710 Student Protests Against Horowitz Ad] -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >How is the direct action of destroying the papers "self-defeating" , >except with respect to the opinion of those of the predominanly >mental intellectual strata who have a fetish about the written word ? Wow, that's kind of scary Charles. Did you ever read Marx's stuff on the virtues of a free press? Doug

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