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32461 A Battle Cry From Interior Nominee -- rank: 1000

Damn, duplicated that Washington Post story. Sorry. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 11 11:17:32 PST 2001

32462 anti-Semitism and the demonization of 'parasitic finance' (was Re: The Confederacy) -- rank: 1000

Hmm, this sounds interesting. What's the Postone cite exactly? Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 11 11:09:39 PST 2001

32463 boss man -- rank: 1000

>__________________________________________________________________ > > Gallup Poll News Service > BUSINESS & THE ECONOMY NewsAlert >__________________________________________________________________ > > >Here is your requested Jobs & The Workplace update from the >Gallup Poll News Service. > >1/11/01 - When it Comes to Choosing a Boss, Americans Still Prefer Men > >Link to story: >http://www.gallup.alerts ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 11 07:15:37 PST 2001

32464 FWD: Join Students for an Undemocratic Society! -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin/Nancy Bauer wrote: >This reminds me of the Reagan For Shah group back in 1980, and their >spin-off concept, Ladies Against Women. This latter group would go through >supermarkets looking for feminist infiltration -- like the laundry detergent >ERA. Too bad nothing was done with Clinton -- Rapists For Bill would have >been nice. But it seems this type of satire is reserved for the Repubs. Not really. During the campaign, the Billionaires for Bush/Gore were pretty clea ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 11 06:50:00 PST 2001

32465 The Confederacy -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I would understand this remark of Keynes not so much >as an illustration that Keynes was a bad man (though he was) How? I was the one who posted the quote, and I don't think it necessarily means that Keynes was a "bad" individual; he reflected the class prejudices of his time. Keynes wasn't a "bad" individual really; the social philosophy he advocated was certainly a lot more humane than what his class peers were prescribing. I was using the quote to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 10 13:48:23 PST 2001

32466 Bash NYC, not the South ;-) -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >Further, in the next american revolution, I predict New York City >will be the capital of reaction. I'm with the chicano playwright >Luis Valdez on this: culturally conservative, eurocentric NYC turns >its backsides on the rest of us. Yeah, no one here but us white folks. Excuse me, I have a ticket for the opera. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 10 13:33:02 PST 2001

32467 FWD: Join Students for an Undemocratic Society! -- rank: 1000

Reclaim the Streets NYC - http://reclaimthestreetsnyc.tao.ca ------Original Message------ From: "Students for an Undemocratic Society" <yourcorporatemasters at hotmail.com> To: yourcorporatemasters at hotmail.com Sent: January 10, 2001 8:09:25 PM GMT Subject: Join Students for an Undemocratic Society! WHO ARE STUDENTS FOR AN UNDEMOCRATIC SOCIETY? We are the children of the political, military, and business elites of America. We have worked for years to undermine democracy worldw ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 10 13:02:41 PST 2001

32468 Atlas Flinched -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >The ghost of the monetary overinvestment theory of depressions still >walks the night, undead, seeking to drain the economy of its blood... Hmm, so there's never a realization problem? Never an overaccumulation problem? What happened in the 19C, before central bankers were around to spoil the show? Doug

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Date:	Wed Jan 10 12:30:05 PST 2001

32469 Paleo-Cons on Linda Chavez -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Heh, these paleos are mild compared to some of the stuff I read on the >really fringe patriot/militia/constitionalist listservs I've been on. I >unsub to the wilder ones when my e-mail gets too daunting and the >pepto-bismol doesn't work. But, I keep coming back! And I'm just an amateur >in the lurking on right-wing listservs dept. Chip's been studying this stuff >since I was in junior high school in the early 70's. Another guy, Mark >Pitcavage and t ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 10 11:49:35 PST 2001

32470 Lee: another view -- rank: 1000

[bounced becuase the entire digest was appended as quoted text, thereby pushing the length well over the limit] Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:12:33 -0500 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: Ed Dupree <tedupree at fas.harvard.edu> Speaking as an eastern NC cracker, I have to say that my last shred of admiration for Marse Robert fell away when I came across a particular WPA slave narrative. A former slave of Lee tells how he tried to escape, was caught, then whipped by an overseer under Lee's ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 10 10:58:34 PST 2001

32471 The Confederacy (was Re: questions) -- rank: 1000

Chris Kromm wrote: >God, what is it with the Southern-bashing on this list? Dunno. A PC form of bigotry, like that of Western Europeans towards Eastern Europeans? "The Balkans, that dark realm of strange practices and ancient hatreds...." Doug

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Date:	Wed Jan 10 10:04:45 PST 2001

32472 Grant, was Re: The Confederacy -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Of course looking back at everything from the >present and from a global perspective, the world >would be better off had the Confederacy won, >thus fragmenting the U.S. and permanently >subordinating it to British imperialism. So Marx was wrong in supporting the Union side? Doug

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Date:	Wed Jan 10 09:55:38 PST 2001

32473 nice guys don't finish last -- rank: 1000

[from a press release for the new issue of the Economic Journal} 'NICE GUYS DON'T ALWAYS FINISH LAST', ACCORDING TO ECONOMIC EXPERIMENTS Suppose someone were to forgo a personal gain in order to help you out. Would you return the favour? And if you were to act first, could you trust the other person to reciprocate? To investigate the circumstances under which people do reciprocate, new economic research has confronted people with this type of dilemma in controlled laboratory experiments where th ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 10 09:41:24 PST 2001

32474 Jude, gold, etc. -- rank: 1000

jan carowan wrote: >Don't know if I am welcome here. We'll see. You're not. Goodbye. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jan 10 06:15:21 PST 2001

32475 Chavez Bites the Dust -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >The odd thing is that it is "moderation" that drives the deepest sewers of >American politics, since principled disagreements are considered suspect, >while base personal attacks are rewarded with political triumph. Right, but this may be because the two parties agree on so much that all that's left to fight over is personalities. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 9 14:25:26 PST 2001