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33076 dollar -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >Any comments? Do we expect the fall of the dollar to be exponential >as a result of some feedback mechanism reinforcing its demise, or >will it just adjust a little more to the euro? If we knew the answer to that question, we'd be trading futures, instead of posting to left-wing mailing lists. This is one of those questions that Keynes was talking about in this classic passage: >By 'uncertain' knowledge, let me explain, I do not mean merely to >distinguish wh ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 17 07:02:06 PDT 2001

33077 Mark Green: Dilettante Wanker or Patrician Liberal? -- rank: 1000

LeoCasey at aol.com wrote: >I also think that Doug is off the mark on what he thinks NYC unions could and >should have done under the Guiliani regime. But it is late at night. I will >go into it tomorrow if anyone cares to know. It's morning now, and I care. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 17 06:52:07 PDT 2001

33078 Conservative Boot (to the groin) Camp -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of an attachment] Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 00:23:49 -0400 From: Uday Mohan <udaym at igc.org> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 17:07:30 -0400 From: christian_josi at conservative.org To: acu_members at mailmanager.net Subject: The 29th Annual CPAC / The ACU's Policy Boot Camp TO: ACU Members and Friends FR: Christian Josi; CPAC Executive Director, ACU Executive Director RE: The 29th Annual CPAC / The ACU's Policy Boot Camp ________________________________________ Fellow Conservatives: W ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 17 06:40:16 PDT 2001

33079 dollar -- rank: 1000

All you connoisseurs of chaos: <http://futures.tradingcharts.com/chart/US/91>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 16 16:28:46 PDT 2001

33080 Materialism of Fools [Was: Where Does Thought Come From?] -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug has sometimes claimed that the _Grundrisse_ is his favorite book -- >but he either hasn't read it very carefully or the stress of composing >the one-line zingers that he substitutes for conversation he forgets >everything he ever learned from it. That must be it. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 16 12:26:33 PDT 2001

33081 Alterman puts up $25k so Ralph & Al don't run again -- rank: 1000

[from Russ "Mugger" Smith's column in NY Press] Hey, What's 25 Grand to a Bigshot Columnist? Eric Alterman, the affluent pundit who makes his living skewering other pundits, ran an MSNBC piece on Aug. 10 that was just as silly as anything Paul Krugman has written in the past year. Alterman, allegedly one of the most disliked journalists in the business, is still steaming that Ralph Nader had the temerity to run for president last year. You'd think that a fully indoctrinated leftist lik ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 16 11:27:47 PDT 2001

33082 Indian poverty, table reformatted -- rank: 1000

[The table from John Mage's post, with tabs - which produce unpredictable results in mailers - changed to spaces.] Percentage of People below Poverty Line in India, 1993-4 and 1998 Rural Poverty(%) Urban Poverty(%) Combined Ratio(%) Absolute# 1993-94 37.27 32.36 35.95 328.5 million 1998 42.58 32.87 39.89 376.8 million Source: S.P.Gupta, "Trickle Down Theory Revisited: The Role of Employment and Poverty". _Indian J ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 15 16:12:51 PDT 2001

33083 Fwd: National *progressive* group says NO to hate crime laws/enhanced penalties (fwd) -- rank: 1000

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 22:07:04 -0400 From: William K. Dobbs <duchamp at mindspring.com> To: Kenneth Sherrill <ksherril at shiva.hunter.cuny.edu> Subject: National *progressive* group says NO to hate crime laws/enhanced penalties Surely this is a first: a national progressive group -- the American Friends Service Committee -- has come out against enhanced penalties (longer prison sentences), the key feature of hate crime legislation. Below is ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 15 15:49:29 PDT 2001

33084 Goldman Sachs on SS privatization -- rank: 1000

DAILY FINANCIAL MARKET COMMENT 8/16/00 Goldman Sachs Economics * The Commission to Strengthen Social Security will almost certainly endorse the partial privatization of the system. If privatization were to occur, it would be an important development because it would lead to significantly more issuance of Treasury debt and greater private sector demand for corporate equities. * However, the prospect for such a proposal being enacted is virtually nil. Passage by the 60-vote supermajority needed ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 15 15:30:11 PDT 2001

33085 Capitalism's rate of decay ( Communication) -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >Of course, the analogy was invoked mostly as a corrective to Doug's >open-ended skepticism. If capitalism is a historical system, like >feudalism, with a beginning and an end, it should follow at at some >point, the system "passes its zenith", so to speak. What that point >is, though, is certainly open to debate. The (highly abstract) >criterion deployed here is that in which capital attains a scale and >scope of development to the point where ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 15 15:17:13 PDT 2001

33086 advances in Marxology -- rank: 1000

"A New View of CAPITAL: Genetic Imperfection and Self-reparation" BY: JIANG TAO Nankai University Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=269219 Date: April 2001 Contact: JIANG TAO Email: Mailto:jtao at public.tpt.tj.cn Postal: Nankai University International Economics and Trade 94 Weijin Road Tianjin 300071, CHINA Phone: 86-22-2350-5310 Fax: 86-22-2350-9667 ABSTRACT: Perhaps the most important contribution o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 15 10:03:17 PDT 2001

33087 Gunter Grass on globalisation -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> >> The U.S. is maybe the only industrial country that doesn't do this. >> >> India has a regular publication of social indicators >> >========= >> >Exskweeeze me, the US doesn't keep social statistics? >> >> Missed that the first time around. What the hell is Noam talking about >> here? > > >>From Noam Chomsky, *Propaganda and the Public Mind ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 15 08:54:56 PDT 2001

33088 Fwd: Re: Nation endorses wanker Mark Green for NYC mayor -- rank: 1000

X-From_: john.halle at snet.net Wed Aug 15 10:08:25 2001 User-Agent: Microsoft Outlook Express Macintosh Edition - 5.01 (1630) Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:16:42 -0400 Subject: Re: Nation endorses wanker Mark Green for NYC mayor From: John Halle <john.halle at snet.net> To: <dhenwood at panix.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Doug, Sorry for my fit of pique at the list a couple of weeks back. Your return has precipitated a welcomed revival pragmatism recently, for which I'm grateful. Maybe you co ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 15 07:20:09 PDT 2001

33089 Gunter Grass on globalisation -- rank: 1000

Ian Murray wrote: > >From Noam Chomsky, *Propaganda and the Public Mind* (South End Press, >2001), pp. 174f.: > >> India, unlike the United States and like practically every other >> industrial country outside the U.S., keeps regular social >statistics. >> The U.S. is maybe the only industrial country that doesn't do this. >> India has a regular publication of social indicators >========= >Exskweeeze me, the US doesn't keep social statistics? Mis ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 15 07:05:11 PDT 2001

33090 Nation endorses wanker Mark Green for NYC mayor -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Yep and that's probably the biggest divide on the left- those who are happy >losing on principle and those who actually think winning is possible, which >requires tactics and strategies, not purist litmus tests. > >I've often thought that it is the fundamental pessimism of many on the left >that, having given up on attaining socialism as a real goal, substitute >maintaining purist tactics as a substitute. If you can't win at least you >can lose with ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 14 12:19:36 PDT 2001