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32431 Who Rules America Today? (was Re: On the Defense of Parasitic Finance) -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >My top reforms: > >democratize the Fed >strengthen its full-employment mandate >regulate for fair credit allocation in minority communities >create public banks in poor neighborhoods to take over basic > fin services (check cashing, etc.) > >Was that too anti-semitic? No. I agree with the public banks part. Take it up with the bourgeoisie - they won't be pleased. As for "democratizing the Fed," it'd also be nice to democratize Congress. ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 15 06:27:38 PST 2001

32432 PC industry's game of chicken -- rank: 1000

[sent from non-sub'd address by Kevin Robert Dean] Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 11:51:10 -0800 "PC industry poised for 'game of chicken' By Ken Popovich, eWEEK Executives at Gateway Inc. (NYSE:GTW - news), staggered by a $94 million quarterly loss that will force over 3,000 layoffs, have vowed to win back consumers by escalating an "industry game of chicken" -- a price war. But the tactic might make a bad situation worse for a PC industry already struggling with a slowing global economy ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 14 12:01:33 PST 2001

32433 Globe does femecon -- rank: 1000

<http://www.boston.com/globe/magazine/1-14/featurestory1.shtml> Market values There should be more to economics than self-interest, says a cadre of female scholars. Among other issues, these economists point to wage inequalities and child care. By Kimberly Blanton In 1975, as the nation was churning in Watergate's wake, Nancy Folbre fled the stifling heat and conservatism of her home state of Texas and barreled into her future in a 1963 Dodge pickup. She drove north to a radical's refuge, ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 14 11:15:16 PST 2001

32434 calories -- rank: 1000

W, from an interview in today's NYT: >Asked about the perk that he expected to enjoy the most, he said: >"Good food, I guess. They've got great food. The dessert menu is >unbelievable. These things are so exotic it's hard to even describe >what they are. They're these kinds of mounds of calories." This guy went to Andover, Yale, and Harvard? He sounds like he just stepped out of a log cabin. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 14 10:36:11 PST 2001

32435 Paul Valery, Charles Fourier, & Michael Perelman -- rank: 1000

Joanna Sheldon wrote: >Never actually happened to me If I'm remembering right, Freud said that examination dreams are usually about exams one passed, and thus are a kind of wish-fulfillment, in that they remind you of a past triumph, even if the surface material is terrifying. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 14 10:26:35 PST 2001

32436 Who Rules America Today? (was Re: On the Defense of Parasitic Finance) -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >The Chipster sez: >" . . . The items you want to argue against all evidence are: >1). That finance capitalism is not inextricably connected to industrial >capitalism . > >mbs: connected, yes; inextricable, not if reforms >are feasible. Reforms such as....? Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 14 10:16:59 PST 2001

32437 Ashcroft not popular; neither is Bush -- rank: 1000

[Prospects for legitimation crisis seem bright.] Saturday January 13 2:17 PM ET Americans Split Over Ashcroft Nomination WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 40 percent of Americans say the U.S. Senate should reject President-elect George W. Bush (news - web sites)'s choice of John Ashcroft for attorney general because he is too far right on issues like abortion, drugs and gun control to be effective, according to a poll issued on Saturday. The Newsweek poll of 1,000 people said respondents were opp ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 13 14:19:59 PST 2001

32438 On the Defense of Parasitic Finance -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Aren't alot of those check cashing joints owned by big Wall St. concerns? I >think this book from Common Courage Press goes into this. Merchants of >Misery >How Corporate America Profits from Poverty > >Edited by Michael Hudson >Introduction by Rep. Maxine Waters Yup, that book has the goods on all of them. Lots of the bloodsuckers are owned by bigger, "respectable" houses - esp some of the subprime mortgage purveyors. >P.S. Doug, think ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 13 14:05:51 PST 2001

32439 the tragedy of sex -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >So if we are going to either support or attack Trotsky, the >first step is to fill in that word "instinct" with some description >that makes minimal sense in the context. Well, all good Freudians use the word "drive," a translation of the German "trieb." It signifies an urge of biological origin but one that is extremely plastic in its expression and object. Humans almost universally feel lust, but they can direct it at a man, a woman, a ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 13 11:39:11 PST 2001

32440 Who Rules America Today? (was Re: On the Defense of Parasitic Finance) -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >As you imply, the hip-bone/thigh-bone discourse is >not very illuminating. "Empirically inseparable" is >a meaningless statement, where meaning really means >something. > >I could as easily contradict what you say goes without >saying, although you felt the need to say it, by >saying that the whole point of the marxist analysis >is that finance dominates production. But I have no >desire to launch a new faction in marxism, at least &g ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 13 11:07:03 PST 2001

32441 On the Defense of Parasitic Finance -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >DH: >What alternative policies? I like Leo Panitch's idea of replacing the >Community Reinvestment Act with a tax on all financial institutions, >the proceeds used to endow nonprofit development institutions. But >that's not just a financial innovation, that's replacing the logic of >profit maximization with one of human need and democratic control of >investment. . . . > >mbs: You want to write a poem to the demise of "profit." >I want ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 13 10:37:27 PST 2001

32442 Paul Valery, Charles Fourier, & Michael Perelman (was Re: bay guardian interview...) -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >does anyone know if HCKL.exe is married? He is. Only a few weeks before he decided I was evil he'd invited me to dinner with him & his wife. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jan 13 10:00:47 PST 2001

32443 the left press -- rank: 1000

The January issue of the Progressive has an interview with Marge Piercy. In the intro, she's quoted as saying "I was such a grrrl." The Progressive helpfully glosses this with a parenthetical definition, compounded with a definition inside the definition. "(Grrrl is a term used by young, activist women who express their humor, rage, and sexuality through bands, films, and zines - nonglossy, underground self-publications.)" My god, that's worse than the NY Times! Doug

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Date:	Sat Jan 13 08:47:54 PST 2001

32444 the tragedy of sex -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Hey, what's tragic about dance: achieving beauty by giving one's own >limbs economy, precision, & purposiveness without purpose? That's not tragic. What's a little creepy about the passage you quoted is this: >Man will make it his purpose to master his own feelings, to raise >his instincts to the heights of consciousness, to make them >transparent, to extend the wires of his will into hidden recesses, >and thereby to raise himself to a new plane, to ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 13 08:17:02 PST 2001

32445 East Asia/Japan investment (Jim O'Connor) -- rank: 1000

Jim O'Connor wrote: >I'm not sure what is measured by 28-30 percent investment/GDP ratio in >Japan in the 1990s. >1. Does this include investments by foreign capital in Japan, "getting >toe-hold investments" by EU economies, US, etc. Investment by foreign-owned entities would count as domestic investment. >2. Does this nubmer include Japan corporate investment in outsourced >facilities? Or would such investment in e.g., China or Thailand be counted >as investment ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 13 08:08:55 PST 2001