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32956 what is the suggested post limit to LBO? -- rank: 1000

Chris Kromm wrote: >Isn't it like 3 a day? Repeat offenders, you know who you are. Let's keep >the list lean and mean. Yes, it's 3. I get tired of pointing this out myself, so thanks for doing it. There used to be an automatic counter, but it disappeared in a Panix machine upgrade. So, repeat offenders, reform thyselves, or I'll have to go all medieval on you. Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 2 11:44:11 PST 2001

32957 Post-Galbraith Warfare- Bombing can win wars -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >(Doug used to >have this up as a blind link on the LBO website -- is it still there?) I posted the whole thing to the list way back when; it's in the archive at <http://nuance.dhs.org/lbo-talk/0011/2042.html>. Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 2 11:32:53 PST 2001

32958 McDonough on euro -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >It does seem a remarkable statement, but can Doug or anyone else translate it? McDonough: >But should a different international monetary system ultimately emerge in >which other currencies, such as the euro, play an increasingly important >role alongside the dollar, there would be benefits for the United States as >well. Such a development would, for example, impose greater market-led >discipline on the United States and, in the process, help us address ou ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 1 14:04:15 PST 2001

32959 Afghanistan: As Bad as Its Reputation? (by Michael Rubin) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >What I want to know is whether what Rubin said before the Taliban's >rise to the status of America's No. 1 Enemy is a more accurate >picture of Afghan women than what the Feminist Majority says about >the same. Wow. Sometimes you sound like a 70-year old male Leninist. Doug

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Date:	Sat Dec 1 12:22:12 PST 2001

32960 strangeness -- rank: 1000

Walter Bagehot on being in the neighborhood of the Bank of England: "A man of business feels there is something strange, that he has got out of his usual element, that he is in the realm of unnatural complexity, not in the realm of natural simplicity."

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Date:	Sat Dec 1 12:21:09 PST 2001

32961 Post-Galbraoith Warfare- Bombing can win wars -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >The Dresden-Hiroshima came late in the game >after the war was pretty well lost. More WV. >The Allies pursued the policy of mass terror bombing of civilians with >increasing ferocity throughout World War 11, raising it to unspeakable >dimensions. Hamburg, Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki are among the >many cities which were transformed into fiery crematoriums for their >working populations. In Germany, Allied bombers deliberately massacred som ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 1 11:44:15 PST 2001

32962 Afghanistan: As Bad as Its Reputation? (by Michael Rubin) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >***** Afghanistan: As Bad as Its Reputation? > >Middle East Quarterly 7, no. 3 (September 2000) Back when the Taliban were a force for stability, and not the face of Evil. >By Michael Rubin, visiting fellow >The Washington Institute for Near East Policy Charles Krauthammer's favorite thinktank on the Middle East. And no wonder! >Every four years, the Institute convenes its Presidential Study >Group - a bipartisan, blue-ribbon commission charged wit ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 1 11:38:04 PST 2001

32963 Post-Galbraoith Warfare- Bombing can win wars -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Max, the economists were trying to find strategic targets. Like the entire city of Dresden? Doug

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Date:	Sat Dec 1 10:52:17 PST 2001

32964 Logos premieres -- rank: 1000

Announcing the first issue of Logos: Winter 2002: volume one, issue one <http://logosonline.home.igc.org/issue1.1.htm> Contents: Stephen Eric Bronner, "Gandhi and Terrorism," Nadia Urbinati, "Terror and Politics" <http://logosonline.home.igc.org/issue1.> Jeffrey C. Goldfarb, "On Intelligent Anti-Americanism" <http://logosonline.home.igc.org/issue1.> Michael J. Thompson, "On the Rhetoric of Good and Evil" Douglas Kellner, "Technology ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 1 08:53:37 PST 2001

32965 Post-Galbraoith Warfare- Bombing can win wars -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Nathan, I have looked at the thoughts of a number of people on the >bombing survey. You are right that modern bombing seems more effective. > >WW II bombing was mostly directed at military sites; the more recent >bombings were more directed at civilian infrastructure. Vietnam and >Korea were intermediate cases -- where irrigation systems were targeted. Don't forget the classic Workers Vanguard 1991 article on US terror bombing. Here's an excerpt; full ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 1 08:51:07 PST 2001

32966 McDonough on euro -- rank: 1000

Thanks to Seth Ackerman for finding this.The New York Fed is the most equal of all the 12 branch banks. Doug ---- <http://www.newyorkfed.org/pihome/news/speeches/sp971117.html> A U.S. PERSPECTIVE ON ECONOMIC AND MONETARY UNION IN EUROPE Remarks by William J. McDonough President Federal Reserve Bank of New York before the Association of German Mortgage Banks Frankfurt, Germany November 17, 1997 [...] But should a different international monetary system ultimately emerge in which other curre ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 1 08:43:13 PST 2001

32967 Stiggy in FT on WB -- rank: 1000

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Better to have the new World Bank than the old one Financial Times; Aug 31, 2001 By JOSEPH STIGLITZ From Prof Joseph Stiglitz. Sir, After reading Stephen Fidler's article on the World Bank ("A world of complaint", August 28) I still do not quite understand what his point is. Virtually everyone, even the people now complaining, agrees that the way the World Bank was doing business had to change. Would Mr Fidler really rather see a return to the bad old days when t ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 31 09:23:47 PDT 2001

32968 Americans luv their jobs! -- rank: 1000

[a happy people in a happy world...] <http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr010831.asp> August 31, 2001 Most American Workers Satisfied With Their Job One-third would be happier in another job by David W. Moore GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- With Labor Day set aside to honor the nation's workers, a recent Gallup poll shows that the vast majority of employed Americans say they are at least somewhat satisfied with their jobs, with more than four in 10 "completely" satisfied. ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 31 09:05:47 PDT 2001

32969 pre-Keynesian -- rank: 1000

Lawrence wrote: >Well, the amount that capitalists spend on propaganda can vastly change the >length of time a country can remain at full employment. Gramsci never said >this, but it comes to close to some of his points. Japan had full employment >for 30 years, from the early 60s to the early 90s. How? I got a clue about >how that was accomplished from an article I read a few years ago in The >Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars. The article focused on the coal strike >(in ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 30 15:40:43 PDT 2001

32970 pre-Keynesian -- rank: 1000

James Baird wrote: >But here's the real question: while Keynes's >recomendations were never adopted wholehaearted, for >several decades after WWII, the were adopted enough in >most of the west to allow virtually no unemployment. >Then, right about the time Nixon claimed that everyone >was a Keynesian, it seems the ruling class lost it's >faith in Keynesian solutions, and unemployment started >to rise. > >So what happened? Did the ruling class just decide >that i ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 30 11:09:14 PDT 2001