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33016 populism -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >Hi, > >Oh Doug, get over it: > >"Lawrence Goodwyn, the leading historian of Populism" Um, I didn't say that. I was forwarding something from Tom Frank, which bounced to me because of an address problem. I personally have no opinion of Goodwyn, not having read his book. Doug

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Date:	Fri Aug 24 13:05:18 PDT 2001

33017 populism -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >I wrote something on that Mead article and noted something related to >this point, but threw it out. Writing on shit from the WSJ editorial >page is exhaustingly hate filled work. True, but Mead (Walter Russell, not Lawrence) used to be something of a liberal. The content was pretty standard WSJ editpage fare, but the author was a bit of a surprise. Has Mead been transforming himself? Doug

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Date:	Fri Aug 24 12:49:46 PDT 2001

33018 bankruptcy record! -- rank: 1000

<http://www.abiworld.org/stats/ag2401.html> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Pam Shepherd (703) 739-0800 pshepherd at abiworld.org New Bankruptcy Filings Break Quarterly Record August 24, 2001, Alexandria, Va. - The number of new bankruptcies filed during the second quarter of calendar year 2001 (April 1 to June 30) rose 24.5 percent over the same period a year ago. Filings increased from 321,729 to 400,394, making this the highest three-month period ever, according to data releas ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 24 11:59:32 PDT 2001

33019 S26 -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >50 years is enough is still referring to the protests in Washington as >S26. So I just wanted to make sure -- the IMF is only meeting on the >weekend now, right? S28-30? I'm seeing S30, as at <http://www.globalizethis.org>. Doug

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Date:	Fri Aug 24 09:30:20 PDT 2001

33020 populism -- rank: 1000

[posted from non-sub'd address] Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 23:34:04 -0500 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: "t. c. frank" <t-frank-3 at alumni.uchicago.edu> Doug: Not that it matters, but Ben Tillman wasn't a Populist. According to Lawrence Goodwyn, the leading historian of Populism, Tillman was actually responsible for killing Populism in South Carolina. He was a Democratic loyalist whenever it mattered. Maybe a lower-case "p" populist, but not the real thing. > > ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 24 08:28:15 PDT 2001

33021 Fwd: The Book That Could Have Saved Gary Condit -- rank: 1000

[One of the delights of hosting a radio show is that you get listed in all kinds of publicity directories, and consequently get all kinds of wonderful press releases. Like this.] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Book That Could Have Saved Gary Condit Peoria, AZ -- August 24, 2001 -- /Xpress Press/ -- How to Manage your what? That's right, your DICK. How To Manage Your Destructive Impulses with the Cyber-Kinetic energy of the soul is one of the most unusual concepts you will ever encounter. It is also o ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 24 07:42:35 PDT 2001

33022 The Surplus's effect on money supply -- rank: 1000

Forstater, Mathew quoting Stephanie Bell: >This paper investigates the commonly held belief that government >spending is normally financed through a combination of taxes and bond >sales. The argument is a technical one and requires a detailed analysis >of reserve accounting at the central bank. After carefully considering >the complexities of reserve accounting, it is argued that the proceeds >from taxation and bond sales are technically incapable of financing >government sp ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 24 07:04:13 PDT 2001

33023 The Surplus's effect on money supply -- rank: 1000

James Baird wrote: >OK, but this is what I don't understand: the mechanism >by which the Fed is supposed to inject or withdraw >money into the system is by buying and selling >treasury securities. But if the Treasury itself is >running a surplus, isn't the supply of securities (and >thus of money) going to decrease no matter what the >Fed does? I guess I just don't understand the >relationship between the Fed and the Treasury... The Fed buys or sells securities that are ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 24 06:58:47 PDT 2001

33024 Mead, the complete text -- rank: 1000

[Brad posted excerpts. Here's the full dose of lunacy. Jacksonians' "traditional views on race relations" - that means racist, no?] Wall Street Journal - August 23, 2001 Farewell to a Great Jacksonian By Walter Russell Mead. Mr. Mead, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, is author of "Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World," due out in November from Knopf. As rumors spread through Georgetown, Cambridge and Manhatta ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 23 16:29:52 PDT 2001

33025 Racist Comedy? -- rank: 1000

/ dave / wrote: >Pshaw. A revolution without laughter is doomed... "Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable." - Foucault

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33026 drugs -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gallup.com/poll/indicators/inddrugs.asp>

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33027 Fidel and Khomeini's Grandson -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Michael Pugliese , out of the blue, posts to this list something I >posted to another list. I didn't debate him. I characterized him as >a sneaky, provacator, and I did in a manner that is the style of >this list. You had the responsibility to reprimand him and not me. >That post was not on a subject that the members of this list are not >likely to be interested in, yet I am put in the position of having >to use my posts to explain it. Where were you o ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 23 10:53:33 PDT 2001

33028 The Surplus's effect on money supply -- rank: 1000

James Baird wrote: >Conventionally, the Fed is said to be responsible for >"regulating the money supply". Seems to me, though, >that they can only have an marginal effect >-"fine-tuning" on a day to day basis, but helpless >before larger fiscal currents. Credit money is created by private actors - e.g., a bank making a loan. Central banks can provide the money to validate such private credit creation (which they do in normal times), or they can refuse (as they ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 23 10:50:24 PDT 2001

33029 Fidel and Khomeini's Grandson -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >CB: What "sort of thing" are you talking about ? Sandbox-style exchanges of name-calling disguised as political debate. Doug

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Date:	Thu Aug 23 07:38:26 PDT 2001

33030 Statement denying parole for Kathy Boudin -- rank: 1000

John Mage wrote: >My friend and co-counsel Len Weinglass is being quoted on AP as saying >that this action by the parole board "undermines respect for the >law." Exactly. But from the point of view of the bourgeoisie, she consorted with armed revolutionaries, and should therefore be treated with no mercy, no? Doug

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