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32476 Chavez Bites the Dust -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Well, we know now the Bushies are not long on patience. Wow. This could be a fun administration. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 9 13:35:16 PST 2001

32477 Soft Skull Founds Wireless "Resistance" on Upoc.com -- rank: 1000

1.9.01 Soft Skull, with the Help of Upoc.com, Creates Ground-breaking New Hybrid of Technology and Political Action! Revolutionary media organization Soft Skull today announces the launch of "The Resistance" a community group on Upoc.com, the site that creates community through simple text group messaging to wireless devices. "The Resistance" is set to become an essential communication tool at upcoming protests against Bush's inauguration on January 20th, in Washington D.C. H ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 9 11:54:08 PST 2001

32478 Sid's A-list -- rank: 1000

[Via Sam Smith's Progressive Review. The list of things Todd Gitlin has to answer for gets longer all the time.] THE LIST People on Sidney Blumenthal's E-mail A-list [According to the Weekly Standard, which intercepted one of the notes] Joe Conason Gene Lyons Jane Mayer, New Yorker Jeffrey Toobin, New Yorker Jill Abramson, NY Times Eleanor Randolph, NY Times Anthony Lewis, NY Times "Greta," CNN Harold Evans, US News Sean Wilentz, Princeton Todd Gitlin, NYU

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 8 14:37:43 PST 2001

32479 Who is Jude? -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >don't pay attention to these sorts of econodrones that much. so who >is jude? what's his background, etc? Jude Wanniski was a Wall Street Journal editorial writer in the 1970s who is credited with being one of the inventors of supply-side economics. He's very quirky, though; he comes from a family of union organizers and Communists, and still has a soft spot for lefties. I think it was Jude who brought in Alex Cockburn as a WSJ columnist in the 1980s. Jude left the Journal ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 8 11:44:46 PST 2001

32480 Wanniski draws -- rank: 1000

[More Jude. Another gem.] >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Polyconomics/Wanniski Brief >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I spent a day in Washington, D.C. drawing circles, trying to explain the monetary de ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 8 11:12:50 PST 2001

32481 Jude on Lindsey -- rank: 1000

[There was a call recently for some fresh Wanniski. Here it is. It's pretty choice.] Polyconomics' Daily Memo on the Margin (commentary taken from http://www.polyconomics.com) January 8, 2001 Larry Lindsey, Harvard Keynesian Memo To: Bob Novak (CNN) From: Jude Wanniski Re: GWB's Economic Advisor With great interest, I watched your Saturday interview with Larry Lindsey on CNN's Evans&Novak. He was so awful I could not believe he has the ear of the President-elect. The man is totally incompete ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 8 10:14:45 PST 2001

32482 the left is back! -- rank: 1000

<http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,419035,00.html> Comrades, we're back Leftwingers have found their voice again, after years in the wilderness. The politics of protest have revived Special report: New Labour in power Gary Younge Monday January 8, 2001 My decision to commit myself to leftwing politics came at an awkward time. Not only because I was 15, which meant socialism had to vie for my attention with girls, skincare and A-levels, but because, spanning 1984 and 1985, it c ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 8 10:07:16 PST 2001

32483 Feed daily -- rank: 1000

Your humble correspondent produced today's Feed daily <http://www.feedmag.com/templates/default.php3?a_id=1557>, and it looks like this will be a fortnightly thing. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 8 10:00:11 PST 2001

32484 Democrats make nice -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: >This is a cool chart > >http://www.sandspring.com/charts/cdj010501.html > >Did the 1929 dealy have this kind of 5 wave action? Is this that >Fabrioni-something or other, guy? Fibonacci, you mean. This 5-wave stuff is "Elliott wave" analysis, which Robert Prechter made famous during the 1980s. (It's named after Ralph Elliott, and 1930s accountant who thought he'd discovered the key to speculative markets: moves within a long-term trend have a 5-wave struct ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 8 06:26:48 PST 2001

32485 Atlas Flinched -- rank: 1000

michael perelman wrote: >Much of the investment is of >the sort that depreciates very quickly. As a result, the accumulation of >capital is far less than the gross figures suggest. Yes, that's true, though if we're evaluating the investment effort, the gross figures do indicate some pretty heavy spending out of current resources - i.e., not the collapse that Patrick is claiming. Here are some net stats. NET PRIVATE FIXED INVESTMENT % of net domestic product equipment & total struc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 7 16:23:42 PST 2001

32486 musical question -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >furthermore, if i'm not mistaken, there is some reason to believe, >given her history with beatty, that she might not be altogether >ignorant of some of the issues. and, even were beatty never in the >picture, there's no reason to think that she's an ignoramus, even if >she's a pop star. And Beatty, of course, studies under Marc Cooper! Not unlike Arianna Huffington. Madonna is hardly an ignoramus; hope it didn't sound like I implied that. And "Music" real ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 7 14:10:23 PST 2001

32487 Atlas Flinched -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: > > Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 14:43:02 -0500 >> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> >> Actually I don't know where the real investment went over the last >> few years. Do you? > >No, sorry, maybe Robert Brenner is pulling this info together? Actually I don't think anyone has this data. It's not in the national income accounts. It may be in some other more obscure series, but not for a while. > I only >know So ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 7 10:28:26 PST 2001

32488 Greenspan, Fischer -- rank: 1000

James Heartfield wrote: >His reputation >as a right-winger goes back to 1974, when he testified to Congress that >'percentage-wise' the people who were most hurt by a recession were Wall >Street brokers. Actually it goes back further than that - to his days as an intimate of Ayn Rand, and a writer for her Objectivist newsletter in the early 1960s. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 7 09:42:03 PST 2001

32489 X & DP -- rank: 1000

Does anyone know how support of the death penalty became the "Christian" position, as defined by the Christian right? Didn't JC challenge him without sin to cast the first stone? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 7 09:32:20 PST 2001

32490 musical question -- rank: 1000

Madonna wrote: >Music makes the bourgeoisie and the rebel Well what damn sense does that make? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 7 08:49:22 PST 2001