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32521 Atlas Flinched -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >So much for "Chief Financial Disciplinarian" Here's what the Financial Times Lex column had to say today: >It's official: there is a Greenspan put option. Yesterday's half a >percentage point interest rate cut by the US Federal Reserve may not >have been designed explicitly to bail out the stock market. But that >is exactly what it is in danger of doing - especially since the cut >came between official meetings, thereby heightening its impact. > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 4 13:14:35 PST 2001

32522 Fwd: OUCH! (#64--Bush's Payback Time) -- rank: 1000

Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 10:40:46 -0500 From: Micah Sifry <msifry at publicampaign.org> ----------------------------------->$$$$$<------------------------------------- OUCH! A Regular Bulletin on How Money in Politics Hurts You #64 Public Campaign January 4, 2001 ----------------------------------->$$$$$<------------------------------------- CORRUPTION PERCEPTION INDEX #13 Payback Time · Expected price tag for Bush-Cheney inauguration: $30 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 4 12:55:59 PST 2001

32523 Ashcroft & Race -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >A personal anecdote may illuminate how such terms >as "Bubba" and "hillbilly" help support the racist culture >of the U.S. (and also illustrate the way in which oppression >causes racism rather than racism oppression) The whole bubba/white trash thing implies that such denizens are a discredit to the white race - it implies a dignified, civilized norm to which the rednecks are embarrassing exceptions. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 4 11:29:07 PST 2001

32524 Query for books about class -- rank: 1000

Bradford DeLong wrote: >>You mean Paul Fussell's book? Kind of nasty, but really funny in >>spots. Among the things you learn: in the higher circles, saying >>"pardon" is worse than saying "fuck," > >It is? Why? Dunno why, but "pardon" is seen as downscale. >>and the correct pronunciation of "patina." > >Which is? pa-tee-na? No. That's the pronunciation that reveals its speaker as a pretentious arriviste. PAT-nah is more ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 4 10:38:12 PST 2001

32525 2 trivial questions -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > >> >> Though if you believe in an endogenous money supply, as did Marx* and > >I remember the passage but I don't remember where it came from. Could >you give the cite. I've been lazily looking for this for awhile because >it might >be useful on the Pound list. The "Chapter on Money" (which I'm currently >reading) in the _Grundrisse_ goes round and round on this, but for the >most part not in suitably pith ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 4 10:24:03 PST 2001

32526 blooddrinkers and other satanists -- rank: 1000

One of the stranger web pages I've ever seen: <http://www.davidicke.com/icke/articles/listsatan.html>. >Bob and Bill Bennett, well-known US political figures closely >connected to George Bush. Satanists, mind controllers, torturers of >children and adults. >Lt Col Michael Aquino, US Military Psychological Warfare Department: >Satanist (founder of the Church of Set), torturer of children and >adults in trauma-based mind control projects. >Kris Kristopherson, actor and s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 4 10:15:50 PST 2001

32527 W, reptile -- rank: 1000

[Wow. Thanks to Michael Pugliese for pointing out this bit of lunacy. This is a mere excerpt; the full dose is at <http://www.davidicke.com/icke/temp/reptconn.html>.] These reptilian-human hybrid lines became the political and economic rulers of these lands occupied by the European empires and they continue to rule these countries to this day. The United States of America has been home to hundreds of millions of people since 1776. What's more, these people came from an amazingly diverse ge ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 4 09:51:40 PST 2001

32528 2 trivial questions -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >No. You are just offering something for sale. The government >increases the money supply by printing money or offering credit. If >it doesn't, your offer just means that there is the same amount of >money chasing more goods--other things being equal. Though if you believe in an endogenous money supply, as did Marx* and do most post-Keynesians, you think that the government (i.e., the central bank) merely validates the private creation of money by banks and oth ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 4 09:43:35 PST 2001

32529 Query for books about class -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >while i've never read it, just skimmed a few years ago, there's a >book that you should find on the shelves of a borders or b and n >(fuck amazon!), it's something of a humorous guide to class. it's >titled "class". You mean Paul Fussell's book? Kind of nasty, but really funny in spots. Among the things you learn: in the higher circles, saying "pardon" is worse than saying "fuck," and the correct pronunciation of "patina." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 4 07:01:12 PST 2001

32530 latest Bushisms -- rank: 1000

[it's been a while - complete set at <http://slate.msn.com/Features/bushisms/bushisms.asp>] The Complete Bushisms Compiled by Jacob Weisberg "She is a member of a labor union at one point." -- Announcing his nomination of Linda Chavez as secretary of labor. Austin, Texas, Jan. 2, 2000 "Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods." -- Austin, Texas, Dec. 20, 2000 "I also have picke ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 4 06:58:44 PST 2001

32531 DP out? -- rank: 1000

[via Michael Eisenscher] Los Angeles Times - January 3, 2001 The Death Penalty's Days Are Numbered by Robert Jay Lifton and Greg Mitchell The prevailing wisdom--that America is fiercely in favor of executions--is dead wrong. You'd never know it from the views expressed by most political figures and media pundits, but many Americans are uncomfortable with the notion of the state as killer, and this number increases with every death row inmate released when new evidence establishes his innocence. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 4 06:56:08 PST 2001

32532 more women in politix! -- rank: 1000

Gallup Poll News Service POLITICS & ELECTIONS NewsAlert __________________________________________________________________ Here is your requested Government & Election Reform update from the Gallup Poll News Service. 1/4/01 - Majority of Americans Say More Women in Political Office Would Be Positive for the Country Link to story: http://www.gallup.alerts.com/alerts/ClickThrough?Address=dhenwood@panix.com&SiteName=galluppoll&CriteriaID=1230&Destination=http://www.gallup.com/p ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 4 06:53:23 PST 2001

32533 Dr Bichlbauer speaks -- rank: 1000

[via Ken McCarthy] "In March 2000, the Yes Men are put in charge of answering mail at Gatt.org, a website designed by RTMark to look like the WTO's official website but convey the WTO's message more clearly." They field a request for the WTO's Michael Moore to address a "Free Trade Uber Alles" group. Mr. Moore was not available, so they sent their own man: "Andreas Bichlbauer, J.D." an imposter masquerading as an official representative of the WTO complete with his ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 4 06:41:45 PST 2001

32534 culinary news -- rank: 1000

<http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010102/wl/pork_fat_candy_1.html> Tuesday January 2 10:55 AM ET Ukraine Co. Offers Pure Fat Candy KIEV, Ukraine (AP) - A Ukrainian candy company has begun marketing what may be the stickiest, richest and most fattening holiday treat on the market: pure pork fat covered in chocolate. Cracking open a finger-sized stick of the dark chocolate bar reveals a vein of white fat where other candies conceal butterscotch, caramel or other traditional sweets. The cand ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 3 16:37:25 PST 2001

32535 Ashcroft & Race -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Ashcroft's racism derives from his philosophical views >on all policies relating to race, not to his decision >on White. Check out his remarks about the Confederacy in an interview with Southern Partisan, <http://www.templeofdemocracy.com/Ashcroft.htm>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 3 14:24:18 PST 2001